Portal:Biography/Did you know/10


 * ... that Kentucky native Morton M. McCarver (pictured) helped found Burlington, Iowa, and Linnton, Oregon, before helping draft the California Constitution and founding Tacoma, Washington?
 * ... that George Bazeley, Mark Paterson, Liam de Young, Tim Deavin and Andrew Charter moved to Perth so they could train with the Australia men's national field hockey team?
 * ... that Janja Kantakouzenos was executed together with his two brothers, four sons, and twelve grandchildren?
 * ... that the Beirut-based actor and visual artist Rabih Mroué had to premiere a piece in Tokyo because it was banned at home?
 * ... that Ali al-Sulayhi, originally an Ismaili missionary, brought all of Yemen under the control of his Sulayhid dynasty before capturing Mecca in 1063?
 * ... that Sanusi Pane has been called the most important Indonesian dramatist prior to the national revolution?
 * ... that Itō Chūta was the leading architect of early twentieth-century Imperial Japan?