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Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba (1932-2008), the beloved South African legend, was famous the world as "Mama Africa" for her music and her courageous opposition to apartheid. Throughout her long career Miriam was ...
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Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu (ca. 973-1014) was one of the world's great literary geniuses. She wrote the first novel in history---The Tale of Genji---and with it created not only a timeless masterpiece of ...
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Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley
Some people are just born geniuses. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) was kidnapped from Senegal and sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight, eventually landing up with the Wheatley family of ...
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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was one of America's greatest heroines. Born into slavery in New York, she became a powerful voice for abolition and women's rights. Her most famous ...
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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) devoted her life to the cause of women's suffrage, toiling for over 50 years in the face of incredible opposition (not to mention ridicule). As the de facto "Napoleon" ...
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Themistoclea
Themistoclea
The Greeks considered Pythagoras the "father of philosophy." He taught a system of natural science, mathematics, and ethics that profoundly influenced the Western canon. Ah, but who taught ...