Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Green/DYK/2015 DYK Blurbs

2015 DYK Blurbs: Transcluding 10 of 808 2015 DYK blurbs
 * ... that serial killer Hilda Nilsson committed suicide by hanging the same day the courts commuted her death sentence to life imprisonment? (2015-12-31)
 * ... that Natalia Lafourcade sought inspiration for her album Hasta la Raíz in Agustín Lara's repertoire and her native country, Mexico? (2015-12-31)
 * ... that drummer, singer, and songwriter Emily Estefan was born in 1994 after her mother, Gloria Estefan, had been told she would never give birth following a 1990 tour-bus crash? (2015-12-31)
 * ... that Agnes Okoh, an illiterate Nigerian, founded Christ Holy Church International? (2015-12-31)
 * ... that the suicide of Chinese silent film actress Ai Xia inspired a film starring Ruan Lingyu, who also committed suicide soon after the film's release? (2015-12-31)
 * ... that at the age of 10, Zuriel Oduwole became the world's youngest person to appear in Forbes? (2015-12-30)
 * ... that goalkeeper Sakura Hauge joined the Japan women's national handball team in 2015, after years of trying to get a place on the Norwegian team? (2015-12-30)
 * ... that 13 years after Lydia Emelie Gruchy graduated her theological studies with honors, she was finally ordained in 1936 as the first female minister of the United Church of Canada? (2015-12-30)
 * ... that Etta Federn received Nazi death threats because of her Walther Rathenau biography? (2015-12-30)
 * ... that Temerl Bergson, a wealthy businesswoman and patroness of Hasidic Jews in 19th-century Poland, "distributed money like ashes"? (2015-12-29)
 * ... that Rachel Davis Harris was an influential African American library director in the Jim Crow South? (2015-12-29)
 * ... that Mrs Beeton became used as a generic name for "an authority on cooking and domestic subjects"? (2015-12-29)
 * ... that as Director of the General Political Department of the Fourth Front Army, Zhang Qinqiu held the highest war-time position of a woman in the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army? (2015-12-28)
 * ... that Sarla Bedi established the Hindu reform movement Arya Samaj in Toronto, Canada, and promoted social causes? (2015-12-28)
 * ... that Monica Gardner life was shaped by finding that Bonnie Prince Charlie's mother was from Poland? (2015-12-28)
 * ... that the nun Jeanne des Anges was the main protagonist of the witch trials which led to the death by burning of a French priest? (2015-12-28)
 * ... that, although Elizabeth Gray died, her family's tradition of collecting fossils at Girvan lasted for 86 years? (2015-12-28)
 * ... that cell biologist Margaret Reed Lewis may have been the first person to successfully grow mammalian tissue in vitro? (2015-12-27)
 * ... that Jane Fraser has been promoted to four CEO posts at Citigroup since joining in 2004? (2015-12-27)
 * ... that Ann Allebach (pictured), the first woman ordained a Mennonite minister in North America, was ordained 62 years before the next woman? (2015-12-27)
 * ... that The DeMarco Sisters were featured singers in the 1952 film Skirts Ahoy! with actress Esther Williams? (2015-12-26)
 * ... that Mary Frances Clarke helped move the religious order Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which she had founded, from Philadelphia to Dubuque, Iowa, with their piano? (2015-12-26)
 * ... that in 1895 Sister Krucifiksa founded a school dedicated to the Sacred Heart, which accepted children regardless of their religious affiliation or ethnic background? (2015-12-26)
 * ... that Else Halling contributed decorations to several public buildings in Oslo, including the Royal Palace, the Akershus Castle, Stortinget, and the City Hall (tapestry pictured)? (2015-12-26)
 * ... that Cento vergilianus de laudibus Christi, a Latin poem by Faltonia Betitia Proba, takes lines from the works of the Roman poet Virgil and rearranges them to be about Jesus? (2015-12-26)
 * ... that although not her team's designated sprinter, Giorgia Bronzini won the 2015 Tour of Chongming Island World Cup in a bunch sprint? (2015-12-26)
 * ... that Lady Alice Lucy toured towns giving presents of bread and meat each Christmas? (2015-12-25)
 * ... that physiotherapist Avrilia Papayannis lived as a hermit in the Himalayas before becoming a Greek Orthodox nun later known as Mother Gavrielia? (2015-12-24)
 * ... that Australian priest Elizabeth Alfred led Holy Communion on her 100th birthday? (2015-12-24)
 * ... that the British orthopaedic surgeon Samantha Tross made long jumps during her education? (2015-12-23)
 * ... that Chris Christie credits his wife, Mary Pat Christie, and her financial success on Wall Street as the reason he could give up his law career and run for political office? (2015-12-23)
 * ... that Kini Kapahu was recognized as Hawaii's "Honorary First Lady"? (2015-12-23)
 * ... that Wu Chengzhen was the first woman to be ordained as a fangzhang in the 1,800-year history of the Tao faith? (2015-12-22)
 * ... that a white, straight, female character in Master of None was rewritten as a black lesbian after Lena Waithe read for the role? (2015-12-22)
 * ... that interior designer Lena Larsson became known as a pioneer for the unconventional, family-friendly environments she created? (2015-12-22)
 * ... that opera singer Camellia Johnson performed at Donald Trump's wedding ceremonies to Marla Maples and Melania Knauss? (2015-12-22)
 * ... that there were three Cumbrian Armitt sisters in the 19th century who all became writers—Sophia, Mary Louisa, and the novelist Annie? (2015-12-22)
 * ... that of the more than 3,000 midwives working in the state of Florida in the early 1920s, Victoria Joyce Ely was the only one who was trained and licensed? (2015-12-21)
 * ... that gastroenterologist Sara Murray Jordan co-wrote a cookbook titled Good Food for Bad Stomachs? (2015-12-21)
 * ... that physiotherapist Janet Carr specialised in rehabilitation after stroke? (2015-12-21)
 * ... that Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg pledged to donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares, valued at $45 billion, to their charitable foundation? (2015-12-20)
 * ... that Maureen O'Hara (pictured) was only the second actress to receive an honorary Oscar without having previously been nominated for an Oscar in a competitive category? (2015-12-20)
 * ... that Jan McFarlane, the Archdeacon of Norwich, worked with deaf children before being ordained? (2015-12-20)
 * ... that while working on her graduate degree in chemistry, Emīlija Gudriniece won the Latvian Women's Motorcycle Championship in 1949, and then won it again in 1953? (2015-12-20)
 * ... that Ruth Schmidt, an employee of the United States Geological Survey, was questioned in two McCarthyist hearings because of her association with a bookstore? (2015-12-19)
 * ... that Argentine author Patricia Ratto novel Trasfondo depicts life on a submarine during the Falklands/Malvinas War? (2015-12-19)
 * ... that molecular cell biologist Mónica Bettencourt-Dias also studied scientific communication, the way scientists communicate with the public? (2015-12-19)
 * ... that conservationist Rose Gaffney, known as "The Belle of Bodega Bay," helped halt the construction of a nuclear power plant in Bodega Bay, California? (2015-12-18)
 * ... that Elisa Oricchio identified that the ephrin receptor EphA7 plays a role in tumor development of follicular lymphoma? (2015-12-18)
 * ... that Doris Calloway studied farts, space food, and broccoli? (2015-12-18)
 * ... that in 2015, for the first time, a women's cycling race took place just prior to the final stage of the Vuelta a España? (2015-12-18)
 * ... that at 101 years old, Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind was still attending patients at Los Angeles Children's Hospital? (2015-12-17)
 * ... that collaboration between botanists Elinor Francis Vallentin and A.D. Cotton resulted in the first comprehensive study of cryptogams from the Falkland Islands? (2015-12-17)
 * ... that one of Frank Sinatra's most widely known public insults was leveled against The Washington Post columnist Maxine Cheshire? (2015-12-16)
 * ... that Lilo Milchsack was one of "the architects of post-war Europe"? (2015-12-16)
 * ... that Ida Dixon, designer of the 18-hole golf course at the Springhaven Club, was the first female golf course architect in the United States? (2015-12-16)
 * ... that Claudette Sorel discovered and premiered two previously unknown Rachmaninoff nocturnes? (2015-12-16)
 * ... that Anne Beloff-Chain founded the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Buckingham? (2015-12-16)
 * ... that Jessica Garretson Finch was a suffragette who founded Finch College and advocated for careers for women? (2015-12-15)
 * ... that Folake Solanke is the first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria? (2015-12-15)
 * ... that each of the six laps of the 2015 Philadelphia Cycling Classic ended with a climb up the 800 m Manayunk Wall? (2015-12-15)
 * ... that astrophysicist Naomi McClure-Griffiths discovered a new spiral arm in the Milky Way? (2015-12-14)
 * ... that May Owen discovered that the talcum powder used on surgical gloves caused infection and peritoneal scarring? (2015-12-14)
 * ... that in 2000 Midori Suzuki was a soprano in Sigiswald Kuijken's recording of Bach's Mass in B minor which uses one voice per part? (2015-12-13)
 * ... that Lidija Liepiņa worked with a team of other scientists in a mobile laboratory in a train boxcar, testing filters to create Russia's first functional gas mask? (2015-12-13)
 * ... that Catherine Feuillet led a team to successfully map the largest wheat chromosome, 3B? (2015-12-13)
 * ... that at age 16, singer Julie Budd was the youngest-ever opening act for Frank Sinatra? (2015-12-12)
 * ... that Japanese physicist Toshiko Yuasa studied in Paris under Frédéric Joliot-Curie and developed her own beta-ray spectrometer in Berlin? (2015-12-11)
 * ... that the British entrepreneur Nancy Cruickshank second start-up, Handbag.com, became the number-one fashion and beauty website in the UK, with 1.5 million visits monthly? (2015-12-11)
 * ... that the Cadet Nurse Corps (recruiting poster pictured), established during World War II, influenced the way in which nurses would be educated and trained in the United States? (2015-12-11)
 * ... that Vera Faddeeva 1950 book Computational methods of linear algebra was one of the first publications in that field of mathematics? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that Una Ryan and Una Ryan both emigrated from their countries, study infectious disease, and were honored with the Order of the British Empire and Prime Minister's Prizes for Science, respectively? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that The Daily Telegraph has called Nicola Mendelsohn (pictured), Facebook's vice president for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, "the most powerful woman in the British tech industry"? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that Marguerite Lehr conducted a televised lecture course on mathematics in the 1950s? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that Louise Hay was the only woman to direct a math department at a major research university in her era? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that Kathryn Parsons (pictured) co-founded a startup that teaches people how to "code in a day"? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that biochemist Kathryn Ferguson Fink developed radiolabeling techniques that were used to study the success of chemotherapy? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that Katherine Belov discovered that the contagious cancer decimating the Tasmanian devil spreads due to lack of genetic diversity? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that Singaporean fungi expert Gloria Lim was once summoned by her country's Ministry of Defence when their storage area developed mold? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that Diana Marcela Bolaños Rodriguez studies marine flatworms to learn about their regenerative abilities? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that ASI Corp., a wholesale distributor of computer components founded by Christine Liang, is one of the largest women-owned businesses in the United States? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that Charlotte Sahl-Madsen introduced multiple intelligences into the Universe? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that after Cecilia Bouzat was given a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science she was received by the President of Argentina? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that Catherine A. Lozupone created the UniFrac algorithm, which has allowed researchers to plot the relationships between microbial communities in the human gut? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that Andrea Ablasser discovered a molecule that warns nearby cells when it encounters a pathogen? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that American mechanical engineer Alice Agogino won the NSF's Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985? (2015-12-10)
 * ... that Vera Fedorovna Gaze, who discovered around 150 emission nebulae, had a minor planet and a crater on Venus named for her? (2015-12-08)
 * ... that Stephanie Burns, an organosilicon chemist, served as President and CEO of Dow Corning? (2015-12-08)
 * ... that American artist Lily Furedi had an ekphrastic poem called "Eyes Alive" written about her often-reproduced painting The Subway? (2015-12-08)
 * ... that actress Charlize Theron made her debut in an uncredited role in the 1995 horror film Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest? (2015-12-08)
 * ... that Sarah Kalley and her husband started the first Protestant church in Brazil? (2015-12-07)
 * ... that Yueh-Lin Loo invented nanotransfer printing, a technique that allows electrical circuits to be printed onto plastic surfaces? (2015-12-06)
 * ... that only a year after joining the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at age 21, Eileen Sharp (pictured) was promoted to be the company's principal mezzo-soprano? (2015-12-06)
 * ... that Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade won three Latin Grammy Awards for her song "Hasta la Raíz"? (2015-12-05)
 * ... that German astrophysicist Hanna von Hoerner designed the cosmic dust analyser onboard Rosetta? (2015-12-05)
 * ... that Dorothea Leighton is one of the founders of the field of medical anthropology? (2015-12-05)
 * ... that in the mystery manga series Zodiac P.I., teenage detective Lili Hoshizawa uses astrology to solve cases? (2015-12-04)
 * ... that Patricia Numann founded the Association of Women Surgeons, chaired the American Board of Surgery, and was president of the American College of Surgeons? (2015-12-04)
 * ... that Chinese soprano Guanqun Yu won the Belvedere International Singing Competition and placed 2nd in Operalia, The World Opera Competition? (2015-12-04)
 * ... that A New System of Domestic Cookery (frontispiece pictured) has been called "a publishing sensation" and "the most famous cookery book of its time"? (2015-12-04)
 * ... that soprano Ying Fang has won the Golden Bell Award, the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, and the Lincoln Center Segal Award? (2015-12-03)
 * ... that the Armitt Library is named for the polyglot Mary Louisa Armitt? (2015-12-03)
 * ... that Idelisa Bonnelly pushed for the first humpback whale sanctuary to be established and was inducted into the Global 500 Roll of Honour of UNEP for her defense of the environment? (2015-12-03)
 * ... that Tebello Nyokong is helping to pioneer a safer method of cancer detection and therapy that does not have the harmful side effects of chemotherapy? (2015-12-02)
 * ... that Omowunmi Sadik has developed highly sensitive microelectrode biosensors that can detect explosives? (2015-12-02)
 * ... that Frances Gertrude McGill, a Canadian forensic pathologist, was referred to as the "Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan"? (2015-12-02)
 * ... that voice teacher Beverley Peck Johnson told actor Kevin Kline that he had to choose between her and cigarettes if he wanted to be her pupil? (2015-12-02)
 * ... that after Olga Fedchenko husband died on Mont Blanc in 1873, she was asked to continue their work by Moscow's Society of Natural Scientists? (2015-12-01)
 * ... that bacteriologist Maria von Linden received a patent for her discovery that copper salts could be used as a disinfectant? (2015-12-01)
 * ... that Ida Shepard Oldroyd curated the world's second largest collection of mollusk shells? (2015-12-01)
 * ... that Tsuruko Haraguchi, the first Japanese woman to receive a PhD, helped establish an experimental psychology laboratory at Japan Women's University? (2015-11-30)
 * ... that towards the end of her life, biologist Mary Cynthia Dickerson had hallucinations of the Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson? (2015-11-30)
 * ... that Soviet physician Vera Lebedeva instituted a successful program to reduce infant mortality in her country? (2015-11-29)
 * ... that the Celsiella, a type of glass frog, was named after Josefa Celsa Señaris? (2015-11-29)
 * ... that The Industrial Christian Home for Polygamous Wives was briefly the home of the Utah legislature? (2015-11-28)
 * ... that Guadalupe Marín and Diego Rivera's daughter Ruth Rivera Marín was the first woman to study architecture at the National Polytechnic Institute? (2015-11-28)
 * ... that Marie Lebour studied the life cycles of marine animals until she was 88? (2015-11-28)
 * ... that Junri Namigata won her first ITF tennis tournament while still a student at Waseda University? (2015-11-28)
 * ... that Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly opined that A Very Gaga Thanksgiving was "disarmingly direct, sincere, and unpretentious"? (2015-11-27)
 * ... that Zhou Xiaoyan was described by The New York Times as "China's First Lady of Opera"? (2015-11-26)
 * ... that biologist Kono Yasui was only allowed to study outside of Japan if she listed "home economics research" alongside "scientific research" on her application and agreed not to marry? (2015-11-26)
 * ... that Singaporean women's rights activist Khatijun Nissa Siraj pressed for the creation of a Syariah Court and served as its first caseworker? (2015-11-26)
 * ... that Urmila Eulie Chowdhury was chief architect of the state of Punjab from 1976 to 1981? (2015-11-26)
 * ... that Vicky Lau was named the best female chef in Asia in 2015? (2015-11-25)
 * ... that Ragnhild Sundby doctoral thesis concluded that fluctuations of miner moth populations were mainly caused by parasitic wasps? (2015-11-25)
 * ... that Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville (pictured) was the wife, mother, sister, and daughter of members of the Académie française? (2015-11-25)
 * ... that architect Winka Dubbeldam prefers dressing in black, and lives in a house with black walls? (2015-11-24)
 * ... that architect Susan Maxman's firm received 65 awards including 14 AIA design awards and 14 awards for their designs' environmental importance? (2015-11-24)
 * ... that Singaporean ballet dancer and choreographer Goh Lay Kuan was branded "The Red Ballerina" after being detained in a mass-arrest of alleged communist-sympathizers? (2015-11-24)
 * ... that the architects Elizabeth and H. T. Cadbury-Brown worked together on designs for the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal College of Art? (2015-11-24)
 * ... that actor Sarah-Jane Redmond auditioned for the film Hellraiser: Hellseeker using bondage artwork by Eric Stanton instead of a head shot? (2015-11-23)
 * ... that Kristin Feireiss became a Pritzker Architecture Prize juror in 2015? (2015-11-23)
 * ... that one of Helen Maitland Armstrong stained glass windows was still intact after flying half a mile in a hurricane? (2015-11-23)
 * ... that German biochemist Ulrike Beisiegel is the first woman to serve as president of the University of Göttingen? (2015-11-22)
 * ... that Hasbro Studios were originally disconcerted with setting Littlest Pet Shop at a pet shop? (2015-11-22)
 * ... that botanist and ecologist Edith Clements illustrated most of her own books? (2015-11-22)
 * ... that Anupama Kundoo, an Indian architect working at Auroville from 1990, created innovations in her project designs by adopting "sustainable building technologies and infrastructural systems"? (2015-11-22)
 * ... that Michiyo Tsujimura discovery of vitamin C in green tea contributed to an increase in tea exports to America? (2015-11-21)
 * ... that theoretical physicist Mariangela Lisanti was named on MIT Technology Review TR35 list of innovators when she was 18 years old? (2015-11-21)
 * ... that neuroscientist Kay Tye has used light to identify connections in the brain that are linked to anxiety? (2015-11-21)
 * ... that Iranian poet Fateme Ekhtesari was arrested and found guilty in court of "insulting the sacred" after appearing at the Gothenburg poetry festival? (2015-11-21)
 * ... that Zoka Zola design of a zero-energy house blends every available space with solar, wind, and geothermal methods in a "modern-organic-fusion style"? (2015-11-20)
 * ... that some commentators credit Leelah Alcorn with inspiring "a flashpoint for transgender progress in 2014"? (2015-11-20)
 * ... that Grace Medes discovered the human metabolic disorder of tyrosinemia in 1932? (2015-11-20)
 * ... that journalist Arzu Geybullayeva has received numerous death threats and has been branded a "traitor" because she worked for an Armenian newspaper? (2015-11-20)
 * ... that Canadian oncologist Kathleen I. Pritchard was one of the most cited researchers in the world in 2014 and 2015? (2015-11-19)
 * ... that Hajjah Fatimah, one of the inaugural inductees into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame, provided for the construction of a mosque that now bears her name? (2015-11-18)
 * ... that Melanie Dawes was the first Permanent Secretary of a British Government ministry to be selected by the Prime Minister? (2015-11-18)
 * ... that Grace Oladunni Taylor was the first African to win the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science and the second woman inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science? (2015-11-18)
 * ... that the song "Angels Cry" by Mariah Carey became her 28th career entry on the United States' Adult Contemporary chart? (2015-11-18)
 * ... that Cambodian Princess Soma Norodom, the self-dubbed "Royal Rebel", is known for her exposé newspaper columns about corruption in Cambodia? (2015-11-17)
 * ... that Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice-elect Christine Donohue is the daughter of a United Mine Worker and a union seamstress? (2015-11-17)
 * ... that the memorial service for Beverly L. Greene, "believed to be the first African American woman licensed as an architect in the United States", took place in a funeral home she had designed? (2015-11-17)
 * ... that European high jump champion Anne-Marie Colchen also won a World Championship medal in women's basketball? (2015-11-17)
 * ... that Mariah Carey sings about Lego, Harvard University, and Humpty Dumpty in her song "Up Out My Face"? (2015-11-16)
 * ... that Eva-Maria Neher, a German scientist in biochemistry and microbiology and founder of Göttingen Xlab, is married to Erwin Neher, a Nobel laureate? (2015-11-16)
 * ... that the American artist Eugenie McEvoy, who created the painting Taxi! Taxi!, also performed in a sharpshooting act on the vaudeville stage? (2015-11-16)
 * ... that the model for a Pre-Raphaelite painting (pictured) became the Vicereine of India? (2015-11-16)
 * ... that Myeong-Hee Yu won a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science in 1998 for her work on the protein alpha-1 antitrypsin? (2015-11-15)
 * ... that the seaweed expert Mary Philadelphia Merrifield learnt Swedish so she could correspond with the naturalist Jacob Georg Agardh? (2015-11-15)
 * ... that Marilyn Monroe was featured on the cover and on the centerfold of the first issue of Playboy? (2015-11-15)
 * ... that the Leona Lewis song "I Am" is about her former record label boss Simon Cowell? (2015-11-15)
 * ... that in her 18 years playing the title role on the daily radio soap opera Stella Dallas, Anne Elstner missed only one performance? (2015-11-15)
 * ... that biologist Marvalee Wake, an expert on caecilians, is married to an expert on salamanders? (2015-11-14)
 * ... that Rihanna debuted Anti's official artwork and title at a private viewing for fans and press at Los Angeles' MAMA Gallery? (2015-11-14)
 * ... that the glaciologist Moira Dunbar is the only female recipient of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society's Massey Medal? (2015-11-13)
 * ... that Katherine Cutler Ficken was the first woman to be licensed as an architect in Maryland? (2015-11-13)
 * ... that medal-winning ice dancer Kakani Katija Young is a bioengineer studying the contribution of sea creatures to tidal movement? (2015-11-13)
 * ... that the Japanese chemist Chika Kuroda helped to create an antihypertensive drug from an onion skin? (2015-11-13)
 * ... that in the early 1940s, Beatrice Beeby, Joan Wood, and Inge Smithells established the first nursery playcentres, precursor to the present-day Playcentre organisation in New Zealand? (2015-11-13)
 * ... that the Texas A&M–Commerce Lions women's soccer team has won four Lone Star Conference regular season championships and three conference tournament titles? (2015-11-12)
 * ... that Agathe L. van Beverwijk left her research role at the Amsterdam Cancer Institute because she refused to experiment on animals? (2015-11-12)
 * ... that Trudeliese Schmidt performed trouser roles at the Salzburg Festival and Mozart's Coronation Mass for a Papal Mass in Rome? (2015-11-11)
 * ... that that Mariah Carey denounces the existence of poverty and racism in her song "There's Got to Be a Way"? (2015-11-11)
 * ... that Kathrin Barboza Marquez rediscovered a bat in Bolivia which had been thought to be extinct in the country? (2015-11-11)
 * ... that Gaby Lewis, who made her debut for the Irish women's cricket team at the age of 13, is the first international cricket player to be born in the 21st century? (2015-11-11)
 * ... that the architect Chitra Vishwanath built her own large mud house in Bengaluru to promote her theme of mud architecture as an environmentally sound proposition? (2015-11-11)
 * ... that on 25 February 1990, Violeta Chamorro of Nicaragua became the first elected woman president in the Americas? (2015-11-10)
 * ... that with certain diseases, vaginal discharge can become cheesy, frothy, or fishy? (2015-11-10)
 * ... that architect Judith Ledeboer studied at Cambridge but designed buildings for Oxford? (2015-11-10)
 * ... that Alice Alldredge, an expert on marine snow, has been in the top 0.1% of the Web of Science's highly cited researchers list since 2003? (2015-11-10)
 * ... that Nelle Morton is thought to have taught the first course on women and religion? (2015-11-09)
 * ... that Sydney architect Eleanor Cullis-Hill practiced from her home since she felt that women were unwelcome in large architectural offices? (2015-11-09)
 * ... that Queen consort Darejan Dadiani (pictured) had 23 children with her husband, Heraclius II of Georgia? (2015-11-09)
 * ... that Bibi Bourelly, who wrote Rihanna's "Bitch Better Have My Money", is the daughter of guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly? (2015-11-09)
 * ... that iHeartRadio bet Leona Lewis $5 to sing her name in the style of Jason Derulo at the beginning of her performance of "Thunder" live on air? (2015-11-08)
 * ... that although Monica Pidgeon father persuaded her not to study architecture, she went on to edit Architectural Design for almost three decades? (2015-11-08)
 * ... that the German refugee Mary Saran had a marriage of convenience to help her stay in Britain? (2015-11-08)
 * ... that the first woman to notoriously wear lipstick in Honduras is said to now be their premier woman poet? (2015-11-08)
 * ... that Roshanara, who was born and trained in India, taught Bette Davis to dance? (2015-11-07)
 * ... that the 2015 FA Women's Cup Final was the first edition to be staged at Wembley Stadium? (2015-11-07)
 * ... that by 1975, the year Marcy Cottrell Houle's book Wings for My Flight documents, only 324 pairs of peregrine falcons resided in the United States? (2015-11-06)
 * ... that Silvana Imam and her girlfriend Beatrice Eli performed together in 2015 under the stage name Vierge Moderne? (2015-11-06)
 * ... that the title of Mariah Carey's song "H.A.T.E.U." is an acronym for "Having A Typical Emotional Upset"? (2015-11-06)
 * ... that Teresa Borsuk interest in architecture was sparked partly by Lego? (2015-11-05)
 * ... that Stella Bloch headlined in New York after she returned from learning Javanese dance at the Prince of Solo's palace? (2015-11-05)
 * ... that Lyubow Demeetriyevna Oosava and her fellow students of the Moscow Architectural Institute were required to study architecture and manufacture munitions during World War II? (2015-11-05)
 * ... that Vida Latham advocated for women in dentistry and medicine throughout her career in both fields? (2015-11-04)
 * ... that the BBC was accused of ignoring women architects when Patty Hopkins was removed from a photograph of The Brits Who Built the Modern World? (2015-11-04)
 * ... that Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Elizabeth Williams is also an archaeologist and art historian who has taught at Columbia University and UC Berkeley? (2015-11-04)
 * ... that, if King Louis I of Hungary is to be trusted, his in-law Maria of Bosnia had children in her fifties and lived to be over 90? (2015-11-03)
 * ... that Constance Leathart, one of the first women to fly over the Alps, flew heavy bombers in World War II? (2015-11-03)
 * ... that the London-based architect Rosemary Stjernstedt was the first woman to reach senior grade I status in a British council county division? (2015-11-02)
 * ... that architect Eva Vecsei has designed projects in Hungary, Canada and Pakistan? (2015-11-02)
 * ... that Mercedes Gleitze had to attempt to swim the English Channel again to prove she had already done it? (2015-11-01)
 * ... that Cecile Hoover Edwards, an expert on African-American nutrition, sought to identify low-cost foods with an optimal amino acid composition? (2015-11-01)
 * ... that metal corsets probably served a medical purpose rather than being a "cruel, tortuous fashion" enforced by a dominant 16th-century queen? (2015-10-31)
 * ... that serial killer Lizzie Halliday was the first woman sentenced to die in the electric chair? (2015-10-31)
 * ... that actress Maria Möller is a classically trained mezzo-soprano and soloist? (2015-10-30)
 * ... that Hebrew University folklore professor Galit Hasan-Rokem claims that Israel street signs exhibit bias against Arabic-speaking residents? (2015-10-30)
 * ... that Dutch architect Tonny Zwollo was featured in Life magazine for building 35 schools in Oaxaca, Mexico, and convincing the community members to help build them for free? (2015-10-29)
 * ... that Rosamind Julius and her husband were the entrepreneurs behind the world's most commercially successful chair? (2015-10-29)
 * ... that Kate Macintosh designed a social housing complex in London that was described as "one of the most remarkable housing developments in the country"? (2015-10-29)
 * ... that the cathedral architect Corinne Bennett interest in stone came from her father, a geology professor? (2015-10-29)
 * ... that Ethel Mairet has been called "the mother of English hand-weaving"? (2015-10-28)
 * ... that Richard Nixon lived in two houses designed by Eleanore Pettersen? (2015-10-28)
 * ... that British/Kenyan architect Dorothy Hughes most renowned designs include the Cathedral of the Holy Family and a nightclub in the red-light district of Nairobi? (2015-10-28)
 * ... that the music video for Adele's song "Hello" was the first to be filmed using IMAX cameras? (2015-10-27)
 * ... that Deborah Saunt was cited as one of "London's top architects" in 2012? (2015-10-27)
 * ... that conservation architect Beatriz del Cueto restored Puerto Rico's oldest lighthouse, Cape San Juan Light (pictured)? (2015-10-27)
 * ... that María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías was the first Latin American woman to graduate with a degree in architecture? (2015-10-26)
 * ... that the "Dragon Lady" complained that American Architects ran a "gentleman's club"? (2015-10-26)
 * ... that Emilie von Berlepsch (pictured) described herself as "fighting against the prejudice that wants to grant women neither a will of their own nor the courage to express it"? (2015-10-26)
 * ... that Debra Crew surprised business observers when she became president of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company only two months after being named president of PepsiCo North America Nutrition? (2015-10-26)
 * ... that Tracy Dahl voice has been described as "filled with sunshine, rainbows and laser light"? (2015-10-25)
 * ... that Jewel Freeman Graham, the second black woman president of the World YWCA, joined the organization as a teenager in the colored division in Springfield, Ohio in 1939? (2015-10-25)
 * ... that Isabelle Eberhardt's first story, published in 1895, was about a medical student's physical attraction to a woman's corpse? (2015-10-25)
 * ... that Gertrude Leverkus was the only woman among 500 men to sit her final exams in architecture at University College London in 1919? (2015-10-25)
 * ... that Georgie Wolton designed the first house in the UK to use CorTen steel as the primary structure? (2015-10-25)
 * ... that according to the occultist Aleister Crowley, Alice Coomaraswamy became pregnant using "sex magic"? (2015-10-25)
 * ... that the Turkish-Danish women's handballer Sara Keçeci played for Turkey in her homeland Denmark against the Danish women's team at a European championship match in 2015? (2015-10-24)
 * ... that Chilean-born Rocio Romero redesigned the kit home to feature modern, minimalist aesthetics, using natural airflow and lighting? (2015-10-24)
 * ... that Swedish fashion model Gunilla Persson had a minor role in the soap opera Dallas while living in Dallas? (2015-10-24)
 * ... that Carole J. Olshavsky was the first woman to be appointed state architect for Ohio? (2015-10-24)
 * ... that singer Lady Gaga used a Bea Szenfeld (pictured) design for herself and her background dancers in the music video for the song "G.U.Y."? (2015-10-24)
 * ... that television presenter Suzanne Sjögren was selected as Sweden's sexiest woman by the men's magazine Slitz in 2001? (2015-10-23)
 * ... that the first female architect from the West Indies was the Jamaican Verma Panton? (2015-10-22)
 * ... that Roddy Piper and Keith David, who throw punches at each other in They Live (1988), provided their voices for "The Red Throne" in which their characters engage in a similar fight? (2015-10-22)
 * ... that Swedish television presenter Karin Frick won a scholarship which allowed her to play tennis at a college in Miami? (2015-10-22)
 * ... that architect Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp said she campaigned for women's issues "simply because I did not want there to be any"? (2015-10-21)
 * ... that when the polity was centered at Meroë, Shanakdakhete (statue pictured) was the earliest known ruling African queen of ancient Nubia? (2015-10-21)
 * ... that Mariah Carey's greatest hits #1 to Infinity features all 18 of her U.S. Hot 100 number-one songs? (2015-10-21)
 * ... that Australian actress Georgia Flood was initially told she was too young to play Alice Ross-King in the miniseries ANZAC Girls? (2015-10-21)
 * ... that Orit Adato, the first female commissioner of the Israel Prison Service, allowed Palestinian security prisoners to study for university degrees, as long as they did so in Hebrew? (2015-10-20)
 * ... that after mathematician Hinke Osinga studied invariant manifolds in her doctoral dissertation, she made a crochet model of one? (2015-10-20)
 * ... that a street in Rome is named after female Italian mathematician Pia Nalli? (2015-10-19)
 * ... that Agnes Ellen Harris began "Tomato Clubs" in Florida which later became part of an international youth organization? (2015-10-19)
 * ... that Split, the debut novel by Swati Avasthi, an Indian American writer and teacher, was published in 2010 and received a plethora of awards? (2015-10-18)
 * ... that American artist Louise Upton Brumback (painting pictured) said of artists as teachers that "the great ones won't teach their secrets, and the little ones have none to teach"? (2015-10-18)
 * ... that Loretta Marron became known as "the Jelly Bean Lady" after using jelly beans to test bogus health products? (2015-10-18)
 * ... that Hazel Findlay has free climbed El Capitán three times on three different routes, including two first female ascents? (2015-10-18)
 * ... that Berta Bobath and her husband, who jointly won an award for working with people with disabilities, took an overdose together? (2015-10-18)
 * ... that Sonam Kapoor is the first Indian actress to star in a film produced by Walt Disney Pictures? (2015-10-17)
 * ... that in 1911, journalist Mabel Potter Daggett wrote that practicing yoga leads to "marital infelicity, insanity, and death"? (2015-10-17)
 * ... that missionary and doctor Jane Elizabeth Waterston was given the South African name of Noqataka, "the mother of activity"? (2015-10-16)
 * ... that sculptor Carolina Benedicks-Bruce was called a Swedish "Mrs. Pankhurst"? (2015-10-16)
 * ... that Selena was called the "Queen of Tejano music", and was described as "the most important and popular Tejano star of all time"? (2015-10-14)
 * ... that upon her introduction in 1987, Ruth Archer stood out from the other female characters featured in The Archers as she was a farmer and a feminist? (2015-10-14)
 * ... that the father of British strategy consultant and tech entrepreneur Judith Clegg encouraged her to learn programming code when she was 7 or 8 years old? (2015-10-14)
 * ... that a searcher for the source of the Nile was raised as an orphan, traded as a slave, and died Lady Florence Baker (pictured)? (2015-10-14)
 * ... that Wendy Tan White, CEO of Moonfruit, laid off her co-founder and future husband to save the company after the dot-com crash? (2015-10-13)
 * ... that UCSD biophysicist Rommie Amaro co-mentored a teen who won the 2013 Siemens Competition, the 2013 Google Science Fair, and the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search? (2015-10-13)
 * ... that the vision of architects Pravina Mehta, Charles Correa, and Shirish Patel for the New Bombay project has been compared to that of a popular Bollywood film? (2015-10-13)
 * ... that chemist and science diplomat Nancy B. Jackson was the first implementer of the U.S. State Department's Chemical Security Engagement Program? (2015-10-13)
 * ... that genetics researcher and MIT professor emeritus Mary-Lou Pardue once declined a PhD and convinced her department to give her a master's degree instead? (2015-10-13)
 * ... that polymath Lina Eckenstein saw a link between the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I and the death of Cock Robin? (2015-10-13)
 * ... that Harriet Moody used salvaged architectural features in her California Storybook Cottages due to war rationing on building goods? (2015-10-13)
 * ... that E. E. Holman gender was deliberately disguised to secure architectural contracts, like those for the National Park Seminary's Aloha Dormitory (pictured)? (2015-10-13)
 * ... that Entrepreneur First, a London-based accelerator co-founded by Alice Bentinck (pictured), helped establish 50 startups valued at $210 million in its first four years? (2015-10-13)
 * ... that a letter by Quaker minister Abiah Darby is used to determine the start of the Industrial Revolution? (2015-10-13)
 * ... that in the war against Tiglath-Pileser III in 732 BCE, Samsi was defeated and was said to have fled the battlefield like a "wild she-ass of the desert"? (2015-10-12)
 * ... that Emma Martin formed an organisation with George Holyoake to help defend people charged with blasphemy? (2015-10-12)
 * ... that Sheela was the first recipient of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress? (2015-10-11)
 * ... that 30 years after joining the Royal Bank of Canada as a teller, Zabeen Hirji became chief human resources officer with responsibility for nearly 79,000 employees in 50 countries? (2015-10-10)
 * ... that Banks expressed displeasure over Neon Jungle's decision to cover her then-new song "Waiting Game" for their album Welcome to the Jungle? (2015-10-10)
 * ... that film producer Elisabeth Holm used to work at Kickstarter, helping other filmmakers to fund their projects? (2015-10-10)
 * ... that the word "kissing" was altered in the song "Don't Say You Love Me" as it was considered inappropriate for the Pokémon: The First Movie soundtrack? (2015-10-08)
 * ... that in 2015, Anushka Sharma (pictured) appeared on The Huffington Post list of "100 most influential women on Twitter"? (2015-10-08)
 * ... that the artist Siri Derkert carved words of peace on the walls of a metro station doubling as a nuclear war shelter? (2015-10-06)
 * ... that after the death of Margaret Martin in 1938, plainclothes police officers attended her funeral in the hopes of spotting possible suspects? (2015-10-06)
 * ... that Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz features guest vocals from Big Sean, Sarah Barthel from Phantogram, and Ariel Pink? (2015-10-05)
 * ... that Laura Jordan Bambach has been called a "digital female icon" by The Guardian? (2015-10-05)
 * ... that the music video of "Work" featured Iggy Azalea engaging in twerking and lap dancing sequences? (2015-10-04)
 * ... that the National Diversity Council named Shefali Razdan Duggal to the list of the Most Powerful and Influential Women of 2012 in California? (2015-10-04)
 * ... that the actress Ester Textorius (pictured) did a number of operettes, and though successful, never considered herself a good enough singer for such roles? (2015-10-04)
 * ... that Saga Becker in 2015 became the first transsexual actress both to be nominated and win a Guldbaggen Award? (2015-10-03)
 * ... that Catherine T. Hunt, the 2007 president of the American Chemical Society, won the society's first election to use Internet voting? (2015-10-03)
 * ... that the reality entertainment concept Expedition Robinson (also known as Survivor) was bought by CEO Anna Bråkenhielm and aired on Swedish television in 1997? (2015-10-03)
 * ... that Mariah Carey channels Jocelyn Brown on her song "You Don't Know What to Do"? (2015-10-02)
 * ... that Algerian filmmaker Nadia Labidi is also a politician who served as Minister of Culture from May 2014 to May 2015? (2015-10-01)
 * ... that computer scientist Hilary Kahn advised Ph.D. students as a professor at the University of Manchester but never got a Ph.D. herself? (2015-10-01)
 * ... that Merry Christmas II You became Mariah Carey's sixteenth Top 10 album on the US Billboard 200? (2015-09-29)
 * ... that Canadian tech entrepreneur Suhayya Abu-Hakima, who has founded two startups and holds 30 international patents, received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012? (2015-09-28)
 * ... that Lourdes Aflague Leon Guerrero, who served as a senator in the Legislature of Guam, is the Chairwoman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Bank of Guam? (2015-09-28)
 * ... that Katie Page, CEO of Harvey Norman and an active supporter of women in sports, announced a $500,000 purse for horses owned or leased by women at the 2013 Magic Millions racing event? (2015-09-28)
 * ... that by popular demand Lata Mangeshkar (pictured) was presented with the Filmfare Special Award for the 1994 song "Didi Tera Devar Deewana"? (2015-09-28)
 * ... that astrobiologist and freediver Nathalie Cabrol selected the landing site for the Mars rover Spirit? (2015-09-27)
 * ... that Greek soprano Arda Mandikian was born to parents who survived the Armenian Genocide? (2015-09-26)
 * ... that Iranian-born Azita Shariati, an executive with the French catering and support services multinational Sodexo, has been named the most powerful businesswoman in Sweden? (2015-09-25)
 * ... that Mary Ann Turcke, the recently-appointed President of Bell Media, Canada, began her career designing and building bridges and highways for the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario? (2015-09-24)
 * ... that Jacqueline Fernandez (pictured) was named in The Times of India "Most Desirable Woman" list for five consecutive years? (2015-09-23)
 * ... that Bridget van Kralingen, senior vice president of IBM Global Business Services, oversees 100,000 consultants and service providers in 170 countries? (2015-09-23)
 * ... that Louise O'Sullivan, founder and CEO of Anam Technologies, Dublin, is a vocal advocate for gender parity in the IT industry? (2015-09-22)
 * ... that in 2014 the Sunday Independent named Irish venture capitalist Elaine Coughlan one of "The 50 Most Influential and Powerful Women in Business"? (2015-09-22)
 * ... that the music video of Iggy Azalea's song "Bounce", which was filmed in Mumbai, was accused of cultural appropriation? (2015-09-22)
 * ... that Lady Sayer interrupted live firing exercises in an army range on Dartmoor to photograph damage done to ancient monuments? (2015-09-21)
 * ... that Miss Oregon 2007 Kari Virding saw her first Miss Oregon pageant when she was just eight years old? (2015-09-21)
 * ... that when the British Honduran Lands Department claimed no lands were available for women, Gwendolyn Lizarraga marched into the swamp and measured lots to create land parcels? (2015-09-21)
 * ... that Ann-Marie Campbell, southern division president for The Home Depot with responsibility for 690 stores and 100,000 employees, started with the company as a part-time cashier? (2015-09-21)
 * ... that Nina Yang Bongiovi is the production partner of actor Forest Whitaker? (2015-09-20)
 * ... that Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou (pictured) is the first female Prime Minister of Greece, though never elected to parliament? (2015-09-19)
 * ... that within two years of the hiring of Sandi Peterson as Group Worldwide Chairman of Johnson & Johnson, the company doubled its number of women in executive leadership positions? (2015-09-19)
 * ... that the Orange is the New Black character Tiffany Doggett is based on a real-life prisoner? (2015-09-18)
 * ... that Demba Diawara persuaded the first group of villages to renounce female genital cutting at Diabougou in Senegal? (2015-09-18)
 * ... that Bipasha Basu was the first actress in Bollywood to play conjoined twins? (2015-09-18)
 * ... that actress Lo Kauppi was a singer and guitar player in the feminist punk band Vagina Grande? (2015-09-17)
 * ... that a statue of Amy Winehouse was designed to convey her "attitude and strength, but also give subtle hints of insecurity"? (2015-09-16)
 * ... that Sakaye Shigekawa estimated that she delivered between 20,000 and 30,000 babies in her career as an obstetrician? (2015-09-16)
 * ... that Nichole Mead was named Miss Oregon 2012 after titleholder Rachel Berry could not prove when she moved to Oregon? (2015-09-16)
 * ... that the nomination of Azita Raji, an Iranian American, for the post of Ambassador to Sweden in October 2014, was widely reported in the Indian press because of her Indian-sounding name? (2015-09-15)
 * ... that Susan Bailey, a British specialist in child psychiatry, appeared as an expert witness in the James Bulger murder trial? (2015-09-14)
 * ... that in 1958 Sue Bailey Thurman used a cookbook to publish a "palatable history" of professional black women? (2015-09-14)
 * ... that Ester Claesson is considered Sweden's first female landscape architect? (2015-09-14)
 * ... that Cut Like Wound is Indian novelist Anita Nair's first work of detective fiction? (2015-09-14)
 * ... that Raveena Tandon won the National Film Award for Best Actress for the 2001 drama film Daman? (2015-09-13)
 * ... that Kyra Vassiliki (pictured), wife of the Ottoman ruler, Ali Pasha, was a member of the Greek patriotic organization, Filiki Eteria? (2015-09-13)
 * ... that Margaret of Bourbon stopped the Knights Templar from buying Champagne land? (2015-09-10)
 * ... that "Devil Pray" is about Madonna's experience of taking drugs such as ecstasy (pictured)? (2015-09-10)
 * ... that Toni von Langsdorff was inspired to become a physician because of spinal tuberculosis, but was almost foiled by an ophthalmologist? (2015-09-09)
 * ... that Sarah Spiegel has received continuous funding for nearly 20 years from the National Institutes of Health to research the S1P molecule, which she discovered? (2015-09-09)
 * ... that the British wheelchair basketball player Leah Evans launched a public appeal to raise funds for a new chair, which costs £3750? (2015-09-09)
 * ... that according to Gerda Lerner, Holocaust victim Käthe Leichter "personifies the highest ideals of feminism"? (2015-09-09)
 * ... that Carden Wallace was in the team that discovered mass spawning on the Great Barrier Reef? (2015-09-09)
 * ... that Amelia Bence, an actress of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema, was born to Belarusian Jewish immigrants from Pinsk and Minsk? (2015-09-08)
 * ... that while Shao Tong's boyfriend allegedly murdered her in Iowa a year ago today, he will be prosecuted for it in his native China? (2015-09-07)
 * ... that a biography of the much-travelled Professor Josephine Tilden was titled "Algae of Acrimony"? (2015-09-07)
 * ... that the gold rush at Diabougou has made it the largest site of informal mining in Senegal? (2015-09-07)
 * ... that because many girls at the Beth Rivkah school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, have the same first name, teachers call on them by their surnames? (2015-09-06)
 * ... that Lucille Farrier Stickel (pictured) was the first woman to become director of a United States national research laboratory? (2015-09-05)
 * ... that Doris Cole wrote the first book on female architects from the United States? (2015-09-05)
 * ... that Elizabeth Keawepoʻoʻole Sumner composed the Hawaiian love song Sanoe with Queen Liliuokalani, about a love affair in the Hawaiian royal court? (2015-09-04)
 * ... that Bill Sweek had expected to be kicked off the UCLA basketball team, but Coach John Wooden played him days later when they won their record-setting third straight national championship? (2015-09-04)
 * ... that the Yugoslav national hero Vahida Maglajlić (pictured) used her status as a Sharia judge's daughter to organize resistance against Fascist authorities during World War II? (2015-09-03)
 * ... that Mary Isenhour contributed to the campaigns of U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. and Pennsylvania Governors Ed Rendell and Tom Wolf, who all won their elections? (2015-09-03)
 * ... that Grace Eldering, along with Pearl Kendrick, developed the first successful pertussis vaccine and large-scale controlled trial for it? (2015-09-03)
 * ... that Charlotte Hogg is the most senior woman in the Bank of England's history? (2015-09-03)
 * ... that Miss Oregon 2014 Rebecca Anderson wore shoes with tiny bicycles atop the laces at the Miss America 2015 "Show Us Your Shoes" parade? (2015-09-02)
 * ... that the World War II photograph Kozarčanka (pictured), showing a female Partisan, became iconic in Socialist Yugoslavia? (2015-09-01)
 * ... that in one Lady's Magazine article printed in June 1775, a male doctor writes that women with red hair have "generally become the best breeders of the nation"? (2015-08-31)
 * ... that Eritha, one of the most significant priestesses in Mycenaean Pylos in c. 1200 BC, was involved in a dispute over the legal status of her religious holdings? (2015-08-31)
 * ... that the original script outline for the romantic comedy The Other Woman (2014) was characterised as The First Wives Club (1996) but with a younger cast? (2015-08-29)
 * ... that when asked, Veronica Mars actor Enrico Colantoni immediately suggested former Just Shoot Me! co-star and friend Laura San Giacomo for the role of his love interest in "Charlie Don't Surf"? (2015-08-29)
 * ... that Jordanna Bartlett, Sophie Carrigill, Amy Conroy, Joy Haizelden, Charlotte Moore, and Laurie Williams were part of Team Great Britain (pictured), which won the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing? (2015-08-28)
 * ... that Colonel Miller argued that women were "primeval abolitionists" who should be admitted to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840? (2015-08-28)
 * ... that Elena Cattaneo "show[ed] the influence that individual scientists can have in fighting anti-science forces"? (2015-08-28)
 * ... that Karachi, You're Killing Me!, a debut novel by Saba Imtiaz, is described as "Bridget Jones's Diary meets The Diary of a Social Butterfly"? (2015-08-27)
 * ... that the Anita Borg Institute gave blind computer scientist Chieko Asakawa their Women of Vision Award? (2015-08-26)
 * ... that Argentine doctor María Teresa Ferrari, the first female university professor in Latin America, invented a prize-winning vaginoscope? (2015-08-25)
 * ... that JoAnn Dean Killingsworth became the first person to play Snow White at Disneyland on July 17, 1955, the theme park's opening day? (2015-08-25)
 * ... that when the Berlin college for kindergarten teachers needed holiday cover in 1883, they sent for Caroline Bishop from England? (2015-08-25)
 * ... that Romanian writer Lucia Mantu kept her real identity a close secret, with even her editor Mihail Sadoveanu only finding out by accident? (2015-08-24)
 * ... that Nigerian footballer Uchechi Sunday scored five goals for FC Minsk in her debut at the UEFA Women's Champions League in 2015? (2015-08-23)
 * ... that American entrepreneur Pamela Meyer has been described by Reader's Digest as "the nation's best known expert on lying"? (2015-08-23)
 * ... that Beatrice Edgell was the first British woman to earn a PhD in Psychology and the first woman president of the British Psychological Society? (2015-08-23)
 * ... that in 2015, Alissa St Laurent became the first woman to win the Canadian Death Race? (2015-08-23)
 * ... that the computer scientist Jean Bacon became the first woman on the faculty of the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 1985? (2015-08-22)
 * ... that Mariah Carey's song "Auld Lang Syne (The New Year's Anthem)" is a house music version of the original poem? (2015-08-22)
 * ... that Wilke te Brummelstroete performed the alto parts in Volume I of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage which received the 2005 Gramophone Award Record of the Year? (2015-08-21)
 * ... that the queenship of Blanche of Artois seemed perfect until her only son was dropped from the castle walls by his nurse? (2015-08-21)
 * ... that Adelaide Manning helped Florence Nightingale to fund Cornelia Sorabji when she arrived from India in 1889 to obtain a degree? (2015-08-21)
 * ... that Greek singer Litsa Diamanti has been described as the "child-wonder of the sixties decade and the absolute diva of metapolitefsi"? (2015-08-20)
 * ... that gospel singer Zella Jackson Price had not seen her daughter for almost 50 years until they were reunited in 2015? (2015-08-19)
 * ... that five songs sung by Thea Austin charted in the Top 40 of singles charts around the world? (2015-08-18)
 * ... that soprano Rosa Lamoreaux, who recorded Bach's Mass in B minor with The Bach Choir of Bethlehem and at the Carmel Bach Festival, won the 2009 Wammie as classical vocal soloist? (2015-08-18)
 * ... that the Regency romance novel Lord of Scoundrels is a retelling of the fairytale Beauty and the Beast? (2015-08-18)
 * ... that a restaurant named a cheeseburger after Miss Minnesota 2015 Rachel Latuff and served it with an onion ring topped by "sweet sparkles" as an imitation of her crown? (2015-08-16)
 * ... that Mariah Carey wrote "One Child" with Broadway composer Marc Shaiman? (2015-08-16)
 * ... that Molly Shoichet is a fellow of all three Canadian National Academies, the only person to hold this distinction? (2015-08-16)
 * ... that the film roles of Nepalese actress Manisha Koirala (pictured) have included a Muslim married to a Hindu during the Bombay Riots, the daughter of a mute and deaf couple, and a terrorist? (2015-08-16)
 * ... that Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, a Dutch psychiatrist and protégée of Sigmund Freud, fled the Nazis twice? (2015-08-16)
 * ... that Dorothy McKibbin was known as the "first lady of Los Alamos"? (2015-08-16)
 * ... that Romanian poet Natalia Negru first two marriages ended disastrously, but the third, to Ioan Gheorghe Savin, was apparently peaceful? (2015-08-15)
 * ... that Ángela Acuña Braun, first female Costa Rican attorney, served on both the Inter-American Commission of Women and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights? (2015-08-14)
 * ... that actress Jenny Skavlan was married in 2014 in a dress she designed and made herself? (2015-08-14)
 * ... that the Los Angeles Times Magazine named Claudia Cardinale (pictured) among the 50 most beautiful women in film history in February 2011? (2015-08-13)
 * ... that Mary Carpenter founded the National Indian Association to improve the education of girls in India? (2015-08-11)
 * ... that Margaret J. Anderson opened The Beverly Hills Hotel with guests and staff lured away from the Hollywood Hotel? (2015-08-11)
 * ... that Tuba Azmudeh established the first Iranian school for girls in Iran? (2015-08-10)
 * ... that the Dominican order founded by Marie Poussepin, who died in 1744, was not formally recognised until 1897? (2015-08-10)
 * ... that Brooklyn-based digital artist Mariam Ghani is also the daughter of the president of Afghanistan? (2015-08-10)
 * ... that there are no known portraits of "The Chief Lady" of the Anti-Slavery Campaign? (2015-08-10)
 * ... that while her husband told Americans about the Arts and Crafts movement, Anne Cobden-Sanderson told others about why she went to prison? (2015-08-10)
 * ... that soprano Susanne Rydén combined music by various Baroque composers in the musical show Christina's Journey, in which she sang, recited, and danced? (2015-08-08)
 * ... that Jessica Chastain had guest roles in the television shows ER and Law & Order: Trial by Jury after graduating from Juilliard? (2015-08-08)
 * ... that dramatic soprano Evelyn Herlitzius appeared as Elektra, staged by Patrice Chéreau at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2013, reviewed as "a creature of mesmerising intensity"? (2015-08-08)
 * ... that Mariah Carey's song "Meteorite" starts with "an observation by Andy Warhol that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"? (2015-08-05)
 * ... that Romanian poet Otilia Cazimir had her pen name chosen by two celebrated mentors, with Mihail Sadoveanu suggesting the "Otilia", while Garabet Ibrăileanu came up with "Cazimir"? (2015-08-03)
 * ... that Joseph Gregorio II succeeded as King of Mangareva, with Queen Maria Eutokia Toaputeitou as regent, but the true power behind the throne was the French priest Father Honoré Laval (pictured)? (2015-08-03)
 * ... that Lucie Randoin was made a member of the Legion of Honour in 1958? (2015-08-03)
 * ... that the jazz singer-songwriter Gwyneth Herbert co-wrote a musical about the woman who created the London A to Z street atlas? (2015-08-02)
 * ... that Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi (pictured), the estranged spouse of the Prime Minister of India, lives a simple life of prayer? (2015-08-01)
 * ... that Mariam Behruzi was one of four women elected to the first Iranian Parliament? (2015-07-31)
 * ... that the dinosaur Wendiceratops (pictured) was named for fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda, who then had it tattooed on her arm in celebration? (2015-07-30)
 * ... that a urethral diverticulum is a pouch that forms in the urethra from trauma or infection? (2015-07-30)
 * ... that Lady Gaga was inspired to write "Sexxx Dreams" from her "mucky" fantasies? (2015-07-30)
 * ... that the actress Gerda Müller was Mother Courage in the play by Bertolt Brecht? (2015-07-30)
 * ... that Charlotte Manning was the first Mistress of Girton College? (2015-07-30)
 * ... that on a track of the album 1000 Fires, Traci Lords reveals her experience with rape when she was 10 years old? (2015-07-30)
 * ... that although Mathilde Wurm death was ruled a suicide, some believed she was killed by the Gestapo? (2015-07-29)
 * ... that the music video for "Bitch I'm Madonna" features Beyoncé making a "Vogue" pose and Miley Cyrus giving the finger? (2015-07-27)
 * ... that an English computer was awarded a silver medal by the Vatican? (2015-07-26)
 * ... that Peg Plunkett, brothel keeper, had the leader of the Pinking Dindies gang sent to jail after she lost her baby? (2015-07-25)
 * ... that American swimmer Theresa Andrews gave her first Olympic gold medal to her brother for his courage after he was paralyzed in a car accident? (2015-07-24)
 * ... that Clementia Taylor formed Britain's first national anti-slavery society for women because she could not join the existing organisation? (2015-07-24)
 * ... that Valerie Toranian, the chief editor of Elle in France, has also written a book about the Armenian Genocide? (2015-07-22)
 * ... that Keturah, the woman Abraham married after the death of Sarah, has been called "the most ignored significant person" in the Hebrew Bible? (2015-07-22)
 * ... that mezzo-soprano Ruth Sandhoff performed a soprano part in the Magnificat by Johann Sebastian Bach and an alto part in his son's Magnificat? (2015-07-21)
 * ... that cell biologist Zena Werb changed her undergraduate major from geophysics to biochemistry after being told there was no accommodation for women at a field site? (2015-07-19)
 * ... that Edinburgh's "forgotten heroines", Eliza Wigham, Jane Smeal, Priscilla Bright McLaren, and Elizabeth Pease, were associated with the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society (logo pictured)? (2015-07-19)
 * ... that President Barack Obama awarded Meryl Streep the 2010 National Medal of Arts and in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom? (2015-07-17)
 * ... that contralto Hildegard Rütgers recorded Bach's Magnificat with Christmas interpolations with Helmuth Rilling? (2015-07-17)
 * ... that Emily C. Gorman increased enlistment in the American military in the 1960s by allowing female soldiers to live in private, lockable barracks they could personalize and decorate with items from home? (2015-07-17)
 * ... that the book Big Little Lies was inspired by a radio interview with a woman whose parents had an abusive relationship? (2015-07-16)
 * ... that Playboy magazine's lavishly designed and illustrated Little Annie Fanny (1962–1988) began as a male character? (2015-07-15)
 * ... that Hedy Graf performed soprano parts in premieres of oratorios by Swiss composers? (2015-07-15)
 * ... that percussionist Babette Haag and her ensemble played Orff's Carmina Burana with the Bachchor Mainz and Anthony and Joseph Paratore in the 1,000th concert of the Weilburger Schlosskonzerte? (2015-07-15)
 * ... that Francisca Fernández Hall, the first woman to earn an engineering degree from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, became Guatemala's chargé d'affaires in Israel? (2015-07-14)
 * ... that Eliza Meek, the part-Hawaiian daughter of Captain John Meek, was the mistress of the bachelor King Lunalilo? (2015-07-14)
 * ... that Constanze Backes performed the leading female part in Joseph Schuster's rediscovered opera Il Marito Indolente? (2015-07-14)
 * ... that as a child, Indian actress Sargun Mehta (pictured) and her brother auditioned for the dance reality show Boogie Woogie, but were rejected? (2015-07-13)
 * ... that Zambian writer Namwali Serpell, winner of the Caine Prize for African fiction in English, said she would share the prize money with the other nominees since "fiction is not a competitive sport"? (2015-07-13)
 * ... that Chien-Shiung Wu conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity? (2015-07-13)
 * ... that a two year golden handcuffs contract in 2000 made Sarah Lancashire the highest paid actress in UK Television at the time? (2015-07-11)
 * ... that the soprano Romy Gundermann and her husband received a medal from Aschaffenburg for expanding music awareness and adding to the town's cultural heritage? (2015-07-11)
 * ... that Orlanda Velez Isidro was Madame Mao in a Dutch production of John Adams' Nixon in China? (2015-07-11)
 * ... that Hillary Clinton's coffee table book, An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History, described the traditional aspects of her time as First Lady of the United States? (2015-07-10)
 * ... that Tabu has won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress a record four times? (2015-07-09)
 * ... that Hilda C. Heine is the first Marshallese woman to earn a doctorate degree? (2015-07-09)
 * ... that Archduke John of Austria met his wife, the future Countess von Meran, while she was posing as a boy? (2015-07-09)
 * ... that Victoria Price, the daughter of horror icon Vincent Price, is not a fan of horror films? (2015-07-08)
 * ... that Israeli wrestler Ilana Kratysh won a Grand Prix event despite allegedly being bitten by an Egyptian opponent? (2015-07-08)
 * ... that an organization to help young African American men avoid gangs and prison was co-founded by law professor Nekima Levy-Pounds? (2015-07-06)
 * ... that in 1930, Adeline De Walt Reynolds graduated from college at the age of 68 and made her film debut eleven years later? (2015-07-05)
 * ... that Philomena Lynott insisted on washing Brian Robertson's hair before he performed on TV with Thin Lizzy? (2015-07-04)
 * ... that Mhairi Black is the youngest elected British Member of Parliament since at least 1832? (2015-07-02)
 * ... that the British magazine Eastern Eye named Katrina Kaif the "Sexiest Asian Woman" from 2008 to 2010 and again in 2013? (2015-07-02)
 * ... that Conrad Black feared that Tom Bower's biography Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge was going to be "a heartwarming story of two sleazy, spivvy, contemptible people"? (2015-07-02)
 * ... that Shelley Cronau, who suffered serious injuries in a fall, joined the Be the Influence advertising campaign to warn others about the dangers of binge drinking? (2015-07-01)
 * ... that the #NiUnaMenos demonstration against femicide in Argentina was attended by nearly 200,000 people? (2015-07-01)
 * ... that Lixia Zhang coined the term "middlebox"? (2015-07-01)
 * ... that the Hungarian writer Teréz Karacs turned down the request of Countess Blanka Teleki to start a school, and started her own instead? (2015-06-30)
 * ... that vaginal evisceration is a rare complication of surgically removing the uterus entirely through the vaginal canal? (2015-06-28)
 * ... that Leena Gade is the first female race engineer to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans? (2015-06-28)
 * ... that critically acclaimed historical romance author Sherry Thomas was born in China, lives in Texas, and writes about Victorian England? (2015-06-27)
 * ... that Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko (pictured) set Israeli records in the long jump in 2014, and in the triple jump in 2013 and 2015? (2015-06-27)
 * ... that at the age of 10, Sydney Lucas became the youngest individual to win an Obie Award for her portrayal of Small Alison in the musical Fun Home? (2015-06-25)
 * ... that the women's record for the Bob Graham Round, one of Britain's toughest fell races, was broken by the 47-year-old Nicky Spinks in 2015? (2015-06-25)
 * ... that Mexican writer Esther Seligson translated the works of Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran and Egyptian Jewish poet Edmond Jabès? (2015-06-23)
 * ... that it is believed that all prints of the 1940 Argentine film Canto de amor, starring Nelly Omar, were destroyed? (2015-06-22)
 * ... that in a rectovestibular fistula, the vulval vestibule of the female genitalia is connected to the rectum? (2015-06-21)
 * ... that endocrinologist Neena Schwartz had a 50-year career in scientific research, but only came out as lesbian after she retired? (2015-06-21)
 * ... that Madonna's fall at the 2015 Brit Awards while performing "Living for Love" resulted in a 95% increase in Twitter activity about the show? (2015-06-21)
 * ... that Therezinha Zerbini delivered a letter to US First Lady Rosalynn Carter on behalf of Brazilian women and the amnesty movement, which opened, "We who fight for justice and peace"? (2015-06-18)
 * ... that in 1986 The New York Times adopted the use of the honorific "Ms." to refer to women, regardless of marital status, after Paula Kassell argued for the change at a shareholders' meeting? (2015-06-15)
 * ... that Martha Harris was the winner of the first-ever PFA Women's Young Player of the Year award? (2015-06-15)
 * ... that Rihanna half-sings and half-raps "Bitch Better Have My Money"? (2015-06-15)
 * ... that actress Ruthie Ann Miles once played Adolfo Pirelli in Sweeney Todd? (2015-06-13)
 * ... that the immunology professor Mary Collins studies ways to use genetically engineered HIV as a vaccine? (2015-06-13)
 * ... that voice artist Ashly Burch provides the voice for the Mortal Kombat X character Cassie Cage? (2015-06-13)
 * ... that Millicent Sowerby, known for her children's book illustrations (Alice in Wonderland, pictured), illustrated several books by her sister, playwright Githa Sowerby? (2015-06-12)
 * ... that paraplegic woman writer Zhang Haidi has been hailed as China's Helen Keller? (2015-06-09)
 * ... that Lady Strangford is honoured in Bulgaria for her work following the Batak massacre? (2015-06-08)
 * ... that Ximena Bedregal was the editor of La Jornada supplement, Triple Jornada? (2015-06-07)
 * ... that the burial shroud of Moldavian Princess consort Maria of Mangup (pictured) is both the oldest found in a Romanian monastery and "the most beautiful one"? (2015-06-07)
 * ... that evolutionary biologist Scott Edwards and social psychologist Jennifer Richeson were the only two black scientists elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2015? (2015-06-07)
 * ... that the Great Britain men's and women's national rugby sevens teams cannot select Northern Irish players for the Olympics due to the Irish Rugby Football Union? (2015-06-07)
 * ... that Audrey Hepburn won the Best Actress Oscar for her first Hollywood role? (2015-06-07)
 * ... that German politician Adele Schreiber-Krieger advocated extensively for the rights of mothers and children, but never had children herself? (2015-06-06)
 * ... that Aladura religious leader Christiana Abiodun claimed that angels had visited her during a trance and taken her to heaven? (2015-06-04)
 * ... that Madhuri Dixit holds the record for the most nominations (14) for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress? (2015-06-03)
 * ... that 245 teams entered the 2009–10 FA Women's Cup, which was eventually won by Everton? (2015-06-03)
 * ... that in 2013 the Rönninge Show Chorus (pictured) achieved the highest-ever score at the Sweet Adelines International competition for women's barbershop? (2015-06-02)
 * ... that journalist Abby Martin condemned the Russian military intervention in Ukraine on the RT America network? (2015-06-01)
 * ... that Sonya Rose is an expert in the role of gender identity in British history? (2015-05-31)
 * ... that Laura Forster was the first Australian woman doctor to volunteer her services as a medic in Belgium during World War I? (2015-05-31)
 * ... that Lady Charlotte Finch served as royal governess to the children of King George III for over 30 years? (2015-05-31)
 * ... that gay and bisexual boys who adopted more feminine gender roles at a younger age are at higher risk for suicide, sexual abuse, and drug abuse than other gay and bisexual youth? (2015-05-31)
 * ... that Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin was the first female full professor of mathematics in France? (2015-05-30)
 * ... that Lady Katherine Sophia Kane was the first woman to be elected to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh? (2015-05-30)
 * ... that violinist Carolin Widmann played with her brother when he was composer and artist in residence at the Rheingau Musik Festival? (2015-05-30)
 * ... that María Luisa Elío and Jomí García Ascot visited Gabriel García Márquez every night for 18 months to critique One Hundred Years of Solitude as it developed? (2015-05-28)
 * ... that one can hear parts of Sonic Youth's 1987 album Sister in quiet sections of the band's 1994 album Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, because it was recorded over the same master tapes? (2015-05-28)
 * ... that German poet and pacifist Clementine Krämer attempted to flee Nazi Germany to the U.S., Denmark, China, and Cuba before being sent to the concentration camp where she died? (2015-05-28)
 * ... that the mezzo-soprano Marga Schiml (pictured), an academic voice teacher in Karlsruhe, appeared as a Rhinemaiden and a valkyrie in the Jahrhundertring? (2015-05-27)
 * ... that Cornelia Parker has made an embroidered representation (detail pictured) of the Wikipedia article on Magna Carta? (2015-05-26)
 * ... that Hedwig Kettler founded the first girls' gymnasium in Germany? (2015-05-26)
 * ... that the Duchess of Devonshire refused to employ a wet nurse for her eldest child Lady Georgiana Cavendish, an unusual decision for an upperclass woman in that era? (2015-05-26)
 * ... that Ashley Everett was asked to dye her hair red by Beyoncé? (2015-05-25)
 * ... that Nina Starr Braunwald designed, fabricated and implanted the first successful artificial mitral heart valve replacement in a human? (2015-05-24)
 * ... that at least 39 different organisms inhabit the the lower reproductive tract of women? (2015-05-24)
 * ... that Cuban writer Lesbia Soravilla incorporates Mariblanca Sabas Alomá into her feminist novel? (2015-05-21)
 * ... that in 2013, Deepika Padukone (pictured) starred in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Chennai Express, both of which rank among the highest-grossing Bollywood films? (2015-05-21)
 * ... that Star Trek producer Bob Justman said you could hit Janice Rand (pictured) hair with a sledgehammer and not leave a dent? (2015-05-20)
 * ... that the first American grand opera was written for soprano Ann Childe Seguin? (2015-05-20)
 * ... that Maitreyi was highly revered as one of the few women scholars of the Vedic period (c. 1750 – 500 BCE) able to discuss the highest spiritual truths of life? (2015-05-19)
 * ... that the copyright to Hillary Rodham Clinton's 1998 book about a cat and a dog, Dear Socks, Dear Buddy, is held by the National Park Foundation? (2015-05-19)
 * ... that Meryl Streep has received 19 Academy Award nominations, more than any other actor or actress in history? (2015-05-18)
 * ... that Mercedes Sandoval de Hempel was nominated in Paraguay for "1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005"? (2015-05-18)
 * ... that Ian Jacobs developed a test for early-stage ovarian cancer? (2015-05-18)
 * ... that Céline Renooz argued that John the Baptist was a woman and that humans had evolved from plants? (2015-05-17)
 * ... that a Boston Globe reporter described Maia Weinstock apartment as having "stacks of heads and hairstyles, torsos and legs and arms, a pint-sized Frankenstein's workshop stored in little plastic bins"? (2015-05-15)
 * ... that contemporary feminist scholars have debated the value of the work of 19th-century novelist Ellen Pickering? (2015-05-15)
 * ... that Mary Tannahill was not only a painter, but also made woodcuts, batik, and embroidery? (2015-05-14)
 * ... that Twinkle Khanna won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for her performance in Barsaat? (2015-05-12)
 * ... that Siri Lindley retired as the number-one female triathlete after winning back-to-back Triathlon World Cup titles? (2015-05-12)
 * ... that the Michigan Wolverines women's lacrosse team splits its home games between Michigan Stadium (capacity 110,000) and Oosterbaan Field House (capacity 1,000)? (2015-05-12)
 * ... that Kavindya Thennakoon, one of the top four scorers in the world on the Cambridge International Examinations, founded a community development project in Sri Lanka? (2015-05-11)
 * ... that actress Ellen Page accused Naughty Dog of "ripping off [her] likeness" for the design of Ellie in their video game The Last of Us? (2015-05-10)
 * ... that Lizzy Hawker bought her first pair of trail running shoes just 10 days before running the 100-mile Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc for the first time, and winning? (2015-05-06)
 * ... that Harriet Newell Noyes founded the first school for women in Guangdong Province? (2015-05-06)
 * ... that Abbie Lathrop mouse number 57 was the origin of the C57BL/6 laboratory mouse (pictured)? (2015-05-06)
 * ... that Grete Keilson was in a communist plot with Klaus Fuchs? (2015-05-05)
 * ... that after Hitler assumed power, Vera Lachmann founded a school for Jewish children expelled from German public schools? (2015-05-04)
 * ... that Clayton Knight, a World War I aviator and artist, wrote and illustrated children's books with his wife Katherine Sturges Dodge? (2015-05-04)
 * ... that funeral strippers are sometimes hired to remove their clothing during a funeral in an effort to attract more mourners? (2015-05-04)
 * ... that the Cypress Tomb (pictured) in Lahore, Pakistan, is so named because of the cypress tree motif on its exterior walls? (2015-05-04)
 * ... that Wendy Sue Swanson, the Seattle Mama Doc, won the CDC's first Childhood Immunization Champion Award in 2012? (2015-05-03)
 * ... that Terry Acebo Davis, an artist and full-time nurse, is a lecturer on the Filipino identity? (2015-05-03)
 * ... that Lü Bicheng has been called one of the four women geniuses of the Republic of China? (2015-05-03)
 * ... that Lise Tréhot (pictured) appeared in more than twenty paintings by Renoir and was the sole model for most of the female figures during his early Salon period? (2015-05-03)
 * ... that the scandalous life of Teresia Constantia Phillips was published in eighteen parts? (2015-05-02)
 * ... that the very first basketball players in Lithuania were women, but the first official game was played by men? (2015-05-02)
 * ... that Nicole Kidman (pictured) was the first Australian to win the Best Actress Oscar? (2015-05-01)
 * ... that M. Travis Lane was the first winner of the annual Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman? (2015-05-01)
 * ... that the poet Agustina Andrade shot herself after learning her husband maintained a parallel family in Patagonia? (2015-05-01)
 * Lorina Bulwer (article's talk page missing blurb) (2015-04-30)
 * ... that Julianne Moore has won acting awards from the Berlin, Cannes, and Venice film festivals as well as the Best Actress Oscar? (2015-04-30)
 * ... that Fran Kirby scored nine goals for Reading in her first two 2015 Women's Super League appearances? (2015-04-29)
 * ... that Elda Emma Anderson prepared the first sample of pure uranium-235 at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory? (2015-04-29)
 * ... that Zohre Esmaeli fled from Afghanistan to Germany at age thirteen and is now an internationally sought-after model? (2015-04-28)
 * ... that Indian actress Parineeti Chopra won the National Film Award – Special Mention for her first lead role in the 2012 romantic drama Ishaqzaade? (2015-04-28)
 * ... that after ruling less than three months, Queen Berengaria of Castile abdicated in favor of her son? (2015-04-28)
 * ... that Barbara Swan illustrated books by two Pulitzer Prize-winning poets? (2015-04-28)
 * ... that a pioneer of women's rowing, Amy Gentry, assisted Barnes Wallis with his experiments to develop a bouncing bomb? (2015-04-28)
 * ... that Zelia N. Breaux owned the only black theater in Oklahoma City and hired many jazz artists, but taught her students Charlie Christian, Jimmy Rushing, and Ralph Ellison classical music theory? (2015-04-27)
 * ... that art professor Xu Beihong regarded his student Sun Duoci (pictured, in a painting by Xu) as a "painter of genius"? (2015-04-27)
 * ... that images of the Power of Women, such as Phyllis Riding Aristotle (example pictured), decorated several Renaissance German town halls? (2015-04-27)
 * ... that Maria Quisling was given a lock of hair by her husband Vidkun before his execution in 1945 for collaborating with the Nazis in Norway? (2015-04-27)
 * ... that German activist Josephine Witt disrupted a European Central Bank press conference and showered ECB president Mario Draghi with confetti? (2015-04-27)
 * ... that Margo Humphrey based her colorful The Last Bar-B-Que on The Last Supper, creating one of the "iconic images in American visual culture? (2015-04-26)
 * ... that Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill, the longest serving member of Queen Victoria's personal household, predeceased the monarch by one month? (2015-04-25)
 * ... that the New Zealand actress Zoe Cramond fractured four ribs while competing on Dancing with the Stars? (2015-04-24)
 * ... that Chicana artist Santa Barraza uses motifs from folk art to express a sense of spirituality in her work? (2015-04-24)
 * ... that Xu Beihong painted Jiang Biwei several times (example pictured), but an $11 million nude is possibly not of her, nor by him? (2015-04-24)
 * ... that there is no evidence that an English Flowermaiden was Richard Wagner's nemesis? (2015-04-24)
 * ... that 10-year-old Uthara Unnikrishnan is the youngest-ever recipient of the Indian National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer? (2015-04-23)
 * ... that Rosina Heikel was the first woman from the Nordic countries to become a physician? (2015-04-23)
 * ... that Qian Xiuling (pictured) interceded with the German General Falkenhausen to save nearly a hundred Belgians from execution? (2015-04-23)
 * ... that Kathryn Bache Miller fell in love with the Red Boy (pictured)? (2015-04-22)
 * ... that the British singer GFOTY recorded a song inspired by the hex triplet FFB6C1 (pictured)? (2015-04-22)
 * ... that the Amal Women's Training Center and Moroccan Restaurant provides disadvantaged Moroccan women with job training and experience in the culinary arts? (2015-04-22)
 * ... that the concentration camp survivor Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss wrote many poems about the Holocaust and its victims, which included her husband and son? (2015-04-21)
 * ... that Annakarin Svedberg wrote a pornographic parody of Little Red Riding Hood? (2015-04-21)
 * ... that despite having "little film-industry credibility", Brenda Sexton increased filmmaking-related spending in Illinois by 147 percent in her first year at the Illinois Film Office? (2015-04-20)
 * ... that anti-abortion rhetoric by the Turkish government prompted abortion tours to Northern Cyprus? (2015-04-20)
 * ... that poetess Silva Kaputikyan returned the medal awarded her by the Armenian president after a violent crackdown on an opposition demonstration? (2015-04-19)
 * ... that Laurel van der Wal—‌rocket scientist, cop, model, showgirl, art teacher, aircraft mechanic, switchman, casino shill—‌was "impatient with people who do not make full use of all their capabilities"? (2015-04-19)
 * ... that Georgette Tsinguirides, employed by the Stuttgart Ballet for 70 years, was the first choreologist in Germany and has taught ballets by Cranko and MacMillan to generations of dancers? (2015-04-19)
 * ... that the feminist writings of Carmen de Burgos were censored in Spain until democracy was restored? (2015-04-19)
 * ... that former migrant worker Zhou Qunfei started a touchscreen company and became China's richest woman with a net worth of US$10 billion? (2015-04-18)
 * ... that when María Teresa Tula escaped torture in El Salvador after helping the "forcibly disappeared", she was accused of being a terrorist? (2015-04-18)
 * ... that prima ballerina Marcia Haydée (portrait pictured) created character roles for John Cranko, including Shakespeare's Juliet and Kate, and Pushkin's Tatiana? (2015-04-18)
 * ... that writer Charlotte Caroline Richardson reconnected with her mother by writing a poem in the magazine The Ladies' Diary? (2015-04-18)
 * ... that the music video for Rihanna's song "American Oxygen" depicts various moments from American history, including the inauguration of Barack Obama? (2015-04-18)
 * ... that Brazilian writer Zíbia Gasparetto says her books were the work of someone else? (2015-04-17)
 * ... that Jeannette Zarou performed the title role in the stage premiere of Healey Willan's opera Deirdre? (2015-04-17)
 * ... that Elvira Dolinar is regarded as the first Slovenian feminist? (2015-04-17)
 * ... that when Jill Knight succeeded Edith Pitt, it was the first time in the UK that a female Member of Parliament was succeeded by another? (2015-04-17)
 * ... that the British Christian missionary Harriette Colenso bankrupted herself defending the Zulu king Dinuzulu against charges of treason? (2015-04-16)
 * ... that Alma Dolens is thought to have earned her pseudonym, which is Latin for "a heavy heart," from her opinions on war? (2015-04-16)
 * ... that Finnish writer Solveig von Schoultz published fifteen collections of poetry over more than fifty years? (2015-04-15)
 * ... that Pearl Schiff couldn't find an American publisher for her second novel after her first made The New York Times Best Seller list? (2015-04-15)
 * ... that Sharon Anderson was the first woman to serve as president of the American Society of Nephrology? (2015-04-14)
 * ... that actress Amy Adams has been nominated five times for an Academy Award? (2015-04-14)
 * ... that Cari Corrigan was one of the first to analyze a new nakhlite from Mars? (2015-04-14)
 * ... that the England women's national team played its first official association football match in 1972, 100 years after the men's team's first match? (2015-04-13)
 * ... that after scoring a goal, Costa Rican footballer Wendy Acosta points to the sky in remembrance of her deceased father? (2015-04-12)
 * ... that the Dutch author Louise Sophie Blussé wrote the memoirs of Maria Leer (pictured), a prophetess who, with former barge skipper Stoffel Muller, founded the Zwijndrechtse nieuwlichters, a Protestant sect with communist leanings? (2015-04-12)
 * ... that the first international ballet competition held in Dushanbe was named after Malika Sobirova, and President Gorbachev sent greetings on the occasion? (2015-04-12)
 * ... that German-American economist Edith Hirsch met her husband at the childhood home of Albert Einstein's wife? (2015-04-12)
 * ... that the contralto Maria Radner, who died in the Germanwings plane crash, performed Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder at his villa, Wahnfried? (2015-04-11)
 * ... that Della Warrior, the first female chair of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe, developed a permanent campus for the Institute of American Indian Arts? (2015-04-10)
 * ... that although Phantasmagoria was the best-selling computer game of 1995, some retailers like CompUSA refused to carry it due to its violent content, and it was banned in Australia? (2015-04-09)
 * ... that Esther Ballestrino, the former boss of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (later Pope Francis), was thrown from an aircraft by the Argentine security services? (2015-04-09)
 * ... that Chinese writer Chen Xuezhao attended the 1942 Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art with Mao Zedong? (2015-04-09)
 * ... that contralto Jenny Twitchell Kempton sang in the first performance of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah in Boston? (2015-04-08)
 * ... that Australian historian Joan Beaumont won the 2014 Prime Minister's, New South Wales Premier's and Queensland Literary prizes in history for her book Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War? (2015-04-07)
 * ... that Jeanne Schmahl helped married French women gain the right to spend what they earn? (2015-04-07)
 * ... that Yreina Cervantez helped design and paint the longest mural in the world, the Great Wall of Los Angeles? (2015-04-06)
 * ... that Peggy Baker was a member of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company? (2015-04-06)
 * ... that Hortense Allart novels were based on her adventures, including Les enchantements de Prudence, Avec George Sand, which enjoyed a succès de scandale? (2015-04-06)
 * ... that the "Last Rosie the Riveter", Elinor Otto, built airplanes for almost fifty years and retired at the age of 95? (2015-04-05)
 * ... that Elena Arizmendi Mejia organized the Neutral White Cross when the Red Cross refused to assist the wounded insurgents during the Mexican Revolution? (2015-04-05)
 * ... that Australian recording artist Sia agreed to release 1000 Forms of Fear on the condition that she was not obligated to do a tour or press appearances? (2015-04-05)
 * ... that the asteroid 3241 Yeshuhua is named after a woman astronomer? (2015-04-04)
 * ... that scriptwriter Sugako Hashida wrote the original script for Oshin, the first asadora to be both produced and written by women in Japan? (2015-04-04)
 * ... that Julia Gjika and the award-winning Iliriana Sulkuqi wrote poems in Albanian as members of the group "military poets"? (2015-04-04)
 * ... that costume designer Alexandra Byrne, who won an Academy Award for Elizabeth: The Golden Age, said of Thor's costumes, "it's all about his arms"? (2015-04-04)
 * ... that one journalist described the 2000 Women's Cricket World Cup Final as "the greatest World Cup final ever"? (2015-04-04)
 * ... that Karenne Wood of the Monacan tribe is studying the cultural effects of losing a language? (2015-04-03)
 * ... that President Warren G. Harding appointed Louise DeKoven Bowen to represent the United States at the 1922 Pan-American Conference of Women? (2015-04-02)
 * ... that the British band Kero Kero Bonito found their vocalist through an online bulletin board for Japanese expatriates? (2015-04-02)
 * ... that Judith Vaitukaitis developed the chemical technique for the first home pregnancy test after trying to use it to diagnose cancer? (2015-04-02)
 * ... that the British portrait artist Cathleen Mann was also a peeress and film costume designer? (2015-04-02)
 * ... that feminist artists invented the WEB in 1971? (2015-04-01)
 * Vivian Pinn (article's talk page missing blurb) (2015-03-31)
 * ... that Premier Zhou Enlai called Qin Yi the most beautiful woman in China? (2015-03-31)
 * ... that Louise Lincoln Kerr, a member of the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame, co-founded the National Society of Arts and Letters and Phoenix Symphony? (2015-03-31)
 * Honora Sneyd (article's talk page missing blurb) (2015-03-31)
 * Ellen Powell Tiberino (article's talk page missing blurb) (2015-03-31)
 * ... that Mary Brewster Hazelton exhibited The Letter (pictured) at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition, where she won a bronze medal? (2015-03-30)
 * ... that "Smoke From Your Cigarette" by Lillian Leach and the Mellows was Lou Reed's favorite song? (2015-03-30)
 * ... that Alice H. Lichtenstein is the lead author of the American Heart Association's Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations? (2015-03-30)
 * ... that Beyoncé and Jay-Z's On the Run Tour was promoted by a faux movie trailer featuring eight celebrity cameos? (2015-03-29)
 * ... that Monique Watteau wrote feminist fantasy novels, raised monkeys, and drew a yeti for Hergé? (2015-03-29)
 * ... that Jeannette Corbiere Lavell served as president of the Native Women's Association of Canada? (2015-03-29)
 * ... that American physician Cora Smith Eaton was the first woman to summit the East Peak of Mount Olympus, and eventually climbed all six of Washington's major mountains? (2015-03-29)
 * ... that a critic said that the heroine of Doris Lessing's novel The Good Terrorist is neither a good person nor a good revolutionary? (2015-03-28)
 * ... that the title of Sibylle Lewitscharoff (pictured) first crime novel, Killmousky, comes from the name of a cat in Midsomer Murders? (2015-03-28)
 * ... that ISIL hostage Kayla Mueller once participated in the International Solidarity Movement in defending the homes of Palestinians? (2015-03-28)
 * ... that the Mexican revolutionary Julia Nava de Ruisánchez created the country's first training institution for social workers? (2015-03-28)
 * ... that as a nurse in rural Saskatchewan, Jean Cuthand Goodwill often reached emergency patients via bush plane or dog team? (2015-03-28)
 * ... that Cläre Jung has been called "the soul and muse" of a circle of Berlin-based expressionist poets that includes Else Lasker-Schüler? (2015-03-28)
 * ... that the psychologist May Smith spent three years studying the effects of fatigue on herself? (2015-03-27)
 * ... that Louisa Parr novel Adam and Eve was used as a source of Cornish English in the English Dialect Dictionary? (2015-03-27)
 * ... that no player has ever taken multiple hat-tricks in international women's cricket? (2015-03-27)
 * ... that Silvia Mistral book described how Barcelona appeared to burn at the end of the Spanish Civil War? (2015-03-27)
 * ... that when Battin High School closed in 1977, it was the last all-girls public high school in New Jersey? (2015-03-27)
 * ... that ‘Ofa Likiliki, a Tongan attorney and women's rights activist, won a Best Project award for her film Dear Tita from the Pan-Pacific Media Project in 2014? (2015-03-26)
 * ... that on July 15, 2011, Sucheta Kadethankar became the first Indian woman to walk across the Gobi desert (pictured), a distance of 1000 km? (2015-03-26)
 * ... that Julieta Montaño, who was arrested during the 1980 Bolivian Coup, later served in the House of Deputies? (2015-03-26)
 * ... that in Vedic literature, Gargi Vachaknavi is honored as one of the great natural philosophers, renowned expounder of the Vedas, and a person with knowledge of Brahmavidya? (2015-03-26)
 * ... that during World War II, Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (pictured) made "one of the greatest achievements in the history of U.S. codebreaking"? (2015-03-26)
 * ... that Elena Torres established the first Montessori school in Mexico? (2015-03-26)
 * ... that feminist writer Anne O'Hagan is thought to have written anonymously about the difficulties of living with an old-fashioned mother? (2015-03-26)
 * ... that novelist Margarita Sharapova left Russia because she was told she would suffer for her books? (2015-03-25)
 * ... that Ariana Grande described the release of "Put Your Hearts Up" as "the worst moment of my life"? (2015-03-25)
 * ... that Filipinki was the first Polish all-girl vocal group? (2015-03-25)
 * ... that to create Chrissy Skin Rug, artist Chrissy Conant was covered in Vaseline and silicone to make a life-size cast of her body? (2015-03-25)
 * ... that Ximena Cuevas is the first Mexican videographic artist whose works were acquired for the permanent collection of New York's MoMA? (2015-03-24)
 * ... that Sayaka Osakabe created a women's support network for workplace harassment and named it Matahara, formed from the words maternity and harassment, which has become a Japanese legal term? (2015-03-24)
 * ... that U.S. Mint Assistant Director Mary Margaret O'Reilly three times had her mandatory retirement extended by order of FDR, but he refused when asked a fourth time? (2015-03-24)
 * ... that Concha Michel, whose grandfather was a feudal lord on the coast of Jalisco, Mexico, was a communist and supported women's farming collectives? (2015-03-24)
 * ... that Georges de Peyrebrune was "one of the most widely read women in France"? (2015-03-23)
 * ... that Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's collaborative jazz album Cheek to Cheek won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album? (2015-03-23)
 * ... that Angella D. Ferguson discovered that African-American infants learned to sit and stand at a younger age than European-American babies? (2015-03-23)
 * ... that a massive Panamanian Flag flies above the statue of Amelia Denis de Icaza, who wrote Al Cerro Ancón? (2015-03-23)
 * ... that Sarah Marquis walked for three years across Asia and Australia, covering a distance of 20000 km? (2015-03-22)
 * ... that Mariah Carey was unable to shoot a music video for "Never Too Far" because she was recovering from a physical and emotional breakdown? (2015-03-22)
 * ... that the anti-vaccine book Melanie's Marvelous Measles has received over 1,000 one-star reviews on Amazon.com? (2015-03-22)
 * ... that Kali, a fine art painter, was a veteran of the Polish resistance movement during World War II? (2015-03-22)
 * ... that the debut single by pop singer QT was conceived to market an energy drink of the same name? (2015-03-22)
 * ... that marine biologist Anne Rudloe of the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory was also a Zen Buddhist Abbot? (2015-03-22)
 * ... that Icelandic children's author Þórdís Gísladóttir writes about how to find out what goes on behind your neighbours' curtains? (2015-03-21)
 * ... that investigative journalist Arbana Xharra uncovered links to terrorist organizations while investigating religious extremism in Kosovo? (2015-03-21)
 * ... that in 2012 Complex ranked Sarah Kerrigan as the most evil woman in gaming? (2015-03-20)
 * ... that the art of Imna Arroyo is based on the theme of "women's energy"? (2015-03-20)
 * ... that during the Defense of Van (pictured), missionary Grace Knapp wrote that the Armenian defenders made their own bullets by reusing enemy shrapnel? (2015-03-20)
 * ... that scholar Barbara Newman suggests that the multiple female figures in medieval Christianity were "distinctive creations of the Christian imagination" that deepened the medieval vision of God? (2015-03-20)
 * ... that just two of Stella Sierra many books are said to have confirmed the poet's "place in Panamanian letters"? (2015-03-19)
 * ... that a Spiderwoman Theater performance in Italy was cancelled for fear of riots? (2015-03-19)
 * ... that Niloofar Rahmani is Afghanistan's first female fixed-wing Air Force aviator? (2015-03-19)
 * ... that Austrian poet Doris Mühringer was mentored by Hans Weigel who became an early publisher of her works? (2015-03-19)
 * ... that Women's Art Resources of Minnesota pairs emerging women artists with professionals in a mentorship program? (2015-03-18)
 * ... that Maria Elizabetha Jacson was wary of offending her society's conventions by writing about sexual classification? (2015-03-18)
 * ... that Ilse Thiele (pictured) was the president of the Democratic Women's League of Germany from 1953 to 1989? (2015-03-18)
 * ... that the lack of minorities and women in Shirley M. Malcom college classes later inspired her to manage the National Science Foundation's Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program? (2015-03-17)
 * ... that Margaret Kennedy (pictured as Captain Macheath) was the first person to perform Thomas Arne's song "A-Hunting We Will Go"? (2015-03-17)
 * ... that scholar and linguist Elise Otté assisted her stepfather in translating the Elder Edda, but found working with him intolerable? (2015-03-17)
 * ... that Eleanor Cripps Kennedy led a clothing club during the grasshopper plagues? (2015-03-17)
 * ... that novel writer Regīna Ezera campaigned for a free Latvia, but suffered financially as a result of the fall of communism? (2015-03-16)
 * ... that Naomi Sager helped develop the first computer program to parse English? (2015-03-16)
 * ... that Musola Cathrine Kaseketi is Zambia's first female filmmaker? (2015-03-16)
 * ... that contralto Marga Höffgen, known as a Bach singer for Karajan and as Erda in Bayreuth, recorded Max Reger's Requiem compositions? (2015-03-16)
 * ... that Julia Quinn won back-to-back RITA Awards for her Regency romances On the Way To the Wedding and The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever? (2015-03-15)
 * ... that the Canadian-born psychiatrist Lydia Giberson was the first woman assistant vice president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company? (2015-03-15)
 * ... that one of Louisa Murray works was accidentally set on fire by the magazine that was to publish it? (2015-03-15)
 * ... that Karen Boccalero, founding director of a community arts center, was remembered as a "progressive, chain-smoking, cussing nun"? (2015-03-15)
 * ... that Kanye West sings instead of raps his guest verse on "FourFiveSeconds"? (2015-03-15)
 * ... that the novel The Peppered Moth is a fictional biography of Margaret Drabble's mother, which Drabble's sister A.S. Byatt did not like? (2015-03-14)
 * ... that Rebecca Kamen (pictured) was inspired to create the sculpture Butterflies of the Soul by a Nobel prize winner's drawings of Purkinje cells? (2015-03-14)
 * ... that Pippa Cross was inspired to enter the film and television industry after helping organise a BAFTA Awards ceremony? (2015-03-14)
 * ... that cardiologist and Gambian native Hannah Valantine is the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity at the United States National Institutes of Health? (2015-03-14)
 * ... that Dagmar Hülsenberg, with a doctorate in both cost accounting and materials science, was the youngest professor in the German Democratic Republic? (2015-03-14)
 * ... that Nancy Cox-McCormack (pictured) considered Mussolini a "creative force" and sculpted the first bust made of him after his march on Rome? (2015-03-13)
 * ... that artist Janice Wright Cheney turned old fur coats into hundreds of rats? (2015-03-13)
 * ... that Jalila Khamis Koko was awarded a "Heroes for Human Rights Award 2013" by the European Union Delegation to Sudan? (2015-03-13)
 * ... that Spanish hurdler Maria José Martínez-Patiño forgot to bring her "certificate of femininity" to a competition and, after a test, was declared a man? (2015-03-12)
 * ... that Anne Beffort is remembered for her works on Victor Hugo and Alexandre Soumet, as well as for her support of French culture in Luxembourg? (2015-03-12)
 * ... that the successful novelist Nell Zink wrote fiction for fifteen years for just one penpal? (2015-03-11)
 * ... that Florence Nightingale's Parisian friend "Clarkey" (self-portrait pictured) said that it was better to be a galley slave than a woman? (2015-03-11)
 * ... that Constance Ellis was the first woman to receive a medical degree from the University of Melbourne? (2015-03-11)
 * ... that model Charlotte McKinney became "insta-famous" by posting pictures to Instagram? (2015-03-11)
 * ... that the works of Georgette Heyer include her first novel The Black Moth (1921), which she based on a story she wrote for her haemophiliac younger brother? (2015-03-10)
 * ... that mezzo-soprano Marie-Louise Gilles appeared in trousers roles in Wiesbaden and as a valkyrie in Bayreuth? (2015-03-10)
 * ... that Yoko Hayashi helped investigate the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Stations whilst also trying to eliminate discrimination against women? (2015-03-09)
 * ... that Italian soprano Teresina Brambilla was known for performing leading parts in operas by Amilcare Ponchielli, whom she married? (2015-03-09)
 * ... that advertising executive Jane Trahey persuaded Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, and Judy Garland to pose for an ad campaign, giving them each a mink coat as payment? (2015-03-09)
 * ... that Helen Papashvily story Anything can Happen argues that we should be tolerant of those who are not born in our country? (2015-03-09)
 * ... that Mongol-Manchu-Chinese-Canadian poet Chia-ying Yeh, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, was imprisoned with her baby during the White Terror of Taiwan? (2015-03-09)
 * ... that if not for her high scores in high school, Xuemei Chen might not have been able to study plant physiology at Peking University? (2015-03-08)
 * ... that the Methodist church founder John Wesley gave a sermon about the treatment of his sister, the poet Mehetabel, at the hands of their father? (2015-03-08)
 * ... that Margaret Allen was the first woman to perform a heart transplant? (2015-03-08)
 * ... that the Chinese writer Lulu Wang is a best-selling Dutch-language author? (2015-03-08)
 * ... that the Chinese physicist He Zehui (pictured) researched nuclear physics in Heidelberg during World War II? (2015-03-08)
 * ... that swimmer Dara Torres is a twelve-time Olympic medalist, has won medals in five different Summer Olympics, and is the oldest swimmer to ever win an Olympic medal? (2015-03-08)
 * ... that Alice Perry was the first woman to graduate as an engineer in Ireland and the United Kingdom? (2015-03-08)
 * ... that Viola Hatch, of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, was a founder of the National Indian Youth Council and an AIM activist? (2015-03-07)
 * ... that Princess Sophia Singh (pictured) campaigned for women's rights outside the palace where her godmother, Queen Victoria, had let her family live? (2015-03-07)
 * ... that Sinah Estelle Kelley helped mass-produce penicillin for the U. S. Department of Agriculture following the Second World War? (2015-03-07)
 * ... that Myra Adele Logan was the first woman to perform open heart surgery? (2015-03-07)
 * ... that teenage poet Marie Heiberg first book was Mure-lapse laulud (Songs of a Problem Child)? (2015-03-07)
 * ... that Cuban poet Magaly Alabau and Ana María Simo founded Medusa's Revenge, New York's first lesbian theater? (2015-03-07)
 * ... that Bangalore Nagarathnamma, concert artist and promoter of the Thyagaraja Aradhana, was the first female artist in Madras to pay income tax? (2015-03-07)
 * ... that men don't laugh at Ayelet the Kosher Komic jokes? (2015-03-07)
 * ... that Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code, an organization that aims to teach one million African-American girls to code by 2040? (2015-03-06)
 * ... that when Yale professor Kang-i Sun Chang was a young girl, her father was imprisoned in Taiwan and her grandfather committed suicide in China? (2015-03-06)
 * ... that Eliza Ann Grier (pictured), an emancipated slave, was the first African-American woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of Georgia? (2015-03-06)
 * ... that Lilian Knowles was Britain's second professor in Economic History and had been one of Girton College's steamboat ladies? (2015-03-05)
 * ... that Elvy Kalep, Estonia's first female aviator, was a friend of Amelia Earhart? (2015-03-05)
 * ... that the first woman elected to the Geological Society of America, Mary Emilie Holmes, was also one of the cofounders of a historically black college? (2015-03-04)
 * ... that Marta Lamas co-founded the first feminist newspaper supplement in Mexico? (2015-03-04)
 * ... that Dame Lowell Goddard is believed to be the first person of Māori ancestry to become a High Court judge in New Zealand? (2015-03-04)
 * ... that film producer Lisa Bruce began working on The Theory of Everything in 2009, but it was only released in 2015? (2015-03-04)
 * ... that Salvador Alvarado drove the first feminist Congress in Mexico, which was held in Mérida, Yucatán in 1916? (2015-03-03)
 * ... that S.O.A.P. encouraged their fans to come up with a backronym for their name, though they were unimpressed by the "countless unsavoury submissions"? (2015-03-03)
 * ... that "Movie Queen" Butterfly Wu (pictured) became the mistress of China's spymaster Dai Li and the mother-in-law of President Li Zongren? (2015-03-03)
 * ... that Frances Ames was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Cape Town? (2015-03-03)
 * ... that the engineer Willie Hobbs Moore, credited with expanding Japanese manufacturing practices at Ford Motor Company, was the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in physics? (2015-03-02)
 * ... that Mila Tupper Maynard is thought to be the first female minister in Nevada? (2015-03-02)
 * ... that Anastasia Gosteva fantastic tale Большой взрыв и черепахи (2006), translated by Boris Meshcheryakov as Big Bang and Turtles, has been published by UNESCO on the Internet? (2015-03-02)
 * ... that Aleen Cust (pictured) was the first female vet recognised by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in Ireland and the United Kingdom? (2015-03-02)
 * ... that in 2006 Verónica Cruz Sánchez became the first Mexican human rights activist to be awarded the Defender of Human Rights award from HRW? (2015-03-01)
 * ... that Rihanna's song "Towards the Sun" was compared to her collaboration with Coldplay, "Princess of China"? (2015-03-01)
 * ... that immunologist Mary Loveless collected and prepared some 30,000 insects to use for her research into insect venom allergies? (2015-03-01)
 * ... that in the 1960s, Kamal Ranadive established India's first tissue culture research laboratory at the Indian Cancer Research Centre in Mumbai? (2015-03-01)
 * ... that Eleanor Winthrop Young was the first president of the Pinnacle Club, an association for women interested in "the climbing art"? (2015-03-01)
 * ... that "Zephyrette" refers to both a hostess on the California Zephyr (pictured) and a Budd Rail Diesel Car service between Oakland, California, and Salt Lake City? (2015-02-25)
 * ... that The Demands of Liberal Education concludes that parental school choice limits capacity for autonomy and, consequently, individual liberty? (2015-02-25)
 * ... that in 2002, Indonesian taekwondo practitioner Juana Wangsa Putri won a silver medal at the Asian Championships and a bronze at the Asian Games? (2015-02-25)
 * ... that film editor Melanie Oliver began her career under the tutelage of director Jane Campion? (2015-02-23)
 * ... that the first scene in Three Weeks With Lady X is an homage to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice? (2015-02-22)
 * ... that a surveillance video of Elisa Lam acting strangely in an elevator drew three million views in its first ten days on Youku, though many viewers said it disturbed them? (2015-02-21)
 * ... that the manuscript of Harper Lee's forthcoming novel, Go Set a Watchman—‌written before To Kill a Mockingbird but featuring its key characters—‌was lost until rediscovered by her lawyer in 2014? (2015-02-20)
 * ... that Venezuelan singer Aneeka cites as musical influences American singers Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin? (2015-02-20)
 * ... that Bonne of Bourbon (pictured), countess of Savoy, had to sell her jewelry to re-equip her husband at war in Italy? (2015-02-18)
 * ... that film producer Anne Rosellini wrote her first screenplay because "I didn't have the money to hire a writer, so I just decided to do it myself"? (2015-02-18)
 * ... that Huda Zoghbi (pictured), the physician–scientist who identified the gene that causes Rett syndrome, originally wanted to study literature? (2015-02-16)
 * ... that Giuseppina Brambilla, one of five opera-singer sisters, was a prima donna in Barcelona and Odessa? (2015-02-16)
 * ... that Columbia University professor Deborah Mowshowitz teaches introductory biology by having students solve famous historical problems? (2015-02-16)
 * ... that swimmer Mary Wayte won the first of four Olympic medals by defeating former world record-holder Sippy Woodhead in the final of the women's 200-meter freestyle at the 1984 Summer Olympics? (2015-02-15)
 * ... that A-Force, the upcoming ongoing comic book series to be published by Marvel Comics, will feature Marvel's first all-female team of Avengers? (2015-02-15)
 * ... that screenwriter Lucy Alibar raised money through online crowdfunding so she could afford to attend her film's screening at the Cannes Film Festival? (2015-02-14)
 * ... that American swimmer Nicole Haislett is a three-time Olympic gold medalist who learned to swim at the age of 18 months? (2015-02-13)
 * ... that Afro-German advocate Ika Hügel-Marshall, the child of a German woman and an African-American soldier, never met another black person until she was 39? (2015-02-13)
 * ... that Marija Bursać was the first woman to be proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia? (2015-02-12)
 * ... that Turkish journalist Amberin Zaman recognizes the Armenian Genocide and believes that the Turkish government must reconcile its history? (2015-02-12)
 * ... that Conxita Julià is best known for a handkerchief she owned? (2015-02-08)
 * ... that Kajol became first woman to win the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role for her performance in Gupt: The Hidden Truth (1997)? (2015-02-07)
 * ... that Canadian children's author Sheree Fitch was the poet laureate of a golf tournament in the Arctic? (2015-02-06)
 * ... that Minnie Evans, chair of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, prevented termination of her tribe and won reparations for her people from the Indian Claims Commission? (2015-02-06)
 * ... that a popular form of entertainment at jilt shops was rat-baiting? (2015-02-04)
 * ... that the Lisburn Distillery Predators were the first Northern Irish team to play in the UEFA Women's Cup? (2015-02-02)
 * ... that the collages of the Victorian photographer Lady Jocelyn (pictured) were said to have "subverted the realistic nature of photography"? (2015-02-01)
 * ... that in 1998 Eleanor Robinson set a world record of 13 days, 1 hour, 54 minutes for a woman to run 1000 mi? (2015-01-31)
 * ... that the scientist Lisa-Ann Gershwin, who has discovered 200 species of jellyfish, is related to George Gershwin? (2015-01-30)
 * ... that Preity Zinta essayed the role of a prostitute hired as a surrogate mother in the 2003 film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke? (2015-01-29)
 * ... that when Mary Brodrick (pictured) applied to study Egyptology at the Sorbonne in Paris, she was told, "But we do not take little girls here"? (2015-01-29)
 * ... that Vidya Balan (pictured) won four consecutive Filmfare Awards, three for Best Actress and one for Best Actress (Critics), for her starring roles from 2009 to 2012? (2015-01-26)
 * ... that in 1990, Helen Rollason became the first female presenter of the BBC sports programme Grandstand? (2015-01-26)
 * ... that Julia Roberts (pictured) was the first actress to earn $20 million for a film? (2015-01-25)
 * ... that Helen-Ann Hartley is the first woman ordained in the Church of England to become a bishop? (2015-01-24)
 * ... that the book accompanying Computer Engineer Barbie was withdrawn in 2014 after protests that it depicts Barbie as incompetent with computers? (2015-01-23)
 * ... that the Northern Ireland Women's Football Association is the governing body of women's football in Northern Ireland? (2015-01-22)
 * ... that the Swedish woman Karolina Olsson purportedly stayed in a constant state of sleep for 32 years? (2015-01-22)
 * ... that Anna Honzáková was in 1902 the first Czech woman to earn a doctor's certificate at a Czech university? (2015-01-22)
 * ... that Dr. Mary Cannon research group found that more than one-fifth of Irish 11- to 13-year-olds have experienced "auditory hallucinations"? (2015-01-21)
 * ... that the Northwestern Wildcats field hockey team (pictured) won four of its six Big Ten regular-season titles in the 1980s under head coach Nancy Stevens? (2015-01-19)
 * ... that the Adventure Time episode "Furniture & Meat" was referred to as a throwback episode by The A.V. Club for not dealing with the serial elements of surrounding episodes? (2015-01-19)
 * ... that Swedish journalist Carolina Neurath ventured into acting when she starred as Princess Arianna Ad'lah in the film Star Wars: Threads of Destiny in 2014? (2015-01-19)
 * ... that Naomi Grossman shaved her head in preparation for her role in American Horror Story: Asylum? (2015-01-18)
 * ... that the Michigan State Spartans field hockey team plays its home games at a venue originally built for the school's track and field team and dedicated in 1937? (2015-01-18)
 * ... that the novels of Lady Mary Hamilton may have influenced the naming of characters in Jane Austen's books? (2015-01-18)
 * ... that little is known about The Lady's Realm's publishing history because many records were destroyed during the Blitz? (2015-01-17)
 * ... that Mellcene Thurman Smith was the first woman sworn in as a member of the Missouri General Assembly? (2015-01-16)
 * ... that James Colliander, Gigliola Staffilani, and Terence Tao are part of a collaborative group of mathematicians called the I-team? (2015-01-13)
 * ... that Galadriel Stineman is named after the elven queen in The Lord of the Rings? (2015-01-13)
 * ... that painter Theora Hamblett was one of the first Mississippi folk artists to achieve national prominence? (2015-01-12)
 * ... that Sarah Collyer was expelled from the England women's cricket team for taking "an unauthorised holiday"? (2015-01-11)
 * ... that mathematician Linda Preiss Rothschild settled for graduate study at MIT after Princeton rejected her for being female? (2015-01-11)
 * ... that the perpetrator(s) of the Redhead murders have never been identified, nor have most of the victims? (2015-01-10)
 * ... that Elaine Surick Oran techniques for simulating dynamic fluid flows have been applied to phenomena as varied as the movements of fish and the explosions of supernovae? (2015-01-09)
 * ... that Charlene Morett has spent thirty-one seasons with the Penn State Nittany Lions field hockey team? (2015-01-08)
 * ... that Leslie Harpold was an early influential blogger whose unexpected death raised the issue of digital estate planning for online creators? (2015-01-07)
 * ... that Pakistani cricketer Kiran Baluch 242 against the West Indies is the highest individual score in Women's Test cricket? (2015-01-06)
 * ... that Ioana Dumitriu began taking graduate mathematics courses as a college freshman, and became the first female Putnam Fellow the following year? (2015-01-04)
 * ... that sisters Jazzy and Ruby King of the pop group Blonde Electra, finalist in The X Factor (UK) 2014 competition, are related to British chancellor George Osborne? (2015-01-04)
 * ... that folk songs give erotic descriptions of the beauty of Banai that maddened her would-be husband Khandoba? (2015-01-03)