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1. Florence Nightingale. 2. Jane Austen. 3. Malala Yousafzai. Clue: Florence Nightingale was the Clue: Jane Austen was an English writer Clue: As of 2017, Pakistani education English woman who established nursing best known for her humorous, satirical activist Mala la Yousafzai is the youngest as we know it. Her work with statistics novels that poked fun at the customs person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. also had a dramatic influence on how and behavior of the English gentry She is wel I known for her inspiring story medicine was viewed. She is depicted during the Regency era. and stand against the Taliban even after with a lamp due to her nickname, "The Image: By Unknown; Wikimedia Commons; Public Domain they attempted to assassinate her. Lady of the Lamp." She often would Image: By UK Department for International Development; Wikimedia Commons; CC BY 2.0 check on wounded soldiers in the night by lamp light. THE BEAffl QUEEN WHO WOULDN'T

4. Joan of Arc. 5. Josephine Baker. 6. Ms. Magazine. Clue:Joan of Arc was a peasant living in Clue: Josephine Baker was an Ameri­ Clue: Founded by American feminists Medival France. She believed she was can-born French dancer and the first and social activists and given a mission from God to save France world-famous black, female entertainer. Dorothy Pitman Hughes in 1971, Ms. and expel its enemies. With no military As a Civil Rights activist, she refused to publishes articles about women's rights training, she fought for France during perform for segregated audiences and and social issues. the Hundred Years' War against worked with the National Association for Image: By MS.; Robert Newman; ©MS. England. She is one of the patron saints the Advancement of Colored People of France. (NAACP). Image: By Piaz Studios of ; Victoria and Albert Museum; ©Victoria and Albert Museum

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7. Trota of Salerno. 8. Tale of Genji. 9. Mary Wortley Montagu. Clue:Trota of Salerno was a female Clue: Written by Murasaki Shikibu, a Clue:Mary Wortley Montagu was a poet physician and author of Practica Japanese novelist, poet and and travel writer, best known for her secundum Trotam (Practical Medicine lady-in-waiting, the Japanese classic writings about the Ottoman Empire. She According to Trota), a book about The Tale of Genji is considered the also supported the use of the smallpox women's medicine. It covered topics world's first novel. The featured image is vaccine in England after she returned. such as infertility, menstrual disorders, a detail from the 12th-century Genji snakebite, and cosmetics. Monogatari Emaki scrol I. Image: By Heian Painters; taleofgenji.org; Public Domain

10. Child in a Straw Hat. 11. Migrant . 12. Aung San Suu Kyi. Clue: Mary Cassatt was an American Clue: was a famous Clue: Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 - ) was the Impressionist painter. She often created photojournalist who produced some of first woman to serve as the Minister of art that focused on the social and her best pictures while documenting the Foreign Affairs of Myanmar. She private lives of women and the bond Great Depression in the 1930s, including continues today to be heavily involved between mother and child. Her Child in a Migrant Mother. Her work helped change in the government of Myanmar. Her Straw Hat was completed in 1886. how documentaries are produced. many years of service have resulted in Image: By Mary Cassatt; Wlkimedia Commons; Public Image: By Dorthea Lange; Wlkimedia Commons; Public her receiving many awards, including Domain Domain the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Image: By Claude Truong-Ngoc; Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 3.0

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