Portal:Biography/Did you know/1

... that American frontier doctor Charles Boarman (pictured), a founding member of the Society of California Pioneers, died fighting a smallpox epidemic in Amador County, California?
... that Tomás Menéndez Márquez was abducted from his ranch by pirates and rescued by Native Americans?
... that in 2007, Frederic Hauge appeared on Time magazine's list of "Heroes of the Environment"?
... that Isa ibn Shaykh al-Shaybani ruled a short-lived bedouin state in Palestine, governed Armenia for the Abbasids, and finally became ruler of Diyar Bakr, where he was succeeded by his son Ahmad?
... that almost all kings of Hungary after 1046 descended from Michael, the second son of Grand Prince Taksony?
... that Japanese surrealist gothic horror author Yumeno Kyūsaku dropped dead due to a cerebral hemorrhage while at an autograph signing party hosted by his publisher?
... that William Cantelo invented an early machine gun, then mysteriously disappeared?