who is the toughest woman in history?

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36. Do you want a human, or will animals work as well?

Since a jeep is a workhorse, the name RUFFIAN might do....

Ruffian (April 17, 1972–July 7, 1975) was an American champion thoroughbred racehorse. Ruffian is considered by many to be the greatest female racehorse in history and was ranked among the greatest U.S. racehorses of the 20th century by Blood-Horse magazine. Her story was told in 2007 film Ruffian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruffian_(horse)


Then, there's Laika. You don't hear this name on female dogs (I am not going near that b word) here in USA, but in the rest of the world it is a very common name for your female pup--and it is all down to the famous cosmo-dog. Every time I hear the name Laika I feel a twinge for that poor little street dog, even after all these years. The name always makes me think of her.

Laika (Russian: Лайка, literally meaning "Barker"; c. 1954 – November 3, 1957) was a Soviet space dog that became the first animal to orbit the Earth – as well as the first animal to die in orbit.

As little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living creatures at the time of Laika's mission, and the technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed, there was no expectation of Laika's survival. Some scientists believed humans would be unable to survive the launch or the conditions of outer space, so engineers viewed flights by non-human animals as a necessary precursor to human missions.[1] Laika, a stray dog, originally named Kudryavka (Russian: Кудрявка Little Curly), underwent training with two other dogs, and was eventually chosen as the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November 3, 1957.

Laika likely died within hours after launch from overheating,[2] possibly caused by a failure of the central R-7 sustainer to separate from the payload.[3] The true cause and time of her death was not made public until 2002; instead, it was widely reported that she died when her oxygen ran out on day six,[4] or as the Soviet government initially claimed, she was euthanised prior to oxygen depletion. The experiment aimed to prove that a living passenger could survive being launched into orbit and endure weightlessness, paving the way for human spaceflight and providing scientists with some of the first data on how living organisms react to spaceflight environments.

On April 11, 2008, Russian officials unveiled a monument to Laika. A small monument in her honour was built near the military research facility in Moscow which prepared Laika's flight to space. It features a dog standing on top of a rocket.[1][5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika



I know there are tons of stories of cats saving families from fires, I'll bet a few of them were of the female persuasion!

If you are set on a human name for your vehicle, there are a ton of choices here:

Harriet Tubman
Amelia Earhart
Alexandra Kollontai
Asma Khader
Eleanor Roosevelt
Florence Griffith Joyner
Malalai Kakar
Jeannette Rankin
Martha Carey Thomas
Marie Curie
Mother Teresa
Mary Astell
Parvin Ardalan
Queen Amina of Zaria
Queen Esther of Persia
Rachel Corrie
Sarah Winnamucca
Queen Zanobia of Palmyra
Simone Weil
Lady Godiva
Susan B. Anthony
Sappho
Queen Elizabeth of England
Sojouner Truth
Wilma Rudolph
Indira Ghandi
Hildegard of Bingen
Corrie Ten Boom
Chien-Shiung Wu
Elizabeth Kenny
Tomoe Gozen
Etty Hillesum
Jody Williams
Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft
Julia Ward Howe
Princess Diana
Rosa Parks