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31 July 2014

13:36, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Swedish television presenter Elsa Billgren (pictured) is the daughter of artist and writer Ernst Billgren?
... that Skeet Shoot was a "shoddily programmed, graphically primitive game", but sold well?
... that in 1922 Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason became the first woman elected to the Icelandic parliament?
... that Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Nantucket was designed to provide emergency support for one-half of a carrier air group?
... that Raouf Bundhun, a former vice president of Mauritius, received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award in 2006?
... that Anna Kournikova's half-brother Allan was featured in The Short Game, a documentary film about the 2012 U.S. Kids Golf World Championships, which he won?
... that two horse racing newcomers calling themselves "Dumb Ass Partners" won the 2014 Kentucky Derby with California Chrome?

01:51, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Tiepolo's The Banquet of Cleopatra (pictured) of 1744, now in Melbourne, shows Cleopatra about to dissolve a pearl in vinegar in order to win a bet?
... that the puzzle game Blek was inspired by Golan Levin, the Bauhaus, and Japanese calligraphy, and reached the top of the App Store charts with over a million copies sold?
... that surveyor Horatio Chriesman helped choose the seat of government for the Republic of Texas?
... that if somebody wants to employ a gender-neutral pronoun in Swedish, he/she can use hen?
... that Amanda Yan, who won a gold medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship, was also a national shot put champion?
... that although Clearbury Ring, a hillfort near Salisbury in southern England, dates to the Iron Age, a paleolithic hand axe was found there?
... that record producer John McClure kept his Grammy Awards in a box in his barn?

30 July 2014

14:06, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Siegfried Köhler conducted Wagner's Rienzi and premiered operas by Volker David Kirchner at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden (pictured)?
... that in 2013–14, Norwich City were relegated from the Premier League, yet earned more in broadcast payments than Manchester United earned in winning the previous season's League title?
... that Boing Boing described the endless runner Canabalt by Adam Saltsman as a "one-button action-opus"?
... that Nederluleå Church is the largest medieval church in the Swedish land of Norrland?
... that Maitland Armstrong showed U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant around the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle and was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work there?
... that there is only one Information Technology Park in Nepal?
... that Robert Curl, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, ruined his mother's stove with nitric acid from his first chemistry set?

02:21, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Asher Vollmer's Puzzlejuice (screenshot pictured) has been called a cross between Tetris, tile-matching, and Boggle?
... that artillery expert Edward Porter Alexander ascended in an observation balloon during an American Civil War battle?
... that the Rheingauer Kantorei performed Mendelssohn's oratorio Elias in the Geisenheimer Dom and in the Marktkirche Wiesbaden?
... that Adam Peaty beat the Olympic champion and world record holder to win the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2014 Commonwealth Games?
... that predatory fish sometimes associate with the grass octopus, snapping up organisms that it flushes from among the branches of corals?
... that Birger Fredrik Motzfeldt headed the Royal Norwegian Air Force from 1955 to 1960?
... that there are 78 disturbances on Kase Run?

29 July 2014

14:36, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Beyoncé's music video for "Best Thing I Never Had" was filmed at Sleepy Hollow Country Club (pictured)?
... that no other known hurricane has struck North Carolina as early in the calendar year as did Hurricane Arthur?
... that George A. Dickel, who gave his name to a brand of Tennessee whiskey, immigrated to the United States from Germany?
... that the labor force at the Saugus Iron Works included indentured servants?
... that on Hope in Front of Me, former American Idol contestant Danny Gokey moved from his previous country music sound toward a more blue-eyed soul style?
... that Natalie Nakase was the first female head coach in Japan's top professional men's basketball league?
... that Lady Jane led to Sweet Fanny Adams and Pussy Galore?

02:51, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the stiff wood in Bronzino's portrait of Genoan admiral Andrea Doria (pictured) may represent an erection?
... that a Bronze Age sword and a Roman tile were found at Caesar's Camp, a large multivallate Iron Age hillfort on the Surrey–Hampshire border?
... that in 1860 the Compagnie Impériale des Voitures in Paris operated 3830 fiacres, owned 8000 horses, and carried over 10 million passengers?
... that Mexican television station XHTM-TV has five relay transmitters in five states?
... that Paco Campos scored 127 goals in La Liga – the most by any player from the Canary Islands?
... that Tujamo and Plastik Funk's song "Dr. Who!" charted higher than Mankind's cover of the Doctor Who theme music despite having no relation to Doctor Who?
... that even though CheapyD runs Cheap Ass Gamer, he paid for his likeness to be included in Saints Row: The Third as downloadable content?

28 July 2014

15:06, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

... that "Foxy Ned" Hanlon (pictured), inventor of the "Baltimore chop", was "The Father of Modern Baseball"?
... that 19th-century French geometer Olry Terquem, writing as "Tsarphati", was an outspoken advocate of the Reform movement in Judaism?
... that the star RY Sagittarii is periodically dimmed by clouds of carbon dust most likely ejected by the star itself?
... that Willem Witteveen, who was killed on 17 July 2014 as a passenger of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, was a legal scholar, senator and non-fiction writer from the Netherlands?
... that with an area of 59 acres (24 hectares), the Jakey Hollow Natural Area is one of the smallest natural areas in Pennsylvania?
... that local concert promoters sometimes temporarily forbid music acts from performing in nearby cities to protect ticket sales?
... that volcanologist Barry Voight, a former professor at Pennsylvania State University, is the brother of Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight and songwriter Chip Taylor?

03:21, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Belcher's gulls (pictured) pester Guanay cormorants to make them regurgitate their prey?
... that the wings of the extinct ant Aphaenogaster longaeva had "excessively delicate" hairs?
... that Meyne Wyatt is the first indigenous actor to join the main cast of the Australian soap opera Neighbours?
... that Kesher Israel Congregation had to relocate its synagogue to make way for expansion of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex – twice in thirty years?
... that Hilda Käkikoski was one of the first women elected to the Finnish parliament?
... that the 1989 Boat Race was the first time in the event's history that both coxes were women?
... that The Beatles logged 99 takes of "Not Guilty" but then left it off the White Album?

27 July 2014

10:55, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the authenticity of the 1886 Van Gogh painting Le Blute-Fin Windmill (pictured) in Museum de Fundatie's collection was established in 2010 by the Van Gogh Museum?
... that Kevin Cron set Arizona high school baseball records for home runs?
... that first-time novelist Edan Lepucki spent three days signing copies of California after the "Colbert Bump" sent sales soaring?
... that Kundō Koyama's first screenplay for a feature film won 98 awards?
... that according to James Wedge, the famous white frock worn by Mick Jagger at 1969's Stones in the Park free concert came from Wedge's Countdown boutique?
... that artist Larime Taylor draws the comic book series A Voice in the Dark using only his mouth, a brush, and a Wacom Cintiq tablet?
... that ". :(" is a song from Forever After?

26 July 2014

22:40, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Kalix Church (pictured) in Sweden has twice been pillaged by Russian troops?
... that Art Whitney helped the New York Giants win the 1888 and 1889 World Series?
... that on the album The Night We Called It a Day, vocalist Listener reads a verse complete with its punctuation?
... that Felisa Vanoff was the first female choreographer for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and became a lead dancer for the New York City Opera?
... that the seeds of the Korean melon have been investigated for use in controlling diabetes?
... that pianist Anna Kravtchenko, trained in Ukraine and Italy by the same teacher, won the Busoni competition at the age of 16?
... that Ganga Bruta was "Humberto Mauro's best film", but was also called "the worst film of all time"?

10:25, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

... that in 1977, Kenton Grua was the first person in recorded history to walk through the entire length of the Grand Canyon (pictured)?
... that 19th-century painter Évariste Vital Luminais was sometimes called "the painter of the Gauls"?
... that Teresa Magbanua was the only woman to command combat troops in the Visayan region during the Philippine Revolution?
... that Tranquility Bass's debut album Let the Freak Flag Fly was recorded on Lopez Island in Washington over a period of more than two years?
... that Muriel Pemberton "invented art-school training in fashion in Britain"?
... that the Meadowlark was the last Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad passenger train to serve Southern Illinois?
... that the 2000 CECAFA Cup final was between Uganda and Uganda?

25 July 2014

22:10, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the trilingual 14th-century Sankt Florian Psalter (page pictured) contains one of the oldest texts in Polish?
... that journalist and physician Yasser Salihee sometimes used his patients in Baghdad as sources for his articles?
... that the main star of FF Aquilae is a pulsating supergiant 39 times the diameter of the Sun?
... that the 1997 Boat Race included the first Italian to compete in the event?
... that Alice Teodorescu "has made herself known as a provocative and fearless liberal debater"?
... that many kindergartens in Poland were named after the children's television series Jacek i Agatka?
... that the fashion designer Sally Tuffin created clothes on James Wedge's billiard table?

09:55, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Florestano Di Fausto was described as the "Architect of the Mediterranean" for his works in Italy, Albania, the Dodecanese (building in Rhodes pictured) and Libya?
... that the play Golgota Picnic has been the target of protests by conservative Christian groups in France and Poland?
... that National Rifle Association leader Harlon Carter's conviction for murder as a teenager was overturned on appeal?
... that typographers at the Fann Street Foundry created the first lower-case sans serif typeface, and the first patented one?
... that Janey Ironside was a "style icon" who taught fashion to Antony Price, Ossie Clark and Zandra Rhodes?
... that the wealthy couple who built the Episcopal church in Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee, had shocked Nashville society with their 1864 marriage?
... that Robban Andersson ate thirteen sausages in two minutes for Talang 2010?

24 July 2014

21:40, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

... that an x-ray of catcher Deacon McGuire's gnarled left hand (pictured) showed "36 breaks, twists or bumps all due to baseball accidents"?
... that the Brazilian singer Lourdinha Bittencourt, a member of the Trio de Ouro, had been a foundling?
... that the massacre in Józefów was committed by the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101, who were too old for the regular army?
... that over 500 comets, asteroids, and novae have been discovered by three members of the Astronomical Society of New South Wales?
... that the music video for Siti Nurhaliza's song "Lebih Indah" also serves as a commercial for her SimplySiti range of products?
... that Denmark's Kvinden & Samfundet (Woman & Society), published since 1885, claims to be the world's oldest women's magazine?
... that Arthur Harper was "the first man who ever came to the Yukon country seeking gold" ?

09:25, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the former Canandaigua, New York post office (pictured) is one of only three in the state designed by private architects under the Tarsney Act, and the only one outside of New York City?
... that Emil Gross set a Major League Baseball record by appearing in 87 games as catcher?
... that Woodspring Priory was an Augustinian community for over 300 years and can now be rented as holiday accommodation from the Landmark Trust?
... that Sailor Moon Crystal celebrates the 20th anniversary of the shōjo manga series Sailor Moon?
... that Lindon Meikle signed for Eastwood Town following a trial, after his father suggested he join his brother Deon at the club?
... that Fanny Lú's album Lágrimas Cálidas mixes pop music with Caribbean rhythms?
... that Arinn Young was the youngest player on the Canadian team that won the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship?

23 July 2014

21:10, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

... that in 1920 socialist politician Valentino Pittoni (pictured) argued that the Italian city of Trieste should become a state in the Austrian republic?
... that a rough cut of "Deep Breath", the first episode of the eighth series of Doctor Who, was leaked online six weeks before the episode was due to air?
... that Elmo Hope survived being shot by New York police to become an influential jazz pianist?
... that Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum contains the first organ to be used in a Primitive Methodist chapel?
... that Freddie Hornik co-founded Dandie Fashions and helped turn Granny Takes a Trip into an international fashion brand?
... that Kenyan Simon Maina, the 1998 Commonwealth Games champion over 10,000 metres, was deported from Japan after being injured in 2007 and dropped from the Toyota team?
... that male pichis have a penis that is 60% of their body length, even though the females have no vagina?

08:55, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

... that independent video game artist Greg Wohlwend designed Threes!, Ridiculous Fishing, Hundreds, Gasketball, Puzzlejuice, and Solipskier (icons pictured)?
... that the Habsburgs' frequent practice of royal intermarriage led to severe inbreeding?
... that in 1896 The Sporting Life wrote of Baltimore Orioles third baseman Jim Donnelly that a "prettier or headier fielder ... would be difficult to find"?
... that the Toungoo Dynasty's decisive victory over Ava and its allies in the Toungoo–Ava War (1538–45) cemented the upstart kingdom's emergence as the largest polity in Burma since 1287?
... that only five times in Philippine Basketball Association history has a team won the Grand Slam?
... that reviewers found the BBC One film Common "unrelentingly depressing" and "profoundly engaging"?
... that New Zealand television news anchor Angela D'Audney caused a national furore in 1982 by appearing topless in the TV comedy play The Venus Touch?

22 July 2014

20:40, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Paratropis tuxtlensis (pictured), a newly discovered species of spider, coats its body in soil, apparently to conceal itself?
... that Michael Botticelli is the first director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy to state that he is in recovery for a substance abuse problem?
... that "Jaga Dia Untukku", a song by Siti Nurhaliza, was inspired by feelings about her husband's motorcycle accident?
... that Émilie Tremblay grew radishes and lettuces on the sod roof of her cabin in the Yukon?
... that the short-lived MGM-Pathé Communications was formed in 1990 when Giancarlo Parretti purchased MGM/UA Communications Inc. and merged it with his Pathé Communications Group?
... that after Arsenal's defeat in the 2005 FA Community Shield, manager Arsène Wenger stated, "no-one regards it as a trophy so I do not mind anymore"?
... that on Kuntry Livin', recording artist Big Smo blends country music and hip hop in a style known as hick hop?

07:55, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Swedish director Brita von Horn (pictured) was the first to stage a Chekhov play in Sweden?
... that newly signed Alex Rae was made captain of Jersey RFC?
... that the Sydney green wattle can grow to 8 metres (26 ft) tall in five years?
... that the 2008 Boat Race featured the oldest ever competitor, a 36-year-old?
... that Ilie Moscovici was detained for instigating the Romanian strike of 1920, though he "did not wish for a revolution", and for his party's Comintern affiliation, though he had opposed it?
... that Beryl Randle broke two world records, nearly 40 years apart?
... that you can buy a monkey's fist at Arthur Beale?

21 July 2014

19:40, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

... that a key target for the Normandy landings, Caen (pictured), was not captured by the Allies until 21 July 1944?
... that the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club is the school's oldest student organization?
... that Bangladeshi nationalism was popularized by President Ziaur Rahman as a substitute for Bengali nationalism?
... that William H. Herriman donated artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, and his sister founded the world's first skyscraper hospital?
... that Lucas Bros. Moving Co. is based on its creators' experiences as cable television installers?
... that Dhaka Racing is the first 3D video game developed in Bangladesh?
... that Willie Nelson sold "Family Bible" to a guitar instructor for US$50 and the cost of his dinner?

07:25, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Hammond House (pictured) has hosted Lyme disease research, a "hodge-podge" historic house museum, folk hootenannies, and possibly a Revolutionary War military conference?
... that The Mighty Kacy was the first woman to reach the finals of American Ninja Warrior?
... that the documentary film We Were So Beloved asks, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, whether survival is an end in itself?
... that self-taught cartographer Aaron Carapella makes maps of the locations and names of Pre-Columbian indigenous tribes of North America circa 1490?
... that Vantablack, a material made from carbon nanotubes, is the blackest substance known?
... that the Muslim League politician J. M. Imam was awarded the title Mushir ul-Mulk ("Advisor of the Kingdom") by the Maharaja of Mysore in 1945?
... that Halichoeres maculipinna can change its sex, and engages in lek mating?

20 July 2014

17:20, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

... that alligator gars (pictured) are "living fossils" that can breathe in both air and water?
... that Alonzo Davis and his brother were inspired to found the Brockman Gallery while driving back to Los Angeles following the Meredith March?
... that Operation Goodwood was the last in a series of "intensely disappointing" attempts to sink the German battleship Tirpitz?
... that after Marcel Perez started as a clown, he directed and played the character Robinet in 150 silent films?
... that at the 2013 Boat Race, for the second consecutive year Cambridge had only one British rower in its crew?
... that American military history expert John C. McManus is the author of Grunts?
... that the European Court of Justice was asked the meaning of parody by the Court of Appeal of Brussels ?

05:35, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the Speaker of the Niuean Assembly is responsible for ensuring the Seal of Niue (pictured) is not misused?
... that the Dota 2 esports tournament The International 2014 has a prize pool of more than US$10 million—larger than that of the 2014 Masters Tournament?
... that in 1952, British MP Eric Bullus proposed the reintroduction of flogging as a criminal punishment?
... that Tansen, directed by Jayant Desai and based on the life of musician Tansen, was the second-highest grossing Indian film of 1943?
... that in 1765, Scottish nabob John Johnstone, aged 31, returned from India with a fortune equivalent to £25 million in 2014?
... that there are 122 erosion sites on East Branch Chillisquaque Creek?
... that Elvis impersonator James Brown is best known for songs that Elvis never recorded, sung in the style of Elvis?

19 July 2014

05:37, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the Philaletheis Society (production pictured) was Vassar College's first student organization?
... that Marvel Studios considered making stand-alone short films‍—‌known as Marvel One-Shots‍—‌for Loki, Black Panther, and Damage Control?
... that the human immunodeficiency virus reappeared in the Mississippi baby after she was thought to be cured?
... that the revival of the Sakata Minato-za, the oldest cinema in Sakata, Yamagata, Japan, has been called "like something out of a movie"?
... that Mary Francis Hill Coley, an African-American lay midwife in Georgia, was featured in a 1952 instructional film used in training midwives around the world?
... that although possibly illiterate, Dinah Nuthead was one of the first licensed women printers in the Thirteen Colonies?
... that Beatles, birds and crickets contributed to "You Never Give Me Your Money"?

18 July 2014

16:22, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Elsa Collin (pictured) was the first woman at any Swedish university to be part of a student spex show?
... that DashCon offered attendees an "extra hour" in a ball pit to compensate them for a cancelled celebrity panel?
... that Adrian P. Thomas's videotaped confession regarding the death of his four-month-old son is the center of a documentary film on coerced confessions, Scenes of a Crime?
... that at the time of its discovery, S Antliae had the shortest period of any known variable star?
... that performance artist Milo Moiré claims her naked works are inspired by the script theory of cognitive psychology?
... that when the mayor of Saskatoon, John Hair, said in 1930 that unemployment in his city was "under control", he was "terribly wrong"?
... that Torberry Hill in West Sussex is the site of an Iron Age hill fort and supports a mound known as the Fairy Bed, where fairies are said to dance every Midsummer Eve?

04:07, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Arthur Adams (pictured) spent two years drawing the six issues of Longshot and his artwork was called the miniseries' "one major saving grace"?
... that journalists compared the Costa Rican video game Fenix Rage to a cross between Super Meat Boy and Flappy Bird?
... that Flass, an English country house in Cumbria, was built by opium traders in the nineteenth century and used for cannabis cultivation in the twenty-first?
... that Philippe Capdenat's 2001 opera Une Carmen re-imagined Bizet's Carmen in Morocco?
... that the runaway binary star system BL Telescopii is 11,000 light-years off the galactic plane?
... that Paul G. Risser served as president of Miami University and Oregon State University as well as chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education?
... that Khar Bii, a reality television show consisting of a search for Senegal's most beautiful ram, was the country's most popular television show in 2012?

17 July 2014

15:41, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

... that with her 1906 ascent of Pinnacle Peak (22,735 ft or 6,930 m) in the Himalayas, Fanny Bullock Workman (pictured) set an altitude record for women that stood until 1934?
... that the 1944 One Million Plan was the first time Jewish immigration from Arab and Muslim countries became official policy of the Zionist leadership?
... that as a boy, golf course designer Archie Simpson was the favourite caddy of Sir Alexander Grant, Principal of the University of Edinburgh?
... that the Anna Crusis Women's Choir is the oldest feminist choir in the United States?
... that Su Rong is the highest-ranking Chinese official to come under investigation for corruption during the presidency of Xi Jinping?
... that flooding in New Market, caused by a tropical depression over Jamaica in 1979, had not fully subsided after six months?
... that Olivia Pope was spoofed by Jennifer Hudson when the Obama administration needed a spokesman for its Affordable Care Act?

04:35, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Utamaro was known for his depictions of Japanese beauties (pictured)?
... that the AI Mk. IV, the first air-to-air radar, was developed under conditions that "would have caused a riot in a prison farm"?
... that skeptic Joe Nickell was an advisor on the 2007 horror film The Reaping, in which actress Hilary Swank plays an investigator of the paranormal?
... that much of the history of the Principality of Nitra remains uncertain?
... that Frank Cunningham headed an inquiry into the 1935 "On-to-Ottawa" march, was a war-crimes judge in Singapore, and became speaker of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly?
... that the bus services in Surat are operated by private partners for the Surat Municipal Corporation under a public–private partnership?
... that with the prosthetic arm he had fitted after an electrical accident, "bionic chef" Eduardo Garcia has "superpowers"?

16 July 2014

15:09, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

... that cyclist Ellen van Dijk (pictured) was the best rider of the Specialized–lululemon team's 2013 season, finishing 3rd in the UCI World Ranking?
... that in discussing his film Departures, director Yōjirō Takita drew parallels between cellists and morticians?
... that James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Ralph Ellison have depicted the Harlem Riot of 1943 in their writings?
... that the video game Thralled was made to focus on "love and caring" and to humanize the tens of millions in modern slavery?
... that the Spanish believed that the fierce Chinamita Maya were cannibals?
... that Josef Masopust was awarded the Ballon d'Or after helping the Czechoslovakian national football team reach the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final?
... that John Crittle's mother mistook Jimi Hendrix for Jesus?

06:54, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the baseball career of Charlie Bennett (pictured), who reportedly invented the chest protector, ended when his legs were run over by a train?
... that XELD-TV was the first Mexican television station to affiliate with an American network?
... that Frances McConnell-Mills' father, a doctor, refused to pay for her medical school tuition because he thought medicine was "too hard a life for a woman"?
... that when Etheostoma variatum are seen, rivers are probably clean?
... that the University of Chicago exercised its option to buy Harper Court for $98 million in November 2013 and listed it for sale in March 2014?
... that Michel Disdier is the first French driver to race in NASCAR since the 1960s?
... that several Muppets were taken captive after the set of Iftah Ya Simsim was stormed?

15 July 2014

05:24, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Jalen Brunson (pictured) is a left-handed point guard, as is his father Rick Brunson, a nine-year National Basketball Association veteran?
... that the Dartford Crossing is the busiest estuarial crossing in the United Kingdom?
... that Paul Revere both engraved and printed Colonial banknotes (1775–79) for the Provinces of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay?
... that the Counter-Reformation in Poland concluded successfully with the Repnin Sejm of 1768, which abolished legal discrimination against religious dissidents?
... that the Tantric deity Uchchhishta Ganapati is often depicted with a naked goddess, each touching the other's genitals?
... that The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour, a tour by Beyoncé, was so called after her husband, Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter?
... that in the 1993 Boat Race, Cambridge used cleavers?

14 July 2014

19:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

... that 19th-century actor Maurice Curtis said his hugely successful characterization of a Jewish traveling salesman (pictured) was based on "one of the most comical men that I ever met"?
... that Tim Rogers, originator of New Games Journalism and co-founder of Action Button Entertainment, applied his thoughts on Super Mario Bros. 3's "sticky friction" to his game design for Ziggurat and Videoball?
...that Peter Sellers, billed as "Britain's answer to Gene Krupa" at the Aldershot Hippodrome in 1948, complained later that the band was four bars behind because they were eating sandwiches?
... that two incommunicado game show contestants can use the 100 prisoners problem to maximize the odds of sticking Monty Hall with the goat?
... that in 1995, a businessman scaled Quezon City's Welcome Rotonda and staged a hunger strike to urge disqualification of Chinese Filipino candidates from running in that year's election?
... that art dealer C. T. Loo fell in love with a French milliner, but married her 15-year-old daughter instead?
... that legend has it that a Teutonic Knight built the Leaning Tower of Toruń as punishment for falling in love with a woman, the tower's tilt signifying his deviant conduct?

11:34, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Geistliche Chormusik, a collection of 29 motets by Heinrich Schütz (pictured) containing a "plea for peace", appeared in 1648, when the Thirty Years' War ended?
... that in the 1990 Back Bay rail accident, Amtrak's Night Owl jumped the track and hit an MBTA commuter train, causing both to jackknife through the tunnel roof to the street above?
... that actress Sarah-Jane Potts filmed her own audition for the role of Eddi McKee in Holby City, after she was approached by the show's casting director?
... that the call of the Malagasy coucal resembles the sound of water being poured from a bottle?
... that after an indictment against him was quashed, John N. Cole received three cheers from the Massachusetts House of Representatives?
... that in 1944 the Barsala tourist lodge in Azad Kashmir hosted the future founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
... that Tom Cushing's 1926 play The Devil in the Cheese features a Greek bandit posing as a priest, an Egyptian god, adventures in the South Seas, and a bit of mummified cheese?

03:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the Nazis called the paintings of Hans Baluschek (example pictured) "degenerate art"?
... that the 1991 Argentine quota law, which sets minimum quotas of female candidacies to legislatures, was emulated by eleven other Latin American countries?
... that Weib, was weinest du, the "Easter dialogue" composed by Heinrich Schütz, was performed at the first Schütz festival in Dresden?
... that the Sun-like star HD 41248 may have two super-Earths in a 5:7 orbital resonance?
... that 19th century baseball player Mike McGeary was suspected of game-fixing and using a yellow umbrella to communicate with gamblers in the stands?
... that the song "Asia Minor" was banned by the BBC because it parodied classical music?
... that the offices of the Danish magazine Vennen were raided by police in the so-called "Great Porno Affair"?

13 July 2014

11:21, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

... that, although buried in Tutankhamun's tomb, the Head of Nefertem (pictured) does not appear in excavation records and was found only later, in a box of wine bottles?
... that critics called Kylie Minogue's 2004 single "Red Blooded Woman" similar to the works of American music artists Justin Timberlake and Timbaland?
... that catcher Sy Sutcliffe, who reportedly "threw like a catapult", died of Bright's disease four months after his final major league game?
... that Pornhub told its users to stop uploading videos of Brazil's loss to Germany at the 2014 FIFA World Cup under sexually suggestive titles?
... that in 1809 the Irish politician Walter Jones resigned his seat in Parliament to make way for his uncle's illegitimate son?
... that Jayanti is said to have asked the god Shukra to create a haze to shield their lovemaking from the world for ten years?
... that no one knows who created "The Lord in Heaven"?

01:46, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Eurogamer described their 2012 game of the year, Fez (cover art pictured), as like a surreal, Shigeru Miyamoto version of 2001: A Space Odyssey?
... that Hawaiian legislator Joshua Kekaulahao served as a member of the Board of Land Commissioners, in charge of addressing land claims of the Great Māhele, from 1850 to 1855?
... that Turkey's first ever bird ringing station was established at Lake Kuyucuk, which is an internationally-designated Ramsar site and an European Destinations of Excellence (EDEN)?
... that professional baseball player "Mikado Milt" Scott gained his nickname amid a "Mikado" craze that invaded the sport in 1886?
... that the Acala Maya were hunted by the Spanish after they killed two Dominican friars in 1559, and within 165 years they had disappeared completely?
... that sediment on the East Tasman Plateau records the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current?
... that the Oxford crew in the 2010 Boat Race included the Winklevoss twins, who had competed at the previous Olympics?

12 July 2014

12:50, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

... that in the 1900 painting Homage to Cézanne (pictured) Paul Gauguin is represented by one of his paintings?
... that LIFE magazine called Veloz and Yolanda "the greatest dance couple in America"?
... that Victoria became the first Australian state to adopt a floral emblem when it adopted the pink heath, a form of Epacris impressa?
... that Johnny Leach won three World Table Tennis Championships and was described as one of "the sport's most influential ambassadors and promoters"?
... that the white-tufted grebe breeds in freshwater locations but outside the breeding season may be found on the sea?
... that T. Rantula was considered one of the largest professional wrestlers on the independent circuit during the 1990s?
... that the Arsenal–Stoke City rivalry started in earnest as a result of a tackle which broke an Arsenal player's leg?

04:35, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the Trout Inn (pictured) in Lechlade was originally a 13th-century almshouse?
... that in 1888 baseball player Dasher Troy hit a game-winning home run after his manager fulfilled his request for a beer from the bar beneath the field's grandstand?
... that the viewing area in the Garbage Museum, an operating recycling facility in Stratford, Connecticut, allowed visitors to watch the processing of recyclables?
... that Scatter the Gold was "a big handsome colt with his mother's peel-me-a-grape attitude"?
... that OK Go used around 60 takes to make sure all the optical illusions were filmed correctly during a continuous shot for the video to their song "The Writing's on the Wall"?
... that after the 2006 Boat Race, the Cambridge coach complained that his team had to "row with a boat full of water"?
... that one reviewer dubbed Adult Swim in a Box "the anti-box-set"?

11 July 2014

16:29, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

... that André Mellerio (pictured, left) was a member of the family that owned Mellerio dits Meller, considered the world's oldest jeweller and Europe's oldest family-owned company?
... that The Cockroaches were the precursor of The Wiggles?
... that the bells of Roma Church, Sweden, originally came from a Swedish-speaking village in Ukraine?
... that Tory Member of Parliament Admiral Theobald Jones (1790–1868) laid the foundation of Irish lichenology?
... that W Serpentis is a binary star system in which one star is transferring large amounts of material to the other?
... that German wheelchair basketball player Laura Fürst helped win the national collegiate championship for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks, and also made the Dean's List?
... that one reviewer wrote that checking in for a meal at London's Chiltern Firehouse restaurant "feels a bit like arriving at a Scientology meeting"?

08:44, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the white-striped, the gray (pictured), the black and the brown dorcopsis are endemic to New Guinea and inhabit parts of the island in the north, south, east and west respectively?
... that pitcher Ed Beatin, who had "the most astonishing slow ball that was ever offered up to a batter", was twice a 20-game winner?
... that the popular children's book The Discovery of America (1781) portrayed Christopher Columbus as a hero, and Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro as antiheroes?
... that the c. 8th-century medical text Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah, attributed to Ali al-Ridha, is also known as the "Golden Treatise"?
... that Ethan Allen and Philip Skene planned to create a new British colony in the region around Lake Champlain, with Skene as its governor?
... that some employees of Moon Studios, developers of Ori and the Blind Forest, had never met face to face until the game was unveiled at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo?
... that financier James Goldsmith said he hoped that investigative journalist Barbara Conway would "choke on her own vomit"?

10 July 2014

20:59, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the flag of the Bahamas (pictured) was first hoisted 41 years ago today when the islands became independent?
... that Winfield, Kansas, was named in honor of Winfield Scott in return for his promise to build the town a church?
... that a limited edition of the Aquos Phone SH-06D is based on the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion?
... that Royal Navy officer Theophilus Jones was captain of HMS Defiance in 1798 when eleven of his crew were hanged for planning a mutiny?
... that the historic U.S. Custom House in San Ysidro, San Diego, lies 50 feet (15 m) north of one of the busiest land border crossings in the world?
... that professional baseball player Jerry Dorgan suffered from an "unconquerable appetite for liquor" and died after being discovered inebriated in a barn with an empty liquor bottle by his side?
... that to support his claim that Java Man was the "missing link", discoverer Eugène Dubois argued that it looked like a "giant gibbon"?

12:44, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

... that after Capesthorne Hall in Cheshire (garden front pictured) was badly damaged by fire in 1861, it was rebuilt by Anthony Salvin who generally followed Edward Blore's earlier plans?
... that to retrieve a music demo for "Galau", a representative of Universal Music Group (Malaysia) had to travel more than 2500 kilometres (1600 mi) to East Java?
... that actress Pom Klementieff trained three hours per day, for two months, to fight Josh Brolin?
... that a piece of carpet installed at 400 SW Sixth Avenue in Portland, Oregon, in 1959 was said at that time to be the largest ever laid in the Pacific Northwest?
... that after he and his family escaped Nazi Germany, Manfred Kirchheimer made a documentary film about graffiti on New York subway trains?
... that the Philadelphia Phillies gave Anthony Hewitt a US$1,380,000 signing bonus and money to attend college, where he hoped to study business or economics to learn how to manage his wealth?

04:29, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

... that filmmaker Ingmar Bergman is buried in the cemetery of Sweden's Fårö Church (pictured)?
... that baseball player Frank Ringo, who was "inordinately fond" of whiskey, married in January 1889 and killed himself in April of that same year?
... that the parathyroids were first discovered in the Indian rhinoceros in 1852 but not identified in humans until 1880?
... that Swedish sport journalist Johanna Frändén had the special task of following Zlatan Ibrahimović's career for SVT?
... that eggshell membrane is extracted from many of the two billion dozen eggshells produced annually at US egg-breaking facilities?
... that Bud Osborn, a poet from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, advocated for supervised injection sites?
... that quirky dogs and plural wugs helped Jean Berko Gleason show that young children extract linguistic rules from what they hear, rather than just memorizing words?

9 July 2014

14:03, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Kentrosaurus (fossil K. aethiopicus pictured) had extensive osteodermal covering, forming very elongated spikes?
... that Never Alone is a video game designed to share Alaskan indigenous folklore and revitalize interest in it?
... that Cyclone Bobby broke numerous February rainfall records in parts of Western Australia's Goldfields-Esperance region?
... that the Center of Alcohol Studies was the first institute dedicated to alcohol research to emerge in the US following its repeal of Prohibition?
... that Amy Allison's debut album The Maudlin Years was included on Elvis Costello's list of "500 Essential Albums" in Vanity Fair?
... that the 2014 Korea Queer Culture Festival was disrupted by anti-LGBT, conservative Christian demonstrators?
... that mathematician and author C. Stanley Ogilvy was an avid sailor who frequently competed in the Star World Championships?

05:48, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Jonah Kapena, a graduate of Lahainaluna, represented the Kuhina Nui Kīnaʻu (pictured) in the drafting of the first constitution of Hawaii in 1840?
... that Panamanian rapper Flex's "Te Quiero" won the Latin Grammy and the Lo Nuestro for Urban Song of the Year?
... that critics questioned Kevin Warwick's claim that Eugene Goostman was the first chatbot to pass a Turing test?
... that Fred Hayman was a trainee dentist, a chef, and manager of the Beverly Hilton before becoming "Mr. Beverly Hills"?
... that the 1960 Typhoon Ophelia had devastating impacts on the small atoll of Ulithi in the Caroline Islands?
... that the Centre Party, active in New South Wales during the 1930s, evolved from what has been called Australia's first fascist movement?
... that Yale neurologist and skeptic Steven Novella has authored Dungeons & Dragons expansions?

8 July 2014

11:00, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the early animated film Katsudō Shashin (frame pictured) lasts just three seconds?
... that "No Kohl without Bohl" was used to describe the close working relationship between Friedrich Bohl, former head of the German Chancellery, and Chancellor Helmut Kohl?
... that officially reported unemployment in Poland rose from near zero in 1989 to over 13% in 2012?
... that Jaratkaru insisted on marrying a virgin with his own name?
... that American circus pioneer Hachaliah Bailey likened the 22-by-32 foot (7-by-10 m) West Somers Methodist Episcopal Church in Somers, New York, to a tiger's cage?
... that among sugar candies, translucent, rock-hard boiled sweets such as lollipops are not considered crystalline candies?
... that in 1912 Henry Wilson-Fox, manager of the British South Africa Company, suggested that submarines could avoid collisions by imitating whales?

02:55, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the Brazil-nut poison frog (pictured) sometimes places its tadpoles in water-filled capsules that have fallen from the Brazil nut tree?
... that Irish-born Michael Phelan has been described as America's first billiards star?
... that Jan O. Jansson has the nickname "Nude-Janne" because he walked around nude in most episodes of the two seasons he participated in The Farm?
... that, as a senator, Vice President Joe Biden occasionally overslept on Amtrak's Night Owl and woke up in Philadelphia instead of Wilmington, Delaware?
... that Tomáš Rosický won his first trophy in English football in 2014, eight years after joining Arsenal?
... that at 116 years of age, Gertrude Weaver is the oldest verified living American?
... that a bridge between India and Sri Lanka is said to have been built by a monkey?

7 July 2014

18:30, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

... that, although Bhaktivinoda Thakur (pictured) had fourteen children from two marriages and a well-paid job, he was hailed as "the seventh goswami" (renounced ascetic)?
... that Stations of the Elevated is about the graffiti movement in New York City?
... that Charles Gauthier's statue of Sergent Blandan in Nancy contains Blandan's ashes in its base?
... that the music video for Enrique Iglesias' "Héroe" earned a Lo Nuestro Award for Video of the Year and was nominated for four MTV Video Music Awards in 2002?
... that as a swimmer, Darda Sales won gold at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney and silver at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, then joined Canada's national wheelchair basketball team in 2014?
... that the Skogssame people had intricate ceremonies related to bears?
... that in over two decades as Tristan da Cunha's only police officer, Conrad Glass has never had to put anyone in a holding cell?

10:45, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

... that although the Kampoeng Rawa tourist attraction (dock pictured) was meant to raise awareness of the ecology of Lake Rawa Pening, it has been criticised for potentially damaging the ecosystem?
... that the music video for Kylie Minogue's 2004 single "Chocolate" features a 40-second ballet routine which took the singer four days to rehearse?
... that Frederic Bonney took photographs of the Paarkantji people, whom he respected for their loyalty and integrity?
... that Simone Kues was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto?
... that Australian actress Zoe Tuckwell-Smith made her major television acting debut playing Bec Gilbert in Winners & Losers?
... that the MMPL Kanpur was a rare example of an aircraft designed and built by a national air force for its own use?
... that the Texas pocket gopher examines its own fecal pellets, selecting some to consume and rejecting the rest?

03:00, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Damien Miller (pictured) is the first Indigenous Australian to be an Australian ambassador?
... that the economy of Revò is highly dependent on the Golden Delicious?
... that Governor Mataio Kekūanāoʻa appointed two Lahainaluna Seminary graduates, including John Kalili, as circuit judges of Oʻahu in 1848?
... that the heavy cruiser Dorsetshire took part in the Bismarck's last battle in May 1941?
... that people have been bathing in the waters of Umbul Temple since at least the ninth century?
... that Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady are "the realest guys in the room"?
... that there is an annual jogging event in Stockholm in which participants run in black suits, imitating bodyguards from the Swedish Security Service?

6 July 2014

19:15, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

... that bee expert Dave Goulson jokingly blames the extinction of the British short-haired bumblebee (pictured) on Adolf Hitler?
... that slowly pulsating B stars change in shape, not volume, as they pulsate?
... that Commander Alex Stuart-Menteth read his own obituary in the newspaper?
... that the Byzantine emperor Manuel I deliberately provoked the German contingent of the Second Crusade into fighting a battle just to make them leave?
... that Scottish architect Eustace Balfour (1854–1911) was the brother of one British Prime Minister and nephew of another?
... that the Benelux Court of Justice can ask the European Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling when preparing one of its own?
... that John Passmore bequeathed 270 paintings to a woman he met in an art gallery, and had his ashes interred in her garden?

11:30, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

... that author and science journalist Faye Flam (pictured) has also published in Parade under the name Higgs the Science Cat?
... that the Corfu Channel Case resulted in an £843,947 International Court of Justice award to the United Kingdom in 1949, which was settled in 1996 along with an Albanian claim to 2339 kg (5156 lb) of Nazi gold?
... that the documentary film Art Is... The Permanent Revolution features four artists creating politically-inspired art?
... that in 2009, the Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea became the first all-female mariachi band to be nominated for a Grammy Award and the first to win one?
... that the Arrow Catcher claims to live on a diet of just meat and potatoes?
... that a crown was added to the flag of Liechtenstein after it was discovered at the 1936 Summer Olympics that its prior flag was identical to the flag of Haiti?
... that the Mojokerto child was so unexpectedly old that it was discussed in a Time Magazine cover story?

03:45, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

... that it is thought that South African activist Nokutela Dube (pictured) lost her marriage and her place in history because she could not have children?
... that the Angevins are considered by many historians to be the distinct Royal House that provided the English monarchs Henry II, Richard I and King John?
... that in 1889 Cleveland Spiders baseball player Larry Twitchell hit for the cycle, hitting a single, a double, three triples, and a home run in six at bats?
... that on the music chart week ending November 30, 2013, Wrapped in Red was the only non-Universal Music Group release to chart inside the Billboard 200's top ten?
... that at its height, Mexican state broadcaster Imevisión controlled two national television networks?
... that Ontario politician Harinder Malhi is the daughter of Canadian politician Gurbax Singh Malhi?
... that the Glore Psychiatric Museum displays examples of antique devices once used in the treatment of mental illness, such as the Tranquilizer Chair?

5 July 2014

18:30, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

... that a long-ago occupant of Brooksby Hall (pictured) was the ancestor of sixteen British Prime Ministers, including Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill and David Cameron?
... that Family Affairs actress Rebecca Blake disposed of some of her character's outfits because she thought they made her look dowdy?
... that would-be assassin Bogdan Žerajić was mentioned in a song written by Gavrilo Princip?
... that in producing the Tintin comic King Ottokar's Sceptre, Hergé was influenced by the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938?
... that when he came aboard in 1936, Dick Joy, aged 21, was the youngest staff announcer in CBS Radio history?
... that the Moreau painting Oedipus and the Sphinx dramatizes the moment Oedipus must correctly answer this riddle or die: "What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night"?
... that at her house in London's New Burlington Street, Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork, held "pink" parties and "blue" parties?

10:45, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Rock on Top of Another Rock (pictured) is a rock on top of another rock?
... that Romanian linguist Alexandru Philippide championed science and disdained literature, especially poetry, yet his son became a poet?
... that "Chicken Fat", an exercise song used in an Apple Inc. commercial for its new iOS 8, was originally composed for John F. Kennedy's President's Council on Physical Fitness campaign?
... that SITI: An Iconic Exhibition of Dato' Siti Nurhaliza was the first exhibition in Malaysia to focus on a pop star?
... that the problem of frequent subtree mining is applicable to both RNA structure analysis and web history mining?
... that Kirya Ne'emana was one of six Jewish neighborhoods built outside the Walls of Jerusalem in the 1870s?
... that Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play retells an episode of The Simpsons that parodies a movie which is a remake of another movie which is based on a book?

03:00, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the dining-out meal dubbed Britain's favourite of the 1980s included a dessert of Black Forest gâteau (pictured)?
... that in the Sita Puranamu, Sarama is admonished as the woman who turned her husband Vibhishana against his brother Ravana?
... that the Hawaiian chief Kamanawa poisoned his wife Kamokuiki and was convicted and executed under the criminal laws of Hawaii's first constitution?
... that Tony Hawk's Underground was the inaugural recipient of the MTV Video Music Award for Best Video Game Soundtrack in 2004?
... that Australian javelin thrower Hamish Peacock has competed at the Youth, Junior and Senior World Championships?
... that the Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden is centered around a 30-foot bent steel beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?
... that during the Yugoslav Wars, Dutch journalist Robert Dulmers walked around Osijek in a tuxedo and slept among the pickles in the basement of a clergy house?

4 July 2014

16:00, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Maud Wagner (pictured) was the first known female tattoo artist in the United States?
... that the video for Lady Gaga's "G.U.Y." was shot at Hearst Castle?
... that the silvery grebe visits saline lakes in Patagonia where it is often found in the company of flamingoes?
... that The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend shows how Press Maravich inspired his son Pete Maravich to achieve his dream of making a basketball varsity team as an 8th grader?
... that the 58-year-old Berlin club Knaack, named after a German communist, was gentrified out of its formerly punk/bohemian neighborhood?
... that Canada's Janet McLachlan led all wheelchair basketball players in scores and rebounds at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London?
... that a Pro Wrestling Illustrated writer called "Beef Stew" his "least favorite nickname" in professional wrestling?

08:05, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the rood screen (pictured) in St John the Evangelist's Church, Kirkham, designed by Augustus Pugin in the 1840s, was moved and altered in the 1890s by the parish priest?
... that Canadian actor Ari Millen won a role in the second season of Orphan Black after two unsuccessful auditions during the show's first season?
... that the young star PZ Telescopii has a debris disk and a companion that is either a brown dwarf or a giant planet?
... that Bright Blue Bird, In A Grey Red Sky, composed by Mansoor Hosseini for violin and orchestra based on a Persian legend, premiered at the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche?
... that Atkinsons of London first achieved success with a pomade of bear's grease that was claimed to facilitate hair regrowth for bald men?
... that Arthur Tuck singlehandedly won the Oregon high school track and field team championship for Redmond High School by winning seven individual events and placing second in another?
... that a signature expression of The Mel Blanc Show was "ugga-ugga-boo, ugga-boo-boo-ugga," the password for Blanc's (the character's) lodge?

3 July 2014

11:30, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the puffball Calbovista subsculpta can be distinguished from the similar pyramid puffball by the antler-like branching of its capillitia (pictured)?
... that in the 1964 Tamil film Bommai, a doll played the central character?
... that in recognition of his service to Belgian relief during the First World War, the former mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, John L. Beckwith, was decorated by the Belgian king?
... that drive-through banking stands operated in the 1960s outside Ympyrätalo in Helsinki, Finland?
... that Taylor Dugas set new Alabama Crimson Tide baseball career records for hits, singles, doubles, and triples?
... that a 1951 cyclone made landfall in Hawaii three times?
... that Charles Gauthier's sculpture of the suicide of Cleopatra was thought to be by Albert Darcq until it was cleaned?

02:25, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

... that video game journalist Ian Bogost described gameplay in the puzzle game Hundreds (screenshot pictured) as a "multi-touch ballet"?
... that the Polish resistance stole over a million US dollars in młynarki, a currency named after Polish economist Feliks Młynarski?
... that Emil Signes is credited with facilitating the inclusion of rugby sevens in the Olympics?
... that Jayanta is said to have pecked the goddess Sita's breast as a crow?
... that the 2013 album Paramore topped the charts in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States?
... that Cristiano Ronaldo won the Premier League Player of the Season award as well as the European Golden Shoe and FIFA World Player of the Year in 2008?
... that Armand Point's poster for the fifth Salon de la Rose + Croix featured Perseus holding the severed head of Emile Zola?

2 July 2014

18:40, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

... that although once celebrated, a renovation completed in 1914 of medieval Dalhem Church (pictured) has been called a "harsh and loose reconstruction of the Middle Ages"?
... that a reviewer wrote that tenor Georg Poplutz's performance of Schubert's Winterreise created a "cosmos of emotions"?
... that at the end of World War II, the Soviet Union forced Finland to return 55,000 Finnic evacuees from Ingria, only to deport them to interior areas of central Russia?
... that Yank Robinson, who set a major league record for single-season walks, died of tuberculosis at 34?
... that 1978 was the last Atlantic hurricane season to use an all-female naming list?
... that Tim Frick coached the Canadian women's wheelchair basketball team to three consecutive Paralympic gold medals and four consecutive World Wheelchair Basketball Championships?
... that the final radio version of The Saint ran for sixteen months despite a Billboard review of the first episode that called star Vincent Price "frightfully dull"?

10:55, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

... that when Dascha Polanco (pictured) was cast on Orange Is the New Black, it was her first full-time job as an actress?
... that the ten existing Philippine Basketball Association teams can "protect" twelve players in their roster in the upcoming 2014 PBA Expansion Draft?
... that, to help his wife Brandi grow her children's clothing company, Lolly Wolly Doodle, Will Temple learned how to monogram dresses and sew buttonholes?
... that Colonel Alexander Mackay was appointed commander of British forces in Boston, Massachusetts, in summer 1768, but did not arrive until April 1769 and stayed for just five months?
... that the 2013 Stadium Super Trucks season's race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was on the first asphalt track laid at the stadium?
... that Lee Harvey Oswald, the sniper who assassinated John F. Kennedy, proposed to Ella German while living in the Soviet Union?
... that A New View by philomath Edward Hatton is a guide to the streets, churches, and life of London after the Great Fire of 1666, even detailing the lawyers' robes and workhouse rations of the time?

03:10, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

... that Stephen II of Hungary (pictured) invaded Dalmatia while the Venetians were on a naval expedition, only to lose the territory when they returned?
... that former college basketball player Anthony Watson set the San Diego State single-game scoring record in 1986 and was named the Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year later that year?
... that in the trials following the rapes during the Sierra Leone Civil War, forced marriage was found to be a crime against humanity?
... that in 1903, Charles Whitman Cross and three other geologists created a method of analyzing rocks known as the CIPW norm, elements of which are still in use today?
... that Raspberry Island on the Mississippi River is the last true island in Saint Paul, Minnesota?
... that a transgender human clone is introduced as a new character in the Orphan Black episode "Variable and Full of Perturbation"?
... that in 1826 the Scottish nabob and Tory politician James Balfour was elected to Parliament with a total of three votes?

1 July 2014

19:25, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

... that American chemist Barbara Askins (pictured) invented an imaging method that dramatically decreased X-ray doses for routine medical tests?
... that The Lost Boys invented a finisher that had one man "hoisting their victim onto his shoulders" and the other "executing a moonsault that sends the opponent crashing to the mat"?
... that the 2013 short film Right There is a homage to comedies of the silent film-era?
... that the El-Buss Palestinian refugee camp was originally set up for Armenian refugees arriving in Lebanon?
... that artist Zarh Pritchard wore a diving suit to paint underwater scenes while underwater?
... that the women's suffrage journal Jus Suffragii drew criticism during World War I for launching "an active pacifist campaign"?
... that the Scottish brewery Brewmeister put a warning label on its Snake Venom beer, advising consumers to drink only one bottle per sitting?

11:25, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

... that the movements of some Manistee Watch Company pocket watches (example pictured) had 17 jewels of heliotrope garnet, and were the first in the United States to use non-magnetic hairsprings?
... that Éric Dewailly conducted research into the breast milk of Inuit women?
... that the fire bell for Forest Grove Fire and Rescue, Oregon, used to be kept at the Old College Hall on the campus of the local college?
... that communist leader U. Ramam tried to regain the Narsapuram constituency five times, after having won it in 1957?
... that although Oley Creek is considered to be an infertile stream, it is designated as a Class A Wild Brook Trout fishery for part of its length?
... that Pat McDonagh designed costumes for The Beatles, leather catsuits for Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in The Avengers, and the "Mrs Obama coat"?
... that the narrator of the 1958 horror film The Screaming Skull promises free burial to any audience member who dies of fright?
00:50, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

... that an account in the Illuminated Chronicle holds that King Coloman of Hungary (pictured) ordered the castration of his nephew, the future Béla II, but the soldier assigned the task brought him dog testicles instead?
... that in his first season playing Major League Baseball, Detroit Wolverines pitcher George Derby pitched 55 complete games, won 29 games, and led the National League in strikeouts?
... that in 1921, Maulana Hasrat Mohani and Swami Kumaranand tabled the first motion to call for full Independence in the All India Congress Committee?
... that North Fork Tangascootack Creek in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, has a thriving trout population and macroinvertebrate system?
... that Andrew Hay was killed defending the Church of St Etienne during the final engagement of the Peninsular War?
... that according to one reviewer, the productions of the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company "can match a West End show"?
... that American artist Ed McGowin changed his name and identity twelve times over an eighteen-month period?