CLUED-UP CREATIVES: Sappho -- Mira Bai -- Emily Dickinson -- SCREEN STARS: Marlene Dietrich -- Marilyn Monroe -- Kathryn Bigelow -- Madhuri Dixit -- Jennifer Lawrence -- Josephine Baker -- Edith Piaf -- Maria Callas -- Frida Kahlo -- WOMEN WRITERS: Murasaki Shikibu -- Shin Saimdang -- mary Wollstonecraft -- Jane Austen -- Maya Angelou -- Anne Frank -- Joni Mitchell -- J. K. Rowling -- SUPER SCIENTISTS: Hypatia -- Emilie du Chatelet -- Ada Lovelace -- Mary Anning -- Sofia Kovalevskaya -- Lise Meitner -- Marie Curie -- HEALTHCARE HEROES: Mary Seacole -- Florence Nightingale -- Edith Cavell -- Agnes Hunt -- Averil Mansfield -- Chien-Shung Wu -- Dian Fossey -- Francoise Barre-Sinoussi -- Rosalind Franklin -- INSPIRING CAMPAIGNERS: Olympe de Gouges -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Harriet Tubman -- Louise Michel -- Bertha von Suttner -- LANDMARK MOMENTS: Princess Isabel of Brazil -- Helen Keller -- Rachel Carson -- Wangari Maathai -- Margaret Chan -- Emmeline Pankhurst -- Rosa Luxemburg -- Sophie Scholl -- Rosa Parks -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Malala Yousafzai -- LEADING LADIES -- Joan of Arc -- COOL QUEENS: Hatshepsut -- Cleopatra -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Razia Sultana -- Queen Victoria -- Catherine the Great -- Wu Zeitan -- Taytu Betul -- Queen Elizabeth I -- Sacagawea -- Maria Quiteria de Jesus -- Dolores Ibarruri -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Indira Gandhi -- Margaret Thatcher -- Angela Merkel -- POLITICAL PIONEERS: Golda Meir -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -- Craca Machel -- Shirin Ebadi -- Benazir Bhutto -- INTREPID ENTREPRENEURS: Bertha Benz -- Sarah Breedlove -- Coco Chanel -- Indra Nooyi -- Peggy Guggenheim -- Oprah Winfrey -- INTERNET IMPACT: Carol Bartz -- Radia Perlman -- Sheryl Sandberg -- Martha Lane Fox -- Juliana Rotich -- AMAZING ACHIEVERS: Althea Gibson -- Nellie Bly -- HIGH FLIERS: Harriet Quimby -- Eugenie Mikhailovna -- Shakhovskaya -- Amelia Earhart -- Amy Johnson -- Valentina Tereshkova -- Gertrude Bell -- Junko Tabei -- Wilma Rudolph -- Nova Peris -- Serena Williams -- Tanni Grey-Thompson -- Jessica Ennis-Hill -- Marta -- Let's applaud...

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