Queens of Mongolia - The World Journal Part of the What Do You Know About That series MONGOLIA — I’m not sure how many of you have ever spent an afternoon digging around through the endless pages of the internet and/or the books at your lo...

Queens of Mongolia 👑

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Toregene Khatun: Empress of the Mongols Although her tribe was destroyed and she was forced into an unwanted marriage, this indomitable woman came to run the world's largest empire - with a woman as her companion.

Töregene Khatun was the Great Khatun & regent of the Mongol Empire from the death of her husband Ögedei Khan in 1241 until the election of her eldest son Güyük Khan in 1246. 👑

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Bessie Stringfield: The Motorcycle Queen of Miami Motorcycling across America, making her living doing stunts and transporting secret government documents, this stand-out woman found family in places she didn't expect.

Bessie Stringfield, The Motorcycle Queen of Miami

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Hester Stanhope: The Desert Queen 100 years before Lawrence of Arabia, this British woman traveled the Middle East by herself, surviving shipwrecks, plagues, and Bedouin attacks in the process.

Lady Hester Stanhope abandoned her aristocratic British life to travel around the Middle East by herself, adopting local customs and making it her home.

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Any, huge recommend from me to try @MissedinHistory and @Sawbones as good history podcasts that try to be representative #historyshiddenheroes #nineworlds

Also #rejectedprincesses by @jasonporath