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Jun 19, 2023Liked by Brooke Bader

Have you done Catherine the Great yet? Overthrew her husband for the throne and became the original sugar mama for any dude that struck her fancy. Imagine the responses to her story in your DMs...

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I have not! I’ll do one on her in July! ♥️

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Sorry if you've done this story, but I really want to learn more about the woman who killed Custer. Thanks for doing all the heavy lifting! (Here's an article with more deets: https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/amp/who-killed-custer )

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Please do one for Juana Azurduy de Padilla. Thank you in advance for your consideration.

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Yes please! The Chamberlain-Kahn act of 1918. ❤️🍄

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some more that I like

Ruby C Williams (great story of an artist in rural florida)

Mary Delaney (artist who wasn't found until her 80s. Makes beautiful art, had a hard and colorful life)

The Tuskegee Experiment (that one is hard)

The four little girls in the Birmingham Church Bombing (another tough one)

Butterfly McQueen - actor, famous for Gone With the Wind, she was an atheist and her path there is very interesting as part of her decisions to be an atheist was from your ancestors who were slaved.

Grandma Moses - another artists that started way later in life, also had an interesting story growing up. (Her work is at major galleries)

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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad is one of my favs

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