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14 August 2020

00:00, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Oscar II

... that the Swedish warship Oscar II (pictured), the first Swedish vessel named after the ruling monarch since 1824, was autographed by the king shortly after being commissioned in 1907?
... that Molly Neptune Parker was able to support her family, buy a home, and pay for her grandchildren's education through basket weaving?
... that the 1993 Football League First Division play-off Final was estimated to be worth £20 million to the winners Swindon Town?
... that Christian missionary Moritz Hall was ordered to cast artillery for the Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II?
... that the video game Iron Harvest, set in a 1920+ alternate universe inspired by the Polish–Soviet War, has a dieselpunk and mecha theme?
... that in 1851, Wilson Armistead from Leeds hosted escaped slaves Ellen and William Craft when they fled the United States after the Fugitive Slave Act?
... that the former building of the Chinese embassy in Jakarta was turned into a parking lot?
... that Maxine Dunlap, the first licensed female glider pilot in the U.S., began her flight training after catching "lindberghitis"?

13 August 2020

12:00, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Het Nieuwe Instituut

... that the archive at the Het Nieuwe Instituut (pictured) contains more than 18 km (11 mi) of architectural resources?
... that people used to drive by John and Mary Pappajohn's house to look at the sculptures in their yard before they were donated for the Pappajohn Sculpture Park?
... that Kashmiri poet Madhosh Balhami lost 30 years of his poetry in a clash between militants and the Indian government?
... that a voice recording of World War I soldier Edward Dwyer was featured in the contemporary ballet Dust?
... that Mozambique-born Violet Dias Lannoy, called "the lost Goan/Indian/African novelist" by Peter Nazareth, came from a Goan family, worked with Mahatma Gandhi, and hung out with Richard Wright?
... that after the mishandling of a call to the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office that might have prevented a woman's murder, Florida mandated additional training for 9-1-1 dispatchers?
... that Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Sunny Cheung once said: "We want to build a democratic Hong Kong. It's not our responsibility to build a democratic China"?
... that Bruus, once the national card game of Hamburg, rewards players for "daring and tormenting" certain top trumps, and that such tactics lend the game "a certain charm"?

00:00, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

John Bunyan sculpture

... that West Park United Reformed Church of Harrogate, England, has twelve heads of historical characters, including John Bunyan (pictured), carved on its wall?
... that Taylor Swift wrote the lyrics to the song "Cardigan" to co-writer Aaron Dessner's music in around five hours?
... that Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro tweeted "Thanks Iran" after the Persian Gulf state sent the first of six oil tankers to aid Venezuela's chronic fuel shortage?
... that following the Kent State shootings, Robert J. Henle suspended the remainder of the 1970 academic year at Georgetown University?
... that a former firehouse and church on Long Island now houses a permanent display of nine fluorescent-light sculptures by Dan Flavin?
... that seven of the ten Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops of Montreal were born in the city?
... that Brigadier General Harold Huglin was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for leading a bombing raid on Magdeburg during World War II?
... that 1.6 million students in Delhi practice mindfulness, one of the components of the Happiness Curriculum, every day?

12 August 2020

12:00, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Diagram of an ice hockey rink

... that hockey executive Cecil Duncan helped introduce the centre red line of an ice hockey rink (pictured) to allow more passing and create excitement?
... that the song and visual images in the music video for "Bola Maya" express the pain of those who lose their loved ones in foreign lands?
... that in 1992, Leo J. O'Donovan was ordered by a Vatican ecclesiastical court to revoke the funding of an abortion-rights group at Georgetown University?
... that the Central Industrial Security Force Act was amended after the 2008 Mumbai attacks to provide the force with a mandate to secure private enterprises?
... that the statue A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020 was inspired by a raised fist at a Black Lives Matter protest?
... that when the wealthy Abbasid prince Muhammad ibn Sulayman died in 789, government agents found vast quantities of spoilt food in his palace, and dumped it on the street outside?
... that the actors of The Last of Us Part II could improvise their performances and were allowed up to 20 or 30 takes?
... that Japan's Naki Sumo Crying Baby Festival has showdowns between infants in the arms of sumo wrestlers?

00:00, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Yoko Taro

... that Yoko Taro (pictured) jokingly threatened to destroy the servers of Final Fantasy XIV as part of a Nier: Automata crossover story he wrote for Shadowbringers?
... that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport won the title of Best Improved Airport in the Asia-Pacific region in 2014 and 2015?
... that the Serbian Orthodox Church denounced Bishop Grigorije Durić for suggesting that the Serbian government should fund hospitals rather than churches during the COVID-19 pandemic in the country?
... that during their 1925–26 season, Cardiff City suffered the heaviest league defeat in the club's history, losing 11–2 to Sheffield United?
... that an infantry regiment was formed to defend the Turks and Caicos Islands just this year?
... that educator Mildred Hope Fisher Wood was the originator of learning-disability courses, which she taught to prospective teachers at the University of Northern Iowa?
... that Ditshwanelo has been campaigning for over twenty years against capital punishment in Botswana?
... that Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Julia Collier Harris was present at both the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and the Scopes Trial in 1925?

11 August 2020

12:00, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

VikkiKitty

... that VikkiKitty (pictured) casted the first ever Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament?
... that the Mandinka douga, the "dance of the vulture" described in 20th-century African literature, may go back to Sundiata, and reach across to American Gullah culture, buck dance, and the minstrel show?
... that the campfire ash ceremony is a worldwide Scouting service said to date back to Robert Baden-Powell in 1907?
... that the Embassy of the Philippines in Mexico City was badly damaged in the 2017 Puebla earthquake?
... that Tolulope Oluwatoyin Sarah Arotile, the first female combat helicopter pilot in the Nigerian Army, died in a freak car accident?
... that there is a recent trend to reverse the Hebraization of street names in mixed Jewish–Arab cities in Israel?
... that before Kanye West sampled "Hey Young World" by Slick Rick on a track in 2018, his frequent collaborator Jay-Z had sampled it back in 2002?
... that Canadian sports journalist Jim Proudfoot was reportedly a lifetime hitchhiker to get to sporting events?

00:00, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Devunigutta Temple

... that the newly reported 6th-century Devunigutta Temple (pictured) in Telangana, India, only came to international scholarly attention when images were posted on social media in 2017?
... that during his acting career spanning over 60 films, Jack Nicholson received 12 Academy Award nominations, more than any other male actor?
... that Hokkaidō Heritage includes the Teshio River, named after the Ainu for "river full of fishing weirs"?
... that the New York City Subway's E train has been nicknamed the "Homeless Express" due to its large ridership of homeless people?
... that the step sequence is a required element in men's and women's single skating, pair skating, and ice dance?
... that after World War II, German industrialists who used forced labor claimed to be victims and opponents of Nazism?
... that the 608,832 lithium-ion battery cells assembled at the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project are capable of powering between 1,600 and 2,400 homes for four hours?
... that a portrait of English prostitute Elizabeth Read is said to allude to the social mobility enjoyed by convicts in colonial Australia?

10 August 2020

12:00, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Reminiscence of the Tempyō Era

... that Reminiscence of the Tempyō Era (pictured) features a kugo harp modelled on one in the Shōsōin treasure house?
... that Wilbur Little was lynched for wearing his World War I uniform after being discharged from the army?
... that when footballer Przemysław Płacheta signed for Norwich City from Śląsk Wrocław in 2020, he was Śląsk's record sale and Norwich's first-ever Polish player?
... that Radio Saigon Houston has been cited as a factor luring Vietnamese Americans to move from the West Coast to Texas?
... that Canadian sports executive Jack Hamilton identified 136 different samples of wood in a guessing competition?
... that the song "Catallena" by South Korean girl group Orange Caramel interpolates a sample of the Punjabi folk song "Jutti Meri"?
... that in June 2020, Southern Virginia University removed the name of Robert Lee Durham from its main academic building in the wake of the George Floyd protests, citing his racist views?
... that Muhammad al-Qunawi wrote a Turkish edition of Al-Khalili's tables because, according to him, "some of our sons wanted, from this poor man, to learn about sine tables"?

00:00, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Cobra King shortly after battling into the Bastogne perimeter

... that Cobra King (pictured) was the first tank to break the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge?
... that during his term as the governor of North Sumatra in the 1980s, Kaharuddin Nasution ordered all civil servants in the province to wear white uniforms?
... that the 2002 Football League First Division play-off Final was played under a closed roof at the Millennium Stadium because it was too sunny?
... that the Domino Sugar Refinery was described on completion as the largest sugar refinery in the Americas?
... that Zacharias Stopius was ennobled by the king of Poland, while his daughter became the first female diplomat of Sweden?
... that "Freuet euch der schönen Erde", an 1827 hymn about the beauty of nature, became successful with a melody composed by Frieda Fronmüller 100 years later?
... that a short film made by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann at university was screened at both the Telluride Film Festival and South by Southwest?
... that the French peanut is native to Brazil?

9 August 2020

12:00, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Truman Taylor

... that President Ronald Reagan once phoned television host Truman Taylor (pictured) on the air to praise his "creative" Job-A-Thon show?
... that the Northern Rhodesia Regiment was a British colonial regiment with the motto "Different in Race, Equal in Fidelity"?
... that performer Lady Midnight teaches music production and performance to youth experiencing homelessness in Minnesota?
... that the roll-on/roll-off car ferry Europic Ferry offloaded equipment under aerial attack during the British landings to retake the Falkland Islands in 1982?
... that the publication of Cantate!, Heinrich Bone's 1847 hymnal with a title translating to Sing!, was followed five years later by an edition with melodies?
... that the Ottendorfer Public Library in Manhattan's East Village contained a librarian's residence on the third floor?
... that Shantaram Siddi is the first Indian legislator of African descent?
... that Devolver Digital requested that the video game Serious Sam Double D be a "Contra on acid"?

00:00, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Princess Bari

... that the Korean folk story of Princess Bari (illustrated), a seventh daughter abandoned by her parents who nonetheless saves their lives, is seen as a subversion of Confucian patriarchy?
... that instead of paying salaries, owner Ron Butlin gave ice hockey players a share of the team's profits, provided medical benefits, and assisted them in finding day jobs?
... that students and adults of three different religions visited the Armenian church in Kuzguncuk, Istanbul, as part of a social activity organized by the local women residents of these religions?
... that after reading a book by Katharine Lee, D. H. Lawrence began to use the phoenix as his personal emblem?
... that A Piece of Eden was filmed at the director John D. Hancock's home, with the main location being his apple orchard?
... that Samuel Schwarz rediscovered a community of crypto-Jews in Belmonte, Portugal, who had kept their faith secret for centuries?
... that The New York Times continued working in a wood and tar-paper enclosure while its new building was being constructed around its older headquarters?
... that sport stars Donncha O'Callaghan and Roy Keane faced The Young Offenders' Hilary Rose to determine exactly "how Cork" they were for RTÉ Does Comic Relief?

8 August 2020

12:00, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Woolly thistle

... that the flower buds of the woolly thistle (pictured) can be eaten in a similar way to artichokes?
... that while the title track of Crazy features the signature sound of South Korean girl group 4Minute—a hip hop– and trap-infused dance number—its lead single was a ballad?
... that Naomi Dattani played for a local boys' team before joining the Middlesex Women cricket team?
... that the film Alexander the Last, which was shot with a Handycam, credits the lead actors as also being the screenwriters?
... that Hypertime is a fictional concept of alternate timelines that branch off from the DC Universe?
... that the Beğendik Bridge is the highest bridge and has the longest main span of any concrete balanced cantilever bridge in Turkey?
... that poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath spent their wedding night in a flat on London's Rugby Street?
... that judge Frank Park volunteered to provide 100 "fat possums" captured from the wilds of his county for a "Possum and 'Taters" dinner honoring president-elect William Howard Taft?

00:00, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

John "JR" Robinson

... that John "JR" Robinson (pictured) kicked off the Steve Winwood album Back in the High Life with a drum solo he played on his own drum kit at Unique Recording Studios in New York?
... that in the 1920s, "the mouthpiece of Bloomsbury liberalism" was published in London's Great James Street?
... that Kawade Shibatarō co-developed the moriage ('piling-up') technique, which gives enamel artworks a three-dimensional effect?
... that after being squatted by hundreds of refugees, the 18th-century Debbane Palace was restored to its former state and turned into a private museum?
... that Gerry Mullan was deselected by the Social Democratic and Labour Party for the Northern Ireland Assembly in favour of the man he replaced, who had retired seven months earlier?
... that North Highlands Dam was built to power a large textile mill which had more spindles turning than any other mill in the United States?
... that the name of the former Palestinian village al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta may have been a tribute to the Mamluk sultan al-Zahir Baybars?
... that Edvard August Vainio's tools for collecting lichens in Brazil included a knife, hammer, chisel, paper, a bag, and a shotgun?

7 August 2020

12:00, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

UNESCO World Heritage logo

... that with 1,121 World Heritage Sites, UNESCO's World Heritage Program (logo pictured) is the world's most popular cultural programme?
... that in the 1930s and 1940s, Marilyn Knowlden appeared in six films that received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture?
... that India's 2020 food-security scheme, launched during the country's COVID-19 pandemic, is equivalent to feeding 2.5 times the population of the US, 12 times that of the UK, and twice that of the EU?
... that the Morse Building, once one of New York City's tallest buildings, was expanded twenty years after completion, having been considered "small and old-fashioned"?
... that Franciszek Ksawery Niesiołowski became a colonel at age 17?
... that the song "I Can See the Change" was developed over text conversation between Celeste and Finneas after the two met in person at the 2020 Brit Awards?
... that German undercover agent Friedrich Salomon Hall's identity was betrayed by the corns on his feet?
... that one California nut job can cost up to $500,000?

00:00, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Ugandan national anthem

... that "Oh Uganda, Land of Beauty" (recording featured) is one of the shortest national anthems, at only eight bars long?
... that the Battle of Rakkestad, part of the Swedish–Norwegian War of 1814, was won by Sweden thanks to an all-out bayonet charge?
... that women in the U.S. Virgin Islands did not gain suffrage until after Edith L. Williams attempted to register to vote in 1935?
... that Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's The Broken Column was the inspiration for a costume in Broken Wings, a ballet about her?
... that Catholic priest Timothy S. Healy held senior positions at the City University of New York, Georgetown University, and the New York Public Library?
... that the LGBT Centre Mongolia was legally registered in 2009 after being told more than ten times that its name did not suit "Mongolian traditions and customs"?
... that after the death of Olaseni Lewis, who was restrained by 11 police officers, UK law was changed to require police to wear body cameras when dealing with vulnerable people?
... that D'Arcy Carden has about 40 minutes of screen time in "Janet(s)" even though the episode is only 22 minutes long?

6 August 2020

12:00, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Liselotte Funcke in 1974

... that as Federal Commissioner for Foreigners in the 1980s, German politician Liselotte Funcke (pictured) saw her role as an "interpreter" of the problems of foreign workers, especially Turks?
... that the name of the women's soccer team Racing Louisville FC is inspired by Louisville's famous horse races?
... that Baekhyun compares his charms to various flavors of candy in his song "Candy"?
... that actress Katharine Hepburn thought the status of one's career could be determined by one's seating position at Samuel Goldwyn's table?
... that the rolling straight-edge, one of the earliest means of measuring road surface regularity, is still used in Britain today?
... that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused delays in regulatory decisions regarding medications such as fluticasone furoate/umeclidinium bromide/vilanterol?
... that Johnby Hall, a 16th-century manor house built around a medieval tower, is now a bed and breakfast?
... that when the Jehovah's Witnesses sold New York City radio station WBBR in 1957, the purchase included the 18-acre (7.3 ha) farm, complete with 20 chicken houses, at the transmitter site?

00:00, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Queen Victoria statue in Valletta

... that in Valletta, a statue of a queen (pictured) is located in a square honouring a republic?
... that 070 Shake said that it felt "crazy" to have been on a record with Kanye West?
... that the Danum shield, found in Doncaster, is one of fewer than ten Roman shields ever found?
... that Augustine Waworuntu, the first woman mayor of Manado, had her official residence in a hotel built of bamboo?
... that K26AC in Bemidji, Minnesota, was the first low-power television station in the United States that did not repeat another station?
... that the 2022 Chuukese independence referendum has been delayed three times, including by the legislative body that approved it?
... that to convince people to let him record their singing, Ozarker folklorist Max Hunter helped them out with chores, including delivering moonshine?
... that the file-sharing website E-Hentai has been called the Library of Alexandria of hentai?

5 August 2020

12:00, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Palika Kendra

... that the Palika Kendra (pictured) is one of 23 buildings in India documented in the Atlas of Brutalist Architecture?
... that in order to serve as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, Cecelia Goetz had to receive a "waiver of disability" from Telford Taylor because she was a woman?
... that to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping, the e5 Project is producing solar- and wind-powered ships to transport fuel oil?
... that ornithologist Corina Newsome and herpetologist Earyn McGee held events as part of the inaugural Black Birders Week, an effort to highlight the challenges faced by Black nature enthusiasts?
... that the presence of the umbrella slug in the Bay of Biscay, first reported in 2016, may be an example of "tropicalisation"?
... that Luton Town F.C. chairman John Gurney organised a "Manager Idol" phone-vote in order to find the club's new manager?
... that choreographer Kenneth MacMillan turned a duet in his ballet Concerto into a female solo when the male dancer broke his foot prior to the premiere?
... that retired United States Air Force colonel Kim Olson is a Master Gardener?

00:00, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Adam van Koeverden

... that despite a poll showing that the 2019 election in the Milton federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, would be a toss-up, Liberal candidate and former Olympian Adam van Koeverden (pictured) won by a margin of fifteen percent?
... that Waldemar R. Röhrbein and Hugo Thielen wrote a book about Jewish personalities in the history of Hanover, including the violinist Joseph Joachim?
... that in 1947, New York City's WMGM rated dead last among FM radio stations, at a time when just 3 percent of metropolitan area residents had FM receivers?
... that the former Lake Estancia in New Mexico reached a highstand during the Last Glacial Maximum, similar to other lakes in the Great Basin?
... that Georgia Adams is the captain of the Sussex Women cricket team, and her father Chris is a former captain of the Sussex men's team?
... that 40 musicians from seven countries collaborated on the song "We Are One", which extends a message of hope and unity to the global population affected by COVID-19?
... that Hilda Gregg published a novel every year for three decades?
... that two versions of each episode of The Titan's Bride are produced: a version that airs on broadcast television, and an online-only "premium edition" featuring explicit content?

4 August 2020

12:00, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Mughal nobleman on horseback, c. 1656

... that Rembrandt's Mughal drawings (example pictured) depict Indian emperors and noblemen, and are the only drawings in which the artist engaged with the style of a "dramatically foreign culture"?
... that Polish boxer Tadeusz Pietrzykowski is best known for his string of victories in Nazi concentration camps?
... that a former renegade policeman discovered a film depicting his role in the siege of a Philippine military base two decades after its theatrical release?
... that the Association of Black Cardiologists has shared resources on the impact of coronavirus disease on black communities in response to the higher death rates seen among African Americans?
... that Johannes Schüler conducted world premieres including Alban Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces in 1930, and Henze's Boulevard Solitude in 1952?
... that director Patrick Creadon said he made the documentary Hesburgh in part because he was skeptical whether the work of Father Theodore Hesburgh "really lived up to his reputation"?
... that a series of tunnels on Japan National Route 48 is known as the Land Gateway to Sendai?
... that Herbert Edwin Bradley was criticised for taking his wife and six-year-old daughter on a gorilla-hunting expedition in 1921?

00:00, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Flag of Grenada

... that the nutmeg on the flag of Grenada (pictured) alludes to one of the country's key exports, which gave rise to its nickname, the "Isle of Spice"?
... that nearly 5,000 fans of easy-listening music successfully petitioned Mississippi radio station WEQZ to adopt the format when another station changed away from it?
... that the creation of the Swedish torch is credited to the Swedish military during the Thirty Years' War?
... that Anthony Kohlmann's refusal to violate the seal of the confessional in 1813 led to the recognition of the confessional privilege for the first time in American law?
... that the Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelos was blinded at the Theotokos Kosmosoteira monastery?
... that a team of approximately 350 people developed The Last of Us Part II over seven years?
... that table tennis has a larger number of playing styles than other racket sports due to the large variety of table tennis rubbers?
... that Ann Smith was described as a "a great fomentor of plots"?

3 August 2020

12:00, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Konnie Huq

... that Konnie Huq (pictured) presented a mockumentary called Konnie's Great British Wee?
... that after Port Vale F.C. were liquidated in 1907, a local church team took on the name and returned to the Football League by October 1919?
... that as president of Georgetown University, Edward B. Bunn ended a 20-year hiatus on construction by opening eight new buildings?
... that Sinai Park House was used by monks to rest after undergoing bloodletting procedures?
... that Lin-Manuel Miranda's idea for improvisational hip-hop comedy musical group Freestyle Love Supreme originated during rehearsal breaks for the musical In the Heights?
... that the proposed African Medicines Agency would regulate not just modern medicine and medical equipment, but also traditional medicine?
... that David F. Gantt was the first and only black person elected to the New York State Assembly from Monroe County, New York?
... that after a fisherman crashed into a volcano, it was named after him?

00:00, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Richard Ernest Dupuy announces the Normandy landings.

... that Colonel Richard Ernest Dupuy's radio statement (recording featured) announcing that the Normandy landings had taken place was so short that he read it twice?
... that the ancient fortified city of Bhitargarh served as a node to the strategic trade routes connecting Tibet and eastern India?
... that Lisa Kearney was the first judoka representing Ireland to reach the final of a Judo World Cup?
... that Nintendo received widespread criticism for awarding the winner of a major Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament only a Switch controller?
... that 5 Beekman Street was described as "architecturally nondescript" and its rooftop spires were likened to "donkey's ears"?
... that although Wong Pak-yu nominated Woo Kwok-hing in the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election, he decided to cast a blank vote to protest against the election's lack of democracy?
... that according to Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya, corporations may be liable in Canadian courts if their operations in other countries violate customary international law?
... that Kanye West is running under the Birthday Party for his 2020 presidential campaign, because "when we win, it's everybody's birthday"?

2 August 2020

12:00, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Lake Poway

... that the bond issue for building Lake Poway (pictured) had to be voted on three times before it was approved?
... that the novel The Silent Patient was inspired by the Athenian tragedy Alcestis?
... that after nearly 40 years as a prolific researcher and professor of demography at Makerere University in Uganda, James P. M. Ntozi was forced to retire—and became a farmer?
... that after the American Revolutionary War, only five of First Presbyterian Church of Newtown's congregants remained, so a nearby Dutch church took them in?
... that according to Naraporn Chan-o-cha, the wife of the current prime minister of Thailand, Prayut Chan-o-cha, she is responsible for his clothes, make-up, and haircut?
... that NCT Dream performed songs from their album Reload on the world's first paid online concert Beyond LIVE?
... that Apollo flight director Pete Frank was a finalist for NASA Astronaut Group 5?
... that the South African motorsport of spinning began as a funeral ritual in which a car was stolen and driven in circles to honor the deceased?

00:00, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Cardinal Gérald Lacroix

... that eight Roman Catholic archbishops of Quebec have been elevated to the College of Cardinals, including incumbent Gérald Lacroix (pictured)?
... that Arsenal extended their FA Cup winners record in the 2020 FA Cup Final against Chelsea at Wembley today?
... that Nepal's first female auto rickshaw driver, Laxmi Sharma, went on to start the first button factory in the country?
... that the Seventh-day Adventist Church replaced the African-American missionary Thomas H. Branch with a white man to appease the government of the British Central Africa Protectorate?
... that when Spain joined the European Communities in 1986, it had a larger fishing fleet than all the other Community members' put together?
... that during World War II, Major General Henry Aurand had his own weekly radio show?
... that Nainital Yacht Club, located at an elevation of 2,084 m (6,837 ft), is the highest yacht club in India and among the highest in the world?
... that while directing Walking Down Broadway, Erich von Stroheim tied a 12 ft (3.7 m) length of thread to James Dunn's pant leg and tugged on it whenever he wanted the actor to emote more?

1 August 2020

12:00, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Enamelled-glass jar from Thutmose III's tomb

... that the earliest known vessel (pictured) in enamelled glass comes from a pharaoh's tomb of c. 1425 BC, after which there are no other pieces for some 1400 years?
... that Kanye West premiered his song "Wash Us in the Blood", which discusses mass incarceration, slavery, genocide, and drug-dealing, at a Christian opera?
... that Ugandan rebels did not recognize Ali Fadhul as the enemy commander when he drove past them during an invasion of Uganda in 1972?
... that Theo Akkermann, whose first major work was a war memorial, created a sculpture for his family's grave?
... that from 2015 to 2019, the U.S. state of Georgia decertified more than 3,000 police officers, while Maryland decertified just one?
... that during construction of the Valle Gómez and Misterios metro stations, workers uncovered part of a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac Hill, dating from the Mesoamerican Postclassic period?
... that educator Agnes Samuelson was posthumously inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame and had a Des Moines elementary school named after her?
... that in the Brazilian state of Bahia, cerrado mice are often caught by barn owls, but seldom by researchers?

00:00, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Glutonny

... that professional Super Smash Bros. player Glutonny (pictured), who competes using Wario, nicknamed himself after a Fullmetal Alchemist character because both are known for eating everything?
... that Chilean television station TVO fired presenter Pamela Jiles for appearing in a presidential campaign advertisement, even though it described itself as editorially "tolerant"?
... that the Mid-Manhattan Library, with space for 350,000 volumes at its opening, was designed to replace a collection housed in a single room of the New York Public Library Main Branch?
... that Irena Sawicka, a Polish archeologist, educator and communist activist, helped Jews during the Holocaust and perished in the Warsaw Uprising?
... that British 19th-century prison visitor Sarah Martin criticised living conditions at The Tolhouse jail, and objected to the fact that the inmates had no access to a church or chaplain?
... that poet William Nauns Ricks wrote an ode to Charles Young, the first African-American colonel in the United States Army?
... that following the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, the BBC produced their own show to determine the British public's favourite Eurovision song of all time?
... that one of the most endangered monuments in Europe is a squatted house in the Netherlands?

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