- Did you know...
- ... that the Green Mada’in Association for Agricultural Development is an agricultural cooperative in Iraq that is building greenhouses and drip irrigation systems in the Mada’in Qada region?
- ... that the Fox Island Electric Cooperative operates the largest community wind energy facility on the East Coast of the United States?
- ... that a recent cyber attack targeted opponents of bauxite mining in Vietnam?
- ... that political strategist Rod Shealy sought to increase the turnout of white voters in South Carolina by paying an unemployed black fisherman to run for Congress in 1990?
- ... that Illinois Senate candidate LeAlan Jones created the award-winning radio documentary Ghetto Life 101 when he was 13 years old?
- ... that Canada's Federated Co-operatives partnered with SeaChoice to promote sustainable seafood, like the spiny lobster, through its co-operatives?
- ... that Armajaro's hedge fund manager is known as "Chocolate Finger" for his exploits in cocoa trading?
- ... that Tyonajanegen, a woman from the Oneida tribe, fought in the American Revolutionary War?
- ... that Michele Bachmann and Tom Emmer will appear in My War, a documentary about the Christian youth ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International?
- ... that actress and chanteuse Raquel Meller attempted to book a deluxe suite for her five Pekingese on a 1926 transatlantic voyage aboard the SS Leviathan?
- ... that Harlan Crow's collection of statues at his Dallas residence includes those of Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong?
- ... that the Research Works Act proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives would ban open access mandates for federally funded research?
- ... that the woodcuts of modernist printmaker Blanche Lazzell (pictured) were influenced by ukiyo-e?
- ... that Nina Wilcox Putnam wrote the story that was the basis for The Mummy and drafted the first 1040 income tax form?
- ... that civil rights pioneer Nellie Stone Johnson was the first black person to be elected to a citywide office in Minneapolis?
- ... that in the upcoming US Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas, a white woman argues that the university discriminated against her based on race?
- ... that after being born on a ship in the North Sea and growing up in poverty, Hannah Kempfer (pictured) went on to become one of the first women legislators in Minnesota?
- ... that jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD had a crowd moshing at a J Dilla tribute show?
- ... that the Illinois Manufacturers' Association has its origins in a group formed to oppose laws against sweatshops?
- ... that First Lady Michelle Obama describes Thomas Jefferson's attempts to grow four-foot-long cucumbers in her gardening book American Grown?
- ... that pioneering immunologist Bunny Koshland helped develop an oral cholera vaccine before she worked on the Manhattan Project?
- ... that the documentary Heist traces the origins of the Great Recession to a confidential memo written in 1971?
- ... that Tar Heel Annie Lowrie Alexander (pictured) was the first licensed female physician in the Southern United States?
- ... that Margarete Bieber was the second woman to become a university professor in Germany?
- ... that neuropsychologist Eleanor Maguire was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that London taxi drivers have large hippocampi?
- ... that aquatic botanist Marietta Pallis studied the floating reed systems of the Danube Delta?
- ... that Buffy Sainte-Marie's song "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" originally mentioned that the Kinzua Dam broke the Treaty of Canandaigua?
- ... that the Lesbian Herstory Archives hold the library of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis?
- ... that attorney Harriet Pilpel counted Betty Friedan, Mel Brooks, Stalin's daughter and Dr. Spock among her clients?
- ... that Loretta Lynn (pictured), Mary Breckinridge, and Thelma Stovall are all Kentucky Women Remembered?
- ... that Sara Bard Field (pictured) traveled by automobile from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in 1915 to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures for women's suffrage to Woodrow Wilson?
- ... that Soosan Firooz has been described as Afghanistan's first female rapper?
- ... that the coon songs of African American vaudevillian Irving Sayles elicited encores in Australia?
- ... that Ruby Hurley opened the NAACP's first permanent office in the Deep South?
- ... that Maxine Feldman's song "Amazon" is traditionally performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival?
- ... that Katharine Hepburn recruited Hilda Crosby Standish to be medical director of the first birth control clinic in Connecticut?
- ... that while Claude Raguet Hirst's painting A Gentleman's Table (pictured) was commissioned by a men's club, it offers a subtle critique of male culture?
- ... that Kuwaiti electrochemist Faiza Al-Kharafi was the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East?
- ... that pork-knockers ate pickled pork of wild pig?
- ... that the Burka Avenger is Pakistan's first animated female superhero?
- ... that Florence Koehler was one of the best-known jewelers of the Arts and Crafts movement?
- ... that the first modern cochlear implant was developed by Austrian electrical engineer Ingeborg Hochmair?
- ... that the Ph.D dissertation of taphonomist Kay Behrensmeyer suggested that sauropods were terrestrial?
- ... that female physicist Elizabeth Laird came out of retirement during WWII to research radar?
- ... that Minneapolis City Councilmember-elect Abdi Warsame is one of the first Somali Americans to be elected to a U.S. municipal office?
- ... that Deborah Sussman (pictured) designed the visual landscape for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles?
- ... that Judith Pipher has been referred to as the "mother of infrared astronomy?"
- ... that Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux orchestrated her husband's release from a concentration camp after he was captured by the Gestapo?
- ... that the Downton Abbey law allows for equal succession of female heirs to hereditary titles and peerages?
- ... that blind poet María Josefa Mujía was Bolivia's first woman writer after its independence?
- ... that Ronald Reagan designated a week in June to be National Dairy Goat Awareness Week?
- ... that Chilean Environment Minister Adriana Hoffmann identified 106 new species of cacti?
- ... THAT FEMINIST HULK SMASH GENDER BINARY AND ONLY MAKE CAPITALIZATION EXCEPTION FOR bell hooks?
- ... that Betty Bone Schiess is one of the Philadelphia Eleven, leaders in the movement to allow the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church?
- ... that although possibly illiterate, Dinah Nuthead was one of the first licensed women printers in the Thirteen Colonies?
- ... that Cuban poet Magaly Alabau and Ana María Simo founded Medusa's Revenge, New York's first lesbian theater?
- ... that Myra Adele Logan was the first woman to perform open heart surgery?
- ... that Women's Art Resources of Minnesota pairs emerging women artists with professionals in a mentorship program?
- ... that a Spiderwoman Theater performance in Italy was cancelled for fear of riots?
- ... that feminist artists invented the WEB in 1971?
- ... that Abbie Lathrop's mouse number 57 was the origin of the C57BL/6 (pictured) laboratory mouse?
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