Retrobituaries - Trivia, Quizzes, and Brain Teasers | Mental Floss

Lady Death: Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the Greatest Female Sniper of All Time

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Lady Death: Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the Greatest Female Sniper of All Time

Mary Frith, 17th-Century London's Smoking, Thieving, Foul-Mouthed "Roaring Girl"

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Mary Frith, 17th-Century London's Smoking, Thieving, Foul-Mouthed "Roaring Girl"

Madelyn Pugh Davis, the “Girl Writer” Behind I Love Lucy

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Madelyn Pugh Davis, the “Girl Writer” Behind I Love Lucy

Bernarr Macfadden: Bodybuilder, Publisher, and Eccentric Prophet of Physical Culture

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Bernarr Macfadden: Bodybuilder, Publisher, and Eccentric Prophet of Physical Culture

Sushruta, Ancient Indian Surgeon and Father of the Nose Job

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John Tradescant, Royal Gardener and Forefather of the Natural History Museum

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Virginia Apgar, the Woman Whose Name Saves Newborns

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Laura de Force Gordon, Pioneering Newspaper Publisher, Lawyer, and Suffragist

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Caroline Weldon, 19th Century Indigenous Rights Advocate and Sitting Bull's Secretary

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Christine Granville, World War II Special Agent

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Emily Warren Roebling, the Woman Who Helped Build the Brooklyn Bridge

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Leon Ray Livingston, America's Most Famous Hobo

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Elizebeth Friedman, America's Unsung Wartime Codebreaker

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Walter Jackson Freeman, Father of the Lobotomy

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Haruo Nakajima, the Original Actor Beneath the Godzilla Suit

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Queen Christina, Who Ruled as a King

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