When Jewish mathematician Pepi Mehlberg was offered a new identity as Countess Janina Suchodolska in Nazi-occupied Poland, she took that... more

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Without the daughters of Genghis Khan, there would have been no Mongol Empire. Four women ruled over North, South, East,... more