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History and Women

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Saints and sinners, the notorious women throughout history who have left their stamp on the world in which they lived.

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  • Jadwiga, Woman King of Poland, (1373 – 17 July 1399

    Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 19:30 in 14th century women, king jadwiga of poland

    Jadwiga (pronounced Yad-veega) was one of King Louis of Hungary. When he was dying, the sonless Louis decreed that the three kingdoms he ruled, Poland and Hungary should be ruled by one of his daughters. Jadwiga, who was only nine at that time, was c...

  • Shajar al-Durr, Sultan of Egypt (died 1257 AD)

    Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 16:36 in shajar al-durr, 13th century women

    Shajar al-Durr (also called Shagrat al-Durr) was a former bondswoman of Turkoman origin whose intelligence and ambition led her to become one of the few women rulers in the Islamic world. She was Sultan of Egypt, both in name and in fact, and is resp...

  • Sarojini Naidu , 1879-1949

    Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 17:51 in sarojini naidu, 19th century women, 20th century women

    One of great women in the history of India, Sarojini Naidu was a poet, a rebel alongside Mohandes Mahatma Gandhi, an activist for the rights of women, the poor and racial minorities, and a politician.Naidu was born Sarojini Chattopadhyaya in Hyderaba...

  • Elizabeth Bathory (1560 - 1614)

    Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 16:03 in elizabeth bathory, 16th century women

    Notorious Hungarian noblewoman Elizabeth Bathory was called the "Bloody Countess." To stay young, she tortured and bathed in the blood of hundreds of young women.Eastern European history is rife with nobility whose propensity for carnage, cruelty, an...

  • Hildegarde von Bingen, 1098-1179

    Posted on Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 01:08 in 12th century women, hildegarde von bingen

    Today, September 17, marks the 830th anniversary of the death of Hildegarde von Bingen, one of the most talented women, not to say persons, ever to grace the worlds of art, music, science and philosophy.Hildegarde was born in 1098 to a noble family i...

  • Theda Bara 1885-1955

    Posted on Wednesday September 16th, 2009 at 01:57 in 20th century women, theda bara

    It all ended as suddenly as it began. In 1915 a film was released—“A Fool There Was”—and the first overnight, instant celebrity of filmdom was born. Theda Bara, “born in the shadows of the pyramids,” the only daughter of a French actress ...

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