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EmpoweringWomen Some Remarkable Women That History Has Forgotten

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace was a 19th-century mathematician who is said to have worked with Charles Babbage to write instructions for the first computer code in the 1800s She was also the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron, who called her his "Princess of Parallelograms "

Valentina Tereshkova

In 1963, Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space. Having spent a total of 71 hours out there, orbiting the Earth 48 times, she returned to solid ground having been in space longer than any other astronaut at the time.

Lee Miller

A 20s fashion model turned photographer, Lee Miller is known for the stunning photos she took of women serving in World War II One of her most iconic images is a photo of herself in Adolf Hitler's bathtub, which she took after having accompanied American forces who raided his Munich apartment in 1945 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/03/18-women-youmight-not-remember-from-history-but-should

“I was living in Hitler’s private apartment in Munich when his death was announced.” These words came not from a high-ranking Nazi officer or a hardened Allied soldier, but from a fashion model-turned-photographer. Lee Miller – who became the muse and lover of Surrealist artist Man Ray during the early 1930s after appearing on the cover of Vogue – was one of a small number of female combat photographers embedded with Allied troops in WWII.

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