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

Brooklyn Museum, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

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

Leon Ray Livingston, America's Most Famous Hobo

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Leon Ray Livingston, America's Most Famous Hobo

Elizebeth Friedman, America's Unsung Wartime Codebreaker

Courtesy of the George C. Marshall Library, Lexington, Virginia

Elizebeth Friedman, America's Unsung Wartime Codebreaker

Walter Jackson Freeman, Father of the Lobotomy

A pair of Watts-Freeman lobotomy instruments circa 1950

Walter Jackson Freeman, Father of the Lobotomy

Haruo Nakajima, the Original Actor Beneath the Godzilla Suit

Haruo Nakajima (second from left) during the filming of Godzilla Raids Again (1955).

Queen Christina, Who Ruled as a King

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Retrobituaries: Buffalo Calf Road Woman, Custer's Final Foe

Three Cheyenne warriors on horseback.

Karen Wetterhahn, the Chemist Whose Poisoning Death Changed Safety Standards

Courtesy of Dartmouth College Library

Franz Anton Mesmer, the Man Who Invented Hypnotism

Emperor Norton, San Francisco’s Most Beloved 19th-Century Eccentric

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Florence Chadwick, the Woman Who Conquered the English Channel

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Caresse Crosby, Brazen Inventor of the Brassiere

Giuseppe Dosi, Italy's Famed Detective and Master of Disguise

Pictures of disguises in Dosi’s scrapbook via Getty Images

Benjamin Banneker, the African-American Mathematician Who May Have Saved Washington, D.C.

Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

Native American Writer and Activist Susette La Flesche

Polymath, Mystic, and Saint Hildegard von Bingen

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