Things I like: suffragettes, war workers, factory girls, socialites who got stuff done, ladies who ruled countries, and women who changed the world, even if it was just a little bit. Click on photos for sources.
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Soviet gymnast Polina Astakhova of the Ukraine after a training session before the Tokyo Olympics, 8th October 1964. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Polina won three team gold medals at the Olympics (1956, 1960, 1964), two individual gold medals for the uneven bars (1960, 1964), two silver medals for the floor exercise (1960, 1964), and three bronze medals (team portable apparatus 1956, all around 1960 & 1964).
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