The Battle of the Rosebud is also known as the Battle Where the Girl Saved Her Brother because of her bravery. She also knocked Custer off his horse at the Battle of the Greasy Grass. She fought for her people her entire life.
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As a young girl, I used to ride my bicycle down the road with her name on it. It was the main road around the Middletown Psychiatric Center where my mother worked and was named after the woman who spent her life working to make the lives of people with mental health issues and prisoners better.
From her earliest days, Countess Markievicz learned to help others. She took these lessons into later life, which eventually led to a sentence of death for her part in the 1916 Easter Uprising.
The oldest existing, continually operating, and first degree-awarding university in the world is in Fez, Morocco. So is the oldest library in continuous use. A women established both.
Eleanor of Arborea was a determined woman. As a “Judge” in Sardinia, she enacted the Carta de Logu, charter of laws, which stood for four centuries.
Opera singer. Duelist. Saucy girl. Julie d’Aubigny always got the job done.
Julie, also known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was an opera singer in the 17th century. We don’t know much about her for certain, but her career and lifestyle was certainly entertaining. During her lifetime, rumors and colorful stories about her made their way into many gossip mills around France.
The following is all true as best as we can tell, but it sure is one hell of a story.
Mihrigul Tursun is an ordinary woman like you or me. While we sit in relative safety in the western world, she was persecuted and imprisoned for who she is. Her story went viral in 2019 when Japanese artist Tomomi Shimizu created a manga about her life and treatment in Chinese custody.
