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 * ...that Pancha Carrasco (pictured) became Costa Rica's first woman in the military by joining the defending forces at the Battle of Rivas rifle in hand and apron full of bullets?
 * ... that Louis-Adolphe Paquet was one of the most vocal opponents of both mandatory public education and women's suffrage in early 20th-century Quebec?
 * ... that Victoria Jackson-Stanley recently became the first woman and first African American mayor of Cambridge, a town in Maryland, United States, devastated by race riots in the 1960s?

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