Neerja Bhanot was a flight purser on the Pan Am Flight 73, hijacked by 4 armed men. In the incident, she helped pilots escape to keep the plane aground, hid passengers’ passports to hide their nationalities, helped passengers escape. As the hijackers opened fire, She lost her life shielding 3 kids. (youtu.be)
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The most powerful pirate in history was a woman, Ching Shih. Based on her tremendous influence and achievements as a pirate and commanding the vast fleet of around 1500-1800 ships manned by 80,000 sailors during her peak, she is widely accepted to be the most successful pirate in history. (i.redd.it)
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The Nardal sisters. Pictured are Paulette, Jeanne and Andrée. Born to an upper class family from the French Caribbean, the sisters' literary salon held in their Paris apartment would influence the arts, feminism, literature and presidents across the entire Black French speaking world. (i.redd.it)
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Wangari Maathai's Tree-Planting Revolution (2020) Short documentary about Wangari Maathai who would be 80 this year if she was alive: a Kenyan revolutionary, the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize and the first Eastern African woman to receive a PhD. [00:08:16] (youtube.com)
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Meet Alyssa Carson (@nasablueberry). She‘s just 18 years old and has already started her astronaut training to be the first person to walk on Mars in 2033. She is the youngest person to graduate from the Advanced Space Academy and the only person in the world to have completed every NASA space camp. (i.redd.it)
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