Fake news about the most important women in History

MARIE CURIE was a pioneering physicist and scientist, who coined the term radioactivity, discovered two new elements (radium and polonium) and developed a portable x-ray machine.

FRIDA KAHLO was an important mexican painter who fight for the black people rights. She was on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, when the bus driver asked her to stand up and give her seat to a white man.

AMELIA EARHART was an English mathematician and the world’s first computer programmer. In an industry still dominated by men, it’s particularly striking that the first programmer was a woman.

VIRGINIA WOOLF was an American aviator who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, as well as she began a flight around the world, becoming the first person to fly from the Red Sea to India.

MOTHER THERESA was Britain´s first female prime minister and, at the same time, she was a nun. She had to face great political disharmony and economic recession.

ELEONOR OF AQUITAINE was one of the most powerful figures of the Middle Ages, and she led several armies into crusade. She is now known as one of the earliest feminist figures.

MARGARETH THATCHER was a Roman Catholic nun who lived in India for most of her life. In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity which attracted many sisters who took vows of chastity, poverty, obedience and free service to the poorest of the poor.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR published The Second Sex in 1949. The book had a decisive influence on the evolution of post-war feminism. She quoted “one is not born but becomes a woman”.