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Did You Know? (DYK) is a feature on Wikipedia's Main Page that has "teasers" to new and recently expanded content.

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Jessica Garretson Finch. Brand new article: Suffragette. Founded Finch College. There is an irony in that she wanted to educate women for careers, but Finch turned into a finishing school for debutantes. I think the citation on her honorary doctorate from NYU is a hoot (so condescending). So, if someone understands the DKY process... Or would look at it - I'm no expert on Women's History. Thanks.E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:43, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Women's History DYKs[edit]

New DYKs[edit]

List approved Women's History DYKs here for inclusion in our Portal some day.

... that Lilian Helen Alexander was one of the first five women to study medicine at the University of Melbourne and the first female student admitted to an Australian residential college?" (appeared 30 May 2014)
... that the pioneering series of self-portraits by Bauhaus artist Gertrud Arndt have been described as "ranging from severe to absurd to playful"?" (19 March 2013)
... that Amie MacRuari was divorced by the first Lord of the Isles despite giving him no grounds for doing so? (appeared 4 May 2011)
... that Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850–1936), painter of the The First Thanksgiving, was a "New Woman" painter and considered "one of America's best artists"?" (appeared 8 March 2014)
... that Daisy Burrell (pictured) was talent-spotted for The Valley of Fear while playing Cinderella? (appeared on 2 February 2012)
... that Chen Yumei (pictured) retired from acting soon after being crowned the "Movie Queen"?" (appeared 8 March 2014)
... that a US-born ex-hippie Malati Dasi, despite fierce opposition, in 1998 became the first international female leader of the Hare Krishna movement? (appeared 8 March 2011)
... that Jane Dieulafoy (pictured) received special permission from the French government to wear men's clothing in public? (appeared 13 September 2011)
... that Nelle Richmond Eberhart wrote the first opera commissioned for American radio? (appeared 30 July 2013)
... that many prominent people, including Albert Einstein, attended meetings at Berta Fanta's salon? (appeared 8 March 2014)
... that Fay Fuller was the first woman to climb Mount Rainier?" (appeared 21 April 2014)
... that French author Jeanne Galzy, largely forgotten today, wrote novels dealing with lesbian love and desire? (appeared 15 Feb. 2011)
... that historian Betty Jane Gorin-Smith penned a 2006 study of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's 1863 raids though central Kentucky? (appeared 6 March 2011)
... that Anastasia Gosteva's fantastic tale Большой взрыв и черепахи (2006), translated by Boris Meshcheryakov as Big Bang and Turtles, has been published by UNESCO online? (1 March 2015)
... that Ellen Hayes was not only a rare 19th-century female mathematics professor but was also the first woman to run for statewide office in Massachusetts? (appeared 15 Feb. 2011)
.. that Julia Archibald Holmes, a suffragist and friend of Susan B. Anthony, was also the first woman to climb Pikes Peak? (26 May 2014)

... that Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond (pictured) was known as the "Double Duchess"? (6 April 2011)
... that Mary Wigman said that Dore Hoyer was "Europe's last great modern dancer"?" (appeared 18 March 2014)
... that 19th-century female climber Jeanne Immink once wrote, "I challenge the male mountaineers to follow in my steps"?" (appeared 20 April 2014)
... that Mount Jobe in Canada was renamed in honor of Mary Jobe Akeley to acknowledge her exploration efforts in the Rocky Mountains? (appeared 9 Feb. 2011)
... that Bernice Lake, the chief architect of Anguilla's constitution, was the first Eastern Caribbean woman to be appointed Queen's Counsel? (appeared 10 October 2011)
... that literature theoretician Paulina Lebl-Albala was co-founder and president of the Yugoslav Association of University-Educated Women? (appeared 15 March 2014)
... that Erna Lendvai-Dircksen produced heroic photographs of autobahn construction workers under the Nazis on a commission from Fritz Todt? (appeared 20 May 2012)
... that from 1859 to 1931, the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia, taught "orthodox southern moral and racial values" to young Southern women? (appeared 18 Feb. 2011)
... that chemist Pauline Gracia Beery Mack was the first woman to win the Silver Snoopy award? (appeared 22 March 2014)
... that Margaret Creek in Ohio was named after Margaret Snowden, the first white woman settler in Athens County? (appeared 6 March 2011)
...that in 1805 Marguerite was the first slave to file a freedom suit in St. Louis, and she gained an end to Indian slavery in Missouri? (21 February 2011)
... that the Argentine philologist María Rosa Lida de Malkiel was an Arthurian-Hispanist pioneer? (19 May 2011)
... that in her quest to find a cure for leprosy, nurse Kate Marsden travelled some 11,000 miles (18,000 km) across Russia? (appeared 20 March 2014)
... that the autobiography of Renaissance medical practitioner Grace Mildmay is one of the earliest written by an English woman? (appeared 8 March 2011)

... that The Monument of Matrones (pictured), the first anthology of English women writers, included devotional works by Lady Jane Grey and Elizabeth I of England? (appeared 27 February 2011)
... that Anna Murray (pictured) helped her future husband, Frederick Douglass, escape slavery by giving him sailor's clothes and a part of her savings? (appeared 8 March 2011)
... that Olga Novikova of Kazakhstan won four gold medals, winning every women's event in ski orienteering, at the 2011 Asian Winter Games? (appeared 13 Feb. 2011)
... that, after losing a child, journalist and author Mrs. C. S. Peel abandoned writing to sell hats, but started up again after ill health forced her to close her shop? (appeared 13 March 2014)
... that Ann Preston was the first female dean of any medical school? (appeared 22 February 2011)
... that pathologist Frieda Robscheit-Robbins did not share her male research partner's 1934 Nobel Prize, but he shared the prize money with her? (appeared 19 March 2014)
... that Margaret Sanger called Greenwich Village activist Henrietta Rodman a "Feminist of Feminists"?" (27 May 2014)

... that Saigō-no-Tsubone, or "Lady Saigo" (pictured), was a concubine who advised Tokugawa Ieyasu before the 1575 Battle of Nagashino, a major turning point in the history of Japan? (23 March 2011)
... that Lola Sanchez was a spy during the American Civil War who provided information to the Confederate Army, which led them to a victory over the Union Forces in the "Battle of Horse Landing"? (5 June 2011)
... that Clare Taylor represented England in the World Cup at both football and cricket? (appeared 14 Feb. 2011)
...that temperance activist Carrie Nation was the subject of a 1966 opera by Douglas Moore, starring mezzo-soprano Beverly Wolff? (12 March 2011)
... that the research of Gertrude Van Wagenen (pictured) and John McLean Morris led to the development of the morning-after pill? (19 March 2013)
... that both expressionist dancer Clotilde von Derp and her husband (pictured) were known for their transvestite costumes?" (appeared 8 March 2014)
...that in 1789 the Women's March on Versailles forced the King of France to accept the Declaration of the Rights of Man? (appeared 8 March 2011)

Older DYKs[edit]

Please list the full DYK entries and dates for items within our scope that appeared prior to February 2011 here for future inclusion in the portal.

... that Egyptian officer Rawya Ateya was the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the Arab world? (appeared 8 March 2010)

... that Mildred "Micky" Axton, who was the first woman to fly a B-29, died on February 08, 2010 before she could receive the Congressional Gold Medal on March 10, 2010? (appeared 9 March 2010)

... that Ann Baumgartner was the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War Two? (appeared 8 March 2010)

... that Janet Beaton, Lady of Branxholme and Buccleugh, had five husbands and was immortalized as Sir Walter Scott's Wizard Lady of Branxholm in his poem "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"? (appeared 24 March 2009)

... that operatic soprano Celestina Boninsegna sang her first leading role at the unusually young age of 15? (appeared 28 October 2008)

... that Bessie A. Buchanan, who was the first African-American woman to hold a seat in the New York State Legislature, previously danced in the chorus line at the Cotton Club? (appeared 12 March 2010)

...that when Lady Frances Brandon failed to marry her daughter Lady Jane Grey to Edward VI of England, she plotted instead to raise Jane to the throne by means of a coup d'état in 1553? (appeared 15 May 2005)

...that Pancha Carrasco became Costa Rica's first woman in the military by joining the defending forces at the Battle of Rivas? (appeared 22 November 2007)

...that American educator Septima Poinsette Clark, known as the "Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement," worked for educational and civil rights for African-Americans decades before the rise of national awareness of inequality in the 1960s? (appeared 11 November 2005)

...that Fanny Crosby wrote more than 8,000 hymns despite being totally blind? (appeared 2 April 2004)

...that Progressive era social reformer Katharine Bement Davis did research on the sexual practices of females in New York City? (appeared 13 March 2010)

...that Nadezhda Durova was a woman who became a decorated soldier in the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic wars, started as a private in 1807 and retired with the rank of stabs-rotmistr in 1816? (appeared 24 November 2005)

...that the original name of Euphemia, empress consort of Justin I of the Byzantine Empire, was 'Lupicina', which led historian Alexander Vasiliev to associate her with she-wolves and prostitution? (appeared 6 March 2008)

... that soprano Cesira Ferrani originated two of the most iconic roles in opera history, Mimì %28pictured%29 in the world premiere of Puccini's La bohème and the title role in the premiere of Puccini's Manon Lescaut appeared 2 November 2008)

... that Mary Elliott Flanery was the first female state legislator south of the Mason-Dixon Line when she took her seat in the Kentucky General Assembly in January 1922? (appeared 16 March 2010)

...that Anna Maria Garthwaite, the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman, became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk-weaving trade in 18th century England? (appeared 1 May 2008)

... that an Edinburgh judge and Member of Parliament had his wife, Lady Grange, kidnapped and effectively imprisoned for 13 years in remote parts of western Scotland? (appeared 24 May 2010)

...that Florence J. Harriman, an American socialite, suffragist, diplomat and author, was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the Norwegian royal family when Germany invaded Norway in 1940? (appeared 7 March 2008)

...that Sigrid Hjertén, a crucial figure in Swedish modernism, suffered from schizophrenia and tragically died following an awkwardly performed lobotomy? (appeared 1 November 2006)

... that Jane Edna Hunter, an African American social worker in Cleveland, Ohio, was born on the Woodburn Plantation in Pendleton, South Carolina?" (appeared 15 May 2009)

...that Irena Iłłakowicz, a secret agent of the Polish resistance during WWII, was formerly married to a Persian prince? (appeared 29 November 2007)

...that American feminist author and journalist Inez Haynes Irwin estimated that between 500,000 and 750,000 women were killed in World War I? (appeared 10 September 2010)

...that in 1915, Hollywood actress Anita King became the first female to ever drive an automobile across the continental United States alone and whose only companions, according to the Los Angeles Times, were "a rifle and a six shooter"? (appeared 27 September 2005)

...that Leela Majumdar, author of children's books, translated Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea into Bengali? (appeared 11 April 2007)

...that Emilia Malessa, a Polish soldier in the anti-communist resistance, committed suicide after she had trusted the security chief Różański and revealed her fellow soldiers which led to their arrest? (appeared 29 October 2009)

...that the English nurse Lucy Osburn was chosen by Florence Nightingale to train Australia's first nurses? (11 March 2007)

...that Margaret Roper, daughter of Thomas More, purchased his head after his execution and preserved it in spices until her own death? (appeared 10 August 2005)

... that Annie M. G. Schmidt, the "queen of Dutch children's literature," euthanized herself a day after her 84th birthday? (appeared 13 July 2009)

... that Danuta Siedzikówna, a Polish nurse in anti-Nazi and anti-Communist resistance was only seventeen years old when she was sentenced to death and executed by the communist government of Poland in 1946?}} (appeared 10 June 2009)

... that French philosopher Denis Diderot posed naked for a Berlin innkeeper's wife? (appeared 30 July 2009)

... that Indian women's activist Moturu Udayam is said to have been the first woman to ride a bicycle in the state of Andhra Pradesh? (appeared 28 June 2009)

...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? (appeared 22 December 2004)

... that Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats, the sister of Irish poet W. B. Yeats, was a professional embroiderer who studied the craft under May Morris? (appeared 3 August 2009)

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