Dina

Two Messinese women, Dina and Clarenza, defended their city during Charles I of Anjou’s siege of the Italian city in 1282

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Clarenza

Two Messinese women, Dina and Clarenza, defended their city during Charles I of Anjou’s siege of the Italian city in 1282

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Barbara A Robbins

Barbara A. Robbins joined the CIA, but just two years later – in March 1965 – she was killed when terrorists bombed the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam. She was the first female CIA officer to die in the line of duty and she remains the youngest ever, at just 21-years old.

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Lula Mae O’Bannon

Lula Mae O’Bannon (Choctaw) used the opportunities in joining the US Coast Guard SPARS during World War II to expand her horizons and serve the United States’s war effort.

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Virginia Jenkins Riley

In the early 1960s, Riley was one of the designers and programmers of a general program written for the UNIVAC 490, the first computer designed specifically for real-time applications at NSA. In the late 1960s, she moved to the Cryptanalysis Department at the National Cryptologic School, where she developed a new course in Cryptanalytic Diagnostics.

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Esther Bubley

Photographer Esther Bubley found ample subject matter to explore on the American homefront as the nation mobilized for war during WWII.

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