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...that Soviet sniper Roza Shanina's (pictured) declaration "I shall return after the battle" would be paraphrased in a book title?
...that feminist American magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1989?
...that the feminist group Women on Waves, which built a gynecology unit on a ship, performs abortions in international waters?

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...that Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1819–1876) (pictured) kept her morganatic marriage secret from her father, Nicholas I of Russia, until his death in 1855?
...that Rosa Montero is a leading author of contemporary feminist literature and a senior journalist for Spain's largest newspaper, El País?
...that shortly after the Revolution of 1848, the socialist feminist Jeanne Deroin became the first woman to stand in a national election in France?

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...that Lady Florence Dixie (pictured), feminist, big game hunter, war correspondent, and suffragette, was the aunt of Oscar Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas?
...that feminist author Yuriko Miyamoto wrote over 900 letters to her imprisoned husband, defying Japan's draconian Peace Preservation Laws?
...that Shamsunnahar Mahmud and Roquia Sakhawat Hussain were Muslim feminists of the Bengal renaissance?

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... that the contributions of Mary Shelley (pictured) to Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men are considered early works of feminist historiography?
...that feminism in Poland is traditionally divided into seven historical periods, the first one dating to the beginning of the 19th century?
...that award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow described her dictionary of women's biographies as "a mad undertaking, born of a time when feminists wanted heroines and didn't have Google"?

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...that Shushanik Kurghinian (pictured) was the first revolutionary female poet in Armenian literature?
...that Emily Helen Butterfield was Michigan's first licensed female architect, and designed many college fraternity and sorority crests thanks to her interest in heraldry?
...that in April 1999, Australian Justice Carolyn Simpson joined Margaret Beazley and Virginia Bell to form the first all-female bench to sit in Australia, England or New Zealand?

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...that Portuguese Josefa de Óbidos was one of the few women dedicated to painting (pictured: still life by her) in the Baroque era?
...that on 2 January 1990, 26-year old Nivedita Bhasin of Indian Airlines became the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft?
...that the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 made broad and sweeping changes to women's rights in the United Kingdom, allowing women to enter the professions or serve on juries?

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...that Enriqueta Favez (pictured), a Swiss woman, studied medicine and served as an army surgeon in the Napoleonic Wars disguised as a man, went to Cuba in the 1820s and married a local woman?
...that Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner was the first military woman to command an operational naval aviation squadron?
...that the four main influential figures to Filipino women writers are Gabriela Silang, Leonor Rivera, Imelda Marcos and Corazon Aquino?

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...that economist Barbara Ward (pictured), an early advocate of sustainable development, was the first woman ever to address a synod of Roman Catholic bishops?
...that the ultra-modern disposable female urination device, which lets women urinate upright, was actually invented in 1922?
...that Rachel Paulose is the first woman in Minnesota to become a District Attorney?

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...that New York Journal cartoonist and illustrator Nell Brinkley created the "Brinkley Girl" (pictured), an iconic representation of independent working women popular in the early 20th century?
...that archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy was recently appointed the first woman bishop of any Australian church and will be consecrated as an Anglican bishop on 22 May 2008?
...that Jacqueline Audry was the first commercially successful woman film director of post-war France?

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...that Leyla Mammadbeyova (pictured) was the first Azerbaijani female aviator and the second parachutist woman in the former Soviet Union?
...that Erica Larson, a chemist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, won the Pikes Peak mountain marathon five times in six years between 1999 and 2004, more than any other woman in the event's history?
...that Labour Member of Parliament Ellen Wilkinson organised the 1936 Jarrow March of 200 unemployed men and women from Tyneside to London to demand jobs?

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...that the use of the word "yeoman" in the U.S. Naval Reserve Act of 1916, rather than "man" or "male," enabled women to enlist in the United States Navy Reserve with the rank of Yeoman (F) (pictured) during World War I?
...that Loretta Perfectus Walsh was the first woman to enlist in the United States military?
...that Justice Leila Seth was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and the first woman to become Chief Justice of India?

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...that while Mary Wollstonecraft (pictured) wrote her revolutionary treatise the Rights of Woman in six weeks, its novelistic sequel, The Wrongs of Woman, was still unfinished at her death, despite a year's work?
...that the modern-day role of women in the Philippines is similar to their social status during pre-colonial times?
...that Eleanor Davies-Colley was the first woman admitted as fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England?

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...that opera singer Jessie Bartlett Davis (pictured) volunteered to pay for the publishing of the parlor song I Love You Truly, the first song written by a woman to sell one million copies?
...that Abby and Julia Smith fought for women's suffrage by refusing to pay taxes to the Town of Glastonbury, Connecticut and almost lost their property Kimberly Mansion?
...that Randi Weingarten, the openly gay president of the United Federation of Teachers, has been called one of the 25 most powerful women in New York City business?

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...that Elsa Eschelsson, the first woman both to finish a doctorate in Law and to teach in a university in Sweden, was denied the right to serve even as acting professor because of her sex?
...that in March 2007, Agnes Devanadera (pictured) became the 41st and first woman Solicitor General of the Philippines?
...that Cecilia Krieger, who translated the work of Sierpiński into English, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics in Canada?

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..that Emmy Noether (pictured) was called "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began" by Albert Einstein?
...that Mary K. Shell, the first woman mayor of Bakersfield, California, chided NBC's Johnny Carson for his jokes about "beautiful downtown Bakersfield" and invited Carson to visit the city to see its improvements?
...that the 2008 film Forever the Moment is based on the real life story of South Korea's women's handball team which won silver at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and is also the first film to revolve around the sport of handball?

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...that Francesca Caccini's (pictured) La liberazione di Ruggiero, which premiered in 1625, was the first opera written by a woman?
...that Winnie Winkle by Martin Branner was, in 1920, the first American comic strip to have a working woman as the main character?
... that transwoman actor Judiel Nieva was once sought out as a healer and visionary?

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...that the standard version of Sojourner Truth's famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?" was recorded by Frances Dana Barker Gage (pictured)?
... that Rosabelle Sinclair, a native of Scotland, established the first women's lacrosse team in the United States in 1926?
... that while working on Lipstick and Dynamite, a 2005 documentary about women's professional wrestling, Neko Case found out Ella Waldek in the film was her great-aunt?

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...that Pancha Carrasco (pictured) became Costa Rica's first woman in the military by joining the defending forces at the Battle of Rivas rifle in hand and apron full of bullets?
... that Louis-Adolphe Paquet was one of the most vocal opponents of both mandatory public education and women's suffrage in early 20th-century Quebec?
... that Victoria Jackson-Stanley recently became the first woman and first African American mayor of Cambridge, a Maryland town devastated by race riots in the 1960s?

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...that in the Big Runaway during the American Revolution in Pennsylvania in 1778, Rachel Silverthorn (pictured) rode to warn settlers on Muncy Creek of impending attack when no man would?
...that the role of Kanephoros was the most prominent public office a girl or woman could hold in ancient Athens?
... that Henry Fielding praised Jane Collier, author of An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting and The Cry, for her "understanding more than female, mixed with virtues almost more than human"?

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...that Linda Chavez-Thompson (pictured) was the first woman, colored person, and Hispanic elected an officer of the AFL–CIO?
...that Rani Abbakka, who fought the Portuguese in the 16th century is regarded as the 'first woman freedom fighter of India'?
...that Miriam Rodon-Naveira, a Puerto Rican scientist, was the first Hispanic woman to hold the Deputy Directorship for the Environmental Sciences Division in the National Exposure Research Laboratory?

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... that the novels of Jane Austen (pictured) became popular with the public only after the publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869?
... that feminist Jo Freeman was moved from Mississippi by the SCLC in 1966 after the Jackson Daily News published her photo and denounced her as a professional agitator?
... that Anna Borkowska, the mother superior of a Polish convent of Dominican Sisters in World War II, was the first to smuggle in grenades for the Vilnius Jewish ghetto insurgents?

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... that in 1814 Mary Shelley (pictured) eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, later publishing her first work, History of a Six Weeks' Tour, about their walking tour of Europe?
... that philanthropist Harriet Nevins left an animal shelter, a fountain, and a John LaFarge stained glass window to the people of Massachusetts?
... that the niece of the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, Sirarpie Der-Nersessian, became the first woman to be awarded the Order of St. Gregory the Illuminator by the Catholicos of Armenia?

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... that Lydia Becker (pictured), founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal, was also an amateur botanist and friend of Charles Darwin?
... that Johanna Brandt detailed spying for the Boers with her mother in her book Petticoat Commando?
... that Mary Hallaren was the first woman to join the United States Army?

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...that Rear Admiral Evelyn J. Fields (pictured) is the first woman and first African American to be the director of the Office of NOAA Corps Operations and the NOAA Commissioned Corps?
...that by passing as a man, Isobel Gunn became in 1806 the first woman of European descent employed by the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land?
...that Ann C. Noble, inventor of the "Aroma Wheel", was the first woman hired as a faculty member of the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology?

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...that Japanese painter Uemura Shoen (work pictured) was the first woman awarded Japan's prestigious Order of Culture?
...that Clare Winger Harris was the first woman to publish short stories under her own name in science fiction magazines?
...that Lois DeBerry is the first African-American woman speaker pro tempore of the Tennessee House of Representatives?

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...that Marie-Anne Gaboury (pictured) was the first woman of European descent to travel to and settle in the Canadian west?
...that a woman, chamberlain Urszula Mayerin, was among the most influential figures at Sigismund III Vasa's court, signing official state documents in his name and receiving foreign ambassadors during his illness?
...that Peggy McKercher was the first woman to serve on the Corman Park Council?

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... that Gregoria de Jesus (pictured) was the founder and vice-president of the woman chapter of the Katipunan partisan society during the Philippine Revolution?
...that Nihonga artist Ogura Yuki was the first woman to be selected chairperson of the Japan Art Academy, and one of only two women painters to be awarded Japan's Order of Culture?
...that Dawn Steel was the first woman to head a major Hollywood film studio?

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...that in 1914, Lois Weber (pictured) was the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film?
...that Georgie White was the first woman to run a commercial Grand Canyon river guiding service?
...that zoologist Georgina Sweet was the first woman to receive a DSc from the University of Melbourne and the first female recipient of the David Syme Research Prize?

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...that Edith Cowan was the first woman elected to a government in Australia?
...that M. Athalie Range was the first black since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a state agency in Florida?
...that Prema Karanth is the first woman to direct a Kannada film?

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...that suffragist Louisa Lawson (1848–1920) (pictured), publisher of Australia's first woman-run journal, The Dawn, was also the mother of the great Australian poet Henry Lawson?
...that Betty Roberts was the first woman to serve on Oregon's Supreme Court?
...that modern nursing was founded by Florence Nightingale at the Selimiye Barracks in Istanbul, Turkey during the Crimean War (1854-1856)?

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... that Marie Heim-Vögtlin (pictured), Switzerland's first woman physician, was required by law to have her husband's consent in order to be allowed to work?
...that National Women's Day in Pakistan commemorates a 1983 march against a law that devalued the testimony of Pakistani women to half that of men?
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