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30 June 2011

18:00, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the waistcoat of Haiti's Toussaint Louverture had 18 buttons that were decorated with reproductions of Agostino Brunias's paintings (one pictured)?
... that the 14th-century All Saints Church in Maidstone, England, is described as the grandest Perpendicular style church in Kent?
... that two of the ETA members convicted of the 1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombing were each sentenced to 2,354 years in prison?
... that the Windawski Canal in northern Lithuania was built as an extension of the Augustów Canal to circumvent high customs duties introduced by Prussia for the transit of goods to the Baltic Sea?
... that Shaun Deeb has two World Championship of Online Poker wins and 16 World Series of Poker in the money finishes?
... that in the French India municipal election, 1946, the National Democratic Front won control over all 22 municipalities?
... that Michael Jackson played professional baseball?

12:00, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

... the Fort Young Hotel (pictured) was originally the major military installation of Dominica, and still retains several cannons?
... that the Concilium Germanicum, a Frankish synod held in 742/3 to reform the Austrasian church, has been described as the acme of Saint Boniface's career?
... that the Baku Museum of Modern Art was designed by Jean Nouvel as part of a projected "eco-cultural zone" on the waterfront in Baku, Azerbaijan?
... that the history of Australian naval aviation dates back to 1911?
... that Hailee Steinfeld, who starred in the 2010 version of True Grit, is the 73rd performer nominated for an Academy Award in a screen debut?
... that Tuckerbil is an important site for flocking Brolgas?
... that Mexican pointy boots, made by elongating the toes of normal boots by as much as 5 feet (1.5 m), are popular among Mexican men in parts of Mexico and the U.S.?

05:45, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the wildlife of Zanzibar included its own subspecies of leopard (mounted specimen pictured) that survived from the ice age but may now be extinct?
... that the 50 poems in I Hope Like Heck were created from excerpts of emails written by Sarah Palin during her time as Governor of Alaska?
... that Maurice Fargues was the first diver to die while using an aqua-lung?
... that the Moran Dam, one of the largest proposed hydroelectric projects in North America, was defeated by environmentalists well before the time of anti-dam environmentalism?
... that between 1932 and 1962, Iowa Republican Governor and U.S. Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper won 17 of 19 elections in which he was a candidate?
... that the polychaete worm Chaetopterus variopedatus can regenerate its whole body from a single segment?
... that the defence counsel in The Case of the Dean of St Asaph was given the Freedom of the City of Gloucester, even though the defendant was found guilty?

29 June 2011

18:00, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the underground Fortress of Mimoyecques (pictured) was built by Nazi Germany to bombard London with 10 shells a minute using the V-3 supergun?
... that the competition to build the fastest production motorcycle raged for over a century, and then ended in a truce?
... that Indian communist leader V. Subbiah was elected to the Senate of France in 1947?
... that Judge Hugo Friend, who presided over the 1921 Black Sox trial, smiled as the defendants were acquitted and died in 1966 while listening by radio to a White Sox game?
... that a proud Massachusetts father commissioned award-winning composer Peter Child to compose a string quartet in honor of his son's birth?
... that the wasp Dinocampus coccinellae can turn a ladybird into a "zombie bodyguard"?

12:00, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Maria Bashir (pictured), Chief Prosecutor General of Herat Province, Afghanistan, is the first ever woman Chief Prosecutor in Afghan history?
... that the 1952 NATO exercise Operation Longstep featured a large-scale amphibious assault along the western coast of Turkey?
... that in 1952 the communist candidate Baddam Yella Reddy defeated P. V. Narasimha Rao (later the Prime Minister of India) in a parliamentary election?
... that Jeune Fille Endormie by the iconic 20th-century painter Picasso recently sold for nearly £13.5 million, and had only been on public display once?
... that Norwegian poet Nils Collett Vogt wrote newspaper articles at the age of 17?
... that an unsuccessful month-long siege in Yemen during the expedition of Surad ibn Abdullah was broken when Abdullah trapped the enemy by pretending to withdraw from the area into the hills?
... that the current CEO of the South African National Blood Service was once rejected as a blood donor because she is black?

06:00, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

... that conservation efforts by residents of the Menai Bay Conservation Area in Zanzibar attracted 200 dolphins (one pictured) to the shores?
... that St Botolph's Church, in the town of Hardham, has the earliest known representation of St. George in England?
... that despite using designs centuries old, much of the art of the Huichol indigenous people in western Mexico is made with commercially produced beads and yarn?
... that Polish architect Stefan Kuryłowicz is credited with modernizing the architecture of Warsaw in the decades following the collapse of Communism?
... that the 1957 NATO exercise Operation Deep Water involved the first use of helicopter-borne amphibious assault by the United States Marine Corps during an overseas deployment?
... that in August 1947 French authorities banned a pro-independence mass rally of the French India Students Congress, but were forced to withdraw the ban after spontaneous protests?
... that King George VI owned Royal Blue, a messenger pigeon that went on to be awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery during the Second World War?

00:00, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the light of South Africa's Cape Agulhas Lighthouse (pictured) was originally fuelled by the tail-fat of sheep?
... that Beijing police dedicate 4,500 officers to preventing the Shouwang Church from holding Sunday prayer meetings?
... that efforts made by television journalist Alan Sepinwall partially inspired NBC officials to renew the television series Chuck?
... that Japanese migration to Thailand dates back to the 1580s?
... that The Guardian called Thomas Glavinic's debut novel Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw "one of chess's finest novels"?
... that Franz Xaver Dorsch, the builder of Hitler's Atlantic Wall and Siegfried Line, founded Germany's largest independent planning and consulting company after the war?
... that abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq threatened to affect the accuracy of the Census of Ireland 2011?

28 June 2011

18:00, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Second World War Allies feared that Nazi Germany intended to use a secret underground rocket base in France to fire ballistic missiles (V-2 pictured) at New York City?
... that the f-word did not begin as an acronym, as is commonly claimed, but is of much older Proto-Germanic origin?
... that while at the New York Cosmos, association footballer Keith Eddy captained a team which included Pelé and Franz Beckenbauer?
... that Tikal Temple IV, a Maya pyramid in Guatemala, was one of the tallest structures in the pre-Columbian New World?
... that Cal Lampley formed the first all-black, 45-piece band, the US Navy B-1 Band, in the then white-only US Navy?
... that each of the Five Discourses of Matthew has a shorter parallel in the Gospel of Mark or the Gospel of Luke?
... that the moose botfly Cephenemyia ulrichii shoots its larvae into people's eyes, perhaps because human eyes and moose nostrils both face forward?

12:00, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

... that, during the breeding season, the male blueband hermit crab (pictured) carries the female around for up to a day?
... that University of California, Berkeley math professor Ian Agol has a twin brother who is a University of Washington astronomy professor?
... that at the Saltpond Oil Field in Ghana, Mr. Louie handles production of over 550 barrels of oil per day?
... that Harlan Crow's collection of statues at his Dallas residence includes those of Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong?
... that Muhammad ordered the demolition of Masjid al-Dirar because he believed this mosque was built to create disunity among Muslims by drawing people away from another mosque?
... that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects?
... that the US fought Polynesian warriors in the South Pacific Nuku Hiva Campaign during the War of 1812, even though that war was against the British?

06:00, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

... that a Nasothek (example pictured) is a collection of noses?
... that the Bengali poem Annada Mangal eulogizes the Hindu goddess Annapurna?
... that bas reliefs being made by the sculptor Henryk Kuna for a public monument in Vilnius were used as cemetery pavers during the Nazi occupation of the city?
... that brain–computer interface chips, like those that connect a scientist's brain with test subjects in the Fringe episode "Dream Logic", have long been used in real life?
... that Muslim Indian South African and communist anti-Apartheid activist Yusuf Dadoo was buried in Highgate Cemetery near Karl Marx's grave?
... that the novel Madaling Araw ("Dawn") features a blend of clashing characters, such as advocates of anarchy against the subjugators of the Filipino lower class?
... that Glory of Russia Cape is in the United States?

00:00, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

... that in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the hero travelled through the cedars near Mount Hermon in Lebanon (pictured) to find the Garden of the gods?
... that the penalty for a stalker violating a Civil Harassment Restraining Order in California is a sentence of two to four years in prison?
... that a secret clause in the 1463 Peace Treaty of Wiener Neustadt allowed King Matthias I of Hungary to hire John Jiskra and his Hussite mercenaries, who would later form the core of the Black Army?
... that heraldic artist Pierre de Chaignon la Rose was a friend of historian George Santayana?
... that, in February 1942, a lone German Heinkel He 111 from the Sonderkommando Blaich successfully attacked Free French Forces at Fort Lamy, Chad, but ran out of fuel on the return flight?
... that Seattle's Hillman City neighborhood was named after a real estate developer whose fraudulent practices eventually landed him in a federal penitentiary?
... that, because of its popularity, The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating was called the "Ulysses of the whole Slow Food movement" and a "cult cookbook"?

27 June 2011

18:00, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the rare and endangered Knowlton's miniature cactus (pictured) is considered to be an adult when it exceeds 10 millimetres (0.39 in) in diameter?
... that rates of syphilis have increased in the United States, Australia, and Europe since the year 2000?
... that Joseph S. Freedman, professor of education at Alabama State University, worked in over 200 libraries and archives to prepare his series Philosophy and the Liberal Arts in the Early Modern Period?
... that the world's fastest computer is the Japanese K?
... that the Marinoan glaciation was one of the three Neoproterozoic glaciations that caused the Snowball Earth?
... that the storyline of James Franco's upcoming film The Broken Tower started out as his master's thesis at New York University Tisch School of the Arts?
... that while in parochial school, art forger Tony Tetro was hit by a nun after he painted her as a Vargas girl in a habit with a "pruney face"?

12:00, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

... that two women who intended to buy Marsh Mill (pictured), Thornton, Lancashire, UK, were killed in an accident when the fantail staging collapsed?
... that L. B. Kubiak's tenure in the Texas House of Representatives was both preceded and succeeded by that of his older brother?
... that the Brampton Walk of Fame, meant to honour "Brampton citizens—both past and present", includes a plaque for actress Bipasha Basu, who lives in India?
... that Baconnaise is a kosher mayonnaise-based product that tastes like bacon, but has no bacon in it?
... that the tracks of the Oregon and Northwestern Railroad are well preserved, even though they weren't well-built and they have been flooded by Malheur Lake?
... that the University of Arizona Museum of Art includes works ranging from a 15th-century medieval Spanish retablo by Fernando Gallego to the space art of Robert McCall?
... that if your vehicle registration plate includes the allegedly cursed number 39, people in Afghanistan might think you're a pimp?

06:00, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

... that China is the largest peach-producing (peach flowers pictured) country in the world, accounting for about 50% of world production, but is not the world's largest exporter of them?
... that Māori warriors captured Russell, New Zealand, in the 1845 Battle of Kororareka from the British, who were then evacuated by an American ship?
... that the 27th Street Historic District in Los Angeles includes a Gothic Revival church that since 1906 has housed white, Armenian, African-American and Hispanic congregations?
... that the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Cape Cod was founded when the original owner left his family's successful spring water company?
... that the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance announced it would work with the Femto Forum on femtocells?
... that the most recent confirmed sighting of the vulnerable Invisible Rail was in 2003?
... that Linda November was the voice of the singing cat in the Meow Mix commercials, and sang tens of thousands of other jingles, including "Coke and a Smile" on the famous Mean Joe Greene Super Bowl ad?

00:00, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Oregon-based Povey Brothers Studio was known as the "Tiffany of the Northwest" for their stained glass (rose window pictured)?
... that the featherduster worm Sabellastarte spectabilis sometimes grows in crevices in cauliflower coral from which a crown of branched tentacles form a plume?
... that at its launch, Minnesota radio station KMGM broadcast 20 hours of farm and agricultural programs each week?
... that both the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute and the Building and Road Research Institute of Ghana were formed out of the West African Building Research Institute?
... that the John L. Nichols House was the home of the first architect to practice in Bloomington, Indiana?
... that in June 1981 South African authorities arrested eight members of the South African Youth Revolutionary Council, charged with preparing an armed uprising against the Apartheid regime?
... that according to the Book of the Later Han, the Civil war of Wa was ended by an unmarried woman who bewitched the populace?

26 June 2011

18:00, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the name of the medieval Church of the Holy Mother of God (pictured) in Asen's Fortress, Bulgaria, is only a guess based on a partial inscription?
... that Artie Schroeck, who arranged the 1967 Frankie Valli song "Can't Take My Eyes off You", 30 years later wrote and produced a tribute to offbeat bandleader Spike Jones?
... that unlike at similar sites in the middle Ohio River valley, archeologists have found a cache of shaman's articles at the Bullskin Creek Site?
... that Indonesian blues band Gugun Blues Shelter is scheduled to perform alongside Bon Jovi, Rod Stewart and The Killers at Hyde Park today?
... that ZenQuest Martial Arts Center was originally founded in 1972 as the Okinawan Karate School, and introduced Uechi-ryū karate to Berkshire County?
... that Sa Ngalan ng Diyos (In the Name of God) was a controversial novel that reveals its author's inclination to anti-clericalism?
... that high school basketball phenom Aquille Carr was nicknamed "The Crime Stopper" for his reputed effect on Baltimore's crime rate?

12:00, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

... that June mating displays of Photinus carolinus (pictured) create moving bands of light and darkness that draw crowds one firefly scientist calls "obscene"?
... that Golden Pond, Kentucky, earned a national reputation for its moonshine whiskey distillers during Prohibition?
... that in 2006, in the UK, 14 Approved Premises (residential units for offenders) were banned from housing paedophiles due to their proximity to schools and nurseries?
... that boro glycerine, an effective oral antiseptic used in the treatment of mouth ulcers, was once considered a potential cure for cancer of the uterus?
... that although Museo Estatal de Arte Popular de Oaxaca's site in Oaxaca, Mexico, was donated to create a cultural center in 1904, efforts to establish a museum there did not begin until the 1990s?
... that only ten men of the 181st (Airlanding) Field Ambulance returned from the Battle of Arnhem?
... that the British tanker SS El Grillo, sunk in February 1944 after a German air raid in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, gave its name to a local beer?

06:00, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the common brittle star (pictured) is a filter feeder and raises an arm to catch food particles floating by?
... that Second Baptist Church, once the largest African American–owned meeting space in the western U.S., hosted speeches by W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X?
... that the two chief engineers who worked on the Starved Rock Lock and Dam also worked together on the Panama Canal Locks?
... that Sophia Romero's Always Hiding novel was just a "mild attempt" in revealing the Filipino American contributions to the American experience?
... that the Anasazi Heritage Center in the U.S. state of Colorado has two pueblos dating back to the 12th century?
... that in 1568, John III of Sweden preferred fighting Denmark–Norway and Lübeck for another two years to ratifying the peace treaties of Roskilde?
... that Cock ale, described as a "provocative drink", was popular in 17th- and 18th-century England?

00:00, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

... that before the Gule Wamkulu dance, Nyau dancers (one pictured) observe a series of secret rituals associated with their semi-secret brotherhood?
... that the space industry is heavily dominated by the G7 countries, due to their extensive investment in the aerospace industry?
... that in the 1970s, Frank Serpico and David Durk both believed that Robert Leuci was the only honest detective in the New York City Police Department's narcotics bureau?
... that the 2005 book Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing brought renewed national attention to the process of charcuterie and methods of curing meat?
... that the album Kayah i Bregović by Goran Bregović and Kayah was the first to receive a Diamond award by the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry in July 2000?
... that Slim Dunlap has been called "one of the last old-school cool guitar players"?
... that Madeline Mitchell overcame a 12-day coma, 21 days on a respirator, two months in a wheelchair and a femur broken in 12 places to become Miss Alabama USA and compete in Miss USA 2011 two years later?

25 June 2011

18:00, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Mississippi John Hurt's (pictured) 1966 album Today! was one of the 25 recordings added to the National Recording Registry in 2009?
... that Mexico is the world's largest exporter of limes?
... that a kiss between Dan Hamilton and Antoine Malick in the UK medical drama Holby City was criticised for "following the trend" of depicting gay relationships?
... that in 1152 Alfonso the Battler rewarded Diego López de Lobera for his services during the Reconquista by giving him the castle of Manchones?
... that Flo Allen was "San Francisco's best loved artists' model" and modeled for 30 years?
... that the 8th-century penitential Excarpsus cummeani extends its scope to define penances for clerics also, possibly influenced by Saint Boniface?
... that Anthony Stewart believes he made it to the National Hockey League partly because a good Samaritan picked him up while he was walking in a blizzard?

12:00, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

... that 4,476 tickets were auctioned for the first concert by the "Swedish Nightingale", soprano Jenny Lind (pictured) in her 1850–52 tour of the United States?
... that mathematician Kosmas Balanos claimed in his work Antipelargisis that he had solved the problem of doubling the cube?
... that despite conceding four goals in the second leg, English club Ipswich Town beat Dutch club AZ Alkmaar 5–4 on aggregate to win the 1981 UEFA Cup Final?
... that Christina Grimmie's song "Liar Liar" from her first album Find Me shot to Number 63 on the US iTunes Singles Charts in less than 72 hours from its release?
... that the International Labour Organization adopted a convention giving workers' rights to domestic workers at its 100th session this month?
... that in the quartier of Mjikura in Mtsamboro on the north coast of Mayotte, there are the ruins of a royal palace and tombs from the time when it was an important town of the Sultans of Mayotte?
... that Royal Navy surgeon Belgrave Ninnis attempted to revive a drowned sailor by, among other things, injecting brandy into his rectum?

06:00, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the sulfur-rich saline Laguna Hedionda (English: Stinky Lake) in Bolivia is notable for various migratory species of flamingoes (pictured)?
... that the soundtrack to the action thriller film Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) features mostly reggae music?
... that the Presbyterian Church of Ghana was formed in 1828 by Basel missionaries from Germany?
... that the ideas of Indonesian novel Pertemuan Jodoh are considered the opposite of Abdul Muis' earlier work, Salah Asuhan, which deals with the incompatibilities in Western and Eastern cultures?
... that the most prestigious award of the association of World War II's black US airmen, the Tuskegee Airmen, is named for Noel F. Parrish, their white commanding officer?
... that PYKKA had sought the aid of FIFA in implementing its rural sports initiatives for football in India?
... that the white knight smells of honey and radishes?

00:00, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

... that in the early years of the First Baptist Church of Ossining (pictured), the oldest in the village, masters and slaves had equal status as members of the congregation?
... that the Vochol is a Volkswagen Beetle decorated with 2,277,000 beads?
... that RMS Magdalena was the third ship lost on her maiden voyage that had been built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast?
... that the Abbasid general and governor Abd al-Malik ibn Salih was accused by his own son of plotting to overthrow Caliph Harun al-Rashid?
... that the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority has ordered the demolition of the Clarendon Tower due to damage from the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
... that Tottenham Hotspur defeated Ipswich Town 5–1 in the 1962 FA Charity Shield played at Portman Road in Ipswich?
... that medieval scholar and astrologer David ben Yom Tov refused to contemplate a divorce until his wife had all of his books and instruments taken away and hidden?

24 June 2011

18:00, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

... that a fairy ring of the mushroom Clitocybe geotropa (pictured) in France is over half a mile (0.8 km) in diameter and 800 years old?
... that the starting point for Bach's cantata for the Feast of John the Baptist, Ihr Menschen, rühmet Gottes Liebe, BWV 167, was the Canticle of Zechariah, the baptist's father?
... that the season two finale of Community, "For a Few Paintballs More", parodied Star Wars as well as action movies The Wild Bunch, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Wanted?
... that singer-pianist Rosie Vanier, whose musical style has been described as "Kate Bush on crack with Goldfrapp on synths", grew up in Bodmin Moor without electricity and TV?
... that the only casualties during Operation Slapstick were from the 6th (Royal Welch) Parachute Battalion?
... that the Lincoln Theater in Los Angeles was known as the "West Coast Apollo" and featured performances by jazz legends before being converted into a church?
... that McDonald's does not have a policy of charging African Americans more for their food?

12:00, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

... that British stage-actor Kyrle Bellew (pictured) was accused of being Mrs. Leslie Carter's lover at her 1889 divorce trial?
... that the State of Pennsylvania and its twin sister, the State of Delaware, were both the first steamboats to make a live radio broadcast and to show movies?
... that in Oregon's 1966 U.S. Senate election, each party's candidate had a position on the Vietnam War that was in direct opposition to the prevailing view of his own party?
... that Derrida's 1974 text Glas is printed in two columns, one commenting on Hegel and the other on Genet, woven around and separated by "marginalia, supplementary comments, [and] lengthy quotations"?
... that the Los Angeles Dodgers drafted Mickey McConnell in the 31st round of the 2011 MLB Draft, despite his not playing baseball in four years?
... that the Millennium Mills, a derelict icon of London's post-industrial docklands, is a favourite destination of thrill-seeking Urban Explorers?
... that Spongiforma squarepantsii is a sponge-like bolete that lives in Malaysia?

06:00, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

... that due to President Theodore Roosevelt's objection, the Indian Head eagle (pictured) originally lacked the motto "In God We Trust", and that Congress passed a law in 1908 to require its use?
... that some 19th-century newspapers in South Australia published articles in the Cornish dialect of English to meet the needs of miners who had migrated there?
... that Khaled al-Johani, "the only brave man in Saudi Arabia", was thrown into Mabahith's `Ulaysha Prison on the Saudi Arabian "Day of Rage"?
... that Henry Mayes won the Queen's Club Championships three times in 1922, 1926, and 1927 while in his 40s, but died the year following his last win?
... that Lust, Caution co-star Tang Wei was cut from the recent Chinese film The Founding of a Party following an objection by Mao Zedong's grandson?
... that Alabama author Wayne Greenhaw chronicled the African-American civil rights movement in the American South?
... that the New Zealand lobster was incorporated into the country's Quota Management System after a parliamentary corruption scandal?

00:00, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Barbara Longhi's painting Saint Catherine of Alexandria (pictured) is believed to be a self-portrait, presented as a devotional image to avoid the appearance of indulging in the sin of vanity?
... that Uruguayan patriots made the Cry of Asencio and captured the villages of Mercedes and Santo Domingo de Soriano in a single day?
... that 25-year old Eddie Reed, one of the youngest college football coaches in the United States, led the Loyola University of New Orleans to its only undefeated season in school history?
... that the fossil mammal Ferugliotherium is known from only 20 teeth and maybe a tiny jaw fragment?
... that on 11 June 2011, rebels seized a major district of Sabha, long considered to be a stronghold of support for Muammar Gaddafi in the 2011 Libyan civil war?
... that in later life Margaret King, a favoured pupil of early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, offered maternal care and advice to her governess's daughter Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein?
... that the kremówka cake gained international recognition after Pope John Paul II noted he once ate 18 of them as part of a bet?

23 June 2011

18:00, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Athenaeum (pictured) museum of fine arts in Alexandria, Virginia, was built in 1851 as a bank, where Robert E. Lee had an account?
... that when he was an educator, Texas State Representative Dan Kubiak published Ten Tall Texans, biographical sketches of, among others, Stephen F. Austin, Jim Bowie, and Sam Houston?
... that Kitty Carlisle, H. V. Kaltenborn, Boris Karloff, June Lockhart, and Robert Trout were among the participants in Who Said That?, the 1948–55 television game show based on quotations in the news?
... that with support from the Iraqi government, magazines and audio cassettes produced by the exiled Libyan National Movement were smuggled into Libya during the 1980s?
... that Oklahoma football coach Robert "Doc" Erskine traveled more than 15,000 miles as a scout during one season?
... that after an unexploded bomb burst through her bedroom wall, a resident of Hillingdon Court told staff it was time she went to the air-raid shelter?
... that Iran is currently the only country in the world that legally allows a person to trade their kidney for monetary compensation?

12:00, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the flèche faîtière and the Sun are depicted on one of the official flags (pictured) of New Caledonia?
... that Meryl Fernandes, who plays Afia Khan in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played a schoolgirl extra in 1993?
... that the former Riede's City Bakery building is one of only two wood frame commercial buildings remaining in Aspen, Colorado, from its early boomtown years?
... that when he established Genetic Studios in 1980, record producer Martin Rushent spent £35,000 on air conditioning alone?
... that Dakota Territory judge Peter C. Shannon presided over the trial of Jack McCall and sentenced him to hang for killing Wild Bill Hickok?
... that the city-state of Purushanda in central Anatolia was surrendered by its king to the Hittite ruler Anitta in the 17th century BC?
... that Celestial City, Imeko, was founded by the Prophet "Papa" Samuel Oshoffa, who left 34 wives and 150 children when he died?

06:00, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Bearded Helmetcrest (pictured) of the high páramo of Colombia and Venezuela nests in the daisy Espeletia?
... that Charles M. Robinson was the College Architect for the College of William and Mary and designed more than 15 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that the Ukrainian American Veterans organization placed a memorial plaque at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1980?
... that Abdulai Silá is the author of the first novel to be written and published in Guinea-Bissau?
... that the 2009 film Korkoro is a rare cinematic tribute to those who died in the Porajmos?
... that Jaime Areizaga-Soto, the Senior Advisor to the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus Chair, Senator Mary Margaret Whipple, is now running for the Senate?
... that Auburn player Moon Ducote kicked a 40-yard field goal off a football helmet, which caused a rule to be adopted against the practice?

00:00, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Percé Rock (pictured), one of the largest and most spectacular natural arches in the world, is an icon of the province of Quebec?
... that William J. Toye pleaded guilty to forging folk artist Clementine Hunter's work, but said he despised her style?
... that Ipswich Town lost 5–0 to Nottingham Forest in the 1978 FA Charity Shield, the annual competition between the previous season's FA Cup winners and Football League champions?
... that the Heryford Brothers Building in Lakeview, Oregon, cost $100,000 to construct in 1913, and is still one of the most important commercial buildings in the city?
... that Mahmoud Shammam, the Head of Information of the Libyan National Transitional Council, was one of the leaders of the Marxist Libyan National Democratic Front in the 1980s?
... that American philosopher John Arthur helped organize a lawsuit against the state of Tennessee to address racial segregation in the higher education system?
... that the Disney bomb of the Second World War is thought to have been inspired by the Walt Disney cartoon Victory Through Air Power?

22 June 2011

18:00, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the career of soprano Cornélie Falcon (pictured), star of the Paris Opéra, collapsed after she lost her voice in 1837 performing in the opera Stradella by Louis Niedermeyer?
... that the site of the coach station in London used by the British Coachways consortium between 1980 and 1982 is now occupied by the British Library?
... that the Ghana Standards Board was established in 1973 and has a function of inspecting all goods that enter through the six entry points of Ghana?
... that in writing Busabos ng Palad (Pauper of Fate), Filipino author Faustino Aguilar was influenced by Alexander Dumas' novel about a prostitute with a golden heart?
... that after murdering a man in Missouri, Samuel Bogart fled to Texas, where he became a Texas Ranger and a member of the State Legislature?
... that human sacrifices and perhaps cannibalism took place on the Ehrenbürg in Franconia during the Hallstatt and La Tène periods?
... that the common bonnet produces hydrolytic enzymes that contribute to carbon cycling?

12:00, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the one-footed form of the Hindu deity Shiva (pictured) represents the cosmic pillar of the world?
... that according to statistics from its National Road Safety Commission, Ghana loses US$230 million yearly due to road accidents?
... that Faustino Aguilar's Pinaglahuan ("Fading Point") is one of the first novels in the Philippines to tackle social realism?
... that Tammy Locke was called "an especially endearing little dumpling" for her role in 1960s western TV series The Monroes, but her antics on set included giving a live frog to the show's hairdresser?
... that Aenigmastacus, a fossil crayfish from Canada, belongs to a family only otherwise known from the Southern Hemisphere?
... that Ivan Wettengel, 25th Naval Governor of Guam, once formed a bull-mounted military unit known as the Guam Cavalry?
... that India's national badminton team reached the quarterfinals at the 2011 Sudirman Cup despite winning just one match?

06:00, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the inventions of Christopher Hutton helped 32 men escape successfully from World War II prisoner-of-war camp Colditz Castle (pictured)?
... that Manchester Hydraulic Power supplied the energy to wind the Town Hall clock, pump the Cathedral organ and raise the safety curtain at the Manchester Opera House?
... that the Song of the Hoe, a Sumerian creation myth, describes the construction projects of the Sumerian gods at the beginning of the universe?
... that blade-like teeth in the extinct mammalian family Ferugliotheriidae may have evolved into molar-like teeth in the Sudamericidae?
... that Perth Amboy City Hall, originally built 1714–1717, is the oldest city hall building in the United States?
... that comedian Fred Allen was the MC of NBC variety and game show Judge for Yourself from 1953 to 1954 before joining the cast of CBS's What's My Line?
... that the hosts of Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews recommend that cinemagoers avoid knitting, drug dealing, and model aeroplane assembly while watching a film?

00:00, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Aspen Community Church (pictured) has the largest pipe organ on Colorado's Western Slope?
... that when James Stewart recited his poem "Beau" on The Tonight Show, he moved host Johnny Carson to tears?
... that Cyril Perkins is the oldest living first-class cricketer?
... that at Villa de Etla's weekly market in Oaxaca, Mexico, one can find traditional merchandise such as a local variety of white cheese, frames for donkeys and goat barbacoa prepared in an earthen oven?
... that Nigeria is the world's largest producer of yams?
... that Victoria Roberts received an Australian Bicentennial grant for Australia Felix, a cartoon history of Australia?
... that after John Law Hume, violinist on the RMS Titanic, was lost in the disaster, his family were sent an invoice for his uniform?

21 June 2011

18:00, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

... that China's first female director was adopted by the first Premier of the People's Republic of China (pictured together in Moscow)?
... that the 1911 Sarez earthquake triggered a huge landslide, forming the tallest dam in the world?
... that Daysland, Alberta, is named after the Canadian politician Edgerton W. Day?
... that a significant part of the former Santo Domingo monastery in Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, is taken up by a museum dedicated entirely to lacquerware?
... that Lincoln Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, boasts the world's largest concrete monument, a fountain?
... that María de las Mercedes Barbudo is known as Puerto Rico's first female freedom fighter for her strong advocacy for Puerto Rico's independence from Spain?
... that the Southwestern pygmy possum can give birth just two days after weaning a previous litter, even though this requires dramatic changes to her mammary glands?

12:00, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Cultural Centre (pictured) in New Caledonia was designed and built to echo the hut dwellings of the indigenous Kanak people?
... that the extinct crocodilian Arenysuchus was part of the first evolutionary radiation of crocodyloids?
... that Owen Land's Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. features looped footage of a woman blinking, as well as edge lettering, sprocket holes and dirt particles?
... that association footballer Chris Clarke and his twin brother Matthew started their careers at the same club, Wolverhampton Wanderers?
... that the upcoming FX television series Wilfred is based on the Australian series of the same name and will star series co-creator Jason Gann in the titular role of Wilfred the dog?
... that as president of St. Petersburg College, Carl M. Kuttler, Jr. used to phone and send a card to each of the college's 1,000 full-time employees on their birthdays?

06:00, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

... that, because of their unique genetic makeup, the feral horses (mare and foal pictured) on the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range "may be the most significant wild-horse herd remaining in the U.S."?
... that Jill Dawson, in her biographical novel The Great Lover, integrated quotes from letters of Rupert Brooke's contemporaries into the fictional narrative?
... that, to avoid a league rule that banned participation, American football coach Bill Sargent agreed to release (and later re-sign) his players before an all-star game organized by boxer Joe Louis?
... that 36 people have owned Warwick Castle since 1068?
... that actor Eddie Quillan's first film appearance was in the 1922 silent comedy/drama Up and at 'Em, written by William A. Seiter and Lewis Milestone?
... that in San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment did not protect the use of the word "Olympics", over the objections of the U.S. Olympic Committee?
... that the cargo ship Empire Defender was seized by Britain twice – during World War I under a German flag and in World War II under an Italian flag?

00:00, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

... that American William P. Cronan (pictured), once described as "the most popular man in the Navy", lost two fingers when he shoved his hand in a breechblock to prevent a potentially deadly explosion?
... that the Faith and Freedom Coalition was founded by Ralph Reed as "a 21st century version of the Christian Coalition"?
... that A Glorious Way to Die is a book about the World War II kamikaze mission of the world's largest battleship, the Yamato, against the American Pacific Fleet?
... that Den Brook Wind Farm in Devon, England, received planning permission in 2009 after two public inquiries and a judicial review?
... that the 1953–1954 ABC public affairs program Answers for Americans was among the first to offer conservative political ideology to viewers?
... that the McPike Mansion in Alton, Illinois, is reputed to be one of the most haunted houses in North America?
... that the cuisine of Asunción is increasingly influenced by Paraguay's growing Asian immigrant population?

20 June 2011

18:00, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

... that a new species of decim periodical cicada (pictured) was discovered by studying the songs of Brood XIX, now re-emerging in 2011 after 13 years underground?
... that Andrew Marvell wrote poems accusing Vice-Admiral Sir William Berkeley of cowardice, even after Berkeley's death in battle?
... that walls and the ceiling of the Unionskirche (Union Church) in Idstein are covered with 38 oil paintings from the Dutch Golden Age school of Rubens?
... that independent filmmaker Frank Sudol wrote, animated, voiced, directed, and composed all of the music for his film Dead Fury?
... that the Ghana Trades Union Congress, an umbrella group that unites various workers' groups in Ghana, was established in 1945?
... that in 1972, Enoch T. Nix, president of the Louisiana State Board of Education, proposed the closing of historically black Southern University at New Orleans, an issue revived in 2011 by Governor Bobby Jindal?
... that in 1463 Thomas Bettz left £26 13s 4d in his will—a fortune in those days—to help pay for the repair of the bells of St Martin's Church in Ruislip?

12:00, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Sir Evelyn Wood (pictured) was one of only four Victoria Cross recipients to reach the rank of Field Marshal?
... that when railway telegrapher Alfred Atherton was accused of manslaughter for his role in the Canoe River train crash, he hired his MP, John Diefenbaker as defence counsel, who won an acquittal?
... that 1998 Chicago Marathon winner Ondoro Osoro was selected for the Kenyan Olympic squad, but missed the 2000 Sydney Olympics after he was shot in a carjacking?
... that Queensland's worst maritime disaster occurred at Princess Charlotte Bay in 1899 after Cyclone Mahina struck Cape York Peninsula?
... that at the 1933 première of the film Das häßliche Mädchen there was a Nazi-instigated riot in which tomatoes and rotten eggs were thrown, because of the male lead, Max Hansen?
... that Tisa Chang's father performed in school plays at Nankai University together with Zhou Enlai, who went on to become the Premier of the People's Republic of China?
... that in the computer game Steg, players must feed young slugs maggots caught in bubbles?

06:00, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

... that one outpost of Uruguay's Fuerte San Miguel (pictured) has a wall and small window that appears like a cave or an animal burrow?
... that Deiva Magan (1969) was the first ever Tamil film to be submitted by India in contest for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
... that according to legend, the Chiapa people committed suicide by jumping off the Sumidero Canyon in Chiapas, Mexico, rather than submit to Spanish domination?
... that William Hopkinson Cox, who was Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1907 to 1911, was believed to be a descendent of William the Conqueror?
... that the bar and restaurant Dux de Lux was once the home of zoologist Charles Chilton?
... that Bach used the music of his cantata Durchlauchtster Leopold, BWV 173a, composed in Köthen for the birthday of his employer, for two Pentecost cantatas in Leipzig?
... that Wollemi Stringybark, a tree that grows to 45 metres (148 ft) high northwest of Sydney, remains officially undescribed?

00:00, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Charles Darwin described the English Pouter (pictured) as "... the most distinct of all domesticated pigeons"?
... that more than 4,000 people rallied in Portland, Oregon, for Hands Across Hawthorne in response to an assault on a gay couple?
... that one of the worst radiation spill accidents occurred when ignorant thieves broke a steel container with about 90 grams of radioactive caesium chloride?
... that Brazilian band A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade was little known until one of its music videos went viral, attracting international media attention?
... that the Hindu deity Vaikuntha Kamalaja is depicted half-female?
... that although preseason renovations of Yost Ice Arena reduced seating by 10.7%, the 1991–92 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team posted the third-highest weekend series attendance in school history?
... that if the alternative therapeutic practice of coding is successful, patients will fear for their lives?

19 June 2011

18:00, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Francis Cotes's portrait of Edward Knowles (pictured) was painted after Knowles had disappeared at sea?
... that the Aaron Copland House in Cortlandt Manor, New York, is the only U.S. National Historic Landmark connected to a classical music figure?
... that journalist Yelena Masyuk was held hostage in Chechnya for 101 days?
... that the Godavari Arch Bridge in Andhra Pradesh in India is said to be one of the longest-span prestressed concrete bridges in Asia, probably in the world?
... that Jerry Della Femina, head of the ad agency that came up with the singing cat for Meow Mix, wrote a book in 1970 which inspired the television series Mad Men?
... that Croatian cello duo 2Cellos are currently touring with singer Elton John after he saw the cellists' cover of "Smooth Criminal" on YouTube?
... that the Bearded Mountaineer visits tobacco plants along the roadsides in Peru?

12:00, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the debates to enact the Rizal Law (José Rizal pictured) in 1956 is compared to the current Reproductive Health Bill debate in the Philippines?
... that Bach's cantata for Trinity Sunday, Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, BWV 129, a chorale cantata on five stanzas, ends like his Christmas Oratorio, "punctuated by brass and orchestral fanfares"?
... that following Galima Bukharbaeva's eyewitness account of the Andijan massacre, the Uzbek government charged her with providing "informational support to terrorism"?
... that more than ten works by Kalispell, Montana, architect Fred Brinkman have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that the market of the city of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, is dominated by women, with men subject to ridicule if they enter?
... that as the mayor of Oakdale, Louisiana, George B. Mowad in 1985 secured the establishment of the largest U.S. federal correctional institute of its time in his city?
... that the jumping spider Portia fimbriata in Queensland plays a deadly game of hide-and-seek with its favorite prey, Jacksonoides queenlandicus, another jumping spider?

06:00, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

... that The Magpie (pictured) is considered one of Claude Monet's best snowscape paintings?
... that the first hurricane in the 1866 Atlantic hurricane season prompted a lighthouse keeper to resign out of fear of the weather, as well as loneliness?
... that Christ Church in Ashford, Kent, became known as "the railwayman's church" because most of the money for its construction was provided by the shareholders of the South Eastern Railway Company?
... that the RICS said the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 would lead to a million acres of new let farmland in the UK?
... that in the upcoming video game Gotham City Impostors, teams of people dressed as Batman and The Joker try to kill each other?
... that over 16,000 aborted fetuses were found in the Los Angeles fetus disposal scandal in 1982?
... that a major cause of death for Gould's Petrels on Cabbage Tree Island used to be entanglement with the sticky fruits of the Bird-lime Tree?

00:00, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

... that James Bremer (pictured), commander-in-chief of British forces in the First Anglo-Chinese War, took formal possession of Hong Kong Island for the United Kingdom at Possession Point?
... that the Paulinerkirche, the university church of Leipzig where Luther preached, Bach performed and Mendelssohn premiered Paulus, was dynamited in 1968 in communist East Germany?
... that the Lament for Ur which describes the fall of Ekur, c. 2000 BC, is similar in style to the Book of Lamentations which bewails the destruction of Jerusalem in the 6th century BC?
... that Duployan shorthand can be used to write French, English, German, Spanish, Romanian and Chinook Jargon?
... that the novel Sampagitang Walang Bango was written while the "highly westernized middle and upper classes" of Filipinos were beginning to establish themselves in Philippine society?
... that in 1999, Texas Secretary of State Elton Bomer assisted then Governor George W. Bush in the acquisition of the Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas?
... that Elastica's debut single, "Stutter", is about drunken male impotence?

18 June 2011

18:00, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the ancestors of the Kanak people (male Kanak pictured) are thought to have come to New Caledonia from New Guinea?
... that Austria's nutrition guide makes room for sausage, while Japan's includes seaweed and Italy's has biscotti?
... that before Blues Hall of Fame musician Little Milton signed his first recording contract he hosted a radio show on WGVM in Greenville, Mississippi?
... that the SS Empire Deed, a British Second World War cargo ship, ended up being sold in turn to shipping companies in Panama, Greece, Liberia and Taiwan?
... that German texts by the blind Alsatian writer Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel were the basis of two songs by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, and of an opera by Joseph Haydn?
... that the Kingdom of Africa was established by the Sicilian Normans in the 12th century in what is now Algeria, Tunisia and Libya?
... that actor Patrick Fischler flew back and forth between Hawaii and Los Angeles for six months so he could film roles on Lost and Southland at the same time?

12:00, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the diet of Mangrove Pitta and Blue-winged Pitta (pictured) includes hard-shelled snails?
... the Ionian University of Smyrna, established in Turkey by Greece during the occupation of Smyrna, was never opened due to latter's defeat in the Greco-Turkish War?
... that it was during Operation Fustian in 1943, that artillery was first flown into combat?
... that after publishing bestsellers Father Goose and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the George M. Hill Company was compelled in 1902 to declare bankruptcy?
... that Indonesian politician Mohammad Roem moved to Pekalongan as a child to escape an outbreak of cholera?
... that the Harvard Institute for International Development co-developed the Harvard Analytical Framework, which showed the importance of channeling foreign aid to women?
... that Somerset County Cricket Club named three official captains for the 1948 season?

06:00, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the white dress that Marilyn Monroe wore in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch (pictured) is up for auction today and may fetch up to two million US dollars?
... that after Roger Marie Bricoux, cellist on the RMS Titanic, drowned in the disaster, he was declared a "deserter" by the French army and not officially registered dead until 2000?
... that the Game Boy video game Wizards & Warriors X: The Fortress of Fear was released after Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II with no explanation ever given about the missing chapters in between?
... that the wife of Guatemalan journalist Byron Barrera was murdered in 1990 in an unsuccessful attempt on his life?
... that the Trailblazer was the first commercially operated monorail system in the United States?
... that association footballer Chris Smith, just months after signing for York City, was assaulted by a gang in an attack while on a night out?
... that there are 16 subspecies of the Red-cheeked Parrot?

00:00, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

... that sculptor Richard MacDonald (pictured) was a successful commercial illustrator until his late 30s when a fire destroyed his entire art studio along with all his illustrations and paintings?
... that at the time of his Major League Baseball debut in 1952, Nick Koback was the youngest Pittsburgh Pirates player in franchise history?
... that after winning two medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, British equestrian Simon Laurens was named South West Disabled Sports Personality of the Year by the BBC?
... that former Indonesia foreign minister Agus Salim was considered an "intellectual ulama" by Sukarno?
... that the release of Auckland, New Zealand's new HOP card transit system was timed to be in place for the 2011 Rugby World Cup?
... that the 1992–93 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team started school record streaks that remain current for both home wins and road unbeaten games?
... that Aelita Andre, an Australian artist who recently sold US$30,000 worth of paintings at a New York exhibition, is just four years old?

17 June 2011

18:00, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Filipina TV host Daphne Oseña-Paez (pictured) got her big break by waiting for a network executive in the ABS-CBN parking lot to show him a TV program that she filmed, shot, and edited herself?
... that an apprentice who served on board Empire Deben later became the captain of Canberra during the Falklands War?
... that success in the sport of shin-kicking requires the ability to endure pain?
... that The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) has been banned by the British Board of Film Classification?
... that Thepchai Yong won an International Press Freedom Award for reporting on Thailand's Black May uprising despite military pressure to censor coverage?
... that the Flåm Line, originally operated with El 9 locomotives, is the steepest standard gauge railway in Europe?
... that the Sausalito Record Plant served for a time as the residence for Rick James who slept in a conference room built with a waterbed floor?

12:00, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Medieval Merchant's House (pictured) in Southampton was being used as a brothel when bomb damage during the Blitz revealed the building's important medieval architecture?
... that British short track speed skater Sarah Lindsay, a three time Winter Olympian, missed 15 months of competition after rupturing a spinal disc in 2007?
... that graphic designer Lance Wyman designed both the logo for the 1968 Summer Olympics and the Washington Metro map?
... that if the Glacier View Dam had been built it would have inundated more than 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of Glacier National Park in Montana?
... that the issue of Dominium maris baltici was central to Danish and Swedish foreign policy for several centuries?
... that A.B. Quintanilla III and his father/manager Abraham Quintanilla Jr remixed five unreleased Selena songs that were recorded prior to signing a contract with EMI Latin, in 1989, to release a new studio album?
... that "Vote Communist to save Spain from Marxism" was a Socialist joke during the 1936 Spanish general election?

06:00, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Tegucigalpa's dining (sample dish pictured) includes traditional Honduran cuisine—a fusion of the African, Spanish and indigenous cuisines?
... that Armson, Collins and Harman was one of the two oldest architectural firms in New Zealand?
... that the Blockhaus d'Éperlecques was built in France by the Nazi Organisation Todt during World War II to launch V-2 missiles against England?
... that during the 2002–03 National Hockey League season the line nicknamed the West Coast Express accounted for 45% of the Vancouver Canucks 264 goals?
... that Aretino had the largest spindle hole, at three inches (76 mm), of any phonograph record?
... that the tall tower of the Anglican Church of St Mark in Preston, Lancashire, was built to rival the height of the steeple of the nearby Catholic Church of St Walburge?

00:00, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Sumerian "river of paradise", the Hubur (pictured), derived partly from real geography before becoming a demonic fantasy?
... that college football coach Mike Pecarovich appeared in several movies with Bing Crosby and was an acclaimed public speaker who some compared to Knute Rockne?
... that according to the obsolete Paratheria hypothesis, sloths, armadillos, anteaters, and allies are neither marsupials nor placentals?
... that although Vityaz Chekhov selected Jonathan Huberdeau fifth overall in the 2011 Kontinental Hockey League Junior Draft, he doesn't want to play for them?
... that the Malfatti circles, three tangent circles inside a triangle, are named after Malfatti because of an incorrect conjecture he made, and were studied earlier by Ajima and di Cecco?
... that Selena y Los Dinos's album The New Girl in Town was never released outside of South Texas due to copyright concerns?
... that in Waugh's Scott-King's Modern Europe (1947), Scott-King concludes that "It would be very wicked indeed to do anything to fit a boy for the modern world"?

16 June 2011

18:00, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Alfred Vellucci, a former mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, once proposed a motion to the City Council that would have designated the Harvard Lampoon Building (pictured) as a public urinal?
... that Tetteh Quarshie Interchange in Accra replaced the Akuafo Circle, which was Ghana's largest roundabout?
... that, in 1969, British sports journalist Julie Welch became the first female in Fleet Street to report on a football match?
... that the city of Jisr ash-Shugur has twice risen in revolt against the government of Syria, in 1980 and again in 2011?
... that Bizunesh Deba won the 2011 San Diego Marathon in a California state record time, beating Joan Benoit's record from the 1984 Olympic Marathon?
... that the environmental license granted for the El Quimbo Dam in May 2009 was for the first private sector hydroelectric project to be built in Colombia under a new policy?
... that American paleontologist Claude W. Hibbard became a school principal when he was only 18?

12:00, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the 96,000 people who visited the The Derby Exhibition of 1839 (pictured) were able to view a coconut?
... that the Common Diving-petrel is almost indistinguishable from the South Georgia Diving-petrel, which can dive to at least 48.6 m (159 ft)?
... that American singer Madonna, the artist with the most MTV Video Music Awards, won twenty from sixty-eight nominations?
... that with an estimated skull size of 87.5 mm (3.4 in), Coloniatherium was the largest mammal in the La Colonia Formation?
... that the Tema Oil Refinery, the only refinery in Ghana, cannot refine crude oil produced from the country's newly discovered Jubilee oil field?
... that the eighth place of Richard Kruse at the 2004 Games is the best Olympic result for any British fencer since 1964?
... that while the album Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons only reached number 197 on the Billboard 200, it peaked at number two on Billboard's Top Kid Audio and remained on that chart for 17 weeks?

06:00, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

... that during the May 1998 riots (pictured) in Indonesia, three generals in charge of security in the capital Jakarta were absent from the city?
... that fox predation is probably the biggest natural threat to the Hooded Dotterel?
... that Baseball America listed Kyle Abbott as the 84th best prospect for the 1991 Major League Baseball season, despite Abbott recording an earned run average of 14.81 the previous year?
... that Ghana National Petroleum Corporation was instrumental in the discovery of crude oil off the coast of Ghana in 2007?
... that the Pamunkey Indian Tribe Museum in Virginia displays a combination of artifacts and replicas in order to provide a full and authentic view of the Pamunkey people's lifestyle for the last 12,000 years?
... that Captain Lionel Queripel of the 10th Parachute Battalion was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of Arnhem?

00:00, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Rogier van der Weyden's painting Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin (c. 1435; pictured) may contain a self-portrait of the artist as Saint Luke, displaying his affinity with the patron saint of the arts?
... that Solidarity's victory in the Polish legislative election, 1989, ushering the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, was a surprise to both the communists and the opposition?
... that Haki Stërmilli's novel Sikur t'isha djalë (English: If I Were a Boy) is his best known work and the first literary work in Albanian that dealt with the subject of the emancipation of women?
... that Ako Adjei Interchange, the first flyover to be built in Ghana, was at one time named after Captain Thomas Sankara – a military ruler of Burkina Faso?
... that anti-communist activist Gheorghe Briceag pledged to shave his well-known Solzhenitsyn beard if Moldova united with Romania?
... that Iñigo Ed. Regalado wrote the novel May Pagsinta'y Walang Puso in 1921 when adultery was a sensitive topic in Philippine literature?
... that while captaining Somerset County Cricket Club, Jake Seamer carried an old train sign saying "To Tonbridge" in his bag?

15 June 2011

18:00, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Uruguayan city of Chuy is only separated from the Brazilian city of Chuí by an avenue (pictured)?
... that the 1st Parachute Brigade earned their nickname Red Devils during the Tunisian Campaign?
... that supporting Kanak traditions, Conservation International's partnership with the Coral Reef Initiative for the South Pacific included underwater species guides to the Kanak people?
... that builder Charles Luney used "every piece of scaffolding available in the South Island" of New Zealand for the construction of the Westpac Centre?
... that Katerina Kazelis got to audition in front of singer Basshunter for a chance to record the Big Brother 2011 anthem during her participation in Big Brother Sweden?
... that the development of wind power in New Jersey could lead to the construction of the first American windfarm using offshore wind power?
... that the Ministry of Energy of Ghana fitted solar panels for 160 rural junior high schools so that pupils could watch a weekly television programme?

12:00, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Kölnbrein Dam (pictured) is the tallest dam in Austria?
... that Samuel Ward was given a diamond ring as reward for being Bonnie Prince Charlie's food taster?
... that Saint John Sea Dogs defenceman Nathan Beaulieu continued to play for the ice hockey team even after they fired his father as head coach?
... that in 1933, Harmon Caldwell Drew, a Louisiana circuit court judge, got into a confrontation with then U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., after Long had sullied Drew's reputation?
... that the Rhesus macaque Tetra is the first cloned primate?
... that retreating Ottoman forces burned all villages between Niš and Sofia after their defeat in the Battle of Niš of 1443?
... that many Buddhist temples in Japan have a hidden roof?

06:00, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

... that, after the 1906 Earthquake, Sid Grauman (pictured, left), owner of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, showed movies in a tent with a sign that read "Nothing to fall on you but canvas if there is another quake"?
... that the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah floating vessel, which processes crude oil off the coast of Ghana, is 330 metres (1,080 ft) long?
... that the Sultan of Johor's Oxford-educated wife, Raja Zarith Sofia, earned her degree in Chinese studies and advocates the use of English in Malaysia?
... that Temple Owls men's basketball player Juan Fernandez has been called "Pepe Sanchez with a jump shot"?
... that the Spanish coup of July 1936 is considered ideologically catastrophic?
... that Ismail Ndroqi served the longest term as mayor of Albania's capital Tirana in the pre-WWII era?
... that common strategies used in combine demolition derbies include popping the tyres and damaging the drive belts of other vehicles?

00:00, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

... that blues legend B.B. King (pictured) made his broadcast debut playing live gospel music on WGRM in Greenwood, Mississippi?
... that the Hymn to Enlil is part of a sequence of Sumerian scribal training scripts called the Decad?
... that the 1562 Danish-Russian Treaty of Mozhaysk has been called a milestone in European history?
... that the European sedge Carex hirta is widespread in North America where it is known as "hammer sedge"?
... that Javier González Fraga was appointed as vice president candidate for the Ricardo Alfonsín ticket for the 2011 Argentine general election?
... that Emily and Anne Brontë's Gondal was an early form of science fiction?
... that the Black Bishop is not just a chess piece?

14 June 2011

18:00, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the nests of White-winged Widowbirds are built exclusively by males (pictured)?
... that Sultan Sharafuddin of Selangor circumnavigated the world in his yacht in 22 months?
... that "Who Says" is said to be inspired by the hate Selena Gomez received online due to her relationship with Justin Bieber?
... that Ales Bialatski earned a PhD in Belarusian literature before becoming the vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights?
... that Blue Mud Bay has given its name to both an Important Bird Area and a court ruling affirming that Aboriginal lands in the Northern Territory carry exclusive fishing rights to their tidal waters?
... that after Lord George Gordon incited a riot that killed 300 people and damaged more buildings than the French Revolution, he was found not guilty?
... that British post-punk band The Wolfgang Press were claimed to be named after a device that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart tried (unsuccessfully) to invent to type out his music?

12:00, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the ancient Mundeshwari Temple (pictured), dedicated to the worship of Lord Shiva and Shakti, is one of the oldest Hindu temples in Bihar, India?
... that the BBC used commentators for the first time at the 1936 FA Cup Final, where Sheffield United was captained by Harry Hooper?
... that shortly after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, politician Anselmo Sule, along with several supporters of the Unidad Popular, were detained and taken to Dawson Island?
... that glamour model Sofia Hellqvist, the current girlfriend of Swedish Prince Carl Philip, appeared in a photoshoot for the men's magazine Slitz in which she posed wearing only bikini bottoms and a live python?
... that in 1930, the first linum factory in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, was opened in Ilyinsko-Podomskoye in Vilegodsky District?
... that the Good Shepherd is the theme of Bach's cantata for Pentecost Tuesday, Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen, BWV 175, illustrated in pastoral music of three recorders?
... that Patricia Preece persuaded artist Stanley Spencer to divorce his wife, marry her, and sign his house over to her, but never left her lesbian lover?

06:00, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Sumerian Kesh temple hymn (similar temple pictured) is one of the oldest texts?
... that the idea for the 2009 experimental comedy-horror film Lo came after the director watched Jan Švankmajer's 1994 film Faust?
... that Dedi was an ancient Egyptian magician who was said to be capable of resurrecting decapitated beings?
... that The Independent named the black dress worn by Rita Hayworth in the 1946 film Gilda as one of the Ten Best Fashion Moments in Film?
... that Stephen Fry was an engineer and aspiring jazz pianist before he captained South Africa's rugby team against the British Lions?
... that Parks and Recreation character Chris Traeger has been described as "one of the great comedic creations of the past couple years" and one of Rob Lowe's funniest performances?
... that journalist Ahmad Taufik was acquitted after being taken to court by both the Suharto government and Tomy Winata, one of Indonesia's richest businessmen?

00:00, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the pink dress (pictured) which Marilyn Monroe wore in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) was emulated by Madonna in her video to Material Girl?
... that Turakhan Beg was commander of one of the Ottoman armies during the Battle of Niš in November 1443?
... that Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines is a 1917 novel written by American writer John Stuart Thomson?
... that the American neuroscientist Jacqueline Crawley has been President of both the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society?
... that Asafo Interchange was the first flyover to be built in Kumasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana?
... that Giammaria Biemmi's work on Skanderbeg raised controversy among historians over his sources' authenticity?
... that sculptor Alfred Gerrard wore the same clothes for decades?

13 June 2011

18:00, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

... that in Bach's cantata for Pentecost Monday, Erhöhtes Fleisch und Blut, BWV 173, a verse from the meeting of Jesus and Nicodemus (pictured) is paraphrased in a unique duet, illustrating the theme exaltation?
... that television writer Dennis Marks not only provided episodes of Batfink and The Beatles, but he was also the voice of the Green Goblin?
... that Alexios Palaiologos was heir apparent of the Byzantine Empire from 1199 to his death in 1203, and was directly involved in the suppression of no less than four revolts during this time?
... that the Californian commune Black Bear Ranch was founded using money from both entertainment industry executives and from an LSD deal?
... that Bill Foley's photograph "The Last Smile" shows Anwar Sadat only moments before his assassination?
... that Siberian-born Noldi Schreck, set decorator for the 1965 drama Love Has Many Faces, was nicknamed "the architect of Zona Rosa"?
... that the London Necropolis Railway was used to relocate the exhumed contents of at least 21 London graveyards to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey?

12:11, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the racing track Charles River Speedway (pictured) was designed by a firm co-founded by Frederick Law Olmsted?
... that Beatrice Mtetwa, "Zimbabwe's top human rights lawyer", has secured the release of reporters from The New York Times and The Sunday Telegraph?
... that despite the nation being banned from the 1972 Olympics because of the policy of apartheid, 25 athletes competed for South Africa at the 1972 Summer Paralympics?
... that Brigadier General Francis C. Marshall had just visited Camp Hearn prior to dying in a plane crash?
... that Norwegian librarian and bibliographer Hjalmar Pettersen registered every work in the 3,300 page-long Bibliotheca Norvegica himself?
... that Mexican-American singer-songwriter Selena was murdered by an employee who (falsely) claimed she was raped and needed the singer's help?
... that one of the first European books to contain Chinese characters was written by an officer of the Spanish Inquisition, and translated into English by an escaped former prisoner of the Inquisition?

06:26, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

... that in 2006, San Diego Padres outfielder Luis Durango (pictured) was timed running the 90 feet (27 m) from home plate to first base in only 3.4 seconds?
... that Fox 2000 Pictures postponed its upcoming film adaptation of Yann Martel's 2001 novel Life of Pi a week to avoid direct competition with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey?
... that Edmund Ser, owner of Malaysian fashion labels Edmund Ser, Spade, and SER, was a guest judge on Project Runway Malaysia?
... that the Norwegian steamer Vigrid was sunk by a German U-boat while carrying Welsh coal to France in 1917?
... that Tom Kahn organized American unions' $300,000 aid to the Polish labor union Solidarity in 1980–1981, despite Secretary of State Muskie's warnings that this aid might provoke a new Soviet invasion?
... that Indonesian journalist Bambang Harymurti originally wanted to be an astronaut and qualified as a potential candidate?
... that a biologist discovered a population of the rare and endangered Michigan monkeyflower after he found a specimen used as a garnish on his plate at a restaurant?

00:41, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the White-headed Buffalo Weaver (pictured) builds nests with multiple rooms and a downward-facing entrance?
... that planet WASP-13b, despite a radius 25% larger than Jupiter's, has less than half the mass?
... that the 2005 Gwangju Prize winner Wardah Hafidz was told to vacate her office after disclosing that numerous groups had used social security funds for "money politics"?
... that the retired association football player Zlatko Zahovič is the all-time top scorer for the Slovenia team?
... that Judith Trim, the first wife of Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, cried the first time she heard The Dark Side of the Moon?
... that "Donde quiera que estés", a collaboration with Mexican-American singer-songwriter Selena, became the first number-one hit for the Barrio Boyzz?
... that cyclist Gerhard Schönbacher stopped and kissed the road before he finished last in the 1979 Tour de France?

12 June 2011

18:39, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Bach may have performed his cantata Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten, BWV 59, in Leipzig at the University Church (pictured) at Pentecost 1723, before he took up his cantor position in Leipzig?
... that Carra Castle was once occupied by Shane O'Neill who held Sorley Boy McDonnell as a prisoner there in 1565, and the McDonnells later got their revenge by beheading O'Neill there?
... that the Holy Ghost ipomopsis, a rare flower found in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico, is predicted to become extinct within 50 years?
... that Reginald Byng Stephens led the British 5th Division to Italy as part of his country's participation in the First World War's Italian campaign?
... that Selskabet for Oslo Byes Vel, a non-profit association for the benefit of Norway's capital city, celebrates its 200-year anniversary this year?
... that WGRM-FM founder Clay Ewing had been mayor of Greenwood, Mississippi?
... that Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli are responsible for tens of thousands of cases of foodborne illness a year?

12:00, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

... that between October 1944 and January 1945 the 127th (Parachute) Field Ambulance (badge pictured) treated 628 casualties and carried out 214 surgical operations?
... that Irlo Bronson sold the land that is present-day Walt Disney World for about US$100 per acre?
... that the Venezuelan port Nueva Cádiz was the first Spanish town to be established in South America?
... that the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria asked the courts to annul the decree that chartered their rival, the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria?
... that Nínay, the first Filipino novel, provides a "folkloristic tour" of the distinctive culture of the Philippines?
... that the Antwerp Diamond Heist was the largest diamond heist in history?
... that visual effects supervisor Jay Worth found inspiration for the "Ash Man" storyline in the Fringe episode "Earthling" from holding his grandmother-in-law's hands at her funeral?

06:00, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Brazilian government's order for dreadnought battleships (one pictured) led to a South American naval arms race?
... that the campaign of George Tyler Wood for Governor of Texas was aided by Isaac Van Zandt dying from yellow fever?
... that transit service in Portland, Oregon, in the 1960s was provided solely by privately owned companies, with Rose City Transit in the city proper and the "Blue Bus" lines in the suburbs?
... that in 2004, 30-year-old rookie Brian Dallimore hit a grand slam for his first hit in Major League Baseball?
... that tourism is Ghana's fourth highest foreign exchange earner?
... that a Popular Mechanics article noted it is possible to die from "parasitic asphyxiation", as shown in the Fringe episode "Snakehead"?

00:00, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the town of Cassel in France is located on a hill that is said to have been created when two giants (nineteenth century representation pictured) tripped and dropped a heap of earth that they were carrying?
... that a major achievement of the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs of Ghana is the abolishing of child trafficking in the country?
... that after the Nyon Conference, The Times likened the happy delegates to cricketers, "reviewing their innings, over by over"?
... that the Regional Museum of Anthropology and History of Chiapas in Tuxtla Gutiérrez sponsors an annual event for children from low income areas of the city?
... that the loy is an early Irish spade used for manual ploughing prior to and during the Irish Potato Famine?
... that Native American Taos Pueblo artists Albert Looking Elk, Juan Mirabal, and Albert Lujan were known as the "Three Taos Pueblo" painters?
... that asteroid 16113 Ahmed was named for a high school student from New York?

11 June 2011

18:00, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the world's first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine, the De Rivaz engine (model pictured), was made in 1807?
... that on 20 November 1943, a wounded surgeon from the 16th (Parachute) Field Ambulance carried out over 150 operations?
... that Mitch McDeere, Tom Cruise's character in Sydney Pollack's 1993 US$270 million-grossing film adaptation of John Grisham's The Firm that sold seven million copies, will reappear in a television series?
... that "father of Indonesian anthropology" Koentjaraningrat joined the student militia as an English and history teacher during the Indonesian National Revolution?
... that journalist Ricardo Uceda helped locate the mass grave of the La Cantuta massacre victims?
... that although Dizzy Nutter's professional baseball career lasted eight years, Nutter only played in eighteen Major League games?
... that the 7th-century Law of Wihtred, a law code from Kent, provides that any slave forced to work on Sabbath be given freedom?

12:00, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

... that part of the High Fens reserve in Belgium is closed in spring because of the breeding of the endangered black grouse (pictured)?
... that Samuel Noah Kramer noted the Debate between Winter and Summer "is the closest extant Sumerian parallel to the Biblical Cain and Abel story"?
... that despite tests showing "virtually zero" risk, utility companies still cite islanding concerns to refuse connection of new distributed generation systems?
... that Jamaican sprinter Nickel Ashmeade beat a former Olympic and World champion in the 100 m and set a meet record at the Ponce Grand Prix in May 2011?
... that the Animation Council of the Philippines, Inc. sponsors a yearly festival that features the works of Filipino animators?
... that Papyrus 49 is one of three early manuscripts with the text of the Epistle to the Ephesians?
... that African-American Civil Rights activist Gloria Blackwell and her daughter Lurma Rackley missed a court appearance because they were arrested for going to the white-only restroom in the courthouse?

06:00, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Milton J. Durham (pictured), a former official in the U.S. Treasury Department, once bloodied a Lexington Leader newswriter's face in a dispute over information that appeared in the newspaper?
... that Aodh Méith refused to meet with the King of England, because the King was unwilling to give hostages as surety?
... that in 2000 American newspaper executive and conservationist Edward H. Harte established the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at the Texas A&M University with a US$46M endowment?
... that the Djibouti Francolin is endemic to the Mabla Mountains and the Day Forest National Park?
... that the opera Die Stadt hinter dem Strom, composed by Hans Vogt and based on Hermann Kasack's novel of the same name, was first staged at the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden in 1955?
... that comedian and former Parks and Recreation producer Dana Gould made a cameo appearance in "The Bubble", a third season episode?
... that in May 2011 members of Lulz Security took responsibility for an attack on the website of PBS that resulted in the posting of a fake news story that claimed Tupac Shakur was still alive and living in New Zealand?

00:00, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the 2011 New England tornado outbreak (EF3 in Springfield pictured) resulted in Massachusetts' first tornado fatalities since the 1995 Great Barrington tornado?
... that millionaire banker Baron Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger was also a noted composer who wrote an opera based on Thomas Hardy's novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles?
... that the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh about the Armenian Genocide played a role in organizing the Jewish resistance under Nazi rule?
... that electric circuit theorist Vitold Belevitch discovered a mathematical basis for Zipf's law from linguistics?
... that one reason for establishing the National Sports College of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ghana was that Ghanaian sportsmen were under-performing in international competitions?
... that Thomas Jefferson grew Lacinato kale, an heirloom kale also known as Dinosaur kale, in his Monticello garden?
... that during his career, Chrisye released albums that sold like "chicken shit", were recorded with studio executives locked out, raised controversy for being "against Asian mores", went double platinum on his birthday, and had to be recalled to replace the cover design?

10 June 2011

18:00, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the last standard gauge steam locomotive in use in Israel was a Palestine Railways H class 4-6-0 (pictured) originally built for the British Army's Palestine Military Railway?
... that Nike, Alfa Romeo, Red Bull and Ginsters are all advertised in the first person football video game I Am Playr?
... that the National Youth Employment Program was created to address youth unemployment in Ghana which increases by 250,000 per year?
... that although baseball player Chuck Ricci never played for the Cleveland Indians, he appeared in the 1994 film Major League II as a member of the team and later worked for the club as a scout?
... that although the continued attack by the German auxiliary cruiser Michel on Empire Dawn after she had surrendered was considered to be a war crime, Michel's captain was acquitted of the charge?
... that King Saud University assistant professor of women's history Hatoon al-Fassi has not been allowed to teach since 2001?
... that Ernest Hemingway wrote The Fifth Column during the siege of the Spanish Civil War at the Hotel Florida in Madrid and on a daily basis he "expected a bomb to land on his typewriter"?

12:00, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

... that New Waddell Dam (pictured) in Maricopa County, Arizona, submerged the Old Waddell Dam and both receives and provides water to the Central Arizona Project?
... that the Paperbark Flycatcher never uses the "scissors-grinding" call of the closely related Restless Flycatcher?
... that a preposition is something that a sentence can end with?
... that the perp walk of Lee Harvey Oswald ended with his assassination on live television?
... that David Lucas, who produced and sang backup on Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" also wrote AT&T's "Reach out and touch someone" jingle?
... that WASP-44b, an extrasolar planet the size of Jupiter, orbits the star WASP-44 every 58 hours?
... that the popularity of Tagalog pocketbooks helps establish the national language in the Philippines, a country with over 100 languages?

06:00, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Capt. John Jackson Dickison (pictured) led the Confederate forces that captured the USS Columbine in the only known incident in US history where a cavalry unit sank an enemy gunboat?
... that during World War II the Polish Teachers' Union was mostly active through the Secret Teaching Organization?
... that Norwegian botanist Finn Wischmann wrote more than 45,000 herbarium sheets and 21,000 checklists, recording more than half a million plant discoveries?
... that the setting of Nippur in the Sumerian creation myth of Enlil and Ninlil has been noted as "civitas dei", existing before the "axis mundi" and the creation of man?
... that when Warqenah Eshate returned to Ethiopia 32 years after being carried away by British soldiers, his grandmother recognized him by examining scars on his arms and legs?
... that the offspring of the stallion Saxon were the subject of teasing from his owner's brother, resulting in a challenge race that Saxon's daughter won by four lengths?
... that the Finland-Swedish admiral Arvid Stålarm was sentenced to death three times, but never actually executed?

00:00, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Chester city walls (section pictured) form the most complete circuit of Roman and medieval defensive town walls in Britain?
... that Peter Dawson served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for 26 years, the longest in the history of the province?
... that after the science fiction anthology Machine of Death reached No. 1 on the Amazon.com bestseller list instead of his own book, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck denounced it as part of a liberal "culture of death"?
... that the Argentine city of Villa Gesell was built after the afforestation of a dune field?
... that Hungarian handballer Bojana Radulović has been selected IHF World Player of the Year twice, in 2000 and 2003?
... that William Wordsworth wrote his Guide to the Lakes because he needed money, and first published it anonymously?
... that A. Forward was a forward?

9 June 2011

18:00, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

... that archaeological excavations at the Banteay Kdei (pictured) in Cambodia revealed relics of 274 Buddhist statues made in sandstone?
... that gifted primary school students attend Rose Bay Secondary College for a day a week for the length of a school term to undertake advanced studies?
... that Qatar sent only male athletes to the inaugural Asian Para Games?
... that Peter Aucoin, a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University, has served as an advisor to all three levels of the government of Canada?
... that reindeer were introduced to South Georgia by Norwegian whalers?
... that Franc Fernandez, designer of Lady Gaga's meat dress and "Bad Romance" "diamond crown" costume, was mostly self-trained?
... that newspaper editor Col. William Thompson won his 1871 shootout with a rival newspaper editor despite sustaining severe gunshot wounds, including a bullet lodged behind his eye, and a beating from a cane?

12:00, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the bankrupt dandy "Champagne Charlie" sold his inheritance including the painting Earthstopper on the banks of the Derwent (detail pictured)?
... that in 1993, the car of Algerian journalist Omar Belhouchet was machine-gunned while he was driving his children to school?
... that Ballylough is home to a ruined castle that was once a stronghold of the MacQuillans and the MacDonnells?
... that Polish-German "cotton king" Juliusz Karol Kunitzer survived a 1893 assassination attempt, but died during that of 1905?
... that jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal's first live album At the Pershing: But Not for Me, recorded in 1958, has sold over one million copies?
... that Royal Ulster Constabulary officer John Weir, who was convicted of a sectarian killing, had once considered joining the Irish Garda Síochána?
... that Burmese journalist Aung Pwint was imprisoned on charges of "sending news" and "illegal ownership of a fax machine"?

06:00, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Dalí's Rhinoceros sculpture 3,600 kilograms

... that Puerto Banús is visited by 5 million people annually and contains a three-ton statue of a rhinoceros (pictured) by Salvador Dalí?
... that Russian journalist Nadira Isayeva called her 2010 trial "a test for the institution of press freedom" in Dagestan?
... that Indiana's Epsilon II is a rare example of a well-preserved upland archaeological site from the Archaic period?
... that Paul Kromer and Tom Harmon formed a backfield duo for the 1938 Michigan Wolverines football team that became known as the "Touchdown Twins"?
... that Thomas Erskine's speech in the case of R v Baillie earned him a standing ovation?
... that the ideal of the Imitation of Christ goes back to the earliest days of Christianity?
... that earthquake sensitives such as geologist Jim Berkland claim they have the ability to predict earthquakes?

00:00, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

... that when the male Yellow-crowned Bishop (pictured) is ready to mate, his head and back turn a brilliant yellow color?
... that the duet aspect of Sonny & Cher's first recorded hit single, "Baby Don't Go", was not originally planned but established the pair's unusual harmonic style?
... that there were two Carlisle Houses in 18th-century London's Soho Square; one housing Domenico Angelo's fencing and riding school and another Madame Cornelys' masquerades and illegal operas?
... that Angel Delgadillo helped inspire the film Cars and has been called the "guardian angel of Route 66"?
... that Berwick Rangers 1-0 defeat of Rangers in 1967 has been described as "the most astonishing result ever returned in Scottish football"?
... that in 2001, James Hedges of Thompson Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania, became the first Prohibition Party member elected in a partisan election since 1959?
... that the Tema Motorway, which was commissioned in 1964, is Ghana's only motorway?

8 June 2011

18:00, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the richly decorated medieval churches of Saint Paraskevi and the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel (pictured) in Nesebar, Bulgaria, were both surmounted by bell towers which have not been preserved?
... that Troy Yocum, who is currently hiking 7,000 miles (11,000 km) across the United States, once tried to set a Guinness world record for marathon drumming?
... that the Gita Dhyanam, known as the Invocation to the Bhagavad Gita, compares the Upanishads to cows, and claims that God's grace can make the dumb speak?
... that the Basters under Hermanus van Wyk were ready to pay £2,750 for their land around Rehoboth, but got it for free after they signed a protection treaty with Imperial Germany?
... that both candidates in the 2011 special congressional election in Ilocos Sur's 1st district claimed they had the endorsement of the Liberal Party of the Philippines?
... that the skeleton of the last Bosnian king, Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia, currently lies in the Franciscan monastery of Saint Luke, Jajce?
... that the terrier Beauty is considered to be "the original rescue dog"?

12:00, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Leipzig University Library (pictured) houses 43 leaves of the Codex Sinaiticus?
... that Muhammad Al-Saqr won an International Press Freedom Award for his work as a journalist before becoming chairman of the Arab Parliament?
... that Hamill, an upcoming biographical film about deaf mixed martial artist Matt Hamill, will use sporadic sound and incomplete subtitles?
... that during his tenure as mayor of Minden, Louisiana, Connell Fort worked to rid his city of mosquitoes, laid natural gas lines, and built the municipal sewerage system?
... that the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 1 Long Range Flight was formed to compete in the 1953 London to Christchurch air race?
... that Joseph Wright of Derby's painting of Miravan's revulsion as he breaks open a tomb is based on a story retold by John Gilbert Cooper?
... that a live performance of the French translation of Kafka's Soup included a sung recipe for onion tart?

06:00, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Colonel Ambrosio José Gonzales (pictured), a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War, once fought for the US annexation of Cuba?
... that two condemned Swedish prisoners spared in the 1599 Åbo Bloodbath also survived the 1600 Linköping Bloodbath?
... that the American Thoroughbred racehorse Algerine won the 1876 Belmont Stakes without winning another race beforehand?
... that Tema Harbour in Ghana was named after the Torman fishing village and is Africa's largest man-made harbour?
... that the ninth-century Codex Vindobonensis 751 contains a selection of the correspondence of Saint Boniface, as well as a mysterious palindrome and the oldest English poetic proverb?
... that the 1939–40 NYU Violets men's basketball team, led by Ben Auerbach, finished the regular season with an 18–1 record yet did not play in a postseason tournament?
... that inspired by a trip to the highly active Mount Yasur volcano in 1999, French video game creator Eric Chahi designed the video game From Dust?

00:00, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

... that khat (pictured), which induces a state of euphoria and is endemic to Djibouti, is chewed by 90% of the local men?
... that Civil Courage Prize laureate Ali Salem was ostracized by the Egyptian intellectual community following a 1994 book in which he promoted peace with Israel?
... that US Ambassador to Russia nominee Michael McFaul was denounced by a member of the Russian Parliament days before someone shot a bullet through his Stanford University office window?
... that Walter Egerton, last Governor of Lagos Colony, initiated annual "pacification patrols" in southeast Nigeria which usually achieved submission without using force?
... that La Esmeralda Dam supplies 8% of Colombia's power demand?
... that Modeste Mutinga won an international prize for his journalism before being elected to the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
... that when workers staged a 1978 wildcat strike for higher wages at Volkswagen's new Westmoreland Assembly Plant that built the Rabbit model, the picketers shouted "No Money, No Bunny"?

7 June 2011

18:00, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the oldest parts of St Giles' Church (pictured) in Ickenham were built in 1335?
... that at least seventeen elections have occurred in the Chilean city of Pichilemu since the country's transition to democracy in 1989?
... that Albie Grant is the only Long Island Blackbirds men's basketball player to average 20+ points and 10+ rebounds for his career?
... that a live album released by the band Los Tigres del Norte was named "historic" for the Mexican culture?
... that the 1945 Augustów roundup which resulted in the disappearance and likely murder of about 600 Polish citizens by the Soviet Union is considered the largest crime committed in Poland after World War II?
... that Philip Craven, current President of the International Paralympic Committee, competed in athletics, swimming and wheelchair basketball for Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Paralympics?
... that the African Owl is actually a pigeon?

12:00, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Tanzania hosts more than 1100 bird species including the Grey Crowned Crane (pictured)?
... that Forrest McClendon earned a 2011 Tony Award nomination for his début performance on Broadway?
... that the powerful teeth and jaws of Heliopithecus may have played a key role in the spread of Hominoids from Africa into Eurasia, 17 million years ago?
... that the 2011 book Among the Truthers argues there is growing popularity in the US for far-fetched, paranoid conspiracy theories?
... that Vivienne Osborne was offered a role in Douglas Fairbanks's last silent film, the Musketeer film sequel The Iron Mask, following her earlier role in the Flo Ziegfeld musical The Three Musketeers?
... that the libretto for Phyllis Tate's opera The Lodger was written by singer and broadcaster David Franklin?
... that award-winning journalist Paul Kamara has also been a priest, a cabinet minister, and the manager of Sierra Leone's national football team?

06:00, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Armored Rat (pictured) has spines which grow up to 33 millimetres (1.3 in) in length?
... that after being named the UCLA Bruins MVP in 2006 and 2007, San Francisco Giants rookie Brandon Crawford hit a grand slam in his first Major League Baseball game?
... that the 2011 Slave Lake wildfire caused the evacuation of all 7,000 of Slave Lake's residents?
... that at the 1964 Summer Paralympics, Argentina won 37 medals, including 6 golds?
... that Norwegian botanist and politician Olaf Alfred Hoffstad taught at Sandefjord Upper Secondary School for almost 43 years?
... that Volkswagen's new Chattanooga Assembly Plant is built near the remaining storage bunker of a plant that manufactured up to 30 million pounds of TNT per month for the Second World, Korean and Vietnam Wars?
... that the Irish comedy duo Damo and Ivor is one person?

00:00, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Titanic Musicians' Memorial (pictured) in Southampton features the hymn, "Nearer, My God, to Thee", commonly believed to have been played as the ship went down?
... that Will June, grandfather of a National Football League Pro Bowler and Super Bowl champion linebacker, is the oldest player to officially bowl consecutive 300-games?
... that phonon noise is a major source of noise in cryogenically cooled superconducting transition edge sensors?
... that Tambora, a Papuan language, was once spoken in the middle of Indonesia near Bali, far to the west of Papua, until the trading state that used it was wiped out by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815?
... that the indie video game Digital: A Love Story is set "five minutes into the future of 1988"?
... that Arab prince Al-Abbas ibn al-Ma'mun refused to take the throne even though he was the only son of the previous caliph and had the support of the army?
... that Nazi scientists claimed to have trained a dog to call "Adolf Hitler" as "Mein Führer"?

6 June 2011

16:00, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

... that a Hawker Sea Hurricane (example pictured) from Empire Darwin was involved in the last action flown from a CAM ship, shooting down a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 on 28 July 1943?
... that on Anzac Day 1923, Lord Jellicoe laid the cornerstone for the Bridge of Remembrance and an invocation was made by Archbishop Churchill Julius?
... that Jones's Wood, a wooded estate on the island of Manhattan overlooking the East River, was touted as a site for what became Central Park?
... that Source London, a newly launched network of electric vehicle charging points, is the first to operate city-wide?
... that the Sturgeon House in Fairview is a rare example of a saltbox house in northwestern Pennsylvania?
... that Dandeniya Gamage Jayanthi founded the group "Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared" following the abduction, shooting, and burning of her fiancé?
... that Mel Mazzera's performance for the minor league San Diego Padres led to the observance of a "Mel Mazzera Day" on August 30, 1942?

08:00, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the square-shaped Phnom Bok hill temple in Cambodia is dedicated to the Trimurti (pictured) images (893–927 AD) installed in individual sanctums?
... that some of the earliest activities of the Canadian intelligence system involved guarding the Canada-United States border, and preventing U.S. infringement on Canadian neutrality during the U.S. Civil War?
... that a committee in the 1920s raised the funds to turn a collection of tracks into Anzac Avenue, the longest World War I memorial road in Queensland?
... that Norwegian Jens Bache-Wiig, a former professor of engineering, resigned from his position at IT&T in 1935 in protest against New York head office intervention in his area of responsibility?
... that the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas is the largest organization of Filipino writers?
... that all five of the medalists for Argentina at the inaugural Paralympic Games were swimmers?
... that the Confucian teaching hara hachi bu instructs people to eat until they are 80 percent full?

00:00, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

... that England international rugby player Rupert Inglis (pictured) became an army chaplain in World War I and was killed at the Battle of the Somme?
... that as a reward for good support the previous year, Kent gave the Tunbridge Wells Cricket Week two Twenty20 fixtures in 2011 rather than one?
... that Lola Sanchez was a spy during the American Civil War who provided information to the Confederate Army, which led them to a victory over the Union Forces in the "Battle of Horse Landing"?
... that Joachim von Ribbentrop suggested the Non-Intervention Committee might as well have been called the "Intervention Committee"?
... that Christoph Wolff termed the two oboe da caccia and two oboe d'amore in recitatives of Bach's cantata for Exaudi, Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 183, "opulent oboe scoring"?
... that marine technology involves other technologies that may either safeguard or exploit the marine environment?
... that Tennessee governor Newton Cannon's animosity toward fellow Tennessean Andrew Jackson, who was U.S. president during his governorship, may have started with gambling losses at Jackson's racetrack?

5 June 2011

16:00, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

... that St Denys' Church, Sleaford (pictured) has one of the oldest stone broach spires in England and an altar rail designed by Sir Christopher Wren?
... that the First Battle of Newbury has been described as "both the longest battle of the English Civil War and the one that historians have found the greatest difficulty in describing"?
... that the fossil sawfly species Eriocampa tulameenensis was found along the Canadian Pacific rail line near Princeton, British Columbia?
... that Marga T's novel Badai Pasti Berlalu sold roughly 24,000 copies—remarkable for an Indonesian novel in the 1970s—and spawned a critically acclaimed film, album and song?
... that professional cricketer George Nash was once dropped off every ball of an over bowled by the amateur Robert Ramsay?
... that Dan Savage indulged in the seven deadly sins during research for his book Skipping Towards Gomorrah?
... that the State Policy Network of conservative "free market" political think tanks in every U.S. state has been likened to a franchising arrangement?

08:00, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Howard Robertson, with Le Corbusier, Markelius, and others, was on the Board of Design which helped Wallace Harrison to design the United Nations Headquarters (pictured)?
... that the oldest pre-Hispanic tomb in the Americas has been found in Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico?
... that the Linux distribution Nova is central to the Cuban government's desire to replace Microsoft Windows?
... that the future British prime minister Winston Churchill stayed at Highgrove House in Eastcote for his honeymoon?
... that when Dan Savage's book Savage Love was published, his advice column of the same name had 4 million readers?
... that police officer and future Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Philip Primrose was a distant cousin to the Earls of Rosebery?
... that giggle incontinence, the involuntary release of urine in response to giggling or laughter, may be related to cataplexy, a sudden transient episode of loss of muscle tone often triggered by strong emotions?

00:00, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the Manipur Bush Rat (pictured) was described from the collection of A. O. Hume which he donated after his life's work of ornithological notes were sold by a servant as waste paper?
... that the 2011–12 season's television adaptation of The Firm is a sequel to a 1991 novel that sold 7 million copies and a 1993 film that grossed $270 million worldwide?
... that the phenomenon of feudal fragmentation has had a significant impact on European history, particularly during the Middle Ages?
... that the Parson Capen House in Topsfield, Massachusetts, was built in a style that reminded homesick immigrants of homes in England?
... that Bolo Pasha, a Frenchman with an Egyptian title, was convicted and executed in France in 1918 for being a German spy using evidence collected by the New York Attorney General?
... that Tadeusz Vetulani was a pioneer of biodiversity research in Poland and conducted notable research into forest tarpan and the Polish koniks, launching restoration and breeding schemes?
... that Orgasm is a fake live album John's Children recorded in the studio with overdubbed screams taken from The Beatles's Hard Day's Night soundtrack?

4 June 2011

16:00, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the 2011 Anzac Day service was not held as usual at the William Trethewey-designed Citizens' War Memorial (detail pictured), as the Christchurch city centre has been cordoned off since the February earthquake?
... that Mitch Skandalakis attracted national attention when he upset Martin Luther King III in a 1993 special election for Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Fulton County, Georgia?
... that members of the Assembly of French Citizens Abroad are elected by constituents in electoral districts located across the globe?
... that the Polish faculty expelled by the Nazis from Poznań University during World War II formed the underground University of the Western Lands?
... that the Green Men wear green spandex suits while annoying the player(s) who sit inside the opposing team's penalty box during Vancouver Canucks games?
... that the number-one song "Fruta Fresca" by Carlos Vives was named a "bridge" between tropical and pop music?
... that Daddles the duck would "accompany" batsmen who were on their way to the pavilion after being dismissed for a duck?

08:00, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

... that actor Ed Westwick (pictured) liked the idea of playing a "nice guy" in the British film Chalet Girl?
... that the Shannon Irish pub in Montevideo often features performances by the Celtic band Grianan, which is led by Conrad O'Neill, a fourth-generation Irish Uruguayan?
... that the killing of four students at Trisakti University eventually led to the resignation of Indonesian President Suharto?
... that while writing "Li'l Sebastian", the third season finale of Parks and Recreation, the staff decided to write the "juiciest, most exciting cliffhanger-y possible scenario"?
... that the annual winner of the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History may receive as much as US$100,000?
... that professional footballer Bill Yates also played Minor Counties cricket for Buckinghamshire?
... that in 1212 Thomas of Galloway, brother of the Lord of Galloway, sacked and looted the Irish city of Derry in a raid of 76 ships, and returned in 1214 to devastate the city again?

00:00, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

... that study of mitochondrial DNA shows that ancestors of the Masked Crimson Tanager (pictured) and Crimson-backed Tanager diverged 800,000 years ago?
... that Philippine writer Soledad Reyes won a Philippine National Book Award for her anthology of Tagalog language novels Nobelang Tagalog 1905–1975: Tradisyon at Modernismo in 1982?
... that the lakes of Thirlmere Lakes National Park contain a bright green freshwater sponge, Radiospongilla sceptroides?
... that over 90% of Ghana's international trade depends on the country's sea ports?
... that Jack Weisenburger was the "spinning fullback" for the undefeated Michigan football team that became known as the "Mad Magicians"?
... that Lake Assal in Djibouti is the lowest point in Africa?
... that after visiting Miami County Jail for his documentary Miami Mega Jail, Louis Theroux told The Sun newspaper that "it's a bit like walking through a zoo"?

3 June 2011

16:00, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

... that John Dillinger is said to have frequented a bar in Cottage Home (pictured) while preparing for his heist of the Massachusetts Avenue State Bank?
... that Alfredo Alcala's Voltar was described as one of the earliest epic comic book series to result from a single creator's vision?
... that Tendai Mzungu made his Australian Football League debut in Round 9 of the 2011 AFL season, despite missing the previous ten weeks of football due to a knee injury?
... that the video game Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure was created by designer Ryan Creighton and his five-year old daughter Cassie, who created the illustrations and dialogue?
... that Sabitri Mitra and Mamata Banerjee are the only women in the 38-member Cabinet of West Bengal?
... that because of its elongated orbit, the maximum surface temperature of the extrasolar planet HD 205739 b is thought to vary by about 100 °C?
... that Florida's longest-serving state legislator, W. D. Childers, earned the nickname "Banty Rooster" for his eccentric mannerisms and colorful, folksy expressions?

08:00, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

... that participants in performance art by Polish-born American artist Olek (pictured) are literally crocheted into her body suits, without fasteners?
... that Bach chose an unusually complex instrumentation in his cantata for the feast of Ascension, Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128, "two horns, oboes of every kind, strings and continuo and latterly one trumpet"?
... that Jetsun Pema is going to marry Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the King of Bhutan, in October 2011?
... that one proposed reason for constructing the Takoradi Harbour in Ghana was for it to serve as a naval port for the British empire in times of war?
... that gold medal-winning Paralympian Ron Stein trained with the Chicago White Sox before falling ill with polio?
... that Saudi Arabian women's rights activist Manal al-Sharif was arrested after a video of her driving a car was posted on YouTube and Facebook?
... that revenues from Tennessee's Hall income tax vary by as much as 26 percent from one year to the next, due to the "roller-coaster behavior" of capital gains from investments?
... that Filipino comics illustrator Harold "Hal" Santiago took his pen name from his American idol Hal Foster, the creator of Prince Valiant?

00:00, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the rare Hawaiian plant Lysimachia iniki (pictured) was named for Hurricane Iniki after the cyclone aided in its 1992 discovery?
... that the productions of American stage director Nathaniel Merrill at the Metropolitan Opera, "such as Dulcamara's arrival via hot-air balloon in Elisir, kept Met audiences diverted and amused for a generation"?
... that the collapse of Teton Dam in 1976 was foreshadowed by a similar near-disastrous failure at Fontenelle Dam in 1965?
... that the "Harvey" mannequin is a patient simulator created in 1968 to teach cardiopulmonary medicine?
... that the depictions of the Ascension of Jesus in Christian art are often divided into an upper (heavenly) and lower (earthly) part?
... that provincial judge and future Lieutenant Governor of Alberta William L. Walsh sentenced 18 convicted criminals to hang, earning him the nickname "the Hanging Judge"?
... that during his senior season at St. John's, basketball player Boo Harvey hit three buzzer-beating, game-winning shots?
... that according to the Interaction Hypothesis, the efficiency of second language acquisition is greatly increased when there is a breakdown in communication?

2 June 2011

16:15, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the soft coral dead man's fingers (pictured) can live for 20 years?
... that theologian David F. Ford of the University of Cambridge once applied for jobs at British Steel and Rolls-Royce?
... that every two years, an award named after German civil engineer Erich Lackner is presented to young engineers for their "outstanding contributions in scientific and technical work"?
... that Eugene Linden hitchhiked from Portland, Oregon, to Tacoma, Washington, at age 21 to establish the Tacoma Philharmonic?
... that the secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization described Filipino seamen as "the unsung heroes of an unsung industry"?
... that Al Green earned the only Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female in 1990 for the song "As Long as We're Together"?
... that the direct-to-video 1999 family comedy The Prince and the Surfer (with Linda Cardellini) was the directorial debut of stage and film actor Arye Gross?
... that the England cricketer Ken Barrington died in Bridgetown, Barbados, where he had made his first Test century 21 years before?

08:30, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

... that obesity, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer have been associated with infectious pathogens such as Toxoplasma gondii (pictured)?
... that the 5th Parachute Battalion wore a Hunting Stewart tartan patch behind their cap badges?
... that in 1893, stockbroker and Knight Templar Charles Edward Keyser bought Aldermaston Court – a mansion built by a student of his grandfather?
... that James F. Sundah's 1977 song "Lilin-Lilin Kecil", as performed by Chrisye, originally placed fifth in a teenage songwriting competition, but is now considered among the best Indonesian songs of all time?
... that New Zealand-born World War II pilots Roy Calvert, Fraser Barron, Gordon Cochrane, Bob Yule, and Reg Grant were between them awarded 4 DSOs, 11 DFCs, and 2 DFMs, while Frank Watkins was recommended for the Victoria Cross?
... that the scarlet honey myrtle, an ornamental garden shrub, is from the same genus as the punk tree?
... that Daniel and Anne-Margaretta Burr's eldest son, Higford, took an ancestor's surname – and was known as Higford Higford?

00:45, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Howard P. Perry (pictured) was the first African American recruit in the United States Marine Corps?
... that during the Ottoman wars in Europe, the Croat feudal lord Petar Kružić defended the Klis Fortress against Ottoman invasion for more than two decades until the final Siege of Klis?
... that Paula Barbieri was reportedly the last girlfriend of O. J. Simpson before the murder of Nicole Simpson and stuck with him during his trial?
... that the extinct Miocene hickory Carya washingtonensis is known from over 50 nuts found as a rodent cache within a petrified stump?
... that the Tobermory whisky distillery is located in the village made famous by the children's television show Balamory?
... that Jigme Gyatso was re-arrested after his allegations of torture by Chinese security forces were re-played on Voice of America?
... that DVD Verdict refers to a child's performance in the 1952 film Actor's and Sin as "fingernails-on-a-blackboard grating"?

1 June 2011

17:00, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

... that past and present churches in Arun, West Sussex, include one in the grounds of a luxury hotel, one in a former Penny School, one (pictured) that became a market, and a "strangely towered" one?
... that the rare Louisiana pancake batfish only lives in the area affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
... that imprisoned IRA member Larry Marley helped mastermind the Maze Prison escape in 1985, but did not take part in it?
... that the Silver Spurs Rodeo, billed as the largest rodeo east of the Mississippi River, was originally organized to encourage the purchase of war bonds?
... that the Christian Council of Ghana, an umbrella group that unites 15 churches, was formed in 1929?
... that the discography of Case Closed contains 77 singles and 19 soundtrack albums during the anime's 15 year run?
... that Áed in Macáem Tóinlesc ("the lazy-rumped lad"), sometime king of Tír Eogain, got his nickname by refusing to stand for the High King of Ireland Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn?

08:00, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat (pictured) is one of three fruit-eating bats found to be a reservoir for Ebola virus in the wild?
... that before Shackleford won the 2011 Preakness Stakes, his owners had tried to sell him, but no one wanted to meet their reserve price?
... that Victoria Lockwood had known Charles Spencer for only six weeks prior to their engagement?
... that in the strategy video game Armada 2526, players can develop bio-engineered squid hyperdrive ships?
... that the American Repertory Theater and System of a Down's Serj Tankian dedicated their 2011 Prometheus Bound to jailed Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen?
... that José de San Martín and Carlos María de Alvear helped depose Argentina's First Triumvirate?
... that the Swiss team at the 1960 Summer Paralympics included two athletes, but won four medals?

00:00, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

... that the American Motor League (membership card pictured) was the first automobile organization formed in the United States?
... that the United Kingdom Supreme Court recently ruled that current police practices regarding the retention of biometric data are unlawful?
... that the 1994–95 South Pacific cyclone season was one of the quietest cyclone seasons on record, with only three tropical cyclones recorded within the South Pacific Ocean basin?
... that the endangered rough-leaved loosestrife of the Carolinas is threatened by the U.S. military?
... that Czerwono-Czarni was the first Polish rock band to cut a record?
... that when Sonny with a Chance actor Demi Lovato bowed out of season three, show-within-a-show So Random! was spun-off into its own sketch comedy series?
... that the towers of architect Terunobu Fujimori's Lamune Onsen have pine trees planted on the apex of their roofs?