Gerda Lerner was a scholar, writer, activist, and a founder of the academic field of women's history.

Ada Lovelace, born in 1815, was the first person to recognize the potential of a computer, and as the author of the first computer algorithm, is widely considered to be the first computer programmer ever.

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Through her investigative journalism covering southern lynchings, Ida B Wells not only set the groundwork for the way news is reported today, she was also a founding member of the NAACP as well as a pioneer in the civil rights movement. She also scared racists so bad they destroyed her newspaper. Did that stop her? Listen to find out! (OK of course it didn't but there's still more to hear!)

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Operation Acoustic Kitty! This is the story of how the CIA attempted to use cats as spies. How? It is absolutely bonkers and you have to listen.

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Julie D’Aubigny, as the title says, is the cross-dressing, opera-singing, sword dueling, bisexual globetrotter of the 1600s. What, you needed more info?

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Meet Elizabeth Ann, the first cloned endangered species in the United States! How'd it happen? Why Elizabeth? What kind of animal IS she? Listen on...

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This is the story of Charles Jackson French who, in WWII, saved an entire life raft full of his crew-mates by towing them with his own body through shark-infested waters, past enemy soldiers, and finally to safety.

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