Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Green/DYK/2021 DYK Blurbs

2021 DYK Blurbs:

... that Karolína Huvarová quipped that she earned her position as men's hockey coach "in bed"? (2021-12-31)
... that Kristallnacht prompted Elisabeth Schmitz (pictured) to leave her teaching job, unwilling to work for "a government that permitted the synagogues to be set afire"? (2021-12-29)
... that a pair of sealskin-covered high heels (example pictured) by Inuk designer Nicole Camphaug are held in the Bata Shoe Museum of Toronto? (2021-12-28)
... that Maine state legislator Tracy Quint introduced a bill that would have banned all COVID-19 vaccination mandates in Maine until 2024? (2021-12-27)
... that mountaineer Edmund Hillary asked Canadian doctor Joan Ford to take her "Adidas runners, a stethoscope and an umbrella" and get to the Himalayas? (2021-12-26)
... that English women's footballer Shameeka Fishley scored a hat-trick in her newly-established Turkish team's first match? (2021-12-23)
... that Elisabeth Dmitrieff, daughter of a Russian noble, was sent by Karl Marx to the Paris Commune and fought in its defense before falling into obscurity? (2021-12-23)
... that Bilingirl ran a nail salon before she started posting on YouTube? (2021-12-22)
... that Inuk designer Victoria Kakuktinniq incorporates design elements from the traditional amauti parka into contemporary Inuit clothing (example pictured)? (2021-12-21)
... that Kirsten Warner, whose father was a Holocaust survivor, wrote a novel from the perspective of the child of a Holocaust survivor? (2021-12-21)

... that Tatyana Mezhentseva is the first person in ten years to participate in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twice? (2021-12-18)
... that "NDA" transitions into "Therefore I Am"? (2021-12-18)
... that English-born actress Frances Brett Hodgkinson (pictured) became the highest-paid theater actress in the United States in 1800? (2021-12-18)
... that Nandivada Rathnasree, who ran Delhi's planetarium, proposed that astronomers could be taught using India's stone-built observatories? (2021-12-17)
... that Belinda Archer won Australia's first World Artistic Gymnastics Championships team medal in 2003? (2021-12-16)
... that Mauatua married the Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and ensured women on Pitcairn were given the vote? (2021-12-15)
... that Mary Earle (pictured) was born near Ben Nevis, and although she became a professor of food technology in New Zealand, she never forgot her Scottish roots? (2021-12-15)
... that Tina Stege (pictured), who led the High Ambition Coalition at COP26, is from a country that may cease to exist with projected rises in sea level? (2021-12-13)
... that Albruna may have been the woman of "superhuman size" who stopped Roman general Drusus's campaign in Germania by prophesying his death? (2021-12-12)
... that the children's book Atatiana Jefferson
, a Black woman who was shot to death in her home by a policeman in 2019? (2021-12-12)

... that zoologist Ruth Crosby Noble's 1945 book on animal behavior was said to have the "rare quality of combining entertainment with sound scientific value"? (2021-12-11)

... that Noa Denmon's illustration for the Google Doodle on Martin Luther King Jr. Day included people painting a mural while socially distanced due to the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021-12-11)

... that the title of Taylor Swift's 2008 album Fearless reflects Swift's attitude to embrace hardships in love and life? (2021-12-10)

... that Dianxi Xiaoge, who grew up in a remote Yunnan mountain village without running water, is an Internet celebrity with roughly 16 million subscribers on all her platforms? (2021-12-10)

... that in September 2021, cricketer Andrea-Mae Zepeda became the first player to score a century for Austria in a Women's Twenty20 International match? (2021-12-10)

... that the popularity of "10 Minutes" by Korean singer Lee Hyori led to 2003 being dubbed the "year of Hyori" by domestic media? (2021-12-10)

... that Rico Sasaki (pictured) beat 9,000 other auditioners to play the title role in a Japanese production of Annie in 2008? (2021-12-09)

... that children's author Kate DiCamillo received 473 rejection letters before her first novel was accepted for publication? (2021-12-09)

... that Michaela Goade received the 2021 Caldecott Medal for her watercolor illustrations for We Are Water Protectors, becoming the first Indigenous artist to win the award? (2021-12-08)

... that before starring in the Pedro Almodóvar film Parallel Mothers, Milena Smit worked as a model, waitress, shop assistant, babysitter, subway information assistant, and hotel receptionist? (2021-12-08)

... that when Margaret de Longvillers married into the House of Neville, her wealth consolidated its position in English society? (2021-12-08)

... that according to legend, Edigna fled an arranged marriage in 1074, leaving her royal life behind to live as a hermit in a hollowed-out tree in Fürstenfeldbruck? (2021-12-08)

... that Norma Kuhling's character in Fourteen was described by a film critic as "a Greta Gerwig spin on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl"? (2021-12-07)

... that Elisabeth Geleerd became one of the most influential American psychoanalysts of her time while chronically ill and raising a family? (2021-12-07)

... that Zeliha Ağrıs started performing taekwondo at age ten and became a world champion when she was 19? (2021-12-06)

... that Pitcairn Islander Teraura (pictured) was one of "the most travelled Polynesian women" of her day? (2021-12-06)

... that the
an energy crisis
? (2021-12-06)

... that archaeologist and prehistorian Jacquetta Hawkes (pictured) co-founded the Homosexual Law Reform Society and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament? (2021-12-06)

... that Awet Tesfaiesus was the first black woman ever elected to the Bundestag? (2021-12-06)

... that Mimi Fawaz's work includes a documentary on the life of South African president Nelson Mandela? (2021-12-05)

... that Inger K. Frith, the first woman president of a major international sporting federation, played a key role in returning archery to the Olympics? (2021-12-05)

... that the music video to "I Bet You Think About Me" by Taylor Swift is co-written and directed by Blake Lively in her directorial debut? (2021-12-05)

... that the novel Dreams of Trespass, which portrays the patriarchy as un-Islamic, was translated into more than 20 languages? (2021-12-05)

... that Franzisca Baruch (pictured) designed several Hebrew fonts, the cover of the first Israeli passport, the emblem of Jerusalem, and the logo of the Ha'aretz newspaper, all while barely knowing Hebrew? (2021-12-04)

... that economist Nisvan Erkal's research showed that China's one-child policy created children who lacked qualities important for social and economic success? (2021-12-03)

... that the first exhibit of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame came from founder Michael Lipton's record collection? (2021-12-01)

... that the Greenlandic novel Homo Sapienne was written in only one month? (2021-12-01)

... that Marie Litta (pictured) started her own opera company in her early 20s, just a few years before her death in 1883? (2021-11-30)

... that the subjects of the documentary Found discover that they are biological cousins as teenagers? (2021-11-28)

... that with the album Speak Now, Taylor Swift became the first female musician to have 11 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 in the same week? (2021-11-27)

... that Pamela McCorduck, who chronicled the evolution of artificial intelligence, regretted not recognizing the technology's potential for misuse? (2021-11-26)

... that in 2009, Doreen Nabwire (pictured) became the first Kenyan woman to play professional football in Europe? (2021-11-26)

... that Meadow Walker was walked down the aisle by Vin Diesel? (2021-11-25)

... that Jean Walton stopped the Pomona College football team from forcibly weighing and measuring the proportions of first-year women? (2021-11-25)

... that
the Farseer Trilogy was written under an androgynous pen name, Robin Hobb
(pictured)? (2021-11-25)

... that Valerie Broussard's video for "Iris" pays homage to the Goo Goo Dolls' original? (2021-11-24)

... that Aline Rocha, the first Brazilian woman to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games, also came third in the women's wheelchair race at the 2021 Berlin Marathon? (2021-11-24)

... that according to American sociologist Pauline Bart, "everything is data, but data isn't everything"? (2021-11-22)

... that Kitty Ponse successfully changed the sex of toads? (2021-11-22)

... that Esther Ze Naw, who appeared on the 2021 Time 100, was one of the few people in Myanmar who protested against Aung San Suu Kyi's defence of the military at the International Court of Justice in December 2019? (2021-11-22)

... that fashion model Rebecca Leigh Longendyke was inspired by Grey's Anatomy to get a degree in biomedical engineering? (2021-11-21)

... that Miriam Soljak, after fighting to recover her New Zealand nationality for nearly three decades, was told that the government considered she had never lost it? (2021-11-21)

... that Cimbrian seeresses are said to have predicted the future by slitting the throats of war prisoners and studying how the blood trickled down into a cauldron? (2021-11-21)

... that Nancy Cappello was described as the "founder of the breast density education movement" for her campaign to inform women about the issue of mammograms failing to detect breast cancer? (2021-11-20)

... that Russel and Mary Wright's American design "manifesto" Guide to Easier Living proposed that life was "engineering problems with scientific solutions"? (2021-11-20)

... that Belle Delphine's online popularity surged after she mimicked the orgasm faces (example pictured) featured in Japanese manga? (2021-11-20)

... that Brazilian wheelchair racer Vanessa Cristina de Souza won a race despite completing the last two kilometres (1.2 mi) with a flat tyre? (2021-11-19)

... that about 700 airmen – and Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten (pictured) – received the Dutch Airman's Cross? (2021-11-19)

... that more than 40 percent of women have dense breast tissue that increases the risk of breast cancer and makes it difficult for mammograms to identify tumors? (2021-11-19)

... that Rose Lee Maphis and her husband Joe Maphis, known as Mr. and Mrs. Country Music, helped develop the Bakersfield sound? (2021-11-18)

... that Miray Cin played for the Germany women's national U15, U16 and U17 football teams before she became a member of the Turkey women's national football team? (2021-11-18)

... that the "Angel of the dump", ring-pulls
? (2021-11-18)

... that Elizabeth Reiter portrayed the double role of Renee, an "icy wife"; and Alice, an "insatiable lover"; in the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's opera Lost Highway? (2021-11-18)

... that upon hearing about a 600-worker walkout reportedly prompted by difficulties she caused, Dee Duponte responded "fiddlesticks"? (2021-11-18)

... that Susan Catania (pictured) shocked male legislators by bringing her infant daughter to the floor of the Illinois House of Representatives and nursing her baby in the women's restroom? (2021-11-17)

... that Scottish novelist Isla Dewar said "if ... a thing is not worth doing then it's worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style and panache"? (2021-11-17)

... that German fashion magazine Der Bazar had many spin offs, including Harper's Bazaar? (2021-11-17)

... that after Gaudelia Díaz won a bronze medal at the 1992 Paralympics, she was asked to join Televisa by its CEO? (2021-11-16)

... that reporter Bobbie Wygant got her first television show after filling in while its host was sick with the flu? (2021-11-16)

... that in Botswana, writer Unity Dow (pictured) took legal actions as a plaintiff, legal counsellor, and judge to challenge gender discrimination and protect indigenous rights, before becoming a legislator? (2021-11-15)

... that Myrtle Edwards's family objected to Seattle's Gas Works Park being named after her? (2021-11-15)

... that Sherita Hill Golden demonstrated that diabetics were more likely to develop depression and that those with depression were more likely to become diabetic? (2021-11-14)

... that New Zealand association football coach Olli Harder has worked in the US, China, Norway and England? (2021-11-13)

... that Anne Saxelby (pictured) was a pioneer in promoting American artisanal cheese? (2021-11-13)

... that workers have the right to sit in some jurisdictions? (2021-11-12)

... that WEAF
in New York? (2021-11-12)

... that the painter and writer Hilda Vīka was involved in Latvian neopaganism and used Latvian mythology in her works? (2021-11-11)

... that the English botanists Jane Ingham and Joseph Hubert Priestley were the first to separate cell walls from meristematic tissues in broad beans? (2021-11-10)

... that Lorenza Böttner, a mouth and foot painter, had both of her arms amputated following an electrocution? (2021-11-09)

... that in October 2021, American wheelchair racer Yen Hoang came in the top three in marathons on consecutive days? (2021-11-08)

... that the woman of the Chatti was allegedly a Germanic prophetess whose advice inspired Roman Emperor Vitellius to murder his own mother, Sextilia? (2021-11-08)

... that after men took all the 2021 Nobel Prizes for science, one of the selectors, Eva Olsson (pictured), said "we want to have more women nominated"? (2021-11-08)

... that the women's race at today's New York City Marathon will feature two of the medalists from this year's Olympic marathon? (2021-11-07)

... that Colombian-born Susan Bernal is developing new cements that can reduce the substantial CO₂ emissions currently caused by concrete? (2021-11-06)

... that #AppleToo, a workers' rights movement at Apple Inc.
? (2021-11-06)

... that Małgorzata Kalinowska-Iszkowska was awarded a Polish Gold Cross of Merit for her work in information technology? (2021-11-05)

... that landscape architect Harriet Pattison collaborated with her lover Louis Kahn on the design of Four Freedoms Park and the grounds of the Kimbell Art Museum? (2021-11-05)

... that Marie Surcouf was the president of Stella, a club for French women aeronauts? (2021-11-04)

... that a group of farmers discovered The Young Woman of Amajac while preparing to till a citrus field? (2021-11-03)

... that Lisa Federle's mobile surgery service (pictured) for refugees was adapted to be a mobile test station during the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021-11-01)

... that the Germanic seeress Waluburg is only known from a pot shard found on the island Elephantine in southern Egypt? (2021-10-31)

... that the account of the Haliurunas in the 6th century history of the Goths, the Getica, is a precursor to later Christian traditions that wise women had sex and orgies with demons and the Devil? (2021-10-31)

... that a group of feminists placed the a statue of Christopher Columbus
formerly stood? (2021-10-31)

... that Elaine Estes, the first African American director of the Des Moines Public Library, holds a patent on her parents' barbecue sauce? (2021-10-31)

... that Chen Wenxin discovered that planting legumes and grasses together can increase yield? (2021-10-31)

... that after watching Matilda the Musical, Mattea Conforti complained that she could have starred in the title role? (2021-10-30)

... that Janet Wilmshurst paints pictures of the past with poop? (2021-10-30)

... that during her early career, ballerina Indiana Woodward danced the lead role in La Sylphide, replacing an injured dancer? (2021-10-30)

... that Susan Chitty's memoir on her mother, Antonia White, was viewed as a "literary assassination" when published? (2021-10-29)

... that according to legend, the god of wisdom Odin was tricked by his own wife, and her priestess Gambara, to give victory to Gambara's tribe? (2021-10-29)

... that Arkansas legislator Denise Jones Ennett took part in a Black Lives Matter protest in front of the Arkansas State Capitol? (2021-10-29)

... that when Jean Kekedo was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 2020 she became the third woman in her family to receive this honour, after her mother Dame Mary Kekedo and her sister Dame Rose Kekedo? (2021-10-28)

... that the early Germanic priestess Ganna may have been named for her magic staff? (2021-10-27)

... that Australian religious sister Bridget Partridge fled her convent in 1920 dressed only in her nightgown, precipitating a national sectarian scandal? (2021-10-25)

... that Sharri MacDonald was removed from the Old Orchard Beach City Council after a controversial 4–3 vote put the entire council up for recall? (2021-10-24)

... that 100 years after Mary Emily Sinclair wrote a master's thesis in mathematics on the discriminants of quintic polynomials, Helaman Ferguson based a sculpture on her work? (2021-10-24)

... that English netball player Sophie Drakeford-Lewis was once the highest ranked British youth tennis player? (2021-10-23)

... that as secretary of the NAACP, May Childs Nerney has been credited with "laying the fundamental groundwork" for "the most powerful organization battling racial injustice"? (2021-10-23)

... that Elizabeth Laurie Rees was the only woman to lead devotions at the 1928 World Baptist Congress in Toronto? (2021-10-22)

... that in September 2021, the England national netball team won a series in New Zealand for the first time? (2021-10-22)

... that women's basketball Hall of Famers Chris Dailey and Geno Auriemma are in their 37th season of coaching the UConn Huskies together? (2021-10-22)

... that the perpetrators of the Kennin Rebellion surrendered when one of their commanders, a female samurai, was wounded? (2021-10-21)

... that Tungia Baker owned a cloak given to her by King Korokī Mahuta? (2021-10-19)

... that the
disappearance of Lauren Cho
? (2021-10-19)

... that "Oxytocin" was recorded expressly to "be insane live"? (2021-10-16)

... that Laura Jean McKay's 2020 novel about a fictional global pandemic was first written in 2013? (2021-10-16)

... that Clan Mother Catharine Brant had the right to nominate the Tekarihogen, the most important civil chief of the Mohawk nation? (2021-10-16)

... that a painting of a Nigerian princess, unseen for more than 40 years, was discovered in 2017 and sold for more than £1 million? (2021-10-14)

... that after Natsuko Takahashi lost a screenwriting contest because her submission had the wrong theme, she was hired by the examiners? (2021-10-12)

... that Anne Wyllie (pictured), also known as the "Spit Queen", now has a Wikipedia biography because a healthcare executive asked who she was? (2021-10-12)

... that civil-rights lawyer Ni Yulan, sentenced after recording the forced demolition of homes to make way for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was prevented from leaving China to accept awards? (2021-10-10)

... that the country song "Beer Beer, Truck Truck" was based on a viral TikTok video by Erynn Chambers intended to satirize country music? (2021-10-23)
... that a viral TikTok video posted by Erynn Chambers intended to satirize country music led to the creation of "Beer Beer, Truck Truck"? (2021-10-09)

... that the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate included a staged sea-battle between Christian and Turkish ships in the River Thames? (2021-10-08)

... that in 1786, antiquarian Catherine Downes was one of the first women to excavate a Roman villa? (2021-10-06)

... that Sobekneferu (bust pictured) of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty is the earliest undisputed female king to reign over ancient Egypt? (2021-10-04)

... that the 1918 book Iowa Authors and Their Works was an attempt to document all Iowa authors and their writing starting from 1880? (2021-10-04)

... that pacifist Theodora Wilson Wilson's science fiction book The Last Weapon was banned by the British Government in 1917? (2021-10-03)

... that Craft Horizons both documented and shaped the changing history of the American craft movement? (2021-10-01)

... that Kathryn Gromatski was the first Miss Wool of Texas in 1952? (2021-09-30)

... that Dinah John was one of an estimated fifteen Native American women from New York state to serve in the War of 1812? (2021-09-29)

... that Queen
his sculpture of her
? (2021-09-28)

... that systematic psychotherapist and Protestant pastor, was a columnist for the Kronen Zeitung and appeared on television in Dancing Stars
? (2021-09-27)

... that Lori Gramlich, a survivor of sexual abuse in her childhood, introduced legislation that made it easier for sexual abuse survivors in Maine to file civil lawsuits against their abusers? (2021-09-27)

... that Lydia Wevers was the first scholar to write about the history of short stories in New Zealand? (2021-09-26)

... that Haripriya Banoth is the youngest member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly? (2021-09-26)

... that when acting in HBO television series Big Little Lies, Darby Camp received suggestions from Reese Witherspoon, who plays her onscreen mother? (2021-09-26)

... that a monument to Christopher Columbus
, not to "erase history", but to "deliver social justice"? (2021-09-25)

... that playwright Carol K. Mack wrote the thriller novel The Chameleon Variant in 1980 with Rutgers University biologist David Ehrenfeld? (2021-09-25)

... that Anna Apostolaki, the first Greek woman to work as a professional archaeologist, was also a feminist educator who promoted women's traditional crafts? (2021-09-25)

... that the second match of South Africa women's tour of England in 2018 was the first time a women's international cricket match had featured three centuries? (2021-09-24)

... that Aline Abboud is the first woman born in the German Democratic Republic to present Tagesthemen, a German daily news magazine? (2021-09-24)

... that Thai YouTuber MindaRyn began an anime singing career after her music covers were noticed by a Japanese record label? (2021-09-23)

... that Lulwah Al-Qatami was the first woman from Kuwait to study at a university abroad? (2021-09-23)

... that Jacquelyn Reingold knew nothing about string theory until she wrote a play about it? (2021-09-23)

... that Brookside character Margaret Clemence was featured in a female same-sex kiss that was rebroadcast during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics? (2021-09-22)

... that the Great Dover Street woman might be the skeleton of a female gladiator? (2021-09-22)

... that Noliwe Rooks coined the term "segrenomics" to describe a system of separate, segregated, and unequal education created by the privatization and deregulation of American public education? (2021-09-21)

... that despite not initially being selected for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, British equestrian Georgia Wilson won two bronze medals at the Games? (2021-09-21)

... that photographers in Saint Paul, Minnesota, sold thousands of cartes-de-visite of "Old Betz" (pictured), a Dakota woman who they said was 120 years old? (2021-09-21)

... that Dominican senator Anette Sanford donated half her salary to the Dominica Nurses Association during the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021-09-20)

... that Guyana MP Yvonne Fredericks-Pearson competed in archery at the Indigenous Heritage Games 2019? (2021-09-19)

... that wushu athlete Nguyễn Thúy Hiền was voted the best Vietnamese female athlete of the 20th century? (2021-09-19)

... that Elvira Bierbach has run an alternative medicine school for heilpraktiker in Bielefeld since 1992? (2021-09-19)

... that Devon Powers argues in Writing the Record that 1960s counter-culture music journalists Richard Goldstein and Robert Christgau acted as public intellectuals despite working outside of academia? (2021-09-19)

... that Sally Fox found a picture of a French sculptor and decided to create a picture collection (example pictured) of thousands of other women? (2021-09-18)

... that more than fifty years after Hilde Scheppan appeared in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the 1943 Bayreuth Festival, reviewer Alan Blyth called her "a dream of an Eva"? (2021-09-18)

... that Dawn Hastings-Williams was the first indigenous Minister of State of Guyana? (2021-09-18)

... that music producer Mylo briefly posted two of his rejected tracks for Kylie Minogue's tenth studio album X online, before the album release? (2021-09-17)

... that social psychologist work and family dynamics
? (2021-09-17)

... that a resolution introduced into the Nebraska Legislature by Joni Albrecht praised Julie Schmit-Albin as "never one to let a public official waffle on pro-life legislation"? (2021-09-15)

... that Wayward Son was described as "a delirious candy-coated romp"? (2021-09-14)

... that New Zealand choreographer and dancer Louise Potiki Bryant was coated in clay by sculptor Paerau Corneal in their interdisciplinary work Kiri? (2021-09-13)

... that Suzanna Hext chose to compete in swimming rather than equestrian at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics? (2021-09-12)

... that Bessie Anstice Baker (pictured), a convert to Catholicism, was the first Australian woman to receive a Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal? (2021-09-12)

... that after Michele Anne Harris disappeared 20 years ago today, her husband was tried four times for her murder before being acquitted? (2021-09-11)

... that women originally had the right to vote in New Jersey thanks to its constitution until an 1807 act removed that right? (2021-09-10)

... that Tanz im August, an annual international festival of contemporary dance in Berlin, was founded by Nele Hertling (pictured) in 1988? (2021-09-09)

... that after Viola Roseboro' suggested Willa Cather rewrite My Ántonia completely, Cather may have based the novel My Mortal Enemy on her? (2021-09-07)

... that the protest initiative Omas gegen Rechts (Grannies against the Right) was awarded a prize for civil courage by the Central Council of Jews in Germany? (2021-09-07)

... that Dutch radio and TV presenter Hanneke Kappen (pictured) presented the second Dutch radio show dedicated to heavy metal music? (2021-09-07)

... that Mary V. R. Thayer was briefly arrested on suspicion of spying after abandoning a 1929 business trip in the Soviet Union to explore the Caucasus? (2021-09-06)

... that Miguelina Acosta Cárdenas (pictured) played a key role in the fledgling women's movement in Peru in the early 20th century? (2021-09-05)

... that one of the first activities of The Coloured Women's Club of Montreal was to help veterans returning from the Second Boer War in South Africa? (2021-09-03)

... that Columbia Eneutseak (pictured), named for the World's Columbian Exposition where she was born into one of the exhibits, starred in her film The Way of the Eskimo? (2021-09-03)

... that Fatykha Aitova agreed to marry her husband on the condition that he help her construct a school? (2021-09-02)

... that the Romanian soprano Iulia Maria Dan was Hamlet's Ophelia in the Bregenz Festival's revival of Franco Faccio's revived opera Amleto? (2021-09-02, 2022-09-02)

... that Sjerstin Vermeulen has won Paralympic medals in swimming and equestrian? (2021-09-01)

... that Megan Phelps-Roper (pictured) announced her departure from the Westboro Baptist Church when the church planned to protest at the funerals of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting? (2021-09-01)

... that In the Ditch (1972) is based on the experiences of writer Buchi Emecheta, and deals with the systemic violence faced by working-class women in Britain at the time? (2021-09-01)

... that New Zealand opera singer Helen Medlyn's first performing role was as one of the Three Kings? (2021-09-01)

... that Evelyn van Leeuwen won a wheelchair basketball silver medal at the 1996 Paralympics and twenty years later she won a bronze at the 2016 Games? (2021-09-01)

... that Julie Schmit-Albin was awarded the title of Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska for her work as a pro-life activist? (2021-08-31)

... that seventeen-year-old Julie Hayden (pictured) was killed by members of the White Man's League days after starting a position teaching Black children, and became "the poster child of southern violence"? (2021-08-31)

... that poet Trina de Moya was the first Dominican presidential wife to be called first lady? (2021-08-30)

... that Mary Cutts was told that her memoir on Dolley Madison needed more emphasis on "important men and masculine subjects"? (2021-08-30)

... that when Paralympian Issy Bailey was in Stoke Mandeville Hospital, she had so many injuries that shooting seemed to be the best option? (2021-08-30)

... that George Orwell said of Mairin Mitchell's Storm over Spain (1937) that it was "written by a Catholic, but very sympathetic to the Spanish Anarchists"? (2021-08-29)

... that Alia Issa, the first woman competitor to enter during the 2020 Paralympics opening ceremony, is the first female refugee to compete at any Paralympic Games? (2021-08-29)

... that Rosa Egipcíaca was the first black woman in Brazil to write a book? (2021-08-28)

... that Natalie Simanowski began her "second life" as a Paralympian cyclist after being attacked by someone described as a "psychopath"? (2021-08-28)

... that Linda Watson, a dramatic soprano born in San Francisco who made a career in Europe, is proud of a Grammy nomination for Wagner's Ring cycle with her as Brünnhilde? (2021-08-28)

... that Kylie Minogue's seventh studio album, Light Years, was her first number-one album in her native Australia? (2021-08-28)

... that after appointing the Gavrilița Cabinet, Moldova is only one of two republics in the world where the non-collective head of state and head of government are both currently women? (2021-08-28)

... that Ric Throssell tried unsuccessfully to recruit Coral Bell as a Soviet spy in Canberra? (2021-08-27)

... that before she was elected to the Parliament of Armenia, Maria Karapetyan spray-painted political graffiti on the streets of Yerevan in support of Nikol Pashinyan? (2021-08-26)

... that Dr. Jodie Lewis led a team of students from the University of Worcester and volunteer archaeologists in excavating the first timber circle discovered in Somerset? (2021-08-26)

... that Herma Albertson Baggley (pictured) was the first woman to be on staff full-time as a naturalist with the United States National Park Service at Yellowstone National Park? (2021-08-26)

... that Shirley Chiang captured the first image of individual benzene molecules? (2021-08-25)

... that Rukhshana Media is named after a young woman called Rukhshana who was stoned to death in Afghanistan in 2015? (2021-08-24)

... that the first flag carried in the 2020 Paralympics opening ceremony will be that of the International Paralympic Committee (pictured), with Ileana Rodriguez as the flag-bearer? (2021-08-24)

... that "I Knew You Were Trouble" made Taylor Swift (pictured) the first artist to have two songs each sell over 400,000 digital copies within the first week of release in the U.S.? (2021-08-24)

... that Paralympian Gemma Collis-McCann, who sits on wheelchair fencing's new Gender Equity Commission, has been chosen to join three men as the UK's wheelchair fencing team in Tokyo? (2021-08-24)

... that Australian soprano Ada Baker toured India and China before becoming a singing teacher in Perth in 1889? (2021-08-24)

... that although Pixie Davies has been performing in films since 2012, her breakout role came in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns in 2018? (2021-08-23)

... that Queen Maria Comnena (pictured) abducted her daughter and coerced her into divorcing to place her on the throne of Jerusalem? (2021-08-23)

... that the
London Boy" features a spoken-word intro by English actor Idris Elba
? (2021-08-23)

... that Aisha de Sequeira led Morgan Stanley's mergers and acquisitions in India when it was the top bank by the value of its deals in 2012? (2021-08-23)

... that Phyllis Le Cappelaine Burke helped found the Sydney chapter of the St. Joan Social and Political Alliance, which advocated for equal rights for women? (2021-08-22)

... that Miao Poya successfully campaigned to change her high school's uniform policy before becoming one of the first Taipei city councillors to be openly lesbian? (2021-08-22)

... that New Zealand writer Jessie Weston wrote for William Ernest Henley's magazine for 18 months without him knowing she was a woman? (2021-08-22)

... that mathematician Gunilla Kreiss, the daughter of Heinz-Otto Kreiss, later became his granddaughter? (2021-08-22)

... that
Bridget Burgess's mother Sarah once changed all four tyres during a pit stop
by herself? (2021-08-21)

... that Louise Heims Beck co-founded the American Theatre Wing and was responsible for overseeing the organization of the 1st Tony Awards? (2021-08-20)

... that Yoko Ono considered her 1971 song "Listen, the Snow Is Falling" to be the first pop song she ever wrote? (2021-08-20)

... that American physician and marathon runner Joan Ullyot was one of the key figures in successfully lobbying for a women’s marathon in the Olympic Games? (2021-08-20)

... that Yulimar Rojas is good at jumping, but her sister Yerilda Zapata is good at throwing? (2021-08-19)

... that Vera Schoenenberg's performance in the title role of Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin at the Mörbisch Lake Festival was broadcast by German and Austrian stations? (2021-08-19)

... that Gunhild Bergh was the second woman in Sweden to be awarded a PhD in literary history? (2021-08-19)

... that
FBOY Island sets three female contestants to identify twenty-four men as either womanizers or nice guys
? (2021-08-19)

... that the
PMA" features guest vocals from Heather Baron-Gracie of the British band Pale Waves
? (2021-08-18)

... that Kuinini Manumua is the first woman to represent Tonga in weightlifting at the Olympic Games? (2021-08-18)

... that the cooking of Flora Mae Hunter (pictured) was enjoyed so much by the Duchess of Windsor that she gained weight on her visits to the plantation where Hunter worked? (2021-08-18)

... that New Zealand author Patricia Grace did not include a glossary for Māori terms in her book Potiki because she "didn't want the Māori language to be treated as a foreign language in its own country"? (2021-08-17)

... that mezzo-soprano Margarita Gritskova was José Carreras's partner for his farewell concert in Carnegie Hall? (2021-08-17)

... that astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson called out Disney for an inaccurate Frozen II poster? (2021-08-17)

... that professor Bronwyn Law-Viljoen became editor-in-chief of a publishing company, co-founded her own independent publishing company, and founded her own bookstore in South Africa? (2021-08-17)

... that the WandaVision song "Agatha All Along" was inspired by the theme songs of The Munsters and The Addams Family? (2021-08-17)

... that former detective inspector Paula Craig (pictured) is set to take part in a cross-Channel swim today? (2021-08-16)

... that Narciso Rodriguez for Her perfume was inspired by a bottle of Egyptian musk oil Narciso Rodriguez was given in high school? (2021-08-15)

... that Japanese boxer Arisa Tsubata worked to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during her training for the 2020 Summer Olympics and as a nurse? (2021-08-15)

... that a fight in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Twilight's Kingdom" has been compared to Dragon Ball Z? (2021-08-14)

... that the design of King Sombra, the villain in "The Crystal Empire", was meant to illustrate him "as both a solid creature and a flowing mass of smoky darkness"? (2021-08-14)

... that in 2017, there were more than 10,000 teenage girls who performed as Japanese idols? (2021-08-14)

... that composer Ida Carroll played a central role in the merger of the Northern School of Music and the Royal Manchester College of Music to found the Royal Northern College of Music in 1973? (2021-08-14)

... that Birgitta Odén was the first female history professor in Sweden? (2021-08-14)

... that despite the United States outlawing slavery in 1865, historian Antoinette Harrell found examples of African-American families who remained enslaved through debt bondage as recently as the 1970s? (2021-08-14)

... that Olaf's Frozen Adventure was removed from exhibition in Mexico following complaints about its length? (2021-08-13)

... that Grace Harrison was one of two women who played in the New Zealand Ice Hockey League in 2021? (2021-08-13)

... that South Australia became the first place in the world to give women the right to stand for parliament due to an opponent's "great miscalculation"? (2021-08-13)

... that while convicted fraudster Anna Sorokin was in jail, one of her visitors was Julia Garner, who will play Sorokin in the Netflix miniseries about her? (2021-08-13)

... that Serbian landowner Marija Trandafil spent a single day hungry, but she remembered the experience and became a major philanthropist in Novi Sad? (2021-08-12)

... that Hong Kong wushu athlete Li Fai dropped out of the 1994 Asian Games after discovering she was pregnant? (2021-08-12)

... that instead of fighting in battle, female vassals in the Kingdom of Jerusalem were obliged to render the service of marriage to their lord by marrying one of three candidates proposed to them? (2021-08-11)

... that Mary Dunn was reported to have had "many a free ride" in ice hockey, when men "would just lift her up and dump her elsewhere"? (2021-08-11)

... that Lisa Warrington was responsible for painting the doors of Allen Hall Theatre red? (2021-08-11)

... that soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, who has given over 200 performances at the Met, said that becoming a singer "takes work on your psyche, your innermost being"? (2021-08-11)

... that Therese Forster (pictured) edited the works of her father Georg Forster, who died when she was seven years old? (2021-08-10)

... that "Stoned at the Nail Salon" was written by Lorde and Jack Antonoff, and features backing vocals from four other artists? (2021-08-10)

... that Bernette Ford was one of the first members of the Black Creators for Children, an organization that helped promote black authors and increase diversity in children's books? (2021-08-10)

... that Tatjana Gamerith and her husband, married for 60 years despite an age difference of 20 years, were awarded a prize for their work to combine art and nature? (2021-08-08)

... that psychologist Janis Sanchez-Hucles was only the second person of color to earn a PhD in psychology from the University of North Carolina? (2021-08-08)

... that Blanche Zacharie de Baralt was the University of Havana's first woman philosophy graduate and the first person to translate Tagore's poems into Spanish? (2021-08-08)

... that the video game Omori came out in December 2020, instead of its initial projected release date of May 2015? (2021-08-07)

... that in inner voice
of four male singers? (2021-08-07)

... that rhythmic gymnast Isabelle Connor is the first UC Santa Cruz student to compete at the Olympics? (2021-08-06)

... that the title of the album Red by Taylor Swift refers to the tumultuous "red" emotions that were evoked from an unhealthy romance she was experiencing during the album's conception? (2021-08-05)

... that British modern pentathlete Jo Muir qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics despite missing the last qualification event due to COVID-19–related travel restrictions? (2021-08-05)

... that Danish dairy farmer Hanne Nielsen created a Tilsit cheese for King Christian IX of Denmark? (2021-08-05)

... that German runner Alica Schmidt (pictured), who is running in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics, has won multiple European junior relay medals? (This was an error: she had at an earlier stage been selected, but did not in fact participate) (2021-08-05)

... that suffragette Lilian Staple Mead was the only female student ever at Adelaide's Prince Alfred College? (2021-08-04)

... that Eliza Kennedy Smith's investigations of municipal corruption in Pittsburgh led to the mayor's arrest and imprisonment? (2021-08-04)

... that Regine Velasquez, a Filipino singer and actress, was the first Asian artist to stage a solo concert at the Carnegie Hall in New York City? (2021-08-03)

... that Marthe Yankurije, who dropped out of school during her fourth year of secondary school, will compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics? (2021-08-02)

... that Hayat Bakshi Begum ruled the Golconda Sultanate as regent for her son Abdullah Qutb Shah? (2021-08-02)

... that CEO Marla Messing submitted the business plan for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup two days before the birth of her first child? (2021-08-01)

... that infectious diseases specialist Jameela Al Salman has supported the development of medical robots and called their use in Bahrain a "pioneering experiment"? (2021-08-01)

... that Lili Marberg, an actress at the Burgtheater in Vienna from 1911 to 1950, was painted performing Wilde's Salome in Munich (painting pictured)? (2021-07-31)

... that during the War of the Lombards, fighting was interrupted so that the corpse of the besieged Queen Alice could be handed over to her husband, who had never seen her alive? (2021-07-31)

... that the book Deal With It! was written by the creators of Gurl.com? (2021-07-30)

... that Olympic Turkish volleyballer Tuğba Şenoğlu (pictured) was once named "Best Outside Spiker"? (2021-07-29)

... that Minnie Lindsay Carpenter wrote more than twelve books about the history of The Salvation Army? (2021-07-29)

... that two hours before Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold competed in a 2016 Summer Olympics fight, she had been in hospital with gastroenteritis? (2021-07-29)

... that Jo Beall, a British scholar of development economics, was once imprisoned for anti-apartheid activism? (2021-07-29)

... that Gurl.com's initial content used drawings of women instead of photos to avoid concerns about body image? (2021-07-29)

... that by naming her album Planet Her, Doja Cat was "just trying to be cute" and was not promoting a feminist agenda nor a planet exclusively for women? (2021-07-28)

... that Lucy Smith Millikin was one of the first Latter Day Saints to participate in baptism for the dead? (2021-07-28)

... that Ina Caro, the wife of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson author Robert Caro, is the sole research assistant for his books? (2021-07-28)

... that New Zealand rower Hannah Osborne (pictured) unexpectedly displaced the current double world champion in double scull, Olivia Loe, for the ongoing Olympic Games? (2021-07-28)

... that Gun Bergman produced the Swedish translation of Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić's best-known work, The Bridge on the Drina? (2021-07-28)

... that Raychell's previous stage name Lay was meant to represent her belief that singing while lying down would heal listeners? (2021-07-27)

... that Turkish champion Esra Yıldız, who was named the "Most Hyped Boxer", has been selected to represent Turkey at the 2020 Summer Olympics? (2021-07-27)

... that Dialta Alliata di Montereale has fought a 25-year court battle for a half-share of Arthur Acton's $1 billion art collection after DNA testing confirmed that she is his granddaughter? (2021-07-27)

... that American website ChickClick was owned by the same company who owned IGN? (2021-07-27)

... that the name of Serbian Roma female rap group Pretty Loud was inspired by the popular notion that Roma women are not typically very loud? (2021-07-26)

... that operatic soprano Moscow Kremlin
to impress visiting dignitaries? (2021-07-26)

... that Larisa Iordache (pictured) is the second-most decorated gymnast in the history of the European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships with sixteen medals? (2021-07-26)

... that Jo Inkpin was Australia's first openly transgender Anglican priest? (2021-07-26)

... that Drahşan Arda is the world's first female association football referee confirmed by FIFA? (2021-07-26)

... that Nele Hertling, working for the Academy of Arts, Berlin, brought innovative culture to the city including the Tanz im August festival? (2021-07-25)

... that the first Olympic volleyball match in more than 16 years for Kenya's Malkia Strikers is being played today in Tokyo against Japan? (2021-07-25)

... that ballerina Julie Diana began writing for dance publications when she was pregnant? (2021-07-25)

... that Wendy Solling was a nun, a sculptor and one of the first women ordained in the Anglican Church of Australia? (2021-07-24)

... that shooter Tehani Egodawela was the third person selected from Sri Lanka to compete in the 2020 Summer Olympics? (2021-07-24)

... that Kibu.com was shut down 46 days after it was launched? (2021-07-24)

... that at the 2016 Summer Olympics, French sailor Hélène Defrance won a medal by a single point? (2021-07-24)

... that New Zealand's Grace Prendergast was the highest-ranked female rower in the world in 2019? (2021-07-24)

... that in developing the Dictionary of Women Worldwide, editors Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer found other biographical dictionaries often devoted only five percent of their text to women? (2021-07-24)

... that First Lady of Costa Rica (1962–1966), is the oldest former first lady in the world and a supercentenarian
? (2021-07-23)

... that in 2021, Lisa Barbelin won her European Archery Championships event, and briefly became the world's number one ranked player? (2021-07-23)

... that one of afro-textured hair
? (2021-07-23)

... that when Ingrid Haubold recorded the role of Senta in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, reviewer Alan Blyth found "a certain raw edge" of her soprano voice apt for the role? (2021-07-23)

... that New Zealand world-champion rower Emma Twigg (pictured) came out of retirement to compete in her fourth Olympic Games today? (2021-07-23)

... that in Jude Ellison Doyle proposes that Frankenstein is about maternal fear that the author Mary Shelley
experienced after family tragedies? (2021-07-23)

... that Vittoria Alliata di Villafranca translated Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings into Italian aged 15 to 17, then wrested control of the family's 100-room summer palace from Opus Dei and the Mafia? (2021-07-22)

... that award winner Lillian Comas-Díaz became interested in psychology after consoling classmates recovering from a destructive hurricane? (2021-07-22)

... that Italian singer Lia Origoni said she refused to be Joseph Goebbels's dinner guest, so he left her chair empty? (2021-07-22)

... that barrister and arbitrator Mahnaz Malik worked with the Law Society of England and Wales to set up a programme to assist imprisoned children in Pakistan? (2021-07-21)

... that Lindy Cameron, who leads the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, says that ransomware is the major cyber threat? (2021-07-21)

... that the Women's National Basketball Players Association was the first trade union for professional women athletes? (2021-07-20)

... that Chilean psychologist Neva Milicic Müller wrote a book about parent–child separation that can help children and caregivers during COVID-19 lockdowns? (2021-07-20)

... that Maria of Antioch had a clerk and a notary interrupt the coronation of her rival Hugh III of Cyprus, after which they fled the cathedral? (2021-07-20)

... that Bridget Cleary was burnt alive by her husband, who believed she was a fairy changeling
? (2021-07-19)

... that Hope Muir was hired as the artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada without any in-person interviews? (2021-07-19)

... that Hannah Lee Corbin was the "first Virginia woman to take a stand for women's rights"? (2021-07-19)

... that donors withdrew $4 million in funding from Vote.org after its board fired its founder and CEO, Debra Cleaver? (2021-07-19)

... that Piper Harron's 2016 mathematics doctoral thesis has been described as "feminist", "unique", "honest", "generous", and "refreshing"? (2021-07-18)

... that Ebba Atterbom was the first person to translate the work of Irish novelist James Joyce into Swedish? (2021-07-18)

... that Annie Kanahele opposed the addition of diacritics to a reprint of the Bible in Hawaiian, arguing that the original exemplified the written Hawaiian language at the time of translation? (2021-07-18)

... that Kate Baker arranged to republish the Australian novel Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy after locating half of the original manuscript under some lumber in the offices of The Bulletin? (2021-07-17)

... that the "only consolation" Brigitte Manceaux said she found in dying was the hope of being reunited with her uncle, the composer Francis Poulenc? (2021-07-17)

... that Lebanese academic Zahia Kaddoura was the first woman to be appointed a dean at the Lebanese University? (2021-07-16)

... that Theodolinda Hahnsson (pictured) is the first known Finnish-language female author? (2021-07-16)

... that South African theologian Sarojini Nadar examined the Book of Esther as a "text of terror" in normalizing rape culture? (2021-07-16)

... that Neha Narkhede, co-creator of the open source software Apache Kafka, also helped found Confluent, a company valued at $4.5 billion? (2021-07-16)

... that when María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza was appointed to lead the psychology department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she proposed a "zero tolerance" policy for gender violence? (2021-07-15)

... that Swedish actress Viran Rydkvist was one of the first women to run a theatre in Sweden? (2021-07-14)

... that Barbara Hepworth instructed people to "walk in" to her sculptures? (2021-07-14)

... that Nilima Arun Kshirsagar developed and patented liposomal amphotericin B, which was used to treat "black fungus" during the COVID-19 pandemic in India? (2021-07-14)

... that Helen Maria Williams's Letters Written in France praised the French Revolution even though she was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror for being English? (2021-07-14)

... that Annita Demetriou is the first woman and youngest person elected as Speaker of Cyprus' House of Representatives? (2021-07-14)

... that Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe was the top try scorer at the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, the first time the feat had been achieved by someone not from Australia or New Zealand? (2021-07-14)

... that Swedish painter, ceramist, designer, and writer Tyra Lundgren was one of the most versatile artists of the 20th century? (2021-07-13)

... that Liu Yu has been called "one of China's best-known America-watchers" and "China's de Tocqueville"? (2021-07-13)

... that college basketball player Haley Cavinder and her twin sister, Hanna, signed a major endorsement deal within minutes of it being allowed? (2021-07-13)

... that Maria Simon and her husband met through a Jewish youth group in Austria but did not marry until ten years later after reconnecting while living as exiles in England? (2021-07-12)

... that Christa Ludwig, known for fiction for young horse-lovers, received a prize after her novel about Else Lasker-Schüler's late years in Jerusalem was published? (2021-07-12)

... that Serbian actress Branka Veselinović (pictured), whose career started in 1938, still performs aged 102? (2021-07-12)

... that German art historian Birgit Dahlenburg was instrumental in the recognition of the 16th-century Croy Tapestry as a cultural asset of national value? (2021-07-12)

... that Marja Kubašec was both the first Sorbian woman to receive a formal teacher training and the first woman to write a novel in Upper Sorbian? (2021-07-11)

... that June Fernández wrote "I Wanted Sex But Not Like That"? (2021-07-11)

... that Ellora Derenoncourt demonstrated that the expansion of minimum wage in 1967 accounted for 20 percent of the reduction in racial income gaps in the United States during the civil rights era? (2021-07-11)

... that
Blood Orange became popular during COVID-19 lockdowns
in 2020? (2021-07-11)

... that Abeer Odeh was the first woman to serve as Minister of National Economy in Palestine? (2021-07-11)

... that ballerina Tina Pereira won a competition even though she was chosen to replace an indisposed dancer, and her partner got seriously injured mid-performance? (2021-07-10)

... that Patric and Rosalie Carey built New Zealand's first theatre for professional repertory on the back of their house? (2021-07-10)

... that Grenadian anatomic pathologist Kathleen Coard is the first female professor of pathology in the Caribbean? (2021-07-10)

... that Swedish writer Hedda Anderson began her literary career at the age of 58, following her husband's death in 1888? (2021-07-10)

... that The City in the Middle of the Night, a 2019 climate-fiction novel by Charlie Jane Anders, is set on a tidally locked planet? (2021-07-09)

... that after her election as Florida's agriculture commissioner, Nikki Fried was sworn into office using the first Hebrew Bible published in the United States? (2021-07-09)

... that Elizabeth Mburu's book African Hermeneutics seeks to bring a uniquely African approach to interpreting the Bible? (2021-07-09)

... that, after her death, a contemporary of Frankish queen Austregilde both called her "the light of her homeland, the world, and the court" and compared her to Herod? (2021-07-09)

... that ballerina Pippa Moore's last role was as Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria's youngest daughter? (2021-07-08)

... that Pamela Trotman Reid, the first Black president of University of Saint Joseph, developed the GO-GIRL program? (2021-07-08)

... that Doja Cat and her directors used Blade Runner and The Fifth Element as reference points while making the music video for "Need to Know"? (2021-07-08)

... that in her debut novel, The Paper Magician, fantasy author Charlie N. Holmberg (pictured) followed Brandon Sanderson's advice to limit her characters' magical powers? (2021-07-08)

... that before she entered the U.S. Army in 1942, Jane Douglass White, a songwriter for soldier's shows, had already composed the tune which would become the official "Song of the Women's Army Corps"? (2021-07-07)

... that during the 1940s, Sigge Stark became Sweden's most published, most read, as well as most criticised author? (2021-07-07)

... that adult-film actress Kendra Sunderland originally wanted to be a counselor or an accountant? (2021-07-07)

... that "She's a Woman" was the first song by the Beatles to include a reference to drugs? (2021-07-06)

... that Jane Margyl (pictured) began her stage career as a mime at the Folies Bergère, and became a leading singer of the Paris Opera? (2021-07-06)

... that Belgian international association footballer Anaëlle Wiard, who started playing beach soccer in 2020, was the top scorer in a competition that year? (2021-07-06)

... that Linnéstaty, a sculpture created by Swedish sculptor Gerda Sprinchorn, was raised as a public monument 40 years after its completion? (2021-07-05)

... that the first Black woman to receive tenure in Kent State University's College of Arts & Sciences, Angela Neal-Barnett, emphasizes social support between Black women as "an indigenous form of healing"? (2021-07-05)

... that María Teresa Sesé wrote 500 romance novels in her native Spanish, then wrote several books in Basque after studying the language for two years? (2021-07-04)

... that
Laura Robinson invented Canada's best selling board game
before becoming a successful actress and television producer? (2021-07-02)

... that Kata Wéber moved to Berlin to write the play that would become Pieces of a Woman to avoid her husband, who had encouraged her to write it after finding her personal notes? (2021-06-30)

... that judoka Loretta Doyle found out that she was pregnant during pre–Olympic selection medical checks? (2021-06-30)

... that Nell Walden was the first abstract artist in Swedish history? (2021-06-29)

... that by being the first travesti to become a national celebrity, entertainer Cris Miró increased the visibility of the transgender community in Argentine society during the 1990s? (2021-06-29)

... that Hikaru Natsumi contributed to adult comic magazines while still in high school? (2021-06-28)

... that Elena Urrutia helped launch the Mexican feminist magazine Fem? (2021-06-28)

... that Carolyn Huntoon (pictured) was the first woman to serve as the director of the Johnson Space Center? (2021-06-28)

... that the Suffrage Torch was a symbol of illumination during the Suffragist campaigns in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the summer of 1915 and the idea of Harriot Stanton Blatch? (2021-06-27)

... that Henriette Spitzeder and her husband Josef Spitzeder appeared on stage as Mozart's Figaro and his bride Susanna? (2021-06-27)

... that at the suggestion of writer and translator Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg, Mother's Day was celebrated for the first time in Sweden in 1919? (2021-06-27)

... that Rosa Ponselle blamed Metropolitan Opera star Giovanni Martinelli's poor singing on his love affair with French soprano and actress Colette D'Arville? (2021-06-26)

... that Carla Van Zon ran two arts festivals in New Zealand? (2021-06-26)

... that Stina Quint was the founder and editor of Kamratposten, one of the earliest children's magazines in Sweden? (2021-06-25)

... that How Doth the Little Crocodile by Leonora Carrington was based on Lewis Carroll's poem of the same name? (2021-06-25)

... that Edith Kanakaʻole's acceptance speech for a 1978 Na Hoku Hanohano Award was given entirely in the Hawaiian language? (2021-06-25)

... that Genoa honored Stefanina Moro, a teenage courier in the Italian resistance who was killed by Nazis, by naming a street after her? (2021-06-24)

... that French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy (pictured) was admired by musicians such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan during the 1960s? (2021-06-24)

... that despite Beverly White's earlier opposition to abortion, she represented Planned Parenthood at the World Conference on Women, 1995? (2021-06-24)

... that Sae Eun Park is the first Asian étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet, and one of the few foreigners to hold the title? (2021-06-22)

... that in 1929, Lisl Goldarbeiter became the first Austrian to win the Miss Universe title? (2021-06-22)

... that Sydney Morton's grandfather appeared in Run, Little Chillun (poster pictured), but the musical theatre bug skipped a generation? (2021-06-21)

... that the biography of Karin Boye, written by Swedish literary critic Margit Abenius, was criticised for the conservative analysis of Boye's homosexuality? (2021-06-20)

... that Indrani (sculpture pictured), the queen of Hindu devas (gods), is a daughter of a demonic figure? (2021-06-20)

... that the Honolulu Star-Bulletin described Thelma Akana Harrison as "volatile", "brilliant", and "vivacious"? (2021-06-19)

... that German-Chilean research psychologist Susana Bloch created a technique actors have been using to access their basic emotions? (2021-06-19)

... that after Nurhajizah Marpaung unsuccessfully defended Butar Butar against human rights violations, she became the first woman to serve as vice governor of North Sumatra? (2021-06-19)

... that Catherine Sourbut Groves, who experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall as a student, became an archdeacon in the Church of England via Zoom? (2021-06-19)

... that the 1976 "Britain Awake" speech by Margaret Thatcher (pictured) led to her being nicknamed the "Iron Lady" by a Soviet newspaper? (2021-06-19)

... that German swimmer Lisa Höpink won two medals at the 2019 Summer Universiade and qualified for two events at the 2020 Summer Olympics? (2021-06-18)

... that in a 1922 letter to the editor, Flora Kaai Hayes defended the morality of hula compared to the "bosom to bosom, thigh to thigh dances" seen on steamboats and roof gardens at the time? (2021-06-18)

... that in Hindu mythology, the creator deity Daksha married Asikni, after realising that copulation was necessary for procreation? (2021-06-18)

... that rhythmic gymnast Márcia Lopes is the first Cape Verdean athlete to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics? (2021-06-17)

... that Swedish writer Annie Åkerhielm (pictured) was an active campaigner against women's suffrage and democracy? (2021-06-17)

... that according to one source, the Chinese femme fatale Xia Ji married seven times? (2021-06-16)

... that boxer Nadine Apetz is undertaking a doctorate studying deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease in old age? (2021-06-16)

... that in 1905, Mae Eleanor Frey became the first woman to be ordained in the American Baptist Churches USA? (2021-06-16)

... that critics have compared Marina's "Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land" to Britney Spears's "Womanizer", with one describing it as "an electro-glam-pop stomper"? (2021-06-16)

... that Tanja Tetzlaff recorded Einojuhani Rautavaara's cello sonatas from the 20th century and Wolfgang Rihm's cello concerto, premiered in 2008, on a cello built in 1776? (2021-06-15)

... that Eve Pitts, one of the Church of England's "fiercest critics", is also their first black woman vicar? (2021-06-15)

... that four Russian billionaires – Roman Abramovich, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and Shalva Chigirinsky – and the oil firm Rosneft are suing HarperCollins over Putin's People by Catherine Belton? (2021-06-15)

... that although Margaret Thatcher announced to the House of Commons on 14 June 1982 that Argentine troops were flying "white flags over Port Stanley", they were probably just laundry on a washing line? (2021-06-14)

... that one in a thousand women have three X chromosomes, but only 10 percent of them know it? (2021-06-14)

... that when Honor McKellar studied voice in England, Ralph Vaughan Williams called her "the girl who does things with the words"? (2021-06-14)

... that Amy Vilela became an advocate for single-payer healthcare after her daughter died after being turned away from a hospital for lacking health insurance? (2021-06-14)

... that Mary Custis Lee (pictured), a daughter of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, refused to sit in the "whites-only" section of a streetcar? (2021-06-13)

... that Cuilin Zhang leads a study of about 4,000 women who had diabetes in pregnancy to identify factors in the progression from gestational diabetes to type 2 diabetes? (2021-06-13)

... that Japanese manga artist Riyoko Ikeda was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government for her manga series The Rose of Versailles? (2021-06-12)

... that actress Rebecca Dayan developed a love for acting while being raised in a hotel? (2021-06-12)

... that Ingrid Wallberg was the first female architect in Sweden with her own firm? (2021-06-12)

... that New Zealand singer Fanny Howie (pictured) composed the song "Hine E Hine", which aired on New Zealand television every night from 1981 to 1994? (2021-06-11)

... that the rock band Blur were the wedding band for the reception of journalists Jane Suiter and Leo Finlay in Dublin in 1990? (2021-06-10)

... that Kai Cheng Thom wrote Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars not as a memoir to educate cisgender people about transgender issues, but as the book she had wanted to read as a teenager? (2021-06-10)

... that after the
livestreamed
the routine she was going to perform? (2021-06-10)

... that Kate Nicholl is the first lord mayor of Belfast in recent times not to be born in the United Kingdom or Ireland? (2021-06-09)

... that Sharon Choi (pictured), the Korean–English interpreter for film director Bong Joon-ho, is herself a director? (2021-06-08)

... that geographer Hildegard Binder Johnson fled Third Reich Germany after the Nazi Party destroyed her scientific paper criticizing the development of European colonies in Africa? (2021-06-08)

... that Royal Ballet dancer Fumi Kaneko danced Princess Aurora in a cinema relay of The Sleeping Beauty, even though she was supposed to portray the Lilac Fairy? (2021-06-08)

... that Ester Wajcblum and other Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz smuggled gunpowder out of a munitions plant and successfully destroyed a crematorium at Birkenau during the Sonderkommando revolt? (2021-06-08)

... that Tishaura Jones, the new mayor of St. Louis, once started a GoFundMe fundraiser to take down a Confederate monument? (2021-06-07)

... that Maria Calegari danced principal roles in every ballet performed by the New York City Ballet during a weekend in her early career? (2021-06-07)

... that Swedish artist Gerda Höglund painted her first altarpiece in South Africa before creating a similar work (pictured) in Sweden? (2021-06-07)

... that after buying a view camera in the 1880s, Marie Hartig Kendall (pictured) took over 30,000 photographs? (2021-06-06)

... that
Egyptian revolution of 2011, but rarely mentioned her revolutionary-socialist
political views? (2021-06-06)

... that Robin Ransom, the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Missouri, said that she was "really happy I didn't like law school"? (2021-06-05)

... that Izkia Siches, who was re-elected as president of the Chilean Medical College in 2020, has ruled out running for President of Chile in 2021? (2021-06-05)

... that British sailor Eilidh McIntyre, who has qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, is the daughter of a former Olympic gold medallist? (2021-06-05)

... that Kartini Hermanus, the first female general in the Indonesian Army, outranked her husband after being promoted in 2000? (2021-06-04)

... that Gretchen Campbell's research on Bose–Einstein condensates may provide insight into the expansion of the early universe? (2021-06-04)

... that soprano Estelle Liebling, the voice teacher of Beverly Sills and Meryl Streep, performed in more than 1600 concerts with John Philip Sousa and his band? (2021-06-04)

... that ballerina Margaret Tracey performed for Bill and Hillary Clinton when Maria Tallchief received a Kennedy Center Honor? (2021-06-03)

... that labor activist Mother Blizzard once led a group of women to tear up train tracks to prevent an attack on striking miners? (2021-06-02)

... that although ballerina Cynthia Harvey spent most of her career with the American Ballet Theatre, she was also the first American principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London? (2021-06-02)

... that Meredith Clark (pictured) is "the go-to person about Black Twitter", according to NPR? (2021-06-01)

... that Finnish politician Kaarina Suonio answered the world's first GSM phone call? (2021-06-01)

... that soprano Joyce Mathis won the Marian Anderson Award in 1967 and the Young Concert Artists singing competition in 1968? (2021-06-01)

... that Moto Hagio wrote her 1992 manga Iguana Girl as a semi-autobiographical story that reflects her strained relationship with her mother? (2021-06-01)

... that the Bishop of Bath and Wells said that "there is not a more dangerous woman in the West" than Mary Speke? (2021-05-31)

... that Finnish politician Maija Rask earned a PhD at the age of 61 after a career as a nurse, teacher, member of Parliament, and minister of education? (2021-05-31)

... that Gertrude Michelson sat on the board of trustees of Columbia University before it began admitting female students? (2021-05-31)

... that Irish association footballer Margaret Saurin later worked as a coach in the US? (2021-05-30)

... that the music of Americana" by Rolling Stone
? (2021-05-30)

... that Margaret Thatcher's usage of the royal we was interpreted as an example of her "pseudo-royal grandiosity"? (2021-05-29)

... that the verse novel Songs of a Mormon Woman by Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkowitz was banned as pornographic in Austria? (2021-05-29)

... that Meeri Kalavainen (pictured), Finland's first minister of culture, helped end a schism in the women's branch of the Social Democratic Party? (2021-05-29)

... that Gao Jiamin is commonly known as the "Queen of Taiji"? (2021-05-29)

... that the 2017 film Suburbicon was inspired by Daisy Myers's family, who faced racially charged harassment and violence in all-white Levittown, Pennsylvania? (2021-05-29)

... that Sinikka Luja-Penttilä published a novel in the same year that she retired from the Finnish parliament? (2021-05-28)

... that Finnish politician Maija Perho encouraged future president Sauli Niinistö to join the National Coalition Party in the 1960s? (2021-05-28)

... that Chinese activist Li Qiaochu was detained on 31 December 2019 and spent New Year's Day in handcuffs in relation to the "12.26 Citizens Case" while her partner Xu Zhiyong was still in hiding? (2021-05-28)

... that as a child, future script supervisor Pamela Mann-Francis went to the cinema multiple times a week, even during Second World War air raids? (2021-05-27)

... that ballerina Marie-Jeanne entered the School of American Ballet two days after seeing a ballet performance for the first time? (2021-05-27)

... that L. Zenobia Coleman, a librarian at Tougaloo College for 36 years, "paved the way for Black librarians"? (2021-05-27)

... that Doja Cat stopped smoking marijuana while recording Hot Pink, and discovered that her songwriting improved significantly? (2021-05-27)

... that Marie Desbrosses made her operatic debut at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris in 1776, and created the role of Marguerite in Boieldieu's La dame blanche there in 1822? (2021-05-26)

... that during World War II, Helena Kuipers-Rietberg helped create a national underground network that supported Dutch Jews, downed airmen, and people conscripted for forced labor in Nazi-Germany? (2021-05-26)

... that Judas and the Black Messiah's film director Shaka King approved "Fight for You" by H.E.R. after he heard aspects inspired by Curtis Mayfield? (2021-05-26)

... that the poem Charlotte Turner Smith was written while Britons feared Napoleon's armies would invade at that spot
? (2021-05-26)

... that Indian writer Shrabani Basu learned about the relationship between Abdul Karim and Queen Victoria while researching the history of curry? (2021-05-24)

... that the University of Oulu renamed an institute after Finnish politician Kerttu Saalasti (pictured) in 2017, six decades after she introduced the bill that established the university? (2021-05-23)

... that because of her striking beauty and sense of high fashion, soprano Annamary Dickey was dubbed the "Glamour Girl of the Met" in 1949? (2021-05-23)

... that Lisa Kahn was described as a prototypical example of a German-American author? (2021-05-22)

... that the first founder of a free-to-use English school was Lady Katharine Berkeley (sculpture pictured)? (2021-05-22)

... that after her death Katri-Helena Eskelinen was voted "the greatest Siilinjärvi resident of all time" by her hometown? (2021-05-20)

... that the new director of DARPA, Stefanie Tompkins, was paid by NASA to analyze moon rocks? (2021-05-19)

... that British actress Marie Empress was last seen on a Cunard liner bound for New York? (2021-05-19)

... that the designer of the flag of Papua New Guinea, Susan Karike, had a gallery at the national museum named after her? (2021-05-18)

... that Alli Lahtinen, the first woman to lead a central government agency in Finland, helped establish the country's national child care system? (2021-05-17)

... that in 2012, French women's football club the country's top division and reached the semi-finals of the French Cup
? (2021-05-16)

... that Ora Nichols was the first woman to run a radio sound effects unit? (2021-05-16)

... that Orvokki Kangas authored six books, including a novel, memoirs, and religious devotionals, after she left the Finnish parliament at the age of 61? (2021-05-15)

... that Silvia Bottini, the face of the "First World Problems" meme, has done makeup for T-Pain and publicly performed Ovid? (2021-05-14)

... that for several nights early in her career, ballerina Mary Ellen Moylan danced in a Balanchine ballet, then took a taxi to another theater to appear in the second act of an operetta? (2021-05-14)

... that Colonel Anna von Wattenwyl went to jail in Switzerland because of her work for the Salvation Army? (2021-05-14)

... that Norwegian footballer Sissel Grude retired aged 22, but returned for a one-off appearance 22 years later? (2021-05-13)

... that Kate Lutkins (pictured), the best on ground at the this year's Aussie Rules Football Women's Grand Final, played with a painful foot injury that required surgery? (2021-05-12)

... that when one of the first two women diagnosed with tetrasomy X was followed up 26 years later, she had gone from residence in an institution to living semi-independently with her sister? (2021-05-11)

... that Sarah Zettel wrote her first short story at the age of 20 and it was published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact five years later? (2021-05-11)

... that when Risa Tsumugi was hired to be the disc jockey and rapper for the band Raise A Suilen, she had no prior experience in either disc jockeying or rapping? (2021-05-11)

... that critic Jack Anderson described Patricia Bowman as "the first American ballerina to win critical acclaim and wide popularity as a classical and a musical-theater dancer"? (2021-05-11)

... that Irma Toivanen, who was part of a group of Finnish volunteer medics during World War II, helped make a film about the group six decades later? (2021-05-11)

... that Finnish politician Margit Eskman did not attend secondary school because she had to work in a shoe factory? (2021-05-10)

... that when mathematician Josephine M. Mitchell married another University of Illinois faculty member, the university revoked her tenured position so her husband could keep his untenured one? (2021-05-10)

... that when Hetty Jane Dunaway created Dunaway Gardens near Atlanta, it had a 400 and a 1,000 seat theatre and a swimming pool blasted out with explosives? (2021-05-10)

... that after surviving the Holocaust, writer Trudi Birger moved to Israel with her family and founded a non-profit dental clinic? (2021-05-09)

... that Pirjo Ala-Kapee-Hakulinen was the first and only governor of the Eastern Finland Province from its creation in 1997 to its abolition in 2010? (2021-05-09)

... that the
2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, held between UConn and Notre Dame, was the first to feature two undefeated
teams? (2021-05-09)

... that Beverley Manley was a prominent activist for women's rights in Jamaica while her husband was prime minister? (2021-05-08)

... that Nicholas Chevalier designed a fern-inspired dress for Anne Maria Barkly, an expert on South African ferns? (2021-05-08)

... that when Ruth Stokes defended her dissertation on the theory of linear programming in 1931, she became the first person to earn a doctorate in mathematics from Duke University? (2021-05-07)

... that after Lady Ganga learned that she had stage-four cervical cancer, she traveled to India and set a women's world record by standup-paddleboarding 700 miles (1,100 km) on the Ganges? (2021-05-07)

... that pioneer film actress Ann Brody was known for her roles as Jewish mothers? (2021-05-07)

... that Spanish actress
Un Dia (One Day)
" without involving production assistants? (2021-05-06)

... that Rosa Agthe (pictured) and her future husband performed the roles of Elsa and Telramund, respectively, in the world premiere of Wagner's Lohengrin, conducted by Franz Liszt in Weimar? (2021-05-06)

... that Japanese singer Lovely Summer Chan attended the same middle school and high school as the members of the all-female band the Peggies? (2021-05-06)

... that Grischa Huber played Grischa in Under the Pavement Lies the Strand, regarded as "a cult film in the feminist movement"? (2021-05-06)

... that Emma Mullin, who won four Gaelic football championships, was also the first player from her association football club to play for the Republic of Ireland? (2021-05-06)

... that Ecuadorian presidential candidate Ximena Peña previously represented the United States and Canada in the National Assembly? (2021-05-05)

... that Vieno Simonen was first elected to the Finnish parliament in 1948, ten years after she was widowed with seven children? (2021-05-05)

... that Julie Erichsen is the first female Norwegian gymnast to qualify for an Olympic Games since 1992? (2021-05-05)

... that pentasomy X, in which a girl or woman has five X chromosomes, is sometimes mistaken for Down syndrome? (2021-05-04)

... that Linn Sömskar (pictured) has won medals at World Cups in both cross-country skiing and roller skiing? (2021-05-04)

... that Finnish minister Kyllikki Pohjala learned English while working in New York hospitals to pay for her education at Columbia University? (2021-05-04)

... that soprano Florence Kirk's temperamental fit over her costume as Lady Macbeth led to the professional debut of opera star Regina Resnik who replaced her? (2021-05-04)

... that Adeline Gray was the first person to jump using a nylon parachute? (2021-05-04)

... that "Kiss Me More" interpolates the melody from "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John? (2021-05-03)

... that toy manufacturer siblings Nick, Anna, and Mat Mowbray bought Coatesville mansion near Auckland, New Zealand, for NZ$32.5 million when they were in their early thirties? (2021-05-03)

... that Canadian geneticist Phyllis McAlpine was among the first to promote a unified gene nomenclature system and helped found the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee? (2021-05-02)

... that in 1908, Louisa Wilkins went to Damascus without local language skills, wearing long skirts and riding side saddle? (2021-05-02)

... that the 2011 single "Chic C'est la Vie" by Luann de Lesseps was called "stunningly un-self-aware and over the top" by a critic? (2021-05-02)

... that the 1989 manga Sweet Spot by Yutsuko Chūsonji originated the slang term oyaji gal, used to describe young businesswomen who have the interests and hobbies of middle-aged businessmen? (2021-05-01)

... that Euphemia de Walliers made additions to the illuminated psalter (detail pictured) left by her predecessor as Wherwell Abbey's prioress, Matilda de Bailleul? (2021-05-01)

... that Paris Saint-Germain Féminine when they qualified for the UEFA Women's Champions League
for the first time? (2021-05-01)

... that French rugby union referee Aurélie Groizeleau also breeds almost 7,000 pairs of pigeons? (2021-05-01)

... that Anna-Liisa Tiekso dropped out of university in 1951 to become the youngest member of the Finnish parliament? (2021-05-01)

... that women in the Shaheen Bagh protest, who blocked a major road in Delhi for 101 days, included 82-year-old Bilkis? (2021-04-30)

... that Inkeri Anttila (pictured), Finland's first female minister of justice, was also the first woman in Finland to complete a doctorate in law? (2021-04-30)

... that Helen D'Amato was appointed to a three-year term as Malta's commissioner of children, but held the role for nearly twice as long after her term expired without a successor being designated? (2021-04-30)

... that Gira Sarabhai and her brother Gautam were crucial in the formation of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad? (2021-04-30)

... that the 2019 children's picture book Birdsong portrays intergenerational relationship using seasonal cycles? (2021-04-30)

... that after coming back for a fifth season at
2021 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game
with the Cardinal? (2021-04-30)

... that Truus Smulders-Beliën, the first female mayor in the Netherlands, succeeded her husband after he was executed by Nazi soldiers? (2021-04-29)

... that Olena Tokar, a soprano of the Leipzig Opera from Ukraine, recorded Charmes, a collection of art songs by women including Clara Schumann and Vítězslava Kaprálová? (2021-04-29)

... that Karlin Lillington, long-time technology writer for Ireland's newspaper of record, The Irish Times, holds a PhD on the poetry of Seamus Heaney? (2021-04-29)

... that German three-time artistic cycling World Championship runner-up Viola Brand (pictured) was invited to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, having previously watched the show to improve her English? (2021-04-28)

... that when Hollyoaks changed Juliet Nightingale's appearance for a storyline involving drugs, actress Niamh Blackshaw was glad to get rid of her character's side ponytail? (2021-04-28)

... that Julie Mennell was a police officer and a forensics specialist before she became vice chancellor of the University of Cumbria? (2021-04-28)

... that when top division
? (2021-04-28)

... that British nurse Ethel Becher was described as a "modern Florence Nightingale" in 1919 for her services during World War I? (2021-04-28)

... that tea room owner Edith Warner was convinced by Robert Oppenheimer to keep her restaurant open to serve the scientists working on the Manhattan Project, including Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi? (2021-04-28)

... that Sabina Matos, Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island, did not speak English when she immigrated to the United States at age 20? (2021-04-27)

... that when Rosa M. Morris scored 130 percent in her mathematics exams, a special case had to be made at graduation to avoid handicapping other students? (2021-04-27)

... that Katja Meier, the Saxon state minister of justice, was criticised for the anti-police lyrics of the punk band in which she played as a teenager? (2021-04-27)

... that the Negress head clock (pictured) can show the time in its eyes? (2021-04-26)

... that in 1999 Jan Fullerton became the first woman to be appointed Director General of the National Library of Australia? (2021-04-26)

... that Gabriela Canavilhas was a pianist playing Portuguese compositions before she became Portugal's Minister of Culture? (2021-04-26)

... that The Much Honoured Catherine Maxwell Stuart, who lives in Scotland's oldest continuously-inhabited stately home, is the first female laird of Traquair? (2021-04-26)

... that Tina LeBlanc spent 17 years as a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet despite being rejected by the American Ballet Theatre as a teenager? (2021-04-25)

... that Stephanie Davis, who has qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, is a part-time marathon runner who works in finance? (2021-04-25)

... that Debra Humphris, the vice chancellor of the University of Brighton, advocated converting 18th-century army barracks into student residences? (2021-04-25)

... that Xiaohong Rose Yang conducted a genome-wide search for copy number variations to identify the first susceptibility gene for familial chordoma? (2021-04-24)

... that Payal Ghanwani was the first Belizean senator of Indian descent? (2021-04-24)

... that the Syrian-Lebanese poet Maha Bayrakdar won the Miss Syria beauty pageant in 1967? (2021-04-24)

... that in 2021, Lefébre Rademan was unable to play for the South Africa national netball team as she was playing club netball in England? (2021-04-24)

... that Joye Hummel had never read a comic book before becoming the first woman to write scripts for Wonder Woman? (2021-04-24)

... that Nellah Massey Bailey became the first woman to be elected statewide in Mississippi in 1947, less than a year after the death of her husband Governor Thomas L. Bailey? (2021-04-23)

... that
the eponymous character in Moana
and was ultimately cast for the role? (2021-04-22)

... that Julie Pomagalski rose 20 places to first place at the FIS Snowboard World Cup in three years? (2021-04-22)

... that Indigenous Australian elder Ivaritji was the last speaker of the Kaurna language before its revival in the 1990s? (2021-04-22)

... that the Catholic Church barred Deborah Schembri from practicing law in ecclesiastical court because she led a campaign to legalize divorce in Malta? (2021-04-22)

... that Shirley Congdon, the vice chancellor of the University of Bradford, was the first in her family to attend university? (2021-04-21)

... that Rannveig Þorsteinsdóttir, a newspaper clerk and part-time teacher in the 1920s, became the first woman to practice law in the Supreme Court of Iceland thirty years later? (2021-04-21)

... that former ballerina Katita Waldo briefly came out of retirement to perform as the stepmother in Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella? (2021-04-21)

... that biologist precision medicine
? (2021-04-21)

... that Fannie Mahood Heath was nicknamed the "flower lady of North Dakota" for her garden that included over 450 different species of flowers, bushes, and trees? (2021-04-21)

... that the Women's London Championship was viewed as a response to the introduction of women's franchise cricket in England? (2021-04-20)

... that Mary L. Smith became the first female president of Kentucky State University in 1991 despite having been passed over for the same job a year earlier? (2021-04-20)

... that Cuban ballerinas and sisters Lorena and Lorna Feijóo both moved to the U.S., and once split the roles of Black and White Swans in Swan Lake, which are usually danced by the same person? (2021-04-20)

... that Two-Way Mirror, the first full biography of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 30 years, portrays the poet as a daring Victorian sensation and dismisses her image as an invalid? (2021-04-19)

... that Mississippi legislator Thelma Farr Baxter introduced a bill to keep livestock off the roads after her husband was fatally injured in a highway collision with a cow? (2021-04-19)

... that Chava Shapiro (pictured) published the first feminist manifesto in Hebrew, lamenting the absence of women's voices in the language's literature? (2021-04-19)

... that Madame Gavaudan, a soprano of the Opéra-Comique in Paris, created the role of Benjamin in Étienne Méhul's Joseph? (2021-04-19)

... that Kate Clark wrote the children's book A Southern Cross Fairy Tale, which used Northern Hemisphere Christmas imagery but featured the natural features and animals of New Zealand? (2021-04-18)

... that the miracles that established Saint Glodesind's claim to sainthood did not begin until 25 years or more after her death, and many of them occurred over 200 years later? (2021-04-18)

... that Aga Mikolaj, a soprano who studied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, appeared as Mozart's Donna Elvira from San Francisco to Tokyo, and sang the Four Last Songs with "a degree of abandon and rapture"? (2021-04-18)

... that Senegalese artist and actress Younousse Sèye, who is best known for her mixed-media works incorporating cowrie shells, is considered to be Senegal's first woman painter? (2021-04-17)

... that the 1972 manga series The Poe Clan was among the first works of vampire literature to depict vampires as romantic and tragic rather than predatory? (2021-04-17)

... that ballerina Catherine Hurlin performed in Radio City Christmas Spectacular between the age of eleven and thirteen? (2021-04-17)

... that Turkish anthropologist Kurdish–Turkish conflict
? (2021-04-17)

... that after Maria Camilleri co-founded a school for Muslim children in Malta, she became the only Christian headmistress of a Muslim school in the world? (2021-04-16)

... that Julia Letlow won the special election for a seat in the United States House of Representatives after her husband died from COVID-19 before he could be sworn into office? (2021-04-16)

... that Fan Hongwei and her husband turned a failing textile factory into the largest fiber producer in China? (2021-04-16)

... that as part of her influential research on the garden strawberry, Vivian Lee Bowden discovered the unpublished drawings of early French botanist Antoine Nicolas Duchesne? (2021-04-15)

... that Addison Rae's debut single "Obsessed" is about self-love? (2021-04-15)

... that Lovie Gore made multiple unsuccessful attempts to delay the desegregation of schools in Mississippi? (2021-04-15)

... that Halyna Sevruk was expelled from the Union of Artists of Ukraine in 1968 due to a political letter she signed? (2021-04-15)

... that Anja Petersen performed the role of the leading woman in the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter at the Oper Frankfurt? (2021-04-15)

... that the title of Welsh musician The Anchoress's album The Art of Losing was inspired by American poet Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art"? (2021-04-14)

... that Marita Napier is the first South African opera singer to have performed lead roles in each of the four "Grand Slam" opera houses? (2021-04-14)

... that Dottie Ray interviewed 32,397 guests over 55 years on more than 14,000 broadcasts of her daily show on KXIC radio in Iowa City? (2021-04-14)

... that Barbara Yancy, who succeeded her husband in the Mississippi Senate after his death, later became an advocate for other widowed homemakers? (2021-04-14)

... that Tara Downs co-founded the Tomorrow Gallery in a converted paintball studio in Toronto? (2021-04-13)

... that Frances Theresa Peet Russell may have written the first book to examine satire in Victorian literature? (2021-04-13)

... that after the start of Afghan peace talks in 2019, journalist Farahnaz Forotan travelled the country to collect testimonies from women and prevent the rollback of their freedoms? (2021-04-13)

... that ballerina Elena Lobsanova broke the "curse of Marie" at the National Ballet of Canada? (2021-04-13)

... that in 1846, Emma Willard represented all of human history in a graphic resembling an Ancient Greek temple? (2021-04-13)

... that attending the first Women in Print Conference inspired Carol Seajay to create Feminist Bookstore News? (2021-04-12)

... that ballerina Unity Phelan danced in the films John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and I'm Thinking of Ending Things? (2021-04-12)

... that Marion Miley, a 1930s amateur golfer ranked second in the United States, was murdered at the age of 27? (2021-04-12)

... that Kathy Hudson, an expert in science policy and genetic discrimination, helped assemble a team that led to the passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act? (2021-04-11)

... that professor Emma Baker trained her pharmacology students to perform mass COVID-19 testing on their fellows so that they could go home for Christmas? (2021-04-11)

... that Betty Jane Long was Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives for less than a day? (2021-04-11)

... that Jessie Carney Smith spent more than twenty years researching the three volumes of Notable Black American Women, which profiled 1,100 figures? (2021-04-10)

... that Marion Macfarlane, the first deaconess in the Anglican Church of Australia, later converted to Catholicism and joined the Sisters of the Good Shepherd? (2021-04-10)

... that the music video for Oh Land's "Listen a Little Less" was filmed entirely on a Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone? (2021-04-10)

... that Diane Damiano (pictured), a biomedical scientist and physical therapist, helped create a robotic exoskeleton designed to aid children with cerebral palsy to learn how to walk? (2021-04-10)

... that Robert Webb planned his first book to be about Top Gear and other topics of lad culture before it became How Not to Be a Boy, a memoir about masculinity? (2021-04-09)

... that after Erna Schlüter had appeared as Elektra at the Royal Opera House, the composer, who was in the audience, told her that she was the fulfilment of the character? (2021-04-09)

... that as the only woman in the 1923 Utah State Senate, Antoinette Kinney introduced bills to increase the number of state-sponsored scholarships and to establish public health regulations? (2021-04-09)

... that F. Scott Fitzgerald said that his book The Great Gatsby was a failure in comparison to Willa Cather's My Ántonia? (2021-04-08)

... that ballerina Miranda Weese performed the lead role in a televised performance of Swan Lake under an hour's notice, with a partner she had never rehearsed with? (2021-04-08)

... that the pioneering Turkish soprano Mesude Çağlayan was presented a tiny doll of "Madama Butterfly" by the government of Japan for performing the Japanese title role in Puccini's opera? (2021-04-08)

... that the French football club GPSO 92 Issy was founded by three Peruvian sisters in 1997? (2021-04-08)

... that the Nazis at Ravensbrück killed French Resistance fighter Émilie Tillion by gas chamber for having white hair? (2021-04-07)

... that on the first day of the
Roosevelt High School
? (2021-04-07)

... that after making videos on TikTok where she lip-synced Donald Trump, Sarah Cooper got a comedy special on Netflix and a TV show on CBS? (2021-04-07)

... that Rosemary Crumlin, author of a 60-year history of the Blake Prize for religious art, first attended a Blake exhibition when she was a young novice with the Australian Sisters of Mercy? (2021-04-07)

... that the most senior of the African-American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project, William Knox, supervised the otherwise-white staff of the Corrosion Section at Columbia University? (2021-04-07)

... that irked by the immense gap in gender-focused digital storytelling from both Sudan and South Sudan, Omnia Shawkat co-founded Andariya magazine? (2021-04-06)

... that the Thai Supreme Court opinion concerning the murder of Jenjira Ployangunsri is often quoted on Valentine's Day? (2021-04-05)

... that after Mary Lou Godbold announced her candidacy for the Mississippi Senate, all of the other candidates withdrew from the race? (2021-04-05)

... that Eugénie Brazier was the first chef to be awarded six Michelin stars? (2021-04-05)

... that as a fifteen-year-old student, ballerina Angelica Generosa replaced an injured schoolmate to perform a lead role in Balanchine's Stars and Stripes after two weeks of rehearsals? (2021-04-05)

... that the music video for St. Vincent's song "Pay Your Way in Pain" recalls the 1970s downtown New York, taking inspiration from the works of Kate Bush, David Bowie, and Cindy Sherman? (2021-04-04)

... that British novelist Noreen Riols (pictured) trained agents who supported the French Resistance during World War II? (2021-04-04)

... that Imago Records intended to release Kylie Minogue in the US before closing down in 1995? (2021-04-04)

... that Masako Yashiro was one of the earliest female artists to create Japanese boys' comics? (2021-04-03)

... that singer-songwriter Lupita Infante (pictured) advocates for women's empowerment through her traditional norteño and ranchera music? (2021-04-03)

... that Jacquie Sturm was the first Māori writer to have her work published in a New Zealand anthology? (2021-04-03)

... that English musician Jane Weaver's album Flock was inspired by Lebanese torch songs, 1980s Russian Aerobics records, and Australian punk music? (2021-04-03)

... that Alice Saxby was nurse in charge of an officer's wing at Botleys during the Second World War and cared for many casualties from the Normandy landings? (2021-04-03)

... that high commissioner to Sri Lanka
in 1988? (2021-04-02)

... that Gwen Stefani's "Slow Clap" has a country-inspired cover artwork, despite the song itself having a ska sound? (2021-04-02)

... that in 1930, the new infant-care centre of the Mothercraft Training Society was named after Princess Elizabeth of York, now Queen Elizabeth II? (2021-04-02)

... that the TV broadcast of the Taylor Swift concert City of Lover only included half the set list of the original concert? (2021-04-02)

... that 14 April is Cake and Cunnilingus Day? (2021-04-01)

... that physician Roopa Dhatt has highlighted the disproportionate number of women working on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021-03-31)

... that the title of the
Cornelia Street" refers to a street in New York City on which Swift rented a townhouse
? (2021-03-31)

... that Brenda Banks was one of the first African-American women to work as a professional animator? (2021-03-31)

... that British singer Rita Ora and Kazakh DJ Imanbek collaborated with translators over videotelephony software Zoom to record their collaborative EP Bang? (2021-03-31)

... that Irish Times columnist Róisín Ingle has penned more than 4,000 pieces, including "It was love at first riot" about meeting her life partner in Northern Ireland? (2021-03-30)

... that one of Elizabeth Cressener's nuns entered her priory as a ten-year-old princess? (2021-03-30)

... that Christina Adane's free school meal campaign created a UK government U-turn? (2021-03-30)

... that chemist Ana Kansky (pictured) became the first person to be awarded a doctoral degree by the newly established University of Ljubljana in 1920? (2021-03-30)

... that Sailor Moon contributed significantly to the development of yuri, a genre of media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters? (2021-03-29)

... that Stephanie Saland decided to become a ballet dancer because of computerized report cards? (2021-03-29)

... that Satyavathi Rathod is the first woman from a scheduled tribe to serve as a minister in the Indian state of Telangana? (2021-03-29)

... that Sandra Wolin, a physician-microbiologist, devised an early ribosome profiling method as a postdoctoral researcher in Peter Walter's lab at the University of California, San Francisco? (2021-03-28)

... that when Marjan Haydaree became the all-time top scorer for the Afghanistan women's national football team, she had never set foot in Afghanistan? (2021-03-27)

... that of the ten Taiwanese delegates at the 2017 National Congress of the Communist Party of China, only one, Lu Li'an, was born in Taiwan? (2021-03-27)

... that Will Arnett is the only voice actor to appear in the BoJack Horseman episode "Free Churro"? (2021-03-27)

... that when the Conservative Mary Morris claimed to "never to have been a militant suffragette", the audience laughed? (2021-03-26)

... that in 2021, Jane Lunnon became the first woman head of Alleyn's School since it was separated from the College of God's Gift in 1882? (2021-03-25)

... that Isa Briones, who played Soji and other roles on Star Trek: Picard, sang a new arrangement of Irving Berlin's song "Blue Skies" for the first season's finale? (2021-03-25)

... that physician-scientist and cancer researcher Giovanna Tosato (pictured) had just crossed the finish line when the Boston Marathon bombing started? (2021-03-25)

... that Myra MacDonald, whose career as a foreign correspondent for Reuters spanned virtually three decades, and who covered South Asia for a long time, wrote three books on India and Pakistan? (2021-03-24)

... that Lucia Votano (pictured) was the first woman to be appointed director of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, the largest underground research center in the world? (2021-03-24)

... that actress Isabel Bonner died on stage while performing in a play written by her husband? (2021-03-24)

... that Roxette's final studio album Good Karma was recorded in a studio named "Tits & Ass"? (2021-03-24)

... that microcredit activist Ringyuichon Vashum (pictured) was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar for working to empower more than 13,000 female self-help organizations? (2021-03-23)

... that the clarinetist Nicola Jürgensen portrayed the character of Eve with her basset horn in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Michaels Reise um die Erde in Vienna and New York City? (2021-03-23)

... that the BoJack Horseman episode "The View from Halfway Down" received its title because series creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg needed an episode title starting with the letter "V"? (2021-03-22)

... that when commenting on her decision to depict Achilles and Patroclus as lovers in her novel The Song of Achilles, author Madeline Miller remarked: "I stole it from Plato"? (2021-03-22)

... that Eliza Pottie was one of a small group of women that founded the first Young Women's Christian Association branch in Sydney? (2021-03-22)

... that Hollis Taylor has argued that birdsong should be considered music? (2021-03-21)

... that Ava Cherry (pictured), David Bowie's partner and muse, spent a year searching for him in Europe after he cancelled a tour of Japan on which she was to be a backup singer? (2021-03-21)

... that Dorothy Henriques-Wells made 360 paintings for display on three Norwegian Cruise Line ships? (2021-03-20)

... that physician Clare Fowler and surgeon Prokar Dasgupta were the first in the UK to use Botox injections, using a flexible cystoscope, to treat people with overactive bladders? (2021-03-20)

... that the song "
August" was written by Taylor Swift
from the perspective of a girl who falls in love with somebody already in a relationship? (2021-03-20)

... that Maha Jaafar, a Sudanese-Iraqi dentist who started producing YouTube videos to "have fun with her friends", has attracted almost two million views for a video mimicking Arabic dialects and stereotypes? (2021-03-19)

... that a copy of Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld's poem "Stemmen en zangen" was gifted to Hans Christian Andersen during his 1866 visit to the Netherlands? (2021-03-19)

... that many locations in the manga Aria are based on real-life Venice? (2021-03-19)

... that Icelandic footballer Þórdís Hrönn Sigfúsdóttir has had to self-isolate on four occasions during the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021-03-18)

... that Heléne Alexopoulos was one of the few New York City Ballet dancers who had children? (2021-03-18)

... that Elsa Dreisig appeared at the Berlin State Opera in soprano roles from Diane in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie to Natascha in the world premiere of Beat Furrer's Violetter Schnee? (2021-03-18)

... that ballerina Patricia Delgado danced in a music video for indie rock band the National? (2021-03-17)

... that on Saint Patrick's Day in 2003, Catholic Worker Clare Grady broke into an Army recruiting center and poured her blood on the walls, windows, and a US flag in a protest against the invasion of Iraq? (2021-03-17)

... that Irish sportswoman Carol Breen has played internationally in both association and Australian rules football? (2021-03-17)

... that research incorporating sex as a biological variable enhances the rigor and reproducibility of results? (2021-03-16)

... that rape crisis center
when she was 24? (2021-03-16)

... that Lisa Martin captained the Scotland women's national rugby union team in 2018 to their first victory in Ireland for 12 years? (2021-03-16)

... that ballerina Kay Mazzo created roles in three ballets choreographed by George Balanchine during the New York City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival in 1972? (2021-03-16)

... that the music video for the Taylor Swift song "Delicate" was accused by internet audiences of plagiarizing an advertisement for Kenzo? (2021-03-16)

... that French rugby union player Audrey Forlani scored a try in the decisive match of the 2016 Women's Six Nations Championship, after which France won the tournament? (2021-03-15)

... that when Mark Coles started coaching the Pakistan women's national cricket team, he was not being paid, and he later lived in a compound with snipers on the roof? (2021-03-14)

... that in 2020, Jasmin Taylor broke the record for the most medals won by a British skier at the World Cup and World Championships? (2021-03-13)

... that dress reformer Ada Ballin (pictured) warned of the dangers of poisonous dyes and tight lacing in women's clothing? (2021-03-13)

... that New Zealander Fran Jonas made her domestic cricket debut aged 15, and took three wickets in the final of the competition? (2021-03-12)

... that
storming of the U.S. Capitol
? (2021-03-11)

... that billionaire Julia Koch once worked as a fashion designer's assistant and did fittings for Nancy Reagan? (2021-03-11)

... that Candace Brightman was the Grateful Dead's longtime lighting engineer? (2021-03-11)

... that South African association footballer Amanda Sister has played for clubs in Hungary and Italy? (2021-03-09)

... that YaYa Gosselin booked her first job a month after signing with an agent at the age of five? (2021-03-08)

... that for 300 years a Kathakali dancer had to be a high-caste man until the Tripunithura Kathakali Kendram Ladies Troupe was formed in 1975? (2021-03-08)

... that the
Taylor Swift masters controversy was described by Rolling Stone
as one of the "most important moments" in music of the 2010s? (2021-03-08)

... that Susan B. Anthony took British citizenship to avoid testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee and later spent nine years trying to repatriate? (2021-03-08)

... that Polly Batic appeared at the Salzburg Festival in roles such as Annina in Der Rosenkavalier from 1931 to 1937, and became a member of the Vienna State Opera in 1948? (2021-03-08)

... that Pat Lundvall was the first female chair of the Nevada Athletic Commission, but garnered controversy for some of her decisions relating to mixed martial arts? (2021-03-08)

... that after being told that women could not compete in athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics, the FSFSF set up their own Women's Olympiad? (2021-03-08)
... that in 2021, All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
)? (2021-03-08)

... that Chichester & Selsey Ladies F.C. broke away from Chichester City for an undisclosed reason but retained their colours and football league position? (2021-03-08)

... that badminton player P. V. Sindhu became the inaugural recipient of the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award in 2020? (2021-03-08)

... that Andréa Guiot appeared internationally in French soprano roles such as Mireille, Marguerite, Manon, and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, which she recorded alongside Maria Callas in the title role? (2021-03-08)

... that after going viral, Robin Schreiber danced at the 2017 NBA All-Star Weekend with Stephen Curry, who later wore shoes featuring designs in her honor? (2021-03-07)

... that Malysha Kelly's return to the Jamaica national netball team after a three-year absence was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021-03-07)

... that the 1996 book Breton Ballads studies examples of the Breton genre of gwerz, and discusses the Barzaz Breiz controversy? (2021-03-07)

... that Nyeema Morgan collaborated in the design of a wooden Afrofuturist replica of the Millennium Falcon? (2021-03-06)

... that on 13 August 2020, Australian-born cricketer Janet Ronalds became the first player, male or female, to score a century for Germany in Twenty20 Internationals? (2021-03-06)

... that in The Age of Phillis (2020), American poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers "fills in the gaps" in a white woman's biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)? (2021-03-06)

... that Verna Grahek Mize was given the title "First Lady of Lake Superior" for her campaign to stop a mining company from dumping 67,000 tons of "gray gunk" into the lake each day? (2021-03-04)

... that artist Frances C. Fairman painted portraits of Queen Victoria's dogs (example pictured) by royal command? (2021-03-04)

... that German cricketer Christina Gough, who scored 348 runs in Women's Twenty20 Internationals in 2020, completed a Master of Arts degree in Modern Languages (German) at St Hilda's College, Oxford? (2021-03-04)

... that Asuka Langley Soryu's surname was taken from two warships used in World War II? (2021-03-04)

... that Molly Clutton-Brock treated the spines of African babies until she was deported by the government of Rhodesia? (2021-03-03)

... that Caroline Parker, a deaf performer, signed the song "I Am What I Am" at the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony? (2021-03-03)

... that Vera Wülfing-Leckie translated in Senegal a novel by Boubacar Boris Diop written in the Wolof language, titled Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks in English? (2021-03-02)

... that botanist a separate species named after her for her major discoveries and classification of ginger
? (2021-03-02)

... that Miki Satō would write song lyrics while commuting by train from home to university? (2021-03-02)

... that poet Mary Custis Vezey, an eleventh-generation American, published much of her work in Russian? (2021-03-02)

... that the investigation into the Koh Tao murders and the subsequent trial were widely criticised by human-rights organisations, pathologists and legal experts? (2021-03-02)

... that British band Black Country, New Road, who are known for experimenting with post-punk sound, showcased a clear preference for atmospherics on their album For the First Time? (2021-03-02)

... that Mary Kate Barlow was made a dame of the Holy Sepulchre in recognition of her contribution to the Eucharistic congress of 1928 held in Sydney, Australia? (2021-03-01)

... that even though Willa Cather asked that her final novel, Hard Punishments, be destroyed when she died, new fragments were discovered in 2011? (2021-02-28)

... that Doris Stockhausen's husband dedicated several compositions to her, beginning with Chöre für Doris in 1950 before they married? (2021-02-28)

... that British jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia's debut album Source, which incorporates reggae, cumbia, calypso, hip-hop, and soul, is an ode to her musical history? (2021-02-25)

... that the first cookbook edited by Maria Guarnaschelli helped introduce American cooks to Indian cuisine? (2021-02-25)

... that Libuše Domanínská, a soprano of Prague's National Theatre, performed in all of Janáček's operas, and a recording she made as his Jenůfa made his works better known beyond their home country? (2021-02-25)

... that the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States was Julia Chinn, an enslaved woman? (2021-02-25)

... that Dileeni Daniel-Selvaratnam (pictured), Governor of Anguilla, attended her own swearing-in ceremony remotely due to quarantine restrictions? (2021-02-24)

... that Cajun accordion musician Sheryl Cormier has been named the Cajun Queen in the United States and Europe? (2021-02-23)

... that when the manga series Antique Bakery was adapted into a live-action television drama in 2001, a character who was gay in the source material was changed to having a fear of women? (2021-02-23)

... that film researcher Lillian Michelson interviewed elderly Jewish women about the appearance of the underwear they wore in the 1890s to develop accurate clothing for Fiddler On The Roof? (2021-02-22)

... that the American scholar Karen Hellekson published the first book in English devoted to analyzing the alternate history genre? (2021-02-22)

... that when women's champion Dotty Fothergill sued in 1970 for being denied the right to compete in men's tournaments, the Professional Bowlers Association countersued for "disastrous ridicule"? (2021-02-20)

... that although the 1786 tignon law in Spanish Louisiana was intended to hinder free black women, those who followed it made the tignon a "mark of distinction"? (2021-02-19)

... that Lucy Monroe (pictured), the "star-spangled soprano", estimated that she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" over 5,000 times? (2021-02-19)

... that Francesca Coppa, a professor of English, compiled "the first anthology of fan fiction for use in the classroom"? (2021-02-18)

... that Biserka Cvejić, a Serbian mezzo-soprano who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in 372 performances, made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1961 as Amneris in Verdi's Aida? (2021-02-18)

... that the world's richest self-made woman, Zhong Huijuan, started out as a middle-school chemistry teacher? (2021-02-17)

... that academic analysis of The Diving Pool has interpreted the use of food as a way to poison others as a critique on Japanese femininity? (2021-02-17)

... that sisters Amal, Hadia, and Hayat Talsam, known as Al Balabil, were referred to as "The Sudanese Supremes"? (2021-02-17)

... that Willa Cather's final story, The Best Years, contains references to her previously published novels? (2021-02-16)

... that ballerina Merrill Ashley is one of the last dancers to have worked with choreographer George Balanchine? (2021-02-16)

... that Dorothee Manski, a soprano of the Berlin Court Opera, gave 335 performances at the Metropolitan Opera after being invited to appear there as the Witch in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel in 1927? (2021-02-16)

... that due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK the entire 2021 Netball Superleague season is being hosted at just two venues? (2021-02-16)

... that London-based dream-pop duo Still Corners' album The Last Exit paints a picture of open-road Americana? (2021-02-15)

... that Micheline Legendre organized Canada's first puppetry festival (pictured) in conjunction with the 1967 World Expo in Montreal? (2021-02-15)

... that Helen Dettweiler cofounded the LPGA, was a cryptographer and B-17 pilot during World War II, and became the first woman to broadcast a baseball game? (2021-02-15)

... that a scene from the music video for "End Game" features Taylor Swift playing the video game Snake, a reference to her reputation as a "snake"? (2021-02-15)

... that civil rights lawyer Deborah Archer is the first African-American to be president of the American Civil Liberties Union in its 101-year history? (2021-02-13)

... that Mother Oya, born into a wealthy family, lived and worked without salary in an orphanage for more than 60 years? (2021-02-12)

... that a manga series by Nanae Sasaya is credited with influencing the adoption of new Japanese child-abuse laws? (2021-02-12)

... that the Taylor Swift song "Gorgeous" features an introduction voiced by James Reynolds, daughter of actress Blake Lively and actor Ryan Reynolds? (2021-02-12)

... that after Amanda Gorman recited the poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of US president Joe Biden, she gained Twitter followers at a faster rate than the president? (2021-02-11)

... that Hilda Ellis Davidson played an important role in rescuing the field of folklore studies from its eccentric postwar image? (2021-02-11)

... that Jewish-Russian Zinaida Vengerova, a pioneer in Russian decadence, allowed a circle of intellectuals to drink her blood in a ritual described as anti-Semitic? (2021-02-10)

... that while held in a concentration camp, Zhu Min sabotaged Nazi cartridge boxes by spitting into them? (2021-02-10)

... that 1995 Rugby World Cup Final
, said that it was "the one and only time I've ever watched a rugby match, at any level, of any kind"? (2021-02-10)

... that Ruth Wright Hayre's philanthropic program Tell Them We Are Rising was named after a phrase said by her grandfather, which also inspired the poem "Howard at Atlanta"? (2021-02-09)

... that Nilüfer Verdi is the first female jazz pianist in Turkey? (2021-02-09)

... that Anne Bierwirth has performed the alto part in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and in a recording of the first Passion oratorio in German by Reinhard Keiser? (2021-02-09)

... that "noted controversialist" Mary Aldis (depicted) tried to get Auckland City Council to stop a woman being fired from a cannon in 1887? (2021-02-08)

... that Martin Luther King Jr.'s secretary Maude Ballou edited early versions of his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech? (2021-02-07)

... that rapper Zane One does not listen to much hip hop music, and her debut album features samples from classic rock and folk songs? (2021-02-06)

... that the first women inducted into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame included a WASP pilot, a World War II Marine, a "Chickie", a Hall of Fame lacrosse player, a world-champion softball player, an All-College basketball player, the founder of the first collegiate squash program in the United States, a professor and a valedictorian of Ursinus College, and a resident of Atlantis (pictured)? (2021-02-06)

... that in a 1982 book about the printing industry of 16th-century Strasbourg, historian Miriam Usher Chrisman demonstrated the scholarly potential of the digital analysis of large archival datasets? (2021-02-06)

... that artist Frances Emilia Crofton had lithograph copies made of eight of her paintings (example pictured), and sold them for charity? (2021-02-06)

... that Barbara Danish wrote The Dragon and the Doctor in 20 minutes? (2021-02-05)

... that Rānui Ngārimu (pictured) helped weave Te Māhutonga (the Southern Cross), the Māori cloak worn by the flag bearer of the New Zealand Olympic team since 2004? (2021-02-05)

... that the book Lost Feast discusses extinct culinary foods, particularly the herb silphium that was prized by Roman and Egyptian societies? (2021-02-05)

... that 2021 New York City mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia resigned as Commissioner of the New York City Sanitation Department after budget cuts forced a 60-percent reduction in public trash basket pickups? (2021-02-05)

... that Valentina, with her song "J'imagine", brought France its first victory at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest? (2021-02-03)

... that ballerina Georgina Parkinson created several roles in ballets choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan, including Romeo and Juliet, Manon and Mayerling? (2021-02-03)

... that Anna Utenhoven, who was buried alive in 1597, was the last person executed for heresy in the Low Countries? (2021-02-03)

... that Canadian photographer and producer Lorraine Monk's book Between Friends / Entre Amis was Canada's gift to the United States on their bicentennial in 1976 (pictured)? (2021-02-02)

... that the film poster for Looking for Magical Doremi appeared in an episode of Healin' Good Pretty Cure to promote the film? (2021-02-02)

... that journalist Kelsey Piper sees her Vox column as a way to popularize discussion of global catastrophic risks? (2021-02-02)

... that after the lynching of her son, Beulah Mae Donald successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan, winning a $7 million judgment? (2021-02-02)

... that Canadian citizen Susan Thomson had her passport confiscated and spent five weeks in "re-education" in 2006 due to her ethnographic research in Rwanda? (2021-02-01)

... that in Armenian Genocide denial
is one of the ideological foundations of the Turkish nation-state? (2021-02-01)

... that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (pictured) is the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress? (2021-02-01)

... that Aicha Mekki was one of the very few crime reporters and female journalists in Morocco during the Years of Lead in the latter half of the 20th century? (2021-02-01)

... that Millicent Taplin left school at 13 and never studied art full time, yet became one of Wedgwood's main ceramics designers? (2021-01-31)

... that the British design historian Cheryl Buckley claimed in an influential 1986 article that women's contributions to design have been "consistently ignored"? (2021-01-31)

... that Mahadevi Varma chose to live an ascetic life despite being married? (2021-01-30)

... that "I Did Something Bad" is the first song in which Taylor Swift uses profanity? (2021-01-30)

... that Ethiopian-Italian refugee environmentalist Agitu Ideo Gudeta was nicknamed the "Queen of Happy Goats"? (2021-01-30)

... that Zéna M'Déré led a protest movement in Mayotte in which women tickled their political opponents, forcing them to comply with their demands? (2021-01-29)

... that Minnie Lou Crosthwaite, the first Black woman to pass the teacher exam in Nashville's segregated school system, and Minnie Lee Crosthwaite, one of Kansas City's first Black social workers, both attended Fisk University? (2021-01-29)

... that Kathleen Heddle was one of two Canadians to win three gold medals at the Summer Olympic Games? (2021-01-29)

... that Sylvie Fortier retired from competitive synchronized swimming at only 18, saying she was happy with what she had achieved? (2021-01-28)

... that Olga Petit – the first female lawyer in France – was a Russian? (2021-01-28)

... that Lisa Nishimura started out in the music industry before producing Netflix documentaries including Chef's Table and Making a Murderer? (2021-01-28)

... that Susan Estes is the first woman to have her own company in the historically male bond-trading business in the U.S.? (2021-01-27)

... that "New Year's Day" by Taylor Swift was recorded in "scratch takes" that did not filter out unwanted sounds from the outside environment? (2021-01-27)

... that pioneering Chicago abolitionist Mary Richardson Jones (pictured) helped hundreds of people escape slavery via the Underground Railroad? (2021-01-27)

... that with "Utada Hikaru
? (2021-01-26)

... that former New York City Ballet principal dancer Janie Taylor appeared in the film Center Stage as a background dancer, and served as a motion caption dancer for Barbie of Swan Lake? (2021-01-26)

... that after Saint Eustadiola, a 7th century abbess in Bourges, France, prayed with her nuns for rain during a drought, they got drenched before they were able to return to the convent? (2021-01-26)

... that Eleanor Keaton, who at age 21 became the third wife of silent-film comedian Buster Keaton, was widely credited with rehabilitating his life and career? (2021-01-26)

... that after a 15-year campaign, activist Cécile Nobrega completed fundraising for the first public monument to black women to be on permanent display in England? (2021-01-25)

... that Svetlana Lloyd accidentally became a model for Christian Dior, after wandering into his Paris boutique looking for a receptionist job? (2021-01-24)

... that
Zintkala Nuni, who survived the Wounded Knee Massacre, gave birth to a stillborn boy in Nebraska's Milford Industrial Home
, at one time the only state-funded institution in the US for unmarried pregnant women? (2021-01-24)

... that a body-shaming comment from a New York Times critic led to ballerina Jenifer Ringer's appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show? (2021-01-24)

... that the pig bank at the Freedom Farm Cooperative loaned out pigs to families who paid interest in the form of piglets? (2021-01-24)

... that the 1978 science-fiction novel Dreamsnake includes a named character for whom gender pronouns are never used, thereby subverting gender expectations? (2021-01-24)

... that Antoinette Dinga Dzondo (pictured), Minister of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action of the Republic of the Congo, set up a fund to help refugees in the country return home? (2021-01-24)

... that the discrimination Vilma Núñez (pictured) experienced as a child born out of wedlock motivated her career as a Nicaraguan lawyer and human-rights activist? (2021-01-23)

... that the manga anthology Nanohana was inspired by efforts in Chernobyl and Fukushima to use plants to absorb radioactive material? (2021-01-23)

... that Anna Feldhusen was for a long time the only female German artist to acquire a business license? (2021-01-23)

... that a fake family tree was created for Jeyran, the beloved wife of Naser al-Din Shah of Persia, linking her to the Sassanids and the Ilkhans? (2021-01-22)

... that ballerina Jennie Somogyi was offered an apprenticeship at the New York City Ballet when she was 15, becoming one of the youngest dancers to join the company? (2021-01-22)

... that figurative artist Hilda Annetta Walker (work pictured) objected to Modernist works because she found it difficult to tell what they represented? (2021-01-22)

... that Edmilsa Governo won Mozambique's first medal at a Paralympic Games in 2016? (2021-01-22)

... that ballerina Kyra Nichols danced with the New York City Ballet for 33 years, retiring shortly before she turned 49? (2021-01-21)

... that Veronica Maggio's 2011 song "Jag kommer" was accused of plagiarizing the Strokes' "Reptilia", but the singer denied any connection? (2021-01-21)

... that "I Love You" by 2NE1 integrates traditional Korean trot music with electronic to create a different sound and "new genre" of music? (2021-01-21)

... that Dua Lipa's livestream concert Studio 2054 had a record-breaking attendance of five million paid viewers? (2021-01-20)

... that the Bharatanatyam dancer Sangeeta Isvaran works with deprived communities and uses dance and theatre in an effort to bring about social reform? (2021-01-20)

... that Hannah J. Patterson and other suffragists hauled a replica of the Liberty Bell across Pennsylvania to gain the right to vote? (2021-01-20)

... that after meeting Mira Mendelson, Sergei Prokofiev described his future wife as "just some girl who wants me to read her bad poetry"? (2021-01-19)

... that New Zealand–born musician Millie Lovelock wrote her English literature master's thesis on One Direction? (2021-01-19)

... that Bianca Smith, the first Black female coach in professional baseball history, has a J.D. degree in sports law and an MBA in sports management? (2021-01-19)

... that Georgina Schuyler led the campaign to have the poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus placed inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty? (2021-01-18)

... that according to a chaplain at Nonnberg Abbey, an abbot was immediately struck blind after stealing one of Saint Erentrude's relics 300 years after her death? (2021-01-18)

... that Saint Émilie de Rodat (pictured) founded the Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche in 1815, a French religious order that provides free education for poor girls? (2021-01-17)

... that during the reigns of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani, attempts were made to change the constitution to grant women of the Hawaiian Kingdom the right to vote? (2021-01-17)

... that the artist autism spectrum through Therukoothu
folk-theatre performances? (2021-01-17)

... that this year's Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge will take place on the River Great Ouse instead of the River Thames for the first time since 1944? (2021-01-17)

... that after 108-year-old Sarah Thomas woke up from a thirty-hour coma, she asked for her pipe and tobacco? (2021-01-17)

... that the Homeward Bound leadership program organized the largest all-woman expedition to Antarctica in 2019? (2021-01-17)

... that prior to the arrival of the Year 24 Group, most girls' comics in Japan were written by men? (2021-01-16)

... that in Playing the Whore, Melissa Gira Grant contends that categorizing all sex work as exploitation or empowerment creates a false dichotomy? (2021-01-16)

... that Taylor Swift's 2020 song "Marjorie" has been described as "a heart-rending tribute" to her grandmother, opera singer Marjorie Finlay, who inspired Swift's musical career? (2021-01-16)

... that Lucy Burwell Page Saunders's novel Dora Lee features a French-speaking macaw named Fanchon, inspired by Dolley Madison's pet parrot, who attacks three different characters in eight pages? (2021-01-16)

... that Katherine Loker donated $30 million each to Harvard and USC, and millions more to develop university, medical, and cultural programs in California? (2021-01-16)

... that Debbie Muir retired from synchronized swimming at age 20 and coached the Calgary Aquabelles to 22 national titles in ten years? (2021-01-16)

... that comedian Blaire Erskine's mock interview duped Michael Moore into believing she was a Donald Trump supporter stranded and freezing after his Omaha, Nebraska, rally? (2021-01-16)

... that actress and tennis player Filiz Taçbaş, tired of city life, purchased agricultural land and obtained a farming certificate, and now grows olives and lemons? (2021-01-15)

... that Adele Rose wrote 457 scripts for the British soap opera Coronation Street, more than any other contributor? (2021-01-15)

... that Billie Holiday was paid $35 for her first recording? (2021-01-14)

... that It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School was the first film to provide educators with information on how to prevent discrimination against gay people? (2021-01-14)

... that 2NE1's "I Am the Best" topped the Billboard World Digital Songs chart after being featured in a Microsoft commercial? (2021-01-14)

... that Adi Utarini (pictured) was listed as one of Nature's 10 in 2020 after she released infected mosquitoes all over Yogyakarta? (2021-01-14)

... that the music video for Taylor Swift's single "Willow" avoids showing some dancers' faces because they were wearing masks as a COVID-19 precaution? (2021-01-13)

... that Wall Street Journal architecture columnist Julie V. Iovine caused an uproar when she wrote that Yale University had a reputation for being a "gay school" in 1987? (2021-01-13)

... that Iti Tyagi said, "I urge every woman to come out of their shells and to break the stereotype" after receiving the Nari Shakti Puraskar? (2021-01-13)

... that competitive swimmer Meenakshi Pahuja encountered water snakes in one river race at Murshidabad, and a corpse in another? (2021-01-12)

... that Rohana Muthalib, the first Indonesian cosmetologist, was also the first woman mayor of Pontianak? (2021-01-11)

... that Rosalynn Carter's 1984 memoir First Lady from Plains outsold her presidential husband Jimmy Carter's 1982 memoir? (2021-01-11)

... that while it is now considered a classic work of girls' comics, the 1974 manga series The Heart of Thomas was almost cancelled five weeks into serialization due to poor initial reader response? (2021-01-10)

... that women's rights activist Mebrure Aksoley founded an elementary school before serving for more than 40 years in the Turkish parliament, Constituent Assembly, and Senate? (2021-01-10)

... that the German anthropologist Aparna Rao studied the impact of the Kashmir conflict on both lives and the environment? (2021-01-10)

... that while Ute Trekel-Burckhardt was a leading mezzo-soprano of the State Opera of East Berlin, she appeared as the Rosenkavalier in Vienna, and in the premiere of Sutermeister's Le roi Béranger in Munich? (2021-01-09)

... that in My Memoir, former United States first lady Edith Wilson detailed how she became Woodrow Wilson's gatekeeper after his stroke, prioritizing his official duties? (2021-01-09)

... that gestural abstract painter Jackie Saccoccio experimented with randomness in her works by pouring paint, tilting canvases, and even pressing wet canvases together? (2021-01-09)

... that Ethiopian runner Helen Bekele Tola has stated a desire to compete for Switzerland at the 2020 Summer Olympics? (2021-01-09)

... that Fran Todman, who fundraised for the Retina Foundation for decades, was honored with an electrophysiology laboratory at the Schepens Eye Research Institute being named for her? (2021-01-09)

... that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote four autobiographical memoirs: This Is My Story (1937), This I Remember (1949), On My Own (1958), and The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961)? (2021-01-08)

... that Rosl Zapf, a mezzo-soprano of the Oper Frankfurt who took part in world premieres, appeared at the Salzburg Festival in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte conducted by Georg Solti? (2021-01-08)

... that Molly Gray, the new lieutenant governor of Vermont, is a former competitive skier and the daughter of an Olympic skier? (2021-01-08)

... that at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Jutta Lampe played Ophelia "as if in a trance", and male and female roles on a time voyage as the only actor in the premiere of Robert Wilson's Orlando? (2021-01-08)

... that Canadian ethnomusicologist Sephardic Jews
? (2021-01-08)

... that when designing the character Madoka Kaname, Ume Aoki used Yuno, the protagonist of her manga series Hidamari Sketch, as a basis? (2021-01-07)

... that Elaine Van Blunk finished third at the 1994 Chicago Marathon, her second marathon event? (2021-01-07)

... that arachnologist Ekaterina Andreeva wrote the first original monograph published in the USSR about Central Asian spiders? (2021-01-07)

... that Massachusetts-born activist Almira Hollander Pitman was given credit for the passage of a bill for women's suffrage in Hawaii? (2021-01-07)

... that Christine Nagel (pictured) once created a strawberry-and-popcorn perfume for Dior? (2021-01-06)
... that
Evermore by one week so as not to coincide with Paul McCartney's McCartney III
? (2021-01-06)

... that Laura Purser-Rose became the first woman to sign her name on the Green Monster at Fenway Park? (2021-01-05)

... that Hawaiian princess Kaʻiulani was an avid surfer and professed in an interview, "I'm sure I was a seal in another world because I am so fond of the water"? (2021-01-05)

... that in "Body", Megan Thee Stallion name-drops animal-rights activist Carole Baskin, who had previously criticized the rapper's use of big cats as props in a music video? (2021-01-05)

... that Gertrude Degenhardt illustrated her brother-in-law Franz Josef Degenhardt's song albums in the 1960s, and created art books such as Women in Music and Vagabondage in Blue in the 1990s? (2021-01-04)

... that ballerina and répétiteur Sara Leland was able to stage more than 30 ballets due to her ability to remember choreography accurately? (2021-01-03)

... that Mildred Mottahedeh's personal collection of porcelain was described by Nelson Rockefeller as "utterly fabulous, an artistic and cultural treasure without comparison in its field"? (2021-01-03)

... that the British film Life in Her Hands (scene pictured) was produced to recruit women into nursing? (2021-01-03)

... that climate journalist Kendra Pierre-Louis is a critic of mayonnaise? (2021-01-02)

... that Enid Szánthó, a leading contralto of the Vienna State Opera, appeared as Erda in Wagner's Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1930, but was no longer invited by 1938? (2021-01-02)

... that Spanish physicist Teresa Rodrigo worked on the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN and the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab? (2021-01-01)

... that Frances Spatz Leighton was called the "Queen of Female Ghosts" for ghostwriting many memoirs? (2021-01-01)

... that the 1988 Bruges speech by Margaret Thatcher has been described as "setting the UK on the path to Brexit"? (2021-01-01)

... that Bambi delivered more than 35,000 babies? (2021-07-03)
... that Bambi delivered over 35,000 babies? (2015-12-20)

... that in 1975 Time named Schwester Selma, head nurse at the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, one of the world's "living saints", alongside Mother Teresa and Sister Annie? (2021-07-03)
... that in 1975 TIME magazine named Schwester Selma (pictured), head nurse at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, as one of the world's "living saints", alongside Mother Teresa and Sister Annie? (2013-12-13)

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