Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Green/DYK/2005 DYK Blurbs

2005 DYK Blurbs:

... that the Japanese clairvoyant Mifune Chizuko was reported to have read the messages written inside hidden envelopes? (2005-12-28)
... that the parents of Chicana fiction writer and Cornell University English professor Helena Maria Viramontes met while working in the fields, and that the impact of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers later influenced her fiction? (2005-12-15)
... that soul singer Bettye Lavette's album Souvenirs was recorded in 1972, but was shelved by Atlantic Records until a French music collector discovered it and released it in 2000, sparking a continuing surge of interest in the singer? (2005-12-14)
... that the trance producer Tatana Sterba is the only trance artist to have three consecutive album chart number ones in Switzerland? (2005-12-12)
... that Rini Templeton created works of graphic art for the New Mexico Land-Grant movement before moving to Mexico to collaborate with the Labor movement there? (2005-12-12)
... that in 1914, Lois Weber was the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film? (2005-12-12)
... that the Soviet singer Lidiya Ruslanova financed the construction of two Katyusha batteries, which she presented to the Red Army in 1942? (2005-12-12)
... that the Soviet pop singer Klavdiya Shulzhenko performed more than 500 concerts in besieged Leningrad in 1941 and 1942? (2005-12-09)
... that although actress Matilda Vining was always billed as Mrs. John Wood, her fame greatly eclipsed that of her husband? (2005-12-08)
... that Edith Cowan was the first woman elected to a government in Australia? (2005-12-06)

... that flutamide is a medicine used to treat prostate cancer? (2005-12-06)
... that Christine Witty is both a speed skater and a cyclist who has won three Olympic medals in speed skating and holds the 1000-metre world record? (2005-12-01)
... that Korean American cartoonist Lela Lee created the cartoon Kim, the Angry Little Asian Girl after being enraged at racist cartoons she had seen at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation? (2005-11-30)
... that the decidua is the maternal contribution to the placenta? (2005-11-29)
... that Françoise Gilot married the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and later in life was also wed to the famous doctor, Jonas Salk? (2005-11-28)
... that Nadezhda Durova was a woman who became a decorated soldier in the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic wars, started as a private in 1807 and retired with the rank of stabs-rotmistr in 1816? (2005-11-24)
... that the 1972 case of Yvonne Wanrow, a Colville Indian, charged with the murder of a child molester, brought about changes in U.S. criminal law as it affects women and Native Americans? (2005-11-23)
... that fashion designer Katharine Hamnett once met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher while wearing her own t-shirt with the slogan "58% Don't Want Pershing"? (2005-11-18)
... that New Orleans Creole chef Leah Chase owns a restaurant named Dooky Chase which has served as a gallery for an extensive African American art collection since the 1950s, was a gathering place for Civil Rights leaders? (2005-11-14)
... that American educator Septima Poinsette Clark, known as the "Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement," worked for educational and civil rights for African-Americans decades before the rise of national awareness of inequality in the 1960s? (2005-11-11)
... that in the Hebrew Bible Moses' sister Miriam was turned snow-white by God for criticizing Moses' marriage to a Cushite wife? (2005-11-03)
... that the all-time best-selling album of traditional Irish music in Ireland is Sharon Shannon's self-titled debut? (2005-11-01)
... that German naturalist Amalie Dietrich, who spent 10 years working in Australia, was the first person to collect the highly venomous snakes known as taipans? (2005-10-30)
... that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted the steroid hormone Prasterone orphan drug status in the treatment of Addison's Disease? (2005-10-27)
... that British singer Maxine Nightingale first charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 after a massive marketing push by her label, United Artists? (2005-10-26)
... that Cécile Guillaume was the first female engraver of postage stamps in France? (2005-10-26)
... that Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is India's richest woman? (2005-10-21)
... that Marguerite Clark left school at age 16, debuted on Broadway a year later, and then quickly became one of the major stage and film stars of the first two decades of the 20th century? (2005-10-05)
... that a young Aruna Asaf Ali had to commence the Quit India Movement in 1942 as all the major leaders were arrested the night before to prevent them from reaching the venue? (2005-09-30)
... that Indonesian women's rights organisation Gerwani was banned when General Suharto became President in 1965? (2005-09-29)
... that Carmen Boullosa is a leading Mexican novelist, poet, and playwright whose award-winning play Teatro herético satirically addresses the issue of gender roles? (2005-09-28)
... that in 1915, Hollywood actress Anita King became the first female to ever drive an automobile across the continental United States alone and whose only companions, according to the Los Angeles Times, were "a rifle and a six shooter"? (2005-09-27)
... that the current German Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Renate Schmidt was forced to quit school at the age of seventeen because of a pregnancy? (2005-09-26)
... that Patience Cooper, an Anglo-Indian actress, was the first to play a double role in an Indian film? (2005-09-23)
... that Australian swimmer Fanny Durack was considered to be the world's greatest female swimmer from 1910 until 1918? (2005-09-19)
... that Duke University anthropologist Anne Allison worked as a hostess girl for four months while researching Nightwork, her study of white-collar entertainment clubs in Japan? (2005-09-15)
... that Rosa Montero is a leading author of contemporary feminist literature and a senior journalist for Spain's largest newspaper, El País? (2005-09-08)
... that in a landmark case, Dutch-born Jetta Goudal, one of the biggest Hollywood movie stars of the 1920s, successfully sued her film studio for breach of contract? (2005-09-07)
... that Ruth Riley, an all-star center in the Women's National Basketball Association, also wrote a children's book? (2005-09-06)
... that the anabolic steroid Oxandrolone was granted orphan drug status in treatment of alcoholic hepatitis, Turner's syndrome and HIV wasting syndrome? (2005-09-01)
... that Minnesota congresswoman Coya Knutson sang and played her accordion at campaign events? (2005-08-29)
... that Cherubina de Gabriak, subject of the famous duel between the two first-rank Russian poets Maximilian Voloshin and Nikolai Gumilyov, did not even exist? (2005-08-26)
... that umchwasho is a traditional chastity rite in Swaziland that restricts the sexual relations of unmarried women? (2005-08-23)
... that Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003? (2005-08-23)
... that the definitive image of the African and Caribbean goddess Mami Wata was based on a poster of a Samoan snake charmer? (2005-08-19)
... that Margaret Roper, daughter of Thomas More, purchased his head after his execution and preserved it in spices until her own death? (2005-08-10)
... that Maurine Brown Neuberger was the third woman elected to the U.S. Senate and that as a U.S. Senator she sponsored one of the first bills to require warning labels on cigarette packaging? (2005-08-04)
... that American Wimbledon champion Alice Marble was shot in the back while working as a spy in Switzerland during World War II? (2005-08-02)
... that legendary producer and arranger Quincy Jones produced jazz vocalist Helen Merrill's self-titled debut album when he was just 21 years old? (2005-07-15)
... that the late Shana Alexander was the first female columnist for Life magazine? (2005-06-29)
... that both the Silver Jubilee and Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II fell on the official Queen's Birthday holiday? (2005-06-22)
Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II (article's talk page missing blurb) (2005-06-20)
... that for actress KaDee Strickland's role in The Grudge, she was inspired by Jane Fonda's Academy Award-winning performance in the 1971 film Klute? (2005-06-16)
... that American country music singer Mindy McCready was once engaged to actor Dean Cain? (2005-06-09)
... that 1980s horror movie actress Ellie Cornell nearly broke out of her typecasting by appearing in the 1992 film A League of Their Own, but had to drop out because she became pregnant? (2005-06-09)
... that suffragist Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), publisher of Australia's first female-run journal, The Dawn, was also the mother of the great Australian poet Henry Lawson? (2005-06-03)
... that in Greek mythology, Antiope was the only Amazon known to have married? (2005-05-29)
... that the feminist Madeleine Pelletier (1874–1939) was the first female psychiatrist in France and that she dressed as a man to protest the oppression of women? (2005-05-25)
... that British actress Stephanie Beacham played a nun on American sitcom Sister Kate after playing the glamorous Sable Colby on the drama Dynasty? (2005-05-23)
... that Paula Ackerman was the first woman to serve as a rabbi in the United States? (2005-05-23)
... that because Adelaide del Vasto was divorced by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem in 1117, her son Roger II of Sicily refused to give assistance to the Crusader states during the Second Crusade? (2005-05-16)
... that when Lady Frances Brandon failed to marry her daughter Lady Jane Grey to Edward VI of England, she plotted instead to raise Jane to the throne by means of a coup d'état in 1553? (2005-05-15)
... that Pancho Barnes was a pioneer of women's aviation and owner of the Rancho Oro Verde Fly-Inn Dude Ranch? (2005-05-14)
... that when Theodora Comnena married King Baldwin III of Jerusalem in 1158, her dowry was 100,000 hyperpyra? (2005-05-13)
... that the first witches persecuted by the Inquisition believed in Madonna Oriente, the Moon goddess? (2005-05-12)
... that Elsie Tanner was a core character on the British soap opera Coronation Street for over twenty years? (2005-05-12)
... that citrus plantation owner Julia Tuttle owned the land upon which Miami, Florida was built, and that she gave half her land to Henry Flagler to entice him to build a station for the Florida East Coast Railroad there? (2005-05-09)
... that by passing as a man, Isobel Gunn became in 1806 the first woman of European descent employed by the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land? (2005-05-07)
... that French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was ordered to destroy her royal portraits after the French Revolution? (2005-05-06)
... that Reverend Mother Superior Dolores Hart is the only nun to be an Academy Award-voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? (2005-05-05)
... that American actress Susan Oliver, after surviving a plane crash that almost ended her life, became the first woman to fly a single-engined aircraft solo from New York City across the Atlantic Ocean? (2005-04-28)
... that Terri Irwin, co-owner of the Australia Zoo and co-star of The Crocodile Hunter series on television, began caring for injured wildlife as a child and ran her own rehab facility for 5 years before she met Steve Irwin? (2005-04-14)
... that Marie-Anne Gaboury was the first woman of European descent to travel to and settle in the Canadian west? (2005-04-14)
... that Arcadia University changed its name from Beaver College because the latter "too often elicited ridicule in the form of derogatory remarks"? (2005-04-02)
... that actress Peggy McCay, now known for her role on Days of our Lives, first became popular as the heroine on Love of Life in 1951? (2005-03-23)
... that Mary Hallaren was the first woman to join the United States Army? (2005-03-11)
... that Melissa McIntyre, best known for her role in Degrassi: The Next Generation made her television debut in the 1997 series, Timesweep, in which she played an extraterrestial being? (2005-03-03)
... that Representative Edith Nourse Rogers sponsored the G.I. Bill and the legislation that created the Women's Army Corps before becoming the longest-serving woman in the U.S. Congress? (2005-02-23)
... that Julia A. Moore inspired the character of Emmeline Grangerford in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? (2005-02-12)
... that Nancy Olson was nominated for an Oscar for playing the "good" girl in Sunset Boulevard shortly after being considered for the role of the temptress Delilah in the film Samson and Delilah? (2005-02-07)
... that in 1944, Gwethalyn Graham was the first Canadian writer to reach number one on The New York Times bestseller list, with a novel depicting an interfaith romance between a Protestant woman and a Jewish man? (2005-02-05)
... that Nica de Koenigswarter of the Rothschild family was known as the "bebop baroness" for her patronage of jazz musicians, including Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker? (2005-02-01)
... that the English outsider artist Madge Gill claimed to be guided by a spirit she called Myrninerest (my inner rest), and often signed her works with this name? (2005-02-01)
... that Russian singer and actress Alla Pugacheva has had a career lasting over 40 years, remaining one of the most popular musical artists to this day? (2005-01-26)
... that Labour Member of Parliament Ellen Wilkinson organised the 1936 Jarrow March of 200 unemployed men and women from Tyneside to London to demand jobs? (2005-01-24)
... that Justice Leila Seth was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court in India? (2005-01-10)
... that Quebec-born singer Alys Robi was subjected to a lobotomy in 1952, following a mental breakdown? (2005-01-09)
... that in October 1950, the U.S. National Guard bombed the small town of Jayuya, Puerto Rico, where Blanca Canales led a revolt? (2005-01-05)