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... that after assassinating a former warlord, Shi Jianqiao (pictured) distributed pamphlets explaining her deed?
... that although Gabrielle Matthaei did the majority of the work in determining the role of temperature in photosynthesis, the biochemical reactions are named after Frederick Blackman?
... that Kyeong Kang was the first South Korean to be selected in the Major League Baseball Draft?
... that in 1865 Manuel Antonio Caro became the first Chilean student to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris?
... that John Gatins, the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Flight, got into scriptwriting when a fellow Vassar graduate offered him $1,000 to pen a screenplay?
... that Sister Jackie Hudson served six months in prison for painting "Christ lives, Disarm" on the side of a bunker?
... that with the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Alexandru Bârlădeanu went from house arrest to Senate President within a few months?