Portal:Biography/Did you know/10

... that Kentucky native Morton M. McCarver (pictured) helped found Burlington, Iowa, and Linnton, Oregon, before helping draft the California Constitution and founding Tacoma, Washington?
... that George Bazeley, Mark Paterson, Liam de Young, Tim Deavin and Andrew Charter moved to Perth so they could train with the Australia men's national field hockey team?
... that Janja Kantakouzenos was executed together with his two brothers, four sons, and twelve grandchildren?
... that the Beirut-based actor and visual artist Rabih Mroué had to premiere a piece in Tokyo because it was banned at home?
... that Ali al-Sulayhi, originally an Ismaili missionary, brought all of Yemen under the control of his Sulayhid dynasty before capturing Mecca in 1063?
... that Sanusi Pane has been called the most important Indonesian dramatist prior to the national revolution?
... that Itō Chūta was the leading architect of early twentieth-century Imperial Japan?