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16:00, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Robert Harrison, publisher of the gossip magazine Confidential (cover pictured), was once arrested for allegedly taking pornographic photos at a golf course?
... that although construction of two submarines each from the U-48, U-50, and U-52 classes of the Austro-Hungarian Navy began in 1916, none were completed by the end of World War I two years later?
... that the Jews of Massena, New York, were falsely accused of the kidnap and ritual murder of a Christian girl in September 1928 in an incident known as the Massena blood libel?
... that Sri Lanka Army officer Lt. Col. Lalith Jayasinghe was killed while leading a special forces team on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines?
... that Unverricht-Lundborg disease is the most common form of an uncommon group of genetic epilepsy disorders called progressive myoclonic epilepsy?
... that one of the most gifted portrait painters of the 17th century is known as Cornelis Janssens, although he never used that name to sign his paintings?
... that the Woodland Public Library is the oldest, and one of the last functioning Carnegie-funded libraries in California?
... that footballer Johnny Warsap was signed by Gillingham F.C. after he played against the club for a team representing the Royal Berkshire Regiment?

09:55, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

... that golf in Scotland (example pictured) flourished despite "the fut bal ande the golf" (football and golf) being "vtterly criyt done" (utterly condemned) by a 1457 Act of the Parliament of Scotland?
... that the regulations issued by an outgoing U.S. president's administration got the name midnight regulations when a record quantity of new rules was issued during Jimmy Carter's last months in office?
... that the Anglo-Norman Latin text De obsessione Dunelmi is the first-known history of an English earldom?
... that secondary students can take Yup'ik studies in the Yupiit School District, which is located in the Bethel Census Area of Alaska?
... that Tytus Filipowicz, nominally the first Polish ambassador to Georgia, was captured during the Soviet invasion and ultimately organized the first Polish embassy to the Soviet Union?
... that the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club developed some of the earliest safe sex education material in the United States?
... that the Valley of Mexico has been one of the most heavily populated places on the planet for almost two millennia?
... that the ideal length of a train melody is seven seconds?

03:50, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Royal Page Davidson, son of Northwestern Military Academy founder Harlan Page Davidson, invented the first U.S. military car and fully armored car (pictured) as well as a lightly armored car?
... that Edwin Donayre, commander of the Peruvian Army, sparked an international controversy when a video surfaced in the media showing him making anti-Chilean remarks?
... that the Central Commission of German Trade Unions organized 75 percent of unionized German workers in Czechoslovakia in 1921?
... that Spanish footballer Paco Bienzobas was the first person to win the Pichichi Trophy, awarded to the top scorer in La Liga?
... that recent restoration efforts were said to have "breathed new life" into Ulsoor Lake, one of the largest lakes in Bangalore?
... that Norwegian illustrator Harald Damsleth was convicted for treason in 1950, for having drawn Nazi propaganda posters during World War II?
... that Kamilo Beach on the island of Hawaii, along with 2.8 miles (4.5 km) of adjacent shoreline, is considered one of the dirtiest beaches in the world because of accumulated marine debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

21:45, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the British Bulldog revolver (replica pictured) was first produced by Webley & Scott in England and later copied by gunmakers in Continental Europe and the United States?
... that David Rubinger was the first photographer to receive the Israel Prize?
... that the Moonlight Brewing Company sells its product only in kegs because the brewmaster believes the process of bottling beer "is cruel for the beer and a logistical nightmare"?
... that Ian Chapman was the first former pupil of The Football Association's School of Excellence to play in The Football League?
... that Aleksandr Pushkin's 1827 poem The Gypsies inspired some eighteen operas and six ballets, including Rachmaninoff's Aleko?
... that radio station WHAL in Phenix City, Alabama, used to broadcast from a defunct airport terminal?
... that so many people became custom harvesters in China in the late 20th century that it was no longer possible for them to generate a profit?
... that during the Dead Rabbits Riot of 1857, residents of Mulberry Street in New York City were forced to barricade themselves in their homes?

15:40, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the three-story tall Torah Ark (pictured) of the Great Synagogue in Włodawa, Poland, is decorated with carvings of 18th-century musical instruments to illustrate one of the Psalms?
... that Emerson Rodwell, a former captain of the Tasmanian cricket team, scored 11,542 runs and took 331 wickets in his club career, as well as earning the Military Medal in Borneo during World War II?
... that when reporter George Crile compared San Francisco to Sodom and Gomorrah when interviewing Dianne Feinstein for the CBS documentary Gay Power, Gay Politics, she threw him out of her office?
... that the 19th Golden Melody Awards ceremony in Taiwan featured Canadian recording artist Daniel Powter as a guest presenter?
... that Confederate General John W. Frazer surrendered the Cumberland Gap during the American Civil War without a fight?
... that although only 170 cars were carried between Lympne and Le Touquet airfields in 1948, by 1951 the air ferry service was so successful that over 13,000 vehicles were carried that year?
... that the Israeli government is considering recognizing Indian nanny Sandra Samuel as a Righteous among the Nations?
... that the Ulster cherry is named after Ulster County, New York, a region where sweet cherries are produced commercially?

09:35, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the ingredients for facials recommended in Medicamina Faciei Femineae by Ovid (pictured) more than 2,000 years ago, are still used in the production of modern cosmetics?
... that Midnight Madness is an annual pep rally-like event that celebrates the first day that U.S. college basketball teams are allowed to practice?
... that the 1971 restoration of Westbury Court Garden, a 17th-century water garden in Gloucestershire, only used plants that had been introduced to the British Isles before 1700?
... that at 700 days, Rob Van Dam had the longest ECW Television Championship reign?
... that Jose C. Abriol was the first person to translate the Catholic Bible into Tagalog?
... that the Austro-Hungarian U-27 class of submarines had more members than any other Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine class?
... that after retiring as a footballer, Mike Trusson worked as marketing manager for a football-themed restaurant in London?
... that one bacterial strain of Streptomyces griseus has the capacity to produce up to 34 different secondary metabolites including antibiotics?
... that one of the Roman soldiers in the Mesa Arizona Easter Pageant Jesus the Christ was played by NFL offensive lineman Deuce Lutui?

03:30, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the city of Plymouth (pictured) is the largest settlement in Devon, England, with a population of 240,720 in the 2001 census?
... that using the pseudonym "Tanta", Doris Dungey blogged on Calculated Risk about the U.S. housing bubble, including a 13-article series on the mortgage industry called The Compleat ÜberNerd?
... that ideational apraxia causes people to lose the ability to use everyday objects correctly, as they can no longer relate the object's purpose to the actions required to perform a task?
... that Loyal B. Stearns served in the Oregon House of Representatives after his father served there, but before his father served in the Oregon State Senate?
... that Clewer Mill Stream, a backwater of the River Thames, used to be out of bounds to boys from nearby Eton College and a punishment of 100 lines could be handed down for going there?
... that after the French city of Metz was captured by the U.S. Army in the World War II Battle of Metz, German units in nearby isolated forts continued to hold out?
... that historical structures in Yellagonga Regional Park include the City of Wanneroo's oldest residence and an early winery?
... that the 1947 film Juke Joint was considered a lost film until a print was located in Tyler, Texas, in 1983?

21:25, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

... that plans for the Royal Danish Navy's 1911 Havmanden-class submarines (pictured) were seized by the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the First World War and used as the basis for their own U-20-class submarines?
... that Charles Ranken and Lord Randolph Churchill founded the Oxford University Chess Club in April 1869, with Ranken becoming its first president?
... that typical symptoms of Urbach-Wiethe disease, a rare autosomal recessive disease, are a hoarse voice and beaded papules around the eyelids?
... that what became Monster Worldwide, the parent company of the Monster.com jobs website, was started by Andrew McKelvey in 1967 as a Yellow Pages advertising company?
... that although its design and construction are now appreciated for being modern and futuristic, the Westland Dreadnought monoplane crashed and was crippled on its inaugural flight?
... that the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal forced the resignation of Alberta's first Premier, Alexander Cameron Rutherford?
... that Singaporean backstroke swimmer Yip Pin Xiu, who has muscular dystrophy, won a gold and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, setting two world records in the process?

15:20, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

... that during the Crusader era in Palestine, the village of Kafr Lam (fortress pictured) was sold to the Hospitallers by the lord of Caesarea for 16,000 besants?
... that Imero Fiorentino has served as a lighting designer for every U.S. President since Dwight D. Eisenhower?
... that the Barony of Ladyland was established by a poet and fervent Roman Catholic who was imprisoned for plotting to re-establish the Catholic faith in Scotland through a Habsburg Spanish invasion?
... that Tadeusz Pyka was appointed in 1980 to lead a Polish government commission to negotiate with strikers at Gdańsk, despite vowing that he would have "nothing to do" with the strikers' main representative body?
... that when the Worcester Common Outlets shopping mall was completed in 1971, it had the world's largest parking garage?
... that Cyril Pullin designed the first successful British helicopter and his son was the pilot for its first flight in June 1938?
... that gemstone irradiation processes enable the creation of certain gemstone colors that do not exist or are extremely rare in nature?
... that King Charles II rewarded Captain Richard Haddock for his actions in the Battle of Solebay by giving him a hat?

09:15, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the orchid Odontoglossum crispum (pictured), first discovered in the Andes Mountains in 1841, was highly sought after in Victorian England, when varieties sold at auction for more than 150 guineas?
... that Hurricane Holly was the first Atlantic hurricane by this name, having replaced Hattie after the 1961 season?
... that Antonín Dvořák arranged his Romantic Pieces from a trio he originally wrote to play with one of his mother's tenants?
... that the Hawaii State Legislature declared October 29, 2005, "Samuel Kamakau Day," in recognition of the Hawaiian scholar who wrote over 200 articles about Hawaiian history?
... that the Prague trade union centre Odborové sdružení českoslovanské was founded in 1897, as Czech unionists considered that the Austrian unions were neglecting them?
... that the USS Timbalier, a Barnegat class seaplane tender, served as a postwar cruise ship until 1989?
... that the first two steamboats on the Kootenay River sank when they were overloaded with supplies by the Northwest Mounted Police en route to quell an uprising?
... that Japanese jūdōka Shokichi Natsui became the first World Judo Champion in 1956?

03:10, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the core group of paintings in the Orleans Collection (a Rembrandt pictured) remained together for two centuries in Prague, Stockholm, Rome, Paris and London?
... that the body of Spence Broughton remained hanging in a gibbet on Attercliffe Common, near Sheffield, for 36 years after his execution for robbery in 1792?
... that the oak mazegill fungus Daedalea quercina has been used as a horse-comb and as a bee anesthetic?
... that Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned at Sitabuldi Fort in Nagpur from April 10 to May 15 in 1923?
... that Anne-Lise Seip was appointed at the Institute of History, University of Oslo in 1975, the same year as her husband Jens Arup Seip retired from his professorship there?
... that Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India and the only one to have held the office for two terms?
... that after Caltech eliminated its meteorology department, which was founded and led by Irving P. Krick, most of the staff left to join Krick's private weather business?
... that overchoice refers to the situation where when faced with too many choices, people become indecisive and unhappy?

20:45, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Alexander Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman (illustration pictured) has been described as "the best poem written anywhere in the 19th century"?
... that before becoming a professor of the sociology of law, Vilhelm Aubert was a member of the Norwegian anti-Nazi resistance group XU?
... that Serenity High School, the oldest public substance-abuse recovery high school in Texas, has served students from over 25 area high schools since opening in 1999?
... that the 1932 National Hunger March, the largest hunger march in the 1920s and 1930s, led to days of widespread violence in central London?
... that the bǎ construction in Chinese grammar has been used to perform neuroimaging studies of language processing and to evaluate theories of construction grammar?
... that William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux was imprisoned and fined £1,000 by Queen Elizabeth for harbouring the Jesuit Edmund Campion?
... that Paul McCartney's condition for guest starring in The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Vegetarian" was that Lisa, who becomes a vegetarian in the episode, remain one for the rest of the series?
... that in 1865, Dr Edward William Pritchard, who poisoned his wife and mother-in-law, became the last person to be publicly executed in Glasgow?

14:40, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Erie Land Light (pictured) was the first lighthouse built by the United States Government on the Great Lakes?
... that Adam Stanisław Grabowski, Prince-Bishop of Warmia, was a patron of the arts and a representative of the Catholic Enlightenment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
... that the Durham Performing Arts Center opened in November 2008 as the largest performing arts center in the Carolinas, at a cost of US$48 million?
... that the exoperidium of the Bovista plumbea peels off at maturation in hot, dry conditions?
... that before serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Brigadier General Stephen Gardner Champlin had his own law practice in Albany, New York?
... that the Camp of Great Poland was an interwar fascist-influenced right-wing organization that aimed at toppling the Sanacja-dominated Polish government?
... that Bob Blake was voted the most popular ice hockey player in Buffalo, New York, in 1941?
... that Ingrid Semmingsen was the first female professor of history in Norway?

08:35, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

... that due to the subtly non-local nature of quantum reality, apparent telepathy can be achieved in games between separated players (example pictured)?
... that Polish sculptor Maria Albin Boniecki practiced his craft even when imprisoned in the Nazi Majdanek concentration camp?
... that the mid-19th century stone arch Bridge No. 3 over Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania, USA, is listed on the Historic American Engineering Record even though it was destroyed in a 1996 flood?
... that James Godkin was simultaneously the chief editor of the Daily Express newspaper and the Dublin correspondent of The Times of London?
... that although Chuck Daly is a Basketball Hall of Famer now, when he served as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers he had a 9–32 record and was fired mid-season?
... that Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden did not marry Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Howard, until 27 years after plans for their marriage were abandoned in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot?
... that in 1954, Israel walked out of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission after the commission failed to condemn Jordan for the Scorpion Pass Massacre?
... that mathematician Karen Vogtmann co-authored a paper which produced a method for quantifying the difference and computing the distance between two phylogenetic trees?

02:30, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

... that forage fish (anchovy pictured), which feed the world's great marine predators, are now being removed from the oceans on an industrial scale and fed instead to farmed fish, pigs, and poultry?
... that it now requires 250 employees and costs US$5-9 million to open a new location of the six-year-old America's Incredible Pizza Company?
... that after executing Caesar Gallus, officer Apodemius grabbed his shoes, ran quickly from Pula to Mediolanum, and threw them at the feet of Roman Emperor Constantius II to prove his cousin's death?
... that as a result of the Saxon Brother War and the subsequent divisions of land, Saxony was no longer one of the most powerful German states?
... that Wessagusset Colony was the site of Miles Standish's real-life attack against Native Americans as depicted in Longfellow's poem The Courtship of Miles Standish?
... that each country who participated in MGP Nordic 2008 entered two songs, rather than one, to make the contest bigger?
... that the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire, England, contains the largest collection of canal boats in the world?
... that the campus of the now-defunct University of Plano included a pagoda that had been the Malaysian pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair?

20:25, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Panamanian Night Monkey (pictured) is one of the few monogamous monkey species?
... that Albert Einstein, according to writer Illana Katz, may have had autism?
... that the title of the 1944 race film Go Down Death derives from a poem by the African American writer James Weldon Johnson?
... that Shigeko Higashikuni was the elder sister of Akihito, the reigning Emperor of Japan?
... that the German football club Dansk Gymnastik Forening Flensborg, founded in 1923, is a club of the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig?
... that the career of Tang Dynasty official Zhao Jing was launched after he was praised for his petition for frugality in the funerals of Emperors Xuanzong and Suzong?
... that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Agamemnon ran aground in both the first and second Battles of Copenhagen, in 1801 and 1807, respectively?
... that John F. Kelly's 2003 promotion to brigadier general while in Iraq was the first promotion of a U.S. Marine Corps colonel in a combat zone since Chesty Puller's 1951 Korean War promotion?

14:20, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

... that a St. Andrew's cross (pictured) was printed in four positions in place of a stamp on each sheet of the 1850 Austrian stamps so that the price would be an even number of Gulden?
... that the pre-Columbian ruins of Teopanzolco in Mexico are said to have been rediscovered during the Mexican Revolution when an artillery emplacement shook loose some dirt from the stonework?
... that Byron's 1819 poem Mazeppa inspired paintings by the French artists Eugène Delacroix, Claude-Joseph Vernet, and Théodore Géricault?
... that, due to his considerable oratory skill, U.S. Representative Richard Menefee of Kentucky was called "the young Patrick Henry of the West"?
... that south Bulgarian builders, bricklayers, and masons once spoke Meshterski, a secret language that includes many loanwords and metaphors?
... that the military career of Australian Air Marshal Sir Alister Murdoch spanned 40 years, including seaplane flying in the 1930s and a tenure as Chief of the Air Staff during the Vietnam War?
... that Wahsatch, Utah, established in 1868, was the first of many camps set up in Utah by the Union Pacific Railroad in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad?

08:15, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Kasim Reed, a 2009 Atlanta mayoral candidate, is known for keeping the battle emblem of the Confederate States of America (pictured) from being considered for inclusion on the Georgia State Flag?
... that the Fountain of Qayt Bay, built by the Mamluks in the fifteenth century, has a large reservoir beneath it?
... that Robert Howlett, photographer of the iconic picture of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, died from exposure to the arsenic and mercury used in the photographic process?
... that Congregation Beth Israel, the planned site of a Jewish heritage museum in Scottsdale, Arizona, had been used as the First Chinese Baptist Church and the Central Baptist Church?
... that despite their names, the revolver cartridge .476 Enfield, .455 Webley, .476 Eley, and .455 Colt all interchange?
... that Diana Mitford had an appendectomy on the spare-bedroom table of the Mitford sisters' childhood home, Asthall Manor near Burford in Oxfordshire, England?
... that French-designed cannons, manufactured in both the North and the South, were the primary artillery weapons of the American Civil War?
... that MV Biscaglia was the 97th ship to be hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia this year?

02:10, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Great Fire of 1922 in the Timiskaming District, Ontario (aftermath pictured), was called one of the ten worst natural disasters in Canadian history?
... that checkers champion Richard Fortman learned the game from his father, a telegraphist who would play the game with other operators by memorizing the board to avoid detection?
... that rioting in 2001 involving Christians and Muslims in Jos, Nigeria, caused over 1,000 deaths along with many buildings, cars, and people being burned?
... that the Fremont Canning Company, owned by Frank Daniel Gerber and Daniel Frank Gerber and known for its Gerber Baby logo, pioneered the commercial baby food industry in the U.S.?
... that three years after the Battle of Marcelae in 756 AD, Constantine V invaded Bulgaria once more but suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of the Rishki Pass?
... that Pat Austin was the first drag racer to win two eliminators at an NHRA event?
... that the simulation of medical procedures was first used by anaesthetists to reduce the rate of accidents?

14:01, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

... that California hunter Seth Kinman (pictured), who claimed to have killed over 800 grizzly bears, gave several U.S. Presidents chairs made from grizzly bears and elkhorns?
... that Hindi is the language used for educational and official matters in Bihari culture?
... that the Westchester Tornado of July 2006 was the strongest tornado recorded in Westchester County, New York?
... that Nicolas Sarrabat, a French scientist and Jesuit, conducted experiments on the circulation of plants, argued that magnetism was caused by a fire at the Earth's centre, and discovered the largest comet ever recorded?
... that the winning cup for the European club champion of football is now kept by the final winners?
... that Rabbi Asher Lopatin supported a Chicago ban on foie gras on the grounds that the Torah prohibits cruelty to animals, noting that "chopped liver is good, but foie gras is bad"?
... that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Edgar was forced to fight unsupported for a time during the Battle of Copenhagen after the next ship in line, HMS Agamemnon, ran aground?
... that Gershom Sizomu of Uganda is the first native-born black rabbi in Africa?

07:50, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Ueli Maurer (pictured), the former president of the nationalist Swiss People's Party, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Swiss governmental election?
... that the first Pilgrim settlement in Massachusetts was on the site of a former Patuxet Indian village, all of whose residents had died in epidemics before the Pilgrims arrived?
... that the Nariman House, which was home to a Chabad house, was a Mumbai landmark prior to falling victim to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks?
... that in 2006, National Park Community College received the largest cash donation in the history of Arkansas community colleges?
... that when it was completed in 1959, the Narrows Bridge in Perth, Western Australia, was the largest precast prestressed concrete bridge in the world?
... that Norman Lear's 1977 soap opera spoof All That Glitters featured Linda Gray as the first recurring transgender character on American television?
... that species of "cannonball fungi" (genus Sphaerobolus) may forcibly eject their spores a horizontal distance of 6 meters (20 ft)?
... that the Ineligibility Clause of the U.S. Constitution places limitations upon the ability of members of the U.S. Congress to serve in other branches of the U.S. Federal Government?

01:45, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Handlebar Club (member pictured), a gentleman's club for those with handlebar moustaches, considers itself at war with a society that demands people choose "the bland, the boring and the generic"?
... that St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia, was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the second architect of the United States Capitol?
... that Mount Hermon was captured by Syria on the first day of the Yom Kippur War and recaptured by Israel fifteen days later?
... that the Beverly Hills Diet, which starts with ten days of eating nothing but fruit, was labeled by doctors in 1981 as "perhaps the worst entry in the diet-fad derby"?
... that the police shooting of Rahul Raj, a BEST bus hijacker in Mumbai, India, sparked nationwide protests and discussions?
... that 13 baseball players Fred McAlister scouted for the St. Louis Cardinals became the team's first-round draft picks, and 12 made the major leagues?
... that after organist Dudley Savage's radio request programme was cancelled in 1968, the BBC faced a protest described as "perhaps the biggest demonstration of its kind"?
... that four former head coaches of the NBA franchise currently known as the Washington Wizards are members of the Basketball Hall of Fame as players?

19:40, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Handlebar Club (member pictured), a gentleman's club for those with handlebar moustaches, considers itself at war with a society that demands people choose "the bland, the boring and the generic"?
... that St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia, was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the second architect of the United States Capitol?
... that Mount Hermon was captured by Syria on the first day of the Yom Kippur War and recaptured by Israel fifteen days later?
... that the Beverly Hills Diet, which starts with ten days of eating nothing but fruit, was labeled by doctors in 1981 as "perhaps the worst entry in the diet-fad derby"?
... that the police shooting of Rahul Raj , a BEST bus hijacker in Mumbai, India, sparked nationwide protests and discussions?
... that 13 baseball players Fred McAlister scouted for the St. Louis Cardinals became the team's first-round draft picks, and 12 made the major leagues?
... that after organist Dudley Savage's radio request programme was cancelled in 1968, the BBC faced a protest described as "perhaps the biggest demonstration of its kind"?
... that four former head coaches of the NBA franchise currently known as the Washington Wizards are members of the Basketball Hall of Fame as players?

13:26, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Florizel von Reuter (pictured), a child prodigy on the violin, later developed psychic interests and wrote books describing communications with dead composers, including Paganini and Rimsky-Korsakov?
... that Holy Trinity Church, Guildford served as pro-cathedral of the Diocese of Guildford until the consecration of the current cathedral?
... that photographer Karl Bissinger took his first test photos with cameras and a studio loaned to him by Richard Avedon?
... that the Royal Australian Navy auxiliary patrol boat HMAS Vigilant was the first aluminium ship built in Australia?
... that the home of Massachusetts abolitionist Roger Hooker Leavitt was a sanctuary for escaped slaves and is now included in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom?
... that both the Prime Minister and President of Pakistan resigned in order for the 1993 Pakistani general election to be held, after a power struggle between them?
... that the names of the two main characters of Nicholas Sparks' 2002 novel Nights in Rodanthe are a Christmas present to his in-laws?
... that John Marius Trana went from being an illegal trade union leader during the German occupation of Norway to being chairman of the Norwegian Union of Railway Workers?

07:20, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Confederate General Henry C. Wayne (pictured) gained a First Class Medal of Mammal Division by the Société impériale zoologique d'acclimatation for his introduction of the camel to the United States?
... that Tropical Storm Olivia in 2006 was the eighth tropical cyclone to receive the name Olivia in the Eastern Pacific ocean?
... that the diaries of Claus Pavels from 1812–1822 are an important source for Norwegian cultural and biographical history?
... that the plant genus Regelia is named after the 19th-century Russian botanist Eduard August von Regel and is found only in Australia?
... that the .44 Colt revolver cartridge was used in both percussion and centerfire and both black and smokeless powder loadings?
... that Lucie Skeaping, a leading exponent and broadcaster on early music, has also worked with contemporary composer Michael Nyman, historian Simon Schama and comedian Ken Dodd?
... that employees at radio station WIXI in Jasper, Alabama, reported that for more than 30 years their radio studios were haunted?
... that the oldest known turtle is the 220 million year-old Odontochelys, a prehistoric turtle with teeth and possessing only half a shell?

01:10, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

... that a blue Rayon I postage stamp of 1850 (pictured) is the most expensive Swiss stamp ever sold at auction?
... that when Kjell Almskog left his job as CEO of Kværner in 2001, he became known for receiving a golden parachute worth NOK 78 million?
... that the nematode Capillaria aerophila is a parasite that infests the respiratory system of carnivorous mammals, including dogs and foxes?
... that Sean Payton is the only head coach of the New Orleans Saints to lead the team to a National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game?
... that the radiator layout of the McLaren M20 was initially intended to increase driver comfort, but also led to a more aerodynamically efficient bodywork design?
... that the Convincing Ground massacre of Gunditjmara people in 1833 or 1834 was caused by a dispute over a beached whale?
... that Norwegian trade unionist Ludvik Buland, sentenced to death by the Nazi authorities in 1941, was later reprieved, only to die in a Nacht und Nebel camp four years later?
... that the Muncy Creek Railroad tried to save money by using wooden rails in 1875, but found they were too light to support its trains?

19:06, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Jacques-Désiré Laval (pictured), a Spiritan missionary to Mauritius, was the first person beatified by Pope John Paul II?
... that the shagreen ray is also known as the "fuller's ray" because its spiny back resembles devices used for fulling cloth?
... that in 2008, the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope received a one-million-dollar gift from the AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company to fund technical and industrial programs?
... that Bankrate monitors about 4,800 financial institutions throughout the United States?
... that Frank Tepedino, former Major League Baseball player, lost 343 colleagues from the New York City Fire Department during the September 11 attacks?
... that Thorbjørn Egners lesebøker, a series of readers for the Norwegian primary school, took the author 25 years to complete, but were made largely obsolete the year the last book was published?
... that in 1983, Rich Mountain Community College was formed as a merger of Rich Mountain Vocational-Technical School and Henderson State University's off-campus programs?
... that the recipe for the Tom Collins cocktail first appeared in the 1876 edition of The Bartender's Guide by noted American mixologist Jerry Thomas?

13:01, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Punch founding editor Mark Lemon had to sit in the gallery when he worshipped at St John the Baptist's Church, Crawley (pictured) because no pews in the nave were large enough to accommodate him?
... that Albert Teveodjré once had a monopoly on journalism in Dahomey?
... that Plymouth Sound, Shores and Cliffs has units of rock showing the lower to early Middle Devonian period, laid 417–354 million years ago?
... that American football head coach Dick Vermeil coached two NFC championship teams 19 years apart—the 1980 Philadelphia Eagles and the 1999 St. Louis Rams?
... that Ira Needles co-founded the University of Waterloo in 1957 with Gerald Hagey, and later served as the university's second chancellor?
... that seven Cornish fishermen sailed to Australia in the lugger Mystery in 1854–55, a journey which is being recreated today by the Spirit of Mystery?
... that Betty James came up with the name of the Slinky toy created by her husband, Richard T. James, and ran the business for decades after he left her and their six children to live in Bolivia?
... that Megalictis ferox, a species of extinct predatory mustelid, resembled a modern wolverine but with three times the body mass?

06:55, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the border between Wales and England (The River Dee pictured) has followed broadly the line of Offa's Dyke since the 8th century, but was only finally determined in law in 1972?
... that Czech businessman František Mrázek is believed to have covertly influenced Czech politics for the 20 years before he was assassinated?
... that Glenn Dumke was the chancellor of California State University from 1962 to 1982, during which time it became the largest system of higher education in the United States with 319,000 students?
... that the design of the art nouveau Germania definitive stamp was personally chosen by Emperor Wilhelm II?
... that Tom Gish's newspaper The Mountain Eagle was the first newspaper in eastern Kentucky to challenge the damage caused to the environment resulting from strip mining?
... that the 1915 Pleasant Valley earthquake caused four fault scarps that, together, measured 59 kilometres (37 mi)?
... that Terrance Carroll, the grandson of a sharecropper, is slated to become the first African American ever to serve as Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives?
... that in 18th-century Europe, tobacco smoke enemas were considered the most potent method of resuscitating near-drowned people?

00:30, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Hillary Rodham Clinton (pictured) may be ineligible for appointment as United States Secretary of State by Barack Obama unless a Saxbe fix can be worked out?
... that theories about the Shugborough inscription ciphertext include a love message, a biblical verse, a clue to a preserved Jesus bloodline or a reference to the Priory of Sion and the Holy Grail?
... that Vakkom Moulavi was the founder of the newspaper Swadeshabhimani which was banned by the Government of Travancore due to its criticisms against the government and the Diwan P. Rajagopalachari?
... that although Fairfield Grammar School, Bristol, expelled Cary Grant for going into the girls' lavatories, the city later erected a life-size bronze statue of him?
... that David Hoadley restructured management of the Panama Railway so that it avoided bankruptcy and finished its track a year early?
... that internet service provider McColo, taken down in November 2008, hosted the world's biggest botnet and was responsible for at least half of all email spam?
... that the death of Charles Gough was depicted in poetry and art by Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Francis Danby and Edwin Landseer?

18:25, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Ilse Stanley (pictured), a German Jewish actress, secured the release of 412 prisoners in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1938?
... that in 2000, the season finale of television series Survivor: Borneo had more viewers than the World Series, NBA finals, NCAA men's basketball finals, and Grammy Awards of that year?
... that the modern border between Iran and Iraq dates back to the Treaty of Zuhab, which concluded the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639?
... that singer Christina Milian's self-titled debut album had its U.S. release date delayed for three years, partly due to the September 11 attacks?
... that organisms exhibiting kleptoplasty retain active chloroplasts from the algae on which they feed, providing the new host with the products of photosynthesis?
... that architect Clarence W. W. Mayhew, known as an innovator of the contemporary ranch house in California, admitted copying "the underlying principle" from Japanese architecture?
... that English novelist Charles Dickens wrote the bestseller The Life of Our Lord for his children in 1849, but it was not published until 1934, 64 years after his death?
... that ABC moved the Roseanne episode "December Bride", which featured a same-sex wedding, from its usual broadcast time slot to one 90 minutes later, citing the episode's "adult humor"?

12:20, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Bar-winged Prinia (pictured) is a common passerine bird endemic to western Indonesia?
... that General John B. Grayson died of pneumonia and tuberculosis three months after he joined the Confederate Army, without fighting a single battle?
... that the nematode Capillaria plica is a parasite found in the urinary bladder of dogs, cats and various mammals?
... that Exchange Plaza, the Western Australian state headquarters of the Australian Securities Exchange, is built on land owned by a historic gentlemen's club?
... that James Guthrie was Abraham Lincoln's first choice for Secretary of War, but he declined the position due to age and failing health?
... that poetry of the Hindu female-saint Bahinabai reflects the compromise between her devotion to husband and patron-god Vithoba?
... that the German company Jako threatened to sue the Football Association of Ireland when referee Anthony Buttimer refused to allow Sligo Rovers to wear their kit in a League of Ireland match?
... that in Japan during the Muromachi era, the shogun's representative would go to Wakamiya Ōji Avenue in Kamakura once a year to walk around a certain Shinto gate seven times?

06:15, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

... that during the War of the Castilian Succession, the Order of Calatrava supported Isabella (pictured) even though its Grand Master sided with Isabella's opponent, Juana?
... that, on the way to Liverpool, the engine of the diesel-powered cargo liner MV Rakaia failed and the crew had to design makeshift sails to complete the journey?
... that Pulicat Lake, a 450 km² (174 sq mi) bird sanctuary, adjoins the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, launch site of India's successful first lunar space mission, the Chandrayaan-1?
... that the 1921 congress of the Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine endorsed all 21 conditions of Comintern, except the one demanding use of the name "Communist Party"?
... that Aaron Edlin, an expert in law and economics, co-founded the Berkeley Electronic Press?
... that most of the skeletons found at Talheim Death Pit, a mass grave in Germany dating to 5000 BC, show signs of skull trauma, and scientists have concluded that those buried there were victims of genocide?
... that when Jack Heslop-Harrison resigned as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1976 he was the first director to do so in the 154 years of its existence?
... that there is no agreement as to the origin of the unusual name of Nameless, Tennessee?

00:10, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

... that a parasitic worm of the family Mermithidae (pictured) has been found in a spider preserved in Baltic amber for 40 million years?
... that Phil Ochs described "Power and the Glory" as "the greatest song I'll ever write"?
... that following his team's loss in the 1965 Rose Bowl, Oregon State Beavers football coach Tommy Prothro was hired as head coach at UCLA, where he led the team to victory in the following year's Rose Bowl?
... that the Pied Tamarin, an endangered primate of the Amazon basin, is being gradually displaced by the Red-handed Tamarin?
... that the Woodland Opera House was the first opera house to serve the Sacramento Valley?
... that Byron Brown was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Buffalo, New York, even though six African-Americans had been the nominee before him?
... that at least five mutations are known to cause diplopodia in chickens, resulting in the development of extra toes or other structural abnormalities in the hind limbs?
... that Benjamin Hanford ran as the Socialist Party of America candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1904 and 1908?
... that a bishop of the Church of England once won the World's Biggest Liar competition by simply stating, "I have never told a lie in my life"?

18:04, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the larvae (pictured) and pupae of African beetles in the genus Diamphidia are used by Bushmen to prepare arrow poisons?
... that Howard C. Belton lost the election to become the Oregon State Treasurer in 1948, only to be appointed to the same office 12 years later?
... that the first episode of the third season of 30 Rock is currently the most watched episode of the series?
... that Howard Pyle's 1883 children's novel The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood had a vast influence on portrayals of Robin Hood through the 20th century?
... that almost all documentation of PZL.49 Miś, a development of advanced Polish medium bomber PZL.37 Łoś, was destroyed during the siege of Warsaw to prevent it from falling into Nazi German hands?
... that Charles Thomas Campbell, who served as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, helped found the town of Scotland, South Dakota?
... that the oldest known text of the Martyrology of Tallaght is in a 12th-century manuscript now at University College, Dublin?
... that Democrat Paul J. Carmouche and Republican John C. Fleming face off on December 6, 2008, in one of the final two U.S. Congressional races of the year, delayed due to Hurricane Gustav?

15:32, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the rebuilding of the Kumusi Bridge in Papua New Guinea, destroyed by the flooding of the Kumusi River (pictured) during Cyclone Guba, will cost upwards of K70 million?
... that General Charles G. Boyd, United States Air Force, is the only Vietnam War prisoner of war to later reach the 4-star rank?
... that a copy of Diana, Princess of Wales' wedding dress, made by David Emanuel, sold at auction in 2005 for £100,000, twice the original estimate?
... that Vatalanib, an anti-cancer drug currently in clinical trials, inhibits the growth of new blood vessels by selectively blocking receptors of vascular endothelial growth factors?
... that before becoming a general in the American Civil War, Robert Francis Catterson practiced medicine in Rockville, Indiana?
... that the epiphytic orchid Miltoniopsis vexillaria was discovered in 1867 by plant collector David Bowman and introduced from Colombia to England in 1873 by a fellow Veitch employee, Henry Chesterton?
... that Hilary Teague served as Liberia's first Secretary of State and wrote that country's Declaration of Independence?
... that perfluorononanoic acid, an environmental contaminant, has been detected in polar bears in concentrations over 400 parts per billion?

02:40, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

... that John Stuart Skinner and Francis Scott Key were on a mercy mission to get back Dr. William Beanes from British hands, when Key was inspired (painting pictured) to write "The Star Spangled Banner?"
... that Snarøya, a peninsula in Bærum, Norway, was an island until the 19th century?
... that before Korean American Tessa Ludwick became a child actress, she worked as a model, starting when she was only two and a half years old?
... that mokomokai, the preserved heads of Māori people with facial tattoos, were traded for firearms during the early 19th century in New Zealand?
... that Morten Wetland was the campaign manager for Gro Harlem Brundtland when she applied for the World Health Organization directorship in 1998?
... that Irwin Gunsalus discovered lipoic acid, an enzyme cofactor which has been proposed as a dietary supplement to prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases?
... that Jacques Rabemananjara, former Vice President of Madagascar, was also an important negritude poet and playwright?
... that Bobby Leonard, Jack McKinney, Larry Brown and Rick Carlisle have each coached the Indiana Pacers for 328 regular season games in the NBA?

20:35, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

... that William Herschel's 40-foot telescope (pictured) was the largest telescope in the world for 50 years?
... that the Indian Antarctic Program has two permanent bases in Antarctica and has sent 27 expeditions to the continent since 1981?
... that Houston attorney Joe Rollins successfully defended the city in a suit regarding cost overruns and construction delays at Bush Intercontinental Airport?
... that suffragette Lady Constance Lytton carved the letter "V" (for "Votes for Women") into her breast using a piece of broken enamel from a hairpin?
... that Vivaldi's opera Griselda is based on the folklore character Griselda as told by Giovanni Boccaccio in the The Decameron?
... that the 30-storey former AMP Building in Perth was the tallest building in the Western Australian city when it was completed in 1975?
... that publisher and biographer Newman Flower was criticized by some contemporaries for sanitizing aspects of his subjects' personal lives?
... that ATIC, a balloon-borne detector flying over Antarctica, recently found excess cosmic ray electrons that might provide evidence for dark matter consisting of Kaluza-Klein particles?

14:30, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the chaplain of the Regiment de la Rey (badge pictured) of the South African Army once convinced two German soldiers that World War II had ended and then captured them with his officer's cane as his only weapon?
... that although Antonio Maria Bononcini's 1718 opera Griselda was successful, his older brother, Giovanni Bononcini, composed a more popular version in 1722?
... that Norwegian businessperson Anthon B. Nilsen, founder of the company of the same name, also wrote popular novels and served one term in the Norwegian Parliament?
... that the nematode Elaeophora sagitta is a parasite that infests the heart and blood vessels of animals such as buffaloes and kudus in Africa?
... that the cohort model in psycholinguistics attempts to describe the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon in terms of how speech stimulates neurons?
... that in 1909, the American Brass Company manufactured two-thirds of all the brass in the United States, consumed a third of all copper produced in the U.S., and was the largest fabricator of nonferrous metal in the world?
... that Jeffrey Blitz wrote Rocket Science based on his own adolescence despite claiming to be "allergic" to autobiographical films?
... that Soviet submarines patrolling in the North Atlantic in the 1970s reported mysterious frog-like sounds, dubbed "quackers", which have been classified as Unidentified Submerged Objects?

08:25, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

... that in The Abbey in the Oakwood (pictured) German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich symbolically depicted "the burial of Germany's hopes for resurrection"?
... that the fungus Podaxis is often used as face paint by the Australian Aborigines?
... that Irish journalist Willie Wilde was described by Max Beerbohm as a "dark, oily suspect" sharing the "coy, carnal smile & fatuous giggle" of his younger brother, Oscar Wilde?
... that Lucky Dragons have not only released 19 albums, but also run an art society called Sumi Ink Club and an internet community called Glaciers of Nice?
... that the cave paintings at La Marche in France, which include detailed depictions of humans rather than stick figures, were met with skepticism when discovered in 1937?
... that former Princeton Tigers Will Venable and Chris Young were the first players named first-team All-Ivy League in both basketball and baseball?
... that the nematode Elaeophora elaphi is a parasite that infests the hepatic blood vessels of Red Deer in Spain?
... that Jane Brody was at first reluctant to write the Personal Health column in The New York Times, which has since been syndicated to more than 100 newspapers in the U.S.?

02:20, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

... that according to Hindu legend, the yogi Visoba Khechara taught his disciple Namdev the omnipresence of God by magically filling a whole temple with lingas—the symbols of god Shiva (pictured)?
... that the 350-acre (140 ha) Mar Y Cel estate, built in the early 1900s in the foothills of California's Santa Ynez Mountains, included an aqueduct, water works, arches, and statues?
... that Donald Finkel, a poet who had aspired to be a sculptor as a youth, created sculptures out of found items that he called "dreckolage"?
... that Plymouth Cathedral experienced subsidence after a Royal Navy officer fired new Turkish man-of-war guns in Plymouth Sound?
... that seven Caltrain stations have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that before becoming a famous opera singer, Ines Maria Ferraris had a career as a concert pianist beginning at the age of 12?
... that the only known picture of the Etruscan mythological daemon Tuchulcha is on the wall in the Tomb of Orcus, a 4th-century BC hypogeum in Tarquinia, Italy?
... that Abell 2142, a galaxy cluster, is one of the most massive objects in the universe?

20:15, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the majority of the more than 90 stage works composed by Thomas Arne (pictured) are now lost, probably destroyed in the disastrous fire at Covent Garden in 1808?
... that historic Bordeaux wine estate Château d'Angludet was derelict after World War II, but its fortunes were reversed when wine producer Peter Sichel noticed it during an afternoon stroll?
... that Marc Feldmann and Ravinder N. Maini were awarded the 2000 Crafoord Prize for identification of TNF blockade as an effective therapeutic principle in rheumatoid arthritis?
... that according to the U.S. copyright law, musicians who accuse others of plagiarising their work must prove "access" and "similarity", in the absence of a confession?
... that Nabi Shu'ayb, Arabic for "the Prophet Jethro", is used in English to refer to the site where Druze tradition holds he was buried?
... that the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 reorganised the reserves of the British Army, creating the Territorial Force?
... that openly gay actor Robert La Tourneaux considered his role as the gay hustler in the 1970 film The Boys in the Band to be the "kiss of death" for his career?
... that Karl Marx called the Daily Express of Dublin "the Government organ" and accused it of "false rumours of murders committed, armed men marauding, and midnight meetings"?

14:10, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the cat gap is a period in the fossil record (cat illustration pictured) of approximately 25 to 17 million years ago in which there were few cats or cat-like species?
... that more than a million tourists visit the wine-producing regions in Argentina annually?
... that Jerry Ziesmer, who delivered the line "Terminate with extreme prejudice" in Apocalypse Now, was also the film's assistant director?
... that, apart from inventing the saxophone, Belgian musician Adolphe Sax also devised the brass instrument saxotromba?
... that the character Seo Hell from the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus tells Satan to leave her dwelling, and has been compared to the female being Hel of Norse mythology?
... that former Detroit Tigers pitcher Pat Underwood's first game in the major leagues was a 1-0 victory against his brother Tom?
... that Réseau de Transport d'Électricité, Europe's largest transmission system operator, manages a 100,000-kilometre (62,000 mi) network of high-voltage power lines?
... that enraged plebs burned down the home of Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus because of a rumor that he would rather slake lime with wine, than sell wine at the price they wanted?

08:05, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the tower located at 100 McAllister St (pictured) in San Francisco used to be a Methodist church, a hotel and an IRS office building before it was refurbished for residential use by students at UC Hastings?
... that many of the members of the Australian Aboriginal cricket team which toured England in 1868 were Jardwadjali men?
... that before serving in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, James M. Goggin worked as a cotton broker?
... that until the former Arab village of Nabi Rubin was captured by Israel in 1948, it was the site of a large annual religious festival with tens of thousands of Muslims participating?
... that a 12-mile (19 km)-long railway ride was planned to be built on Dunderberg Mountain in the 19th century, but was never completed?
... that mushrooms of the genus Calostoma are sometimes called "prettymouth" because of peristome tissue that appears on them when they expand?
... that 1996 U.S. Vice-Presidential nominee Jack Kemp won two American Football League Championships as the quarterback of the Buffalo Bills in 1964 and 1965?
... that the bankruptcy of property fund owner William Stern with debts of £118 million led directly to the creation of Britain's first Policyholders' Protection Act in 1975?

02:00, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1943 sinking by Allied aircraft of the Hurtigruten passenger ship SS Sanct Svithun (pictured) led to protests by the Norwegian resistance movement?
... that Chicago hairstylist John Lanzendorf owned one of the world's largest collections of dinosaur-themed artwork?
... that Swedish scientist Per-Ingvar Brånemark’s discovery of osseointegration led to the development of titanium dental implants?
... that in the 1850s, the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company was the largest marine and general insurance firm in North America?
... that in 1903, a toll of 10 pennies (equivalent to £8.00 today) was levied to take a flock of twenty sheep across Maidenhead Bridge?
... that Rosetta Reitz, whose Rosetta Records focused on the women of jazz, was behind the 1980 Newport Jazz Festival tribute called "Blues is a Woman", featuring Adelaide Hall and Big Mama Thornton?
... that Order of the Builders of People's Poland was the highest civilian decoration in the People's Republic of Poland?
... that Chuck Churn won only three games in his Major League Baseball career, one of them handing Elroy Face his only loss in 1959 when he finished with an 18–1 record?

19:55, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Caspar David Friedrich's 1824 painting The Sea of Ice (pictured) was seen as too radical in composition, and went unsold until after his death in 1840?
... that during the Great Bombay Textile Strike of 1982, nearly 250,000 workers and more than 50 textile mills went on strike in Mumbai, India?
... that Mieczysław Jagielski negotiated the agreement which recognized Solidarity as the first independent trade union within the Eastern Bloc?
... that Emperor Dezong of Tang ordered the former chancellor Dou Can to commit suicide as Dou was heading to his exile in Vietnam?
... that when it was completed in 1976, the 32-storey Allendale Square in Perth, Western Australia, was one of the largest fully aluminium-clad skyscrapers in the world?
... that the 1996 Orange Bowl had the lowest attendance of any Orange Bowl since 1947?
... that when Wales national rugby union team beat Scotland in the 1952 Five Nations Championship, Rex Willis played a large proportion of the match with a broken jaw bone?
... that at least one song written by Sonny Throckmorton was on the country music charts for almost every week between 1976 and 1980?

13:50, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

... that in the Sino-French War, Presbyterian missionary George Mackay refused to leave during the French bombardment of Tamsui (sketch pictured) because he could not take his Formosan converts with him?
... that the Lava River Cave in Newberry National Volcanic Monument is the longest known uncollapsed lava tube in Oregon, U.S.?
... that Charles Dinsmoor invented the endless chain tractor in 1886, forerunner of the continuous track vehicle?
... that Uncial 0212 is the first manuscript of Greek Diatessaron, a Gospel harmony, to be discovered in modern time?
... that in 1967, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz performed the world's second human heart transplant, in a procedure on a 19-day-old infant at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York?
... that there are four types of spinning, a manufacturing process for creating polymer fibers—wet, dry, melt, and gel?
... that during the War of 1812, Grenadier Island, Canada, housed a small military installation?
... that U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes considered the founding of Ohio State University one of his two greatest achievements?
... that a proposal by James Armsey of the Ford Foundation led many major universities in the United States to integrate in the 1960s?

07:45, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Captain William Hoste captured the French-held fortifications of Kotor (pictured) in 1814 by hoisting cannons from the HMS Bacchante onto the higher ground of the surrounding mountains?
... that the white horse in mythology is associated with the sun chariot, warrior-heroes, fertility or an end-time saviour?
... that American illustrator, painter and printmaker Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer was the great-great granddaughter of Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale?
... that validation of ocean surface wave models through hindcasts and forecasts is important to the shipping industry, which relies on them for tactical seakeeping?
... that Dalberg Global Development Advisors developed a ranking system to assess the quality of 20,000 NGOs and UN agencies?
... that the bell tower of the Bărboi Church in Iaşi, Romania, is over a century older than the present church, and once contained a private library?
... that Fr. Finn wrote the 1890 novel Tom Playfair, telling the adventures of a 10-year-old at an all-boys Jesuit boarding school, to illustrate his ideal of a genuine Catholic American boy?
... that footballer Tommy Magee is the only West Bromwich Albion player to have won both a League Championship medal and an FA Cup winners' medal with the club?

01:40, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Hittin was a Palestinian village located near the site of the Battle of Hattin, where Saladin (pictured) defeated the Crusaders in 1187?
... that traditionalist American art critic Royal Cortissoz denigrated the work of modern masters such as Vincent van Gogh as being the product of "egotists"?
... that singer Robb Johnson based the album Gentle Men on the experiences of his two grandfathers during the First World War?
... that in a kiss scene with Kirk Cameron in Fireproof, Erin Bethea was replaced by Cameron's real-life wife, Chelsea Noble, and the scene was shot in shadows?
... that the nematode Elaeophora poeli is a parasite that is found in the heart or aorta of various species of cattle?
... that the World Wrestling Federation's first coffin match took place at Survivor Series 1992 between The Undertaker and Kamala?
... that the German merchant ship SS Uhenfels was captured at sea during the Second World War, and subsequently became a British merchant?
... that when ABC's Birmingham, Alabama, affiliate WBMA-LP refused to air the Ellen coming out episode "The Puppy Episode", a local LGBT group sold out a 5,000-seat theatre so people could watch it via satellite?

19:30, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Áed Ua Crimthainn, abbot of Terryglass, Ireland, was the compiler and principal scribe of the Book of Leinster, a Middle Irish illuminated manuscript (pictured)?
... that even though they were five points ahead of 1. FC Saarbrücken, SV Alsenborn were not promoted to the higher level 2nd Bundesliga Süd, due to their financial position?
... that American abolitionist Parke Godwin criticized then-president Franklin Pierce in an essay entitled "American Despotisms"?
... that the initial ransom demand by Somali pirates to release the MT Stolt Valor, hijacked September 15, 2008, was US$6 million?
... that The Atlantic Monthly ran an article titled "Mother Doesn't Do Much" by Catherine Galbraith about her role as an ambassador's wife in India after her son wrote a school essay using those words?
... that the edible mushroom Agaricus abruptibulbus grows better in the presence of the normally toxic element cadmium?
... that Henry Greathead invented the lifeboat in 1790, but never sought to patent it?
... that Hacienda Arms on the Sunset Strip was the "most famous brothel in California" in the 1930s and now houses a celebrity-owned restaurant described by Newsweek as "so hip it hurts"?

13:25, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai (pictured) wrote the Malayalam biography of Karl Marx, which is the first Marx biography in any Indian language?
... that Ohaveth Sholum Congregation, Seattle's first Jewish congregation, fell four days short of having the first synagogue in Washington?
... that in 1905, Fred Odwell led the National League in home runs with nine, but hit only one home run in the other three seasons he played in Major League Baseball?
... that local legend in Lajjun, a district center in Palestine under the Abbasids, held that the spring that served as its primary water source sprang from a stone after Abraham struck it with his staff?
... that when American sculptor Chester Beach was selected to the National Academy of Design, he was its youngest member?
... that Uskmouth Power Station has been described as one of the cleanest coal-fired power stations in the United Kingdom?
... that by the time he graduated from medical school, Patrick David Wall had already published three papers in prominent scientific journals?
... that the Navy Midshipmen discontinued the football series with the Maryland Terrapins for forty years after a Terrapins' linebacker twice "flipped the bird" to the Brigade of Midshipmen during the 1964 game?

07:20, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

... that in The Stages of Life (pictured), German painter Caspar David Friedrich depicted his son holding a Swedish flag because Friedrich considered himself half-Swedish?
... that after serving in U.S. embassies in Egypt and Lebanon, Edward Sheehan wrote his debut novel Kingdom of Illusion about the playboy king of a fictional Middle Eastern country?
... that the Community Services Appeals Tribunal was the first tribunal in Australia to use alternative dispute resolution?
... that Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential visit to the United States in 1957 was only the second time that Dwight D. Eisenhower had greeted a guest in person at the airport?
... that the Sclerodermataceae, a family of fungi, contains species with common names such as "hard-skinned puffballs", "earthstars" and "prettymouths"?
... that Constantine Richard Moorsom was listed as having been in the Battle of Trafalgar at the age of 13, even though he was actually in school at the time?
... that Worthy Streator never set foot in the city of Streator, Illinois, the town named for him, even though it was founded 36 years before his death?
... that Council House in Perth, Western Australia, was built to coincide with that city's hosting of the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games?

01:15, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

... that American showman P. T. Barnum proposed to buy Shakespeare's Birthplace (pictured) and ship it brick-by-brick from England to the U.S.?
... that Agnieszka Pilchowa, a noted clairvoyant in the Second Polish Republic, was also a herbalist who treated Prime Minister Józef Piłsudski and President Ignacy Mościcki?
... that Brown Mountain forest in East Gippsland, Victoria, is home to mainland Australia's largest marsupial carnivore, the Spotted Quoll?
... that the presence of indoleic acid in one's urine may indicate a pathological accumulation of the amino acid tryptophan in the blood?
... that Franklin M. Fisher served as the chief economic witness for IBM in the antitrust case U.S. v. IBM, and for the United States Department of Justice in United States v. Microsoft?
... that K-B-D, a triliteral root meaning "heavy" that is common to all Semitic languages, appears in the Old Testament 376 times?
... that the food shortages during the winter of 1946–1947 saw British farmers using pneumatic drills to harvest parsnips?

19:10, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Irworobongdo (pictured) is a Korean folding screen with a stylized landscape painting for symbolizing the political cosmology of the Joseon Dynasty?
... that after a plane crash killed the Governor of Oregon and the next two people in line for that office, the new governor's first act was to appoint Earl T. Newbry as Secretary of State?
... that the 1806 settlement of Chinese in Trinidad was the first organised settlement of Chinese people in the Caribbean, preceding the importation of Chinese-indentured labour by over 40 years?
... that Phil Johnson and Cotton Fitzsimmons are the only Sacramento Kings head coaches to have won NBA Coach of the Year?
... that the human bocavirus is the fourth most commonly found virus in samples collected from the respiratory system?
... that Michigan highway M-97 was simultaneously named both Reid Highway and Groesbeck Highway by different levels of government from 1927 until 1949, the year it was dedicated to Alex Groesbeck?
... that the mysterious rebel known as The Hidden claimed to be a secret prince given a divine revelation to save Spain in the Revolt of the Brotherhoods?

13:05, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

... that French explorer Robert de LaSalle (pictured) was murdered by a member of his own expedition while trying to locate the Mississippi River in 1687?
... that Indigenous Australian actor Brandon Walters had never heard of Nicole Kidman or Hugh Jackman when he signed on to co-star with them in Australia?
... that the park Ravnedalen in Kristiansand, Norway, was constructed by Colonel Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland and his soldiers?
... that painter T. E. Breitenbach's work Proverbidioms appeared on the TV show Beverly Hills, 90210?
... that the Minatogawa Man is among the oldest complete skeletons of modern humans recovered in East Asia?
... that Les West's cycle racing career spanned 47 years from 1960 to 2006, and included two victories in the Tour of Britain?
... that the book The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives explores U.S. military expenditures on items including Southern catfish restaurants and Dunkin' Donuts?

07:00, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Italian mezzo-soprano Flora Perini (pictured) originated the role of the Princess in the world premiere of Puccini's Suor Angelica at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918?
... that Father Goose: His Book, an 1899 collection of poetry for children and considered at the time a liberal portrayal of multi-cultural America, is now seen as stereotyped, racist and offensive?
... that when completed in 1967, MS Finlandia was the largest ferry in the world?
... that in its second year after scholarship probation, the 2009–10 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team has four blue chip letter of intent signees?
... that, according to the answers Friedrich Engels gave in a Victorian Confession album, his idea of happiness was the wine Château Margaux 1848?
... that Mahatma Gandhi participated in the recovery and treatment of the wounded in the Second Boer War at the Battle of Colenso and Battle of Spion Kop?
... that the captain of the SS Empire Abbey died after going thirteen days without sleep in a storm off Newfoundland in February 1945?
... that Amazon.co.uk stopped selling The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology after receiving a legal letter from Scientology?

00:55, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

... that soprano Cesira Ferrani originated two of the most iconic roles in opera history, Mimì (pictured) in the world premiere of Puccini's La bohème and the title role in the premiere of Puccini's Manon Lescaut?
... that the Knight Foundry in Sutter Creek, California, is the last water-powered foundry in the United States?
... that INS Tabar, a Talwar class frigate, has escorted about 35 ships through the pirate-infested waters near the Horn of Africa?
... that the first registered clinical use of an NK₁ receptor blocker was the treatment of nausea and vomiting induced by chemotherapy?
... that after serving as a volunteer during the Mexican-American War, James W. McMillan returned to private life but still became a General during the American Civil War?
... that Natsume Sōseki's 1905 novel Kairo-kō is the earliest, and only major, prose treatment of the Arthurian legend in the Japanese language?
... that research by physician I. Bernard Weinstein investigated the cancer-causing potential of such foods as barbecued and cured meat?
... that four Portland Trail Blazers head coaches have spent their entire National Basketball Association coaching careers with the Trail Blazers?

18:50, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Walter Scott Lenox produced the first set of American-made china dishware (pictured) for the White House?
... that the recorded history of the Briolette of India dates back to the 12th century, making it possibly the world's oldest diamond on record?
... that opera superstar Giuseppe Cremonini's career was tragically cut short upon his sudden death at the age of 36?
... that even though the Flettner rotor bomblet was never mass-produced, William C. Patrick III called it "one of the better devices for disseminating microorganisms"?
... that Chief Justice of Queensland John Murtagh Macrossan also had two uncles who were chief justices as well?
... that the success of Gay Weddings as counterprogramming to Super Bowl XXXVII led television network Bravo to develop additional LGBT-interest programming, including Queer Eye and Boy Meets Boy?
... that Major League Baseball manager John McGraw had 2,583 wins as the New York Giants' manager?
... that Dr. Jay Katz, who escaped from Nazi Germany to the U.S. in the 1930s, opposed use of data from Nazi human experimentation, because "we cannot separate the data from the way they were obtained"?

12:45, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Parkmill in Gower, South Wales, is now the home of La Charrette, the smallest cinema in Wales (pictured)?
... that Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach have been selected by President-elect Barack Obama to lead the review of the Federal Communications Commission?
... that the antihypertensive drug Losartan becomes a more potent blocker of angiotensin receptors after it is metabolised in the body?
... that artist Adam Neate left 1,000 prints, valued at £1 million, on London streets for anyone to pick up and keep?
... that for the 1967 television documentary CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, the network concealed the identity of one of the gay interview subjects by seating him behind a potted palm tree?
... that research done by C. Harmon Brown showed that female athletes were more loose-jointed and more prone to dislocated shoulders than male athletes?
... that Mount Wycheproof, standing just 43 metres (141 ft) high, is the smallest registered mountain in the world?
... that the single "Don't Tear It Down" from Spy vs Spy's album A.O. Mod. TV. Vers. was inspired by a government agency's attempts to demolish a building the band were squatting in?

06:40, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the empire ruled by Agustín I of Mexico (pictured) lasted less than one year?
... that after initially deciding not to air the Roseanne episode "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" because it included Mariel Hemingway kissing Roseanne Barr, ABC promoted it as "the lesbian kiss episode"?
... that Harald N. S. Wergeland, Lieutenant General and Norwegian Minister of the Army, was raised by his uncle Nicolai Wergeland and enrolled at the Norwegian Military Academy at the age of twelve?
... that Washington State Route 504 was damaged when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 and had to be rebuilt on higher ground?
... that Cyclone Rosie was the first ever tropical cyclone to be monitored by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Center in Jakarta?
... that the 23 home runs hit by Johnny Rizzo in 1938 set a Pittsburgh Pirates team record at the time, and his nine RBI in a 1939 game set a single game team record that still stands today?
... that The Blood of Jesus was the first race film added to the U.S. National Film Registry?
... that the abuse suffered by Nia Glassie included being left in a tumble drier for 30 minutes?

00:35, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

... that C/1743 X1, the Great Comet of 1744 (pictured), is thought to have been the sixth intrinsically brightest on record and went on to develop six tails?
... that Toralv Øksnevad was known as the "voice from London" during the Second World War, when listening to foreign radio was a crime punishable by death in Norway?
... that some anti-obesity drugs, such as Rimonabant, are chemical compounds designed to specifically block cannabinoid receptors?
... that Pamela Munizzi succeeded John P. Daley, the son of former Chicago Mayor Richard J., brother of current Mayor Richard M., in office in both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate?
... that the Catskill Escarpment is the only clearly defined boundary of the Catskill Mountains?
... that Meredith Burgmann claims to be the only Australian sent to prison after running onto a sports field during a major sporting event?
... that the proposed Levenmouth rail link in Fife, Scotland, could be used by Scotch whisky distillery freight trains as well as by passengers?
... that 2009 Michigan Wolverines football team recruit Anthony LaLota is rated among both the top ten high school offensive tackles and strong side defensive ends in the U.S.?
... that the leader of the 2004 Palm Island, Queensland riot, Lex Wotton, ran for mayor while out on bail?

18:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Sir John Luttrell, an English soldier and diplomat under Henry VIII and Edward VI, was the subject of an allegorical portrait (pictured) by Hans Eworth celebrating peace with France and Scotland?
... that the 1978 Orson Welles-directed documentary Filming Othello has never been theatrically released or presented on home video?
... that assassinated Israeli mobster Yaakov Alperon was tied to a protection racket in which restaurant owners paid by allowing the gangsters to collect empty returnable bottles from their businesses?
... that Papyrus 110, a Greek manuscript copy of the Gospel of Matthew from the New Testament, may have been composed as early as the 3rd century?
... that in addition to being a general in the Union Army, James Sanks Brisbin was also a prolific writer, and authored several works on a variety of subjects?
... that as a result of the 2006 Pine Middle School shooting in Reno, Nevada, 14-year-old shooter James Newman was sentenced to house arrest and 200 hours of community service?
... that the Związek Organizacji Wojskowej, a Polish resistance group inside the Auschwitz concentration camp, provided the first intelligence about the Holocaust to the Western Allies?
... that former Key West mayor Captain Tony Tarracino was a subject of Cuba Crossing, a 1980 film about a plot to kill Fidel Castro, and of the 1985 Jimmy Buffett song "Last Mango in Paris"?

12:25, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

... that a siphon (example pictured) is used by some marine snails for tasting, by some clams for reproducing, and by octopuses for jet propulsion?
... that although opera singer Rita Fornia began her career as a coloratura soprano, her voice lowered and darkened causing her to sing mostly mezzo-soprano roles?
... that SM U-4, commissioned in 1909, was the longest serving U-boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy?
... that Tropical Storm Becky produced heavy rainfall in Tallahassee, Florida in 1970, causing flood-related losses to 104 families?
... that John H. Kelly was the youngest Confederate Brigadier General at the time of his appointment at 23, and one of the youngest generals to die during the American Civil War at 24?
... that there are 94 buildings with listed status in Crawley, England, including The Beehive, a circular Art Deco building that was the world's first integrated airport terminal?
... that Static Major featured in Lil Wayne's 2008 hit single "Lollipop" but died before the song was released in Tha Carter III?
... that John B. Curtis made the first commercially available chewing gum?

06:20, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1902 discovery of gold in Interior Alaska by Italian immigrant Felix Pedro (pictured) marked the start of the Fairbanks Gold Rush?
... that during the German occupation of Norway, Astrid Løken combined entomological field research with secret photography for the resistance group XU?
... that the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative runs three jazz concerts a week and is the most active jazz presenter organisation in Australia?
... that Weraroa, a genus of pouch fungi, may represent an intermediate evolutionary stage between underground and above-ground fungi?
... that at the same time Francis "Mother" Dunn was coaching Dickinson College's football team, he was also playing professional football for the Canton Bulldogs under Jim Thorpe?
... that for his 2004 film Drum, director Zola Maseko received the top prize at FESPACO, the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, in addition to a cash prize of 10 million CFA francs (US$20,000)?
... that Julian Konstantinov, the brother of Bulgarian volleyball team captain Plamen Konstantinov, is an opera singer?
... that HMS Mahratta delivered a bathtub to Murmansk during World War II?

00:15, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Confederate Monument (pictured) in Murray, Kentucky, is the only Civil War Monument in Kentucky to prominently feature Robert E. Lee?
... that French racing cyclist Lucien Michard won four successive world championships and lost a fifth even though he crossed the line first?
... that the deaths of two pirates during the November 11, 2008 incident off Somalia, are believed to be the first time since the 1982 Falklands War that the Royal Navy has killed anyone on the high seas?
... that Arne Sunde, Norwegian Olympian, politician and World War II veteran, was President of the United Nations Security Council at the start of the Korean War?
... that the Interstate Income Act of 1959 prevents a U.S. state from collecting income tax on solicited sales within its borders, as long as the orders are filled or shipped outside of the state?
... that Don Bradman, universally regarded as the greatest batsman in cricket history, made a duck in his final Test innings?
... that the Kamchia biosphere reserve in Bulgaria is a major migratory bottleneck site where at least 60,000 White Storks pass overhead each autumn?
... that Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Irving Brown was dubbed "The Most Dangerous Man" by Time in 1952?

18:10, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Nassak Diamond (replica pictured), pillaged in the 1800s from a Hindu temple where it had resided for 300 years, was later used as a gimmick to attract partygoers to a 1976 benefit?
... that Australian politician John Robertson worked as a construction worker for the New South Wales Parliament to which he was later elected?
... that Anita Bryant's participation in Save Our Children, a coalition working to overturn gay rights ordinances in Miami and other cities in 1977 and 1978, destroyed her career?
... that Major League Baseball pitchers Jim Palmer and Mike Mussina each made six Opening Day starts for the Baltimore Orioles?
... that the rare skin disorder ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens may be caused by a spontaneous mutation in the keratin 2e gene on chromosome 12?
... that actor Jesse Plemons had to get 11 stitches in his chin after offering to do his own stunts on Friday Night Lights?
... that Begonia boliviensis, one of the species used the production of the first hybrid tuberous begonia raised in England, was introduced from Bolivia by the Victorian plant collector Richard Pearce?
... that the M115 anti-crop bomb was known as the "feather bomb" because it dropped feathers laced with fungal spores in order to spread wheat stem rust?

12:05, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

... that 99 percent of Japanese municipalities collect and recycle steel cans despite not being required by law, giving the country one of the world's highest recycling rates for these cans? (Japanese recycling bins pictured)
... that Leo the Mathematician, called by some the cleverest man in 9th-century Byzantium, invented a system of beacons to warn of Arab raids and a fabled levitating throne for the emperor?
... that after the Victoria Cross began to be awarded to Royal Air Force members, navy members who had won it were required to replace their traditional blue ribbons with red ones?
... that current Colorado Rockies minor league catching instructor Marv Foley is the only baseball manager to win championships in the International League, Pacific Coast League, and American Association?
... that Anna Vissi, who represented Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, has participated in the contest three times over a 26 year period?
... that Admiral Shigeyoshi Miwa commanded Imperial Japanese Navy submarine forces during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
... that the Pacific Electric Railroad Bridge in Torrance, California is used as a symbol on the patch of the local police department?
... that when rival colleague Zhang Yanshang suggested the Tang Dynasty chancellor Liu Hun be more silent, Liu commented that his tongue would not stop even if he were decapitated?

06:00, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

... that William Blake's The Wood of the Self-Murderers (pictured) is based on a passage from Dante's Divine Comedy in which bird-human hybrids feed on the leaves of trees entombing suicides?
... that in 2007, Vicki Berger played a major role in amending the Oregon Bottle Bill, which her own father had created 36 years earlier?
... that inhibitors of the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase-4 can prevent the degradation of gastrointestinal hormones that regulate insulin release from the pancreas, making them effective anti-diabetic drugs?
... that the white deer of the Seneca Army Depot in Seneca County, New York, is the largest herd of white deer in the world?
... that Augustin Trébuchon, the last French soldier to die in the First World War, was shot 15 minutes before the war ended?
... that the Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Kentucky was sculpted by a Hungarian?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Mi declined chancellor appointments by Emperor Suzong and Emperor Daizong, eventually only accepting it under Emperor Dezong?
... that the Montecito Tea Fire, which destroyed more than 200 homes in California, was caused by smoldering embers from a bonfire party at an abandoned tea house?

23:55, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Hans Eworth was a Flemish artist of the Tudor court known for his allegorical paintings and his portraits of Queen Mary I (pictured)?
... that though communism was created by an atheist, communism and religion have not always had a hostile relationship?
... that the Sayre Fire resulted in the worst loss of homes due to fire in the history of Los Angeles, surpassing the loss of 484 residences in the 1961 Bel Air fire?
... that by Christmas Eve 1942, the German 17th Panzer Division had only eight tanks and one anti-tank gun left after its failed attempt to break through to Stalingrad?
... that Carl D. Keith and John J. Mooney co-invented the three-way catalytic converter, which has cut nitrogen oxide emissions from cars by 98 percent since the 1970s?
... that the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary formerly used Police Motu, a lingua franca pidgin of Motu, as its working language?
... that the church of Valmagne Abbey in south-central France has been used as a wine cave since the abbey was confiscated and sold during the French Revolution?
... that Whitcomb L. Judson is recognized as the inventor of the zipper?

17:50, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

...that George Julian Zolnay (pictured), the so-called "sculptor of the Confederacy," was actually Hungarian and did not move to the United States until decades after the Confederacy had ceased to exist?
... that the author of Autism's False Prophets, a critique of claims that autism is linked to vaccines, reportedly received death threats?
... that from 1962 to 1973, the Deseret Test Center in Fort Douglas, Utah, oversaw 46 tests using simulants and live biological and chemical agents?
... that Indian historian and Dravidologist K. A. Nilakanta Sastri served as the Director of UNESCO's Institute of Traditional Culture?
... that the music video for Sia Furler's latest single "Soon We'll Be Found" features American Sign Language?
... that the Soviet Union annexed Western Ukraine in 1939 following the invasion of Poland and an ultimatum to Romania?
... that American colonialists James Franklin and Ann Smith Franklin established Rhode Island's first printing press?
... that nephrotoxic djenkolic acid, found in the raw djenkol bean, can form needle-like crystals in the urine of people who eat the bean?

11:45, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Suraj Tal (pictured), the highest lake in India, may be reached by National Highway NH-21, the highest mountain road in the world?
... that football player Michael Liddle made his international debut for Republic of Ireland under-19s although he was born in London, England?
... that the metabolic disorder Schindler disease may be caused by mutations in the NAGA gene on chromosome 22?
... that as Director of the Voice of America, Henry Loomis oversaw the introduction of Special English, in which news is read slowly with a limited vocabulary of about 1,500 words and a simplified grammar?
... that the small bright-blue mushroom Entoloma hochstetteri is featured on the reverse side of the New Zealand $50 bank note?
... that remnants of the pre-Columbian aqueduct carrying water from springs at Chapultepec can still be found in Mexico City today?
... that in 1899, Chinese immigration to Puerto Rico was prohibited by the United States Chinese Exclusion Act?
... that Imperial Japanese Navy submarine Commander Takakazu Kinashi was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler for his role in the sinking of the American aircraft carrier Wasp?

05:40, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the critically endangered Golden White-eye (pictured) of Saipan is threatened by a snake that eliminated practically all the forest birds of nearby Guam?
... that actor Don Collier, who co-starred on NBC's western series Outlaws and The High Chaparral, played football for the Brigham Young Cougars?
... that in the Ofira Air Battle, at the outset of the Yom Kippur War, two Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs shot down seven Egyptian MiGs?
... that film directors Sidney Meyers and Jay Leyda used pseudonyms for their screen credits on the 1937 production People of the Cumberland?
... that throughout his lifetime, cyclist Reggie McNamara broke his collarbone 17 times, broke his skull, nose, jaw, and leg once, had 500 stitches, and accumulated 47 scars?
... that NASDA's ETS-VII was the world's first satellite to be equipped with a robotic arm and to conduct autonomous rendezvous docking operations successfully?
... that the 14th-century Hungarian occupation of the Bulgarian city of Vidin was described by contemporaries as a "great pain for the people"?
... that the white suckerfish responds to a touch on its belly by forcefully erecting its pelvic fins?

23:35, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson (pictured) transferred from Georgetown University Law Center to University of Illinois College of Law to be with her future husband, U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.?
... that most of the world's population of Northern Bald Ibis, an endangered species of birds, are found at Souss-Massa National Park in Morocco?
... that the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights, adopted in 1985, calls for the right to unemployment insurance and decriminalization of adult prostitution?
... that oil company Idemitsu Kosan is exploring the potential for geothermal power in Japan?
... that Bert Olmstead played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and appeared in 11 Stanley Cup finals?
... that the Semitic triliteral Q-D-S meaning "holy" has been used in ancient and modern Semitic languages since at least the 3rd millennium BCE?
... that when asked what the most beautiful place he had ever seen in all his travels was, Gore Vidal chose the view from the belvedere at Villa Cimbrone?
... that the symptoms of exposure to the blister agent methyldichloroarsine clinically resemble poison ivy?

17:30, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Maharana Pratap Sagar or Pong Dam Lake, created by the highest earthfill dam in India on the Beas River (pictured), intercepts migratory birds on their trans-Himalayan fly path during each migration season?
... that ancient Greek klismos chairs became fashionable again in the late 18th century?
... that other than visits to other institutions as a guest lecturer, James Feast lectured at the University of Durham for over 35 years?
... that Greenville Presbyterian Church was the first non-Dutch church established in New York's Catskill region?
... that species from the underground-dwelling mushroom genus Gautieria are the preferred food source of the Northern flying squirrel?
... that after testing the biological Brucella cluster bomb on 11,000 guinea pigs, a U.S. general remarked "Now we know what to do if we ever go to war against guinea pigs"?
... that the Flekkefjord Line was built to be part of the main line from Stavanger to Oslo, but a change of plans made it only a branch line?
... that the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey has on display the Intelligent Whale, an experimental Civil War-era submarine propelled by a hand crank operated by its four-man crew?

11:25, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Manitowoc, Wisconsin, held a "Sputnikfest" in 2008 to celebrate a piece of the Soviet Sputnik 4 spacecraft that crashed near the Rahr West Art Museum (pictured) in 1962?
... that pre-operative transsexual Miki Mizuasa was nominated for the Best Actress award at the 2007 Adult Broadcasting Awards even though she was born a male?
... that Sanctus Real was the most-played artist on American Christian radio in 2006?
... that Hugo Bettauer, author of a satire depicting Vienna after expulsion of its Jews, was shot and killed in 1925 after Nazis branded him a "Red poet" and "corruptor of youth"?
... that the M143 bomblet held the equivalent of 300 million lethal doses of anthrax?
... that Lionel Baker is the first cricketer from Montserrat to represent the West Indies senior side at international level?
... that most of the place names in Palestine are Arabised words with ancient Semitic roots that were preserved by the local indigenous population, facilitating their identification with biblical sites?
... that John Daly, a New York City criminal, was rumored to be paying $100,000 a week in protection money to the New York Police Department in the late 1800s?

05:20, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1967, the M139 bomblet (interior pictured) was tested in Hawaii using live Sarin nerve agent?
... that in Norse mythology, Sinmara is a female companion of Surtr, a fire jötunn?
... that veteran LGBT rights activist Hank Wilson started or co-founded at least ten LGBT organizations in the San Francisco area?
... that the soil-dwelling nematode-killing fungus Paecilomyces lilacinus has been known to cause human eye infections?
... that "Still Alive", the theme to action-adventure video game Mirror's Edge, was written by Rami Yacoub, who has also written material for Britney Spears?
... that according to British wine critic Jancis Robinson, only certain wines can improve significantly with age, and most wine is consumed too late rather than too early?
... that the graphical plot of the Sabatier principle, a concept used in chemical catalysis, is often called a "volcano plot" because of its distinctive shape?
... that before she was disassembled for scrap in 1932, USS Holland, the first submarine commissioned by the U.S. Navy, spent many years as an attraction in Starlight amusement park in New York City?

23:15, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

... that architect Harry Seidler described the skyscraper QV.1 (pictured) in Perth, Western Australia, as the best building he had ever built?
... that at one time, the Sneath Glass Company produced almost 90 percent of the glassware used in consumer refrigerators in the United States?
... that Beijing Communist Party chief Li Ximing was a leading supporter of military action against the Tiananmen Square protests that resulted in the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people?
... that Glen Ord is the only remaining single malt scotch whisky distillery on the Black Isle in the Highlands of Scotland?
... that the wide variety of people who have been deported from the United States includes Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick, political activist Emma Goldman, and Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh?
... that prehistoric ridgeway trails, though often steep, were usually the firmest and safest cart tracks before the advent of paved roads in western Europe?
... that Mike Davis envisioned making recreational boats available on the Hudson River in New York City after seeing how boats could be rented in Istanbul and rowed on the Bosporus?

17:10, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

... that George J. Seabury with Robert Wood Johnson I developed a medicated adhesive plaster (pictured) with a rubber base as a precursor to the Johnson & Johnson Band-Aid?
... that James John Skinner was the only White member of the Zambian cabinet when that nation gained independence in 1964?
... that Loyola College in Maryland, a Jesuit college with "little athletic tradition," has had 13 first-team All American honorees from the men's lacrosse team?
... that Terence Mitford, who spent his whole academic career as an archaeologist at the University of St Andrews, was a member of the Special Air Service during the Second World War?
... that the historic Wayne Morse Farm in Eugene, Oregon, was the home of Wayne Morse who represented Oregon in the United States Senate from 1944 until 1968?
... that Rob Epstein, Academy Award-winning director of The Times of Harvey Milk, also directed Paragraph 175 chronicling the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi Germany?
... that the first railroad depot in Stanford, Kentucky, was built due to a compromise between Union general Ambrose Burnside and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad?
... that as part of Operation Large Area Coverage the U.S. Army sprayed much of the eastern United States with zinc cadmium sulfide particles?

11:05, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

... that at the inauguration of the sixth Aztec Templo Mayor in 1487 (scale model pictured), thousands of prisoners of war were ritually sacrificed, bathing the steps of the pyramid in blood?
... that Operation Steel Box moved 100,000 American chemical weapons from Clausen, West Germany, to Johnston Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean?
... that Hedley Howarth helped lead New Zealand to its first ever test cricket win on the Indian subcontinent with a five-wicket bag against India in 1969?
... that in a baseball match held at the Capitoline Grounds on June 14, 1870, the Brooklyn Atlantics defeated the Cincinnati Red Stockings, ending their 84 game winning streak?
... that the acquisition of the Corus Group in October 2006 has made Tata Steel India's second largest company in the private sector?
... that the Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville, Kentucky, took sixteen years to fund, and was originally a statue of a Union soldier?
... that German entrepreneur, race driver and yacht skipper Udo Schütz won the 1000 km Nürburgring in 1967, the Targa Florio in 1969, and the Admiral's Cup in 1993?
... that Louis Dicken Wilson left Edgecombe County US$40,000 upon his death in 1847, but US$28,000 of it was wasted?

05:00, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Symphony in C by Georges Bizet (pictured) was a completely unknown piece until it was discovered at the Paris Conservatory library in 1933, nearly 60 years after Bizet's death?
... that the Survival of the Shawangunks is a Hudson Valley triathlon which requires competitors to carry their running shoes as they swim?
... that Turkish poet Süleyman Nazif witnessed first hand the decaying corpses of persecuted Christians in his home town of Diyarbakır in July 1915?
... that Frank Filchock, Jack Faulkner, Mac Speedie, Jerry Smith, John Ralston, and Red Miller have all spent their entire coaching careers with the Broncos?
... that the habitat of the rare West Virginia land snail Triodopsis platysayoides is protected by a fence?
... that Anarchy Alive!, a 2007 book by Oxford-educated academic and anti-authoritarian activist Uri Gordon, has been cited as a "defining text" of the contemporary anarchist movement?
... that Joe Hyams' first celebrity interview, with Humphrey Bogart, came after a chance meeting with Bogart's press agent at the pool of The Beverly Hills Hotel?
... that Leverett Candee became the first person in the world to manufacture rubber footwear?

22:55, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Rolls-Royce LiftSystem (pictured) was awarded the prestigious Collier trophy in 2001?
... that Erie County voters elected Antoine Thompson to the New York State Senate after he defeated cousins Marc Coppola and Al Coppola during the 2006 Democratic primary election?
... that French anarchist and writer Charles Malato had a Neapolitan grandfather who suppressed a popular insurrection as commander-in-chief of the army of the last King of Naples?
... that after first taking the Fifth Amendment in 1951, director Robert Rossen named 57 people as Communists to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 to escape the Hollywood blacklist?
... that the turnout in the 1997 Pakistani general election was the lowest ever in Pakistan?
... that Florence Wald, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, has been credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement"?
... that the 1916 film Cenere contains the only cinematic performance by the Italian theater star Eleanora Duse?
... that the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project led to Honolulu's 2008 mayoral elections being referred to as a "referendum on rail transit"?

16:50, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

... that millwrights from Canterbury, Kent, built Moses Montefiore Windmill (pictured) in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1857?
... that James-Younger Gang member "Dick" Liddil surrendered to authorities after killing Jesse James' cousin, reportedly out of fear of that James would seek revenge?
... that despite being captured during the Battle of the Philippines, the Nurse Corps regiment known as the Angels of Bataan continued to serve as a nursing unit throughout their internment?
... that the term battery in baseball was first used by Henry Chadwick in reference to the firepower of a team's pitching staff, inspired by artillery batteries then in use in the American Civil War?
... that wine writer Malcolm Gluck has been involved in a row with Salman Rushdie over who is the quicker book-signer?
... that Bridgwater Bay is the location of the last mudhorse fisherman in England?
... that Paul Callaway was so short a hydraulically-operated pedalboard was custom-made for the Washington National Cathedral's organ, so he could reach the pedals comfortably?
... that Eduard August von Regel, a 19th-century German botanist, named and described over 3,000 new plant species?

10:45, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Li Yong (pictured with Guido Mantega) was the first and second secretary to the United Nations Mission from China?
... that the day after his birthday, General Archibald Gracie III was looking out at the Union lines through his telescope when an artillery shell exploded in front of him killing him instantly?
... that Sir Philip Cohen has written over 470 peer-reviewed papers, and was the third most cited academic in the UK during the 1990s?
... that anthropologist Richard Price was one of the first to show that Maroons, previously considered largely "without history," possessed rich and deep historical consciousness?
... that author Tom De Haven attended Catholic school in Bayonne, New Jersey with fellow writer George R. R. Martin?
... that Zeno Vendler's model of lexical aspect, first proposed in 1959, is still widely used in multiple areas of linguistic research today?
... that physician William Beierwaltes, a pioneer in nuclear medicine, was one of five attendees at the first course for doctors offered by the Atomic Energy Commission on the medical use of radioisotopes?
... that John Trudeau established the Britt Festival in Oregon in 1962, the first of its kind in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., and now a four-month long celebration of music and musical theater?

04:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Rear Admiral Minoru Ōta (pictured), commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Okinawa, had earlier been earmarked to command Japanese landing forces at the Battle of Midway?
... that the walls of Peter the Great's first "palace" in the nascent St Petersburg, a 60 m² (650 sq ft) log cabin, were painted to resemble brickwork?
... that Michael Higgins prepared himself for a career in the theater by working to rid himself of his Brooklyn accent as a teenager?
... that the fungus Albatrellus subrubescens was first collected from Florida and Czechoslovakia?
... that Caterpillar Inc. employs 4,000 Central Illinois workers at its Peoria headquarters?
... that English mathematician and geographer Robert Hues served his master Thomas Grey, the last Baron Grey de Wilton, while Grey was imprisoned in the Tower of London?
... that Columbia Park in Torrance, California served as the home field for U.S. Women's soccer players Joy Fawcett and Carin Jennings-Gabarra?
... that Gwilym Davies was the first person to broadcast in Welsh, on Saint David's Day in 1923?

22:35, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the top of the 51-storey Central Park tower (pictured) in Perth, Western Australia sways about 30 cm (12 in) in the wind?
... that French opera singer Gustave Huberdeau performed roles ranging from lead roles to character roles to mute roles?
... that the bacterium Propionibacterium freudenreichii is responsible for forming the holes in Swiss cheese by releasing carbon dioxide?
... that the intricate rococo decoration of the Grand Church of the Winter Palace was recreated in papier-mâché after a fire destroyed most of the original interiors of the Winter Palace in 1837?
... that the proposed Bigeye bomb was designed to spray VX nerve agent over a target area by gliding through the air over it?
... that Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico began in the 15th century and that Puerto Rico has the largest and richest Jewish community in the Caribbean?
... that the first journal articles written by the entomologist Robert Perkins were published when he was a classics student with no scientific education?
... that U.S. federal judge Malcolm Marsh's father and uncle both served as presidents of the Oregon State Bar?

16:30, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Henry Pitkin and his brother produced the first American-designed pocket watches (pictured) with machine-made parts?
... that when the SS Mahratta ran aground on the Goodwin Sands in 1939, it settled on top of a ship that had sunk thirty years earlier and was also named Mahratta?
... that a 30-metre (98 ft) tsunami was created when Broke Off Cliff fell into Western Brook Pond, which is a fjord in Canada?
... that Bridgwater Bay is the location of the last mudhorse fisherman in England?
... that the members of Montreal-based electronic music duo Beast first met while working for a video game company?
... that protests by Rev. Abraham Woods about the 1990 PGA Championship at the Shoal Creek country club led the club to admit its first black member?
... that "There's No One As Irish As Barack O'Bama" is a folk song first performed in the village where Barack Obama's great-great-great grandfather was born?
... that early childhood educator Barbara T. Bowman co-founded the Erikson Institute, a graduate school in child development, with the support of philanthropist Irving Harris?

10:25, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Richard Maack (pictured) was a Russian naturalist who led some of the first major scientific expeditions to remote Siberia and the Russian Far East?
... that Taishō Baseball Girls is a light novel series about an all-girl baseball team set in Taishō era Japan?
... that Thirumangai Alvar, considered one of the most learned Alvar saint-poets in Hinduism, was a robber before becoming a saint?
... that Henry Cornelius Burnett is one of only five members in history to be expelled from the United States Congress?
... that Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-16, which sank two ships and captured a third during World War I, was the only boat of the U-10-class to sink during the war?
... that the largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois took place at approximately 11:02 a.m. on November 9 1968?
... that the Jadad scale is the world's most widely used means of assessing the methodological quality of clinical trials?
... that when Veronica Mars was cancelled after its third season, fans sent more than 10,000 Mars Bars to the CW television network, hoping to persuade it to renew the series?

04:20, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the final section of the La Nouvelle branch (pictured), a canal in south-central France, was constructed in 1776 to link Narbonne to the Canal du Midi?
... that following In re Bilski, a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the legal validity of many business method patents is now uncertain?
... that Norwegian mathematician Bernt Michael Holmboe played an important role in the career of Niels Henrik Abel?
... that the Mucking excavation, one of the largest archaeological digs of its time in Europe, uncovered artifacts spanning a period of some 3,000 years?
... that overseas revenues rose tenfold during the decade that Richard Rompala helped to lead the paint and coatings manufacturer Valspar?
... that "Hindu Taliban" is a pejorative term used by some tolerant or "secular" Hindus to describe the supporters of the Hindutva movement?
... that Juniper Networks has updated its JUNOS software every 90 days since its creation in 1998?
... that after endangering himself to control the imperial horse, Qi Ying was made an imperial attendant by Emperor Dezong of Tang?

22:15, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Psilocybe montana (pictured), the type species of the well-known genus of hallucinogenic mushrooms, does not contain any psychedelic compounds?
... that one poetic focus in William Wordsworth's early life, especially in the "Lucy" poems, the "Matthew" poems, We are Seven, and Lucy Gray, is man's relationship with death and nature?
... that Japan and India signed a peace treaty and established diplomatic relations in April 1952, one of the first such treaties by Japan after World War II?
... that Vânia Fernandes, who represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, was Portugal's first entrant to qualify for the Contest's final from its semi-final round?
... that the President of Colombia's administrative department has an annual budget of over COL$16 billion?
.. that after a federal jury in Portland, Oregon decided against the defendant in Byron v. Rajneesh Foundation International, an inner circle of Rajneesh followers plotted to murder the plaintiff?
... that Japanese admiral Ogasawara Naganari, close confidant and biographer of Fleet Admiral Togo Heihachiro, was tutor to Emperor Hirohito on naval matters?
... that, due to his support of Kentucky's efforts to secede from the Union, Henry Cornelius Burnett is one of only five members in history to be expelled from the United States Congress?

16:10, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

... that a large earthquake monitoring network was established in China's Yunnan Province 25 years after the 1970 Tonghai earthquake (location pictured)?
... that SOE officer Joachim Rønneberg was a leader of the Norwegian team attempting to sabotage the German nuclear energy project during WWII?
... that legend has it that Nainital Lake in Uttarakhand, India, was created when three pilgrims dug a hole which filled from the sacred Tibetan Lake Manasarovar?
... that the growth of Astragalus brauntonii, a species of milkvetch, is spurred by fire?
... that Beninese political figure Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin remained under house arrest from 1972 to 1981 after being overthrown in a coup d'état?
... that St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Troy, New York, was originally built as a replica of a Church in New Haven, Connecticut?
... that Norwegian Constituent Assembly member Nicolai Wergeland was father of feminist writer Camilla Collett and poet Henrik Wergeland?
... that, when amateur club TSV Vestenbergsgreuth beat German champions FC Bayern Munich 1–0 in the 1994-95 DFB Cup, a memorial stone was later erected to commemorate the event?

10:05, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Royal Coachman (pictured), first made in 1878, may be the world's best-known fly?
... that Ranulf le Meschin ruled Cumberland before becoming Earl of Chester in 1120?
... that Rheinmetall's 120mm gun L/55 tank gun can attain muzzle velocities of up to 1,750 meters per second (5,700 ft/s) with new kinetic energy penetrators?
... that Izzat Darwaza, the Arab nationalist leader of al-Fatat, was a principal organizer of the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine?
... that the U.S. Marine Corps celebrates its birthday on the anniversary of the day that the 2nd Continental Congress authorized the creation of the Continental Marines?
... that Beast vocalist Béatrice Bonifassi sang on Champion's album Chill'em All, and also provided the singing voices for Les Triplettes de Belleville?
... that the football rivalry between ASV Herzogenaurach and FC Herzogenaurach can be traced back to the rivalry between the clubs' sponsors, Adidas and Puma?
... that Mike Tompkins, the Natural Law Party vice-presidential candidate in the 1992 and 1996 U.S. elections, is a direct descendant of U.S. presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams?

04:00, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Montigny mitrailleuse (pictured), an 1860s mobile volley gun, was very heavy at 2,000 pounds (910 kg)?
... that Lucy of Bolingbroke paid King Henry I of England 500 marks after the death of her third husband, Ranulf le Meschin, for the right not to remarry?
... that the ataaba is a traditional Arabic music form in which oral folk poetry is melodically improvised by a solo vocalist?
... that the Sheffield Iris newspaper's first editor fled the UK when troops tried to arrest him, and its second was imprisoned for six months on charges of malicious libel?
... that Andreas Lauritz Thune, who took over the manufacturing company Thune at the age of 23, was among the founders of the Federation of Norwegian Manufacturing Industries in 1889?
... that Jack Bruce's 1969 LP Songs for a Tailor was titled in tribute to the wardrobe designer for Bruce's former band, Cream?
... that Joe Wendryhoski, an inaugural member of the New Orleans Saints, played every offensive snap as the starting center for the team's first two seasons?

21:55, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

... that plant collector Charles Curtis, who first introduced the Nepenthes northiana (pictured) variety of pitcher plant to England, went on to become the first superintendent of the Penang Botanic Gardens?
... that the successful escape from the multi-ship mutiny at the Nore by Royal Navy Captain Charles Cunningham in 1797 led to that mutiny's failure?
... that in 1969, Toyota Motor Corporation imported McLaren M12s and installed their own V8 engines in a bid to better compete against Nissan in Japanese Group 7 races?
... that Amy Peterson competed in the first five Olympics in which short track speed skating was a sport?
... that the sticky bomb was designed by Stuart Macrae at a laboratory known as "Winston Churchill's Toyshop"?
... that because Fred Perrett switched from rugby union to rugby league he was often left out of lists of Wales players who died in action during World War I?
... that the only significant Koreatown established by Koreans in Spain is in Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria?
... that on July 8, 1942, pitcher Doyle Lade threw a no-hitter and won the game 1–0, with his solo home run providing the only run support for his team?

15:50, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the insectivorous plant Heliamphora nutans (pictured) was re-discovered in British Guiana in 1881 and successfully introduced to England by David Burke?
... that Charles Taylor was the first of thirteen Welsh international rugby players to die in action during World War I?
... that Almoloya del Río, a Mexican small town with the population of 7,992, hosts an international biker rally every year?
... that Hurricane Lisa of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season attained forward motion of over 58 mph (93 km/h) on October 9?
... that The Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers has been in charge of publishing Finland's ethical guidelines on engineering for over 40 years?
... that the first submarine boat and self-propelled torpedo, and the engines for the ironclad warship USS Monitor were all built at the foundry operated by Cornelius DeLameter?
... that the Ropar Wetland, in addition to being home to several endangered and threatened species, was the site of the signing of an 1831 treaty between the English and the Sikhs?
... that Wonderland Greyhound Park in Revere, Massachusetts features over 7 miles (11 km) of underground piping which heats the race track on cold and wet days?

09:45, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

... that despite having only 28 men to his opponent's 92, William Rogers (pictured) not only defended his ship from a privateer, but boarded and captured her with just five men?
... that Grace Church is one of few remaining structures from the once-thriving town of Ca Ira, Virginia?
... that the Manifesto of the Sixteen was a controversial declaration of support for the Allied cause in World War I from a group of prominent anarchists?
... that in 2007 the Kenyon Athletic Center was surrounded by Knox County residents to "form a shield of protection" in preparation for a Billy Graham Evangelistic Association event?
... that the Commission on Social Welfare, from 1983 to 1986, reviewed social welfare in Ireland?
... that former American Medical Association president Ronald Davis played a major role in the AMA's 2008 apology to black doctors for the organization's history of racial discrimination?
... that at 440 metres (1,440 ft), Della Falls in British Columbia is the tallest waterfall in Canada and 16th-tallest in the world?
... that Rear Admiral John Adams of the Royal Navy was the author of The Adventure of Charlie the Cone, based on stories about a traffic cone, that he made up for his children on long trips?

03:40, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

... that eight Kaba class destroyers (destroyer pictured) of the Imperial Japanese Navy were based in Malta in World War I?
... that Tarab Abdul Hadi co-founded the first Palestinian women's organization in 1929?
... that arcing horns are projecting conductors used to protect insulators on high voltage transmission systems from damage during flashover?
... that the Stella Artois television advertisement Good Doctor won more awards than any other television campaign in 2002?
... that relief pitcher Doug Nickle was assigned to seven different clubs over the course of his six-year major league baseball career?
... that with his appointment to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1966, Robert C. Weaver became the first African American to hold a U.S. Cabinet Secretaryship?
... that Finnish-born filmmaker Antero Alli shot his 1995 science fiction feature The Drivetime on a budget of U$5,000?
... that Canadian-born Jim Koleff spent three decades in Europe as an ice hockey player, coach and manager after telling coach Dave Chambers that he would play in Italy for one year?

21:35, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Bernard Courtois was the discoverer of iodine (crystal structure shown)?
... that the Banc Ty'nddôl sun-disc, a gold ornament discovered at Cwmystwyth, is over 4,000 years old, making it the earliest gold artifact discovered in Wales?
... that quartic reciprocity was first conjectured by Swiss mathematician Euler in 1748–1750, but not proved until 1836–37 by Prussian mathematician Jacobi?
... that Hitachi Zosen Corporation built the first oil tanker in Japan in 1908 per an order by Standard Oil Company?
... that before becoming a full-time professional footballer at the age of 21, Mike Bickle worked as a milkman?
... that the Lebanese Navy SEALs undergo heavy military training, which spans three months and sometimes reaches 20 hours per day?
... that U.S. President Benjamin Harrison appointed James R. Tanner Commissioner of the Pension Bureau in 1889, but had to remove him six months later because he vastly exceeded his office's budget?

15:30, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the force-feeding (pictured) of suffragette, arsonist and hunger-striker Lilian Lenton caused food to enter her lungs and led to public outrage?
... that men from the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment were the first explorers to climb down the 800-foot (240 m) caldera wall to reach the shore of Crater Lake?
... that Dream Cinema is the last remaining single-screen movie theater in Seoul, Korea?
... that athlete Al Hall won three Pan American Games gold medals in the hammer throw in three consecutive decades, with wins in 1959, 1963 and 1971?
... that the Australian band Spy vs Spy had to change its name to avoid legal action from the publishers of Mad magazine?
... that of the over 4,000 U.S. chemical munitions found to be leaking chemical agents in 2002, more than 2,000 were Sarin-containing M55 rockets?
... that lice from mummified guinea pigs and mites preserved in amber while feeding on spiders have provided evidence for researchers in the field of paleoparasitology?
... that the first same-sex kiss on an American soap opera was between fictional characters Lena Kundera and Bianca Montgomery in 2003, who were also American soap opera's first lesbian couple? Current archive | 255 | 254 | 253 | 252 | 251 | 250 | 249 | 248 | 247 | 246 | 245 | 244 | 243 | 242 | 241 | 240 | 239 | 238 | 237 | 236 | 235 | 234 | 233 | 232 | 231 | 230 | 229 | 228 | 227 | 226 | 225 | 224 | 223 | 222 | 221 | 220 | 219 | 218 | 217 | 216 | 215 | 214 | 213 | 212 | 211 | 210 | 209 | 208 | 207 | 206 | 205 | 204 | 203 | 202 | 201 | 200 | 199 | 198 | 197 | 196 | 195 | 194 | 193 | 192 | 191 | 190 | 189 | 188 | 187 | 186 | 185 | 184 | 183 | 182 | 181 | 180 | 179 | 178 | 177 | 176 | 175 | 174 | 173 | 172 | 171 | 170 | 169 | 168 | 167 | 166 | 165 | 164 | 163 | 162 | 161 | 160 | 159 | 158 | 157 | 156 | 155 | 154 | 153 | 152 | 151 | 150 | 149 | 148 | 147 | 146 | 145 | 144 | 143 | 142 | 141 | 140 | 139 | 138 | 137 | 136 | 135 | 134 | 133 | 132 | 131 | 130 | 129 | 128 | 127 | 126 | 125 | 124 | 123 | 122 | 121 | 120 | 119 | 118 | 117 | 116 | 115 | 114 | 113 | 112 | 111 | 110 | 109 | 108 | 107 | 106 | 105 | 104 | 103 | 102 | 101 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 97 | 96 | 95 | 94 | 93 | 92 | 91 | 90 | 89 | 88 | 87 | 86 | 85 | 84 | 83 | 82 | 81 | 80 | 79 | 78 | 77 | 76 | 75 | 74 | 73 | 72 | 71 | 70 | 69 | 68 | 67 | 66 | 65 | 64 | 63 | 62 | 61 | 60 | 59 | 58 | 57 | 56 | 55 | 54 | 53 | 52 | 51 | 50 | 49 | 48 | 47 | 46 | 45 | 44 | 43 | 42 | 41 | 40 | 39 | 38 | 37 | 36 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 32 | 31 | 30 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1

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