Portal:Biography/Did you know/7


 * ... that on 12 December 2009, Kaiane Aldorino (pictured) became the first Miss World from Gibraltar?
 * ... that Francis Amasa Walker was brevetted a Brigadier General in the Union Army at the age of 24 and placed in charge of the 1870 United States Census at 29?
 * ... that paintings by Finnish artist Ilona Harima were influenced by the cultures of India and Tibet but she never visited either country?
 * ... that the Tswana ruler and rainmaker Sechele I, denounced for polygamy by David Livingstone, was one of the most successful Christian missionaries of the 19th century?
 * ... that Henry Hallowell Farquhar, the leading scorer on the first Michigan Wolverines basketball team in 1909, became a professor at Harvard Business School?
 * ... that American, Belgian and British soldiers attended the funeral of Walter Waddington, along with an entire French cavalry brigade?
 * ... that Jacques Legrand, a former translator at the French embassies in Mongolia and China, has studied the anthropology of Mongolian pastoralism?