Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Green/DYK/2009 DYK Blurbs

2009 DYK Blurbs: Transcluding 10 of 524 2009 DYK blurbs
 * ... that the annulment of Archduchess Isabella of Austria and Prince Georg of Bavaria was seemingly caused by her belief that she had been slighted by members of the Bavarian royal court? (2009-12-30)
 * ... that Wivi Lönn was the first woman to be awarded with the honorary title Professor by the Finnish Association of Architects? (2009-12-28)
 * ... that more than any other recent pop star, Madonna has used MTV and music videos to establish her popularity and to enhance her recorded work? (2009-12-28)
 * ... that Swede Anna Jansson started a successful career as a crime writer in 2000 after working twenty years as a nurse? (2009-12-28)
 * ... that Stanford University biochemist Annette Salmeen was both an Olympic gold medalist and a Rhodes Scholar? (2009-12-27)
 * ... that the Michigan Wolverines softball team in 2005 became the first team from east of the Mississippi River to win the Women's College World Series? (2009-12-26)
 * ... that Julia Moon, daughter-in-law of Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, performed Giselle with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad? (2009-12-26)
 * ... that Caroline Duby Glassman, who was born and raised in Oregon, was the first woman on the Maine Supreme Court? (2009-12-26)
 * ... that Helen Bright Clark was one of the first British women to sign the Open Christmas Letter which sought to extend the hand of peace "To the Women of Germany and Austria" during World War I? (2009-12-25)
 * ... that Alfhild Hovdan initiated the tradition of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree (pictured), in 1947? (2009-12-25)
 * ... that Dr. Ruth L. Kirschstein, appointed as the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in 1974, was the first woman to direct an institute at the National Institutes of Health? (2009-12-24)
 * ... that Japanese singer and actress Junko Sakurada was part of a trio on Star Tanjō! with musicians Momoe Yamaguchi and Masako Mori? (2009-12-24)
 * ... that after a short career in films, Elaine Shepard was a journalist in Vietnam? (2009-12-22)
 * ... that in England until the early 20th century, a man wishing to separate from his wife could lead her to market by a halter and sell her (process pictured) to the highest bidder? (2009-12-21)
 * ... that Katherine Reutter, a speed skater on the 2010 U.S. Olympic team, had her thigh autographed by comedian Stephen Colbert? (2009-12-21)
 * ... that as "the first novel with a thesis",  Patronage by Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth, published in 1814, opened the way for the historical novels of  Sir Walter Scott? (2009-12-20)
 * ... that Christina Broom was credited as "the UK's first female press photographer"? (2009-12-20)
 * ... that on 12 December 2009, Kaiane Aldorino (pictured) became the first Miss World from Gibraltar? (2009-12-19)
 * ... that the Queen of Elphame, the fairy from Scottish folklore, has appeared in a number of accounts from witchcraft trials and confessions, including the confession of Isobel Gowdie? (2009-12-17)
 * ... that Charlotte von Lengefeld, wife of Friedrich Schiller, wrote a posthumously published novel and corresponded with Charlotte von Stein and Goethe? (2009-12-17)
 * ... that since finishing in the top ten on the third series of America's Got Talent, Kaitlyn Maher has continued to sing publicly and played the voice of Tiny in the film Santa Buddies? (2009-12-16)
 * ... that when Caroline von Wolzogen (pictured) published her novel Agnes von Lilien anonymously in 1798, it was thought by some readers to be by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Friedrich Schiller? (2009-12-16)
 * ... that the most expensive dress owned by Maria Augusta, Duchess of Württemberg was worth 500 florins, more than 30 times a servant's annual income? (2009-12-15)
 * ... that in her teen years, actress Lillebil Ibsen played leading roles in Max Reinhardt's pantomime productions? (2009-12-13)
 * ... that ESPN sports commentator and physical therapist Stephania Bell has analyzed injuries of Tiger Woods and Alex Rodriguez? (2009-12-12)
 * ... that psychiatrist Marie Nyswander, who developed the methadone treatment for heroin addicts, was herself addicted to cigarettes? (2009-12-12)
 * ... that the author of Everything Tastes Better with Bacon decided to write the book after having an epiphany involving bacon and sugar? (2009-12-11)
 * ... that opera singer Zélie de Lussan sang 2,000 performances in the title role of Carmen? (2009-12-10)
 * ... that, despite being a genital ulcer, Lipschütz ulcer is not an STD, and is in fact most common in virgins? (2009-12-10)
 * ... that in 2009, German actress Stephanie Stumph proposed to her idol, IBF middleweight world champion Arthur Abraham but he declined because he was "too young"? (2009-12-09)
 * ... that unlike her predecessors, the Empress Regnant Lý Chiêu Hoàng was not worshipped in Lý Bát Đế Shrine because of her responsibility in the collapse of Lý Dynasty? (2009-12-09)
 * ... that Shraddha Jadhav, who was recently elected as the Mayor of Mumbai and chief of India's richest municipal body, is known for her "elegant dressing"? (2009-12-08)
 * ... that Christian music artist Miss Angie began her solo career doing praise and worship sets after Johnny Q. Public concerts? (2009-12-08)
 * ... that actress Jessalyn Gilsig hoped viewers would warm to her Glee character Terri Schuester after the episode "Mattress", having previously experienced a fan backlash? (2009-12-08)
 * ... that playwright Marisa Wegrzyn dealt with poor reviews by "being sulky and brooding and riding the subway a lot"? (2009-12-08)
 * ... that in 2004 Kenyan runner Florence Barsosio won the Florence Marathon in Florence, Italy? (2009-12-08)
 * ... that prior to being hired as a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Katherine Kersten worked as a lawyer and banker? (2009-12-06)
 * ... that after performing with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for three decades, Anna Bethell became its Stage Director in 1947? (2009-12-04)
 * ... that Luis Valdez called American activist Alice McGrath, who inspired his play Zoot Suit, "one of the heroines of the 20th century"? (2009-12-04)
 * ... that after Eleanor Evans was appointed as Stage Director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1949, a large number of performers, including Martyn Green, Ella Halman and Radley Flynn, left in the following years? (2009-12-03)
 * ... that the song "Speechless", by Lady Gaga, was written as a plea to her father to receive the open-heart surgery he needed for a bad aortic valve? (2009-12-02)
 * ... that Laura Kirkpatrick placed second in the reality show America's Next Top Model in 2009, but was ranked fan favorite in a poll conducted by the show? (2009-12-02)
 * ... that U.S. birth control advocate Dr. Bessie Moses gave up her practice as an obstetrician because she became emotionally attached to the outcome of every birth she attended? (2009-12-02)
 * ... that Scottish news presenter Mary Marquis continued to work while seven months pregnant in 1963, including one interview conducted on a roof? (2009-11-29)
 * ... that the Nefertiti bust (pictured) was reinstated in Neues Museum in 2009 after 70 years away, including a period in a salt mine in World War II? (2009-11-28)
 * ... that less than two years after Julia Goss thought she failed her audition, she became the principal soprano of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company? (2009-11-27)
 * ... that Nicole Fox, who won first place in the reality show America's Next Top Model in 2009, is nicknamed "Bloody Eyeball"? (2009-11-26)
 * ... that Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights secretary Lola Hendricks applied personally to public safety commissioner Bull Connor for permission to demonstrate in Birmingham, Alabama, during the 1963 Birmingham Campaign? (2009-11-26)
 * ... that South Africa women cricketers played their first Test match at St George's Park, the same location as the country's men's team played their first match? (2009-11-25)
 * ... that stand-up comedian and actress Retta said her role on Parks and Recreation is stressful because she was initially unsure the show would last due to poor reviews? (2009-11-23)
 * ... that Lalla Carlsen is regarded as one of the most legendary female revue artists in Norway? (2009-11-22)
 * ... that Jean McNaughton was the first South African to take a five-wicket haul in Women's Test cricket? (2009-11-22)
 * ... that actor Greg Kinnear (pictured) fills in for Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper in the Parks and Recreation episode, "The Camel"? (2009-11-21)
 * ... that Michael Jackson blamed his record label, Sony Music, for the failed release of his charity song "What More Can I Give", and branded the label's CEO "racist" and "very, very, very devilish"? (2009-11-18)
 * ... that the assumption of modern historians that Elisabeth of Greater Poland is a daughter of Elisabeth of Hungary, due to lack of medieval sources, is based on them sharing the same name and coming from Hungary? (2009-11-18)
 * ... that Bokken Lasson established the cabaret Chat Noir in Oslo, Norway, in 1912? (2009-11-17)
 * ... that Makerita Urale, a leading figure in contemporary Polynesian theatre, directed the play Frangipani Perfume, the first Pacific play written by a woman for an all-female cast? (2009-11-15)
 * ... that the Colombian actress and beauty queen Liliana Lozano was shot to death two days after the murder of her boyfriend, the drug lord Leonidas Vargas? (2009-11-15)
 * ... that bandmates of Beverley O'Sullivan, recently killed in India, found out the true extent of her hearing difficulties when she developed a sore ear during a Westlife performance? (2009-11-15)
 * ... that cricketer Audrey Jackson was only able to play in the fourth women's Test for South Africa after securing travel to the game with the opposition England side? (2009-11-15)
 * ... that singer-songwriter Maria Dunn hosted a folk music radio show for twelve years before becoming a performer herself? (2009-11-14)
 * ... that the popular Chinese TV talent show contestant Lou Jing, dubbed the "Black Pearl", is of Chinese and African American heritage? (2009-11-14)
 * ... that Carolyn Stait, one of only two women to reach Commodore rank in the Royal Navy, had enlisted in 1975 with plans to transfer to the diplomatic service? (2009-11-14)
 * ... that L. Ron Hubbard's book Dianetics influenced Scientology`s views of abortion? (2009-11-13)
 * ... that after George III was attacked with an ivory-handled dessert knife by Margaret Nicholson, the number of men guarding him was increased from 4 to 11? (2009-11-12)
 * ... that Margaret Chin is the first Asian American to represent New York City's Chinatown district on the city council? (2009-11-12)
 * ... that aged just 13, Eileen Hurly scored the first recorded century in South African women's cricket? (2009-11-12)
 * ... that Denise Annetts and Lindsay Reeler hold the highest wicket partnership for women's Test cricket with 309 runs? (2009-11-11)
 * ... that Violeta Dinescu composed the children's opera Der 35. Mai based on The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas by Erich Kästner? (2009-11-10)
 * ... that Ree Drummond Confessions of a Pioneer Woman, the 2009 Bloggies "Weblog of the Year", is known for its "How to Cook a Steak" tutorial with photos in "ridiculous detail"? (2009-11-09)
 * ... that according to Hindu mythology, Ila was cursed to change his/her gender every month? (2009-11-09)
 * ... that female karateka Yıldız Aras holds more World, European, and Mediterranean Games champion titles than any other Turkish sportsperson? (2009-11-08)
 * ... that What Leave Behind is a concerto for electric guitar and toy orchestra performed by Toychestra and Fred Frith? (2009-11-08)
 * ... that a century ago this year, 20,000 women participated in a successful strike in New York's garment industry? (2009-11-07)
 * ... that soprano Ruth Holton sang at Bach's church on the 250th anniversary of his death? (2009-11-06)
 * ... that in October 2009 Canadian folk singer Taylor Mitchell became the first adult in North America known to have been killed by coyotes? (2009-11-05)
 * ... that "Kaboom", an episode of NBC's Parks and Recreation, featured the real-life charity KaBOOM! as part of a multi-network television campaign to spotlight volunteerism? (2009-11-05)
 * ... that in William Blake's Four Zoas myth, the Christian God is divided into four parts, Sense, Reason, Imagination, and Love, which have the counterparts Sexual Urges, Pleasure, Inspiration, and Nature? (2009-11-05)
 * ... that in April 2005, cricketer Daleen Terblanche became the first South African woman to pass 1,000 One Day International runs? (2009-11-05)
 * ... that the Women's Basketball Coaches Association doesn't just support basketball, they support academic excellence by honoring the teams with the highest GPA? (2009-11-04)
 * ... that the season premiere of the fourth season of 30 Rock had 2.4 million fewer viewers than the premiere of the prior season? (2009-11-04)
 * ... that a witch-hunt in 1590 inspired Hans Wiers-Jenssen's 1908 play Anne Pedersdotter, which was the basis for an opera by Respighi from 1934, a film from 1943, and a second opera by Edvard Fliflet Bræin from 1971? (2009-11-03)
 * ... that athlete Simone Schaller began hurdling only three months before she competed in the sport at the 1932 Summer Olympics? (2009-11-02)
 * ... that Jeanne Clemson is credited with both preserving the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from demolition, and for restoring live theater to the building? (2009-11-01)
 * ... that when Five Go Off to Camp they encounter "spook trains"? (2009-11-01)
 * ... that Princess Antonia of Württemberg (pictured) was an accomplished Hebrew scholar, and devotee of Kabbalah? (2009-11-01)
 * ... that The Haunted House written by Charles Dickens in 1859 is the inspiration for an attraction which can be seen at Chatham in Kent? (2009-10-31)
 * ... that The Sunday Business Post praised Fight Like Apes frontwoman MayKay for her "long black hair and banshee wail"? (2009-10-31)
 * ... that when asked if she wanted to focus on drawing, painting, or sculpting in art school, Ruth Duckworth said she wanted to study all of them just as Michaelangelo had? (2009-10-30)
 * ... that Mary Bell (pictured) resigned from the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force in 1941 after being passed over as its director in favour of Clare Stevenson, only to rejoin the following year? (2009-10-30)
 * ... that in the 30 Rock episode "Into the Crevasse", Jack Donaghy redesigns a microwave oven, turning it into the Pontiac Aztek? (2009-10-30)
 * ... that the Parks and Recreation episode "Beauty Pageant" was directed by Jason Woliner, who directed Parks star Aziz Ansari in the MTV sketch comedy show, Human Giant? (2009-10-30)
 * ... that contraception expert Dr. Sheldon Segal led the team that developed the implantable device Norplant, described as "the first significant advance in birth control since the pill"? (2009-10-29)
 * ... that in 2003, Judge Sybil Moses ordered the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to release transcripts of employee radio transmissions in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks? (2009-10-28)
 * ... that Finland band Nightwish was nominated for 27 awards including 2 Echo Awards and 13 Emma-gaala Awards? (2009-10-28)
 * ... that Canadian singer Térez Montcalm debut album, Risque, saw her nominated for five Félix Awards in 1995? (2009-10-27)
 * ... that when Swede Anna Bågenholm got trapped under a layer of ice in a river for eighty minutes, her body temperature decreased to 13.7 °C (56.7 °F) — the lowest survived body temperature ever recorded in a human? (2009-10-27)
 * ... that U.S. Civil Rights Movement leader Marie Foster walked fifty miles in a march, despite receiving injuries two weeks earlier on Bloody Sunday? (2009-10-26)
 * ... that teenage singer Faryl Smith's upcoming album Wonderland features a digitally produced duet with Luciano Pavarotti, who died in 2007? (2009-10-25)
 * ... that Hawaiian Chiefess Kapiolani's walk into an active volcano in 1824 was the subject of a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson? (2009-10-25)
 * ... that stand-up comedian Louis CK appeared in the Parks and Recreation episode "The Stakeout" as a police officer attracted to Amy Poehler's main character? (2009-10-24)
 * ... that Nancy Wexler, who discovered the location of the gene that causes Huntington's disease and created a genetic test for it, is herself at risk as the daughter of a sufferer? (2009-10-24)
 * ... that Martha Wainwright has contributed backing vocals on all of her brother's studio albums, and was a featured performer on his 2007 tribute album Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall? (2009-10-24)
 * ... that Katie Piper, a former model who was burnt by acid in an attack arranged by her ex-boyfriend, had her face removed and rebuilt in a single operation, which was the first of its kind? (2009-10-24)
 * ... that Chinese singer Ai Jing is best known for a folk rock song about the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China? (2009-10-23)
 * ... that Monica C. Lozano is the publisher and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles-based La Opinión, the largest Spanish language newspaper in the United States? (2009-10-21)
 * ... that while the rest of India worships the Hindu wealth-goddess Lakshmi, Bengalis venerate the fearsome goddess Kali (pictured) today on Kali Puja? (2009-10-17)
 * ... that Blackpools director, Julie Anne Robinson', and writer, Peter Bowker, wanted to co-create a television serial set in Funny Girls, a British cabaret featuring male dancers in drag? (2009-10-16)
 * ... that Irene Vilar's memoir Impossible Motherhood was rejected 51 times before it was successfully published? (2009-10-16)
 * ... that Peg Mullen`s change into an antiwar activist after her son's death in Vietnam by shrapnel fired from U.S. artillery, became the Emmy Award-winning 1979 film Friendly Fire starring Carol Burnett? (2009-10-15)
 * ... that some historians believe that Edith Rogers was left out of the Alberta cabinet in 1935 because she was a woman? (2009-10-14)
 * ... that women's professional wrestlers Tammy Sytch and Dawn Marie (pictured) resumed a ten-year-old feud when they were reunited in Women Superstars Uncensored? (2009-10-13)
 * ... that patient activist Rose Kushner is credited with helping to end the practice of treating breast cancer by performing both a biopsy and a mastectomy as a one-step surgical procedure? (2009-10-13)
 * ... that Jeannette Kagame, the current First Lady of Rwanda, works to help victims of the Rwandan Genocide and HIV/AIDS? (2009-10-13)
 * ... that British explorer Christina Dodwell was initiated into manhood by the crocodile people of the New Guinea lowlands? (2009-10-13)
 * ... that Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe moved to Mandarin, Florida, to help educate emancipated slaves, which she wrote about in a memoir named Palmetto Leaves (pictured)? (2009-10-12)
 * ... that twin brothers Bubber Jonnard and Claude Jonnard formed the Nashville Volunteers baseball team's battery in 1920 and 1921? (2009-10-12)
 * ... that Nollywood actress Stephanie Okereke went back to acting, producing and directing her own movies after her car accident in 2005? (2009-10-11)
 * ... that Mary of Woodstock, daughter of Edward I of England, travelled widely as a nun despite a papal travel prohibition? (2009-10-11)
 * ... that Maria Gulovich sheltered Jews, worked for the anti-fascist underground, and was awarded the Bronze Star for saving the lives of OSS agents during World War II? (2009-10-11)
 * ... that Lee Robins "pioneered the field of psychiatric epidemiology" and "played a key role in determining the prevalence of mental problems in the United States and the world"? (2009-10-11)
 * ... that Indigenous Australian artist and illustrator Bronwyn Bancroft was the first Australian fashion designer invited to show her work in Paris? (2009-10-11)
 * ... that Marie Haupt, Josephine Schefsky‎ and Friederike Grün‎ each premiered a character in Richard Wagner's first Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in August 1876? (2009-10-10)
 * ... that Mimi Weddell, whose acting career started in her mid-1960s, was named as one "The Most Beautiful New Yorkers" by New York magazine in 2005 at age 90? (2009-10-09)
 * ... that Luise Jaide created two roles in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen opera cycle? (2009-10-09)
 * ... that Anna Deinet created the role of Brangäne in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, the first of two Wagner characters she premiered? (2009-10-09)
 * ... that Isaac Baker Brown was an English surgeon who in 1867 was expelled from the Obstetrical Society of London for performing clitoridectomies without his patients' consent? (2009-10-08)
 * ... that English author Selina Davenport, in an attempt to support herself and her two daughters after separating from her husband, ran both a coffee house and a dance school? (2009-10-07)
 * ... that English actress Maxine Audley was married four times? (2009-10-07)
 * ... that husband and wife Heinrich and Therese Vogl created the roles of the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Siegfried in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre on June 26, 1870? (2009-10-06)
 * ... that Gina Krog and Hagbard Emanuel Berner founded the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1884? (2009-10-06)
 * ... that silent film star Clara Williams (pictured), known for her "forty famous frocks", appeared in more than 100 films between 1910 and 1918? (2009-10-06)
 * ... that the new world's record for the largest formation of women skydivers was organized by the daughter of Lamb Chops puppeteer, Shari Lewis? (2009-10-05)
 * ... that Karen L. Gould, a scholar of French-Canadian literature and francophone women writers, is the first woman president of Brooklyn College? (2009-10-04)
 * ... that BBC traffic reporter Sally Traffic has also narrated poetry albums for the blind? (2009-10-03)
 * ... that "Do-Over", the third-season premiere of the television comedy series 30 Rock, was the highest-rated episode of the series? (2009-10-03)
 * ... that American opera singer Margaret Harshaw portrayed more Wagnerian heroines on stage at the Metropolitan Opera than anyone else in the opera's history? (2009-10-02)
 * ... that at one point in the history of the TNA Women's Knockout Championship, that a male argued that he was the rightful champion? (2009-10-01)
 * ... that casting director Caro Jones cast for more than 1,000 films and television shows, including Rocky, The Beverly Hillbillies and The Karate Kid? (2009-10-01)
 * ... that Sister Pearl Corkhill was one of only seven Australian military nurses to win the Military Medal in the First World War? (2009-09-30)
 * ... that Emmy Award-winning director Dearbhla Walsh described one scene in 'Talk to Me' where a teacher commits adultery with her 15-year-old pupil as "not so much about sex as about love"? (2009-09-30)
 * ... that as of 2009, Liz Shuler is the first woman and youngest person to hold the position of AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, and the highest-ranking woman in the labor federation's history? (2009-09-27)
 * ... that physical chemists Isabella Karle and her Nobel Prize-winning husband Jerome Karle retired in July 2009 after a combined 127 years of employment at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory? (2009-09-27)
 * ... that Makiko Esumi won the 1995 Rookie of the Year Award at both the 19th Annual Japan Academy Prize ceremonies and at the 38th Blue Ribbon Awards for her debut acting role in the 1995 film Maborosi? (2009-09-25)
 * ... that Viola Tree, her father Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and her son David Tree all performed in premieres of play or film versions of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion? (2009-09-24)
 * ... that Romania's ruling Social Democratic–Democratic Liberal coalition was divided over Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu's intervention in the appointment of school directors? (2009-09-24)
 * ... that ABC aired the Marcus Welby, M.D. episode "The Outrage" despite having been zapped for the earlier episode "The Other Martin Loring"? (2009-09-22)
 * ... that Kir Ianulea, a 1909 novella by Romanian author Ion Luca Caragiale, relocated Niccolò Machiavelli's Belfagor arcidiavolo into Phanariote-era Bucharest? (2009-09-22)
 * ... that Kilkenny beat favourites Galway in a semi-final match of the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2009 despite one third of their team being under the age of twenty? (2009-09-21)
 * ... that the Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer was watched by a global television audience of 750 million, at the time the most popular programme ever broadcast? (2009-09-20)
 * ... that Trabzonspor were the first Turkish soccer team entitled to participate in the UEFA Women's Champions League? (2009-09-19)
 * ... that the series Svenska Hollywoodfruar follows Swedish women living a glamorous lifestyle in the Hollywood-area with rich American husbands? (2009-09-19)
 * ... that Countess Mariya Volkonskaya (pictured) renounced her rights, titles and possessions to follow her husband in Siberian exile? (2009-09-19)
 * ... that Romanian actress Ecaterina Nazare appeared in a theatrical version of Shakespeare's sonnets, produced and staged by the National Theatre Bucharest? (2009-09-19)
 * ... that Angelika Amon discovered two gene regulatory networks that regulate the exit of cells from mitosis to the G1 phase? (2009-09-18)
 * ... that Queen Teuta of Issa, who briefly ruled Illyria in the 3rd century BC, is depicted on the Albanian 100 lekë coin? (2009-09-15)
 * ... that the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants aimed to prevent girls in London from becoming prostitutes, criminals and alcoholics by training them as domestic servants? (2009-09-15)
 * ... that French Resistance fighter and spy Hélène Deschamps Adams served as the basis for video game character Manon Batiste? (2009-09-15)
 * ... that 2009 US Open girls' singles champion Heather Watson was the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games tennis gold-medalist? (2009-09-15)
 * ... that the 14th Searchlight Battery was the only Finnish Army unit comprised entirely of women during World War II? (2009-09-14)
 * ... that Nan Vernon provided the end credit music of both of Rob Zombie's Halloween films and has been noted for being part of the "singer-songwriter trend" of women nurturing folk music's rebirth? (2009-09-13)
 * ... that Josefin Crafoord originally declined an offer to appear on the Swedish version of Dancing on Ice because she did not know how to skate? (2009-09-13)
 * ... that the song "Voices Carry" was originally written and sung by 'Til Tuesday's lead singer, Aimee Mann, as to a woman? (2009-09-12)
 * ... that Shirley Huffman, the first female mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon, worked to change the city's charter to allow her more time in office? (2009-09-11)
 * ... that "Kicks," a 1966 hit single by Paul Revere & the Raiders, was called "a dumb anti-drug song" by singer-songwriter David Crosby? (2009-09-11)
 * ... that Miranda Lambert's new album Revolution is slated to include songs co-written by Blake Shelton as well as Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum? (2009-09-10)
 * ... that Australian singer Lana Cantrell, a 1968 Grammy Award nominee for Best New Artist, later became an entertainment lawyer in New York City? (2009-09-10)
 * ... that Giuseppe Verdi did not want Eugenia Tadolini (pictured) to sing Lady Macbeth in his opera Macbeth because her voice was too beautiful? (2009-09-10)
 * ... that the murder of 17-year-old Raonaid Murray has still not been solved ten years after it occurred? (2009-09-09)
 * ... that Austrian Jewish author Elfriede Gerstl as a child had to hide in a wardrobe to avoid deportation to a concentration camp? (2009-09-07)
 * ... that Katsura Hoshino based her manga character Allen Walker off of a female character, only altering the hair length? (2009-09-07)
 * ... that Japan's incoming First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama claims to have been abducted by aliens in a triangular-shaped UFO and to have known Tom Cruise when he was Japanese in a prior incarnation? (2009-09-06)
 * ... that the Edenton Tea Party was one of the first instances of political activism by women in the Thirteen Colonies? (2009-09-05)
 * ... that in 1885, over 10,000 mourners attended the funeral of English maidservant Alice Ayres (pictured)? (2009-09-05)
 * ... that ex-professional tennis player Claire Curran competed for both Ireland and Great Britain in the Fed Cup and accumulated a win–loss record of 20–7 in Fed Cup matches over the course of her career? (2009-08-31)
 * ... that Kari Gjesteby is the first female State Conciliator of Norway? (2009-08-27)
 * ... that Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator when she started working for the Boston Telephone Despatch company in 1878? (2009-08-27)
 * ... that Terry O'Neill (pictured), new president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), campaigned for grassroots feminists across the United States? (2009-08-26)
 * ... that Rita Inos, a Doctor of Education, was the first female candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands? (2009-08-26)
 * ... that the coincidence of the global financial crisis with the release of Margaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth led The Walrus to auction predictions by Atwood at a fundraiser? (2009-08-26)
 * ... that BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt was born in Australia and adopted by a British diplomat? (2009-08-26)
 * ... that Jadwiga of Żagań bore no sons to her husband, Casimir III the Great, which spelled the end of the Piast Dynasty in the Kingdom of Poland? (2009-08-25)
 * ... that female professional wrestler Ann Casey won the USA Women's Wrestling Championship in 1974 from The Fabulous Moolah and was never defeated for the title? (2009-08-25)
 * ... that Freeheld is an Academy Award-winning documentary by Cynthia Wade that follows a New Jersey detective fighting for the right to pass on her pension to her female domestic partner? (2009-08-24)
 * ... that Norwegian actress Beate Eriksen is the granddaughter of Olympic gymnast Marius Eriksen, and daughter of World War II flying ace Marius Eriksen, Jr.? (2009-08-24)
 * ... that Bobbi Gibb was the first woman to run the entire Boston Marathon? (2009-08-23)
 * ... that Owl Island (pictured) in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is an accurate depiction of the Island of St. Herbert in the center of Derwent Water? (2009-08-22)
 * ... that New Yorker Marcey Jacobson had planned to visit Chiapas for 10 days in 1956, but ended up staying there for most of the next 50 years, taking 14,000 photos of daily life in Southern Mexico? (2009-08-21)
 * ... that Indu Mitha is one of only two Bharatanatyam experts in Pakistan? (2009-08-19)
 * ... that while running for the presidential nomination in 2008, Hillary Clinton credited political advisor and lobbyist Anne Wexler with providing her first job in politics? (2009-08-19)
 * ... that Beatrix Potter initially resisted the idea of colour illustrations for The Tale of Peter Rabbit? (2009-08-16)
 * ... that Jennifer Zeng was imprisoned and subject to electroshock therapy in the People's Republic of China for being a Falun Gong practitioner? (2009-08-16)
 * ... that on his wife Nancy's birthday, Ronald Reagan would send flowers to his mother-in-law, Edith Luckett Davis, to thank her for giving birth to Nancy? (2009-08-16)
 * ... that writer, suffragist, and feminist Emily Newell Blair has been described by Senator Carter Glass as "go[ing] down so smooth and easily but has an awful kick afterwords"? (2009-08-14)
 * ... that following her service in the Mexican–American War, laundress and madam Sarah Bowman was breveted an honorary colonel and buried with military honors? (2009-08-13)
 * ... that in 1965, Czech jazz singer Vlasta Průchová invited Louis Armstrong for dinner? (2009-08-12)
 * ... that English writer and historian Mercia MacDermott, who has authored five books on the ethnography and history of Bulgaria, learned Mandarin Chinese while living in Weihai as a child? (2009-08-12)
 * ... that award-winning romance novelist Jeffrey McClanahan has written under three distinct pen names: "Dixie Cash", "Anna Jeffrey", and "Sadie Callahan"? (2009-08-12)
 * ... that Gladys Bustamante became a leading Jamaican trade unionist after she took a job as a secretary for her future husband, Sir Alexander Bustamante? (2009-08-12)
 * ... that Renée Asherson made her first stage appearance in John Gielgud's 1935 production of Romeo and Juliet? (2009-08-11)
 * ... that secretions from the placenta prevent the maternal immune system from recognizing the fetus as a foreign object, partly explaining immune tolerance in pregnancy? (2009-08-10)
 * ... that Wilma Scott Heide grew NOW to 50,000 members and an annual budget of 750,000 during her four-year term as president, having taken office in 1971 with 3,000 members and spending of 28,000? (2009-08-09)
 * ... that Canadian Sandy Hott´s result in 2005 was the highest placement ever at the World Orienteering Championships by a competitor from the North American continent? (2009-08-09)
 * ... that Jasmin Ouschan (pictured), who was born in 1986 and won her first European Championship in 1999, is a nineteen-time European billiards champion? (2009-08-09)
 * ... that Zali Steggall was the first Australian to win an individual medal at the Winter Olympics? (2009-08-08)
 * ... that the English poet Mary Jones, called "the Chantress" by Samuel Johnson, did not consider publishing her efforts until pushed to do so by her friends? (2009-08-07)
 * ... that Marcia McNutt, nominee for director of the United States Geological Survey, studied underwater demolition and explosives handling with the U.S. Navy UDT and Seal Team? (2009-08-07)
 * ... that Hamida Banu Begum, wife of Mughal Emperor Humayun, gave birth to the future Emperor, Akbar the Great, on 15 October, 1542, while taking refuge at a Rajput fortress of Umerkot, Sindh? (2009-08-07)
 * ... that Kelly Clarkson fought to prevent her record company, RCA, from releasing her song "Already Gone" as a single? (2009-08-07)
 * ... that lyric soprano Lois Hunt was introduced to then Vice President Lyndon Johnson while he was wearing a pair of green silk pajamas embroidered with his initials? (2009-08-06)
 * ... that in July 2009, GERB politician Tsetska Tsacheva became the first ever Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria? (2009-08-05)
 * ... that the single "Hot" by Romanian singer Inna was posted on YouTube and reached 2 million views in under one year? (2009-08-04)
 * ... that while working as a children's entertainer in the 1980s, actress Fay Ripley was set up as a jewellery thief in an insurance fraud attempt? (2009-08-04)
 * ... that Marie Wittich (pictured), the soprano who created the title role in Richard Strauss' opera Salome, refused to perform the Dance of the Seven Veils saying "I won't do it. I'm a decent woman."? (2009-08-03)
 * ... that Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats, the sister of Irish poet W. B. Yeats, was a professional embroiderer who studied the craft under May Morris? (2009-08-03)
 * ... that Hungarian handball player Anita Görbicz was voted World Player of the Year 2005 by the International Handball Federation? (2009-08-02)
 * ... that Heinz Lord, Secretary General of the World Medical Association, survived Moringen concentration camp and the sinking of prison ship Cap Arcona? (2009-08-01)
 * ... that between 1909 and 1912, soprano Margarethe Siems (pictured) sang leading roles in the world premieres of three operas by Richard Strauss&mdash;Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and Ariadne auf Naxos? (2009-07-31)
 * ... that Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno, running mate of Republican gubernatorial nominee Christopher J. Christie, would become the first Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey if elected in November? (2009-07-31)
 * ... that Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland was a political hostess who introduced the dahlia to the United Kingdom in 1804? (2009-07-31)
 * ... that Ziegfield Girl Susan Fleming found Harpo Marx, despite his non-speaking film persona, to be "a warm, fun, darling man to talk to", and they married in 1936 after she had proposed to him three times? (2009-07-30)
 * ... that French philosopher Denis Diderot posed naked for a Berlin innkeeper's wife? (2009-07-30)
 * ... that Australian musician Monique Brumby (pictured), who has won two ARIA Awards, was selected for the national under-19 women's soccer team? (2009-07-29)
 * ... that Poh Ling Yeow, the runner-up of MasterChef Australia, has appeared in four films? (2009-07-27)
 * ... that female professional wrestler Jean Antoine married her high school sweetheart in the middle of a wrestling ring because she had a match afterward? (2009-07-26)
 * ... that Susanna Montgomery, Lady Eglinton taught rats to come to her table for food? (2009-07-25)
 * ... that The Office writer Jennifer Celotta and Office actor Rainn Wilson won a Writers Guild of America Award for writing the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards ceremony? (2009-07-24)
 * ... that after surviving almost two years in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Lise Børsum wrote a book about her experiences in the camp? (2009-07-22)
 * ... that before the NCAA began sponsoring a women's collegiate basketball tournament in 1982, the AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament crowned national champions from 1972 to 1981? (2009-07-21)
 * ... that the Van de Passe family engraved portraits of important people in Jacobean England including the Gunpowder Plotters (pictured) and Pocahontas? (2009-07-20)
 * ... that Caroline Anthonypillai helped found the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the oldest political party in Sri Lanka, along with her brother Philip? (2009-07-20)
 * ... that Frances Fuller Victor, an influential writer of history and fiction, was initially uncredited for her major contributions to historian Hubert Howe Bancroft's monumental work, The History of the West? (2009-07-19)
 * ... that the intensity of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been described as the worst in the world? (2009-07-18)
 * ... that the killing of Aza Gazgireeva, former Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia, was described as "brutal" and "brazen"? (2009-07-18)
 * ... that Ina Coolbrith (pictured), the first woman granted honorary membership in the Bohemian Club, was also the first California Poet Laureate? (2009-07-17)
 * ... that Sandra Warfield met future husband James McCracken when they sang the leads in Samson and Delilah, the same opera in which the couple performed in her Metropolitan Opera farewell performance? (2009-07-16)
 * ... that Toys in the Attic, a semi-autobiographical play by American playwright Lillian Hellman, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play in 1960? (2009-07-13)
 * ... that while perinatal mortality of twins that share the same placenta is fairly low, the survival rate of twins that share the same amniotic sac (example pictured) within their mother's uterus is less than 60%? (2009-07-13)
 * ... that Annie M. G. Schmidt, the "queen of Dutch children's literature," euthanized herself a day after her 84th birthday? (2009-07-13)
 * ... that Hiltgunt Zassenhaus was the only person from Germany decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for her activities during World War II? (2009-07-12)
 * ... that Saturn Award winning costume designer Marilyn Vance once produced films with E! Entertainment founder Alan Mruvka? (2009-07-11)
 * ... that Australian jazz singer Grace Knight, ex-Eurogliders, organised a nude protest of 750 women against the 2003 invasion of Iraq? (2009-07-11)
 * ... that in the 1970s, female professional wrestler Betty Niccoli helped lift the New York State Athletic Commission's ban on women's wrestling? (2009-07-11)
 * ... that in 1975 professional wrestlers Sandy Parker and Jean Antoine had the first legal women's wrestling match in Oregon in 50 years? (2009-07-10)
 * ... that Mary Lou Forbes, whose reporting on school integration in Virginia won a 1959 Pulitzer Prize, had been hired as a copy girl by the Washington Star after the accounting spot she wanted was filled? (2009-07-10)
 * ... that incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate? (2009-07-09)
 * ... that in 1958, female professional wrestlers Kay Noble, Lorraine Johnson, Penny Banner, and Laura Martinez were charged with inciting a riot when they began fighting outside of the ring, but pleaded not guilty in court? (2009-07-09)
 * ... that Ukrainian runner Yuliya Krevsun ended her track career in 2005 to start a family, but later made a comeback and reached the 800 metres final at the Beijing Olympics? (2009-07-05)
 * ... that Chinese actress Zhang Yuqi was first discovered because of a role she played in a 30-second Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial? (2009-07-04)
 * ... that Phoemela Baranda placed 23rd in the FHM Philippines 100 Sexiest Women of the World in 2006? (2009-07-04)
 * ... that ballerina Virginia Zucchi once performed an entire solo en pointe? (2009-07-03)
 * ... that Finnish mountain bike orienteer Päivi Tommola has won eight medals at the World Championships? (2009-07-03)
 * ... that Jesse Lee Kercheval got the idea of Underground Women after seeing a woman collapse in a launderette in Paris? (2009-07-03)
 * ... that while training to become a mountain guide, former Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Karine Ruby was killed in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc? (2009-07-02)
 * ... that medieval scholar Erika Cheetham interpreted Nostradamus' writings as prophecies of Napoleon, Hitler, and the establishment of modern Israel? (2009-06-30)
 * ... that Nanuli Shevardnadze, wife of the future president of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze, initially rejected his marriage proposal, fearing her family background would ruin his career? (2009-06-29)
 * ... that pioneering lesbian journalist Edith Eyde only assumed the pseudonym Lisa Ben after editors of the lesbian magazine The Ladder rejected her first choice, "Ima Spinster"? (2009-06-29)
 * ... that a "no ID, no sitting on the bench" rule will be implemented in the 2009 UAAP basketball season to avoid what happened last year when a coach was given a technical foul for not wearing his ID? (2009-06-28)
 * ... that Indian women's activist Moturu Udayam is said to have been the first woman to ride a bicycle in the state of Andhra Pradesh? (2009-06-28)
 * ... that Helena Palaiologina, Queen consort of Cyprus, gave orders for the nose of her husband's beautiful mistress to be cut off? (2009-06-27)
 * ... that former long jump record holder Carol Lewis tried out for the 2002 Winter Olympics bobsleigh team? (2009-06-27)
 * ... that in Albanian folklore, the zana, mountain fairies revered for their beauty and courage, are said to have watched approvingly over Albanian protests against the 1878 Treaty of San Stefano? (2009-06-26)
 * ... that Czech actress Olga Scheinpflugová suffered a heart attack directly on the stage, during her performance in the play Mother, written by her husband Karel Čapek? (2009-06-25)
 * ... that the Feminist Improvising Group challenged the male-dominated musical improvisation scene in the late 1970s? (2009-06-23)
 * ... that after writing songs for Garth Brooks, Stephanie Davis joined Brooks' road band and recorded an album for Asylum Records? (2009-06-22)
 * ... that as a child, Swedish opera singer Hjördis Schymberg and her four sisters performed live music to accompany silent films? (2009-06-22)
 * ... that Pauline Rita played three roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas for Richard D'Oyly Carte, but left his company in 1878 never to return? (2009-06-21)
 * ... that Marion West Higgins, the first female Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly, was the daughter of Dr. James E. West, the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America? (2009-06-21)
 * ... that journalist and novelist Gerd Grønvold Saue is also a former board member of the International Peace Bureau? (2009-06-20)
 * ... that Rachael English, presenter of the Irish radio news programme Five Seven Live, was joined on the show by her father, who provided Cheltenham horse racing tips for her listeners? (2009-06-19)
 * ... that actress Nancy Andrews won a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut performance in 1949? (2009-06-19)
 * ... that theoretical biologist Mary Jane West-Eberhard says that she learnt more about science at high school from her English course on critical reading and writing than from her biology class? (2009-06-19)
 * ... that when Indigenous Australian artist Makinti Napanangka won the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2008, her age and family circumstances prevented her from attending the ceremony? (2009-06-19)
 * ... that Indigenous Australian artist Rosella Namok gave birth to her second son on the way to submit a painting for the Wynne Prize? (2009-06-18)
 * ... that Singaporean sculptor Han Sai Por created her 2006 work Seeds (pictured), situated at the National Museum of Singapore, from sandstone excavated during the Museum's redevelopment? (2009-06-18)
 * ... that paleontologist Gerta Keller theorizes that dinosaurs did not become extinct until 300,000 years after the Chicxulub meteor, though she agrees that "I'm sure the day after, they had a headache"? (2009-06-18)
 * ... that actress Charlene McKenna was pleased that her full-frontal nude scene in the television series Raw attracted few complaints? (2009-06-17)
 * ... that when the Washington Huskies softball team won the 2009 Women's College World Series, it marked the 22nd time in the 28 World Series that a Pac-10 team was crowned champion? (2009-06-16)
 * ... that the Polish Righteous Krystyna Dańko rescued her Jewish friend's sister by "smuggling" her to Warsaw before most Jews from Otwock were deported to Treblinka (pictured)? (2009-06-16)
 * ... that Diane Dietz set the Big Ten single-game basketball scoring record with 45 points in 1982 and the University of Michigan career record with 2,076 points? (2009-06-16)
 * ... that a copy of Sharlot Hall‎'s poem Arizona, which mocked efforts to merge Arizona Territory and New Mexico Territory into a single state, was given to every member of the U.S. Congress? (2009-06-14)
 * ... that American journalist Andrea Elliott received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a series of articles on an Egyptian-born imam living in Brooklyn? (2009-06-12)
 * ... that Danuta Siedzikówna, a Polish nurse in anti-Nazi and anti-Communist resistance was only seventeen years old when she was sentenced to death and executed by the communist government of Poland in 1946? (2009-06-10)
 * ... that Sara Northrup Hollister, the second wife of L. Ron Hubbard, was a noted member of an occult society in Pasadena, California, who went on to play an important role in the development of Dianetics? (2009-06-09)
 * ... that Beatriz Enriquez de Arana was the mistress of Christopher Columbus (pictured)? (2009-06-09)
 * ... that the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Zebras" earned higher ratings than an NBC special about Barack Obama, which aired the same night? (2009-06-08)
 * ... that Scottish actress Rona Anderson married fellow actor Gordon Jackson after appearing with him in the romantic drama Floodtide? (2009-06-08)
 * ... that Lithuanian writer and educator Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė, as the oldest representative, chaired the first session of the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania in 1920? (2009-06-08)
 * ... that Evelyn Scotney, an Australian coloratura soprano, sang opposite Enrico Caruso in his final appearance on the opera stage? (2009-06-08)
 * ... that Anna Goldfeder, a pioneering researcher in the fields of radiology and cancer treatment, worked as a research scientist in an abandoned building for two years before she secured enough grant money to move her laboratory? (2009-06-08)
 * ... that actress and television announcer Barbara Matera is a candidate for the centre-right The People of Freedom (PdL) party in the 2009 European Parliament elections? (2009-06-07)
 * ... that Lazdynų Pelėda (Hazelnut Owl) was a common pen name used by two Lithuanian sister writers, Sofija Pšibiliauskienė and Marija Lastauskienė? (2009-06-06)
 * ... that after facing 2009 All-American softball pitcher Nikki Nemitz fastball, a sports writer for the Detroit Free Press wrote that he "actually felt a breeze" and his "knees buckled"? (2009-06-06)
 * ... that cookbook Seduced by Bacon by Joanna Pruess not only includes a recipe for pecan, brown sugar, and bacon ice cream, but also writings by Mark Twain? (2009-06-06)
 * ... that the jazz singer Eva Olmerová was persecuted by the State Security service of the Czechoslovak communist regime? (2009-06-06)
 * ... that Newington Green Unitarian Church has strong ties to political radicalism stretching over 300 years, with Richard Price in the pulpit and Mary Wollstonecraft in the pews? (2009-06-04)
 * ... that soprano Deborah Voigt lost over 100 lb by means of gastric bypass surgery after she was fired in the "Covent Garden incident"? (2009-06-03)
 * ... that the debut single of Romanian singer Corina entitled Noi Doi reached fourth place in the Romanian Top 100? (2009-06-03)
 * ... that Katie Jarvis was cast in the film Fish Tank, after a casting agent spotted her having an argument with her boyfriend at Tilbury Town railway station? (2009-06-02)
 * ... that her controversial publishing of The Woman's Bible in the 1890s effectively ended Elizabeth Cady Stanton's further influence in the woman suffrage movement? (2009-06-01)
 * ... that the Northwestern Wildcats women's lacrosse team has won the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship five consecutive times since 2005? (2009-06-01)
 * ... that Hannah Tracy Cutler wrote an advice column for farm girls before she became president of the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1870? (2009-06-01)
 * ... that Mary Millicent Miller was the first American woman to acquire a steamboat master's license? (2009-05-31)
 * ... that actress Kate Cutler walked out of the lead role in Noël Coward's The Vortex a week before it opened in 1924? (2009-05-31)
 * ... that as a student, mathematician Audrey Terras was steered into math away from her other choice, history, by a post-Sputnik program that paid students to study mathematics? (2009-05-31)
 * ... that while fleeing from Greece to Egypt during World War II, a frustrated Olivia Manning used a chamberpot to crush a fellow refugee's Parisian hats? (2009-05-30)
 * ... that Teresa Saporiti, the soprano who created the role of Donna Anna in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, lived to be 106? (2009-05-29)
 * ... that Afghani parliamentarian and Islamic feminist Shukria Barakzai began to campaign against multiple marriages when her husband took a second wife without telling her? (2009-05-28)
 * ... that in 1875 actress Kate Bishop created the role of Violet Melrose in Our Boys, which was by far the longest-running work of theatre up to that time? (2009-05-28)
 * ... that actress Emily Fowler (pictured) originated the male role of Hans in The Gentleman in Black by W. S. Gilbert and Frederic Clay? (2009-05-27)
 * ... that since Zaynab bint Khuzayma died shortly after her marriage, less is known about her than any of Muhammad's other wives? (2009-05-26)
 * ... that actress Kate Terry, grandmother of John Gielgud, had a very successful acting career until she left the stage at age 23? (2009-05-26)
 * ... that the first vampire story written by a woman was The Skeleton Count, by Elizabeth Caroline Grey, in 1828? (2009-05-26)
 * ... that Jimi Hendrix described the lead guitarist of the Ace of Cups, an all-female rock band, as "really great"? (2009-05-24)
 * ... that Faith Ireland won two national championships as a powerlifter while serving on the Washington Supreme Court? (2009-05-24)
 * ... that Fireflight's song "Unbreakable" was inspired by a fan's question asked on MySpace? (2009-05-23)
 * ... that Yohl Ik'nal, queen of the Classic Period Maya city of Palenque in Mexico, was the first known female Mayan ruler? (2009-05-22)
 * ... that Elsie B. Washington was called the "mother of the African-American romance" for her 1980 novel, considered the first to feature African American characters by an African American author? (2009-05-22)
 * ... that while still in college, children's author Eloise Greenfield realized that she was too shy to be a teacher and dropped out to work at the U.S. Patent Office? (2009-05-22)
 * ... that according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, there are more than 100 million women "missing" in Asia? (2009-05-19)
 * ... that during World War I, Britons could be fined for feeding the pigeons? (2009-05-18)
 * ... that Allison Bradshaw`s mother, tennis player Valerie Ziegenfuss, was one of the Original 9 who established the basis for the WTA Tour? (2009-05-17)
 * ... that Eunice Taylor, a catcher for the Kenosha Comets of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, was the model for Rosie O'Donnell's character in the film A League of Their Own? (2009-05-17)
 * ... that Raquel Forner was one of the earliest fine artists to portray scenes of outer space? (2009-05-16)
 * ... that before being dismissed for flawed casework analysis, forensic chemist Joyce Gilchrist contributed evidence for 23 trials that resulted in death sentences? (2009-05-16)
 * ... that The Ladies' Mercury was the first periodical publication designed just for women? (2009-05-15)
 * ... that Jane Edna Hunter, an African American social worker in Cleveland, Ohio, was born on the Woodburn Plantation %28pictured%29 in Pendleton, South Carolina? (2009-05-15)
 * ... that 26-year-old Vanessa Rousso (pictured) is among the top five females in career earnings in poker history? (2009-05-14)
 * ... that Henrietta Johnston (work pictured) was the first recorded female artist and the first pastelist to work in the English colonies in America? (2009-05-12)
 * ... that Abigail Bush, in 1848, was the first American woman to serve as president of a women's rights convention? (2009-05-11)
 * ... that one of the members of R&B girl group RichGirl was discovered through MySpace? (2009-05-10)
 * ... that Jampa Tsedroen, the monastic name of German Buddhist nun Carola Roloff, means "loving kindness" and "lamp of life" in Tibetan? (2009-05-08)
 * ... that the first season of Celebrity Bainisteoir was said to have "brought the worlds of celebrity and GAA club football crashing together", and the second season features Working Girls and Wonderwomen star Katherine Lynch and Miss Universe contender Andrea Roche? (2009-05-08)
 * ... that South Africa's Take a Girl Child to Work Day started in 2003 to fight gender inequality in the workforce? (2009-05-06)
 * ... that charitable initiatives championed by current First Spouses of the United States have included blankets for the homeless and development assistance in Rwanda? (2009-05-06)
 * ... that Ida Henrietta Hyde was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg? (2009-05-06)
 * ... that Fernanda Nissen was one of the two first film censors in Norway? (2009-05-06)
 * ... that Ann-Kristin Olsen was the first female chief of police in Norway as well as the first female Governor of Svalbard? (2009-05-06)
 * ... that Alice Allison Dunnigan became the first African-American journalist to accompany a U.S. president while traveling? (2009-05-06)
 * ... that Fatma Aliye Topuz, whose portrait illustrates the reverse of the current 50 Turkish lira banknote, is credited as the first female Turkish and Muslim writer? (2009-05-05)
 * ... that actor Jeff Bridges credits his mother, Dorothy Bridges, with passing down lessons she learned from acclaimed acting teacher Michael Chekhov to her children? (2009-05-05)
 * ... that Amalia Mesa-Bains, a Ph.D. psychologist, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her artwork? (2009-05-05)
 * ... that among French handball player Valérie Nicolas´ triumphs are victories at the World Championship, Champions League, EHF Cup, Cup Winners' Cup, and both French and Danish national championships? (2009-05-04)
 * ... that according to her autobiography Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, Marguerite Johnson changed her name to Maya Angelou because it sounded more exotic? (2009-05-04)
 * ... that the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association stymied anti-suffragists by denying them widespread Conservative Party support? (2009-05-04)
 * ... that Studioteatret was started in Oslo by actors and students, including Jens Bolling, Liv Strømsted and Arne Thomas Olsen, who had secretly studied Stanislavski's theatre theories during World War II? (2009-05-03)
 * ... that the day the Parks and Recreation episode "Canvassing" aired on NBC, it captured almost one million viewers more than its direct ABC time-slot competitor, Samantha Who? (2009-05-02)
 * ... that the history of the underwire bra (patent pictured) dates back to 1893 when Marie Tucek patented a "breast supporter" that used a metal or cardboard support under the breasts? (2009-05-01)
 * ... that Disappearing Model, a body painting in which a model is painted so that she is indistinguishable from her background, is Joanne Gair's most famous work and was displayed on Ripley's Believe It or Not!? (2009-05-01)
 * ... that Melissa Rosenberg finished the script for the Dexter episode "Love American Style" quickly due to her experience writing for broadcast TV? (2009-04-28)
 * ... that professional wrestler Christie Ricci first became a fan of professional wrestling after attending a Sunday school class with Ted DiBiase, Jr.? (2009-04-27)
 * ... that the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Women's Royal Air Force was created after a request for a judicial inquiry was turned down? (2009-04-25)
 * ... that Peggy Stuart Coolidge was the first American composer to have a concert devoted entirely to her works presented in the Soviet Union? (2009-04-25)
 * ... that during their long, discreet affair, Arthur Sullivan recorded the number of his intimate acts with socialite Fanny Ronalds (pictured) in his diary? (2009-04-25)
 * ... that the Honduran romance novel Blanca Olmedo is a rare early female criticism of the establishment and corruption in Honduras? (2009-04-25)
 * ... that Violet Douglas-Pennant claimed she had been dismissed from the Women's Royal Air Force to cover up "rife immorality"? (2009-04-24)
 * ... that Belgian avant-garde singer Catherine Jauniaux has been described as a "one-woman orchestra" and a "human sampler"? (2009-04-24)
 * ... that Texas author Lou Halsell Rodenberger focused most of her literary works on biographies of her fellow female writers? (2009-04-23)
 * ... that Dr. Jo Riley explored Chinese exorcism and ancient animation rites at the tomb, to better document actor performance (example pictured) in Chinese theatre? (2009-04-23)
 * ... that Britain's Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle performance of "I Dreamed a Dream" gained her worldwide attention? (2009-04-22)
 * ... that Johanne Dybwad´s acting career spanned sixty years, from 1887 to 1947? (2009-04-21)
 * ... that actress Sela Ward was not initially interested in playing Stacy Warner on FOX's House, but changed her mind after watching tapes of the show? (2009-04-19)
 * ... that philanthropist Dorothy Cullman and her husband, Lewis Cullman, donated over $250 million in support of the arts, science, and education? (2009-04-19)
 * ... that the members of R&B girl group Electrik Red appeared together in Ciara's music video for "Like a Boy"? (2009-04-18)
 * ... that the American sisters Rose and Ottilie Sutro were the world's first duo-piano team? (2009-04-16)
 * ... that despite being called a "one-hit wonder" by members of the UK music industry, singer Jamelia has had seven Top 10 singles enter the UK Singles Chart? (2009-04-16)
 * ... that American journalist and writer Bessie Breuer`s first novel, Memory of Love (1935), was the basis for the 1939 film In Name Only which starred Cary Grant and Carol Lombard? (2009-04-16)
 * ... that country music artist and Dead Reckoning Records co-founder Tammy Rogers was once a backing musician for Patty Loveless and Trisha Yearwood? (2009-04-15)
 * ... that Mary Anne Rawson (pictured) helped in the anti-slavery campaign that reduced the sale of sugar from the West Indies in Sheffield? (2009-04-14)
 * ... that Keila Costa is the South American record holder in the women's triple jump event? (2009-04-13)
 * ... that Donna Kossy is "an expert on kooks [who] has a genuine, if sometimes uncomfortable, affection for her subjects"? (2009-04-13)
 * ... that Anna Maria Rückerschöld was an early Swedish cookbook author who also argued that middle class women should be entitled to an education in household matters? (2009-04-12)
 * ... that Maria Antonescu, wife of Romania's World War II dictator Ion Antonescu, presided over charities financed though the extortion of local Jews? (2009-04-11)
 * ... that Canadian women's ice hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser, the highest scoring female Olympic hockey player, is credited with 14 goals and 20 assists? (2009-04-11)
 * ... that, at the National Women's Rights Convention in Cincinnati in 1855, Lucy Stone responded to a heckler, saying "...disappointment is the lot of woman"? (2009-04-10)
 * ... that Minori Kimura made her professional manga artist debut at the age of 14 in the 1964 Spring Special issue of Ribon, a magazine published in Japan by Shueisha? (2009-04-10)
 * ... that Kate Mason Rowland introduced a motion in the United Daughters of the Confederacy to have the American Civil War known as the War Between the States? (2009-04-10)
 * ... that Larry Scott, CEO of the WTA, put together the largest sponsorship in the history of women's athletics, an US$88-million deal with Sony Ericsson? (2009-04-09)
 * ... that Jessie Webb, an Australian academic and historian, was the first female teacher at the University of Melbourne? (2009-04-09)
 * ... that 1890s portrait photographer Zaida Ben-Yusuf (pictured) influence upon fine art photography went unacknowledged for nearly 100 years, possibly due to gender discrimination? (2009-04-08)
 * ... that Verda Welcome was the first black woman to be elected as a State Senator? (2009-04-08)
 * ... that Marguerite Rawalt was the first woman ever to be elected as president of the Federal Bar Association? (2009-04-08)
 * ... that Elizabeth Lee Hazen developed the world's first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin? (2009-04-08)
 * ... that soprano Sylvia Cecil joined and left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company three times during her career? (2009-04-07)
 * ... that Sinikka Kukkonen was the first World Champion in ski orienteering? (2009-04-07)
 * ... that soprano Margaret Lloyd portrayed the role of Lightfoot McClendon in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Cold Sassy Tree at the Houston Grand Opera in 2000? (2009-04-06)
 * ... that the poet, novelist and children's author Karin Bang is a passionate collector of ancient dolls? (2009-04-06)
 * ... that according to the magico-medical text Cyranides, miscarriages caused by female demons such as Gello can be prevented by wearing an aetite as an amulet? (2009-04-06)
 * ... that at the age of 29, Bernice Cronkhite became the dean of Radcliffe College, making her the youngest person to become a dean in the United States? (2009-04-06)
 * ... that the writers Solveig Christov and Toril Brekke both have been awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize? (2009-04-05)
 * ... that actors Brent Barrett, Sally Mayes, Richard Muenz, and Lynne Wintersteller all starred in the original production of Maltby and Shire's hit Off-Broadway musical Closer Than Ever in 1989? (2009-04-04)
 * ... that in 1980, planktologist Grethe Rytter Hasle was the only female representative of natural sciences in the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters? (2009-04-04)
 * ... that Dorothy Liebes, known as "the mother of modern weaving", made fabrics out of feathers, bamboo, leather strips, plastic, and ticker tape? (2009-04-04)
 * ... that with her thriller Nattdykk (1983), Kim Småge was the first of "a new female wave in Norwegian crime fiction"? (2009-04-02)
 * ... that operatic soprano Dawn Kotoski won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1990? (2009-04-02)
 * ... that Sonia Chang-Díaz won a seat in the Massachusetts Senate after her opponent was accused of stuffing her bra? (2009-04-01)
 * ... that ballerina Jocelyn Vollmar danced as the Snow Queen in the first American production of The Nutcracker? (2009-03-31)
 * Isabella Grinevskaya (article's talk page missing blurb) (2009-03-31)
 * ... that Ebba Haslund adolescence novel Nothing Happened was virtually ignored by the press when it was first issued in Norwegian in 1948, but was later regarded as one of her most important books? (2009-03-31)
 * ... that Grammy-nominated CCM musician Ayiesha Woods was the first female to receive a "Producer of the Year" award at the Gospel Music Marlin Awards? (2009-03-31)
 * ... that Debbie Kruger based her 2005 book Songwriters Speak on interviews with songwriters when publicising the 2001 Top 30 Australian songs list for the at the APRA Awards? (2009-03-30)
 * ... that pianist Mona Golabek wrote a book about her mother's experience as part of the Kindertransport, a mission to rescue children threatened by the Nazis? (2009-03-29)
 * ... that Leslie George Katz founded the Eakins Press, which printed a number of books by his wife Jane Mayhall, using funds from the sale of several Thomas Eakins paintings that Katz's father had secretly collected? (2009-03-29)
 * ... that Entertainment Weekly reported comedian Ellie Kemper is set to take on the role of Dunder Mifflin receptionist in NBC's U.S. version of The Office? (2009-03-29)
 * ... that golfer Jane Park reached the final of the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship in 2003 and 2004, and won the latter event? (2009-03-28)
 * ... that Indian social worker and 2009 Padma Bhushan awardee, Sarojini Varadappan is a daughter of former Chief Minister of Madras, M. Bhaktavatsalam? (2009-03-27)
 * ... that flautist Eugenia Zukerman has been the Classical Music Correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning since 1980? (2009-03-27)
 * ... that when Dorothea Holt Redmond was hired in 1938 in the "heretofore exclusively male field" of film production design, male co-workers demanded that she work in an area separated from them? (2009-03-27)
 * ... that British anthropologist Kathleen Gough and her husband were believed to be on the FBI's watchlist due to their alleged Marxist leanings? (2009-03-26)
 * ... that mezzo-soprano Stephanie Novacek created roles in the premieres of two important operas, the role of Maria Callas in Daugherty's Jackie O and the role of heroine Jo March in Adamo's Little Women? (2009-03-25)
 * ... that in the first eight years after Harvard Girl was published in mainland China, the number of Chinese applicants to Harvard increased tenfold? (2009-03-25)
 * ... that Janet Beaton, Lady of Branxholme and Buccleugh, had five husbands and was immortalized as Sir Walter Scott's Wizard Lady of Branxholm in his poem "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"? (2009-03-24)
 * ... that the "Golden Ticket" episode of the U.S. version of The Office was watched by 7.7 million viewers, tying with Grey's Anatomy for number one among the broadcast networks in adults 18–34? (2009-03-24)
 * ... that Hulda Garborg was co-founder of Det Norske Teatret in Oslo, which was established in 1912? (2009-03-23)
 * ... that Doris Abrahams started producing on Broadway as a teenager and co-produced the Tony Award-winning Equus with Kermit Bloomgarden? (2009-03-22)
 * ... that American historian Constance McLaughlin Green won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for her book Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878? (2009-03-19)
 * ... that "Tomorrow Never Dies", Sheryl Crow's theme song to the James Bond film of the same name, received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Song? (2009-03-17)
 * ... that singer Katie White named her group The Ting Tings after a Chinese girl who worked with her in a boutique? (2009-03-16)
 * ... that the Toronto Women's Bookstore is the largest nonprofit, feminist bookstore in Canada? (2009-03-15)
 * ... that Eline Berings won the 60 metre hurdles event at the 2009 European Indoor Championships ahead of Lucie Škrobáková? (2009-03-15)
 * ... that Isabella Gilmore reestablished the female diaconate in the Anglican Communion? (2009-03-15)
 * ... that when Barbara Parker left a law career to take a master's, her thesis went on to be short listed for an Edgar Award as a best first mystery novel? (2009-03-15)
 * ... that sports agent and author Colleen Howe, known as "Mrs. Hockey", passed away from Pick's disease? (2009-03-14)
 * ... that a modeling agency once demanded that swimsuit model Ariel Meredith have breast reduction surgery, but she refused and was dropped from the agency? (2009-03-14)
 * ... that early sources suggested that Moses had taken an Ethiopian wife named Tharbis after laying siege to her city, prior to his ascendancy to prophethood in the Jewish faith? (2009-03-13)
 * ... that human rights activist Ayse Nur Zarakolu, an Amnesty International "prisoner of conscience", was arrested 30 times and jailed four for violating censorship laws in Turkey? (2009-03-13)
 * ... that the Nigeria women's national basketball team became the first African team ever to win an Olympic game in women's basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics? (2009-03-12)
 * ... that Itoro Umoh-Coleman was one of two Hephzibah High School graduates to play on the Nigerian women's national basketball team in the 2004 Summer Olympics? (2009-03-12)
 * ... that Rhena Schweitzer, Albert Schweitzer's only child, married David C. Miller, a doctor who cared for her father, and the couple traveled around the world offering aid to victims of famine and war? (2009-03-11)
 * ... that Jane Sterk joined the Green Party of British Columbia after witnessing environmental degradation in Mexico and became its leader six years later? (2009-03-11)
 * ... that prior to the creation of the Winter Olympics, an ice hockey tournament (winning team pictured) was held at the 1920 Summer Olympics? (2009-03-10)
 * ... that, due to a pressing error, the first shipment of Faryl Smith's debut album Faryl instead contained the music from The Fall's album Imperial Wax Solvent? (2009-03-09)
 * ... that answering service operator Mary Printz, who served New York's theater and business elite, was the inspiration for the 1956 Broadway musical Bells Are Ringing and the 1960 film of the same name? (2009-03-08)
 * ... that Nonnie Moore, a woman who had been fashion editor at Mademoiselle and Harper's Bazaar, was hired by GQ in 1984 in a move that was called an "an odd choice, but... was actually the perfect choice"? (2009-03-07)
 * ... that Gail Trimble, captain of the team which won BBC TV's University Challenge before being disqualified, has been called the "human Google" and the "Usain Bolt of general knowledge"? (2009-03-07)
 * ... that fashion model Frankie Rayder has posed with her sisters Molly and Missy for Gap holiday ads? (2009-03-07)
 * ... that Donizetti wrote the title role of his opera Adelia for Giuseppina Strepponi (pictured), the second wife of Giuseppe Verdi? (2009-03-05)
 * ... that, during a television interview, Romanian politician Elena Udrea made reference to the "President of Norway", apparently unaware that the country is a monarchy? (2009-03-05)
 * ... that the character of Lady Thisbe Crowborough in Max Beerbohm's 1919 satire Seven Men was probably drawn from real-life socialite Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon? (2009-03-02)
 * ... that Norwegian speed skater Randi Thorvaldsen won nine national allround championships in a row from 1946 to 1954, and finished first in 34 distances out of 36 possible? (2009-02-28)
 * ... that George Washington gave Martha Parke Custis a miniature of himself as a wedding gift, and later left her 1/32 of his estate in his will? (2009-02-28)
 * ... that there were almost 50,000 women serving in the Australian military in 1944? (2009-02-26)
 * ... that pop entertainer Cathy Wayne was the first Australian woman killed in the Vietnam War, when a US Marine shot her on stage while she was performing? (2009-02-26)
 * ... that Althea Byfield played collegiate basketball in the United States, is signed to play semi-professional netball in New Zealand, and has represented Jamaica internationally in both sports? (2009-02-26)
 * ... that as a blindfolded child, opera singer Pauline Joran (pictured) could identify absolute pitch and the notes of chords? (2009-02-24)
 * ... that suffragette Norah Elam campaigned in 1918 for the internment of enemy aliens but in 1940 was interned herself as an 18B detainee due to her membership in the British Union of Fascists? (2009-02-24)
 * ... that Margo Sappington received a Lifetime Achievement Award for choreography from the Joffrey Ballet? (2009-02-24)
 * ... that the Tilted Kilt is a bar and restaurant chain in the United States described as "Hooters with a Scottish twist"? (2009-02-23)
 * ... that Erna Hanfstaengl was claimed both to be romantically involved with Hitler and involved in a plot to overthrow him? (2009-02-23)
 * ... that, although she was born in South Africa, Kate Dennison now holds the indoor British record for the pole vault? (2009-02-22)
 * ... that the Luxembourg Palace, the meeting place of the French Senate, used to be the residence of Princess Élisabeth Marguerite of Orléans, who gave it to the King of France in 1694? (2009-02-21)
 * ... that Wendy Henry, one of the first female newspaper editors on Fleet Street, later became a full-time dog re-socialiser for the Battersea Dogs' Home? (2009-02-20)
 * ... that 2009 Michigan Hall of Honor inductee Mindy Gehrs was called "the best swimmer to ever part the waters of the Atomic City"? (2009-02-19)
 * ... that, unusually for an eighteenth-century novel, the heroine of Charlotte Turner Smith's Emmeline does not meet the man she marries until half-way through the story? (2009-02-18)
 * ... that the Tang Dynasty's Princess Taihe, who became the Kedun (empress) of its ally Huigu, suffered through Huigu's collapse before she was able to return to the Tang? (2009-02-17)
 * ... that Phoebe Omlie, the first licensed female transport pilot, was considered by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to be one of "eleven women whose achievements make it safe to say the world is progressing"? (2009-02-17)
 * ... that the discography of Lisa Hannigan includes collaborations with Mic Christopher, Mick Flannery, Cathy Davey and members of Snow Patrol and Bell X1, plus her well-known work with Damien Rice? (2009-02-17)
 * ... that Mule Bone, a play by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, had its world premiere in 1991, more than 60 years after it was written? (2009-02-16)
 * ... that Mira Rostova, Montgomery Clift's acting coach, was sent off the set of the 1960 film Wild River by director Elia Kazan after a single day of filming? (2009-02-16)
 * ... that film art director Jeannine Oppewall was so heavily influenced by designers and filmmakers Charles and Ray Eames, she had her house built based completely around her Eames-designed furniture? (2009-02-16)
 * ... that Eslanda Goode Robeson, wife of Paul Robeson, was the first black to head the Surgical Pathology Department at New York-Presbyterian Hospital? (2009-02-16)
 * ... that novelist Charlotte Turner Smith (pictured) condemned her father for forcing her to marry and turning her into a "legal prostitute"? (2009-02-15)
 * ... that Bonnie Newman, a former chief of staff to Judd Gregg, had been named to replace him in the United States Senate until Gregg withdrew his nomination for Secretary of Commerce? (2009-02-15)
 * ... that Nancy Cartwright wrote an autobiography, later adapted into a one-woman play, called My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy? (2009-02-14)
 * ... that illustrator Blair Lent and author Arlene Mosel collaborated on Tikki Tikki Tembo, called one of the 50 best children's books of the preceding 50 years by The New York Times in 1997? (2009-02-12)
 * ... that British singer Adele was nominated for four 2009 Grammy Awards for "Chasing Pavements", winning in the Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance categories? (2009-02-11)
 * ... that opera singers Johann Nepomuk Beck, Marie Wilt, and Hans von Rokitansky all performed in the world premiere of Karl Goldmark's Die Königin von Saba on 10 March 1875? (2009-02-10)
 * ... that Los Angeles-based hip hop group Black Eyed Peas have released two number one albums in both Australia and Switzerland, but have yet to achieve the same on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100? (2009-02-10)
 * ... that the American band Scissor Sisters won all three international categories at the 2005 BRIT Awards for their debut album? (2009-02-09)
 * ... that Georgette Leblanc (pictured) portrayed the role of Ariane in the original 1899 play Ariane et Barbe-bleue by Maurice Maeterlinck and in the 1907 opera adaptation by Paul Dukas? (2009-02-09)
 * ... that Naomi Klein's second book, Fences and Windows, is a collection of newspaper articles about the anti-globalization movement which she wrote while promoting her first book, No Logo? (2009-02-09)
 * ... that Joan Bright Astley is believed to be one of the women on whom novelist Ian Fleming based the James Bond series character Miss Moneypenny? (2009-02-08)
 * ... that former Six band member Sinéad Shepherd returned to Irish television on The All Ireland Talent Show in February 2009? (2009-02-05)
 * ... that British novelist Mary Shelley was blackmailed by the Italian exile for whom she wrote the travel narrative Rambles in Germany and Italy? (2009-02-05)
 * ... that Carol Hutchins, coach of the first eastern team to win the Women's College World Series, is the winningest coach in the history of the University of Michigan in any sport? (2009-02-05)
 * ... that the prolific author Maxwell Gray, whose real name was Mary Gleed Tuttiett, was a permanent invalid who seldom left her home in Newport, Isle of Wight? (2009-02-04)
 * ... that television chef Ingrid Espelid Hovig is considered the "culinary mother" of Norway? (2009-02-04)
 * ... that sex workers across the world have organised since the mid-1970s to demand sex workers’ rights, including the decriminalisation of prostitution and equal protection under the law? (2009-02-03)
 * ... that Joan Snyder, a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, has had her paintings exhibited at Jewish Museum in New York? (2009-02-03)
 * ... that Michael Watson took six days to complete the London Marathon in 2003, an achievement that won him the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award that year? (2009-02-02)
 * ... that Hungarian ballerina Nora Kovach 1953 defection to the West was the first highly publicized Cold War-era defection of individuals in the field of dance? (2009-02-01)
 * ... that singer Amy Winehouse (pictured) gained entry to the Guinness World Records in 2009 for having the most Grammy Awards won by a British female act? (2009-02-01)
 * ... that celebrated Azerbaijani activist of the French Resistance Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov was persecuted by the NKVD upon his return to the USSR? (2009-02-01)
 * ... that Lorene Rogers was described as the first woman to serve as head of a public university in the United States when she became president of the University of Texas at Austin in 1974? (2009-01-31)
 * ... that Pernessa C. Seele, the founder of the Harlem Week of Prayer for Healing of AIDS, is an immunologist and one of Time magazine's Top 100 Americans in 2006? (2009-01-30)
 * ... that New York Road Runners CEO Mary Wittenberg was the first female director of a major international marathon? (2009-01-30)
 * ... that Marcia P. Sward, who created the children's environmental education program GreenKids, started her career as a mathematician? (2009-01-29)
 * ... that Holly Coors, wife of beer magnate Joseph Coors, stated while planning to run for Governor of Colorado that the way to help women was "not the Equal Rights Amendment but through free enterprise"? (2009-01-29)
 * ... that Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova regarded Osip Mandelstam's poem on Russian poetess Mariya Petrovykh as the "best love poem of the twentieth century"? (2009-01-27)
 * ... that Australian photographer Olive Cotton captured her childhood friend, photographer Max Dupain, in Fashion shot, Cronulla Sandhills, and married him in 1937? (2009-01-25)
 * ... that in addition to her academic career, German-Norwegian political scientist Helga Hernes has been a State Secretary as well as an ambassador to several European countries? (2009-01-25)
 * ... that Hedda and Ingrid Berntsen became the first siblings in Norway to compete in different events at the same Olympic Games? (2009-01-25)
 * ... that Melissa Anelli and Emerson Spartz, webmasters for Harry Potter fansites, were the only Americans invited to Edinburgh to interview J.K. Rowling the day after the Half-Blood Prince was released? (2009-01-23)
 * ... that the film All About Eve (1950) gained Barbara McLean a record seventh nomination for the Academy Award for Film Editing, and that this record remains unbroken? (2009-01-23)
 * ... that Oklahoma historian Angie Debo won numerous honors for her books on Native American history, but never found a permanent position in an academic history department? (2009-01-23)
 * ... that following TV3's axing of Night Shift the presenter, model Michelle Doherty, was said to have been left feeling "completely bewildered, and absolutely gutted"? (2009-01-22)
 * ... that Group Officer Clare Stevenson was the first Director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF)? (2009-01-22)
 * ... that professional wrestler Susan Green legally changed her name to Susan Tex Green to differentiate herself from another woman named Susan Green who was writing bad checks? (2009-01-21)
 * ... that Anthony, Charles, Cecilia, Isabella, Sr., Isabella, Jr., Esther, Elizabeth, and Polly Young were part of an English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists in the 17th and 18th centuries? (2009-01-21)
 * ... that Evelyn Lauder, who co-created and popularized the pink ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer awareness, helped create Estée Lauder's Pink Ribbon lipstick and blusher as a breast cancer fundraiser? (2009-01-20)
 * ... that archivist Margaret Storrs Grierson was founder and first director of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College? (2009-01-18)
 * ... that Kanhopatra is venerated as a saint in the Varkari sect of Hinduism, despite spending most of her life as a courtesan? (2009-01-17)
 * ... that British plant physiologist Daphne Osborne showed that the gas ethylene is a natural plant hormone which regulates ageing and the shedding of leaves and fruits? (2009-01-16)
 * ... that handballer Tonje Larsen was a part of the All-Star Team at the 2008 European Championship, sixteen years after debuting on the Norwegian national team? (2009-01-15)
 * ... that Dorothy Lavinia Brown (pictured) was the first African American female surgeon in the Southeastern United States and also first African American woman to serve in the Tennessee General Assembly? (2009-01-13)
 * ... that Alexandra Penney, author of the best-selling book How to Make Love to a Man, has been credited as one of the creators and popularizers of the pink ribbon (pictured) as a symbol for breast cancer awareness? (2009-01-13)
 * ... that Susanna Clarke's novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell has 185 footnotes, which contain a meticulous false history of English magic and an entire fictional corpus of magical scholarship? (2009-01-12)
 * ... that Eliza Flower was a 19th-century English musician and composer with whom a young Robert Browning fell in love? (2009-01-12)
 * ... that Alice May starred as a soprano in comic opera in the 1870s but toured as a contralto in the 1880s? (2009-01-12)
 * ... that after the 1862 trial of poisoner Catherine Wilson, the judge, John Barnard Byles, described her as "the greatest criminal that ever lived"? (2009-01-11)
 * ... that operatic soprano Maria Zamboni was the first person to record the title role of Puccini's Manon Lescaut in its entirety? (2009-01-10)
 * ... that the popular Israeli singer Aya Korem works part-time as a bartender in Tel Aviv in between recording and performing? (2009-01-09)
 * ... that the imposition of an all-women shortlist caused the Labour Party to lose one of its safest UK Parliamentary seats in 2005? (2009-01-09)
 * ... that Darleen Ortega became the first Latina judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals in 2003? (2009-01-08)
 * ... that Nubian queen Amanitore (relief pictured) ruled over so much building work that her reign is considered the most prosperous time in Meroitic history? (2009-01-08)
 * ... that actress Yanna McIntosh has been nominated for six Dora Awards, winning twice? (2009-01-07)
 * ... that Dorothy Sarnoff taught presentation skills to U.S. President Jimmy Carter that included having him tone down his smile? (2009-01-06)
 * ... that 12-year-old actress Caitlin Sanchez, selected to perform the voice of the title character in Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer, grew up as a fan of the show with a Dora-themed bedroom and backpack? (2009-01-06)
 * ... that at age 17 years and 331 days, Polish hammer thrower Kamila Skolimowska (pictured) was the youngest Olympic champion in the 2000 Summer Olympics? (2009-01-04)
 * ... that the piriform shape of the uterus is given as the reason for the predominance of cephalic presentations at term? (2009-01-03)
 * ... that in Scotland, anybody who tries to prevent a mother from breastfeeding in a legally permitted public place can be fined up to £2,500? (2009-01-03)
 * ... that Turkish female aviator Nezihe Viranyalı was educated in civil aviation at the University of Tennessee following an invitation by the renowned American pilot Jacqueline Cochran? (2009-01-02)
 * ... that Iolani Luahine, considered the high priestess of the ancient hula, was said to be able to "call up the wind and the rain" and to "make animals do her bidding"? (2009-01-01)
 * ... that a cult in Mexico venerates "Santa Muerte" (pictured), who is condemned by the local Catholic Church? (2009-10-31) ... that many Mexicans pray to a figure known as Saint Death? (2004-04-29)