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  2. Monica Lin Brown - Wikipedia

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    Brown receives the Silver Star from Vice President Dick Cheney in March 2008.. Monica Lin Brown (born 24 May 1988) [4] is a United States Army sergeant and medic who became the first woman during the War in Afghanistan and only the second woman since World War II to receive the Silver Star, the United States military's third-highest medal for valor in combat.

  3. Gladiatrix - Wikipedia

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    The Romans of the Classical period had no specific word for female gladiators as a type or class. [1] The earliest reference to a woman gladiator as gladiatrix is by a scholiast in the 4th–5th century, who mockingly wonders whether a woman undergoing training for a performance at the ludi for the Floralia, a festival known for racy performances by seminude dancers, wants to be a gladiatrix ...

  4. List of Afghan women artists - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of women artists who were born in Afghanistan, of Afghani descent, or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

  5. Afghanistan's Female Fighters Are Still In Peril - AOL

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    One year after the U.S. pullout, these women who served in Afghanistan's security units are among the most endangered — even outside of Afghanistan. Meet a woman we're calling "Fatima" for her ...

  6. List of Afghans - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of notable Afghan people, which includes all the ethnic groups of the modern state of Afghanistan.Afghanistan has gone through territorial changes. This list generally excludes Ethnic Pashtuns who originate from regions that were not controlled by Afghanistan at the time, though there are exceptions for certain figures who are prominent to Pashtun

  7. Soraya Tarzi - Wikipedia

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    The emancipation of women was a part of Amanullah's reform policy, and the women of the royal family, particularly his wife and sisters, acted as the role models of this change. Many women from Amanullah's family publicly participated in organizations and went on to become government officials later in life. [1] In 1926, she said that: [13]

  8. How three female athletes escaped Afghanistan to build a new ...

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    Three Afghanistan athletes fled their country when the Taliban took over. Now they're building a new life in Cincinnati.

  9. 'American Gladiators' alums reveal backstage drama of classic ...

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    More than 30 years after American Gladiators debuted on television, Nitro, Ice, Storm and the rest are having another moment, as the second documentary on the star-spangled show this year, Muscles ...