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30 November 2013

16:00, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

... that there is a double pyramid on top of the tower of St Mary's Church, Hopesay (pictured)?
... that in 1979, Augusta "Gussie" Clark became the second African American woman to be elected to the Philadelphia City Council?
... that the Sadigura Rebbe, Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedman, opposed the Oslo Accords and visited Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria to bolster the Jews living there?
... that the two-part gay pornographic film Out of Athens was loosely based on the director John Rutherford's past experiences in Greece as a young man?
... that metal-catalyzed C-H borylation reactions are useful reactions for carbon-hydrogen bond activation?
... that the Isola di San Clemente has housed pilgrims, plague victims, monks, soldiers, the mentally ill, and stray cats?

08:00, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad's Gulf Coast Rebel (pictured) was the last train it operated south of St. Louis, Missouri?
... that the practice of insect husbandry by ants is at least 15 million years old?
... that West Virginia State Senator Robert White commenced his public service career at the age of 16 as the deputy clerk for his county court?
... that the Vinohrady Water Tower once provided 200 cubic metres (7,100 cu ft) of municipal water storage but now houses offices and apartments?
... that senior United Nations official Robert Piper was a founding member of Australian comedy group the Doug Anthony All Stars?
... that the 1941 film Lintah Darat was praised for its condemnation of usury?

00:00, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

... that prior to receiving the Distinguished Service Order during World War I, John Baker White (pictured) served as private secretary to West Virginia Governor William A. MacCorkle?
... that Strašnice became a part of Prague in 1922?
... that Antoine v. Washington was a United States Supreme Court case that allowed Native Americans to hunt and fish outside of their reservation without state interference?
... that the northern double drummer is the second largest cicada in Australia?
... that James McBride was described as "clearly stunned" when his novel The Good Lord Bird won the National Book Award for Fiction?
... that although the Carmyllie Railway was in operation for almost 130 years, it offered passenger services for less than 30 years?

29 November 2013

16:00, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

... that although most of the works of Arnold Thornely are in Liverpool and northwest England, he is best known for the Parliament Buildings (commonly known as Stormont) (pictured) in Belfast?
... that even with the refugee crisis in Syria, Afghanistan has held the record for producing the most refugees for 32 years?
... that criminal defense lawyer and West Virginia House Delegate James Sloan Kuykendall also served as mayor of his hometown Romney, West Virginia?
... that at the public Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Patrice Chéreau established a theatre school and a film studio, and first staged a play by Bernard-Marie Koltès?
... that Paralympic runner Ricardo de Pedraza Losa ran in his first marathon in Valencia, Spain, in 2013, with two sighted guides?
... that Mike Mendez cast actors for his film Big Ass Spider! using his Facebook friends list?

08:00, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

... that golden ghost crabs (pictured) are one of the main predators of endangered sea turtles in Western Australia?
... that baseball player Anthony Seratelli bowled two perfect games in high school?
... that in Columbia Pictures, Inc. v. Fung, the defendant's "red flag knowledge" caused the court to determine that the defendant was ineligible for DMCA safe harbor provisions?
... that female infanticide in China has a history spanning 2000 years?
... that Stolen Childhood was the first full-length book on the history of children enslaved during the American slave-era?
... that in Hindu mythology, King Kalmashapada is said to have asked the sage who turned him into a demon to impregnate his wife?

00:00, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Quartermaster General Ira Roe Foster (pictured) was the target of a "malicious falsehood", alleging that he sold socks donated to Confederate soldiers?
... that the Chelsea Bun House sold almost a quarter of a million hot cross buns on its last Good Friday?
... that a civil war in Poland gave rise to a proverb about a state of division, disorder and anarchy?
... that Siats, named after a man-eating monster, is the geologically youngest North American allosauroid yet discovered?
... that former college baseball All-American Matt Quatraro is a member of the Old Dominion University Sports Hall of Fame?
... that the Bath curse tablets, inscribed by Romano-British victims of theft, cursed some of the thieves with having their "intestines quite eaten away" and losing "their minds and eyes"?

28 November 2013

16:00, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

... that controversy continues over the date of the Sperlonga sculptures and the Laocoön group (pictured), attributed to Agesander of Rhodes?
... that the extinct ant Acanthognathus poinari had jaws like its modern relatives?
... that the 1972 hit song "The Redback on the Toilet Seat" was written by Slim Newton, not Slim Dusty?
... that Kweisi Mfume declined to be a candidate in the 1999 Baltimore mayoral election even though the state legislature changed a law specifically to allow him to run?
... that the gardens of Les Colombières have been described as full of "wit, brilliance and imagination"?
... that anatomist Eduard Pernkopf, who expelled Jewish faculty from the University of Vienna medical school after the Anschluss, was later given space by a Jewish physician to finish his anatomical atlas?

08:00, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Barberton greenstone belt contains tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite domes wrapped in mafic and ultramafic layers of rocks (illustrated)?
... that James Parker was considered a better printer than William Bradford or Benjamin Franklin in the American Thirteen Colonies in his day?
... that due to scheduling conflicts the 2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore will be the last running of Grand Prix of Baltimore until at least 2016 and possibly longer?
... that Langford Colley-Priest, a World War I stretcher-bearer for the First Australian Imperial Force, was believed to have been eaten by a shark?
... that in 2000 American singer Christina Aguilera won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and then the following year won the same award at the Lo Nuestro Awards?
... that more than 2,100 years after Lady Dai died, an autopsy revealed the cause of her death?

00:00, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Turkish politician Hasan Fehmi‎ (pictured) argued that the deportations during the Armenian Genocide were necessary "to ensure the future of our fatherland"?
... that John Fowles' postmodern novel The French Lieutenant's Woman both emulated and parodied popular Victorian novels, like those of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy?
... that the Europe Theatre Prize, awarded from 1987 by the European Commission to a personality of theatre, has been termed "The Oscar for Drama"?
... that, at age thirty-seven, Dave Sharma is the youngest person to be appointed as an Australian Ambassador?
... that from November 2011 to November 2012, City Nord was the largest shopping center in Northern Norway?
... that the Beaty Biodiversity Museum in Vancouver is the "best collection of weird things in drawers"?

27 November 2013

15:46, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Shanghai Manhua, one of the earliest and most influential manhua magazines, was known for its provocative cover art (example pictured)?
... that the Semail Ophiolite contains rocks from the ocean floor and Earth's upper mantle that have been thrust onto the Arabian Peninsula?
... that Sid Yudain founded the newspaper Roll Call in the congressional office of U.S. Rep. Albert P. Morano?
... that the 2005 Coca-Cola 600 featured the most caution flags in NASCAR Nextel Cup history?
... that among the six costumes worn by Kareena Kapoor in the film Gori Tere Pyaar Mein, the one in the song "Tooh" was the most elaborate?
... that 2004 and 2012 5-a-side football Paralympic bronze medalist Adolfo Samuel Acosta Rodríguez was elected to the Spanish national governing body for blind sport in July 2010?
... that the green boring sponge hollows out galleries in limestone rock?

07:31, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Wellington Suspension Bridge (pictured), in Aberdeen, still has the original main chains from when it was opened in 1831?
... that George Campbell has already accepted an invitation to the 2015 Under Armour All-America Game?
... that the Sudanese newspaper Vigilant was banned for six months in 1965–66 for reporting on massacres in Juba and Wau?
... that Delusional Thomas is a horrorcore-influenced mixtape that features American rapper Mac Miller rapping in a distorted pitched-up voice?
... that Smilja Avramov contends that the 2013 Brussels Agreement violates the UN Charter and indirectly recognizes Kosovo as an independent state?
... that India Buildings in Liverpool was badly damaged by bombing in 1941 and was restored to its original condition under the supervision of one of its original architects?
... that Kathleen Garman was shot by the wife of sculptor Jacob Epstein in 1923, had three children with him, and eventually married him in 1955?

26 November 2013

16:00, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Fort Al Jalali (pictured) was built in Muscat, Oman by the Portuguese after attacks by Ottoman forces?
... that according to Frank Moraes, Rou Shi was executed by being buried alive?
... that the Tęcza in Warsaw has been vandalized several times, most commonly due to anti-LGBT sentiments?
... that Swedish comedian Nour El-Refai will host Melodifestivalen 2014?
... that the paintings The Kongouro from New Holland and Portrait of a Large Dog were barred from being taken to Australia by the British Department of Culture on the grounds of their national importance?
... that the original owner of the Albert S. Sholes House worked with Edward Schulmerich, whose house was also listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that the remains of two Presidents of Czechoslovakia are in Vinohrady Cemetery; one had a state funeral, the other's name was not put on his grave?

08:10, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the long-spined sea urchin (pictured) reacts to a shadow falling on it by angling its spines towards the possible predator?
... that Geronima Pecson was the first woman senator of the Philippines?
... that Ranbir was the first daily newspaper in Jammu and Kashmir?
... that Emily Willingham, a biologist from Texas, was called "one of the sharpest science writers in the blogosphere" by Steve Silberman?
... that Gardiki Castle in Corfu is considered one of the most imposing architectural remains in the Ionian Islands?
... that Romney, West Virginia, claims its Confederate Memorial dedicated in 1867 was the first memorial erected in honor of Confederate war dead?
... that the Hooded Parrot shares its nesting holes with a moth that eats the nestlings' feces?

00:00, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Chiricahua Mountains contain many hoodoos (example pictured) formed by the weathering of tuff?
... that amidst the Syrian civil war, according to United Nations Security Council Resolution 2118, Syria has until mid-2014 to eliminate its chemical weapons?
... that an Anglo-Saxon bowl and a Viking sword have been found in the churchyard of St James, Great Ormside, in Cumbria, England?
... that outside of his parliamentary activities, David Jones was best known as the first chairman of the New Zealand Meat Board?
... that the Tudor ship Mary Rose was named after Rose Lok and her sister-in-law, Mary Lok?
... that 1904's The Bold Bank Robbery was the first film to be advertised in Billboard?
... that Home Brew, the eponymous album by the hip hop group, was promoted by a 48-hour-long release party?

25 November 2013

16:00, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Etchmiadzin Cathedral (pictured) is considered the oldest cathedral in the world?
... that Emil Fuchs painted portraits of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, and his portraits became fashionable among London high society in the early 20th century?
... that Hong Kong's Ice House Street was named after the city's only source of ice until 1874?
... that the grandfather of Ali Pasha was a sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Avlona and a member of the Muzaka family?
... that 2012 Paralympic men's 1 km time trial C4–5 gold medalist Alfonso Cabello's mother insisted he learned how to tie his shoelaces using only one hand?
... that the 1948 film Miraculous Journey, about seven airline passengers stranded in a jungle, was directed by Sam Newfield under a pseudonym?
... that the Brazos River habitat of the Sharpnose Shiner is being changed by inflow from lake reservoirs, including that of the Possum Kingdom?

08:05, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the house of New Zealand women's suffrage campaigner Kate Sheppard was for 37 years the home of Christchurch mayor John Joseph Dougall's (pictured) family?
... that the Kolmer Site preserves the remains of a village where the French and Michigamea interacted in modern-day Illinois?
... that after a court case was decided against them, Meltwater broke the ice with Associated Press and agreed to work together on product development?
... that the female smooth-fronted caiman often builds her nest against the side of a termite mound?
... that Nina Kirsanova, one of the most important ballet dancers in Serbia, was also a lead principal dancer, choreographer, head of ballet, ballet teacher, nurse, archaeologist and actress?
... that the "character-driven storylines" of The Game "capture the intense feeling of the cold war period"?
... that Lily Tirtasana Neo was born in Indonesia, graduated from an Irish medical school, and became an MP in Singapore in 1997?

00:20, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Franklin Peale (pictured) was responsible for introducing the mechanical reproduction of coin dies to the United States?
... that in the 2013 Tippeligaen season, Strømsgodset IF won their first Norwegian football league title in 43 years?
... that the Portland VA Hospital has a 660-foot (200 m) long pedestrian bridge that is the longest of its type in North America?
... that 14th-century Serbian noblemen Nikola Radonja and Antonije Bagaš bought Agiou Pavlou monastery at Mount Athos and reconstructed it?
... that the episode "In Concert" of the television show WKRP in Cincinnati is based on The Who concert disaster?
... that some of the stained glass in St James' Church, Church Kirk in Lancashire was damaged by an explosion in a nearby ammunition factory?
... that Norwegian footballer Stian Ohr was relegated with four different clubs in seven years?

24 November 2013

16:35, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the upper parts of the Medieval tower of All Saints Church, Odiham (pictured), were completely rebuilt in the 17th century?
... that growth faults form in the sediments parallel to the margin of a continent and can form a reservoir for oil?
... that the History of Education Society's formation in 1960 brought legitimacy to the academic study of the American history of education?
... that in modern beekeeping, bees don't make their own honeycomb, but build it off the wax foundation?
... that Margarita Levieva's character in the 2011 David Wexler dramedy film The Stand Up was praised for having a complexity beyond that of the expected stereotype?
... that Sourav Ganguly was captain for more Pune Warriors India cricket matches than any other player?
... that Gerry Scott, the production designer for several BBC historical costume dramas, was initially rejected by the BBC "because she was a painter and couldn't draw plans"?

08:50, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

... that despite being banned during the colonial period, Mexico maintains a tradition of dance with handcrafted masks (example pictured)?
... that in 1978, populations of the gulf sea star in the Gulf of California were devastated by starfish wasting disease and had not fully recovered twenty years later?
... that in 1926, the Bolivian government arrested two editors of Bandera Roja, following an article about a massacre of mine workers?
... that NASCAR drivers planned to boycott the 2000 Dura Lube 300, but eventually raced?
... that three members of the Indian Parliament have been removed from office because of criminal convictions?
... that the first branch of the Boulder Public Library was built in 1906 with $15,000 donated by Andrew Carnegie?
... that the Karakoram Fault System in the Himalayas has slipped by hundreds of kilometers?

01:05, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the War Doctor (played by John Hurt, pictured), introduced in "The Night of the Doctor", will be a "dark doctor" who will "bring an ancient battle to its devastating conclusion"?
... that I. M. Pei's University Apartments were part of a government-subsidized urban renewal of Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois?
... that the illite crystallinity technique measures the formation temperature of metamorphic rocks?
... that David Abner was the only Republican to vote for a section of the Texas State Constitution prohibiting the expenditure of funds to encourage immigration?
... that the nests of Formica incerta are sometimes raided by the slave-making ant Polyergus lucidus?
... that banjoist Tim Weed "nailed" Larry McNeely's version of Benny Goodman's "Slipped Disc" in 30 minutes when he was in his teens?
... that the Everglades Club in Florida was designed to be a military hospital, but opened as a country club instead?

23 November 2013

17:20, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the shape of each of the Basse Yutz Flagons (detail pictured) was produced from a single sheet of copper alloy about 2,400 years ago?
... that video sharing site Veoh filed for bankruptcy after successfully defending itself against a lawsuit from Universal Music Group?
... that St John's Church, Lytham, has been described as being among the best works of E. H. Shellard?
... that the 2011 winner of the Lo Nuestro Award for Regional Mexican New Artist of the Year survived an ambush attempt that left his cousin and business manager dead?
... that Edward White printed or sold works by Kyd, Greene, Munday, Marlowe and Shakespeare?
... that medieval ruins were found beneath Prague's Palladium shopping mall?
... that Douglas Adams convinced John Cleese to appear in the Doctor Who serial City of Death after learning the comedian would be working in BBC Television Centre on the same day of filming?

09:35, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Vršovice Hus' House in Prague has a tower that is meant to look like a lighthouse (pictured)?
... that in 1982, financier and philanthropist Finn M. W. Caspersen drove the new and the former New Jersey Governor to an inauguration party in period costume in a four-horse carriage?
... that the Edward Hines, Jr., Veterans Administration Hospital was built on the grounds of a board track racing course?
... that the bark of the South African shrub blue guarri can be used as a purgative?
... that the Bródno Jewish Cemetery is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe?
... that Ed Carpenter Racing is the only team in the IndyCar Series to be owned by a driver?
... that of 143 gorillas studied by Magdalena Bermejo in October 2002, only 13 were still alive four months later?

01:50, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

... that before James Hargest (pictured) was elected to the New Zealand Parliament, he had been defeated by a father and son in 1925 and 1930, respectively?
... that no part of the current Wabash County Courthouse remains of its original construction, even though it is technically considered the same building?
... that David Dimbleby got his first tattoo aged 75, whilst filming Britain and the Sea?
... that erosion and tectonics are connected, in that high erosion over a wide area can effectively induce tectonic activity?
... that the Silver City Daily Press newspaper in Silver City, New Mexico, has been owned by the Ely family since 1934?
... that Ray Hatton, a college professor from Bend, Oregon, was inducted into the USA Track and Field Masters Hall of Fame in 2001?
... that Hammersmith-born blacksmith Tony Swatton made Wolverine's claws?

22 November 2013

18:05, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Benjamin Britten composed his Festival Te Deum for the centenary of St Mark's Church, Swindon (pictured)?
... that the Philippines is contesting the validity of China's nine-dotted line?
... that after 180 people died from drinking moonshine in 2008, the state of Tamil Nadu considered introducing prohibition?
... that some 200 pages of research were compiled for the TV series Ambassadors?
... that the recently-announced Lumia 2520 is Nokia's first Windows tablet computer?
... that after a two-year absence from the sport, Ruth Wanjiru achieved third place in the 2012 Ottawa Marathon?
... that the jiangshi film is a horror genre based on the hopping corpses of Chinese folklore?

10:20, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Miocene ant Acropyga glaesaria (pictured) is one of the oldest examples of trophobiosis?
... that Benjamin Britten's Te Deum in C, first performed at St Michael's, Cornhill, was among his earliest published works?
... that the Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo has one of the largest natural history collections in Latin America, with over 8.5 million preserved specimens?
... that author and film historian Gerald Mast asked that his obituary include his cause of death?
... that the 2008 NAPA Auto Parts 200 was the first NASCAR points race run with grooved rain tires?
... that following the 1952 Coorg Legislative Assembly election, the victorious C.M. Poonacha formed a two-member cabinet?
... that librarian Francis R. St. John was awarded the Legion of Merit for reorganizing the Army Medical Library?

00:00, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Irish botanical artist Lydia Shackleton, who painted over 1500 studies, helpfully taped the pressed flower or leaf to her work for comparison with the painted subject (example pictured)?
... that the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League went the longest without a regulation loss of all teams in the league in their 2013–14 season?
... that the wasp Ammophila urnaria uses a tool to help conceal its nest?
... that Strašnice Crematorium in Prague secretly disposed of thousands of bodies during the Nazi and Communist regimes?
... that Fred C. Cole supported efforts to desegregate Tulane University while he was an administrator?
... that the television drama series From There to Here begins on the day of the 1996 Manchester bombing?
... that Burchard Kranich allegedly cured Queen Elizabeth I of smallpox?

21 November 2013

16:00, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Spanish marquis and sherry maker Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez risked himself to persuade dictator Franco not to drain the Doñana wetlands (pictured)?
... that the black pine bark beetle is a pine pest that is attracted to a volatile of turpentine?
... that National Hockey League player Jamie Macoun overcame serious injuries suffered in a car accident then went on to win two Stanley Cup championships?
... that WWE wrestler and actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson guest-starred in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tsunkatse"?
... that The Catholic University of America beat Ole Miss in the 1936 Orange Bowl?
... that after firing an AK-47 in the Jordanian House of Representatives, Talal al-Sharif was expelled as a member?
... that a man was killed in the St Jude storm by flying tiles?

08:00, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the aggressively invasive Australian tubeworm (pictured) can be an ecosystem engineer and cause biological fouling?
... that Rutgers University's Queens Campus was built on a hilltop where Alexander Hamilton positioned cannons to cover George Washington's retreat after surrendering New York in 1776?
... that the Sports and Olympic Committee of Macau, China, despite applying for membership in the International Olympic Committee, is not yet recognized as Macau's National Olympic Committee?
... that after filmmaker Amar Kaleka's father was killed in the 2012 Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting, he decided to become a candidate for the United States Congress in the 2014 elections?
... that Sahara Hospital is the first in Uttar Pradesh to perform elbow transplants and endoscopic cervical plate placements?
... that when American tennis player Geoff Abrams was 11 years old, parents of some of his opponents insisted on seeing his birth certificate?
... that Gert Boyle is "one tough mother"?

00:00, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

... that three-time World Champion Robert Reichel (pictured) scored the lone shootout goal to eliminate Canada at the 1998 Olympics and help the Czech Republic win its first gold medal in ice hockey?
... that 47 terawatts of heat emerges from the interior of the Earth compared to 173,000 terawatts received from the sun?
... that in 1961 the Michigan State Highway Department and General Motors proposed using U.S. Highway 27 south of Lansing, Michigan, as the test site for an electronic highway?
... that Sierra Leone-born Thomas DeSaille Tucker was the first president of what would become Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University?
... that the League of West German Communists was the first West German left-wing group to dissolve itself and join the Party of Democratic Socialism?
... that Mia Frye was the choreographer for the dance routine in the music video for the Los del Río hit song "Macarena"?
... that when the Whopper was introduced in 1957, it sold for 37 cents?

20 November 2013

16:00, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

... that during the Japanese invasion of Taiwan in 1895, the ironclad Hiei (pictured) participated in the bombardment of the Chinese coastal forts at Takow (Kaohsiung)?
... that the East Antarctic Shield was joined to what is now the west coast of North America during the time of the Rodinia supercontinent?
... that the cause of the crash of Pan Am Flight 923, the deadliest commercial aviation accident in Alaska at the time, remains unknown?
... that Dennis Lillee was the first to take a five-wicket haul in Cricket World Cups?
... that in 2013, The Minories in Colchester held an art exhibition by Blur frontman Damon Albarn's father Keith?
... that a newly-mated female slave-making ant Polyergus mexicanus makes use of a raid to infiltrate the nest of another species of ant?
... that the 1907 film How Brown Saw the Baseball Game, about a very drunk man watching a baseball game, used trick photography to show players running in reverse?

08:10, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

... that John Ashley Kilvert (pictured) survived the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War, but the medals which Queen Victoria presented to him disappeared?
... that Argentine actress Katja Alemann attended the inauguration of the Cemento nightclub costumed as a Valkyrie?
... that Green Bay Packers rookie Datone Jones became the first defensive lineman from UCLA to be drafted in the first round since 1979?
... that Willi Mentz was the "Frankenstein" of Treblinka extermination camp, with the number of Jews he killed single-handedly running into thousands?
... that the Studio Killers' song "Ode to the Bouncer" follows somebody trying to dance but being prevented from doing so by a bouncer?
... that the 1957 Valencia flood caused the deaths of at least 81 people and led to the rerouting of the city's main river, the Turia?
... that many members of the Yaya infantry units of the Ottoman military, were of Christian origin?

00:00, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

... that there were 257 entrants in the competition in 1926 to design the Liverpool Cenotaph (pictured)?
... that baseball manager Danny Shay was acquitted of murder after shooting a man in an argument over some sugar?
... that Boydston's spleenwort, a hybrid fern, was created in culture in 1954 but not discovered in the wild until 1971?
... that Puerto-Rican American songwriter Luis Fonsi won the Lo Nuestro Award for Collaboration of the Year and the Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year for his song "Aquí Estoy Yo"?
... that Larisa Latynina is the Olympic medal leader in women's gymnastics?
... that Pat Hays decided to run for the United States House of Representatives due to the federal government shutdown of 2013, which he called a "travesty"?
... that a reviewer for DVD Verdict branded the safety film Last Clear Chance as "hyper somber"?

19 November 2013

16:00, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the opening celebrations for Skagen's port (pictured) on 19 November 1907 included an impressive gateway of honour by Carl Locher, one of the Skagen Painters?
... that four years before voters approved the creation of the post of Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey, the state had four acting governors in one week?
... that the first series of On the Buses, a British sitcom written by Chesney and Wolfe, was rejected by the BBC but accepted by London Weekend Television?
... that the Grape Berry Moth is considered one of the worst insect pests on grapevines in the Eastern North American bioregion?
... that South African rock supergroup BEAST has two bass guitarists?
... that Bharatiya Janata Party politician Michael Lobo opposed the opening of India's first Playboy Club in Goa because it was "tantamount to promoting prostitution"?
... that the proposed London Britannia Airport has been dubbed "Boris island" by the media?

08:00, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the walls of the Duladeo Temple (pictured) have a display of carved apsaras (celestial dancers) in erotic postures?
... that New Zealand rower Nathan Cohen, Olympic champion and two-time world champion, has an irregular heartbeat?
... that in the early days of the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, expenses were partly met by the sale of muskrat pelts?
... that the El Tigre Fault in Argentina has an east-facing scarp up to 85 m (279 ft) high?
... that former Atlanta Falcons linebacker Dewey McClain was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives?
... that the Young Communist League (Opposition) organized underground resistance activities in Nazi Germany?
... that Don Lerman once ate seven quarter-pound sticks of salted butter in five minutes?

00:00, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Michael Russell (pictured), America's third-highest-ranked tennis player, was a valedictorian in high school and had a 3.94 grade point average in college?
... that an 1866 guidebook called Horatio Nelson Goulty's Norfolk Hotel "more beautiful than any other building in Brighton"?
... that the constellation Tucana was the site of the Hubble Deep Field South in 1998?
... that although Jean de Ferrieres inherited immense riches, he died a prisoner in a galley, unable to pay his ransom?
... that the University of Wisconsin Experimental College was designed for students who volunteered to live in self-governance, an idea that "seemed almost laughable" at the time?
... that part of The Thirteenth Tale, an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Diane Setterfield, was filmed at Burton Agnes Hall, an Elizabethan manor in East Yorkshire?
... that Dena Epstein "shattered myths" by proving that the banjo came from slave music?

18 November 2013

16:00, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Maurzyce Bridge (pictured), built in 1928 near Łowicz in Poland, was the first welded road bridge in the world?
... that William Beach Thomas said he was "thoroughly and deeply ashamed" of his writings as a war correspondent during The Somme?
... that according to the book Double Down, Barack Obama's advisers considered replacing Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton as their nominee for Vice President in the 2012 U.S. presidential election?
... that the Hus' House, a Hussite Church, became a Czech resistance radio station during the Prague Uprising?
... that although the BJP is reported to have found Naresh Gaur, its representative in Delhi from Babarpur, a "weaker bet" for the upcoming 2013 elections, it has confirmed his candidacy?
... that The Messiah has threatened to "bring down key infrastructure in Singapore"?

08:00, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Henry Clay Frick House (pictured) on New York City's Fifth Avenue was the model for the Avengers Mansion?
... that the shamrock pea was first described from Nepal but was first collected in Malawi during Dr. Livingstone's Zambezi expedition?
... that George Bernard Shaw premiered six of his plays at the Festival Theatre, Malvern?
... that Green Bay Packers receiver Jarrett Boykin holds the record for most career receptions for the Virginia Tech Hokies?
... that the President of India dissolved the PEPSU Legislative Assembly in 1953?
... that blanket chests, chests of drawers, and cupboards made in the Schwaben Creek valley in the early 1800s have been called "the most exuberant and unique paint-decorated furniture"?
... that The Six Wives of Henry VIII inspired Lecia Cornwall to write historical novels?

00:00, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Caroline Hobbs won a Special Award at the 2003 Pride of Britain Awards for getting Jade's Crossing (pictured), named after her daughter, built?
... that The Land of Sunshine was the only magazine that Theodore Roosevelt "took time to read" during his Presidency?
... that the Biosphere Reserves of Poland include the last and largest remaining mixed deciduous primeval forest on the North European Plain?
... that the CGR 1st Class 2-6-0 1891 steam locomotives were the first American locomotives to enter service in South Africa?
... that the English mental health anti-stigma campaign, Time to Change, is supported by companies and organisations such as PepsiCo, British Telecom, and the Bank of England?
... that the new stadium of the Atlanta Braves baseball club is projected to cost US$672 million?
... that Cyclone Sose caused a rare verified case of death by coconut in the island nation of Vanuatu during early April 2001?

17 November 2013

16:00, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

... that World War II aviators used the towers of St. Mary's Catholic Church (pictured) as a navigational landmark?
... that Bernhard Schottländer, the editor of the Schlesische Arbeiter-Zeitung, was killed during the 1920 Kapp Putsch?
... that the Pakistan national women's cricket team have won nine Twenty20 International matches against Ireland?
... that Welsh psychic Jillian Lane had a client list which included Michael Jackson?
... that in Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, Ken Auletta uses the story The Purloined Letter to describe the attitude of the traditional media executives toward Google?
... that Elizabeth Timothy was the first female publisher of a newspaper in America?
... that college dropout and impostor Leander Tomarkin became the personal physician of the King of Italy?

08:00, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the invasive destructive trailing ant (pictured) can chew through rubber and plastic, and has damaged car tires and ignition systems?
... that when the Union Pacific Railroad re-launched its streamlined City of Denver passenger train in 1954, it included a pair of Pacific series sleeping cars?
... that the only known surviving footage from the 1915 film The Carpet from Bagdad was salvaged from the wreck of the RMS Lusitania?
... that John Hanson Twombly advocated for co-education during his 1870s presidency at the University of Wisconsin?
... that The Greening of Detroit has planted over 81,000 trees in the Michigan city since the organization's inception in 1989?
... that Isra al-Modallal is the first female spokesperson for Hamas?
... that Kami, Perempuan, a 1943 stage play by Armijn Pane, has been read as both promoting and warning against PETA?

00:00, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the World Trade Center in Portland, Oregon (pictured), was evacuated in 2001 due to the September 11 attacks?
... that Alma Jodorowsky often performs with Burning Peacocks?
... that at the Central Bandstand, Herne Bay, England, designed by H. Kempton Dyson, conductors used to make their entrance from their hotel and cross the road over a red carpet?
... that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Strata-Domes were the first dome cars to operate in the Eastern United States?
... that Beholder was the first filly to win both the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and then the Breeders' Cup Distaff?
... that in 1972, Charlie Chaplin received an Honorary Academy Award for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century"?
... that the fungus Bruceomyces castoris was discovered in beaver teeth scars on trees?

16 November 2013

16:00, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Nelson Monument (pictured) was the first piece of public sculpture in Liverpool?
... that Gerard Fowke spent much of his life studying ancient burial mounds, trying to prove the existence of a civilization that predated what we currently understand to be the Native Americans?
... that the Kharijite uprising that began in the Jazira in 866, would last for 30 years before being suppressed by the Abbasid government?
... that Ellen van Dijk fired the starting shot for the 2013 Six Days of Amsterdam, an annual six-day track cycling race?
... that the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, is the oldest continuously existing scientific institution in South Africa?
... that Swedish singer Regina Lund had a part in Once in a Lifetime, a comedy film about the Eurovision Song Contest?
... that you can remotely control animals by inserting wires into their brains?

08:00, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Wabash Railroad's Blue Bird (pictured), introduced in 1950, was the first dome passenger train on the Chicago–St. Louis route?
... that Singaporean politician Patrick Tay has been the namesake of a chess competition, given a star, and conferred a fellowship?
... that although Lady Gaga tweeted that Adam Lambert was "perfect" to cover her song "Applause" in his Glee debut episode "A Katy or a Gaga" "cause he's glammer", what he sang was "Marry the Night"?
... that the Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare is commemorated by the United Nations every April 29?
... that Xinjiangtitan is a 32 metre sauropod dinosaur from Xinjiang in China?
... that American professional wrestler Romeo Valentino was the first and only Triple Crown Winner of Maryland Championship Wrestling and the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation?
... that after an atomic element has been isolated, it gets a trivial name?

00:00, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

... that many paintings inside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church (pictured) in Dayton, Ohio, were intentionally painted over?
... that Cliff Alexander did not play organized basketball until eighth grade because his neighborhood was unsafe?
... that the 13 Ramsar sites of Poland help with the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands?
... that Giovanni Battista Agnello was the first to declare that the ore brought back from Baffin Island by Martin Frobisher in 1576 was gold-bearing?
... that the leaves of Luzula sylvatica are used by Golden Eagles to line their eyries in the winter?
... that the Rockford IceHogs ice hockey team allowed 100 shots against themselves in the first two games of their 2013–14 season?

15 November 2013

16:00, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Sarpa salpa (pictured) is a hallucinogenic fish that was used as a recreational drug during the Roman Empire?
... that in 1964, art dealer Eric Estorick recovered 1,564 Jewish Torah scrolls which had been confiscated by the Nazi authorities following the genocide of the Czechoslovak Jews?
... that Bill Bailey's hosting of Comic's Choice was described by The Independent as being the show's "saving grace"?
... that George Sellery publicly denounced the University of Wisconsin Experimental College to protect College of Letters and Science faculty?
... that the Abbotsford Heat, the Calgary Flames' minor league hockey team, tied a franchise record with seven consecutive wins in their 2013–14 season?
... that the Melbourne University tram stop, one of the busiest on the Melbourne tram network, is the terminus for seven tram routes?
... that Yankel Talmud, known as "the Beethoven of the Gerrer Rebbes", composed over 1,500 melodies, though he had no musical training and could not even read music?

08:00, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

... that singer Elisa Lindström (pictured) and her dansband Elisa's won the reality show Dansbandskampen in 2010?
... that students from Naledi, Morris Isaacson, and Moletsane High Schools were involved in the 1976 Soweto Uprising when children were shot by South African police?
... that Bakin Pertin was the first Lok Sabha member elected from Arunachal East?
... that Lower Little Swatara Creek was the subject of one of the first public TMDL meetings in Pennsylvania?
... that Kevin Briggs has been called the Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge after talking over 200 people out of jumping into the Golden Gate?
... that the ruffled form of the brown seaweed Lobophora variegata may be attached to the seabed or may roll about in loose masses?
... that Robert J. Behnke, a world-renowned wild trout biologist and conservationist, was known as "Dr. Trout"?

00:00, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Armenian writer Parsegh Shahbaz (pictured), who was murdered during the Armenian Genocide, once said, "How idiotic people are! What is war, what is the state, what is revolution?"
... that theoretical physicist Michio Kaku was the inaugural guest on the Sirius XM Radio talk show Art Bell's Dark Matter?
... that Miriam Roth grew up in a Hungarian-speaking town, studied at a German-speaking university, and wrote best-sellers in Hebrew?
... that in the 35th year of her career, blues singer Julia Gerity lost much of her performance materials, including gowns and music, in a 1947 fire at Coney Island?
... that the Indian revolutionary M.N. Roy wrote under a pseudonym for the German newspaper Das Volksrecht?
... that sanskritist George V. Bobrinskoy was also tennis champion of the Quadrangle Club at the University of Chicago?
... that the king of gore and the monstrous murderer lived in Utah 80 and 75 million years ago respectively?

14 November 2013

16:00, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

... that caterpillars of the Cape lappet moth (pictured) are described as "gregarious" because they clump together in great numbers for unknown reasons?
... that Leonhard Euler wrote 234 letters between 1760 and 1762 to Friederike Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt?
... that Sahoyúé-§ehdacho is the largest National Historic Site of Canada at almost the size of the province of Prince Edward Island?
... that Anil Goswami is the first civil servant from Jammu and Kashmir to be appointed Home Secretary of India?
... that after a lease dispute during their 2013–14 season the Houston Aeros ice hockey team moved to Des Moines and became the Iowa Wild?
... that André Diot designed the lighting for the Jahrhundertring in Bayreuth in 1976, for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics, and for Così fan tutte at the Paris Opera in 2013?
... that the Art Nouveau Šaloun's Villa was created to allow its owner to construct a memorial to a Czech heretic burnt in 1415?

08:00, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Chen Liting's film Women Side by Side (poster pictured), now recognized as a classic, was denounced as a "huge poisonous weed" during the Cultural Revolution?
... that minor league baseball shortstop Nolan Fontana is the grandson of former Major League Baseball All-Star Lew Burdette?
... that the early dinosaur-like animal Lagerpeton was only 70 cm (28 in) long?
... that the events leading to the Winkler County nurse whistleblower case occurred at a 15-bed hospital in Kermit, Texas?
... that former students of Benjie E. Wimberly helped him capitalize on the youth vote to get into politics?
... that there are museums in Kiev on the subjects of the Great Patriotic War, Chernobyl, and aviation?
... that after The Execution of Gary Glitter, a 2009 mockumentary showing Gary Glitter being hanged, the subject's complaint to Ofcom was turned down?

00:00, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Elmer Flick (pictured) made his own baseball bat with his father's lathe?
... that intense elephant hunting in Chad has reduced the elephant population by an estimated 85 percent over the past 30 years?
... that Tony Basgallop's first whodunit television series is What Remains?
... that Yodle went from "not going well" to making $132.2 million in a year?
... that Ivar Knudsen led the development of the MS Selandia the biggest and most advanced diesel powered vessel of its time?
... that Shelter is a video game where the player controls a badger who must protect her cubs while they find a new home?
... that Angelo Ciccone lapped the entire field, but didn't win a point in the Men's Madison at the 2008 Summer Olympics?

13 November 2013

16:00, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Larabanga Mosque (pictured) is one of the eight ancient mosques in Ghana, and is considered the "Mecca of West Africa"?
... that Florence Fuller became a professional artist while still a teenager, and lived in South Africa, Australia, England, France, and India?
... that Alexander Siddig was the first choice to play Commander Benjamin Sisko, but was later cast in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Dr. Julian Bashir instead?
... that John Saylor Coon, the first Mechanical Engineering Professor at Georgia Tech, made the first dynamo electric machine built in the United States when he was a student at Cornell University?
... that the Isle of Man Pure Beer Act meant that from 1874 to 1999 it was illegal to use anything other than water, malt, sugar, and hops for brewing beer?
... that American band Aventura won the first Lo Nuestro and Billboard Latin Music awards for Artist of the Year in the same year?
... that former wrestler Ramjit Raghav fathered his first child at age 94?

08:00, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Confederate captain Christian Streit White (pictured) later served as a county court clerk and president of the West Virginia Fish Commission?
... that the Knack's song "(She's So) Selfish" was prevented from being the follow-up single to "My Sharona" and "Good Girls Don't" because the band refused to edit out the dirty lyrics?
... that William Carr Smith, the Christian Socialist rector of St James' Church, Sydney, challenged the Diocese by introducing Anglo-Catholic practices?
... that synergistic catalysis works by activating both reacting substrates simultaneously?
... that Robert Soutar was a cast member in the original production of Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and his son Farren starred in Edwardian musical comedies in London and on Broadway?
... that the American Car and Foundry Company's Astra Dome dome cars included the only dome dining cars ever operated by a railroad in the United States?
... that Monopoly and Altair, horses of Canadian equestrian athlete Beth Underhill, received fan mail?

00:00, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

... that racing driver Mason Mingus (2013 car pictured) was a three-sport athlete in high school?
... that Grand Tower Island is located on the "wrong" side of the Mississippi River?
... that Jacques Schmidt designed costumes for the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring and for Prokofiev's War and Peace, where 650 "historically appropriate costumes" were needed?
... that the attorney who owned the M.E. Blanton House in Aloha, Oregon, lost an appeal over a road project that removed part of the house's yard?
... that the young Willy Brandt wrote for Sozialistische Arbeiter-Zeitung?
... that Geoff Unwin demonstrated how to play the Mellotron, a tape-based sampling keyboard, on the children's television show Blue Peter?
... that Max Factor helped to design the beauty micrometer, a "Clockwork Orange style device" used to detect tiny imperfections on women's faces?

12 November 2013

16:00, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

... that even the originator of the term thought that "Boredom is a requisite of the Roman Counter-Maniera style" in painting (example illustrated)?
... that Alexander Stewart Herschel helped identify the connection between comets and meteor showers?
... that Giorgio Moroder won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score in the 1984 ceremony for Flashdance instead of Scarface, for which he was also nominated?
... that in April 1968, Nell Truman and her sister Christine became the first winners of an open tennis event by winning the women's doubles title at the British Hard Court Championships?
... that Güstrow Castle contains a museum related to the male line of Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg's family?
... that Marilinda Garcia was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives when she was 23 years old?
... that pedestrians walking along Malet Street in London hear the sound of a stick hitting an iron railing ... though there's no railing in sight?

08:00, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Shenyang Chairman Mao statue (pictured) is one of the largest remaining Cultural Revolution-era monuments in China?
... that archer Thomas Scott holds the distinction of being the oldest person to compete in an archery event at the Summer Olympics?
... that advertisements emphasised the simplicity of Wu Tsun's 1941 film Ajah Berdosa?
... that in a recent academic study, Who's Afraid of Peer Review?, a fake manuscript sent to open-access publishers was accepted by 157 and rejected by 98?
... that the bird-dropping spider mimics excrement on a leaf?
... that the Plaga Zombie film series is the first and only zombie horror film trilogy to come out of Latin America?
... that Mucho Macho Man, winner of the 2013 Breeders' Cup Classic, was named after the Village People song "Macho Man"?

00:00, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

... that anatomist Hermann Stieve (pictured), the youngest physician ever appointed the head of a German medical faculty, liked to give lectures in an academic robe?
... that U2's autobiography U2 by U2 was inspired by The Beatles Anthology?
... that Kamala Khan, also known as Ms. Marvel, is the first Muslim character to headline a comic book at Marvel Comics?
... that after switching its affiliation from the Vancouver Canucks to the St. Louis Blues, the Chicago Wolves rehired their previous long-time coach John Anderson in their 2013–14 season?
... that Armenian writer Levon Larents, who was among the Armenian leaders deported during the Armenian Genocide, was ultimately killed?
... that the BBC Two documentary Iceland Foods: Life in The Freezer Cabinet, about the Iceland supermarket chain, includes the chain's reaction to the 2013 meat adulteration scandal?
... that Spencer Cox, the new Lieutenant Governor of Utah, plays bass guitar in a garage band?

11 November 2013

16:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

... that at the age of 23, Helge André Njåstad (pictured) became Norway's youngest mayor?
... that Sidney Riesenberg's Over the Top for You was featured at an exhibit of World War I posters at the Smithsonian American Art Museum?
... that T.S. Eliot's 1928 poem "A Song for Simeon" includes passages from the Nunc dimittis prayer with allusions to the writings of Lancelot Andrewes, Dante, and John of the Cross?
... that Ernye Ákos saved the life of Hungarian king Béla IV by handing over his horse after the disastrous Battle of Mohi in 1241?
... that Catalaphyllia jardinei, known commonly as elegance coral, can reproduce either sexually or asexually?
... that harassment against the Association of Iranian Journalists by the administration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad culminated in the closure of the organization in August 2009?
... that New Jersey Assemblywoman-elect Maria Rodriguez-Gregg plays for a local roller derby team?

08:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Hong Kong's Law Uk (pictured) is the sole surviving village house and the last example of traditional Hakka housing in Chai Wan, a former Hakka village?
... that Orel Hershiser's scoreless inning streak spanned a Major League Baseball record 59 consecutive innings in 1988, but was not ended until the following season?
... that Roesia si Pengkor was the first film by The Teng Chun targeted at native Indonesians?
... that the signature sound of Naim Audio amplification is described by the acronym "PRaT"?
... that Kathy Ritvo, the first woman race horse trainer to win the Breeders' Cup Classic, is also the recipient of a heart transplant?
... that in 1951 the Revolutionary Socialist Party expelled its entire Uttar Pradesh branch?
... that part of the feeding ritual for larvae of the wasp Polistes carnifex involves an adult drumming with its antennae?

00:15, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Arts and Crafts Trmal's Villa (pictured) in Prague was designed by "the founder of modern Czech architecture"?
... that 2013–14 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team recruit Zena Edosomwan is the first Harvard basketball recruit rated among the top 100 players in the country by Scout.com?
... that Polish-Jewish publisher Samuel Orgelbrand financed the printing of his Universal Encyclopedia, the first modern Polish encyclopedia, with proceeds from sales of the Babylonian Talmud?
... that "Tom Ford", the second single from Jay-Z's twelfth studio album Magna Carta Holy Grail, is an ode to fashion designer Tom Ford?
... that Susan Gerbi worked with Joseph Gall to develop in situ hybridization for her Ph.D. research?
... that the 2013 Anglo-French crime drama The Tunnel, based on the Scandinavian series The Bridge, is billed as the first bilingual series in British and French television?
... that when the Maine State Legislature came to inspect Eastern Maine Medical Center in 1897, patients were told to "smile, look comfortable, and not require bedpans"?

10 November 2013

16:30, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Royal Calcutta Turf Club (old stands pictured) was the main horse racing authority in the British Raj?
... that Lutheran pastor Karl Friedrich Stellbrink was one of the Lübeck martyrs guillotined on 10 November 1943 for opposing the Nazi regime?
... that in 1953 the Louisville and Nashville Railroad upgraded its Pan-American passenger train with Pine-series sleeping cars?
... that the architect Edward Habershon was involved in the 1862 relocation of London's burial grounds, moving more than one thousand hundredweight of human remains?
... that the Japanese TV series National Kid was more popular in Brazil than in its home country?
... that Kjell Moe and Reidar Olsen, the two oldest footballers to make their debut for the Norwegian national team, made their debut in the same match?
... that since the Maryland State House is not rentable, producers of season 2 of House of Cards made various donations in order to use the building for filming?

08:45, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Poncan Theatre (pictured) was closed for about ten years after it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that the 28 October 2013 attack in Tiananmen Square is described as the first terror attack in Beijing in recent history?
... that Australian cricketer Richie Benaud took ten of his five-wicket hauls against India and South Africa?
... that "Berzerk", produced by Rick Rubin, and "Survival", which appears in Call of Duty: Ghosts, are both songs from Eminem's eighth studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2?
... that the emerald crab can be used to control bubble algae in reef aquaria?
... that Singaporean politician Penny Low, a Member of Parliament for the Pasir Ris-Punggol Group Representation Constituency, used to work at the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation?
... that Moravian missionaries reached the remote village of Krausirpi in 1967?

01:00, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

... that during the 1950s, communist propaganda for the war against the potato beetle depicted red and white striped bugs (potato beetle pictured) dropped by "US imperialists" marching across East Germany?
... that while he was Assay Master at the Royal Mint in 1568, William Humfrey was accused of robbing the Mint?
... that kit houses manufactured in Michigan were so popular that by 1918, houses from one Bay City company accounted for 2.4% of all housing starts in the United States?
... that after winning the Calder Cup last year, several hockey players from the Grand Rapids Griffins were called up to the Detroit Red Wings in their 2013–14 season?
... that Garry Medeiros, writer-director of The Terror Factor, was forced to become the film's main protagonist when its original star abruptly left the project?
... that the rents from the dilapidated houses of Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel had helped to maintain the equestrian painter Charles Cooper Henderson?
... that Canada's supply management policy for dairy, eggs and poultry limits yogurt imports to one teaspoon per Canadian per year?

9 November 2013

17:15, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

... that a photograph (pictured) taken by Elena Mrozovskaya at the 1903 Ball in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was exhibited in the Hermitage Rooms in London 100 years later?
... that Ségolène Royal became the first woman nominee of a major party for President of France after she won the French Socialist Party presidential primary of 2006?
... that college basketball players Zak Irvin and Derrick Walton, who are true freshmen for the 2013–14 Michigan Wolverines, were Boys Basketball Gatorade Players of the Year for Indiana and Michigan, respectively?
... that the starfish Asterina gibbosa cements its egg cluster to a rock while Asterina phylactica broods its young?
... that in 1948, the socialist leader Nanasaheb Purohit organized a people's army to capture the Janjira state and proclaimed himself Prime Minister?
... that Inside Claridge's was shortlisted for the Grierson 2013: British Documentary Awards?
... that according to some politicians, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, which resolved the 2013 U.S. government shutdown and debt-ceiling crisis, is just "kicking the can down the road"?

09:30, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Dan Cohen (pictured) lost the 1969 Minneapolis mayoral election despite holding endorsements from the DFL, the Republican Party, and President Richard Nixon?
... that a fort is being excavated in Unnao, India, for a possible 1000 tons of gold treasure?
... that drug lord Homero Cárdenas Guillén is believed to be the new leader of Mexico's Gulf Cartel?
... that the Illinois Central Railroad's Green Diamond debuted in 1936 with IC 121, the last new fixed-consist articulated streamliner built in the United States in the 1930s?
... that American frontier doctor Charles Boarman Harris delivered over 3,000 babies in Pembina County, North Dakota, during his 60-year medical career?
... that Armenian writer Jak Sayabalyan was murdered and his remains are yet to be found?
... that the wasp Cystomastacoides kiddo was named after Beatrix Kiddo from the film Kill Bill?

8 November 2013

23:45, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Doug Stone (pictured) was the only artist that Epic Records' Bob Montgomery signed without seeing a live performance first?
... that 703 cloud seeding missions took place in Fujian Province to increase rainfall following Tropical Storm Morakot?
... that the American colonial newspaper publisher John Holt has been labeled by a modern day historian "the most important Radical printer outside Boston" during the American Revolution?
... that Bharatiya Janata Party politician Neena Verma won the 2008 Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly election from Dhar by a margin of only one vote?
... that only two U.S. states, New Jersey and California, have laws criminalizing revenge porn?
... that the British film Stalled, about a man trapped in a woman's bathroom being attacked by zombies, has screened at Korean and Swedish film festivals?
... that the technique of darkening oak by ammonia fuming was discovered accidentally when boards stored in a stable were darkened by fumes from horse urine?

15:30, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

... that in the few years after the formation of the exclusively female Sacred Twenty (pictured), military nursing tasks during World War I were still often done by untrained men?
... that Wilfred Byng Kenrick, who served Birmingham as chair of the education committee and mayor from 1922 to 1943, donated The Feast of Peleus by Edward Burne-Jones to the museum?
... that New Guinea crocodiles are agile enough to catch bats, flying birds and leaping fish?
... that Kasim Pasha allegedly resigned from the position of Rumelian beglerbey?
... that no women were elected in the 1978 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election?
... that Adam Render, a German-American hunter, found the ruins of Great Zimbabwe by accident in 1867?
... that the star of Miss Riboet's Orion ultimately never entered the film industry as she was not photogenic?

06:05, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

... that manhua artist Ye Qianyu (work pictured) was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution and then worked as a janitor?
... that Tadeusz Iwiński called Philippines–Poland relations a relationship "that was broken by mistake"?
... that Green Bay Packers safety M. D. Jennings was involved in the controversial ending of the 2012 Green Bay Packers–Seattle Seahawks game?
... that Callender's Cableworks Band was a prolific broadcaster in the early years of BBC Radio?
... that Nyari Welly was the first woman elected to the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly?
... that the venomous spider Hadronyche macquariensis was only described in 2010?
... that a "great ruby stone" that Christopher Schutz wished to present to Queen Elizabeth I was never seen again after it came into the hands of Martin Frobisher?

7 November 2013

21:50, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the centenary of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (pictured) on 7 November 2013 is being commemorated worldwide?
... that Harry Elmer Barnes called Summerhill, a book about the eponymous school, one of the most exciting and challenging books in the field of education since Rousseau's Émile?
... that award-winning production designer Eve Stewart described her experience as art director on Mike Leigh's Naked as "a bit of a shock"?
... that the River Nevis in Scotland has been described as a "maelstrom of water"?
... that the founders of gun-control organization Americans for Responsible Solutions, Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly, are gun owners?
... that Csák I Hahót built the castle of Čakovec, Croatia, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary?
... that Patrice Chéreau, the stage director of the centenary Ring Cycle in Bayreuth, directed the film Intimacy, which "sparked a debate about unsimulated sex on screen"?

13:35, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the new species of frog Pristimantis jamescameroni (pictured) from Venezuela was named after the film-maker James Cameron?
... that Imtiaz Ali Taj was a 20th-century Urdu dramatist who wrote Anarkali, the romance behind the 1960 Indian feature film Mughal-e-Azam?
... that the campaigns of Attarsiya represent the earliest recorded Mycenaean Greek military involvement on the Anatolian mainland?
... that Pakistani woman Test cricketer Kiran Baluch's score of 242 runs in an innings is the highest in Women's Test cricket?
... that John Davis Pierce was the United States' first state superintendent of public schools?
... that Indian National Congress politician Balmukund Goutam lost in the 2008 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Dhar by a margin of only one vote?

05:20, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

... that a French team created the Jahrhundertring (scene pictured) of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the centenary Bayreuth Festival in 1976, causing "a near-riot"?
... that Sir Bevis Bulmer presented Queen Elizabeth I with a porringer of pure gold?
... that the Dr. Robert Hohf House near Kenilworth, Illinois, features an experimental solar cooling system on the roof?
... that although Kosta Manojlović was instrumental in the establishment of the Belgrade Music Academy, serving as its first rector, he was forced to retire from it for political reasons?
... that Madonna influenced Michael Torke's composition of Vanada, a work initially dismissed as "dangerously close to the corruption that's happening to all American music"?
... that war correspondent John Black Atkins described Winston Churchill as "slim, slightly reddish-haired, pale, lively, frequently plunging along the deck"?
... that the City of Tigard in Oregon started a public library, but didn't fund it?

6 November 2013

17:15, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the Flying Merkel (pictured) was painted in bright orange?
... that Walter Burton Harris, correspondent for The Times in Morocco, travelled to off-limits parts of the country by disguising himself as "the complete fanatical-looking type"?
... that some desert elephants in Mali were fitted with GPS collars so as to identify their traditional migratory routes?
... that Haig Tiriakian said that there were "sacks full of bombs on our shoulders and guns in our hands" when he and others raided and seized the national bank of Turkey?
... that two leads of the upcoming Bengali film Ashchorjyo Prodeep sing a song inspired by musicals like Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady?
... that although the painter John Gendall curated the art collection for Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum, he never saw it displayed?
... that a major event in the history of Chincoteague, Virginia, was the 1947 publication of a children's book about a local horse?

09:30, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Cuvier's dwarf caiman (pictured) is collected from the wild for the pet trade?
... that former New Zealand MP Jonathan Hunt is credited with the idea of integrating private schools into the state system?
... that Chen Liting's 1931 play Put Down Your Whip inspired Xu Beihong's 1939 painting that broke the Chinese auction price record in 2007?
... that in quarterback Tony Robinson's only appearance in the NFL, he led the Washington Redskins to a victory that has been called one of the greatest upsets in league history?
... that Polish settlement in the Philippines has been recorded as early as the seventeenth century?
... that in the 1895 play Trilby, the role of Svengali was created by American actor Wilton Lackaye?
... that Jeffrey Trammell married Stuart Serkin at the United States Supreme Court building, in a ceremony presided over by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor?

00:00, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Promontory Apartments (pictured) in Chicago, Illinois, after Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Walter Gropius all rejected offers to design it?
... that the screenwriter for the 1940 film Earthbound proposed including a pair of lovers wearing gas masks?
... that in 1949, copies of France Dimanche were seized in France because they were carrying pictures of Princess Margaret and her entourage, which were deemed to be an insult?
... that Eknath Ranade published the book Rousing Call to Hindu Nation in 1963, the centenary year of the birth of Swami Vivekananda?
... that Carol Comeau was inaugurated into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2009?
... that 22 countries in Europe use the Euro, including several that are not part of the European Union?
... that the Dedham Public Schools had the first public school in the United States to be exclusively supported by taxes?

5 November 2013

16:00, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Berek Lajcher (pictured) chose a hot summer day to launch a prisoner revolt at the Treblinka death camp while German and Ukrainian guards went swimming in the nearby Bug River?
... that after the death of the first Abbasid caliph, al-Saffah, his uncle Abdallah ibn Ali led a revolt and tried to claim the throne from al-Saffah's brother, al-Mansur?
... that the five-star InterContinental Geneva, near the UN European headquarters, was the site of a 1985 summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev?
... that Y. Radhakrishnamurthy filed his nomination for the 1977 parliamentary election in India whilst being jailed?
... that actor Vic Morrow died in the Twilight Zone tragedy, a helicopter crash during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie?
... that college baseball player Nick Burdi can throw a 100-mile-per-hour (160 km/h) fastball?
... that Henry VIII of England always had other men dress and undress him, and they thought this was an honour?

08:00, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

... that artist Situ Qiao was imprisoned and deported by the U.S. government for trying to sell his own paintings (example pictured)?
... that Australian cricketer David Boon scored eight of his international cricket centuries against India?
... that circuit rider Harry Hosier was the first African American to preach to a white congregation in the United States?
... that the recently revealed Lockheed Martin SR-72, the successor to the SR-71, is designed to fly at six times the speed of sound?
... that Rama Ravi is an Indian Carnatic vocalist who has also learned the Bharata Natyam Indian dance form and plays two musical instruments, the veena and the mridangam?
... that impressionist painter Harry Fidler, who was born into farming, became known for painting farm horses?
... that the jail attached to the Benzie County Courthouse was nicknamed "The County Root Cellar"?

00:10, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

... that despite having the common name pepper saxifrage, Silaum silaus (pictured) is neither a saxifrage nor tastes of pepper?
... that President J. R. E. Lee was able to secure higher salaries for teachers and administrators at Florida A&M University despite Governor Cone's statement that "no Negro was worth $4000 a year"?
... that followers of the Communist Party of the Argentine Region would describe followers of the official Communist Party as "radishes"?
... that the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's new Ozark State Zephyr streamliner was christened by Mollie Stark, the daughter of then-Missouri Governor-elect Lloyd C. Stark?
... that in 1310, the pirate John Crabbe seized a ship carrying jewels, gold, silver, and other goods worth £2000 belonging to Alice of Hainault?
... that Myer Feldman exchanged memos written in rhyming couplets with Ted Sorensen while the two men were serving together in the Kennedy administration?
... that when Ottoman commander from Ohrid Hamza Pasha attacked Skanderbeg's rebels in Modrič in 1452, he was defeated and captured by his namesake, Hamza Kastrioti?

4 November 2013

16:25, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

... that The Vulcan (pictured), a historic public house in Cardiff, Wales, was completely dismantled in 2012 and is planned to be rebuilt at the National History Museum?
... that Swami Vivekananda is credited with raising interfaith awareness and bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century?
... that the song "Ermutigung" by Wolf Biermann, encouraging people not to become hardened in hard times, was written for Peter Huchel, then under house arrest?
... that Alan Kirby won the FAI Cup four times?
... that a scene with a topless woman was added into the British film The Projected Man to increase sales overseas?
... that Air Centrafrique was conceived to provide feeder services to Air Afrique?
... that film composer Leo Erdody's potentially noble ancestry led to him occasionally billing himself as simply "Erdody"?

08:40, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Marine Gate (pictured) was the most bombed building in Brighton during World War II, but only one resident—a Hollywood child star—died?
... that footballer Petr Vrabec won six Czechoslovak league titles with Sparta Prague?
... that when Jonathan Kaufer directed Soup for One, he became the youngest director at the time to be hired by a major studio?
... that Zingiber spectabile is often known as the beehive ginger, due to its inflorescences which resemble beehives?
... that the Dharma Wiratama Museum is located in the first headquarters of the Indonesian Army?
... that Green Bay Packers rookie Nate Palmer was a high school teammate to Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose?
... that a young Mao Zedong lived at the home of Wang Renmei‎, who grew up to become a movie star nicknamed the "Wildcat of Shanghai"?

00:00, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Composite Squadron 6 of the United States Navy deployed two North American AJ Savage (pictured) bombers to K-3 Air Base in Korea in July 1953 to act as a nuclear deterrent?
... that Ticasuk Brown was the first Native American to have a school named after her in Fairbanks, Alaska?
... that British physiologist Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald attended Oxford before women were granted degrees and 75 years later received an honorary master's when she was 100 years old?
... that Green Bay Packers rookie Josh Boyd was selected to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl while in high school?
... that K. A. P. Viswanatham was the first secretary of India's Justice Party?
... that Nora Lilian Alcock was the Scottish government's first plant pathologist?
... that the new species of fly Campsicnemus popeye was named after the cartoon character Popeye due to its swollen arms?

3 November 2013

16:00, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Dale Boone, who holds 24 world records for eating, claims to be related to Daniel Boone (pictured)?
... that there were only eight CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1903s ever produced?
... that Henry Caldwell Cook's 1917 claim that children learned better from playing and doing than reading and listening was debated for a generation?
... that patients of the overcrowded Huronia Regional Centre were subjected to years of "despairing conditions", and in some cases, abuse?
... that Fredrik Magnus Piper introduced the English landscape garden to Sweden?
... that jockey Greville Starkey made a two-fingered gesture to rival Pat Eddery when To-Agori-Mou won the 1981 St. James's Palace Stakes?
... that according to a U.S. Federal court opinion, a MySpace friend list could constitute a trade secret?

08:00, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

... that when Queen Elizabeth II visited Melbourne in 2011, she rode a specially decorated tram (pictured) driven by a Brunswick tram depot driver?
... that Jamie Stewart's voice has been compared to Robert Smith's fragility and The Downward Spiral-era Trent Reznor's anger?
... that the original owners of Air Brousse were distributors for Aero Commander, Hughes, and Piper aircraft in the Congo?
... that Walter Eugene Clark translated the Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata with critical notes in 1930?
... that the white dwarf star GD 61 was once likely orbited by a rocky planet or asteroid with water?
... that Singaporean politician Ang Hin Kee, an advisor for the National Taxi Association, once worked for the Singapore Badminton Association and the Singapore Police Headquarters?
... that the Utica Zoo is home to the world's largest watering can?

00:00, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

... that ESPN.com ranked the decision by Mayo Smith (pictured) to move Mickey Stanley to shortstop for the 1968 World Series as the third "gutsiest call" in sports history?
... that the fortress-like 17th-century Tower of Kurt Pasha in Vratsa, Bulgaria, now hosts a souvenir shop?
... that in The Contractor, Danny Trejo plays a contractor out to avenge his dead son?
... that Harvey J. Graff declared Carl Kaestle "one of the leading practitioners of American educational history"?
... that Alatskivi Castle in Alatskivi, Estonia was designed to be a smaller version of Balmoral Castle?
... that among the thousands of students raised by Rabbi Yaakov Ades, rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem, was Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, future Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel?
... that the new genus of frog Mercurana was named after the late British rock singer Freddie Mercury?

2 November 2013

16:00, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

... that Ffordd Pen Llech (pictured) in the Snowdonia National Park is the steepest signed road in the United Kingdom?
... that the song "Volví a Nacer" by Carlos Vives reached number one in Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States?
... that after 82 years of silence, the mother of journalist Ahmet Abakay revealed her Armenian identity just weeks before she died?
... that the Nokia Lumia 1520's 6-inch (15 cm) display made it the largest Windows Phone at the time of its announcement in Abu Dhabi?
... that a review in The American Historical Review called Education for Extinction "the most comprehensive examination of all federal Indian boarding schools to date"?
... that Swedish railway worker Fritiof Enbom was accused and convicted of being a spy for the Soviet Union?
... that Kaiser Wilhelm II refused to allow Hermann Göring to stay at his Rominten Hunting Lodge, but Göring later forced Wilhelm's heirs to sell the property to the State of Prussia for his own use?

08:00, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

... that chain booms (pictured) were used to block rivers and harbours in order to keep enemy ships out or collect tolls?
... that HIV/AIDS activist Spencer Cox designed a clinical trial that resulted in the approval of a protease inhibitor?
... that after the dissolution of the Lal Communist Party, some of its former members became sadhus?
... that the fictional character Machete, portrayed by Danny Trejo and created by Robert Rodriguez, has appeared in Machete and Machete Kills?
... that the extinct ant Acanthostichus hispaniolicus is the only Acanthostichus species found in the West Indies?
... that Singapore politician Gan Thiam Poh used to work for a salary of $2.50 an hour?
... that a recently discovered Ransomware trojan accepts Bitcoin?

00:00, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the world's first cable television system was installed in 1948 in Astoria, Oregon, using an antenna on the roof of the Hotel Astoria (pictured)?
... that in 1965, Jordanian Foreign Minister Hazem Nuseibeh proposed a United Kingdom of Palestine and Jordan?
... that Polish nationalism is more restrictive in terms of ethnicity and religion than the earlier Polish-Lithuanian identity?
... that Green Bay Packers rookie Kevin Dorsey planned to sign with the team even if it didn't draft him?
... that the leader of the Free Socialist Party/Marxist-Leninists was a refugee from East Germany?
... that James Dietz worked as a commercial illustrator creating movie posters and book covers before switching to historical subjects?
... that pigeons are given performance-enhancing drugs?

1 November 2013

16:00, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the northern viscacha and the southern viscacha (pictured), members of the Chinchillidae family, can be found at altitudes as high as 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) above sea level?
... that Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble has been cited as an example of a film that claims historical accuracy while "gratuitously and radically distorting" the truth?
... that pediatric neurologist Max Wiznitzer testified in the autism omnibus trial, saying that thimerosal-containing vaccines do not cause autism?
... that Cecil Duckworth, executive chairman of Premiership rugby union club Worcester Warriors, earned his fortune selling boilers?
... that Eudowood Plaza in Towson, Maryland, once featured a Best Products store whose facade was tilted at a 35-degree angle?
... that college football games played outside the United States have occurred in Australia, Canada, Cuba, Bermuda, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Italy and the United Kingdom?
... that the song that brought national exposure to indie folk band Wardell was created "like, in an hour"?

08:00, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

... that among the restaurants in Singapore, the burgeoning street food scene (pictured) was introduced by immigrants from India, Malaysia, and China?
... that the Ford G7 only finished one out of the fifteen races it competed in?
... that Ashok Patki has composed more than 5,000 jingles and also composed "Mile Sur Mera Tumhara"?
... that the term "DNA" describes the factors underlying and affecting the culture of an organized entity or institution?
... that Hong Kong films dramatizing the lives of martial arts folk heroes like Wong Fei-hung and Fong Sai-yuk were the first movies of the kung fu film genre?
... that Paul Ashwood, a researcher at the MIND Institute, has produced evidence that autistic children exhibit abnormal immune responses relative to neurotypical children?
... that New Jersey Devils fans booed a Bon Jovi song because it replaced "The Hey Song"?

00:00, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

... that the brain puffball (pictured) is a tasty edible when its insides are still firm and white?
... that the 2010 Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival featured a "Zombiethon Battle"?
... that South African cricketer Sunette Loubser began as an opening bowler, but switched to bowling off spin after breaking her ankle?
... that the United States vanquished Vampire Nation in a Pennsylvania courthouse?
... that Louisa Venable Kyle wrote a children's book on The Witch of Pungo?
... that the Lakandon Ch'ol are an extinct Maya people who were famed among their Spanish colonial neighbors for their warlike nature?
... that Bobby the Boy with the Revolving Head could swivel his head 180 degrees?