Portal:Biography/Did you know/7

... that on 12 December 2009, Kaiane Aldorino (pictured) became the first Miss World from Gibraltar?
... that Francis Amasa Walker was brevetted a Brigadier General in the Union Army at the age of 24 and placed in charge of the 1870 United States Census at 29?
... that paintings by Finnish artist Ilona Harima were influenced by the cultures of India and Tibet but she never visited either country?
... that the Tswana ruler and rainmaker Sechele I, denounced for polygamy by David Livingstone, was one of the most successful Christian missionaries of the 19th century?
... that Henry Hallowell Farquhar, the leading scorer on the first Michigan Wolverines basketball team in 1909, became a professor at Harvard Business School?
... that American, Belgian and British soldiers attended the funeral of Walter Waddington, along with an entire French cavalry brigade?
... that Jacques Legrand, a former translator at the French embassies in Mongolia and China, has studied the anthropology of Mongolian pastoralism?