727: Charlotte von Nassau-Weilburg Grand Duchess of Luxembourg Born: 23 January 1896, Berg, Luxembourg Died: 9 July 1985, Fischbach Castle, Luxembourg Charlotte became Grand Duchess after her sister Marie-Adélaïde resigned from the same position. Before their father’s death, women were not allowed to rule Luxembourg, however, the Grand Duke changed the laws of succession to…
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726) Emilie Sagee
726: Emilie Sagee Mostly Ghostly Born: 1813, Dijon, France Died: Unknown Also Known As: Octavie or Emilie Saget Emilie claimed to have never seen her spectral doppelganger, but many others did in multiple locations. She was a nineteenth century Frenchwoman who worked as a schoolteacher and was seen as pretty and likable. But according to…
725) Margot Wölk
“We had to eat it all up. Then we had to wait an hour, and every time we were frightened that we were going to be ill. We used to cry like dogs because we were so glad to have survived.” 725: Margot Wölk Only Surviving Food Tester for Hitler Born: 27 December 1917, Berlin,…
724) The Other Magpie
724: The Other Magpie Crow Woman who Fought with Osh-Tisch in the Battle of the Rosebud Lived Around 1876, Crow Nation (Present-day Montana, United States of America) But unlike Osh-Tisch, The Other Magpie had no gun and only a coup stick (some Native people would use decorative sticks instead of weapons in war [the more…
723) Yolande of Aragon
“We have not nurtured and cherished [Charles the Dauphin] for you to make him die like his brothers or to go mad like his father, or to become English like you. I keep him for my own. Come and take him away, if you dare.” -Reportedly Yolande’s Letter to Isabeau of Bavaria 723: Yolande of…
722) Bertha Benz
722: Bertha Benz The First Person to Drive an Automobile Long Distance Born: 3 May 1849, Pforzheim, Germany Died: 5 May 1944, Ladenburg, Germany Bertha was the wife and business partner of Karl Benz (Of Mercedes-Benz fame). It is said Bertha made her decision to make her mark on the world after finding the Family…
721) Sparethra
721: Sparethra Queen who Fought Cyrus the Great -Lived Around 547 BC- Eurasian Steppes (Exact Location Unknown) Cyrus captured her husband in battle and pissed Sparethra off. Sparethra and her husband, Amorges, were leaders of a band called the Amyrgioi of Sogdiana and Bactria, one of the Saka tribes that lived between the Caspian Sea…
720) Elisa Griensen
720: Elisa Griensen Fought with Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution Against the United States Born: 2 January 1888, Hidalgo de Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Died: 14 November 1972, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico Also Known As: Maria Elisa Martiniana Griensen Zambrano Elisa was orphaned as a child, but her older sister cared for her and their…
719) Lela Karagianni
719: Lela Karagianni Created a Greek Resistance Group During the Axis Occupation Born: 24 June 1898, Euboea, Kingdom of Greece (Present-day Euboea, Greece) Died: 8 September 1944, Haidari Concentration Camp, Athens, Greece Original Name: Eleni (Or Helen) Karagianni Lela was married and a mother of seven children. She forged documents, supplied information to the British,…
718) Manfreda Visconti da Pirovano
718: Manfreda Visconti da Pirovano Papess of Guglielma’s Feminized Christian Sect Birth Date Unknown, Most Likely Milan, Holy Roman Empire (Present-day Milan, Italy) Died: 1300 AD, Milan, Holy Roman Empire (Present-day Milan, Italy) Also Spelled: Maifreda Manfreda was supposed to ascend in 1300 after Easter in a new age of Holy Spiritual-ness but instead she…