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17:59, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
... that construction of the courthouse (pictured) of the Rochester Downtown Historic District may have spurred nearby buildings to have faux stones cemented upon them?
... that George Zames pioneered the H-infinity methods which have revolutionized the field of robust control?
... that the Nigar Awards are the oldest awards of merit in the Pakistani film industry?
... that Daniel Page, the second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, helped finance the construction of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad?
... that magnetic resonance neurography creates detailed medical images of nerves?
... that Ghulam Ahmed Chishti wrote, composed and recorded six to seven songs for the film Pheray in a single day?
... that American President Lines was declared an industry leader in 1989 for its innovations in container transport?

11:49, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the Columbus Monument (pictured) in Barcelona, Spain, was built entirely using Spanish materials and Catalan labor?
... that Hugh McCulloch became president of the Bank of Indiana without any prior experience in banking at all?
... that Mecklenburg underwent a series of partitions, so that by the 18th century, rulers in both of its parts had identical titles?
... that the Citadel of Saigon, a stone fortress in Vietnam, was captured during the French invasion after less than a day of battle?
... that in his 1570 book on religious images, theologian Molanus objected to showing the infant Jesus naked, among many other things?
... that San Francisco's 1873 Pigtail Ordinance was deemed unconstitutional because it discriminated against Chinese immigrants?
... that Vaidila, depicted in the Lithuanian Chronicles as a kitchen assistant who entered nobility only through marriage, was the only Lithuanian duke known to marry a daughter of a Gediminid ruler?
... that Keelung City, Taiwan was briefly occupied by the French military in the late 1880s?

02:15, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
... that when the Gevingåsen Tunnel (pictured) opens in 2012 it will cut rail travel time north of Trondheim, Norway, by five minutes?
... that Fort Concho, a United States Army outpost in San Angelo, Texas from 1867 to 1889, was the headquarters for the Buffalo Soldiers of the American West?
... that the city of Strasbourg, France is the sole or main seat of over 20 international institutions?
... that Dr Nigel Cox is the only doctor ever to have been convicted in Britain for attempted euthanasia?
... that Olvir Hnufa, a famous 9th-century Norwegian skald quoted in the Prose Edda, was the great-uncle of the Viking Egil Skallagrimsson?
... that children's author Aleksandra Ishimova was the last correspondent of Alexander Pushkin before his death in a duel?
... that according to a letter written in 1428 by President Felip de Malla to Alfonso the Magnanimous, Catalonia was devastated by an earthquake on Candlemas that year?

12:29, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
... that lenticular galaxy NGC 1553 (pictured) is located at the center of the Dorado Group and has a spiral feature that is only visible in X-rays?
... that the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario was established by the Government of Ontario in response to a recommendation in the Rae Report?
... that an eye of Edward Oldcorne, who was tortured to reveal his part in the Gunpowder Plot, is kept as a holy relic?
... that William Cullen Bryant owned Cedarmere-Clayton Estates in Roslyn Harbor, New York where the Nassau County Museum of Art now stands?
... that Nguyễn Trung Trực, who organized and led militia that fought against French colonial forces in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, was a local fisherman?
... that Aberdeen's Northern Co-operative Society declared a loss of £7 million in 1992, and, unable to recover, went into receivership, bringing to an end a 132-year-old business?
... that children's book author and illustrator Christopher Manson uses traditional hand tools to create the pine woodcuts that decorate his books?

11:31, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the Hnojník château (pictured), now in the Czech Republic, was owned by the Beess family from 1736 until 1945?
... that the first edition of Henry Fielding's final novel Amelia was published with 5,000 copies while his popular novel Tom Jones had only 3,500 copies for both its first and second edition?
... that Luan Da of the Han Dynasty was granted 2,000 households to rule over due to his practice of mediumship?
... that ejecta from the impact that created Zunil crater in Athabasca Valles on Mars is a possible source of Martian meteorites?
... that German bryologist Franz Stephani was the author of "one of the most notorious publications in bryology"?
... that the Municipal Theatre of Corfu served as the place of assembly for the Serbian Parliament in exile from 19 January 1916 to 19 November 1918?
... that, at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) tall, Teddy Davison was considered the smallest goalkeeper to play for the England national football team?

22:42, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the Michigan-Wacker Historic District (pictured) hosts Chicago's first permanent residence, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite?
... that the Nicaraguan Rice Rat is one of only two mammals endemic to Nicaragua?
... that Grand Duchess Anna freed her husband Vytautas the Great of Lithuania from a prison in Kreva by dressing him in women's clothes?
... that the Montreux Convention of 1936 is an international treaty regulating the Dardanelles and Bosporus Straits?
... that Anita West, one of the presenters of Blue Peter, was on the show for such a short period that no footage of her exists in the BBC archives?
... that famous Benjamin Franklin impersonator Ralph Archbold is married to a woman who impersonates Betsy Ross?
... that the International Checker Hall of Fame in Petal, Mississippi was home to the world's largest checkerboard?
... the Wikipedia Review is an Internet forum devoted to the discussion of Wikimedia projects, in particular the English Wikipedia and its content and conflicts?
... that the first fire department in Indianapolis was established seventeen months after the first fire in the city?

17:21, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the Bahá'í community of Panama (Bahá'í House of Worship in Panama City pictured) was estimated to make up two percent of the national population?
... that in 1967, Ann Pellegreno and a crew of three successfully flew a similar aircraft, Lockheed 10A Electra, to complete a world flight that mirrored Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight plan?
... that in the 1537 Battle of Ollantaytambo, an Inca army resorted to flooding the battlefield as a way to counter the Spanish cavalry?
... that David William Thomas, mayor of Minden, Louisiana who also published newspapers, practiced law, and taught at the university level, was called "Renaissance man"?
... that Eat This Book has been criticized as "basically a book-length infomercial" for the International Federation of Competitive Eating?
... that actor Jiří Sovák played the role of a man who had a prophetic dream about the Velvet Revolution in the 1996 Czech film Kolya?
... that Long Island's Roslyn Grist Mill is one of the few surviving Dutch colonial timber frame commercial buildings in the U.S.?
... that a statue of French general Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes in Bamako, Mali was torn down shortly after Mali's independence in 1960?

10:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the Daily Express Building (pictured), an Art Deco former printing press, is Manchester's only listed building constructed in the 1930s?
... that "racing baron" Fritz Huschke von Hanstein won the 1940 Mille Miglia in a BMW 328?
... that gender identity disorder in children is a diagnosis formally recognized in 1980 that often involves controversial therapeutic intervention?
... that Major League Baseballer Willis Roberts signed as a free agent to play with the Cincinnati Reds on the same day he was released by the Detroit Tigers?
... that Psilopterus was about the same size as the modern cariama, making it the smallest of the carnivorous prehistoric avians known as terror birds?
... that when Henry D. Edelman became the first president and CEO of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation in June 1989, no staff had been hired to work with him?
... that the West Indian laurel fig tree is an introduced species in Florida where it has escaped from cultivation?
... that the Papal conclave, 1592 was the fourth papal conclave during the year and a half after the death of Pope Sixtus V?

12:23, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the Green Rosella (pictured) of Tasmania was mistakenly believed by Johann Friedrich Gmelin to have originated from New Caledonia and named accordingly?
... that forensic anthropologist Arpad Vass is developing a decomposition odor analysis or DOA database to enable Human Remains Detection (HRD) dogs to help detect human remains?
... that Ulf Sterner of Sweden was the first European player in the National Hockey League?
... that the Indiana Canal Company was once believed to be a front for the conspiracy of former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr?
... that a pilot of 818 Naval Air Squadron flying from HMS Ark Royal, crippled the German battleship Bismarck so that she could later be sunk?
... that Mike Scioscia, the current manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball club, was the first to lead the team to a World Series championship in 2002?
... that the Manx Rumpy breed of chicken is not Manx at all?

03:36, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
... that in 1346, the Black Plague (illustration pictured) infected the first Europeans in the Crimea in what has been called one of the worst biological attacks in the history of warfare?
... that the children's music duo Greg & Steve started out singing to children as special education assistants?
... that the t:kort digital ticketing for public transport in Trøndelag, Norway was launched seven years behind schedule?
... that the construction of the Cairo Apartments, one of the tallest buildings in Washington, D.C., prompted the U.S. Congress to pass a new law in 1899 to limit buildings to the height of the Capitol?
... that Eric Borel, a teenager who killed 14 people in Cuers, Var, was the most deadly mass murderer in France since 1989?
... that the 2007 documentary film Quantum Hoops tells the story of the Caltech mens' basketball team, who had a 259-game losing streak after not winning a conference game since 1985?
... that The Towers, a residence in Didsbury, Manchester originally built for the editor of the Manchester Guardian, is now a cotton research facility?
... that current Toledo Mud Hens pitcher Francis Beltrán pitched the final inning of the final game played by the Montreal Expos before the club moved to Washington?

21:34, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the Broadway Theater District, with 12 movie palaces (example pictured) in six blocks, is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
... that Syed Wajid Ali Shah was the longest serving President of the Pakistan Olympic Association with a tenure of 26 years?
... that an almost-complete juvenile specimen of Ctenochelys was uncovered in 2005?
... that Samuel Jarvis was acquitted of manslaughter after winning Toronto's last duel on July 12, 1817, and married the daughter of the presiding judge the following year?
... that when the Japanese visual novel Suika was released for the PlayStation, it was retitled as Water Summer?
... that Canadian actor Kevin Durand, who plays antagonist Martin Keamy in the fourth season of the television show Lost, is a former rapper and stand-up comic?
... that the 20-room Garbutt House in Los Angeles, California was built with concrete walls and ceilings, steel-reinforced doors and no fireplaces due to the owner's intense fear of fire?
... that Vincent Gambi was one of several pirates associated with Jean Lafitte, and assisted him during the Battle of New Orleans?

15:34, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the papal election in 1241 is often cited as the first papal conclave due to the confinement of the cardinal electors to the Septizodium (pictured)?
... that when Daniel Elfrith became admiral of the colonies at Black Rock Fort in 1632, he warned ships of where escaped slaves might attack?
... that a scene from "Rosemary's Baby", an episode of 30 Rock featuring Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan, was described by one critic as "one of the funniest scenes ... on TV this season"?
... that Greek–Polish singer Eleni Tzoka has been awarded the Saint Rita of Cascia prize for the act of mercy towards the killer of her young daughter?
... that Dair Mar Elia, dating from the 6th century, is the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq?
... that Garry Roggenburk, after his Major League Baseball career, became a general manager for the Winter Haven Red Sox in the farm system of his former team, the Boston Red Sox?
... that an extension of Ferrybridge Henge in West Yorkshire was discovered when surveying an area in preparation to erect a row of houses?
... that Miroslav Macháček spent four months in an insane asylum because he criticised the communist approach in the Prague National Theatre in 1975, two years before Charter 77?

09:27, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the one-make Procar Championship (pictured) was created in 1979 to help BMW produce the 400 M1 sports cars necessary to compete in the World Championship for Makes?
... that a World War II pilot from No. 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, escaped death when he fell onto a fellow crew member in mid-air and shared his parachute?
... that mass lesions in the brain stem cause coma, a severe alteration in the level of consciousness, by affecting the reticular formation?
... that Uncommon Friends of the 20th Century is a 1999 documentary film about businessman James D. Newton's friendships with well-known figures such as Thomas A. Edison, Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford?
... that Elliott Cutler, who performed the world's first successful heart valve surgery in 1923, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal twice for his distinguished service in the two World Wars?
... that Dickie's Bladder-fern was first found in a yawn in Scotland, but that Victorian fern collectors may have removed every specimen from this site?
... that during the Texas Revolution, soldiers in the Texian Army were not issued official uniforms, so many purchased US Army surplus uniforms to wear?

03:22, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
... that in 1882, after Australia beat England at cricket, The Sporting Times published a satirical death notice (pictured) which was the origin of The Ashes?
... that the biography of a Douglas-fir, Tree: A Life Story, was inspired by a single tree at David Suzuki's home?
... that the Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall, a large multi-touch device, has been used by CNN during its coverage of the 2008 United States elections, and has been nicknamed "The Magic Wall"?
... that El Cabrillo courtyard apartments, built in 1928 by Cecil B. DeMille and later home to transvestite actor Divine, are said to be "steeped in old Hollywood lore"?
... that Pryor Brock Farmstead is the best representation of a farmstead, with Italianate buildings, around Zionsville, Indiana?
... that Lamine Guèye from Senegal was the first Black African skier to take part in the Winter Olympics?
... that The West Wing episode "Ways and Means" was co-written by Eli Attie and Gene Sperling, two former employees of the Bill Clinton White House?

20:55. 6 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the 1948 Headingley Test, in which Don Bradman's cricket team the Invincibles (pictured) made a world record run-chase, remains the most attended Test on English soil?
... that the series of oil paintings by Nabil Kanso titled The Split of Life comprises over 80 mural-sized works?
... that the Jamaican Blackbird has evolved to fill the ecological niche more typical of woodcreepers and woodpeckers?
... that Major General William P. T. Hill, Quartermaster General of the United States Marine Corps had participated in Doctor Roy Chapman Andrews' expedition to the Gobi Desert while still a captain?
... that the 1948 film Terri Yaad was the first feature film to be released in Pakistan after the partition of India?
... that the National Park Service originally rejected the application to create a second historic district in Roslyn, New York, suggesting the first one be expanded instead?
... that the Australian Army adopted the Pentropic organisation in 1960, but returned to its previous unit structures in 1965 as the new organisation was found to be unsuited to Australia's strategic environment?

13:51, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
... that surviving examples of early Byzantine mosaics (example pictured) can still be found at Mount Nebo, where Moses died, and Tell Mar Elias, the birthplace of Elijah?
... that the British radio sitcom Safety Catch is built around the moral dilemmas of a man who inadvertently became an arms dealer?
... that the 1820 Indiana Supreme Court decision in the case of Polly v. Lasselle freed all slaves in the U.S. state of Indiana?
... that the Banga Sena is a separatist organization which advocates formation of a separate homeland for Bengali Hindus in Bangladesh?
... that no prints or negatives survive of the 1933 short film Hello Pop!, starring The Three Stooges before they began performing under that name?
... that the organisers of the Tour de France refused to hold the race during WWII, despite the German authorities' offer to open the borders between German-occupied France and Vichy France specially?
... that the Mineola, New York post office has no public art in its lobby, which is unusual for post offices of its size built during the Great Depression?

07:34, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the superstructure of the Ship John Shoal Light (pictured) was exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876, while inhabited by a lighthouse keeper?
... that the biopsychosocial model was theorized by George L. Engel at the University of Rochester Medical Center and putatively discussed in a 1977 article in the journal Science?
... that The Legend of Chu Liu Xiang received the third-highest viewership of all television series broadcast in 2007 on CCTV-8, even though it was released in December of that year?
... that Admiral Herbert Sawyer had a son named Herbert Sawyer, who not only also became an admiral, but was even given his father's old command, the North American Station?
... that the four brothers in Christian rock band Remedy Drive were performing over 200 concerts a year before signing onto a record label?
... that Hibernian Park hosted the first football international match played in Edinburgh, Scotland?
... that the day after Nazi Germany declared war on the U.S., Adolf Hitler announced the extermination of the Jewish race to party leaders in a private meeting in the Reich Chancellery?

22:44, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
... that an art historian claimed The Fortune Teller (pictured), an oil painting by Georges de La Tour, is actually a forgery?
... that Riverside Drive Historic District in Covington, Kentucky marks where the first white settlers in the Cincinnati area lived?
... that Yukiko Iwai, at 4' 11'' (150 cm), was the shortest member of the 1980s all-girl Japanese pop group Onyanko Club?
... that the killing of filmmaker Hugh O'Connor in 1967 came to represent the conflict between outsiders and locals in Appalachia during the War on Poverty?
... that the blue-green toadstool Stropharia aeruginosa is named for its similarity in colour to verdigris?
... that circumstances of the 1977 death of Stanisław Pyjas, a Polish student and anti-communist activist, are still a mystery?
... that the Lafayette Afro Rock Band, although little known during their time, is now considered as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s?
... that Vic Aldridge, nicknamed the "Hoosier Schoolmaster", had the worst seventh game start for a pitcher in World Series history?

19:01, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
... that LA's Board of Trade Building (pictured), site of the California Stock Exchange, was the first office building on the Pacific coast with automated elevators?
... that British psychoanalyst Montague David Eder was a non-commissioned military surgeon for the Bolivian Army?
... that although the Collared Lory is only found in Fiji today, fossil evidence shows that it once existed in Tonga and was extirpated by human settlers?
... that Canadian professional wrestler and promoter Bronko Lubich was influential in the careers of several wrestlers such as Mick Foley, Steve Austin and Percy Pringle?
... that the Kucheng Massacre was one of the worst outrages against foreigners in China prior to the Boxer Movement?
... that the music video for British electropop band Hot Chip's song "Boy From School" was said to invoke the memory of the children's art series, Art Attack?
... that Heroes' Day in Namibia, recognized by the United Nations as Namibia Day, commemorates the fighters killed during the Namibian War of Independence annually on 26 August?
... that Somerset cricket captain Reggie Ingle maintained his hay fever was made worse by train journeys, and travelled in the luggage rack to avoid the dust at lower levels?

12:32, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
... that when American General Horace H. Fuller (pictured) asked to be relieved in 1944, he became the only division commander to be relieved in the Western New Guinea campaign in World War II?
... that St. Maria ad Gradus, a former church in Cologne, Germany, was the burial site of Richeza of Lotharingia in 1063?
... that after basketball coaches exploited the possession arrow rule, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines amended the rules for the 2008 season?
... that, in spite of lobbying from New Hampshire residents, the episodes of The West Wing "Manchester Part I and Part II" were filmed in Bluemont, Virginia instead?
... that senior GDR diplomat Gottfried Lessing had taken part in the founding and been a leading member of the illegal clandestine Communist Party in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) during the 1940s?
... that the inverted floral arrangement of Lacandonia schismatica, where the stamens are in the flower's center and are surrounded by the pistils, is unique among all known flowering plants?
... that R. Thomas Flynn, retired president of Monroe Community College, won an athletic scholarship to Bradley University that he later lost due to injury?

06:48, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the FBI Buffalo Field Office (patch pictured) houses over ten different investigative programs and two different specialty programs?
... that René Victor Auberjonois, one of the leading Swiss painters of the 20th century, was poorly received in the Romandie, where he lived most of his life?
... that the 2008 Western Australian gas crisis may cost the state's industries hundreds of millions of dollars?
... that Polish writer of youth literature Alfred Szklarski often compared Polish people to Native Americans?
... that one of the founders of the International Time Capsule Society estimated that over 80 percent of time capsules will be lost before they are opened?
... that Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming, is the second burial site of the mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson, the inspiration for the 1972 film Jeremiah Johnson?
... that 1984 World Sportscar Champion Stefan Bellof was killed due to a collision with 1982 and 1983 World Champion Jacky Ickx at the 1985 1000 km of Spa?

22:00, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
... that due to shifting political winds, the production of the F-20 Tigershark (pictured) for the Taiwanese Air Force failed to start on three separate occasions?
... that Dactylosaurus lived in the Middle Triassic period during the Anisian faunal stage of central Europe?
... that in February 1428, President of Catalonia Felip de Malla wrote a letter to King Alfonso V describing an earthquake that had struck Barcelona?
... that 19th-century archaeologist Isaiah Deck proposed pulping linen from Egyptian mummies into paper, to meet a paper shortage in America?
... that the partition of a uterine septum can extend caudally and result in a double vagina?
... that in 1985, molecular biologist Richard A. Houghten developed the "tea-bag" method for peptide selection?
... that Ad exstirpanda, promulgated in May 1252 by Pope Innocent IV, authorized the use of torture by the Inquisition for the purpose of eliciting confessions from alleged heretics?
... that the inspiration for the 2001 horror film Texas Night Train was the song "Moppin' the Floor with My Baby's Head"?

18:18, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the origin and significance of the picture stone known as the snake-witch (pictured) remain a mystery?
... that Valri Bromfield performed stand-up comedy on the first episode of Saturday Night Live?
... that the flesh of the poisonous mushroom Boletus legaliae smells of chicory?
... that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building in Louisville, Kentucky is one of the largest commercial Beaux Arts buildings still in existence?
... that the identity of the language or dialect of the Cançó de Santa Fe, a hagiographical poem about Saint Faith, has been debated since the 16th century?
... that the "Australian Legends" in 2000, Walter Parker and Roy Longmore were among the last living veterans of the ANZAC who had served in World War I?
... that primitive weevils of the Aglycyderini, Metrioxenini and Oxycorynini tribes are believed to have evolved in the Late Cretaceous or perhaps Paleocene period, some 100-60 million years ago?
... that Steve Adkins, on the day of his Major League debut, walked five consecutive batters, two short of the all time record of seven?

13:18, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the 1688 Siege of Bangkok (illustration pictured) ended with the total retreat of French troops from Siam, modern-day Thailand?
... that "Greenzo", an episode of 30 Rock, was part of NBC’s Green Week that aimed at having every primetime program aired during the second week of November 2007 contain an environmental theme?
... that English vinegar manufacturer and Liberal member of parliament Mark Hanbury Beaufoy wrote well-known verses on gun safety?
... that the Oregon Imnaha Guard Station is one of the few U.S. Forest Service guard stations that have been occupied almost every summer since 1939?
... that beetles of the Belinae subfamily prefer feeding on wood of diseased or dying plants to healthy ones?
... that Rogers Morton was the only person in the 20th century from the East Coast of the United States to serve as Secretary of the Interior?
... that Cine City in Manchester, England, the third cinema to open in England in 1912 as "The Scala", has recently been demolished?
... that George Edward Pendray coined the term time capsule and created the word laundromat?

03:55, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
... that skeletons of many now-extinct animals, including saber-toothed cats (pictured) and dire wolves, have been recovered from the tar pit in McKittrick Oil Field in Kern County, California?
... that Adolf Dietrich, one of Switzerland's leading painters of the 20th century, had no formal training and worked for most of his life as an untrained labourer?
... that the melody of British electropop band Hot Chip's song, "One Pure Thought", was said to be reminiscent of New Order?
... that the Erie Gauge War in 1853 was nicknamed the "Peanut War" because its outcome affected the street vendors who sold peanuts to travelers in Erie, Pennsylvania the most?
... that Jimmy Speirs won the Military Medal while serving with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, six years after his goal helped Bradford City win the 1911 FA Cup Final?
... that a solitary pulmonary nodule, a mass in the lung smaller than 3 cm (1.2 in) in diameter, can be an incidental finding found in up to 0.2 percent of chest X-rays and about 1 percent of CT scans?
... that the invention and military use of modern land mines are attributed to Brigadier General Gabriel J. Rains of the Confederate States Army?

19:31, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
... that Blue Tilapia (pictured) have become the most widespread foreign fish in Florida waters since their introduction in 1961, and are now a serious management problem in Everglades National Park?
... that the Doctor Who episode "The Stolen Earth" features cameo appearances by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and comedian Paul O'Grady?
... that Art Ross, the first head coach of the Boston Bruins, served four stints as head coach?
... that 29 Norwegian civilians were shot in reprisal by the Nazi regime in Norway following the Norwegian resistance's assassination of police chief Karl Marthinsen in February of 1945?
... that the San Fernando Building in Los Angeles, California, recently converted into upscale lofts, was raided several times for illegal gambling operations between 1910 and 1930?
... that the 1946 earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan caused a 6-meter (20-ft) tsunami that destroyed 2,100 homes?
... that lyric coloratura soprano Harolyn Blackwell replaced opera diva Kathleen Battle when she famously got fired from the Metropolitan Opera?

18:30, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the sittellas (pictured) of Australasia were once thought to be nuthatches but are now considered their own family?
... that the best result of German motorcycle rider Georg Braun, a second place, was achieved in a wet race in the 1954 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix at Circuit Bremgarten?
... that the Missouri University of Science and Technology Nuclear Reactor, built in 1961, was the first nuclear reactor in the U.S. state of Missouri?
... that the Durga Vahini, the women's wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, have been accused of instigating violence against religious minorities in India?
... that the 2100 series of the Keihin Electric Express Railway produces a "do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do" tune when its propulsion system starts up?
... that when wrestler George Scott and his brother Sandy were in Australia, they won the IWA World Tag Team Championship three times between 1966 and 1968?
... that units in LA's Avenel Cooperative Housing Project, reportedly built as "a cooperative living experiment for a group of communists", were selling for US$300,000 in 2002?

08:46, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the modern coat of arms of Russia (pictured) was designed by a former political prisoner, Yevgeny Ukhnalyov?
... that San Francisco indie rock band LoveLikeFire formed as a result of a Craigslist classified advertisement?
... that Karl Wahl, in 1954, was the first former Nazi Gauleiter to publish his autobiography after having received permission from the denazification authorities to do so?
... that a revolution in burrowing marks the base of the Cambrian period, and is followed by the Cambrian explosion of animal diversity?
... that Arthur Barret, the twenty-second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, died after serving only eleven days in office?
... that Dibeen Forest Reserve, established in 2004, is the newest nature reserve in Jordan?
... that at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, basketballer Danny Morseu was the first Torres Strait Islander to represent Australia at the Olympic games?

03:55, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
... that Hygrocybe coccinea (pictured) is a bright red edible mushroom that grows in the grasslands of Europe and under Rhododendron in Nepal?
... that Silas D. Alben proposed a model for more efficient turbine blades based on the bumpy flippers of humpback whales?
... that age controversies in gymnastics once resulted in the North Korean women's team being banned from the World Championships?
... that the song "Shake a Fist" was almost included on the British electropop band Hot Chip's second album, The Warning, instead of their third?
... that Albert Anker is sometimes called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his popular depictions of 19th century Swiss village life?
... that the United Nations Institute for Namibia, established in 1976 in Lusaka, Zambia, sought to promote Namibian independence as well as educate Namibians for after independence was achieved?
... that only a year after being established by car dealership owner Giuseppe Risi, the Risi Competizione team won their class at the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans?

21:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
... that Caeca et Obdurata, promulgated by Pope Clement VIII (pictured) in 1593, ordered that Jews be expelled from the Papal States except Rome, Ancona, and the Comtat Venaissin, within three months?
... that Toledo Mud Hens relief pitcher Ian Ostlund is one of only two people in Virginia high school history to strike out the side in every inning of a complete game?
... that Russula nigricans is an edible fungus which turns red, then grey, and finally black on bruising or cutting?
... that the Valmet Nr II tram of the Helsinki tram network was redesigned to include air conditioning in the cockpit after a driver fainted in the summer heat and killed a motorcyclist in a collision?
... that The Voice of the Turtle, the ninth longest-running play in Broadway history, derives its name from a verse in the Bible’s Song of Solomon?
... that philanthropist Bilquis Edhi, who helped save 16,000 babies, has been nicknamed "Mother of Pakistan"?
... that International Surfing Day originated in 2004 to celebrate the sport of surfing and clean up beaches?
... that the Calabasas, California facilities for the private elementary school New Village Academy is funded by actor Will Smith?

14:36, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the "Livingstone Tree" in Nkhotakota, Malawi, was never visited by David Livingstone (statue pictured), though when he travelled there he famously stopped under another tree?
... that Buddy West was chief legislative advocate for the University of Texas of the Permian Basin at Odessa?
... that Castleshaw Roman fort in Greater Manchester was a Roman fort built in 79 AD replaced by a smaller fortlet before being abandoned in the 120s?
... that Detroit Tigers pitcher Eddie Bonine played for three different colleges in three different states before he turned professional?
... that hundreds of political prisoners were freed in numerous raids on communist prisons in Poland between 1944 and 1946?
... that Kemar Roach played in his first Twenty20 match against Australia and finished with the best bowling figures of the match?
... that burials took place for almost 60 years at the site before Monfort Cemetery in Port Washington, New York was officially set aside for that purpose?
... that Bethany Black has been described as "Britain's only goth, lesbian, transsexual comedian"?

08:55, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
... that Arthur Bingham was commander of HMS Little Belt, when the Little Belt Affair (pictured) occurred in 1811?
... that the first modern time capsule was Thornwell Jacobs’ Crypt of Civilization at Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia, due to be opened May 28, 8113?
... that coffee production in Costa Rica in the 19th century created enough revenue to build the National Theater in the capital San José?
... that the title for Christian musician Matthew West’s album Something to Say had already been decided before he knew that he would have to be vocally silent for two months?
... that the Dorado Group is one of the richest galaxy clusters in the Southern Hemisphere and thought to be unvirialized which could explain its abundance of H I and spirals?
... that the painter Cuno Amiet, a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland, created more than a thousand self-portraits?
... that the journey described in Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, was financed by an advance on the book she planned to write about the trip?

21:06, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
... that Boston Celtics head coaches Red Auerbach (pictured) and Bill Fitch were named to the list of the Top 10 Coaches in NBA history?
... that German politician Käte Strobel broke a taboo in 1967 by promoting sex education with a school book and the government-sponsored film Helga?
... that almost all Pakistani pop music videos were forbidden to air on local television after Zia-ul-Haq's military coup in 1977?
... that Adam Raphael was named Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards of 1973 for a Guardian series on labour conditions in South Africa?
... that future King Henry IV of England and Marshal of France Jean Le Maingre took part in the Lithuanian Civil War?
... that Ontario politician Jan Dukszta, a psychiatrist by training, took time out of his 1981 re-election campaign to treat colleague Tony Lupusella who was suffering a nervous breakdown?
... that Native Americans in Nebraska who live on reservations generally do not pay State of Nebraska taxes?
... that French cartographer Jacques Bertin was the first to provide a theoretical foundation to Information Visualization?

16:50, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the exact species for which the fish genus Carangoides (C. orthogrammus pictured) was originally created is unknown?
... that in the 1800s, Chichester, Quebec claimed to have the largest wooden locks in Canada, built as part of a scheme to encourage boat travel on the upper Ottawa River?
... that the 2008 film Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins uses "meerkats actors" to depict the Whiskers and Lazuli groups rather than using actual footage of the real meerkats?
... that Bert Freeman was the top scorer in the English Football League in three seasons before 1914?
... that Hexaware Technologies Limited is ranked as India’s 11th top IT service provider by NASSCOM since 2005?
... that Scottish missionary Carstairs Douglas compiled the first comprehensive Amoy-English Dictionary in 1873, which, with revisions, is still in use today?
... that in 1298, Pope Boniface VIII decreed in Periculoso that nuns "ought henceforth to remain perpetually cloistered in their monasteries"?
... that the prosecution of Dr. Leonard Arthur for the murder of a Down's syndrome baby led to a change in British law regarding the disclosure of technical evidence?

13:18, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
... that George Hargreaves, Christian Party candidate in the forthcoming UK Parliamentary by-election, has said that the dragon symbol on the Welsh flag (pictured) is "nothing less than the sign of Satan"?
... that the Stonerose fossil site contains the earliest known records of Rosaceae, the rose family?
... that velology is the study of vehicle tax discs?
... that all four stars of Starved, an FX sitcom about eating disorders, struggled with eating disorders themselves, a fact unknown to producers until after casting?
... that the design of Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien in Épinay-sur-Seine, France was inspired by the architectural styles of five continents?
... that Pakistani actress Maria Wasti played a role depicting philanthropist and Lenin Peace Prize winner Bilquis Edhi?
... that boxer Oscar De La Hoya has been involved in efforts to redevelop the Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building in the Boyle Heights neighborhood where he grew up?
... that Leves were Roman soldiers armed with javelins?

06:14, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the French Protestant Church in Brighton (pictured), one of only two in England, is expected to close this year?
... that anthropologist David Zolotarev’s 1930 study of the ethnic tribes of the northern Russian Lake Imandra region determined they did not understand Soviet-style "socialist construction"?
... that the Miss Great Britain Party is a British political movement which campaigns to make politics "sexy not sleazy"?
... that a 3D model artist for The Matrix Reloaded went on to participate in the fangame project Chrono Resurrection?
... that Vin americanii! ("The Americans are coming!") was a slogan used by Romanians in the 1940s and '50s to express their hope that a US intervention would topple the Communist regime?
... that a Jueju, a type of Chinese poem, is a quatrain with either five or seven characters per line?
... that in the six months after the Beerhouse Act was passed in England in 1830, nearly 25,000 new licenses to open pubs, taverns and alehouses were issued?
... that D'Oyly Carte Opera Company star Donald Adams could only perform in his own Gilbert and Sullivan for All theatre group on his nights off?
... that the 1971 film Sentinels of Silence featured Orson Welles narrating the English version and Ricardo Montalban narrating the Spanish version?

19:15, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
... that "squash and stretch" (example pictured) is considered the most important of the 12 basic principles of animation?
... that the Ralph J. Bunche House in South Los Angeles was the boyhood home of Ralph Bunche, the first person of color to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
... that the extinct sea turtle Psephophorus was once mistaken as an ancient armadillo due to the specimen's poor condition?
... that Welsh footballer Roy Clarke played in three different divisions of the Football League in three consecutive matches?
... that Leonide Massine wrote the choreography and the libretto for the ballet La Boutique fantasque and also danced in the lead role?
... that, in order to prevent storage of nuclear waste in Utah's Skull Valley, the main county road through the valley became State Route 196 in 1998?
... that the Treaty of Salynas in 1398 marked the third time that Vytautas the Great granted Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights in 14 years?
... that the original building of Trondheim Central Station in Norway has been preserved as a cultural heritage?

18:48, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
... that as part of Operation Noble Eagle (service badge pictured), Canada provided air defense protection for the Super Bowl XL?
... that Marie Studholme, one of the popular postcard beauties of Edwardian musical comedy, was wooed by her wealthy second husband under an assumed name?
... that Norsk Transport has operated four railway ferries on Lake Tinnsjå in Norway?
... that in 1885, Bug Holliday became the first baseball player to make his Major League debut in post-season play?
... that American actress Kim Stanley was cast in the starring role of the 1964 British film Séance on a Wet Afternoon after Deborah Kerr and Simone Signoret turned down the part?
... that Rupprecht Gerngroß is considered the leader of the only successful putsch against Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany?
... that the Vadigo, a species of carangid fish, is believed to be expanding its range in the Mediterranean Sea?
... that William D. Washington became the first faculty member of the Virginia Military Institute to die during his tenure there?

06:39, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
... that education in Sierra Leone (pictured) had to recover from the destruction of 1,270 primary schools during the Sierra Leone Civil War?
... that 17th-century French lawyer Antoine Le Maistre gave up a promising career and established a Jansenist group of ascetics known as Les Solitaires, the Hermits?
... that the Halegannada, literally "old Kannada", is an ancient form of the Kannada language?
... that the Hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden" was both a title and attribute of Mary and a type of actual garden?
... that minor league baseball pitcher Kyle Pearson’s 17 losses with the Hickory Crawdads tied him for the all-time team lead?
... that the term Sindhology as a subject of knowledge about Sindh was first coined in 1964?
... that after moving to Los Angeles, California in 1912 as a widow with two daughters, Florence Casler became a pioneering woman real estate developer, constructing more than 60 buildings?
... that a Bird Flu pre-pandemic vaccine called Pandemrix is the first to be approved by the EU for the inoculation of populations in the early stages of a bird flu pandemic?

18:12, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the missionary and explorer David Livingstone named Cape Maclear, Malawi (pictured) after his friend, the astronomer Thomas Maclear?
... that the musical group The Wiggles' first album was dedicated to their general operations manager Paul Field's infant daughter, whose death ultimately led to the formation of the group?
... that the town of Ollantaytambo, which dates back to the Inca Empire, has some of the oldest continuously occupied dwellings in South America?
... that the 1.3-mile (2.1 km) avenue of trees leading to Marchmont House in Scotland was begun 24 years before the house itself was built, with the planting of 10,000 Dutch elms?
... that one critic claims Christopher Smart's The Hilliad as the "loudest broadside" of the Paper War of 1752-1753, a literary dispute involving Henry Fielding, John Hill, and many others?
... that most of the illuminated manuscripts created by William de Brailes in Oxford in the 13th century are about the size of a modern paperback?

13:51, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
... that pop singer Madonna (pictured) adopted a 13-month-old boy from Mchinji, Malawi in October 2006, causing international controversy?
... that Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque had been an Eastern Orthodox monastery until it was converted after the Fall of Constantinople?
... that the Iowa Blue breed of chicken is not actually blue according to poultry standards?
... that Karl Wahl, the leader of the Nazi Gau Schwaben, was the only Bavarian Gauleiter without a university degree?
... that tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome is a rare disease presenting as intractable diarrhea, facial abnormalities and woolly, brittle hair in infants with growth retardation in the womb?
... that in the 2000–01 National Basketball Association playoffs, Allen Iverson played an average of 46.2 minutes a game, leading the Eastern Conference?
... that lyric tenor Evan Gorga, who created the role of Rodolfo in the original production of Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème, reprised the role in several productions, then retired at the age of 34?
... that the design of the first-generation Ford Taurus was so ahead of its time that it was chosen to be used in the 1987 science fiction film RoboCop?

09:48, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the Siamese method (example pictured) is a simple method for creating magic squares, which was brought to France in 1688 following Simon de la Loubère's embassy to Siam?
... that drag entertainer José Sarria was the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States, garnering some 6,000 votes in his 1961 campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
... that the Mississaugas of the Credit Mission sent Chief Peter Jones to England where he petitioned Queen Victoria directly for title deeds to their lands?
... that Maurice Durand designed the lighthouses at the Île d'Yeu and the Pointe du Grouin du Cou in France to replace earlier structures that had been destroyed during World War II?
... that Bruno Fonseca's paintings The War Murals, inspired by violence in Eastern Europe, have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since Picasso's great Guernica"?
... that British and American mountain men who met at Mountain Green, Utah in 1825 argued over rights to the land, which was actually Mexican territory?
... that the statue The Naked Truth, in Compton Hill Reservoir Park, was made of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity?

03:18, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
... that hwajeon (pictured) is a sweet Korean pancake or rice cake made of edible flower petals, glutinous rice flour, and sugar?
... that the dates of birth and death of the Ukrainian music theorist and composer Nikolay Diletsky remain unknown?
... that with an area of deep convection near the center, Hurricane Ivo reached peak intensity of 80 miles per hour (130 km/h) on September 20, 2007?
... that the 1971 Turkish coup d'état was carried out by a memorandum rather than direct intervention by the military?
... that Radio Londres, a Free French radio broadcast from London to Nazi occupied France, read Paul Verlaine's poem Chanson d'automne as a code to inform the resistance that Operation Overlord was about to take place?
... that the 1914 film In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans?
... that in On the Sphere and Cylinder, Archimedes expressed the volume contained in a sphere in terms of that of a cylinder?
... that Cardinal Uberto Crivelli was elected Pope Urban III in the papal election in 1185 within the few hours after the death of his predecessor Lucius III?

19:26, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the tartan of Nova Scotia (pictured) was originally designed by Bessie Murray for an agricultural exhibition in 1953, but was so admired that it was later officially adopted by the province?
... that Polish resistance courier Maria Kotarba became an "Angel of Auschwitz" by smuggling food and medicine, caring and cooking for Jewish prisoners in hiding?
... that the Erie Railroad bought the Dodge-Greenleaf House in Otisville, New York for US$5 and sold it two years later for US$1?
... that the extensive use of social networking in the Philippines allowed the Cebu City police to identify two murder suspects by checking into their Friendster profiles?
... that New Mexico philanthropist Addie Peed Swearingen was a beautician for 28 years in Santa Fe before she and her husband made a fortune in petroleum and natural gas leases?
... that Nagpur Improvement Trust, a local civic government body of Nagpur, India established in 1936, is not an elected body and continues to work along side Nagpur Municipal Corporation?
... that the sailing-ship Lwów was the first ship under Polish banner to cross the equator?
... that television commercials for the furniture company Walter E. Smithe have included parodies of Star Wars and The Apprentice?

13:24, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
... that a local writers' group won a preservation award for renovating the Philipse Manor train station (pictured) in Sleepy Hollow, New York?
... that Indian scholar Śāntarakṣita is believed to have been instrumental in the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet?
... that American Revolutionary war officer Anthony Wayne's bones are buried at St. David's Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, while the rest of him is buried hundreds of miles away in Erie, Pennsylvania?
... that the Jordan River Foundation was founded by Queen Rania al-Abdullah of Jordan?
... that the birth of public radio broadcasting was a live concert from the Metropolitan Opera House with Enrico Caruso as one of the opera singers?
... that with the inception of the Gauliga Ostmark in 1938, clubs from outside of Vienna were for the first time permitted to take part in Austria's premier football division?
... that the birth rates of the Southern Woolly Lemur are affected by the degradation level of their habitat?
... that American children's literature author Howard Pease, who often set his stories on tramp freighters, himself shipped out when he needed new material?