The name Sacagawea is commonly translated in Hidatsa as meaning "Bird Woman." However, some historians translate her name in Shoshone to mean this water-based job.
Boat Launcher
This was the formidable name of Blackbeard's famous flagship.
Queen Anne's Revenge
In 1872, Anthony made national headlines and was arrested for casting a ballot in this type of election.
A presidential election
A tragic bus crash in 1925 left Frida with severe injuries, which led her to pass the time during her recovery by doing this.
Painting
Marie Curie is the only person to win this prestigious science award in two different fields: Physics and Chemistry.
The Nobel Prize
Sacagawea famously brought her infant son, Jean-Baptiste, along on the journey. The explorers affectionately nicknamed the baby this two-syllable word.
Pomp
To look extra terrifying, Blackbeard would weave slow-burning fuses and hemp cords into this facial feature.
His beard
This famous abolitionist, who published the North Star newspaper, was a close friend and collaborator of Anthony in the fight for civil rights.
Frederick Douglass
In this famous 1939 double self-portrait, Frida holds hands with a mirror image of herself, showing her exposed and connected hearts.
The Two Fridas
To honor her home country, Marie Curie named this newly discovered radioactive element "Polonium."
Poland
When the expedition finally reached the Rocky Mountains, they desperately needed horses from the Shoshone people. By a stroke of luck, the Shoshone Chief turned out to be this relative of Sacagawea.
Her brother
In 1718, Blackbeard blockaded the harbor of this major South Carolina city, demanding a chest of medical supplies.
Charleston
In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton launched a weekly women's rights publication that carried this militant-sounding name.
The Revolution
Frida famously married, divorced, and then remarried this giant of Mexican muralism.
Diego Rivera
During World War I, Marie Curie created mobile radiography units that were affectionately nicknamed this.
Little Curies
When a sudden storm caused their boat to tip, Sacagawea remained calm and bravely rescued these essential items floating in the water, which contained the captains' notes and medical supplies.
The journals
This British Lieutenant led the Royal Navy forces that finally defeated and killed Blackbeard in a bloody battle at Ocracoke Inlet.
Robert Maynard
Anthony grew up in this religious society, which taught that all people, including women and enslaved individuals, were equal before God.
The Quakers
Frida's vibrant childhood home in Mexico City, nicknamed the "Blue House," is now a popular tourist attraction known by this Spanish name.
La Casa Azul
Because Marie Curie handled radioactive materials for decades, her personal belongings, including these, are still too radioactive to touch today.
Her journals
While traveling through her homeland, Sacagawea realized the chief of this tribe was actually her long-lost brother, Cameahwait.
Shoshone
After his final battle, Blackbeard's decapitated body was thrown overboard, and his severed head was hung from the bowsprit of this specific type of British Royal Navy warship.
A sloop
Spoken by Anthony at her 86th birthday celebration, this famous two-word phrase became a motto for the women's suffrage movement.
"Failure is impossible"
To proudly show her heritage, Frida regularly wore traditional, colorful indigenous clothing from Oaxaca, particularly this type of flowing, embroidered dress and blouse.
The Tehuana dress
The Curie family holds the record for the most Nobel Prizes, with her daughter and son-in-law also winning one in 1935 for this field.
Chemistry