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31 August 2007

20:42, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

...that French artist Antoine Berjon's variations on flower painting included a still life with a shark's head (pictured)?
...that Singapore's Ee Hoe Hean Club, a century-old millionaires' club for Chinese businessmen, became a headquarters of an anti-Japanese movement in Southeast Asia from 1937-1942?
...that a community centre will be incorporated in Sengkang New Town's new sports complex?
...that Charles K. Landis attracted residents to his new city of Vineland, New Jersey to clear land and grow grapes, which were purchased by Thomas Bramwell Welch, founder of Welch's, to make "unfermented wine"?
...that James W. Parker spent nine years in the Comancheria searching for his family?
...that the Kentucky General Assembly responded to unpopular rulings by Justice William Owsley by dissolving the Court of Appeals on which he served?
...that the 1940s experimental aircraft Vought V-173 featured an unorthodox "all-wing" design consisting of a flat, somewhat disk-shaped body with a pair of three-bladed propellers?

12:27, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Ladoga Canal (pictured) was constructed at the behest of Peter the Great and was one of the first canals created in Russia?
...that Crystal Grottoes is the only show cave in the U.S. state of Maryland?
...that U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Nobel Prize winner Gary S. Becker and baseball player Joe Garagiola were all School Safety Patrol members?
...that Thomas Bernard Brigham, an elderly American war veteran, killed three tourists in Central Station in Montreal, Canada hoping to intimidate Pope John Paul II prior to his 1984 visit to Canada?
...that the Palazzo Malta in Rome, Italy was granted extraterritoriality by the Italian Government and is the property of the Sovereign Order of Malta?
...that Mormon abstinence from drinking caffeinated beverages goes back to a 1918 Improvement Era article by Frederick J. Pack?
...that Thalassina anomala, a mud lobster found in Indo-Pacific mangrove swamps, is used in Thailand in powdered form or steeped in alcohol as a remedy for asthma?

06:23, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Thomas J. Ryan (pictured) was the prosecutor at the court-martial of American naval officer Charles B. McVay III, who had been his friend for 25 years?
...that the Nebraska School for the Deaf became nationally known within the Deaf community for its fight against an anti-American Sign Language state bill endorsed by Alexander Graham Bell?
...that Eastern school whiting caught along the coast of Queensland are frozen whole, shipped to Thailand for processing and then sold in Japan?
...that the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College were given powers of governance after the College charter was signed by George III of the United Kingdom in 1769?
...that the first labor investigations by a United States government body were prompted by petitions from the Lowell girls, textile workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the mid-nineteenth century?
...that Nikolay Kruchina, a top Soviet official, committed suicide by jumping out of his window after learning about the failure of the Soviet coup attempt in August 1991?
...that Noble Threewitt worked for 75 years training Thoroughbred racehorses before retiring on his 96th birthday?

30 August 2007

23:51, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the 1905 Great Seimas of Vilnius (program pictured) was the first national congress in Lithuania, which attempted to outline Lithuania’s autonomy within the Russian Empire?
...that according to the 2R hypothesis, the genomes of modern vertebrates are the result of two rounds of genome duplication hundreds of millions of years ago?
...that the banning of the Buddhist flag and the subsequent shootings of nine Buddhists who were protesting the ban on the birthday of Gautama Buddha led to civil unrest which toppled Ngo Dinh Diem's regime?
...that on the death of Governor George Madison, Kentucky lieutenant governor Gabriel Slaughter was refused the title of "governor" by a hostile state legislature and was referred to as "acting governor" for the duration of his three-year administration?
...that Edwin Sherbon Hills, a well-known Australian geologist, had at first chosen undergraduate courses with the idea of becoming a chemist and took geology as a suitable ancillary?
...that McGregor Lake, a man-made reservoir in Southern Alberta, receives most of its water from canals linked to the Bow River despite being in the Oldman River drainage basin?
...that the Markonahalli Dam across the River Shimsha in India had to be partly demolished in order to prevent excess water from flooding the villages?

17:35, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

...that James Turner Morehead (pictured) was the first Governor of Kentucky to be born in that state?
...that Orator Hunt's presentation of the first petition in support of women's suffrage was received in Parliament with ribald laughter?
...that the Franco-Hova War resulted in the demise of the Merina monarchy of Madagascar?
...that popular Turkish fusion band Yansımalar has recorded an album with Erkan Oğur, the inventor of the first fretless classical guitar?
...that in 1995 The Virgin Islands Daily News, with a staff of only 18 full-time reporters and editors, won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, beating the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Charlotte Observer?
...that Isaac Goodnow, a Free-Stater from New England, helped combine two settlements in Kansas Territory to form a new town named 'Boston', which was later re-named Manhattan?
...that a rock-cut basin may eventually form a circular holed stone, and passing through the hole was considered to have healing properties according to legend?
...that during the World War II amphibious offensive known as the Kerch-Eltigen Operation, the Red Army landed 75,000 men and over 10,000 tons of munitions and material near Kerch in eastern Crimea?

10:20, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Squilla mantis (pictured) is the only native stomatopod to be fished for on a commercial scale in the Mediterranean Sea?
...that Michelle Rocca, longtime girlfriend of singer Van Morrison, was the first woman to appear on one of Morrison's album covers since his then-wife Janet Minto in 1971?
...that Duncan Spears Casper, an early Mormon pioneer, was driven from his home twice due to anti Mormon sentiments?
...that Iftikhar ad-Daula, Fatimid governor of Jerusalem during the siege of 1099, surrendered Jerusalem to Raymond of Saint-Gilles in the Tower of David and was then escorted out of the city with his bodyguard?
...that the Black Dirt Region of Orange County, New York contains the largest concentration of muck soil in the United States outside of the Florida Everglades?
...that Aretas III commissioned the minting of the first silver Nabataean coins?

03:55, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the architecture of the Singapore Power Building (pictured) was influenced by Gerhad M. Kallmann's Boston City Hall and Le Corbusier's Sainte Marie de La Tourette?
...that Dick Merrill piloted a transatlantic flight known as the "Ping Pong Flight" because his client, singer Harry Richman, insisted on carrying 41,000 ping pong balls in case of a crash at sea?
...that despite declines in production in recent years, Victoria still produces almost 19.5% of Australia's crude oil?
...that actress, writer and producer Michelle Paradise created the television series Exes and Ohs without an agent?
...that Shakadvipi (Bhojaka) is the only division of brahmins whose origins are said to be outside India?
...that Franco Freda, one of the main Italian far right ideologues, has been put to trial for the Piazza Fontana bombing, which was originally believed to have been perpetrated by anarchists?
...that before Hannibal crossed the Rhône River with his Carthaginian forces to battle the Gauls, he sent a detachment under Hanno, son of Bomilcar to cross at a different point upriver for an ambush?

29 August 2007

21:26, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

...that painter Thomas Luny (example of his work pictured) created over 2,000 artistic works during the last 30 years of his life despite suffering from arthritis in both hands?
...that John Lamb was accused of diverting money from the New York impost to publish the Federal Farmer pamphlets?
...that Scott Milanovich was the first pick in the 2001 XFL Draft, the only draft the league ever held?
...that Carcross Desert, the "world's smallest desert", measuring just over one square mile, is in fact not a desert, but a large series of northern sand dunes?
...that Alex Leake was offered a £10 bribe by Manchester City player Billy Meredith to throw the final match of the 1904–1905 season?
...that the Prussian Nicola Marschall was the designer of the Confederate States of America's first flag, the Stars & Bars?
...that Space Industries Incorporated was founded in the 1980s in Houston for the purpose of building the first private space station, to be called the Industrial Space Facility?
...that a week before Charles Dickens died, he willed his literary journal All the Year Round to his son Charles Dickens, Jr?

08:28, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Tsar Alexander II allowed the construction of the Grand Choral Synagogue (pictured) in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1880, at a time when most Russian Jews were forced to live in the Pale of Settlement?
...that Jane Storms was the first female war correspondent in American history?
...that the Habakkuk Commentary of the Dead Sea scrolls accused the "Wicked Priest" of neglecting to circumcise the "foreskin of his heart"?
...that the Egyptian Pyramid of Sahure and surrounding complex contained an estimated 10,000 m² of fine relief carving?
...that Admiral Harry D. Felt, a fervent anti-communist who planned for the use of tactical nuclear weapons during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis opposed American military intervention in Vietnam?
...that Jiffs was a derogatory propaganda term employed by military intelligence of British India to denote soldiers of the Indian Army in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II?
...that the Franco-Mongol alliance in the 13th century involved multiple embassies and military collaborations against the common Muslim enemy in the Holy Land?

02:27, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the museum of the long-demolished Memel Castle, Lithuania (pictured) is located in an underground chamber?
...that Baron Ijuin Gorō became Fleet Admiral and Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff in the pre-war Imperial Japanese Navy without ever having actually commanded a ship?
...that Kentucky governor Charles Scott served as chief of intelligence for George Washington during his later campaigns in the American Revolutionary War?
...that Holbeach House served as the theatre for the final battle of the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, in which the conspirators undid themselves after they accidentally detonated their gunpowder store?
...that Bargil Pixner's identification of the biblical location of Bethsaida was based on artifacts found in trenches used by Syria in the Six-Day War?
...that the piaohao and the qianzhuang were financial institutions in ancient China?
...that 12th-century troubadour Raimon Vidal de Bezaudun wrote a grammatical manual for Occitan poetry that influenced Dante Alighieri's De Vulgari Eloquentia, justifying the use of Italian vernacular?

28 August 2007

20:27, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Kiev Pechersk Lavra

...that Khotyn Fortress and Kiev Pechersk Lavra (pictured) are among the Seven Wonders of Ukraine?
...that Miran, an ancient oasis town in the Taklamakan Desert in present day Xinjiang, was also a thriving centre of Buddhism on the Silk Road, with many monasteries and stupas?
...that the Phoenix Hotel in Lexington, Kentucky was used as a headquarters by Generals William "Bull" Nelson, Braxton Bragg, and Kirby Smith during the American Civil War?
...that one of the oldest captive alligators in Europe was named Čabulītis, which means sweet and tender creature in Latvian?
...the first and last verses to the song "Hellhound on My Trail" by Robert Johnson are considered to be some of the finest in twelve bar blues?
...that a controversy about whether the real name of the first President of the Nigerian Senate in the Fourth Republic was Evan or Evans Enwerem led to his removal from office?

12:25, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

...that a zibellino (pictured), the jewelled pelt of a marten or sable, is a women's fashion accessory popular in the later 15th and 16th centuries?
...that Kentucky governor Christopher Greenup was one of Kentucky's first two Congressmen and was an original trustee of Transylvania University?
...that during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore the Kempeitai East District Branch was the site of interrogation and torture of many civilians and that later the building housed the YMCA?
...that the 2003 French musical film Not on the Lips had a predominantly enthusiastic reception in France, but caused indignation and incomprehension in Britain?
...that Johnson's Seagrass was the first marine plant listed under the United States Endangered Species Act?
...that a survey in 2001 of the New South Wales- Queensland border in Australia found an error of 200 metres (656 ft) in the original survey, indicating that the town of Jennings, New South Wales should actually be in Queensland?
...that soon after German reunification, the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant in the former East Germany was shut down due to conflicting technical requirements with the West?

06:03, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the ship breaking (pictured) industry in Sitakunda began when a 20,000-ton ship was accidentally beached by a tidal bore in 1965?
...that during his administration, Kentucky governor William J. Fields forbade drinking alcohol and dancing in the Governor's Mansion?
...that University of Oregon athletic director Leo Harris gained the right to use Donald Duck as the school's mascot through an informal handshake deal he made with Walt Disney in 1947?
...that 20th century attorney Joseph Scott made so many contributions to civic life in Los Angeles that he earned the nickname "Mr. Los Angeles"?
...that in 1835, Warren A. Cowdery, an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, accused a local Quorum of the Twelve of neglecting their fund-raising activities while serving as Mormon missionaries?
...that the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, which resulted in 38 deaths, 537 injuries and approximately 1,000 displaced, was the worst riot of the Red Summer of 1919?
...that influential makeup artist Pat McGrath takes between 30 and 50 bags of tools, materials, and reference books whenever she travels to fashion shows?

27 August 2007

23:10, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

...that to make space for passenger seats in the racing cars used in the TVR Tuscan Challenge (pictured), the fuel tank has to be moved from the driver's side to the rear of the car?
...that Héctor López was the first Panamanian-born Major League Baseball player to play in the World Series with the New York Yankees?
...that before the 17th century, it was believed that all organisms grew from miniature versions of themselves that had existed since the beginning of creation?
...that Italian fascist propaganda referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Italian Mare Nostrum, as by 1942 Italy controlled nearly two-thirds of the sea's area?
...that William E. McAnulty, Jr., the first African American to sit on the Kentucky Supreme Court, injured himself playing basketball on Election Day in 1983 with future NBA star Allan Houston?
...that the northernmost miles of pavement of the Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive in Wisconsin were part of the original track circuit for Road America?
...that the 2006 Japanese film Hula Girls is set in the coal mining town of Iwaki in the 1960s when a Hawaiian spa resort was built to resolve the community's faltering fortunes?
...that the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest, a precursor to the modern day Big Ten Conference, survived for only two seasons of college football competition before disbanding?

16:41, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

...that male Shortnose sturgeon (pictured) breed annually and live to age 30, while females breed triennially and live to age 67?
...that Puerto Rican third baseman Félix Torres, who only played three Major League seasons, topped the home run charts in the 1960 Caribbean Series?
...that the automatic tide signalling system at Irvine harbour, North Ayrshire, invented and patented by its harbourmaster Martin Boyd, is probably unique?
...that the dialogue Julius Excluded from Heaven, credited to Desiderius Erasmus, involves Pope Julius II trying to convince Peter to allow him into heaven by threats of armed force and excommunication?
...that Tawfiq Canaan, a Palestinian physician and medical pioneer, was also known for his research on Palestinian popular heritage?
...that after the British took control of the Mysore Kingdom in the 19th century, they had a strong influence on Kannada literature?
...that the Brazil's 1838 Balaiada uprising was named after the job of one of its leaders, a basketmaker?
...that Edward A. Halbach was the first official president of the Astronomical League?
...that in his 1915 Kentucky gubernatorial campaign, Augustus O. Stanley advocated a one dollar tax for every dog a person owned?
...that Utkala Brahmins are the historical caretakers of the Jagannath Temple in Puri?
...that the Falklands Crisis of 1770 nearly caused a war between Great Britain and Spain?

08:24, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

...that of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania (pictured) in 1918, six were sent to prison or executed, and six died in exile?
...that a pub in Old Whittington was the shelter for three men in 1688 who were plotting the replacement of James II of England with a Protestant foreigner?
...that 1965 Records was founded by James Endeacott, who also originally discovered The Libertines and The Strokes?
...that Sir Cecil Hunter Rodwell was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal for bravery in the Second Boer War and went on to serve as Governor of Southern Rhodesia?
...that W. H. Auden's poem "In Praise of Limestone" has been called topographic, sui generis, and a "postmodern pastoral"?
...that the Silpathorn Award is given to significant living Thai contemporary artists and that the name of the award means "upholder of art"?
...that Catholic priest Cornelius Loos was forced to recant his view in 1593 that witch trials in early modern Europe were not required as witchcraft didn't exist?
...that Joseph "Blueskin" Blake, accomplice of notorious 18th century thief Jack Sheppard, grievously wounded the self-styled "Thief-Taker General" Jonathan Wild outside the courtroom where he was subsequently convicted of burglary and sentenced to death, hastening Wild's fall from power?
...that children up to the age of five can find it difficult to distinguish between television programmes and toy advertising campaigns?

02:16, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Singaporean dancer, choreographer and teacher Neila Sathyalingam, who dances in the classical Indian style (example pictured), decided to devote her life to dance after performing for Queen Elizabeth II?
...that prior to the development of binoculars, bird collections, collections consisting of birds and parts of their anatomy, were the dominant method of bird observation and study among ornithologists?
...that a picture of Mary Ann Bevan, "the ugliest woman in the world", featured on a birthday card until a complaint led to its withdrawal?
...that Sholakia, a tiny town in Bangladesh, draws 300,000 Muslims for Eid prayers every year on Eid ul-Fitr?
...that Sooriyakanda mass grave is alleged to contain 300 bodies of school children but only few were recovered?
...that Kazys Lozoraitis was independent Lithuania's first ambassador to the Holy See and to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta?
...that the Second Manifesto, a 1904 declaration made by Joseph F. Smith, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, confirmed that the church was opposed to plural marriage?
...the oldest stud farm in India, Kunigal stud farm, was used by Tipu Sultan for breeding horses for cavalry regiments to fight the British?
...that the Polish Resettlement Corps was tasked with organizing the 250,000 members of the Polish Armed Forces in the West, over half of whom eventually chose to settle in the UK instead of returning to communist Poland?

26 August 2007

20:01, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Howe Yoon Chong played a key role in establishing Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system, Changi Airport (pictured) and public housing?
...that in 1973, Margaret Thatcher temporarily saved the Strand Grammar School, famous for its contribution of young men to the British Civil Service, from closure?
...that after publishing his National Book Award-winning Invisible Man in 1952, Ralph Ellison continued writing for a further 42 years without ever finishing his second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting?
...that Father Boleslaus Goral was one of the key persons in the "news war" between the Milwaukee Archdiocese and Michał Kruszka?
...that Den, a fictional character in the Battle Angel Alita, is actually a giant remote-controlled slave unit run from a transmitter embedded in the chest of one of the story's main characters?
...that in 1967, a group of Latin American writers including Mexican Carlos Fuentes started a series of biographies depicting caudillos, which became the basis of the Dictator Novel genre?
...that Charles Chilton was the first person to be awarded a D.Sc. degree in New Zealand?
...that Hurricane Georges had the strongest effects on the Dominican Republic of any hurricane since Hurricane David in 1979?

13:46, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

...that a camel is led through the streets of Béziers (pictured), France on the feast day of Saint Aphrodisius, a semi-legendary saint said to have come from Egypt?
...that North Dakota's location in the Upper Midwest allows it to experience some of the most extreme weather in the United States?
...that the name Flying fox refers to bats as well as a freshwater algae-eating aquarium fish?
...that Frank Rosenfelt, CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1972 until 1982, was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge and received a Purple Heart for his injuries?
...that after spending seven years traveling across the Saskatchewan District, Rev. Robert Rundle was allowed to establish a mission in 1847, only to be forced to leave a year later due to health issues?
...that the Chinese high fin banded shark (Myxocyprinus asiaticus) has 20 other common names in the aquarium trade?
...that the 13th-century troubadour Guilhem Figueira was a strong critic of the contemporary Papacy, going so far in his sirventes contra Roma as to consign Rome to hell?
...that the Minnesota Twins made Joe Nathan their closing pitcher for the 2004 Major League Baseball season, despite the fact that Nathan only had converted one save in five opportunities?
...that the leader of the Dick Cheney protests at Brigham Young University refused an offer to appear on The Daily Show, out of a concern that the show would poke fun at the university?

01:33, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

...that during World War II, United States Army officer Colonel Louis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr. (pictured) parachuted behind enemy lines to lead an attack that captured the town of Prétot, France leading the main Plaza of the town to be named "La Place du Colonel Mendez"?
...that Kuryer Polski was the first daily Polish language newspaper in the USA?
...that members of Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church were persecuted by communists in the Soviet Union and were sent to Gulag labour camps in Siberia?
...that the Rani people, a West Slavic tribe inhabiting the island of Rugia, maintained their native paganism, its ritual, temple, and priesthood, well into the twelfth century?
...that Flight Lieutenant Wallace McIntosh was recognised as the most successful air gunner in RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, having shot down eight German aircraft, including three during one mission?
...that the 14 remaining children of the Jewish Orphanage in Oslo, Norway were evacuated to Sweden by the Norwegian resistance movement in November of 1942?

25 August 2007

16:20, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jane Addams was born in the house at the John H. Addams Homestead (pictured)?
...that the uniformly fine quality of surviving Roman copies of Lysippean bronze Hermes Fastening his Sandal indicates that it stood high in Roman esteem?
...that the German neo-Nazi German Alternative party was banned in 1992 after the group was associated with an arson attack on an asylum seeker refuge?
...that Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch lost the sight in one eye when his submarine, HMS Splendid, was sunk in 1943?
...that in the folklore of the Celts, a fairy path is a route taken by these supernatural beings, usually in a straight line and between sites of traditional significance, such as Stone Age monuments?
...that in 1989, some 300,000 people created a 300 mile human chain stretching from Lviv to Kiev on the 71st anniversary of the Act Zluky?
...that the South American rubber boom ceased in 1912 when plantations in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and tropical Africa grown from seed smuggled out of Brazil 36 years earlier began producing rubber?

10:21, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the São Francisco Church (pictured) in Salvador is known as the "Golden Church", because its interior, from floor to ceiling, is covered with intricate gold-leaf carvings?
...that Illinois State Senator John H. Addams was the primary influence on his daughter Jane Addams' social activism?
...that the Treaty of Kyakhta between the Russian and Qing Empires was negotiated by a Bosnian Serb from Dubrovnik, Sava Vladislavich?
...that during the First Battle of Ypres, Edward Bulfin organized an impromptu formation of six battalions, later known as "Bulfin's force," that was instrumental in stopping the German advance?
...that the Indian Congress of 1893 drew more than 500 Native Americans representing 35 tribes to Omaha, Nebraska?
...that Fr. Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim Brown barely escaped the April 2006 St. Phillip Neri church bombing only to disappear a week later?
...that the site of the hermitage of Ginés de la Jara retained its reputation for holiness even during Spain's Moorish occupation?
...that the popular YouTube star Christine Gambito attributes her nickname Happyslip to her Filipino mother's mispronunciation of half slip?

03:16, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

...that loose wheel nut indicators (pictured) are fitted to vehicle lug nuts to allow mechanics to identify loose nuts before the wheel falls off?
...that Jakub Karol Parnas, a prominent Polish–Soviet biochemist, despite having collaborated with the Soviet regime since its invasion of Poland, fell victim to a Stalinist purge in 1949?
...that British surgeon Richard Partridge apprehended the London Burkers gang of body snatchers, alerting the authorities while claiming to be getting change for a £50 note?
...that a 300-page iPhone bill became the subject of a viral video by blogger Justine Ezarik viewed more than 3 million times?
...that Waddams Grove was the first settlement in Stephenson County, Illinois?
...that Malcolm X, James Brown, and the current President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva all worked as shoeshiners when they were young?
...that the medieval kingdom of Alania controlled the most practicable route through the Greater Caucasus?
...that Oswald Tesimond, involved in the Gunpowder Plot, escaped severe punishment by stowing away on a cargo ship ferrying dead pigs to Calais?

24 August 2007

19:32, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Shushanik Kurghinian (pictured) was the first revolutionary female poet in Armenian literature?
...that German leaders of the World Confederation of Labour were sentenced to Nazi concentration camps in the 1930s for their political opposition to the growth of authoritarian governments in Europe?
...that Downtown Omaha is home to 31 historic buildings, two historic districts, and the site of the largest loss of historic buildings ever from the National Register of Historic Places?
...that the S.S. Christopher Columbus, the only whaleback passenger liner ever built, carried 1.8 million passengers to and from the World's Columbian Exposition in a single season?
...that the Romanian politician and socialite Pantazi Ghica was identified as the "black-faced, hunchbacked and greedy" person depicted, alongside other liberals, in one of Mihai Eminescu's most famous poems?
...that when Democratic congressman A. Jeff McLemore opposed President Woodrow Wilson over the United States' entry into World War I, the Texas legislature redrew the state's congressional districts in 1917 to force him to run against another incumbent?

06:23, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Weinhard Brewery (pictured) managed to survive prohibition by producing near-beer, root beer and syrup, which were marketed as "Gourmet Elixirs"?
...that the Vladimirka, a road by which convicts marched to the Siberian katorga, is mentioned in the works of Herzen, Nekrasov and Dostoevsky?
...that rainbow sharks are Cyprinids, making them relatives of goldfish, carp and minnows?
...that Franklin D. Roosevelt threatened Postmaster General James Farley and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s jobs if they did not make sure a new post office was built in his hometown of Hyde Park?
...that Yingzao Fashi is a Chinese technical treatise on architecture and craftsmanship written during the mid-Song Dynasty?
...that despite being portrait painter to Queen Victoria, John Partridge's career plummeted after a dispute with Ramsay Richard Reinagle over altering one of his paintings?

23 August 2007

23:11, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

...that public support for the revitalization of Esther Short Park (pictured), located in Vancouver, Washington, increased in 1997 after the mayor was attacked by a transient in the park?
...that Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for The New Yorker, was convinced to write for The Atlantic Monthly when publisher David G. Bradley purchased ponies for Goldberg's children?
...that although an Iron Workers union member planted the dynamite in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, the 21 people who died in the explosion and fire were all workers and not managers?
...that U.S. Representative John Y. Brown was censured by his peers for unparliamentary language during a speech denouncing General Benjamin F. Butler?
...that Major League Baseball relief pitcher Ramón Peña, younger brother of All-Star catcher Tony Peña, allowed no home runs to any of the 88 batters he faced despite 6.00 career earned run average?
...that arms, munitions, and Vietcong documents were planted prior to raids on South Vietnam's Buddhist pagodas as a pretext to crush protests over religious discrimination?

17:00, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Arkhyz is the site of a former world's largest telescope and the oldest functioning church (pictured) in Russia?
...that molecular evolutionist Morris Goodman used protein sequence data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hemoglobin and called this the first "hard evidence of Darwinian evolution"?
...that American musician Wade Mainer is credited with bridging the gap between old-time mountain music and Bluegrass?
...that the Young Christian Workers movement, founded by Joseph Cardijn, had 2 million members in 69 countries at the time of his death?
...that during the Russo-Japanese War, the London Times refitted the Chinese ship Haimun, creating the world's first ship dedicated to war correspondence covering the on-going naval battles?
...that the Kościuszko Mound in Kraków, Poland, erected by Cracovians in 1823 and modeled after prehistoric mounds, became a strategic lookout for the occupying Austrian army?
...that the crown prince and princess of Denmark and Iceland helped lay the cornerstone for the post office in Rhinebeck, New York?
...that the song "I Am a Child of God" is related to a phrase used in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a declaration of a basic belief of Mormonism?

08:58, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

...that approximately 10,000 people were sent to an emergency field hospital at a quarantine station on Ninoshima (pictured), an island near Hiroshima, following the atomic bombing in 1945?
...that the open habitat of grassy balds in the forested Appalachian Mountains may be relicts of grazing pressure from Pleistocene megaherbivores?
...that Eleanor Davies-Colley was the first woman admitted as fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England?
...that David Yudelman asserts that South African Apartheid predates the traditional demarcation of the National Party's 1948 rise to power?
...that Al Hopkins and his group The Hill Billies originated the term "hillbilly music", and were the first to play country music for a United States president and the first to play country in a film?
...that as an Illinois State Senator James M. Strode introduced legislation authorizing a loan used to begin construction on the Illinois and Michigan Canal?
...that the Major League Baseball pitcher Carl Zamloch was also a professional magician?
...that a ditch excavated to fend off marauding Maratha soldiers, was filled up when the city was never attacked, to form a road from Shyambazar's five-point crossing?

02:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Cisternoni of Livorno (example pictured) are early examples of buildings with a utilitarian purpose concealed behind a Neoclassical façade?
...that Swiss pharmacologist Hartmann F. Stähelin led the R&D of both the anti-cancer drug etoposide and cyclosporine A, an immunosuppressant used in organ transplantation?
...that Les Chouans, Honoré de Balzac's novel about royalist forces in France, was the first book he published without using a nom de plume?
...that in the 1990s, business process outsourcing company PeopleSupport gave their employees job titles such as gladiator, crusader, and marketing mechanic?
...that the book Historia naturalis palmarum, by German botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, was described by E. J. H. Corner as "the most magnificent treatment of palms that has been produced"?
...that 159 soldiers of the Malay Regiment fought against a 13,000-strong Japanese force to defend a hill position in Singapore’s Kent Ridge Park?

22 August 2007

20:41, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the mud shrimp Pestarella tyrrhena (pictured) has been used as bait by fishermen for over 200 years?
...that while the first union was founded in 1927, Tanzania did not have a significant labor movement until the 1940s?
...that several universities now offer courses on the politics of Harry Potter?
...the first edition of Patience and Sarah, winner of the 1971 Stonewall Book Award, was self-published and all copies sold by the author after six publishers rejected it for not being marketable?
...that in group theory, a word is any written product of group elements and their inverses?
...that the Mosque of Amr in Fustat, originally built in 642 CE, was the first mosque ever built in Egypt?

13:32, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Thomas Wilson (pictured), a whaleback freighter, was the last such freighter built without hatch coamings?
...that the construction of the John T. Loughran Bridge in Kingston, New York, led to the creation of the Rondout-West Strand Historic District?
...that Takakia is a genus of moss first discovered in the Himalayas in 1861, but no fertile plants were known until collected in 1993 in the Aleutian Islands?
...that Roosevelt's World War I volunteers, a unit similar to Roosevelt's Rough Riders of the Spanish-American War, were authorized by the U.S. Congress to fight in France in 1917, but President Woodrow Wilson refused?
...that DeWitty, the largest African American village ever founded in Nebraska, existed for only 29 years?

06:28, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Kentucky lieutenant governor John W. Stevenson (pictured) ascended to the governorship following the death of sitting governor John L. Helm just five days into his term?
...that Jakob Künzler was an eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide, the subject of his 1921 book In the Land of Blood and Tears?
...that the first customer of the Maine Diner, which has been featured on NBC's Today Show, crashed into a pole in the parking lot?
...that the SMS Hannover and her four sister ships represented the last Deutschland class pre-dreadnought battleships?
...that while Sanskrit is the liturgical language for many Indian religions, only one daily newspaper, the Sudharma, uses it?

21 August 2007

22:26, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the famous portrait "Pinkie" (pictured) by Thomas Lawrence depicts poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's aunt?
...that 62 people died in a fire on the sets of the TV serial The Sword of Tipu Sultan in Mysore, India?
...that A Tragedy by 19th century poet, singer and composer Theo Marzials is frequently referred to as the worst poem ever written in the English language?
...that six months after his nomination James W. Stephenson was forced to withdraw from the 1838 election for Governor of Illinois?
...that the Japanese science fiction film I.K.U. was the first pornographic film ever screened in the Sundance Film Festival?
...that Murray's Ranch, a former guest ranch in Apple Valley, California, was unique in that it was owned by African-Americans and catered primarily to an African-American clientele?

13:16, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Central Fells, a group of hills in the English Lake District (Eagle Crag pictured), are generally lower than the surrounding hills?
...that St. Mary's Basilica is the oldest church in Bangalore and the only basilica in the Indian state of Karnataka?
...that James D. Henry died four days after the people of New Salem, Illinois supported him for the office of Governor of Illinois?
...that under English criminal law, intoxication is technically not a defence, but can negate the mens rea for specific intent offences?
...that Harlem on the Prairie, a 1937 race movie, is billed as the first "all-colored" western musical?
...that Labour Party politician Ruth Dalton, who was the shortest-serving female MP in British history, represented Bishop Auckland for 92 days?
...that Michiel Daniel Overbeek was the first amateur astronomer to detect supernova-related gamma ray burst effects?

06:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

...that before the Hôtel de la Chambre (pictured) was constructed in 1860, Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies used various meeting places, including a primary school in the town of Ettelbruck?
...that the Chicago-based Lincoln Towing Service uses satellite tracking to provide towing services for landlords with tenant parking problems?
...that Adolf Hitler served in the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division during World War I?
...that a clock tower added to the old Washington County Courthouse in 1891 did not have a working clock?
...that the U.S. government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that during an outbreak of an itch mite in August 2004, 54 percent of Crawford County, Kansas suffered from bites?
...that in 1945, Congregationalist minister Geoffrey Nuttall became only the second nonconformist theologian to become a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford?

20 August 2007

22:31, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

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...that the heart of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức (pictured) remained intact after his self-immolation in response to the religious policies of South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem, leading Buddhists to regard him as a bodhisattva?
...that militia company commander John Giles Adams may have been killed by his own men during the 1832 Black Hawk War as he tried to order them to battle?
...that Singaporean anime distributor Odex is asking for legal settlements from children as young as nine years old for copyright infringement through file-sharing?
...that the Latécoère 611, a reconnaissance flying boat for the Vichy French Navy, switched sides and joined the Free French after the Allied Invasion of North Africa in 1942?
...that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in both licensed and unlicensed versions?

15:35, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

...that following the militia victory at the 1832 Battle of Horseshoe Bend (battlefield pictured) men under Colonel Henry Dodge scalped the eleven dead Kickapoo warriors?
...that Major League Baseball for Nintendo was the first ever video game licensed by the MLB?
...that the 42nd Infantry Division was formed in 1912, fought both on the Eastern and Western Fronts of World War I, and was the last regular division created in the Imperial German Army?
...that when John Kuester became head men's basketball coach at Boston University, he was the youngest head coach in NCAA Division I?
...that Oscar Monnig donated one of the largest private collections of meteorites to Texas Christian University?
...that the location of William D. Brown's Lone Tree Ferry landing, which prompted the founding of Omaha, Nebraska, was lost to historians until 2004?
...that Maria Longworth Nichols Storer became the first American woman to found a music festival when she planned and raised money for the now annually celebrated Cincinnati May Festival?
...that in 1991 Heinz Barth, former Obersturmführer in the Waffen-SS, was granted a "war victim" pension while in jail for war crimes for involvement in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of 1944?

08:08, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the tower of Paul Rudolph's The Concourse (pictured) is octagonal in plan, as the number "8" is associated with prosperity in Chinese culture?
...that the early settlers of Savanna, Illinois fended off a Native American attack in a bloodless battle known as the Plum River raid?
...that Bob McGrory managed the English football team Stoke City for a period of 17 years, having previously played for the club for 14 years?
...that Erik Chisholm, former dean and director of the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, was a Scottish musician often known as "Scotland’s forgotten composer"?
...that Cable 243 by the Kennedy administration, which authorised preparations for a coup against South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem, came after Kennedy's advisers signed off, wrongly believing that Kennedy had already approved?

01:14, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Malinta Tunnel (pictured), a bomb-proof bunker on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines, was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and lined with concrete bought from the Japanese?
...that the Zip to Zap, originally intended as a 1969 spring break alternative in Zap, North Dakota, was the only riot quelled by the National Guard in the history of North Dakota?
...that Albert F. A. L. Jones, awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1987 for his services to astronomy, is an amateur astronomer in New Zealand?
...that causing a stack buffer overflow is one of the oldest and most reliable methods for hackers to gain unauthorized access to a computer?
...that William Joseph Snelling, one of the first American realists, wrote the earliest accurate literary portrayal of the lifestyle of Plains Indians?

19 August 2007

13:59, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Lutgardis (pictured) is reported as having levitated and dripped blood from her forehead when entranced?
...that Stillman Creek became ironically known as "Stillman's Run" following the 1832 Isaiah Stillman-led debacle at the Battle of Stillman's Run?
...that matron literature is also known as hen lit, a play on the notion that it is chick lit for older women?
...that under Archbishop Alwyn Rice Jones, the Church of Wales reformed its rules to permit the ordination of women priests and to allow divorcees to remarry in church?
...that, despite being relatively small compared to other members of its genus, the Black Hawk-Eagle feeds on animals such as monkeys and toucans?
...that Byron's poem Darkness was written based on predictions that the sun would burn out on July 18 1816?

05:21, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

...that, in 1906, Durham Stevens (pictured) predicted the approximate date of the annexation of Korea by Japan?
...that as a result of the 1832 Sinsinawa Mound raid the residents of Platteville, Wisconsin nearly fled to Galena, Illinois?
...that the Bulldog Bash, one of the largest motorcycle festivals in Europe, was originally organized by the Hells Angels motorcycle club for bikers?
...that Sir Arthur Wellesley referred to the Battle of Sabugal as "one of the most glorious that British troops were ever engaged in"?
...that Lakeridge Health Whitby was the first combination medical hospital and psychiatric hospital in North America?
...that Socrates, the last defender of orality in ancient Greece, denounced writing as 'inhuman' because it weakened the mind, the memory and the prospects for finding truth through dialogue?

18 August 2007

22:54, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Jewish Croatian sculptor Oscar Nemon settled in England, and is best known for his many public statues of Sir Winston Churchill (example pictured)?
...that dead bodies in Britain were often transported along special corpse roads?
...that the tiyanak is an infant-like creature from Philippine mythology that is said to attack tourists with its fangs and claws?
...that the Black Hawk Tree in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin was so revered that it grew from the middle of a road without being cut down?
...that the lament of Jheronimus Vinders on the death of Josquin des Prez has been used for a computer game in modern times?
...that the Spanish Paralympic basketball team were stripped of their gold medals from the 2000 Sydney Games because ten of their players did not have a disability?

16:01, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

...that U.S. Senator Carl Hayden (pictured) once used an Apperson Jack Rabbit to pursue and capture two train robbers?
...that the Double Seven Day scuffle was a fight in Saigon in 1963 between South Vietnamese secret police and journalists covering the Buddhist crisis?
...that the first Festival of the Flowers in Medellín, Colombia took place in May in 1957 but was moved to August the following year to celebrate the independence of Antioquia?
...that the Top 14 competition in French rugby union will test a change to the sport's bonus point system in the upcoming 2007-08 season?
...that 19th-century American poet Thomas Holley Chivers accused his former friend Edgar Allan Poe of plagiarizing "The Raven" and "Ulalume" from his own work?

07:57, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the landscape architecture design projects of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (pictured) read like a guide to the National Park Service-managed sites of Washington, D.C.: National Mall, Jefferson Memorial, White House grounds, and Rock Creek Park?
...that plant morphology is the science of the physical form and external structure of plants?
...that the Italian conquest of British Somaliland was the only successful Italian campaign of World War II without German support?
...that 19th-century U.S. Congressman Thomas D. English had an ongoing feud with Edgar Allan Poe, which inspired "The Cask of Amontillado"?
...that in 1924 Baptist minister Herbert Dunnico became the first British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) to vote against a Labour government?
...that Hinduism describes the peacock as the vehicle of several gods, including Ganesh, Skanda and Sarasvati?
...that one reason for the African Wild Dog name controversy is that endangered African Wild Dogs are being confused with feral domestic dogs?

05:22, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
...that, in 1964, J. N. L. Baker, Bursar of Jesus College, Oxford became the first member of the University of Oxford to hold the post of Lord Mayor of Oxford?
...a four-year-old boy lama visiting Singapore's Amitabha Buddhist Centre caused a stir when over 10,000 people from all walks of life, including some Christians and Hindus, sought blessings from him?

17 August 2007

20:46, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem “Kubla Khan” drew inspiration from Mary Wollstonecraft's (pictured) Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark?
...that with Calcutta developing in the 18th century, the Janbazar neighbourhood was gradually taken over by the Portuguese, Armenians, half-castes and others, to become a grey area between Black and White Towns?
...that Salvation Army officer Sir Arthur McIlveen was known for playing a phonograph in the battlefields of World War II, and was the unofficial padre to many brigades?
...that the Apple River Fort near Elizabeth, Illinois was completed in about one week during the Black Hawk War of 1832?
...that Susan Kiefel is only the third woman appointed to the bench of the High Court of Australia?
...that Antonio Bagioli, musical director for one of the first Italian opera companies to tour the United States, stayed behind for love, rather than continuing on to Cuba?
...that the Amman Message was a statement issued by King Abdullah II of Jordan calling for tolerance and unity in the Muslim world?

12:19, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

...that American pool player Jimmy Wetch (pictured) gave up life as a road player and went pro after he was robbed of his winnings at gunpoint in 1993?
...that the six permutations of the vector (1,2,3) form a hexagon in 3d space, the 24 permutations of (1,2,3,4) form a truncated octahedron in four dimensions, and both are examples of permutohedra?
...that Rangayana is the only repertory in India that is sponsored by the government?
...that the Protector lock, a lock design by A. C. Hobbs, which was said by Hobbs himself to be impossible to crack, was defeated only one or two years after its patenting?
...that Vasanta Habba, an annual cultural event organised by Nrityagram in Bangalore, is considered to be the classical Woodstock of India?
...that chess grandmaster Yasser Seirawan invented a new chess variant in 2007, Seirawan chess, which features two new pieces to the chess: elephant and hawk?
...that Balfour, Orkney was built in 1782 to house tenants evicted to make way for the house now called Balfour Castle, then partly demolished later to improve the castle's view?
...that Theudimer who signed the Treaty of Orihuela with the Moors conquering Spain was the same Visigothic count who had defended the peninsula from the Byzantine navy a decade or so earlier?

00:43, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

...that portal hypertensive gastropathy, (example pictured) a condition seen in patients with liver cirrhosis, makes the surface of the stomach look like the skin of a snake?
...that Ion Calvocoressi won an immediate Military Cross in Libya in 1942, and was married to the sister of Ludovic Kennedy for over 60 years?
...that Epiphanius, Bishop of Pavia from 466 to 496, often influenced and changed the tides of war as a result of his negotiations with numerous war leaders?
...that advocates for pregnant patients' rights in the United States urge that a pregnant woman be allowed the company of her partner, friends, and/or family for emotional support during labor and delivery?
...that Czech amateur astronomer Kamil Hornoch has discovered over 40 extragalactic supernovae?

16 August 2007

18:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Golden Mile Complex (pictured), which was designed as an avant-garde building with a stepped terrace structure, was once described as a "vertical slum" by a Singapore Nominated Member of Parliament?
...that epistemology questions how we know, while agnotology questions why we do not know?
...that the use of Congreve rockets during the bombardment of Fort McHenry led to the line, "And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air" in the "The Star-Spangled Banner," the national anthem of the United States?
...that Prabhat Kalavidaru, a theatre group based in Bangalore, has performed the fairytale Cinderella over 1000 times since 1977 and that a few artists have acted in each of those performances?
...that according to Allied military intelligence, the 27th Infantry Division was one of the very best German divisions in World War I?
...that amygdalohippocampectomy is the removal of the hippocampus and amygdala?

11:53, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Swiss-born peasant farmer Pierre Nicholas Dorsaz (pictured) led Napoleon and his army of over 60,000 men, cavalry and artillery through the Alps to Italy in 1800 as part of a plan to surprise the Austrians there?
...that Robert E. Murray, a partial owner of Crandall Canyon Mine, which recently collapsed trapping six workers, says he was himself once trapped in a collapsed mine for 12 hours?
...that the Web encyclopedia glbtq.com has almost 2,000 entries categorized into Arts, Literature, and History and Social Sciences—and was called "the Britanni queer Encyclopedia" by The Advocate?
...that in his Pulitzer Prize-winning career as a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, William Tuohy covered the Tet Offensive, the Fall of Saigon, The Troubles in Northern Ireland, and the fall of the Berlin Wall?
...that in order to encourage more people to move from North to South Vietnam during the partition of 1954, CIA agent Edward Lansdale spread false rumors of a nuclear attack on the Communist north?

01:10, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the only Egyptian Revival mausoleum to feature both a pyramid and a mastaba (pictured) is found in Newburgh, New York's Old Town Cemetery?
...that Walter Braithwaite, who was dismissed for incompetence following the Battle of Gallipoli, was later commissioned to write an official report on the effectiveness of British staff officers during World War I?
...that Howard Judd developed objective measures of the hot flushes experienced in menopause, which were later used to assess the effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy?
...that Dele Olojede's 2004 reports from Rwanda 10 years after the Rwandan Genocide led him to become the first African-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize?
...that the perpetrators of the largest bank robbery in Chinese history spent almost all the US$6.7 million they embezzled on lottery tickets, in the hope of winning back even more than they had stolen?
...that the social reform organization Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz has been labeled "un-Islamic" by upper caste Muslims?
...that the Baths of Zeuxippus, built sometime around the 1st century CE in Constantinople, housed over 80 statues of important historical figures like Aristotle, Homer, Plato and Julius Caesar?
...that the first trade union in Botswana was not recognised by the ruling Bechuanaland Protectorate until 1964, 16 years after its formation?

15 August 2007

19:01, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Russians were the largest European community in pre-WWII Shanghai, leaving behind them a Beaux-Arts consulate building (pictured), an Orthodox cathedral, and a statue of Alexander Pushkin?
...that British military engineer Major-General Sir John Capper helped develop both airships and tanks during his service with the Royal Engineers?
...that actor S.J. Warmington had several supporting roles in Alfred Hitchcock films in the 1930s and was killed when the German Luftwaffe bombed London in 1941?
...that photography in the Philippines was pioneered by a Spaniard named Sinibaldo de Mas in 1841?
...that the Solar Sentinels, a NASA spacecraft designed to study the Sun, will have to survive at distances from the Sun only one-quarter of Earth's distance?
...that the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has made rainwater harvesting mandatory to address a critical water shortage?
...that Cornelius Canis was the music director at the imperial chapel of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V?
...that the annual Suicide Race is a horse race where riders charge down a 225-foot (70m) slope at a 62-degree angle into and through the Okanogan River?

12:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt lectured at the short-lived Surrey Institution (pictured), where Goldsworthy Gurney won recognition for work on blowpipes?
...that astronomer Russell M. Genet founded the first totally automatic robotic observatory?
...that the Tai chi classics are manuscripts and commentaries that are used as standards for the correct study and practice of the art of tai chi chuan?
...that Andrew Clemens designed hundreds of elaborate sand bottles from 1880–1886 some of which are valued at more than US$25,000 today?
...that Sir Nicholas Nuttall, 3rd Baronet inherited the Edmund Nuttall engineering business and the family baronetcy in 1941, aged 8?
...that the first match between the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team and the Wisconsin Badgers took place in 1890, starting the most played rivalry at the top level of NCAA competition?
...that Jatindramohan Tagore, a theatre enthusiast, music and art-lover, and philanthrophist, was the first Indian to be a member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1898?
...that the dioptic lens at Start Point lighthouse was the first of this kind to be used by Trinity House?

03:21, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

...that rebels from the South Vietnamese army fought the loyalists of Ngo Dinh Diem (pictured) for the Presidential Palace in a 1963 coup, not realising that Diem had escaped through a tunnel in an attempt to evade capture?
...that John W. Blassingame's The Slave Community (1972) is one of the first histories of slavery in the United States written from the perspective of African American slaves?
...that Edward Filene, the American entrepreneur who built Filene's department store and Filene's Basement, also founded the 87-million member US credit union system in 1907?
...that Holy Cross was the first Roman Catholic church built in Boston?
...that Oregon's Salmon River is the only river in the 48 contiguous U.S. states to be a protected National Wild and Scenic River along its entire length?
...that the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers lost 8,000 of its 15,000 members when Jamaica restructured local government services in 1984?
...that the Roman emperor Augustus prevented Vedius Pollio from feeding a slave to his lampreys as punishment for breaking a glass?

14 August 2007

20:04, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Oblate missionary Nicolas Coccola (pictured) spent 63 years in British Columbia working among the Shuswap, Kootenai, Dakelh, Sekani, Gitxsan, Hagwilget, Babine and Lheidli T'enneh First Nations?
...that Bunocephalus is the most species-rich and widespread genus of the South American banjo catfishes?
...that Minnie D. Craig, the first female speaker of a legislative body in the US, was elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives just three years after gaining suffrage?
...that the 30-mile (50-km) section of Interstate 15 in Arizona through the Virgin River Gorge was the most expensive section of rural freeway by mile?
...that when 400 RNs unionized with the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals on July 19, 2007, it was the largest successful organizing effort among nurses in the state since 2000?
...that an Internalnet of Nanochondria could allow someone to exhale a Utility fog, in effect allowing them to breathe out a needed tool?

08:31, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Church of Shawangunk (pictured), in Ulster County, New York, is the oldest continuously-used building in the Reformed Church of America?
...that South America's eyeless Micromyzon akamai is the smallest species of banjo catfish?
...the South side of Chicago hosted a Black Renaissance that paralleled the Harlem Renaissance?
...that pitcher Scott Bailes finished the 1997 MLB season with a career-best earned run average of 2.86 despite having not played in the Major Leagues for four seasons?
...that the People's Park Complex was the first shopping mall in Singapore to incorporate a large internal atrium, based on the Metabolist Movement of the 1960s?
...that Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha, in the city of Hubli, is the only unit in India authorised to manufacture and supply the national flag?
...that Mary Saunderson played several female Shakespearean characters previously portrayed only by men, including Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Ophelia in Hamlet?
...that the Snake River Bridge, in the U.S. state of Washington, was originally built in one location, completely dismantled, and reassembled in its current location?

02:30, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Moscow Orphanage (pictured) controlled the largest bank and capital assets in 19th-century Moscow?
...that Richard I's army of Crusaders encountered Saladin's archers, tarantulas, and heat exhaustion on their march to the Battle of Arsuf?
...that the Longsnout butterflyfish was given three scientific names by two separate scientists when it was first described in 1860?
...that 141 buildings in Těrlicko were destroyed during the construction of Těrlicko Dam?
...that to finance the musical Jelly's Last Jam, producer Margo Lion used a nude sculpture by Henri Matisse, which she inherited at age 18 when her parents died in a plane crash in Egypt, as collateral?
...that metalwork accessories were the clearest indicator of high-ranking persons in early medieval European dress?
...that Sir Ian Anstruther, 8th Baronet held three separate baronetcies?
...that the foam blocks used to lessen the impact of crashes at Flemington Speedway led to the development of the SAFER barrier?

13 August 2007

17:07, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Dyesebel (pictured), a popular mermaid character in Filipino comic books, cinema and television, was based on Philippine folklore?
...that before turning to acting, Ulrich Mühe, the star of the Academy Award-winning 2006 film The Lives of Others, was a border guard on the communist side of the Berlin Wall?
...that the impresario Ernesto de Quesada invented an imaginary partner when he founded a classical music management agency in Berlin?
...that Around the World is the oldest magazine still published in the Russian language?
...that the introduction of chlorpromazine revolutionized the treatment of schizophrenia in the 1950s?
...that Pearl Bank Apartments was the tallest residential building in Singapore when it was completed in 1976?
...that the once flourishing Indian port of Saptagram faded out as a result of river silting?
...that Bahraini runner Tareq Mubarak Taher lost his medals from the 2005 World Youth Championships and the 2006 World Junior Championships because he competed with a falsified age?

07:48, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

...that John Y. Naka's bonsai masterpiece Goshin (pictured) consists of eleven trees representing Naka's eleven grandchildren?
...that the Chinese government requires any living Buddha who wishes to reincarnate to submit a Reincarnation Application?
...that epidemiologist and science activist Tara C. Smith writes the award-winning science blog Aetiology, rated by a Nature study as the number 7 science blog out of 46 million blogs studied?
...that the Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the earliest film studio of "race movies"?
...that after his mother's death from diabetes, Giuseppe Moscati began experiments using insulin to treat the disease?
...that the 2007 Brooklyn tornado was the strongest tornado on record in New York City and the first in Brooklyn since 1889?
...that the song Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday has received more than five million views on YouTube and has generated thousands of covers, remixes, and parodies?
...that literary critics credit William Shakespeare's Hamlet as a significant contributor to Sigmund Freud's idea of the Oedipus complex?
...that Jamaican labor leader Helene Davis-Whyte was anti-union before being elected a delegate in her union?

01:29, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Corbett hill Beinn Chuirn (pictured) has Scotland's largest known deposits of gold?
...that Thomas William Bowlby (1818 - 1860), a British correspondent for The Times was captured and imprisoned by the Tartar General Sengge Rinchen whilst on correspondence in Tongzhou, Beijing?
...that the bliaut, a fitted gown with flared sleeves, was an important item of both men's and women's fashion in Europe between 1100 and 1200?
...that the Assyrian King Sargon II deported more than 100,000 rebels from Babylon as punishment?
...that, in his book Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, Tom Wolfe famously called Jimmy Carter a "Missionary lecternpounding Amenten-finger C-major chord Sister-Martha-at-the-Yamaha keyboard loblolly pineywoods Baptist"?
...that Jay U. Gunter, professor of pathology, devoted his life to astronomy after he retired?
...that the Roman province of Dacia ripensis contained eight fortresses developed by Trajan?

12 August 2007

18:31, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the valley elderberry longhorn beetle (pictured) in the Central Valley of California is nearly always found on or close to elderberry shrubs, where females lay their eggs on the bark and larvae hatch and burrow into the stems?
...that the Elagabalium was the center of a controversial religious cult established by the Roman emperor Elagabalus?
...that ice hockey player Mark Major attained 355 penalty minutes during the 1997-98 AHL season for the Portland Pirates, where he averaged 4.5 penalty minutes a game and still holds the club record?
...that by 1608, performances of William Shakespeare's plays had become popular enough that his playing company was able to act indoors, in the Blackfriars Theatre?
...that the Kannada film Samskara, initially banned by the censor board, won the President's Gold Medal for the Best Indian Film of 1971?
...that Dr. Ashbel Smith, who served as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, later established a college for African-Americans known today as Prairie View A&M University?

07:53, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Horace Walpole called John Trumbull's oil-on-canvas The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789 (pictured) "the finest picture [he] had ever seen painted on the northern side of the Alps"?
...that the highest mountain in the Far Eastern Fells of the Lake District is High Street, rising up to 828 metres (2,718 ft)?
...that Paradise Camp is a documentary explaining how Nazi officials fooled the Red Cross into believing the Jews were being well cared for?
...that the commanding officer of American soldier Matthias W. Day wanted to court-martial him for the actions that instead won him the Medal of Honor during the Indian Wars?
...that Somapura Mahavihara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bangladesh, was one of the best known Buddhist viharas in South Asia since King Dharmapala erected it in the 8th century?
...that Manuel Benito de Castro assumed the Presidency of Cundinamarca, with the condition that he would be allowed to leave Congress at a certain time to feed his dog?
...that South Korean actress Jang Jin-young was only the second winner of two Blue Dragon Film Awards for Best Actress, having won in 2001 for Sorum, and again in 2003 for Singles?

01:21, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Bagbazar neighbourhood in north Kolkata (Bagbazar Ghat pictured) has long been a citadel of the Bengali aristocracy?
...that Elihu Embree published the first newspaper in the United States devoted to abolishing slavery until his death in 1820?
...that Feliks Kon started the Polish language section at Radio Moscow, had a Russian ship named in his honor, and the only member of the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee to die naturally?
...that the Finnish company YIT was responsible for the construction of the Finnish National Opera house, the Helsinki Fair Centre and Cirrus, the tallest high-rise building in Finland?
...that the residents of the suburb of Cameron Park in Newcastle, Australia, voted to rename the suburb after a local speedway?
...that Alexander Eugen Conrady abandoned his native Germany in disgust, settled in England, and there designed optical instruments used by the British in World War I?
...that the forthcoming CBS sitcom pilot Worst Week will be the third attempt to adapt the British series The Worst Week of My Life in the United States, having previously been attempted by Fox and NBC?
...that German artist and cartographer Augustin Hirschvogel is the first person known to have used triangulation in surveying?

11 August 2007

18:15, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Buddhist Library (pictured), which is located in a shophouse, is Singapore's first dedicated Buddhist library and is unique in that it is neither an association nor a temple?
...that Buttercup Dickerson, who debuted for the 1879 Cincinnati Reds, is credited as the first Italian-American to play Major League Baseball?
...that a report of high school students laughing during Schindler's List inspired a film-maker to create the 2003 documentary Marion's Triumph about a child Holocaust survivor?
...that while other nations have marine aviators, only the United States Marine Corps has their own dedicated aviation arm?
...that Anastasius of Alexandria, despite being forbidden to enter the city of Alexandria, helped arrange for the unification of the Coptic Church and the Church of Antioch?
...that Steve Hamilton's A Cold Day in Paradise is the only book to win both the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for best first novel?
...that Syādvāda is a Jain Doctrine of Postulation which provides the teaching or instruction from which a postulate or axiom is provided to determine the truth of the matter?

07:05, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Eighteenmile Island (pictured) is the only privately owned island in the Columbia River?
...that Patriarch Alexander II of Alexandria died trying to escape from the Umayyad government after having been brought before it for refusing to have a lion branded on his hand?
...that one of the stories of the Jain teacher Haribhadra relates how he ordered some Buddhist monks to leap into a vat of hot oil for killing his nephew?
...that 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner David Leeson was once shot in the face in Panama while covering the 1988 ousting of Manuel Noriega?
...that in the peak days of Iranian migration to Japan, Iran Air flights to Tokyo were fully booked several years in advance?
...that Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog was one of several of his paintings that were based upon the concept that self-expression was to be bonded with physical and spiritual isolation?
...that Andrew Saul heads the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which manages the $158 billion Thrift Savings Plan for 3.7 million soldiers and federal employees?
...that despite two centuries of exploration nobody has found evidence of the legendary silver mine of Jonathan Swift?

10 August 2007

23:11, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships (pictured) was one of over 3,000 seascapes painted by Russian artist Ivan Aivazovsky?
...that the largest score and winning margin between the All Blacks and France at rugby union was a 61–10 victory by the All Blacks at Westpac Stadium in 2007?
...that the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy showed religious tolerance towards its Arian, Chalcedonian Christian and Jewish citizens?
...that at the 1832 Battle of Apple River Fort, a group of about 25 militia fought off Chief Black Hawk's warriors with the assistance of the nearby settlement's women?
...that after Manuel Rodríguez Torices, an agitator for Colombian independence, died in the gallows, his body was shot, beheaded, dismembered, and his head displayed in a metal cage?
...that Tekka Mall is the first and largest modern shopping mall in Singapore's Little India?
...that towns across the United States and Australia have memorials dedicated to the birth of their first white child?

16:46, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli (pictured) was the god of the planet Venus in Aztec belief?
...that The Great Day of His Wrath, an oil-on-canvas by John Martin, is based on Revelation 6:12-17 in the Bible, which vividly describes the end of the world?
...that Liang Wern Fook, a pioneer of Singapore's xinyao movement, has composed over 200 songs?
...that the football (soccer) stadium at Tehelné pole, in Bratislava, was the largest in the former Czechoslovakia?
...that the motorcycle racing couple of Jagat and Anita Nanjappa once completed a rally in which Anita sat on the bike's petrol tank to reduce the weight on the flat rear tyre?
...that the Romanian crude oil tanker M/T Independenţa burnt for weeks in 1979 after colliding with a freighter?
...that Ben Kuroki was the only Japanese-American in the U.S. Army Air Force to serve in combat operations in the Pacific during World War II?
...that Mother Frances Hospital, a part of Trinity Mother Frances Health System, opened a day early in 1937 due to the explosion of a nearby school?
...that the band of Potawatomi that carried out the Indian Creek massacre kidnapped and ransomed two teenage girls during the attack?

08:54, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Churche's Mansion (pictured), Nantwich, United Kingdom, one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire of 1583, bears a carved salamander, a traditional protection against fire?
...that the song "See See Rider" was first recorded in 1924 by Ma Rainey and reached the top of the rhythm and blues charts twice in versions by Bea Booze and Chuck Willis?
...that Tommy Sale scored 282 goals during 14 years at the English Football club Stoke City F.C.?
...that Joshua Reynolds' Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers recently sold for £2.5 million (US $4.4 million) despite the artist's limited success during his lifetime?
...that then-President of the United States Franklin Pierce and all of his cabinet attended the second wedding of playwright Anna Cora Mowatt?
...that Alfred Tennyson's 1847 lyric poem "Tears, Idle Tears" is written such that readers often don't notice its lack of rhyme?
...that the Santa Fe courthouse ghost, the video of which got more than 80,000 hits on YouTube, appeared to be a bug?

03:07, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (pictured) was commissioned to Paul Delaroche after he criticised Jacques-Louis David's version for being unrealistic?
...that Colne Cricket Club is the oldest club in the Lancashire League?
...that curling is the provincial sport of Saskatchewan?
...that W.N.T. Beckett was presented the Royal Victorian Order for services to the British Royal Family during a cruise?
...that Dax Holdren and Stein Metzger never won a domestic AVP event as partners despite winning silver at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships?
...that Mozart never finished his composition for voice and piano to celebrate the Great Siege of Gibraltar during the American Revolutionary War?
...that lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia is a syndrome secondary to autoimmune and other lymphoproliferative disorders?
...that although Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania was named for a suspected Loyalist during the American Revolution, by 1838 his name was so controversial that Plunketts Creek Township was named for the creek instead?

9 August 2007

20:38, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

...that The Majestic (pictured) in Singapore was a opera house built by tin and rubber magnate Eu Tong Sen in 1928 for his wife who was a Cantonese opera fan?
...that the Jack of the President of Poland was originally intended only for usage on naval vessels in the presence of the commander-in-chief?
...that 24 Royal Marines cadets aged 10 to 13 were killed when a double-decker bus ploughed into their marching column in the 1951 Gillingham bus disaster, setting a new British record of fatalities in a road accident?
...that the Sangam poems, an important source of ancient Tamil history, were composed by a total of 473 poets over a period of a few centuries?
...that the title of ‘Raja’ was bestowed on Subodh Chandra Mullick by the people after he donated Rs. 100,000 in 1906 for the National Council of Education which later became Jadavpur University?
...that Timothy Christian School was forced to move from Cicero, Illinois to enroll African American students?
...that Buffalo Grove was the first settlement in Ogle County, Illinois?

14:44, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus (pictured), was a member of the Lithuanian World Community, which seeks to unite the Lithuanian diaspora?
...that some rocks at the Kupgal neolithic site, near Bellary, India, produce gong-like musical tones when struck with boulders?
...that Joe Hauser was the first player ever to hit 60 or more home runs in a season twice in a professional baseball career?
...that the 457 visa is the most common way for employers to temporarily sponsor skilled overseas workers to come to Australia?
...that Constantine Possiet was the first Russian minister to support the project of a Trans-Siberian Railway?
...that legend has it that Benjamin I of Alexandria was escorted to heaven by Athanasius of Alexandria, Severus of Antioch, and Theodosius I?
...that Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence during the War of the Eight Saints, disseminated Republican propaganda throughout the Papal States?
...that snail races usually start with the words "Ready, Steady, Slow!"

04:53, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Hull Maritime Museum of Kingston upon Hull, England, houses the largest collection of scrimshaw artwork (example pictured) in Europe?
...that the 1979 arrest of Raymond Lee Harvey and Osvaldo Ortiz for being part of an alleged plot to assassinate President Jimmy Carter drew parallels to the name of Lee Harvey Oswald?
...that Uncle Tupelo singers Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy got into several physical altercations during the promotional tour for Anodyne?
...that the first tamaya, built in 1599 in the Toyokuni Shrine in Kyoto for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, was destroyed by the Tokugawa?
...that Protestant and Orthodox minorities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth gained significant concessions from the Catholics during the election sejm of 1632?
...that in 1989, the Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo was the first race car to overcome Porsche's seven-year dominance of the IMSA GT Championship's GTP category?
...that the trolley believed to have been used in the film A Streetcar Named Desire is housed at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum?

8 August 2007

22:37, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the United Nations has a collection of artworks (USSR contribution pictured) which were donated by its member states?
...that in his rookie year, Major league baseball pitcher Matt Kilroy set a record of 513 strikeouts, which still stands 121 years later?
...that Japanese writer Makoto Oda wrote a book on his travels through Europe and Asia on a budget of a dollar a day?
...that Michelle Morgan, a child abuse victim murdered by her stepmother at age four, was featured on an episode of Cold Case Files?
...that Vitalian of Capua refused to return to his post as bishop after being thrown into the Garigliano River in a leather bag?
...that at 34 months, Georgia Brown became the youngest ever female member of Mensa?
...that the Polish Home Army planned an uprising in Krakow in 1944 to complement the Warsaw Uprising?

16:29, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Kunstnernes Hus (pictured) is an early Functionalist structure from 1930, built by and for Norwegian artists to showcase their work?
...that Marion Harris was the first widely known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs?
...that British soldier and poet Patrick Hore-Ruthven met his wife while rusticated from Cambridge for biting a policeman's nose?
...that in the Smolensk War, the Russian Tsardom and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth tried various Western military innovations and strategies for the first time?
...that the elephants Castor and Pollux were shot for food during the Siege of Paris in 1870 and their trunks sold as a delicacy?
...that Ardencaple Castle is used as a navigational aid for shipping on the Firth of Clyde?
...that Mary Wollstonecraft was born the same year that Voltaire's Candide and Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments were published?

05:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Jurassic limestone formations of the Polish Jura Chain (pictured) upland contain some 200 caves?
...that Oregon Supreme Court justice George Van Hoomissen wrote the decisions in its most cited case and the overturning of a voter approved ballot measure?
...that Edward Kozłowski, the second Polish-American bishop, died after just a year in office?
...that the urban villages found in some of China's major cities are inner city slums with Chinese characteristics?
...that Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope was killed by the opening shots of the Battle of Magersfontein?
...that El Güegüense, a theatrical play written anonymously in the 16th century, is regarded as the first literary work of Nicaragua?
...that the pitch notation developed by Hermann von Helmholtz for his work on acoustics and is one of two main systems for describing musical pitch?
...that the Banner of Poland, despite its 1000-year old history, is not an official national symbol?

7 August 2007

23:16, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's (pictured) film directing debut was on Torment, a 1944 film about a sadistic Latin teacher?
...that the former head of the Royal Australian Navy, George Francis Hyde, was the first Australian naval officer to become an honorary aide-de-camp to King George V?
...that the Swiss Vetterli rifles, a series of Winchester-derived repeating rifles, were Europe's most advanced service rifles at the time of their introduction in 1869?
...that the Greek frigate Hellas, the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy, was burned by the Admiral Andreas Miaoulis during a civil war in 1831?
...that through 1981, Arizona's silver mining industry had produced a cumulative total of 490 million troy ounces of silver?
...that two people died outside of San Francisco's Pier 26 during the 1934 Bloody Thursday Riots?
...that novelist Amelia Barr's most successful body of work is called the "Cherry Croft novels", after the summer house where she wrote them?
...that Oppa may have been both Bishop of Seville and King of the Visigoths at the time of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania?
...that Tranby House is the oldest surviving brick building in Perth, Australia?

16:48, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the 1869 collapse of the 2,500-foot-long Hennepin Island tunnel (pictured) resulted in cementing over the only major waterfall on the Mississippi River?
...that Francis Julius LeMoyne built the first crematory in the United States and was its third crematee?
...that Bob Case named the cyclone known as The Perfect Storm?
...that the RevoPower motorized bicycle kit was inspired by a visit to a bicycle taxi manufacturer?
...that in 1904, H. Chandler Egan won the U.S. Amateur golf championship, and was a member of both the U.S. college championship and the gold medal-winning United States Olympic golf teams?
...that Filipino Ilustrados originally demanded that the Philippines become a province of Spain instead of independence?
...that Major Derek Cooper and his wife, Pamela, assisted with refugee relief efforts from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 to the Siege of Beirut in 1982, and established the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians in 1984?
...that novelist Wilhelm Stepper-Tristis actively supported the Hungarian Soviet Republic, lived part of his life as a vagabond, and probably died in a Nazi concentration camp?

09:12, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the creators of stage musical Furry Tales (pictured) were inspired by Anthrocon, the world's largest furry convention?
...that Catholic bishop and Visigothic political leader Masona built the first hospital in Spain and endowed it with farms to provide its patients with food?
...that it has not rained at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning since they began performing a virgin ritual?
...that the 850-ton Belle Tout lighthouse was pushed 17 metres (56 feet) away from a cliff face to save it from coastal erosion?
...that the first reference to toilet paper was made in the year 589 AD by the Chinese scholar Yan Zhitui?
...that the Beyoncé song "Suga Mama" features a sample of the song "Searching for Soul" by funk band Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers?
...that Soviet diplomat Pyotr Voykov was assassinated in Warsaw for his part in the killing of Tsar Nicholas II and his family?
...that high levels of ultraviolet colors on the neck of a male Platysaurus broadleyi, a type of lizard in the Cordylidae family, indicate dominance over other males?

03:08, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Éva Gauthier (pictured) was the first classically trained singer to present the works of George Gershwin in concert?
...that humans have lived near Nevada's Swan Lake Nature Study Area since 400 AD?
...that Joaquín Camacho, an agitator for the Independence of Colombia, was executed by firing squad when he was 50 years old, blind, and paralyzed?
...that over 15,000 men of the battle-hardened 10th and 11th Divisions of the Imperial German Army were demobilised following World War I?
...that Stanisław Patek, dropped from the Russian Empire's list of attorneys for defending political dissidents, was later involved in the creation of a new Polish legal system?
...that RMS Dunottar Castle transported Winston Churchill, Frederick Russell Burnham, Robert Baden-Powell, and Lord Roberts, among others, to and from Cape Colony, South Africa?
...that in place of execution, Saint Cerbonius was exiled after the bear brought in to kill him instead licked his feet?
...that Archbishop Gennady of Novgorod commissioned the first complete Slavic translation of the Bible?

6 August 2007

20:58, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

...that one of the survivors of the Spafford Farm massacre (memorial pictured) hid in the forest for days after the attack because he erroneously thought that a local fort was overtaken by the Menominee?
...that an image of Tesslynn O'Cull, a child abuse victim who was murdered by her stepfather at the age of two, was used in the Stop the Abuse poster for Oregon?
...that St. Paul Roman Catholic Church in St. Paul, Oregon is the oldest brick building in the Pacific Northwest?
...that while working for the Department of Justice attorney Jacob Tanzer worked on the case that led to the movie Mississippi Burning?
...that there are 59 conjectured reconstructions of the Olympia Master's work on the East pediment of the Temple of Zeus?
...that some species of the catfish genus Cetopsis are only known by a single specimen?
...that Hutti Gold Mines Limited, located in the state of Karnataka, is the only company in India that produces gold by mining and extracting it from its ore?

14:48, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Jordan Park (pictured), set up in 1889 as Kraków's first public playground, gave free meals to children?
...that following the Battle of Waddams Grove members of the Illinois militia returned to Galena with the scalps of two Sauk warriors?
...that the Yangzhou riot of 1868 almost led to a Sino-British war because many Chinese believed that English missionaries were stealing children?
...that 17.5% of the murders in Colombia in 1993 were vigilante "social cleansings" of gays, transvestites, and prostitutes?
...that the New England Seamount chain was once at or above sea level off the Massachusetts coast?
...that Robin Starveling, a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, may be a satire of one of Queen Elizabeth's suitors?

10:52, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
...that Runme Shaw, philanthropist and founder of the Shaw Organisation, started his Singapore movie business in a makeshift timber cinema known as The Empire in 1927?
...that Bob Meusel was best known as a member of the fabled "Murderer's Row" of the New York Yankees championship teams of the 1920s?
...that Henry Wallis' The Stonebreaker shows a dead labourer who appears to be resting?

08:28, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the French lawyer and historian Nicolas Chorier was also a writer of erotic fiction (work pictured)?
...that ACS Chemical Biology is the first peer-reviewed scientific journal to publish 3D interactive chemical structures replicating printed figures?
...that the Polish Army in France continued to fight in the Battle of France despite Pétain’s call for armistice and demobilization?
...that Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, king of Mysore, set up a factory to manufacture Mysore Sandal Soap because World War I prevented any export of sandalwood?
...that Town Creek Indian Mound near Mount Gilead, North Carolina, preserves a ceremonial mound built by the Pee Dee with 563 burials?
...that the four catfish species of the genus Pseudolithoxus are only found in the Amazonas and Bolívar states of Venezuela?
...that in Puerto Rico alone, about two people die and 25 more are injured each year from celebratory gunfire?
...that even though Jefferson Smith had been shot three times he managed to escape an attack by Native Americans at Blue Mounds Fort?

02:26, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Weston-super-Mare's Birnbeck Pier has the longest lifeboat slipway (pictured) in England?
...that in 2006, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency arrested an ex-bodyguard of Kim Jong-il for trading fake aphrodisiacs?
...that Russian émigré Jerzy Bulanow captained the Poland national football team through the 1920s and early 1930s?
...that Colonel Johnston de Peyster raised the first U.S. flag over Virginia's Capitol Building since the state's secession in 1861?
...that Archbishop Vasily Kalika of Novgorod was not appointed to his post, but was elected by the popular assembly?
...that Albertan politician Joseph Unwin was arrested for producing an official leaflet urging the "extermination" of opposition leader David Milwyn Duggan and Senator William Griesbach?
...that two Italian towns competed over who would receive pieces of Saint Paternian — one ultimately receiving a finger, while the other took the rest?

5 August 2007

20:39, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

...that when the roof of Dublin's Hellfire Club (pictured) blew off, locals attributed it to Satan's punishment for using a cairn as building material?
...that Odile Crick sketched the DNA double helix for the 1953 paper in Nature by her husband Francis Crick and James Watson announcing its discovery?
...that the 1758 British construction of Fort William in the heart of populous Gobindapur incited the whole colony to migrate north of Calcutta?
...that folktales claim that 19th century Ethiopian poet Gebre Hanna spread rumors of his own death to trick Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia into sending money for a proper funeral?
...that professional wrestler Norvell Austin was part of the first mixed race bad guy tag team in the Southern United States?
...that, when playing the lead in Alexander Nevsky, actor Nikolai Cherkasov wore a replica of the helmet lost by Alexander's father in the Battle of Lipitsa?

11:37, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

...that in 1899, Sir Samuel Gillott (pictured) lost the mayorship of Melbourne by one vote?
...that the term Art Deco was derived by abbreviating the words Arts Décoratifs in the title of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes?
...that Black Entertainment Television comedy series We Got to Do Better, had its name changed from Hot Ghetto Mess amidst allegations of enforcing negative stereotypes of African Americans?
...that the buke shohatto, a Japanese code of conduct for feudal lords, served as the foundation of the baku han system of government?
...that the Chester Roman Amphitheatre was the largest amphitheatre in Roman Britain, seating over 8,000 people?

02:04, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Kathleen Parlow (pictured) was the first foreigner admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory?
...that during the 537 Siege of Rome, the defenders used the statues from the Mausoleum of Hadrian as missiles?
...that Wally Tatomir, head equipment manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, holds four patents on ice hockey-related equipment?
...that while the majority of Benin's formal workforce are represented by trade unions, nationwide use of child labour and forced labour continues?
...that despite being heavily outnumbered, Chief Black Hawk's forces held off the American militia at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights long enough for many civilians to escape?
...that the group who buried the only casualty of the Buffalo Grove massacre were killed the following day?
...that John Singleton Copley's oil-on-canvas The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 is one of Britain’s largest oil paintings?

4 August 2007

11:30, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the U.S. state of Utah built the Wendover Cut-off (pictured) across the Great Salt Lake Desert in the early 1920s to force motorists to Southern California to take the Arrowhead Trail and remain in that state for about 200 miles (300 km) more?
...that Jacques de Morgan in 1887-89 unearthed 576 ancient graves around Alaverdi and Akhatala, near the Tiflis-Alexandropol railway line?
...that The Princess Anne was elected Chancellor of the University of London in preference to Nelson Mandela and Jack Jones in the first contest in the history of the position?
...that 19th century cartoonist and artist Edward Jump gained a status of renown in the U.S. states of California and Washington, D.C. for his satirical caricatures?
...that the childhood home of Emily Carr, one of Canada's most famous painters, is open to the public today as a museum known as Emily Carr House — and still contains the family Bible?
...that Polish-American journalist and politician Michał Kruszka was at constant odds with the American Catholic Church, with reading his newspaper declared sinful and many lawsuits being filed by both parties?
...that Bob Massie set a world record by being the first player to take 16 wickets on his Test debut in 1972?

01:08, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Bull Stone House property (pictured) in New York, is home to the only surviving New World Dutch barn?
...that Étienne-Gaspard Robert terrified audiences with his pioneering phantasmagoria shows and greatly influenced others with his ballooning feats?
...that the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 killed four people and inspired Peter Benchley's novel Jaws (1974)?
...that the pinhole camera model is an ideal camera without lensing aberrations?
...that the West End Street Railway fired Cyrus S. Ching in 1901 after he was nearly electrocuted on the job, only to appoint him manager two months later?
...that the Russian sailing ship STS Sedov features a glass-domed banquet hall with a stage and a movie theatre?
...that Psalm 83 is cited by the Jehovah's Witnesses as a proof of Jehovah being God's personal name?
...that the Boot Monument at Saratoga National Historical Park donated by John Watts de Peyster is the only American war memorial that does not bear the name of its honoree?

3 August 2007

14:49, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
...that the 10-day battle for the Festung Kolberg in March 1945 was one of the most intense urban battles of the Polish First Army, destroying most of the city?

05:47, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

...that St James' and St Paul's Church, Marton (pictured) in Cheshire, England, is one of the oldest timber-framed churches in Europe?
...that it has been suggested that using Incan agriculture technologies (such as the andenes) again, would solve the malnutrition problems of the modern Andean peoples for many decades?
...that Old College, the first building on Northwestern University's campus, stood for over 100 years, despite being built as a temporary structure?
...that fetal movement begins as early as seven weeks after conception?
...that the character of Philostrate, the Master of Revels in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, may have been created as a way to poke fun at play censorship?
...that Georgia Governor Carl Sanders declared May 16, 1964 to be George C. Griffin day, because of his service to Georgia Tech?
...that the Alfathi brand of red meat from Nortura combines the strict Islamic rules concerning food preparation for slaughter with Norwegian cuisine?

2 August 2007

22:34, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Asia Insurance Building (pictured) in Singapore was the tallest building in Southeast Asia when it was completed in 1954?
...that Congressman Albert Richard Thomas brought the Johnson Space Center to Houston, Texas in 1961?
...that the recent treasure recovery by Odyssey Marine Exploration prompted international media attention and controversy with the Spanish government over the rights to the treasure?
...that at the age of 10, Megan Zheng became the first Singaporean to win a Golden Horse Award?
...that during the American Civil War John Breckinridge Castleman was sentenced to death for spying, but his execution was suspended by Abraham Lincoln?
...that the genus Prietella includes two threatened species of eyeless, unpigmented catfish adapted to living in caves?
...that the Trent Codices are the largest single music manuscript source of the entire 15th century?
...that the Profane Oaths Act 1745, which criminalised "profane cursing and swearing" in the United Kingdom, was not fully repealed until 1967?

07:03, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Canadian sculptor John Hooper (sculpture pictured) previously lived in England, China, India, and South Africa, and was a captain in the British Army?
...that while anarcho-syndicalists are usually a minority in their respective labor movements, the anarcho-syndicalist General Confederation of Labour was not only the largest but the only union in post-World War I Portugal?
...that any two friends who live together more than three years may be legally considered partners in an adult interdependent relationship in Alberta, just like spouses in a common-law marriage?
...that Gabriel Garcia Márquez based his book News of a Kidnapping on the fight by Colombian politician Alberto Villamizar against kidnappings in that country?
...that the Former Singapore Badminton Hall was marked as a historical site by Singapore's National Heritage Board in 1999, as it held two Thomas Cup tournaments and was the vote counting station for a landmark 1962 referendum?
...that the Makuleke region of Kruger National Park is a natural history area with almost 75% of the diversity of the whole park?
...that the April 1920 Polish-Ukrainian agreement became the legal justification of the Kiev Offensive against Bolshevik Russia?

01:14, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

...that there is a mass grave of over 5,500 mental patients in the English countryside near the site of the former Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum (pictured)?
...that a galloping horse must breathe with every stride, due to the movement of the gut contents pushing forward and back on the diaphragm?
...that Artabanes was a 6th century Armenian noble who served both the Sassanid Persians and the Eastern Roman Empire, and became involved in a plot against Emperor Justinian I?
...that the famous black-and-white striped shirts of Italian football club Juventus were based on the kit of English Notts County, replacing the club's initial pink and black colours in 1903?
...that the Brand Junction shopping centre development in Melbourne, Victoria, is located on land known from 1937 until 1962 as the Janefield Colony for the Treatment of Mental Defectives?
...that Thomas Creede printed ten editions of William Shakespeare's plays, several of them poorly-written bad quartos?
...that even though the 1952 steel strike lasted 53 days and cost the U.S. $4 billion in lost economic output, it was settled on nearly the same terms offered by the union at the strike's beginning?

1 August 2007

16:20, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

...that Assyrian soldiers (pictured) were used in Xerxes' expedition to Greece?
...that Polycarp was a fictional Cajun character who hosted a local children's TV program in south Louisiana and lived in the swamp?
...that the proposed underground car park at the northern end of Lal Dighi will be the biggest in Calcutta and is located in a heritage zone?
...that the launch of the protected cruiser Chitose in 1898, one of the few ships in the Imperial Japanese Navy built by the United States, was filmed by Thomas Edison?
...that Canada's syndicalist One Big Union kept itself alive for some time by running an illegal lottery in its weekly bulletin?
...that the planned Marina Coastal Expressway is Singapore's most expensive expressway, and will cost S$2.5 billion for the 5-kilometre route?
...that United States Indian Agent Felix St. Vrain had his head, hands, feet and heart removed during the St. Vrain massacre?
...that the writer and actor, Henryk Grynberg, is known as the "chronicler of the fate of the Polish Jews"?
...that congressman Cyclone Davis earned his moniker after demolishing an opponent in a debate?
...that Dang Hyang Nirartha founded the Hindu priesthood in Bali?

05:50, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

...that the Khmer Rouge of the 1970s influenced Cambodian clothing by strictly prohibiting brightly colored clothing and forcing all Khmer people to wear a checkered krama (pictured)?
...that the St. Eugene Mine in Moyie, British Columbia produced ten million dollars worth of ore between 1895 and 1905 and was considered to be the most important silver–lead mine in Canada?
...that Admiral Louis R. de Steiguer was a legendary disciplinarian and martinet whose funeral instructions directed his former flag secretary to bury him with his hindquarters facing the Pentagon?
...that the period of Colonial Assam began with the Treaty of Yandaboo?
...that the siege of Anatoly Pepelyayev's forces in the Pacific port of Ayan in June 1923 was the last military action of the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War?
...that singer Larry Stewart originally moved to Nashville, Tennessee in search of a career in baseball, but instead ended up as the lead singer of country-pop band Restless Heart?
...that the coach in which King Philip II of Portugal travelled from Spain to Portugal in 1619 is preserved at the National Coach Museum in Lisbon?