Extraodinary women that history forgot

Sometimes scouring the net or a good old fashioned book, one comes across the name of women who did extraordinary deeds, not just by the standards of their time and place. Women who proved themselves to be smarter, braver and tougher than many, or every, men around them. Sadly many of their deeds are hidden in the deepest recesses of history.
All of them are, in my opinion worthy of superpowers, some I strongly suspected they already them.

Let's start with Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (1924-2000) or Hedy Lamarr as she was known during her movie career. Many would remember her as great actress, who had the guts to be in the first mainstream movie picture featuring a full female nude and sex scene (Ecstasy 1933), but she was much more than that. After escaping Germany and her first marriage in 1937 -- she was of Ebrew origin -- she came to the U.S.A. where she became one of the MGM rising stars, as well as a strong advocate of the war effort alongside the suffragetes.
After getting bored with her movie career she moved back to engineering, which she was studying in the '20s, and patented in 1942 the frequency-hopping spread-spectrum device. a device meant to make impossible for the enemy to jam radio controlled torpedoes that the U.S.Navy would adopt in 1962 (after 20 years of opposition) and is the base for many present days technologies like Bluetooth and Wi-fi.

Second try to get this thread off the ground.

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake (1912-2011) (aka "Hélène", "Andrée", "White Mouse" or "Witch" depending on what side of WW2 one were on) is quite possibly the most decorated servicewoman on the Allied side of the war having received no less than 11 high profile honours for her service (the last in 2006). Between 1943 and 1945 she worked for the Special Operation Executive coordinating the efforts of various maquis resistance groups. By the end of 1943 she was n° 1 on the Gestapo most wanted list in France with a prize of 5 milions francs on her head. This Wellington lady pulled one crazy stunt after another during the whole war including killing a sentry with her bare hands, leading a 7,000 maquis unit against a 22,000 German unit and pulling out with only minimal causalities and smuggling radio codes by herself after riding 500 km on a bicycle.

Not many people have heard of this woman, but she was one of the most powerful women to ever lived thanks to her stint as Empree Regent of the Mongols.

Töregene Khatun
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They would never have let her rule for five years if she were not an extraordinary woman.