Fantastic Women

Billie Jean King being carried onto the court on a litter before the match

Billie Jean King beat Bobbie Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match

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On this day, September 20, in 1973, Billie Jean King smashed stereotypes in the epic Battle of the Sexes!  She took down Bobby Riggs and served up a win for women’s sports. Game, set, match for equali...

Hon. Assistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan (code name Madeleine), George Cross, MiD, Croix de Guerre avec Etoile de Vermeil. Noor Inayat Khan served as a wireless operator with F Section, Special Operations Executive. Black and white image, with Noor smiling, facing the camera, in her unifrom.

Noor Inayat Khan – A British Spy – Fantastic Women Series

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The first female wireless operator to be sent from the UK into occupied France to help the French Resistance during World War II.

Image created by Craiyon of a Queen sitting on a horse

Podcast Episode 88 l Mercian Queen Cynethryth

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This Fantastic Women Series podcast is about Cynethryth, who was Queen of Mercia and exerted power and influence along with her husband King Offa.

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Fantastic Women Series l Cynethryth: Queen of Mercia

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This Fantastic Women Series post is about Cynethryth, who was Queen of Mercia and exerted power and influence along with her husband King Offa.

Katalin Kariko winner of 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work in mRNA vaccines

Against All Odds – Fantastic Woman Katalin Kariko wins Nobel Prize

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Fantastic Woman Katalin Kariko has won the Nobel Prize for her work in the development of mRNA vaccines that helped to control Covid-19

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Mary Shelly Born August 30

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Illustration by Louis Figuier in Vies des savants illustres, depuis l'antiquité jusqu'au dix-neuvième siècle from 1866, representing the author's imagining of what the assault against Hypatia might have looked like

Hypatia – Greek Philosopher Mathematician Astronomer Killed By Fanatics

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Hypatia was a Greek pholosopher mathematician & astronomer from Alexandria, in the 4th century BC. She was admired for her ideas but was killed by Christian fanatics.

Eunice Newton Foote's paper on CO2 and Global Warming

Podcast Episode 39 l Eunice Newton Foote l Fantastic Women Series l Born This Day

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Eunice Newton Foote - The Woman Scientist Who Predicted Global Warming in 1856. She was a campaigner for women's rights. But she has been forgotten.