Junko Tabei: Seven Summits
Junko Tabei, the woman who scaled the tallest mountain on every continent. Junko Tabei was the crazy mountain woman who scaled Mount Everest and the Seven Summits - that’s the tallest mountain on every continent. She was the first woman to accomplish both...
Amalia Eriksson: MorMor Peppermint
The old saying goes that necessity is the mother of invention, and often, that necessity is a mother’s need to care for her child. Biography notes: 📍1824-1923 born in Gränna Sweden.Orphaned at age 10, by a cholera outbreak, Amalia took work as a maid to support...
Jeanne Baret: Ginger Peach Beret
Not only a glass-ceiling-shattering explorer, but also a groundbreaking botanist. Jeanne Baret sailed around the world as part of the first French circumnavigation of the globe, led by admiral Louis-Antoine de Bougainville from 1766 to 1769. Her journey was not...
Ching Shih: Buddha Blend White
Ching Shih was one of the most badass pirates of all time. In a ten-year span, Ching's "Red Flag Fleet", a pirate armada consisting of somewhere around four hundred Chinese twenty-gun junks and several thousand men, sailed up and down the coast of Imperial China...
Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi: Rani Chai
"The most dangerous of all the rebel leaders." Manikarnika Tambe was born in November, 1928 in Varanasi India. 🕊She was only 4 when her mother died, and her father, a court advisor, was left to raise his children alone. 🏹 She learned horsemanship, archery, self...
Rebecca Gratz: Rebecca’s Lullaby
With every need she saw, she formed a society to meet it. Rebecca Gratz could not see the widows and orphans of the Revolutionary war without doing something to ease their suffering -- with every need she saw, she formed a society to meet it. She was a...
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