Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Green/DYK/2012 DYK Blurbs

2012 DYK Blurbs: Transcluding 10 of 728 2012 DYK blurbs
 * ... that Sandra Eisert was the first White House picture editor, and later designed the cover photo for the 1988 Monsters of Rock Tour? (2012-12-31)
 * ... that Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Oxford, was abducted by the half-brother of her intended bridegroom? (2012-12-31)
 * ... that in 2011, geneticist Riin Tamm (pictured) was chosen as one of 26 scientists to travel around Estonia and take part in events at schools and academic institutions? (2012-12-29)
 * ... that though Japanese girl group Momoiro Clover Z member Momoka Ariyasu (pictured) claims to be stupid, other members say she is very studious, even studying backstage? (2012-12-28)
 * ... that María Isabella Cordero, a former Mexican anchorwoman on Televisa, was killed in Mexico's most violent state in 2010? (2012-12-28)
 * ... that Amala Shankar, the Indian danseuse, is the wife of Uday Shankar and sister-in-law of Ravi Shankar? (2012-12-28)
 * ... that Edda Goering played in a fifty-metre-long replica of Frederick the Great's Sanssouci palace, built for her by the Luftwaffe in an orchard at Carinhall? (2012-12-27)
 * ... that the second single from Leona Lewis' third studio album Glassheart was originally going to be "Fireflies", but "Lovebird" was released instead? (2012-12-26)
 * ... that when Oprah Winfrey saw American model Jasmine Tookes perform on the runway at Lincoln Center, she extolled Tookes' "butter" soft skin and requested that Tookes "rub your face against mine"? (2012-12-22)
 * ... that philosopher Bertrand Russell feared the ridicule of his grandmother, Lady Stanley of Alderley (pictured), best known for defending the "right of women to the highest culture hitherto reserved to men"? (2012-12-22)
 * ... that a few years after earning two degrees in marine toxicology, Riki Ott (pictured) became unexpectedly involved with the Exxon Valdez oil spill? (2012-12-20)
 * ... that Lady Carlisle so adamantly opposed alcohol consumption that when her daughter married a brewer, she refused to speak with her for years? (2012-12-19)
 * ... that BRISMES awarded Westminster professor Naomi Sakr the Middle Eastern Book Prize for "the best book written on Arab television"? (2012-12-19)
 * ... that Shania Twain's Las Vegas residency show, Shania: Still the One, marks her first live performance show since the Up! Tour in 2004? (2012-12-17)
 * ... that after twice fleeing civil unrest in Nigeria, Amina Mama moved to South Africa, where she became director of the African Gender Institute and founding editor of its peer-reviewed journal, Feminist Africa? (2012-12-16)
 * ... that Scottish suffragette Jessie Stephen (pictured) led attacks on Glasgow pillar boxes in 1913? (2012-12-15)
 * ... that during World War II, German actress Inge Keller entered a sham marriage to avoid enlistment into the Reich Labour Service? (2012-12-15)
 * ... that Fatima-Zahra Mansouri father, who was pasha (deputy governor) of Marrakech for eight years, died the evening Fatima won the mayoral elections? (2012-12-15)
 * ... that Frances Hashimoto, who became CEO of Mikawaya confectionery company at the age of 27, invented mochi ice cream (pictured)? (2012-12-14)
 * ... that Nakba scholar Rosemarie Esber has been a consultant for the World Bank? (2012-12-13)
 * ... that Rihanna and Eminem sampled Kanye West in "Numb", a song that evokes taking drugs? (2012-12-10)
 * ... that in 1987 South African women tennis players made up about a tenth of the foreign women players in U.S. NCAA Division I university tennis? (2012-12-09)
 * ... that Mary Browne (pictured) married the Earl of Southampton at the age of thirteen? (2012-12-09)
 * ... that Queen Victoria said that Viscountess Amberley "ought to get a good whipping" for speaking publicly in favour of women's suffrage? (2012-12-09)
 * ... that according to Michael Gallucci for PopCrush, the Christina Aguilera song "Blank Page" is a "show-stopper" and a "classic vocal performance"? (2012-12-09)
 * ... that current Canberra Capitals player Samantha Norwood was the vice captain of the 2004 and 2005 Western Australia under-18 team? (2012-12-08)
 * ... that, prior to the release of her new album, Rihanna performed "Phresh Out the Runway" at live concerts over a period of seven days in seven cities in seven countries? (2012-12-08)
 * ... that in 1984 the Premier of New South Wales decided to ban a bout between two women kickboxers citing the Theater and Public Halls Act 1908 relating to preservation of good manners and decorum? (2012-12-07)
 * ... that Polish Jewish resistance fighter Vladka Meed was a central source of the 2001 television movie Uprising? (2012-12-07)
 * ... that Christina Aguilera restrains her melisma on "Red Hot Kinda Love"? (2012-12-07)
 * ... that Ivy Queen's song "Quiero Bailar" is regarded as influential on reggaeton's mainstream exposure in 2004? (2012-12-07)
 * ... that Squeaky Fromme's pistol (pictured), used in the first assassination attempt on US President Ford, is on display at the Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan? (2012-12-07)
 * ... that María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar, a female politician from Mexico, survived three assassination attempts before being killed? (2012-12-06)
 * ... that Mary Barber discovered that natural selection caused penicillin resistance to increase in Staphylococcus bacteria? (2012-12-06)
 * ... that the Algerian-born tapestry patron Marie Cuttoli displayed works at the 1925 International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts? (2012-12-06)
 * ... that the 2013 World Court of Women Against Poverty in the United States will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania? (2012-12-04)
 * ... that ice dancing coach Betty Callaway, best known for coaching Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean to Olympic gold in 1984, also taught Prince Charles and Princess Anne? (2012-12-04)
 * ... that Rihanna filmed the Loud Tour Live at the O2 during the final three sold-out shows of the Loud Tour at London's O2 Arena? (2012-12-03)
 * ... that "Just a Fool", performed by Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton, is the first country music song by Aguilera? (2012-12-02)
 * ... that Hawaiian chiefess Julia Alapai died right before the French invasion of Honolulu by Admiral Tromelin in 1849, prompting her husband Keoni Ana and King Kamehameha III to return to the capital? (2012-12-01)
 * ... that Palestinian rapper Shadia Mansour, the "first lady of Arabic Hip Hop", was born in London to Christian parents? (2012-11-30)
 * ... that Helen Dyer discovered why chemotherapies with heavy metals are toxic? (2012-11-29)
 * ... that the Chonga has become a Miami icon, influencing fashion in South Florida and beyond? (2012-11-29)
 * ... that according to Dan Martin for NME, the lyrical content of "Stay", a song performed by Rihanna, "puts a vulnerable spin" on her relationship with Chris Brown? (2012-11-28)
 * ... that will.i.am and Britney Spears's 2012 single "Scream & Shout" contains a sample of the opening line of Spears' 2007 single "Gimme More": "It's Britney, bitch"? (2012-11-28)
 * ... that when she is inaugurated as Secretary of State of Washington in January, Kim Wyman will be the only Republican elected to statewide office on the West Coast of the United States? (2012-11-28)
 * ... that American-born 2012–13 Canberra Capitals player Valerie Ogoke played against an Australian basketball team in Australia as a member of the 2005 Loyola Marymount University basketball team? (2012-11-25)
 * ... that netball in Malawi is the most popular women's sport in the country? (2012-11-25)
 * ... that while performing as "Australia's Champion Lady Swimmer and Diver", Beatrice Kerr (pictured) saved two Blackpool boys from drowning? (2012-11-25)
 * ... that Leonora Bilger was the 1953 recipient of the American Chemical Society's Garvan–Olin Medal? (2012-11-24)
 * ... that skiing guide Andy Bor helped visually impaired skiier Melissa Perrine win medals at the 2010 Winter Paralympics by directing her with microphones and speakers? (2012-11-23)
 * ... that Ida Barney was given the 1953 Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy for measuring the positions of over 150,000 stars? (2012-11-23)
 * ... that Dutch singer and actress Hetty Blok (pictured), best known as nurse Klivia on the TV show Ja zuster, nee zuster (1966–68), sang the theme song on television again in 2010, at age 90? (2012-11-23)
 * ... that two years after Madeleine Taylor decision to focus more on basketball than netball, she played in the WNBL on the Australian Institute of Sport team? (2012-11-22)
 * ... that Carol Lee Flinders, coauthor of the "renowned countercultural cookbook" Laurel's Kitchen, has also written books on spirituality, mysticism, and feminism? (2012-11-22)
 * ... that Irish algologist Anne Elizabeth Ball has two species of seaweed named for her? (2012-11-22)
 * ... that netball in Wales had a national governing organisation by 1945, and between 1949 and 1976 the national team lost 28 times to England while not winning a single match? (2012-11-21)
 * ... that Maya Angelou (pictured), who recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Clinton's 1993 inauguration, was the first poet to read an inaugural poem since Robert Frost at Kennedy's in 1961? (2012-11-20)
 * ... that former American Idol contestant Diana DeGarmo co-wrote a song entitled "Good Goodbye", which she performed as her character Angelina Veneziano on The Young and the Restless? (2012-11-19)
 * ... that the Michigan Wolverines field hockey team 2001 NCAA championship was the first national title for any women's sports team at the University of Michigan? (2012-11-17)
 * ... that the Eurythmics have released eight studio albums between 1981 and 1999 and sold over 75 million records? (2012-11-17)
 * ... that the release of Still Jennifer Lopez, the second fragrance to be endorsed by Jennifer Lopez, was not anticipated due to the negative publicity generated from her film Gigli? (2012-11-16)
 * ... that Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist Yumiko Hotta (pictured) has won the WWWA World Championship three times? (2012-11-15)
 * ... that the collections of amateur natural historian Mary Elizabeth Barber may have influenced Charles Darwin's deliberations on the role of moths in orchid pollination? (2012-11-15)
 * ... that Judith Donath has explored the use of artificial emotions in avatars and their potential use in online advertising? (2012-11-15)
 * ... that British astronomer Isis Pogson was probably named after a river, and an asteroid was probably named after her? (2012-11-15)
 * ... that Claire Taylor (pictured) was the first woman to be named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year? (2012-11-14)
 * ... that Queen Tehauroa outlawed the sale of land and declared that Protestantism was the only authorized religion in the Polynesian Kingdom of Raiatea? (2012-11-13)
 * ... that geologist Sydney Mary Thompson discovered a glacial erratic that redefined the westernmost extent of the Irish Sea Glacier? (2012-11-12)
 * ... that 2010 Olympic snowboarder Stephanie Hickey studied theater arts and worked for the Seven Network as a Victorian snow reporter? (2012-11-12)
 * ... that Akon met, signed and helped launch Lady Gaga's career after the two co-wrote "Hypnotico", a song that was later recorded by Jennifer Lopez? (2012-11-12)
 * ... that congresswoman-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham served as director of New Mexico's Agency on Aging under three different governors? (2012-11-11)
 * ... that Michelle Rzepecki, a member of the 2011–12 Australia women's national goalball team, scored an own goal in the team's final London Paralympics game against Sweden? (2012-11-11)
 * ... that Shelli Yoder, a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, was Miss Indiana in 1992? (2012-11-10)
 * ... that phycologist Mary Parke first described the oyster larvae food Isochrysis galbana? (2012-11-10)
 * ... that San Francisco Conservatory of Music faculty member Indre Viskontas (pictured) has performed research into the neurological basis of memory, reasoning, and self-identity? (2012-11-10)
 * ... that Val Demings became the first female Chief of Police for the Orlando Police Department? (2012-11-08)
 * ... that aquatic botanist Marietta Pallis studied the floating reed systems of the Danube Delta? (2012-11-08)
 * ... that Hertha Ayrton's 1902 candidature to be the first woman elected Fellow of the Royal Society was turned down on the basis that as a married woman she had no standing in law? (2012-11-08)
 * ... that King George III placed the "deeply-deplored" Princess Charlotte of Wales under the superintendence of the pious Martha Elgin (pictured)? (2012-11-07)
 * ... that netball in Kenya had a governing body called the Kenya Inter-racial Netball and Rounders Association, which only became the Kenya Netball Association in 1966? (2012-11-06)
 * ... that British mathematician Margaret Meyer was the first woman to be elected to the Royal Astronomical Society? (2012-11-05)
 * ... that 2010 Olympic aerialist skier Bree Munro was in the running to go to the 2006 Winter Olympics but Jacqui Cooper was chosen ahead of her on the Australian team? (2012-11-05)
 * ... that biochemist Rosalind Pitt-Rivers co-discovered the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine in 1952? (2012-11-04)
 * ... that May Byron wrote a series of biographies of which critics could not decide whether they were first-hand experiences or fiction based on research? (2012-11-04)
 * ... that Cecilia McIntosh has competed in Australian rules football and weightlifting at the national level, and athletics and bobsleigh at the international level? (2012-11-04)
 * ... that the 2004 Women's Manifesto for Ghana demands 50% female control over the Ghanaian legislature by 2012? (2012-11-03)
 * ... that Katya Crema was one of two Australian women to compete at the Olympic debut for women's Ski cross? (2012-11-03)
 * ... that pharmacologist Edith Bülbring work on catecholamines and smooth muscle led to her election as a Fellow of the Royal Society? (2012-11-02)
 * ... that Ida Freund was the first female university chemistry lecturer in the United Kingdom? (2012-11-01)
 * ... that Beatrice Hicks, the founding president of the Society of Women Engineers, created a device that made the moon landings possible? (2012-11-01)
 * ... that anthropologist Beatrice Blackwood ran Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum from 1938 until 1959? (2012-11-01)
 * ... that over 15,000 miracles have been attributed to the newly canonized Saint Anna Schäffer (pictured) since 1929? (2012-11-01)
 * ... that the "Ladies of Téviec" (pictured) were murdered in the Stone Age, their bodies decorated with shell jewellery and buried in a midden under a roof of antlers? (2012-10-31)
 * ... that Marjory Stephenson, along with Kathleen Lonsdale, was one of the first two women to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society? (2012-10-31)
 * ... that women who die in childbirth or pregnancy are believed to return as undead vampires and suck blood of their male relatives? (2012-10-31)
 * ... that vampire prostitutes are believed to enter a man's house naked in the night and suck his blood through his toes? (2012-10-31)
 * ... that Jovita Feitosa of Tauá was not allowed to fight in the Paraguayan War because of her gender? (2012-10-30)
 * ... that Helen Porter helped to pioneer the use of radioactive tracers in botany? (2012-10-30)
 * ... that neuropsychologist Eleanor Maguire was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that London taxi drivers have large hippocampi? (2012-10-30)
 * ... that organic chemist Darshan Ranganathan did pioneering work in protein folding? (2012-10-29)
 * ... that Leona Lewis and Ryan Tedder decided to write the up-tempo song "Glassheart" as Lewis was experiencing personal issues and thought a ballad would upset her further? (2012-10-28)
 * ... that Mary Pickford was the first woman appointed to a medical professorship at Edinburgh University? (2012-10-27)
 * ... that suffragist Margaret Cousins went on a hunger strike seeking to be classed as a political prisoner? (2012-10-27)
 * ... that Kamala Sohonie received the Rashtrapati Award for her work on supplementing tribal diets with the beverage neera? (2012-10-27)
 * ... that Lady Lindsay of Birker, the first Chinese-born peeress, smuggled supplies and taught English to communist guerrillas fighting the Japanese occupation? (2012-10-26)
 * ... that Adele's theme for the James Bond film Skyfall went to number one in the UK's iTunes online store less than ten hours after it was released? (2012-10-23)
 * ... that Ann Bishop, an early female protozoologist, studied treatments for parasitic diseases including amoebic dysentery and malaria? (2012-10-23)
 * ... that, as Arkansas' first lady, Betty Bumpers started a program that took the state from one of the lowest to one of the highest in the U.S. in its rate of childhood immunization? (2012-10-19)
 * ... that the lyrical content of "Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control)" was interpreted by the media as an "insult" to Sugababes member Amelle Berrabah? (2012-10-18)
 * ... that Sylvia Day's Bared to You was initially self-published, but was picked up by Berkley Books due to the popularity of the similarly themed Fifty Shades of Grey? (2012-10-18)
 * ... that despite being a nine-time Australian WNBL Defensive Player of the Year, Emily McInerny was not selected to play for the national team at three Olympic Games? (2012-10-17)
 * ... that Millennium "Anamnesis" features the song "Dancing Barefoot" by Patti Smith? (2012-10-17)
 * ... that the Women's Image Network Awards are given annually to honor women in media and promote the creation of positive images of women in film, television, and advertising? (2012-10-16)
 * ... that Katie Hill, Clare Nott and Sarah Stewart are all members of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team that won the bronze medal at the 2008 Paralympics and the silver medal in 2012? (2012-10-16)
 * ... that Tara VanDerveer (pictured) had to take a one-year leave of absence from her position at Stanford to coach the 1996 U.S. Women's Olympic Basketball team? (2012-10-15)
 * ... that World War II memoirist Kirsten Brunvoll, who survived Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, saw her husband and oldest son survive Sachsenhausen, while her youngest son was trained as a pilot in Canada? (2012-10-14)
 * ... that the Duchess of Marlborough kept a revolver in her bedroom in Blenheim Palace to prevent her husband from entering? (2012-10-11)
 * ... that geochemist Terry Plank, awarded a 2012 MacArthur genius grant, grew up in a schist quarry and in third grade was the youngest member of the Delaware Mineralogical Society? (2012-10-10)
 * ... that Selena's "No Quiero Saber" was included in the official Latin album for the 1996 Summer Olympics? (2012-10-10)
 * ... that Carolyn Sampson was the first soprano to record all of Bach's aria BWV 1127, which had been lost until 2005? (2012-10-10)
 * ... that Shibtu, wife of Zimrilim and queen consort of the ancient city-state of Mari, was described as "the most prominent of the Mari ladies"? (2012-10-09)
 * ... that the two-centuries-old tomb of Mah Laqa Bai (pictured), a Nizam-era Urdu poetess and courtesan, was renovated in 2011 using funds from the Consulate General of the United States in Hyderabad? (2012-10-05)
 * ... that Constance Stokes got the idea for her painting Girl in Red Tights when she walked in on a model who was getting undressed? (2012-10-05)
 * ... that the genus Clivia was named after Queen Victoria's childhood governess, the Duchess of Northumberland, who was the first to cultivate those plants in Great Britain? (2012-10-04)
 * ... that prior to the broadcast of Grey's Anatomy season nine premiere, ABC asked Patrick Dempsey to remove a spoiler photo from his Twitter? (2012-10-02)
 * ... that the captain of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, Bridie Kean, is nicknamed "bird" because people in the United States could not pronounce her first name correctly? (2012-10-02)
 * ... that three-time wheelchair basketball Paralympian Helen Turner has won four European Championship bronze medals? (2012-10-01)
 * ... that Rihanna described her 2012 single "Diamonds" as "happy and hippy rather than dancey"? (2012-10-01)
 * ... that Gilla Gerzon, the Director of the Haifa USO, had 241 trees planted in Israel in memory of the 241 Americans killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing? (2012-09-30)
 * ... that Mary Buckland, a scientific illustrator, took a year-long geological tour as a honeymoon with her husband William Buckland? (2012-09-29)
 * ... that a female literary critic and a Jewish senator were among the noted promoters of Romania's fascist movements? (2012-09-28)
 * ... that Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels gave a violin to Nejiko Suwa that might have been a stolen Stradivarius? (2012-09-27)
 * ... that actress Ashleigh Cummings sat her Year Eleven exams early, so she could take part in the Australian film Tomorrow, When the War Began? (2012-09-25)
 * ... that Amanda Carter was the oldest member of the Gliders at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, and the only one who had participated in 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics? (2012-09-25)
 * ... that Shelley Chaplin was an All-American even though she was not American at all? (2012-09-24)
 * ... that although Kylie Gauci (pictured) is a 2 point player, she was the only player on her team to score a three point basket at the 2012 Paralympics? (2012-09-24)
 * ... that in the music video for "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)", American singer Ne-Yo "channels" Michael Jackson in his dance moves? (2012-09-23)
 * ... that the award-winning, romantic Japanese anime film, Hotarubi no Mori e, has been likened to the works of Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli? (2012-09-22)
 * ... that the Tolowa people of California will refrain from performing the Nee-dash dance for the rest of 2012 so as to honor the late Eunice Bommelyn? (2012-09-22)
 * ... that the Swedish feminist network Bara Bröst won the right for women to bare breasts at swimming pools in Malmö, but the city's ruling did not result in any significant difference? (2012-09-22)
 * ... that Tissa David, the second woman to direct an animated feature film, also animated the Raggedy Ann character for the 1977 film, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure? (2012-09-21)
 * ... that members of the gymnastics Fierce Five won all three medals of the senior all-around at the 2011 City of Jesolo Trophy? (2012-09-21)
 * ... that the artwork for Christina Aguilera's single "Your Body" sees her "bodacious curves on full display"? (2012-09-20)
 * ... that adaptive rower Oksana Masters (pictured) posed for ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue" and won the first ever U.S. Paralympic medal in trunk and arms mixed double sculls? (2012-09-20)
 * ... that gooks protected bal maidens from sunlight, noise and flying debris? (2012-09-19)
 * ... that ten female chefs in the United States won a Michelin star in 2012, including Carrie Nahabedian, Missy Robbins, April Bloomfield and Melissa Perello? (2012-09-17)
 * ... that Alicia Keys' debut performance of her new single "Girl on Fire" featured a gymnastics display by 2012 Olympics gold medalist Gabby Douglas? (2012-09-17)
 * ... that Margarete Bieber was the second woman to become a university professor in Germany? (2012-09-16)
 * ... that after Theo van Gogh's murder, Ebru Umar took over his regular column in Metro? (2012-09-16)
 * ... that Tracey Shelton had to run from the debris cloud after photographing the explosion from a tank shell in Aleppo, Syria, that killed three opposition fighters? (2012-09-15)
 * ... that Tar Heel Annie Lowrie Alexander (pictured) was the first licensed female physician in the Southern United States? (2012-09-15)
 * ... that in 1985, Random House paid Karleen Koen $350,000 for the rights to Through a Glass Darkly, at the time a record sum for a new novelist? (2012-09-14)
 * ... that the investigation into the murder of Celine Figard saw the UK's first national DNA screening programme in the hunt for a suspect? (2012-09-13)
 * ... that María Soledad Iparraguirre was only the second woman to serve on the executive of the Basque separatist group ETA and was wanted by Spanish police for participation in at least 14 assassinations? (2012-09-13)
 * ... that Ragnhildur Helgadóttir became the youngest female member of the Icelandic Parliament when she was elected in 1965 at the age of 26? (2012-09-12)
 * ... that Japanese child actress Miyu Honda is also a figure skater? (2012-09-12)
 * ... that after failing to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in triathlon, American Mary Beth Ellis went on to win five Ironman Triathlons, including the 2012 U.S. Championships at Ironman New York? (2012-09-11)
 * ... that Libby Houston received the 2012 H. H. Bloomer Award from the Linnean Society of London? (2012-09-11)
 * ... that rhythmic gymnast Georgina Cassar was the first athlete from Gibraltar to compete at the Olympic Games? (2012-09-10)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Carlee Beattie was named the most valuable player at the 2000 Netball State Titles? (2012-09-10)
 * ... that Michelin starred chef Lisa Allen has an allergy to shellfish? (2012-09-09)
 * ... that in 1924, Izetta Jewel became the first woman to address a major political party convention to second a U.S. presidential nomination? (2012-09-09)
 * ... that upon the release of Mariah Carey's 12th studio album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, her song "Betcha Gon' Know (The Prologue)" peaked at number 66 on the U.S. Hot Digital Songs chart? (2012-09-09)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Amber Merritt was named the MVP at the 2012 Gliders and Rollers World Challenge? (2012-09-09)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic long jumper Stephanie Schweitzer works as a personal trainer? (2012-09-08)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer Rosemary Little had to raise AUD$8,000 to replace her racing wheelchair following a collision at the 2011 City2Surf? (2012-09-08)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Kayla Clarke (pictured) has a scholarship from the Queensland Academy of Sport and receives athlete support grants from the Australian government? (2012-09-08)
 * ... that Canadian S10 swimmer Summer Mortimer won a medal in each of her individual events at the 2012 Paralympics, breaking two of her own world records? (2012-09-07)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Sarah Vinci (pictured) made her national team debut at the 2011 Osaka Cup? (2012-09-07)
 * ... that Mika Yamamoto, the fifteenth journalist killed in Syria in 2012, was the first Japanese reporter to be killed in the ongoing armed political conflict in Syria? (2012-09-07)
 * ... that according to her memoirs, African American preacher Zilphia Elaw gave over a thousand sermons in Victorian Britain? (2012-09-06)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympian Rachael Dodds, who has cerebral palsy, was introduced to athletics by her physiotherapist? (2012-09-06)
 * ... that Lindsey Berg was twice named the USA Volleyball Indoor Female Athlete of the Year? (2012-09-06)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Georgia Beikoff quit cricket and soccer in order to pursue athletics? (2012-09-06)
 * ... that domestic violence in Pakistan has been described as "endemic in all social spheres"? (2012-09-06)
 * ... that Sowmya Raoh worked as a voice artist before making her playback singing debut? (2012-09-05)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic table tennis player Melissa Tapper started her competitive playing career competing against able-bodied athletes even though she has Erb's palsy? (2012-09-05)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympian Erinn Walters weighed 900 g at birth? (2012-09-05)
 * ... that Indonesian Paralympian Ni Nengah Widiasih beat the ASEAN ParaGames powerlifting record for her weight class by 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) last December? (2012-09-04)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympian Jodi Elkington is also a netball umpire? (2012-09-04)
 * ... that British Paralympian Caz Walton won gold medals in athletics, table tennis, and fencing? (2012-09-04)
 * ... that DARPA director Arati Prabhakar was the first female director of National Institute of Standards and Technology, and also the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in applied physics from Caltech? (2012-09-04)
 * ... that Madhu Trehan, an Indian journalist, had to apologise for publishing an article rating Delhi High Court judges? (2012-09-03)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalballer Jennifer Blow found a rock resembling the lucky egg from Cool Runnings and started a pre-game ritual of quoting the movie while holding the rock? (2012-09-03)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player Tyan Taylor participated in two extreme sports: skydiving and bungee jumping? (2012-09-02)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair tennis player Janel Manns became an incomplete paraplegic at age 32 after a bathroom accident and initially played basketball, not tennis? (2012-09-02)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball team captain Meica Christensen plays the song "The Final Countdown" before competitions? (2012-09-01)
 * ... that botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon authored the legislation to make the golden poppy (pictured) the state flower of California? (2012-08-31)
 * ... that 2012 Paralympics table tennis player Rebecca McDonnell was the first Australian woman ever to compete at the table tennis Para World Championships? (2012-08-31)
 * ... that Rachel Henderson, a 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player, represented South Australia in swimming and athletics but gave up both sports in 2010 to pursue goalball? (2012-08-31)
 * ... that 2012 Paralympic wheelchair racer Kristy Pond was named the IPC Athlete of the Month in May 2011? (2012-08-31)
 * ... that despite being nicknamed "Sparrow", British Paralympian Katrina Hart is scared of birds? (2012-08-30)
 * ... that Grade 1b 2012 Australian Paralympic equestrian Hannah Dodd is missing four of her vertebrae? (2012-08-30)
 * ... that Turid Birkeland became Head of Concerts Norway in April 2012, succeeding Åse Kleveland, whom she had also succeeded as Minister of Culture in 1996? (2012-08-29)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball coach Georgina Kenaghan is the daughter of the man who brought goalball to Australia and player Nicole Esdaile is married to men's goalball player Michael Sheppard? (2012-08-29)
 * ... that when Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery was about to exhibit Bill Henson's artworks in 2008, police seized over 20, following complaints claiming they were child pornography? (2012-08-28)
 * ... that on Good Friday, 6 April 1612, Malkin Tower was alleged to be the location of a witches' coven? (2012-08-27)
 * ... that Allison Weston was named by Sports Illustrated the best ever female athlete born in Nebraska? (2012-08-27)
 * ... that 16-year-old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen won two gold medals and broke two records at the 2012 Olympics? (2012-08-26)
 * ... that Roekiah and Rd Mochtar were the first celebrity couple in the Dutch East Indies, despite Roekiah being married? (2012-08-26)
 * ... that volleyball player Jordan Larson was a two-time AVCA First Team All-American during her college career? (2012-08-26)
 * ... that volleyball player Tamari Miyashiro was twice named the National Defensive Player of the Year while in college? (2012-08-25)
 * ... that when Nadia Santini restaurant Dal Pescatore was awarded three Michelin stars in 1996, she was the first female chef in Italy so honored? (2012-08-25)
 * ... that Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes will play Leona Lewis' love interest in the upcoming music video for her new single "Trouble"? (2012-08-24)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Taylor Corry made her national team debut at the 2011 Global Games where she earned eight gold medals? (2012-08-24)
 * ... that former Olympic volleyball player Ruth Lawanson has been a coach at five different colleges? (2012-08-24)
 * ... that Ottla Kafka, the youngest and dearest sister of Franz Kafka, died in the Holocaust because she divorced her Catholic husband? (2012-08-24)
 * ... that volleyball player Lori Endicott was named the best setter of the 1992 Summer Olympics? (2012-08-24)
 * ... that in 2007, French chef Anne-Sophie Pic became only the fourth woman to win three Michelin stars? (2012-08-24)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player Michelle Rzepecki introduced children with visual impairments in Bolivia to goalball? (2012-08-23)
 * ... that pioneer dentist Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch held mobile dental clinics for Inuit children and once crawled across thin ice to save her sled dogs from drowning? (2012-08-23)
 * ... that volleyball player Janet Cobbs set nine school records at North Dakota State University? (2012-08-23)
 * ... that according to Bleacher Report, Antonija Mišura (pictured) was the most beautiful female competitor at the 2012 Olympics? (2012-08-23)
 * ... that Betty Jane Watson created the role of Laurey in the first London production of Oklahoma!? (2012-08-22)
 * ... that Ruth Norman wore brightly colored clothing in an attempt to imitate the attire of extraterrestrials? (2012-08-21)
 * ... that Ratna Asmara was the first female film director in Indonesian history? (2012-08-21)
 * ... that British hand-cyclist and defending Paralympic champion Rachel Morris may miss the 2012 Games after being hit by a car while training? (2012-08-21)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Leanne Del Toso played able-bodied basketball prior to being diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy? (2012-08-21)
 * ... that Elena Arzak was named the best female chef in the world in 2012 by Restaurant magazine? (2012-08-21)
 * ... that American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey wrote her new single "Triumphant (Get 'Em)" while her husband Nick Cannon was in the hospital for kidney failure? (2012-08-20)
 * ... that Mariah Carey's song "Mine Again" was nominated at the 2006 Grammy Award ceremony for Best Traditional R&B Performance? (2012-08-20)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Paralympian Kelly Cartwright climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2009? (2012-08-20)
 * ... that Chinese Olympic gold medalist and flagbearer Xu Lijia nearly died at age 12 and missed the Athens Olympics because of a tumor? (2012-08-19)
 * ... that United States water polo player Tumua Anae won the NCAA championship in 2010 and Olympic gold in 2012? (2012-08-19)
 * ... that most of Margaret Bernadine Hall works have disappeared, but her painting Fantine hangs in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool? (2012-08-19)
 * ... that water polo player Elsie Windes won two Olympic medals with the United States team? (2012-08-19)
 * ... that after screenwriter Sarah Williams approached Ecosse Films about making Becoming Jane, the company hired Kevin Hood to further develop its script? (2012-08-18)
 * ... that Mutsuko Miki created teacups from the soil of Japan, North Korea, and South Korea to promote "harmonious relations" between the three nations? (2012-08-18)
 * ... that British singer-songwriter Pixie Lott co-wrote the song "You Broke My Heart" for Alexandra Burke's debut studio album Overcome in 2009? (2012-08-18)
 * ... that Garima Chaudhary represented India as the country's sole judoka at the 2012 Olympics? (2012-08-18)
 * ... that United States water polo players Annika Dries and Melissa Seidemann won the NCAA championship in 2011 and Olympic gold in 2012? (2012-08-17)
 * ... that 2012 Australian athletics Paralympian Katy Parrish trains with Tim Matthews in Melbourne, Victoria? (2012-08-17)
 * ... that a character in Pixar's Ratatouille was based on French chef Hélène Darroze? (2012-08-17)
 * ... that in an article by science writer Mary Roach (pictured), we learn that upon flushing, as many as 28,000 virus particles and 660,000 bacteria are jettisoned from the bowl? (2012-08-16)
 * ... that after winning her first Olympic medal at her fourth Olympic Games, British judoka Karina Bryant hasn't ruled out competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio? (2012-08-16)
 * ... that Korean-Canadian film director Helen Lee made her debut in her pyjamas? (2012-08-16)
 * ... that volleyball player Courtney Thompson set the NCAA record for career assists per game? (2012-08-16)
 * ... that Professor Claudia-Maria Buch became a member of the German Council of Economic Experts on March 1, 2012? (2012-08-16)
 * ... that Una Guðmundsdóttir, who headed one of the first schools for young children in Iceland, became nationally known as a psychic? (2012-08-15)
 * ... that Mollie Phillips was the first woman to carry the flag and lead out her national team at an Olympic Games? (2012-08-15)
 * ... that Elizaveta Karamihailova pioneered nuclear research in Bulgaria and made some of the earliest observations of neutron radiation? (2012-08-15)
 * ... that volleyball player Destinee Hooker won four NCAA championships in the high jump? (2012-08-15)
 * ... that water polo player Maggie Steffens led all scorers in the 2012 Summer Olympics, with 21 goals? (2012-08-14)
 * ... that Krithika was one of the earliest writers in India to have authored a number of children's books in English? (2012-08-14)
 * ... that in 2012 Jenny McCudden became the first female editor in the 176-year history of the newspaper The Sligo Champion? (2012-08-13)
 * ... that Felice Bauer and Franz Kafka first met 100 years ago today in Prague, exchanged hundreds of letters, and were engaged twice? (2012-08-13)
 * ... that former British Olympic bronze medallist Kate Allenby became a PE teacher after she retired from professional sport? (2012-08-12)
 * ... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Invading My Mind", from her seventh studio album Love?, was co-produced by Lady Gaga? (2012-08-12)
 * ... that Ruth Ann Steinhagen regularly set an empty place at the dinner table for baseball player Eddie Waitkus before she shot him, becoming one of the first stalkers and an inspiration for The Natural? (2012-08-11)
 * ... that Samantha Murray will achieve her childhood dream of competing at the Olympics when she participates in the modern pentathlon for Great Britain at the 2012 Games? (2012-08-10)
 * ... that race walker Regan Lamble, representing Australia in the 2012 Olympics, commentated a men's race walking event for Eurosport? (2012-08-10)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic marathon runner Jessica Trengove won Sydney's 2011 City2Surf? (2012-08-10)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic modern pentathlete Chloe Esposito, ranked eleventh in the world, is the daughter of a 1984 Olympics modern pentathlete? (2012-08-10)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic race walker Beki Lee lives in Canberra, where she is working on a degree via correspondence? (2012-08-10)
 * ... that 2012 British Olympian Annie Last deferred from studying medicine at university in order to be a professional mountain biker? (2012-08-10)
 * ... that Rhonda Coullet composed and sang a tribute to her close friend John Belushi after his death, for a Saturday Night Live segment produced by his widow? (2012-08-09)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic cross country mountain biker Rebecca Henderson is coached by cyclist Dan McConnell, who is also set to represent Australia in mountain biking? (2012-08-09)
 * ... that Käthe Krauß won bronze in the 100 metres in the 1936 Summer Olympics and was on the German women's sprint relay team that set a world record in the heats, but dropped the baton in the final race? (2012-08-09)
 * ... that 2012 Olympian Kelsey Titmarsh is a member of the first Canadian women's rhythmic gymnastics all-around group to qualify for the Olympics? (2012-08-09)
 * ... that sprinter Emily Diamond was selected for Great Britain's 4 × 400 metres relay squad at the 2012 Olympics despite having run the distance outdoors competitively only six times? (2012-08-09)
 * ... that Andrea St. Bernard is the first Grenadian taekwondo practitioner to be selected for an Olympic Games? (2012-08-09)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic synchronized swimmer Samantha Reid is a "Mermaid"? (2012-08-08)
 * ... that at the 2012 Olympics, Kayla Harrison became the first American to win a gold medal in judo? (2012-08-08)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic taekwondo competitor Jade Jones won Great Britain's first ever gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games? (2012-08-08)
 * ... that anthropologist Gene Weltfish lost her Columbia University faculty job and could not find another when U.S. Senators investigated her for alleged un-American activities? (2012-08-08)
 * ... that Yi Siling was the first person to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics and the first person to win a gold medal at the Games? (2012-08-07)
 * ... that Winona Beamer, who was expelled from school for dancing the hula, toured with her cousin Mahi Beamer performing both the hula and the Hawaiian art of storytelling? (2012-08-07)
 * ... that California student Sarah Attar is one of Saudi Arabia's first female athletes at the Olympics, and is due to compete at the 2012 Games in an event she hasn't competed in since high school? (2012-08-07)
 * ... that when she played for Great Britain against Australia on 28 July, Rose Anderson became Scotland's first Olympic basketball player? (2012-08-07)
 * ... that as a child, 2012 Australian Olympic BMX rider Lauren Reynolds would launch herself off the Bunbury jetty and into the river? (2012-08-07)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic BMX rider Caroline Buchanan was one of Australia's best BMX riders in 2008 but could not compete in Beijing because her youth made her ineligible? (2012-08-07)
 * ... that when she played for Great Britain against Australia on 28 July, Rose Anderson became Scotland's first Olympic basketball player? (2012-08-06)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic javelin thrower Kathryn Mitchell threw an Olympic A-qualifying distance in January, but since it was a club event, the throw did not count for Olympic qualification? (2012-08-06)
 * ... that Heather Stanning gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics was predicted in her school yearbook? (2012-08-06)
 * ... that Brittany Borman improved her personal best javelin throw by nearly 7 feet (more than 2 meters) en route to making the 2012 U.S. Olympic team? (2012-08-06)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic synchronized swimmer Tamika Domrow of Australia works as an apprentice kennel technician and her teammate Francesca Owen is a model and photographer? (2012-08-05)
 * ... that the Sugababes' first greatest hits album, Overloaded: The Singles Collection, sold half a million copies in the United Kingdom in less than a year after its release? (2012-08-05)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Naomi Flood was the 2009 overall winner for the Ironwoman Series? (2012-08-05)
 * ... that American sprinter Marlena Wesh chose to represent Haiti in the 2012 Olympics though she has never been there? (2012-08-05)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Jo Brigden-Jones has participated in surf lifesaving competitions? (2012-08-05)
 * ... that artistic gymnast Elizabeth Price, a 2012 Olympics alternate, was not picked for the five-member U.S. team even though she finished fourth at the Olympic Trials? (2012-08-05)
 * ... that prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics, Annie Martin (pictured) was the only active Canadian beach volleyballer who had competed at an Olympic Games? (2012-08-05)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Alana Nicholls was the 2011 Australian Canoeing Athlete of the Year? (2012-08-05)
 * ... that Tarren Otte, the oldest member of Australia's 2012 Olympic synchronized swimming contingent, has struggled to stay involved in the sport because of the financial costs of competing? (2012-08-04)
 * ... that although Rachel Lovell retired from canoeing prior to Great Britain's trials for its 2008 Olympics team, she immigrated to Australia and became a 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist? (2012-08-04)
 * ... that trilingual Olia Burtaev and South African-born Jenny-Lyn Anderson were selected to represent Australia in synchronized swimming at the 2012 Olympics? (2012-08-04)
 * ... that Ukrainian-born wrestler Olga Butkevych is to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, despite only gaining British citizenship in May this year? (2012-08-04)
 * ... that Australian 2012 Olympic equestrian jumper Julia Hargreaves was born in Hong Kong, grew up in the United States and Australia, and now resides in the Netherlands? (2012-08-04)
 * ... that Birgitte Grimstad`s song repertoire has included a medieval ballad, songs by Bach, Grieg and Mortensen's Til Ungdommen, and an adaptation of Elvis Presley? (2012-08-04)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic synchronized swimmer Bianca Hammett became interested in the sport after seeing a newspaper advertisement for it? (2012-08-04)
 * ... that 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Alethea Sedgman was selected over her boyfriend for the 2012 Olympics because national selectors wanted to send a female competitor? (2012-08-04)
 * ... that chef Skye Gyngell described her Michelin star as a "curse"? (2012-08-03)
 * ... that Australian Olympian Robyn van Nus took up her sport of shooting to help deal with chronic fatigue syndrome? (2012-08-03)
 * ... that Australian Olympian Melissa Breen ran the 100 metres 27 times in 2012 trying to achieve an Olympic A qualifying time of 11.29 seconds? (2012-08-03)
 * ... that in addition to competing as a duet team in synchronized swimming at the 2012 Olympics, Mary Killman and Mariya Koroleva are roommates? (2012-08-03)
 * ... that Flaubert wrote of Raphael's mistress-model (pictured), "Fornarina. She was a beautiful woman. That is all you need to know"? (2012-08-03)
 * ... that Australian 1500 metre runner Zoe Buckman is one of ten University of Oregon alumni selected to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics? (2012-08-02)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic judo competitor Wodjan Shaherkani is required to be accompanied by a male guardian during the Games? (2012-08-02)
 * ... that American weightlifter Sarah Robles, who has been called "the strongest woman in America", lived on less than USD$400 a month while training for the 2012 Summer Olympics? (2012-08-02)
 * ... that 2012 British Olympic heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson missed most of the 2010 season with jumper's knee? (2012-08-02)
 * ... that Kaila McKnight, a 1500 metres runner for Australia at the 2012 Olympics, spent three months competing overseas before the Olympic qualifiers? (2012-08-02)
 * ... that 2012 Olympian Janet Cherobon-Bawcom started running only as a means to get a college scholarship and says she never "really became interested" in the sport? (2012-08-02)
 * ... that at the 1936 Summer Olympics, Tilly Fleischer (pictured) became the first German woman to win a gold medal? (2012-08-01)
 * ... that 2012 Olympian Temi Fagbenle was born in the United States to Nigerian parents but plays basketball internationally for Great Britain? (2012-08-01)
 * ... that 2012 Olympics track cyclist Melissa Hoskins took up the sport after participating in a talent identification event? (2012-08-01)
 * ... that Australian Olympic equestrian dressage competitor Lyndal Oatley is the cousin of fellow Olympian Kristy Oatley and wife of Swedish equestrian Patrik Kittel? (2012-08-01)
 * ... that Lauren Boden, a 2012 Olympian, has been mistaken for fellow Australian hurdler Jana Pittman? (2012-08-01)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic 800 metre freestyle swimmer Jessica Ashwood started swimming when she was four years old? (2012-08-01)
 * ... that Helene Wildbrunn, a celebrated Wagnerian soprano at the Vienna State Opera and La Scala, began her career in 1907 as a contralto at the Stadttheater Dortmund? (2012-08-01)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic canoeists Lisa Carrington and Teneale Hatton were the first New Zealanders ever to qualify for an A final at the Sprint World Championships? (2012-07-31)
 * ... that 57-year-old Australian equestrian dressage competitor Mary Hanna has qualified to compete in her fourth Olympics? (2012-07-31)
 * ... that Liz Halliday said that her ambitions were to be the first woman to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans and to make the United States Equestrian Team? (2012-07-31)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic track cyclist Josie Tomic is engaged to fellow Olympic cyclist Jack Bobridge? (2012-07-31)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympian Hayley Chapman is part of her country's first father/daughter pair selected to compete at the same Olympics? (2012-07-31)
 * ... that Genevieve LaCaze made it onto the 2012 Olympic squad only after the Australian Olympic Committee intervened in the Athletics Australia selection process? (2012-07-31)
 * ... that Latvian-born Sanita Pušpure is the only rower to compete for Ireland at the 2012 Summer Olympics? (2012-07-30)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic diver Rachel Bugg quit diving in 2008 after an injury and worked on a diploma in beauty therapy? (2012-07-30)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic sailor Krystal Weir sailed in the 2008 Summer Olympics because she took the place of another sailor who got injured in a mountain biking accident? (2012-07-30)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic lightweight double sculls rower Bronwen Watson retired from rowing twice? (2012-07-30)
 * ... that 2012 women's eights Olympic rowers Renee Chatterton, Tess Gerrand, Alexandra Hagan, Sally Kehoe, Elizabeth Patrick, Phoebe Stanley, and Hannah Vermeersch are part of a team nicknamed the "Motley Crew"? (2012-07-29)
 * ... that Lucinda Whitty, Olivia Price and Nina Curtis became a team in 2011 when they heard the Elliott 6m boat would be required for an Olympic sailing event? (2012-07-29)
 * ... that Nicola Wilson and Opposition Buzz were selected for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics after Piggy French was forced to withdraw? (2012-07-29)
 * ... that Jade Neilsen and Brittany Elmslie were selected for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics as members of swimming relay teams? (2012-07-29)
 * ... that Dominique Allen, daughter of Birmingham Bullets "legend" Clive Allen, has been called up to the senior British basketball team for the first time at the 2012 Summer Olympics? (2012-07-29)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic judo competitor Carli Renzi represented Australia in wrestling at the 2010 Commonwealth Games? (2012-07-29)
 * ... that Agneta Matthes and her husband (pictured), who ran factories in Delft producing yeast, perfume, and margarine, developed a workers' housing area in garden city style, Agneta Park? (2012-07-29)
 * ... that in 2008 Chloe Magee became the first Irish badminton player to win a match in the history of the Olympic Games? (2012-07-28)
 * ... that Brittany Broben will be sixteen when she competes for Australia in diving at the 2012 Olympic Games? (2012-07-28)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic beach volleyball player Becchara Palmer of Australia won 20 of 31 matches going into the Olympics? (2012-07-28)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic synchronized diver Anabelle Smith became Sharleen Stratton's partner following the retirement of Briony Cole? (2012-07-28)
 * ... that Britain's 2012 Olympics women's beach volleyball team of Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin formerly had QR codes on the back of their bikini bottoms? (2012-07-27)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic weightlifter Yuderqui Contreras became Pan American Champion and a Dominican Army officer in the same year? (2012-07-27)
 * ... that 2012 Australian table tennis Olympian Vivian Tan quit the sport in 1997, moved from China to Australia in 2003 and took up the sport again in 2007, the year she became an Aussie? (2012-07-27)
 * ... that Olympic road cyclist Shara Gillow of Australia is following in the path of her father, who represented Zimbabwe in cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics? (2012-07-27)
 * ... that May Justus` 1963 book New Boy in School, a departure from her usual thematic focus on rural Appalachia, was "probably the first" book on racial desegregation for young readers? (2012-07-27)
 * ... that Hilde Rössel-Majdan, for decades a contralto with the Vienna State Opera, recorded with Hermann Scherchen music by Bach including his solo cantata Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54? (2012-07-27)
 * ... that Alaskan Inupiat bush pilot Ellen Paneok said an airstrip had to be cleared of polar bears before her airplane could land? (2012-07-27)
 * ... that rower Amy Clay was born and schooled in the United States but is set to compete in the quadruple sculls for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics? (2012-07-27)
 * ... that 2012 Olympic road cyclist Amanda Spratt spends eight months a year training in Italy? (2012-07-27)
 * ... that 2012 Indian Olympic archery coach Purnima Mahato was an Indian national champion in archery? (2012-07-26)
 * ... that American archer Miranda Leek, who is competing in the 2012 Summer Olympics, first learned to shoot at age five? (2012-07-26)
 * ... that William & Mary women's soccer, coached by John Daly, is one of two NCAA Division I women's soccer programs that have never had a losing season? (2012-07-26)
 * ... that Australia's 2012 Summer Olympic archer Elisa Barnard is double majoring in psychology and law? (2012-07-26)
 * ... that 2012 Olympian Tia Brooks was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease in 2009 and advised to give up the shot put? (2012-07-25)
 * ... that the three original members of the British pop group Sugababes have reformed, and are known as Mutya Keisha Siobhan? (2012-07-25)
 * ... that ballet dancer Michaela DePrince (shown in the video) became an orphan as an infant when her father was shot and her mother starved to death? (2012-07-25)
 * ... that in 1799, Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse became the first woman to make a parachute jump? (2012-07-25)
 * ... that Gossip Girl actor Chace Crawford (pictured) is Leona Lewis's love interest in her music video for "I Will Be"? (2012-07-25)
 * ... that "Diwali", a 2006 episode of The Office, was credited with helping introduce American audiences to Indian customs? (2012-07-25)
 * ... that French pilot Adrienne Bolland was the first woman to fly across the Andes, doing so after only 40 hours of flight experience? (2012-07-25)
 * ... that according to lawyer Asma Jahangir, up to seventy-two percent of women in police custody in Pakistan are physically or sexually abused? (2012-07-23)
 * ... that Helen Desha Beamer and Sam Kapu made the first commercial recording of the Hawaiian Wedding Song in 1928? (2012-07-22)
 * ... that anthropologist Alice G. Dewey was dissertation advisor for Barack Obama's mother Ann Dunham at the University of Hawaiʻi? (2012-07-22)
 * ... that when teenage Alberta Schenck took a stand against segregation in Alaska, her actions were a full decade before either Rosa Parks's stand or the Brown v. Board of Education decision? (2012-07-22)
 * ... that the melody of "Government Hooker", a song from Lady Gaga's Born This Way, was originally an unused track created by DJ White Shadow in collaboration with DJ Snake? (2012-07-21)
 * ... that internet entrepreneur Silvina Moschini (pictured) believes Wikipedia should allow advertising as a way of funding improved academic content? (2012-07-20)
 * ... that Patty Gasso has led the Oklahoma Sooners softball team to seven appearances in the Women's College World Series, including a national championship in 2000 and a second-place finish in 2012? (2012-07-20)
 * ... that Nurnaningsih was the first Indonesian actress to appear half nude in a film? (2012-07-19)
 * ... that North Korean singer Hyon Song-wol, whose hit songs include "Excellent Horse-Like Lady" and "She is a Discharged Soldier", is said to have been romantically linked with leader Kim Jong-un? (2012-07-19)
 * ... that Bei Bei Shuai, a Chinese immigrant to the U.S., is charged with murder because the child she was pregnant with died as a result of her suicide attempt? (2012-07-19)
 * ... that East German Ortrun Enderlein (pictured) was the first Olympic gold medalist in women's luge? (2012-07-18)
 * ... that pioneering immunologist Bunny Koshland helped develop an oral cholera vaccine before she worked on the Manhattan Project? (2012-07-18)
 * ... that Lorinda de Roulet is the first woman to direct the day-to-day operations of a Major League Baseball franchise? (2012-07-17)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic beach volleyball player Louise Bawden also represented Australia in indoor volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics? (2012-07-15)
 * ... that the Sugababes' 2004 single "In the Middle" contains a sample of the song "U Know Y" by German DJ Moguai? (2012-07-14)
 * ... that a female state legislator proposed making Dorothy's Rooms (bathroom pictured), the last brothel in Helena, Montana, a historical landmark? (2012-07-14)
 * ... that the performances in the Body of Proof episode "Talking Heads" of Kathy Searle as the person who dismembered the murder victim and Kelly AuCoin as the murderer were both praised? (2012-07-13)
 * ... that Dance Again... the Hits is the first greatest hits album to be released by Jennifer Lopez in her fourteen-year music career? (2012-07-11)
 * ... that American Jessie Ackermann is considered a major voice in the Australian women's suffrage movement? (2012-07-10)
 * ... that Harriet Hanson Robinson (pictured) went on strike from her job as a bobbin doffer at age eleven? (2012-07-10)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Hannah Davis won a bronze medal in the sport at the 2008 Summer Olympics? (2012-07-09)
 * ... that Farewell, My Queen, a 2012 film adapted from the Chantal Thomas novel, opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival? (2012-07-09)
 * ... that in spite of the official Soviet ideology of gender equality, feminism continues to be a dirty word for women in Russia? (2012-07-08)
 * ... that Jennifer Lopez's first video album Jennifer Lopez: Feelin' So Good provides a documentary-style look at the launch of her music career? (2012-07-07)
 * ... that Pink performs "energetic and vengeful as ever" on her new single "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)"? (2012-07-07)
 * ... that Indonesian singer Pinkan Mambo paid for her brothers' college through her singing? (2012-07-06)
 * ... that Louise Cochrane, creator of the 1950s BBC children's TV series Rag, Tag and Bobtail, was an American? (2012-07-06)
 * ... that on Women's Equality Day, the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame will add four names to a list that already includes Mamie Eisenhower (pictured) and Hualing Nieh Engle? (2012-07-05)
 * ... that acclaimed violinist Tasmin Little released her 2008 recording The Naked Violin as a free download? (2012-07-04)
 * ... that Margarete Mitscherlich and her husband Alexander Mitscherlich co-authored Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern (The Inability to Mourn) in 1967, and she alone wrote Die Radikalität des Alters (The Radicality of Age) in 2010? (2012-07-03)
 * ... that 2012 Australian rhythmic gymnastics Olympian Janine Murray had difficulties getting to school while growing up in Zimbabwe because of petrol shortages? (2012-07-03)
 * ... that child actress Rachel Covey had a body double during the 2007 film Enchanted so that she did not have to spend as much time on set? (2012-07-02)
 * ... that women in Kenya created the Kenya women's national football team independent of Football Kenya Federation? (2012-07-02)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic diver Jaele Patrick only took up the sport at fifteen following a gymnastics injury? (2012-07-02)
 * ... that Emily Smith is the youngest Hockeyroo representing Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics? (2012-07-02)
 * ... that Rick Ross was to be featured on Jennifer Lopez's song "Run the World", but his rap was removed from the song shortly before its commercial release? (2012-07-01)
 * ... that 2012 Australian field hockey Olympian Jade Close was a ball girl at the 2000 Summer Olympics during the Hockeyroos' gold medal match? (2012-07-01)
 * ... that more than one million comments about Feng Jianmei's forced abortion had been registered within four days of family members uploading a picture of her dead child to Sina Weibo? (2012-07-01)
 * ... that Cambodia women's national football team faces several challenges including women's football not being popular in Cambodia and,, no teams for women to play on? (2012-07-01)
 * ... that while Oman women's national football team has yet to play a game, a club from Oman played matches against national teams from Jordan and Syria? (2012-06-30)
 * ... that Ellen Rosenblum is the first woman ever to serve as Oregon Attorney General? (2012-06-30)
 * ... that 2012 Summer Olympic cyclist Amy Cure calls Penguin home? (2012-06-30)
 * ... that Marie Bankhead Owen (pictured) was the aunt of actress Tallulah Bankhead and helped create the Alabama state motto? (2012-06-29)
 * ... that Indonesian songwriter Maia Estianty is descended from the National Hero Tjokroaminoto? (2012-06-29)
 * ... that Emily Little and Larrissa Miller are part of the Australian women's gymnastic team that will compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics? (2012-06-29)
 * ... that "I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked" marked Katherine Heigl's final appearance on Grey's Anatomy? (2012-06-29)
 * ... that 2008 and 2012 Australian artistic gymnastic Olympian Ashleigh Brennan (pictured) drinks coffee before every competition? (2012-06-29)
 * ... that the Côte d'Ivoire women's national football team is Africa's sixth best women's football team while women's football is the fourth most popular sport in the country? (2012-06-28)
 * ... that Izetta Wesley, a female football administrator, believes the government of Liberia is insincere in how they treat the Liberia women's national football team? (2012-06-27)
 * ... that Jessica Fox, daughter of French and Great Britain canoeing Olympians, will make her own Olympic canoeing debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics? (2012-06-27)
 * ... that Juliet Opie Hopkins  (pictured) was known as the "Florence Nightingale of the South" and was given a full military burial at Arlington National Cemetery? (2012-06-26)
 * ... that Erica Kennedy first novel, Bling, reached 35th on the New York Times Best Seller list and was optioned for a movie? (2012-06-26)
 * ... that Malaysian born Renuga Veeran and South Australian born Leanne Choo will represent Australia in the women's doubles badminton competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics? (2012-06-25)
 * ... that Naomi Fischer-Rasmussen will be the first woman to represent Australia in boxing when she competes at the 2012 Summer Olympics? (2012-06-24)
 * ... that the Brunei women's national football team is forbidden from participating in the Olympic Games by its country's government? (2012-06-23)
 * ... that Glen Waverley badminton player Victoria Na will make her Olympic debut at the 2012 London Games? (2012-06-23)
 * ... that in the music video for her single "Me Haces Falta" (2007), Jennifer Lopez portrays an undercover FBI agent who surrenders her lover to the police and has regrets afterwards? (2012-06-23)
 * ... that despite the Seychelles women's national football team having played only two games up to June 2012, a national football tournament for women has been around since the late 1990s in Seychelles? (2012-06-22)
 * ... that Syrian poet and writer Maryana Marrash (pictured) revived the tradition of literary salons in the Middle East at the end of the 19th century? (2012-06-22)
 * ... that Blessed Elizabeth is said to have been the lawful heiress to the Hungarian throne but was harassed and forced to join a convent by her evil stepmother, Queen Agnes? (2012-06-22)
 * ... that even though the Saudi Arabia women's national football team does not exist, women in the country have created, coach and play for their own club team outside the sight of men? (2012-06-21)
 * ... that When the Emperor was Divine, a historical fiction novel about Japanese American internment, was described as "a meditation on what it means to be loyal to one's country and to one's self"? (2012-06-21)
 * ... that the employment of Ruth Sawtell Wallis during the Depression was "unthinkable" because her husband was also a professor? (2012-06-21)
 * ... that while Réunion women's national football team is not recognised by FIFA, the team has played full internationals against South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe? (2012-06-20)
 * ... that despite FIFA recognition and twice-weekly training sessions, the Madagascar women's national football team has yet to play in a single FIFA-recognised match? (2012-06-20)
 * ... that Julie Otsuka has won an Alex Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and an Asian American Literary Award for her works on Japanese Americans? (2012-06-20)
 * ... that Citra Award-winning actress Laura Basuki has been compared to Japanese AV idol Maria Ozawa? (2012-06-19)
 * ... that Kristi Harrower has won three Olympic silver medals in basketball and is in the running to earn a fourth medal? (2012-06-19)
 * ... that Italian actress Ida Galli has also been billed as Evelyn Stewart and Isli Oberon? (2012-06-19)
 * ... that Australian Opal Belinda Snell first played basketball as an eight-year-old on a mixed gendered team? (2012-06-19)
 * ... that the Yemen women's national football team has four training sessions a week? (2012-06-18)
 * ... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Until It Beats No More" was used as background music in her commercial for the Fiat 500? (2012-06-18)
 * ... that Australian Opal Abby Bishop has played basketball professionally for the Seattle Storm, Canberra Capitals, Dandenong Rangers and Adelaide Lightning? (2012-06-18)
 * ... that Kat Driscoll performance at the 2011 World Championships earned Great Britain a trampolining place at the 2012 Summer Olympics? (2012-06-17)
 * ... that Jennifer Screen first international basketball tournament with the Australian Opals was the 2006 World Championships in Brazil, where her team took home a gold medal? (2012-06-17)
 * ... that three ten-foot-high (3 m) bronze horses (one pictured) in the City of London by English sculptor Althea Wynne have been nicknamed "Sterling, Dollar, and Yen"? (2012-06-17)
 * ... that 2008 silver-medal-winning Australian Opal Suzy Batkovic used to sneak out to concerts with basketball teammate Lauren Jackson while on scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport? (2012-06-16)
 * ... that among the challenges to developing the Niger women's national football team is shari'a law being used to ban women from the sport in some parts of the country? (2012-06-16)
 * ... that Marta met the Sierra Leone women's national football team in 2011 as part of the United Nations Development Programme? (2012-06-15)
 * ... that Swedish author Edith Unnerstad (pictured) wrote her first book at age 11 for a sister who had been hospitalized with scarlet fever? (2012-06-15)
 * ... that Australian aboriginal 2008 silver medal winning Australian Opal Rohanee Cox started playing basketball again after an absence from the sport in order to inspire her daughter? (2012-06-14)
 * ... that Egyptian Olympic pentathlete Aya Medany father was a member of a panel which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize? (2012-06-14)
 * ... that Australian 2008 Paralympic swimming bronze medalist Annabelle Williams was a stunt double for Charlize Theron? (2012-06-14)
 * ... that the Sugababes song "Gotta Be You", according to band member Keisha Buchanan, is the first use of the crunk genre by a British band? (2012-06-13)
 * ... that 2010 Australian Junior National archery champion Alice Ingley has ancestors from the same area of England as the historical Robin Hood? (2012-06-13)
 * ... that the first three concerts of Beyoncé Knowles's revue show Revel Presents: Beyoncé Live sold out within one minute? (2012-06-12)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Opal Hanna Zavecz earned a basketball scholarship at the University of Wyoming even though the coach had never seen her play? (2012-06-12)
 * ... that British archer Amy Oliver, who is due to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics, didn't like the sport when she first tried it? (2012-06-12)
 * ... that despite São Tomé and Príncipe gaining independence in 1975, the women's national football team did not play their first FIFA recognised match until 2002? (2012-06-11)
 * ... that British World Champion Modern Pentathlete Mhairi Spence has an ambition to be the host of BBC One's quiz show A Question of Sport? (2012-06-11)
 * ... that Elizabeth Potts was the only woman ever legally executed in Nevada? (2012-06-11)
 * ... that Marika Mitsotakis likened the political style of her husband, Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis, to the calming effect of Valium? (2012-06-10)
 * ... that Anne Henrietta Martin of Nevada was the first woman to run for the United States Senate? (2012-06-10)
 * ... that US academic Susan J. Douglas is concerned that depictions of high-powered women in media imply (incorrectly) that feminism has achieved its goals? (2012-06-09)
 * ... that at 53 years and 275 days, Queenie Newall (pictured) is the oldest female athlete to have won a gold medal at an Olympic Games? (2012-06-09)
 * ... that the racehorse Parisot, winner of the 1796 Epsom Oaks, was named after French ballet dancer Mademoiselle Parisot (pictured), whose performance created a stir in London that year? (2012-06-08)
 * ... that according to critics, the Sugababes' song "It Ain't Easy" contains compositional elements from "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode? (2012-06-08)
 * ... that "3 Spoons of Suga", a song by English girl group Sugababes, was included in the soundtrack for the 2007 film St Trinian's? (2012-06-08)
 * ... that Polish historian Stefania Wolicka was one of the first women to receive a PhD degree in modern Europe? (2012-06-07)
 * ... that 2012 Australian Opal Samantha Richards (pictured) earned a gold medal playing on the Australian basketball team at the 2007 World University Games? (2012-06-07)
 * ... that critics compared the Sugababes' 2007 song "Never Gonna Dance Again" to "Careless Whisper" by George Michael? (2012-06-07)
 * ... that Wedlock, a 2009 book by Wendy Moore, details the abusive second marriage of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, the great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II? (2012-06-06)
 * ... that the most viewed Indonesian film of 1989, Pacar Ketinggalan Kereta, was the last feature film for both director Teguh Karya and star Tuti Indra Malaon? (2012-06-06)
 * ... that "No Me Ames", a duet by American recording artists Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, is a cover of the Italian hit "Non Amarmi", recorded by Aleandro Baldi and Francesca Alotta? (2012-06-06)
 * ... that Bronwyn Oliver 2005 sculpture Vine is over 16 m high and was assembled by eight Croatian welders? (2012-06-06)
 * ... that Australian Opal Tess Madgen`s U-18 South Australia Country team beat Victoria 99–61 in one of the biggest wins ever at the Australian national championships? (2012-06-05)
 * ... that poet, translator and educator Margaret Diesendorf, born in Vienna and raised in Hungary, was described as "the Conscience of New South Wales"? (2012-06-05)
 * ... that Australia won the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup Final by 98 runs from India, clinching their fifth World Cup title? (2012-06-05)
 * ... that Italian Bracco Geas basketball player Laura Summerton won two Olympics silver medals, a Commonwealth gold medal and a World Championship gold medal with the Australian Opals? (2012-06-04)
 * ... that comedienne Connie Ediss, in a string of popular London musicals from 1896, became known for her "buxom bourgeoise" characters? (2012-06-04)
 * ... that Australian Opal and Logan Thunder center Cayla Francis chose to play basketball over netball because she preferred the contact aspect of basketball? (2012-06-04)
 * ... that an Anglo-Saxon princess (reconstruction pictured) was buried on a bed with her jewellery in the Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery? (2012-06-03)
 * ... that English historian Alison Weir has produced books about Eleanor of Aquitaine in both fiction and non-fiction? (2012-06-03)
 * ... that Roy Lichtenstein's Portrait of Madame Cézanne is an ironic quotation of art historian Erle Loran's outline of the original Cézanne portrait (pictured)? (2012-06-02)
 * ... that Minori Hayakari, holder of the Japanese record in women's 3000 m steeplechase, has won six consecutive national titles since the event was introduced in 2006? (2012-06-02)
 * ... that 2012 Australia women's national basketball team member Kathleen MacLeod played for a year each in Hungary and France? (2012-06-02)
 * ... that Stafanie Taylor, the 2011 ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year, is the only player to have scored half-centuries in three consecutive Twenty20 Internationals? (2012-06-01)
 * ... that after a WNBL game in which Kristen Veal scored 16 points, other players shaved Veal's head to support the Leukemia Foundation? (2012-06-01)
 * ... that Fashion Star season one winner Kara Laricks describes her design aesthetic as "modern-day Annie Hall meets a Japanese street style"? (2012-06-01)
 * ... that Blue Scar was the first feature film to be scored by a British woman? (2012-06-01)
 * ... that Australian Opal and Bulleen Boomers forward Elyse Penaluna scored 29 points and made six rebounds in 17 minutes during a basketball game against the Hobart Chargers? (2012-05-30)
 * ... that Sisera's mother (pictured), a biblical character, has been described as evil and sexually depraved? (2012-05-29)
 * ... that Australian Opal Natalie Hurst is only 163 cm tall and was once suspended from basketball for five weeks for swearing at a referee? (2012-05-29)
 * ... that an obituary in The Independent called Lady June "a great British eccentric and cosmic prankster"? (2012-05-29)
 * ... that Tia Norfleet is the first African American woman to receive a NASCAR racing license? (2012-05-28)
 * ... that "Dinosaur", a song by American singer Kesha, was inspired by an encounter with an old man whom she perceived as "prehistoric" and "like a dinosaur"? (2012-05-28)
 * ... that 90% of Tracy Beaker fans are girls between 8 and 14? (2012-05-27)
 * ... that Netherlands Antilles women's national football team faces development challenges because football is only the sixth most popular sport in the country? (2012-05-26)
 * ... that "She's a Mess", a song by English girl group Sugababes from their seventh studio album, had to be renamed because the band felt the lyrics were promoting binge drinking? (2012-05-25)
 * ... that Duke Xiang, ruler of the ancient state of Qi, had an incestuous relationship with his sister Wen Jiang and had her husband Duke Huan of Lu murdered? (2012-05-24)
 * ... that Australia women's national basketball team member and two-time WNBL Defensive Player of Year Rachael Flanagan is also a personal trainer? (2012-05-24)
 * ... that England women's cricket captain Charlotte Edwards was the leading run-scorer in three of the first four years of the Super Fours? (2012-05-23)
 * ... that a prospective book agent advised British author Lindsey Kelk to use a pseudonym as her real name sounded like "a cat being sick"? (2012-05-23)
 * ... that Roy Lichtenstein's pop art painting Girl with Ball, which was based on a newspaper ad that was still running more than 20 years later, was first sold to Philip Johnson? (2012-05-23)
 * ... that Coronation Street actress Patti Clare was working as an office receptionist before she won the role of Mary Taylor in the soap opera? (2012-05-22)
 * ... that "21st May", a song recorded by Guillemots, was described by The Times as "gleefully [marrying] a hip-shaking reggae beat to jazz sax"? (2012-05-22)
 * ... that women's kickboxing in New South Wales, Australia, was banned by law in 1986 and only became legal again in 2008? (2012-05-21)
 * ... that Hetty Sarlene could reportedly sing her namesake's songs by age three? (2012-05-21)
 * ... that King Teuruarii IV of Rurutu and Queen Tamaeva IV (pictured) of Rimatara, fearing French encroachment, personally petitioned Queen Victoria for a British protectorate over their islands in 1888? (2012-05-20)
 * ... that Erna Lendvai-Dircksen produced heroic photographs of autobahn construction workers under the Nazis on a commission from Fritz Todt? (2012-05-20)
 * ... that 2004 Olympic silver medal winning Australian Opal Alicia Poto played basketball in Siberia after a contract fell through with a Czech club? (2012-05-20)
 * ... that in the 1900s, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, a "Confederate carpetbagger," published two memoirs of the American Civil War after more than 30 years of living in New York? (2012-05-19)
 * ... that New York Times religion editor Rachel Kollock McDowell got locked inside a princess's tomb in pursuit of a news story? (2012-05-19)
 * ... that Smithsonian Institution registrar Helena M. Weiss processed over 250,000 letters from the public each year? (2012-05-19)
 * ... that Roy Lichtenstein's pop art painting Girl in Mirror is the subject of a 2012 sale without consent and fraud lawsuit? (2012-05-19)
 * ... that Sodsai Vanijvadhana performed as "Sondi Sodsai" in the United States because foreigners could not pronounce her last name? (2012-05-18)
 * ... that Lorri Bauman in 1984 became the first women's collegiate basketball player to score 3,000 points and still holds all-time NCAA records for field goals and free throws? (2012-05-18)
 * ... that according to Cornish legend, the mermaid Saint Senara fell in love with the chorister of the church in Zennor, and that the church is now dedicated to her? (2012-05-17)
 * ... that Juliet May described child actress Lucy Hutchinson as "one of the most remarkable five year olds" she had ever met? (2012-05-17)
 * ... that soprano Ursula Schröder-Feinen appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as Senta, Brünnhilde, Ortrud and, with "intensity, ... freshness and spontaneity", as Kundry in Parsifal? (2012-05-16)
 * ... that Martha Wise said she poisoned seventeen family members with arsenic, killing three, because she was irresistibly drawn to funerals and there weren't enough in her town? (2012-05-16)
 * ... that French choral music composer Ernest Boulanger, son of Opéra-Comique mezzo-soprano Marie Halligner (pictured), received the Grand Prix de Rome in 1835, as did his daughter, Lili, in 1913? (2012-05-16)
 * ... that Margaret Powell 1968 memoir, Below Stairs, has inspired three television series: Upstairs, Downstairs, Beryl's Lot and Downton Abbey? (2012-05-16)
 * ... that seven-time WNBA All-Star Lauren Jackson (pictured) has been described as Australia's Michael Jordan or Shaquille O'Neal? (2012-05-16)
 * ... that journalist Alice E. Gillington lived with Gypsies but didn't want them to know she was writing about them? (2012-05-16)
 * ... that 73-year-old Nyi Ageng Serang led her troops in a war against Dutch colonists from a stretcher? (2012-05-15)
 * ... that Leontina Albina Espinoza of Colina, Chile, claimed to have given birth to 58 children and was cited for a time by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most prolific mother? (2012-05-13)
 * ... that human–animal breastfeeding – women breastfeeding young animals, or animals breastfeeding human children, such as goats (pictured) – has been practised throughout history? (2012-05-13)
 * ... that the only FIFA recognised matches Anguilla women's national football team have played in were against Antigua and Barbuda, US Virgin Islands, Barbados and Grenada? (2012-05-13)
 * ... that in 1965, Barbara Robbins became the first female CIA employee to die in action in the agency's history and the first American woman to die in the Vietnam War? (2012-05-12)
 * ... that Lindsay Lohan is one of three celebrity judges appearing in the "Nationals" competition episode of Glee? (2012-05-11)
 * ... that singer Hetty Koes Endang and her duet partner were the first Indonesians to win the World Popular Song Festival? (2012-05-11)
 * ... that while football is the most popular women's sport in Gambia and the U-17 has played in a World Cup qualifier, the Gambia women's national football team has not played a FIFA sanctioned game? (2012-05-10)
 * ... that the Central African Republic faced difficulties in playing in the Women's U-19 World Cup semi-final against South Africa because the country initially refused to grant players visas? (2012-05-10)
 * ... that the anti-cancer drug polyestradiol phosphate was discovered accidentally when scientists experimented with a compound found in apple tree leaves? (2012-05-09)
 * ... that school teacher and conspirator Jadwiga Apostoł (pictured) survived three German camps, including Auschwitz, and was jailed in Stalinist Poland on trumped-up charges soon after her return? (2012-05-09)
 * ... that University of Hawaii softball player Kaia Parnaby is trying to make the Australian squad that will play in the 2012 World Championships? (2012-05-08)
 * ... that the Leona Lewis (pictured) song "Homeless" was written by Swedish songwriter Jörgen Elofsson? (2012-05-08)
 * ... that Adolf Hitler was so hopelessly in love with Stefanie Isak when he was a teenager that he planned to commit suicide with her in the Danube? (2012-05-08)
 * ... that "Thank You for the Heartbreak", a song recorded by English girl group Sugababes for their seventh studio album, was co-written by Ryan Tedder, a member of rock band OneRepublic? (2012-05-07)
 * ... that despite having few registered women players and their team never playing a FIFA-recognised match, Burundi has an under-20 women's national team? (2012-05-07)
 * ... that guitarist Ian Antono described Nicky Astria as "the best female pop rock singer Indonesia has ever seen"? (2012-05-06)
 * ... that the New York apartment of advertising consultant Cindy Gallop was the set for the music video for "Nasty Girl" by The Notorious B.I.G.? (2012-05-06)
 * ... that Zambia women national football teams include a senior women's team, under-20 team, under-17 team, an Olympic qualification team, an under-23 team and Homeless World Cup team? (2012-05-04)
 * ... that Lizzy Lind af Hageby, a Swedish feminist and anti-vivisectionist, broke a record in England in 1913 when she spoke 210,000 words during a libel trial and asked 20,000 questions? (2012-05-04)
 * ... that Australian national team pitcher Aimee Murch (pictured) has won the Italian Softball Championship, Italian Cup and European Cup? (2012-05-04)
 * ... that in 2010, artist Neltje Doubleday Kings made the largest estate gift ever to the University of Wyoming? (2012-05-03)
 * ... that after being born on a ship in the North Sea and growing up in poverty, Hannah Kempfer (pictured) went on to become one of the first women legislators in Minnesota? (2012-05-03)
 * ... that the Togo women's national football team participated in the 2007 Tournoi de Cinq Nations in Ouagadougou but was disqualified after the first match for sending a club team? (2012-05-02)
 * ... that Madonna's song "Gang Bang" was inspired by the films of director Quentin Tarantino? (2012-05-02)
 * ... that Yvonne van Mentz scored South Africa's first century in Women's Test cricket? (2012-05-01)
 * ... that the only team Guinea-Bissau women's national football team has played a FIFA-recognised match against is Guinea? (2012-05-01)
 * ... that Frank Graham called Dave Bancroft (pictured) "the greatest shortstop the Giants ever had and one of the greatest that ever lived"? (2012-05-01)
 * ... that the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup Final player of the match Nicky Shaw only played in the final because a teammate suffered an injury during the warm-up? (2012-04-30)
 * ... that Megitza, the vocalist and bass player, got the highest score at a Polish National IQ contest held in 2004? (2012-04-30)
 * ... that the Zanzibar women's national football team has few women's teams to play against and has beaten men's teams? (2012-04-29)
 * ... that while FIFA inquired about the creation of a Sudanese women's national football team, the Islamic Fiqh Council in Sudan issued a fatwa forbidding it? (2012-04-29)
 * ... that between the start of the competition in 1947 and 1995, the Victorian women's softball team won the Gilleys Shield 22 times? (2012-04-29)
 * ... that Atiqah Hasiholan considered her role in the Oscar-submitted Jamila and the President a "regular slutty prostitute"? (2012-04-28)
 * ... that "Snail" was the first woman to compete in an international motor race? (2012-04-27)
 * ... that "Drunk on Love" contains a sample of The xx's song "Intro", with Jamie Smith being credited as co-writer? (2012-04-27)
 * ... that Australia women's national softball coach Kere Johanson won two men's softball world championships as a player with New Zealand's team? (2012-04-26)
 * ... that Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, Holocaust survivor and one of the Schindlerjuden, appeared in a documentary with the daughter of Amon Goeth, her Nazi tormentor? (2012-04-26)
 * ... that according to one reviewer, the reggae drum fill in "Watch n' Learn" originates from Bob Marley's 1983 single "Buffalo Soldier"? (2012-04-25)
 * ... that Australian Aboriginal South Australian softball player Vanessa Stokes (pictured) is vying for a roster spot on the Australian team going to the 2012 World Championships? (2012-04-25)
 * ... that San Jose State University and Australia women's national softball team player Michelle Cox played softball in New South Wales for the state under-16 team? (2012-04-25)
 * ... that the Djibouti women's national football team has played in only one FIFA recognised match, a 0–7 loss to Kenya in 2006? (2012-04-25)
 * ... that professional softball player Clare Warwick is one of three national team players from Australian Capital Territory vying to represent Australia at the 2012 World Championship? (2012-04-24)
 * ... that while the Rwanda women's national football team has not played a FIFA-recognised match, a professional women's league in the country has attracted women from Uganda? (2012-04-24)
 * ... that Indonesian actress Sophia Latjuba received no fee for playing in her most recent film? (2012-04-23)
 * ... that Queensland softball player Jocelyn McCallum has played softball in the United States and Italy? (2012-04-23)
 * ... that while Mauritius has a senior women's national football team, they have not played in a single FIFA sanctioned game? (2012-04-23)
 * ... that P&G promoted their self care website BeingGirl by partnering with Sony BMG and Cathy's Book? (2012-04-23)
 * ... that Victorian softball player and Olympic bronze medalist Justine Smethurst picked up an American accent while attending university? (2012-04-22)
 * ... that Grace Towns Hamilton was the first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly? (2012-04-21)
 * ... that Sydney and Elsie March and their siblings completed the National War Memorial of Canada (pictured) after their brother Vernon died? (2012-04-21)
 * ... that Angela Byron, an open source software developer, was the first woman to be featured on the cover of Linux Journal? (2012-04-21)
 * ... that Western Australia softball player Verity Long-Droppert won a bronze medal at the 2007 Junior World Championships and later played professional softball in Italy? (2012-04-20)
 * ... that Jennifer Lopez's song "One Love" contains indirect references to her previous high-profile relationships? (2012-04-20)
 * ... that swarms of Japanese soldier crabs of the species Mictyris guinotae, named after French biologist Danièle Guinot, can be used in place of the billiard balls in billiard-ball computers? (2012-04-20)
 * ... that French sporting pioneer Camille du Gast was falsely accused of having posed nude for La Femme au Masque, but did not win the legal action she filed against her accuser? (2012-04-20)
 * ... that Jodie Stevenson (pictured) is attempting to make the Australia women's national softball team to compete in the 2012 ISF Women's World Championship, a competition Australia only won in 1965, when they hosted the event? (2012-04-19)
 * ... that Lucile Petry Leone successful establishment of the Cadet Nurse Corps in 1943 made it unnecessary to draft US nurses for WWII? (2012-04-18)
 * ... that Maya Angelou uses themes in her autobiographies to connect all six of them organically, beginning in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings? (2012-04-17)
 * ... that despite the expulsion of softball from the Olympic programme, Belinda White wants to represent Australia at the 2020 Games? (2012-04-17)
 * ... that "Roc Me Out" was described as a combination of Rihanna's "Umbrella" and a slowed down version of Pendulum's Slam? (2012-04-15)
 * ... that RMS Titanic survivor Margaret Bechstein Hays not only saved her Pomeranian dog from the wreck, she also looked after the "Titanic Orphans" (pictured)? (2012-04-15)
 * ... that Ratna Sarumpaet singing of the Indonesian national anthem was called "proof" of a crime? (2012-04-14)
 * ... that prolific food writer and reality TV judge Mary Berry (pictured) first job was to visit consumer's homes to show them how to use their own electric cookers? (2012-04-13)
 * ... that Queensland softball catcher Kym Tollenaere narrowly missed out on the 2004 Summer Olympics and is trying to represent Australia at the 2012 World Championships? (2012-04-12)
 * ... that Sister Jackie Hudson served six months in prison for painting "Christ lives, Disarm" on the side of a bunker? (2012-04-12)
 * ... that Chinese-Indonesian writer Mira Wong may use the pen name Mira W. to cover her ethnicity? (2012-04-11)
 * ... that Australian softballer Melinda Weaver (pictured) missed the 2008 Beijing Games and a year later played professional softball in Italy? (2012-04-11)
 * ... that according to one critic, "Farewell" is a "shameless rewrite" of Adele's song "Someone like You"? (2012-04-11)
 * ... that Audrey Withers, who edited the British Vogue for twenty years, lacked a personal interest in fashion and joined the London Fire Brigade? (2012-04-11)
 * ... that in 1955 Marie Aspioti returned her MBE to Queen Elizabeth II in protest against the British policies on Cyprus regarding enosis with Greece? (2012-04-10)
 * ... that Ada Initiative co-founder Valerie Aurora (pictured) chose Anita as her middle name, after the computer scientist Anita Borg? (2012-04-09)
 * ... that Chelsea Forkin has represented Australia in the World Cup of Baseball and World Cup of Softball? (2012-04-09)
 * ... that Radford University softball player and national team member Leigh Godfrey (pictured) is from a softball family, with her aunt and mother both representing Australia in the sport? (2012-04-08)
 * ... that Australian softball player Jade Wall started playing softball when she was nine years old and surfs as a hobby? (2012-04-08)
 * ... that Stacey McManus represents Australia in softball, while her sister Brook plays softball for New Zealand's national team? (2012-04-07)
 * ... that "Do Ya Thang" was described as a return to Rihanna's roots, which were notably present in the songs from her first studio album Music of the Sun? (2012-04-07)
 * ... that Olympic silver and bronze medalist Stacey Porter (pictured) was the first Aboriginal member of the Australian women's national team to represent the country in softball at the Olympics? (2012-04-05)
 * ... that Minnie Fisher Cunningham helped convince both Senator Andrieus A. Jones and President Woodrow Wilson to support passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women suffrage? (2012-04-05)
 * ... that softball player Brenda De Blaes represented Australia and Belgium at the Women's World Championship? (2012-04-05)
 * ... that when U.S. President Johnson signed Executive Order 11375 in 1967 banning sex bias in federal government hiring, women held just 809 of more than 40,000 federal civil service jobs? (2012-04-04)
 * ... that Julia Holter debut album Tragedy (2011) was inspired by Euripides' Ancient Greek play Hippolytus? (2012-04-03)
 * ... that while Victoire Conroy was among the few companions allowed to associate with the young Queen Victoria, the queen disliked her? (2012-04-02)
 * ... that Queensland teacher Jodie Bowering (pictured) is also an Australian Olympic bronze medalist in softball? (2012-04-02)
 * ... that Dorothy Manley took unpaid leave from her job as a typist to compete in the 1948 Summer Olympics, where she won the silver medal in the women's 100 metres? (2012-04-02)
 * ... that Mr. Santoso was the first female cabinet member in Indonesian history? (2012-04-01)
 * ... that a fish in a fishbowl is in a fish? (2012-04-01)
 * ... that some Chicago sports fans blame their team's recent failings on the absence of Honey Bears? (2012-04-01)
 * ... that child actress Nozomi Ōhashi (pictured), who sang the theme song for the 2008 film Ponyo, started acting when she was just three years old? (2012-03-31)
 * ... that Leona Lewis released Hurt: The EP as something for her fans to "bridge the gap" while she finishes recording for her third studio album, Glassheart? (2012-03-31)
 * ... that Indonesian writer Clara Ng was reportedly able to read The Adventures of Tintin by kindergarten? (2012-03-31)
 * ... that Aussie Spirit player Sandra Holden (pictured) was drafted to represent Tasmania in softball one year when there were not enough players for an all-Tasmanian team in the Gilleys Shield? (2012-03-29)
 * ... that Crissi Cochrane reached No. 5 in the Canada national folk chart for campus/community radio? (2012-03-29)
 * ... that a 7th-century grave in Cambridge discovered in 2011 held the remains of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl who was lying on a bed, with a gold and garnet cross on her breast? (2012-03-28)
 * ... that the 2011 album Gravity the Seducer by Ladytron has been described as having "a feminine warmth"? (2012-03-28)
 * ... that the conversion to Catholicism of Princess Irene of the Netherlands (pictured with two of her sisters) and her marriage to Prince Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma caused a constitutional crisis for her country? (2012-03-27)
 * ... that at the age of 13 years and 268 days, Marjorie Gestring was the youngest competitor to win an Olympic gold medal? (2012-03-27)
 * ... that Madeline Rogero, the first woman mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, was once an organizer for César Chávez United Farm Workers? (2012-03-25)
 * ... that carcinologist Isabel Pérez Farfante and her family were blacklisted by the Cuban government because her husband refused to travel with Che Guevara? (2012-03-25)
 * ... that Clara Holst was the first woman to study for a doctorate at a Norwegian university? (2012-03-22)
 * ... that the body of actress Gemma McCluskie, who played Kerry Skinner in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, was found in a London canal five days after she disappeared on 1 March 2012? (2012-03-21)
 * ... that Indonesian actress Titi Kamal paid to follow a poor woman around and learn about her lifestyle? (2012-03-20)
 * ... that in portraying Marita Covarrubias in The X-Files, actress Laurie Holden spent hours learning fifteen seconds of Russian dialogue? (2012-03-19)
 * ... that the German architect Anna Heringer has contributed to sustainable architecture building hand-made schools in Bangladesh and Morocco with local craftsmen and materials? (2012-03-18)
 * ... that Alabama socialite and writer Madame Le Vert (pictured) was the only female commissioner at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris? (2012-03-17)
 * ... that Rihanna and Chris Brown's version of "Bad Girl" was covered by The Pussycat Dolls? (2012-03-17)
 * ... that chick lit author Laura Zigman once described herself as a lonely loser? (2012-03-14)
 * ... that Body of Proof episode "Society Hill" marked the first appearance of Megan Hunt's mother Joan, played by Six Feet Under star Joanna Cassidy? (2012-03-11)
 * ... that after the American Civil War ended, Ladies' Memorial Associations sprang up all over the South to bury Johnny Reb, build monuments (example pictured) in honor of Confederate soldiers, and propagate the Lost Cause? (2012-03-11)
 * ... that, in 1978, Maryon Pittman Allen became the first woman to serve on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee? (2012-03-10)
 * ... that Mary Kessell went to Germany in August 1945 as one of only three female British official war artists commissioned to work abroad? (2012-03-10)
 * ... that Australian Stinger Isobel Bishop is left-handed and has a water polo scholarship from the South Australia Institute of Sport? (2012-03-10)
 * ... that as a 12-year-old, Australian water polo player Holly Lincoln-Smith (pictured) saved the life of another swimmer in the middle of a race, then went on to finish 27th out of 40? (2012-03-10)
 * ... that Eliza Barchus (pictured), who was widely recognized for her paintings of the Cascade Range volcanoes, sold many postcards of her work to augment her income? (2012-03-09)
 * ... that Bronwen Knox captained the Australian Stingers at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing? (2012-03-09)
 * ... that in 1973 the first women's Cricket World Cup was held – two years before the first men's tournament? (2012-03-08)
 * ... that the wartime poster "We Can Do It!" (pictured) was parodied using Marge Simpson? (2012-03-08)
 * ... that civil rights pioneer Nellie Stone Johnson was the first black person to be elected to a citywide office in Minneapolis? (2012-03-08)
 * ... that malacologist Myra Keen was called the "First Lady of Malacology"? (2012-03-08)
 * ... that Ludwig van Beethoven dedicated his second piano sonata quasi una fantasia, widely known as the Moonlight Sonata, to his pupil, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi (possible portrait pictured)? (2012-03-08)
 * ... that in 1925, Esther Hill (pictured) became the first woman to be registered as an architect in Canada? (2012-03-08)
 * ... that American artist Ellen Gallagher created artworks which included images carved into the surface of thick sheets of paper? (2012-03-08)
 * ... that Clare Smyth was the first British woman to hold three Michelin stars when she became head chef of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in 2007? (2012-03-08)
 * ... that the lesbian German writer Christa Reinig stated in a poem, "Sometimes the gay shirt is closer to me than the feminist skirt"? (2012-03-08)
 * ... that after winning the 1957 Cotton Fashion Award, designer Anne Fogarty showed off dresses in goldfish colours? (2012-03-08)
 * ... that Vyjayanthimala, who played Chandramukhi in the 1955 film Devdas, declined the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress because she thought that her role was not a supporting one? (2012-03-07)
 * ... that the parents of Australian national team water polo player Victoria Brown believed that she would be an Olympian in an equestrian event? (2012-03-07)
 * ... that five actresses have won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play more than once, but no actress has won it more than twice? (2012-03-07)
 * ... that Australian Stingers Rebecca Rippon, Kate Gynther and Melissa Rippon (pictured) had hopes of being the first set of Australian siblings to all compete in three consecutive Olympic Games? (2012-03-07)
 * ... that Australian Stinger Jane Moran is only the second woman ever to have competed in 200 games in the National Water Polo League? (2012-03-06)
 * ... that the 19th-century American female seminary movement, which aimed to give women educational opportunities, lent its name to a pair of similarly named institutions in Charleston, South Carolina, and Charlestown, Massachusetts? (2012-03-06)
 * ... that Glasser v. United States was the first U.S. Supreme Court case to hold that juries must be drawn from a "cross-section of the community"? (2012-03-05)
 * ... that Alicia McCormack, a member of the Australia women's national water polo team, received a bow from Prince William at a Sydney barbecue? (2012-03-05)
 * ... that Australian Paralympic swimmer Teigan Van Roosmalen (pictured) is legally blind and deaf? (2012-03-04)
 * ... that women are encouraged to go topless in public and men are told to cover their chest by wearing bras or bikinis on Go Topless Day, an event to promote the right to go bare-chested for women? (2012-03-04)
 * ... that historian Charlotte Zeepvat`s first book, published in 1998, was about Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, the haemophiliac youngest son of Queen Victoria? (2012-03-04)
 * ... that Australian national team water polo player Hannah Buckling made the Australian junior team after 20 months of serious training with a new coach? (2012-03-03)
 * ... that Australian Stingers Ashleigh Southern, Glencora Ralph, Zoe Arancini, Rowena Webster and Nicola Zagame are five of seventeen water polo players trying to make the 2012 Summer Olympics squad? (2012-03-02)
 * ... that Australian Stinger Kelsey Wakefield took a year off university in order to try to make the 2012 Summer Olympics in water polo? (2012-03-02)
 * ... that Australian Stinger coach Greg McFadden requires members of the national water polo team to eat every thing on their plates? (2012-03-02)
 * ... that Caroline Birley lifelong love of geology started with stones she collected as a child on family holidays? (2012-03-02)
 * ... that Pat Hawkins from Perth, Australia, set a women's world record by cycling 2489 km in seven days in 1940? (2012-03-01)
 * ... that an entire print run of Svetlana Kalinkina newspaper was seized by the Belarusian police? (2012-02-29)
 * ... that Rihanna's Rated R: Remixed received mixed reviews? (2012-02-29)
 * ... that Australian national team water polo player Sophie Smith is working on a degree in fashion design? (2012-02-28)
 * ... that following a cold case review, police arrested a suspect for the 1961 murder of Jacqueline Thomas 46 years after the crime was committed? (2012-02-27)
 * ... that Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes, released in January 2009, was Rihanna's first remix album? (2012-02-27)
 * ... that Gemma Beadsworth (pictured) and her brother Jamie both represented Australia in water polo at the 2008 Summer Olympics? (2012-02-27)
 * ... that four Connecticut Huskies women's basketball players have been drafted first overall in the WNBA Draft, including Maya Moore in 2011? (2012-02-26)
 * ... that Die Freundin, a German lesbian magazine published from 1924 to 1933, was temporarily shut down by the Weimar government? (2012-02-26)
 * ... that Australian former Paralympian Alison Quinn (pictured) was brought to gymnastics as a child in the hope that it would improve her coordination and symmetry? (2012-02-26)
 * ... that Nina Wilcox Putnam wrote the story that was the basis for The Mummy and drafted the first 1040 income tax form? (2012-02-25)
 * ... that the Otis Redding and Carla Thomas album King & Queen was Redding's first duet album, and the last studio album he recorded before his death? (2012-02-24)
 * ... that British midwife and bestselling author Jennifer Worth criticized Mike Leigh's 2004 film Vera Drake for depicting an "invariably fatal" method of abortion as quick and painless for women? (2012-02-24)
 * ... that Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, Maya Angelou's first book of essays, has been called one of her "wisdom books"? (2012-02-23)
 * ... that Edna Clarke Hall many drawings and prints based on Wuthering Heights reflected the artist's own periods of emotional crisis? (2012-02-21)
 * ... that current Australian Institute of Sport players Tessa Lavey and Olivia Thompson both competed at the 2009 FIBA Under-17 World Championship? (2012-02-19)
 * ... that the legal case pursued by Adolf Grimme, Greta Kuckhoff and Günther Weisenborn against the Nazi judge who sentenced them dragged on for more than a decade, only to be dropped by the public prosecutor? (2012-02-18)
 * ... that when "Who's That Chick?" debuted at number nine on the UK Singles Chart, Rihanna became only the fourth act in UK chart history to have at least three songs in the top ten of the UK Singles Chart? (2012-02-15)
 * ... that, starting in 1989, Selena's brother A.B. Quintanilla III was the main songwriter for her songs? (2012-02-15)
 * ... that rookie cheerleaders from the Jacksonville Roar earn less than $100 for each Jaguars game? (2012-02-15)
 * ... that according to Russian sociologist Daria Khaltourina (pictured), Protestantism influenced positively the capitalist development of social systems through the promotion of literacy and Bible reading? (2012-02-15)
 * ... that current Australian Institute of Sport player Sara Blicavs is testing a sport bra for Berlei? (2012-02-14)
 * ... that Samar Badawi and Manal al-Sharif are suing Saudi authorities for rejecting their driving licence applications? (2012-02-12)
 * ... that French actress-singer Alice Delysia made her career on the London stage, giving each English line "a sparkle seven times its own"? (2012-02-11)
 * ... that 76-year-old Muslim rocker Laila Sari performs in a headscarf? (2012-02-09)
 * ... that a hacker tried to ransom the email account of journalist Rowenna Davis (pictured)? (2012-02-08)
 * ... that Mildred Lewis Rutherford thought that the only problem with slavery was the burden it placed on white slaveholders? (2012-02-08)
 * ... that despite many critics writing that "Stupid in Love" was about Rihanna and Chris Brown's altercation on the night of the 51st Grammy Awards, the song was written two days before the event? (2012-02-07)
 * ... that Jineth Bedoya Lima was abducted, tortured, and raped following her reporting on Colombian paramilitary groups? (2012-02-07)
 * ... that the woodcuts of modernist printmaker Blanche Lazzell (pictured) were influenced by ukiyo-e? (2012-02-07)
 * ... that current Canberra Capitals players Jessica Bibby and Natalie Porter were both 2000 WNBA draft picks? (2012-02-06)
 * ... that International Press Freedom Award laureate María Cristina Caballero began reporting for a Bogotá newspaper at the age of 16? (2012-02-06)
 * ... that in 1917 Ida Adams recorded for His Master's Voice the song from Houp La! "Oh! How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo"? (2012-02-06)
 * ... that the actress Helen Barry, who starred in London and New York, married an ex-Mayor of Monmouth? (2012-02-06)
 * ... that Têtes Noires (pictured) was the first all-female rock band from Minneapolis? (2012-02-05)
 * ... that Mildred Seydell was one of the first women newspaper journalists in the State of Georgia while breaking the gender barrier in journalism? (2012-02-05)
 * ... that according one critic, Rihanna appeared to embody the same "spiraling dance-floor siren" persona on "Complicated" as she did on the album's lead single, "Only Girl (In the World)"? (2012-02-05)
 * ... that a mildly retarded man gives away his family's fortune in Eudora Welty The Ponder Heart? (2012-02-04)
 * ... that XTERRA World Champion Lesley Paterson plans to co-produce a remake of the Oscar-winning 1930 film All Quiet on the Western Front? (2012-02-04)
 * ... that Suburgatory star Jane Levy was named on Forbes 2011 list of 30 under 30 who are "reinventing the world"? (2012-02-04)
 * ... that while the fifty-seventh episode of Glee features newly cast actors to introduce Rachel's two fathers, the actors cast to play them in 2009 were cut from the second episode? (2012-02-04)
 * ... that Australian basketball players Nicole Romeo and Michaela Dalgleish both played basketball at an American university for a single year? (2012-02-03)
 * ... that "Missing My Baby" was one of the first songs to be played on radio stations after Selena was murdered? (2012-02-03)
 * ... that Australian basketball player Rebecca Haynes played basketball for three different American universities? (2012-02-02)
 * ... that current Canberra Capitals players Molly Lewis and Mikaela Dombkins both played for the AIS and Sydney Uni Flames? (2012-02-02)
 * ... that author Lucy O'Brien was criticized for giving too much emphasis to singer Madonna's discography in the biography Madonna: Like an Icon? (2012-02-02)
 * ... that Daisy Burrell (pictured) was talent-spotted for The Valley of Fear while playing Cinderella? (2012-02-02)
 * ... that Canberra Capitals player Michelle Cosier took a year off from basketball because she was pregnant? (2012-02-01)
 * ... that Lorna Kesterson worked as a newspaper journalist and editor until her election as the first female mayor of Henderson, Nevada? (2012-02-01)
 * ... that Canberra Capitals player Hannah Bowley also plays Australian rules football? (2012-02-01)
 * ... that Indonesian songstress Vina Panduwinata outperformed Janet Jackson and David Pomeranz at the 1985 World Popular Song Festival? (2012-01-31)
 * ... that in "Schoolin' Life", Beyoncé Knowles channels the friskiness of American singer Prince in his prime and employs guttural vocals to address many life lessons to everyone from their 20s to their 50s? (2012-01-31)
 * ... that Canberra Capitals player Lauren Jansen and coach Carrie Graf both started playing in the WNBL at the age of 15? (2012-01-31)
 * ... that Harriet Low (pictured) caused a diplomatic incident when she entered the banned port of Canton dressed as a boy? (2012-01-31)
 * ... that Canberra Capitals player Marianna Tolo dressed as Xena during the team's 2010/2011 Mad Monday celebrations? (2012-01-29)
 * ... that the director who discovered Italian film actress Lorella De Luca followed the 14-year-old girl to her home, where he convinced her father that she should pursue an acting career? (2012-01-29)
 * ... that the live performance of the song "Keep It Together" was inspired by the 1971 science fiction film, A Clockwork Orange, in its staging? (2012-01-27)
 * ... that the Arab Spring has revved up the Saudi Arabian "Women to drive movement" (poster pictured)? (2012-01-26)
 * ... that Hikari and Riho became professional wrestlers in 2006 when they were 11 and 9 years old, respectively? (2012-01-25)
 * ... that although Madonna's "Masterpiece" won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song, it is ineligible for the Oscar for Best Original Song? (2012-01-25)
 * ... that during World War I, Marthe Cnockaert was recruited as a spy by both Germany and Britain, and she arranged for her German recruiter to be killed? (2012-01-25)
 * ... that after co-founding Safe Kids Worldwide, Herta Feely became an award-winning writer? (2012-01-25)
 * ... that Australian basketball player Nicole Hunt of the Canberra Capitals is nicknamed 'Flea'? (2012-01-23)
 * ... that Canberra Capitals player Carly Wilson is renowned for wearing pink socks while playing basketball in the WNBL? (2012-01-22)
 * ... that Prisia Nasution, who won a Citra Award for her debut role, has a background in the martial art of pencak silat? (2012-01-21)
 * ... that Canberra Capitals players Alice Coddington and Brigitte Ardossi majored in marketing while attending university in the United States? (2012-01-21)
 * ... that the Once Upon a Time episode "Desperate Souls" features actor Brad Dourif as a "beggar who befriends evil Rumpelstiltskin"? (2012-01-19)
 * ... that in 2004, Arfa Karim became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of nine years? (2012-01-19)
 * ... that a female taekwondo fighter, who wore a headscarf under her helmet, won the sole medal for Afghanistan at the 2002 Asian Games after the fall of the Taliban? (2012-01-16)
 * ... that in Egyptian mythology, the Eye of Ra slaughtered masses of people, got drunk, ran away from her owner, and was brought back by her husband? (2012-01-16)
 * ... that Rihanna's "Birthday Cake", said to resemble a real-life quickie, lasts just 78 seconds? (2012-01-15)
 * ... that Tamil writer Bama had served as a Roman Catholic nun for seven years? (2012-01-11)
 * ... that American torch singer Roberta Sherwood became a sudden nationwide success at age 43? (2012-01-10)
 * ... that Greek writer Dido Sotiriou (pictured) deals in her novels with the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the civil war and the postwar period in Greece? (2012-01-10)
 * ... that "Fotos Y Recuerdos" was positioned at number four on the US Hot Latin Tracks the day Selena was murdered? (2012-01-06)
 * ... that singer-cum-writer Dewi Lestari, who draws much of her inspiration from spirituality, has called fundamentalists "crazy"? (2012-01-06)
 * ... that originally, "Unfaithful" was a dark and moody track, inspired from the works of American rock band Evanescence? (2012-01-05)
 * ... that artist and suffragist Adele Goodman Clark and her partner Nora Houston set up their easels on a downtown streetcorner in Richmond, Virginia, and canvassed passers-by about women's suffrage? (2012-01-03)
 * ... that the short story "A Stroke of Good Fortune" by Flannery O'Connor features early versions of characters from O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood? (2012-01-03)
 * ... that Ayu Utami's (pictured) 1998 novel Saman launched an Indonesian literary movement focusing on women's views of sexuality? (2012-01-02)
 * ... that guerrilla fighter and National Heroine of Indonesia Martha Christina Tiahahu died in Dutch custody two days before her 18th birthday? (2012-01-02)