Red Corporal Yelizaveta Feodorovna Mironova, 255th Marine Brigade Black Sea Fleet of Novorossiysk, was a teenage sniper.
Corporal Yelizaveta Feodorovna Mironova
Posts By: Claire Lucido
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Freedom Riders’ Mugshots
The Freedom Riders were activists who made invaluable contributions to the progress of the civil rights movement in America by sitting illegally in segregated public transport.
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The First Russian Beauty Pageant
There were the Soviet Beauty Queens and then there were the Russian Beauty Queens.
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Nigerian Teen Girls Invent Pee Generator
14-year-olds Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola and Faleke Oluwatoyin, and Bello Eniola, 15, invented an incredible thing.
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Myra Gale Brown
Myra Gale and Jerry Lee Lewis, first cousins once removed, married when she was thirteen years old and he was twenty-two.
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Navy Fav’s
“Sailors, at the constant mercy of the elements, often feel the need for religious images on their bodies to appease the angry powers that caused storms and drowning far from home.”
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Brave Noor-Un-Nisa Inayat Khan
Noor Inayat Khan was the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France during WWII.
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Italian Partisans, WWII
Resistenza partigiana, Partisan Resistance, were pro-Allied Italians during WWII.
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Don’t Ask My Name (It’s Ri Sol-Ju)
You know Kim Jong Il? You know his son, Kim Jong Un?
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Olga Korbut, Soviet Gymnast
“She was 85 pounds of pigtailed détente, flipping her way into the American consciousness.”