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31 October 2016

00:00, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Talking Gravestone of Föhr

... that the Talking Gravestones of Amrum and their counterparts on Föhr (example pictured) display detailed biographies of the deceased?
... that Mary Isabella Hales Horne was the mother of 15 children, including three sets of twins?
... that the fossil ant Gesomyrmex incertus was described from a single queen's head?
... that U.S. senators Joseph S. Clark Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy toured the Mississippi Delta in 1967 and made hunger a public issue in the United States as a result?
... that no men competed for Chad at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that Mary Kitson Clark's 1935 book A Gazetteer of Roman Remains in East Yorkshire is still a basic guide to the study of the Roman presence in northern England?
... that the New York City Board of Transportation built a new headquarters that it used for only two years?
... that the wonut is a combination of a waffle and doughnut that went viral in April 2014 following media exposure?

30 October 2016

00:00, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Brine pump at Warmingham

... that the dairy-farming area of Warmingham, Cheshire, is the source of around half the pure salt (brine pump pictured) manufactured in the UK?
... that Revival stars a character that writer Tim Seeley had spent nearly 20 years developing?
... that basketball player Anthony Stover sacrificed a higher salary in hopes of winning an NBL Canada championship?
... that 2-satisfiability can be used to schedule round-robin tournaments so that teams alternate between home and away games as much or as little as possible?
... that Shriya Saran played the female lead in the 2007 film Sivaji, India's most expensive film to that point?
... that parts of the Altiplano may have been covered by the lake Ouki in the past?
... that former German ambassador to China Erwin Wickert was an alumnus of Dickinson College of Carlisle, Pennsylvania?
... that the tail of Laticauda colubrina resembles and moves like its head in order to deter predators?

29 October 2016

00:00, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

The flag of Trenton, Georgia

... that Trenton, Georgia, adopted a version of the previous state flag (pictured) to protest against the state changing its flag?
... that Swedish actor Liam Norberg became a devout Christian while serving time in prison for a bank robbery?
... that argonium, an ion composed of an argon atom and a proton, was the first noble gas molecular ion to be found in interstellar space?
... that during World Championship Wrestling's Capital Combat show, RoboCop saved Sting from the Four Horsemen?
... that a report around 2013 on American used goods outlets put Goodwill first with a 21% market share, Winmark second with nearly 6%, and The Salvation Army third with nearly 4%?
... that in 1985, Rosa Namises lost her job in a Namibian hospital after she was seen holding hands in public with a white doctor?
... that Daniel Catán's opera Il Postino is set in Italy but sung in Spanish?

28 October 2016

00:07, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Craigievar Express

... that the Craigievar Express (pictured) is driven by a steam engine previously used in a sawmill?
... that 18th-century chemist Claudine Picardet translated scientific articles from Swedish, English, German, and Italian into French?
... that while visiting segregated South Africa in 1947, George VI noticed the national motto Ex Unitate Vires on a tablecloth and said, "Not much bloody Unitate about this place!"?
... that in 2012, a small Ru ware bowl from the Song dynasty was sold for HK$207.86 million (US$26.7 million)?
... that the newspaper publisher Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth gave money to a charity fund after his chauffeur killed a boy while driving Harmsworth's car?
... that Arizona's Queen Creek Tunnel is the first in the state to be equipped with LED lighting?
... that after declaring independence from the Ava Kingdom, Thinkhaya III of Toungoo built his own palace, but left out the royal white umbrella?
... that in a Polish study, the silver stretch spider ate an average of 3.7 mosquitoes per day in early June?

27 October 2016

01:10, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

New London Union Station

... that New London Union Station (pictured) was the largest, last, and—according to biographer Henry-Russell Hitchcock—"best" railroad station designed by Henry Hobson Richardson?
... that basketball player Billy White started in the most games in San Diego State history?
... that Cortana correctly predicted the winners of the first 14 matches of the 2014 FIFA World Cup knockout stage?
... that in 1992, civilian employees of Consairway were granted veteran status by the Veterans Benefits Administration for their World War II service transporting munitions and military personnel?
... that in April 1945, the artist Eric Taylor was among the first British troops to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when it was liberated?
... that 71% of permanently protected land in the Guapi-Guapiaçú Environmental Protection Area in Brazil has no natural vegetation?
... that in Hale v. Henkel, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the self-incrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment did not apply to corporations?
... that a Duke of Burgundy has been spotted on Bratton Downs?

26 October 2016

00:05, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Thomas Aldersey

... that Thomas Aldersey (pictured) gave the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, now an educational charity, their first school?
... that Quantum Break was described as a "transmedia action-shooter video game and television hybrid"?
... that the Irish footballer Jeff Chandler was "never the same player" after suffering a knee injury in Bolton Wanderers' fourth game of their 1987–88 season?
... that the Divisional Railway Hospital in Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli, India, is the oldest in its zone?
... that Edward A. Geary was unanimously elected Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives by his Republican and Democrat peers?
... that the 1949 film Passport to Pimlico is dedicated to the memory of Second World War British food and clothing ration coupons?
... that Otto Bock technicians at the 2016 Paralympic Games carried out 3,361 repairs for 1,162 athletes, including 2,745 repairs to wheelchairs?
... that groups including the Beach Boys and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young playing at the Big Sur Folk Festival were never paid more than US$50 per performer?

25 October 2016

00:20, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Reads Landing School

... that Reads Landing School (pictured) features a brick water table?
... that after Joan Risch's apparent abduction from her home 55 years ago today, it was discovered she had borrowed books on missing-person cases from the local library?
... that the Nursing Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh was the first such department in a British university?
... that the 1955 Tamil language film Doctor Savithri is a contemporary adaptation of the story of Savitri and Satyavan?
... that the parish of St Silin's contains a part of England under the jurisdiction of the Church in Wales?
... that scholar Frederick Sherwood Dunn led a move that was described by a university president as "Yale fumbled and Princeton recovered the ball"?
... that argon oxide, an argon compound, interferes with the detection of iron-56 in inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry?
... that James M. Turner was removed from the New Jersey Senate after being convicted of trying to frame his political rival Kenneth A. Gewertz by having 6,500 amphetamine-like tablets planted in his home?

24 October 2016

00:35, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Headache vine

... that the intense fumes emitted by the crushed leaves of the so-called headache vine (pictured) cause one to feel like one's head is "exploding" ... making the inhaler forget all about the headache?
... that Johanna Umurungi was the only female Rwandan swimmer at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that Max Reger composed the chorale fantasia Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Op. 27, for Karl Straube, who premiered it before it was published?
... that after being ousted from his emirate in Aleppo, Mansur ibn Lu'lu' commanded a Byzantine army unit?
... that Antonio Giovinazzi achieved his first GP2 series pole position at the 2016 Baku round and went on to win both the weekend's races?
... that Lisbeth Hockey was the first nurse to be awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of General Practitioners?
... that in the video game Bound, the protagonist moves mainly by dancing?
... that the New York City neighborhood of Brownsville has the highest concentration of public housing in the United States?

23 October 2016

00:50, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Bridge on BR-319

... that Brazilian Minister of the Environment Carlos Minc supported the creation of what he called a "green sheath" around BR-319 (pictured)?
... that John Travolta will play New York mob boss John Gotti in an upcoming film?
... that medieval works praising cities often follow rules laid down in Ancient Greece?
... that the French Association for Scientific Information criticised Paris Descartes University's decision to award Élizabeth Teissier a doctorate for a sociology thesis of "pro-astrological advocacy"?
... that the extension to Poole Methodist Church was nominated for the 2016 Carbuncle Cup?
... that Martine van Hamel won a gold medal at the 1966 Varna International Ballet Competition, one of the most prestigious dance competitions in the world?
... that GamesRadar ranked Worms Armageddon number 13 in their list of the top 50 PlayStation games of all time?
... that after he died, daredevil Larry Donovan's mother said, "I told him that jumping off bridges was a poor way of earning a living"?

22 October 2016

00:00, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

The Taunton Flag

... that the Taunton Flag (pictured) was one of the first flags used in British North America prior to the American Revolution to express dissent against the British authorities?
... that the archaeologist Lily Chitty was a Land Girl during the First World War?
... that the reclining Buddha at the Dafo Temple, Zhangye, is 35 metres (115 ft) long?
... that Aldana Sandoval helped plot the 1944 Guatemalan coup, but did not actually participate in it?
... that the music competition Pringles Unsung was described as being "liable to kill the most credible career"?
... that Swedish theologian Johannes Bilberg published a work on the midnight sun?
... that the main event of last month's Máscara vs. Máscara professional wrestling show has been called IWRG's biggest Lucha de Apuestas ("bet match") in years?
... that at an 1892 rally attended by anti-lynching activist Ferdinand Lee Barnett, participants refused to sing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" until the United States was more truly a "sweet land of liberty"?

21 October 2016

00:00, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Cliff Clinkscales

... that basketball player Cliff Clinkscales (pictured) demonstrated his dribbling skills on national TV before he was a teenager?
... that 88 morphospecies of orchid have been identified in the Cutervo National Park in Peru?
... that Anna L. Peterson argues that the usual separation of animal and environmental ethics is based on mistaken conceptions of nature, humans, animals, and the relationships among them?
... that prior to Matt Monro's "My Kind of Girl", it had been three years since a British artist had cracked the US Top 20?
... that in 2015, nineteen-year-old Charles Fernandez became the youngest modern pentathlon champion in Pan American Games history?
... that the 1976 novel The Word for World Is Forest shares narrative themes with the 2009 film Avatar?
... that Ernest F. Schuck ran for re-election in 1977 on a platform supporting New Jersey's new state income tax, as many residents of his district would see a net gain from the plan?
... that Akigin Stadium sits next to a field of dreams?

20 October 2016

00:00, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia

... that in Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia (pictured) by Claude Lorrain, the figures are "impossibly elongated‍—‌Ascanius, in particular, is absurdly top-heavy"?
... that as a United States Attorney, David Kustoff prosecuted John Ford following his arrest in Operation Tennessee Waltz?
... that recorded sightings of the Malayan whistling thrush in the Cameron Highlands after the 1960s may have actually been a subspecies of the blue whistling thrush?
... that the developers of the video game Osiris: New Dawn wanted players to have to "Matt Damon yourself out" of situations?
... that as William Mostyn-Owen's three older brothers all died in the Second World War, he inherited Aberuchill Castle, where he and his wife lived in a wing of "23 rooms or so"?
... that East Texas State University was, in part, saved from closure in 1986 by 450 supporters making a bus trip to the Texas State Capitol in Austin?
... that Ralph Jean-Louis managed the Seychelles national football team to a gold medal at the 2011 Indian Ocean Island Games?
... that during the Blitz, staff of the Foyles Building stacked copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf on the roof in lieu of sandbags?

19 October 2016

00:00, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Comet Hale–Bopp

... that Alan Hale, who discovered Comet Hale–Bopp (pictured), said that he "predicted" its appearance would trigger suicides‍—‌and it turned out he was right?
... that Imagen Televisión, which launches today, is the first new commercial television network in Mexico since 1993?
... that Finlay Wild has won the Ben Nevis Race seven times in a row?
... that the Ağın Bridge reestablished a direct road connection between Ağın and Elazığ 40 years after the creation of the Keban reservoir?
... that Gesomyrmex macrops was named in reference to the ant species' large eyes?
... that although Fehmi Agani worked for reconciliation between Serbs and Albanians, his murder during the Kosovo War has been attributed to Serbian security forces?
... that soccer video game Breakaway has encouraged children in the West Bank not to discriminate by gender, thereby challenging social norms?
... that Richard D. Trentlage was known for his wiener jingle?

18 October 2016

00:00, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Mammon

... that George Frederic Watts's Mammon (pictured) depicts the Biblical embodiment of greed, which crushes "whatever is weak and gentle and timid and lovely"?
... that Helen Richardson-Walsh and her wife Kate were both members of the team that won Great Britain's first Olympic gold in women's hockey?
... that the Grand Theatre was reportedly the first in Australia to be lit entirely by neon lights?
... that in a case in which an ex-husband wanted to keep seven frozen embryos created while he was married, Judge Lee B. Laskin decided in favor of the ex-wife and ordered them destroyed?
... that plans are underway to convert the Akıncı Air Base, bombed during the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, into a "democracy park"?
... that the contralto Dorothy Gill was so popular during the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's visit to New York in 1934 that American fans petitioned for her return?
... that a 2014 attack on the radio station Calentana Mexiquense resulted in the death of the owner's 12-year-old son?
... that politician Sara Skyttedal participated in Miss Sweden in 2006?

17 October 2016

00:00, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Siti Nurhaliza

... that Siti Nurhaliza (pictured) has recorded songs in Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Arabic?
... that after winning a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics, Sara Ahmed became the first Egyptian woman to stand on an Olympic podium?
... that the Seattle Times Building was called a "death trap"?
... that the 12th-century manuscript De laude Cestrie is one of the earliest prose works about an English town?
... that in 1777, after George Washington's war council recommended that John Hazelwood lead the American fleet up the Delaware River to safety, he did so without the British firing a single shot?
... that the blue alfalfa aphid, native to Asia, had reached California by 1974 and Maryland by 1992?
... that the archaeologist Don Brothwell served two months in prison as a conscientious objector?
... that Newell Boathouse stands on land for which Harvard pays $1 per year under a lease running one thousand years‍—‌after which the university can renew for another thousand years?

16 October 2016

00:00, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Alojzy Plewa (left) with his brother and Ruth Schwarz

... that two-year-old Ruth Schwarz was rescued from the Sambor Ghetto by Polish Righteous Alojzy Plewa (both pictured)?
... that the Yale Institute of International Studies was a bastion of international relations realism?
... that golfers share the 18-hole Cape Wickham Links on King Island with short-tailed shearwaters?
... that James Kaliokalani and his brother, the future King Kalākaua, reportedly witnessed the execution of their grandfather Kamanawa II when they were children?
... that decoration of Jizhou ware included using leaves that were burnt away, leaving their shapes in the glaze?
... that American football coach Pop Warner's only experience with the game in his youth was using an inflated cow's bladder?
... that the first appearance of superhero Captain Atom was in an Australian comic?
... that David Carritt discovered a Fragonard misattributed at auction, a van der Weyden in a cottage, a Tiepolo on an Egyptian embassy ceiling, and five Guardis rolled up in a Dublin shed?

15 October 2016

00:00, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Flag of Guernsey

... that the Flag of Guernsey (pictured) is based on a banner used by Duke William the Bastard of Normandy during the Battle of Hastings?
... that in 1974, Barbara Thoman Curtis led the establishment of the American Nurses Association's first political action committee?
... that most Numayrid princes, apprehensive of urban life, ruled their cities from their Bedouin camps in the pastures?
... that the extinct sawfly Ypresiosirex orthosemos was named for the unique corrugation of its wings?
... that missionary Thorarinn Thorason's wife threatened to drown herself due to his missionary efforts in Iceland, but instead he drowned later that year?
... that Space Battle Lunchtime is a comic about food preparation, a subject largely ignored in American comics?
... that Henri Laborit recognized the psychiatric uses of chlorpromazine, which helped reduce asylum populations and "change the face of serious mental illness"?
... that since 1912, Spanish association football club Athletic Bilbao only fields players with ancestry from the Basque Country?

14 October 2016

00:00, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Edmund Kalau

... that after Edmund Kalau (pictured) spent his childhood in the Hitler Youth, he converted to Christianity and served in Palau and Yap in the Liebenzell Mission?
... that the philosophy journal Between the Species took its name from a fictional periodical mentioned in a George Abbe novel?
... that the science fiction video game Tharsis, inspired by the sinking of the whaling ship Essex, allows the crew of the player's spacecraft to use cannibalism to survive?
... that both the 5-8 Club and Matt's Bar, two Minneapolis eateries on the same street, claim to have invented the Juicy Lucy cheeseburger?
... that the band The Mutants developed from the idea of an album set out to retrace the roots of punk, new wave, and ska, featuring an all-star cast of punk musicians?
... that Anne Ramberg was awarded the H. M. The King's Medal of 12th size to wear on a blue ribbon for her work in the Swedish justice system?
... that Tony Award-winning Broadway actress and singer Lillian Hayman played Sadie Gray on the American soap opera One Life to Live for 17 years?
... that if you bend indium it might cry?

13 October 2016

00:00, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Royal Stables of Sweden

... that the Royal Stables of Sweden (pictured) were established in 1535 and still serve the Swedish Royal Family?
... that artist Michael Lark spends ten or more hours a day working on the comic Lazarus?
... that SMS Erzherzog Albrecht was one of the first two iron-hulled ships built for the Austro-Hungarian navy?
... that the soprano Katharine Fuge took part in John Eliot Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, both as a member of the Monteverdi Choir and as a soloist?
... that the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library at Brigham Young University houses Max Steiner's scores for King Kong and Gone with the Wind?
... that Queen Salote College was named after the Tongan Queen Sālote Lupepauʻu, who was named after the British Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz?
... that the rice root aphid can complete its whole life cycle on plum trees?
... that Robert Rutman invented the steel cello, a giant sheet metal instrument?

12 October 2016

00:00, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

David Suhor

... that David Suhor (pictured) opened proceedings for a meeting of the Pensacola City Council by delivering a Satanic prayer?
... that professional Street Fighter player Daigo Umehara lost an exhibition match of Street Fighter V to rapper Lupe Fiasco?
... that Swedish photographer Gösta Peterson met his wife at a cocktail party, where he was watering the flowers?
... that the number of traffic collisions at the TEDES-monitored intersections and fast lanes in Gaziantep, Turkey, declined by about 40% within two months of its installation?
... that a 15th-century English gentleman was called "Humphrey Stafford with the Silver Hand" because of a prosthesis he wore, perhaps having lost his limb in a "bellicose engagement"?
... that Kirkus Reviews wrote that the plot and tone of the 1998 young adult novel Love Among the Walnuts were akin to those of a Preston Sturges or Frank Capra film?
... that retired Canadian meteorologist Peter Coade was certified by The Guinness Book of World Records as having had the longest career of any weather forecaster?
... that in 1595, the Chantry House in Bunbury, Cheshire, was leased for 2,000 years for the rent of a red rose?

11 October 2016

00:00, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Florida predatory stink bug nymph

... that the Florida predatory stink bug (nymph pictured) is considered beneficial because it feeds on various pest insects?
... that George Strait recorded several songs written by Clay Blaker?
... that in the 2015 Jhabua-Ratlam Lok Sabha constituency by-election, Janata Dal (United)'s candidate was supported by five other parties?
... that horse trainer Jeff Givens was killed when his horse trailer overturned?
... that the States of Jersey were obliged to ask permission from Queen Elizabeth II in order to adopt the Jersey Red Ensign, because it contained the Jersey Arms with the Plantagenet crown?
... that Russia's Aluchin volcano is thought to have formed around 1000 CE?
... that the Hiroshima Lightning was the only active team refused entry into Japanese basketball's B.League?
... that after the 6-foot-9-inch (206 cm), 300-pound (140 kg) former Harlem Globetrotter Rico Harris disappeared two years ago today, searchers wondered why they could find no trace of such a large man?

10 October 2016

00:00, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

After the Deluge

... that After the Deluge (pictured) was described by Walter Bayes as "a kind of sublimation of all the most poetic elements in nature"?
... that Gadis Arivia established Indonesia’s first journal of feminist theory?
... that of the 482 coins found in the Viking Age Sundveda Hoard outside Stockholm, only one came from Western Europe?
... that in 1985, China–Hong Kong football rivalry resulted in China's first recorded case of football hooliganism?
... that the Cuban national Order of Playa Girón, named after the location of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, was first presented to the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin?
... that on one occasion, protesters used a foghorn to discourage Mormons in Ireland from meeting?
... that Charles Brantley was the first person in the Tennessee Walking Horse industry to be inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame?
... that Alyssa Milano released four studio albums in Japan after appearing in ads there for pasta and chocolate milk?

9 October 2016

00:00, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

South Africa Red Ensign

... that the South Africa Red Ensign (pictured) was raised over Windhoek following the British conquest of German South West Africa in 1915?
... that after admitting he took $10,000 to help a fictitious Arab sheikh, Joseph A. Maressa argued that "it would be patriotic to take some of this OPEC oil money and get it back to the United States"?
... that the opening episode of Cash Trapped contained a continuity error which revealed the outcome at the start of the game show?
... that Guiseley A.F.C. were accused of "disgraceful unsporting behaviour" when a player broke an unwritten fair-play convention to score past goalkeeper Tom King?
... that in 1960, two barges collided with the 4,162-foot (1,270 m) Severn Railway Bridge, causing two bridge spans to fall into the river?
... that a reviewer of Zwölf Stücke, Op. 65, twelve organ pieces by Max Reger, wrote that the composer was "still in his storm and stress period"?
... that research by Columbia Law School professor Jeffrey Fagan into stop-and-frisk in New York City was a major factor in Judge Shira Scheindlin's decision to rule the practice unconstitutional in 2013?
... that swarms of dykes have intruded into Uruguay?

8 October 2016

00:00, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

American germander

... that American germander (pictured) is visited by bees, butterflies and hummingbirds, but avoided by grazing animals?
... that the BBC's Daud Junbish is one of the few journalists in the world to have met former Taliban chief Mullah Omar?
... that members of a press gang from HMS Aigle stood trial for murder when four people were killed during a raid on the Isle of Portland in 1803?
... that Finnish architect Gustaf Nyström has been described as a "legendary teacher of architecture"?
... that the University of Dundee School of Medicine has one of the biggest research complexes in the UK?
... that in 2013 the mayor of Yokneam Illit called for the rural village of Yokneam Moshava to be annexed to his city because it was blocking the city's ability to expand?
... that in the second year after its launch, biological preprints hosted on bioRxiv repository were tweeted about on over 20,000 occasions?
... that actress Georgina Bouzova feared that people would spit at her because of the behaviour of her character Ellen Zitek?

7 October 2016

00:00, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Handel

... that the naturalisation of Handel (pictured) as a British citizen came via an Act of Parliament which required him to enter into communion with the Church of England?
... that cheese slaw is sometimes used as a topping for hot dogs?
... that different measurements of the size of the hydrogen atom nucleus when a muon replaces an electron is an unsolved problem in physics known as the proton radius puzzle?
... that Carnethy 5, an annual hill race held in the Pentland Hills, commemorates the Battle of Roslin?
... that the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane caused at least 2,500 deaths in Florida, making it the second deadliest tropical cyclone in the US, behind the 1900 Galveston hurricane?
... that the fossil ant Gesomyrmex magnus is notably larger than any other living or extinct Gesomyrmex species?
... that Max Esposito and his sister Chloe were the first Australian athletes to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that although the Beatles had a more successful version, the first recording of "Twist and Shout" was by The Top Notes, and was produced by Phil Spector—who later went on to produce the Beatles?

6 October 2016

00:00, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Wash's Restaurant

... that Wash's Restaurant (pictured) served up soul food dishes to Atlantic City beach-goers by day and its nightclub-hoppers by night?
... that Ravana had promised Kalanemi half his kingdom if he killed Hanuman?
... that New York City's Citywide Ferry Service is expected to carry 4.6 million passengers each year, roughly as many as the New York City Subway carries each weekday?
... that Duayne Boachie was nominated for a "Best Newcomer" award at the 2016 British Soap Awards for his portrayal of Zack Loveday?
... that in 1998, The Boston Globe said the girls' video game market was "exploding" with titles such as The American Girls Premiere?
... that Moise Poida, the Vanuatuan national football team manager, has played against World Cup winner Zinedine Zidane?
... that eruptions of Anyuyskiy Volcano in Siberia may have inspired legends of places where hunting is banned and smoke and fire rise from the ground?
... that John Harvard may have been inspired by Clio?

5 October 2016

00:00, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Fossilised human footprints at Ciampate del Diavolo

... that the oldest known human footprints in continental Europe (pictured) are called "devil's trails" by locals?
... that Edward Iacobucci has followed in his father Frank Iacobucci's footsteps as dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law?
... that Chinese Ding ware of the 11th century has been described both as porcelain and as stoneware?
... that Ingmar Bergman based his script for the Palme d'Or-winning film The Best Intentions on the life of his father Erik Bergman, salvaged from scattered notes, stories, and conversations?
... that the Wrecking Crew supplied the instrumental tracks on dozens of hits recorded in Los Angeles during the 1960s, including "California Dreamin'", "Mr. Tambourine Man", "He's a Rebel", and "Good Vibrations"?
... that Laurence Fishburne played Josh Hall, a member of "daytime television's first African American family," on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live?
... that when Talbieh Refugee Camp first opened, most of its inhabitants were displaced persons, as opposed to refugees?
... that syndicated cartoonist Mark Tatulli received a note from a former teacher saying "I can't believe you're still doing the same crap you were doing in junior high, and now getting paid for it"?

4 October 2016

00:00, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Lena Sundström

... that Swedish journalist Lena Sundström (pictured) was a foundling?
... that in the 1970 Florida gubernatorial election, Claude Kirk called Reubin Askew a "momma’s boy who wouldn't have the courage to stand up under the fire of the legislators"?
... that to reduce injuries, professional tennis tournaments are no longer played on carpet courts?
... that the Bayit Lepletot orphanage in Jerusalem houses and educates girls from as young as three years of age until they are ready to marry and start homes of their own?
... that Michigan Wolverines shooting guard Charles Matthews preferred the trombone and skateboard to basketball in his youth?
... that the fossil ant species Formica paleosibirica has been described from only three partial males and two lone wings?
... that at age 78, Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe was awarded the Padma Shri for his lifetime work in photography?
... that the Get Out and Push Railroad required passengers to help its trains over the steeper sections of the route?

3 October 2016

03:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Pygmy goosefoot

... that the pygmy goosefoot (pictured), a plant endemic to New Zealand that was thought to be extinct, was rediscovered in 2015?
... that Akiyama Tokuzō, once referred to as the "Japanese Escoffier", became Master Chef of the Imperial Court of Japan at only 25 years of age?
... that in the 1990s Disney created animated storybook video games for The Lion King, Pocahontas, Toy Story, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 101 Dalmatians, Hercules, The Little Mermaid, and Mulan, as well as 1966 and 1974 shorts based on Winnie the Pooh?
... that Emma Wiggs, a gold medallist in paracanoe at the 2016 Paralympics, competed at the 2012 Paralympics as a sitting volleyball player?
... that planners of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mahane Yehuda offered free land to the first 50 families, but there were no takers?
... that the statistician Kai-Tai Fang's dissertation was written in two weeks but not published for 19 years because of the Cultural Revolution?
... that in honor of Georgia Tech's 1929 Rose Bowl victory, running back Stumpy Thomason was given a bear cub by a local businessman, which he drove around Atlanta and fed Coca-Cola?

2 October 2016

07:22, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Air-raid shelter at St Leonard's Court

... that St Leonard's Court in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames has a Grade II listed underground air-raid shelter (entrance pictured) built in the 1930s?
... that the stories of Italian author and Holocaust survivor Rubino Romeo Salmonì were an inspiration for Roberto Benigni's 1997 film Life Is Beautiful?
... that Restaurant Andrew Fairlie is known for a signature dish of lobster cold smoked over whisky casks?
... that Zufar al-Kilabi was given a high position in the Umayyad court and army in return for abandoning his support for the rebellion of Ibn al-Zubayr?
... that Channel 4's 2016 Paralympics trailer "We're the Superhumans" featured a big band comprised of musicians with disabilities?
... that Moldavian pediatrician Anastasie Fătu proposed a ban on open-casket church funerals?
... that Jordan has remained one of the safest countries in the Middle East, despite regional turmoil?
... that RKO Pictures fired director Howard Hawks after Bringing Up Baby flopped, but the 1938 screwball comedy is now regarded as one of Hawks' masterpieces?

1 October 2016

04:47, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Elin Rombo as Sister Blanche

... that Elin Rombo (pictured) played Sister Blanche in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites in a 2011 production at the Royal Swedish Opera?
... that Timber Sycamore is a covert CIA program that arms and trains rebels in the Syrian civil war?
... that the Paralympic canoeing champion Anne Dickins had to overcome seasickness when she took up the sport?
... that the turnip aphid is highly prolific, with as many as 35 generations a year being recorded in Texas?
... that Daniel Dalton has a graduate degree in public administration, but called his work in a U.S. congressman's office "the greatest education I've ever had"?
... that the CMLL 68th Anniversary Show was the first time that a steel cage match was held at a CMLL anniversary show?
... that when King George Tupou II of Tonga married Lavinia Veiongo instead of ʻOfakivavaʻu, there were riots in the streets of Nukuʻalofa?
... that the Sunday Mirror recommended that players stumped by video game Myst should get Pyst?