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30 April 2009

18:16, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

... that during the Battle of Yevenes, Polish lancers of the Legion of the Vistula (pictured) lost all their banners, which caused the dissolution of the regiment?
... that as chairman of advertising agency Bozell & Jacobs, Charles Peebler oversaw the "Got Milk?" milk mustache advertising campaign, and "Pork. The Other White Meat" created for the National Pork Board?
... that the cross in the coat of arms of Colchester represents the True Cross, as discovered by Saint Helena, the patron saint?
... that the musical style of Ayiesha Woods' album Love Like This has been said to "rival the likes of Corinne Bailey Rae for her pop-soul throne"?
... that track cyclist Aksel Gresvig started a bicycle shop in 1901, which later developed into the largest chain of sports shops in Scandinavia?
... that the Southern Baptist Convention was formed at the First Baptist Church of Augusta in May 1845?
... that comedic actor Ed Helms performs an a cappella version of Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al" in the fifth season The Office episode, "Heavy Competition"?
... that a former ingredient in 3M's Scotchgard, perfluorooctanesulfonamide, can uncouple oxidative phosphorylation and has been detected in slimy sculpin, dolphin, and people?

11:48, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the Sterling Hill Mining Museum (pictured) and the nearby Franklin Mine together have over 345 minerals, including 90 that fluoresce and 35 that are found nowhere else?
... that Christian Schibsted established the publishing house Schibsted and the newspaper Aftenposten?
... that radio stations KSUH and KWYZ simulcast a mix of K-pop and Korean language news and talk to the Seattle metropolitan area?
... that the Liberator that crashed in 1943 in New Zealand during World War II was transferring Japanese men, women and children from the consular corps to exchange for Allied POWs?
... that Daniel Gault worked as a teacher, newspaper editor, and postmaster, and served in the Oregon House of Representatives?
... that the War of Laws was a major reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991?
... that the 2008 Bandar Abbas earthquake leveled walls in the village of Zeynabi, Iran?
... that the Stone Creek Jamboree holds the world record for the largest potluck, with 882 dishes?

04:49, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the fault block that forms the main ridgeline of the Pueblo Mountains in southeastern Oregon (pictured) is tilted at a 45 degree angle?
... that Czech writer and sports reporter Ota Pavel was diagnosed with bipolar disorder following the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck?
... that the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is the farthest north daily newspaper in North America?
... that Kampong Tralach District was home to Cambodia’s ancient capital of Lovek?
... that American historian Marcus Lee Hansen was posthumously awarded the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860?
... that The Georgian Chronicles are a series of medieval texts outlining the history of the Kingdom of Georgia dating from the 9th to the 14th century?
... that Torstein Eckhoff, an authority on European Community law in Norway, opposed Norwegian membership in that institution?
... that in April 1920, Texas Rangers expelled some 125 prostitutes from the oil boomtown of Desdemona in Eastland County east of Abilene, Texas?

29 April 2009

22:35, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

... that a huge Khmer Rouge airfield (pictured) still lies in Rolea B'ier District, Cambodia?
... that architect Henrik Bull designed several churches, but his most widespread works were coins designed for Norges Bank?
... that the film Defendor was under its financial requirements after director Peter Stebbings donated his savings?
... that Mark Simpson tore his lateral meniscus thirteen games into the 1996–1997 indoor soccer season while playing for the Buffalo Blizzard?
... that the giant leucopax mushroom has bioactive compounds with antioxidative, antibiotic, and anti-cancer properties?
... that under the authority granted by the Reorganization Act of 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Reorganization Plan No. 1, which created the Executive Office of the President?
... that despite being a valuable table fish and gamefish, the brassy trevally is almost never targeted by anglers because larger relatives occur within its range?
... that the quarterback for the first College Football All-America Team in 1889 was Edgar Allan Poe?

16:28, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Vietnam and Hong Kong have fishing villages that float on water (Halong Bay village pictured)?
... that William Rich Hutton accompanied Edward Ord on an expedition to the Pueblo of Los Angeles in 1849 before returning east to work as a civil engineer on projects including the Washington Bridge?
... that the new Shia Family Law of Afghanistan has attracted criticism for including clauses that some analysts believe encourage spousal rape?
... that the first high-altitude balloon flight from Stratobowl attracted 30,000 spectators?
... that British journalist and Liberal politician Colin Coote was an editor of the The Daily Telegraph for 14 years?
... that Medway Plantation in South Carolina was owned by a former Office of Strategic Services spy Gertrude Sanford Legendre?
... that the world's only museum dedicated to Lawn Bowls is in Brooklands, Taranaki?
... that some music scholars have claimed that Chopin's Nocturnes Op. 37 and related pieces act as an "aphrodisiac" and were used by women to "comfort their repressed libido[s]"?

09:24, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the sculpture Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science (pictured) depicts what historians have described as "the modern fantasy of (female) nature willingly revealing herself to the (male) scientist"?
... that Donald Richberg helped co-author the Railway Labor Act, Norris-LaGuardia Act, National Industrial Recovery Act, and Taft-Hartley Act?
... that T. S. Eliot's Paradiso-like poems of the Four Quartets (Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding) are modeled on the structure of his Inferno-like poem The Waste Land?
... that Jamaican ambassador Anthony Johnson appealed at a Reggae Fest in Washington D.C. to gain support for Jamaica's National Disaster Recovery Fund following Hurricane Gustav?
... that the Spring Creek Dam collects acid mine drainage from one of the most acidic streams in the world?
... that Jonas Kubilius is one of the principal contributors to the Turán–Kubilius inequality theorem and organizer of the first mathematical olympiad in Lithuania?
... that the name recognition for international varieties of grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay is so high that many consumers believe they are either wine regions or brand names themselves?
... that reporter Leo Katcher became a newspaper's office boy at age 10 when he promised not to bounce balls against the building, and later got an exclusive with Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann?

00:37, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

... that naval historian William James declared that HMS Seine's victory over the French ship Vengeance (pictured) showed that British ships were "more potent than American thunder"?
... that Alexa Thatcher decided to become a professional wrestler after meeting her boyfriend, wrestler Corvis Fear, when she was sixteen?
... that the 1915 Avezzano earthquake killed over 30,000 people and flattened the town of Avezzano, Italy?
... that although Jim Brandstatter is best known as a color commentator for the Michigan Wolverines, his father and brother both played for the rival Michigan State Spartans?
... that some Nazi German anti-partisan operations later became the basis for counterinsurgency policies developed by countries such as France and the United States?
... that Carl Oscar Munthe, a Commander of Fredrikstad Fortress and Bergenhus Fortress, wrote several books on military history?
... that during the Cold War, Canada permitted the United States to practice photo reconnaissance over Grey Goose Island with the RB-52C Stratofortress?

28 April 2009

18:40, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the first successful artificial insemination of a shark was performed in the cloudy catshark (pictured)?
... that professional wrestler Eddie Edwards won the NECW Iron 8 Championship Tournament final in a match where another competitor suffered a broken ankle?
... that wake lows and their associated heat bursts can cause high winds as well as large temperature spikes, even overnight?
... that after graduating from high school, baseball pitcher Ed Blake pitched batting practice for the St. Louis Cardinals during their 1943 World Series appearance?
... that Poundisford Park was set up as a medieval deer park by the Bishop of Winchester?
... that Fredrik Georg Gade was behind the moving and reconstruction of Fantoft stave church?
... that at the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix the Ferrari and Toro Rosso cars displayed messages of support for the victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake?
... that mahi-mahi fishing in Hawaii has been done from kites flown from cliff tops?

11:59, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

... that angels wielding firearms (example pictured) are typical of early Latin American art?
... that Melissa Rosenberg finished the script for the Dexter episode "Love American Style" quickly due to her experience writing for broadcast TV?
... that wildfires have occurred on the Earth for over 420 million years?
... that by the end of the 18th century, Native American women were decorating cloth with intricate ribbon work appliqué using French silk ribbon?
... that Øvre Richter Frich, creator of the action hero Jonas Fjeld, sold more than two million copies of his books?
... that George the lobster was estimated to be 140 years old?
... that Love Patrol is a ni-Vanuatu edutainment soap opera designed to educate viewers about HIV AIDS?
... that a boycott of Molson beer led to the successful merger of the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association in 1979?

04:28, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the 163-foot (50 m) tower of St Mary Magdalene, Taunton (pictured) was described by Simon Jenkins as being "the noblest parish tower in England"?
... that Vietnam War veteran Christine Griffin was the first female member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with a physical disability?
... that DNA analysis techniques are used to prevent fraudulent marketing of the false scad fish as a horse mackerel?
... that John Fetterman, the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, lives in a warehouse he purchased for US$2,000?
... that the new 100-meter (330 ft) observation tower with a 66-meter (217 ft) slide planned to be built on the Pyramidenkogel, a mountain in Austria, will be the tallest wooden tower in the world?
... that the Battle of Big Dry Wash was the last battle fought between the Apache and the US Army and four Medals of Honor resulted from the battle?
... that Gustav A. L. Heiberg was a defender in the last impeachment case in Norway?
... that "Flip Decision", a 1952 Donald Duck comic book story, introduced the term flipism?

27 April 2009

22:34, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the longfin crevalle jack (Caranx fisheri, pictured) is similar enough to the crevalle jack (C. hippos) that it was described only in 2007?
... that Miguel Durán is the head of the Libertas Spain list for the 2009 Euroelections in Spain?
... that the Economy Act of 1933 repealed all federal laws in the U.S. regarding veterans' benefits but permitted the President to re-establish them via executive order?
... that baseball pitcher Antonio Bastardo had an average of 21.6 strikeouts per game after one start in 2007?
... that the existence of Aitvaras, now a squadron of the Lithuanian Special Operations Force, was revealed after the capture of Lithuanian sailors in Guinea in 2000?
... that the Texas saddlemaker Tooter Cannon's work is so prized by ranchers and rodeo performers that it is held mostly in private collections and unavailable on the open market?
... that Pet Airways is claimed to be the first American airline to fly pets exclusively?

17:51, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the Beiyue Temple (pictured) has China's largest surviving wooden building from the Yuan Dynasty?
... that William Preble Hall was a Medal of Honor winner from the American Indian Wars and champion marksman from 1879 to 1892?
... that 1978's Hurricane Cora played a part in the historic Double Eagle II hot air balloon transatlantic voyage?
... that the bear kept in Camperdown Country Park, the largest park in Dundee, bit the arm off a 10-year-old boy?
... that Andreas Claussen, best known as State Conciliator of Norway, survived a 1948 seaplane crash that also involved Bertrand Russell?
... that the National Bible Bee has the largest cash prize of any Bible Quiz?
... that the Nameless Book is the oldest existing Japanese work of literary criticism?
... that Archidermapteron martynovi is an extinct species of earwig named for Andrey Vasilyevich Martynov, who conducted extensive studies of fossil insects in the Soviet Union?

08:09, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Jacob Aaron Westervelt (pictured), the former Mayor of New York City, attempted to uniform the Police of New York, a move seen by some as "un-American"?
... that Barakhamba is the name prefixed to the fourteenth century Lodi period “Barakhamba Monument” in Nizamuddin complex and to “Barakhamba road" in Connaught Place in New Delhi?
... that Whitelaw Reid served as editor, president and chairman of the New York Herald Tribune, later winning a national singles tennis title in his age group at age 85 and a national doubles title at 90?
... that the underworld kingpin Keyser Söze from the 1995 film The Usual Suspects was an inspiration for the Doctor Who campfire trailer?
... that professional wrestler Christie Ricci first became a fan of professional wrestling after attending a Sunday school class with Ted DiBiase, Jr.?
... that deforestation rates of primary forest in Sri Lanka have decreased by 35% since the end of the 1990s?
... that Oregon politician Edward Schulmerich's former home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that the presence of the rare bigeye sand tiger in the Pacific Ocean was first suspected based on teeth recovered from the ocean floor?

01:26, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

... that four Azeri peacekeepers (unit pictured) were awarded the US Navy and Marines Corps Achievement Medal?
... that in the 1930s Lady Olive Baillie held house parties at Leeds Castle, Kent, England, and her guests included the film stars Charlie Chaplin, Errol Flynn, and Gertrude Lawrence?
... that the Azure-hooded Jay, though not threatened with extinction, is uncommon in some parts of its Central American range?
... that Carl Platou was dismissed from the Ministry of Justice and the Police for listening to a Norwegian resistance radio broadcast in his office?
... that the word "terminator" had not been used in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles until the second season finale, "Born to Run"?
... that Filipino Major General Jovito Palparan is credited with reducing communist insurgencies on the island of Samar by 80 percent?
... that lateralized readiness potentials (LRPs) from the brain can show how quickly you prepare to make a motor response?
... that Congressman Greg Walden, former owner of radio station KIHR in Hood River, Oregon, began his career in broadcasting as the station's janitor?

26 April 2009

19:15, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Sir Robert Kingsmill (pictured) was commander of the Royal Navy's Irish station during two French attempts to invade Ireland, in 1796 and in 1798?
... that Polar 3, the first German airplane to reach the South Pole in December 1984, was shot down by Polisario Front rebels over Western Sahara on its way home in February 1985?
... that UCLA Bruins end Dick Wallen won the 1957 Voit Trophy as the outstanding football player on the Pacific Coast?
... that most of the land area of Tuek Phos District, Cambodia, is currently listed for lease on the internet as a potential bio-diesel plantation?
... that Isaac Zamora's family attempted to commit him to an asylum before he killed five people in September 2008?
... that thanks to its well-preserved medieval fortifications, the town of Paczków is called the Polish Carcassone?
... that Jermaine Mays was named All-State in high school as a senior despite breaking his collarbone?
... that Alexander, Lord of the Isles stripped down to his underwear for his surrender in the royal church to King James I of Scotland after the Battle of Lochaber?

13:05, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the blacktip trevally (Caranx heberi, pictured) "grunts" when taken out of water?
... that Spirit of the Marathon, a documentary film about marathon runners, won Best Picture at the Mammoth Film Festival?
... that the linguist Amund B. Larsen made the first dialect map in the Nordic countries?
... that Bookpeople was an employee-owned book distributor that helped revolutionize independent publishing and bookselling?
... that on 19 April 2009, cricketers from Afghanistan played Scotland in their first ever one-day international match?
... that Zen Pinball is the first pinball game designed for the PlayStation 3?
... that 80-year-old actor Bernard Cribbins will be the companion in David Tennant's final Doctor Who story?
... that biologist Thomas Henry Manning, known as Lone Wolf of the Arctic, honeymooned with his wife for a year and a half while mapping Baffin Island?

06:42, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

... that during their long, discreet affair, Arthur Sullivan recorded the number of his intimate acts with socialite Fanny Ronalds (pictured) in his diary?
... that the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Women's Royal Air Force was created after a request for a judicial inquiry was turned down?
... that Douglas Clark, known as one of the "Sunset Strip Killers", was sentenced to death in 1983 yet still sits on California's Death Row?
... that the Oslo neighborhood Linderud developed from a manor of the same name?
... that the 1957 Triumph Twenty One was the first of the Triumph unit construction twin cylinder motorcycles?
... that Chuck Cannon, husband of singer Lari White, co-wrote several hits for Toby Keith, including "How Do You Like Me Now?!"
... that the most successful of Nazi Germany's anti-partisan operations of the Second World War was Operation Hannover?
... that Private Eye said the reason Margaret Thatcher dropped Patrick Cosgrave as her advisor was that he had vomited on her?

25 April 2009

00:00, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the first three ships attacked by German U-boat SM UB-14—the Italian cruiser Amalfi and British troopships Royal Edward (pictured) and Southland—were all among the largest ships hit by U-boats during the First World War?
... that Stephen Elliott, a South Carolina politician and bank president, was considered by the journal Science to be "the father of Southern botany"?
... that Kazumasa Oda is the oldest artist to have a number-one album in Japan?
... that Yellowstone's annual Christmas in July celebration may have become Christmas in August because of Warren Ost's ministry A Christian Ministry in the National Parks?
... that cnoidal wave solutions can be used to describe ion acoustic waves in plasma physics?
... that six Prussians served as generals for the Union army in the American Civil War?
... that former theatre directors for Radioteatret include Jens Gunderssen, Hans Heiberg, and Merete Skavlan?
... that the Zhonghua Zihai is the largest Chinese character dictionary available for print, consisting of over 85,568 different characters?

17:47, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

... that nearly half of the castles in Cheshire (Chester Castle pictured) are along the Wales–England border and were built to defend England against its neighbour?
... that Peggy Stuart Coolidge was the first American composer to have a concert devoted entirely to her works presented in the Soviet Union?
... that the Honduran romance novel Blanca Olmedo is a rare early female criticism of the establishment and corruption in Honduras?
... that Eric Wilbur is the only punter in Florida Gators football history to be named a semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award?
... that Jonas Lie, Nazi Minister of the Police in Norway, died while entrenched at Skallum a few days after the Nazi capitulation of 8 May?
... that Mexican writer Juan José Arreola's short story The Switchman can be interpreted as a satire of the Mexican train system?
... that Fredrik Meltzer Wallem was among the founders of the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries?
... that Ritter Pásmán was the only opera composed by Johann Strauss II?

11:47, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Richard Summers, Edward Peake, Godfrey Darbishire and Richard Williams were all single cap Wales rugby union players after the team (pictured) was humiliated by England in its first international match?
... that the converted destroyer escort USS Diachenko served in three wars as a high speed transport?
... that Czech scientist Antonín Holý cooperated on the development of important antiretroviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV and hepatitis B?
... that to create an authentic fantasy setting in the Kröd Mändoon pilot episode "Wench Trouble", costumes were built without zippers or velcro and weapons were built by an ancient weapon replica specialist?
... that George Heriot was a Scottish goldsmith who represented the City of Edinburgh in Parliament eight times?
... that the ROH World Tag Team Championship was first represented by a trophy, instead of a normal professional wrestling tag team championship belt(s)?
... that Gregers Winther Wulfsberg´s proposition at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814, that Government Ministers should be appointed by the Parliament, received only a single vote (his own)?
... that the Santa Rosa Island endemic lichen Caloplaca obamae is the first species to be named in honor of United States President Barack Obama?

03:40, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the Qapqal News (name pictured), the world's only newspaper in the Xibe language, is also read by enthusiasts of the nearly-extinct Manchu language?
... that light-cavalrymen of the Polish 1st Light Cavalry Regiment of the Imperial Guard saved Napoleon's life at least three times?
... that Carol Jean Vigil was the first Native American woman to be elected as a state district judge in the United States?
... that a diarrhea epidemic in 2008 sickened 113 people in Kampong Leaeng District in central Cambodia?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court held Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional on May 27, 1935, in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States?
... that the Kronos Quartet's recording of Terry Riley's Requiem for Adam contains a Riley improvisation inspired by Pandit Pran Nath's soft hand?
... that Harald Beyer's textbook on literary history was the most used textbook in its field at Norwegian universities from the 1950s to the mid 1990s?
... that in the 1700s and 1800s, Tocowa, Mississippi, was home to a natural spring that Native Americans visited for its reputed healing powers?

24 April 2009

21:49, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

... that a textile factory located in the mill village of Mumbai has now been converted to a "luxury mall" (pictured)?
... that American journalist William Tobin was the first correspondent for the Associated Press to be based in Juneau, Alaska?
... that Ordbogen.com, the most popular online dictionary in Denmark, was relaunched after a predecessor was taken offline for over a year due to a lack of funding?
... that the Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue is the only one in Sullivan County, New York, with its own mikvah?
... that Violet Douglas-Pennant claimed she had been dismissed from the Women's Royal Air Force to cover up "rife immorality"?
... that the comic-book mini-series '76 draws heavily on 1970s "street" culture?
... that Belgian avant-garde singer Catherine Jauniaux has been described as a "one-woman orchestra" and a "human sampler"?
... that so many world leaders were hosted at the Annenberg Estate Sunnylands that it earned restricted airspace status?

15:19, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Uncle Tom (pictured) was a virile Christian martyr in his original depiction in the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
... that the football club Drammen FK makes its debut in the 2009 season, aiming to become the best club in Drammen after Strømsgodset IF?
... that reading garden path sentences can trigger a spike in brain activity called the P600?
... that the Greenbird holds the record for the fastest speed attained in a wind-powered land vehicle?
... that the Charles H. Bigelow House, in Findlay, Ohio, appeared on David Copperfield's The Magic of David Copperfield XVI: Unexplained Forces as the Barclay House?
... that German writer Bernhard Fisch, while a student in 1970s Moscow, flew to Kaliningrad in an attempt to visit his former East Prussian home, and got arrested there?
... that the damage inflicted to a bus bought for the Doctor Who episode "Planet of the Dead" was written into the storyline at the last minute?
... that U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs described nearly every way to evade the draft in "Draft Dodger Rag"?

07:51, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the characteristic star-shaped dehiscence of the fungus Geastrum saccatum (pictured) is thought to be due to the buildup of crystalline calcium oxalate?
... that no federal law ever banned stem cell research in the United States, but under Congress's power to spend, only placed restrictions on funding and use?
... that Powhatan Henry Clarke, an officer with the Buffalo Soldiers, received a Medal of Honor for rescuing a wounded soldier and died while rescuing another?
... that the Qedarites, a prominent Arab tribal confederation between the 8th and 4th centuries BC, were named after the second son of Ishmael named Qedar?
... that after U.S. Attorney Charles Turner investigated illegal activities in the 1980s at Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, high-ranking followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh plotted to assassinate him?
... that the original name of the 2000 film Tully was The Truth About Tully, but was changed to avoid confusion with Jonathan Demme's The Truth About Charlie?
... that historian Jacob S. Worm-Müller was a delegate to the San Francisco Conference that resulted in the foundation of the United Nations in 1945?
... that all four of the Royal Navy's Bulldog class survey vessels were built by Brooke Marine?

01:04, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Dr. Jo Riley explored Chinese exorcism and ancient animation rites at the tomb, to better document actor performance (example pictured) in Chinese theatre?
... that before he became president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Henry I. Harriman had received several patents for automatic looms?
... that low-lying Chol Kiri District in Cambodia suffers flooding for six months of the year which then contaminates safe water sources?
... that Jørgen Mathiesen was the first Norwegian member of the Académie Internationale d'Héraldique?
... that Fernando Valenzuela won the Cy Young Award, the Rookie of the Year Award, and the Silver Slugger in his first full major league season?
... that former Disney animator Jack Dunham created the official rooster mascot for St-Hubert, a Canadian BBQ restaurant chain?
... that the Otłoczyn railway accident on August 19, 1980, was the biggest railway crash in the post-World War Two history of Poland?
... that in 1997 one campus of Gadsden State Community College was designated a historically black college by the U.S. Department of Education?

23 April 2009

18:49, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Paolo Giovio bribed some of the most powerful men of his day to assemble the Giovio Series of portraits (example portrait pictured)?
... that the Russian historian B. P. Polevoy called for a reassessment of Yerofei Khabarov's role in the abortive Russian colonization of the Amur in the 17th century?
... that Paul Molitor, Edgar Martinez and David Ortiz are tied for the most Silver Slugger Awards among designated hitters?
... that Charles X Gustav of Sweden waged war with the intent to vanquish Denmark and raze Copenhagen in 1658?
... that three-term member of the Oregon House of Representatives Paul E. Walden worked at radio station KODL for 27 years?
... that Haagen Mathiesen campaigned for a Norwegian union with Sweden in 1814, inviting King Charles XIV John of Sweden to his manor?
... that Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are among the world leaders mocked in the South Park episode "Pinewood Derby"?
... that the Essex derby football match did not take place for 15 years?

12:17, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the Merrill Lock No. 6 (pictured), located on the Ohio River in Pennsylvania, was converted from a lock complex to a restaurant?
... that Jacob Liv Borch Sverdrup established the first agricultural school in Scandinavia?
... that Howard A. Chinn, while working as chief audio engineer at CBS in 1943, wrote a classified report about enemy radar?
... that La Merced Cloister, a monastery complex in Mexico City, is known for its Baroque and Moorish architectural elements?
... that the first Catholic priest to be appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire, Father Dalton, presented the King with a Catholic religious medal?
... that the Huey Lewis and the News song "Walking on a Thin Line" is about Vietnam War soldiers and veterans?
... that Kjetil Bang-Hansen has headed the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre, and been theatre director at Rogaland Teater, Den Nationale Scene, the National Theatre in Oslo, and Oslo Nye Teater?
... that Texas author Lou Halsell Rodenberger focused most of her literary works on biographies of her fellow female writers?

05:54, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Honoré de Balzac based the title character (pictured) of his 1846 novel La Cousine Bette (English: Cousin Betty) in part on his mother?
... that the family of Ian Tomlinson thanked The Guardian for posting footage of an alleged assault on him?
... that eight times since 1980, pairs of major league baseball teammates have won Silver Slugger Awards for outfielders?
... that despite being a close friend of Sweden's Crown Prince, Haaken L. Mathiesen supported the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905?
... that three entrances to residential subdivisions in Snyder, New York (Roycroft Boulevard, Lamarck Drive and Smallwood Drive) are listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that the westerlies steer warm water currents, such as the Gulf Stream, from west to east across the oceans of Earth?
... that during 2008 U.S. servicemen offered humanitarian assistance in Cambodia's Kampong Chhnang District as part of Operation Pacific Angel?
... that actor Idris Elba guest starred in The Office episode "Michael Scott Paper Company", but did not watch it on television because he is very critical of his own work?

22 April 2009

23:41, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Major General Robert Lee Howze (pictured) once threatened to dismiss an entire class from the United States Military Academy?
... that Britain's Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle's performance of "I Dreamed a Dream" gained her worldwide attention?
... that Lê Chiêu Thống, last king of the Vietnamese Lê Dynasty, died in China?
... that several abolitionist come-outers put on trial in Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1851 were called "poor deluded beings" in The Barnstable Patriot?
... that one journalist described the simultaneous release of Elvira Nikolaisen's Quiet Exit and Marit Larsen's Under the Surface as the peak of a "girl war" in Norwegian music?
... that Michael Stern was one of two journalists to enter Rome on June 3, 1944, one day ahead of American forces?
... that the Theater St. Gallen is considered to be the oldest professional theatre in Switzerland?
... that S. H. Finne-Grønn and Sigurd Segelcke Meidell were among the founders of the Norwegian Genealogical Society?
... that in the 1950s, midget professional wrestlers Sky Low Low and Little Beaver wrestled in a match for the UK's Queen Elizabeth and Egypt's King Farouk?

15:17, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

... that after the Collins Line steamer Baltic (pictured) won the coveted Blue Riband in 1851, no American ship would regain the honor for a century?
... that Germany's lowest recorded temperature of −45.9°C (−50.6°F) was recorded at the Funtensee?
... that Edvard Beyer edited the Scandinavian Journal of Literary Research Edda from 1962 to 1972?
... that in 1972 the Australian submarine HMAS Onslow survived a crash dive to almost double her safe operating depth?
... that the Broadway play Irena's Vow tells the story of Irena Gut, a Polish nurse who during World War II saved twelve Jews from the Holocaust at the risk of her own life?
... that King Nissanka Malla of Sri Lanka carried out a refurbishment of the Dambulla cave temple, in which 50 Buddha statues and the temple's interior were gilded?
... that Nintoku Seamount, an underwater volcano in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, is over 56.2 million years old?
... that Lou Marson hit his first major league home run on the final day of the Philadelphia Phillies’ World Series-winning 2008 season?

08:18, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Mexico City's La Santisima Church (pictured) has sunk nearly 3 metres (9.8 ft) since it was built in the 1780s?
... that no professional wrestler has held the ROH World Championship twice during its seven-year existence?
... that Thomas Christian Wyller is regarded as one of the founders of political science as an academic discipline in Norway?
... that Anaconda Copper's El Salvador mine and Kennecott Copper's El Teniente mine were nationalised by Salvador Allende, the President of Chile?
... that the 1979 Easter flood was among the most costly and devastating ever to occur in Mississippi, with over $1.4 billion in damages?
... that besides commanding the Bulgarian First Army during World War II, Vladimir Stoychev was an Olympic equestrian and Bulgarian Olympic Committee chairman?
... that Bob Dylan was familiar with folk singer Dillard Chandler in 1969, when Chandler's album Old Love Songs & Ballads had sold only 50 copies?
... that the descendants of at least three unrelated Irish clans or septs, named in Gaelic Mac Amhlaoibh and Mac Amhalghaidh, bear the exact same or similar surnames?

02:40, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the spores of the Column Stinkhorn fungus (pictured) are formed as a bad-smelling gleba smeared on the inside of several column-like appendages?
... that the Brazilian dreadnoughts Minas Gerais and São Paulo "outclassed the entire Argentine fleet" when they were built?
... that the professional wrestling stable Poder Mexica was formed after two of the founding members, Sangre Azteca and Dragón Rojo, Jr., wrestled to a draw?
... that Alexander Hamilton Bowman helped build Fort Sumter and later served as the superintendent at West Point during the American Civil War?
... that Johanne Dybwad´s acting career spanned sixty years, from 1887 to 1947?
... that the WW2 Royal Enfield WD/RE motorcycle was known as the Flying Flea as it was designed to be dropped by parachute from bomber aircraft?
... that ends Tom Maentz and Ron Kramer, known as the "touchdown twins," were the first University of Michigan athletes to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
... that Moose A. Moose is a fictional cartoon moose who hosts TV shows on Nickelodeon's educational spin-off Noggin?

21 April 2009

20:16, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

... that despite a career lasting only four years, HMS Jason managed to capture (one engagement pictured) at least six French warships, including two that went on to become Royal Navy vessels?
... that composer Mozart learned card tricks and fencing while recovering from smallpox?
... that there are only 0.5–1.5 tigers per 100 square kilometres (39 sq mi) in India's Palamau Tiger Reserve?
... that the stand-off at the Fords of Arkaig ended a deadly feud between Clan Cameron and Clan Mackintosh that had continued for 360 years?
... that Niels Christian Ditleff initiated the White Buses rescue operation, recruiting Folke Bernadotte to negotiate with Heinrich Himmler?
... that the Allaire Iron Works, using pig iron from Howell Works, built more than fifty percent of America's early marine steam engines?
... that Bulgarian volleyball coach Radostin Stoychev won the Italian Volleyball League and the CEV Champions League in his debut seasons?
... that the 1929 eruption of the Gareloi Volcano created a fissure running down the mountain's southern summit?

13:40, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

... that mushroom species Mycena haematopus (pictured), also known as the "Bleeding Mycena", oozes a red latex when cut?
... that an uprising led by local chapter of the Jewish Combat Organization occurred in the Będzin Ghetto during its final liquidation in early August 1943?
... that Axel Otto Normann, a theatre critic and director of the National Theatre in Norway, did not hold a degree of higher education?
... that populations of the butterfly Henry's Elfin are growing in New England due to the introduction of buckthorn, which the butterflies now use as a host plant?
... that although large designs in earlier Roman mosaics were mostly floors, Late Antique and medieval mosaics in Italy are found mainly on walls and ceilings?
... that baseball pitcher Darryl Scott was demoted to the minor leagues in 1993 while at a hospital with his wife and newborn son?
... that when it opened in 1776, the punishment for vandalism to Richmond Bridge was seven years of exile in America?
... that actress India de Beaufort prepared for her exotic dance in the Kröd Mändoon episode "Golden Powers" by studying pole dancing at a Hungarian strip club?

02:53, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

... that desert snail Sphincterochila boissieri (pictured) spends 95% of its lifetime in "summer sleep" (also called estivation)?
... that when Morcar was given lands including Weston-on-Trent in Derbyshire 1,000 years ago, he was unusually given freedom from the threefold tax?
... that higher-education institutions in Nevada include a university with 134 students?
... that C. S. Schilbred was among the founders of both the Norwegian Genealogical Society and the Norwegian Heraldry Society?
... that professional wrestling promotion Chikara hosted La Lotería Letal, a tag team tournament composed of randomly paired teams?
... that German-born Henry Schwarzschild—after emigrating in 1939—was a Freedom Rider and helped found the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty?
... that the SCTV character Edith Prickley has been described as "an amalgam of Rona Barrett, Joan of Arc, and Auntie Mame?"
... that one event of the United States Academic Decathlon can include questions like "How would you alert someone that their zipper is down?"

20 April 2009

20:14, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

... that aside from owning the publishing rights to The Beatles' songs, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, co-owned by Michael Jackson (pictured), controls the music of Eminem and Akon?
... that Melidectes is a genus of honeyeater birds endemic to the mountains of New Guinea and New Britain?
... that Francis Augustus Cox, who started preaching in his teens, was a Baptist minister in Hackney for 42 years?
... that the 2002 Pacific hurricane season and the 1994 Pacific hurricane season are currently tied for the number of Category 5 hurricanes in the same season with three each?
... that Karl Bull was present at the negotiations in Karlstad between Norway and Sweden in 1905 as a military representative?
... that "Dream Team", an episode of The Office, marked the return of writer and actor B.J. Novak, who departed to film his role in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino film Inglourious Basterds?
... that Sir John Horsey and his son, also called Sir John Horsey, are both buried in a tomb in the Wykeham Chapel of Sherborne Abbey?
... that in the 1970s, the average Argentine consumed nearly 24 gallons (equal to 120 standard 750 ml bottles) of Argentine wine a year?

14:43, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

... that editor Ola Thommessen (caricatured as dog) left the newspaper Verdens Gang in 1910, founding Tidens Tegn, which bought Verdens Gang only thirteen years later?
... that the punishment for treason in Ancient China was the extermination of one's entire family?
... that the Phil Collins song, "That's Just the Way It Is", was written about the conflict in Northern Ireland called "The Troubles"?
... that film historian Donald Bogle has identified six basic stereotypical film roles available to African-American actors and actresses: toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, bucks, and sidekicks?
... that scientists believe construction of the Rengali Dam and barrier in Orissa, India, negatively impacts plant species in the Bhitarkanika Mangroves?
... that Willie Groves was the first footballer to be transferred for £100 or more?
... that hours before the curtain raised on his debut opera Guntram, composer Richard Strauss was reportedly engaged in a heated discussion of John Henry Mackay's Die Anarchisten?
... that music critic Craig Seymour claimed stripping gave him the confidence he needed to interview major celebrities?

05:08, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

... that semi-domes (pictured) are a typical focus for mosaic or fresco icons in Byzantine art?
... that the observational documentary Teens in the Wild followed the journey of six teenagers with "behavioural difficulties" into the wilderness of Connemara?
... that Lady Inger’s daughter’s scandalous behavior enabled Jens Tillufssøn Bjelke, while of lesser nobility, to marry into leading Norwegian nobility?
... that the 12th-century guide to Rome's wonders, De mirabilibus urbis Romae, survived in a single copy?
... that last year, Perfume was the first technopop group since Yellow Magic Orchestra to have a number-one album in Japan?
... that the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) consider the TNA X Division Championship to be a world championship when most are heavyweight titles?
... that before becoming milliner to Christian Dior, Stephen Jones's first commercial commission was a hat for a cough medicine advertisement?
... that Richard Perceval, who was born at Nailsea Court, deciphered Spanish documents for Queen Elizabeth about the Spanish Armada invasion plans?
... that when Eisenhower told Nixon that he was unsure if Nixon would stay on the ticket if the Checkers speech succeeded, Nixon replied that there are times “when you've either got to shit or get off the pot”?

19 April 2009

22:58, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

... that goat meat (pictured) is becoming a more common food in North America, especially in upscale restaurants?
... that the Swaminarayan temple in Cardiff replaced a synagogue when it opened in 1982 and then an Irish club when it moved in 1993?
... that philanthropist Dorothy Cullman and her husband, Lewis Cullman, donated over $250 million in support of the arts, science, and education?
... that the steamship SS Makambo was built in Scotland, caused an environmental disaster on Lord Howe Island by introducing Black Rats there, and was sunk by a British submarine?
... that the murder of Rie Isogai was the first single-killing in recent years in Japan for which multiple convicts were sentenced to death?
... that the present-day Bevill State Community College is the result of the merger of four institutions?
... that Canadian Harvey Lowe won the first World Yo-Yo Contest in 1932 at age 13?
... that in 1934, the Soviet high-altitude balloon Osoaviakhim-1 set a flight altitude record during its maiden flight but crashed during the descent?
... that tetraconch churches, with four apses spreading from a central dome, are a speciality of medieval Armenian and Georgian architecture?

15:32, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Sapria himalayana (pictured), found in the Eastern Himalayas, is dependent on its host plant for water, nutrients and products of photosynthesis?
... that the reconstructed Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the main tourist attractions of Warsaw, Poland?
... that when Zionists and the Jewish Anti-Zionist League clashed in Cairo in 1947, Egyptian police sided with the Zionists?
... that since 2006, Irish TV programme One to One's interviewees have included a former head of UN Monitoring and a US Supreme Court judge?
... that after World War II, only 168 of 444 trams in Munich, Germany, were in operational condition?
... that coach Paul E. Davis led Mississippi State to win the 1963 Liberty Bowl?
... that the erstwhile capital of the Qing Heilongjiang was built on the site of a town formerly belonging to the Ducher people, whose ethnic identification remains controversial?
... that singer Jordy van Loon was offered six different record deals after he gave an unplanned performance on Mooi! Weer de Leeuw while he was glued behind a piece of wallpaper?

09:20, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Lake Manzala (pictured) had to be expanded to allow the building of the Suez Canal, as it was previously less than 5 feet (1.5 m) deep?
... that the discovery of a population of Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Volcano in the Aleutian Islands prevented their extinction?
... that three songs written by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel peaked at number-one in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in 1986?
... that a focus group report heavily critical of the "Pilot" episode of the NBC show Parks and Recreation was leaked to the media one month before the show aired?
... that the 24 buildings with Grade I listed status in Brighton and Hove, England, include the ruined West Pier—damaged by a succession of fires and storms?
... that actress Sela Ward was not initially interested in playing Stacy Warner on FOX's House, but changed her mind after watching tapes of the show?
... that Torolf Prytz, a Norwegian architect turned goldsmith, also served as Minister of Industrial Provisioning for the Liberal Party?
... that the name of basketball player Aulcie Perry has become a generic phrase for a tall person in Hebrew?

02:41, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

... that due to a mental illness, Greek sculptor Yannoulis Chalepas was inactive for almost 15 years (1888–1902), and did not fully return to his art (example pictured) until 1918?
... that academic Anastasios Christodoulou was named 'Anastasios' ('Resurrection') by his parents as he was born on Easter Day?
... that the Golden-scruffy Collybia mushroom has been placed in 14 different genera?
... that walkers were encouraged to use the Buntingford Branch Line on Sundays by being offered cheap tickets?
... that the members of R&B girl group Electrik Red appeared together in Ciara's music video for "Like a Boy"?
... that thousands of Olive Ridley turtles are found dead at the mouth of the Devi River every year?
... that brothers Jim Perry and Gaylord Perry made Opening Day starts for the Major League Baseball Cleveland Indians?
... that Gunvald Tomstad, a double agent for Norwegian resistance in World War II, acted as a local "ideologist" of the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling?
... that George Whitaker, president of Willamette University in Oregon, banned talking between boys and girls at the school?

18 April 2009

18:49, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

... that bomb vessels in the Royal Navy (example pictured) have tended to be named after volcanoes, or things associated with fire or Hell?
... that the original U.S. Forest Service ranger's cabin at Allison Ranger Station in the Ochoco Mountains of Oregon was built in 1911?
... that the flowers of the bamboo species Bambusa lako of Timor have yet to be scientifically observed?
... that actor Billy Bob Thornton provides drums and vocals for the country rock band The Boxmasters?
... that Thomas Johannessen Heftye co-founded the Norwegian Trekking Association in 1868?
... that one critic wrote that Jivin' in Be-Bop includes "one of the worst ballets ever put on film"?
... that The Independent's reaction to Ireland's recent emergency budget included a cartoon of the country's Taoiseach measuring a dead tiger?
... that American race car driver Scott Gaylord asked his future wife out for their first date while competing against her in a race?

10:37, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

... that although it produces its spores on gills, the mushroom Panus conchatus (pictured) is more closely related to species with pores?
... that in 1995, René Fasel of Switzerland became the first ever representative of ice hockey to become a member of the International Olympic Committee?
... that Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne in A-flat major, Op. 32, No. 2, originally written for piano, was orchestrated in the ballet Les Sylphides?
... that LtCol. John F. Bolt, Korean War Navy Cross recipient, remains the only U.S. Marine Corps jet aircraft flying ace?
... that Sprout Creek, whose subwatershed covers 29,342 acres (11,874 ha) of land, is the largest tributary of the Fishkill Creek?
... that Ove Gjerløw Meyer is recognized as the 1772 founder of the Norwegian Society?
... that the Orange-winged Amazon and Red-bellied Macaw mostly eat fruit from the royal palm Roystonea oleracea from July to September?
... that the defunct Portland University in Oregon had only one building, so the school bookstore was a nearby general store?

02:32, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the Modjeska Monteith Simkins House (pictured) in Columbia, South Carolina, honors the life and work of the civil rights activist Modjeska Monteith Simkins?
... that Professor Harald Noreng led a project to list every word used in Henrik Ibsen's oeuvre?
... that the Río Pilcomayo National Park in Argentina is included in the Ramsar Convention's list of wetlands of international importance?
...that during World War II, William D. Alexander helped produce more than 250 newsreels concerning African-American soldiers and sailors?
... that during the Mexican Revolution, Metropolitan Magazine sent reporter John Reed to Mexico where he stayed with Pancho Villa?
... that despite signing over 100 affiliate TV stations, the NTA Film Network never developed into a major television network?
... that professional wrestler Dragón Rojo, Jr. is one of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's "ambassadors" against tuberculosis?
... that 21-year-old Isuru Udana of the Wayamba province cricket team was adjudged Man of the Match and Series of the 2009 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament?
... that the spring orange peel fungus infects caches of pinecones collected by squirrels?

17 April 2009

19:35, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

... that phumdis (example pictured), exclusive to Loktak Lake, are masses of decaying vegetation forming Keibul Lamjao National Park, the world’s only floating park and a preservation area for endangered Eld's Deer, in Manipur, India?
... that George W. Barrett was the first person sentenced to death by hanging under a congressional act that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent?
... that the Mendoza wine region produces nearly two-thirds of all the wine made in Argentina?
... that the 1998–99 NBA lockout forced the cancellation of 464 regular-season National Basketball Association games?
... that Herbert Kisza owns one of the largest private one-artist galleries in Central Europe in Kadaň, Czech Republic?
... that at age 61, Ludvig Munk fathered Kirsten Munk with whom King Christian IV entered into a morganatic marriage?
... that KHSN, one of Oregon's first radio stations, began broadcasting in 1928?
... that author Jeanette Winterson was upset at being asked to rewrite the ending of her 1994 film Great Moments in Aviation?

12:46, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Michigan's All-American quarterback Archie Weston (pictured) was once tackled during a game by an irate female fan?
... that Koko Guyot, an underwater volcano in the Hawaiian volcanic chain, was named for the 58th emperor of Japan, Emperor Koko?
... that linguist Trygve Knudsen was co-editor of the dictionary Norsk Riksmålsordbok from 1925 until its completion in 1957?
... that Waldschmidt Hall at the University of Portland in Oregon is the oldest building on campus, and older than the school?
... that Phú Xuân was the capital of the Nguyễn Lords, the Tây Sơn Dynasty and the Nguyễn Dynasty?
... that before a cavalry charge, Charles A. May told his soldiers, "Remember your Regiment and follow your officers!", which today remains a motto of the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment?
... that the first successful flat panel display, the Aiken tube, was originally developed as an interactive plotting table for U.S. Navy anti-submarine helicopters?
... that after decades as an anarcho-syndicalist, Maksim Rayevsky suddenly left the anarchist movement and went to work for the Soviet government?

06:35, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Chinese citizen Ma Cheng has encountered difficulties with the naming laws in China because the character for her given name, Cheng (pictured), is so rare?
... that genetic monitoring of the DNA from feathers shed by the Eastern Imperial Eagle shows it is shorter lived than other long-lived raptors?
... that the tomb of Pope Clement II in the Bamberg Cathedral is the only extant papal tomb outside Italy and France?
... that Fermín Salvochea was one of the early anarchist thinkers and activists in Spain?
... that the prototype two-wheeled, battery-powered, self-balancing PUMA from General Motors and Segway can carry two passengers at 35 miles per hour (56 km/h) for a distance of up to 35 miles (56 km)?
... that Turkish political parties cancelled their rallies ahead of the local elections in respect of the death of Yazıcıoğlu, leader of the Great Union Party, in the 2009 Medair TC-HEK helicopter crash?
... that Andreas Paulson, a socialist and well-known literary and theatre critic, spent his professional career as a bank accountant?
... that the This is why you're fat website received 10 million page views in the first two months after its creation and features photographs of dishes like the "Homewrecker" and "30,000 Calorie Sandwich"?

00:40, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

... that after William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury (pictured) was captured by the French in the Hundred Years' War, he had to promise never to fight in France again?
... that the lime-green waxy cap has a limited geographical distribution, having been collected only in California and Mexico?
... that Gideon Byamugisha was the first religious leader in Africa to publicly announce that he was HIV positive?
... that Google and Universal Music Group have announced Vevo, a YouTube-based, joint venture, music video-hosting website?
... that American journalist and writer Bessie Breuer's first novel, Memory of Love (1935), was the basis for the 1939 film In Name Only which starred Cary Grant and Carol Lombard?
... that accounting ethics helps accountants and auditors resolve ethical dilemmas in ways that may not benefit a company but will benefit the public relying on the company's financial reports?
... that poet and philanthropist Constant Tonegaru was imprisoned by Romania's regime when one of his aid parcels was redirected toward anti-communist fighters?
... that the busiest ATM in the entire Buffalo, New York, region is in the hamlet of Snyder?

16 April 2009

16:16, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Sir Edward Rogers (pictured) was an Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII of England who rose to become Comptroller of the Household to Henry's daughter Elizabeth I?
... that the American sisters Rose and Ottilie Sutro were the world's first duo-piano team?
... that the Sumpa were a large tribe of 30,000 families in northeastern Tibet conquered and then assimilated by the Tibetans in the 7th–8th centuries CE?
... that the Great Canadian Wrestling Expo's first two events featured puppet Ed the Sock as commissioner in 2005 and a match to determine leadership of the Power Rangers in 2006?
... that the City University of New York system (CUNY) is the United States' largest urban public university system?
... that John Shearman's book on Quattrocento painting was commissioned by 1984, but was incomplete at his death, and remains a gap in the series?
... that despite being called a "one-hit wonder" by members of the UK music industry, singer Jamelia has had seven Top 10 singles enter the UK Singles Chart?
... that ex-professional footballer Julian Hails has a BSc honours degree in mathematical studies and became a mathematics teacher?

08:26, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the 13th U.S. President Millard Fillmore was raised in a part of Western New York known as the Southtowns (Fillmore House pictured)?
... that Tang Dynasty Jiedushi (military governor) Li Yijian stopped his army from using two new styles of music, believing that it was the central government's prerogative to create military music?
... that country music artist and Dead Reckoning Records co-founder Tammy Rogers was once a backing musician for Patty Loveless and Trisha Yearwood?
... that to strengthen its bid to air the UAAP college league, Philippine TV network ABS-CBN proposed to air the men's basketball finals at its flagship VHF channel 2 instead of at UHF channel 23?
... that Ritchie Coliseum was called less adequate than a high school gymnasium by Maryland coach Bud Millikan?
... that Suez Canal construction reduced the salinity of Lake Timsah?
... that, in the first issue of The Covent-Garden Journal, Henry Fielding declared literary war on the "armies of Grub Street" and thereby triggered the Paper War of 1752-1753?
... that part of a $1 billion renovation of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel brought on a policy change for their toilet paper folding?

15 April 2009

22:55, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

... that rocksnails Leptoxis taeniata (shell pictured), Leptoxis ampla and Leptoxis plicata are threatened by the construction of dams in the Mobile River Basin?
... that the bamboo species Bambusa oldhamii, known as the Giant Timber Bamboo, has been introduced into California, where it is the most common clumping bamboo?
... that at least 20,000 Indigenous Australians and between 2,000 and 2,500 Europeans are estimated to have been killed in the Australian frontier wars?
... that Holocaust deniers have contacted former SS-Rottenführer Oskar Gröning to convince him that the things he witnessed at Auschwitz were hallucinations on his part?
... that HMS Spitfire captured at least nine French privateers and small naval vessels during a four year period under the command of Michael Seymour?
... that between 47,000 and 65,000 Filipinos live in France?
... that Bird Millman, once called the "most celebrated female high-wire performer of all time", was a premiere attraction with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus?

16:36, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

... that in 1908, the newly built St John the Evangelist's Church (pictured) became the parish church of Preston Village in Brighton, England, after the 13th-century St Peter's Church was seriously damaged by fire?
... that the Empire Building in Manhattan is one of the oldest steel framed skyscrapers built on pneumatic caissons?
... that Wade Hampton II's home, Millwood, now in ruins, is considered to have been the social center of antebellum South Carolina?
... that the documentary Dolce e selvaggio includes both genuine and fake scenes of human death?
... that contributions to the U.S. Treasury's Conscience Fund, a fund for voluntary gifts from people who have defrauded the U.S. Government, are not tax deductible although other gifts are?
... that in 1935, the uniform of the national-conservative Bismarckjugend was banned in Germany?
... that the owner of a radio station in Corvallis, Oregon, had the station's legal call sign changed to KEJO to honor his late daughter, Emily Jo?
... that Governor of Formosa Pieter Nuyts (1598–1655) was rumoured to hide an interpreter under his bed to translate pillow talk during his affairs with local women?

10:19, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

... that former U.S. Under Secretary of Labor John F. Henning (pictured) has been commended by Nancy Pelosi as "one of organized labor's greatest leaders"?
... that Swedish singer Agnes Carlsson's 2009 Melodifestivalen entry "Love Love Love" was originally planned to be performed as a duet?
... that the film version of the play Norman, Is That You? substitutes an African-American family for a Jewish family?
... that General Hausmann, commander of Norway’s Army, was dismissed as too warlike, but the army he built repelled Swedish attacks between 1716–1718?
... that Frascati, a Federal-style plantation near Somerset, Virginia, was home to Supreme Court Associate Justice Philip Pendleton Barbour?
... that Francis Bull, a board member of the National Theatre when Nazi Germany occupied Norway in 1940, was arrested in 1941 and spent three years in a concentration camp?
... that the interactive fiction Violet won four XYZZY Awards and took first place in the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition?
... that the Tang Dynasty general Han Hong had once sent a beautiful woman as a gift to his subordinate general Li Guangyan, only to have Li reject and return her?

02:44, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Lieutenant General Howard D. Graves (pictured) was a Rhodes Scholar, the Superintendent of West Point, and the Chancellor of Texas A&M University?
... that the Japanese television drama Yūkan Club won four of the five possible awards at the 2007 Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix?
... that Ann Arbor, Michigan, was founded by John Allen and Elisha Rumsey in 1824?
... that AfterEllen.com praised the yaoi manga series The Moon and the Sandals for illustrating "the challenges gay men face in Japanese society"?
... that on two occasions, the TNA World Tag Team Championship has been held by individual wrestlers rather than tag teams?
... that Choor Singh, former judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore, was the first Singaporean judge to impose the death penalty on a woman?
... that Detroit Seamount, an underwater volcano in the North Pacific, is as big as the island of Hawaii?
... that when the Swedish book Are U 4 Real? was released in the United States, several parts regarding sex were removed?

14 April 2009

20:32, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Devil's Urn (pictured) is a harbinger of spring?
... that Joe Mauer won a batting title, the first by a catcher since 1942, and a Silver Slugger Award at catcher in 2006?
... that the Harrell Prairie Botanical Area is one of the last undisturbed portions of the Jackson Prairie in the U.S. state of Mississippi?
... that before its broadcast, the Japanese visual novel Tayutama: Kiss on my Deity's anime adaptation was first exhibited as a video hosted by Media Factory?
... that two Spanish versions of the Italian song "Tutta la vita" peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart?
... that when Thirwat Shehata visited Ayman al-Zawahiri in a Russian prison, he was allowed to give the al-Jihad leader a letter that authorities did not bother to translate?
... that Irish rugby union commentator Ryle Nugent has worn sheepskin gloves whilst clinging to his microphone "for dear life"?
... that syndicated radio show host "Delilah" got her start in radio reporting local news and sports on KDUN in Reedsport, Oregon, while still in junior high school?

13:57, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Mary Anne Rawson (pictured) helped in the anti-slavery campaign that reduced the sale of sugar from the West Indies in Sheffield?
... that the South Park episode "Fishsticks" spoofed rapper Kanye West who said that his feelings were hurt by the show?
... that the cooperative eye hypothesis suggests an explanation for how the human eye evolved its distinctive coloring?
... that there are 64 units in the State University of New York system?
... that Balu Sankaran received a Padma Shri award in 1972 for helping and treating injured soldiers in Safdarjang Hospital during the Bangladesh Liberation War?
... that Alex Rodriguez holds four offensive statistical records among shortstops during his seven Silver Slugger-winning seasons?
... that in 1958, a Royal Enfield Super Meteor motorcycle was used by the Transport Research Laboratory to test the Maxaret anti-lock braking system?
... that a student at the University of Portland won US$3 for suggesting the new name of the student newspaper, The Beacon?

06:12, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the honeycomb stingray (pictured) has expanded its range into the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal?
... that Robert K. Crane's discovery of sodium–glucose co-transport led to the development of oral rehydration therapy?
... that Minsk Ghetto was the largest ghetto in the German-occupied territory of the Soviet Union?
... that Dag Kavlie, former rector of the Norwegian Institute of Technology, participates regularly in the Birkebeinerrennet ski race?
... that the shooting deaths of three Pittsburgh Police officers was the second-deadliest incident for United States law enforcement since the September 11 attacks?
... that former NPB catcher Katsunori Nomura was managed by his father, Katsuya Nomura, on three different teams: the Yakult Swallows, the Hanshin Tigers and the Rakuten Golden Eagles?
... that in his book The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World, author Steven A. Grasse argues that the United Kingdom was responsible for the Vietnam War?
... that Gus Van Sant casted Paranoid Park via MySpace?

13 April 2009

23:44, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

... that a mutation in the human homolog of the RNA splicing protein Prp24 (pictured) is believed to cause the skin condition disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis?
... that Teresa Edwards is the all-time leader for the most Olympic medals in basketball?
... that the lyrics on the album Kew. Rhone. are filled with anagrams, palindromes, and other verbal puzzles?
... that Henrik Mohn is credited with founding meteorological research in Norway?
... that all citizens over the age of 16 in the People's Republic of China are required by law to carry personal identification?
... that University of Pittsburgh halfback Gibby Welch broke the single-season yardage record set by Red Grange, gaining 1,964 yards in just nine games in 1926?
... that students from National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research in Orissa, India, attacked its Director during a protest about living conditions in the hostel?
... that abolitionist Stephen Symonds Foster was thrown in jail in 1838 for two weeks during his senior year at Dartmouth but still managed to graduate third in his class?

15:57, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

... that while Mamakating Park (house pictured) near Wurtsboro, New York, was built as a summer resort community, its plan is closer to a religious camp meeting?
... that Keila Costa is the South American record holder in the women's triple jump event?
... that radio stations KGAL and KSHO are celebrating Oregon's sesquicentennial with a year-long series of historical vignettes?
... that after the death of two original co-editors of Norsk biografisk leksikon, Gerhard Gran and Anders Krogvig, the third original editor Edvard Bull was joined by Einar Jansen?
... that under the United States' doctrine of substantial similarity, a work can be found to infringe copyright even if the wording of the text has been changed?
... that Thomas Heftye was the Norwegian Minister of Defence on two occasions, but for a total time of six months?
... that the Roaring River Wilderness near Mount Hood in Oregon has trees that are 1,000 years old?
... that Robert Fielding polygamously married Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, a former mistress of King Charles II, within a month of marrying another woman?

09:36, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the Prince of Wales Museum (pictured), Mumbai, was used as a Children's Welfare Centre and a Military Hospital in the First World War?
... that Guttorm Hansen, the President of the Norwegian Parliament who started his career as a mechanic, declined three offers for a government minister position?
... that ChristianCinema.com gives filmmakers a place to submit screening copies of their work with the possibility of being distributed and promoted by the website?
... that Ritchie Hanlon became manager of St Albans City F.C. at the age of 29, three months after he retired as a player?
... that the New Jersey County Colleges is a system of 19 public community colleges with over 60 campuses in the U.S. state of New Jersey?
... that Raja Chelliah, a public finance expert in India, received the Padma Vibushan award in year 2007?
... that when the German U-boat UB-8 was transferred to the Bulgarian Navy in May 1916, she became the first ever Bulgarian submarine?
... that Donna Kossy is "an expert on kooks [who] has a genuine, if sometimes uncomfortable, affection for her subjects"?

03:43, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

... that rockhounds come to the Ochoco Mountains in central Oregon to look for thundereggs (pictured)?
... that Li Fanwen got the opportunity to complete the first draft of his dictionary of the extinct Tangut language when Premier Zhou Enlai was told that only a few old scholars were able to read the complex Tangut script?
... that Augustin Barruel's Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism is considered one of the founding documents of the right-wing interpretation of the French Revolution?
... that Charles Henry Tompkins was the first Union Army officer to receive the Medal of Honor during the Civil War?
... that the policy of Cuban medical internationalism has provided, among other things, ongoing medical care to 18,000 victims of the Chernobyl disaster?
... that poet Harald Sverdrup`s literary breakthrough Sankt Elms ild (1958) earned him the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature?
... that Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals set the record of the highest Nielsen rating for any NBA game?
... that the Gruban v Booth case was so popular that the barristers had difficulty making to their way through the crowds to the court on the last day?

12 April 2009

21:24, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the protein ASF/SF2 (molecular image pictured) is involved in the development of the human heart and the replication of HIV-1?
... that Anna Maria Rückerschöld was an early Swedish cookbook author who also argued that middle class women should be entitled to an education in household matters?
... that as of 2006, the award-winning Dictionary of Literary Biography contained 13,500 author biographies?
... that the pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company was founded by American Civil War veteran Colonel Eli Lilly?
... that the Gwangtonggwan in Seoul is the oldest continuously-operating bank building in Korea?
... that Alfred Madison Barbour was the superintendent of the Harpers Ferry Armory during John Brown's raid in 1859?
... that the Trithemius cipher, created by Johannes Trithemius, is vulnerable to attack because it lacks a key, which is said to break a rule of cryptology called Kerckhoffs' principle?
... that despite serving in the Grand Fleet for a year, the only enemy warship destroyed in World War I by United States Battleship Division Nine was sunk entirely by accident?

15:08, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

... that some species in the lichen genus Sticta (Sticta hypochra pictured) can be used to assess the age of forests?
... that Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram was awarded the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1893 for his achievements in international arbitration?
... that the Tunnel de la mort (Death tunnel), an intersection in Montreal, was the scene of an inordinate number of serious car accidents?
... that Migingo, an island about half the size of a soccer field, is the subject of territorial dispute and a diplomatic conflict between Uganda and Kenya?
... that Curtis Stone worked as an enforcer for drug dealers before becoming a Christian and founding Warriors 4 Christ Wrestling?
... that in 1933, the German Socialist Labour Party of Poland supported the Bundist call for boycott of goods produced in Germany, in protest of the Hitler regime?
... that ten days after a heart attack and surgery, Hillsboro, Oregon, mayor Tom Hughes helped demolish a building?
... that the houndfish has been known to leap out of the water, causing injuries with its sharp beak, when attracted by the artificial lighting used to catch it?

08:53, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the Puerto Rican royal palm (pictured) is a useful tree for landscaping since its roots will not damage sidewalks?
... that Cistercian architecture, "counted among the most beautiful relics of the Middle Ages", was made possible by the Cistercian Order's innovativeness and skill as metallurgists?
... that Thomas Van Scoy was the president of three universities, but only Willamette still exists?
... that during the Siege of Paris (1870–1871), chef Alexandre Étienne Choron cooked up many of the animals in the Jardin d'acclimatation's menagerie?
... that although the extinct Norfolk Island Boobook was last sighted in 1996, its genes live on in the hybrid descendants of the last living female bird?
... that astronomy professor Jens Fredrik Schroeter first learned his subject during childhood when his father, a sea captain, taught him how to use the sextant?
... that according to Street Gang, a discussion at a dinner party, hosted by Joan Ganz Cooney in 1966, led to the creation of the children's television show, Sesame Street?
... that Cincinnati streetcars were the main form of public transportation in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the turn of the 20th century?

02:49, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the anthraquinones, emodin glycosides, toxalbumins, and alkaloids found in coffee senna (pictured) can be toxic to mammals when consumed in large quantities?
... that the founder of the Cistercian Abbeyknockmoy in 1190, Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht, was buried there in 1224?
... that Hemming's Cartulary is the first surviving medieval English cartulary?
... that Libertas Estonia was founded in 1994 as the Estonian Blue Party?
... that the original Mace of the Virginia House of Delegates was sold to partners in a silversmith firm for $101?
... that Jon Hol was indicted for lèse majesté for his 1884 pamphlet, where he called for citizens to take up arms if the King and Army interfered with parliamentary process?
... that the Milan–Venice railway line crosses the Venetian Lagoon on a 222-arch bridge built on 80,000 piles of larch wood?
... that under the Madhouses Act 1774 in the United Kingdom, keeping more than two lunatics without a license was punishable by a £500 fine?

11 April 2009

19:41, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the stinkhorn fungus Pseudocolus fusiformis (pictured) is commonly known as the stinky squid?
... that S. P. Adithanar was the founder of Dina Thanthi, a widely read Tamil newspaper?
... that Canadian women's ice hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser, the highest scoring female Olympic hockey player, is credited with 14 goals and 20 assists?
... that Bjørn Floberg, mostly known for playing unsympathetic roles, and comedian Robin Williams each played the same character in the 1997 Norwegian film Insomnia and its 2002 American remake, respectively?
... that Independent Students Union was the student arm of Polish opposition movement Solidarity?
... that Supreme Court Assessor Christopher Hansteen turned down an offer to become Prime Minister of Norway in 1892?
... that Neal, James, Fordyce and Down was a Scottish banking house which collapsed in 1772 precipitating the collapse of almost every private bank in Scotland?
... that the Miami, Florida, group Take Back the Land breaks into unoccupied, bank-foreclosed houses and moves homeless families into them?

13:30, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

... that even one hundred years after its discovery, the role of the amino acid ergothioneine (molecule pictured) in the human body remains a mystery?
... that actress Louise Gold, playing Phyllis in a West End production of Follies, was described as "injured queen one moment, vamp the next"?
... that right after the Byzantine capital of Constantinople fell to the Ottomans, the rulers of the Byzantine Despotate of Morea called upon the Ottomans to suppress their own peasant revolt?
... that on a voyage to the South Pacific, Simon Hatley shot an albatross, an act which later became the basis for a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
... that the L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, D.C. now operates as a historic house museum?
... that Maria Antonescu, wife of Romania's World War II dictator Ion Antonescu, presided over charities financed though the extortion of local Jews?
... that The Poets and Poetry of America (1842) by Rufus Wilmot Griswold went through three editions in six months, but is today called a "graveyard of poets"?
... that the Orange-girdled Parasol mushroom has an odor that has been described as similar to rubber or cut metal?

07:23, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

... that St Mary the Virgin Church (pictured) in Brighton, England, stands on the site of a former church—designed as a replica of the Greek Temple of Nemesis—which collapsed in 1876?
... that Norwegian linguist Christian Stang was honored by the eponymous Stang's law?
... that sister stations KTIX, KUMA, KUMA-FM, and KWHT share a single studio building at the west end of Eastern Oregon Regional Airport?
... that although criticized for poor performance in the 2006 Lebanon War by the Winograd Commission, Brigadier-General Eyal Eisenberg was promoted to command the Israel Defense Forces's Gaza Division?
... that Amar Kutir in West Bengal, India, once a place of refuge for independence movement activists, has been turned into a society for the promotion of arts and crafts?
... that for security reasons, the findings relating to uranium in John Holt's 1941 PhD thesis on artificial radioactivity were not released?
... that La Minerve, Quebec, named after the historic La Minerve newspaper, has only a population of 1295 but swells to nearly 15,000 in the summer?
... that, as the Tang Dynasty chancellor Wang Yai was paraded to his execution site, the people who resented him for raising the tea tax threw rocks and brick fragments at him?

01:19, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

... that in 1938, California Assemblyman Charles W. Lyon (pictured) won both primaries to win reelection, defeating Murray Chotiner in the Republican contest and Robert A. Heinlein in the Democratic?
... that a fire in Saravana Stores, Chennai, in 2008 burnt out most of the building and killed two people?
... that the only Football League match in which Billy Jervis played was abandoned due to fading daylight after his team turned up late?
... that the 2008 nature documentary film The Meerkats was narrated by Paul Newman and is believed to be one of his last film credits?
... that Minori Kimura made her professional manga artist debut at the age of 14 in the 1964 Spring Special issue of Ribon, a magazine published in Japan by Shueisha?
... that the Tabor-Wing House in Dover Plains, New York, has an unusual amount of exterior ornamentation for a Federal style rural home?
... that Gunnar Garbo, member of the Norwegian Parliament for four electorial periods, was later Ambassador to Tanzania?
... that, at the National Women's Rights Convention in Cincinnati in 1855, Lucy Stone responded to a heckler, saying "...disappointment is the lot of woman"?

10 April 2009

19:17, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the mosaic puffball mushroom (pictured) can bioaccumulate the trace metals copper and zinc?
... that Jacob Rigg helped write both Barack Obama's victory speech for the 2008 presidential election, and a concession speech in case Obama lost?
... that the environmental organisation Counterpart Caribbean is a branch of the Counterpart International group based in Barbados?
... that on 31 March 1921, Arthur "Spud" Murphy became "Airman No. 1" on the roll of the newly established Royal Australian Air Force?
... that the only known population of Irrawaddy dolphins in India is along the coast of Orissa?
... that Michigan end Bernard Kirk, who Knute Rockne called the "apple of my eye," died of complications from a fractured skull days after being named an All-American in December 1922?
... that despite the different prestige that languages and dialects have, linguists do not consider any languages or dialects to be inherently superior or inferior?
... that H. Clay Earles, founder of Martinsville Speedway, the only original NASCAR track still in use, awarded grandfather clocks to race winners, with Richard Petty earning 12 clocks?

12:43, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

... that George Collier (pictured) was shipwrecked, rescued, and then taken prisoner when his rescuer was captured by a privateer?
... that director M. Night Shyamalan has been criticized for allowing Caucasian actors to play Asian characters in his upcoming film The Last Airbender?
... that in 1718, General Vincens Budde's defense of Trondheim prevailed and General Armfeldt's retreat was likened to Napoleon's retreat from Moscow?
... that as of 2006, supplying fishing tackle for recreational fishing is an industry with annual sales of five billion dollars in the United States?
... that Czech film and stage director Evald Schorm was a notable exponent of the New Wave in Czechoslovak cinema?
... that World War I German U-boat UB-10 was credited with sinking 23 ships in a 13-day span in July and August 1915?
... that historian V. H. Galbraith considered the medieval English monk Hemming to be the first archivist in English history?
... that especially in the United States, bacon mania is a phenomenon among bacon devotees seeking to develop novel dishes and to gather at bacon camps?

06:51, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter (pictured), had about 20 percent fuel remaining when it arrived at the MS Bremen in the Subantarctic to winch off an injured crewman?
... that in 1890–91, Wheelock G. Veazey served simultaneously as an Interstate Commerce Commissioner and as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic?
... that the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix was stopped after just 33 laps, out of 56, when torrential rain hit the circuit?
... that philosopher Anathon Aall wrote an entry about his former brother-in-law Kristian Aars in the biographical dictionary Norsk biografisk leksikon?
... that despite historical border disputes, Poland–Czechoslovakia relations were friendly, and during WWII their governments-in-exile considered forming a confederation?
... that Kate Mason Rowland introduced a motion in the United Daughters of the Confederacy to have the American Civil War known as the War Between the States?
... that Arthur Bliss's first major work for orchestra, A Colour Symphony, depicts in music the heraldic significance of the colours purple, red, blue and green, and was dedicated to the conductor Adrian Boult?
... that the music of Burnt Sugar has been described as "a big cloud"?

00:10, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the call of the male Cyclochila australasiae cicada (pictured) can reach 150 decibels?
... that Jessie Webb, an Australian academic and historian, was the first female teacher at the University of Melbourne?
... that in the Battle of Warsaw in 1705, a Swedish force of 2,000 men defeated a Polish-Lithuanian-Saxonian force five times as strong?
... that in 1986 KWVR-FM of Enterprise, Oregon, became the smallest-market radio station to win a Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio and Television?
... that the parody novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies combines Jane Austen's 1813 classic, Pride and Prejudice, with elements of zombie fiction?
... that after Saudi authorities listed alleged al-Qaeda member Zubayr Al-Rimi as a conspirator in the Riyadh compound bombings, he wrote a personal letter to George W. Bush insisting he was innocent?
... that the Academy of San Carlos, founded in 1781, was the first major art academy and the first art museum in the Americas?
... that the Case of the Hooded Man was so called because the defendant was made to wear a black hood when travelling to and from the court?

9 April 2009

17:13, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

... that traumatic insemination (pictured) is a practice in invertebrates where the male pierces the female's abdomen with his penis and injects his sperm into the wound?
... that Larry Scott, CEO of the WTA, put together the largest sponsorship in the history of women's athletics, an US$88-million deal with Sony Ericsson?
... that Broad Street in Reading, England – the site of a 1688 battle and crucial to the Earl of Essex's siege of the town – is now a pedestrianised shopping street?
... that restaurateur Pascal Rigo owns the oldest flour mill in San Francisco?
... that Rammstein's 2004 single "Mein Teil" was inspired by German cannibal Armin Meiwes?
... that the former actor Adam Kennedy wrote the screenplay for the Gene Hackman film, The Domino Principle, about a convict turned assassin?
... that escaramuza is an equestrienne display of choreographed patterns that was established as the tenth official event of charreada in 1992?
... that Gus Cifelli won three college football national championships and an NFL championship with the Detroit Lions before being elected as a judge, where he served for over 20 years?

10:46, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Savannah (pictured), the world's first steamship to cross the Atlantic, was converted into a sailing ship on returning from her historic voyage?
... that during his time in the Isis-Urania Temple, E.W. Berridge wrote two of the Golden Dawn's knowledge lectures and collaborated on a third?
... that unlike many other Agaricus species, Agaricus placomyces fruits from mid to late winter rather than during the typical late spring, summer and early fall?
... that Wacław Micuta was a Polish resistance fighter who liberated the Gęsiówka concentration camp and a UN diplomat who promoted renewable energy in developing countries?
... that the support website Get Satisfaction was created after its founders realized that on the Internet, when people had issues with companies, other people were often willing to help out?
... that Vice Admiral Rodney Taylor was one of the last officers to join the Royal Australian Navy as a 13-year-old cadet?
... that during the recording of their new album Old Crows / Young Cardinals, Alexisonfire recorded seven tracks in seven days?
... that in 1902, the Church of Norway priest Jens Jonas Jansen was called "dangerous" by bishop Johan Christian Heuch?

04:59, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

... that extracts of the lichen species Cladonia furcata (pictured) can kill leukemia cells?
... that former KGBR disc jockey Tom Lyons advised his son against a career in radio by saying "Sell coke, run guns ... but don't ever go into radio."?
... that R. G. Chandramogan, an entrepreneur from Sivakasi, is the head of Hatsun Agro Product Ltd, the largest private dairy in India?
... that the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers in that state?
... that Fredrik Georg Gade, a tuberculosis and cancer researcher, himself died of bronchial cancer?
... that Cherry Springs Airport in Potter County, Pennsylvania, was closed because the night sky there was too dark?
... that in the 18th century, prisoners in the Marshalsea prison in London, such as John Baptist Grano, not only had to pay a prison fee, but could also pay extra to be allowed out each day?
... that the South Park episode "Eat, Pray, Queef" conveys a pro-women's rights message by comparing men's contradicting opinions regarding farts and queefs?

8 April 2009

22:59, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

... that 1890s portrait photographer Zaida Ben-Yusuf's (pictured) influence upon fine art photography went unacknowledged for nearly 100 years, possibly due to gender discrimination?
... that Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 was used in the James Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me?
... that David Dean Shulman has been active as a leader of international campaigns to defend the Palestinians under threat of eviction from such villages as Susya in the South Hebron Hills?
... that the Franco-Ottoman alliance of 1536 between Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent has been called "the first nonideological diplomatic alliance" between a Christian and a non-Christian power?
... that Marguerite Rawalt was the first woman ever to be elected as president of the Federal Bar Association?
... that a 2009 study found that Polycap—a five-in-one polypill combining three high blood pressure medications, a cholesterol reducer and aspirin—could cut heart attack and stroke risk in half for many?
... that coprophilous fungi are species of fungi that feed on animal feces?
... that although the songs "Tougher Than the Rest" and "Spare Parts" by New Jersey musician Bruce Springsteen were not released as singles in the United States, each became a Top-20 single in Europe?

16:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the tradition of a themed White House Christmas tree was started in 1961 by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (pictured, with JFK and tree)?
... that egg whites, fish bladders and powder made from dried blood have been used as finings to clarify wine?
... that Verda Welcome was the first black woman to be elected as a State Senator?
... that SingStar ABBA is the first band-specific SingStar video game?
... that Elizabeth Lee Hazen developed the world's first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin?
... that the Wildlife Protection Society of India maintains a network of undercover agents and informants who gather intelligence to combat wildlife poaching and the illegal trade of wildlife parts?
... that I.C.C. Commissioner John J. Esch was accused of switching his vote in a case to secure renomination by President Coolidge and the Senate refused his confirmation, 39–29?
... that the Nidaros Cathedral West Front sculpture of Archangel Michael was based on Bob Dylan?
... that Harald Gram, father of World War II resistance fighter Gregers Gram, was stipendiary magistrate in Oslo for 21 years?

10:05, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the U. S. Custom House (pictured) in Charleston, South Carolina, resembles the U.S. Custom House in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by the same architect, Ammi B. Young?
... that Muhammad Habibullah was India's delegate to the first session of the League of Nations in 1919?
... that the Gray Mouse Lemur is one of the smallest primates in the world, weighing only 60 grams (2.1 oz)?
... that Israel Prize recipient Avraham Yaski founded the largest architecture firm in Israel?
... that the coprophilous mushroom Conocybe rickenii may be found in large numbers in gardens where horse manure has been used to enrich the soil?
... that Grand Funk Railroad's epic 1970 song "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" about a troubled sea voyage, is most commonly associated with emotions surrounding the Vietnam War?
... that H. Vasanthakumar is a MLA in India, owner of an entertainment channel, Vasanth TV, and of Vasanth & Co, one of the largest electronics retail chains in Tamil Nadu?
... that the Salad Bowl strike of 1970–1971 caused the price of iceberg lettuce to triple overnight, and thousands of acres of lettuce were plowed under as crops spoiled on the ground?

03:51, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the only American ship larger than a destroyer to survive the Dutch East Indies campaign was the light cruiser Marblehead (pictured)?
... that Jack Grout, a PGA Tour competitor from 1931 to 1953, was the first and only teacher of successful professional golfer Jack Nicklaus?
... that following the upgrade of two Oslo T-bane lines, all aging T1000 trains of the system can be replaced by MX3000's?
... that Harry Watson scored 36 goals at the 1924 Winter Olympics, making him the highest scoring male Canadian Olympic ice hockey player?
... that Ayya Nadar along with Shanmuga Nadar is credited for transforming the small village of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu, India, into a thriving industrial town?
... that radio station KTIL in Tillamook, Oregon, was renamed KMBD in honor of talk show host Mildred Berkey Davy?
... that Evan Vaughan Anwyl has proven patrilineal descent back to Owain Gwynedd, who claimed to be King of Wales?
... that when Ted Hough was signed by Southampton Football Club, his "transfer fee" was a round of 52 pints of beer?

7 April 2009

22:26, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the porcelain set Elka (pictured) by the Czech designer Jaroslav Ježek was awarded the Grand Prix in design at the Expo '58 in Brussels?
... that the Norton P11 desert racing motorcycle was launched in the US under the advertising slogan Dynamite on wheels?
... that Sinikka Kukkonen was the first World Champion in ski orienteering?
... that the 1913 Street Car Strike in Indianapolis, Indiana, lasted eight days and left four dead and hundreds injured?
... that Mahatma Gandhi stayed at the house of publisher and journalist G. A. Natesan during his first visit to Madras on returning from South Africa in 1915?
... that Otto Preminger completed the film That Lady in Ermine after Ernst Lubitsch died, insisting the original director get sole screen credit out of "respect and admiration for the departed master"?
... that soprano Sylvia Cecil joined and left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company three times during her career?
... that World War I German U-boat UB-12 was credited with sinking her final ship two months after she disappeared in the North Sea?

15:33, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the Norwegian ice block expedition of 1959 (pictured) drove three tons of ice from the Polar Circle to the Equator – with no refrigeration – and lost only around 11% of the original weight?
... that Will Kane was Gary Cooper's second Academy Award-winning role?
... that Concert Allegro, the only piano work Edward Elgar composed for concert performance, has been called a "marriage between Bach and Liszt"?
... that Herb Treat, unanimously selected as a 1922 College Football All-American, was hit by a car in 1943 and plunged nine stories from a hotel window in 1947?
... that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Fengji's eight associates were known as the "eight passes" for the difficulty involved in going through them to meet him?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Michigan v. Jackson that a confession made during a police-initiated interrogation, after a request for counsel was made, would be inadmissible in court?
... that Apolinary Hartglas was a leader of Polish Jews, a Zionist activist, and a deputy to the Polish Sejm during the interwar period?
... that the red and yellow molded plastic Cozy Coupe from Little Tikes was called the "world's best-selling car" for most of the 1990s by The New York Times?

10:08, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

... that architect Arieh Sharon (pictured), who had been a beekeeper on a kibbutz, later led a 180-person commission to plan the development of Israel?
... that the video game Marvel Trading Card Game portrays the Vs System ruleset exactly the same as the physical playing card version?
... that poet Olav Angell was awarded a prize from the Arts Council Norway for his translation of James Joyce's novel Ulysses into Norwegian?
... that despite the Russian authorities' intention to turn the Teachers' Seminary in Veiveriai into a center of Russification, the seminary became a center of the Lithuanian National Revival?
... that a 1997 wrestling event at Chantilly High School was canceled because of the "cartoonish" sterotypes portrayed by such wrestlers as "Wiseguy" Jimmy Cicero?
... that Chablis was so devastated by spring time frost that the whole region only produced 11 cases of wine during the 1957 vintage?
... that Arthur MacMahon was one of the first political scientists to use empirical methods to study government?
... that in one of the major ancient Egyptian creation myths, the creator god Atum was said to have sneezed and spat out his offspring?

04:20, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Salutat (pictured) is an 1898 Thomas Eakins painting of a boxer, considered one of his finest achievements in figure-painting?
... that the poet, novelist and children's author Karin Bang is a passionate collector of ancient dolls?
... that due to their rich biodiversity, Sri Lanka montane rain forests are a globally important super-hotspot with a large number of endemic species?
... that conductor George Georgescu first made music as a child by playing a violin between his legs like a cello?
... that Ray Pickerell secured 17 first-place race wins on a Norton Dunstall motorcycle in 1968?
... that Mortuary Affairs, within the United States Department of Defense Quartermaster Corps, is tasked with the retrieval, identification, transportation, and burial of deceased military personnel?
... that the German lichenologist and taxonomist Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold had a personal herbarium of 150,000 specimens?
... that according to the magico-medical text Cyranides, miscarriages caused by female demons such as Gello can be prevented by wearing an aetite as an amulet?

6 April 2009

21:52, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the Old Cathedral of Cuenca (pictured) carries a memorial plate indicating that its belltower is more famous than the Egyptian pyramids?
... that soprano Margaret Lloyd portrayed the role of Lightfoot McClendon in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Cold Sassy Tree at the Houston Grand Opera in 2000?
... that in the Vyadha Gita, a part of the epic Mahabharata, a vyadha (butcher) imparts teachings to a sannyasin (monk) on dharma and the importance of work?
... that Alvin Powell was addicted to crack cocaine as a player in the National Football League, but later became a substance abuse counselor?
... that the gambling magazine Total Gambler was Britain's most widely circulated monthly men's magazine when it launched in August 2005, with an initial print run of 650,000 copies?
... that at the age of 29, Bernice Cronkhite became the dean of Radcliffe College, making her the youngest person to become a dean in the United States?
... that Jodhpur Group - Malani Igneous Suite Contact, a National Geological Monument at the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, India, represents the last phase of igneous activity of Precambrian age?
... that former Maryland lacrosse coach Dick Edell retired in 2001 after seventeen NCAA Division I tournament appearances, the second-most of any head coach?

15:47, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

... that public hangings used to take place near the site of the Municipal Corporation Building, Mumbai (pictured), India?
... that Louis Lomax was the first African-American television journalist?
... that the current governor of Malai District, Cambodia, is a former Khmer Rouge diplomat and aide to Pol Pot?
... that actor Eli Mintz portrayed Uncle David in the television series The Goldbergs?
... that the National Museum of Cultures in Mexico City was once a mint for manufacturing coins and even housed the Supreme Court of Mexico?
... that in 1922, Washington & Jefferson College's Charlie "Pruner" West became the first African American to play quarterback in the Rose Bowl?
... that Francis Bacon's painting Fragment of a Crucifixion shows two dying animals in a scene influenced by the biblical Crucifixion and Aeschylus' The Oresteia?
... that FCC and ACLU head James Lawrence Fly's influence in opposing wiretapping led the FBI to start a file on him?

06:42, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Bulgarian conservative politician Grigor Nachovich (pictured) served as minister of finance on six occasions?
... that Phillips Community College's Pillow-Thompson House is noted for its Queen Anne Style architecture?
... that as a Jordanian tribal Shaikh, Barjas al-Hadid has been responsible for mediating blood feuds between tribe members in Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia?
... that KCKX, known as "Ondas de Gozo", is the first Spanish-language Christian radio station in the state of Oregon?
... that Gustavo Brambila, portrayed in the 2008 movie Bottle Shock, was one of the first Latin Americans to graduate from the UC Davis wine program?
... that Harold Daniell entered a Norton Navigator motorcycle in a race at Silverstone race track where it recorded 163 kilometres per hour (101 mph) on the straight?
... that "Carolina in My Mind", James Taylor's nostalgic 1968 song about growing up in North Carolina, was written in London and on the Mediterranean islands of Formentera and Ibiza?
... that former professional footballer Don Rossiter served as mayor of Rochester, Kent, during the 1980s?

00:22, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

City of Detroit III

... that the smoking room of the D&C steamer City of Detroit III (pictured) was put on display at a museum on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan, after the ship was dismantled?
... that an Australian violist Richard Goldner founded Musica Viva Australia in 1945, the world's largest entrepreneurial chamber music organization?
... that Cross Seamount, a landform arising from the ocean floor southwest of Hawaii, is used by the NOAA to study tuna migratory patterns?
... that Kamal Naji, the PLO's deputy representative in Lebanon, was killed in a roadside bomb attack outside Mieh Mieh by unknown perpetrators?
... that in 1993 United States representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Maria Cantwell, and Blanche Lincoln became the first women to play in the starting lineup of the Congressional Baseball Game?
... that the writers Solveig Christov and Toril Brekke both have been awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize?
... that after being covered with plywood and stored due to their sexual content, Michael Spafford's murals, the Twelve Labors of Hercules, were transferred to Centralia College?
... that Irish international rugby union captain Dolway Walkington sometimes played matches wearing a monocle, removing it only when he needed to make a tackle?

5 April 2009

18:00, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Australian fighter pilot Lieutenant (later Air Vice Marshal) Adrian Cole (pictured) was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 for attacking six enemy aircraft threatening Allied cavalry?
... that in high concentrations, the inorganic compound hydrogen disulfide can cause dizziness, disorientation and ultimately unconsciousness?
... that a library commemorating Gerard Corley Smith at the Charles Darwin Research Station houses the most comprehensive collection of material about the Galápagos Islands?
... that two of The Office protagonists quit Dunder Mifflin, the paper company they work for throughout the U.S. version of the series, in the episode "Two Weeks"?
... that race car driver Pocholo Ramirez raced competitively into his 70s?
... that Wallace Community College was the first comprehensive community college in Southern Alabama?
... that in 1980, Eamonn Collins became the youngest player in a professional football match in England, when he played for Blackpool at the age of 14 years and 323 days?
... that a track on the Soviettes' LP III was included on Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1?
... that the 12th-century temple of Banteay Chhmar in Thma Puok District, Cambodia, covers more than half-a-million square feet?

11:55, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Pointe des Almadies (pictured) is the westernmost point on the continent of Africa?
... that SS Governor Cobb, built in 1906, was America's first turbine-powered steamship, and later, as USCGC Cobb, the world's first helicopter carrier?
... that the Raja of Perlis is the only hereditary Malay ruler in Malaysia accorded the title of "Raja"?
... that Tulsa's Art Deco landmark Boston Avenue Methodist Church was designed by architect Bruce Goff and Adah Robinson, his former art teacher at Tulsa's Central High School?
... that botanists Haaken H. Gran and Trygve Braarud began their academic careers as research assistants at Oslo's University Botanical Garden laboratory, founded by Nordal Wille in 1895?
... that in his 1963 speech "Message to the Grass Roots", Malcolm X described the historic March on Washington as a "circus"?
... that the Norton Jubilee was the smallest capacity motorcycle ever made by Norton?
... that Billy Joel's hit song "I Go to Extremes" was originally written as an apology to his wife, Christie Brinkley, for his erratic behavior?

04:36, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the chupare stingray (pictured) and the Pacific chupare are the closest marine relatives of the South American river stingrays?
... that concert film Liza with a Z was thought lost in the NBC vaults for almost thirty years, before its rediscovery and re-release in 2006?
... that all of the Grand Cru vineyards of Chablis are located on a single, southwest facing slope overlooking the town?
... that Geoffrey Cornish, a golf course architect, has designed a total 146 golf courses throughout his career?
... that the Kommissarische Reichsregierung is a label for multiple groups and individuals in Germany and elsewhere who assert that the German Empire continues to exist in its pre-World War II borders?
... that Happy99 was the first computer virus to spread rapidly by email?
... that in 1863, Blackheath Proprietary School was one of the founder members of the Football Association?
... that Dorothy Liebes, known as "the mother of modern weaving", made fabrics out of feathers, bamboo, leather strips, plastic, and ticker tape?

4 April 2009

22:28, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the Czapski Palace (pictured) in Warsaw has been the home of Frederick Chopin, Zygmunt Krasiński and Cyprian Norwid?
... that Sion Record Bostick was one of the Texas Army scouts who captured Antonio López de Santa Anna following the Battle of San Jacinto?
... that since 1947, the city of Oslo has donated the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree to the city of London, in gratitude for its support of Norway in WWII?
... that Governor of Indiana Samuel M. Ralston declared martial law in Indianapolis to end a workers strike in November 1913?
... that while there are over 1,300 Iron Age hill forts in England, Kelsborrow Castle is one of only seven in Cheshire?
... that after Arthur Richman chose Joe Torre as Yankees manager, skeptical owner George Steinbrenner asked Richman if Richman knew what he was doing, to which Richman responded "If I don't, fire me"?
... that the Norwegian legation in Stockholm increased its staff from four to about 1,100 from 1940 to 1945?
... that professional wrestlers and real-life best friends Jonny Storm and Jody Fleisch feuded with each other, before winning a tag team championship together?

16:25, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the 1788 Old Brick Church (pictured) in Fairfield County, South Carolina, is called the "mother church" of the ARP Church in the state?
... that the Blue Serpent Clock Egg is the first Tsar Imperial Fabergé egg to feature a working clock?
... that the first printing press in the Americas started operations in 1539 in a house in Mexico City that is still standing?
... that in 1980, planktologist Grethe Rytter Hasle was the only female representative of natural sciences in the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters?
... that Ramsey's Draft Wilderness, a designated wilderness area in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of Virginia, was established in 1984?
... that as much as a third of Niger's rural population travels as temporary labor during the seasonal migration in Niger between January and April, to avoid the Sahel dry season?
... that Edwards Dam in Maine was the first United States hydroelectric dam to be removed against the dam owner's wishes?
... that the Tang Dynasty chancellor/general Pei Du swore to Emperor Xianzong that he would not return to the capital Chang'an unless the warlord Wu Yuanji was destroyed?

10:02, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the Matsushiro Underground Imperial Headquarters (pictured) was a bunker designed to be used by Japanese Imperial General Headquarters to direct forces against the Allied invasion of Japan?
... that the turtle is a symbol of steadfastness and tranquility in religion, mythology and folklore around the world?
... that Brawn GP's one-two finish at the 2009 Australian Grand Prix made it the first Formula One team to do so on debut at a Grand Prix since 1954?
... that actors Brent Barrett, Sally Mayes, Richard Muenz, and Lynne Wintersteller all starred in the original production of Maltby and Shire's hit Off-Broadway musical Closer Than Ever in 1989?
... that Las fuerzas extrañas, Lugones' least successful work at the time, is now considered to be key in the development of the science fiction and fantasy genres in Argentina?
... that, as Fighter Project Officer for the United States Army Air Corps, Ben Kelsey crashed two P-38 Lightning aircraft including the only prototype built?
... that the Central Europe Pipeline System, or CEPS for short, consists of around 6000 km of pipeline to deliver fuel for military and civilian use?
... that George Evans won his first of three Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Player of the Year awards as a 28-year-old sophomore?

04:20, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Lawrence "Chubby" Woodman is credited with inventing deep fried clams in 1916 at his clam shack that became Woodman's of Essex (sign pictured)?
... that many of the remaining willows of the Willow Palisade were cut by the Russian and Japanese troops during the Russo-Japanese War?
... that downloads from the Microsoft Update Catalog are accelerated with Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service, a technology that attempts to use as little bandwidth as possible?
... that in the Brazilian kidnapping of Abílio dos Santos Diniz the kidnappers were of various nationalities, including two Canadian university students?
... that the Washington & Jefferson College football team played the heavily favored California Golden Bears to a 0–0 tie in the 1922 Rose Bowl?
... that Thored, ealdorman of southern Northumbria, disappears from the historical records after being charged with leading a fleet against marauding Vikings?
... that the first classes of Illinois Valley Community College were held in LaSalle-Peru High School?
... that Nils Yngvar Ustvedt, physician and member of the Norwegian Parliament, advised his son Hans Jacob Ustvedt against becoming a politician?

3 April 2009

21:17, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

... that despite its name, the mangrove whipray (pictured) does not usually inhabit mangroves?
... that Russian assassin Sergey Degayev was the first mathematics professor at the University of South Dakota?
... that after a recent re-analysis, a hurricane in 1924 was found to be the earliest known Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, as well as the strongest hurricane on record to strike Cuba?
... that SubGenius artist Joe Riley made masks and prosthetic makeups for gore movies as well as art and designs for children's animation franchises?
... that most families celebrate Gotcha Day on a day other than April 1st?
... that Johan Wollebæk and Jens Bull led the Norwegian Legation in Stockholm during World War II, when there were more than 50,000 Norwegian refugees in Sweden?
... that eight years before being cast in I Dream of Jeannie, Barbara Eden portrayed the former Marilyn Monroe role of Loco Jones in the syndicated TV series How to Marry a Millionaire?
... that the larvae of some species of the checkered beetle family Cleridae can consume several times their own body weight?

14:03, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the Imperial German battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz (pictured) was nearly destroyed when a shell from HMS Lion penetrated a gun turret and caused a flash fire during the Battle of Dogger Bank?
... that Glenn D. Paige is the American political scientist known for developing the concept of nonkilling?
... that renal medullary carcinoma is found almost exclusively in individuals with sickle cell trait or sickle cell disease?
... that Ronald Reagan was propelled to stardom playing a double amputee in the 1942 film Kings Row?
... that part of a 700 kilometre long minefield is found in Svay Chek District, Cambodia?
... that during the midst of the Cold War, Alan Shulman and Dmitri Shostakovich were invited to join a Soviet–American composers' symposium organised by Nicolas Slonimsky for NBC?
... that Verpa bohemica is a saprobic species of fungi distinguished from other species by its enormous spores?
... that while a son of professional wrestler Aurelian Smith said his father hid the scripted nature of the business from his family, causing strain, three of his children became wrestlers?

07:35, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll (pictured) was one of the seven daughters of Agnes Leslie, Countess of Morton who were called the "pearls of Lochleven" for their beauty?
... that KZZR and sister station KQHC are the only two radio stations with Burns, Oregon, as their community of license?
... that Brian Statham shares his name with an England international cricketer and was himself a talented schoolboy cricketer, but opted to pursue a career in professional football?
... that 99% of Washington wine is grown in the eastern half of the state where a rain shadow effect created by the Cascades leaves the area dry and desert-like?
... that Torolf Elster, former Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), was also an awarded crime writer?
... that Vinny Castilla has won three Silver Slugger Awards at third base in four years for the Colorado Rockies?
... that the 13th century Sufi scholar Sayyid Abu Bakr Al-Aidarus was impressed with the stimulating effect of the coffee fruit and is credited with introducing it to the Hadhramaut region?
... that the Key thatch palm, which was long considered part of the genus Thrinax, was reclassified into its own genus, Leucothrinax, in 2008?

01:19, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Australian First World War soldier Percy Black (pictured) was described by Australian war historian Charles Bean as "the greatest fighting soldier in the A.I.F."?
... that Front Range Community College is the largest community college in Colorado?
... that with her thriller Nattdykk (1983), Kim Småge was the first of "a new female wave in Norwegian crime fiction"?
... that American inventor and engineer Robert Fulton negotiated a bounty of £40,000 for the first decked ship destroyed in the Raid on Boulogne in 1804?
... that Frédéric Chopin once said the middle section of his Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op 48, No. 2 should be played as if "a tyrant commands, and the other asks for mercy"?
... that because of the permanent damage it can cause to living tissue, the old world screwworm fly is not suitable for maggot therapy?
... that Mick Rathbone, now Everton F.C.'s head of sports medicine, was once simultaneously player, physiotherapist and assistant manager of Halifax Town A.F.C.?
... that the South Park episode "Margaritaville" portrays Kyle as a Jesus-like savior of the U.S. economy during the recession?

2 April 2009

15:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

... that insects such as Calliphora livida (pictured), Oiceoptoma noveboracense, Cynomya cadaverina, Protophormia terraenovae and various species in the genus Hydrotaea can be used by forensic entomologists to determine the post-mortem interval of corpses?
... that at the 2008 centennial of the Empresa de Ferrocarriles Ecuatorianos, only 10% of the original railway system was open?
... that Elwood Haynes invented stellite, built one of the first gasoline driven automobiles, and made advances in natural gas technology that later resulted in refrigeration?
... that Lithuanians initially viewed Nazi Germany's invasion in June 1941 as a liberation from Soviet rule, but soon began to resist, forming the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania?
... that operatic soprano Dawn Kotoski won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1990?
... that the Hausstock is part of the nummulite formation of the high Glarus Alps and was a popular European mountaineering destination before becoming a ski resort and firing range?
... that Oregon attorney Parish L. Willis was sued for fraud over his investment in the Hot Lake Sanatorium Company, now listed as a historic place?
... that places of worship in Bangalore include over 1,000 temples, 400 mosques, 100 churches, 40 Jain mandirs, three Gurudwaras, two Buddha Viharas and one Parsi Agiari in a metropolitan area of 741 km² (286 sq mi)?

08:48, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Old Southeast Church (pictured), north of Brewster, New York, is the oldest house of worship in Putnam County?
... that Australian flying ace Raymond Brownell was awarded the Military Cross for shooting down six enemy aircraft over a three month period in the First World War?
... that there are two Smithsonian Museums in New York City?
... that Knut Østby, a 1948 Olympic silver medallist in sprint canoeing, competed at the 1953 World Championships in whitewater slalom despite no whitewater experience?
... that most of the U.S. Navy's Amphitrite class monitors, hastily ordered in the wake of the Virginius war scare with Spain, were not ready for service for another 20 years?
... that the Welsh priest Wallis Thomas led church services long after his 90th birthday and was described as the oldest working priest in Britain?
... that Johns Hopkins and Maryland, which compete in what has often been called the greatest rivalry in men's college lacrosse, actually first played football three years earlier in 1892?
... that the Palacio de Cultura Banamex in Mexico City was the site where Agustín de Iturbide accepted the offer to become Mexico's first emperor after the war of independence from Spain?

03:31, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

... that on her way to Peyton Place, Hope Lange was seen wearing a Radio Hat (pictured)?
... that there is a 15,000 ton ship which operates completely out of the water?
... that Lust Control is frowned upon by many Christian groups?
... that Phil Lynott was featured in a lunar ecliptic children's fairy tale which has been criticised by internet trolls?
... that cheese trees grow in New South Wales and Queensland?
... that before William Rehnquist was sworn in as U.S. Chief Justice, John Roberts financed the Woodstock Festival?
... that German seamen forced a lesbian to go down during the First World War, and the French did the same during the Second World War?
... that Hedgehog Pie is made of 1970s electric folk musicians?
... that British beer authorities have declared that women prefer beer made from bananas?
... that Tiger Woods was beaten by a 10-year-old in one of the most prestigious competitions of the year?

1 April 2009

22:16, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

... that Adam de Stratton was arrested for the possession of toenail clippings (example pictured)?
... that a team of archaeologists discovered a fossilized Han Solo in the rocks of China?
... that Theodore Majocci claimed the Princess of Wales slept with her butler?
... that it took two German submarines, UB-6 and UB-16, to dispatch two World War I Royal Navy recruits?
... that the Massachusetts House of Representatives refused to legislate until the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts was rescued from cod-nappers?
... that Lewis Hamilton's first name was "Sasbeck"?
... that the Land of Green Ginger can be seen through the world's smallest window?
... that track and field star Bob Backus, who set world records in the hammer throw, wore ballet slippers while competing?
... that HBO television network broadcast midgets racing for prizes in a chili bowl?

16:07, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Frontispiece of a Wicked Bible

... that a 1631 Bible (frontispiece pictured) commanded readers to commit adultery?
... that Sonia Chang-Díaz won a seat in the Massachusetts Senate after her opponent was accused of stuffing her bra?
... that in 1825, the Court of Exchequer declared all contracts by hobbits illegal and void in England?
... that if you go to a local store three weeks from today, you can probably find Asher Roth asleep in the bread aisle?
... that Caviar, Chardonnay, and Hot Cocoa compete for the love of Ray J?
... that baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby had his first plate appearance against King Lear?
... that both Egypt and the Holy Land were originally settled by Germans?
... that Sir Winston Churchill competed in the Tall Ships Race with an all-female crew?
... that Wikipedia now has an article about everything?

08:06, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Big Nose George

... that after Wild West outlaw Big Nose George (pictured) was hanged by a lynch mob, he was made into a pair of shoes?
... that New England used to be part of the Roman Empire, and China is still part of Japan?
... that Gordon Brown and Kim Jong-Il are both known for their athletic abilities?
... that Sparkie Williams is still singing from his grave 47 years after his death?
... that Peter Jackson medaled in table tennis for New Zealand?
... that in Disney's animated film The Story of Menstruation, the flow is snow white?
... that the idea of a two hooded coat to keep your date dry in the rain is genius?
... that sightings of Captain Cook were common around New Zealand as late as the 1950s?
... that two monkeys are employed as waiters at the Japanese Kayabukiya Tavern?

00:13, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

... that the cap of the thimble fungus, Verpa conica (pictured), resembles a thimble?
... that Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only known survivor of the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II?
... that three members of the Croatian bobsleigh team at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Dejan Vojnović, Jurica Grabušić and Slaven Krajačić, had all previously competed as track athletes at the Summer Olympics?
... that Time magazine selected Billy C. Clark's autobiography A Long Row to Hoe as one of its Best Books of 1960, describing it "as authentically American as Huckleberry Finn"?
... that the stations Mortensrud on the Østensjø Line, Forskningsparken on the Sognsvann Line, Nydalen, Storo and Sinsen on the Ring Line and Husebybakken have opened after the Oslo T-bane was declared completed with the reopening of Stortinget in 1987?
... that during her 2008 trip to Asia, the Ecuadorian tall ship Guayas took aboard an officer of the People's Liberation Army Navy for reefing training?
... that Isabella Grinevskaya was lauded by Leo Tolstoy for her play "Báb"?
... that a rules dispute during the first all-cowgirl rodeo, held in 1948 in Amarillo, Texas, led to the formation of the first rodeo association for women?