Portal:Biography/Did you know/1


 * ... that American frontier doctor Charles Boarman (pictured), a founding member of the Society of California Pioneers, died fighting a smallpox epidemic in Amador County, California?
 * ... that Tomás Menéndez Márquez was abducted from his ranch by pirates and rescued by Native Americans?
 * ... that in 2007, Frederic Hauge appeared on Time magazine's list of "Heroes of the Environment"?
 * ... that Isa ibn Shaykh al-Shaybani ruled a short-lived bedouin state in Palestine, governed Armenia for the Abbasids, and finally became ruler of Diyar Bakr, where he was succeeded by his son Ahmad?
 * ... that almost all kings of Hungary after 1046 descended from Michael, the second son of Grand Prince Taksony?
 * ... that Japanese surrealist gothic horror author Yumeno Kyūsaku dropped dead due to a cerebral hemorrhage while at an autograph signing party hosted by his publisher?
 * ... that William Cantelo invented an early machine gun, then mysteriously disappeared?