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17 August 2010

06:00, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Bridge School (pictured) in Raisinville Township was the first public school in Michigan, when founded in 1828?

... that Park51, an Islamic cultural center whose proposed site has sparked controversy, will include a mosque, a 500-seat auditorium, and a swimming pool?

... that Merthyr MP Edgar Rees Jones served as head of the Priorities Division of the British Ministry of Munitions during World War I?

... that in 1975 Zimbabwean Kantilal Kanjee became the first non-white umpire to stand in a first-class cricket match in South Africa?

... that street pastors were founded to confront gang culture in UK cities, and are now known for handing out flip-flops to tottering clubbers?

... that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Menarana had several adaptations for head-first burrowing, but its large size may have made burrowing difficult or impossible?

... that Prince Frederick of Württemberg attained the rank of Rittmeister 2nd class in the Army of Württemberg by the age of 15?

... that Sam Peckinpah, director of the The Wild Bunch, lived in a three-room suite at The Murray Hotel in Livingston, Montana, from 1979 to 1984?

00:00, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

... that after his acquittal at a court martial for the loss of HMS Greenwich, Captain Robert Roddam (pictured) had the minutes printed, but was told they would have sold better had he been 'condemned to be shot'?

... that the fossil relative of the House Sparrow Passer predomesticus is known only from two upper jaw bones?

... that Youngstown, Ohio, native Sylvester "Buster" Stanley won the 1993 Michigan football MVP and Dick Katcher awards?

... that the platformer Bartman Meets Radioactive Man from 1992 heavily featured the character Radioactive Man from The Simpsons, even though he had rarely been seen on the show at that point?

... that US Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor encouraged a 1965 overthrow of South Vietnam's Nguyen Khanh, and the first attempt was then made by the communist agent Pham Ngoc Thao?

... that Sanath Jayasuriya scored the fastest fifty and the now second-fastest century in ODI cricket during the 1996 Singer Cup?

... that it has been estimated that the navis lusoria, a type of a troop ship of the late Roman Empire, could reach speeds of about 10 knots?

... that according to legend, Guru Padmasambhava subdued the spirits of the Khangchendzonga, Yabdean and Mahakaal at Enchey Monastery in Sikkim?

... that the 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final ended in violence when fans invaded the pitch and attacked the referee?

16 August 2010

18:23, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Tower Optical coin-operated binoculars (pictured) can hold up to 2,000 US quarters and have kept their same distinctive look since first manufactured in 1932?

... that today, the 80th birthday of Walter Fink is celebrated at the Rheingau Musik Festival with compositions of Kirchner, Lachenmann, Rihm, Widmann and Hosokawa?

... that the English football club Trawden Forest never lost a home game in the FA Cup?

... that Morrie Yohai, who created products for Old London Foods, lived opulently in Kings Point, New York, in "the house that Cheez Doodles bought"?

... that Louis Fred Pfeifer received the United States military's highest decoration for bravery, the Medal of Honor, while serving under a false name?

... that the recently described notosuchian crocodyliform Pakasuchus had molar-like teeth that were as complex as those of carnivorous mammals?

... that Mexican singer Edith Márquez received a gold certification in Mexico for an album that includes a cover of the number-one song "Tengo Todo Excepto a Tí"?

... that after seeing The Beverly Hillbillies and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In atop the Nielsen ratings, John Aylesworth created Hee Haw as a country variety show to combine the best of both genres?

... that during a fire at a nursing home in Nigel, South Africa, on August 1, 2010, a resident objected to being rescued as she was not properly dressed?

12:00, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the 1995 Airstan incident, which ended 14 years ago today with Russian hostages escaping Taliban captivity via an Ilyushin Il-76 (pictured), was made into the 2010 Russian movie, Kandahar?

... that William Morfill was the first professor of Russian in Britain?

... that during the MN 4 zone, the saber-toothed cat Prosansanosmilus first appeared in Europe?

... that the former Dominican friary in St Andrews, Blackfriars, was destroyed in 1559 by Scottish Protestants?

... that Mona Bell, mistress of entrepreneur Samuel Hill, claimed to have performed in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show?

... that with 203 total yards and four touchdowns, Wali Lundy was named the Most Valuable Player of the American football 2002 Continental Tire Bowl?

... that during the Battle of Pinos most of the English fleet managed to escape from the Spanish fleet by abandoning their boats and throwing their baggage into the water?

... that when Robert Littell and Alison Littell McHose were elected in 2004 to the 24th Legislative District, they became the first father-daughter pair to serve together in the New Jersey Legislature?

... that H. O. West dropped out of Louisiana College to work at a lumber mill before he assembled a chain of thirty-three department stores?

06:00, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Alternative Center for Excellence (pictured), the alternative high school in Danbury, Connecticut, is housed in the only remaining 19th-century school building in the city?

... that Light Horse Tavern was named after Henry Lee III, a Continental Army soldier during the American Revolution known as "Light Horse Harry"?

... that Efraim Zuroff expressed his frustration at the failure to bring 95-year-old Erich Steidtmann to justice, saying "I am the only Jew in the world who prays for the health of Nazi war criminals"?

... that Matt Patanelli was the first University of Michigan football player selected in an National Football League Draft?

... that the Border Governors Conference, an annual meeting of the governors of the states that form the Mexico – United States border, was moved from Arizona to New Mexico this year?

... that the book Food Lovers' Guide to New Jersey placed Pithari Taverna among the best Greek cuisine in the state?

... that the Japanese Farmer-Labour Party was banned just a few hours after its foundation in 1925?

... that the Welsh library educator Peter Havard-Williams served as Chief Librarian to the Council of Europe?

... that fictional data analyst Robin Sage was freely given access to government email accounts, private bank accounts, and top secret military information by their owners within two months of her creation?

00:00, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the extinct hazel species Corylus johnsonii (fruit pictured) resembles three modern hazels found in China?

... that St Nicholas Hospital, St Andrews, was originally a leper hospital?

... that the Al-Bustan resort is part of a "construction boom" of recreational facilities in Gaza?

... that the costumes of Lyo and Merly, the official mascots of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, have inbuilt fans and optional vests lined with cool packs to keep wearers from overheating?

... that Zhang Yi promised the King of Chu to give back 600 li of land, and gave only 6 li at the end?

... that at the 1977 fight between Muhammad Ali and Earnie Shavers at Madison Square Garden, Eva Shain became the first female boxing judge at a heavyweight championship bout?

... that Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball coach Bucky O'Connor led the team to its only NCAA championship game in school history in 1956?

... that Bach used the music of the opening chorus of his Siehe zu, daß deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei, BWV 179, a cantata written for the eleventh Sunday after Trinity, in two masses?

... that several fossils of the recently described Early Cretaceous lizard Liushusaurus preserve scales, pigmentation, claw sheaths, cartilage, and small bones that make up the hemipenis?

15 August 2010

18:00, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1613, Sir Roger Wilbraham, Elizabeth I's Solicitor-General for Ireland, founded the first almshouses (pictured) in his birthplace, Nantwich in Cheshire?

... that Danish painter Albert Küchler's "Albanian Girl" was probably not Albanian, but Italian?

... that the former boxer Harold Gomes was named the Ring Magazine fighter of the month following his world title victory over Paul Jorgensen?

... that as president of Southwestern at Memphis College, David Alexander oversaw the desegregation of its fraternities and sororities?

... that television writer Bernie West, creator of The Jeffersons, described his experience as a Borscht Belt comedian saying, "Everything we did may not have been original, but what we stole was good!"?

... that Bron Taylor coined the term "dark green religion" as a set of beliefs characterized by a conviction that "nature is sacred, has intrinsic value, and is therefore due reverent care"?

... that although travel times between downtown Tainan and the Tainan High Speed Rail Station will be halved by the new Shalun Line, residents have complained that it will worsen local road traffic?

... that the samba-inspired song "Are You Going With Me?" by the Pat Metheny Group was the background music for a Los Angeles Lakers highlight reel after they won an NBA title?

... that Serge Monast was a Québécois journalist and conspiracy theorist who claimed that Project Blue Beam is a NASA plan to fake the Second Coming of Christ to bring about the New World Order?

12:00, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the rock engravings at Twyfelfontein ("Lion Plate" pictured) are Namibia's only World Heritage Site?

... that Bob Dylan paid US$2,500 per week to percussionist Bobbye Hall to get her to tour with him in 1978, in compensation for missed session musician work?

... that the Champlain Hudson Power Express could lower SO
₂ emissions by 6,800 tonnes, NO
_x emissions by 10,800 tonnes, and CO
₂ emissions by nearly 37 million tonnes during the first decade of operation?

... that Arthur R. Albohn was known in the New Jersey General Assembly as "Dr. No" for his consistent pattern of voting against legislation that included unnecessary spending?

... that the Iowa Cornets made it to the Women's Professional Basketball League championship in both of its seasons in the league, and lost both times?

... that Jens Tangen, who was ordered by Nazis to become a trade union leader, was later deposed but escaped death, unlike his deputy chairman and judicial office leader?

... that unlike living rorqual whales, the late Miocene genus Plesiobalaenoptera was probably not capable of ram feeding?

... that Ronald McDonald's costume and make-up were created in 1966 by Latvian-born clown Michael Polakovs, better known as Coco the Clown?

... that the Lightning roller coaster was so rough that the phrase "take her on the Lightning" became a folk remedy for terminating unwanted pregnancies?

06:00, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Bishop of Port Augusta, Andrew Killian (pictured) would travel thousands of miles to visit parishes in his rural diocese?

... that Sandra Perković is the youngest ever European champion in women's discus throw?

... that talks between President Gerald Ford and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1975 were held at the Deerwood Country Club in Jacksonville, Florida?

... that Acteosaurus tommasinii, a species of aquatic lizard from the upper Cretaceous, is similar to mosasauroids and modern snakes?

... that insurance litigator Eugene Anderson was admitted to Harvard Law School with the help of an attorney he met while hitchhiking across the United States?

... that the first time slavery was abolished in the Americas was in the Mexican state of Veracruz?

... that when Phil Ochs recorded "Cross My Heart", the orchestra had difficulty keeping pace with him?

... that the Yateley Complex in Hampshire was home to "Britain's most famous fish"?

... that the career of Chicago blues guitarist Sammy Lawhorn was partially curtailed by a burglar throwing him out of a third floor window?

00:00, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the parareptile Eunotosaurus (restoration pictured) was once widely accepted as a transitional form between turtles and their prehistoric ancestors?

... that Dan Povenmire was the director for the Family Guy Road to series, until he left Family Guy to create Phineas and Ferb?

... that Little Liberia in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Hard Scrabble in Providence, Rhode Island, were two urban New England neighborhoods created by free blacks in the early 19th century?

... that Upper Peninsula native Reuben Kelto was selected as the MVP of the 1941 Michigan football team that was ranked fifth in the final AP poll?

... that Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy can be used to characterize artistic materials in old-master paintings?

... that although Citizen Cope's "Sideways" has never charted, it has been covered by Santana, Sheryl Crow and Corey Taylor?

... that novelist Vera Henriksen has also written two volumes of the History of the Royal Norwegian Air Force?

... that the Brighton Forum, a serviced office complex in Brighton, England, was used to train Anglican schoolmistresses before being requisitioned for the Royal Engineers' wartime use?

... that Elias Volan was edged out as national trade union leader in 1940 by members of the Trade Opposition of 1940?

... that Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, proposed marriage to Marie-Chantal Miller on a ski lift in Gstaad, Switzerland, in 1994?

14 August 2010

18:00, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Teatro de la Ciudad (pictured) was the most important cultural venue in Mexico City until the Palacio de Bellas Artes was finally finished in the 1930s?

... that Clifford Grossmark, chairman of Gillingham F.C. from 1961 until 1983, was widely known in football circles as simply "The Doctor"?

... that in 1982 the United States Supreme Court determined that a Native American Indian tribe may impose taxes on non-Indians, in Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe?

... that Josh Zepps, the past host of the Science Channel's Brink television series, formerly wrote and narrated a radio segment that satirized the Prime Ministers of Australia?

... that the rhodocene monomer is stable in solid state at or below liquid nitrogen temperatures (−196 °C) and in gas phase above 150 °C but not at room temperature?

... that The Float@Marina Bay, a venue of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, hosts the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games as the world's largest floating stage?

... that Japanese trade union leader Ritsuta Noda was a pioneer in the underground birth control movement in Osaka?

... that when alleged demoniac Antoine Gay met another alleged demoniac, a friar who saw the meeting claimed he could hear the two demons arguing over which one was greater?

... that the fragile building material bungaroosh is so prevalent in Brighton that much of the town "could be demolished with a well-aimed hose"?

12:00, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Tollemache Almshouses (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, may stand on the site of the Hospital of St Lawrence, a medieval lazar house?

... that Austrian composer Franz Schreker's most successful opera Der Schatzgräber was performed 354 times in over fifty cities between 1920 and 1925?

... that 196 activists of the Japanese Hyōgikai trade union movement were jailed in 1926 for organizing strikes?

... that Tony Branoff became the first sophomore selected as MVP of the Michigan football team after leading the 1953 squad in scoring, handling punting duties and throwing a 66-yard touchdown pass?

... that an "exact replica" of the Temple of Solomon called the Templo de Salomão is being built in Brazil?

... that the District 5 School in the Cobblestone Historic District in Childs, New York, is one of only two buildings in the state to use cobblestone as a veneer over timber frame?

... that the motto of The Wide World Magazine (1898–1965) was "Truth is stranger than fiction"?

... that the Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco, the largest apartment complex in Mexico, was declared a disaster area after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake?

... that John R. Branca wanted all three judges at a bout to be women, but one of the boxer's handlers nixed the idea as "there's going to be a lot of blood and I don't want the three judges throwing up"?

06:00, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the fruit of Australian rainforest plant the long-leaved bitterbark (pictured) open explosively, throwing out parts as far as four metres away?

... that it took until 2010 for Franz Schreker's opera Die Gezeichneten, premiered in 1918 in Frankfurt, to appear in the Western Hemisphere as The Stigmatized?

... that Bob Widlar was the first baby to be monitored by a wireless communication device?

... that the release date of Taylor Swift's song "Mine" was moved up after a recording of the song was leaked online?

... that the Sheridan's Green Hairstreak is Wyoming's state butterfly?

... that Edwin Benbow, the only ace on the FE.8, evaded combat with the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, on 23 January 1917, only to shoot him down on 6 March 1917?

... that St Teilo's Church, Llandeloy in Pembrokeshire was built in 1926–27 from medieval ruins?

... that the Simarouba species can be used as timber, for producing edible oils and to treat dysentery?

... that oak trees may have weeping conks?

00:00, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

... that while the schooner-barge Miztec (pictured) survived the 1919 storm that took her partner, the SS Myron, her good fortune ended when she sank in 1921 with the loss of all hands on Friday the 13th?

... that the importance of the acorn as fodder for locally raised pigs led the German town of Kirchardt to include one on the town crest?

... that in order to end the dispute over jurisdiction of Fort Orange, Pieter Stuyvesant created the village of Beverwijck in 1652, which eventually became the city of Albany, New York?

... that IGN's Craig Harris stated that Urban Yeti! felt like it was produced by "a few guys down in someone's basement"?

... that Jean Leon Gerome Ferris's series The Pageant of a Nation is the largest intact series of American historical paintings by a single artist?

... that Central Highlands of Sri Lanka is the first World Heritage site in the country to be designated in 22 years?

... that St Mark's Church, Brithdir has been described as one of the few full blooded Arts and Crafts churches in Wales?

... that the Plaza Mayor, a public square in Salamanca, Spain, was originally built as a bullfighting arena?

... that long-haired males were persecuted by the Czechoslovak communist regime in the 1960s and '70s?

13 August 2010

18:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Emma Webster funded renovations to the Tousley-Church House (pictured) in Albion, New York, for the Daughters of the American Revolution despite not being a member?

... that Trapalcotherium matuastensis is one of five species of mammals recognized among seven fossil teeth from the Cretaceous Allen Formation of Argentina?

... that Itchy & Scratchy in Miniature Golf Madness was the last Simpsons video game to be published by Acclaim?

... that Maxwell's thermodynamic surface was sculpted in 1874 by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell to visualise the ideas of American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs?

... that neither the Arizona Diamondbacks nor Colorado Rockies have selected a second baseman in the first round of the Major League Baseball draft?

... that the voyages of the Otter crossing the Pacific Ocean from Australia and becoming the first vessel of the United States to enter a Californian port in 1796 were chronicled by French traveler Pierre François Péron?

... that the 1881 Chios earthquake was the last of the three "catastrophes" that affected the island of Chios in the 19th century?

... that the Jhapan festival, dedicated to the goddess Manasa, is of particular significance to snake charmers in the Bankura district?

... that Michael Batterberry started his first magazine with startup funding from Hugh Hefner and a prototype issue printed in Playboy magazine?

12:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Georgian façade of 116 Hospital Street (pictured) conceals a 15th-century structure, which might be the oldest house in Nantwich, Cheshire?

... that among the central leaders of the Norwegian temperance movement were founder Asbjørn Kloster and politician Sven Aarrestad?

... that concerned citizens of Johnston, Rhode Island, were able to prevent the construction of a waterpark at Snake Den State Park in 2005?

... that Tony Rio, placed on probation in 1958 for being part of a football gambling ring, went on to become the MVP of the 1959 Michigan football team?

... that the 1992 Simpsons video game Bart's House of Weirdness is mostly unknown today because it was only released for DOS, and therefore has almost no fan base?

... that Hans Freeman introduced protein crystallography to Australia and determined the structure of plastocyanin, the first protein to be structurally characterised in the southern hemisphere?

... that the U.S. Supreme Court delayed taking up the case of Virginia v. West Virginia for three years because it was deadlocked over whether it had jurisdiction over the issue?

... that Hockey Hall of Fame forward Sweeney Schriner was the first Russian-born player in National Hockey League history?

... that in June 1944, during the invasion of Elba the Free French assault division included 200 mules?

06:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

... that more than 440 players have lived at La Masia (pictured), but only 10% have made it into the FC Barcelona first team?

... that in the New Jersey Senate, John H. Dorsey invoked "senatorial courtesy", an unwritten rule whereby a senator can block consideration of a gubernatorial appointee from the senator's home county?

... that before it was dismantled, the Mariposa botnet was estimated to consist of 8 to 12 million zombie computers, making it one of the largest botnets in history?

... that Israeli Dudu Yifrah raised sewn-together Israeli-Palestinian flags on the summit of Mount Everest, and dedicated his climb to his Palestinian colleague Ali Bushnaq?

... that the 1910 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Maryland v. West Virginia established the current boundary between the states of Maryland and West Virginia based on a stone set in a river in 1746?

... that Wayne Wang handpicked a song for his movie Chinese Box that a group of teenagers from Sarawak, Malaysia, made their professional debut on Boys & Girls 1+1=3 with?

... that in 2007, Emeel Salem won the inaugural college baseball Lowe's Senior CLASS Award after earning a 3.85 grade point average at the University of Alabama?

... that the Colonial Revival facade of Achavath Achim Synagogue in Bridgeport, Connecticut, includes a portico with fluted columns and stained-glass windows?

... that Chung, the Wolf of Kabul's sidekick in British story papers and comics, cracked heads with a cricket bat which he called "clicky-ba"?

00:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the airship LZ 10 Schwaben (pictured) was the first commercially successful passenger aircraft in history?

... that the literary début of Norwegian writer Mikkjel Fønhus was a novel about an outlaw?

... that the 1899 U.S. Supreme Court case Morris v. United States decided who owned the water rights associated with land possessed by the heirs of the late Chief Justice John Marshall?

... that English merchant William Lowthian Green published his theory of Earth's formation while serving in the cabinet of the Kingdom of Hawaii?

... that metadynamics has been used to study, among other things, protein folding, chemical reactions, molecular docking and phase transitions?

... that St David's Church, Llangeview, Monmouthshire, is listed Grade I because of its exceptional interior including a 15th-century rood-loft and rare pre-Victorian box pews?

... that Henry Hill attended the University of Michigan on an academic scholarship and became the MVP of the 1970 football team as a walk-on?

... that one of the effects of the 1222 Cyprus earthquake was to render the harbour at Paphos unusable?

... that the Bengal chess player Moheschunder Bannerjee in 1855 introduced the body of openings now known as Indian defence?

12 August 2010

18:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the 5th century BCE Ma'agan Michael Ship (pictured) shows no wear from recurrent use and no shipworm damage, leading its excavators to believe that it sank on its maiden voyage or not long afterward?

... that the organs of a Jewish teen and a Palestinian boy, who were killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, were donated to children from the opposite sides of the conflict?

... that the Oklahoma Thunder of the World Football League won the World Bowl in 2008, 2009, and 2010?

... that of over 200 artworks known to have been created by Belgian painter Virginie Bovie, only 7 have been located?

... that the family of Sogen Kato now face an investigation into allegations they claimed 9.5 million yen in pension money when they kept Kato's death a secret for thirty years?

... that Archibald Church, a veteran of the British intervention in the Russian Civil War and a Labour MP, introduced a eugenics bill to the House of Commons in 1931?

... that flooding from the Yangtze River destroyed part of the city of Haimen before the river changed course in 1701 and created new land for the city?

... that Operation Diamond, mounted by the Mossad in 1966, resulted in an Iraqi pilot landing a Soviet-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 in Israel?

... that during Henry VIII's reign, Lancelot Ridley, one of the Six Preachers of Canterbury Cathedral, took part in the disputation Thomas Cranmer set up on Trinity Sunday 1542, in Croydon?

12:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Tooth-billed Catbird uses the leaves of the Big-leaved Bollywood (pictured) on its display court floor?

... that Rabbi Ronald Androphy of East Meadow Jewish Center protested enforcement in 2001 of an 1896 tax on houses of worship purchasing homes for clerics as violating the separation of church and state?

... that the defunct Yugoslavia national under-20 football team still hold the FIFA U-20 World Cup scoring record they set in 1987 with an average of 2.44 goals per game?

... that Indian actress Mukta Barve won the 2007 Zee Award for best actress in a commercial play for her portrayal of a Kabaddi enthusiast?

... that Mel Gibson directed four music videos for singer-songwriter Oksana Grigorieva's album Beautiful Heartache?

... that the general strike against Leopold III of Belgium broke out a few days after he returned to the throne in 1950?

... that after a fire destroyed US$500,000 worth of master recordings, singer Al Goodman of Ray, Goodman & Brown said "I just stood there and watched 30 or 40 years of my life go by"?

... that the invasive crayfish Orconectes immunis can outcompete the earlier invader O. limosus?

... that after the medieval lawyer John of Tynemouth was kidnapped for ransom, he informed his kidnappers that the writer Gerald of Wales would be travelling nearby, causing Gerald to also be kidnapped?

06:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Crown of Bolesław I the Brave (replica pictured) was melted down in 1794 and recreated in 2003 using some of its original gold?

... that to celebrate the opening of the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk, reality TV show Cake Boss produced a 10-foot (3.0 m) 1,200-pound (540 kg) cake in the shape of a flip-flop?

... that Milsons Point, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia, was named in honour of James Milson?

... that one day after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill went ashore, Richard Nixon called for a complete cessation of local drilling except for a relief well?

... that 1974 Michigan football MVP Steve Strinko suffered a degenerative knee injury and later formed an organization to provide medical assistance to others injured in college athletics?

... that Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has a history of hosting music, from Sunday concerts championed by P.T. Barnum in 1890 to the Gathering of the Vibes music festival in summer 2010?

... that St Baglan's Church, a medieval church in Llanfaglan, Gwynedd, Wales, is listed Grade I because it is unrestored, and has an exceptionally complete set of 18th-century furnishings?

... that downtown Albion, New York, is one of the best-preserved commercial areas along the route of the Erie Canal?

... that inmates of Nantwich Workhouse could be confined in a dungeon for drinking tea?

00:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Hal the Central Park Coyote got his nickname from his temporary lair in Hallett Nature Sanctuary (pictured) in Central Park, New York City?

... that Diogo Fernandes Pereira discovered the Mascarenes archipelago (Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues) in 1507?

... that Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas once crashed their horse and carriage at the prestigious Regency Square in Brighton?

... that Stephen B. Wiley of the 23rd Legislative District was nominated to the New Jersey Supreme Court, but his nomination was denied because he had voted for a pay raise for justices as State Senator?

... that the West Argyle Street Historic District in Chicago, Illinois, developed from a village named Argyle Park after the Dukes of Argyll in Scotland?

... that The Cyclone at Revere Beach was the world's first roller coaster to reach 100 feet (30 m) in height?

... that only 7 km (4.3 mi) of Vietnam's 84 km (52 mi)-long Da Lat–Thap Cham rack railway remains in service today, operated as a tourist attraction based at the Art Deco-influenced Da Lat Railway Station?

... that the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield on the medieval bridge over the River Calder is the oldest and most ornate of the surviving bridge chapels in England?

11 August 2010

18:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

... that St Peter and St Leonard's Church, Horbury (pictured) was paid for by John Carr, a former Lord Mayor of York?

... that parties that have been established less than a year before the Ukraine local elections, 2010 are not permitted to compete in these elections?

... that the merchant ship Empire Celia was still armed with a 4-inch gun over three years after the end of the Second World War?

... that Marcus Ray was an All-American member of the record-setting 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team's defense?

... that drummer Ben Koller is rumored to be a member of the band United Nations, but due to contractual obligations, the members are bound to remain anonymous?

... that Franklin W. Smith helped establish the YMCA in Boston, the first chapter of the organization in the United States?

... that because of a bug in the video game Space Hawk, the developers added black holes to explain why the player would sometimes jump to hyperspace at random?

... that Kettler Capitals Iceplex, the practice arena of the Washington Capitals, is the highest ice rink off street-level in the United States?

... that Marcus Harvey's painting Myra was vandalised twice, by two different artists, on the opening day of the Sensation exhibition in 1997?

12:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the 1901 Socialist candidate for Governor of New Jersey, Charles H. Vail (pictured), was a Universalist clergyman?

... that the New York Stars were the champions of the Women's Professional Basketball League in its second year, but never played another game as the team disbanded after the 1979–80 season?

... that during the early 1190s, the medieval English royal justice and administrator Roger fitzReinfrid had custody of both Windsor Castle and the Tower of London?

... that the July 2010 Bronx tornado was only the second known tornado to touch down in the Bronx and seventh to impact New York City since records began in 1950?

... that the 1989 wedding of Princess Marie Isabelle was denounced by her own grandfather as "treason"?

... that GRB 070714B was the most distant short-duration gamma-ray burst ever detected?

... that an investigation of climatologist Michael E. Mann by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has been criticized by scientists as "echo[ing] some of the worst offenses of the McCarthy era"?

... that the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act extinguished all aboriginal title in Alaska?

... that Colonia Algarín in Mexico City has restaurants which are recommended for their pozole?

06:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

... that after William C. Durant founded the Durant-Dort Carriage Company (pictured), the best-selling horse-drawn vehicle maker in the US, he made Buick into the nation's best-selling car and founded General Motors?

... that School Chancellor Irving Anker resisted demands to cut the school budget in 1974, saying "we cannot write off the children of New York City without calling into question every value we live by"?

... that by the late 1910s, the population of the Kenai Peninsula Wolf had been almost completely eradicated through hunting and application of strychnine?

... that J. G. M. Ramsey's funeral procession in 1884 was the largest ever witnessed in Knoxville, Tennessee, until that time?

... that No. 140 Squadron of the Royal Air Force had the help of Mosquitos to take pictures of France during World War II?

... that the adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1450 marked the first time that Israeli losses were mentioned or condemned in a United Nations resolution?

... that although Mersey Beat and Top of the Pops placed The Rolling Stones' "19th Nervous Breakdown" at the top of their charts, it is not officially recognised as a number one hit in the United Kingdom?

... that Japanese minelayer Sarushima was attacked three times by the United States Navy during World War II before being removed from the Navy List on September 10, 1944?

... that shooting an apple off one's child's head is not a feat unique to William Tell, but was reportedly ascribed to Danish hero Palnatoki in the 12th century?

00:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

... that despite reaching 25 metres (82 ft) high in nature, Decaspermum humile (pictured) has potential as an indoor or tub plant?

... that As-Sadaka Gaza Olympic Swimming Pool is the first Olympic-size swimming pool in Gaza?

... that Manuel Belgrano, José de San Martín and Martín Miguel de Güemes proposed that Argentina be a constitutional monarchy ruled by an Inca?

... that Zariphios School, founded at 1875 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, was one of the most significant Greek educational institutions in the region, attracting teachers from Greece and Western Europe?

... that the metal detectorists who found the Milton Keynes Hoard were granted a larger share of the reward than usual, because the landowners falsely claimed that they had searched without permission?

... that the largest ever dam raise in the United States is occurring at the San Vicente Dam in California, which will increase its height by 117 feet (36 m) and more than double its reservoir size?

... that among the works of architect Paul Due is the design of Hamar Railway Station from 1896?

... that, although the nearby River Teifi no longer floods, the tradition of keeping a coracle in the porch of Manordeifi Old Church continues?

... that the US entered the precursor to the International Coffee Agreement because they feared that the declining price of coffee could drive Latin American countries towards Nazi or Communist sympathies?

10 August 2010

18:00, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Gyantse Dzong (pictured) was badly damaged and plundered during the 1904 British invasion because the primitively armed Tibetans were overwhelmed after holding off the British for two months?

... that of the 658 Members of Parliament elected at the United Kingdom general election in December 1832, 189 were returned without any vote being held?

... that the beating of a child in a Boston public school sparked the Eliot School rebellion and motivated the creation of a nationwide system of parochial schools?

... that the outcome of reforming actions such as the Bill of Middlesex, initially intended to increase the business of the English Court of King's Bench, was its dissolution?

... that the first issue of The Hotspur in 1933 contained an offer for an electric shock machine?

... that the Welsh League, consisting of Aberdare, Barry, Ebbw Vale, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid-Rhondda and Treherbert, was the first professional rugby league competition in Wales?

... that affilins are proteins that can bind antigens just like antibodies, despite having quite a different structure?

... that the Christopher Walker Farm was a center for hog raising in western Ohio?

... that one restaurant reviewer expects the "upscale" Roots Club to bring "a new era of ... dining experience" to Gaza?

12:00, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Saints Boris and Gleb Cathedral (pictured), the main and biggest Orthodox church in Latvia, can receive 5,000 visitors?

... that Jean Sagbo, a real estate agent from Benin, is the first Black politician elected in Russia and has been called "Russia's Obama"?

... that "El Cariño Es Como Una Flor", performed by Venezuelan singer-songwriter Rudy La Scala, became his first best performing Latin single in 1990?

... that although the fossil mammal Veratalpa (astragalus) was described as a mole, it may instead be a rodent?

... that the 19th-century restoration of Hodgeston Parish Church in Pembrokeshire, Wales, was intended to be a model for future church restorations?

... that in 2008 Naji Hakim composed variations for oboe and organ on Philipp Nicolai's chorale Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, published in 1599?

... that South Chamorro Seamount, a submarine mud volcano near the Mariana Trench, is only the second such structure in the world to be sampled?

... that under the Spanish National Health System foreign minors in Spain have the same rights to health care as Spanish nationals?

... that the Houston Angels of the Women's Professional Basketball League had an all-male cheerleading squad, which the team's owner promised wouldn't be a "sex show – this is high class"?

06:00, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the maize weevil (pictured) is a serious pest of maize in the United States, and also infests standing crops and cereals in all tropical areas of the world?

... that Dutch architect Wolff Schoemaker, who designed the Villa Isola, was assisted by former first President of Indonesia Sukarno during the renovation of the Hotel Preanger?

... that the planned 2012 Marvel Studios film The Avengers, to be directed by Joss Whedon, was first announced in 2005?

... that in 1856 William Carpenter painted the last King of Delhi's eldest son, Prince Fakhr-ud Din Mirza, five months before the Prince died?

... that Minnesota's highest lake, Lake Abita, is only 12 miles away from its lowest lake, Lake Superior?

... that Erna Berger sang the title role of Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride in a 1955 recording with Wilhelm Schüchter and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie?

... that the President of Singapore can only refer questions regarding the Constitution to the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore Tribunal on the Cabinet's advice?

... that Ludovica Levy chaired the theatre Secondteatret in Kristiania from 1899 to 1901, along with her husband Dore Lavik?

... that Portal's music "has been compared to, among other things, a leaf blower, a vacuum cleaner and an aeronautics tunnel"?

00:00, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

... that musicologist Wye Jamison Allanbrook showed how compositions by Mozart (pictured) were influenced by the social dances of his time?

... that senior Singaporean legal officer Sivakant Tiwari was lead counsel in inquiries into the Spyros disaster (1978), the Singapore Cable Car disaster (1984), and the Hotel New World disaster (1988)?

... that Armajaro's hedge fund manager is known as "Chocolate Finger" for his exploits in cocoa trading?

... that professional baseball player J. T. Wise is the great-nephew of 1960 World Series MVP Bobby Richardson?

... that women are now allowed to smoke hookahs at the Crazy Water Park in Gaza?

... that observations and samplings from Jasper Seamount show that it is very similar to Hawaiian volcanoes?

... that the Michigan Department of Transportation has erroneously marked Forest Highway 16 as "County Road H-16" on their maps since 1992?

... that unlike other proletarian parties at the time, such as the Japan Labour-Farmer Party, the Labour-Farmer Party and the Social Democratic Party, the Japan Farmers Party based itself solely amongst the peasantry instead of a worker–peasant class alliance?

9 August 2010

18:00, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

... that on a tanker, the person in charge monitors and controls cargo transfers from the cargo control room (pictured)?

... that any act or statement which alleges bias, impropriety or any wrongdoing concerning a judge in the exercise of his judicial function falls within the offence of scandalizing the court in Singapore?

... that nominations for the 2010 Carbuncle Cup, awarded annually to the worst new building in the UK, include the Strata tower block in London, and the redeveloped Burns Monument Centre in Kilmarnock?

... that Anthony J. Alvarado was named New York City School Chancellor in 1983, the school system's first Hispanic in that post, but was forced to resign in 1984 amid charges of financial improprieties?

... that radio DJ and blues expert Mike Raven also worked at various times as an actor in horror films, a sculptor, a sheep farmer, a presenter of religious TV programmes, and a ballet dancer?

... that a large number of gastropods remain to be discovered in Afghanistan?

... that the last goal at the Stade Grimonprez-Jooris in Lille was scored in May 2004 by Matt Moussilou, before the stadium closed after serving as Lille OSC's home for almost 30 years?

... that Taichiro Morinaga was the first person to manufacture chocolates in Japan which he learned after working as a janitor in an American candy factory?

... that the tablemount structure of Sedlo Seamount, a seamount (underwater volcano), indicates that it used to be above the water?

12:00, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

... that unlike modern Sassafras, which are deciduous, the extinct species Sassafras hesperia (fossil pictured) may have been evergreen?

... that the Nanyang Style was a regional art movement practised by migrant Chinese painters in Singapore in the 1950s?

... that the Groruddalen BK football team finished third in their league in 2007 and had the league top scorer, but lost their coach and all players save two, facing relegation and liquidation in 2008?

... that despite criticism in Channel 4's Dispatches for his work at UK firm Leonard Curtis, Keith Goodman went on to become President of the Insolvency Practitioners Association?

... that The Heart of a Woman, the fourth installment of Maya Angelou's six autobiographies, has been called her "most introspective"?

... that Wireless Hill on Macquarie Island enabled the first radio link to Antarctica?

... that Indigenous Australian activist Robert Bropho won a case in the High Court of Australia challenging the redevelopment of Perth's Swan Brewery?

... that the building that houses the Library of the Congress of Mexico was a cantina at the beginning of the 20th century?

... that the anime Black Rock Shooter was based on the song of the same name by Huke and Ryo of the Japanese music group Supercell?

06:00, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

... that world champion figure skater Sonja Henie and her husband founded a museum of contemporary art (pictured) at Høvikodden in Bærum?

... that Storyville, a nightclub housed in Boston Hotel Buckminster, hosted recording sessions by Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker?

... that the Danish ethnologist Gudmund Hatt systematically inventoried cultural similarities and differences amongst northern peoples?

... that St Michael and All Angels Church, Llanfihangel Rogiet, in Monmouthshire, Wales, is approached through a working farm?

... that the Graveyard Seamounts are all named morbidly, with names such as Pyre Seamount, Morgue Seamount, and Zombie Seamount?

... that The Back Porch Majority was chosen by Life magazine to provide entertainment at the White House in 1965?

... that the Women's Professional Basketball League, which played its first game in 1978 in Milwaukee in front of 7,800 fans, collapsed after three seasons and an estimated US$14 million in total losses?

... that tree-ring dating shows that the wood for the rood screen in St Brothen's Church, Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, Wales, came from trees felled between 1496 and 1506?

... that scenes for the 2009 television advertisement The Life were filmed inside the cooling tower of an active nuclear power station?

00:00, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

... that before becoming a museum, Beit Beirut (pictured) was a vantage point for sniping and a combat zone during the Lebanese Civil War?

... that ordering "half and half" at Big Spring Cafe in Huntsville, Alabama, gets you a bowl with equal portions of chili con carne and Brunswick stew?

... that the location of the Silver King Mine was first discovered by a soldier building a road during the Apache Wars, who found black rocks that flattened when struck?

... that socialite Judith Peabody was known for clothes she wore from Bill Blass and Donald Brooks, as well as for legal aid to Lenny Bruce and her efforts at Gay Men's Health Crisis for people with AIDS?

... that Cardiff School of Art & Design, established in 1865, is the oldest constituent part of University of Wales Institute, Cardiff?

... that Nathan Quinones felt so relieved after leaving his position as New York City School Chancellor, that he said he "felt like a little bird", singing to himself as he walked down the street?

... that in 2009, the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration began planning for a Chinese-built icebreaker due to its expanding polar exploration activities?

... that the Canadian television series Tabloid (1953–1960) regularly featured weatherman Percy Saltzman's flipping of a chalk?

... that the Hovis advertisement Go On Lad compresses 122 years of British history into 122 seconds?

8 August 2010

18:00, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

... that St Cynhaearn's Church, Ynyscynhaearn, in Gwynedd, Wales (pictured), is located in an isolated position on a former island in a lake, and is approached by an ancient causeway?

... that the jury at the 2003 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival took longer to award the Grand Prix to Lamp than any other commercial in the festival's history?

... that Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sang in the Bach cantata Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, BWV 102 for the tenth Sunday after Trinity, with conductor Benjamin Britten?

... that the Oceanography Society gives out the Jerlov Award "in Recognition of Contribution Made to the Advancement of Our Knowledge of the Nature and Consequences of Light in the Ocean"?

... that architects Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno designed all stations on Norway's first railway line, the Hoved Line between Christiania and Eidsvoll?

... that Bruce Springsteen's song "Nebraska" was inspired by Springsteen seeing Terrence Malick's film Badlands on television?

... that the Thrangu Monastery, the first traditional Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Canada, with a 4 metre golden Buddha, was officially opened in Richmond, British Columbia, on 25 July 2010?

... that the Devil's Jumps, on the South Downs of West Sussex in southern England, are considered to be the best preserved Bronze Age barrow group in Sussex?

... that Duane Earl Pope‎ turned himself in to law enforcement the day he first appeared on the FBI's 10 most wanted list?

12:00, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the shell of the Macklintockia scabra snail (pictured) has ghostly bars?

... that Huntersville is unique amongst Norfolk's 19th-century neighborhoods, in that it was unplanned and developed over time?

... that the Comet Hale-Bopp inspired Graham Waterhouse to compose Hale Bopp for string orchestra, which ends with a boy soprano singing How Brightly Shines the Morning Star?

... that Operation Grand Slam in 1952 was a major naval exercise of the newly formed NATO alliance, with over 200 warships?

... that Michigan halfback Ted Kress set a Big Ten single-game rushing record with 218 yards in his second conference game?

... that for the What's it going to take? advertising campaign, celebrities such as Anna Friel and Fern Britton were made up to appear to have been the victims of domestic abuse?

... that research by Gerson Goldhaber on supernovae provided evidence that the rate of the expansion of the universe was increasing due to what was termed "dark energy"?

... that Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold (of Hollywood film score fame) composed his first opera, Der Ring des Polykrates, when he was only seventeen years old?

... that American newspaper editor James McMaster changed his name to make it sound Irish?

06:00, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Ricketts Glen State Park (pictured) in Pennsylvania was to have become a national park before budget issues and World War II ended that plan?

... that modern humans have been found to inhabit various countries for periods ranging from almost 200,000 years to less than 800 years?

... that artist Walter Tyndale painted landscapes and buildings in England that inspired Thomas Hardy's famous "Wessex" novels?

... that the world's Christian population is growing slightly faster than the world's population?

... that the annual Pflasterspektakel ('pavement spectacle') in Linz, Austria, features over 400 international street artists and attracts some 200,000 visitors each year?

... that by the early 1900s, famine, civil war and sleeping sickness had reduced the population of the Baganda people to around a third of its size in the prior century?

... that when the three Monarch-class battleships were commissioned, they were only half the size of other battleships in foreign navies?

... that Harrison Howell Dodge, who served for 52 years as the resident superintendent of Mount Vernon, often slept in the house as a night guard?

... that authorities believe convicted fraudster Edward Porta escaped from the U.S. Penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia, apparently by walking out of its minimum security area?

00:00, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Norwegian architect Einar Oscar Schou is best known for his design of the Bergen theatre Den Nationale Scene (pictured)?

... that Polly Morgan is a London based British artist who uses taxidermy to create works of art?

... that the first episode of The Force, a 2009 documentary series, followed a murder investigation after the burnt corpse of a woman was found in a suitcase?

... that Tirana Park on the Artificial Lake once contained a memorial to Sadijé Toptani, the mother of King Zog I of Albania, but it was destroyed by the Communist regime?

... that the 1687 diary of Edinburgh medical student Thomas Kincaid records the earliest known golfing instructions?

... that the Little Pamir valley in Afghanistan supports populations of Marco Polo sheep, ibex, and other wild animals?

... that in 2010, the Cotswold Air Show commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, featuring aircraft such as the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane?

... that the new Gaza Mall aims to "develop a marketing and leisure culture" in Gaza?

7 August 2010

18:00, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Mechanical Galleon (pictured) was not only a model nef and a clock, but also had smoking cannons, bells, trumpets, a drum, and a Holy Roman Emperor?

... that Samuel Gurney Cresswell was the first naval officer to cross the entire Northwest Passage?

... that 900 volunteers completed the initial work on Camano Island State Park in Washington in a single day?

... that the fossil mammalian tooth LACM 149371 shows resemblances with some ungulates, rodents, and multituberculates, but most likely belongs to the extinct Gondwanatheria?

... that Space Chair holds the world record for the highest, high-definition TV commercial?

... that the 1949–50 City College of New York men's college basketball team is the only one to win the NCAA Tournament and National Invitation Tournament in the same season?

... that the redundant church of St Ellyw, Llanelieu in Powys, Wales, is a venue for the annual Talgarth Festival?

... that when Lemrick Nelson was tried in 1992 for the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum, a few of the largely African-American jury that acquitted him later attended a party that honored him as a "hero"?

... that Sportsklubben av 1909 was the first sports club in Norway explicitly for workers?

... that Dale Webster set the Guinness World Record for "the most consecutive days spent surfing", at 10,407?

12:00, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Hell (pictured) is in Pinckney State Recreation Area?

... that Wyandot chief Roundhead had his own brother executed for siding with the United States prior to the War of 1812?

... that the Saw-shelled Turtle is one of the few native Australian animals which successfully prey on the introduced poisonous Cane Toad?

... that despite being shown only three times in its entirety, the TV ad Old Lions is credited with increasing sales of Carlsberg lager in the UK by over four hundred percent?

... that Motiejus Šumauskas, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic 1967–1975, was a partisan fighter during World War II?

... that the National Academy of Mime and Acting, an old Swedish school, will merge with the university college Dramatiska Institutet in 2011?

... that in a survey study of the officials elected in the 1999 municipal election in Bolivia, the Communist Party had the highest percentage of indigenous councilors?

... that the Delhi Dam in northeast Iowa failed on July 24, 2010, after the Maquoketa River reached record levels?

... that the Chicago Half Marathon begins and ends near the Museum of Science and Industry?

... that in Inuit lore the Adlet are mythical creatures, half-man and half-dog, but the term may also denote inland natives?

06:00, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

... that while most glaciers in the Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska are receding, Margerie Glacier (pictured) is said to be stable?

... that the Louisiana historian Garnie W. McGinty's Louisiana Redeemed: The Overthrow of Carpetbag Rule, 1876–1880 is an enduring study of Reconstruction in McGinty's native state?

... that finds from the Broighter Gold hoard have featured on one pound coins from two different countries?

... that many crew members began to cry while filming hospital scenes for the Swedish film Glowing Stars, because they thought the scenes were emotional?

... that St Mary's Church, Derwen, Denbighshire, Wales, is listed Grade I because it possesses an exceptionally complete rood screen and loft and otherwise retains much of its medieval character?

... that Władysław Wawrzyniak, one of the founders of the Republic of Ostrów, was among the victims of the Katyn massacre?

... that the inaugural Paris Marathon in 1896 was won by Len Hurst, an English brick-maker?

... that between 1560 and 1640, the business of the English Court of King's Bench rose tenfold?

... that, unlike many other monasteries and churches of the time, Marko's Monastery experienced almost no damage after Skopje fell under Ottoman rule?

... that during The Trillion Dollar Campaign, The Zimbabwean newspaper put up billboards printed on genuine Zimbabwean banknotes?

00:00, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the 1303 Crete earthquake ruptured the eastern part of the Hellenic arc (pictured), and was one of the most powerful historical earthquakes in Greece?

... that almost none of Robert Streater's 17th-century architectural painting survives except the ceiling of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, which was restored in 2008?

... that Eric Liu's 1998 book, The Accidental Asian, was praised by Time magazine for its balanced approach toward racial topics?

... that the Republic of Ostrów was a short-lived autonomous republic created in the aftermath of World War I?

... that Dennis Fitzgerald won a gold medal in wrestling at the 1963 Pan American Games, and set the Michigan Wolverines football record with a 99-yard kickoff return?

... that the solar panels on the Georgetown Intercultural Center were designed with rough glass to prevent interference with planes at Reagan National Airport?

... that the Sajur is the only river in Syria that joins the Euphrates on its right bank?

... that Gerald Garson, a New York Supreme Court Justice who was later convicted of accepting bribes, assured the lawyer bribing him: “Justice is being done”?

... that the Old Church of St Nicholas in Uphill, Somerset, England, which was built around 1080, is still used for services even though the nave has no roof?

6 August 2010

18:00, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the freshwater snail Indoplanorbis exustus (pictured) transfers veterinarily important parasites, including the fluke Schistosoma spindale?

... that the web content lifecycle can be so complex that most experts do not agree on descriptions of the number, name, or type of stages to include in the process?

... that Father Charles Beirne, S.J., advised the United States on Latin American affairs while serving as vice president of Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador?

... that a Soviet and former Russian Imperial and Azerbaijani military commander, combrig Jamshid Nakhichevanski, became a victim of the Great Purge and was executed in 1938 after his third arrest by NKVD?

... that Bill Gray appeared at every baseball position except pitcher during his professional career, including playing seven different positions during his debut season with the Philadelphia Phillies?

... that the Bolivian Socialist Republican Party supported the military governments that ruled the country in 1935–1937, 1939–1940 and 1940–1943?

... that the Patroon Creek was listed in 1993 as one of the top 10 most polluted rivers in New York, and heavy metals such as depleted uranium were found in the creek in 2003?

... that although the Albion, New York, post office is on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), it is not old enough to be a contributing property to the NRHP's Orleans County Courthouse Historic District?

... that the Japanese battleship Kirishima was sunk in the middle of the night by an unseen ship?

12:00, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

... that a wicket was first laid at the North Perrott Cricket Club Ground (pavilion pictured) soon after the Second World War?

... that art historian Eugene Goossen saw abstract paintings by Doug Ohlson as depicting "yellowish pink and green dawns, blue noons, and red-orange sunsets that swiftly slide from purple to black"?

... that the Special Air Service used LVT Buffalos to cross the Rhine river during Operation Archway?

... that Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman Phat Wilson was a member of three Allan Cup winning teams in the 1920s as Canada's senior champions?

... that Bailey's Dam saved part of the Union Navy's Mississippi River Squadron during the Civil War?

... that the Byzantine general Constantine Opos led the regiment of the Exkoubitoi, established in the 5th century, in its last battle at Dyrrhachium in 1081?

... that Swedish director Lisa Siwe's feature-length film debut, Glowing Stars, earned her the Guldbagge Award for "Best Director"?

... that anthropologist Ursula Graham Bower fought for the British Army as a guerrilla with the Naga people during World War II?

... that the Norwegian multi-sports club Ski does not offer the sport of skiing?

06:00, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the siblings of early Kona coffee merchant Henry Nicholas Greenwell (pictured) included Canon William Greenwell and poet Dora Greenwell?

... that, on 6 June 1944, half the 12th SS Panzer Division were sent to deal with dummy parachutists from Operation Titanic?

... that, in 2009, African Barrick Gold produced 716,000 ounces of gold from the Tulawaka, Bulyanhulu, Buzwagi, and North Mara Gold Mines?

... that the Lancashire textile merchant and politician Robert Needham Philips was the grandfather of the historian G. M. Trevelyan?

... that the German Catholic magazine Hochland, founded by Carl Muth in 1903, published regular contributions by historians Theodor Schieffer and Heinrich Lützeler, and philosopher Peter Wust?

... that, in Andy Beene's first season playing with the Milwaukee Brewers, he only played in one game?

... that Public Employees Federation president Kenneth Brynien was elected in 2006 by a margin of 850 votes out of 14,898 cast, but was unopposed for reelection in 2009?

... that Julie von Massow, a Prussian noblewoman, started a prayer movement in 1862 to reunite Lutheranism and Catholicism?

... that the earliest known Chairman Mao badges were made from used toothpaste tubes?

00:00, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

... that many sex positions derive their Sanskrit names from that of the Hindu goddess of sexual pleasure – Rati (pictured with her husband, the lovegod Kama)?

... that the historian Jimmy G. Shoalmire specialized in Reconstruction in Red River Parish, Louisiana, ruled from 1868 to 1876 by carpetbagger State Senator Marshall Twitchell?

... that the Pons Neronianus ('Bridge of Nero') over the Tiber in Rome may actually have been built by Caligula?

... that people tend to see the world as a grey gloom when they are depressed?

... that as superintendent of Mount Vernon starting in 1937, Charles Wall would ride on horseback to inspect the grounds, which he saw restored to the way they were in the days of George Washington?

... that the Cretaceous mammal Argentodites is known only from a blade-like tooth with eight cusps arranged in a row?

... that the historian Mark T. Carleton penned a 1971 study entitled "Politics and Punishment" which described a sudden change in racial demographics in the Louisiana penal system?

... that Cas Myslinski worked in a foundry before attending high school, and turned down a scholarship offer from Columbia University in order to attend West Point?

... that the Aberdeen Student Show has happened every single year since 1921, and has featured Flying Pigs?

5 August 2010

18:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the marine life of Wakatobi National Park (pictured) in Indonesia is threatened by overfishing and blast fishing?

... that Jim Neu's first dance theater production, Aerobia, told the story of six characters at a health club of the future where people come to exercise their "sociomuscularity"?

... that the BMW Mega City Vehicle is expected to be the first mass production urban electric car featuring a carbon-fiber reinforced plastic body?

... that Claude Aveline met Jean Vigo in a health clinic and 28 years later founded an award in his honor?

... that the Union Obrera Democratica Filipina held a mass anti-imperialist rally on May 1, 1903, the first May Day rally in the Philippines, in spite of being denied permits by the United States' Taft administration?

... that a co-founder of Vietnam Veterans of America, Stuart F. Feldman, "single-handedly ... won billions of dollars for veterans programs" through his lobbying efforts?

... that Spain's Aldeadávila Dam, completed in 1962, was featured in the 1965 David Lean film Doctor Zhivago?

... that Chris Coghlan, a first-round draft pick of the Florida Marlins in 2006, won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award in 2009?

... that bear's ears grow on the ground in New South Wales?

12:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

... that L. Martin Griffin, Jr., an environmentalist in California's Marin County, preserved the coastline by buying Audubon Canyon (pictured) which was threatened by development?

... that the Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company has been champion of the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival six times?

... that Johannes Kringlebotn, who edited the newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad after the Nazis usurped it, had been among Norway's top-ten middle distance runners?

... that the Philadelphia transit strike of 1944 started when black transit workers were allowed to hold jobs previously reserved for whites?

... that Willie Irvine was the English Football League First Division's top goalscorer in the 1965–66 season?

... that modern Pentecostalism and its offshoots developed from events in North Carolina and Tennessee during the late 19th century known as the Latter Rain Movement?

... that a substantial part of the Sami costume collection in the National Museum of Denmark's Ethnography Department was collected by Emilie Demant Hatt?

... that the four-volume work on press media history in Norway, Norsk presses historie 1660–2010 starts off 103 years before the first Norwegian newspaper?

... that Firo Prochainezo, a character of the Baccano! light novel and anime series, wears glasses in an attempt to look smarter?

06:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the William V. N. Barlow House (pictured) has one of the few hand pumped water wells left in the village of Albion, New York, in its backyard?

... that The Ecumenical Council is Salvador Dalí's vision of the meeting of heaven and earth, inspired by the first communication between the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury in 426 years?

... that after the death of Bolivian Christian Democratic politician Benjamín Miguel Harb in 2008, the Senate of Bolivia decided unanimously to grant him its highest decoration, the Banner of Gold?

... that the GO-Urban project in Ontario, Canada, planned to install maglev automated guideway transit systems in Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa, but was cancelled when the technology proved too expensive?

... that Odd Erling Melsom edited Nazi-affiliated newspapers both during and after WWII; Fritt Folk and Folk og Land?

... that the World Chess Hall of Fame originally used cardboard plaques to honor past grandmasters, and was located in the basement of a New Windsor, New York, building?

... that the ethnographic collection of Swedish missionary Karl Edvard Laman and his wife included 12 human skulls?

... that the fragmentary fossil jaw TNM 02067 may represent the only known mainland African member of the enigmatic Gondwanatheria?

... that after 33 years in jail as the "Elevator Bandit", 63-year-old Arthur Williams went on a final crime spree with a gun in one hand, a cane in the other and an oxygen tank hooked up to his nose?

00:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Micronesian navigator Mau Piailug (pictured) enabled the first Hawaiʻi–Tahiti non-instrument sailing canoe voyage in more than 500 years by mentoring Nainoa Thompson?

... that the leftist Collective Labor Movement was the largest trade union centre in the Philippines in the years just before World War II?

... that Olaf Gjerløw, grandfather of Socialist politician Tora Aasland, was a conservative editor of Morgenbladet?

... that Frankie Laine's song, "I Believe", spent eighteen weeks as a UK number-one single in the 1950s?

... that Kåre Langvik-Johannessen and Albert L. Fliflet both worked with texts by Grillparzer and Vondel, but won prizes for translating other, different works?

... that Tuxlith Chapel, a redundant church in Milland, West Sussex, was one of the first churches to be owned by the Friends of Friendless Churches?

... that the historian and educator John Ardis Cawthon wrote about poor white settlers in the Louisiana hills, lonely cemeteries, ghost towns, and even his own ancestors?

... that there are five main types of front curtain used in modern theatres?

4 August 2010

18:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Ain Sakhri lovers (pictured), the oldest representation of two people making love, was found near Bethlehem?

... that Chief Justice of California nominee Tani Cantil-Sakauye worked as a blackjack dealer in Reno, Nevada, after graduating from UC Davis School of Law?

... that the Lead Mosque of Shkodër, Albania, received its name from once having cupolas covered in lead?

... that the Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording was first presented at the 22nd Grammy Awards in 1980, but eliminated by 1981?

... that in 1958, Trudy Späth-Schweizer became the first woman to hold a political office in Switzerland?

... that sports writer Vic Ziegel co-wrote The Non-Runner's Book, which satirized the sport of marathon running?

... that Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service is to trial two fire bikes fitted with water and foam tanks and a 30-metre hose rig capable of fighting a fire for two minutes?

... that Gofraid Donn was blinded and castrated by a follower of his uncle, and later jointly ruled the Kingdom of Man and the Isles with his uncle?

12:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Neunggasa (pictured), a Buddhist temple in South Korea, was originally established in 419, destroyed in 1592 and rebuilt again in 1644?

... that art collector Rolf Stenersen donated his home, the functionalist Villa Stenersen designed by Arne Korsmo, to the State of Norway as a home for the Prime Minister?

... that Mount Albion Cemetery in Albion, New York, has one of the rare butternut trees in the region?

... that Antonello da Messina's altarpiece for San Cassiano in Venice disappeared from the church during the 17th century, only to be found later in the private collection of Archduke Leopold William?

... that World War II flying ace Hiromichi Shinohara once scored as many as 11 victories on a single day, setting a record in the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service?

... that it was feared that the Hindiya Barrage on the Euphrates could not fulfill its function?

... that studio executive Simon Kornblit, who oversaw the release of Jurassic Park for Universal Pictures, became an actor after his retirement?

... that a surgeon carried out an endoscopy on the CryoSat-2 satellite after a problem was found during final preparations for launch?

06:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory (resident butterfly pictured) imports up to 3,000 butterflies a month from around the world?

... that the merger between the Norwegian Labour Party-led Workers' Sport Federation and the Communist-led 'Red Sports' has been described as an early example of the popular front line?

... that Adolfo Kaminsky made forged IDs for Jewish refugees, South American leftists and North American draft dodgers?

... that Minuscule 759 contains only the beginning of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53–8:2) and lacks the major part of it?

... that the extinct Lotus Nelumbo aureavallis is known from Eocene rocks in western North Dakota?

... that, in the 1924 Egyptian parliamentary election, members of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority received 10% of the seats, even though the Copts made up 6% of Egypt's population?

... that George Veenker has the highest winning percentage of any basketball coach in Michigan history and served on the NCAA Football Rules Committee from 1938 to 1945?

... that courts in California, Maryland, and Wisconsin held that ladies' night discounts are unlawful gender discrimination under state or local statutes?

00:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the rhubarb curculio beetle (eggs pictured) also lives inside sunflowers?

... that in 1893 Jefferson Davis lay in state at the Louisiana Historical Association's Memorial Hall in New Orleans prior to being re-interred in Richmond, Virginia?

... that Black Issues Book Review was named one of the ten best new magazines of 1998 by Library Journal?

... that Ireland recently experienced its highest number of fatalities in a single traffic collision?

... that The New Christy Minstrels' 1962 debut album won a Grammy Award and sat in the Billboard charts for two years?

... that Shkodër Cathedral suffered damage during the Siege of Shkodër by the Montenegrin army in 1912–13?

... that the American Quarter Horse stallion Zan Parr Bar was a three-time World Champion in halter as well as excelling at steer roping?

... that the town of Marche, Arkansas, was founded by a Polish count who wanted to restore the agricultural environment familiar to most Poles before their arrival in America?

3 August 2010

18:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

... that former fighter pilot Robert V. Whitlow (pictured), although trying to secure an NFL franchise for Phoenix, said the Philadelphia Eagles' plans to relocate to Arizona did not "seem very wise"?

... that, although the 1481 Rhodes earthquake caused only a minor tsunami, it matches the age of a tsunami deposit found near Dalaman on the Turkish coast?

... that thousands of Muslims from Myanmar and Thailand who have migrated to Taiwan were descendants of nationalist soldiers that fled Yunnan when the communists took over mainland China?

... that the Mausoleum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Warsaw, Poland, preserves cells in which Nazis tortured and killed Polish resistance fighters?

... that, while Ryan Murdough is attempting to run for the New Hampshire House of Representatives as a Republican, the chairman of the state Republican Party refused to support him?

... that Rensselaer Lake, created in 1851, was Albany, New York's first municipal water supply?

... that the Deer Rock, a heritage monument of the Tlingits in Haines Borough, Alaska, US, was witness to a peaceful settlement of conflicts between Chilkoot and Chilkat clans?

... that the owner of the American Quarter Horse stallion Poco Pine once bet against his horse winning a Grand Championship, and lost the bet?

12:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the new building of the Warsaw University Library (pictured) in Warsaw, Poland, was consecrated on 11 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II?

... that Rasta Thomas, at 16 became the youngest dancer ever to win the USA International Ballet Competition in the senior division?

... that dolphins are often sighted in the estuary of the Great Wicomico River in Virginia?

... that Skulptur, a 1921 book by Joseph Chaikov, was the first book on sculpture written in Yiddish?

... that Óscar Zamora Medinaceli, a communist student activist and leader of a Maoist insurgency in the 1970s, would become a senator, mayor, ambassador, prefect and minister of Bolivia?

... that archaeologists have detected what they believe is a wooden henge underground near to Stonehenge?

... that Maureen Ogden of New Jersey's 22nd Legislative District sponsored a bill making original birth certificates available to adoptees, saying "basic rights of the little babies were not being considered"?

... that in the 1976 miniseries Dickens of London, British actor Roy Dotrice played both Charles Dickens and his father John Dickens?

06:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the ornate Jacobean Revival-style 39 Welsh Row (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, was built as a humble savings bank?

... that the two tracts of Oliver Lee Memorial State Park in New Mexico preserve archeological sites associated with Native Americans and a late 19th-century ranch?

... that three basketball officials were suspended due to unspecified "bad calls" during a 2010 UAAP college basketball game?

... that a 1960s-era church in Brighton, England, was demolished after just 20 years because it had been built with dangerous high-alumina cement?

... that the Revolutionary Left Front had the highest percentage of female candidates in the 1991 municipal elections in the major cities of Bolivia?

... that Searsville Dam, built in 1892, currently provides no drinking water, flood control, nor hydropower, but rather it irrigates Stanford University's golf course?

... that Ray Courtright, once considered Oklahoma's greatest halfback, pitched a no-hitter for the Sooners and coached the Nevada basketball and Michigan golf and wrestling teams to championships?

... that some house concerts in 1930s Harlem were used as covers for illicit sex?

00:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the fossil butterfly Prodryas persephone (engraving pictured) is so well preserved that individual wing scales can be seen?

... that the most distant planet known in 2002 was discovered by Dimitar Sasselov's team?

... that Nikolaus Pevsner stated that the crocketed and canopied stoup in the porch of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Caldecote, Hertfordshire, is unique?

... that Koji Gyotoku is the coach of the Bhutan national football team?

... that CenSeam is an initiative to biologically sample seamounts (underwater volcanoes), of which about 100,000 exist and only 350 have received attention?

... that José de la Borda went from being the richest man of Taxco to near-bankruptcy to being the richest man in Zacatecas?

... that The Rolling Stones and The Who were among the many leading rock bands who emerged from the British rhythm and blues scene of the early 1960s?

... that David Warren, creator of the first flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, was buried in a casket bearing the label "Flight Recorder Inventor; Do Not Open"?

2 August 2010

18:00, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Wonoboyo hoard (examples pictured) is a collection of 9th century golden artifacts from the Medang Kingdom that were discovered in a paddy field in Central Java during irrigation work?

... that former Miami University head football coach Arthur H. Parmelee later studied pediatric medicine with Dr. Clemens von Pirquet in Vienna, Austria?

... that Bryan Jurewicz deflected nine passes as a University of Wisconsin Badgers defensive lineman in 1996, setting a school record?

... that "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore was transferred to the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac aboard the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System, also known as Con Air?

... that the Claustra Alpium Iuliarum represented a fortification system within the late Roman Empire to help secure internal stability?

... that Denise Jefferson started learning to dance when she was eight, but didn't pursue a career in ballet because she "had never seen anyone who wasn't white in a ballet company"?

... that four players from the 1976 NBA Draft, Adrian Dantley, Robert Parish, Alex English and Dennis Johnson, have been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame?

... that when Albanian scholar Hasan Tahsini taught his students about vacuum by killing a pigeon in a bell jar, he was accused of witchcraft?

12:00, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

... that District of Alaska Governor Lyman Enos Knapp (pictured) enjoyed donning his military uniform and watching the local militia parade before him?

... that Vietnamese General Duong Van Minh had been captured by the Kempeitai during World War II and had all but one of his teeth knocked out during torture?

... that the Filipino communist guerrilla commander Guillermo Capadocia had worked as a chef and a waiter during his youth?

... that St John the Baptist's Church, Papworth St Agnes, Cambridgeshire, is constructed in alternating blocks of limestone and fieldstones, forming a chequerboard pattern?

... that Tomm Murstad, who featured in show performances on skis and started a summer camp for youths, used the moniker "Onkel Tomm" (Uncle Tom) on himself?

... that Peltandra primaeva was the first fossil record for the genus Peltandra when described in 1977?

... that the triadic pyramid complex was an early Maya architectural form based on the Maya creation myth?

... that as the first American to play Henry Higgins on Broadway in My Fair Lady, Larry Keith said he doubted if he could get away with his English accent in England, "but I think I can in New York"?

06:00, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

... that for hundreds of years the Buddha was represented by symbols such as his footprint before images like the Seated Buddha from Gandhara (pictured) were carved in Pakistan?

... that Sir Arthur Ingram became the most extensive estate owner in Yorkshire?

... that Andris Nelsons conducted Bartok's Viola Concerto and Mahler's Fifth Symphony in the final concert with his Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford?

... that Operation Burnt Frost was a military operation to intercept and destroy American satellite USA-193?

... that after helping Nguyen Khanh to seize power in January 1964 Tran Thien Khiem was exiled for trying to overthrow him nine months later, and finally succeeded from overseas five months later?

... that the nave of St Mary's Church, Mundon, Essex, is constructed in stone, the chancel in brick, the aisle is timber-framed, the belfry is weatherboarded, and the roofs are tiled?

... that Marie-Josephte Corriveau, whose story inspired many books, songs, plays and even ballet over the centuries since her execution in Quebec, was gibbeted for mariticide in 1763?

... that, at English fairs, women enjoyed sticking pins into Silly Billy's legs?

00:00, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Giant pill millipedes from Madagascar rolled up into balls

... that millipedes in the order Sphaerotheriida (pictured) roll up into balls the size of a cherry, a golf ball, or even a baseball when disturbed?

... that the exile of the popular General Nguyen Chanh Thi by junta head Nguyen Cao Ky under false pretense of an overseas surgery trip sparked the Buddhist Uprising in South Vietnam?

... that Bach had an excellent flauto traverso player at hand for Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94, the cantata for the ninth Sunday after Trinity of 1724?

... that Bill Borgman was a lineman for the undefeated national champion 1932 and 1933 Michigan football teams and a line-mate of Gerald R. Ford on the 1934 team?

... that the Italian Etna-class protected cruisers had a belt of cork at their waterline, which was intended to seal holes by swelling through water absorption after being hit?

... that before being elected Abbot of Farfa in 761 AD, Alan of Farfa was a hermit who penned what would become one of the most successful homiliaries of the late 8th and 9th centuries?

... that retigabine is the first anticonvulsant to work by activating the K_v7 family of voltage-gated potassium channels?

... that, in 1885, Augustus Voelcker calculated that the annual value of excrement per adult was nine shillings (worth £36 in 2010)?

1 August 2010

18:00, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Kalulu (pictured), an African boy who died in 1877, was modelled in Madame Tussauds and attended Dr. Livingstone's funeral in London?

... that the Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant, founded 1758, is the third-oldest Dutch newspaper still being published?

... that, angry with being demoted by junta leader Nguyen Khanh, Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc launched a failed coup, only to have Khanh acquit them in his military court?

... that, on the morning of the Battle of Trafalgar, Horatio Nelson recalled the anniversary of the Battle of Cap-Français, which his uncle had fought on the same day, 48 years previously?

... that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed Senator George Runner's Ronald Reagan Day bill and the state will begin celebrating it on Reagan's 100th birthday?

... that Justin Godart was one of only 80 French parliamentarians who voted against dissolving the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France in July 1940?

... that the "Mad Raft Race" is an event held on the Chilkoot River as part of Fourth of July festivities observed in Haines, Alaska?

... that, as a young priest, Alexandre Le Roy accompanied an 1881 expedition to Bagamoyo, Tanzania, during which he wrote articles for European magazines?

... that the Old Whaler's Church in Sag Harbor, New York, is used by Jews on Saturday and Christians on Sunday?

12:00, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Under the Window (pictured), published in 1879, launched Kate Greenaway's career as a prominent Victorian children's book illustrator?

... that in 2010 Irish Quebecer historian Marianna O'Gallagher was Grand Marshal of the first Saint Patrick's Day parade held in Quebec City for over 80 years?

... that The Undertaker, a professional wrestler, was momentarily engulfed in flames due to a pyrotechnics accident at WWE Elimination Chamber?

... that The Hepworth Wakefield, a new art gallery opening in 2011 by the River Calder, takes its name from Wakefield-born artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth?

... that Daniel I. Arnon was the first to demonstrate the chemical function of photosynthesis outside of a plant cell, creating sugar and starch from carbon dioxide and water?

... that ships from the Royal Navy, the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Polish Navy participated in the British Commando raid Operation Anklet?

... that South Vietnamese General Nguyen Huu Co was exiled by military Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky after being sent overseas on a diplomatic trip and then being locked out of the country?

... that in 1950, L.A. Daily News publisher Manchester Boddy ran in both Senate primaries, with the paper first to call Democrat Helen Douglas "the pink lady" and Republican Richard Nixon "Tricky Dick"?

... that while the Sadd-el-Kafara Dam was under construction in the 3rd century BC to control floods, it was destroyed by one?

06:00, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Portrait of clean-shaven, wrinkled-faced Asian man wearing a cap and combat fatigues

... that South Vietnamese General Ngo Quang Truong (pictured), known for his incorruptibility, refused to give his nephew a desk job, and the nephew was then killed on the front line?

... that the main town and mission of the Ibi, a Timucua tribe, were evidently destroyed by the government of Spanish Florida as a result of the Timucua Rebellion of 1656?

... that the Wickham Market Hoard of Iron age coins was not the first hoard found near the village of Wickham Market?

... that Emil Spjøtvoll was the first rector of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, whose creation he originally opposed?

... that the name of Temperance River in northern Minnesota is allegedly an early explorer's pun on the river's lack of a sandbar?

... that Deb Margolin removed Elie Wiesel as a character in her play Imagining Madoff after the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor called the play "obscene" and "defamatory", and threatened legal action?

... that Olga Lepeshinskaya's theories on the origins of cells won her a Stalin prize, but were dismissed by her husband as "rubbish"?

... that shipping magnate Samuel Garner Wilder started in the business by sailing guano from Jarvis Island to New York?

00:00, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

... that light front holographic methods were originally found by mapping the spatial quark distribution in a proton to a higher dimensional warped space (example pictured)?

... that Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky stopped appearing at presidential election rallies during their successfully rigged 1967 campaign after the latter was heavily heckled at their only event?

... that actor Zac Efron is set to star in and produce the American remake of the successful Swedish thriller film Snabba Cash?

... that Stanley Fay, captain and quarterback of the undefeated national champion 1933 Michigan football team, later became Ford Motor Company's personnel director?

... that the Borda House in Mexico City originally covered an entire city block?

... that, before becoming a Louisiana legislator, Virgil Orr once published a paper called "Vapor–Liquid Equilibrium for the Hexamethyldisiloxane–n-Propyl Alcohol System"?

... that the Soulé Live Steam Festival is held annually in downtown Meridian, Mississippi, at the Soulé Steam Feed Works complex, a former steam engine factory incorporated in 1893?

... that the Mikó Citadel of Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania, once used for defensive purposes, now houses an ethnographic museum and a library?

... that the roofline of the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum is decorated with blubber spades and flensing knives?

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+{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Bridge School (Michigan)|Bridge School]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Raisinville Township, Michigan|Raisinville Township]] was the first public school in [[Michigan]], when founded in 1828?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Park51]]''', an Islamic cultural center whose proposed site has sparked controversy, will include a [[mosque]], a 500-seat auditorium, and a swimming pool?
+{{*mp}}... that [[Merthyr (UK Parliament constituency)|Merthyr]] MP '''[[Edgar Rees Jones]]''' served as head of the Priorities Division of the British [[Ministry of Munitions]] during [[World War&nbsp;I]]?
+{{*mp}}... that in 1975 [[Zimbabwe]]an '''[[Kantilal Kanjee]]''' became the first non-white [[umpire (cricket)|umpire]] to stand in a [[first-class cricket]] match in [[South Africa]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[street pastors]]''' were founded to confront [[gang culture]] in UK cities, and are now known for handing out [[flip-flops]] to tottering [[clubber]]s?
+{{*mp}}... that the [[Late Cretaceous]] [[Madtsoiidae|madtsoiid]] [[snake]] '''''[[Menarana]]''''' had several adaptations for head-first [[Fossorial|burrowing]], but its large size may have made burrowing difficult or impossible?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Prince Frederick of Württemberg]]''' attained the rank of [[Rittmeister]] 2nd class in the [[Army of Württemberg]] by the age of 15?
+{{*mp}}... that [[Sam Peckinpah]], director of the ''[[The Wild Bunch]]'', lived in a three-room suite at '''[[The Murray Hotel]]''' in [[Livingston, Montana]], from 1979 to 1984?
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