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5 Famous Battle-Axes: Media

The weaker sex? Not these women.

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Carry Nation
Carry Nation.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Carry Nation
Carry Nation.
© American Stock—Archive Photos/Getty Images
axe
© luchschen/Fotolia
axe
© Andrzej Tokarski/Fotolia
Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden and her attorney in the courtroom before her acquittal, sketch by B....
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital file no. cph 3c23237)
Duston, Hannah Emerson
Hannah Emerson Duston, statue in Boscawen, N.H.
Craig Michaud