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21 August 2019

00:00, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

"The Last Caliph", Le Petit Journal, March 1924

... that after the 1924 abolition of the Caliphate (illustration shown), numerous leaders vied unsuccessfully to resurrect the title of caliph for themselves?
... that James J. Mason Brown was the first paediatric surgeon to serve as president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh?
... that Flat Rock Speedway's opening was delayed by a week after a raccoon drowned in its drainage system and rain led to track flooding?
... that new Austrian Finance Minister Eduard Müller began his career as a tax inspector?
... that in 1919 a race riot broke out in Norfolk, Virginia, during a homecoming celebration for African-American veterans of World War I?
... that the Italian Nicholas Laucella became principal flute of the New York Philharmonic in 1909 when Gustav Mahler was chief conductor?
... that the lesser seedcracker enjoys rice and the large, hard seeds of carrycillo?
... that 18-year-old Gerda Hofstätter was given a key to the city of Althofen after winning Austria's first European Pool Championship?

20 August 2019

12:00, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Kristine M. Larson

... that Kristine M. Larson (pictured) and her research team were the first to demonstrate that GPS could be used to detect seismic waves?
... that "The U.S. Air Force Blue" started as an advertising jingle for United States Air Force recruitment advertisements?
... that the 6th-century Lakhmid ruler Amr ibn Hind was killed by the poet Amr ibn Kulthum after Hind's mother had insulted Kulthum's mother?
... that in Cameroon, edible caterpillars are cultivated on dwarf red ironwood leaves?
... that Thai chef Bo Songvisava was once asked by a visiting foreign chef about Thai food and realized she knew very little about it?
... that Knut Nystedt wrote Immortal Bach as a scheme for many voices to sing the first line of Bach's "Komm, süßer Tod" simultaneously in different tempi, meeting on the last word meaning peace?
... that Perla Farías has created telenovelas, such as Juana la virgen and La Reina del Sur, which avoid classic stereotypes?
... that Churchill's Port was not bottled until 1982?

00:00, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

P. lutzii (yeast phase)

... that deforestation in Brazil could be linked to higher rates of the severe fungal infection caused by P. lutzii (pictured), a neglected tropical disease?
... that Christel Boom passed information about NATO exercises to East Germany for the Stasi?
... that "A Rugrats Kwanzaa" was one of the first mainstream television episodes to feature Kwanzaa?
... that the pianist Erik Werba, professor at the Wiener Musikakademie for four decades, is known as an accompanist of lieder singers?
... that the Namib brush-tailed gerbil uses ultrasonic whistles and foot drumming to communicate?
... that Hubert William Lewis was awarded the Victoria Cross after capturing three enemy soldiers and carrying an officer to safety despite being wounded twice?
... that Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals uses GPS to track its vehicles transporting ammonium nitrate, as the chemical has been used by Naxalites to create the explosive ANFO?
... that Chinese political scientist Wang Shaoguang views Western representative democracy as a failure?

19 August 2019

12:00, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

A streetcar from Milan in the 1987 Historic Trolley Festival

... that the San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival featured streetcars from cities in Australia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, England, Germany, and Italy (pictured)?
... that manhua artist Xia Da's April Story was published in 2003 before she had even graduated college?
... that by approving selinexor, the FDA overruled a panel of independent experts that had voted 8–5 against the anti-cancer drug?
... that after John R. Allan died, seven complete or partly-finished unpublished novels were found in his effects?
... that librettist Gerhard Müller and composer Georg Katzer wrote Antigone oder die Stadt in East Germany, but it premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin only after reunification?
... that footage of Ann Peterson diving was the first 1968 Summer Olympics coverage to be aired by ABC in the eastern United States?
... that antelope grass can recover quickly after wildfires even in the middle of the dry season?
... that pilot Walter Anderson and observer John Mitchell were hit by communist fire but landed, rescued two pilots, and took off with Mitchell on the wing and his fingers plugging their leaking tank?

00:00, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

The yellow dwarf on a Nain Jaune game board

... that the classic French card game of Nain Jaune is named after the seven of diamonds, which is depicted as a yellow dwarf on the game board (pictured)?
... that sumo wrestler Enhō Akira is 50 kilograms (110 lb) lighter, and 15 centimetres (6 in) shorter, than most of his top division opponents?
... that U.S. Border Patrol agents reported that some migrant detainees at the U.S.–Mexico border in 2019 were housed in standing-room conditions for days or weeks?
... that Arudji Kartawinata left the Masyumi Party and reformed the Indonesian Islamic Union Party in exchange for a cabinet post?
... that the Sorana bean is grown in such small quantities and is in such demand that it commands prices six to ten times higher than those of other cannellini beans?
... that in 1954, George Ian Scott became the first professor of ophthalmology in Edinburgh?
... that the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is known as ortiguilla in southern Spain, where it is a popular seafood?
... that Turkish race walker Meryem Bekmez escaped the traditional social practice of child marriage for girls when her athletic abilities were discovered?

18 August 2019

12:00, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Christopher Nolan

... that Christopher Nolan (pictured) wrote and directed a no-budget film titled Doodlebug as a student at University College London?
... that Welsh international footballer Peyton Vincze discovered she was eligible to represent the nation only when a Welsh football club visited her town in the United States?
... that the large leaves of Marantochloa purpurea are used for wrapping cola nuts to prevent them from becoming desiccated?
... that after William Tarrant was sacked from the civil service of British Hong Kong, he became a journalist and ran a 12-year-long vendetta that led to his imprisonment?
... that according to the U.S. Supreme Court, Medicare payment levels count as "substantive legal standards"?
... that the baritone Ernst Gerold Schramm was the voice of Christ for Karl Richter in Bach's St John Passion and St Matthew Passion?
... that in 1982, Brooks Resources, originally a subsidiary of the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company, donated 135 acres (55 ha) to help Donald Kerr establish the High Desert Museum near Bend, Oregon?
... that Sylvia Stoesser was called the "nasal chemist" because she could often identify the ingredients in an unknown laboratory mixture by smelling it?

00:00, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Sagu served in a ramekin

... that sagu (pictured) is a southern Brazilian dessert made with tapioca balls that are extracted from cassava, not from sago palms?
... that in 1979, fifteen-year-old Laura Michalek became the youngest athlete ever to win the Chicago Marathon?
... that woollen fabrics have been produced at the Knockando Woolmill since the 18th century?
... that the score of the song "Sweet Little Woman o' Mine", composed by Floy Little Bartlett, was played in the 1925 silent film The Big Parade?
... that the crimson seedcracker has two morphs, large-billed and small-billed, but this trait is not related to sex, age, body size, or location?
... that John Soothill gave "boy in the bubble syndrome" its formal name, severe combined immunodeficiency?
... that New York City's Eastern Parkway, built in the 1870s, is considered the world's first parkway designed for personal and recreational traffic while prohibiting commercial traffic?
... that John Talbot White's last nature column before his death described a mouse escaping a weasel by jumping over its back?

17 August 2019

12:00, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Nanhaipotamon macau

... that the densely-populated territory of Macau is home to a recently discovered, endemic species of freshwater crab of the genus Nanhaipotamon (pictured)?
... that in 2017, Australian rules footballer Tom Atkins laid 23 tackles in a Victorian Football League match, equalling the competition record?
... that New Jersey high school radio station WHPH, itself shared between two schools, had to share time with another high school radio station?
... that Arswendo Atmowiloto wrote around 20 books while imprisoned?
... that, following the 1925 London County Council election, the Labour Party became the official opposition on the council for the first time?
... that Terry Dempsey's songs reached number one in the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia, and his native South Africa?
... that the captain of the SS Grampian intentionally rammed an iceberg head-on so as to avoid the Titanic's fate?
... that chef Asma Khan's husband is not a fan of her food?

00:00, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Clyde Foster

... that Clyde Foster (pictured), a mathematician with NASA, persuaded former Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to support a computer science program at historically black Alabama A&M University?
... that Queens at Heart, which features four trans women in the mid-1960s, has been called both a documentary and an exploitation film?
... that Gavin Arneil is credited with the near-eradication of rickets in Glasgow?
... that the actors from the television drama Jamie Johnson competed at the Gothia Cup international youth football tournament, reaching the quarter-finals?
... that despite being described as a "weak candidate", Arvind Sawant defeated his nearest competitor by more than 120,000 votes to represent the Mumbai South constituency in the 2014 Indian general election?
... that the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution incorporates Russia's first eternal flame?
... that Nicolas Joel, general manager of the Paris Opera from 2009 to 2014, directed Wagner's Ring in 1979 after having assisted Patrice Chéreau for the cycle's centenary?
... that in 1982, the King of Janow, son of the Queen of Poland, moved to California?

16 August 2019

12:02, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Warming stripes for 1850 to 2018

... that a British climate scientist invented a graphic (shown) depicting historical global temperatures using coloured stripes to portray global warming to non-scientists?
... that President Gerald Ford delayed the signing ceremony for the 1974 Jackson–Vanik amendment because Mark E. Talisman's wife was in labor?
... that the only building in England designed by the artist Piet de Jong could be turned into a Wetherspoons?
... that German physician Wolf-Dieter Montag was the inaugural recipient of the Paul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
... that the Manhattan blackout of July 2019 occurred exactly 42 years after the New York City blackout of 1977?
... that despite being the majority language in the Indonesian town of Belang before World War II, the Ponosakan language had only four fluent speakers left in 2014?
... that Suzy Dietrich was part of the first women's team to finish an international-standard 24-hour motor race?
... that among the many uses of Erythrophleum ivorense and Lannea welwitschii, trees growing in Assagny National Park, are rope-making, canoe-building and to poison fish?

00:00, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Célia Xakriabá

... that activist Célia Xakriabá (pictured) is the first individual of indigenous descent to represent indigenous Brazilians in the Minas Gerais Department of Education?
... that the historic Collingwood mansion in Virginia is expected to be demolished later this year?
... that British physician Donald Irvine was the only general practitioner to have been a president of the General Medical Council?
... that Bronx Park contains the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden, and what is believed to be New York City's only remaining uncleared forest?
... that Alice Evans was the first British female professional futsal player?
... that in 1946, Indonesian nationalist forces burned half of Bandung and evacuated at least 200,000 civilians, preventing the British from capturing the city intact?
... that in 1845, Samuel Mulledy was the President of Georgetown College, a Jesuit institution, but five years later was expelled from the Jesuit order?
... that the nickname of a Russian submarine constructed from interconnected spheres comes from an animated circus animal made out of juggling balls?

15 August 2019

12:00, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Wächter der Goitzsche

... that policeman and artist Anatol created the outdoor iron sculpture series Wächter, including a group guarding the environment (pictured) and a memorial to fallen police officers?
... that Lauren Price was the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal?
... that technology developed for use in inkjet printers helped make the automated white blood cell differential, a common blood test, possible?
... that George Dashnau started the first mail order delivery service that supplied human skulls?
... that the brown-cheeked hornbill is among the eleven species of hornbill native to Ivory Coast?
... that Asamardhuni Jivayatra by Tripuraneni Gopichand is regarded as the first psychological novel in Telugu?
... that Polish colonel Andrzej Marecki was one of the victims of the controversial 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash?
... that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor preserved her house with skim milk?

00:00, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Barney Smith at his Toilet Seat Art Museum

... that Barney Smith (pictured) was a pastor before opening a museum at his home dedicated to toilet seat art?
... that the African giant shrew was first described from a mummified specimen found in an ancient Egyptian tomb?
... that Chance Rencountre is the first member of the Osage Nation to win a match in the Ultimate Fighting Championship?
... that because the half-life of beryllium-8 is less than 10⁻¹⁶ seconds, there is a bottleneck in stellar nucleosynthesis that limits the abundance of heavier chemical elements?
... that having wanted to appear in a Sailor Moon stage play since childhood, Momoyo Koyama was cast as Sailor Mercury in a theatrical production of the series in 2014?
... that the Solicitor of Labor leads the second largest litigation department in the U.S. federal government?
... that in 1966, British journalist John Anderson led an expedition across the Atlantic to replicate Leif Erikson's voyage?
... that the bridge built to cross the Red Canal in Saint Petersburg now spans an entirely different watercourse?

14 August 2019

12:00, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Continental Currency dollar coin

... that the Continental Currency dollar coin (obverse pictured), the first pattern coin of the United States, was designed by Benjamin Franklin?
... that Raja ibn Haywa, an adviser to the Umayyad caliphs, supervised the financing for the construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem?
... that the ornate rainbowfish can survive in water as acidic as orange juice?
... that Myrtle Driver Johnson can translate into a language that has been declared to be in a state of emergency?
... that the album Open Here by Field Music has what one band member calls "definitely the angriest songs I have ever written", inspired by Brexit?
... that Green Bay Packers lawyer Gerald Francis Clifford served as assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin, was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and lost a congressional election in 1934?
... that the Swan Canal, one of the oldest canals in Saint Petersburg, is crossed by the Upper and Lower Swan Bridges, the former being one of the oldest stone bridges in the city?
... that according to legend, Gabriel Boughton treated Jahanara Begum's burns and in return received the right to free trade for the East India Company from her father Shah Jahan?

00:00, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Anna Eckstein

... that Anna Eckstein (pictured) dressed in white and collected six million signatures to promote world peace before the First World War?
... that the Northwestern Pacific Railroad interurban lines were the first use of third rail electrification in California?
... that as a surgeon, John Campbell had the right to sit unelected on Edinburgh Town Council?
... that Dardanus deformis is one of at least 24 species of hermit crab that transfer sea anemones to a new shell?
... that Green Bay Packers president Emil R. Fischer was also a nationally-recognized leader in the Wisconsin cheese industry?
... that with his victory at the 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans, Dane Tom Kristensen became the first driver to win the endurance motor race five times in a row?
... that Ravindra Dave directed Jesal Toral, one of the biggest hits of Gujarati cinema, to keep his production crew employed?
... that the British government experimented on Berkshire residents in the 1950s?

13 August 2019

12:00, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Vezzi porcelain beakers

... that the third European factory to make "true" hard-paste porcelain (examples pictured) was the Vezzi porcelain factory of Venice, founded in 1720?
... that Ambroise Ouédraogo, who became the first Bishop of Maradi, Niger, in 2001, has focused on dialogue with Islam?
... that all five components of the climate system—air, water, ice, Earth's crust, and life—help determine Earth's average weather?
... that pool player Han Yu did not celebrate after winning her first world championship?
... that the Ethiopian white-footed mouse and the Ethiopian forest brush-furred rat are two of the most abundant rodents in the montane forests of Ethiopia?
... that Elsie Joy Davison was Britain's first female director of an aircraft company and its first woman pilot to die in World War II?
... that in its early years, New York City's Q35 bus was considered unprofitable, despite charging a double fare for travel between two boroughs?
... that after a Buddha statue was installed on an Oakland traffic median, neighborhood crime dropped by 82 percent?

00:00, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Rose Hollermann

... that Rose Hollermann (pictured) was the youngest player on the Team USA women's wheelchair basketball team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics?
... that the Sahel bush sparrow, found in the Oti Valley Faunal Reserve, is one of 676 species of bird recorded in Togo?
... that American composer Eunice Lea Kettering, who had almost 20,000 copies of her work published, started composing music at age six?
... that the sons of Pyotr Rumyantsev turned down the offer of a palace built at public expense to honour their father, in preference for a public monument?
... that Zhang Xu discovered the regulatory mechanisms in sensory neurons for opioid receptors?
... that in one of the vigilante witch-hunts in Nepal, an 18-year-old girl was dragged from her home and tortured for hours in public on International Women's Day 2018?
... that Mike Pringle and Colin Bradley are credited with developing and instituting significant event audit (SEA) into primary care in the UK?
... that Unbox Therapy sparked Apple's "Bendgate" controversy when host Lewis Hilsenteger used only his hands to bend his iPhone 6 Plus?

12 August 2019

12:00, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Durant-Dort Factory One in 2010

... that Durant-Dort Factory One (pictured) in Flint, Michigan, is often considered the birthplace of General Motors?
... that pianist Alexandre Kantorow won the first prize, gold medal, and Grand Prix in the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition, becoming the first French winner in the competition's history?
... that KSOM in Tucson, Arizona, suffered two transmitter fires in less than four years of broadcasting?
... that Guðrún Björnsdóttir, a 20th-century Icelandic politician and women's rights activist, was at one time a milk vendor?
... that the nine balls of Parapivot come from nine different countries?
... that Harold Forsyth, the Peruvian ambassador to Japan, is the father of a professional football player and husband of a beauty pageant queen?
... that sheep infected with the parasitic nematode Teladorsagia circumcincta may suffer from protein deficiency?
... that The Twilight Zone episode "The New Exhibit" features axe-murderer and last pirate of New York, Albert W. Hicks?

00:00, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Weebill

... that the weebill (pictured), measuring 8 to 9 cm (3.1 to 3.5 in) long, is Australia's smallest bird?
... that Paul Loicq from Belgium was the first European to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?
... that the C train, described as the "least loved of New York City subway lines", still uses subway cars that date to the 1960s?
... that the North African Muhammad ibn Rushayd befriended the future Granadan vizier Ibn al-Hakim when the two travelled to Mecca for pilgrimage and study?
... that Carlos Carrera's El héroe was the first Mexican entry to win the Short Film Palme d'Or, in 1994?
... that Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen became a student of Arve Tellefsen by the age of four?
... that Colombian Supreme Court judge Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán claimed that in 2008 a dozen armed men stormed his house to steal his personal computer?
... that Karski's reports were the first comprehensive documents on the Holocaust in Poland to reach the government-in-exile?
... that a century after Irish antiquarian Francis Joseph Bigger had revived the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, sites he had dug were still being referred to as "well and truly Biggered"?

11 August 2019

00:00, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Wibke Bruhns

... that Wibke Bruhns (pictured), the first female German television news presenter, was a correspondent for Stern in Jerusalem and wrote the biography of her father, who was executed by the Nazis?
... that the Meers Fault in Oklahoma was active during the last 3,000 years and features a scarp that reaches 16 feet (5 m) in height?
... that Nizam Nasir-ud-Daulah established a modern revenue administration system in Hyderabad State?
... that the queen parrotfish feeds on the algae it scrapes from corals and other surfaces, resulting in bioerosion?
... that Karen Saywitz developed "non-leading" techniques for interviewing child witnesses and victims?
... that the Atascadero Printery, founded by Edward Gardner Lewis, housed the first rotogravure printing press in the Western United States?
... that in 2011, Stephen J. Challacombe and colleagues laid out research challenges of global health inequalities and oral health, relating to TB, STDs, HIV, and Noma?
... that a 0-year-old genderless fairy baby otter once threatened to "visit your house" with a baseball bat?

10 August 2019

02:00, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

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Sports and exercises on the Field of Mars, pre-1914

... that over its 300 years, the area of Saint Petersburg's Field of Mars has been a military parade ground, public meeting space, festival site, and location for sports and exercises (pictured)?
... that prolific British author S. H. "Tim" Burton hand-wrote his books because he could not stand typewriters?
... that imaging scientist Katie Bouman first learned of the Event Horizon Telescope in 2007, while still in high school, and joined the project six years later?
... that the investigational drug SEP-363856 may represent a new class of antipsychotics?
... that in addition to founding Tmura, an anti-discrimination center that advocates for women's rights, Yifat Bitton was shortlisted for Israel's Supreme Court twice?
... that the maple Acer beckianum was described from a piece of petrified wood found near Vantage, Washington, in 1954?
... that the 1813 sinking of the British warship HMS Peacock was celebrated with a song by Eliakim Doolittle?
... that Ottessa Moshfegh's second novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, was originally planned to focus on the September 11 attacks?
... that Ina Kaplan was six months pregnant when she won three of the four 2014 German national pool championships?

9 August 2019

02:19, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Afsarwala tomb

... that the name of the Afsarwala tomb (pictured) translates as 'officer's tomb', but the identity of the occupant is unknown?
... that Günther Leib, who often sang at the Halle Handel Festival, was called a "first rate Beckmesser" by The New York Times when he first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera?
... that Elongatoolithus, Macroolithus, and Nanhsiungoolithus were the first types of fossil eggs to be given names in the modern classification system?
... that American academic Amy Wax graduated from Harvard Medical School before becoming a lawyer?
... that the Pampean flat-slab is an area of low angle subduction in South America, associated with a large volcano-free gap in the Andean Volcanic Belt?
... that Starting for the Hunt by Aelbert Cuyp is an early example of an equestrian portrait of someone who was not a member of court?
... that Lionel Matthews was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the courage he displayed while a prisoner of war?
... that following the release of "You Need to Calm Down", GLAAD reported an "influx" of $13 donations?

8 August 2019

00:00, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Sonny West in 2010

... that Sonny West (pictured), the co-writer of Buddy Holly's hits "Oh, Boy!" and "Rave On", took 40 years to finish the follow-up songs?
... that fronds of the seaweed Halimeda tuna each consist of a single cell?
... that after fleeing Chihuahua due to death threats, Patricia Mayorga dedicated her 2017 CPJ International Press Freedom Award to two murdered journalists?
... that the Hong Kong commercial–residential high-rise Ocean One has a concert hall on its first floor?
... that paediatric surgeon Robert Zachary and his colleagues improved the survival rate of babies with spina bifida from 10% to 90% by operating within hours of birth?
... that in 2015, Nanjing Golden Dragon Bus announced a joint research agreement with San Diego State University to develop electric batteries and other technologies?
... that Turkey's Aksungur MALE UAV has a designed maximum payload nearly four times that of its predecessor?
... that footballer Alice Griffiths represented Wales for the first time after playing as the only girl in an otherwise all-boys league?

7 August 2019

00:00, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

The Carron Bridge arching over the River Spey

... that the Carron Bridge (pictured) was the last cast-iron railway bridge to be built and used in Scotland?
... that Isoldé Elchlepp began her career as a protest song singer and later appeared as Wagner's Ortrud at the Bayreuth Festival and as Schoeck's Penthesilea at the Staatsoper Hannover?
... that an inscription at the tomb of Isa Khan claims that it is an "asylum of paradise"?
... that Murtaja Qureiris, the youngest political prisoner in Saudi Arabia, is a member of the Shia minority who may face execution for taking part in anti-government protests when he was 10 years old?
... that the Creole Petroleum Corporation's 1956 propaganda film Assignment: Venezuela sought to convince American oil workers that the anti-capitalist military dictatorship had embraced the American way of life?
... that William Pope created "the first comprehensive, well executed pictorial record of Canadian birds"?
... that in a 2019 court case, the US Supreme Court ruled that Wyoming's statehood did not void the Crow Tribe's right to hunt on unoccupied lands?
... that Charles Clarke acted as a watcher for The Great Escape and helped forge papers for the escapees?

6 August 2019

00:00, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Mary Robinson Foster

... that philanthropist Mary Robinson Foster (pictured) was known as the first Hawaiian Buddhist?
... that Lawrence of Arabia's plan to install the Sharif of Mecca's sons as rulers in what became modern Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and western Saudi Arabia was only partially successful?
... that in 1599, Henry IV of France appointed Humphrey Bradley maître des digues du royaume ('master of dykes of the kingdom'), giving him an effective monopoly of all dyking and land reclamation work in France?
... that the 2018 art installation We Come in Peace was described as "eerie, other, unnerving, ambiguous, even alarming"?
... that Gordon Bell was awarded the Military Cross 31 years before becoming president of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons?
... that critics found the couch gag of The Simpsons episode "Dad Behavior" "pretty darned grim" and "bleak", as all but one of the Simpsons die during its otherwise familiar title sequence?
... that a biography of Joel Roberts Poinsett, co-authored by Charles Lyon Chandler, went unpublished after two others came out the same year?
... that during the Peasants' Revolt, Margery Starre danced with a mob that sacked Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and burnt its charters, shouting: "Away with the learning of clerks, away with it!"?

5 August 2019

00:00, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Dry mouth

... that the Challacombe scale assesses the severity of a dry mouth (illustration shown)?
... that Jeanne Laisné appeared as Aurore in the 1894 world premiere of Massenet's Le portrait de Manon, a sequel to his Manon?
... that a clandestinely-distributed poem about the Kurds became a Ukrainian symbol of national revival and resistance against the Soviet Union?
... that after Josephine Groves Holloway's petition to form an official Girl Scout troop for African-Americans was rejected, she formed her own troop and encouraged her friends to do the same?
... that the Kivu Ebola epidemic was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 17 July?
... that at a young age, German TV personality Ranga Yogeshwar learned Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam in order to communicate with his housekeeper, teacher, and gardener, respectively?
... that the new pine knot-horn is a serious pest of maritime pine plantations?
... that American collage artist Eunice Parsons, who turns 103 today, is the last of the "Northwest Matriarchs of Modernism"?

4 August 2019

00:00, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Mexico–United States barrier in Smuggler's Gulch

... that trash, sediment, and debris from Tijuana flow into the United States through Smuggler's Gulch (pictured)?
... that Johann Münzberg ran leading textile factories in Bohemia and promoted the building of the Empress Elisabeth Bridge over the Elbe?
... that WBUZ and four other operating radio stations lost their FCC licenses as a result of the owner being convicted of felonies?
... that Mother Berry, a jockey who rode disguised as a man, earned her nickname after she adopted a runaway child?
... that the Chief Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation investigates both Nazi crimes and communist crimes?
... that Ning Bin, who won a national special prize for his contribution to the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway, died in a traffic accident?
... that the tree Humbertia madagascariensis, whose durable timber is used in heavy construction, is a member of the morning glory family?
... that Hollywood furrier Willard H. George was known as "the chinchilla industry's greatest friend"?

3 August 2019

00:00, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Arthur Sullivan

... that Arthur Sullivan (pictured) was awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing four drowning soldiers under fire during the North Russia intervention in 1919?
... that the excavated Asthall barrow was found to contain a high-status Anglo-Saxon burial?
... that East German Udo Zimmermann composed his fifth opera, Die wundersame Schustersfrau, based on a Spanish play by Federico García Lorca, on a commission for the West German Schwetzingen Festival?
... that Charles H. Stonestreet received the First Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1852 as President of Georgetown University?
... that Dioscorea chouardii is known from a single crag in the Pyrenees and has been monitored using scaffolding and telescopes?
... that since 2001, street artist John Hamon has postered and projected his image on the buildings of Paris and 76 other cities around the world?
... that prior to the first town council elections in Loxahatchee Groves, Florida, a political forum for the candidates was hosted at a nudist resort?
... that English theatre historian "Popie" called Robert Michaelis "one of the very best performers Daly's ever had"?
... that, described as being "cursed", Rispin Mansion was variously used as a SWAT practice ground, a residence, a real-estate showroom, a ghost hunting site, and a nunnery?

2 August 2019

00:00, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Wilhelmine and Heinrich Lübke with Queen Sirikit of Thailand

... that Wilhelmine Lübke (pictured, center), who joined her husband, President of West Germany Heinrich Lübke, on more than 50 state visits, was fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian?
... that the Uptown Hudson Tubes in New York City were constructed with sharp curves to avoid the demolition of preexisting basements?
... that Zhang Xu played a major role in developing fiber-optic communication in China?
... that many residents who were relocated prior to the filling of Lake Kossou were able to return to their land when the reservoir failed to reach full capacity?
... that American historian Pamela Nadell traced the origins of the first agitations for a female rabbi to a short story published in 1889?
... that Assam Petro-Chemicals became the first Indian company to sell methanol as cooking fuel?
... that the first episode of the first Doctor Who series had to be rerecorded because the TARDIS doors would not close?
... that Japanese pool player Naoyuki Ōi once responded to a question asked at a press conference with lyrics from the comedy song "Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen"?
... that the Mongols were advised to invade Sakhalin island in 1273 by marching across the frozen Strait of Tartary?

1 August 2019

00:00, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Fire at the Universal Music Group warehouse in 2008

... that the 2008 Universal fire (pictured) may have destroyed the audio master tapes of up to half a million songs?
... that Kent Angus, a Canadian businessman and Paul Loicq Award winner, incorporated hidden details into hockey jerseys for Team Canada and other countries at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
... that Puke Ariki, the name for the combined library and museum in New Plymouth, New Zealand, is Māori for "hill of chiefs"?
... that on June 29, Major General Laura Yeager became the first woman to command an infantry division in the United States Army?
... that John Rutter wrote the text and music of A Clare Benediction for choir and orchestra to honour Clare College, Cambridge, where he had studied?
... that falguera, a plant known from only one valley in Spain, is threatened by rock climbers and by road maintenance?
... that thirty million copies of the university textbook compiled by Xu Zhongyu have been printed?
... that hundreds of stockbrokers protested outside the Bombay Stock Exchange demanding removal of the Big Bull after the market crashed?

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