Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Green/DYK/2004 DYK Blurbs

2004 DYK Blurbs:

... that the actress Viviane Romance rejected the offer of a Hollywood contract in the 1930s preferring to work in French cinema? (2004-12-29)
... that Bridgett Riley lost her contact lenses in the fifth round of a boxing match against Theresa Arnold on September 19, 1996, leading to her first ever defeat? (2004-12-27)
... that Agathokleia was an Indo-Greek queen who ruled parts of Northern India from 135 to 125 BC? (2004-12-27)
... that Rumaisa Rahman, born prematurely in Chicago on September 19, 2004, was 8 inches (20 cm) long and weighed 8½ oz. (244 g) at birth? (2004-12-24)
... that Les Horribles Cernettes, a humorous rock band based in the CERN, supplied the first image on the web, posted in 1992 by Silvano de Gennaro and Tim Berners-Lee? (2004-12-24)
... that Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski was a policy analyst at the Pentagon for four and a half years before retiring and becoming a vocal critic of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq? (2004-12-23)
... that Mildred Dunnock played the role of Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman in three mediums — on Broadway, and for both film and television? (2004-12-22)
... that Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka learned to read at the age of four and was able to read nine languages in addition to her native Ukrainian? (2004-12-22)
... that television presenter Lynda Lopez is a sister of Jennifer Lopez? (2004-12-20)
... that Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" is credited as achieving the highest combined sales, airplay and downloads in the world, since Cher's single "Believe" in 1998? (2004-12-14)

... that actress Michele Lee appeared in four episodes of Knots Landing without pay when the show suffered a budgeting problem? (2004-12-02)
... that Sutton Foster was pulled from the chorus to replace the leading lady during the pre-Broadway tryout of Thoroughly Modern Millie? (2004-11-27)
... that Faye Glenn Abdellah's pioneering work in nursing research has been recognized with 77 professional and academic honors? (2004-11-22)
... that the Beaumont Children disappeared without a trace from a beach near Adelaide, Australia in 1966? (2004-11-14)
... that Joy Page is the only actress from the fourteen credited performers in Casablanca to still be alive? (2004-11-10)
... that Canadian painter Sophie Pemberton, who painted her award-winning "Little Boy Blue" in 1897, taught painting to local female artists? (2004-11-09)
... that the Australian singer Jade MacRae started learning the piano at age 8? (2004-11-06)
... that Dickey Chapelle was the first war correspondent killed during the Vietnam war? (2004-10-28)
... that Jill Ker Conway grew up on a sheep farm and was Smith College's first woman president? (2004-10-25)
... that actress Susan Sullivan made comebacks to television no less than twice? (2004-10-13)
... that before Helen Gallagher became well-known for her role as matriarch on Ryan's Hope, she won a Tony Award for her work in the revival of No, No, Nanette? (2004-09-28)
... that at the height of the Cold War, Lynne Cox became the first person to swim from the USA to the USSR? (2004-09-27)
... that Elizabeth Barton was executed for high treason in 1534 for prophesying the death of King Henry VIII? (2004-09-23)
... that the feminist group Women on waves built a gynaecology unit on board of a ship and makes abortions on international waters? (2004-09-19)
... that Barbara Billingsley was so typecast as June Cleaver on the sitcom Leave It to Beaver that she could not get acting jobs for nearly twenty years? (2004-09-15)
... that it's unclear whether Euripides' play Electra was written before or after Sophocles' version? (2004-09-10)
... that the word ecology was coined by Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology? (2004-09-09)
... that Vertigo actress Barbara Bel Geddes was the daughter of designer Norman Bel Geddes? (2004-09-09)
... that the Wicked Witch of the West controls the Winged Monkeys through the power of the Golden Cap? (2004-08-29)
... that the 16-year part of Donna Beck on the American soap opera All My Children, played by Candice Earley, was originally meant to be just a short-term role? (2004-08-24)
... that silent movie actress Florence Turner was originally known to audiences only as the Vitagraph Girl? (2004-08-20)
... that soap opera actress Catherine Hickland starred in the Broadway production of Les Misérables as Fantine? (2004-08-11)
... that Brownie Wise invented the Tupperware party? (2004-08-10)
... that actress Patsy Kensit has married and divorced three different musicians? (2004-08-09)
... that Santa Maria sopra Minerva is the only Gothic church in Rome and holds the body of Saint Catherine of Siena, but not her head? (2004-08-06)
... that Stella McCartney, the fashion designer daughter of Beatle Paul McCartney, studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design? (2004-07-27)
... that Cairine Wilson was Canada's first female senator? (2004-07-24)
... that 18th century French salons were often led by those who were creating the Encyclopédie? (2004-07-22)
... that Jane Avril was the inspiration for Nicole Kidman's character in the film Moulin Rouge!? (2004-07-22)
... that sex determination in sports is no longer practiced at the Olympic Games? (2004-07-20)
... that actress Hunter Tylo sued producer Aaron Spelling and won after she was fired from Melrose Place? (2004-07-16)
... that the execution of Flor Contemplacion strained relations between Singapore and the Philippines? (2004-07-12)
... that the Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the women who served in the Vietnam War? (2004-06-28)
... that American feminist magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1989? (2004-06-20)
... that devout Catholics believe in the Perpetual Virginity of Mary? (2004-06-14)
... that residents of the old soldiers' home known as Royal Hospital Chelsea are called Chelsea pensioners? (2004-06-11)
... that the Exotic World Burlesque Museum is located on the site of an abandoned goat farm? (2004-05-10)
... that although opera contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink had a son fighting on the other side, she toured the United States to raise money for the USA in World War I? (2004-05-02)
... that high jumper Ulrike Meyfarth became the youngest individual Olympic champion in athletics? (2004-04-30)
... that June and Jennifer Gibbons communicated via a twin language? (2004-04-28)
... that a woman named Priscilla, wife of Aquila, was one of the first Christian evangelists? (2004-04-21)
... that in 1996 then New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman may have violated the civil rights of Sherron Rolax by frisking him? (2004-04-14)
... that the story of Sada Abe, a woman who cut off her dead lover's genitals and carried them around with her for days, is one of Japan's most notorious scandals? (2004-04-13)
... that Anglo-German novelist Elizabeth von Arnim was a cousin to New Zealand short story writer Katherine Mansfield? (2004-04-12)
... that Queen Elizabeth I of England may have been named for her grandmother Elizabeth Boleyn? (2004-04-10)
... that the 2000 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the heptathlon was Denise Lewis? (2004-04-10)
... that Maia Chiburdanidze was the youngest woman ever to win the women's world chess championship? (2004-04-06)
... that actress Dorothy Kilgallen, who claimed to have information about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, died under suspicious circumstances? (2004-04-05)
... that, together with Mike Nichols, Elaine May founded the trail-blazing comic troupe The Compass Players, which later became Second City? (2004-04-04)
... that Fanny Crosby wrote more than 8,000 hymns despite being totally blind? (2004-04-02)
... that Power Girl is a cousin of Superman from the DC Comics universe? (2004-03-31)
... that Monique Serf was only ten years old when she had to go into hiding during the German occupation of France in World War II? (2004-03-30)
... that Zenna Henderson's story "Pottage" was made into an ABC-TV Movie, "The People", starring William Shatner? (2004-03-29)
... that Anne Isabella Milbanke was certain her husband, Lord Byron, had gone mad? (2004-03-29)
... that Jane Delano, a relative of U.S. President FDR, founded the American Red Cross nursing service? (2004-03-27)
... that the UK's Workers Socialist Federation began as a suffragette group? (2004-03-26)
... that the music of the Pointer Sisters combined jazz, scat and be-bop? (2004-03-24)
... that the Super Friends had two sets of sidekicks: Wendy & Marvin, and then the Wonder Twins? (2004-03-19)
... that Raisa Gorbacheva is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow's third-most popular tourist destination? (2004-02-27)