Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Green/DYK/2008 DYK Blurbs

2008 DYK Blurbs: Transcluding 10 of 444 2008 DYK blurbs
 * ... that South African ANC activist Kate Molale organised a pioneer movement in the struggle against the 1953 Bantu Education Act? (2008-12-31)
 * ... that Republican Joan Huffman, a former Houston judge who won a special election to the Texas State Senate on December 16, 2008, became the sixth woman in the 31-member chamber, a legislative record? (2008-12-29)
 * ... that Lisa Rossbacher, president of Southern Polytechnic State University, is the first female geologist to become a university president? (2008-12-28)
 * ... that Katrina Mumaw became the youngest person to break the sound barrier when she piloted a MIG-29 fighter jet at Mach 1.3 on July 12, 1994 at the age of eleven? (2008-12-28)
 * ... that an impacted shoulder presentation during childbirth (pictured) can lead to both the death of the baby and of the mother? (2008-12-27)
 * ... that Flora Drummond was known as "The General" for her habit of leading Women's Suffrage processions (lapel pin pictured) wearing an officer's cap and epaulettes whilst riding a large horse? (2008-12-27)
 * ... that in Doris Lessing's 1983 novel, The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, language becomes so distorted that some of the characters succumb to a condition called "undulant rhetoric"? (2008-12-26)
 * ... that it took the publisher's lawyers 14 months to approve the publication of You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, Julia Phillips' scandalous autobiography? (2008-12-24)
 * ... that Trina Belamide, who has written songs for most of the Philippines' top recording artists, also writes custom theme songs for weddings? (2008-12-24)
 * ... that Irish writer Edna O'Brien made her screen debut as an extra in an adaptation of her novel, Wild Decembers? (2008-12-23)
 * ... that Irish ballerina Monica Loughman, aged 14, was the first Westerner to dance for the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Perm, Russia? (2008-12-23)
 * ... that Mildred Constantine organized the 1968 exhibition Word and Image of 300 posters at the Museum of Modern Art called "so handsome that for a minute you wonder why billboards are disfigurements"? (2008-12-23)
 * ... that the history of netball is linked to that of basketball, and that netball was primarily developed as a women's sport? (2008-12-23)
 * ... that linguist Carol Chomsky developed the technique of repeated reading, in which children gain fluency by reading along with a recording of a text until they can do so on their own? (2008-12-23)
 * ... that Johanna Wokalek portrayed Red Army Faction terrorist Gudrun Ensslin in the Golden Globe-nominated film The Baader Meinhof Complex? (2008-12-22)
 * ... that Gale Benson was not a spy according to her brother, even though the 2008 film The Bank Job depicted her as one? (2008-12-22)
 * ... that teenage aviatrix Elinor Smith, the "Flying Flapper of Freeport", had her pilot's license suspended for 15 days for flying under New York City's four East River bridges in 1928? (2008-12-22)
 * ... that screenwriter Dana Fox works with Diablo Cody and Lorene Scafaria in a writing group they call "The Fempire"? (2008-12-22)
 * ... that Łucja Frey (pictured) is considered to be one of the first female academic neurologists in Europe? (2008-12-20)
 * ... that Robin Toner was the first woman to be national political correspondent for The New York Times? (2008-12-20)
 * ... that according to Fortune, Chanda Kochhar, soon to be CEO of India's largest private bank, is the 25th most powerful woman in business? (2008-12-20)
 * ... that Harriet Holter, an economist by education, has been described as a pioneer of women's studies in the Nordic countries? (2008-12-19)
 * ... that Filipina singer and actress Didith Reyes was one of the "Jukebox Queens" of the 1970s Philippine music scene along with her friends Imelda Papin and Claire dela Fuente? (2008-12-18)
 * ... that operatic soprano Romilda Pantaleoni sang the role of Desdemona in the original 1887 production of Giuseppe Verdi's Otello? (2008-12-17)
 * ... that S. A. K. Durga is the first Asian to have written a book on ethnomusicology? (2008-12-14)
 * ... that Linda Greenlaw, the swordfishing boat captain portrayed in the book and film The Perfect Storm, is now a best-selling author? (2008-12-14)
 * ... that pianist Kathryn Stott first met long-term collaborator Yo-Yo Ma playing the cello in her flat in his underpants? (2008-12-10)
 * ... that the Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award is named for a librarian who was jailed for refusing to testify in the 1972 trial of the Harrisburg Seven anti-war activists? (2008-12-09)
 * ... that Jane Couch MBE, nicknamed The Fleetwood Assassin, became the first female boxer to be granted a professional licence by the British Boxing Board of Control? (2008-12-08)
 * ... that using the pseudonym "Tanta", Doris Dungey blogged on Calculated Risk about the U.S. housing bubble, including a 13-article series on the mortgage industry called The Compleat ÜberNerd? (2008-12-06)
 * ... that Singaporean backstroke swimmer Yip Pin Xiu, who has muscular dystrophy, won a gold and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, setting two world records in the process? (2008-12-05)
 * ... that Anne-Lise Seip was appointed at the Institute of History, University of Oslo in 1975, the same year as her husband Jens Arup Seip retired from his professorship there? (2008-12-05)
 * ... that mathematician Karen Vogtmann co-authored a paper which produced a method for quantifying the difference and computing the distance between two phylogenetic trees? (2008-12-04)
 * ... that Ingrid Semmingsen was the first female professor of history in Norway? (2008-12-04)
 * ... that Shigeko Higashikuni was the elder sister of Akihito, the reigning Emperor of Japan? (2008-12-03)
 * ... that Albert Einstein, according to writer Illana Katz, may have had autism? (2008-12-03)
 * ... that in spite of her great reputation in Europe, operatic soprano Lucienne Bréval had limited success in America as critics thought her singing lacked polish? (2008-12-01)
 * ... that Lucie Skeaping, a leading exponent and broadcaster on early music, has also worked with contemporary composer Michael Nyman, historian Simon Schama and comedian Ken Dodd? (2008-12-01)
 * ... that Ilse Stanley (pictured), a German Jewish actress, secured the release of 412 prisoners in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1938? (2008-11-29)
 * ... that singer Christina Milian's self-titled debut album had its U.S. release date delayed for three years, partly due to the September 11 attacks? (2008-11-29)
 * ... that poetry of the Hindu female-saint Bahinabai reflects the compromise between her devotion to husband and patron-god Vithoba? (2008-11-29)
 * ... that the only known picture of the Etruscan mythological daemon Tuchulcha is on the wall in the Tomb of Orcus, a 4th-century BC hypogeum in Tarquinia, Italy? (2008-11-27)
 * ... that before Korean American Tessa Ludwick became a child actress, she worked as a model, starting when she was only two and a half years old? (2008-11-27)
 * ... that suffragette Lady Constance Lytton carved the letter "V" (for "Votes for Women") into her breast using a piece of broken enamel from a hairpin? (2008-11-27)
 * ... that Jane Brody was at first reluctant to write the Personal Health column in The New York Times, which has since been syndicated to more than 100 newspapers in the U.S.? (2008-11-27)
 * ... that before becoming a famous opera singer, Ines Maria Ferraris had a career as a concert pianist beginning at the age of 12? (2008-11-27)
 * ... that Rosetta Reitz, whose Rosetta Records focused on the women of jazz, was behind the 1980 Newport Jazz Festival tribute called "Blues is a Woman", featuring Adelaide Hall and Big Mama Thornton? (2008-11-26)
 * ... that American illustrator, painter and printmaker Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer was the great-great granddaughter of Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale? (2008-11-25)
 * ... that The Atlantic Monthly ran an article titled "Mother Doesn't Do Much" by Catherine Galbraith about her role as an ambassador's wife in India after her son wrote a school essay using those words? (2008-11-24)
 * ... that Italian mezzo-soprano Flora Perini %28pictured%29 originated the role of the Princess in the world premiere of Puccini's Suor Angelica at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918? (2008-11-23)
 * ... that soprano Cesira Ferrani originated two of the most iconic roles in opera history, Mimì %28pictured%29 in the world premiere of Puccini's La bohème and the title role in the premiere of Puccini's Manon Lescaut? (2008-11-22)
 * ... that although opera singer Rita Fornia began her career as a coloratura soprano, her voice lowered and darkened causing her to sing mostly mezzo-soprano roles? (2008-11-21)
 * ... that during the German occupation of Norway, Astrid Løken combined entomological field research with secret photography for the resistance group XU? (2008-11-21)
 * ... that the music video for Sia Furler's latest single "Soon We'll Be Found" features American Sign Language? (2008-11-19)
 * ... that American colonialists James Franklin and Ann Smith Franklin established Rhode Island's first printing press? (2008-11-19)
 * ... that the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights, adopted in 1985, calls for the right to unemployment insurance and decriminalization of adult prostitution? (2008-11-18)
 * ... that Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson (pictured) transferred from Georgetown University Law Center to University of Illinois College of Law to be with her future husband, U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.? (2008-11-18)
 * ... that Florence Wald, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, has been credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement"? (2008-11-16)
 * ... that despite being captured during the Battle of the Philippines, the Nurse Corps regiment known as the Angels of Bataan continued to serve as a nursing unit throughout their internment? (2008-11-16)
 * ... that early childhood educator Barbara T. Bowman co-founded the Erikson Institute, a graduate school in child development, with the support of philanthropist Irving Harris? (2008-11-15)
 * ... that Lucy of Bolingbroke paid King Henry I of England 500 marks after the death of her third husband, Ranulf le Meschin, for the right not to remarry? (2008-11-14)
 * ... that Beast vocalist Béatrice Bonifassi sang on Champion's album Chill'em All, and also provided the singing voices for Les Triplettes de Belleville? (2008-11-14)
 * ... that Tarab Abdul Hadi co-founded the first Palestinian women's organization in 1929? (2008-11-13)
 * ... that Amy Peterson competed in the first five Olympics in which short track speed skating was a sport? (2008-11-13)
 * ... that the force-feeding of suffragette, arsonist and hunger-striker Lilian Lenton caused food to enter her lungs and led to public outrage? (2008-11-12)
 * ... that ballerina Rosella Hightower received critical acclaim in 1947 after filling in for the sick Alicia Markova and learning the role of Giselle in five hours, having never danced the part before? (2008-11-11)
 * ... that Ann Nixon Cooper, the subject of Barack Obama 's presidential acceptance speech, served for more than fifty years on the board of Gate City Nursery Association? (2008-11-11)
 * ... that most of the information available about English novelist Phebe Gibbes is derived from an application to the Royal Literary Fund for financial support in 1804? (2008-11-10)
 * ... that Estelle Reiner′s deadpan line —"I'll have what she's having"—after Meg Ryan's faked orgasm in When Harry Met Sally, was ranked by the AFI as one of the best ever movie quotes? (2008-11-08)
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 * ... that Judith Wachs, who spent 30 years with her Sephardic music group Voice of the Turtle, first turned to music when she filled in for her husband who signed up for recorder lessons but could not attend? (2008-11-07)
 * ... that after retiring from the stage opera singer Emma Carelli managed the Rome Opera House for almost 15 years? (2008-11-07)
 * ... that Mayor of New York City John Lindsay was said to have been so angered by Edith Evans Asbury of The New York Times that he broke his telephone after slamming down the receiver? (2008-11-07)
 * ... that soprano Meagan Miller, accustomed to wearing US$10,000 gowns on stage in her opera performances, chose to wear her mother's simple gown for her summer 2008 wedding? (2008-11-06)
 * ... that The Outsiders, a novel written by S.E. Hinton, has sold over 14 million copies since it was published in 1967? (2008-11-05)
 * ... that actress Dina Cocea was known in Romania as the "Queen of the Theater" and received the country's highest civil award, the Order of the Star of Romania? (2008-11-05)
 * ... that operatic soprano Gail Robinson won the Metropolitan Opera auditions at the young age of 19? (2008-11-03)
 * ... that after retiring from the entertainment industry, actress/singer Francine Everett took a clerical job at Harlem Hospital in New York City? (2008-11-03)
 * ... that Kalaallit Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson was Editor of the Journal of Indigenous Studies before she became the first woman and first Inuk Executive Director at the Arctic Institute of North America? (2008-11-02)
 * ... that painter Henrietta Rae burned Valentine Prinsep's hat in revenge for his smearing one of her works with cobalt blue paint? (2008-10-30)
 * ... that artist Henrietta Ward claimed she gave her husband's friend Wilkie Collins the idea for his novel The Woman In White? (2008-10-29)
 * ... that Indian indigenous tribal journalist and activist Dayamani Barla once worked as a maid to pay her way through University? (2008-10-28)
 * ... that women baring their breasts in front of higher class people and deities was considered a sign of respect in the 19th-century Travancore kingdom in South India? (2008-10-28)
 * ... that operatic soprano Celestina Boninsegna sang her first leading role at the unusually young age of 15? (2008-10-28)
 * ... that actress-singer Anabela, who represented Portugal in the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest, just finished playing the role of Maria von Trapp in the Portuguese production of The Sound of Music? (2008-10-27)
 * ... that Gwen Stefani's 2005 song "Hollaback Girl" received four nominations from the MTV Video Music Awards, and won the award for Best Choreography? (2008-10-26)
 * ... that the portraiture of Elizabeth I (pictured) contains complex iconography of empire and virginity that conveyed to Elizabethans the majesty and significance of the Virgin Queen? (2008-10-25)
 * ... that  Vasilissa ergo gaude, the first known motet by Guillaume Dufay was to celebrate the marriage of princess Cleofa Malatesta to the Byzantine lord of Mistras? (2008-10-25)
 * ... that Beth Groundwater ' s A Real Basket Case was nominated for the Best First Novel Agatha Award in 2007? (2008-10-25)
 * ... that Katy Perry's song "I Kissed a Girl" was nominated for five awards at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2008? (2008-10-24)
 * ... that Julia Morton was the "poison plant center in south Florida"? (2008-10-24)
 * ... that Alfonsina Strada, nicknamed the devil in a dress, was the only female ever to compete in the Giro d'Italia? (2008-10-24)
 * ... that Marie Curie (pictured) is the only female Nobel laureate to have won multiple Nobel Prizes? (2008-10-23)
 * ... that Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated 1910–13 Antarctic expedition was the inspiration for two of Doris Lessing's novels, The Sirian Experiments and The Making of the Representative for Planet 8? (2008-10-21)
 * ... that Mary Ann Müller has been described as "New Zealand's pioneer suffragist"? (2008-10-21)
 * ... that Nini Stoltenberg, the little sister of the Norwegian Prime Minister, has spoken openly about her past heroin addiction and has become an advocate for drug policy reform in Norway? (2008-10-20)
 * ... that Margaret Kelly Leibovici, a French-Irish dancer, was interrogated by the Gestapo in occupied France? (2008-10-18)
 * ... that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has mandated a return to paper ballots after an extensive study as well as an experience with failing direct-recording electronic voting machines? (2008-10-18)
 * ... that Filipino proverbs were grouped into six categories by Damiana Eugenio, a professor and author known as the Mother of Philippine Folklore (sample myth pictured)? (2008-10-17)
 * ... that Queen Victoria wore the George III Tiara, part of Elizabeth II's jewel collection, while being painted in Franz Xaver Winterhalter's The First of May (pictured)? (2008-10-16)
 * ... that Marguerite Sylva (pictured) modestly told W. S. Gilbert at her sister's audition that she "sang a little" and, after demonstrating, was offered a part? (2008-10-15)
 * ... that Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy, an Australian domestic science college for women, was officially opened on April 27, 1927 by Her Royal Highness Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon? (2008-10-15)
 * ... that Empress Wang, the wife of Emperor Dezong of Tang, was empress for only three days prior to her death in 786 AD? (2008-10-14)
 * ... that the 2008 teen comedy film Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was Lorene Scafaria ' s ninth screenplay but first novel adaptation? (2008-10-13)
 * ... that Julie Couillard's memoir My Story reveals confidential opinions that Canadian member of Parliament Maxime Bernier allegedly shared with her and was released eight days before Bernier is seeking re-election? (2008-10-12)
 * ... that Nic Waal, who rescued Jewish children in Norway from the Holocaust, started her own institute for pediatric psychiatry when turned down for a job because her appearance was too messy? (2008-10-09)
 * ... that British activist Emmeline Pankhurst (pictured) once slapped a police officer so she would get arrested to raise awareness about the need for women's suffrage? (2008-10-09)
 * ... that a 1989 Samsung commercial began the late South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil ' s path to stardom? (2008-10-09)
 * ... that American Australian astronomer Penny Sackett has been appointed as the next Chief Scientist of Australia and will commence her duties in November 2008? (2008-10-06)
 * ... that as a result of Janina San Miguel's response to a question in the 2008 Binibining Pilipinas World pageant, the Philippine government proposed English courses for beauty pageant contestants?| sm (2008-10-06)
 * ... that Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick published a short book of favorite songs titled Louisiana Let's Sing in honor of her husband Claude's unsuccessful candidacy for Governor of Louisiana in 1963? (2008-10-04)
 * ... that Alaskan fiber artist Fran Reed was known for her distinctive baskets made from dried fish skins? (2008-10-02)
 * ... that Else Højgaard was a prima ballerina who was awarded knighthood in the Order of the Dannebrog? (2008-10-02)
 * ... that Marguerite Wilson is celebrated in the Golden Book of Cycling for holding all 16 British road records? (2008-09-30)
 * ... that two sculptors from Vest-Telemark, Dyre Vaa and Anne Grimdalen, both contributed to the decoration of Oslo City Hall? (2008-09-30)
 * ... that the Lord Peter Wimsey novel Thrones, Dominations was started by Dorothy L. Sayers in 1936 and completed by Jill Paton Walsh over 60 years later? (2008-09-29)
 * ... that a jobawi is a Korean traditional winter cap with ear-flaps which was worn by women during the late Joseon Dynasty? (2008-09-29)
 * ... that Latvian basketball player Ieva Tāre suffered a serious arm injury during the qualification for 2008 Summer Olympics, but recovered in time for the actual Olympics? (2008-09-29)
 * ... that Theresa Elmendorf was the first woman president of the American Library Association? (2008-09-28)
 * ... that Helga Vlahović was picked, along with Oliver Mlakar, to host the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest in Zagreb following Yugoslavia's win at the 1989 contest? (2008-09-27)
 * ... that socialite Hazel Crane ' s posthumous memoirs revealed her secret criminal career, including smuggling emeralds out of South Africa in her beehive hairdo and her baby's nappy? (2008-09-27)
 * ... that in Norse mythology, Hjúki and Bil have been theorized as personifying the waxing and waning moon and, due to similarities, as connected to the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill"? (2008-09-26)
 * ... that one of the short stories in Sandra Cisneros' collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories relates to the myth of La Llorona, who haunts the real Woman Hollering Creek in Texas? (2008-09-25)
 * ... that Chilean Canadian writer Carmen Rodriguez publishes much of her work in both English and Spanish, and that she herself is responsible for their translation? (2008-09-25)
 * ... that African-American mezzo-soprano Muriel Smith turned down a part in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, saying "it doesn't do the right thing for my people"? (2008-09-23)
 * ... that Singaporean equestrienne Laurentia Tan won Singapore's first-ever Paralympic medals, two bronzes in dressage, at the 2008 Summer Paralympics? (2008-09-23)
 * ... that a jokduri (pictured) is a type of Korean traditional coronet worn by women for special occasions such as weddings? (2008-09-23)
 * ... that Edith Atkins who broke numerous British cycling records died aged 79 pushing her bike across a zebra crossing? (2008-09-23)
 * ... that when Kristin Kreuk was cast as Lana Lang in the television series Smallville, she had no idea who her character was in Superman lore? (2008-09-22)
 * ... that an ayam (pictured) is a Korean traditional winter cap mostly worn by women in the Joseon period? (2008-09-22)
 * ... that Maxime de la Falaise, called "the only truly chic Englishwoman" by Cecil Beaton, said that "no straight man was attractive" in the 1970s' fashion industry? (2008-09-21)
 * ... that the traditional dress of Hui'an maidens (statue pictured) has been jokingly referred to as "feudal heads, thrifty jackets, democratic bellies, and wasteful trousers"? (2008-09-21)
 * ... that prima ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya (pictured) first performed at the Bolshoi Theater at the age of ten? (2008-09-20)
 * ... that Lydia Thompson and her troupe of "British Blondes" introduced burlesque to America in 1868? (2008-09-20)
 * ... that It's About Time, singer Christina Milian's second studio album, served as her debut album in the U.S. due to the September 11 attacks? (2008-09-19)
 * ... that Victorian English operetta star Emily Soldene (pictured) later became a celebrated gossip columnist? (2008-09-18)
 * ... that screenwriter Dorothy Ann Purser was nominated for seven awards and won two, including a Daytime Emmy? (2008-09-16)
 * ... that in the Germanic pagan Merseburg Incantation, Sinthgunt and the personified sun, Sunna, are sisters using charms to heal a wounded horse? (2008-09-15)
 * ... that Isis King is the first transwoman to be amongst the 14 finalists on the fashion model reality series America's Next Top Model? (2008-09-15)
 * ... that actress Marion Terry, a younger sister of Dame Ellen Terry, appeared in over 125 chief roles? (2008-09-14)
 * ... that screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg originally aspired to be a dancer, and ended up writing the 2006 dance film Step Up? (2008-09-13)
 * ... that out of all the Norwegian TV guest appearances during the first half of 2007, Linn Skåber had the most? (2008-09-13)
 * ... that author-illustrator Polly Dunbar has been selected by The Times as one of the ten best new picture book illustrators of 2008? (2008-09-11)
 * ... that in 1902, Isabel Gonzalez, a single Puerto Rican mother, challenged the United States government and helped pave the way for all Puerto Ricans to be recognized as U.S. citizens? (2008-09-10)
 * ... that Brooke Miller, a racing cyclist and the US national criterium and road race champion, has a Ph.D in evolutionary biology? (2008-09-10)
 * ... that in 1998, English writer Joyce Dunbar cycled across Cuba to raise funds for the National Deaf Children's Society, on behalf of a people with hearing impairment? (2008-09-09)
 * ... that the National Council of Women of Canada helped create the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Children's Aid Society, and played a vital role in declaring that women were persons? (2008-09-07)
 * ... that swimmer Trischa Zorn of the United States is the most successful Paralympian with more than 40 gold medals reported? (2008-09-05)
 * ... that opera singer Nell Rankin used her pet jaguar, King Tut, as a negotiating tool at the Metropolitan Opera? (2008-09-05)
 * ... that after winning a 2004 Olympic bronze medal, Cuban hammer thrower Yunaika Crawford was not in the top ten at the 2005 World Championships? (2008-09-04)
 * ... that tennis player Julie Coin, ranked 188th, defeated the #1 woman player Ana Ivanović in the second round of the 2008 US Open? (2008-09-04)
 * ... that Mexican soprano Ángela Peralta once sang Donizetti's opera Maria di Rohan in a theatre improvised from a disused sand pit in La Paz, Baja California? (2008-09-03)
 * ... that 16th-century noblewoman Marguerite de La Rocque was marooned on an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence by her relative, the privateer de Roberval, as punishment for an affair? (2008-09-03)
 * ... that while she was working in the billing department of a clinical laboratory firm, Lexie Fyfe became a professional wrestler at the invitation of a co-worker? (2008-09-03)
 * ... that the book Help at Any Cost triggered hearings by the United States House Committee on Education and Labor into behavior modification techniques used by the tough love teen industry? (2008-09-03)
 * ... that Czesława Kwoka, a Polish Catholic child victim of the Holocaust, was the subject of a 2007 award-winning mixed-media presentation? (2008-09-02)
 * ... that Alice Arden and her son Russ Hodge are the only mother–son Olympians in American history? (2008-09-01)
 * ... that soprano Adele Addison stepped into the role of Bess in the 1969 film version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess as a last-minute replacement of a singer who sounded too shrill? (2008-09-01)
 * ... that Misty Copeland is the first African-American ballerina to appear as a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre? (2008-08-31)
 * ... that in 1951, Martha Wright took over the role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific on Broadway, playing the role for 1,047 performances until it closed in 1954? (2008-08-31)
 * ... that Caroline Reboux was known as the Queen of the Milliners? (2008-08-31)
 * ... that in Hindu mythology, the demoness Putana (pictured, centre) tried to kill the infant-god Krishna by breastfeeding him poisoned milk? (2008-08-30)
 * ... that Henny Moan acted in the Oscar-nominated Ni liv, later named the best film in the history of Norwegian cinema? (2008-08-30)
 * ... that 2008 Olympic handball champion Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk was also selected as the pivot on the tournament's All-star team? (2008-08-30)
 * ... that US Olympic discus throw gold medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton said that the downside of the Beijing Games was that they conflicted with the opening of hunting season in California? (2008-08-28)
 * ... that German-born Jewish Egyptologist Käte Bosse-Griffiths published a novel in the Welsh language? (2008-08-28)
 * ... that the Brazilian sex worker organization Davida created the fashion label Daspu which prostitutes presented at fashion shows, culminating in a show at the 2006 São Paulo Art Biennial? (2008-08-28)
 * ... that a phrase from poet Rosemonde Gérard became well-known when a jeweler engraved it on a medallion? (2008-08-27)
 * ... that Kay Cannon, a writer for 30 Rock, appeared in an episode of the series "Episode 209", as a Human Table? (2008-08-26)
 * ... that Sandra Stevens and Nicky Stevens have been with the British pop group Brotherhood of Man since 1973? (2008-08-25)
 * ... that Marie Heim-Vögtlin, Switzerland's first woman physician, was required by law to have her husband's consent in order to be allowed to work? (2008-08-25)
 * ... that in the 30 Rock episode "Fireworks", series writers Kay Cannon and Dave Finkel briefly appeared as a married couple? (2008-08-25)
 * ... that the silver won at the 2008 Summer Olympics by the Singapore women's table tennis team, comprising Feng Tianwei, Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu, is the second Olympic medal in Singapore's history? (2008-08-24)
 * ... that one of the works of Maya Angelou, Georgia, Georgia (1972), was the first film to be written and produced by an African American woman? (2008-08-24)
 * ... that the rare fallopian tube cancer is more prevalent in carriers of the BRCA1 and 2 mutations? (2008-08-24)
 * ... that Clara Fisher (pictured) began her 72 year acting career at the age of six? (2008-08-24)
 * ... that Rebecca Adlington, British Olympic Gold swimmer, went to The Brunts School? (2008-08-23)
 * ... that fashion designer Tory Burch, who has dated numerous celebrities and socialites, has a mother who dated Steve McQueen and a father who dated Grace Kelly? (2008-08-22)
 * ... that Elizabeth Howe was one of nineteen people found guilty of practicing witchcraft and executed in the Salem witch trials? (2008-08-22)
 * ... that in addition to Boswell's famous Life (1791), major accounts of Samuel Johnson's life include Biographical Sketch (1784), Anecdotes (1786), the rival Life (1787), Essay (1792), and Thraliana? (2008-08-21)
 * ... that The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, a science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, was adapted for the opera in 1997 by Philip Glass? (2008-08-18)
 * ... that in her début at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Tao Li broke the Asian record for the 100 m butterfly twice and became the first Singaporean swimmer to enter an Olympic final? (2008-08-18)
 * ... that the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbany wanted a burial in Damascus because it was the place that gave him "the alphabet of Jasmine"? (2008-08-18)
 * ... that an episode of 30 Rock, "Jack the Writer", contained a reference to Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which both revolve around the off-camera happenings on a sketch comedy series? (2008-08-16)
 * ... that Georgia Cayvan was the first person to wear a glass dress? (2008-08-16)
 * ... that the cartoon depiction of British model Christabel Leighton-Porter was said to have inspired the British 36th (Ulster) Division to advance six miles into Normandy in 1944? (2008-08-16)
 * ... that chemosynthesis, the process enabling deep sea invertebrates to survive without sunlight, was discovered by Colleen Cavanaugh? (2008-08-15)
 * ... that Northern Irish housewife Sarah Conlon's campaign to clear the names of her wrongfully-convicted husband and son led to an apology from then British Prime Minister Tony Blair? (2008-08-14)
 * ... that Johanna Brandt detailed spying for the Boers with her mother in her book Petticoat Commando? (2008-08-14)
 * ... that the niece of the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, Sirarpie Der-Nersessian, became the first woman to be awarded the Order of St. Gregory the Illuminator by the Catholicos of Armenia? (2008-08-12)
 * ... that Lydia Becker, founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal, was also an amateur botanist and friend of Charles Darwin? (2008-08-12)
 * ... that philanthropist Harriet Nevins left an animal shelter, a fountain, and a John LaFarge stained glass window to the people of Massachusetts? (2008-08-12)
 * ... that after previously competing at the 2004 games in Athens, Brooklyn-bred Erinn Smart and her brother Keeth are again part of the U. S. Olympic fencing team at Beijing? (2008-08-12)
 * ... that the television adaptation of Ellis Peters' novel The Rose Rent, set in 12th-century England, was actually filmed in Hungary? (2008-08-11)
 * ... that child actress Jillian Clare has been nominated for five Young Artist Awards, winning twice? (2008-08-11)
 * ... that the novels of Jane Austen (pictured) became popular with the public only after the publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869? (2008-08-11)
 * ... that feminist Jo Freeman was moved from Mississippi by the SCLC in 1966 after the Jackson Daily News published her photo and denounced her as a professional agitator? (2008-08-10)
 * ... that So Amazin', the third studio album by singer Christina Milian, was produced mainly by hip hop producers Cool & Dre? (2008-08-09)
 * ... that in 1814, Mary Shelley (pictured) eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, later publishing her first work History of a Six Weeks' Tour, about their walking tour of Europe? (2008-08-09)
 * ... that after winning a bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics, German shot putter Stephanie Storp began playing basketball? (2008-08-08)
 * ... that British fencer Mary Glen-Haig was the first female member of the International Olympic Committee? (2008-08-08)
 * ... that novelist Lucy Jane Bledsoe, a Stonewall Book Award winner and four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, primarily writes LGBT literature? (2008-08-06)
 * ... that organisations such as Unilever PLC, Tate Gallery, Penguin Books, and Prudential all have collections of Laura Ford's sculptures? (2008-08-03)
 * ... that Jane Meutas (pictured) was drawn by Holbein and engraved by Bartolozzi? (2008-08-02)
 * ... that Eliza Ridgely of Baltimore and Hampton is Thomas Sully's Lady with a Harp (pictured)? (2008-08-01)
 * ... that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's second novel Half of a Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction? (2008-07-30)
 * ... that Elaine Stritch's appearance as Colleen Donaghy, in the 30 Rock episode "Hiatus", earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series? (2008-07-28)
 * ... that Laila Goody has been called "Norway's most awarded young actress"? (2008-07-27)
 * Somebody to Love (30 Rock) (article's talk page missing blurb) (2008-07-26)
 * ... that Emperor Peter III of Russia was deposed by his wife Catherine and her friend Ekaterina Dashkova after he had made public his plans to divorce Catherine and marry Ekaterina's sister Elisabeth? (2008-07-26)
 * ... that English headmistress Olive Willis founded Downe House School, where her chauffeur-architect-engineer slept in her bathroom? (2008-07-25)
 * ... that Rachel Dratch lost the role of 30 Rock character Jenna Maroney to Jane Krakowski, but later appeared as a maid in the 30 Rock episode The Aftermath? (2008-07-24)
 * ... that Rosabelle Sinclair, a native of Scotland, established the first women's lacrosse team in the United States in 1926? (2008-07-22)
 * ... that Wanda Hjort Heger showed up uninvited every week at the gate of Sachsenhausen during WWII with two jars of potato salad for the Norwegian prisoners? (2008-07-20)
 * ... that Sarah Thompson was the first American countess? (2008-07-19)
 * ... that Bette Sussman and Whitney Houston's version of the Dolly Parton classic, "I Will Always Love You" has sold over 17 million copies? (2008-07-19)
 * ... that Henry Fielding praised Jane Collier, author of An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting and The Cry, for her "understanding more than female, mixed with virtues almost more than human"? (2008-07-18)
 * ... that Tookoolito (pictured) and her companion were advertised as "Esquimaux Indians... from the arctic regions" and exhibited at Barnum's American Museum in 1862? (2008-07-16)
 * ... that Korean writer Park Kyung-ni spent 25 years writing the 16-volume epic novel Land, which has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works? (2008-07-13)
 * ... that Australian naturalist and botanical artist Rica Erickson wrote her first book Orchids of the West in 1951? (2008-07-12)
 * ... that robot-assisted surgery was recently performed to treat ovarian vein syndrome, a rare condition in which a dilated ovarian vein compresses the ureter, causing pain? (2008-07-12)
 * ... that the Podgórski sisters—six-year-old Helena and her teenage sister Stefania—harbored thirteen Jews for over two years in the attic of their house during the Holocaust? (2008-07-11)
 * ... that Penelope Wensley, who will become the next Governor of Queensland this month, was the first female Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations in New York? (2008-07-11)
 * ... that children's author Aleksandra Ishimova was the last correspondent of Alexander Pushkin before his death in a duel? (2008-07-10)
 * ... that Grand Duchess Anna freed her husband Vytautas the Great of Lithuania from a prison in Kreva by dressing him in women's clothes? (2008-07-09)
 * ... that in 1967, Ann Pellegreno and a crew of three successfully flew a similar aircraft, Lockheed 10A Electra, to complete a world flight that mirrored Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight plan? (2008-07-08)
 * ... that Greek–Polish singer Eleni Tzoka has been awarded the Saint Rita of Cascia prize for the act of mercy towards the killer of her young daughter? (2008-07-07)
 * ... that Yukiko Iwai, at 4' 11 '' (150 cm), was the shortest member of the 1980s all-girl Japanese pop group Onyanko Club? (2008-07-06)
 * ... that the partition of a uterine septum can extend caudally and result in a double vagina? (2008-07-05)
 * ... that after basketball coaches exploited the possession arrow rule, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines amended the rules for the 2008 season? (2008-07-05)
 * ... that lyric coloratura soprano Harolyn Blackwell replaced opera diva Kathleen Battle when she famously got fired from the Metropolitan Opera? (2008-07-04)
 * ... that German politician Käte Strobel broke a taboo in 1967 by promoting sex education with a school book and the government-sponsored film Helga? (2008-07-02)
 * ... that the journey described in Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, was financed by an advance on the book she planned to write about the trip? (2008-07-02)
 * ... that Pakistani actress Maria Wasti played a role depicting philanthropist and Lenin Peace Prize winner Bilquis Edhi? (2008-07-01)
 * ... that Marie Studholme, one of the popular postcard beauties of Edwardian musical comedy, was wooed by her wealthy second husband under an assumed name? (2008-06-30)
 * ... that after moving to Los Angeles, California in 1912 as a widow with two daughters, Florence Casler became a pioneering woman real estate developer, constructing more than 60 buildings? (2008-06-30)
 * ... that having won three of the first five races, Anne Margrethe Hausken is currently leading this year's World Cup in orienteering? (2008-06-26)
 * ... that in Norse mythology, the goddesses Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa defeated a Danish fleet by shooting arrows from their fingertips? (2008-06-24)
 * ... that Bette Midler's back-up trio The Harlettes once included the actress Katey Sagal, better known for her role as Peggy Bundy on the television series ''Married...with Children? (2008-06-24)
 * ... that April FitzLyon 's biography of Mozart's librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte debunked his unreliable memoirs? (2008-06-24)
 * ... that Pakistani model Vaneeza Ahmad was one of the select few celebrities to carry the Olympic torch at the relay in Islamabad? (2008-06-23)
 * ... that the murder of Celia Douty was the first murder in Australia to be solved using DNA profiling, after remaining unsolved for 18 years? (2008-06-23)
 * ... that Dr. Maressa Orzack at Harvard Medical School stated that 40 percent of World of Warcraft players were addicted? (2008-06-23)
 * ... that Linda Finch is the first person to complete Amelia Earhart's unfinished final flight using the same aircraft type, a Lockheed L-10 Electra? (2008-06-23)
 * ... that American singer Elly Stone was Barbra Streisand’s understudy in the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale? (2008-06-23)
 * ... that Charlotte Badger, despite being from Great Britain, is widely considered the first Australian female pirate? (2008-06-21)
 * ... that Rhipsime and her companions are venerated as the first Christian martyrs in Armenian history? (2008-06-20)
 * ... that Genevieve R. Cline was the first American woman to be appointed as a federal judge, despite objections based on her gender from many members of the Senate? (2008-06-20)
 * ... that jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding became one of the youngest faculty members in the history of Berklee College of Music almost immediately after her graduation? (2008-06-20)
 * ... that Pakistani actress Veena Malik (pictured) has emerged as one of the leading women on Pakistani television with her abilities in improvisational mimicry? (2008-06-17)
 * ... that Christian musician Francesca Battistelli said she knew she would spend her life performing after seeing the musical The Secret Garden on Broadway at the age of six? (2008-06-17)
 * ... that Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for contributions to ethnography? (2008-06-17)
 * ... that British model Daisy Lowe began her modelling career at the age of two? (2008-06-16)
 * ... that critical reception to Hogarth's Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo was so harsh the artist was forced to remove the painting from exhibition? (2008-06-13)
 * ... that Indonesian journalist, S. K. Trimurti, who often used a pseudonym in her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities, later became the country's first minister of labor? (2008-06-13)
 * ... that Indian actress Kamalinee Mukherjee ' s poem was selected for an international poetry contest in Washington, D.C. just before she began her acting career in the Telugu film industry? (2008-06-12)
 * ... that Dulcie Holland ' s Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, described as "one of the greatest treasures of Australian music", waited 47 years for its first public performance? (2008-06-10)
 * ... that Irish journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain was given one of the final Jacob's Awards in 1993 to commemorate her career with RTÉ Radio 1? (2008-06-10)
 * ... that The Greencards (pictured) are a Texas bluegrass band known for their Americana sound, but are composed of two Australians and an Englishman? (2008-06-07)
 * ... that Jane S. Richardson developed the ubiquitous ribbon diagram method of representing proteins? (2008-06-07)
 * ... that the 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup saw a record eleven teams playing 32 matches in 25 different stadia? (2008-06-07)
 * ... that each chapter of the 2005 chick lit romantic comedy novel The Thing About Jane Spring begins with a quote from a Doris Day film? (2008-06-06)
 * ... that Mary Shelley's verse drama Midas is a commentary on both Ovid's Metamorphoses and Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale? (2008-06-05)
 * ... that the Tang Dynasty's Empress Zhang, during her husband Emperor Suzong's illness, used her blood to write Buddhist sutras in order to seek blessings for him? (2008-06-05)
 * ... that Angela James, once called the "Wayne Gretzky of women's ice hockey," was amongst the first three women inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame? (2008-06-04)
 * ... that the first coach of Lithuanian chess International Master Viktorija Čmilytė (pictured) was her father? (2008-06-03)
 * ... that Lady Elsie Mackay, socialite, actress and interior designer, died in 1928 with WWI ace Walter G. R. Hinchcliffe, attempting to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic? (2008-06-02)
 * ... that Kari Blackburn, daughter of Irish educationist Robert Blackburn, taught in a primary school in Tanzania before joining the BBC? (2008-06-01)
 * ... that Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her room at the Hollywood Studio Club (pictured)? (2008-06-01)
 * ... that Cornelia Adair, during World War I, invited Belgian refugees to stay at her Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, Ireland? (2008-05-29)
 * ... that the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is the only women's prison in Oregon? (2008-05-29)
 * ... that Rachel Wall was the first American-born female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts? (2008-05-28)
 * ... that the 1820 children's story Maurice by Mary Shelley was lost until 1997? (2008-05-26)
 * ... that Fire Station No. 19 in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the birthplace of kittenball, a forerunner of modern softball? (2008-05-26)
 * ... that Nona L. Brooks, a founder of the Church of Divine Science and leader in the New Thought religious movement, was the first woman pastor in Denver? (2008-05-25)
 * ... that Russian writer and activist Zoya Krakhmalnikova ' s baptism in 1971 resulted in her dismissal from her job and from the USSR Union of Writers, which effectively banned her from publishing? (2008-05-23)
 * ... that the contributions of Mary Shelley (pictured) to Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men are considered early works of feminist historiography? (2008-05-23)
 * ... that Yolngu aboriginal leader Raymattja Marika was Northern Territory's Australian of the Year in 2006? (2008-05-22)
 * ... that Malinda Cramer, a founder of the Church of Divine Science and an early influence in the New Thought movement, died in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake? (2008-05-22)
 * ... that Harvard Japanologist Susan Pharr was recently awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government? (2008-05-21)
 * ... that golfer Edith Cummings (pictured) was the first female athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine and the inspiration for a character in The Great Gatsby? (2008-05-18)
 * ... that Verna Arvey got her first break as an opera librettist after poet Langston Hughes left his libretto for the production Troubled Island unfinished? (2008-05-17)
 * ... that Ayesha Omar sparked controversy in Pakistan when she painted two semi-nude self-portraits? (2008-05-17)
 * ... that Israeli actress Hanna Maron lost her leg after a grenade was thrown at her airplane, but resumed her acting career a year later? (2008-05-16)
 * ... that Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director whose work is better known in Europe than in her native Africa? (2008-05-13)
 * ... that after being found not guilty of murdering her ex-husband, Mary Leonard became the first woman in Oregon allowed to practice law? (2008-05-13)
 * ... that Italy's newly appointed Minister for Equal Opportunity, Mara Carfagna, used to be a showgirl and a glamour model? (2008-05-13)
 * ... that British actress Jacqueline Voltaire won a "most bizarre sex scene" award in 2005 for her performance in the Mexican film Matando Cabos? (2008-05-12)
 * ... that Elvia Carrillo Puerto founded the first feminist leagues to provide family planning programs with legalized birth control in the Western Hemisphere? (2008-05-12)
 * ... that at age 14 Amy Evans (pictured), a Welsh singer and actress, won the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Cardiff? (2008-05-12)
 * ... that Valda Cooper became the first female managing editor of any daily newspaper in New Mexico? (2008-05-10)
 * ... that Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (pictured) was the first African-American to sing at Carnegie Hall? (2008-05-10)
 * ... that legendary princess Yennenga, the "mother" of the Mossi people, was such a great warrior that her father refused to allow her to marry? (2008-05-09)
 * ... that Jane Loftus, Marchioness of Ely (pictured) was one of Queen Victoria's closest ladies-in-waiting for nearly forty years? (2008-05-06)
 * ... that Mathilde Ludendorff, a leader in the German Völkisch movement, claimed astrology was part of a Jewish effort to enslave the Germans? (2008-05-04)
 * ... that the late actress and theatrical producer, Madeline Lee Gilford, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy Era, is scheduled to appear in the forthcoming 2008 film, Sex and the City? (2008-05-04)
 * ... that the Doctor Who episode "The Sontaran Stratagem" is the first appearance of the eponymous aliens since the 1985 serial The Two Doctors? (2008-05-02)
 * ... that by using the Bevatron and nuclear emulsion technique, Sulamith Goldhaber was the first person to observe nuclear interactions of the antiproton? (2008-05-01)
 * ... that Anna Maria Garthwaite, the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman, became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk-weaving trade in 18th century England? (2008-05-01)
 * ... that Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Nancy Oliver considered leaving show business shortly before being offered her first full-time position writing for Six Feet Under? (2008-04-29)
 * ... that after competing for many years on a world-class level in the 400 metres hurdles, German athlete Heike Meißner tried competing in the 800 metres? (2008-04-29)
 * ... that Australian cabaret singer, stage actor, dancer and comedienne Toni Lamond was nicknamed "Lolly-Legs Lamond" after being voted as having the second-best pair of legs in television while doing In Melbourne Tonight? (2008-04-28)
 * ... that Mark Twain's daughter Clara Clemens was saved from being dragged over a cliff by a horse by her future husband, the Russian-born concert pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch? (2008-04-27)
 * ... that Kloster Wienhausen, a medieval convent in Germany (pictured), has the world's oldest surviving example of rivet eyeglasses? (2008-04-25)
 * ... that legal experts consider the YouTube divorce video posted by British playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith be the first of its kind? (2008-04-24)
 * ... that Eliza Tibbets planted the first two navel orange trees in California? (2008-04-24)
 * ... that Sir John Betjeman wrote of Joan Jackson (née Hunter Dunn) being "Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun"? (2008-04-23)
 * ... that the four main influential figures to Filipino women writers are Gabriela Silang, Leonor Rivera (pictured), Imelda Marcos and Corazon Aquino? (2008-04-23)
 * ... that many of the lines for the Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth are copied word for word from the 1577 work Holinshed's Chronicles? (2008-04-22)
 * ... that Anglican archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy will be Australia's first woman bishop when she is consecrated on 22 May 2008? (2008-04-22)
 * ... that despite winning the 1989 World Indoor Championships, West German 400 metres sprinter Helga Arendt failed to reach the final round at the European Championships one year later? (2008-04-22)
 * ... that Emmy Noether (pictured) was called "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began" by Albert Einstein? (2008-04-21)
 * ... that East German sprinter Sabine Günther won three gold medals in 4 x 100 metres relay at three different European Championships? (2008-04-20)
 * ... that Helen Yglesias, best known for writing the 1981 novel Sweetsir, died one day before her 93rd birthday? (2008-04-20)
 * ... that rugby union footballer Farah Palmer captained the Black Ferns to three consecutive Women's Rugby World Cup titles? (2008-04-20)
 * ... that in 1582 Ursula Kemp confessed to using familiar spirits to kill her neighbours and was later hanged for witchcraft? (2008-04-17)
 * ... that the American mathematician Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler married a former professor, who was actually a Russian double agent named Sergei Degaev? (2008-04-16)
 * ... that at age 23, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen (pictured) was the youngest Danish politician ever to participate in a nationally televised debate for party leaders? (2008-04-15)
 * ... that Agnolo Bronzino's 1542 painting of Bia de' Medici (pictured) was painted from the girl's death mask? (2008-04-15)
 * ... that Jessie Vasey was helping Australian war widows before she became one herself when her husband, George, died in an air crash? (2008-04-13)
 * ... that despite peaking at 38 in the UK Albums Chart, seven-year-old child singer Connie Talbot's debut album Over the Rainbow was rated gold in Britain shortly after its release? (2008-04-12)
 * ... that actress Anna Kendrick was nominated for a Tony Award at the age of twelve, making her the youngest-ever Tony nominee as of 2008? (2008-04-12)
 * ... that Princess Margaret of Prussia had her jewels stolen by American soldiers in the aftermath of World War II? (2008-04-11)
 * ... that Jacqueline Audry was the first commercially successful woman film director of post-war France? (2008-04-11)
 * ... that Adrianne Calvo is the youngest chef to have cooked for the United Nations? (2008-04-11)
 * ... that Etta Palm d'Aelders, whose salon in Paris was frequented by Jean-Paul Marat, François Chabot and other prominent political figures during the French Revolution, might have been an agent for the Dutch government? (2008-04-10)
 * ... that nearly $1 million worth of tickets were sold during the week following the first New York Times ad announcing Elizabeth Taylor's appearance in the 1981 Broadway revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes? (2008-04-09)
 * ... that books by the writer of romantic fiction Denise Robins sold more than one hundred million copies? (2008-04-09)
 * ... that Claire Clairmont (pictured) was the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley's posthumously published poem "To Constantia, Singing"? (2008-04-09)
 * ... that Audrey Stubbart worked until age 105, becoming the oldest verified full-time employee ever in the United States? (2008-04-09)
 * ... that the postmodernist Romanian writer Ruxandra Cesereanu retold Arthurian legends and co-authored poems through e-mail with the American Andrei Codrescu? (2008-04-07)
 * ... that Mavia was an Arab queen who in 378 AD personally led her troops out of southern Syria in revolt against Roman rule? (2008-04-07)
 * ... that Cuban First Lady Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista became a contributor to Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital while in exile in Florida? (2008-04-07)
 * ... that television critics have speculated as to how the 30 Rock episode "MILF Island" will avoid explaining the meaning of "MILF" since the last letter stands for an obscene word? (2008-04-07)
 * ... that Alene B. Duerk, head of the Navy Nurse Corps, was the first woman in the U.S. Navy to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral? (2008-04-07)
 * ... that Claire Clairmont blamed Lord Byron for the death of their daughter Allegra Byron (pictured)? (2008-04-05)
 * ... that Sara Larraín, who finished in fifth place in the 1999 Chilean presidential election, was a founder and the first director of Greenpeace in Chile? (2008-04-04)
 * ... that Mary Meader, best known for taking more than 1,000 aerial pictures, was also a major philanthropist, once giving US$4 million to Western Michigan University? (2008-04-04)
 * ... that Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia released her first recording the same year as her brother Caetano Veloso, even though he was four years older? (2008-04-04)
 * ... that Flora Sandes, who served with the Serbian Army, was the only British woman to officially enrol as a soldier in World War I? (2008-04-04)
 * ... that Retired Rear Admiral Roberta L. Hazard, once the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. military, was a history teacher? (2008-04-03)
 * ... that the utility of heavy water as a moderator in a nuclear reactor was demonstrated by Klara Döpel and her husband Robert in the 1940s? (2008-04-03)
 * ... that the winner of the Ernie Awards is the person who gets the loudest boos from the audience? (2008-04-02)
 * ... that Georgia Tech professor Rebecca Grinter supervised a 2005 study which found that iTunes users in the workplace experience "playlist anxiety"? (2008-03-31)
 * ... that Firestar's Quest, a book in the Warriors fantasy novel series, has been translated into Russian? (2008-03-31)
 * ... that Kitty Kielland had to take private landscape painting lessons from Hans Gude because she was a woman? (2008-03-30)
 * ... that when Demi Moore appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair in the body painting/photograph Demi's Birthday Suit, it commemorated More Demi Moore's one-year anniversary? (2008-03-30)
 * ... that according to Inca mythology, lunar eclipses are caused by animals attacking Mama Quilla, the goddess of the moon? (2008-03-29)
 * ... that Polish Countess Delfina Potocka served as muse to both Romantic poet Count Zygmunt Krasiński and composer Frédéric Chopin—who both wrote works in her honor? (2008-03-29)
 * ... that Katie Sierra was accused of treason and suspended from high school in October 2001 for attempting to start an anarchist club? (2008-03-28)
 * ... that the artist commissioned by the Royal Marines in 1920 to paint Brigadier General F.W. Lumsden VC (pictured), was Helen Donald-Smith, whose views of Venice were described as "pretty pictures"? (2008-03-26)
 * ... that Fahmida Mirza is the first female Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan? (2008-03-24)
 * ... that Helen Bee identified that people make both an inner and outer journey through adulthood? (2008-03-23)
 * ... that one of Catherine de' Medici's court festivals featured an artificial whale that spouted red wine when harpooned? (2008-03-22)
 * ... that in the days immediately following the revelation of her role in the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, the MySpace page of Ashley Alexandra Dupré was viewed over 9 million times? (2008-03-22)
 * ... that after discovering a suitcase with US$800,000 in Maletinazo, policewoman Maria de Lujan Telpuk appeared on the cover of the Argentine and Venezuelan editions of Playboy? (2008-03-21)
 * ... that, before signing to Career/Arista Records in 1996 and charting three singles, country singer and pianist Tammy Graham was a regular performer at Caesars Palace? (2008-03-20)
 * ... that Filipino jazz singer Katy de la Cruz was once a top-billed performer at the famed Forbidden City nightclub in San Francisco? (2008-03-20)
 * ... that the Cone sisters (pictured) were friends of Gertrude Stein and amassed a collection of artwork of Picasso, Renoir, Gauguin and van Gogh — now worth one billion US dollars? (2008-03-19)
 * ... that Bess Thomas, a former Australian librarian, became the first female to be given the position of "Chief Librarian" in New South Wales? (2008-03-18)
 * ... that the Gaiety Girls in shows produced by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre were so popular that the restaurant where they dined became the centre of nightlife in London during the Victorian era? (2008-03-17)
 * ... that Lady Florence Dixie (pictured), feminist, big game hunter, war correspondent, and suffragette, was the aunt of Oscar Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas? (2008-03-16)
 * ... that writer-director Zoe Cassavetes appeared in her late father's film Minnie and Moskowitz at the age of one? (2008-03-15)
 * ... that Nurul Izzah Anwar, daughter of Malaysia's de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, defeated a three-term minister incumbent in her first contest for a parliament seat in Lembah Pantai? (2008-03-15)
 * ... that English writer Anne Brontë is buried in Scarborough, and not in Haworth with all her family? (2008-03-15)
 * ... that Grey's Anatomy writer Gabrielle Stanton appeared as the character "Gabrielle" in the 1998 film Free Enterprise? (2008-03-14)
 * ... that Mrs Sherwood's evangelical story The History of Little Henry and his Bearer was in print for 70 years after its publication in 1814 and was translated into eight languages? (2008-03-10)
 * ... that after being paralyzed in a car accident in 1964, Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996 for her services to disabled people? (2008-03-09)
 * ... that writer and spinster Lady Louisa Stuart (pictured) wrote a ballad about cannibal brothers and the fate of a woman who married for money? (2008-03-08)
 * ... that Eastern Christians believe that the tomb on the Mount of Olives is the Tomb of Mary? (2008-03-07)
 * ... that Florence J. Harriman, an American socialite, suffragist, diplomat and author, was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the Norwegian royal family when Germany invaded Norway in 1940? (2008-03-07)
 * ... that the original name of Euphemia, empress consort of Justin I of the Byzantine Empire, was 'Lupicina', which led historian Alexander Vasiliev to associate her with she-wolves and prostitution? (2008-03-06)
 * ... that Evagrius Scholasticus, John of Ephesus, Gregory of Tours and Paul the Deacon all accused Byzantine Emperor Justin II and his empress consort Aelia Sophia of greed? (2008-03-04)
 * ... that artist Chryssa constructed The Gates to Times Square, a 10 ft cube of neon, acrylic glass and stainless steel through which museum visitors may walk? (2008-03-04)
 * ... that Joyce Carlson, designer of the Disney theme park attraction "It's a Small World", was the first female employee to achieve a fifty-year service record with Disney? (2008-03-03)
 * ... that Heba Kotb, Egypt's first licensed sexologist, hosts a call-in show named The Big Talk where she gives Qur'anic advice? (2008-03-03)
 * ... that Randi Weingarten, the openly gay president of the United Federation of Teachers, has been called one of the 25 most powerful women in New York City business? (2008-03-01)
 * ... that the author Amulya Malladi, an expatriate Indian, said that when she first moved to Denmark that "Danish sounded to me like the buzzing of bees"? (2008-02-29)
 * ... that Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner was the first military woman to command an operational naval aviation squadron? (2008-02-28)
 * ... that Gregg Nations made his Lost writing debut with the episode "Eggtown" after being the script coordinator for over two seasons? (2008-02-28)
 * ... that softball pitcher Vicki Morrow was named Big Ten Player of the Year in 1987 after winning 26 games, including 18 shutouts, and striking out 446 batters? (2008-02-27)
 * ... that the 12th-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen published Scivias (illustration pictured) to share her religious visions? (2008-02-27)
 * ... that synchronized swimmer Ruth Pickett Thompson received the AIAW's 1979 and 1980 Broderick Awards? (2008-02-26)
 * ... that Nina Bang was one of the world's first female government ministers? (2008-02-26)
 * ... that opera singer Rosemary Kuhlmann was an assistant to the international vice-president of PepsiCo for 16 years from the age of 56, despite intending to stay for only four months? (2008-02-25)
 * ... that Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (pictured) was the first of Queen Victoria's relations to celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary? (2008-02-25)
 * ... that six-year-old Antonietta Meo could soon become the youngest saint not a martyr canonized by the Roman Catholic Church? (2008-02-25)
 * ... that tennis pro Martina Navratilova lived with vaudeville actress Frances Dewey Wormser and her husband when she arrived in the United States in the 1970s? (2008-02-24)
 * ... that in More Demi Moore, Demi Moore appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair eight-months pregnant and wearing only a diamond ring? (2008-02-23)
 * ... that the work of make-up artist and body painter Joanne Gair, whose works include the 1992 Vanity Fair cover of Demi Moore, has been featured in ten consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues? (2008-02-23)
 * ... that although Gather Together in My Name, the second book in Maya Angelou's six autobiographies, was not as critically acclaimed as the first one, it continues the same themes of racism and sexism? (2008-02-22)
 * ... that British actress Anastasia Griffith spoke only in an American accent while auditioning for an American character on Damages? (2008-02-20)
 * ... that De brief voor de koning (The Letter for the King) by Tonke Dragt was chosen in 2004 by the judges of the Gouden Griffel as the best Dutch children's novel of the past fifty years? (2008-02-19)
 * ... that Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels created illustrations of the life of the nuns of the abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs (pictured), shortly before it was closed on the orders of Pope Clement XI? (2008-02-19)
 * ... that Penny Neer, 1982 AIAW discus champion and one of the top U.S. discus throwers, also blocked 64 shots for the University of Michigan women's basketball team? (2008-02-18)
 * ... that Momoko Ueda became the youngest golfer in Japan LPGA Tour history to finish first on the money list? (2008-02-18)
 * ... that Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Gail Neall was initially so bad that her coach filmed her as an example to other swimmers of what not to do? (2008-02-18)
 * ... that Dương Quỳnh Hoa, who socialized with Saigon elites during the Vietnam War, was a communist spy? (2008-02-18)
 * ... that Marie Hartwig, faculty member at the University of Michigan from 1930–1976, was a lifelong advocate for women's sports and one of the first women inducted into the school's Hall of Honor? (2008-02-17)
 * ... that according to John of Ephesus, in 583, Empress Constantina, consort of Maurice, gave birth to the first heir born to a reigning Byzantine Emperor in over 100 years? (2008-02-16)
 * ... that Princess Louisa Maria Teresa (pictured) was called by a Royal Stuart Society paper the "Princess over the Water", an allusion to the title King over the Water? (2008-02-15)
 * ... that tais weaving in East Timor is performed solely by women, using techniques passed down through generations in an oral tradition? (2008-02-13)
 * ... that Margaret Downey's first major public activism for atheism was in response to the Boy Scouts of America refusing to renew her son's membership due to his professed atheism? (2008-02-12)
 * ... that Academy Award-nominee Tamara Jenkins spent time at Yaddo, the artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, to write her screenplay for The Savages? (2008-02-11)
 * ... that award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow described her dictionary of women's biographies as "a mad undertaking, born of a time when feminists wanted heroines and didn't have Google"? (2008-02-11)
 * ... that the case of Styllou Christofi, the penultimate woman to be hanged in Britain, failed to cause a public outcry because she, in the opinion of her executioner Albert Pierrepoint, was not very glamorous? (2008-02-10)
 * ... that Flora Solomon pioneered staff benefits programs at Marks & Spencer that influenced the development of the British National Health Service and Labour's concept of the welfare state? (2008-02-10)
 * ... that award-winning financial analyst Dana Telsey was first hired at a mutual fund company after her mother met a former neighbor on the street and asked him "Can you give Dana a job?" (2008-02-07)
 * ... that Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (pictured) was the first British princess to marry a commoner in over five hundred years? (2008-02-06)
 * ... that Tiggy Legge-Bourke was the nanny of Prince William of Wales and his brother Prince Harry? (2008-02-04)
 * ... that in the late 1860s, the soprano Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa and her husband Carl Rosa founded the Parepa-Rosa English Opera Company, which introduced opera to places in the United States that had never staged it before? (2008-02-03)
 * ... that the first and only President of London's Oriental Club was the Duke of Wellington (pictured)? (2008-02-01)
 * ... that newly crowned Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund's grandmother competed at Miss America 1944? (2008-01-31)
 * ... that the name Alexandra was considered unlucky by the Romanov family because so many Alexandras in the family, including Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia, died young? (2008-01-31)
 * ... that Marie Roethlisberger placed seventh at the 1984 United States Olympic gymnastic trials (making her the alternate for the six-woman team) despite being almost completely deaf? (2008-01-30)
 * ... that with little prior experience, South Korean actress Kim Ok-bin was given a leading role in her first film, Voice, and was nominated for "Best New Actress" at the Blue Dragon Film Awards? (2008-01-30)
 * ... that track and field athlete Anne Bersagel was a member of Team USA Minnesota while studying full time in Oslo, Norway as a Fulbright Scholar? (2008-01-30)
 * ... that Dorothy Canning Miller was the first professionally trained curator of the Museum of Modern Art? (2008-01-29)
 * ... that Catherine Dolgorukov had a premonition that her morganatic husband, Tsar Alexander II, would be assassinated? (2008-01-29)
 * ... that, according to Herodotus, Rhodopis was a fellow-slave with the poet Aesop? (2008-01-28)
 * ... that 24-year old Alondra de la Parra was the first Mexican woman to ever conduct a concert in New York City? (2008-01-27)
 * ... that Ruth Maier, an Austrian Jew who found refuge in Norway until her deportation and death at Auschwitz in 1942, has been called "Norway's Anne Frank"? (2008-01-24)
 * ... that Alice Stebbins Wells was the first female police officer in the Los Angeles Police Department? (2008-01-24)
 * ... that American swimmer Nancy Merki began swimming at age 8 after contracting polio, and set three national swimming records at age 13? (2008-01-23)
 * ... that opera singer Jessie Bartlett Davis (pictured) volunteered to pay for the publishing of the parlor song "I Love You Truly", the first song written by a woman to sell one million copies? (2008-01-23)
 * ... that New York City-born mathematician Judith Roitman serves as the guiding teacher of the Kansas Zen Center? (2008-01-22)
 * ... that Danish film director Pernille Fischer Christensen's first feature film, about the relationship between a beauty shop owner and a transvestite, won a Silver Bear prize at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival? (2008-01-19)
 * ... that the Two Ladies was a euphemism used for the Ancient Egyptian deities Wadjet and Nekhbet, represented on the royal crowns of the merged Upper and Lower Egypt as a cobra and a vulture, respectively? (2008-01-17)
 * ... that Adelaide Johnson, sculptor of a memorial to women's suffrage in the US Capitol, was married in 1896 by a female minister, with two of her busts as bridesmaids? (2008-01-16)
 * ... that Blessed Veronica of Milan unsuccessfully tried to teach herself to read until an apparition of the Virgin told her that spiritual lessons were more important? (2008-01-15)
 * ... that at age 13 Susy Clemens wrote a biography of her father Mark Twain that was included in his posthumously published work, Chapters from my Autobiography? (2008-01-15)
 * ... that writer Ngaire Thomas was forced at the age of 15 to apologise in front of 600 members of her church congregation for "fornicating" with her cousin, when in fact she had only kissed him? (2008-01-15)
 * ... that American lyric soprano Helen Jepson was first soprano on the original recording of Porgy and Bess? (2008-01-15)
 * ... that Polly Horvath's award-winning 2001 children's novel Everything on a Waffle tells the story of Primrose Squarp, an 11-year old girl whose parents are lost in a typhoon? (2008-01-14)
 * ... that in 1908 Eulabee Dix painted the last portrait from life of Mark Twain? (2008-01-10)
 * ... that Ælfwynn became the second woman to rule the Mercians when her mother Æthelflæd died in 918, but was deposed by King Edward the Elder and sent into exile in December of that year? (2008-01-09)
 * ... that Colorado state representative Cherylin Peniston won two Fulbright Scholarships while a public school teacher? (2008-01-09)
 * ... that Helen Abbott Michael, originally trained as a pianist, became a plant chemist and earned her MD after a chance purchase of Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics on a trip to Europe? (2008-01-08)
 * ... that through directing, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority founder Osceola Macarthy Adams helped to start careers of Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte? (2008-01-04)
 * ... that slain Canadian Mi'kmaq activist Nora Bernard was responsible for the largest class-action lawsuit in Canadian history? (2008-01-04)
 * ... that Elise Primavera, author and illustrator of the 1999 book Auntie Claus, says she gets her best ideas in the shower? (2008-01-04)
 * ... that Patricia Kirkwood was the first woman to have her own series on BBC TV? (2008-01-03)
 * ... that the Hindu serpent goddess Manasa, the "destroyer of poison", is worshiped mostly in the rainy season when the snakes are most active? (2008-01-02)
 * ... that National Scientist Dr. Fe del Mundo was the first Filipina enrolled in Harvard Medical School and the only female student at that time? (2008-01-01)