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31 March 2010

17:47, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

... that of the ten German battleships interned in Scapa Flow, only SMS Baden (pictured) was not successfully scuttled on 21 July 1919?
... that ophthalmologist Arnall Patz received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for solving one of "the great medical mysteries of the postwar era"?
... that Bayne-Fowle House, a National Register of Historic Places registered property located at 811 Prince Street in Alexandra, Virginia, United States, served as a military hospital in 1864?
... that director Kōji Seki's 1967 pink film Perverted Criminal was Japan's first 3-D film, and the world's first 3-D sexploitation film?
... that Canada's first interchange was a cloverleaf opened in 1937 at the intersection of Highway 10 and The Middle Road?
... that Cri-Zelda Brits is the only South African woman to have scored a half-century in Twenty20 International cricket?
... that Varzuga, one of the oldest documented permanent Russian settlements on the Kola Peninsula, was first mentioned in 1466?
... that the 2009 eponymous debut album Supercell by the J-pop/rock band of the same name contains songs not sung by a human?

11:38, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the 13th-century font in Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield (pictured) reputedly suffered a large crack when a horse, stabled inside the church during the English Civil War, kicked it?
... that New Zealand geologist Patrick Marshall was the first who used the term "andesite line"?
... that Mexeflote rafts from the British Royal Logistic Corps were used to transport supplies to the remote Haitian village of Anse-à-Veau following the 2010 earthquake?
... that Johnston Road in the former British settlement of Hong Kong was named after Alexander Robert Johnston, who served as acting administrator of the colony?
... that the 1910–1911 Zionist newspaper Hamevasser called on Jews to join the Ottoman army, in an effort to improve Jewish-Turkish relations?
... that Charles Garvice, "the most successful novelist in England" in the period 1900–1920, sold millions of books annually but is virtually unknown today?
... that the Denisova Cave, where the finger bone of the Denisova hominin was found, is named after Dionisij, an 18th-century hermit?
... that President of the United States James A. Garfield knew both Latin and Greek, and could write both simultaneously with separate hands?

05:29, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

... that one of the causes of the May Revolution could have been that Napoleon crowned his own brother Joseph Bonaparte (pictured) as the new Spanish King?
... that the Underwater Archaeology Branch has been involved in research on Error: {{Ship}} missing prefix (help) and CSS Alabama, and the search for USS Bonhomme Richard?
... that three Major League Baseball pitchers—Charles Radbourn, John Clarkson and Guy Hecker—captured the National League wins title by collecting more than 50 victories in a single season?
... that the Israel Defense Forces captured the Iraq Suwaydan police fort in Operation Shmone after seven previous failed attempts?
... that the CARVER matrix was developed by United States special forces as a target acquisition system used to rank and prioritize targets?
... that Gordon L. Park worked around the globe as a petroleum engineer for Chevron before he settled in Wyoming and was elected in 1992 to the state legislature?
... that timbuwarra are anthropomorphic rattan figures produced by the Wiru people of Papua New Guinea?
... that an entire regiment of the Mexican Army was dispatched to expel Mexican folk healer and mystic Teresa Urrea from the country?

30 March 2010

23:20, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the locomotive involved in Sweden’s worst rail accident (pictured) was later hit in an air raid near Korsør, Denmark, in 1943 after it had been overhauled and sold to the Danes?
... that George Washington served as a justice in the court of Alexandria City Hall in Alexandria when it was a courthouse?
... that about 30,000 runners cross the 25 de Abril Bridge as part of the Lisbon Half Marathon each year?
... that inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla decided on his career path after being impressed by laboratory experiments of his physics professor at Gymnasium Karlovac?
... that the Italian pre-dreadnought battleship Re Umberto was modified in 1918 in preparation for her role as the lead ship in the planned attack on the main Austro-Hungarian naval base at Pola?
... that Judge Guy E. Humphries, Jr., of Alexandria, Louisiana, joined with two friends to form the Renaissance Home for Youth, an alternative to reform school for youthful offenders?
... that the television series Meet the Natives: USA shows five tribesmen from the island of Tanna playing golf, riding roller coasters, and getting pedicures?
... that one of the findings of sociology of leisure has been that amount of free time is not significantly dependent on one's wealth?

17:11, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

... that American football player Tom Hammond (pictured) always played without protective padding, saying "I want them to feel my bones"?
... that effective use of domain engineering concepts like the use of domain-specific languages can reduce code size by over 50%?
... that Louisiana State Senator K.D. Kilpatrick of Ruston began working as a teenager in his family mortuary business after his father was incapacitated by a stroke?
... that a secret causeway from the mainland to Matagorda Island off San Antonio Bay was hidden from Europeans by Karankawa Indians?
... that Fletcher Christian, leader of the Mutiny on the Bounty, was baptised in St Bridget's Church, Brigham, England, and that his tomb is in the churchyard?
... that offspring of Gargaphia solani almost always fall victim to predation without the protection of their mother?
... that in 1575, Countess Ana von Eck from Brda was killed by a tame bear in the castle courtyard of Žužemberk Castle?
... that the steamboat Arabia was missing for 132 years before it was discovered half a mile from the Missouri River under 45 feet of mud?

11:02, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the earliest remains of architecture in Luxembourg are the Celtic buildings at Titelberg (pictured)?
... that from March 1940, Edvard Sylou-Crantz worked in Germany as a Norwegian-language propagandistic radio news reader?
... that around 50% of adult Jews in Constantinople were subscribers of the Ladino language newspaper El Tiempo at the time of the First World War?
... that from 1904 to 1907, artists' model Dorelia McNeill lived in a ménage à trois with Augustus John and his first wife Ida Nettleship?
... that feature models, initially conceived by feature-oriented domain analysis, are characterized as "the greatest contribution of domain engineering to software engineering"?
... that the Protestant church of Jistrum in Friesland was prior to 1581 a Catholic church, when in one week it was stripped by iconoclasts?
... that fourteen-year-old Doris Duke gained control of Duke Farms after suing her mother?
... that before 2002, nobody had reported seeing a wild specimen of Impatiens denisonii, a rare balsam, since it was first described in 1862?

04:53, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Jacob Kamm House (pictured) in Portland, Oregon, was built with wooden siding and quoining to imitate stone?
... that the author of the book Free Speech, "The People’s Darling Privilege" was recognized with the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award?
... that 51 men were executed by Anglo-Saxons near Weymouth, Dorset, and interred in the Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit in AD 910−1030?
... that Seteng Ayele was the oldest track and field athlete at both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics?
... that the fate of an opossum in the Parks and Recreation episode "The Possum" has been described as an allegory for capital punishment?
... that the Old Hansen Planetarium served as the main branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library system from 1905 to 1964?
... that Dieter Dorn staged the world premiere of the opera L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe of Hans Werner Henze at the Salzburg Festival in 2003?
... that the Bering cisco migrates hundreds of miles up rivers without eating?

29 March 2010

22:44, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Ivan Kramskoi's 1883 Portrait of an Unknown Woman (pictured) caused a sensation when first exhibited, as critics assumed that the woman was of ill repute?
... that Sir Viv Richards scored the fastest century in Test cricket, taking just 56 balls to reach his hundred against England in 1986?
... that the tambouras, a Greek traditional string instrument of the lute family and ancestor of the bouzouki, features movable frets?
... that MacGillivray Milne was appointed Governor of American Samoa less than two years after having been court-martialed?
... that the first hull loss of a Tupolev Tu-204 occurred when Aviastar-TU Flight 1906 crashed on approach to Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow, Russia, on 22 March 2010?
... that President George Washington was once a guest at Lloyd House?
... that American biologist Philip Hershkovitz discovered many rodent species while he was in his eighties?
... that a failed Cretan revolt of 1828, led by Hatzimichalis Dalianis, is the basis for the local legend of the ghost army of the Drosoulites?

16:35, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Japanese Kongō-class battlecruisers (Kongō pictured) were designed by British naval engineer George Thurston?
... that Marcus R. Clark was elected in 2009 to the Louisiana Supreme Court though he had years earlier been sanctioned by that body for backlogged cases as a district judge?
... that Welgelegen (or Tjepkema's Molen) is the only survivor of seventeen windmills to have stood in Heerenveen, Friesland, the Netherlands, since the 15th century?
... that Michael Barlow is the seventh winner of the Fothergill-Round Medal in the last eight years that was listed on an Australian Football League squad via the rookie draft?
... that Leptodora is the largest planktonic cladoceran, and its type species is probably the only cladoceran to have been described in a newspaper?
... that the painting El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent is installed in a room constructed especially for it at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston?
... that by the Treaty of Vilnius (1561), Gotthard Kettler exchanged his office as Grand Master of the Livonian Order for that of a duke and Royal administrator?
... that Boston newspaper publisher John Mein shot a grenadier in a scuffle?

10:26, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the façade of the Igreja de Santo Ildefonso (pictured) in Porto, Portugal, is covered in approximately 11,000 azulejos?
... that the "father of the Finnish written language" died when returning from the Treaty of Novgorod (1557)?
... that in 2006, ten percent of the membership of the Australian Watercolour Institute were recipients of Australia Honours?
... that a raga in Indian musician Ram Narayan's album Rag Shankara, Rag Mala in Jogia was named for an incarnation of Shiva?
... that Lado Ketskhoveli was one of the first revolutionaries to introduce Stalin to Marxism?
... that fishing down the food web is resulting in a progressive worldwide decline in the fish stocks that are higher on the food chain?
... that Siraj Gena finished his winning run of the Rome Marathon barefoot to honour the 50th anniversary of Abebe Bikila's marathon gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics?
... that the sculpture of a freezing woman at the Golm War Cemetery was not erected because it did not match the artistic perceptions of the East German party line?

04:17, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Australian Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands regularly support 1% of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway's population of the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (pictured)?
... that Harry Crosby, whose Black Sun Press published struggling writers like D. H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, James Joyce and Ezra Pound, died at age 31 in a suicide pact with his lover?
... that Gowardia, a lichen found in tundra of the Northern Hemisphere, is named after the lichenologist Trevor Goward?
... that as a state legislator Ron Gomez, previously the radio voice of the ULL Ragin' Cajuns, worked to build the team's arena, the Cajundome, in Lafayette, Louisiana?
... that Ada Louise Huxtable called Portland, Oregon's Keller Fountain Park "one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance"?
... that designer Vladimir Kagan, whose 1952 sofa was auctioned by Christie's for $190,000, created a facsimile for Room & Board in 2006 that sells for less than $1,900?
... that Azalea Trail Maids appeared in the inauguration parade of President Barack Obama in full antebellum-era dresses?
... that two of the singer-songwriters in Little River Band wrote so many songs that they formed the duo Birtles & Goble to record the unreleased material?

28 March 2010

22:08, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

... that under the terms of the Treaty of Seringapatam, which ended the Third Anglo-Mysore War in 1792, Tipu Sultan was required to surrender two of his sons as hostages of war (scene pictured)?
... that although U.S. President Barack Obama is Christian, high-ranked al-Qaida member Ayman al-Zawahiri has falsely claimed that Obama secretly "pray[s] the prayers of the Jews"?
... that Doña Rosa Real discovered how to make Barro negro pottery in San Bartolo Coyotepec, a small town in southern Mexico?
... that in the 1779 raid led by General William Tryon, British troops destroyed 83 houses, two churches, and a jail in Fairfield, Connecticut?
... that Agrimonia gryposepala, a plant of the rose family (Rosaceae), was used by the Meskwaki and Prairie Potawatomi to cure nosebleeds?
... that the debut in Carnegie Hall of tenor James Taylor was in the premiere of the Levine completion of Mozart's Great Mass in C minor?
... that the forests of Syria, celebrated throughout ancient times for their richness, have been reduced to their present-day area of 4,500 square kilometres (1,700 sq mi)?
... that Fr. Martin Hehir, the fourth president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, was affectionately known to students as "Daddy Hehir"?

15:59, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Senator Orris S. Ferry (pictured), who served as a brigadier general in the American Civil War, died of a wasting spinal disease?
... that an 1889 trial against cadres of the Belgian Republican Socialist Party revealed that most leaders of the party were agents provocateurs paid by the government?
... that the word "pitcher" originates from the 13th century Middle English word picher, which means earthen jug?
... that the nineteenth-century American botanist Edward Tuckerman liked to write his studies in Latin?
... that in 2003, an English translation of Shadow Tower Abyss, the forerunner to From Software's award-winning Demon's Souls, was cancelled by Sony over fears that the game's style lacked market appeal?
... that Ukrainian sprinter Anzhela Kravchenko has more national titles in the 100 and 200 metres than double world champion Zhanna Pintusevich-Block?
... that the specific name of the small shrub Adenanthos cacomorphus, meaning 'ugly form', relates to its "misshapen" pollen grains?
... that Barry Bowen owned Belikin, Belize's only domestically brewed beer brand, as well as the country's only commercial coffee farm?

09:50, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Gérard du Puy is said to have destroyed three papal tombs in Perugia (surviving tomb of Benedict XI pictured)?
... that journalist Lauro Aguirre planned a violent takeover of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico in 1906?
... that former First Lady of New Hampshire Gale Thomson ran a maple syrup business from her 19th century farmhouse in Orford?
... that Baseball Hall of Fame member Mel Ott was struck out in his first at-bat of his Major League Baseball career by pitcher Wayland Dean?
... that the Yalbugha Mosque was built in 1264 by Mamluk princes in Damascus, Syria?
... that Chaucer scholar Charles Muscatine participated in the D-day landing on Omaha Beach and was fired by UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a McCarthyite oath?
... that the Treaty of Pozvol triggered the Livonian War?
... that Olena Krasovska ran the fastest 100 metres hurdles race (12.45 seconds) by an athlete representing Ukraine, but despite this she does not hold the Ukrainian record?

03:41, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

... that reed boats (pictured), made with reeds such as the papyrus, have been used for at least 7000 years and are still built in Peru and Ethiopia?
... that New York-based mix engineer Michael Brauer uses five compressors in his parallel compression method, to achieve the desired vocal sound for The Rolling Stones, KT Tunstall and Coldplay?
... that substorms were first described in 1964?
... that the 7th century Arab Islamic palatial complex of Al-Sinnabra at the southern end of the Sea of Galilee was originally thought to be a Byzantine-era synagogue?
... that Joseph H. Allen, a volunteer infantryman and the 21st supervisor of the Town of Brunswick in New York, was brevetted lieutenant colonel by Abraham Lincoln in 1865?
... that Twice Blessed is an American Book Award winning novel by Filipino author Ninotchka Rosca?
... that comedian Andy Samberg guest starred in the Parks and Recreation episode "Park Safety", which he called "the best episode, and maybe not just of this show but of any show on television ever"?
... that Winifred Collins was one of the first females to be commissioned in the WAVES when it began in 1942 and was later Chief of Naval Personnel for Women?

27 March 2010

21:32, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the tree Erythrina velutina (inflorescence pictured) can make mice and rats sleepy and is the only Erythrina species pollinated by a lizard, the Noronha skink?
... that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's parents are buried in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina?
... that Colorado State Highway 35 is so short that two interchanges overlap each other?
... that Code of Vengeance starred Charles Taylor as David Dalton, a character created for a planned spin-off series from Knight Rider?
... that the traditional oral rules for leadership selection at the Rapid Lake Indian reserve in Quebec were put down in writing for the first time in 1996?
... that the idea for MyTwoCensus, a political watchdog of the 2010 U.S. Census, was first conceived by journalist Stephen Robert Morse as he was looking for a job on Craigslist?
... that in Albanian mythology, the drangue is a semi-human winged warrior who is born wearing a shirt and qeleshe?
... that while she never sank any vessels in her career, U-771 shot down a British B-24 Liberator aircraft?

15:23, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Christie’s auction house gave Juan Luna’s painting Las Damas Romanas (The Roman Maidens) (pictured) a price tag of $1 million to $1.2 million?
... that during the American Civil War, both the Union and the Confederacy developed new medical programs to treat sick and injured soldiers?
... that the South Park episode "Sexual Healing" parodied the recent sex scandal surrounding golf pro Tiger Woods, and satirized the media attention it generated?
... that with around 250 killed the UNITA 2001 Angola train attack was one of the deadliest terrorist attacks involving railways?
... that Blazed Alder Creek, which supplies part of the drinking water for Portland, Oregon, was named for a 24-inch (61 cm) blazed (marked) alder tree used as a benchmark for early watershed surveys?
... that the association l'Affranchissement, founded in 1854, was the first rationalist organization in Belgium?
... that the Bolinas, California-based unconventional winemaker Sean Thackrey was previously an art dealer?
... that campaigners against proposed urban expansion in Worthing, West Sussex, have been tree sitting in Titnore Wood since 2006?

09:14, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Ananda Temple (pictured) in Bagan, Myanmar, with four standing Buddhas facing the cardinal directions, is said to be an architectural wonder titled the "Westminster Abbey of Burma"?
... that Ernest Hemingway's 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees was serialized in Cosmopolitan Magazine from February to May of that year?
... that Martyrs' Lane in Baku, Azerbaijan, is dedicated to those killed by the Red Army during Black January and later to those killed in Nagorno-Karabakh War?
... that an ovarian pregnancy can occur when the egg cell is not released or picked up?
... that the specific name of Adenanthos macropodianus refers to it only being found on Kangaroo Island?
... that American writer-director Patrick Coyle first publicly showed his 2009 film Into Temptation at the hospice where his father stayed?
... that in the 2009–10 Rugby-Bundesliga season, with the Rugby Club Luxembourg, a team from Luxembourg competes in the German 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga?
... that Marcus Larson, a prominent 19th-century painter from Sweden, worked for a saddle maker before becoming an artist?

03:05, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

... that a 1996 National Geographic magazine map of the United States labeled the High Desert region of southeast Oregon (pictured) as the Great Sandy Desert?
... that 1968 was the deadliest year in the Vietnam war for the United States and its Vietnamese allies?
... that the music website SongMeanings was created after its founder was inspired by a debate surrounding the meaning behind music group Ben Folds Five's song "Brick"?
... that the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II allegedly insisted for taxes to be paid in the full-weight histamenon gold coin, but only paid back in the lighter tetarteron?
... that a silent speech interface enables people to talk without making speech sounds, or those with laryngectomies to speak after losing their voice?
... that despite Dolores Porras’ innovations with the green glazed pottery tradition of Santa María Atzompa, she is poor and depends on her family economically?
... that as Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans it underwent an eyewall replacement cycle that caused it to decrease in intensity but increase in diameter?
... that the 1956 radio program It's A Crime, Mr. Collins was said to be "a flagrant rip-off of The Adventures of the Abbotts in which only the names had been changed"?

26 March 2010

20:56, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Five dollar Confederate banknote (1861) and a 100 dollar Confederate banknote (1862)

... that more than 60% of the Confederacy's war finance came from printing money (pictured), which, along with bad military news, caused prices to increase 92 times over in the South during the American Civil War?
... that UdiWWW was among the first web browsers to support the HTML 3 specification?
... that the Manawan Indian reserve in the Mauricie region of Quebec has had road access only since 1973?
... that Chenowth Advanced Light Strike Vehicles were used by United States Navy SEALs in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as during the Gulf War?
... that The Master of Game is considered to be the first English language book on hunting?
... that Czech politician Petr Zenkl, who survived two Nazi concentration camps, was forced to escape to the West after communists took power in Czechoslovakia by coup d'état in 1948?
... that after the original owner of the Walsh-Kaiser Company shipyard had difficulty managing the yard, a shipbuilding and a construction company took over?
... that the town of Otumba, Mexico, has an annual Donkey Fair where the animals feature in fashion shows and costume contests?

14:47, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

... that in the Sera Chöding Hermitage (pictured) in Lhasa, Tibet, according to a local legend, the ‘local site-spirit’ used to enter through a small window to meet Tsongkhapa?
... that British child actor Noah Marullo plays a character with Asperger syndrome on Tracy Beaker Returns, which he feels "helps children understand that everyone is different"?
... that, during the bombing of Berlin, Minuscule 658, 659 and 661 were sent out of Berlin for safekeeping and were later found in Poland?
... that before entering politics, two-time prime minister Said al-Ghazzi was one of the leading lawyers in Syria?
... that the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists has dealt with over 600 cases since it began in 2001?
... that the tragic death of Bonnie McCarroll at the 1929 Pendleton Round-Up led to the cancellation of women's bronc riding from rodeo competition?
... that the aureole effect is an optical phenomenon seen in rippling water that creates sparkling light and dark rays radiating from the shadow of the viewer's head?
... that the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described All Saints Church, Boltongate as "one of the architectural sensations of Cumberland"?

08:38, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Edward Richardson (pictured) was the first person to build a rail tunnel through the side of an extinct volcano?
... that the holotype specimen of the dinosaur Linheraptor is one of few nearly complete dromaeosaurid skeletons, worldwide?
... that college basketball guard A.J. Slaughter received scholarship offers from major conference schools Vanderbilt and West Virginia, but ultimately decided to play for Western Kentucky?
... that citizen volunteers at The Jawa Report notified the FBI about the threat posed by Jihad Jane?
... that in Villa de Zaachila, Mexico, the weekly tianguis or open air market has changed little over the centuries and the Zapotec language can still be heard?
... that Sayuri Kokushō's 1986 debut single, Valentine Kiss, is the most popular Valentine's Day song in Japan, despite selling only 317,000 copies?
... that the rider who completes the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge in the shortest time will win $500,000 in Alaskan gold?
... that in March 2010, Australia became the first country in the world to officially recognise a 'non-specified' gender, when Norrie May-Welby was found to be neither a man nor a woman?

02:29, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Pope Clement VII built the Pozzo di S. Patrizio (pictured) while taking refuge in Orvieto after the Sack of Rome (1527)?
... that the main factors influencing survival amongst the stricken Donner Party pioneers were age, sex, and the size of each person's family group?
... that Herb Graver scored five touchdowns in the 1903 Michigan–Ohio State game, a record that has not since been matched by a player for either team?
... that a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone is a political subdivision of a municipality or county in the state of Texas created to implement tax increment financing?
... that WuLi Records, owned by the Ministry's Louis Svitek, released an album by Lee DeWyze, a ninth season finalist of American Idol?
... that Canigou Cambrai was the first English Cocker Spaniel to be best in show at Crufts for 46 years?
... that Canadian landscape ecologist André Bouchard used notarized acts to determine the composition of Quebec's forests at the time of colonization?
... that the dum dum bullet invented by Neville Bertie-Clay was used by the British Army against African and Asian opponents but was considered "too cruel" for use against Europeans?

25 March 2010

20:20, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the phrase "peace on earth, good will to men" derives from the Annunciation to the shepherds (pictured), but reflects a dispute over a single letter in the Greek text of the New Testament?
... that pyridoxamine, a vitamer of vitamin B6, is being tested in clinical trials for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy?
... that Siobhan Magnus, a current contestant on the ninth season of American Idol, started singing in public during an elementary school concert when she sang "Tomorrow" from the musical Annie?
... that the 2010 World Junior Squash Championships will be held from July 27 until August 1, in Quito, Ecuador?
... that more than twenty attendants of the Cécile DeWitt-Morette's summer school in the Alps were later awarded the Nobel Prize?
... that What A Guy!, a gag cartoon created in 1987, continued for eight years after writer Bill Hoest's death using a mix of his jokes and new gags written by his widow, Bunny Hoest?
... that, unable to reach the university president, athletic director John Toner unilaterally accepted an invitation for the Connecticut Huskies to become a founding member of the Big East Conference?
... that Argentine portrait painter Antonio Alice, who was expelled from school for drawing in books, was later awarded the Prix de Rome scholarship?

14:20, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the boreal felt lichen (pictured), one of the most endangered lichens in the world, begins its life by growing inside of the liverwort Frullania asagrayana (also pictured)?
... that Bienvenido Santos’s novel, The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor, narrates the experiences of Filipino migrants in the United States?
... that pioneering Austrian feminist Auguste Fickert got involved in politics because of an attempt to disenfranchise all women voters in Lower Austria in 1889?
... that Point Lonsdale Lighthouse's foghorn shed is the only one known from a lighthouse in Victoria, Australia?
... that Bamba Müller was the "Cinderella" who married Dalip Singh Sukerchakia, the Black Prince of Perthshire?
... that the Green Mada’in Association for Agricultural Development is an agricultural cooperative in Iraq that is building greenhouses and drip irrigation systems in the Mada’in Qada region?
... that Sven Moren was a popular speaker, and chaired the cultural society Noregs Ungdomslag for two periods?
... that a film critic for The New York Times described the Croatian film What Is a Man Without a Moustache? as both "pleasant" and "pointless"?

08:20, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Neville McNamara (pictured) was only the second RAAF officer to be promoted Air Chief Marshal, and the last Chief of the Air Staff to be knighted before Australia abandoned imperial honours?
... that approximately 1 in every 10,000 to 20,000 babies are born with a laryngeal cleft, a gap between the oesophagus and trachea which allows food or fluid to pass into the airway?
... that when officials cracked down on vice in Texas during the 1940s and 1950s, some of Texas' most notorious crime figures helped establish major casinos in Las Vegas, including the Sands Hotel?
... that the Flader J55 jet engine used a supersonic compressor in order to achieve small size, which ultimately proved to be beyond the state of the art?
... that Christopher O. Ward, Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, worked on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico before attending Harvard Divinity School?
... that near the exit from the Chee Kung Tong Society Building, a lintel once proclaimed, in Chinese, Everyone is Equal?
... that in 1975, professional baseball player Jimmy Sexton led the Texas League in stolen bases with 48?
... that The Go-Betweens' "Cattle and Cane", although selected by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time, never charted in Australia?

02:20, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Fifth Dalai Lama established the Gandan Sumtseling Monastery (pictured) in Zhongdian, Yunnan, in China in 1679?
... that Francisco Ada, the first Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, spearheaded the construction of the modern Saipan International Airport?
... that the film Green Lantern starring Ryan Reynolds has been in development since the 1990s and once included a comedic incarnation with Jack Black set to star?
... that in only their third year of involvement in the series, Hexis Racing won the FIA GT3 European Teams Championship in 2009?
... that there is no evidence that Julius II or Leo X, two Renaissance popes, ever celebrated mass?
... that Adenanthos cuneatus has been called Sweat Bush, from the alleged propensity of horses to break out in a sweat after eating it?
... that the Palace of Omurtag, an archaeological site in northeastern Bulgaria, includes the episcopal see of an Arian Gothic bishop besides a medieval Bulgarian fort?
... that James Cumming was known for his entertaining chemistry lectures in Cambridge University, during which he would literally shock the audience with a galvanic apparatus?

24 March 2010

20:20, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

... that during the Battles of Wenden (1577–1578), 300 people blew themselves up in Wenden Castle (pictured) to escape capture?
... that today's Solar Turbines got its start in the gas turbine industry due to its expertise in high-temperature metallurgy learned by building 300,000 exhaust manifolds in World War II?
... that in 1656, Thomas Wiswall signed a petition that ultimately led to the founding of the city of Newton, Massachusetts?
... that both Taklung Monastery and Riwoche Monastery belong to the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism?
... that "Grace, Replaced", the Will & Grace episode, attracted the series' highest ratings of the first season?
... that the discovery of a population of smaller, less spiny palms in Dominica has led to speculation that Aiphanes minima may not be the only species of Aiphanes on that island nation in the Caribbean?
... that later politician and barrister Lars Aspeflaten was a personal bodyguard of the acting Norwegian Director of Public Prosecutions in 1945?
... that actor Tom Cruise does not endorse a potent strain of cannabis called Tom Cruise Purple?

12:00, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the color of barro negro or black clay pottery (pictured) comes from the properties of the clay and not from painting?
... that the falkuša sailboat raced in one of the oldest fishermen's regattas in Europe, held from 1593 to 1936 on the island of Vis, Croatia?
... that Konstantin Bozveliev became the first socialist to be elected mayor in Bulgaria in 1908?
... that the magnitude-8.5 1922 Vallenar earthquake in Chile caused a series of tsunamis that reached as far away as Japan and Australia?
... that the actor Sir Ian McKellen was the final guest to appear on Parkinson's Sunday Supplement and one of the first on Weekend Wogan, both Sunday morning programmes on BBC Radio 2?
... that Carlbury hill was the site of an English Civil War battery emplacement for a Royalist contingent at the Battle of Piercebridge?
... that Pina Bausch and conductor Thomas Hengelbrock staged Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Paris and the ancient theater in Epidaurus?
... that when West Bromwich Albion won a Birmingham Senior Cup match 26–0 in the 1882–83 season, every player except the goalkeeper scored at least once?

06:00, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

... that RAAF pilot Allan Walters (pictured) made use of his aerobatic skills while courting his wife-to-be in 1930, performing stunts above the church where her father was rector?
... that the pygmy hardwood forest on the summit of New York's Graham Mountain is unique in the Catskills?
... that the New Zealand space scientist Ian Axford was a director of the German Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy?
... that the first Filipino full-length animated film, Adarna, was created by Gerry Garcia in the late 1990s?
... that American soprano Anna Fitziu was the singing instructor for Shirley Verrett?
... that females of the species Toxotes chatareus may lay between 20,000 and 150,000 eggs at a time?
... that despite being an Australian, Walter Cornock played both professional football and first-class cricket for English teams?
... that because it could neither be repaired nor removed, a trolley bridge in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, was turned into a garden called the Bridge of Flowers?

00:00, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Cape Sparrow (pictured) successfully competes with its introduced relative, the House Sparrow?
... that the Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, by Pablo Picasso, is the most highly estimated work of art to be offered at an auction in Europe?
... that former State Rep. Kevin P. Reilly, Sr., once told People magazine that all Louisiana residents needed to be contented was "a pickup and a shotgun"?
... that in 1560, the English helped the Scots lay siege to the French encampment at Leith?
... that Jack Donaghy calls the state of Florida "America's Australia" in the 30 Rock episode "The Natural Order"?
... that the Almond Blossom Cross Country was created by the District of Faro and the Portuguese tourist board to promote sport and tourism in the area?
... that despite being dismissed from the navy for disobeying orders, James Walker returned to fight at Camperdown and Copenhagen, and died a rear-admiral?
... that after losing a fight with Mikhail Gorbachev's cat, Dmitry Medvedev's cat Dorofei was castrated?

23 March 2010

18:00, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

... that former Scottish doctor Robert Crichton Wyllie (pictured) proposed a plan for British colonization of California in the 1840s?
... that the August 8–9, 1993, tornado outbreak in the American Midwest spawned the most recent single tornado to cause multiple deaths in Minnesota?
... that soprano Annette Dasch appeared as Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo at the reopening of the Cuvilliés Theatre, where that opera had been premiered in 1781?
... that the village of Ulnaby was abandoned in the 16th century when labour-intensive arable farming gave way to pasture?
... that Governor Bobby Jindal named former State Representative Sean Reilly as board chairman of Blueprint Louisiana, a group promoting technology and economic development statewide?
... that when the Coucoucache Indian reserve was inundated by a new reservoir, the Canadian Government was compensated only $380 for the loss of land?
... that the papal court resided in Viterbo, Italy, for twenty years in the 13th century?
... that after concluding his participation in the Second Schleswig War, priest and educator Christopher Bruun walked from Denmark to Rome?

12:00, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the nickname of Paro Taktsang (pictured) in Bhutan, "The Tiger's Nest", derives from the legend which tells that Padmasambhava founded a meditation cave there after travelling on a tigress?
... that Lars Oftedal founded several social institutions in Stavanger, Norway, including an orphanage for boys and a home for women?
... that the Berserker Range is a mountainous region near Rockhampton in Central Queensland, Australia?
... that Nick Joaquin's play, A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino, was described in The New York Times as an "engaging, well plotted metaphor for the passing of Old Manila"?
... that the distribution of the Brazilian rice rat Euryoryzomys emmonsae may be unique among muroid rodents?
... that the career of Asian Games gold medallist Pinki Pramanik was cut short by serious injury suffered in a car crash?
... that Adolf Claus suggested a structure for benzene in 1867, still known as Claus' benzene?
... that during the annual Dutch book week, a book was occasionally published anonymously to let readers guess who the author was?

06:00, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Thistle, Utah, was destroyed in 1983 by the most costly landslide (pictured) in United States history and was the first federal disaster area declared by the U.S. President in the state of Utah?
... that actor Richard Stapley, who was sometimes known by the stage name Richard Wyler, published his first novel at age 17?
... that the Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump in Oregon contains 25,000 drums of chemical waste, dumped in 1969 by a predecessor of Bayer CropScience?
... that clients of wandering frontier lawyer John Ricord included Sam Houston and Hawaiian King Kamehameha III?
... that acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis occur on average two to three times per year in a person suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
... that Princess Bamba, the last of the family who ruled the Sikh Empire, was said to have "lived like an alien in her father's kingdom"?
... that indie rock band Fang Island took its name from a fictional location described in an Onion article as a secret hideaway of then U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld?
... that Pope Stephen II in 752 became the first pope to cross the Alps?

00:00, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the erotic Indian classical dance Mohiniattam is named after the "seductress supreme" of Hindu mythology – Mohini (pictured), the female avatar of the male god Vishnu?
... that Lionello Cecil sang the lead tenor part in the first complete microphone recording of Verdi's La traviata in 1928?
... that Typhoon Nida was the most intense tropical cyclone during 2009?
... that Carey McWilliams described Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart as a social classic that reflected the experiences of Filipino immigrants in America?
... that the extinct Mexican rice rat Oryzomys nelsoni has only been collected once?
... that Oregon House Representative Nancy Nathanson taught tap dancing for several years?
... that Sky News described the free legal video sharing website MUZU TV as a likely rival for YouTube?
... that the minesweeper USS Inaugural is the only National Historic Landmark in Missouri to have had its status as a National Historic Landmark withdrawn?

22 March 2010

18:00, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

... that this year's best in show at Crufts, Hungargunn Bear It'n Mind, was the first time a Hungarian Vizsla (pictured) has won the competition?
... that Knut Kleve, known for his restoration of papyrus fragments, learned Latin while incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp?
... that the fungal genus Sebacina includes species that can encrust the stem bases of living plants?
... that at just 85 days in office, the sixteenth government of Israel was the shortest-lived in the country's history?
... that wheelchair marathon athlete Lango Sinkamba was Zambia's first Paralympian?
... that the German submarine U-78 was the only U-boat to be sunk by land-based artillery fire in World War II?
... that both Symmachus and Laurentius turned to Theodoric the Great to resolve their disputed succession as pope, the first recorded example of papal simony?
... that after a search that has so far lasted 30 years, Muckaty station in Australia's Northern Territory is the only site being considered for a national radioactive waste facility?

12:00, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the British battlecruiser HMS Lion (pictured) fired seven torpedoes during the Battle of Jutland without success?
... that the Art Pavilion gallery was originally built for an exhibition in Budapest and then transported to Zagreb, where it was re-built in 1898?
... that when Scottish soprano Muriel Dickson toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to New York City in 1934–1935, she was invited to join the Metropolitan Opera?
... that Araneagryllus is named from a combination of the Latin aranea meaning "spider" and gryllus meaning "cricket"?
... that Gustav Storm's translation of Snorre Sturlason's Heimskringla into Norwegian in the late 1890s was the basis for a popular edition of this work?
... that the largest known colony of mammals in the world is found in Bracken Cave near the small town of Bracken, Texas?
... that Yanko Sakazov was one of the two first socialist parliamentarians in Bulgaria, elected to the National Assembly in 1894?
... that the number-one single "A Puro Dolor", performed by Son By Four, was written by Omar Alfanno in ten minutes?

06:00, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Michigan's 1901 "Point-a-Minute" team (pictured), rated one of the greatest college football teams of all time, outscored its opponents 550–0 and beat Stanford 49–0 in the first Rose Bowl game?
... that renowned magazine illustrator David Hunter Strother recounted a treacherous journey on the Moorefield and North Branch Turnpike in his recollections of the American Civil War in Harper's Magazine?
... that Israeli naval forces deployed explosive Italian motorboats to sink the Egyptian Navy flagship Emir Farouk in the naval campaign of Operation Yoav?
... that in ca. 1304, the Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos introduced a new silver coin, the basilikon, modeled after the Venetian grosso, to pay the Catalan Company?
... that the current Mayor of Manukau is also its last one, as the Manukau City Council area is going to be incorporated into the Auckland super city?
... that fossil specimens of the extinct scorpionfly family Dinopanorpidae, which includes Dinopanorpa and Dinokanaga, sometimes have preserved dark with light to clear color patterning?
... that the canoe route through Oskélanéo, Quebec, was once so popular that it prompted the construction of locks on the Oskelaneo River?
... that "Pretty Baby...." is the first soap opera episode to feature just a single character?

00:00, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

... that New Fairy Tales (illustration pictured) of 1844 is the most autobiographical of Hans Christian Andersen's several fairy tale collections?
... that at 100 years old, Sir Nicholas Winton was named a British Hero of the Holocaust?
... that the AN/PSQ-20 "Enhanced Night Vision Device" combines image intensifier and thermal imaging technologies, which were previously used separately?
... that Colleen LaRose, also known as "JihadJane", was living in suburban Pennsylvania when she was arrested for recruiting Islamic terrorists and plotting the murder of Swedish artist Lars Vilks?
... that conductor Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart finished the first complete recording of Bach's cantatas and oratorios on the composer's 300th birthday, 21 March 1985?
... that Stalin was first introduced to the ideas of Karl Marx when he joined the Mesame Dasi?
... that sea interferometry uses radio waves reflected off the surface of the sea to improve the resolution of a single radio detector?
... that two plaster maquettes made by sculptor John Evan Thomas for House of Lords bronzes have just been found in Westgate, Canterbury, after being hidden in a tower for 100 years?

21 March 2010

18:00, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

... that there is an ancient Roman fort partly underneath the village green at Piercebridge (pictured) in County Durham, England?
... that William Hutcheon Hall of the Royal Navy earned the nickname "Nemesis Hall" for his services as commander of the Nemesis during the First Anglo-Chinese War?
... that beef is a common element in the works of the New Realist painter Carlos Alonso?
... that the thirty pieces of silver which Judas Iscariot received for betraying Jesus are echoed in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment by the thirty roubles which Sonia earns for selling herself?
... that Swiss athlete Georges de Regibus introduced association football to Bulgaria in 1894 as a sports teacher in Varna?
... that the extinct spider Eoplectreurys is the oldest described genus of Haplogynae, predating spiders from Cretaceous amber in Jordan and Lebanon?
... that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote around 200 cantatas in German but only one, Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191, in Latin?
... that Empire Cedric, a former Landing Ship, Tank, was the first Ro-Ro ferry?

12:00, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Citadel of Damascus (pictured) in Syria was built not on the top of a hill, but on flat ground, at the same level as the rest of Damascus city?
... that Yothu Yindi's song "Treaty" was the first song by a predominately-Aboriginal band to chart in Australia and the first in any Aboriginal Australian language to gain international recognition?
... that Mexican revolutionary Rubén Jaramillo ran for governor of Morelos twice and led two armed rebellions against the government?
... that pairwise summation of a sequence (breaking it in half and summing each half separately first) greatly reduces rounding errors?
... that Leslie Barrett was both a Shakespearean actor and the founder of a mime theatre?
... that Hungry Bentley, an abandoned village in Derbyshire, England, was named for the poor quality of its land?
... that professional wrestler Tiger Raj Singh had a try-out match for World Wrestling Entertainment in December 2009 and was signed to a developmental contract?
... that the "Beethoven Burst" was a powerful gamma-ray burst which occurred on the birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven?

06:00, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

... that black witches' butter (pictured) is a wood-decay fungus that loosens the bark of its host by disintegrating the vascular cambium?
... that Jhalkaribai fought with the East India Company army in disguise as Queen Laxmibai of Jhansi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 to let the queen escape easily out of the fort?
... that more than 98% of the human genome is noncoding DNA, sometimes referred to as "junk" DNA?
... that in her novel Devil's Brood, author Sharon Kay Penman writes about Eleanor of Aquitaine who is imprisoned by her husband King Henry II of England?
... that the original recording of The Byrds' song "Eight Miles High" was not released until its appearance on the Never Before compilation album in 1987, some 22 years after it had been committed to tape?
... that Javier Arias Stella, Peruvian foreign minister during the Paquisha War, is also a notable pathologist?
... that the Dome F105 Formula One car completed more than 900 kilometres (560 mi) of private testing, yet was never entered in a Grand Prix?
... that bikini baristas can be found mixing up coffee drinks all over the Seattle area?

00:00, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

... that King Leopold (pictured) signed a contract with Ladd & Co. for Belgian colonization of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1843?
... that the false scorpionfish mimics the true scorpionfish so well, it was originally described as a species of genus Scorpaena?
... that 5th-century Indian mathematician Aryabhata created the first sine table?
... that the American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Johnnie Bassett, played on The Miracles 1958 debut single, "Got a Job"?
... that a chance discovery in 1928 by a local farmer in Minet el-Beida led to the excavation of ancient Ugarit in Syria?
... that during the Korean War, US Army Colonel Robert F. Martin commanded the 34th Infantry Regiment for only 14 hours before he was killed in the Battle of Chonan?
... that 92% of students at West London's Villiers High School do not speak English as their first language?
... that Captain Bill McDonald of the Texas Rangers served as a bodyguard for political rivals Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in 1905 and 1912, respectively?

20 March 2010

18:00, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Drosera falconeri (pictured) is one of the few carnivorous plants that grow in alkaline soils?
... that Para Siempre, the 79th studio album by Vicente Fernández, reached number-one on the Mexican charts and won Best Ranchero Album at the 2008 Latin Grammy Awards ceremony?
... that in 1779, New York State Senator John Williams was expelled from the Senate for defrauding fellow soldiers of income during the American Revolutionary War?
... that the main characteristic of the continental Celtic deity Dusios was its ability to impregnate animals and women, often by surprise or force?
... that Republican National Committee official Rob Bickhart wrote a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting of Republican fundraisers which depicted Nancy Pelosi as Cruella de Vil?
... that the aviso SMS Hela was the first German ship to be sunk by a British submarine in World War I?
... that Fabian Joseph, a former team captain of the Canada men's national ice hockey team, won two winter Olympic silver medals for Canada in the early 1990s?
... that the last words of the British judge Lord Tenterden were "and now, gentlemen of the jury, you will consider of your verdict"?

12:00, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Dodé Valley, north of Lhasa, Tibet, contains both the Purbuchok Hermitage (pictured) and Sera Utsé Hermitages?
... that Bollywood actor Bobby Deol won the Filmfare Best Debut Award for his performance in Barsaat in 1995?
... that the port city of Bergen was the site of the first German U-boat base in occupied Norway?
... that Garry Richardson interviewed Bill Clinton during a rain delay at the Wimbledon Championships?
... that The God Stealer is the most anthologized short story written by Filipino National Artist F. Sionil José?
... that lieutenant general Nie Fengzhi joined the People's Liberation Army as a teenager in 1929?
... that Al-Kahf Castle in al-Ansariyah mountains was the last Ismaili stronghold in Syria to surrender to the Mamluks?
... that the recently named trematopid temnospondyl Fedexia was named after the shipping service FedEx, which owned the land where the holotype specimen was found?

06:00, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

... that chimpanzees in the wild may self-medicate by swallowing the leaves of Aneilema aequinoctiale (pictured) whole, in order to rid their intestines of parasitic nematodes?
... that Grace Voss Frederick (November 3, 1905 – January 16, 2009) was the creator of the Grace Museum of America and the Grace Museum for the Preservation of Americana?
... that the Tour de Nesle scandal led to the imprisonment of French Princesses Blanche and Margaret and the execution of their lovers?
... that the American soul blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter Jimmy Burns, issued a number of singles in the 1960s, but waited over 25 years to release his debut album?
... that Aritsugu, a supplier of swords to the Imperial House of Japan during the 16th century, now produces cooking knives and utensils?
... that, although it had been assigned to them in 1853, the Atikamekw First Nation did not settle on the Wemotaci Reserve (Quebec) until the beginning of the 20th century?
... that a message of farewell to the spa town of Buxton scratched onto a window pane of the Old Hall Hotel was reputedly inscribed by Mary Queen of Scots?
... that German and Scottish mercenaries, sent by Sweden to retaliate the roasting of a Swedish commander by Russian forces, killed each other instead in the Siege of Wesenberg (1574)?

00:00, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the unnamed woman with seven sons (pictured) portrayed in 2 Maccabees is known variously in other sources as Hannah, Miriam and Solomonia?
... that Avondale Park, a Park Ship sunk on 7 May 1945, was one of two Allied ships destroyed by enemy action in the last hour of the Second World War in Europe?
... that minister Edward Woolsey Bacon served in the American Civil War and in 1865 led the black 29th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry into Richmond, Virginia?
... that bus company London Country North East lost over £5 million in less than two years of existence before it was split up in 1989?
... that the physicist Stefan Meyer led the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna before and after the Nazi regime?
... that a description of the Battle of Aspern-Essling written by Patrick Rambaud as The Battle was originally a project of Honoré de Balzac?
... that The Kinks' "Sitting in the Midday Sun" is thought to be the first track recorded at their newly-built Konk Studios?
... that after Egypt was defeated by Israel during the Six-Day War the Egyptian government issued copies of the Hope paintings to its troops?

19 March 2010

18:00, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the German pre-dreadnought battleship SMS Wörth (pictured) represented the Kaiserliche Marine at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Fleet Review in 1897?
... that in 1697, Reverend Ichabod Wiswall delivered the first known funeral sermon in British America?
... that the 7th century Maligawila Buddha statue, which was found broken into pieces in 1951, was repaired and re-erected in 1980?
... that singers Anne Sofie von Otter and Christian Gerhaher recorded music written in the concentration camp of Terezín by artists such as Ilse Weber, Hans Krása, Pavel Haas and Viktor Ullmann?
... that the silver stavraton replaced the gold hyperpyron as the Byzantine Empire's chief coinage during the last century of its history?
... that one political faction in Isabelline Spain was known as the polacos because of its leader's Polish ancestry?
... that the Honorary Fellows of Keble College, Oxford, have included Ronald Reagan and John Betjeman, even though neither had academic links to the college?
... that the Birmingham Charity Cup, a Victorian football trophy, featured engravings of a football match and of "the poor and sick succoured by the heavenly spirit"?

12:00, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Australian cricketer Alyssa Healy (pictured) was the first girl to play among boys in the private schools' cricket competition in New South Wales?
... that the Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization in 1989 sought to end the assimilationist approach of the governments in dealing with indigenous peoples?
... that Heinz Stahlschmidt was credited with saving 3,500 French lives when he refused to blow up the port of Bordeaux and instead blew up the munitions bunker, killing approximately 50 Germans?
... that the Palestinian village of Balata was a Frankish settlement during the Crusades?
... that actress Edith Craig, dramatist Christabel Marshall and artist Clare Atwood lived in a ménage à trois from 1916 until Craig's death in 1947?
... that it has been suggested the extinct palm genus Palaeoraphe was restricted to the Greater Antilles?
... that the bootlegged song "Revolution 1 (Take 20)" by the British rock band The Beatles acts as a missing link between the seemingly unrelated "Revolution 1" and the avant-garde "Revolution 9"?
... that despite its name, the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists) had only 35% workers among its members?

06:00, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

... that during King Philip's War, in the battle known as Wheeler's Surprise, the Nipmuck chiefs Muttawmp and Matoonas besieged (pictured) colonial soldiers led by Thomas Wheeler and Edward Hutchinson?
... that Indonesia's first flag flown was fashioned by its first first lady Fatmawati?
... that Harvard-educated William Little Lee became the first Chief Justice of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1848 at the age of only 27?
... that Saturday Night Live comedian Ana Gasteyer appeared in a serious role as a judge in "Fleas", an episode of the CBS drama, The Good Wife?
... that Major League Baseball player Billy Sunday and musician Wayne King lived in the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, even though neither were actual orphans?
... that migralepsy is a rare condition where a migraine is followed by an epileptic seizure?
... that Joseph Goebbels called Hitler Youth Quex a successful "first large-scale attempt" to transmit Nazi ideology via movies?
... that according to one contemporary source, Barbara Strozzi showed off a bejeweled necklace she received from Anna de' Medici by placing it between her "two darling, beautiful breasts"?

00:00, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

... that John Wright (pictured), one of the Gunpowder Plotters, was considered the finest swordsman in Britain?
... that the name for the Texas stream Cibolo Creek comes from the Native American and Spanish word for Buffalo, who were hunted along its steep banks?
... that Thomas Herbst, the current manager of Tennis Borussia Berlin, won the 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship before making his professional footballing debut for FC Bayern Munich?
... that Bristol Diamonds were popular souvenirs for visitors to the spa at Hotwells, Bristol, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
... that James Long, an Anglican missionary in India, was jailed for publishing the play Nil Darpan?
... that a fossil flower of the extinct palm Roystonea palaea shows damage possibly made by a bat or bird?
... that Laura Spurr enjoyed a long career in nursing before becoming chairwoman of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi of Michigan?
... that the 1980s German television series The Black Forest Clinic was so popular that it was once dubbed "the epitome of German television bliss"?

18 March 2010

18:00, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

... that while veils in the 1400s were usually worn to preserve modesty, the garment worn by the sitter in Rogier van der Weyden's c. 1460 painting Portrait of a Woman (pictured) is used to draw attention to her unusual beauty and sensuality?
... that Harold Pogue, Perry Graves and Ralph Chapman became the University of Illinois' first first-team College Football All-Americans in 1914?
... that doctors must regulate the blood pressure of a beating heart cadaver to keep the organs alive?
... that Henry Blogg's first rescue as coxwain of the Cromer Lifeboat Louisa Heartwell was that of the crew of the barque Alf?
... that Whitney Avenue Historic District in New Haven, Connecticut, includes "locally outstanding" collections of Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival architecture?
... that Alan Cumming guest-starred in "Bang", an episode of the CBS drama series The Good Wife, as a political consultant commentators said mirrored Rahm Emanuel?
... that Haqqi al-Azm, a former prime minister of Syria, was also the first governor of the State of Damascus under the French mandate?
... that the art student scam is a confidence trick in which scammers sell cheap paintings as original art by up-and-coming talents?

12:00, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Temple of Bel (pictured), dedicated in 32 AD, formed the center of religious life in Palmyra, Syria and is considered its "best preserved" ruin?
... that 6.9 M_w Chile earthquake of March 2010 took place shortly before president Sebastián Piñera was sworn in?
... that the Parks and Recreation episode "Woman of the Year" mocked the meaninglessness of awards, which some critics saw as a jab about the show's failure to win major industry awards?
... that despite his international success, Tunisian-Swiss 1500 metres runner Ali Hakimi only became Tunisian champion three times?
... that the wreck of the British battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary has been designated as a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986?
... that film composer Nathan Scott, who arranged the music for Dragnet, scored almost all episodes of Lassie between 1963 and 1974?
... that what is thought to have been the first ever properly floodlit association football match in the United Kingdom took place between two non-league teams, Ashton National and Hyde United, in December 1932?
... that according to legend, New York Assemblywoman Ida Sammis' first act in the legislature was to polish the brass spittoon assigned to her, and to place it on her desk as a flower vase?

06:00, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the personnel of the aircraft carrier HMAS Vengeance (pictured) were complimented by Queen Elizabeth II on their forgery of her signature?
... that Lena Horne won six awards for her 1981 one-woman show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music?
... that an Alaska Aces fan suffered a heart attack at Game 2 of the 2009–10 PBA Philippine Cup Finals?
... that upon completion, the Port of Hambantota will be the largest port constructed on land in the 21st century?
... that the Codex Arundel, which contains notes and sketches by Leonardo da Vinci, was reunited online with the similar Codex Leicester?
... that actor Samuel Page of the AMC drama series Mad Men started a string of ongoing guest appearances in the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives, starting with the episode "The Chase"?
... that the 2009–10 Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team set school records for best season start, longest conference winning streak, and most conference wins?
... that an excerpt of Nick Bertozzi's The Salon containing a nude depiction of Picasso caused a comic book store owner to be charged with distributing obscene material to a minor?

00:00, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

... that drag racer Dale Armstrong (pictured) is credited with being the first crew chief to test a Funny Car in a wind tunnel?
... that more than 25,000 people have applied to take part in the Dublin Bikes scheme?
... that West Jewellers of Grafton Street, Dublin, had Queen Victoria's royal warrant to make her watches and she once bought two replicas of the Tara Brooch from the company?
... that a species of specklebelly lichen is only found in old growth forests and is being threatened in Scandinavia by increased predation from snails?
... that veteran Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne recognised Brian Jennings' ability to pronounce words well?
... that the Bayonne Statute, intended to be the basis for Joseph Bonaparte's rule of Spain, was never truly in effect because of a continual state of war?
... that after purchasing three shares for $180 in 1935 and living a frugal lifestyle, Grace Groner donated seven million dollars to her alma mater Lake Forest College upon her death?
... that the Friends of Cathedral Music was formed in 1956 after the Provost of Southwell Minster abolished Saturday choral services to allow the choir men to watch local Association football matches?

17 March 2010

18:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the National Leprechaun Museum, the first museum dedicated to leprechauns (example pictured), is designed in a way that makes humans seem very small?
... that General Vernon Prichard, commander of the "Old Ironsides" armored division during the Italian Campaign in World War II, was Dwight Eisenhower's quarterback at West Point?
... that Adrian Crowley's album Long Distance Swimmer was recorded in his sister's home in Foxrock, County Dublin, and features contributions from James Yorkston?
... that Carl Jeppesen organized the female match workers' strike in Kristiania in 1889?
... that despite being a magnitude 8.7 event, the 1730 Valparaiso earthquake led to only a few deaths, because people had left their homes after a strong foreshock?
... that Pat Fanning, who died last weekend, was President of the Gaelic Athletic Association when the organisation repealed its ban on "foreign games"?
... that the Act of Parliament establishing the post of Postmasters General of Ireland was not repealed until 31 years after the Act of Union had united the countries in 1800?
... that Nick Joaquin's May Day Eve is a short story about a couple who got married because of an incantation recited in front of a mirror?

12:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Ryan Adams cited Irish singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley (pictured) in a 2005 Rolling Stone interview when asked "Who's the best songwriter that no one's heard of"?
... that archaeologist Senarath Paranavitana described the ancient statue of Parakramabahu I as "the very embodiment of strength, majesty and dignity"?
... that the Communist-led Frente Popular polled just 1.82% votes in the 1963 Goa elections, largely due to the Catholic Church's backing of the rival United Goans Party?
... that Ireland Triple Crown-winning rugby player Paddy Reid was born on Saint Patrick's Day?
... that the Ghab valley swamp in northwest Syria was drained between 1953 and 1968, providing an extra 41,000 hectares (160 sq mi) of irrigated lands?
... that Overseas Scandinavian Airlines System was created in 1946 by six national airlines to coordinate their transatlantic flights?
... that the Les Inrockuptibles journalist who reviewed the album Season of the Sparks sent a letter of thanks to its creator?
... that Francis James Garrick and James Francis Garrick, MPs in New Zealand and Queensland respectively, were brothers?

06:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Balsam Lake Mountain (pictured) in the Catskills was the site of the first fire lookout tower in New York State?
... that the Gemini Planet Imager is an adaptive optics instrument being developed to directly image extrasolar planets that will see first light in early 2011?
... that in the Orkneyinga saga, after Olvir Rosta failed to gain a portion of the Earldom of Orkney, his grandmother was burned to death?
... that Frank Dekum, a 19th-century banker in Portland, Oregon, and president of the German Songbird Society, imported thrushes, starlings, nightingales, and other German songbirds to Oregon?
... that the 1938 Art Deco styled and heritage listed Piccadilly Cinema is the only cinema still operating in the Perth CBD?
... that in the 1960s, Yōji Kuri was regarded as the creator of Japanese animation most known to the West?
... that the symbol of the Paralympic Games is composed of three "agitos", colored red, blue and green?
... that Perchance to Dream by Robert B. Parker, the 1991 sequel to 1939 crime novel The Big Sleep, takes its title from Hamlet's soliloquy?

00:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Irving Pond (pictured) designed three National Historic Landmarks, performed a backflip on his 80th birthday, and scored the first ever touchdown for the Michigan Wolverines?
... that English independent children's television producer Kindle Entertainment's first film, Dustbin Baby, won both an International Emmy and a Children's BAFTA?
... that Ferdinand Poulton, a Jesuit missionary in the Province of Maryland, had his life and mysterious death fictionalized in the 1995 book Mary's Land?
... that Leptofoenus pittfieldae is the only species of Leptofoenus documented from the West Indies and the only member of Leptofoenus in the fossil record?
... that Duchess Sophie of Alençon died in a fire at a French charity bazaar, but some hotel visitors escaped through the kitchen window of the adjoining hotel with the help of the cook?
... that a housebarn, a combined house and barn, is more costly to insure than a house because of a higher fire risk?
... that following his retirement from professional football, Bobby Bell managed car manufacturer Rolls-Royce's football team?
... that while training in 1944, the German U-804 shot down a Norwegian Mosquito?

16 March 2010

18:00, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

... that crossing sweepers (pictured) helped nineteenth-century women avoid having their dresses soiled with horse dung?
... that Sylvester C. Simpson was the first Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oregon and worked to get a book authored in part by his brother selected as the state's reader?
... that Saltford Manor House is thought to be the oldest continuously occupied private house in England?
... that Chilean cartoonist and plastic artist Fernando Krahn had to leave his country in order to escape from the 1973 coup d'état?
... that the Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball program was abolished by the University Senate immediately following a perfect season?
... that Abū Muḥammad al-Rāmahurmuzī was one of the first authors to write a comprehensive book of hadith terminology?
... that the Outer Trial Bank, a nature reserve in East Anglia, UK, was originally built as part of a failed government scheme to barrage the Wash and create a reservoir?
... that Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus did not want to receive Captain Nikolay Dyatlenko at the Battle of Stalingrad, yet ended up being received by him?

12:00, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

... that there may be as few as 250 of the Zapata Rail (pictured) in its only habitat, the Zapata Swamp?
... that Andrew Birch was sent by the king of Denmark, Christian VII, to examine books all over Europe?
... that the 1 Ilica Street skyscraper in Zagreb was the first building in Yugoslavia to feature an aluminum facade?
... that during the 1824–1842 term of Richard Charlton as the first British consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii, he was involved in a military occupation and controversial land claim?
... that the development of the Marker degradation chemical synthetic route between 1938 and 1940 established Mexico as a world center for steroid production?
... that Moroccan Elarbi Khattabi won five medals in team competitions at the World Cross Country Championships, including Morocco's first such medal, the silver in 1994?
... that the ancient Bible text, British Library Manuscript, Add. 14448, is lacunose?
... that Tuanaitau F. Tuia, the longest serving legislator in the American Samoa Fono, served a combined 49 years in both the House of Representatives and the Senate?

06:00, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

... that NGC 7027 (pictured) is the most extensively studied planetary nebula?
... that Academic All-America teams, which are now presented by ESPN The Magazine, have been selected by College Sports Information Directors of America since 1952?
... that painter and sculptor Roberto Aizenberg has been called the "best-known" orthodox surrealist in Argentina?
... that the Chicago Sun-Times purchased the Mirage Tavern in 1977 to document city officials seeking bribes?
... that the Danish Tegnestuen Vandkunsten were the first team of architects to be awarded the Alvar Aalto Medal?
... that Mary Elliott Flanery was the first female state legislator south of the Mason–Dixon Line when she took her seat in the Kentucky General Assembly in January 1922?
... that Canadian coxswain Lesley Thompson has competed at six different Olympics, and won medals in four of them?
... that Glen Moreno persuaded Man Group to sponsor the Man Booker Prize?

00:00, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

... that although randomness (example pictured) had long been viewed as an obstacle, it is now used as a tool for designing better algorithms?
... that Edmund Chipp performed all six of Felix Mendelssohn's Organ Sonatas, op. 65 from memory in 1848?
... that St. Remy's Catholic Church in Russia, Ohio, has been designated a historic site despite extensive modifications?
... that footballer Edward King was honored for heroism in the Philippines and tactical skill in France and later became Commandant of the Army Command and General Staff College?
... that at least twelve different nomenclatures have been proposed for features of the molar in muroid rodents?
... that in Greene v Associated Newspapers Ltd, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales held that the test for granting interim injunctions in defamation cases was inflexible but applied it anyway?
... that according to oral history, the Kingdom of Rwanda was founded in the 14th or 15th century on the shores of Lake Muhazi?
... that from 1965 to present, Finnish lyricist Vexi Salmi has written over 4000 song lyrics, more than 2400 of which have been recorded?

15 March 2010

18:00, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

... that one of the earliest mentions of driving on the left in the UK was in an 1827 Act of Parliament for the rebuilding of Shillingford Bridge (pictured)?
... that the Vizsoly Bible, the first complete Hungarian translation of the Bible, was published in 1590?
... that brothers Hayes Jenkins and David Jenkins won gold and bronze in the men's figure skating competition at the 1956 Winter Olympics?
... that all of the buildings on Pomander Walk in Manhattan are replicas of a Broadway stage set?
... that children's physician Alex Brinchmann chaired the Norwegian Authors' Union from 1941 to 1945, during the German occupation, but was eventually imprisoned from January 1945?
... that the Admiral Apartments, built in 1909, had "sporting girls" (prostitutes) operating out of it by 1913?
... that Harvey Pekar described his collaboration with Heather Roberson on the comic book Macedonia as one of the best working relationships he has ever had?
... that the scope of the English case of Pepper v Hart, at first accepted by the judiciary, has "been reduced to such an extent that the ruling has almost become meaningless"?

12:00, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the trophic level of the world fisheries catch has steadily declined because many high trophic level species, such as tuna (pictured), have been overfished?
... that the family of William Harris changed churches during the American Revolution because the church they had been attending continued to say prayers for the king?
... that Norwegian MP Tønnes Andenæs died in the Tretten train disaster?
... that Nick Joaquin's short story The Summer Solstice is about the fertility ritual known as the Tatarin?
... that thalidomide causes birth defects by inactivating the protein cereblon?
... that the original Atikamekw village of Obedjiwan and its archaeological sites in Quebec, Canada, were flooded during the construction of the Gouin Reservoir?
... that no one is sure why, despite his victory at the Battle of Monte de las Cruces in 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla retreated from Mexico City?
... that British painter Alessandro Raho, commissioned to portray Judi Dench for the National Portrait Gallery in London, imagined her as a wealthy housewife?

06:00, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

... that mating in the marsh rice rat (pictured) results in relatively few ejaculations, partly because of female resistance?
... that Jesuit Donald Merrifield, the first president of Loyola Marymount University after its creation, worked as a consultant for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory?
... that the Wisconsin State Firefighters Memorial was completely funded by donations?
... that Dashiell Hammett helped Lillian Hellman write the 1951 Broadway play The Autumn Garden?
... that Congregation B'nai Israel Synagogue in Fleischmanns, New York, is unique among Catskill synagogues in having an exposed truss ceiling in its sanctuary?
... that Hall of Fame tackle Harold Ballin was "the hardest-hitting player" ever faced by fellow Hall of Famer Charles Brickley and the last Princeton player to play without a helmet?
... that the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever has patented several antifreeze proteins produced by a species of kidney lichen, due to their ability to modify ice formation in frozen foods?
... that when a teenager tore up a photograph of Canadian Prime Minister St. Laurent as the PM spoke, the ensuing fracas was seen as a turning point in the 1957 Canadian election?

00:00, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Hanging Rocks (pictured) at Wappocomo, West Virginia, on the South Branch Potomac River was the site of both a battle between Delaware and Catawba Native American tribes and an American Civil War skirmish?
... that the couple Mette and Philip Newth have made picture books for blind and for deaf children?
... that at least twenty horses were needed to transport a kartouwe?
... that Football Hall of Famer Huntington "Tack" Hardwick was called "a big, fine-looking aristocrat from blue-blood stock" who "loved combat – body contact at crushing force – a fight to the finish"?
... that the spring inside the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth served as the local water supply for some 3,000 years?
... that Dr. Ronald Levy became the first Jew to be awarded with the King Faisal International Prize, which is popularly called the "Arab Nobel Prize"?
... that Portland, Oregon's Tanner Springs Park was described as "a sort of cross between an Italian piazza and a weedy urban wetland with lots of benches"?
... that Frederic de Hoffmann helped develop the hydrogen bomb and later organized a project to propel a spaceship with nuclear bombs?

14 March 2010

18:00, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the final resting place of John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (pictured), who died in 1435, was not definitely established until the discovery of a one-legged skeleton in 1857?
... that resentment of the sales tax called the alcabala triggered several revolts in Spain's colonies, even though rates there were lower than in Spain itself?
... that Frederick Josiah Bradlee was a Boston Brahmin, an All-American halfback and the father of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee?
... that the building in Mexico City currently housing the Museo de Charrería, a museum for Mexican rodeo, was originally a 16th-century monastery dedicated to the Virgin of Montserrat?
... that Wyandanch, the sachem of the Montaukett, in 1659, sued Jeremy Daily in the colonial court in one of the first trials in North America with an English defendant and a Native American plaintiff?
... that Kennaquhair was an Australian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Sydney Cup and the AJC Metropolitan Handicap?
... that George Peek was the first Administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the first President of the two banks that would become the Export-Import Bank of the United States?
... that rapid construction of an earlier building of Holy Family Catholic Church in Frenchtown, Ohio, won its builders two gallons of whisky?

12:00, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

... that U2's experience in Shinjuku, Tokyo (pictured) at the conclusion of the Zoo TV Tour was the inspiration for the Passengers' song "Slug"?
... that Boeing is submitting an updated OV-10 Bronco for the US Air Force Request for a slower support plane, or Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance aircraft?
... that author Ola Bauer wrote a novel about his involvement with the Provisional IRA, to correct what he felt was a slanted view of The Troubles in the Norwegian press?
... that He Zhuoyan is the youngest person to win an award in the Forbes China Celebrity 100 in 2007 at the age of 18?
... that the South Park Blocks have been called the "extended family room" of Portland, as Pioneer Courthouse Square is known as the city's "living room"?
... that Margaret Greville bequeathed Polesden Lacey in Surrey to the National Trust in 1942 in memory of her father, Scottish brewer William McEwan?
... that Nebraska's first All-American Vic Halligan was called "The premier punter of the West, A master of the forward pass, A tackler equal to the best"?
... that Wilfred Wong, BevMo!'s cellar master, tastes some 8,000 wines each year for the large retail chain?

06:00, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

... that in the Madrid version (pictured) of Titian's series of Danaë paintings, the nursemaid by the side of the Greek legend Danaë is portrayed as a hag, while in the Vienna version, the dog by her side is absent?
... that upon arrival at Fort Conger in 1899, several of Robert Peary's toes broke off due to frostbite?
... that the 2010 T in the Park music festival is to be headlined by Muse, Eminem, and Kasabian, marking Eminem's first performance at a festival in the United Kingdom since 2001?
... that during his career Herman Phaff collected 6400 strains of yeast creating a collection containing 400 of the 700 identified species of yeast?
... that counter-reformation in Silesia was stopped by the Treaty of Altranstädt in 1707?
... that 1914 College Football All-Americans Burleigh Cruikshank of Washington & Jefferson and Haps Benfer of Albright College went on to become Presbyterian and United Evangelical ministers?
... that the Oak Hill Railroad Depot is the only surviving Virginian Railway depot in West Virginia?
... that one species of Dictyonema lichen is a powerful hallucinogen that is traditionally used by the Huaorani of the Amazon jungle of Ecuador to cast curses on their enemies?

00:00, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Roman theatre of Bosra (pictured), built in the 2nd century AD in Bosra, Syria, is the largest, most complete and best preserved of all the Roman theatres in the Middle East?
... that the captain of the cargo liner SS Beaverburn was given a gold-headed cane for commanding the first ship in 1947 to reach the port of Montreal?
... that other than "incapable" beneficiaries, the British Variation of Trusts Act 1958 only allows the courts to alter trust documents for potential beneficiaries, not confirmed ones?
... that the 80-acre refuge at Wolf Haven International shelters 47 wolves that would otherwise have no homes and is visited by over 20,000 people a year?
... that Rufus Wainwright's album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu contains three adaptations of Shakespeare's sonnets?
... that 'The Ghost with the Hammer in his Hand', with more than ninety knock-outs, was one of the greatest Welsh boxers?
... that John Virginius Bennes's architectural work included the Geiser Grand Hotel in Baker City, Oregon, and at least 35 buildings on the Oregon State University campus?
... that an unknown burglar—exhibited in a coffin at the Red Lion Inn in Shoreham, West Sussex, in the 1850s after being shot dead—was identified by his dog?

13 March 2010

18:00, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Charleston architect Walter F. Martens modeled the West Virginia Governor's Mansion (pictured) after the White House so it could accommodate up to 2,000 guests at one time?
... that two high school students used the automated telescope at Leuschner Observatory to record the earliest images of supernova SN 1994I?
... that Elżbieta Sieniawska was one of the most powerful women in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the reign of Augustus II the Strong?
... that crayfish of the Madagascan genus Astacoides have fewer gills than any other crayfish?
... that Emil Stang was a delegate to the Founding Congress of Comintern in Moscow in 1919?
... that the Byzantine general Constantine Doukas was proclaimed emperor in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, but was killed on the same day by supporters of the legitimate emperor, Constantine VII?
... that the Buffalo Bills' 2008 home game in their rivalry with the Miami Dolphins was the first National Football League regular-season game played in Canada?
... that Jürgen Wattenberg twice escaped from captivity, at first after the scuttling of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, and then after the sinking of U-162?

12:00, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Lord Alfred Douglas—Oscar Wilde's lover "Bosie"—is buried in the grounds of the Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony (pictured) in Crawley, West Sussex?
... that after Eustathios Maleinos hosted Byzantine Emperor Basil II on his estate in 995, the Emperor, alarmed by Maleinos' wealth and power, placed him under house arrest in Constantinople?
... that American Texas and electric blues musician Mike Morgan's backing band, the Crawl, was named after a Lonnie Brooks song?
... that Kallina House, designed by Vjekoslav Bastl for the Hönigsberg & Deutsch studio, is one of the finest examples of Secessionist-style street architecture in Zagreb?
... that the Portland Winterhawks were the first US team to compete for Canada's national junior hockey championship at the 1982 Memorial Cup, and the first to win it the following year?
... that iron-55 source will be used in an X-ray diffraction instrument flown to Mars in 2018?
... that Agalinis aspera (tall false foxglove), a purple and pink flowering plant native to the United States and Canada, is endangered?
... that Justice Henry Barron, the first Jew appointed to the Supreme Court of Ireland, also granted Ireland's first divorce in the same year?

06:00, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

... that in addition to his distinguished military career against the Ottoman Turks, Paul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of Galántha (pictured), was also an accomplished poet, harpsichordist, and composer?
... that some of the architectural elements of the Skene Memorial Library in Fleischmanns, New York, suggest contemporary train stations in the Catskill region?
... that Bobbi Trout became the first woman to fly an aircraft all night and broke the previous women's solo endurance record in a February 10, 1929, flight?
... that the Byzantine general Priscus survived the violent depositions of two successive Byzantine emperors and retained high office under their successors?
... that Director Park in Portland, Oregon, was designed by Laurie Olin, who also designed Bryant Park in New York City?
... that College Football Hall of Fame center Shorty Des Jardien played in the NFL for the Chicago Tigers and in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians?
... that Progressive era social reformer Katharine Bement Davis did research on the sexual practices of females in New York City?
... that Morning Funnies was a fruit-flavored breakfast cereal featuring comic strip characters including Dennis the Menace, Hägar the Horrible, and Funky Winkerbean on the box?

00:00, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

... that witches' butter (pictured) is a jelly fungus that grows parasitically on a crust fungus?
... that Jose Peralta was the first Latino elected to the New York State Assembly from Queens, New York?
... that the animations of characters in 1988 video game Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax were based on 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge's motion captures of humans?
... that the Blackhawk Hotel in Davenport, Iowa, has been host to high-profile people including Carl Sandburg, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Jack Dempsey, Guy Lombardo and Stan Kenton?
... that between 1725 and 1783, members of the prominent Damascene family al-Azm held power as walis in Damascus, Syria, for 47 years?
... that Kobyaysky Ulus in the middle of the Sakha Republic of Russia has notable gold and silver reserves?
... that the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company started in 1924, but went bankrupt after the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
... that Jan de Jong, the ice master at Thialf, manipulated the ice cleaning schedule in the 1981 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men so that Eric Heiden would lose?

12 March 2010

18:00, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

... that a Mexican Tree of Life sculpture (example pictured) appears on the cover of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album?
... that after retiring from the National Football League, Po James survived being shot six times in a YMCA in Bridgeport, Connecticut?
... that the chemist Hugo Weidel received the Lieben Prize in 1880?
... that southbound M-52 in downtown Adrian, Michigan, carries both directions of the US 223 business loop in town?
... that country music singer David Nail's single "Turning Home" was co-written by Kenny Chesney?
... that George Fielding Eliot's military analysis was part of the ten-hour CBS TV news coverage of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, which was the first extended television coverage of a major breaking news event?
... that the variant of the wedding cord known as God’s knot or cord-of-three-strands is used as a substitute for unity candles?
... that Bulgarian animator Donyo Donev used deformed speech and interjections as a soundtrack for his films?

12:00, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the most comprehensive history of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages was composed by Mujir al-Din al-'Ulaymi, whose tomb (pictured) lies at the base of the Mount of Olives?
... that the 1930s Hollywood set designer and art director Laurence Irving was the grandson of the Victorian era actor Sir Henry Irving?
... that insurers use the condition of average to reduce insurance claims if they think you are underinsured?
... that despite having a Ph.D. and being a foremost North American authority on the difficult mushroom genera Lactarius and Russula, Gertrude S. Burlingham only ever taught high school biology?
... that the Apastovsky Museum in Apastovo, Tatarstan, contains archaeological and paleontological finds such as ancient tools, bone needles, stone hammers, a skull of a rhinoceros and mammoth teeth?
... that in Cream Holdings Ltd v Banerjee and the Liverpool Post and Echo Ltd, Lord Nicholls decided that the disputed test applied by the High Court judge was not necessarily wrong, but allowed the appeal anyway?
... that "Indian Camp" (published in 1925) was the first Ernest Hemingway short story to feature the semi-autobiographical character Nick Adams?
... that World War I fighter pilot Les Holden gained the nicknames "Lucky Les" and "the homing pigeon" after returning from successive missions with his aircraft riddled with bullet holes?

06:00, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the royal dynasty at the Maya city of Copán (fragment pictured) in Honduras was founded by a warrior sent from the distant city of Tikal?
... that the American Detroit blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Eddie "Guitar" Burns was originally known as a harmonica player?
... that the J.W. Knapp Company Building, one of the finest intact examples of Streamline Moderne architecture in the Midwest, is faced with plates of enamel-covered concrete and prismatic glass-brick windows?
... that Bessie A. Buchanan, who was the first African-American woman to hold a seat in the New York State Legislature, previously danced in the chorus line at the Cotton Club?
... that although much of its habitat has been destroyed, isolated populations of the Mexican rice rat Oryzomys albiventer likely still survive?
... that Wilt Chamberlain won the National Basketball Association rebounding title a record eleven times in his career?
... that following the invasion of Tibet in 1959, the fifth Keutsang incarnation of the Keutsang Hermitage was incarcerated and later sought asylum in India in the 1980s?
... that Andy Hartzell created his graphic novel Fox Bunny Funny without a single line of text?

00:00, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Hindu widow goddess Dhumavati (pictured) is offered liquor, meat, cigarettes and bhang, an intoxicating hashish drink?
... that Heath Calhoun and Andy Soule, both double-leg amputees due to wounds received in Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively, will represent the United States at the 2010 Winter Paralympics?
... that St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Maria Stein, Ohio, lies near the center of the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches?
... that sex therapy pioneer Helen Singer Kaplan advocated for people to enjoy sexual intercourse as much as possible as opposed to seeing it as something dirty or harmful?
... that Gaius Iunius Bubulcus Brutus, a three-time Roman consul in the 4th century BCE, was the first plebeian to build a temple in the Roman Republic?
... that a family in the village of Auchencairn reported stones being thrown, cattle moved and buildings set alight by a poltergeist in 1695?
... that the Majorca Sheepdogs were exported to Brazil and used to protect private property?
... that Lord Palmerston threatened "immediate and frightful" war against the United States if they would not repatriate Alexander McLeod, a Canadian accused of killing an American sailor?

11 March 2010

18:00, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1686 a thunderstorm damaged the Church of St Lawrence, Alton, blasting a hole in the tower (pictured) and singeing the vicar's eyebrows?
... that in 1989, Michel Hansenne was elected the first post-Cold War Director-General of the International Labour Organization?
... that the ancient Toluvila statue is one of the best-preserved images of the Buddha that has been found in Sri Lanka?
... that Bulgarian virtuoso violinist Vasco Abadjiev was one of the youngest violinists to make his international debut in the 20th century, at the age of 6, in June 1932 in Vienna?
... that the Interactive Museum of Economics in Mexico City is the first museum in the world dedicated exclusively to economics?
... that College Football Hall of Fame inductee Stan "Bags" Pennock was killed in an explosion that wrecked the chemical plant he opened in an abandoned New Jersey slaughterhouse?
... that Ragnhild was the only ship in convoy KMS 96G?
... that when U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy heard Phil Ochs sing "Crucifixion", tears came to his eyes?

12:00, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (pictured) resigned his offices in Ireland over King George III's failure to support Catholic emancipation?
... that periodic comet 50P/Arend is expected to make its next closest approach to the Sun in 2016?
... that Mahela Jayawardene holds several batting records in Test cricket for Sri Lanka, including the most centuries?
... that in the 840s, the emir of Malatya, Umar al-Aqta, gave refuge to the Paulicians who were being persecuted by the Byzantine Empire, and gave them territory where they founded their own state?
... that the American industrialist Nathaniel Wheeler became a Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court in Vienna for sewing machines?
... that the tree Trema orientalis is used to make paper, rope, charcoal and traditional medications against cough, sore throat, toothache, gonorrhea and yellow fever?
... that by the time of his death in 1947, the Spanish financier José Lázaro Galdiano has amassed a collection of about 12,000 art works, mainly by European Old Masters?
... that Australian rugby union player Steve Williams was selected to play for the German national rugby union team while backpacking around Europe?

06:00, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

... that according to legend, the 5th century Avukana statue (pictured), a large stone figure of the Buddha, is the result of a competition between a sculpting master and student?
... that the residence of former Mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand, James Arthur Flesher is now used as a community centre?
... that the initial letters in Lectionary 187 are decorated with zoomorphic or anthropomorphic motifs (birds, fishes, hands)?
... that Hall of Fame quarterback Charley Barrett died of an illness contracted in an explosion on the USS Brooklyn in Yokohama Harbor during World War I?
... that in 1648, Oliver Cromwell sent letters to Haverfordwest Castle in west Wales and threatened to have the townsfolk imprisoned unless the castle was destroyed?
... that Professor Ioannis Liritzis has invented two novel archaeological dating methods?
... that the Hot and Hot Fish Club was a gentlemen's club dedicated to epicurean pursuits?
... that Thomas Rutherford Bacon, a 19th century Congregational minister in New Haven, Connecticut, was called "the original mugwump of Connecticut"?

00:00, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Augustus the Strong (pictured) lost the Polish crown in the Treaty of Altranstädt (1706), but regained it after the Treaty of Thorn (1709)?
... that downtown Napoleon, Ohio, is bracketed by the historical and vastly different First Presbyterian Church and St. Augustine's Catholic Church?
... that Louis Jordan was the first University of Texas All-American football player and the first Texas officer killed in action in World War I?
... that the extinct sweat bee Augochlora leptoloba is known from a single specimen now in a private collection in Turin, Italy?
... that Kesha Rogers, who won the 2010 Democratic primary for Texas's 22nd congressional district, is a follower of the LaRouche movement and has called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama?
... that the last inhabitant of drowned settlement Hampton-on-Sea was retiree Edmund Reid, previously Metropolitan police head of CID who investigated the Jack the Ripper case?
... that chamberlain Egeberg established a sports prize that was regarded the highest achievement in Norwegian sports?
... that the name of Ouvrage Rochonvillers of the Maginot Line was a state secret until 1971?

10 March 2010

18:00, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

... that football champion Romualdas Marcinkus (pictured) was the only Lithuanian pilot to serve in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War?
... that the state flag of the German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is used on state police boats?
... that in 2010, Jennie M. Forehand sponsored a bill limiting the ability of judges to sentence criminals to time in local jails if those jails are not reimbursed by the state?
... that Eastern Michigan University's McKenny Union, opened in 1931, was the first student union on the campus of a teachers' college?
... that Patricia Travers was a child prodigy with the violin but withdrew from public performances at age 23?
... that in Tell Balata, a tell in the West Bank, there are towers and buildings estimated to be 5,000 years old?
... that Sri Lanka's first and so far only national referendum was held in 1982 to postpone parliamentary elections by six years?
... that Tickle Em Jock was the first Scottish Terrier to be best-in-show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show?
... that Anna Kozlova has competed in three Olympics, once for the Unified Team (former Soviet Union) and twice for the United States?

12:00, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the great Sera Monastery (pictured) in Lhasa, Tibet, has 19 affiliated hermitages, including 4 nunneries: Chupzang, Garu, Negodong and Nenang Nunnery?
... that the smallscale archerfish does not need brackish water like other members of genus Toxotes, and is thus sometimes sold as a "freshwater archerfish"?
... that the Museo de la Estampa, along with the Museo Nacional de Arte, manages Mexico's largest collection of graphic arts including works by José Guadalupe Posada?
... that George Matthew Snelson, the first Mayor of Palmerston North, New Zealand, is regarded as the father of his city?
... that English football clubs entering administration have fewer points deducted in the Premier League than in the Football League because they play fewer games?
... that Sir Simon Degge, a barrister in Derby, wrote about glebes and the crime of simony?
... that of the 802 individual Nobel Prize winners, at least 162 (20%) were of Jewish ethnicity?
... that writer Zahari Stoyanov said of Bulgarian general, regent and Minister of War Sava Mutkurov that "by the time Mutkurov opened his mouth, the market would close up"?

06:00, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

... that The Mars Project, written by Wernher von Braun in 1948, has been regarded as "the most influential book" on manned missions to Mars (artist's conception pictured)?
... that one common route up New York's Balsam Mountain follows the steepest section of trail in the Catskills?
... that medical student Bob Kolesar was one of Michigan's renowned "Seven Oak Posts" in 1942?
... that Francisco Goya's etching Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the Mayor of Torrejón records an event from 1801 when a Spanish politician was impaled and killed after a bull crashed through the barriers at a Madrid bullfight?
... that Tofiri Kibuuka, one of the first blind men to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, was the first African to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games?
... that three Byzantine emperors in the 6th century served as commanders of the imperial guard, known as the Excubitors, prior to assuming the throne?
... that American architect Kemper Nomland was a conscientious objector who spent World War II at Civilian Public Service camps in Oregon along with several other artists and writers?
... that American Idol season 8 finalist Danny Gokey's best days are ahead of him?

00:00, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the French battleship Jean Bart (pictured) was hit in the wine store near the forward magazine by a single torpedo, fired by the Austro-Hungarian submarine U-12 in the Adriatic in 1914?
... that Early Archaic peoples used the Houserville Site in Pennsylvania ten millennia ago?
... that Niall McCrudden became known as the "optician to the stars" after selling a pair of sunglasses to Jim Corr?
... that Minuscule 642, a manuscript of the New Testament, was brought from the Greek Archipelago to England by Joseph Carlyle, orientalist?
... that an essay in The Cherryh Odyssey describes American science fiction author C. J. Cherryh as "a master of detail, tone, and emotional wallop"?
... that during a tornado outbreak on June 18, 2001, police in Siren, Wisconsin, shouted warnings at local residents to take cover when the village's tornado siren malfunctioned?
... that Matthew Stockford won three bronze medals for Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics?
... that in the Diepkloof Rock Shelter, a rock cave in South Africa, some of the earliest use of symbols by humans has been found upon water containers made out of ostrich eggshells?

9 March 2010

18:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

... that funeral practices in the Philippines in the past include anthropomorphic jar burials and hanging coffins (example pictured)?
... that the Cuban national baseball team won the gold or silver medal at every Summer Olympics where baseball was an official Olympic sport?
... that 19th-century white churchman Leonard Woolsey Bacon caused controversy when, as a pastor in Savannah, Georgia, he reportedly said he wouldn't mind his daughter marrying an African-American man?
... that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Sanajeh preyed on hatchling sauropod dinosaurs at nesting sites in India?
... that the Old City Hall in Zagreb has a plaque which commemorates Nikola Tesla's proposal put forward to the city council in 1892 to build an alternating current power station?
... that 17th-century ironmaster George Sitwell's vertically integrated business was so successful he exported a rolling mill to the West Indies?
... that Sotir Peçi published the first Albanian-language newspaper in the United States?
... that the German submarine U-1065 was sunk after only six days at sea by rockets from 10 de Havilland Mosquitos?

12:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Chrystal Macmillan (pictured) was the first female graduate with a degree in science from the University of Edinburgh, and the first woman to argue before the House of Lords?
... that the video game Gyromancer was originally "half-jokingly" proposed by PopCap Games co-founder Jason Kapalka to Square Enix with the name Final Fantasy Bejeweled?
... that the customers of Martha Matilda Harper's hair salons included Susan B. Anthony, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, and Jacqueline Kennedy?
... that the book Commentarii de Bello Civili, written by Julius Caesar, is staple reading among students of Latin?
... that Emma Roberto Steiner, one of the first American women to make a living from conducting, took a ten year hiatus from her musical career to prospect for tin near Nome, Alaska?
... that the "restrained and dignified" Zion Chapel is the oldest Nonconformist church in East Grinstead—a West Sussex town with a long history of Protestant Nonconformity and alternative religion?
... that Franjo Mihalić, winner of the 1958 Boston Marathon, set his first Yugoslav record over 5000 m just several months after taking up athletics?
... that the collector urchin is so named because of its tendency to collect debris on its dorsal side?

06:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Wilma B. Liebman (pictured), the second woman ever to be Chair of the National Labor Relations Board, was named to the position by President Barack Obama on his first day in office?
... that the mother of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682) was the main sponsor of Tibetan Rakhadrak Hermitage?
... that Mildred "Micky" Axton, who was the first woman to fly a B-29, died on February 8, 2010, before she could receive the Congressional Gold Medal on March 10, 2010?
... that España y Filipinas (Spain and the Philippines) by Juan Luna is a painted depiction of two women on the stairway to progress?
... that Florence Luscomb, one of the first women to earn an architecture degree from MIT, later left that field to become a full-time women's suffrage activist?
... that the video for OK Go's single "This Too Shall Pass" features a giant Rube Goldberg machine and took 60 takes to complete?
... that fiction writer Cathy Kelly has sold over 1 million books in the UK, at one time displacing both Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling from the top of the country's bestseller list?
... that Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh invented Sugru, described as "the most exciting product since Sellotape or Blu-Tack"?

00:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Michele S. Jones (pictured) was the first woman in the U.S. Army to attain the rank of command sergeant major before she retired to a military liaison position in the Obama Administration?
... that a recipe for Calf's Liver and Bacon is found in the White House Cookbook?
... that Tenley Albright won the gold medal in ladies' figure skating competition at the 1956 Winter Olympics despite sustaining a serious leg injury two weeks before the Olympics?
... that the zoste patrikia was the only Byzantine title reserved specifically for women, and ranked as one of the highest court dignities?
... that the German socialist women's activist Lore Agnes was jailed in 1914 for having called on women to oppose the war during a March 8 rally?
... that Nick Joaquin’s historical novel, The Woman Who Had Two Navels, is about a hallucinating Filipina who believed she had two belly buttons?
... that the prominent Hindu Ganesha cave temple at Lenyadri is located in the vicinity of about 30 Buddhist caves?
... that Evelina Haverfield, a British suffragette who was arrested after hitting a police officer in the mouth, threatened to "bring a revolver" next time?

8 March 2010

18:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the leading learned women of 1779 (called bluestockings) were painted as the Nine Muses (pictured) by Richard Samuel?
... that the extinct sweat bee genus Nesagapostemon is known from a single 9.9-millimetre (0.39 in) female specimen?
... that the Bulgarian female runners Zlateva, Yordanova, Pekhlivanova, Shtereva, Tomova and Petrova all won medals in 800 metres at the European Indoor Championships in the 1970s?
... that with most of the British fleet immobilised by the mutiny at the Nore, HMS Adamant was one of only two two-decker warships available to blockade the Dutch fleet in 1798?
... that Spanish politician and feminist Clara Campoamor was one of three women elected to Spain's 1931 Constituent Assembly even though women were not allowed to vote in the election?
... that the Makauwahi Cave has been described as "...maybe the richest fossil site in the Hawaiian Islands, perhaps in the entire Pacific Island region"?
... that Ann Baumgartner was the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War Two?
... that by using a shower curtain and sewing machine, Marion Donovan developed what was to become the first waterproof disposable diaper?

12:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Egyptian officer Rawya Ateya (pictured) was the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the Arab world?
... that Strobilanthes callosus, a shrub found in the hill forests of India used in folk medicines, flowers only once in eight years before dying off, exhibiting a once in a lifetime mass flowering and mass seeding life cycle?
... that three-time Olympian Albertina Dias was the first Portuguese woman to win at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships?
... that Girdap, established in Ruse in 1881, was the first privately-owned bank in Bulgaria?
... that the word bluestocking meaning learned woman is said to have derived from a reference to Benjamin Stillingfleet?
... that Ragna Nielsen was the first woman to headmaster a secondary school in Norway?
... that the ancient Romans sacrificed pregnant cows to celebrate Fordicidia, the festival of fertility?
... that in 1928, Viola Gentry flew 8 hours, 6 six minutes and 37 seconds straight which set the first non-refueling endurance record for women?

06:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the tennis ball banksia (pictured) is so named for its inflorescences, which look like tennis balls?
... that the Bacon Deluxe sandwich from Wendy's topped a list of the five most unhealthful gourmet burgers sold by national fast food restaurant chains in the United States?
... that Lieben Prize laureates included chemists Carl von Than (1868), Josef Maria Eder (1895) and Paul Friedländer (1908)?
... that video game music composer Garry Schyman prefers the video game industry to television and film in part because the people in it are "nice people whose egos were in check"?
... that Masako Katsura's participation in the World Three-Cushion Billiards tournament of 1952 was the first time any woman ever competed in any billiards tournament for a world crown?
... that because the Sassanid commander Kardarigan ordered his army's water supplies destroyed prior to the Battle of Solachon, many of his men died of thirst and water poisoning after the battle?
... that Black Chicks Talking is a book, film, play and art exhibition that explores issues related to Indigenous Australian women?
... that Reedy Lake was drained to kill off its carp?

00:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

... that printer and engraver Edmund Evans collaborated with Victorian book illustrators Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway to create classic illustrations (example pictured) for children's books?
... that a 70-foot waterfall prevents salmon and other migratory fish from swimming upriver beyond the first 0.4 miles of the South Fork Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon?
... that John Brennan, a 201-pound football player, was voted "queen" of the University of Michigan ice carnival after challenging the pulchritude of the school's co-eds?
... that the captured Tiger Tank that was once transported aboard Empire Candida is now preserved in working order at the Bovington Tank Museum?
... that the requirement to teach geometry was removed from the duties of the Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford so that Edward Titchmarsh could be appointed to the post in 1931?
... that the Haramain High Speed Rail Project in Saudi Arabia, will run for 444 km (276 mi) between the Islamic holy cities of Medina and Mecca with 320-km/h (200-mph) electric trains?
... that the Harelle was a 1382 tax revolt that began in the city of Rouen and was emulated in many other French cities?
... that the tomb of a female saint in Sharafat, East Jerusalem, is venerated in the belief that she can render assistance in times of drought?

7 March 2010

18:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Brougham Castle (pictured) was seized by Henry III of England in 1264 when the castle's previous owner died during a rebellion against the king?
... that Elizabeth Yates' novel Amos Fortune, Free Man won the inaugural William Allen White Children's Book Award?
... that the tsunami triggered by the 1868 Arica earthquake, that led to 25,000 deaths in Peru and northern Chile, caused damage and at least one death in New Zealand?
... that German high jumper Meike Kröger spent almost a year working in an orphanage in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan?
... that, since 2007, the UK government has appointed part-time ministers for each of the nine English regions, to act as "regional champions"?
... that the pygmy whitefish is the most trout-like freshwater whitefish?
... that in 1948, Johan Ulrik Olsen became Norway's first Minister of Local Government?
... that an early incarnation of Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco included Dolfina, a nude woman who appeared to swim inside a large aquarium over the bar?

12:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Tengboche Monastery (pictured) is the largest gompa in the Khumbu region of Nepal?
... that with a forewing length of only 3.36 millimetres (0.132 in) Microberotha is one of the smallest known beaded lacewings to have been described?
... that Juan Bravo Murillo tried but failed to impose an absolutist constitution on Spain in 1852?
... that Herne Bay Pier was the setting for the opening sequence of Ken Russell's first feature film French Dressing?
... that Sisko Hanhijoki won 28 Finnish championship titles in the 60, 100 and 200 metres events between 1985 and 1993?
... that Lake Abert in Lake County, Oregon, covers 57 square miles (150 km²) and is teeming with brine shrimp, but has no fish?
... that Samuel Oshoffa founded the Celestial Church of Christ in 1947 after being lost for three months near Porto Novo in Benin?
... that of the two competing Polish kings in 1705, one was allied with Russia and the other one with Sweden?

06:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

... that in August 2001, the Galileo spacecraft flew through the sulfur dioxide gas plume of the Ionian volcano Thor (Io with Thor pictured)?
... that the latest possible date for the construction of the William Lawrence House in Bellefontaine, Ohio, is known from a date carved into a windowsill?
... that the Ocean Grove Nature Reserve contains the only significant remnant of native woodland on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, as it was prior to European settlement?
... that New York Times veteran David Stout received an Edgar Allan Poe Award for his first novel Carolina Skeletons, written in his spare time?
... that on April 4, 1981, a tornado struck West Bend, Wisconsin, killing 3 people and injuring another 53?
... that George B. Bacon was the son of Leonard Bacon, and the brother of Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Thomas R. Bacon, and Edward Woolsey Bacon—and all were Congregational preachers?
... that U-2336 sank the last Allied ships lost in World War II on 7 May 1945, when she torpedoed and sank the freighters Avondale Park and Sneland I?
... that Theophobos was a Byzantine general who was declared emperor against his will?

00:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Reconstruction of plate configurations for the whole Phanerozoic

... that plate reconstructions (example pictured) that use magnetic stripe patterns can only go back to the Jurassic period, as there is no older oceanic crust?
... that Henry Martyn was described by Wisden as "one of the finest wicket-keepers ever seen in first-class cricket"?
... that, although it does not set out to compete for visitors, in 2009 the Cloppenburg Museum Village had 250,000, more than any other museum in Lower Saxony?
... that famed builder James W. McLaughlin started his Architectural studies at fifteen and when the American Civil War broke out served as a Lieutenant in the body guard of General John C Fremont?
... that the present day use of arrhae in weddings can be traced back to the Visigoth and Frank culture?
... that Mexican band Camila received a Gold certification for their album Dejarte de Amar in the first day of sales in Mexico?
... that Molsheim's former Jesuit Church is the principal 17th century church building in the Rhine Valley?
... that while Timothy Haʻalilio and William Richards were in Europe negotiating for diplomatic recognition of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1843, they found out it was already under British occupation?

6 March 2010

18:00, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Holt Manufacturing Company patented the first practical crawling-type tractor (pictured), which was used as an artillery tractor in World War I and inspired design of the first British tanks?
... that Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira received a platinum certification in Mexico for her album Loba within a week after its release?
... that Jamison Square, an urban water park for children in Portland, Oregon, features "goofy tiki totems" by Kenny Scharf?
... that in August 1936, British Ambassador to France Sir George Clerk warned Yvon Delbos of the dangers of French intervention in the Spanish Civil War?
... that the Honduran archaeological site El Puente was founded by the people of Copán to control the crossroads of two Maya trade routes?
... that the liverwort Pellia epiphylla is monoicous, with both male and female sex organs on the same thallus?
... that Warren Terhune, upon his suicide by gunshot, became the only Governor of American Samoa to die in office?
... that the Venezuelan town Potosi was intentionally flooded in 1985, but has reappeared in 2010 due to a drought?

12:00, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

... that three of the five railroads that make up the Mountain Railways of India (pictured) are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List?
... that British Assyriologist Donald Wiseman was Cliff Richard's youth group leader at Finchley Crusaders?
... that the only male "sweat bee" to have been documented from Dominican amber is the type specimen for the extinct Eickwortapis?
... that though she missed out on a British Academy Television Craft Award for her first television film, Pleasureland, writer Helen Blakeman won a British Academy Children's Award for Dustbin Baby, her second?
... that the popularity of the British Landrace pig is partly responsible for the decline of rarer breeds in the United Kingdom?
... that Samuel Wanjiru, the 2008 Olympic marathon champion, won the Fukuoka Cross Country competition when he was only 16 years old?
... that the concept of weak dematerialization suggests the Resurrection of Jesus?
... that game designer Gregory Weir attempted to create one new game in every month of 2009?

06:00, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Popocatépetl volcano (pictured) occasionally dumps ash on the municipality of Ozumba, Mexico?
... that the Kansas City Royals have never drafted a second baseman in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft?
... that the extinct Neocorynura electra, found in Dominican amber, is the only known species of Neocorynura "sweat bee" from the Greater Antilles?
... that in 1881, George Washington Weidler, owner of Willamette Steam Mills and Manufacturing Company, became the first person to sell electric lighting in Portland, Oregon?
... that the British settlement of Black River on the Mosquito Coast of present-day Honduras was turned over to Spanish authorities on 29 August 1787 under the terms of the 1786 Convention of London?
... that lardons prove that the French "do bacon right"?
... that on August 23, 1998, a severe weather outbreak produced an F3 tornado in Door County, Wisconsin, that caused an estimated $6.5 million in damages?
... that in the Battle of Anzen, the Byzantine emperor Theophilos managed to avoid death or capture due to a sudden rainfall that loosened his enemies' bowstrings?

00:00, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the French battleship Courbet (pictured) was twice hit by German Neger manned torpedoes after she had been scuttled as part of a Mulberry harbour during the Normandy Landings of June 1944?
... that early female Republican Party politician and suffragist Rhoda Fox Graves was the first woman to serve in the New York State Senate?
... that Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus is the most abundant species of moss in British lawns?
... that Papias the Lombard wrote "the first fully recognizable dictionary" in the 1040s?
... that the purported paranormal activity in the churchyard of the Chapel of the Cross in Madison, Mississippi, has been featured in two books?
... that the upcoming video game Scrap Metal, set to be released on XBox Live Arcade, will allow players to customize monster trucks and bulldozers with flamethrowers and rocket launchers?
... that the 1901 musical play Bluebell in Fairyland was the inspiration for Peter Pan?
... that "Ducker" McLean may have lost Oxford a University Boat Race because he did not jump out of the boat?

5 March 2010

18:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Motu Matakohe island is used as a safe location for baby Kiwi (pictured) until they weigh 1 kilogram and are brought to mainland New Zealand?
... that English diplomat John Barker introduced vaccination to the Middle East?
... that a land use conflict is when one sort of land use creates a negative impact on other land uses nearby?
... that the upcoming XBox Live Arcade video game Toy Soldiers will feature World War I toy miniatures battling on a model diorama in a child's bedroom?
... that although Israeli forces were planning to attack Arab Beersheba in May 1948, they were forced to delay the Battle of Beersheba until just one day before a planned ceasefire in October 1948?
... that the Leading Edge, a student-run semi-professional science fiction and fantasy magazine, had a Chesley Award-winning cover in 2002 by James C. Christensen?
... that the sloth lemurs of the genus Mesopropithecus were once thought to be indriids due to the similarities between their skulls and those of living sifakas?
... that the American electric blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, Little Sonny, often boosted his earnings by photographing customers between his on-stage appearances?

12:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

... that tanbo art (example pictured) is a Japanese practice where giant pictures are created in rice fields?
... that the English all-rounder Leslie Todd was once described as "the most perverse, most infuriating cricketer of his generation"?
... that the discovery of Babakotia radofilai, an extinct species of sloth lemur, helped to resolve the relationship between the indriids, sloth lemurs, and monkey lemurs?
... that Melek Tourhan, whose father offered her for adoption as an infant in order to improve her lot in life, went on to become Sultana of Egypt?
... that British soap opera EastEnders celebrated its 25th anniversary with a live episode revealing who killed Archie Mitchell?
... that Mar Papa was the first Catholicos (universal leader) of the Persian Church of the East in the 4th century?
... that the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in India is building four new 'X' Class locomotives – a design dating from 1920?
... that Bulgarian writers and screenwriters Moritz Yomtov and Marko Stoychev worked together as the Mormarevi Brothers even though they were unrelated?

06:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Oliver Stone (pictured) based the final combat scene in his 1986 movie Platoon on a real battle that he survived when he was an American soldier in Vietnam?
... that the Museum of Canterbury contains the original 850 AD Canterbury Cross?
... that Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana sponsored a "poetry slam" judged by poets and rappers at the International Book Fair of Guadalajara, Mexico?
... that periodic comet 22P/Kopff is expected to next make its closest approach to the Sun on October 25, 2015?
... that Seattle Sounders FC has seven recognized supporter groups and that in 2009 they amassed the largest average attendance in the Major League Soccer with 30,943 fans?
... that John Sanness, who would become professor and chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, was expelled from his secondary school for protests against the monarchy of Norway?
... that the rare, "almost legendary" Japanese lates was considered to be the same fish as the barramundi until 1984?
... that Danish designer Poul Lange created a children's book about holes which had a hole all the way through it?

00:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

... that five supernovae have been found in the Messier 100 spiral galaxy (pictured)?
... that Mary Nolan voted in favor of Senate Concurrent Resolution 22 that recognizes the service of United States Merchant Marine veterans during World War II?
... that Minuscule 629, a Latin-Greek diglot manuscript of the New Testament, contains the Comma Johanneum written by the original scribe?
... that in the 2010 gubernatorial elections, Esmael Mangudadatu will be running for governor of Maguindanao even though a rival clan murdered 57 people including his wife and sister in the Maguindanao massacre?
... that the Mountbatten Brailler allows a user to translate Braille into text and vice versa?
... that Hakeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie were selected ahead of Michael Jordan in the 1984 National Basketball Association Draft?
... that the extinct sweat bee genus Oligochlora contains six species all known from the Dominican amber deposits on Hispaniola?
... that an apocryphal tale tells how George Gilbert Scott drew the initial designs for Clifton Hampden Bridge on his starched shirt cuff over dinner?

4 March 2010

18:00, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Zakynthos Marine Park in Greece is the first national park established for the protection of sea turtles (Loggerhead Sea Turtle pictured) in the Mediterranean?
... that architect Thomas D. McLaughlin designed numerous Lima, Ohio, buildings, including the city's Elks Lodge?
... that Solas fiddler Winifred Horan is a former member of the all-female musical group Cherish the Ladies?
... that the important Mesoamerican archaeological site of Cara Sucia in El Salvador was severely damaged by looters after the Land Reform Programme of 1980?
... that Olga Sedakova won gold medals in all three synchronized swimming events at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships?
... that Oregon Public Broadcasting's popular Oregon Field Guide has featured topics ranging from mountain unicycling to invasive species?
... that Blues Hall of Fame inductee "Sunshine" Sonny Payne received his nickname as a joke by musician Robert Jr. Lockwood?
... that at the Battle of Bathys Ryax, the Byzantines attacked with only 600 men out of an army of 4,000–5,000, leaving the rest to raise much noise so as to simulate the arrival of a far larger force?

12:00, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

... that as the commanding officer of HMS Carysfort, Lord George Paulet (pictured) took control of the Hawaiian Islands?
... that the Biblioteca comunale in Ancona, Italy, has a collection of musical manuscripts of more than 50 classical composers?
... that in 2007, champion runner David Lelei tried to be the Orange Democratic Movement candidate for the Eldoret South Constituency seat but lost to the eventual winner Peris Simam?
... that Giant George is recognised as the tallest dog ever by Guinness World Records and measures 43 inches (110 cm) high at the withers?
... that Roald Dysthe, who was installed as a chief executive during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, was acquitted of treason in 1951?
... that An Nam chí lược, a book published in 1335 during the Yuan Dynasty, is considered the oldest historical work by a Vietnamese that has been preserved?
... that singer-songwriter Madonna made her episodic TV series debut in the Will & Grace episode "Dolls and Dolls"?
... that the mushroom Laetiporus sulphureus is a good substitute for chicken?

06:00, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

GRB 090423 taken by the NASA Gemini Observatory

... that the gamma-ray burst (GRB) 090423 (pictured), whose light took approximately 13 billion years to reach Earth, is the oldest and most distant known object in the Universe?
... that according to Erich von Manstein in his book Verlorene Siege, Adolf Hitler stopped Operation Citadel too soon?
... that suggested close relatives of the rare Ecuadorian rice rat Mindomys have included water rats, tree rats, and Caribbean giant rats?
... that in just over 14 years of owning Select Medical Corporation, Rocco Ortenzio and his son Robert made an estimated $200,000,000 in profit?
... that Cruel and Unusual is a documentary about transsexual women incarcerated in men's prisons?
... that Drew Barrymore, Wanda Sykes and Cynthia Nixon are to be honored at the 21st GLAAD Media Awards this year?
... that the secret articles of the Peace of Lund, that ended the Scanian War in 1679, were not revealed until 1870?
... that tennis player Johan Haanes spent nine months in a concentration camp for participation in an "illegal" ski competition?

00:00, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the stargazer (pictured), a widespread coastal fish, is an ambush predator which can deliver both venom and electric shocks, and has been called "the meanest thing in creation"?
... that John Steel, the Ziegfeld Follies tenor who introduced Irving Berlin's song "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody", later appeared in staged boxing matches?
... that Messier 58 is one of the brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and is one of four barred spiral galaxies included in Charles Messier's catalog?
... that at the town next to the Brazilian gold mine Serra Pelada, thousands of underage girls prostituted themselves for gold flakes while around 60–80 unsolved murders were registered every month?
... that James W. Treffinger went on to become a Republican County executive of Essex County, New Jersey, even though his Catholic family "idolized" FDR and Kennedy?
... that Minuscule 546 was bought by philanthropist Baroness Burdett-Coutts in the 1860s?
... that Stanley Muirhead helped lead Michigan to a national football championship in 1923 and was a first-team All-NFL player in 1924 for the Dayton Triangles and Cleveland Bulldogs?
... that when Dana Delany and Julie Benz shared a kiss scene for the Desperate Housewives episode "Lovely", Delaney noticed "crew members on the set that were never there before"?

3 March 2010

18:16, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Afro hairstyle (pictured) was once banned in Tanzania and Cuba?
... that several families of land gastropods reach a maximum of biodiversity in Turkey?
... that in 1787, British merchant ship Imperial Eagle, commanded by Charles William Barkley, brought fur from the Americas to sell in China without legally required licences, while sailing under the Austrian flag?
... that, to stay above the reservoir the Dexter Dam would make, the Lowell Bridge, in Lowell, Oregon, was raised about 6 feet (1.8 m) in 1953?
... that Cho Jae-hyun, a South Korean actor, is commonly referred to as a persona of director Kim Ki-duk due to his appearances in almost all of Kim's films?
... that America’s oldest private medical society, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, displays the conjoined liver of Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker in its museum?
... that some of the songs on the 2009 EP Criminal Intents/Morning Star detail the story arc of a group of rebels fighting against a corporation out to rule the world?
... that the Nissan Terranaut concept car has a glass dome over its roof for an easy escape in case of emergency?

12:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the British submarine HMS E13 (pictured) was attacked and destroyed by German warships during World War I after running aground off the neutral Danish island of Saltholm?
... that the Mesoamerican archaeological site of Quelepa in eastern El Salvador was distinguished by its unusual ramped pyramids?
... that the counter-insurgency strategy of clear and hold, widely implemented in the Vietnam War and elsewhere, has also been used extensively in the Iraq War?
... that a 1973 ruling by Sylvia Pressler forced Little League Baseball to begin admitting girls for the first time?
... that Minuscule 644 was bought by the British Museum from Constantine Simonides, a forger of manuscripts?
... that IGN's Doug Perry said Moto Racer 2 was the best motorcycle racing game seen on the PlayStation?
... that one of the activities that are possible at the Nevado de Toluca National Park is scuba diving in the two volcanic crater lakes?
... that British actress Emma Catherwood observed real bypass surgery being performed in preparation for her role as F1 Penny Valentine in the medical drama Holby City?

06:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

... that when threatened, the blotched fantail ray (pictured) raises its spine-bearing tail over its body and waves it back and forth?
... that the Vedda language is a Creole language based on Sinhalese of Sri Lanka rather than a dialect?
... that former baseball player Joe Abreu became an enthusiast of magic after he saw former baseball player and professional magician Carl Zamloch put on a magic show at his high school?
... that Operation Sandblast was the code name for the first submerged circumnavigation of the world executed by the USS Triton in 1960?
... that the original St. Sebastian Roman Catholic Church of Woodside, Queens, New York was built by Franz J. Berlenbach, Jr.?
... that in the 1885–86 season, West Bromwich Albion became the first team from the English Midlands to reach the FA Cup Final?
... that Bethel Academy in Kentucky was the first Methodist school west of the Appalachian Mountains?
... that comedy writer Al Jean, who has been awarded with four Emmy Awards for his work on The Simpsons, graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics?

00:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

... that German extreme in-line skater Dirk Auer roller skated down a large wooden roller coaster (pictured) at Erlebnispark Tripsdrill, reaching speeds of 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph)?
... that in the 1990s, Congregation Beth Israel was the largest Jewish congregation in Greater Vancouver?
... that Minuscule 627 has an unusual order of books, with the Book of Revelation placed between Acts of the Apostles and the general epistles?
... that in 1938, the barque Priwall recorded the fastest ever rounding of Cape Horn by a sailing ship?
... that Leland Myrick wrote the autobiographical graphic novel Missouri Boy, even though he considers himself "a very private person"?
... that Levi L. Rowland worked as a professor at the Oregon medical school he was still attending?
... that the Yeywa Hydropower Dam is the largest hydroelectric power plant and the first roller-compacted concrete dam in Burma?
... that Google Images caused controversy in 2009 after it was discovered that the number-one result for the search term "Michelle Obama" was a derogatory doctored photo of the US first lady?

2 March 2010

18:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the self-decapitated Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta (pictured) standing on a copulating couple signifies that life, death and sex are interdependent?
... that Maryland politician Cheryl Kagan worked part-time as a substitute teacher while serving in the Maryland House of Delegates?
... that in the 1920s, Cudahy Packing Company shifted from exporting cured pork because of British tariffs and focused instead on domestic sales of canned hams, sliced dried beef, Italian-style sausage, and sliced bacon?
... that Viktor Kaisiepo, a Netherlands New Guinean-born advocate of self-determination for West Papua, lived most of his life in exile in the Netherlands?
... that the plant Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' was chosen as the 1992 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association?
... that in 1709, a privateering force, of which Acadian military officer Bernard-Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin was a member, sank 35 British ships and took 470 people prisoner?
... that the 1997 flooding of Wilson Canyon in Lyon County, Nevada, resulted in $726,000 in damage to Nevada State Route 208?
... that Letters of Ayn Rand, published in 1995, was the first book by Ayn Rand to receive a positive review in The New York Times Book Review since 1943?

12:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the marine slug Aeolidiella stephanieae (pictured) is commonly kept in aquaria to control the anemone Aiptasia?
... that Johan Gustaf Sandberg's frescoes in Uppsala Cathedral depicting Gustav Vasa were the first frescoes painted in Sweden?
... that the cheater plug has been used to remedy ground loops in audio systems, with reckless disregard of electrical safety?
... that Major-General Nick Carter is the current commander of British forces in southern Afghanistan?
... that the origin of the Postclassic K'iche' Maya patron deity Jacawitz has been traced back to a historical event at the city of Seibal?
... that Arthur Crispien, who was dismissed as editor of a Social Democratic Party newspaper for his opposition to war credits in 1914, later became the Party's Chairman?
... that Danish Bacon is sliced, packed, and sold in the UK?
... that cross dressing and mooning have been prosecuted as conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline in the US military?
... that several French international footballers have played for FC Versailles, including Thierry Henry, Jérôme Rothen and Hatem Ben Arfa?
... that Rastafarian hardcore punk band Bad Brains signed to Neil Cooper's ROIR cassette label because Cooper, who had worked at the Royal Mint, gave them medallions made for Emperor Haile Selassie?

06:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Japanese currency started in the 8th century with the minting of the Wadōkaichin coin (pictured)?
... that the Swabian-Hall Swine breed of pig was started by King William I of Württemberg?
... that the production of art in Wales was greatly stimulated by the 18th century fashion for the sublime in landscape painting?
... that a reviewer of the 2006 album Gigahearts by the Italian industrial band Dope Stars Inc. described the group as "the new generation of what Goth means in the 21st century"?
... that in 1974 animal rights activists attempted to bomb the lab of biologist Mike Handel?
... that the original and current Landing Road bridges in Landing, New Jersey, stood side-by-side until the demolition of the older structure?
... that King Philip V ordered that any lepers found guilty of poisoning wells in medieval France were to be burnt and their possessions forfeited to the Crown?
... that Burgers' Smokehouse is a California, Missouri-based seller of cured and smoked meats including bacon and hickory smoked, salt cured country hams, a specialty of the Ozarks?
... that during a rehearsal of Pagliacci with the Florentine Opera in 1998, tenor David Rendall sent a baritone to hospital when his prop knife failed to collapse?

00:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

... that members of the Sciurini group of squirrels, which includes the eastern gray squirrel (pictured), have been described as living fossils?
... that Johan Søhr was responsible for investigating several espionage cases in Norway during World War I, including the von Rosen and Rautenfels cases?
... that the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford houses the United Kingdom's National BlindArt collection?
... that during the Great Depression, R. C. Nueske used a panel truck to market Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Meats, including bacon, sausages, hams and smoked turkeys, at little resorts across northern Wisconsin?
... the program STUDENT, written in 1964 by Daniel Bobrow for his PhD dissertation at MIT, is one of the earliest known attempts at natural language understanding by a computer?
... that Milwaukee elected George Hampel to the state legislature first as a Socialist and later as a Progressive before he helped merge the Progressives into the Republican Party?
... that during the Ice Hockey European Championship in 1924, two of Spain's seven players were injured, but the Swiss and Swedish teams agreed to play with five players against them?
... that a flitch of bacon was offered at Wychnor Hall to married couples if they could swear that they did not regret their union, but it was so rarely claimed it was replaced with a wooden one?

1 March 2010

18:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the figures in Ilya Repin's Barge Haulers on the Volga (pictured) are based on real characters, including a former priest, a former soldier and a painter?
... that Lennard Stokes, a 19th-century rugby union international who captained England on five occasions, also played first-class cricket for Kent and later worked as a surgeon?
... that the cheese dream was popularized during the Great Depression as "an inexpensive company supper dish"?
... that in 2005 composer Krzysztof Penderecki added a Ciaccona for strings to his Polish Requiem, begun in 1980?
... that the forest area of the Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary helps in arresting desertification and advancement of the Thar desert?
... that Tošo Dabac worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Zagreb as their press officer for Southeast Europe before becoming internationally renowned for his street photography?
... that the recently demolished Francis M. Drexel School in Philadelphia was named for a financier whose family founded several educational institutions, including Drexel University?
... that the Battles of the Separation Corridor saw the first use of tanks by the Israel Defense Forces against the Egyptian army?
... that Sir Henry Bate Dudley not only chronicled the life of Gainsborough but also wrote the comic opera The Flitch of Bacon?

12:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

... that with over 80 mosques and several important gongbei shrine complexes (example pictured), Linxia City is known as "China's little Mecca"?
... that Serafin Olarte and Vicente Guerrero were the only independentist generals active during the low point of the Mexican War of Independence after the execution of José María Morelos in 1815?
... that The BLT Cookbook was highly recommended by the National Pork Board?
... that in Đại Việt sử lược, it was recorded that Khúc Hạo, not his father Khúc Thừa Dụ, was the first of the Khúc family to be the Jiedushi of Tĩnh Hải quân?
... that Banksiamyces are fungi that grow on the dead "cones" of Banksia species?
... that Amelia Goes to the Ball is an opera buffa in one act composed by Gian Carlo Menotti?
... that former gold medalist in short track speed skating Lee Seung-Hoon converted in 2009 to long track to earn a spot in the 2010 Winter Olympics?
... that John Singer Sargent's c. 1882 painting Street in Venice shows the influence of Venetian photographers?
... that the Fyrby Runestone claims two brothers were the most skilled in runes in Middle Earth?
... that Bio-Blend Fuels produce a biodiesel made from pig fat that smells of bacon?

06:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the banded archerfish (pictured) is able to hit targets up to three metres away by shooting jets of water from its mouth?
... that the 1906 College Football All-America Team included Princeton quarterback Eddie Dillon, Harvard guard Francis Burr, Yale end Bob Forbes, Cornell center Bill Newman, a midshipman who was the strongest man in the U.S. Naval Academy, and a guard who was described as "one of the largest men who ever played on a college gridiron"?
... that the extinct snakefly genus Proraphidia is known from fossils found in Spain, England, and Kazakhstan?
... that the seaside landscape of Montauk Association Historic District in New York includes seven 1881–84 Shingle Style summer houses?
... that the 1983 Queensland election was triggered when Terry White, Angus Innes, and various MLAs of the "Ginger Group" crossed the floor in the Australian state's Legislative Assembly?
... that the contemporary artist Walenty Pytel was commissioned to create four 45-meter steel eagles for Portuguese football club Benfica?
... that the area around La Merced Market, Mexico City, is considered to be a "tolerance zone" for prostitution?
... that Robert Downey Jr.'s costume in the 2008 film Iron Man was made by special effects artist Shane Mahan?
... that Rwandan cuisine includes urwagwa, a local beer made from fermented bananas?

00:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Beaney Institute (pictured) in Canterbury has a £1,000,000 Van Dyck painting of Sir Basil Dixwell in its collection?
... that between November 1996 and 2001, 936 people left the parish of Baños in Cuenca Canton, Ecuador, and emigrated mostly to the United States?
... that Henry Bracy was one of the most popular comic tenors of the Victorian era?
... that the tail of the Bennett's stingray can make up three quarters of its total length?
... that at the age of 44, Roslyn M. Brock, the newly elected Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is the youngest person ever to serve in the position?
... that the Quadro Tracker detection device, which was advertised as being able to detect drugs, weapons, explosives, alcohol, missing people, precious metals, dead pets, and lost golf balls, was denounced by the FBI as a fraud?
... that in the interwar period, the British legation in Norway complained about Victor Mogens' bias as a commentator in Norwegian radio?
... that in 1906, some Filipino prisoners involved in medical experiments in the United States were intentionally infected with cholera, and those who survived were rewarded with cigars or cigarettes?