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. Seetharamiah... that Kannada-language author M. V. Seetharamiah established that the Rashtrakuta emperor Nrupatunga did not write the classic Kavirajamarga?
Helen Potrebenko... 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 Alberg... 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?
Barry Downs... that Canadian architect Barry Downs contributed to the redevelopment of the
Expo 86 site in
Vancouver, the largest private development in North America at the time?
T. Mohandas Pai... that Indian philanthropist and business executive T. Mohandas Pai has been called the "architect of modern Manipal"?
David Walden... that after developing the first
packet switching network for the
ARPANET in the United States, computer scientist David Walden went to Norway to develop a packet switching network in that country?
Tadao Takahashi... that Brazilian computer science researcher and internet pioneer Tadao Takahashi negotiated with
drug lords to install internet equipment in his country?
Ravish Malhotra... 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).. that development economist John Toye said free-market proponents "first turn liberty against equality and fraternity, then overthrow liberty itself"?
Vella Pillay... 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)... that British architect Chris Wilkinson redeveloped Victorian-era industrial gasholders in Kings Cross, London into modern residential apartments?
Ken Lyotier... 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 Lemley... 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?
Indian cricket team in England in 1911... that the 19-year-old Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala (pictured) was the captain of the first all-Indian cricket team to tour England in 1911?
The Sporting Spirit... that according to George Orwell, "serious sport has nothing to do with fair play ... it is war minus the shooting"?
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim... 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)... 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 Mistry... 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 Ford... 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 Seshachari... 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 Pai... 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)... 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 McCorduck ... that Pamela McCorduck, who chronicled the evolution of artificial intelligence, regretted not recognizing the technology's potential for misuse?
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh... 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 Bart... that according to American sociologist Pauline Bart, "everything is data, but data isn't everything"?
B. Jayaram... that Indian cricketer Bangalore Jayaram's English styled Mashie Lodge, was named after his favourite golf club, the Mashie Niblick?
Gerd Ruge... that Gerd Ruge received a twelve year entry ban to the Soviet Union for having helped his friend Boris Pasternak financially?
Ed Beauvais... that Ed Beauvais co-founded the "darling of deregulation"?
David Kennedy (advertising)... 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 Venkatrathnam... 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. Shanbhag... that bookseller T. S. Shanbhag started Bangalore's landmark Premier Bookstore on the site of a burned-down clothing store in 1971?
S. G. Neginhal... 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 Reddy... 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 Clement... 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. Glauber... that American financial executive Robert Glauber could watch an opera "infinite times"?
Jarnail Singh (physician)... that aviation medicine pioneer Jarnail Singh's work launched the first ultra long-haul flight between Singapore and New York in 2004?
George T. McDonald... 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 Corazón... 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 Kutty... that Indian Kathakali artist Mathoor Govindan Kutty specialized in Kathakali Stri Vesham, the portrayal of female characters on stage?
M. Bala Subramanion... 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 Isherwood... that British Columbia's oldest practicing lawyer, Canadian Constance Isherwood, who died at 101, closed her last case hours before her death?
Charan Gill... that Canadian social activist and human rights pioneer Charan Gill started his career working in a sawmill?
Monika Tilley... 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 Washbrook... that British historian and South-Asian history expert David Washbrook called the UK Home Office out on its misrepresentation of slavery and British colonization?
AlphaFold... that DeepMind's protein-folding program AlphaFold 2 has made significant progress towards solving a decades-old grand challenge of biology?
Suhail Zaheer Lari... 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 Monk... 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 Gordon... that the Scottish distiller Sandy Grant Gordon pioneered the creation of single malt Scotch as a whisky category?
Indira Joseph Venniyoor... 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 Makihara... 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 III... 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 Saccoccio... that gestural abstract painter Jackie Saccoccio experimented with randomness in her works by pouring paint, tilting canvases, and even pressing wet canvases together?
Deb Price... 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 Massey... that Canadian modernist architect and urban planner Geoffrey Massey was part of a movement that prevented freeways from being built in Vancouver?
Guido Goldman... 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 Singh... 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)... that Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize–winning debut novel, Shuggie Bain, was rejected by 32 publishers before being picked up?
Priscilla Jana... 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 Fowkes... 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-jae... that social activist Lee Hyo-jae's efforts helped abolish South Korea's patriarchal naming system, allowing people to use both parents' surnames?
Marguerite Littman... 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 Lane... 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 Ramanan... 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)... 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?
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. Seetharamiah... that Kannada-language author M. V. Seetharamiah established that the Rashtrakuta emperor Nrupatunga did not write the classic Kavirajamarga?
Helen Potrebenko... 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 Alberg... 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?
Barry Downs... that Canadian architect Barry Downs contributed to the redevelopment of the
Expo 86 site in
Vancouver, the largest private development in North America at the time?
T. Mohandas Pai... that Indian philanthropist and business executive T. Mohandas Pai has been called the "architect of modern Manipal"?
David Walden... that after developing the first
packet switching network for the
ARPANET in the United States, computer scientist David Walden went to Norway to develop a packet switching network in that country?
Tadao Takahashi... that Brazilian computer science researcher and internet pioneer Tadao Takahashi negotiated with
drug lords to install internet equipment in his country?
Ravish Malhotra... 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).. that development economist John Toye said free-market proponents "first turn liberty against equality and fraternity, then overthrow liberty itself"?
Vella Pillay... 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)... that British architect Chris Wilkinson redeveloped Victorian-era industrial gasholders in Kings Cross, London into modern residential apartments?
Ken Lyotier... 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 Lemley... 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?
Indian cricket team in England in 1911... that the 19-year-old Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala (pictured) was the captain of the first all-Indian cricket team to tour England in 1911?
The Sporting Spirit... that according to George Orwell, "serious sport has nothing to do with fair play ... it is war minus the shooting"?
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim... 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)... 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 Mistry... 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 Ford... 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 Seshachari... 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 Pai... 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)... 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 McCorduck ... that Pamela McCorduck, who chronicled the evolution of artificial intelligence, regretted not recognizing the technology's potential for misuse?
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh... 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 Bart... that according to American sociologist Pauline Bart, "everything is data, but data isn't everything"?
B. Jayaram... that Indian cricketer Bangalore Jayaram's English styled Mashie Lodge, was named after his favourite golf club, the Mashie Niblick?
Gerd Ruge... that Gerd Ruge received a twelve year entry ban to the Soviet Union for having helped his friend Boris Pasternak financially?
Ed Beauvais... that Ed Beauvais co-founded the "darling of deregulation"?
David Kennedy (advertising)... 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 Venkatrathnam... 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. Shanbhag... that bookseller T. S. Shanbhag started Bangalore's landmark Premier Bookstore on the site of a burned-down clothing store in 1971?
S. G. Neginhal... 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 Reddy... 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 Clement... 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. Glauber... that American financial executive Robert Glauber could watch an opera "infinite times"?
Jarnail Singh (physician)... that aviation medicine pioneer Jarnail Singh's work launched the first ultra long-haul flight between Singapore and New York in 2004?
George T. McDonald... 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 Corazón... 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 Kutty... that Indian Kathakali artist Mathoor Govindan Kutty specialized in Kathakali Stri Vesham, the portrayal of female characters on stage?
M. Bala Subramanion... 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 Isherwood... that British Columbia's oldest practicing lawyer, Canadian Constance Isherwood, who died at 101, closed her last case hours before her death?
Charan Gill... that Canadian social activist and human rights pioneer Charan Gill started his career working in a sawmill?
Monika Tilley... 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 Washbrook... that British historian and South-Asian history expert David Washbrook called the UK Home Office out on its misrepresentation of slavery and British colonization?
AlphaFold... that DeepMind's protein-folding program AlphaFold 2 has made significant progress towards solving a decades-old grand challenge of biology?
Suhail Zaheer Lari... 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 Monk... 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 Gordon... that the Scottish distiller Sandy Grant Gordon pioneered the creation of single malt Scotch as a whisky category?
Indira Joseph Venniyoor... 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 Makihara... 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 III... 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 Saccoccio... that gestural abstract painter Jackie Saccoccio experimented with randomness in her works by pouring paint, tilting canvases, and even pressing wet canvases together?
Deb Price... 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 Massey... that Canadian modernist architect and urban planner Geoffrey Massey was part of a movement that prevented freeways from being built in Vancouver?
Guido Goldman... 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 Singh... 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)... that Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize–winning debut novel, Shuggie Bain, was rejected by 32 publishers before being picked up?
Priscilla Jana... 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 Fowkes... 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-jae... that social activist Lee Hyo-jae's efforts helped abolish South Korea's patriarchal naming system, allowing people to use both parents' surnames?
Marguerite Littman... 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 Lane... 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 Ramanan... 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)... 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?