One of These Women is Jennie 1082: Jennie Bauters Jerome, Arizona’s Most Notorious Madam and Proud Business Owner Born: Possibly 1862, Present-day Belgium Died: 3 September 1905, Goldroad, Arizona Territory (Present-day Arizona State–Goldroad itself is an abandoned site) Also Known As: Belgian Jennie Very little information about Jennie is readily available online, however I first…
“The next thing I knew, I was no longer inside the cabin. I hadn’t left the plane; the plane had left me.” 1081: Juliane Diller The Only Survivor of LANSA Flight 508 Born: 10 October 1954, Lima, Peru Original Name: Juliane Kopecke At the time of the flight, Juliane was seventeen. Her mother and all…
1080: Olympias One of the Most Powerful Women of Ancient Hellenic Origin Born: c.375 BC, Present-day Epirus, Greece Died: c.316 BC, Present-day Pydna, Greece Original Name: Myrtle Olympias was the daughter of the king of the Mollosians, a powerful tribe in Epirus. She was also the second wife of Philip II of Macedon (they married…
1079: Kösem Sultan One of the Most Powerful Women in the History of the Ottoman Empire Born: c.1589, Present-day Bosnia & Herzegovina or Greece Died: 3 September 1651, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Present-day Istanbul, Turkey) Also Known As: Mahpeykar Sultan Possible Original Name: Anastasia Kösem entered the Ottoman court after being captured and brought to Constantinople…
1078: Töregene Khatun Ruled the Mongol Empire from 1241 to 1246 AD Born: c.1185 AD, Merkit Region of the Mongol Empire (Present-day parts of Mongolia and Russia) Died: c.1265 AD, Mongol Empire Töregene was the daughter-in-law of Genghis Khan (through a forced marriage). Her new Mongol husband was actually her second. Her first husband was…
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” “The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.” 1077: George Sand Novelist and Memoirist Born: 1 July 1804, Paris, France Died: 8…
1076: Lady Amy Robsart Dudley Accident or Murder Most Foul? Born: 7 June 1532, Stanfield, Norfolk, England (Present-day Norfolk, England, United Kingdom) Died: 8 September 1560, Cumnor, Oxfordshire, England (Present-day Cumnor, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom) Amy was raised in a protestant family that was fairly well off, but very little else of her upbringing is…
1075: Agnes Randolph Heroine of Scotland Born: c.1312, Kingdom of Scotland (Present-day Scotland, United Kingdom) Died: c.1369, Kingdom of Scotland (Present-day Scotland, United Kingdom) Also Known As: Black Agnes Agnes was the Countess of Dunbar and March. She also held the following (according to her WikiTree profile): From her brothers she obtained by inheritance the…
“I wouldn’t be alive if it hadn’t been for those paintings, and my kids wouldn’t be here.” 1074: Dina Gottliebova Babbitt Shoah Survivor Whose Ordeal Didn’t End with the Liberation of the Camps Born: 21 January 1923, Brno, Czechoslovakia (Present-day Brno, South Moravia, Czech Republic) Died: 29 July 2009, Felton, California, United States of America…
1073: Lya Graf Immortalized in a Photo in Which She is Sitting on JP Morgan’s Lap Born: c.1901-1913, Germany Died: 1941, Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Present-day Oswiecim, Poland) Original Name: Lia Schwartz Lya was born with a form of dwarfism. She was twenty-seven inches tall and wanted no part of being in the photos (which took…