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  • ... that Margaret Pargeter published 49 books in eleven years, with another book following eleven years later? (2024-11-09)
  • ... that Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna's car was once fired on by Russian tanks? (2024-11-08)
  • ... that Grizel Niven created "The Bessie", the Women's Prize for Fiction statuette, which a past winner called "ugly"? (2024-11-08)
  • ... that self-help author Beth Kempton held positions at both the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Tokyo and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London? (2024-11-04)
  • ... that the Nualas' 2015 novelty song "Yes 2 Love" was created to promote a yes vote? (2024-11-03)
  • ... that Marie Marcks sarcastically caricatured gender roles like no one before, according to Jutta Limbach? (2024-11-03)
  • ... that one of the last surviving women from Rapa Nui to receive traditional facial tattoos was queen consort Ana Eva Hei? (2024-11-03)
  • ... that Mitch Torres is a "self-proclaimed damper destroyer"? (2024-11-02)
  • ... that a poultry farmer was the first woman to compete for the Sovereign's Prize, the highest honour in British rifle shooting? (2024-11-02)
  • ... that a photograph of Chili Williams, known as the "Polka Dot Girl" (pictured), was one of the "two most famous pin-up pictures" of World War II? (2024-11-01)
  • ... that the ghost of Margaret C. Waites is said to haunt an undergraduate suite at Harvard College's Cabot House, protecting her book collection? (2024-10-31)
  • ... that the traditional Rapa Nui tattoos of Viriamo (pictured) included motifs similar to an adze and a paddle? (2024-10-28)
  • ... that Filomena Fortes once said that she was "a bit critical of top-level sports in Cape Verde" despite being the president of its National Olympic Committee? (2024-10-28)
  • ... that Queen Victoria supported Clare embroidery by purchasing dresses for her family? (2024-10-27)
  • ... that Canadian punk rock musician Talli Osborne had only briefly spoken to the frontman of NOFX before the band wrote a song about her? (2024-10-26)
  • ... that cartoonist Anna Haifisch (pictured) has been "bend[ing] the rules of comics"? (2024-10-25)
  • ... that the early woman explorer Adèle de Dombasle travelled to Polynesia in 1847 and worked as an illustrator, drawing people such as Queen Pōmare IV? (2024-10-25)
  • ... that Oxford suffragist Myvanwy Rhys earned first-class honours from Newnham College, Cambridge, but was denied a degree? (2024-10-22)
  • ... that following the success of Jools Lebron's "demure" videos, she stated that she was able to use the proceeds to pay for her gender transition? (2024-10-21)
  • ... that Tonia Ko once composed a three-part concerto played on bubble wrap? (2024-10-18)