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Further Reading: Badass

In Artemisia Gentileschi’s Jael and Sisera (1620) Jael calmly prepares to drive a tent peg through sleeping Sistera’s noggin.

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Alone on the Ice, by David Roberts

Sophie & Jean-Pierre Blanchard: Balloonists Extraordinaire

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Theodore Roosevelt vs. the Deadly “River of Doubt”

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The Baroque Badassery of Artemisia Gentileschi

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Onna-Bugeisha: Warrior Women of Japan

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Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Gentleman Badass

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO5PCMz5rgs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUtWFLUCcM

https://www.themusicaladventuresofsaintgeorge.com/single-post/2016/12/13/Podcast-No-1—Introducing-Le-Chevalier-de-Saint-George

The Great Emu War: Tiny Brains vs. Big Guns

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For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Justin Quimby, Leonard Apeltsin, Eva Galperin, Seth Rosenblatt, Casey Selden, and Stuart Gripman. Thank you!