Strong Women

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Each character of these photos - it's a story of courage and fearlessness. Today we can not stop admiring these courageous women who are not afraid to go for broke, not afraid nor change, nor the sneers of society or life-threatening. They are ready to go to the end, in spite of any difficulties encountered on the way. Because they - women, and that's it.

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Katherine Switzer became the first woman ran the Boston Marathon, despite attempts by the organizers to stop her, 1967.





Muslim woman covers the edge of the hijab yellow Star of David on their clothes of his girlfriend, a Jewish woman to help one avoid persecution. Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia, 1941.



Komaki Kimura - known defender of women's equality. New York, 1917.



Valentina Tereshkova - the first woman to have flown in space.



Ellen O'Neill - one of the first professional skeytbordistok, 1976.



Elspeth Beard during her attempt to become the first female mototsiklistok, traveled around the world, concluded successfully, 1980.



Amelia Earhart after becoming the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane, 1928.



106-year-old Armenian woman with a Kalashnikov in hand to protect his house. Armenia, 1990.



Survivor of the concentration camps ohazhivat woman handbag party neo-Nazi march, Sweden, 1985.



Troop "Night Witches" - female elite Red Army. They made night raids on bombers on German military bases and ukrempleniya. They said that the Luftwaffe pilots were promised the Iron Cross for the downed Night Witches, they were so elusive.



Sabiha Gokcen posing in his plane. She became the first female military pilot. Turkey, 1937



Anna Fisher - the first mother in space, 1980



Woman drinking tea on the ruins of the house after the German bombing. London, 1940.



Margaret Bourke-White - photos taken from a skyscraper Chrysler Building.



Women boxing at the roof. Los Angeles, 1933.



Maud Wagner, the first famous female tattoo artist in the United States, 1907.

Workers of the railway during the lunch break. Many of them - the wives and mothers of men who went to war, 1943.



Women sheltering their children from German snipers, 1944.



Wife refused to part with her husband after he was captured. She followed him, 1944.

(The wife of the Decembrist)



British Training Sergeant "Army Mom" ​​during the Second World War, 1940.



Girls are engaged in the delivery of ice blocks during the war.



Female snipers of the Soviet army. May 1945.



Nurse from the Red Cross records the last words of the mortally wounded soldier, 1917.

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