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9th-century Norse royal who fled to Iceland and settled there
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Cassandane Shahbanu
Cassandane was the wife of Cyrus the Great (r. c. 550-530 BCE), founder of the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550-330 BCE).
Megilla
The love affair of Leaena and Megilla is referenced in the Dialogues of the Courtesans in the 2nd century BCE
Anna Maria Weems
Anna Maria Weems (circa 1840 to circa 1863) was an enslaved African American woman in Rockville, Maryland, who escaped by posing as a young Black livery man and carriage driver, assisted by the Underground Railroad, in September 1855.
Debbye Turner Bell
Debbye Turner Bell was crowned Miss America 1990. After her reign as Miss America, she became a veterinarian, has appeared on national television, and is a motivational speaker on youth-related and Christian topics. She was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame in 1994.
Annie Moore
On the day Ellis Island opened on January 1, 1892, an Irish girl named Annie Moore became the very first person processed through what became the world-famous immigration center.
Margaret Maher
Irish servant to Emily Dickinson’s family
Esther Cox
Subject of manifestations in the Great Amherst Mystery
Florence Newton
Irish woman accused of being a witch in the 1600s
Mary Ann Kays Boren
Carson Dobbins Boren and Mary Ann Kays Boren were among the first Anglo-Americans to settle in King County, Washington (U.S.)