Ada Blackjack

The lone survivor of an ill-fated scientific expedition, this IƱupiat woman survived for two years on Wrangel Island, remote arctic island north of Siberia.

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Nawab Sikander Begum

Her Highness Nawab Sikander Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCSI ruled as the the Nawab of Bhopal from 1860 until her death in 1868.

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