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 * ... that after assassinating a former warlord, Shi Jianqiao (pictured) distributed pamphlets explaining her deed?
 * ... that although Gabrielle Matthaei did the majority of the work in determining the role of temperature in photosynthesis, the biochemical reactions are named after Frederick Blackman?
 * ... that Kyeong Kang was the first South Korean to be selected in the Major League Baseball Draft?
 * ... that in 1865 Manuel Antonio Caro became the first Chilean student to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris?
 * ... that John Gatins, the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Flight, got into scriptwriting when a fellow Vassar graduate offered him $1,000 to pen a screenplay?
 * ... that Sister Jackie Hudson served six months in prison for painting "Christ lives, Disarm" on the side of a bunker?
 * ... that with the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Alexandru Bârlădeanu went from house arrest to Senate President within a few months?