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31 July 2012

16:00, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

... that extracts of pringamoza (pictured) have shown antiviral activity against herpes simplex?
... that 57-year-old Australian equestrian dressage competitor Mary Hanna has qualified to compete in her fourth Olympics?
... that Whitley Castle is the only lozenge-shaped Roman fort?
... that the precursor of the Dnestr radar, TsSO-P, took part in the Soviet Operation K tests to examine the effects of nuclear explosions on anti-ballistic missile hardware?
... that India's 2012 Olympic boxer Devendro Singh gets training support from his sister Sushila, a former national boxing champion?
... that The Teng Chun produced 31 films in a little more than a decade before becoming an English teacher?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic track cyclist Josie Tomic is engaged to fellow Olympic cyclist Jack Bobridge?
... that a restaurateur purchased a ghost town so that he could re-name it to Bikinis, Texas?

08:00, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Justus Jonas (pictured) wrote the hymn on which Bach's chorale cantata Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 178, is based, paraphrasing Psalm 124?
... that 2012 Australian Olympian Hayley Chapman is part of her country's first father/daughter pair selected to compete at the same Olympics?
... that in 1817 Bernardo O'Higgins established the Legion of Merit of Chile as the senior order of the new Chilean honours system?
... that Kee Klamp structural pipe fittings were devised in 1934 and have been used in kite buggying as well as more traditional guard rail applications?
... that 2012 Olympic canoeists Lisa Carrington and Teneale Hatton were the first New Zealanders ever to qualify for an A final at the Sprint World Championships?
... that in 1981, Mirosław Chojecki went on a hunger strike for 33 days?
... that of the three hillforts in Cambridge's Gog Magog Hills, Wandlebury was the most important?
... that Polish model Dorota Krzysztofek challenged her 2008 conviction for sunbathing topless and won her case in the appeals court?

00:00, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the Astoria Riverfront Trolley (pictured), which runs along the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon, uses a 1913 trolley car acquired from an art museum in Texas?
... that Charles Singleton wrote the lyrics for "Strangers in the Night", a song Frank Sinatra initially called "a piece of shit"?
... that Birmingham's bid for the 1992 Summer Olympics was to have had the venues centered around the National Exhibition Centre?
... that American astronomer Mark R. Showalter has discovered five moons and three planetary rings in our solar system?
... that the Palestinian village of Salhab is identified with "Bezeq" in the Book of Samuel where Saul gathered his army to defend Jabesh-Gilead?
... that 2012 Olympic diver Rachel Bugg quit diving in 2008 after an injury and worked on a diploma in beauty therapy?
... that the rum ration was abolished because the Royal Navy's leadership was concerned that it made sailors less capable?
... that Johnny Evers alerted an umpire to Merkle's Boner?

30 July 2012

16:00, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

... that ichirizuka (pictured in a woodblock print by Hiroshige) marked the distance to Nihonbashi in Edo?
... that projects of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities include the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, classical inscriptions (IG, CIL), and dictionaries of Ancient Egyptian and German?
... that 2012 Olympic lightweight double sculls rower Bronwen Watson retired from rowing twice?
... that the Charolais horse was one of the types used to create the Selle Français, a successful sport horse breed?
... that a University of Michigan gymnast dubbed the "Golden Syque" won the first gold medal in international competition for Bangladesh and was chosen to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?
... that although fishing for stocked trout is allowed in Oregon's Antelope Reservoir, eating the catch is not advisable?
... that "Survival", a single by the English rock band Muse, is the official song of the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that Norman Sas invented electric football?

08:00, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the eggs and young of the Pheasant Coucal (pictured) are predominantly cared for by the male parents?
... that Latvian-born Sanita Pušpure is the only rower to compete for Ireland at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that the Norwegian politician Paul Steenstrup Koht threatened to withdraw the Skien Labour Party from the central party, should the latter exclude universal suffrage from its party programme?
... that a near mid-air collision occurred near Olympic Dam Airport in 2007?
... that Turkish swimmer Derya Büyükuncu is participating at the Summer Olympics for the sixth consecutive time?
... that the ruined town of Miedzianka in Poland was a site of a secret Soviet uranium mine?
... that 2012 Olympic sailor Krystal Weir sailed in the 2008 Summer Olympics because she took the place of another sailor who got injured in a mountain biking accident?
... that the insect Jacobiasca formosana helps create the unique flavor of dongfang meiren tea by sucking the juices from the tea plant's stems and leaves?

00:00, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the illuminated French 13th-century Histoire ancienne (detail of illustration pictured) told the history of the world in prose with moralizing verse?
... that Dominique Allen, daughter of Birmingham Bullets "legend" Clive Allen, has been called up to the senior British basketball team for the first time at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that while the Gibraltar Aerobeacon does not strictly meet its criteria for a lighthouse, The Lighthouse Directory indicates that it merits an exception?
... that in 1958, while working for a CIA front organization in Taiwan, William Beale flew the aircraft that bombed several Indonesian cities and sank KRI Hang Tuah off the coast of Borneo?
... that the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland recovers and restores Jewish synagogues that had been nationalized under totalitarian rule?
... that Lucinda Whitty, Olivia Price and Nina Curtis became a team in 2011 when they heard the Elliott 6m boat would be required for an Olympic sailing event?
... that the student-led Shifang protest successfully derailed construction of a $1.7 billion copper smelting plant in southwest China?
... that after Irishman Con O'Kelly won a gold medal for Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics, he was paraded through Hull on the back of a fire engine?

29 July 2012

16:00, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Japanese fighter pilot Isamu Kashiide (pictured) shook the hand of a crewmember of one of the Boeing B-29 Superfortresses that he shot down?
... that She Has a Name is a Canadian play about child prostitution in Thailand?
... that after winning the silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics, Finn Yrjö Saarela won the gold medal in heavyweight wrestling at the 1912 Games?
... that a fatal shooting on July 22 was the sixth shooting incident in less than a year involving Anaheim, California, police officers?
... that Annie Lush and sisters Kate and Lucy MacGregor, the Elliott 6m crew for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, are known as the "Match Race Girls"?
... that the BBC likened Chasing After Ghosts, the debut album by The Crookes, to Morrissey, The Housemartins and Aztec Camera?
... that 2012 Olympic judo competitor Carli Renzi represented Australia in wrestling at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
... that science educator Goéry Delacôte became interested in theoretical physics because being moved up two years at school meant he "wasn't mature enough to really appreciate the literature and poetry"?

08:00, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Agneta Matthes and her husband (pictured), who ran factories in Delft producing yeast, perfume, and margarine, developed a workers' housing area in garden city style, Agneta Park?
... that the Madrid Codex, one of only three surviving pre-Columbian Maya books, contains almanacs and horoscopes that were used to assist Maya priests in their ceremonies?
... that 2012 women's eights Olympic rowers Renee Chatterton, Tess Gerrand, Alexandra Hagan, Sally Kehoe, Elizabeth Patrick, Phoebe Stanley, and Hannah Vermeersch are part of a team nicknamed the "Motley Crew"?
... that Ole Hannibal Sommerfelt succeeded his brother Christian Sommerfeldt as County Governor of Christians Amt?
... that the director of Pareh engaged in a car chase with the film's star before casting him?
... that Jade Neilsen and Brittany Elmslie were selected for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics as members of swimming relay teams?
... that Sheffield's Supertram system runs on a route initially selected for the Minitram automated guideway transit system?
... that Nicola Wilson and Opposition Buzz were selected for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics after Piggy French was forced to withdraw?

00:00, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the Drang-Drung Glacier (pictured) in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is the source of the Stod River and is likely the largest glacier in Ladakh outside of the Karakoram Range?
... that 2012 Australian equestrian eventing competitor Chris Burton moved to England to increase his chances of making the Olympic Games?
... that Frank Chee Willeto, a Navajo code talker with the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, became the Vice President of the Navajo Nation in 1998?
... that Beaminster Tunnel, one of the earliest road tunnels built in the United Kingdom, partially collapsed in July 2012, killing two people?
... that 1976 Yugoslav Olympic rifle shooter Miro Sipek is the Australian 2012 Summer Paralympic rifle coach and has coached Australian Olympic rifle teams?
... that chemicals in Korean Barberry might have antibacterial and antitumor properties?
... that John Garcia Thompson and Steve Grotowski are the first male beach volleyball players selected to compete for Great Britain at an Olympic Games?
... that the independent bookstore Politics and Prose has had Barack Obama, J. K. Rowling, and Bill Clinton as readers at its author events?

28 July 2012

16:00, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

... that General MacArthur's escape from the Philippines was in a PT boat captained by Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley (pictured)?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic synchronized diver Anabelle Smith became Sharleen Stratton's partner following the retirement of Briony Cole?
... that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named "Turn on the News" by Hüsker Dü one of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll?
... that swimmer Joseph Roebuck missed out on qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics by a quarter of a second, but is set to compete in three events for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that the 2012 SCO summit brought Afghanistan and Turkey into the supranational union as observer and dialogue partner respectively?
... that painter Mathias Stoltenberg, who died in poverty in 1871, was rediscovered following the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition in Kristiania?
... that Jodie Schulz made her Hockeyroos debut in 2011, captained two games that year and is set to represent Australia in field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that during World War II, British special forces developed an explosive rat booby trap?

08:00, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

... that while bultfonteinite (pictured) was discovered as early as 1903, the mineral wasn't described until 1932?
... that 2012 Olympic beach volleyball player Becchara Palmer of Australia won 20 of 31 matches going into the Olympics?
... that, in the Battle of San Juan Bautista during the French intervention in Mexico, more Imperialist soldiers were wounded by machete cuts than gunshots?
... that in 2008 Chloe Magee became the first Irish badminton player to win a match in the history of the Olympic Games?
... that if crushed, the fruits of the wild carrot Bill's neoparrya smell like fresh peaches when cured?
... that Brittany Broben will be sixteen when she competes for Australia in diving at the 2012 Olympic Games?
... that Michelin starred restaurant The Box Tree is part owned by celebrity chef Marco Pierre White?
... that American football placekicker Lou Groza laid down a piece of tape to line up field goals before doing so was outlawed by the Lou Groza Rule in 1950?

00:00, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Dan Oates (pictured) served in the NYPD and in Ann Arbor, Michigan, before serving as police chief during the 2012 Aurora shooting?
... that 2012 Olympian Claire Donahue set five school records in swimming during college?
... that the Berlin Wall Memorial in Bernauer Straße includes a reconciliation chapel on the site of a church in Ackerstraße that was destroyed because it stood in the border strip?
... that Bermuda's entrants in the 49er sailing event at the 2012 Summer Olympics are a pair of brothers, Jesse and Zander Kirkland?
... that in 1207 the Palestinian village Nisf Jubeil was a possession of the Knights Hospitaller called "Casale Seingebis"?
... that Hilde Rössel-Majdan, for decades a contralto with the Vienna State Opera, recorded with Hermann Scherchen music by Bach including his solo cantata Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54?
... that Gnathia marleyi was named after Bob Marley?
... that Britain's 2012 Olympics women's beach volleyball team of Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin formerly had QR codes on the back of their bikini bottoms?

27 July 2012

16:00, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the Europa Point Lighthouse (pictured) at Gibraltar is the only lighthouse operated by Trinity House outside the United Kingdom?
... that 2012 Olympic shooter Georgina Geikie is nicknamed "Britain's Lara Croft"?
... that the Body of Proof episode "Letting Go" was about the fictional murder of an interracial couple in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia?
... that Olympic road cyclist Shara Gillow of Australia is following in the path of her father, who represented Zimbabwe in cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics?
... that May Justus' 1963 book New Boy in School, a departure from her usual thematic focus on rural Appalachia, was "probably the first" book on racial desegregation for young readers?
... that it was at Tasitolu that East Timor declared its independence in 2002?
... that 2012 Olympic weightlifter Yuderqui Contreras became Pan American Champion and a Dominican Army officer in the same year?
... that Alaskan Inupiat bush pilot Ellen Paneok said an airstrip had to be cleared of polar bears before her airplane could land?

08:00, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

... that José Gil de Castro made the first portrait of José de San Martín (pictured)?
... that 2012 Australian table tennis Olympian Vivian Tan quit the sport in 1997, moved from China to Australia in 2003 and took up the sport again in 2007, the year she became an Australian citizen?
... that chemical analysis by Larry Robinson, Florida A&M University's new interim president, helped determine that U.S. President Zachary Taylor did not die of arsenic poisoning?
... that Domaine Ponsot produces the only 1^er Cru Burgundy wine made entirely from the Aligoté grape?
... that rower Amy Clay was born and schooled in the United States but is set to compete in the quadruple sculls for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that Abdelaziz Thâalbi was one of the founding members of Destour, a Tunisian nationalist political party?
... that 2012 Olympic road cyclist Amanda Spratt spends eight months a year training in Italy?
... that Paul Hindemith composed the Overture of 'The Flying Dutchman' as played at sight by a bad spa orchestra at the well at 7 in the morning?

00:00, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Puritan Reverend John Wilson implored Mary Dyer (pictured) to repent and not be "carried away by deceit of the devil" before her execution in Boston as a Quaker martyr?
... that the Olympic Stadium in Manchester's bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics was later redesigned and used for the 2002 Commonwealth Games?
... that in its first six weeks of operation, No. 3 Aircraft Depot RAAF assembled 123 P-39 Airacobra fighters and a dozen B-26 Marauder medium bombers?
... that John R. Tunis, who has been called the "inventor of the modern sports story", took part in the first trans-Atlantic sportscast and the first broadcast of the Wimbledon Championship to the U.S.?
... that as of 2011, Catequilla is said to be "the only important pre-Inca site in Ecuador to have been commercially exploited"?
... that American archer Miranda Leek, who is competing in the 2012 Summer Olympics, first learned to shoot at age five?
... that Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while under the influence of LSD?

26 July 2012

16:00, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

... that climbers have a choice of two alpine routes to reach the Fritzerkogel, a solitary mountain of the Tennengebirge, from the Laufen Hut (pictured)?
... that 2012 Indian Olympic archery coach Purnima Mahato was an Indian national champion in archery?
... that the French battleship Diderot briefly participated in the occupation of Constantinople after the end of World War I?
... that William & Mary women's soccer, coached by John Daly, is one of two NCAA Division I women's soccer programs that have never had a losing season?
... that the Gibraltar Museum houses the remains of a 14th-century Moorish bath house, once the private baths of the Governor of Gibraltar during the Marinid dynasty?
... that in 2008, Edwin Ekiring became the first badminton player to compete for Uganda at the Olympics?
... that Oddjob's hat sold for £62,000?

08:00, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the Great Polish Map of Scotland (portion pictured) was the brainchild of a Polish war veteran and is claimed to be the largest terrain relief model in the world?
... that Australia's 2012 Summer Olympic archer Elisa Barnard is double majoring in psychology and law?
... that Russian poker players Konstantin Puchkov and Viacheslav Zhukov both won World Series of Poker bracelets in their first World Series of Poker in the money finish?
... that Ellen Pompeo was eight and a half months pregnant while filming "Give Peace a Chance"?
... that Malian archaeologist Téréba Togola's excavation of Djenné-Jeno was documented by National Geographic?
... that the Netherlands Indies Civil Administration operated as a link between the Dutch East Indies Government in exile and the Allied high command in the Southwest Pacific Area?
... that baseball player Rob Ellis took out a newspaper advertisement apologizing to the fans for his performance?

00:00, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

... that ballet dancer Michaela DePrince (shown in the video) became an orphan as an infant when her father was shot and her mother starved to death?
... that between 1591 and 1611, Garhwal repelled seven incursions by Kumaon, eventually defeating King Laxmi Chand of Kumaon and taking his capital?
... that French pilot Adrienne Bolland was the first woman to fly across the Andes, doing so after only 40 hours of flight experience?
... that Christina's rootshank was named by Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries after his wife?
... that Tan's Film released three films entitled Njai Dasima in four years?
... that the government was unaware that stonemason John Barr had been in the country for only five years when they appointed him to the New Zealand Legislative Council?
... that 2012 Olympian Tia Brooks was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease in 2009 and advised to give up the shot put?

25 July 2012

16:00, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Gossip Girl actor Chace Crawford (pictured) is Leona Lewis's love interest in her music video for "I Will Be"?
... that capital punishment in Gibraltar was last enforced in 1944 when British hangman Albert Pierrepoint travelled undercover to the territory to hang two young Spanish spies?
... that Baseball Hall of Fame executive Ed Barrow discovered Honus Wagner, converted Babe Ruth into an outfielder, and pioneered the first uniform numbers?
... that bovine tuberculosis costing £100 million per annum is leading to badger culling in the United Kingdom?
... that in 1799, Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse became the first woman to make a parachute jump?
... that so-called bath salts, a class of designer drug that became popular in the last decade, often contain mephedrone, which was first synthesised in the 1920s?
... that the German architect Hermann Muthesius noted in 1904 that it was "considered downright inadmissible" for the toilet to be in a British bathroom, rather than a room of its own?

08:00, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

... that sérandite (pictured) was discovered in Guinea and described in a French journal, and the type material resides in Washington, D.C.?
... that the Valour Cross is the highest Danish military decoration and is comparable to the Victoria Cross or the Medal of Honor?
... that John Wilson Crawford, a Brigadier in the Australian Army, was nicknamed "cake eater" because of his strict adherence to formal protocols for official social functions?
... that "Diwali", a 2006 episode of The Office, was credited with helping introduce American audiences to Indian customs?
... that the three original members of the British pop group Sugababes have reformed, and are known as Mutya Keisha Siobhan?
... that the cream nut fruit may trap an inexperienced monkey?
... that critics denounced Indonesian Muslim leader Fakih Usman as the "Dutchman with the black ass"?

00:00, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Hélio Castroneves first demonstrated his fence-climbing celebration (pictured) at the 2000 Grand Prix of Detroit?
... that the character Slackbridge from Dickens' novel Hard Times was based on strike leader Mortimer Grimshaw?
... that the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management co-manages a national park with the Forest Department of Belize?
... that ensemble recherche, an ensemble of nine soloists founded in 1985 and based in Freiburg, has premiered some 500 works of contemporary music?
... that Arsenal's Highbury Stadium in London was redeveloped into Highbury Square?
... that the Royal Australian Air Force leased McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter aircraft from the United States Air Force between 1970 and 1973?
... that Rembrandt was called a "living work of art"?

24 July 2012

16:00, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Juan Manuel de Rosas killed 3,200 indigenous people during the First Conquest of the Desert (pictured)?
... that Milo Yiannopoulos arranged a moonwalking flash mob at Liverpool Street station as a tribute to Michael Jackson shortly after his death?
... that Ivan Strez Balšić was recognized by the Republic of Venice as Skanderbeg's successor?
... that Albert C. Baker was the only person to serve on both the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court and the Arizona Supreme Court?
... that St Mary's Church, Gosforth, Cumbria, is associated with "a unique Viking-age assemblage" of carved stones?
... that if Seattle Sounders FC wins the 2012 U.S. Open Cup final on August 8, 2012, they will be the first club in the tournament's 99-year history to win four consecutive titles?
... that Lengberg Castle has a vault which contained 600-year-old brassieres described as a "'missing link' in the history of women's underwear"?

08:00, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

... that when asked to sculpt George Washington from life (pictured), Jean-Antoine Houdon demanded a life insurance policy for his trip to the United States?
... that the Tiverton fire of 1731 resulted in an increased incidence of smallpox?
... that the Vegetarian Finch has a disproportionately large gizzard and a long intestine to help it digest the leaves and buds which it regularly eats?
... that Slovenian actor Polde Bibič played over 150 theatre and over 30 film roles?
... that LaCrosse Footwear was founded in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is based in Portland, Oregon, and is being bought by a Tokyo-based company?
... that Andrew Heaney led all college baseball pitchers in strikeouts during the 2012 season?
... that one of the reasons the vocals in "Louie Louie" are so slurred is because singer Jack Ely wore braces?

00:00, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Curtis Dvorak has been the Jacksonville Jaguars mascot, Jaxson de Ville (pictured), for over 16 years?
... that several memorials and monuments of Arlington National Cemetery in the U.S. have been removed or destroyed?
... that the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes-winning racehorse Aureole earned £30,092 in 1954, helping its owner, Queen Elizabeth II, become the leading owner in Britain that year?
... that Palestinian activist Ali Abu Awwad, who is featured in the award-winning film Encounter Point, espouses Gandhi's doctrine of nonviolent resistance called satyagraha?
... that US Highway 24 in Michigan follows Telegraph Road, which is named for the mid-19th-century telegraph lines it followed?
... that the Indonesian television series Alang-Alang was sponsored in part by Johns Hopkins University?
... that the Andalucian based San Nicasio company caused controversy in the UK due to their £4 ($6.24) gourmet potato chips?

23 July 2012

16:00, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the global stronghold of the primitive vetch species Vicia orobus (pictured) is in central and northern Wales?
... that Ludwig Hoffmann designed the fountain of fairy tales in the Volkspark Friedrichshain which features sculptures of fairy tale characters?
... that on January 15, 1861, Florida militia colonel William Henry Chase demanded the surrender of Fort Pickens at Pensacola, Florida, which he had designed and constructed as a U.S. Army captain?
... that the Col de la République featured in both the first and second Tours de France but was the scene of notorious violence in 1904?
... that Alimuddin was the first batsman to score an international century at National Stadium, Karachi?
... that the Drexel Collection, a collection of over 6,000 volumes of books about music and musical scores owned by The New York Public Library, was donated by Joseph W. Drexel?
... that the InterContinental Hotel's Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental is being built inside an abandoned, partly water-filled quarry and is mostly underground?

08:00, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

... that heptathlete Denise Lewis attributes her gold medal-winning ambition to victory as a child in the egg-and-spoon race (pictured)?
... that the aggressive sponge Cliona delitrix grows on massive corals while the encrusting coral, Parazoanthus parasiticus, uses the sponge as a host?
... that while Vladimír Vondráček was a "legendary head physician" at the Psychiatric Clinic in Prague, Antonín Heveroch left it and established a second psychiatric clinic that closed after his death?
... that according to lawyer Asma Jahangir, up to seventy-two percent of women in police custody in Pakistan are physically or sexually abused?
... that Frieder Bernius and the Kammerchor Stuttgart performed the first concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival in Eberbach Abbey in 1988, and returned in 2012?
... that although the Castillonnais horse breed has its roots in antiquity, it wasn't officially recognized until 1996?
... that Henry Piggott's gravestone at St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, states that he was born on 30 December 1715 and died on 7 March 1715?

00:00, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

... that construction of St. Mark's Pro-Cathedral (pictured) in Hastings, Nebraska, was completed in 2001, 79 years after the cornerstone was laid?
... that a Neolithic mass grave discovered in 1996 in the German town of Herxheim contains many human skulls that were split into symmetrical halves, as well as evidence of cannibalism?
... that the Ballarat Miners introduced a women's team to the club in 2000?
... that the Spanish secretly supported the Mexican Republicans against the French at the Battle of Barranca Seca?
... that Idaho State Highway 50 provides access to Twin Falls from Interstate 84 over the Snake River?
... that before award-winning author and poet Peter Spiegelman started writing, he spent 20 years on Wall Street and was a vice president of J.P. Morgan?
... that the Cameron Suspension Bridge nearly collapsed under the weight of a herd of sheep?

22 July 2012

16:00, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

... that until 1999, Queen Elizabeth II was the only woman allowed into the Lord's Pavilion (pictured)?
... that anthropologist Alice G. Dewey was dissertation advisor for Barack Obama's mother Ann Dunham at the University of Hawaiʻi?
... that Serbia's first known "čelnik", Gradislav Vojšić, served King Milutin in 1284 and King Uroš III in 1327?
... that Helen Desha Beamer and Sam Kapu made the first commercial recording of the Hawaiian Wedding Song in 1928?
... that Rabbi Alexander Zusia Friedman alerted world Jewry to the start of deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the death camps in a coded message referring to "Mr. Amos"?
... that EthicalWiki advises public relations professionals to engage with Wikipedia's editors in the same way they do with journalists?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Esther Overton once broke her arm trying to get into a swimsuit?

08:00, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the psychedelic mushroom Psilocybe makarorae (pictured) was described by two New Zealand mycologists known to assist police in prosecuting those who illegally collected the species?
... that the Vinkovci Treasure, consisting of 48 items of 4th-century Roman silverware found in March 2012, has been called one of Croatia's most important archaeological finds?
... that on the penultimate lap of the 2007 Detroit Indy Grand Prix, second-placed Buddy Rice ran out of fuel, and was hit by Scott Dixon?
... that when teenage Alberta Schenck took a stand against segregation in Alaska, her actions were a full decade before either Rosa Parks's stand or the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
... that the book that Willie Morris called the "best novel about American politics in our time" was never a commercial success?
... that successful 1990s video game Cannon Fodder received a new sequel, Cannon Fodder 3, from an "unknown" Russian publisher in 2012?
... that during the 1860 clashes, a Muslim force from Sheikh Miskin saved the Christian population of Daraa from attack by local Druze?

00:00, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the rooftop view in Vue de toits (Effet de neige) (pictured) by Gustave Caillebotte may have been inspired by the work of French photographer Hippolyte Bayard?
... that there are Sumatran elephants and Sumatran tigers in Giam Siak Kecil-Bukit Batu, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve?
... that the first 2010 number one song on the US Hot Dance Club Songs was Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance", a position it held in the last week of 2009, thus spending two consecutive weeks atop the charts?
... that the Wisconsin State Journal announced it had hired sports columnist Roundy with a full page of its newspaper?
... that Eastern Province Saudi Arabians called for the downfall of the House of Saud during July 2012 protests?
... that in 1965, the American Thoroughbred Roman Brother, a particularly small horse that was nicknamed "Mighty Mite", became the first horse sold at a public auction to be named Horse of the Year?
... that Chinese artist Song Dong responded to the destruction of historic buildings in Beijing by creating an edible city?

21 July 2012

16:00, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

... that St Cuthbert's Church (pictured) near Edenhall in Cumbria, England, has a nave and a chancel dated from the 12th century, a tower from the 15th, and a vestry and stained glass windows from the 19th?
... that despite sustaining over 100 holes in his aircraft during a dogfight at Makarovo in 1942, Soviet Air Forces pilot Konstantin Krasavin survived and went on to win the title of Hero of the Soviet Union?
... that Clorindy: The Origin of the Cakewalk, the first Broadway musical with an all-black cast, was written in a single night?
... that the constellation of Microscopium can't be seen from locations affected by light pollution?
... that the 1929 film The Secret of Borobudur featured a woman in a bikini-like costume?
... that the 10th-century Hamdanid prince Sayf al-Dawla is said to have fought against the Byzantines in over 40 battles?
... that the 300-year-old Codex of Santa Catarina Ixtepeji was recently re-discovered and identified in a collection housed at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee?

08:00, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

... that in 1951 William Thompson (pictured) posthumously became the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor since the Spanish–American War?
... that the melody of "Government Hooker", a song from Lady Gaga's Born This Way, was originally an unused track created by DJ White Shadow in collaboration with DJ Snake?
... that artists have used ballpoint pens to create replicas of Renaissance masterpieces, such as Lennie Mace's Mona a'la Mace?
... that Oakland Athletics manager Steve Boros was criticized for his pioneering use of an Apple II computer to guide his managerial decisions in 1983?
... that the Maouri people resisted an attack by the French Voulet–Chanoine Mission at the Battle of Lougou?
... that Professor Clive Finlayson has theorized that the genetic similarities between Neanderthals and humans are not only due to interbreeding but could also originate from a common African ancestor?
... that the Swedes withdrew from the nearly won 1627 Battle of Tczew due to the wound received by their king, Gustav II Adolf?

00:00, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

... that 67% of pregnant women have claimed to have a higher level of smell sensitivity, whereas 14% have claimed to have phantom smells (olfactory system pictured)?
... that Patty Gasso has led the Oklahoma Sooners softball team to seven appearances in the Women's College World Series, including a national championship in 2000 and a second-place finish in 2012?
... that the Onizuka Prop Wash Award is named after Ellison Onizuka, a USAF TPS graduate who died in the Challenger explosion?
... that for lumber production the company Goodwin Heart Pine retrieves submerged logs that were felled as long ago as the 1800s?
... that Battle of Martynów of 1624 was one of the largest Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth victories over the Tatar raiders?
... that the 1929 film Njai Dasima was reportedly so successful that cinemas could make up several days' losses with a single showing?
... that Volcano Live was broadcast from the Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii?

20 July 2012

16:00, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Billy Cooper (pictured) was thrown out of The Gabba and arrested for playing the Neighbours theme tune?
... that several historical items have been found in the basement of Gotham House in Tiverton, Devon, including documents signed by Oliver Cromwell?
... that WikiLeaks' Syria Files showed relations that Finmeccanica and Brown Lloyd James had with Syrian authorities during the Syrian uprising?
... that while incarcerated at the Grini concentration camp during World War II, Erling Steen served as personnel manager of the camp?
... that Begaljica derived its name ("fleeing town") from the constant fleeing and returning of the population amid attacks on the village by the Ottoman army?
... that the Ganting Grand Mosque in Padang was used as a place of refuge by Indonesian President Sukarno?
... that the 1988 Winter Olympics saw the first appearance of a Jamaican team at a Winter Olympics, and would go on to inspire the film Cool Runnings?

08:00, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

... that internet entrepreneur Silvina Moschini (pictured) believes Wikipedia should allow advertising as a way of funding improved academic content?
... that the Body of Proof episode "All in the Family" featured flashbacks to when the title character, Megan Hunt (Dana Delany), was younger?
... that Millennium's casting director guest starred in "Beware of the Dog"?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Lindsay Sutton set Queensland intellectual disability records in under-14 shotput, under-16 discus and under-16 javelin?
... that The Mojo Men's 1966 single "She's My Baby" was sampled on Kanye West's "Hell of a Life", a song from his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy?
... that Nick Saban led the 1990 Toledo Rockets football team to a share of the Mid-American Conference championship in his only season as head coach of the Rockets?
... that Confederate General John Bell Hood appointed Colonel Moses Wright Hannon an acting brigadier general after Hannon's men seized more than 1,000 cattle from the Union Army?

00:00, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the starfish Labidiaster annulatus (pictured) uses some of its many rays as fishing rods?
... that North Korean singer Hyon Song-wol, whose hit songs include "Excellent Horse-Like Lady" and "She is a Discharged Soldier", is said to have been romantically linked with leader Kim Jong-un?
... that Glevering Hall manor once belonged to the prior and convent of Leiston, but was granted by Henry VIII to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk after the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
... that Clytus Gottwald has arranged compositions for an a cappella group of up to 16 voices, re-creating them "in a magical choral world"?
... that the documentary Heist traces the origins of the Great Recession to a confidential memo written in 1971?
... that Hartlepool United's fourteen successful attempts at re-election to the Football League are a league record?
... that the Animal Planet series Call of the Wildman documents the exploits of a Kentucky woodsman who catches and relocates snapping turtles using only his bare hands?

19 July 2012

16:00, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

... that tarbuttite (pictured) was named for the director of a company?
... that Nurnaningsih was the first Indonesian actress to appear half nude in a film?
... that Bei Bei Shuai, a Chinese immigrant to the U.S., is charged with murder because the child she was pregnant with died as a result of her suicide attempt?
... that the music video for Ricardo Arjona's song "Te Quiero" was filmed at the Vélez Sarsfield Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina?
... that massive starlet coral forms large mounds whereas lesser starlet coral can form coral pebbles that roll around?
... that the Battle of Ochmatów in 1644 was one of the largest victories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth over the Crimean Tatars?
... that Yibin Wuliangye Airport is named after a liquor brand?

08:00, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

... that there are many ways to create misleading graphs (example pictured)?
... that the New Mexico authorities opposed efforts by Ramón Ortiz y Miera to repatriate Hispanic people to Mexico?
... that a starving Arab army was able to continue the Siege of Tyana by defeating a Byzantine relief army and capturing its supplies?
... that Love singer Arthur Lee and guitarist Bryan MacLean were involved in a romantic triangle with the woman who inspired the band's song "Stephanie Knows Who"?
... that before Herbert Bullmore practised medicine in Sydney, Australia, he was a blue in football and rowing at the University of Edinburgh, and represented Queensland and then Scotland in rugby?
... that Lyons Demesne, the estate of the late Ryan Air boss Tony Ryan, has been cited as a "Georgian treasure" and "Ireland's most significant estate"?
... that Rudy Kurniawan, the alleged wine counterfeiter, had such an affinity for expensive Burgundy that he was known as "Dr. Conti"?

00:00, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

... that East German Ortrun Enderlein (pictured) was the first Olympic gold medalist in women's luge?
... that the Siege of Gibraltar of 1309 was a battle of the Reconquista which saw a Castilian victory ending almost 600 years of Muslim rule over the city of Gibraltar?
... that Ricardo Arjona's "El Amor" is his first single ever to top the Billboard Tropical Songs chart?
... that one of the reasons Russia stopped using the missile defence radar in Sevastopol, Ukraine, was because it was being jammed by fishing boats?
... that since the San Marino national football team played its first match in 1990, 97 players have represented San Marino in international matches?
... that Vincent de Roulet, when serving as United States Ambassador to Jamaica, was declared persona non grata by the Prime Minister of Jamaica?
... that the Bosom Friends affair, like the Tinky-Winky controversy, concerned the alleged homosexuality of a children's character?

18 July 2012

16:00, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

... that a 400 kg (880 lb) statue of the Berlin bear was removed from the city administrative building Altes Stadthaus (pictured) and given to the East Berlin zoo in 1959?
... that children of maternally sensitive mothers scored higher in math and phoneme knowledge than those who had a history of lower maternal sensitivity?
... that the James Dalessandro's 2004 novel 1906 was based upon the 1998 screenplay he wrote about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake for a film by the same name?
... that in the 18th century, the Ottoman garrison at Hisyah served as the dominant military faction in the Homs region?
... that pioneering immunologist Bunny Koshland helped develop an oral cholera vaccine before she worked on the Manhattan Project?
... that The Doon School Weekly, established in 1936, is the oldest publication of The Doon School?
... that because there is no water in the Albert Goldfield in New South Wales, miners relied on wind to separate gold from dirt in a "tedious and unhealthy" method called dry blowing?

08:00, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the homestead of the New Zealand politician Arthur Rhodes (pictured) is today the administration building of Rangi Ruru girls' school?
... that the creosote odor of the poisonous mushroom Agaricus hondensis intensifies when it is cooked?
... that paranormal claims investigators Bryan & Baxter do not investigate the paranormal, but rather the legitimacy of the paranormal claims made by others?
... that Melanie Vallejo admitted in an interview that she had not done much preparation before auditioning for the role of Sophie Wong in the Australian television series Winners & Losers?
... that the land under Metropolitan Park in Jacksonville, Florida, was once an urban landfill?
... that English cricketer Nigel Moore was a golf Blue at Cambridge?
... that The Zombies' song "Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)" is set in World War I, but their record company took it for a metaphor for the Vietnam War?

00:00, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the yellow unicorn Entoloma (pictured) is so named because of the sharp umbo on the top of its cap?
... that the decision in 1974 to admit women was a key event in the history of Brasenose College, Oxford?
... that Anna Green Winslow wrote a series of letters to her mother that she combined into a diary, which provides a rare window into the life of an affluent teenage girl in colonial Boston?
... that in the churchyard of St Mary and St Peter's Church in Wilmington, East Sussex, there is a 1,600-year-old, 23-foot (7 m) wide yew tree?
... that Miguel Ángel Mancera received 63% of votes in the 2012 head of government election of Mexico City, 40% more than the second place?
... that the music video for Ricardo Arjona's song "Fuiste Tú" was filmed at several tropical locations in Guatemala?
... that Castello Barbarossa was named after its destroyer rather than its builder?

17 July 2012

16:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the invention of Greek fire (pictured) was crucial in breaking the First Arab Siege of Constantinople?
... that Lorinda de Roulet is the first woman to direct the day-to-day operations of a Major League Baseball franchise?
... that the Siljan Ring, a very large impact crater in central Sweden, has been the site for two attempts at commercial exploitation of natural gas and oil based on the theory of abiogenic petroleum?
... that Darin Morgan included a satire of Fox Broadcasting Company's censorship in "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me", after having difficulty with the network over the earlier "War of the Coprophages"?
... that the New Zealand Army's 1st Division was one of three such units formed to defend the country from invasion during World War II?
... that EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp was developed with the help of NFL strength and conditioning coaches?
... that Endhita received a best supporting actress nomination for ??

08:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

... that you might swim with a mink on the Fiery Gizzard Trail (pictured) in Tennessee?
... that Mina Salman's harbour, in Bahrain, was initially unsuitable for ocean liners and that these ships had to anchor up to 6 km (3.7 mi) offshore until the construction of a deep-water wharf in 1962?
... that in Euripides' play Oedipus, King Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother, does not blind himself but is blinded by his father's servant?
... that at the time of his death crime boss Giosue Gallucci held US$350,000 in real estate and was considered to be a millionaire?
... that the piano duo Anthony & Joseph Paratore played Brahms at the first Rheingau Musik Festival, and entertained children with The Carnival of the Animals at the 25th?
... that the production of The Wolverine, the upcoming sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, was delayed by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami?
... that although Echeveria runyonii has been in cultivation since at least 1922, wild plants were unknown until 1990?

00:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the life-size Tiffany iris corsage (pictured) designed by Paulding Farnham is composed of 120 Yogo sapphires inset in platinum and was sold to Henry Walters in 1900 for $6,906?
... that during the Coloured vote crisis of the 1950s, the Nationalist government of South Africa expanded the Senate in order to pass an act to disenfranchise Coloured voters?
... that the piggyback rosegill mushroom grows parasitically on other mushrooms?
... that Magic 2013, the bestselling PlayStation Network video game in June 2012, was based on a nineteen-year-old card game?
... that Hameen Ali received the Disney Sports Spirit Award, awarded annually to the "most inspirational" college football player who overcomes adversity?
... that No Doubt began initial work on their upcoming sixth album Push and Shove in 2006, while lead singer Gwen Stefani was promoting her second solo album The Sweet Escape?
... that the largest silver nugget ever mined had to be broken into three pieces to be removed from Smuggler Mine in Aspen, Colorado?

16 July 2012

16:00, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

... that after a mine tunnel was dug near Cerro de Pasco, Peru, the first known specimen of pascoite (example pictured) formed on the walls?
... that Mexican muralist, sculptor, and engraver Alfredo Zalce is acclaimed as the first modern artist to use coloured cement as his medium?
... that California's Jug Handle State Natural Reserve preserves five marine terraces each exhibiting a different stage of ecological succession at 100,000-year intervals?
... that Manchester City's Omar Elabdellaoui did not want to go on loan to football team Strømsgodset in 2012 because of the artificial turf at Marienlyst Stadion?
... that "Get It Started" marks the third time Pitbull and Shakira have collaborated on a song together?
... that Ernst Moritz Hess, a German of Jewish descent, was granted protection from Nazi persecution at the wishes of Adolf Hitler, who had served under his command in World War I?
... that the 1939 film Alang-Alang was inspired by the coming of a circus?

08:00, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

... that tens of thousands of Bahrainis participated in a protest dubbed "march of loyalty to martyrs" (pictured) in reference to those killed during the uprising?
... that the 3rd Ranger Infantry Company suffered over 50 percent casualties in its first Korean War engagement?
... that Jennifer Lopez's single "Let's Get Loud", from her debut album On the 6, was originally written for Gloria Estefan?
... that the most heavily damaged building in the 1935 Helena earthquake was the Helena High School, which had been completed just two months earlier?
... that John Rolls, who married heiress Sarah Coysh at St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey in London, was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire?
... that Upper Wolfsnare, a colonial home built in 1759 in Princess Anne County, Virginia, and home of an American Revolution Patriot and U.S. Constitution state convention delegate, is still lived in?
... that when Japanese forces attempted to seize the Holy Rosary Cathedral in 1942, its titular bishop said they would have to take his head first?

00:00, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

... that on an episode of Nik Wallenda: Beyond Niagara, tightrope walker Nik Wallenda (pictured) became the first person to perform the Wheel of Death on the top of a building?
... that red carpet fashion in 2002 included transparent bodices and phlegm and dung coloured tulle?
... that the 1927 film Eulis Atjih advertised that Indonesians could act as well as Americans and Europeans?
... that interments at Giri Tunggal Heroes' Cemetery in Semarang include a Catholic archbishop and a Chinese communist?
... that Erik Waaler discovered the rheumatoid factor?
... that Usher's song "Can't Stop Won't Stop", from his seventh studio album Looking 4 Myself, contains an interpolation of the bridge to Billy Joel's 1983 single "Uptown Girl"?
... that the 1961 Kentucky Derby winner Carry Back won two races after he had been retired to stud?

15 July 2012

16:00, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Rihanna's (pictured) song "We Found Love", a collaboration with Calvin Harris, was the only song to top the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart for more than one week in 2011, topping the chart for two consecutive weeks?
... that Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi is the first Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan?
... that Franco-Bolivian petroleum prospector and poet Adolfo Costa du Rels was the last President of the League of Nations?
... that Michael R. Perry was inspired to write Millennium's "The Mikado" by the "dark side" of the internet, Jennifer Ringley's JenniCam website and the Zodiac Killer?
... that Peter the Great set up Russia's first spa in Karelia based on the water-purifying qualities of shungite?
... that from 1946 to 1952 the Sillamäe processing plant in Estonia mined and processed Dictyonema argillite ore, a type of oil shale, to produce uranium oxide?
... that despite the Admiral-Lord Mountevans rules leading to pro-wrestling being relegalized, a bylaw was passed to specifically ban women wrestling in London?

08:00, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

... that all three pre-dreadnought battleships of the French Charlemagne class (pictured) participated in the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915?
... that Major League Baseball player Dan Coogan later coached the baseball teams at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Bowdoin College, and Georgetown University?
... that an unmade episode of The X-Files was later made into the film Final Destination?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic beach volleyball player Louise Bawden also represented Australia in indoor volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics?
... that Millennium's "Monster" features the song "Goodbye Charlie" by Bobby Darin, whose music is often used by the episode's writers?
... that mass defection of their Mexican auxiliaries led to the defeat of the French Army at the Battle of San Pedro?
... that Waste Not is an exhibit by Chinese artist Song Dong that illustrates modern Chinese history and the story of his late mother's life through 10,000 of her personal possessions?

00:00, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the smooth flower coral (pictured) only lives up to its name at night?
... that in the seventh century, Bishop Costanzo died near Marina Grande and became Capri's patron saint, and the Chiesa di San Costanzo is named after him?
... that Valon and Veton Berisha in 2011 became the first brothers to start a match together for Viking FK in 22 years since Jan and Egil Fjetland started the 1989 Norwegian Football Cup final?
... that the Sugababes' 2004 single "In the Middle" contains a sample of the song "U Know Y" by German DJ Moguai?
... that award-winning Muslim poet Nirwan Dewanto was forced to play a Roman Catholic bishop in Soegija?
... that leucophoenicite is so named for its purple-red color?
... that the Cossack Zhmaylo Uprising ended without a decisive battle having been fought?

14 July 2012

16:00, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

... that a female state legislator proposed making Dorothy's Rooms (bathroom pictured), the last brothel in Helena, Montana, a historical landmark?
... that "Did you know that Big 5 stopped selling handguns in March 1986?", regarded as the Perry Mason moment of the first Menendez brothers trial, resulted from a tip phoned in by a Court TV viewer?
... that Abraham Samad was the youngest ever head of the Corruption Eradication Commission when he was chosen in 2011?
... that Gene Sharp's book on the American Struggle for Independence supports President Adams' claim that the revolution was "substantially effected before hostilities commenced"?
... that in the 2010 season, in addition to playing football for Afturelding, John Andrews also coached the club's women's team, reserve team and feeder club at the same time?
... that Love's 1966 song "She Comes in Colors" has been cited as an influence on both The Rolling Stones' "She's a Rainbow" and Madonna's "Beautiful Stranger"?
... that pig-ear cups were reported from Iceland in 2007?

08:00, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Derek MacKenzie‎ (pictured) set franchise records in shorthanded goals for two American Hockey League teams?
... that the 1981 Rover chair launched the career of designer Ron Arad?
... that George von Amsberg fought in the 1848 Hungarian revolution and the American Civil War?
... that in the 2012 Sevens Grand Prix Series, France eliminated tournament favourite England in quarter-finals?
... that Faith No More have recorded songs for the soundtracks to Judgment Night and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey?
... that the Restaurant Quisi of the Grand Hotel Quisisana in Capri has been cited as one of Italy's finest hotel restaurants?
... that Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell had been more afraid of meeting John Wheelwright on the football field than of later meeting an army on the battle field?

00:00, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

... that fifty years ago today, Harold Macmillan (pictured) dismissed seven members of his Cabinet, an event known as the Night of the Long Knives?
... that composer Robert Russell Bennett's work Symphonic Songs for Band was premiered by the 112-member Kappa Kappa Psi-Tau Beta Sigma National Intercollegiate Band in 1957?
... that Werner E. Ablaß played a major role in the closure of the Nationale Volksarmee during the German reunification?
... that the performances in the Body of Proof episode "Talking Heads" of Kathy Searle as the person who dismembered the murder victim and Kelly AuCoin as the murderer were both praised?
... that the grounds of St Ceinwen's Church, Cerrigceinwen, Wales, contain a spring once said to be able to "cure many diseases"?
... that Angela Santomero created, wrote, and produced two children's TV shows, Super Why! and Blue's Clues?
... that the fruit of the rare subterranean parasitic plant Hydnora triceps smell and taste of coconut?

13 July 2012

16:00, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

... that there is a cemetery with over 350 graves at an unknown location on the grounds of the Lewis and Clark County Hospital Historic District (pictured)?
... that international breast cancer survivors' dragon boating had its beginnings when University of British Columbia's Don McKenzie organized "Abreast in a Boat" as breast cancer survivor therapy?
... that Miroslav Tyrš, the founder of Czech national sport movement Sokol, was born into a German family?
... that 10 of Florida's 161 state parks are only accessible by boat?
... that the Catholic Church issued two notifications regarding the Divine Mercy devotion, the second one reversing the first?
... that Hollywood stunt coordinator and second unit director Allan Graf played offensive guard for the undefeated NCAA national champion USC Trojans football team in 1972?
... that the Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life, one of the largest museums in the West Country, originally occupied two rooms in a former pub?

08:00, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the recently named rhamphorhynchid Bellubrunnus (restoration pictured) from the Jurassic of Germany is the only known pterosaur to have wing tips that curved forward?
... that Hillsboro, Oregon's minor league baseball stadium is scheduled to be built in less than one year?
... that in The Dance Lesson, an 1879 painting by Edgar Degas, an exhausted dancer sits on a double bass?
... that the 1899 play Sangeet Sharada was "a pioneer in social drama in India" and that the 1929 Child Marriage Restraint Act, called the "Sarda Act" for its sponsor, was soon known as the "Sharada Act"?
... that former Pepperdine basketball player Levy Middlebrooks was named the West Coast Conference Player of the Year in 1988?
... that the string arrangement on Casting Crowns' song "Joyful, Joyful" was compared to the string arrangement on Coldplay's song "Viva la Vida?
... that the second season of Millennium has been called "some sort of work of weird genius"?

00:00, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

... that widower Alexander Rolls, former Mayor of Monmouth, married divorcée and actress Helen Barry (pictured), whose first marriage was at age fifteen?
... that the remains of lions, woolly mammoths and woolly rhinoceros have been found in caves in the Upper Wye Gorge?
... that philanthropist John Mackintosh left a will allowing the provision of a public trust for the advancement of education in Gibraltar?
... that the hadran prayer recited after studying a tractate of the Talmud is an expression of love and friendship between the student and the tractate?
... that among the all-time head coaches in William & Mary Tribe football's history, three have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and one other into the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
... that the drama Zuster Theresia, written by a man known for comedy, featured a nun, attempted suicide, and polygamy?
... that Confederate Army Colonel Levin Major Lewis was hit by a spent musket ball that stuck in his forehead at the Battle of Lone Jack in Missouri during the American Civil War?

12 July 2012

16:00, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Gamos (pictured) was called "the mare of many headaches" in the years after she won the 1870 Epsom Oaks?
... that the Salah al-Din Road is the main highway of the Gaza Strip, running the territory's entire length?
... that Anders Christian Lunde painted King Frederik VII arriving by boat at the Helligdomsklipperne cliffs of Bornholm in 1851?
... that a pretender to the French throne built the De Mores Packing Plant in the Dakota Territory in 1883?
... that the stems of Jatropha dioica can be tied into knots?
... that Michael Sokolski, inventor of the Scantron multiple-choice optical answer sheet system, used to drive Polish tanks in Italy during World War II?
... that Jellyvision uses writers from Chicago improv troupes to develop new trivia questions weekly for its You Don't Know Jack Facebook game?

08:00, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the Scarabeo 9 semi-submersible drilling rig (pictured) was built to comply with the United States embargo against Cuba?
... that Elisha Coysh, great-grandfather of Sarah Coysh, was a physician renowned for his care of victims of the Great Plague of London?
... that Gene Sharp's The Politics of Nonviolent Action claims that Gandhi "made the most significant personal contribution in the history of the nonviolent technique"?
... that Bruce Haynam and Bill Mogk were part of the "million dollar infield" on the 1953 Michigan Wolverines baseball team that won the College World Series?
... that 50 new E-class Melbourne trams will be the first trams built in Australia in 12 years, with the last locally built Melbourne tram a B class built in 1994?
... that a music video by Chrisye was the first by an Indonesian shown on MTV Southeast Asia?
... that the 2012 IndyCar Detroit Grand Prix was interrupted for two hours because the track broke?

00:00, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

... that in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Dacre (pictured), in Cumbria, there are four carved medieval bears?
... that Angels Camp Museum sits on land located above two veins of the California Mother Lode?
... that the Government of Hong Kong is giving HK$6,000 to approximately 6.1 million people through Scheme $6,000 due to record reserves from budget surplus?
... that according to writer Toby Whithouse, the seventh series of Doctor Who will mainly consist of stand-alone episodes, each with a distinct genre?
... that Stumholmen island is part of the Naval City of Karlskrona, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998?
... that Franciscan monk Pedro de Aguado wrote a history of northern South America in the late sixteenth century, which was not published for over 300 years?
... that in 405, during the fall of the Western Roman Empire, manpower was so scarce that Roman soldiers were urged to allow their personal slaves to fight beside them?

11 July 2012

16:00, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the constellation of Corona Australis contains one of the closest star-forming regions (pictured) to the solar system?
... that the Millennium episode "The Beginning and the End" features the Talking Heads song "Life During Wartime"?
... that the National Film Board of Canada documentary My Ancestors Were Rogues and Murderers defends the controversial Canadian seal hunt?
... that one of the most talked-about red carpet gowns of 2000 was worn by a Spice Girl, its designer, and Matt Stone, as well as by Jennifer Lopez?
... that, despite spending almost their entire lives underground, Cape mole rats nonetheless have activity cycles linked to day and night?
... that comedian Hiroiki Ariyoshi went from earning 20 million yen a month to earning virtually nothing, only to then become Japan's top television personality?
... that the "Family Bible" was used as toilet paper?

08:00, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Tyler Clippard (pictured) won the 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game despite not retiring a batter?
... that the original idea for the 1996 science fiction adventure game Drowned God was based on a forged document purported to have been written by 19th-century English poet Richard Henry Horne?
... that Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, an English baronet and author who served in the Indian Civil Service, was the Settlement Commissioner of Kashmir?
... that Bob Cortner was the fiftieth person to die at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in its first fifty years of operation?
... that Rhadinoceraea micans larvae can completely defoliate waterside irises?
... that Dance Again... the Hits is the first greatest hits album to be released by Jennifer Lopez in her fourteen-year music career?
... that the historic Tivoli Building in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has housed a speakeasy, a brothel, an unaccredited university, and the current state governor's campaign headquarters?

00:00, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Harriet Hanson Robinson (pictured) went on strike from her job as a bobbin doffer at age eleven?
... that the spurious text of Matthew 16:2b–3 is not found in the New Testament codices 852, 994, 1073, 1074, 1080, 1093, and 1216, but it is in codices 873 and 905, although marked as doubtful?
... that plant ecologist Fakhri Bazzaz was ranked as one of the ten "Most Cited Scientists in Environment/Ecology, 1992–2002"?
... that missionary William McClure Thomson documented the Galilee earthquake of 1837 in the best-selling The Land and the Book?
... that American Jessie Ackermann is considered a major voice in the Australian women's suffrage movement?
... that video game publisher Inscape's founder Michael Nash chose the company's name "to focus on multimedia's capability to transport us to compelling inner landscapes"?
... that three aircraft belonging to Gatari Air Service were seized after its president director was implicated in a fraud case?

10 July 2012

16:00, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

... that at age twenty, Flight Lieutenant Dave Shannon (pictured) was the youngest pilot to take part in the "Dambuster" raid of May 1943?
... that a restaurant sketch by Kabaret Olgi Lipińskiej resulted in an official protest by the Soviet embassy in Warsaw, followed by secret police questioning?
... that Jahlil Okafor made all of his field goal attempts in the gold medal game of the 2011 FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship, totalling 18 points?
... that the sea anemone Cerianthus lloydii lives in a parchment-like tube?
... that Confederate Army Colonel Wilburn Hill King acted as a general officer for more than a year but was never legally promoted?
... that one of the archaeological hoards found in the Channel Islands comprised coins minted in Alexandria in Egypt?
... that the satinleaf tree is endangered in its native Florida, but an invasive weed in Hawaii?

08:00, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the sixth-century BCE Treasure of El Carambolo (pictured) was found during renovations at a pigeon shooting club?
... that Abdurahim Laajab is one of the key players at the Norway national futsal team?
... that reviewers felt that one of the strengths of mobile game Transformers G1: Awakening was that it was not based on the live-action film series?
... that the French battleship Charlemagne twice participated in the occupation of Mytilene, then owned by the Ottoman Empire, first with a French expedition and later in an international squadron?
... that Bambang Widjojanto, once often imprisoned by the government of Indonesia, now works for it?
... that the French Embassy in Berlin opened in 2002 has struck many, including the Mayor of Mitte, as resembling a barricade with gun slits?
... that many important literary and musical works of the past likely would be deemed to infringe copyright under today's law on paraphrasing of copyrighted material?

00:00, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Ganjuran Church features a statue of Jesus as a Javanese king (pictured)?
... that Farewell, My Queen, a 2012 film adapted from the Chantal Thomas novel, opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival?
... that in 2010, the filly Special Duty was awarded the victory in the British Classic 1000 Guineas and in its French equivalent despite being the second horse to cross the finish line in both races?
... that on Yes's 1972–73 tour, Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe played a rendition of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" at an Australian show?
... that a huge hoard of Iron Age and Roman coins was found in Jersey in June 2012 after two metal detectorists spent a few hours a year for 30 years searching for a suspected hoard?
... that the shape that encloses two given volumes and has the minimum possible surface area is the double bubble commonly formed by soap bubbles?
... that there is debate as to whether Minetta Creek, once the largest river in Manhattan, still exists?

9 July 2012

16:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

... that during the Antinomian Controversy, Anne Hutchinson (pictured) withstood two separate trials without counsel before being banished from Massachusetts?
... that Argentine nationalism sees José de San Martín, Juan Manuel de Rosas and Juan Perón as a line of historical continuity?
... that one of the most popular Polish cabarets, Pod Egidą, performing since 1967, has faced persecution from the communist authorities in the People's Republic of Poland?
... that 2012 College World Series Most Outstanding Player Robert Refsnyder was born in South Korea and adopted by a California couple when he was three months old?
... that the print identity of UK music newspaper The Stool Pigeon is modelled on Victorian tabloids?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Hannah Davis won a bronze medal in the sport at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
... that the starfish Anasterias rupicola feeds on the limpet Nacella macquariensis, sometimes hunting it in groups?

08:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the mushroom Stropharia semiglobata (pictured on llama dung) has been recorded growing on the feces of a wide range of herbivores, including rabbits, bears, and wallabies?
... that the death of four students from Southway Comprehensive School during a school trip in 1993 led to the establishment of the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority?
... that the 2010 Grimes album, Geidi Primes, is named after the fictional planet Giedi Prime from Grimes' favourite book, Frank Herbert's seminal novel Dune?
... that in the 5th-century CE the only indigenous Arab unit of the Byzantine army in Syria was stationed at Furqlus?
... that Room 12 at The Crown in Amersham, England, has a mural dating back to the 16th century?
... that one protester was killed after security forces attacked protesters in Bahrain's Day of Rage?
... that Ed Carfrey, who played in Major League Baseball in 1890, was mistakenly omitted from baseball records until 2005?

00:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility houses the Genesis Rock (pictured) and most of the other lunar samples returned by the Apollo program?
... that al-Rastan, known as "Arethusa" during the Roman period in Syria, served as the first capital of the Emesani dynasty in the mid-first-century BCE?
... that in 1885, American neurologist James Leonard Corning became the first to perform neuraxial anesthesia?
... that sources give two different commanders for the Polish forces participating in the Battle of Grudziądz?
... that the Order of the British Empire was awarded posthumously to two brothers following the Edmonton air crash?
... that despite being one of the most common polypores in the eastern United States, the fungus Antrodia serialiformis was not recognized as a distinct species until 2009?
... that Cuban-American athlete Manuel Huerta is training for the 2012 Summer Olympics on the side of a live volcano?

8 July 2012

16:00, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

... that mature specimens of the edible Oregon brown truffle (pictured) have an odor similar to Camembert cheese?
... that Malayisation has occurred in five Southeast Asian countries?
... that baseball pitcher Pete Appleton changed his surname from Jablonowski to embark on a musical career, which he never did?
... that Ginge Manor is currently occupied by William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor and his wife Annabel, who is the mother of Samantha Cameron, the wife of Prime Minister David Cameron?
... that there were calls for Alexander Aan to be executed for posting on Facebook?
... that in spite of the official Soviet ideology of gender equality, feminism continues to be a dirty word for women in Russia?
... that for the 1884 hanging of five Bisbee Massacre murderers in Tombstone, Arizona, invitations were sent out by the sheriff, and tickets were sold for grandstand seating?

08:00, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Black Sandy State Park on Hauser Lake (pictured) was originally a recreation area operated by the Montana Power Company?
... that the regal sea fan takes part in mass spawning events which may be triggered by the full moon?
... that The Mountain Road was the only war movie that Jimmy Stewart ever starred in?
... that the title of Canadian artist Cœur de pirate's 2011 album Blonde is a double entendre which refers to both the singer's blonde hair and the Quebec French slang word for "girlfriend"?
... that Japanese anesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii published 172 medical research papers that reported falsified data, including 126 papers described as being "totally fabricated"?
... that the Maya city of Kinal in northern Guatemala possessed an unusually complex acropolis but is noted for its complete absence of sculpted stelae and altars?
... that the biggest aircraft ever to be flown under the Sydney Harbour Bridge was a Lancaster bomber piloted by Flight Lieutenant Peter Isaacson in 1943?

00:00, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

... that architect Aston Webb, who expanded The Hendre (pictured) in Wales, originally a hunting lodge for John Rolls, also redesigned the east facade of Buckingham Palace?
... that in Hoffman Estates v. The Flipside, the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether the proximity of High Times, National Lampoon, and Rolling Stone to drug paraphernalia was marketing for illegal use?
... that Pink performs "energetic and vengeful as ever" on her new single "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)"?
... that during a five-year shutdown, there arose a thriving enterprise selling the buildings of Romania's Călăraşi steel works for scrap?
... that Peter Finn considered contesting the Wakatipu electorate in the 1879 New Zealand general election, but he let his brother Hugh run instead, who was successful?
... that for her memoir Opium Nation, Fariba Nawa placed her life in jeopardy to collect stories from women involved in opium production in Afghanistan?
... that in the alternate history of Richard Schenkman's 2012 mockbuster film Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies, John Wilkes Booth is a Confederate agent planted within Lincoln's secret service staff?

7 July 2012

16:00, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Christchurch architect Samuel Farr (pictured) stocked almost every lake and river in Canterbury, New Zealand, with fish?
... that, according to the Cholodny-Went model, the roots of plants grow downward and the shoots grow towards light because of the plant hormone auxin?
... that in 683, the second Umayyad ruler Yazid I died in the Syrian Desert town of Huwwarin, his favorite recreation spot?
... that Jennifer Lopez's first video album Jennifer Lopez: Feelin' So Good provides a documentary-style look at the launch of her music career?
... that the research facilities of the University of Freiburg Faculty of Biology date back to a botanical garden founded in 1620 by the Faculty of Medicine?
... that the dissolution of the Tibetan Empire following a civil war led to the Era of Fragmentation, a period of political turmoil dominated by warlords and uprisings?
... that people can surf in the Kampar River?

08:00, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the design of St. Mark's Church (pictured) was described as "acrobatic gothic" after the architect was given free rein in his designs?
... that according to American recording artist Usher, his song "Sins of My Father" is a testament to the type of father he is?
... that University of Michigan gymnast Sam Mikulak won the 2011 NCAA all-around championship and will represent the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?
... that Paradox released a combination EP and sampler album entitled Overcome or Burn Forever in Hell/Arachnid Terror Sampler?
... that Justin Wilson dedicated his win at the 2008 Detroit Indy Grand Prix to dying actor Paul Newman?
... that 1931's Si Pitoeng was the first film based on the life of an Indonesian Robin Hood?
... that the bartender and the psychiatrist were good ol' mates in Boston and are still good ol' mates in Seattle?

00:00, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Whitecross Street in Wye Bridge Ward, Monmouth, Wales, took its name from a stone cross that stood in the future St James Square (pictured)?
... that the identification of azibiids, a type of fossil primate including Azibius, as either strepsirrhine or haplorine weighs heavily on the African or Asian origins of primates?
... that Lolab Valley in the Vale of Kashmir is an oval-shaped valley and is formed by the Lahwal River in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir?
... that the masthead of Sporting Life displayed the motto "Devoted To Base Ball, Trap Shooting and General Sports"?
... that Ladislav Haškovec coined the term "Akathisia"?
... that the Bahrain pearling trail is Bahrain's second UNESCO World Heritage Site after the Bahrain Fort?
... that, originally discovered in 1873, Tutwiler's spleenwort became one of the world's rarest ferns in 2007?

6 July 2012

16:00, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

... that former Albany, Georgia, mayor Bill McAfee (pictured) participated in a 13-game baseball tour of Japan in 1929 before embarking on a five-year career in Major League Baseball?
... that three new Wildlife Protection Areas have been established in Japan prior to the 2012 Ramsar wetland conference, which started today?
... that at the end of World War I the British Cabinet decided to give Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and India each 100 aircraft as an Imperial Gift?
... that unlike its closest living relatives, lemurs and lorisoids, Djebelemur from Eocene Africa probably lacked a toothcomb?
... that Indonesian singer Pinkan Mambo paid for her brothers' college through her singing?
... that on low magnification the strands of Listerella paradoxa look like a string of pearls?
... that Geoff Charles's photos of 20th-century Welsh life were published at 75 dpi to prevent "illegal copying"?

08:00, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Go Green Racing (car pictured) used 14 different drivers in competition during the 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series season?
... that Louise Cochrane, creator of the 1950s BBC children's TV series Rag, Tag and Bobtail, was an American?
... that the slime mould Prototrichia metallica is a "nivicol", meaning that it grows on the snow line at the time of snowmelt?
... that former basketball player Bob Harstad is just one of four players in Missouri Valley Conference history to accrue both 2,000+ points and 1,000+ rebounds in his career?
... that Emerge, a monthly news magazine with a focus on issues of interest to African Americans, was published from 1989 to 2000?
... that computing applications written for 26-bit ARM systems running RISC OS can be run on newer 32-bit architectures by using Aemulor?
... that Yelverton Paperweight Centre, which has over 1000 paperweights, has its origins in the private collection of a Cornish postmaster?

00:00, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the airline Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei, which operated LZ 129 Hindenburg (pictured), was re-established under the same name in 2001 and today flies Zeppelin NTs in passenger service?
... that British cyclist Liam Phillips put his selection in doubt for the 2012 Summer Olympics when he broke his collarbone at the 2012 BMX World Championship?
... that the architecture of Scotland in the Middle Ages included houses made of solid clay?
... that while attending Eton College, Max Pirkis received his first professional acting role, being cast in the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World?
... that Barbeyella minutissima are found in areas of up to 3,500 metres above sea level?
... that when Alfred Baldey was appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council, people wondered who he was?
... that internees at Whitewater went on strike because they thought the guards stole their pyjamas?

5 July 2012

16:00, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

... that on Women's Equality Day, the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame will add four names to a list that already includes Mamie Eisenhower (pictured) and Hualing Nieh Engle?
... that in 1894 Georges Lemaître won the world's first competitive motor race by driving from Paris to Rouen at 19 km/h (12 mph)?
... that the Hubert H. Humphrey Building, currently the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services, was the first U.S. federal building to be named after a living person?
... that upon his death in June 2012, Walter J. Zable had been the world's oldest public company CEO at age 97?
... that the constellation of Circinus depicts a pair of drafting compasses?
... that The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs consists of 7000 pages of Wikipedia changelogs?
... that Llanddewi Velfrey in Pembrokeshire once contained an Italianate stuccoed mansion, but it was demolished in 1957?

08:00, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the 891 photovoltaic units installed on the roof of the James V. Forrestal Building (pictured) in 2008 constitute one of the largest renewable energy systems in Washington, D.C.?
... that when Christopher Wren was appointed to rebuild St Paul's Cathedral, London, he was Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford?
... that Aecidium mori causes mulberry rust disease on the mulberry flowering plant, which decreases the quantity of leaves on the trees?
... that claims from a tailor, a bootmaker, a farmer, a coach-driver and a colporteur were all embedded in the Convention of London that escalated into the French intervention in Mexico?
... that Bandung Raya football club dissolved in 1997 due to financial trouble, despite reaching the 1996–97 Liga Indonesia Premier Division finals?
... that the New Zealand town of Pahiatua was founded by William Wilson McCardle?
... that in 1973 country music singer Willie Nelson formed his own band, Family, after retiring early from a previous recording contract?

00:00, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

... that while the standard guitar-tuning E-A-D-G-B-E includes one major third amid four perfect fourths (illustrated), the augmented-fourths tuning B-F-B-F-B-F includes only tritone intervals?
... that baseball umpire Bull Perrine was attacked on the field twice during minor-league games in April 1905?
... that Gene Sharp's From Dictatorship to Democracy was described by CNN as "incendiary advice" that became a "viral pamphlet" that provided tactical guidance to the Arab Spring?
... that Maison Alcan marked a turning point in the preservation of historic buildings in Montreal's Golden Square Mile?
... that Third Day's song "Cry Out to Jesus" reached number one on Billboard's Christian chart three distinct times?
... that Luis Ghilardi, a former Italian officer of Garibaldi, fought alongside the Mexican Republicans to repulse the French fleet in the Battle of Acapulco?
... that in recognition of Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic, the Texas Senate declared July 4, 1975, "Willie Nelson Day", but he was fined $1,000 for violating the Texas Mass Gatherings Act?

4 July 2012

16:00, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

... that many of the business practices of The Wiggles (pictured) were based on those of The Cockroaches?
... that Operation Josephine B was the SOE's first success in occupied France and it considerably enhanced the organisation's standing?
... that Casting Crowns' 2005 single "Lifesong" has been musically compared to rock band U2?
... that athletes who played in Major League Baseball and the National Football League include two Heisman Trophy winners and seven inductees of the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
... that for the first time 3G services were used in India to announce the election result for the Andhra Pradesh by-elections in 2012?
... that Argentine TV journalist Andy Kusnetzoff was considered a possible main actor for the comedy Graduados?
... that Sheffield United refused to present footballer Bob Cain with an 1898 First Division winner's medal after he agreed a transfer to Tottenham Hotspur?

08:00, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Don Eaddy (pictured) was an All-American baseball player, All-Big Ten basketball player, and halfback for the football team at the University of Michigan?
... that three members of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena assaulted Prashant Bhushan due to his controversial statement on the Kashmir issue?
... that acclaimed violinist Tasmin Little released her 2008 recording The Naked Violin as a free download?
... that Trichia decipiens live on deadwood of conifers and leaf trees all year around?
... that naval officer James Coutts Crawford served in three sieges in the American War of Independence, once as part of the besieging forces (Charleston) and twice as a defender (Savannah and Gibraltar)?
... that nine years after the 1968 Belice earthquake sequence struck western Sicily, 60,000 refugees were still living in temporary accommodation?
... that Greg Malcolm of electronic music duo Twine described the pair as "like Voltron"?

00:00, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

... that at the Fort Smith Trolley Museum, in Arkansas, one can ride to the National Cemetery in Birney Safety Streetcar No. 224 (pictured), which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that former Meghalaya Chief Minister Flinder Anderson Khonglam was the first independent politician to serve as Chief Minister of any Indian state?
... that the roof of the RAF Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park is made of aluminium from a crashed Handley Page Halifax?
... that Wally Gilbert played baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, football in the NFL and professional basketball for Buffalo and Denver?
... that out of the five designated protected areas in Bahrain, Al Areen Wildlife Park is the only protected area situated on land?
... that André Derain painted Mountains at Collioure alongside Henri Matisse at the fishing port of Collioure?
... that Yes cancelled a show on their Fragile Tour after the van carrying their PA system broke down—as did two others sent to replace it?

3 July 2012

16:00, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

... that St Mary's Church, Abbeytown, in Cumbria (west end pictured) was damaged by fire in 1604, and again in 2006?
... that C. E. Falk beat NASCAR stars Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin to win the latter's own charity race?
... that Tropaeolum tricolor can survive a drought of 10 months in summer while Tropaeolum polyphyllum can withstand temperatures down to −20 °C (−4 °F)?
... that "New Day" by Alicia Keys has been called her most powerful number to date?
... that Margarete Mitscherlich and her husband Alexander Mitscherlich co-authored Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern (The Inability to Mourn) in 1967, and she alone wrote Die Radikalität des Alters (The Radicality of Age) in 2010?
... that the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum includes Miwok items?
... that 2012 Australian rhythmic gymnastics Olympian Janine Murray had difficulties getting to school while growing up in Zimbabwe because of petrol shortages?

08:00, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

... that some Mexican curanderos use the psychedelic mushroom Psilocybe hoogshagenii (pictured) to divine the location of objects or animals that have been lost or stolen?
... that migration of people from Pakistan after the partition of India is one of the causes of urbanisation in India?
... that Georgina Harland suffered a stress fracture to her leg only two weeks before the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in modern pentathlon?
... that Corin Tucker, later of Sleater-Kinney, played her first stage performance at the 1991 International Pop Underground Convention?
... that St Michael's Church, Burgh by Sands, in Cumbria is unique in having had two fortified towers?
... that Tasma Walton was immediately interested in the part of Claudia Leigh because her occupation as a criminal profiler was not a straightforward police role?
... that despite the 1940s exterior of The Dupont Hotel in Washington, D.C., the hotel has a modern interior after being renovated in 2009?

00:00, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the rare Moldavian Bull's Head stamp (pictured) was on sale for less than four months in 1858, and that about half of them were destroyed by fire in 1874?
... that the term self-deportation was first popularized as a satirical criticism of California Proposition 187 in 1994?
... that in 1868, British racehorse Formosa became the first winner of the English Fillies Triple Crown?
... that Yusmarg in the Kashmir Valley in India is translated as the meadow of Jesus, and is believed to be where Jesus once visited?
... that child actress Rachel Covey had a body double during the 2007 film Enchanted so that she did not have to spend as much time on set?
... that Lindbladia tubulina is the only species of its genus?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic diver Jaele Patrick only took up the sport at fifteen following a gymnastics injury?

2 July 2012

16:00, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

... that Spon Street (Spon Gate pictured) survived the air raid that obliterated much of Coventry City Centre and is now a Conservation Area?
... that the Jewish Military Museum was founded partly to counter the idea that British Jews have avoided serving in the armed forces?
... that professional baseball player Bud Morse was honored for his heroism in disarming a gunman during a hospital shooting spree?
... that Emily Smith is the youngest Hockeyroo representing Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that a number of Ohio Republicans refused to vote for Mark Hanna for senator in 1898, and he was elected by the legislature with only the minimum 73 votes?
... that the brown seaweed Stypopodium zonale contains substances that are cytotoxic to certain human carcinoma cells?
... that the Crimes Act of 1825 is the most recent general revision of U.S. federal criminal legislation?

08:00, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

... that The Royal Oak (pictured) in Monmouth, Wales, hosted the survivor of a Dragons' Den?
... that women in Kenya created the Kenya women's national football team independent of Football Kenya Federation?
... that Carlos Correa is the first Puerto Rican to be selected with the first overall selection of a Major League Baseball Draft?
... that 168 Community Development Districts in Florida created between 2003 and 2008 are presently in default with $5.1 billion in municipal bonds?
... that Sheffield United played their first ever league fixture against Burton Wanderers on 13 September 1890?
... that the Main Centre for Missile Attack Warning reports ballistic missile attacks to the General Staff, which could lead the Russian President to use the nuclear briefcase?
... that The Track was dusty?

00:00, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

... that John Herrnstein (pictured) was the third generation of the Herrnstein family to play for the Michigan Wolverines football team?
... that patriotic music in Canada dates back over 200 years as a distinct category from British patriotism, preceding the first legal steps to independence by over 50 years?
... that Henry Oxley is one of only three people from Prince Edward Island to have played in Major League Baseball?
... that Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, George F. Kennan: An American Life and Water by the Spoonful won 2012 Pulitzer Prizes for History, General Non-Fiction, Biography or Autobiography and Drama, respectively?
... that Cambodia women's national football team faces several challenges including women's football not being popular in Cambodia and, as of 2006^[update], no teams for women to play on?
... that the Zambia village of Sioma is located on the site of an Iron Age settlement?
... that floppy trunk syndrome mainly affects male elephants and is a condition that results in trunk paralysis?

1 July 2012

16:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

... that the creator of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies—Rudolf Ising—served in the First Motion Picture Unit, which made films like Camouflage (pictured) during World War II?
... that Swakopmund tracking station is a ground station of the Chinese manned space programme located in the African country of Namibia?
... that the Jru' language, an indigenous language of Laos, was once written in a secret script?
... that Senegalese fashion designer Adama Ndiaye organized the Dakar Fashion Week exhibition, now in its 10th year?
... that along with appearing as a young Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man, child actor Max Charles will be providing the voice of Sherman in Mr. Peabody & Sherman?
... that the Body of Proof episode "Helping Hand" was directed by John Terlesky, best known for directing Ugly Betty which starred Tony Plana, who also appeared in this Body of Proof episode?
... that at Euro 2012, the Pukka Pies England Band was banned from playing at England's game against France despite having UEFA approval?

08:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

... that light can elastically scatter other light (Feynman diagram pictured) if the electric field strength exceeds the Schwinger limit?
... that more than one million comments about Feng Jianmei's forced abortion had been registered within four days of family members uploading a picture of her dead child to Sina Weibo?
... that 2012 Australian field hockey Olympian Jade Close was a ball girl at the 2000 Summer Olympics during the Hockeyroos' gold medal match?
... that tadpoles of the green burrowing frog need to grow rapidly because the temporary pools in which they develop soon dry up?
... that Rick Ross was to be featured on Jennifer Lopez's song "Run the World", but his rap was removed from the song shortly before its commercial release?
... that the sports film The Wind Chaser was compared to a soap commercial?
... that it is widely believed in Monmouth, Wales, that the late John "Mad Jack" Roocroft took his chain saw to the Indian Bean Tree in St James Square?

00:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

... that eating Lactarius deterrimus (pictured) causes red urine?
... that Pentwyn Farm Grasslands, near Monmouth, hosts one of the largest populations of the green-winged orchid in Gwent?
... that Cotton Tierney's great-great-nephew named a website after him that has received over 4 million page views?
... that staff at the Indonesian film archives, Sinematek Indonesia, receive less than US$120 a month?
... that Bajan's list lists the kill scores of Polish fighter pilots of World War II?
... that Yes's 1970–71 tour began with Steve Howe joining the band and ended with Tony Kaye leaving?
... that 2012 Summer Olympic cyclist Amy Cure calls Penguin home?