Alan Choe ... that Alan Choe was tasked with developing
Queenstown, Singapore's first satellite town, after its British architects left the country in the mid-1950s?
Robin McLeod ... that Canadian surgeon Robin McLeod advocated for post-operative patients to get back on their feet and move around immediately, against the prevailing guidance that they should stay in bed?
Usha Sundaram... that independent India's first female pilot, Usha Sundaram, holds the record for the fastest flight between England and India in a
piston-engine aircraft?
M. V. SeetharamiahTemplate:Icon... that Kannada-language author M. V. Seetharamiah established that the Rashtrakuta emperor Nrupatunga did not write the classic Kavirajamarga?
Helen PotrebenkoTemplate:Icon... that according to Modern Times, a San Francisco–based bookstore collective, if there was only one book that you read in 1975 it had to be Canadian author and activist Helen Potrebenko's Taxi!?
Tom AlbergTemplate:Icon... that Seattle-based Tom Alberg, one of the earliest investors in
Amazon, was convinced of the company's promise when he could not find a book by
Peter Drucker in his local bookstore?
Elvera BrittoTemplate:Icon... that Indian women's hockey player Elvera Britto and her sisters would stitch their own team uniforms while playing in the 1960s?
Richard J. FerrisTemplate:Icon... that Richard J. Ferris, CEO of United Airlines, worked a financing plan with Boeing to prevent hostile takeovers of his company?
William M. EllinghausTemplate:Icon... that American business executive William M. Ellinghaus helped rescue New York City from bankruptcy in the late 1970s?
Ravish MalhotraTemplate:Icon... that after training for the Soyuz T-11 mission, Indian Air Force pilot Ravish Malhotra (pictured) stayed on the ground as a backup astronaut for Rakesh Sharma, who became the first Indian in space?
John Toye (economist)Template:Icon.. that development economist John Toye said free-market proponents "first turn liberty against equality and fraternity, then overthrow liberty itself"?
Vella PillayTemplate:Icon... that economist and anti-apartheid activist Vella Pillay arranged for South African revolutionaries to receive military training in the Soviet Union and China?
Chris Wilkinson (architect)Template:Icon... that British architect Chris Wilkinson redeveloped Victorian-era industrial gasholders in Kings Cross, London into modern residential apartments?
Ken LyotierTemplate:Icon... that Vancouver-based binner turned social entrepreneur Ken Lyotier took the 2010 Winter Olympics torch with him so that other binners could take photographs with it?
Jack LemleyTemplate:Icon... that American engineering manager Jack Lemley, credited with rescuing the Channel Tunnel project, flew over 7 million miles (11 million kilometres) or about 300 times around the globe?
The Sporting SpiritTemplate:Icon... that according to George Orwell, "serious sport has nothing to do with fair play ... it is war minus the shooting"?
Ebrahim Ismail EbrahimTemplate:Icon... that South African anti-apartheid activist Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim (pictured) confused warders at the Robben Island maximum security prison by playing Bollywood music?
Michael Smith (diplomat)Template:Icon... that trade negotiator Michael Smith's negotiating style was summarized by a sign at his office door that read "This is not Burger King"?
Kekhashru MistryTemplate:Icon... that cricketer Kekhashru Mistry, an all-rounder in the first all-Indian cricket team that toured England in 1911, had to return after three games because he was also the aide-de-camp to the maharaja of Patiala?
Joan FordTemplate:Icon... that mountaineer Edmund Hillary asked Canadian doctor Joan Ford to take her "Adidas runners, a stethoscope and an umbrella" and get to the Himalayas?
Kilvidi SeshachariTemplate:Icon... that Kilvidi Seshachari, the wicket-keeper for the first all-Indian cricket team to tour England, was recruited by the Maharaja of Natore to defeat the all-European Calcutta Cricket Club?
Mukundrao PaiTemplate:Icon... that Indian cricketer Mukundrao Pai's altercation with a British army major, J. G. Greig, resulted in the Bombay Quadrangular introducing neutral umpires in 1916?
Reginald Green (economist)Template:IconTemplate:Icon... that in a study for UNICEF, Reginald Green found that more than two million children under the age of five had died in Angola and Mozambique due to the South African apartheid regime's economic policies?
Pamela McCorduckTemplate:IconTemplate:Icon ... that Pamela McCorduck, who chronicled the evolution of artificial intelligence, regretted not recognizing the technology's potential for misuse?
Geert Jan van OldenborghTemplate:Icon... that climatologist Geert Jan van Oldenborgh's work was instrumental in proving that the 2021 European floods were made more likely by climate change?
Pauline BartTemplate:Icon... that according to American sociologist Pauline Bart, "everything is data, but data isn't everything"?
B. JayaramTemplate:Icon... that Indian cricketer Bangalore Jayaram's English styled Mashie Lodge, was named after his favourite golf club, the Mashie Niblick?
Gerd RugeTemplate:Icon... that Gerd Ruge received a twelve year entry ban to the Soviet Union for having helped his friend Boris Pasternak financially?
David Kennedy (advertising)Template:Icon... that David Kennedy, co-founder of the agency that came up with Nike's Just Do It campaign, was once gifted 50 pairs of Levi's denims by his employees?
Sonny VenkatrathnamTemplate:Icon... that anti-apartheid activist Sonny Venkatrathnam smuggled a copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare into a maximum security prison by covering it with old Deepavali greeting cards?
T. S. ShanbhagTemplate:Icon... that bookseller T. S. Shanbhag started Bangalore's landmark Premier Bookstore on the site of a burned-down clothing store in 1971?
S. G. NeginhalTemplate:IconTemplate:Icon... that Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist S. G. Neginhal to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi?
Enuga Sreenivasulu ReddyTemplate:IconTemplate:Icon... that United Nations diplomat Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy's anti-apartheid efforts were driven by a chance encounter with African National Congress activist A. B. Xuma?
Wolfgang ClementTemplate:IconTemplate:Icon... that German minister Wolfgang Clement said that the secret to drinking a glass of beer in 1.5 seconds was to fold back the uvula?
Robert R. GlauberTemplate:Icon... that American financial executive Robert Glauber could watch an opera "infinite times"?
Jarnail Singh (physician)Template:Icon... that aviation medicine pioneer Jarnail Singh's work launched the first ultra long-haul flight between Singapore and New York in 2004?
George T. McDonaldTemplate:Icon... that philanthropist George McDonald founded the advocacy group Doe Fund after his homeless friend "Mama Doe" died in the cold on Christmas day after she was ejected from New York's Grand Central?
Alberto CorazónTemplate:Icon... that Spanish designer Alberto Corazón was considered one of the fathers of graphical modernization in Spain with the advent of democracy after the death of Francisco Franco?
Mathoor Govindan KuttyTemplate:Icon... that Indian Kathakali artist Mathoor Govindan Kutty specialized in Kathakali Stri Vesham, the portrayal of female characters on stage?
M. Bala SubramanionTemplate:Icon... that the biography of Singapore's first Asian postmaster-general, M. Bala Subramanion, was released at The Fullerton Hotel, the site of the old General Post Office where he had worked for 35 years?
Constance IsherwoodTemplate:Icon... that British Columbia's oldest practicing lawyer, Canadian Constance Isherwood, who died at 101, closed her last case hours before her death?
Charan GillTemplate:Icon... that Canadian social activist and human rights pioneer Charan Gill started his career working in a sawmill?
Monika TilleyTemplate:Icon... that fashion designer Monika Tilley's nipple-baring white mesh swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs in the 1978 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
David WashbrookTemplate:Icon... that British historian and South-Asian history expert David Washbrook called the UK Home Office out on its misrepresentation of slavery and British colonization?
AlphaFoldTemplate:Icon... that DeepMind's protein-folding program AlphaFold 2 has made significant progress towards solving a decades-old grand challenge of biology?
Suhail Zaheer LariTemplate:Icon... that Pakistani historian Suhail Zaheer Lari and his wife, architect Yasmeen Lari, threatened to elope to Scotland to get married because the legal marriageable age there was lower than in England?
Lorraine MonkTemplate:Icon... that Canadian photographer and producer Lorraine Monk's book Between Friends / Entre Amis was Canada's gift to the United States on their bicentennial in 1976 (pictured)?
Sandy Grant GordonTemplate:Icon... that the Scottish distiller Sandy Grant Gordon pioneered the creation of single malt Scotch as a whisky category?
Indira Joseph VenniyoorTemplate:Icon... that Travancore Radio's first English-language broadcaster, Indira Joseph Venniyoor, was paid 69 rupees (then equivalent to US$14.50) for her broadcasts in 1949?
Minoru MakiharaTemplate:Icon... that Japanese business executive Minoru Makihara credited his association with activist shareholder Robert Monks, his roommate at Harvard, for some of the reforms at Mitsubishi Corporation?
Joseph Bachelder IIITemplate:Icon... that Joseph Bachelder III, pioneer of the golden-parachute executive compensation structure, represented John Sculley at Apple Inc., Jamie Dimon at Citigroup, and Louis Gerstner at RJR Nabisco and IBM?
Jackie SaccoccioTemplate:Icon... that gestural abstract painter Jackie Saccoccio experimented with randomness in her works by pouring paint, tilting canvases, and even pressing wet canvases together?
Deb PriceTemplate:Icon... that pioneering lesbian columnist Deb Price's same-sex wedding announcement in The Washington Post was one of the first in a major national newspaper?
Geoffrey MasseyTemplate:IconTemplate:Icon... that Canadian modernist architect and urban planner Geoffrey Massey was part of a movement that prevented freeways from being built in Vancouver?
Guido GoldmanTemplate:Icon... that academic and philanthropist Guido Goldman convinced West German chancellor Willy Brandt to set up and endow the German Marshall Fund on the 25th anniversary of the Marshall Plan?
Anjum SinghTemplate:Icon... that the final exhibition of Indian artist Anjum Singh (pictured), titled I am still here, was an autobiographical depiction of her struggles with cancer?
Douglas Stuart (writer)Template:Icon... that Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize–winning debut novel, Shuggie Bain, was rejected by 32 publishers before being picked up?
Priscilla JanaTemplate:IconTemplate:Icon... that Priscilla Jana, a South African human-rights lawyer of Indian descent, was the first woman to hug Nelson Mandela in 13 years of imprisonment on Robben Island?
Mary FowkesTemplate:Icon... that Mary Fowkes's autopsies on COVID-19 victims helped identify long-term debilitating effects of the virus, including its impact on the heart and the brain?
Lee Hyo-jaeTemplate:Icon... that social activist Lee Hyo-jae's efforts helped abolish South Korea's patriarchal naming system, allowing people to use both parents' surnames?
Marguerite LittmanTemplate:Icon... that in 1997, Princess Diana donated her entire wardrobe to a charity auction organized by AIDS activist Marguerite Littman, which raised more than $3 million?
J. Michael LaneTemplate:Icon... that epidemiologist J. Michael Lane, who played a leading role in the global eradication of smallpox, trekked across the country from Atlanta to Seattle at the age of 79?
Vijayalakshmi RamananTemplate:Icon... that Vijayalakshmi Ramanan, the first woman officer of the Indian Air Force, custom-tailored her uniform as there were no specific uniforms for women when she joined the force?
Gerhard Weber (designer)Template:Icon... that Gerhard Weber signed tennis player Steffi Graf, at age 17 and before her international success, as an ambassador for the fashion brand Gerry Weber that he co-founded?
Alan Choe ... that Alan Choe was tasked with developing
Queenstown, Singapore's first satellite town, after its British architects left the country in the mid-1950s?
Robin McLeod ... that Canadian surgeon Robin McLeod advocated for post-operative patients to get back on their feet and move around immediately, against the prevailing guidance that they should stay in bed?
Usha Sundaram... that independent India's first female pilot, Usha Sundaram, holds the record for the fastest flight between England and India in a
piston-engine aircraft?
M. V. SeetharamiahTemplate:Icon... that Kannada-language author M. V. Seetharamiah established that the Rashtrakuta emperor Nrupatunga did not write the classic Kavirajamarga?
Helen PotrebenkoTemplate:Icon... that according to Modern Times, a San Francisco–based bookstore collective, if there was only one book that you read in 1975 it had to be Canadian author and activist Helen Potrebenko's Taxi!?
Tom AlbergTemplate:Icon... that Seattle-based Tom Alberg, one of the earliest investors in
Amazon, was convinced of the company's promise when he could not find a book by
Peter Drucker in his local bookstore?
Elvera BrittoTemplate:Icon... that Indian women's hockey player Elvera Britto and her sisters would stitch their own team uniforms while playing in the 1960s?
Richard J. FerrisTemplate:Icon... that Richard J. Ferris, CEO of United Airlines, worked a financing plan with Boeing to prevent hostile takeovers of his company?
William M. EllinghausTemplate:Icon... that American business executive William M. Ellinghaus helped rescue New York City from bankruptcy in the late 1970s?
Ravish MalhotraTemplate:Icon... that after training for the Soyuz T-11 mission, Indian Air Force pilot Ravish Malhotra (pictured) stayed on the ground as a backup astronaut for Rakesh Sharma, who became the first Indian in space?
John Toye (economist)Template:Icon.. that development economist John Toye said free-market proponents "first turn liberty against equality and fraternity, then overthrow liberty itself"?
Vella PillayTemplate:Icon... that economist and anti-apartheid activist Vella Pillay arranged for South African revolutionaries to receive military training in the Soviet Union and China?
Chris Wilkinson (architect)Template:Icon... that British architect Chris Wilkinson redeveloped Victorian-era industrial gasholders in Kings Cross, London into modern residential apartments?
Ken LyotierTemplate:Icon... that Vancouver-based binner turned social entrepreneur Ken Lyotier took the 2010 Winter Olympics torch with him so that other binners could take photographs with it?
Jack LemleyTemplate:Icon... that American engineering manager Jack Lemley, credited with rescuing the Channel Tunnel project, flew over 7 million miles (11 million kilometres) or about 300 times around the globe?
The Sporting SpiritTemplate:Icon... that according to George Orwell, "serious sport has nothing to do with fair play ... it is war minus the shooting"?
Ebrahim Ismail EbrahimTemplate:Icon... that South African anti-apartheid activist Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim (pictured) confused warders at the Robben Island maximum security prison by playing Bollywood music?
Michael Smith (diplomat)Template:Icon... that trade negotiator Michael Smith's negotiating style was summarized by a sign at his office door that read "This is not Burger King"?
Kekhashru MistryTemplate:Icon... that cricketer Kekhashru Mistry, an all-rounder in the first all-Indian cricket team that toured England in 1911, had to return after three games because he was also the aide-de-camp to the maharaja of Patiala?
Joan FordTemplate:Icon... that mountaineer Edmund Hillary asked Canadian doctor Joan Ford to take her "Adidas runners, a stethoscope and an umbrella" and get to the Himalayas?
Kilvidi SeshachariTemplate:Icon... that Kilvidi Seshachari, the wicket-keeper for the first all-Indian cricket team to tour England, was recruited by the Maharaja of Natore to defeat the all-European Calcutta Cricket Club?
Mukundrao PaiTemplate:Icon... that Indian cricketer Mukundrao Pai's altercation with a British army major, J. G. Greig, resulted in the Bombay Quadrangular introducing neutral umpires in 1916?
Reginald Green (economist)Template:IconTemplate:Icon... that in a study for UNICEF, Reginald Green found that more than two million children under the age of five had died in Angola and Mozambique due to the South African apartheid regime's economic policies?
Pamela McCorduckTemplate:IconTemplate:Icon ... that Pamela McCorduck, who chronicled the evolution of artificial intelligence, regretted not recognizing the technology's potential for misuse?
Geert Jan van OldenborghTemplate:Icon... that climatologist Geert Jan van Oldenborgh's work was instrumental in proving that the 2021 European floods were made more likely by climate change?
Pauline BartTemplate:Icon... that according to American sociologist Pauline Bart, "everything is data, but data isn't everything"?
B. JayaramTemplate:Icon... that Indian cricketer Bangalore Jayaram's English styled Mashie Lodge, was named after his favourite golf club, the Mashie Niblick?
Gerd RugeTemplate:Icon... that Gerd Ruge received a twelve year entry ban to the Soviet Union for having helped his friend Boris Pasternak financially?
David Kennedy (advertising)Template:Icon... that David Kennedy, co-founder of the agency that came up with Nike's Just Do It campaign, was once gifted 50 pairs of Levi's denims by his employees?
Sonny VenkatrathnamTemplate:Icon... that anti-apartheid activist Sonny Venkatrathnam smuggled a copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare into a maximum security prison by covering it with old Deepavali greeting cards?
T. S. ShanbhagTemplate:Icon... that bookseller T. S. Shanbhag started Bangalore's landmark Premier Bookstore on the site of a burned-down clothing store in 1971?
S. G. NeginhalTemplate:IconTemplate:Icon... that Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist S. G. Neginhal to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi?
Enuga Sreenivasulu ReddyTemplate:IconTemplate:Icon... that United Nations diplomat Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy's anti-apartheid efforts were driven by a chance encounter with African National Congress activist A. B. Xuma?
Wolfgang ClementTemplate:IconTemplate:Icon... that German minister Wolfgang Clement said that the secret to drinking a glass of beer in 1.5 seconds was to fold back the uvula?
Robert R. GlauberTemplate:Icon... that American financial executive Robert Glauber could watch an opera "infinite times"?
Jarnail Singh (physician)Template:Icon... that aviation medicine pioneer Jarnail Singh's work launched the first ultra long-haul flight between Singapore and New York in 2004?
George T. McDonaldTemplate:Icon... that philanthropist George McDonald founded the advocacy group Doe Fund after his homeless friend "Mama Doe" died in the cold on Christmas day after she was ejected from New York's Grand Central?
Alberto CorazónTemplate:Icon... that Spanish designer Alberto Corazón was considered one of the fathers of graphical modernization in Spain with the advent of democracy after the death of Francisco Franco?
Mathoor Govindan KuttyTemplate:Icon... that Indian Kathakali artist Mathoor Govindan Kutty specialized in Kathakali Stri Vesham, the portrayal of female characters on stage?
M. Bala SubramanionTemplate:Icon... that the biography of Singapore's first Asian postmaster-general, M. Bala Subramanion, was released at The Fullerton Hotel, the site of the old General Post Office where he had worked for 35 years?
Constance IsherwoodTemplate:Icon... that British Columbia's oldest practicing lawyer, Canadian Constance Isherwood, who died at 101, closed her last case hours before her death?
Charan GillTemplate:Icon... that Canadian social activist and human rights pioneer Charan Gill started his career working in a sawmill?
Monika TilleyTemplate:Icon... that fashion designer Monika Tilley's nipple-baring white mesh swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs in the 1978 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
David WashbrookTemplate:Icon... that British historian and South-Asian history expert David Washbrook called the UK Home Office out on its misrepresentation of slavery and British colonization?
AlphaFoldTemplate:Icon... that DeepMind's protein-folding program AlphaFold 2 has made significant progress towards solving a decades-old grand challenge of biology?
Suhail Zaheer LariTemplate:Icon... that Pakistani historian Suhail Zaheer Lari and his wife, architect Yasmeen Lari, threatened to elope to Scotland to get married because the legal marriageable age there was lower than in England?
Lorraine MonkTemplate:Icon... that Canadian photographer and producer Lorraine Monk's book Between Friends / Entre Amis was Canada's gift to the United States on their bicentennial in 1976 (pictured)?
Sandy Grant GordonTemplate:Icon... that the Scottish distiller Sandy Grant Gordon pioneered the creation of single malt Scotch as a whisky category?
Indira Joseph VenniyoorTemplate:Icon... that Travancore Radio's first English-language broadcaster, Indira Joseph Venniyoor, was paid 69 rupees (then equivalent to US$14.50) for her broadcasts in 1949?
Minoru MakiharaTemplate:Icon... that Japanese business executive Minoru Makihara credited his association with activist shareholder Robert Monks, his roommate at Harvard, for some of the reforms at Mitsubishi Corporation?
Joseph Bachelder IIITemplate:Icon... that Joseph Bachelder III, pioneer of the golden-parachute executive compensation structure, represented John Sculley at Apple Inc., Jamie Dimon at Citigroup, and Louis Gerstner at RJR Nabisco and IBM?
Jackie SaccoccioTemplate:Icon... that gestural abstract painter Jackie Saccoccio experimented with randomness in her works by pouring paint, tilting canvases, and even pressing wet canvases together?
Deb PriceTemplate:Icon... that pioneering lesbian columnist Deb Price's same-sex wedding announcement in The Washington Post was one of the first in a major national newspaper?
Geoffrey MasseyTemplate:IconTemplate:Icon... that Canadian modernist architect and urban planner Geoffrey Massey was part of a movement that prevented freeways from being built in Vancouver?
Guido GoldmanTemplate:Icon... that academic and philanthropist Guido Goldman convinced West German chancellor Willy Brandt to set up and endow the German Marshall Fund on the 25th anniversary of the Marshall Plan?
Anjum SinghTemplate:Icon... that the final exhibition of Indian artist Anjum Singh (pictured), titled I am still here, was an autobiographical depiction of her struggles with cancer?
Douglas Stuart (writer)Template:Icon... that Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize–winning debut novel, Shuggie Bain, was rejected by 32 publishers before being picked up?
Priscilla JanaTemplate:IconTemplate:Icon... that Priscilla Jana, a South African human-rights lawyer of Indian descent, was the first woman to hug Nelson Mandela in 13 years of imprisonment on Robben Island?
Mary FowkesTemplate:Icon... that Mary Fowkes's autopsies on COVID-19 victims helped identify long-term debilitating effects of the virus, including its impact on the heart and the brain?
Lee Hyo-jaeTemplate:Icon... that social activist Lee Hyo-jae's efforts helped abolish South Korea's patriarchal naming system, allowing people to use both parents' surnames?
Marguerite LittmanTemplate:Icon... that in 1997, Princess Diana donated her entire wardrobe to a charity auction organized by AIDS activist Marguerite Littman, which raised more than $3 million?
J. Michael LaneTemplate:Icon... that epidemiologist J. Michael Lane, who played a leading role in the global eradication of smallpox, trekked across the country from Atlanta to Seattle at the age of 79?
Vijayalakshmi RamananTemplate:Icon... that Vijayalakshmi Ramanan, the first woman officer of the Indian Air Force, custom-tailored her uniform as there were no specific uniforms for women when she joined the force?
Gerhard Weber (designer)Template:Icon... that Gerhard Weber signed tennis player Steffi Graf, at age 17 and before her international success, as an ambassador for the fashion brand Gerry Weber that he co-founded?