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use for women, too. For example, "Daredevil Marie" Marvingt (1875-1963) is the most decorated woman in the world today and was known as "the fiancée of danger." She was the third woman in the world to obtain a pilot's license and fought in World War I disguised as a man. She earned a Croix de Guerre for bombing a German airbase, was given the French Academy of Sports gold medal for excellence in all sports, dove out of a dirigible into a Venetian canal, crossed the North Sea in a balloon, invented the ambulance airplane, and is a member of the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame.
