Wisden Cricketers of the Year Wisden Cricketers of the Year The "Wisden" Cricketers of the Year are cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack", based primarily on their "influence on the previous English season". The award began in 1889 with the naming of "Six Great Bowlers of the Year", and continued with the naming of "Nine Great Batsmen of the Year" in 1890 and "Five Great Wicket-Keepers" in 1891. Since 1897, with a few notable exceptions, the annual award has recognised five players of the year. No players were named in 1916 or 1917, as the First World War prevented
A Child Is Born (book) that the book was so culturally influential as to have mediated and to some extent determined the way pregnant women understand their own pregnancies. Images from the book were sent into space aboard the "Voyager 1" and "Voyager 2" space probes. The American Library Association regards it, alongside "Gray's Anatomy", as a core medical reference work for libraries. The book was often cited as presenting the first images of a live fetus "in utero". In fact, Geraldine Flanagan's "The First Nine Months Of Life" had in 1962 compiled a similar set of fetal images from medical archives. The images played