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Mama Quilla
Mama Quilla
Mama Quilla is the Inca goddess of the moon. Married to Inti, the sun god, she is the female half of the divine equation. Before the Spaniards got to work smashing and melting things, Mama Quilla ...
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Marie de France
Marie de France
Eleanor of Aquitaine is famed for her great patronage of the arts, and one of the finest poets at her court may have been her own sister-in-law. Marie de France (ca. 1130-1200) was a high-ranking ...
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Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) was the unsung heroine of the American Revolution. As one of the intellectual leaders of the rebellion, she wrote countless pamphlets, plays, and treatises explaining ...
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Minoan Queen
Minoan Queen
We don't know her name. And unless somebody deciphers Linear A, we probably never will. All we know is that she existed, and that her world was beautiful. The centerpiece of our main illustration ...
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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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Persephone
Persephone
Persephone was a pre-Greek goddess who got drafted into the Olympic pantheon along with her mother Demeter. It's a fair bet that she was the Queen of the Underworld long before the Greeks, with ...
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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 ...