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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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