Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/July

Did you know?
Did you know?
Introduction and rules
Introduction	WP:DYK
General discussion	WT:DYK
Guidelines	WP:DYKCRIT
Reviewer instructions	WP:DYKRI
Nominations
Nominate an article	WP:DYKCNN
Awaiting approval	WP:DYKN
Approved	WP:DYKNA
April 1 hooks	WP:DYKAPRIL
Holding area	WP:SOHA
Preparation
Preps and queues	T:DYK/Q
Prepper instructions	WP:DYKPBI
Admin instructions	WP:DYKAI
Main Page errors	WP:ERRORS
History
Statistics	WP:DYKSTATS
Archived sets	WP:DYKA
Just for fun
Monthly wraps	WP:DYKW
Awards	WP:DYKAWARDS
Userboxes	WP:DYKUBX
Hall of Fame	WP:DYK/HoF
List of users ...
... by nominations	WP:DYKNC
... by promotions	WP:DYKPC
Administrative
Scripts and bots	WP:DYKSB
On the Main Page	T:DYK
Main Page errors	WP:ERRORS
To ping the DYK admins	{{DYK admins}}
	v; t; e;

This is a record of material that was recently featured on the Main Page as part of Did you know (DYK). Recently created new articles, greatly expanded former stub articles and recently promoted good articles are eligible; you can submit them for consideration.

Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.

Current archive
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov
2023	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2022	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2021	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2019	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2018	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2017	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2016	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2015	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2014	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2013	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2012	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2011	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2010	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2009	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2008	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2007	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2006	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2005	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2004	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Edit the DYK archive navigation template

Did you know...

31 July 2008

19:29, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

... that although he wrote six dozen German songs (or Lieder), Franz Liszt (pictured) was accused by critics of never having had a proper grasp of the German Lied?
... that the Young Australia League was initially formed in 1905 to promote Australian rules football?
... that an original 35 mm film print of the 1987 film A Month in the Country was only rediscovered in 2004 due to the efforts of a fan?
... that Henry A. Smith became the dominant landowner in what is now Interbay, Seattle, Washington by buying when so many others were selling during an 1855–56 Indian War?
... that the St Nicholas Priory in Exeter is being restored with the same methods that were used 500 years ago?
... that Sebastian Hardie were Australia's first symphonic rock band and released their debut album Four Moments in 1975?
... that in order to force certain officials to leave office, Arizona Territorial Governor Lewis Wolfley‎ had their salary payments withheld?

12:57, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Raphael painted Felice della Rovere, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, into The Mass at Bolsena (pictured, della Rovere in black), commissioned for the Apostolic Palace?
... that 80% of all British banknotes are contaminated with drugs?
... that Australian ophthalmologist Sir Norman McAlister Gregg discovered the link between rubella and congenital disorders in newborn infants after overhearing several of his patients discussing their illness during pregnancy?
... that Congregation Beth Israel of New Orleans, Louisiana, severely flooded after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was flooded again in 2007?
... that the source of the bomb that brought down Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21 near 100 Mile House, British Columbia in 1965, taking the lives of all 52 aboard, was never determined?
... that session steel guitarist Lloyd Green played professionally in night clubs starting at age ten?

04:03, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the waxcap mushroom Hygrocybe austropratensis (pictured) has been declared an endangered species by the Government of New South Wales?
... that original stained glass from the Miller and Herriott House was removed to a restaurant near Disneyland, prompting one writer to compare the new glass to the wooden leg on Sarah Bernhardt?
... that the Guarijío of Mexico prepare an herbal tea, malo en el cuerpo (pain in the body), from Wimmeria mexicana, chamomile, and cilantro?
... that at WWE's No Mercy (2005) pay-per-view, Randy Orton and his father, "Cowboy" Bob Orton, kayfabe locked The Undertaker in a casket and set it on fire?
... that the sexual script is a sociological analysis of what leads up to sexual intercourse?
... that young Heliobolus lugubris lizards scare off predators by imitating certain acid-squirting ground beetles?

30 July 2008

20:59, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Pine Creek Path, a Native American trail along Pine Creek in Pennsylvania, was later used by lumbermen, then its course was followed by a railroad, and today it is a rail trail (pictured)?
... that the New York Mets traded Mike Welch to the Philadelphia Phillies for Hector Mercado, a player who was drafted and traded the same day, only for him to play against the Mets on his major league debut?
... that Japanese director Kei Kumai's Sandakan No. 8 lost the 1975 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film to a film by another Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala?
... that International Association of Athletics Federations' third president, Adriaan Paulen, was part of the Dutch resistance during World War II?
... that during the Great Depression, violence in Seattle's Smith Cove between longshoremen, strikebreakers and police ultimately resulted in the loss of much of the city's maritime traffic to the Port of Los Angeles?
... that the 1932 Southern German football championship final between Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayern Munich was halted seven minutes before the end due to Bayern supporters invading the pitch?

14:24, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Mooers House (pictured), an example of West Coast Victorian architecture, is named for its owner who struck gold after years of prospecting in the Mojave Desert?
... that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's second novel Half of a Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction?
... that Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for a campaign of disinvestment from Israel?
... that there are over three thousand miles of interstate highways and U.S. Routes in the state of Utah?
... that the BEL Weapon Locating Radar was developed after engineers noticed that the Rajendra Radar could unexpectedly detect and track artillery shells?
... that Drukair flights between Kathmandu, Nepal and Paro, Bhutan pass close to Mount Everest?
... that Dustin Lance Black is the only writer on Big Love, a drama about Mormon fundamentalists, who was raised in the Mormon faith?

08:09, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Bouse Hutton (pictured) played ice hockey, lacrosse, and Canadian football at the highest respective level of competition, winning championships in each sport?
... that despite his winning the 1916 election by 43 votes, court rulings removed George W. P. Hunt as Governor of Arizona for nearly a year?
... that the Revolt of the Comuneros against Charles V was partly provoked by the taxes raised in order to bribe prince-electors to elect him Holy Roman Emperor?
... that one of the owners of Woodlawn Farm in Slate Hill, New York used the wild teasel from his fields to card wool at his nearby hat factory?
... that South Vietnamese politician Truong Dinh Dzu once put his wife up as collateral?
... that snakes were a favorite remedy of the medieval monk and healer Nicholas of Poland?
... that the General Board of the United States Navy was an advisory body of the United States Navy, effectively a naval general staff?

02:08, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Ikazuchi class destroyers (example pictured), the first class of destroyers in the Imperial Japanese Navy, were all built in Scotland?
... that philanthropist Lorry Lokey has donated US$132 million to the University of Oregon?
... that Samuel Johnson's first published poems, Messiah and London, were directly inspired by the writings of Alexander Pope?
... that Stream Cliff Farm is the oldest herb farm in Indiana?
... that Anne Aghion won an Emmy Award in 2005 for her documentary film In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies, which examined the situation in post-genocide Rwanda?
... that the Narikuravas who reside in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu speak an Indo-Aryan language called Vagriboli?
... that Royal Spring Park may have been the site of the first bourbon whiskey production?
... that Sozin's Comet: The Final Battle, the two-hour finale for Avatar: The Last Airbender, was the most-watched cable television broadcast in the week of its transmission?

29 July 2008

19:45, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

... that according to Hindu mythology, the "first king" Prithu chased the Earth in the form of a cow (pictured), who eventually agreed to yield her milk as all the world's grain and vegetation?
... that Childress, a small city in the Texas Panhandle, is named for George Campbell Childress, the author of the Texas Declaration of Independence?
... that Sir Murray Maxwell, a celebrated Royal Navy officer, once spent weeks marooned on an island under attack from pirates following the loss of HMS Alceste in 1817?
... that the brittlegill mushroom Russula betularum grows under birch, while the closely related Russula emetica is found under conifers?
... that on the very same day that baseball player Hector Mercado was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies, he was traded to the New York Mets for Mike Welch?
... that the Fujairah power and desalination plant in the United Arab Emirates is one of the largest operational hybrid desalination plants in the world?

12:40, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the mother of Ivy Gordon-Lennox (pictured) announced in The New York Times that her daughter was not engaged to marry the Earl Winterton?
... that early 20th-century immigrants to the United States are said to have seen New York for the first time from the decks of the ferryboat Yankee?
... that Jacob Kielland, one of the richest persons in Norway in the 1860s, was also the grandfather of novelist Alexander Kielland?
... that the Harwich Force, under Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt, oversaw the surrender of German U-boats at the end of the First World War?
... that in 1992, baseball player Steve Rodriguez was named one of the West Coast Conference's top fifty athletes of all time?
... that the dark purple-brown mushroom Russula caerulea is edible and mild-tasting, although the cap skin is bitter if chewed?
... that in the early 1990s, Surət Hüseynov successfully led a military coup d'état in Azerbaijan to become the Prime Minister?
... that Buffalo Gap Historic Village contains fifteen outdoor structures and other artifacts which document West Texas life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

05:51, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

... that singer Elvis Presley (pictured) is said to have made an impromptu performance at Colonial Gardens in Louisville's Senning's Park, while visiting his nearby grandparents?
... that non-heterosexual is an umbrella term, describing people who do not or no longer identify as heterosexual?
... that Norwegian Parliament member, Minister of the Navy and Counter Admiral Henrik Steffens Hagerup was also the father of later Norwegian Prime Minister Francis Hagerup?
... that in the 1981 Nepalese national election, one candidate was elected with just 3,137 votes, less than ten percent of what the top candidate received?
... that the diporus subspecies of the Bothrops neuwiedi pitviper is one of the main causes of snakebite injury in Argentina?
... that ice hockey goaltender Hap Holmes won the Stanley Cup four times, with four different teams, in four different leagues?
... that Elaine Stritch's appearance as Colleen Donaghy, in the 30 Rock episode "Hiatus", earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series?

28 July 2008

22:46, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the red bolete mushroom Boletus rubellus (pictured), regarded as edible by some, tastes of soap?
... that in 2003, North Korea became the first state to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since it came into force in 1970?
... that Congregation Beth Israel, a Conservative synagogue in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was designed by Percival Goodman to mirror the barns of nearby Pennsylvania Dutch farmers?
... that Francisco de Borja, a cardinal-nephew of Pope Alexander VI, died before learning of his excommunication by Pope Julius II?
... that the margin of victory in the 1994 Alaska gubernatorial election was the smallest in Alaska's history?
... that the design of the flag of Tunisia was altered slightly in its 1999 codification?
... that abolitionist George Bradburn was with Frederick Douglass on an 1843 anti-slavery lecture tour in Indiana, when they were attacked?

16:34, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

... that country singer Johnny Cash (pictured) covered the song "Johnny 99" by Bruce Springsteen and made it the title song of the album it appeared on?
... that exhaled nitric oxide can be measured in a breath test for asthma and airway inflammation?
... that Mason County, Michigan's courts used an old farmhouse until the county courthouse was built?
... that though first deemed too young for the part, Aksel Hennie won a "Best Actor" Amanda Award in the title role of the Norwegian film Jonny Vang?
... that the papal conclave of 1294 was the only papal conclave celebrated during the lifetime of the preceding Pontiff?
... that the 2008 film Fifty Dead Men Walking is based on an autobiography by British secret agent Marty McGartland, who was later shot six times in an assassination attempt by the IRA?
... that the Florida Railroad was the first railroad to connect the east and west coasts of Florida and the longest railroad to be completed in Florida before the start of the American Civil War?

08:08, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Spring Street Financial District, known as the "Wall Street of the West", contains Los Angeles's first skyscraper (pictured) and more than twenty historic financial buildings?
... that the screenplay for the upcoming film Maya, starring Tamil actress Namitha, was written by Indian film historian Randor Guy?
... that Royal Marine Matthew Croucher was awarded the George Cross for diving on a live hand grenade?
... that pioneer aviator Bill Lancaster died in the Sahara desert exactly one year after the death of the man he was accused of murdering?
... that cerebral vasculitis, an inflammatory condition of the blood vessels in the brain, is so rare that there are disagreements on how it should be diagnosed?
... that Polish writer Gustaw Przeczek was a member of the Cultural Committee of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia in the 1950s?
... that Seattle, Washington's 3.7-mile (6.0 km) Queen Anne Boulevard is designated as a city landmark, but no street sign carries that name?

00:12, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Mysore mallige (pictured), a variety of Jasmine flower endemic to Karnataka state of India, is patented for its unique quality, attribution and reputation?
... that Samuel Jackman Prescod became the first person of African descent elected to the Parliament of Barbados?
... that Quang Nhuong Huynh's autobiography The Land I Lost won seven awards and was translated into four languages other than English?
... that two games after returning from injury in 2000, Reggie Taylor became the second-ever Scranton baseball player to collect five hits in a game?
... that Sphodromantis viridis, the Giant African Mantis, is kept worldwide as a pet?
... that The Bryson, featured in Raymond Chandler's The Lady in the Lake and the neo-noir film The Grifters, has become a symbol of LA's film noir past?
... that Noel Moore was the civil servant responsible for managing the decimalisation of the United Kingdom's currency?
... that "Fart Proudly" is an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin?

27 July 2008

16:42, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the debtors' prisons in Accomac (pictured), Worsham, and Tappahannock, Virginia, have all survived to the present day?
... that in Burkina Faso, Bwa people use masks made of leaves to represent their god Dwo in performative rituals?
... that a low side window in the 12th-century St Helen's Church, Hangleton, may have been used as a hagioscope by lepers wanting to listen to services without entering the building?
... that the semi-arid, mostly agricultural Cuyama Valley was once one of the most productive oil regions of California?
... that a Bulgarian choir and the Irish singer Joanne Hogg contributed to the soundtrack of the video game Xenogears?
... that former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack began his US presidential campaign in November 2006, nearly two years before the 2008 presidential election?
... that in the 1920s and '30s, various countries such as Mexico, Brazil and Chile issued Art Deco stamps?
... that film director Jens Lien said he was unable to sleep after first reading the script for the dystopian film Den brysomme mannen?

10:34, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Hughie Lehman (pictured) was the first ice hockey goaltender to pass the puck to his fellow players?
... that while the 2003 Norwegian film Buddy was described as "simple" in the Norwegian press, a U.S. reviewer called it "overly plotted"?
... that Nevada City's Nevada Theatre is the oldest existing theater building in California?
... that William Hayter was secretary of the UK delegation to the Potsdam Conference, later Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and then Warden of New College, Oxford?
... that the residents of Kasungu, Malawi, live in houses made from handmade bricks and straw roofing?
... that John Liston's portrayal of the character Paul Pry was so popular, the image was stamped into butter?
... that Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romaní, el mayor, the first of ten cardinal-nephews of Pope Alexander VI, crowned Alfonso II of Naples, the future father-in-law of Lucrezia Borgia?

03:00, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Mikhail Tsvet

... that the origins of chromatography can be traced to the work of Russian botanist Mikhail Tsvet (pictured), but his work saw little use until the 1930s?
... that Lubbock attorney Warlick Carr filed some thirty civil suits within 24 hours against the Pecos, Texas, financier Billie Sol Estes?
... that almost the entirety of the Australian stout whiting catch is exported to various Asian countries?
... that Lithuanian artist Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas designed interiors for over sixty churches in the United States, Europe and Australia?
... that according to the official English account of the Battle of Skerries in 1316, the English army suffered only one casualty, yet lost the battle?
... that Laila Goody has been called "Norway's most awarded young actress"?
... that the Crawford-Gilpin House is alleged to have once changed owners due to being lost as a wager in a poker game?

26 July 2008

19:10, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Plumed Whistling Duck (pictured) eats by cropping vegetation rather than diving in water, as other ducks do?
... that Merten de Keyser printed the first complete French and English Bibles in Antwerp?
... that the Stephen Downing case, also known as the Bakewell Tart murder, has been described as the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history?
... that MLB player Jim Adduci was traded to the San Francisco Giants by the Milwaukee Brewers, only to be returned one week later?
... that the first amateur radio operator in India was licensed in 1921?
... that Martynas Jankus, Lithuanian journalist and "Patriarch of Lithuania Minor", was penalized around forty times by Prussian authorities for his public activities?
... that the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home, founded by the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, is the oldest Masonic Home foundation in North America?

13:09, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Charles Martin Hall (pictured), working as an amateur chemist in a shed, developed what became the Hall-Héroult process for extracting aluminium?
... that India's Defence Attaché Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta was killed in the suicide bombing on the Indian Embassy in Kabul and is being considered for the Kirti Chakra?
... that in August 1934, Dillinger gang member Homer Van Meter was gunned down by police officers in Frogtown?
... that the Blade of the Immortal manga authored by Hiroaki Samura was adapted into an anime series by Bee Train, Production I.G and Pony Canyon?
... that the 30 Rock episode "Somebody to Love" was the first scripted series, which aired during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, to actually make reference to the strike?
... that 29 percent of the population of Birds Landing, California can speak Spanish?
... that Herman Bagger, a Danish immigrant to Norway, became a member of the Norwegian Parliament and mayor of Gjerpen and Skien?

07:05, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Samuel Johnson (pictured) bragged he could recite an entire chapter of Niels Horrebow's Natural History of Iceland?
... that the Purple-crowned Lorikeet is colloquially known as the "Zit Parrot" from its shrill tsit call?
... that the 17th-century Chinese world map Shanhai Yudi Quantu was derived from the work of Father Matteo Ricci of the Jesuit China missions?
... that Viktor Nogin, mayor of Moscow during the Bolshevik Revolution, is buried in the Kremlin in Red Square, Moscow?
... that in the Texas Revolution battle of Lipantitlán, Texian insurgents captured in 30 minutes a Mexican fort they described as a "second-rate hog pen"?
... that aviator Jack De Garis faked his own suicide by drowning before being the subject of an Australia-wide search in 1925?
... that a 15th-century bell from the Gokoku-ji Buddhist temple in Japan was sent to the U.S. in 1854 and rung when the Naval Academy at Annapolis won the annual Army-Navy football game?

00:19, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

... that El Molino Viejo (pictured), a grist mill built in 1816 by native Indian converts from the San Gabriel Mission, is the oldest commercial building in Southern California?
... that John Palmer instigated a major reform of the British postal system in 1784, when his experimental mail coach run from Bristol to London took only 16 hours instead of 38 hours?
... that South Ockendon Windmill had a pair of millstones powered by a waterwheel?
... that Emperor Peter III of Russia was deposed by his wife Catherine and her friend Ekaterina Dashkova after he had made public his plans to divorce Catherine and marry Ekaterina's sister Elisabeth?
... that comedian Al Madrigal’s first television series, The Ortegas, was dropped from the Fox Network schedule in 2003 before any episodes were broadcast?
... that Norwegian politician Christian Birch-Reichenwald was brought in as a government minister by then-Crown Prince Charles in 1858, only to be provoked by the same person to resign three years later?
... that the Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial depicts the historical event of an Union officer aiding a Confederate officer at the Battle of Gettysburg, due to both being Freemasons?

25 July 2008

18:13, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

... that after winning the 2002 Alaska gubernatorial election, Frank Murkowski appointed his daughter Lisa Murkowski (pictured) to serve the rest of his term in the US Senate?
... that architect/engineer Sir Owen Williams returned part of his design fee for the Dollis Hill Synagogue because the congregation was unhappy with the finished structure?
... that the buildings with the sign Silver Dew Winery described by Pat Conroy in his autobiographical book The Water is Wide were once part of the Bloody Point Range Lights on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina?
... that Mark Christensen was a dancer, a pilot, a skateboarder, and a musician before making his filmmaking debut with Box Head Revolution in 2002?
... that Quang Nhuong Huynh was the first Vietnamese to write fiction and non-fiction in English?
... that Riley Hern was the first professional ice hockey goaltender to play on a Stanley Cup-winning team?
... that the College of Letters and Science is the largest college of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?
... that Pierre Abraham Lorillard was the first man to make snuff in North America?

12:13, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

... that there are approximately 2,000 species of mantis (example pictured)?
... that Ukrainian Cossack Grégoire Orlyk was a spy of the French king Louis XV, fought in the Seven Years' War, received a title of a comte and was promoted to the general's rank of Maréchal de camp?
... that monocopters can have one rotating wing or have only one fixed wing and rotate entirely?
... that English headmistress Olive Willis founded Downe House School, where her chauffeur-architect-engineer slept in her bathroom?
... that the Condon Committee report into the Lakenheath-Bentwaters UFO incident in 1956 concluded it was likely that at least one genuine UFO was involved?
... that following Australia's failure to win the 2003 Rugby World Cup, British pie retailer Square Pie produced a "humble pie" filled with kangaroo meat?
... that the sixth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly ended with a call for the total withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan so its people could freely choose their political system?
... that the Romanian poet Anatol E. Baconsky, who debuted as a socialist realist, came to depict the communist regime as an "anti-utopia" shortly before dying in the 1977 earthquake?

05:04, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
... that a grand jury found Arizona Territory's "Thieving Thirteenth" legislature exceeded a US$4,000 legal limitation for operating expenses by US$46,744.50?
... that Reinhard von Werneck gave Munich's Englischer Garten much of its current form by almost doubling its area and by creating a new lake, the Kleinhesseloher See?
... that the world's first successful demonstration of laser surgery was held at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in Melrose, Massachusetts?
... that when playing at the 2008 NME Awards in support of their triple-nominated single "Flux", indie rock band Bloc Party were stunned by the scale of the gig?
... that 30-year Seattle City Council member David Levine served as Seattle's acting mayor on over 250 occasions?
... that diaphragmatic rupture can allow abdominal organs to herniate into the chest cavity and interfere with breathing?
... that lobbyist Stephen Payne was caught on hidden camera in July 2008 offering access to senior U.S. officials in return for a US$250,000 donation to the George W. Bush Presidential Library?

24 July 2008

23:00, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the National Taiwan Library (entrance pictured), founded in 1914, is the oldest public library in Taiwan?
... that in 2005, 20-year-old Kevin Nee became the youngest person to reach the finals in the World's Strongest Man championships?
... that the Srizbi botnet of 300,000 infected computers is responsible for sending 60 billion spam e-mails per day?
... that seven-term member of the Norwegian Parliament Otto Vincent Lange later served as Minister of Finance and Customs on four non-consecutive occasions between 1855 and 1863?
... that social interface is a term used in social sciences both in a theoretical literature, and in a practical design of computer user interfaces?
... that the pharmacy of former Welsh rugby union player Willie Llewellyn was saved from rioters during the Tonypandy Riot because of his past services to his country?
... that Grant County, Indiana is placing Garfield statues throughout the county?

16:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

... that a word square found in Mamucium (pictured), a Roman fort in Manchester, may be one of the earliest examples of Christianity in Britain?
... that Jean Mohr has photographed Palestinian refugees for the U.N. and International Red Cross since 1949, yet also published two books on L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande?
... that a memorial to "Unknown Confederate Dead" at the Fort Smith National Cemetery also commemorates James McIntosh and Alexander Steen, even though neither Confederate general was unknown?
... that Henry Moore's Nuclear Energy sculpture was erected and dedicated to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction?
... that Rachel Dratch lost the role of 30 Rock character Jenna Maroney to Jane Krakowski, but later appeared as a maid in the 30 Rock episode The Aftermath?
... that Peter Lorillard may have been the first American publicly referred to as a "millionaire"?

10:03, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
... that the sinking of the SS Königin Luise (pictured) was the first German naval loss of the First World War?
... that in his 2005 book Race Against Time, the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Stephen Lewis claimed the spread of AIDS across Africa is partly due to a succession of disastrous economic policies promoted by international financial institutions?
... that Prince Mihail Sturdza accepted 33 of 35 demands made by the leaders of the Moldavian Revolution of 1848, and when the leaders stood firm proceeded to crush the revolution?
... that Washington's Union Station was turned into the short-lived National Visitor Center in 1976, but so few tourists used it that it closed two years later?
... that the Quatama Station light rail stop in Hillsboro, Oregon, includes a piece of art based on an arrangement created by a Japanese Macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center?

03:11, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

... that areas around Mangochi (Lake Malawi pictured), Malawi, have recently been terrorised by elephants?
... that the Rev. William Plenderleath's book Memoranda of Cherhill was first published 95 years after the author's death?
... that attacks by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, led by Nigerian rebel Henry Okah, are believed to indirectly raise the price of oil?
... that British actor Terence Stamp's brother Chris, a New York City psychodrama therapist, co-managed and produced rock band The Who from 1964 to 1975?
... that after a painted garage door was destroyed, the Precita Eyes muralists salvaged it and merged it into a new one, said to be one of their most beautiful in San Francisco?
... that a picture of Cincinnati Reds pitcher Lee Grissom rowing a boat inside Crosley Field ran nationwide after the worst flood in the city's history?
... that Benjamin Ferguson bequeathed a fund to Chicago, Illinois that provided for seventeen of the city's most prominent sculptures?

23 July 2008

21:03, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

... that an obelisk at Mamhead (pictured) was built in the 1740s for "the safety of such as might use to sail out of the Port of Exon or any others who might be driven on the coast"?
... that Mike Ayers coaches the smallest school in the highest division of NCAA college football?
... that Muphry's law states that "if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written"?
... that Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford was allegedly killed by a spear through the anus at the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322?
... that Indian Village, Chicago hosts the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago, Illinois?
... that Polish poet Paweł Kubisz was sentenced in 1928 by Czech authorities for 13 months in prison for alleged transport of illegal literature to Slovakia and conspiring against the Czechoslovak Republic?
... that in rugby union, New Zealand has only lost four Test matches at Carisbrook stadium in over one hundred years?
... that the state of emergency, enforced by the enactment of Emergency Powers Act 1939 to help maintain Irish neutrality during World War II, was not rescinded until 1 September, 1976?

14:53, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Sci-Arc architecture school built its Los Angeles campus from the 1907 Santa Fe Freight Depot (pictured), a concrete structure with 120 bays stretching as long as the Empire State Building is tall?
... that 90 percent of the United Kingdom's pig and dairy production is sold under the Red Tractor farm assurance mark?
... that when the Congolese village of Bogoro was attacked in 2003, survivors were imprisoned in a room filled with corpses, and women and girls were sexually enslaved?
... that, despite its name, the soft drink Grapico, first sold in 1914, did not contain any grape juice and used deceptive advertising to promote the product?
... that Montreal Mayor Aldis Bernard was the first President of the Dental Association of the Province of Quebec when it was founded in 1869?
... that the 7.9 M_w Denali Fault earthquake on November 3, 2002 was the strongest shock ever recorded in the interior of Alaska?
... that Benjamin Franklin's letter Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress was cited in a 1973 United States Supreme Court opinion by justice William O. Douglas?

08:52, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Pisgah Home (pictured) was the centre of a controversial movement in the early 1900s by a Pentecostal faith healer to care for the poor and downtrodden?
... that T. Muthuswamy Iyer was the first Indian judge of the Madras High Court?
... that Ray Combs, host of Family Feud, was the guest announcer for a "family feud" match at the World Wrestling Federation's 1993 Survivor Series event?
... that Miron Merzhanov was a personal architect to Joseph Stalin from 1933–1941?
... that Madeline Kahn made her screen debut in De Düva, an Academy Award-nominated short comedy that parodied the films of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman?
... that the Pseudo-Bonaventura is a name given to the authors of several medieval devotional books once wrongly attributed to Saint Bonaventure?
... that the United Kingdom's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, Cry Baby, earned no points from any of the voting countries?
... that sociologists distinguish between general social movements and specific social movement organizations?

01:38, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Ghost Mantis (pictured with 50 cent euro coin for size comparison) looks like a dead leaf?
... that the parish church of Thurning, Norfolk, contains many furnishings of a destroyed chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge?
... that Mike Karakas was the first American-born and trained professional ice hockey goaltender to play in the National Hockey League?
... that 209 people were killed and 41,000 houses were damaged or totally destroyed in the 1970 floods in Romania, with over a million arable acres inundated, and more than 100,000 animals drowned?
... that transwoman actor Judiel Nieva was once sought out as a healer and visionary?
... that the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station is the second largest employer in Clark County, Idaho?
... that in 1999, the JKNC expelled Saifuddin Soz, India's current Minister of Water Resources, when he voted against the Government headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee defying the party whip?

22 July 2008

19:32, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Georgetown University Hoyas mascot Jack the Bulldog (pictured) is a living English bulldog whose name derives from a 1962 dog called "Lil-Nan's Royal Jacket?"
... that nearly 60 years after surviving a lynching attempt, and being convicted as an accessory to murder, James Cameron founded America's Black Holocaust Museum?
... that the residents of Tippecanoe, Indiana in 1860 built a new school right next to a preexisting cemetery?
... that Ivan Pyryev was the winner of six Stalin Prizes and was the Director of Mosfilm studios?
... that 18th-century poet Christopher Smart spent seven years in mental asylums for madness but may have been imprisoned out of revenge or actions resulting from drinking too much?
... that Rosabelle Sinclair, a native of Scotland, established the first women's lacrosse team in the United States in 1926?
... that Nikolay Likhachov collected medieval coins and manuscripts, Byzantine seals, Russian icons, and cuneiform tablets?

11:23, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Pushkin House (pictured) is another name for the Institute of Russian Literature in St. Petersburg?
... that C.W. Bergstrom was the last professional wrestler to ever hold the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship?
... that the container ship Atlantic Causeway was refitted with a ski-jump to enable her to operate Sea Harriers during the Falklands War?
... that Sun Prairie, Wisconsin is the birthplace of American painter Georgia O'Keeffe?
... that Akwamu slaves in the Danish West Indies revolted in 1773, taking control of most of the island of Saint John in the present-day U.S. Virgin Islands?
... that Withington Community Hospital was, at its height, the largest teaching hospital in Europe?
... that according to legend, Saint Palladius of Embrun made prophecies, knew angels, and defeated the Devil by crossing himself?
... that the football game between Offenburger FV and the SC Freiburg on 28 March 1920 lasted for over three hours?
... that Nat Williams is the first ever African American sheriff elected in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, where the last three elected sheriffs had been sent to jail?

04:09, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Cherhill White Horse, an English hill figure (pictured), once had a glittering glass eye made of bottles?
... that Boris Kovač’s folklore music is influenced by the twenty nationalities of the Pannonian Plains?
... that the spray pool on Boston Common doubles as an ice-skating rink in winter?
... that Flora Danica, a comprehensive botanical collection containing pictures of all known wild plants native to Denmark, was initiated by Georg Christian Oeder?
... that the Chianan Plain, the largest plain of Taiwan located at the central-southwestern region of the island, has three harvests of rice crops annually?
... that Jason Castro, who was recently signed by the Singapore Slingers, is slated to become the first Filipino player in Australia's National Basketball League?
... that the Cathedral of Freedom featured on the Slovene 0.10€ Euro coins was a parliamentary building proposed in 1947 that was never built?
... that WWE's The Great American Bash (2004) pay-per-view ended with The Undertaker burying his manager in cement?

21 July 2008

21:27, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

... that aircraft from 825 Naval Air Squadron (aircraft pictured) carried out attacks against several German battleships during the Second World War?
... that Carl Johan Cronstedt increased the efficiency of wood-burning stoves in the 18th century by a factor of eight?
... that wine can be made from substances other than grapes, including marijuana?
... that Jurgis Bielinis and his organizations smuggled about half of all Lithuanian books printed in East Prussia during the Lithuanian press ban?
... that a 73-yard run during the 1949 Rose Bowl by Frank Aschenbrenner of the Northwestern Wildcats was the longest run from scrimmage in Rose Bowl history?
... that Cardinal Lodovico Trevisan, who won several battles as Captain General of the papal army, was known as the "angel of peace"?
... that Terling Windmill in Essex, England was featured in the film Oh, Mr. Porter!?
... that the German-American confectioner Charles F. Gunther claimed to own the remains of the serpent from the Garden of Eden?

13:43, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

... that LA's Fire Station No. 23 (pictured) has been a location in over 50 film productions, including Ghostbusters headquarters and scenes from The Mask and National Security?
... that Michael Ferreira was the first amateur billiards player to break the 1,000 points barrier when he scored a break of 1,149 in 1978?
... that the first peacekeeping force, the UNEF, was approved at the first emergency special session of the UN General Assembly with 57 supports, 0 opposes, and 19 abstains?
... that according to legend, a spring came up on all three spots where the severed head of Catholic martyr Saint Baudilus bounced after his martyrdom in Nîmes?
... that the excavation at Norton Priory, Cheshire, in the 1970s revealed the largest floor of mosaic tiles to be found in any modern excavation?
... that petitions called for the firing of Ohio State athletic director Dick Larkins when he hired little-known football coach Woody Hayes in 1951 instead of Paul Brown?

07:40, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

... that cycles of the Life of Christ in medieval art (example pictured) usually show relatively few of his miracles?
... that Charlie Waitt was taunted and called a "sissy" by fans and teammates because he was one of the first to wear baseball gloves to protect his hands?
... that at the Battle of Bov, Schleswig-Holstein's senior commander did not arrive until two hours after the fighting had started?
... that the insolvency law of Switzerland is codified in a statute that is nearly 120 years old?
... that John Huston quit his directing job on the 1971 action film The Last Run after fighting with George C. Scott, the film’s star?
... that the 1891 Martinique hurricane was considered to be the worst on the island since 1817?
... that Edward P. Hurt, who coached Morgan State College to 14 CIAA football championships, was also the school's track coach and on the coaching staff at the 1964 Olympic Games?

00:25, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Neafie & Levy built the U.S. Navy's first submarine (pictured) in 1862 and its first destroyer in 1902?
... that Han Chinese Emperor Jing had Imperial Secretary Chao Cuo executed to appease various subordinate kingdoms?
... that the Irish Greyhound racing regulator Bord na gCon includes Viagra on its list of banned substances?
... that Josiah and William Forster, early members of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, visited U.S. President Franklin Pierce to promote their cause?
... that archaeological evidence suggest that the history of French wine began with the Celts, long before the Greeks and Romans settled the area?
... that while working on Lipstick and Dynamite, a 2005 documentary about women's professional wrestling, Neko Case found out Ella Waldek in the film was her great-aunt?
... that Arnaud de Pellegrue, a cardinal-nephew of Pope Clement V, led the papal army in a 1309 war against Venice?

20 July 2008

17:06, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Lamentation of Christ (pictured) is a very common subject in Christian art from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque?
... that Salvador Toscano Barragán was Mexico's first filmmaker?
... that Dowlish Wake was the home of John Hanning Speke who explored Africa in the mid–19th century in search of the source of the Nile?
... that Louis-Adolphe Paquet was one of the most vocal opponents of both mandatory public education and women's suffrage in early 20th-century Quebec?
... that the Ashtabula Harbor Light in Lake Erie was encased in ice by a storm in 1928, trapping its keepers inside for two days?
... that the remote Aboriginal community of Jigalong in Western Australia was the venue for the world premiere of the film Rabbit-Proof Fence?
... that Nick Vitucci is the first goaltender inducted into the ECHL Hall of Fame?
... that Faker's debut studio album Addicted Romantic includes a track written by lead singer Nathan Hudson eight years earlier?

10:13, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Puerto Rican businessman Fermín Tangüis developed the Tanguis cotton in Peru and was given the Order of the Sun medal (pictured)?
... that Massera's lemma, a result in stability theory and nonlinear control, can be used to construct common Lyapunov functions for switched systems?
... that after John Huston filmed a scene from Moby Dick in front of the Seamen's Bethel in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the increase in tourism spurred the creation of the New Bedford Historic District?
... that Wanda Hjort Heger showed up uninvited every week at the gate of Sachsenhausen during WWII with two jars of potato salad for the Norwegian prisoners?
... that an adrenergic storm can be caused by a cocaine overdose, use of the MAOI class of antidepressants, or a subarachnoid hemorrhage?
... that Maya Angelou wrote one of her characters in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to demonstrate how she survived her childhood as a black in a white-dominated world?
... that 25 percent of the population of Ecuador is of indigenous heritage, while another 65 percent is of mixed indigenous and European heritage?
... that part of the 1975 comedy film Linda Lovelace for President was shot on the campus of the University of Kansas?

04:12, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Lone Star Tick (pictured) can be a carrier of Masters' disease, an emerging infectious disease related to Lyme disease in parts of the United States?
... that according to The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend, had the plot succeeded, it would have created more persecution of English Catholics rather than less?
... that the National Conference Center, formerly known as Xerox Document University, is one of the largest corporate training facilities in Northern Virginia?
... that despite being outnumbered by more than two to one, Denmark defeated Schleswig-Holstein in the Battle of Fredericia in 1849?
... that after several gold and platinum hits, Neil Diamond and Lee Holdridge collaborated on the film score for Jonathan Livingston Seagull?
... that Kazakhstan-South Korea relations are strengthened by the presence of 100,000 Koryo-sarams in Kazakhstan?
... that former WLS-TV news anchor Joel Daly and his co-presenter Fahey Flynn popularized "Happy Talk"?

19 July 2008

20:53, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the name of the mushroom Amanita echinocephala (pictured) means "hedgehog-head" in Ancient Greek, referring to its spiny, or warty-looking cap?
... that the 1958 Operation Chico was the first mass evacuation in United States history in which residents were quartered away from their homes overnight?
... that the exploration problem in robotics is that of maximizing knowledge over an area by the use of a robot?
... that a number of physicians and nurses at the tuberculosis sanitorium founded by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau in Saranac Lake, New York in 1882 were patients themselves and served without pay?
... that Dewan Seshayya Sastri ruled the kingdom of Pudukkottai as regent from 1886 to 1894?
... that the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was the first Canadian unit on the ground in France in the Invasion of Normandy on D-Day, 1944?
... that Bette Sussman and Whitney Houston's version of the Dolly Parton classic, "I Will Always Love You" has sold over 17 million copies?

14:46, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Royal Road leading into Wawel Castle (pictured) through the medieval Old Town, goes by way of the only defensive gate still standing after the modernization of Kraków?
... that civil engineer Robert Wynne-Edwards was the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers to be elected while still working as a contractor?
... that the most common victims of barodontalgia, a dental pain evoked by a change in barometric pressure, are SCUBA divers and military pilots?
... that Sarah Thompson was the first American countess?
... that Ralph Vaughan Williams' Sea Songs is due to be played at the 2008 Last Night of the Proms to commemorate 50 years since the composer's death?
... that the Presidio La Bahía was moved twice before being permanently located near Goliad, Texas?
... that Pedro Luis de Borja Lanzol de Romaní was made a priest, bishop, and cardinal—in the opposite order—by his grand uncle Pope Alexander VI?

08:43, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Minke Whale

... that Antarctic Minke Whales were only recently recognized as a separate species from Common Minke Whales (pictured) based on mitochondrial DNA testing?
... that the Istanbul landmark Mihrimah Mosque was constructed in the 16th century for Suleiman the Magnificent's daughter?
... that whether prosections are as effective as dissections in the teaching of medicine is an unsettled aspect of medical education?
... that the Greenfield Lane segment of the decommissioned New York State Route 273 is no longer part of the highway's new designation?
... that the global media alliance Project Klebnikov is dedicated to investigating the July 2004 murder of journalist Paul Klebnikov?
... that the San Francisco Bay Area will have a new direct rail to ferry connection when the Hercules intermodal rail station and WETA ferry terminal is constructed?

02:16, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the first Texian to be seriously wounded during the Texas Revolution was Samuel McCulloch, a freed slave who was shot during the Battle of Goliad (location pictured)?
... that Walter Jackson Bate called Samuel Johnson's Life of Mr Richard Savage, included in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, "one of the innovative works in the history of biography"?
... that when constructed in 1906, the Baku-Batumi pipeline was the world's longest kerosene pipeline?
... that American journalist Alan Cabal was one of the luminaries of New York City's occult movement during the "occult renaissance" started in the 1960s?
... that for many years, kibbutz Mizra's store was the only place in Israel that sold non-kosher meat?
... that the 1953 film Striporama features the only color footage of pin-up model Bettie Page in a speaking role?

18 July 2008

20:10, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

... that tornadoes in the United States (example pictured) are most frequent in Tornado Alley?
... that Polish poet Adolf Fierla survived Dachau and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps?
... that two former species of Oioceros, O. grangeri and O. xiejiaensis, have been recently identified as separate genera?
... that as a Winchester schoolmaster, Robert Lock Graham Irving introduced George Mallory to mountaineering in the Alps?
... that the Staten Island Peace Conference of September 11, 1776, only lasted three hours?
... that John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford took part in both the Battle of Crécy and the Battle of Poitiers – the two main battles of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War?
... that only five Australians have led the general classification in the 95 editions of the Tour de France to date?
... that Samuel Newhouse offered a US$50 prize to the first couple to have a baby in the silver mining town of Newhouse, Utah?

14:09, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

... that after the holotype specimen of the Robust redhorse (pictured) was lost in the 1800s, the fish was thought to have become extinct until its rediscovery in 1991?
... that psychoanalyst Stephen Soldz publicly accused psychologists at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay of developing and applying torture techniques on detainees?
... that the Nuremberg Transport Museum originally opened as a royal Bavarian railway museum in 1899 and is now the oldest railway museum in Germany?
... that in 1913, Major League Baseball pitcher Joe Boehling finished the season with 18 complete games, three shutouts, and an earned run average of 2.14?
... that the extended Kalman filter is often considered the de facto standard in nonlinear state estimation?
... that while Fr. Benedict Groeschel was recovering from injuries after being hit by a car in 2004, he co-authored the book There Are No Accidents: In All Things Trust in God?
... that in 1986, after about 60 years of darkness, a lamp was again activated in the Haig Point lighthouse?

07:31, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Candy-striped Leafhopper (pictured) is a vector for the transmission of Pierce's disease?
... that an Indianapolis architect was sent to Château de Malmaison to replicate a copy of it in Indianapolis' Washington Park neighborhood?
... that Henry Fielding praised Jane Collier, author of An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting and The Cry, for her "understanding more than female, mixed with virtues almost more than human"?
... that the metal finishing on more than 10,000 Olympic torches used in the torch relay for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia was done by the Erie Plating Company?
... that in 1976, an 8.0 M_w earthquake in Moro Gulf in the Celebes Sea in the Philippines killed at least 5,000 people and triggered tsunamis that reached as far as Japan?
... that Victoria Jackson-Stanley recently became the first woman and first African American mayor of Cambridge, a Maryland town devastated by race riots in the 1960s?
... that musician Matthew West was inspired to title his album History after seeing the news headline "Matthew West Makes History"?

01:10, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

... that after years of inactivity, the Inferno match returned at the Armageddon (2006) pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (participant M.V.P. pictured)?
... that agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for the majority of the population of Bhutan?
... that the Clark Memorial Home, built in 1913 as a home for single working women, has been a shooting location for Rocketeer, Twins, and Mr. Saturday Night?
... that the noble house of Ibelin was the primary beneficiary of the War of the Lombards, a civil war in the Kingdom of Jerusalem?
... that the Virginia Tech Hokies football team has played more than 1,100 games during its 116 years of existence?
... that Luna 2 was the first of several spacecraft to use on-board magnetometers to discover that the Moon has almost no magnetic field?
... that the Fair Complex MAX station in Hillsboro, Oregon, has a weather vane made with five model airplanes?

17 July 2008

18:31, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the base of the main memorial (pictured) at George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, designed by Frederic Charles Hirons, has a dirt floor?
... that AFL club the Fitzroy Lions' former best and fairest winner Norm Johnstone is the grandfather of current Brisbane Lions player Travis Johnstone?
... that there are nine known trans-Neptunian detached objects in our Solar System?
... that the first airmail of the United States was a personal letter from George Washington carried on an aerial balloon flight from Philadelphia by Jean Pierre Blanchard?
... that Willem IV van den Bergh was Stadtholder of Guelders and Zutphen until being arrested in 1583 by Elbertus Leoninus for treason?
... that in his 2004 book The End of Oil, Paul Roberts cautioned that the price of oil might climb to US$60 a barrel within five years, but it took only thirteen months?

12:30, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the erratic meteorological history of Hurricane Gordon (pictured) included six landfalls in four countries during November 1994?
... that journalist and art museum curator Erastus Brainerd led the publicity campaign that established Seattle's role as the gateway to the Yukon Gold Rush?
... that although the Siege of Mahdia in 1390 was a military failure, the subsequent ten year armistice reduced piracy from the Barbary coast?
... that South American Coati males were originally considered a separate species from females due to different social habits?
... that the 1989 New Jersey School Report Card was the first report to make statistics such as standardized test scores, student-teacher ratio, and cost of public schools available to all taxpayers in the United States?
... that Pieter van den Broecke was one of the first Dutchmen to drink coffee when he visited Mocha, Yemen in 1614?
... that miners living in Sego, Utah bought out the coal mine they worked for?

05:45, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Ghost Slug (pictured), recently discovered in Wales, blindly hunts earthworms using its blade-shaped teeth?
... that the lob bomb is a newly developed form of airborne improvised explosive device made from a propane tank, and used by insurgents in Iraq against U.S. forces?
... that the work of Martin Rota as engraver to the Imperial court in Vienna included a portrait of Emperor Maximilian II?
... that in 2007, the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund provided deposit insurance for nearly 87 million accounts at 8,101 credit unions in the United States?
... that the Underground City in Beijing is a bomb shelter said to accommodate six million people?
... that former American Geological Institute president Samuel S. Adams was son of New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams?

16 July 2008

23:41, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Buffalo Treehopper (pictured) is an insect named for its resemblance to the American Bison?
... that the Taipei Metro Xiaonanmen Station was a target of serial vandalism in March 2006?
... that the Vector Field Histogram (VFH) algorithm used in robotic motion planning received two major updates after its original creation in 1991, which were renamed as VFH and VFH*?
... that Budweiser Bier Bürgerbräu, introduced in 1802, is offered by the Czech brewery in Europe as "Budweiser Bier", while in North America, is called "B. B. Bürgerbräu"?
... that an owner of the DeForest Skinner House was once the youngest railroad director in the United States?
... that Atunda Ayenda is the first radio soap opera ever aired in Sierra Leone?
... that the Narragansett Turkey is a breed of domestic turkey unique to North America and named after Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island?

17:40, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

... that birds' eyes have three lids, including the nictitating membrane (pictured), which moves across the eyeball horizontally?
... that the Sigtuna box has a runic poem that threatens thieves, but in a metre that was usually reserved for Viking lords and kings?
... that Temple Sinai, a Reform synagogue in Oakland, California, grew out of Oakland's Hebrew Benevolent Society in 1875?
... that the red mushroom Russula sanguinaria, known as the "bloody brittlegill", smells fruity but is hot tasting?
... that Hendrik van den Bergh founded the South African Bureau of State Security in 1969 to coordinate intelligence gathering and suppress anti-apartheid dissidents?
... that Harold's Steer-In in Indianapolis' North Irvington Gardens Historic District was the site of a 2005 MasterCard commercial featuring quarterback Peyton Manning?
... that the Rum Swizzle is often called "Bermuda's national drink"?

11:34, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

... that members of Scottish clans wear a sprig of a particular plant (example pictured), known as a clan badge, to identify their affiliation?
... that McDonald Clarke, known as the "mad poet of Broadway", drowned in prison after being subjected to an elaborate prank?
... that omnidirectional cameras have a 360-degree field of view and have been used in robotics to solve the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem visually?
... that Greek band ONIRAMA’s name comes from the Greek phrase "Onira Mas" meaning "Our Dreams"?
... that the first Protestant church in Korea was founded in 1884 at Sorae in present-day Ryongyon county in South Hwanghae, North Korea?
... that radio collars for animal tracking were first tested at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve?
... that an eclectic castle in a small village of Moszna in Poland has exactly 99 turrets and 365 rooms?

05:33, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Tookoolito (pictured) and her companion were advertised as "Esquimaux Indians... from the arctic regions" and exhibited at Barnum's American Museum in 1862?
... that the Croaking Tetra is a tropical fish that "chirps" when it comes to the surface to gulp air?
... that the poem Płyniesz Olzo po dolinie, by Polish poet and educator Jan Kubisz, became the unofficial anthem of Cieszyn Silesia?
... that the German Mine Sweeping Administration, a naval mine sweeping organisation made up of former members of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany, was under command of the Royal Navy?
... that notable residents of Colonnade Row included John Jacob Astor IV, Washington Irving and Cornelius Vanderbilt?
... that in 2003, Chinese scientists invented a way of producing yarn from bamboo fibre?
... that Dr David Moor admitted in a press interview to having helped up to 300 ill patients to die?

15 July 2008

23:02, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

... that a sotdae (pictured) is a tall wooden pole or stone pillar with a sculptured bird atop, traditionally set up for the purpose of folk belief in Korea?
... that dozens of congressional candidates have endorsed "A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq"?
... that the Iraiyanar Akapporul ("Study of Stolen Love") contains the first major prose work written in the Tamil language?
... that although chaotic, the Solar System is stable enough that its planets will not collide with each other for a few billion years?
... that the highest point on Cape Cod is not Scargo Hill in Dennis as is commonly believed, but Pine Hill in Bourne?
... that the Boreray is the most critically endangered breed of sheep in the United Kingdom, according to the Rare Breeds Survival Trust?
... that infielder Mike Cervenak spent so much time as a member of the Norwich Navigators that residents of the town dubbed him the "Mayor of Norwich"?

16:30, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Mesotherium ("middle beast") (skull pictured) was so named because its discoverer believed it was an intermediate between rodents and pachyderms?
... that Watts Station was the only structure to remain intact along "Charcoal Alley" during the Watts Riots?
... that according to legend, water from a holy well in Penrhys, Wales, can be used to cure rheumatism and poor eyesight?
... that the Museum of Texas Tech University was housed in a basement for approximately thirteen years?
... that G. S. Khaparde earned the moniker "Nawab of Berar" because of his personal and political influence in the central Indian province?
... that the Ziegler Polar Expedition was stranded in the arctic for two years until it was rescued in 1905?
... that "Gizzie" and "Slit" are two alternative common names for the Little Lorikeet of eastern Australia?
... that the Cleveland Indians traded Bob Allen to the Pittsburgh Pirates in December 1963, only to take him back four months later?

09:32, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

... that St. Kazimierz Church in Warsaw (pictured) was designed by the leading Dutch architect Tylman van Gameren?
... that Agile Mangabeys are known to contract the T-cell leukemia virus, similar to the leukemia virus that infects humans?
... that when VOC forces led by Steven van der Hagen captured a Portuguese fort on Ambon in 1605, it was the first territory captured by the Dutch Republic in the East Indies?
... that the Young Romance comic book series, first published in 1947, is regarded as the first romance comic?
... that HMT Bedfordshire was one of 24 Royal Navy anti-submarine vessels sent to assist the United States after its entry into World War II?
... that Alex Perelson is the youngest professional skaterboarder in the vert field?
... that the relics housed within the chapel near the Church of St. Mary of Blachernae in Istanbul were credited by the Byzantines for victories against the Avars, Arabs, and Rus?
... that in 1837, Nathaniel Parker Willis won $1,000 from Josephine Clifton by writing Bianca Visconti for her to perform?

03:31, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Glass Pavilion (pictured), a prismatic glass dome structure built for the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition, was destroyed after the exhibition?
... that the ABC documentary television program Our World was often assigned to students as homework, with ABC distributing 39,000 study guides a month?
... that conceptual artist Joan Fontcuberta's works include a hoax exhibition of bizarre animals such as winged monkeys and snakes with 12 feet, incorporating fieldnotes, photographs and X-rays?
... that Bill Stoneman, who pitched two no-hitters for the Montreal Expos and later ran the Major League Baseball club as the general manager, first joined the franchise in the 1968 expansion draft?
... that from October 2008, the Norwegian digital ticketing system t:kort will be valid on Kystekspressen?
... that Charles Marshall chose the location where Robert E. Lee's surrender ceremony took place near the end of the American Civil War?

14 July 2008

18:50, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

... that namsadang is a Korean itinerant troupe during the Joseon Dynasty that performed acrobatics (example pictured), dancing, and playing like a circus?
... that in 1382, Jogaila arrested and imprisoned his 80-year old uncle Kęstutis when he arrived for negotiations during the Lithuanian Civil War?
... that Therefore Repent! is a 2008 graphic novel set in a post-Rapture world where fundamentalist Christian eschatology has come true?
... that Pleistodontes froggatti, the fig wasp that pollinates the Moreton Bay fig, was intentionally introduced into Hawaii in 1921?
... that the 2008 ILF Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships included three first-time participants Bermuda, Finland, and Scotland?
... that SS Catalina, after reportedly carrying more passengers than any other ship anywhere, has been stuck half-submerged in Ensenada, Mexico for more than ten years?

12:49, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Mangalitsa (pictured) is a lard-type pig breed that was the most prominent swine breed in Hungary until 1950?
... that Australian cricketer Keith Miller, while attending high school during his teenage years, had Test captain Bill Woodfull as his mathematics teacher, who gave him a zero on a geometry exam?
... that the tablet known as Gabriel's Revelation, written in Hebrew before the birth of Christ, allegedly tells of a man killed by the Romans and resurrected after three days?
... that Russian avant-garde poet and singer-songwriter Alexei Khvostenko is often referred to as the "grandfather of Russian rock"?
... that fossil collectors often call Polyptychoceras vancouverensis the "paperclip ammonite" or the "candy cane", due to its shape?
... that U.S. statesman Frederick Douglass said that George William Alexander had spent "more than an American fortune" in promoting the anti-slavery cause?

05:52, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

... that in the center of the Old Town Market Place in Warsaw, Poland is the Warsaw Mermaid Statue (pictured) along with other Warsaw Old Town attractions?
... that over the course of five decades, Toshio Masuda directed 16 films which made the top ten list at the Japanese box office, a record surpassed by only one other director?
... that the 17th-century Theatrum Chemicum is a comprehensive compendium on alchemy in the western world?
... that Bartholomew Gilbert is responsible for the failure to establish a colony on Cape Cod in 1602 which would have been the first English colony in the Americas?
... that Ficus obliqua, which may reach 100 ft (35 m) high in Australian rainforests, is well suited for use in bonsai?

13 July 2008

23:12, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Magnoliidae include species that produce safrole, the primary precursor for synthesis of Ecstasy (chemical structure pictured)?
... that Francis Fox Tuckett was one of the main figures of the golden age of alpinism, making the ascent of 269 peaks and the crossing of 687 passes?
... that instead of making a triumphant entry to Harar, Ethiopia after the Battle of the Ogaden, Italian general Rodolfo Graziani tripped and injured himself at a local church?
... that microbial mats increase our understanding of evolution by helping to preserve soft-bodied organisms and soft parts of hard-shelled animals?
... that the only known surviving work of Catalan poet Pere de Queralt is a maldit-comiat in which he accuses his lady of having three lovers in a single day?
... that A Driver for Vera, Ukraine's submission for the 77th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, was rejected because too much of the production was based in Russia?
... that Fitzroy Football Club was so impressed by Allan Ruthven’s potential he was given guernsey number 7, made famous by Brownlow medalist Haydn Bunton?

16:46, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the keepers of the Elbow of Cross Ledge Light (pictured) slept in life jackets for fear of the lighthouse being struck by passing ships?
... that Korean writer Park Kyung-ni spent 25 years writing the 16-volume epic novel Land, which has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works?
... that the largest sports research library in North America is located on the grounds of LA's Britt House, a Colonial Revival mansion built in 1910?
... that the Type 77 semi-automatic pistol is a common side arm used in the Chinese People's Liberation Army?
... that according to X-ray analysis, William Hogarth's painting Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse originally had a dog relieving himself on a pile of old master paintings?
... that after capturing Amba Aradam during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, the Italians bombed the fleeing Ethiopian soldiers with mustard gas?
... that the red-purple coloured inedible mushroom Russula sardonia has a hot peppery taste?

10:45, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Knickerbocker Epes Sargent (pictured) wrote Velasco for Ellen Tree, only to have Edgar Allan Poe damn it with faint praise?
... that the 1974 film La prima Angélica reportedly created the greatest scandal surrounding any Spanish film during the Franco years?
... that the Electrosport was a US$11,900 electric car in 1971, when gasoline was 36 cents per gallon, and the company established the “World’s First Electric Car Expressway” between Detroit and Chicago?
... that the public reaction after the death of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia caused Adolf Hitler to issue a decree barring all members of Germany's former royal houses from service in the military?
... that Santo Alcala’s age of 23 in 1976 made him the second youngest player on an aging Cincinnati Reds baseball team?
... that the American Palestine Line claimed that its ship the SS President Arthur was the first ocean liner to fly the Zionist flag when it began service in 1925?
... that Joseph Nathan Kane had personal possession of America's first fountain pen and the 1849 patent model for America's first safety pin?

04:43, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Italian mountain Cimon della Pala appears on the coat of arms of the Guardia di Finanza (pictured)?
... that when Teddy Morgan led Wales in their national anthem before the 1905 rugby union match, it was the first time a national anthem had been sung before a sporting event?
... that the 2001 feature film Cupid's Mistake was produced on a budget of US$980?
... that shipping company Bastø Fosen operates the most trafficked car ferry route in Norway, from Moss to Halden?
... that Union Army officer Frank A. Haskell’s account of the Battle of Gettysburg was hailed by historian Bruce Catton as "one of the genuine classics of Civil War literature"?
... that much of modern theatre in Burkina Faso has developed from the need to educate rural people?
... that the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation of Nepal proposed a synthesis of Buddhism and Maoism in 1977?
... that the Vorwerk is the only breed of chicken to share its name with a brand of household appliance?

12 July 2008

22:04, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1880s Victorian Hale House (pictured), with its exuberant ornamentation and color scheme, has been called "the most photographed house" in Los Angeles?
... that Nara Bahadur Karmacharya is the sole surviving founding member of the Communist Party of Nepal?
... that brightly colored leheria turbans were male business attire in Rajasthan, India during the 19th and early 20th centuries?
... that Charles Thomas Bolton was the first astronomer to prove the existence of a black hole?
... that the Treaty of Dubysa was never ratified as the Teutonic Knights failed to reach the agreed-upon destination due to shallow water in the Neman River?
... that the Boston Red Sox once traded Major League Baseball pitcher Anastacio Martínez to the Pittsburgh Pirates only to take him back in a different trade a week later?
... that the Dogger, a type of fishing boat, takes its name from the Dogger Bank, which was itself named after an earlier type of fishing vessel?

15:45, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

... that a subsidence crater (pictured) resulting from a nuclear test in 1962 at Yucca Flat is listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
... that African slave Abu al-Misk Kafur’s rise to power in 946 as the ruler of Egypt and southern Syria is one of the first examples in Islamic history of a sovereign with the lowliest of origins?
... that Australian Test cricketer Keith Miller once broke from his air force flying formation to fly over Beethoven's birthplace of Bonn?
... that the title of The West Wing episode "On the Day Before" refers to the Jewish holiday Erev Yom Kippur?
... that robot-assisted surgery was recently performed to treat ovarian vein syndrome, a rare condition in which a dilated ovarian vein compresses the ureter, causing pain?
... that among other changes, the Hungarian Round Table Talks in 1989 led to a complete overhaul of the country's constitution?
... that Johnny Oates, the only Texas Rangers manager to make it to the postseason, won the Manager of the Year Award in 1996?
... that Captain Ralph Kerr, briefly commander of the Royal Navy's largest warship HMS Hood, had previously only commanded destroyers?

09:28, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Gero Cross (pictured) of about 970 AD is one of the earliest known depictions of the dead Christ on the cross?
... that Walt Whitman and Theodore Roosevelt frequently visited Chichester's Inn in West Hills, New York?
... that Humphrey Littleton informed on a priest wanted in connection with the Gunpowder Plot after seeing him give mass at Hindlip Hall?
... that the Australian banana fig is one of the few figs known to be pollinated by more than one species of fig wasp?
... that Japanese mathematician Yozo Matsushima received the Asahi Prize for his research on continuous groups in 1962?
... that every person detained by the International Criminal Court has a personal computer in his cell?
... that in 1846, George Pope Morris was one of two founders of the periodical that would become Town & Country, which is still published today?

03:26, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the English Riviera Geopark in Torbay, United Kingdom (pictured) is the world's only urban Geopark?
... that as a Boston College freshman, current Toledo Mud Hens pitcher Chris Lambert was named Big East Conference "Pitcher of the Year" and "Rookie of the Year" in 2002?
... that Adbot, one of the first internet advertising companies, was forced to close only seven months after opening due to the fraudulent source of its start-up funding?
... that when Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly scored a century on test debut at Lord's in 1996, he became the third overall and first since John Hampshire in 1969 to do so?
... that actor Michael Sharrett played the grandson of Clovis, played by Jimmy Stewart, in the 1978 musical film The Magic of Lassie?
... that Lou Piniella, the only Mariners manager to lead a team into the playoffs, recorded a season with 116 wins, tying the major league record of wins in a season?
... that Australian naturalist and botanical artist Rica Erickson wrote her first book Orchids of the West in 1951?
... that Floyd Womack of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks was nicknamed "Pork Chop" because his mother thought he resembled professional wrestler Porkchop Cash?

11 July 2008

21:16, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

... that pteridomania is the Victorian-era craze for fern collecting (pictured) and for fern motifs in decorative art?
... that Penelope Wensley, who will become the next Governor of Queensland this month, was the first female Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations in New York?
... that the Streeterville neighborhood sits almost entirely on land that did not exist when the city of Chicago first incorporated?
... that chemist and science policy-maker Rudolf Mentzel, head of the German Research Foundation in the 1930s and later VP of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, was also an SS Brigadier?
... that four players from the Morgan State University Football Bears are in the NFL Hall of Fame?
... that the Zebu element in Jamaica Hope cattle comes from one Sahiwal bull?
... that Brad Paisley's 2008 single "Waitin' on a Woman" is a re-recording of a song that he originally recorded on his 2005 album Time Well Wasted?

14:55, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

... that on the Mars Exploration Rover (artist's impression pictured), a technique known as visual odometry allowed the rover to estimate its position and orientation using only camera images?
... that Abdur Rashid Kardar, a pioneer of the Pakistani film industry in Lahore, was a calligraphist who prepared posters for foreign-made films?
... that South Park Lofts in Los Angeles, originally an eight-story parking garage, was converted to lofts, whereupon residents complained about a lack of parking?
... that the fungus gnat is often found around houseplants because it lays eggs in moist potting soil?
... that English footballer Tom Holford played professionally until he was 46, making him the sixth oldest player to have appeared in a Football League match?
... that many traumatic brain injuries have aspects of both focal and diffuse brain injury?
... that Charles Mathias, Jr. is the only Republican from Maryland to be elected to three terms in the United States Senate?

08:54, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Madonna, Michelangelo, Napoleon, Pelé and Voltaire (pictured) are all mononymous persons — each is commonly known by a single name?
... that the Podgórski sisters—six-year-old Helena and her teenage sister Stefania—harbored thirteen Jews for over two years in the attic of their house during the Holocaust?
... that gaming fads such as Bank Night contributed more than any other tactic to the resiliency of the U.S. film industry during the Great Depression?
... that the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal, Keshar Jung Rayamajhi, turned royalist and became chairman of Nepal's Royal Privy Council?
... that the name of popular Ivorian music genre Coupé-Décalé is a local slang term for cheating somebody and running away?
... that the concept of hurricanes as "a moving vortex" was first developed by John Farrar after the Great September Gale of 1815?
... that mizuna is a cold-resistant mustard green grown extensively during winter in Japan?

02:38, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the rough leaves of Australian fig species Ficus coronata (pictured) have the texture of sandpaper?
... that Thomas Kimmwood Peters was the only newsreel photographer to film the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906?
... that in 1870, the Indian Reform Association aimed at putting into practice some of the ideas that the Brahmo leader Keshub Chunder Sen was exposed to during his visit to Britain?
... that the cult of Saint Chiaffredo arose after the discovery of a sarcophagus containing a mysterious skeleton near the Italian town of Crissolo?
... that the Dr. Nelson Wilson House is unusual for having Eastlake stickwork done in brick instead of wood?
... that the success of the World War II bombing campaign Operation Strangle was unrelated to its original objective?
... that Julio Vizcarrondo played a key role in the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico in the 19th century?

10 July 2008

17:50, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

... that construction of the courthouse (pictured) of the Rochester Downtown Historic District may have spurred nearby buildings to have faux stones cemented upon them?
... that George Zames pioneered the H-infinity methods which have revolutionized the field of robust control?
... that the Nigar Awards are the oldest awards of merit in the Pakistani film industry?
... that Daniel Page, the second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, helped finance the construction of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad?
... that magnetic resonance neurography creates detailed medical images of nerves?
... that Ghulam Ahmed Chishti wrote, composed and recorded six to seven songs for the film Pheray in a single day?
... that American President Lines was declared an industry leader in 1989 for its innovations in container transport?

11:36, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Columbus Monument (pictured) in Barcelona, Spain, was built entirely using Spanish materials and Catalan labor?
... that Hugh McCulloch became president of the Bank of Indiana without any prior experience in banking at all?
... that Mecklenburg underwent a series of partitions, so that by the 18th century, rulers in both of its parts had identical titles?
... that the Citadel of Saigon, a stone fortress in Vietnam, was captured during the French invasion after less than a day of battle?
... that in his 1570 book on religious images, theologian Molanus objected to showing the infant Jesus naked, among many other things?
... that San Francisco's 1873 Pigtail Ordinance was deemed unconstitutional because it discriminated against Chinese immigrants?
... that Vaidila, depicted in the Lithuanian Chronicles as a kitchen assistant who entered nobility only through marriage, was the only Lithuanian duke known to marry a daughter of a Gediminid ruler?
... that Keelung City, Taiwan was briefly occupied by the French military in the late 1880s?

02:08, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

... that when the Gevingåsen Tunnel (pictured) opens in 2012 it will cut rail travel time north of Trondheim, Norway, by five minutes?
... that Fort Concho, a United States Army outpost in San Angelo, Texas from 1867 to 1889, was the headquarters for the Buffalo Soldiers of the American West?
... that the city of Strasbourg, France is the sole or main seat of over 20 international institutions?
... that Dr Nigel Cox is the only doctor ever to have been convicted in Britain for attempted euthanasia?
... that Olvir Hnufa, a famous 9th-century Norwegian skald quoted in the Prose Edda, was the great-uncle of the Viking Egil Skallagrimsson?
... that children's author Aleksandra Ishimova was the last correspondent of Alexander Pushkin before his death in a duel?
... that according to a letter written in 1428 by President Felip de Malla to Alfonso the Magnanimous, Catalonia was devastated by an earthquake on Candlemas that year?

9 July 2008

19:36, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

NGC 1553

... that lenticular galaxy NGC 1553 (pictured) is located at the center of the Dorado Group, and has a spiral feature that is only visible in X-rays?
... that the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario was established by the Government of Ontario in response to a recommendation in the Rae Report?
... that one of the eyes of Edward Oldcorne, who was tortured into revealing his participation in the Gunpowder Plot, is kept as a holy relic?
... that William Cullen Bryant owned Cedarmere-Clayton Estates in Roslyn Harbor, New York where the Nassau County Museum of Art now stands?
... that Nguyễn Trung Trực, who organized and led militia that fought against French colonial forces in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, was a local fisherman?
... that Aberdeen's Northern Co-operative Society declared a loss of £7 million in 1992, and, unable to recover, went into receivership, bringing to an end a 132-year-old business?
... that children's book author and illustrator Christopher Manson uses traditional hand tools to create the pine woodcuts that decorate his books?

11:12, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Hnojník château (pictured), now in the Czech Republic, was owned by the Beess family from 1736 until 1945?
... that the first edition of Henry Fielding's final novel Amelia was published with 5,000 copies while his popular novel Tom Jones had only 3,500 copies for both its first and second edition?
... that Luan Da of the Han Dynasty was granted 2,000 households to rule over due to his practice of mediumship?
... that ejecta from the impact that created Zunil crater in Athabasca Valles on Mars is a possible source of Martian meteorites?
... that German bryologist Franz Stephani was the author of "one of the most notorious publications in bryology"?
... that the Municipal Theatre of Corfu served as the place of assembly for the Serbian Parliament in exile from 19 January 1916 to 19 November 1918?
... that, at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) tall, Teddy Davison was considered the smallest goalkeeper to play for the England national football team?

05:12, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Michigan-Wacker Historic District (pictured) hosts Chicago's first permanent residence, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite?
... that the Nicaraguan Rice Rat is one of only two mammals endemic to Nicaragua?
... that Grand Duchess Anna freed her husband Vytautas the Great of Lithuania from a prison in Kreva by dressing him in women's clothes?
... that the Montreux Convention of 1936 is an international treaty regulating the Dardanelles and Bosporus Straits?
... that Anita West, one of the presenters of Blue Peter, was on the show for such a short period that no footage of her exists in the BBC archives?
... that famous Benjamin Franklin impersonator Ralph Archbold is married to a woman who impersonates Betsy Ross?
... that the International Checker Hall of Fame in Petal, Mississippi was home to the world's largest checkerboard?
... that the first fire department in Indianapolis was established seventeen months after the first fire in the city?

8 July 2008

21:27, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Bahá'í community of Panama (Bahá'í House of Worship in Panama City pictured) was estimated to make up two percent of the national population?
... that in 1967, Ann Pellegreno and a crew of three successfully flew a similar aircraft, Lockheed 10A Electra, to complete a world flight that mirrored Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight plan?
... that in the 1537 Battle of Ollantaytambo, an Inca army resorted to flooding the battlefield as a way to counter the Spanish cavalry?
... that David William Thomas, mayor of Minden, Louisiana who also published newspapers, practiced law, and taught at the university level, was called "Renaissance man"?
... that Eat This Book has been criticized as "basically a book-length infomercial" for the International Federation of Competitive Eating?
... that actor Jiří Sovák played the role of a man who had a prophetic dream about the Velvet Revolution in the 1996 Czech film Kolya?
... that Long Island's Roslyn Grist Mill is one of the few surviving Dutch colonial timber frame commercial buildings in the U.S.?
... that a statue of French general Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes in Bamako, Mali was torn down shortly after Mali's independence in 1960?

15:26, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Daily Express Building (pictured), an Art Deco former printing press, is one of Manchester's only listed buildings constructed in the 1930s?
... that "racing baron" Fritz Huschke von Hanstein won the 1940 Mille Miglia in a BMW 328?
... that gender identity disorder in children is a diagnosis formally recognized in 1980 that often involves controversial therapeutic intervention?
... that Major League Baseballer Willis Roberts signed as a free agent to play with the Cincinnati Reds on the same day he was released by the Detroit Tigers?
... that Psilopterus was about the same size as the modern cariama, making it the smallest of the carnivorous prehistoric avians known as terror birds?
... that when Henry D. Edelman became the first president and CEO of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation in June 1989, no staff had been hired to work with him?
... that the West Indian laurel fig tree is an introduced species in Florida where it has escaped from cultivation?
... that the Papal conclave, 1592 was the fourth papal conclave during the year and a half after the death of Pope Sixtus V?

09:25, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Green Rosella (pictured) of Tasmania was mistakenly believed by Johann Friedrich Gmelin to have originated from New Caledonia and named accordingly?
... that forensic anthropologist Arpad Vass is developing a decomposition odor analysis or DOA database to enable Human Remains Detection (HRD) dogs to help detect human remains?
... that Ulf Sterner of Sweden was the first European player in the National Hockey League?
... that the Indiana Canal Company was once believed to be a front for the conspiracy of former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr?
... that a pilot of 818 Naval Air Squadron flying from HMS Ark Royal, crippled the German battleship Bismarck so that she could later be sunk?
... that Mike Scioscia, the current manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball club, was the first to lead the team to a World Series championship in 2002?
... that the Manx Rumpy breed of chicken is not Manx at all?

03:24, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1346, the Black Plague (illustration pictured) infected the first Europeans in the Crimea in what has been called one of the worst biological attacks in the history of warfare?
... that the children's music duo Greg & Steve started out singing to children as special education assistants?
... that the t:kort digital ticketing for public transport in Trøndelag, Norway was launched seven years behind schedule?
... that the construction of the Cairo Apartments, one of the tallest buildings in Washington, D.C., prompted the U.S. Congress to pass a new law in 1899 to limit buildings to the height of the Capitol?
... that Eric Borel, a teenager who killed 14 people in Cuers, Var, was the most deadly mass murderer in France since 1989?
... that the 2007 documentary film Quantum Hoops tells the story of the Caltech mens' basketball team, who had a 259-game losing streak after not winning a conference game since 1985?
... that The Towers, a residence in Didsbury, Manchester originally built for the editor of the Manchester Guardian, is now a cotton research facility?
... that current Toledo Mud Hens pitcher Francis Beltrán pitched the final inning of the final game played by the Montreal Expos before the club moved to Washington?

7 July 2008

21:22, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Broadway Theater District, with 12 movie palaces (example pictured) in six blocks, is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
... that Syed Wajid Ali Shah was the longest serving President of the Pakistan Olympic Association with a tenure of 26 years?
... that an almost-complete juvenile specimen of Ctenochelys was uncovered in 2005?
... that Samuel Jarvis was acquitted of manslaughter after winning Toronto's last duel on July 12, 1817, and married the daughter of the presiding judge the following year?
... that when the Japanese visual novel Suika was released for the PlayStation, it was retitled as Water Summer?
... that Canadian actor Kevin Durand, who plays antagonist Martin Keamy in the fourth season of the television show Lost, is a former rapper and stand-up comic?
... that the 20-room Garbutt House in Los Angeles, California was built with concrete walls and ceilings, steel-reinforced doors and no fireplaces due to the owner's intense fear of fire?
... that Vincent Gambi was one of several pirates associated with Jean Lafitte, and assisted him during the Battle of New Orleans?

15:21, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the papal election in 1241 is often cited as the first papal conclave due to the confinement of the cardinal electors to the Septizodium (pictured)?
... that when Daniel Elfrith became admiral of the colonies at Black Rock Fort in 1632, he warned ships of where escaped slaves might attack?
... that a scene from "Rosemary's Baby", an episode of 30 Rock featuring Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan, was described by one critic as "one of the funniest scenes ... on TV this season"?
... that Greek–Polish singer Eleni Tzoka has been awarded the Saint Rita of Cascia prize for the act of mercy towards the killer of her young daughter?
... that Dair Mar Elia, dating from the 6th century, is the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq?
... that Garry Roggenburk, after his Major League Baseball career, became a general manager for the Winter Haven Red Sox in the farm system of his former team, the Boston Red Sox?
... that an extension of Ferrybridge Henge in West Yorkshire was discovered when surveying an area in preparation to erect a row of houses?
... that Miroslav Macháček spent four months in an insane asylum because he criticised the communist approach in the Prague National Theatre in 1975, two years before Charter 77?

09:17, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the one-make Procar Championship (pictured) was created in 1979 to help BMW produce the 400 M1 sports cars necessary to compete in the World Championship for Makes?
... that a World War II pilot from No. 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, escaped death when he fell onto a fellow crew member in mid-air and shared his parachute?
... that mass lesions in the brain stem cause coma, a severe alteration in the level of consciousness, by affecting the reticular formation?
... that Uncommon Friends of the 20th Century is a 1999 documentary film about businessman James D. Newton's friendships with well-known figures such as Thomas A. Edison, Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford?
... that Elliott Cutler, who performed the world's first successful heart valve surgery in 1923, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal twice for his distinguished service in the two World Wars?
... that Dickie's Bladder-fern was first found in a yawn in Scotland, but that Victorian fern collectors may have removed every specimen from this site?
... that during the Texas Revolution, soldiers in the Texian Army were not issued official uniforms, so many purchased US Army surplus uniforms to wear?

03:13, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1882, after Australia beat England at cricket, The Sporting Times published a satirical death notice (pictured) which was the origin of The Ashes?
... that the biography of a Douglas-fir, Tree: A Life Story, was inspired by a single tree at David Suzuki's home?
... that the Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall, a large multi-touch device, has been used by CNN during its coverage of the 2008 United States elections, and has been nicknamed "The Magic Wall"?
... that El Cabrillo courtyard apartments, built in 1928 by Cecil B. DeMille and later home to transvestite actor Divine, are said to be "steeped in old Hollywood lore"?
... that Pryor Brock Farmstead is the best representation of a farmstead, with Italianate buildings, around Zionsville, Indiana?
... that Lamine Guèye from Senegal was the first Black African skier to take part in the Winter Olympics?
... that The West Wing episode "Ways and Means" was co-written by Eli Attie and Gene Sperling, two former employees of the Bill Clinton White House?

6 July 2008

20:50, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

The 1948 "Invincibles" en route to England. Bradman is standing with hat in hand, third from the left.

... that the 1948 Headingley Test, in which Don Bradman's cricket team the Invincibles (pictured) made a world record run-chase, remains the most attended Test on English soil?
... that the series of oil paintings by Nabil Kanso titled The Split of Life comprises over 80 mural-sized works?
... that the Jamaican Blackbird has evolved to fill the ecological niche more typical of woodcreepers and woodpeckers?
... that Major General William P. T. Hill, Quartermaster General of the United States Marine Corps had participated in Doctor Roy Chapman Andrews' expedition to the Gobi Desert while still a captain?
... that the 1948 film Terri Yaad was the first feature film to be released in Pakistan after the partition of India?
... that the National Park Service originally rejected the application to create a second historic district in Roslyn, New York, suggesting the first one be expanded instead?
... that the Australian Army adopted the Pentropic organisation in 1960, but returned to its previous unit structures in 1965 as the new organisation was found to be unsuited to Australia's strategic environment?

13:48, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

... that surviving examples of early Byzantine mosaics (example pictured) can still be found at Mount Nebo, where Moses died, and Tell Mar Elias, the birthplace of Elijah?
... that the British radio sitcom Safety Catch is built around the moral dilemmas of a man who inadvertently became an arms dealer?
... that the 1820 Indiana Supreme Court decision in the case of Polly v. Lasselle freed all slaves in the U.S. state of Indiana?
... that the Banga Sena is a separatist organization which advocates formation of a separate homeland for Bengali Hindus in Bangladesh?
... that no prints or negatives survive of the 1933 short film Hello Pop!, starring The Three Stooges before they began performing under that name?
... that the organisers of the Tour de France refused to hold the race during WWII, despite the German authorities' offer to open the borders between German-occupied France and Vichy France specially?
... that the Mineola, New York post office has no public art in its lobby, which is unusual for post offices of its size built during the Great Depression?

07:18, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the superstructure of the Ship John Shoal Light (pictured) was exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876, while inhabited by a lighthouse keeper?
... that the biopsychosocial model was theorized by George L. Engel at the University of Rochester Medical Center and putatively discussed in a 1977 article in the journal Science?
... that The Legend of Chu Liu Xiang received the third-highest viewership of all television series broadcast in 2007 on CCTV-8, even though it was released in December of that year?
... that Admiral Herbert Sawyer had a son named Herbert Sawyer, who not only also became an admiral, but was even given his father's old command, the North American Station?
... that the four brothers in Christian rock band Remedy Drive were performing over 200 concerts a year before signing onto a record label?
... that Hibernian Park hosted the first football international match played in Edinburgh, Scotland?
... that the day after Nazi Germany declared war on the U.S., Adolf Hitler announced the extermination of the Jewish race to party leaders in a private meeting in the Reich Chancellery?

01:11, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

... that an art historian claimed The Fortune Teller (pictured), an oil painting by Georges de La Tour, is actually a forgery?
... that Riverside Drive Historic District in Covington, Kentucky marks where the first white settlers in the Cincinnati area lived?
... that Yukiko Iwai, at 4' 11'' (150 cm), was the shortest member of the 1980s all-girl Japanese pop group Onyanko Club?
... that the killing of filmmaker Hugh O'Connor in 1967 came to represent the conflict between outsiders and locals in Appalachia during the War on Poverty?
... that the blue-green toadstool Stropharia aeruginosa is named for its similarity in colour to verdigris?
... that circumstances of the 1977 death of Stanisław Pyjas, a Polish student and anti-communist activist, are still a mystery?
... that the Lafayette Afro Rock Band, although little known during their time, is now considered as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s?
... that Vic Aldridge, nicknamed the "Hoosier Schoolmaster", had the worst seventh game start for a pitcher in World Series history?

5 July 2008

19:07, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

... that LA's Board of Trade Building (pictured), site of the California Stock Exchange, was the first office building on the Pacific coast with automated elevators?
... that British psychoanalyst Montague David Eder was a non-commissioned military surgeon for the Bolivian Army?
... that although the Collared Lory is only found in Fiji today, fossil evidence shows that it once existed in Tonga and was extirpated by human settlers?
... that Canadian professional wrestler and promoter Bronko Lubich was influential in the careers of several wrestlers such as Mick Foley, Steve Austin and Percy Pringle?
... that the Kucheng Massacre was one of the worst outrages against foreigners in China prior to the Boxer Movement?
... that the music video for British electropop band Hot Chip's song "Boy From School" was said to invoke the memory of the children's art series, Art Attack?
... that Heroes' Day in Namibia, recognized by the United Nations as Namibia Day, commemorates the fighters killed during the Namibian War of Independence annually on 26 August?
... that Somerset cricket captain Reggie Ingle maintained his hay fever was made worse by train journeys, and travelled in the luggage rack to avoid the dust at lower levels?

13:06, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

... that when American General Horace H. Fuller (pictured) asked to be relieved in 1944, he became the only division commander to be relieved in the Western New Guinea campaign in World War II?
... that St. Maria ad Gradus, a former church in Cologne, Germany, was the burial site of Richeza of Lotharingia in 1063?
... that after basketball coaches exploited the possession arrow rule, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines amended the rules for the 2008 season?
... that, in spite of lobbying from New Hampshire residents, the episodes of The West Wing "Manchester Part I and Part II" were filmed in Bluemont, Virginia instead?
... that senior GDR diplomat Gottfried Lessing had taken part in the founding and been a leading member of the illegal clandestine Communist Party in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) during the 1940s?
... that the inverted floral arrangement of Lacandonia schismatica, where the stamens are in the flower's center and are surrounded by the pistils, is unique among all known flowering plants?
... that R. Thomas Flynn, retired president of Monroe Community College, won an athletic scholarship to Bradley University that he later lost due to injury?

07:05, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the FBI Buffalo Field Office (patch pictured) houses over ten different investigative programs and two different specialty programs?
... that René Victor Auberjonois, one of the leading Swiss painters of the 20th century, was poorly received in the Romandie, where he lived most of his life?
... that the 2008 Western Australian gas crisis may cost the state's industries hundreds of millions of dollars?
... that Polish writer of youth literature Alfred Szklarski often compared Polish people to Native Americans?
... that one of the founders of the International Time Capsule Society estimated that over 80 percent of time capsules will be lost before they are opened?
... that Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming, is the second burial site of the mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson, the inspiration for the 1972 film Jeremiah Johnson?
... that 1984 World Sportscar Champion Stefan Bellof was killed due to a collision with 1982 and 1983 World Champion Jacky Ickx at the 1985 1000 km of Spa?

01:04, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

... that due to shifting political winds, the production of the F-20 Tigershark (pictured) for the Taiwanese Air Force failed to start on three separate occasions?
... that Dactylosaurus lived in the Middle Triassic period during the Anisian faunal stage of central Europe?
... that in February 1428, President of Catalonia Felip de Malla wrote a letter to King Alfonso V describing an earthquake that had struck Barcelona?
... that 19th-century archaeologist Isaiah Deck proposed pulping linen from Egyptian mummies into paper, to meet a paper shortage in America?
... that the partition of a uterine septum can extend caudally and result in a double vagina?
... that in 1985, molecular biologist Richard A. Houghten developed the "tea-bag" method for peptide selection?
... that Ad exstirpanda, promulgated in May 1252 by Pope Innocent IV, authorized the use of torture by the Inquisition for the purpose of eliciting confessions from alleged heretics?
... that the inspiration for the 2001 horror film Texas Night Train was the song "Moppin' the Floor with My Baby's Head"?

4 July 2008

19:03, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the origin and significance of the picture stone known as the snake-witch (pictured) remain a mystery?
... that Valri Bromfield performed stand-up comedy on the first episode of Saturday Night Live?
... that the flesh of the poisonous mushroom Boletus legaliae smells of chicory?
... that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building in Louisville, Kentucky is one of the largest commercial Beaux Arts buildings still in existence?
... that the identity of the language or dialect of the Cançó de Santa Fe, a hagiographical poem about Saint Faith, has been debated since the 16th century?
... that the "Australian Legends" in 2000, Walter Parker and Roy Longmore were among the last living veterans of the ANZAC who had served in World War I?
... that primitive weevils of the Aglycyderini, Metrioxenini and Oxycorynini tribes are believed to have evolved in the Late Cretaceous or perhaps Paleocene period, some 100-60 million years ago?
... that Steve Adkins, on the day of his Major League debut, walked five consecutive batters, two short of the all time record of seven?

13:02, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1688 Siege of Bangkok (illustration pictured) ended with the total retreat of French troops from Siam, modern-day Thailand?
... that "Greenzo", an episode of 30 Rock, was part of NBC’s Green Week that aimed at having every primetime program aired during the second week of November 2007 contain an environmental theme?
... that English vinegar manufacturer and Liberal member of parliament Mark Hanbury Beaufoy wrote well-known verses on gun safety?
... that the Oregon Imnaha Guard Station is one of the few U.S. Forest Service guard stations that have been occupied almost every summer since 1939?
... that beetles of the Belinae subfamily prefer feeding on wood of diseased or dying plants to healthy ones?
... that Rogers Morton was the only person in the 20th century from the East Coast of the United States to serve as Secretary of the Interior?
... that Cine City in Manchester, England, the third cinema to open in England in 1912 as "The Scala", has recently been demolished?
... that George Edward Pendray coined the term time capsule and created the word laundromat?

06:25, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

... that skeletons of many now-extinct animals, including saber-toothed cats (pictured) and dire wolves, have been recovered from the tar pit in McKittrick Oil Field in Kern County, California?
... that Adolf Dietrich, one of Switzerland's leading painters of the 20th century, had no formal training and worked for most of his life as an untrained labourer?
... that the melody of British electropop band Hot Chip's song, "One Pure Thought", was said to be reminiscent of New Order?
... that the Erie Gauge War in 1853 was nicknamed the "Peanut War" because its outcome affected the street vendors who sold peanuts to travelers in Erie, Pennsylvania the most?
... that Jimmy Speirs won the Military Medal while serving with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, six years after his goal helped Bradford City win the 1911 FA Cup Final?
... that a solitary pulmonary nodule, a mass in the lung smaller than 3 cm (1.2 in) in diameter, can be an incidental finding found in up to 0.2 percent of chest X-rays and about 1 percent of CT scans?
... that the invention and military use of modern land mines are attributed to Brigadier General Gabriel J. Rains of the Confederate States Army?

00:24, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Blue Tilapia (pictured) have become the most widespread foreign fish in Florida waters since their introduction in 1961, and are now a serious management problem in Everglades National Park?
... that the Doctor Who episode "The Stolen Earth" features cameo appearances by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and comedian Paul O'Grady?
... that Art Ross, the first head coach of the Boston Bruins, served four stints as head coach?
... that 29 Norwegian civilians were shot in reprisal by the Nazi regime in Norway following the Norwegian resistance's assassination of police chief Karl Marthinsen in February of 1945?
... that the San Fernando Building in Los Angeles, California, recently converted into upscale lofts, was raided several times for illegal gambling operations between 1910 and 1930?
... that the 1946 earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan caused a 6-meter (20-ft) tsunami that destroyed 2,100 homes?
... that lyric coloratura soprano Harolyn Blackwell replaced opera diva Kathleen Battle when she famously got fired from the Metropolitan Opera?

3 July 2008

18:23, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the sittellas (pictured) of Australasia were once thought to be nuthatches but are now considered their own family?
... that the best result of German motorcycle rider Georg Braun, a second place, was achieved in a wet race in the 1954 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix at Circuit Bremgarten?
... that the Missouri University of Science and Technology Nuclear Reactor, built in 1961, was the first nuclear reactor in the U.S. state of Missouri?
... that the Durga Vahini, the women's wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, have been accused of instigating violence against religious minorities in India?
... that the 2100 series of the Keihin Electric Express Railway produces a "do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do" tune when its propulsion system starts up?
... that when wrestler George Scott and his brother Sandy were in Australia, they won the IWA World Tag Team Championship three times between 1966 and 1968?
... that units in LA's Avenel Cooperative Housing Project, reportedly built as "a cooperative living experiment for a group of communists", were selling for US$300,000 in 2002?

12:21, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the modern coat of arms of Russia (pictured) was designed by a former political prisoner, Yevgeny Ukhnalyov?
... that San Francisco indie rock band LoveLikeFire formed as a result of a Craigslist classified advertisement?
... that Karl Wahl, in 1954, was the first former Nazi Gauleiter to publish his autobiography after having received permission from the denazification authorities to do so?
... that a revolution in burrowing marks the base of the Cambrian period, and is followed by the Cambrian explosion of animal diversity?
... that Arthur Barret, the twenty-second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, died after serving only eleven days in office?
... that Dibeen Forest Reserve, established in 2004, is the newest nature reserve in Jordan?
... that at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, basketballer Danny Morseu was the first Torres Strait Islander to represent Australia at the Olympic games?

03:55, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Hygrocybe coccinea (pictured) is a bright red edible mushroom that grows in the grasslands of Europe and under Rhododendron in Nepal?
... that Silas D. Alben proposed a model for more efficient turbine blades based on the bumpy flippers of humpback whales?
... that age controversies in gymnastics once resulted in the North Korean women's team being banned from the World Championships?
... that the song "Shake a Fist" was almost included on the British electropop band Hot Chip's second album, The Warning, instead of their third?
... that Albert Anker is sometimes called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his popular depictions of 19th century Swiss village life?
... that the United Nations Institute for Namibia, established in 1976 in Lusaka, Zambia, sought to promote Namibian independence as well as educate Namibians for after independence was achieved?
... that only a year after being established by car dealership owner Giuseppe Risi, the Risi Competizione team won their class at the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans?

2 July 2008

21:34, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Caeca et Obdurata, promulgated by Pope Clement VIII (pictured) in 1593, ordered that Jews be expelled from the Papal States except Rome, Ancona, and the Comtat Venaissin, within three months?
... that Toledo Mud Hens relief pitcher Ian Ostlund is one of only two people in Virginia high school history to strike out the side in every inning of a complete game?
... that Russula nigricans is an edible fungus which turns red, then grey, and finally black on bruising or cutting?
... that the Valmet Nr II tram of the Helsinki tram network was redesigned to include air conditioning in the cockpit after a driver fainted in the summer heat and killed a motorcyclist in a collision?
... that The Voice of the Turtle, the ninth longest-running play in Broadway history, derives its name from a verse in the Bible’s Song of Solomon?
... that philanthropist Bilquis Edhi, who helped save 16,000 babies, has been nicknamed "Mother of Pakistan"?
... that International Surfing Day originated in 2004 to celebrate the sport of surfing and clean up beaches?
... that the Calabasas, California facilities for the private elementary school New Village Academy is funded by actor Will Smith?

14:45, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the "Livingstone Tree" in Nkhotakota, Malawi, was never visited by David Livingstone (statue pictured), though when he travelled there he famously stopped under another tree?
... that Buddy West was chief legislative advocate for the University of Texas of the Permian Basin at Odessa?
... that Castleshaw Roman fort in Greater Manchester was a Roman fort built in 79 AD replaced by a smaller fortlet before being abandoned in the 120s?
... that Detroit Tigers pitcher Eddie Bonine played for three different colleges in three different states before he turned professional?
... that hundreds of political prisoners were freed in numerous raids on communist prisons in Poland between 1944 and 1946?
... that Kemar Roach played in his first Twenty20 match against Australia and finished with the best bowling figures of the match?
... that burials took place for almost 60 years at the site before Monfort Cemetery in Port Washington, New York was officially set aside for that purpose?
... that Bethany Black has been described as "Britain's only goth, lesbian, transsexual comedian"?

08:41, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Arthur Bingham was commander of HMS Little Belt, when the Little Belt Affair (pictured) occurred in 1811?
... that the first modern time capsule was Thornwell Jacobs’ Crypt of Civilization at Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia, due to be opened May 28, 8113?
... that coffee production in Costa Rica in the 19th century created enough revenue to build the National Theater in the capital San José?
... that the title for Christian musician Matthew West’s album Something to Say had already been decided before he knew that he would have to be vocally silent for two months?
... that the Dorado Group is one of the richest galaxy clusters in the Southern Hemisphere and thought to be unvirialized which could explain its abundance of H I and spirals?
... that the painter Cuno Amiet, a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland, created more than a thousand self-portraits?
... that the journey described in Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, was financed by an advance on the book she planned to write about the trip?

02:37, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

... that Boston Celtics head coaches Red Auerbach (pictured) and Bill Fitch were named to the list of the Top 10 Coaches in NBA history?
... that German politician Käte Strobel broke a taboo in 1967 by promoting sex education with a school book and the government-sponsored film Helga?
... that almost all Pakistani pop music videos were forbidden to air on local television after Zia-ul-Haq's military coup in 1977?
... that Adam Raphael was named Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards of 1973 for a Guardian series on labour conditions in South Africa?
... that future King Henry IV of England and Marshal of France Jean Le Maingre took part in the Lithuanian Civil War?
... that Ontario politician Jan Dukszta, a psychiatrist by training, took time out of his 1981 re-election campaign to treat colleague Tony Lupusella who was suffering a nervous breakdown?
... that Native Americans in Nebraska who live on reservations generally do not pay State of Nebraska taxes?
... that French cartographer Jacques Bertin was the first to provide a theoretical foundation to Information Visualization?

1 July 2008

20:24, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the exact species for which the fish genus Carangoides (C. orthogrammus pictured) was originally created is unknown?
... that in the 1800s, Chichester, Quebec claimed to have the largest wooden locks in Canada, built as part of a scheme to encourage boat travel on the upper Ottawa River?
... that the 2008 film Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins uses "meerkats actors" to depict the Whiskers and Lazuli groups rather than using actual footage of the real meerkats?
... that Bert Freeman was the top scorer in the English Football League in three seasons before 1914?
... that Hexaware Technologies Limited is ranked as India’s 11th top IT service provider by NASSCOM since 2005?
... that Scottish missionary Carstairs Douglas compiled the first comprehensive Amoy-English Dictionary in 1873, which, with revisions, is still in use today?
... that in 1298, Pope Boniface VIII decreed in Periculoso that nuns "ought henceforth to remain perpetually cloistered in their monasteries"?
... that the prosecution of Dr. Leonard Arthur for the murder of a Down's syndrome baby led to a change in British law regarding the disclosure of technical evidence?

14:19, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

... that George Hargreaves, Christian Party candidate in the forthcoming UK Parliamentary by-election, has said that the dragon symbol on the Welsh flag (pictured) is "nothing less than the sign of Satan"?
... that the Stonerose fossil site contains the earliest known records of Rosaceae, the rose family?
... that velology is the study of vehicle tax discs?
... that all four stars of Starved, an FX sitcom about eating disorders, struggled with eating disorders themselves, a fact unknown to producers until after casting?
... that the design of Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien in Épinay-sur-Seine, France was inspired by the architectural styles of five continents?
... that Pakistani actress Maria Wasti played a role depicting philanthropist and Lenin Peace Prize winner Bilquis Edhi?
... that boxer Oscar De La Hoya has been involved in efforts to redevelop the Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building in the Boyle Heights neighborhood where he grew up?
... that Leves were Roman soldiers armed with javelins?

08:18, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the French Protestant Church in Brighton (pictured), one of only two in England, is expected to close this year?
... that anthropologist David Zolotarev’s 1930 study of the ethnic tribes of the northern Russian Lake Imandra region determined they did not understand Soviet-style "socialist construction"?
... that the Miss Great Britain Party is a British political movement which campaigns to make politics "sexy not sleazy"?
... that a 3D model artist for The Matrix Reloaded went on to participate in the fangame project Chrono Resurrection?
... that Vin americanii! ("The Americans are coming!") was a slogan used by Romanians in the 1940s and '50s to express their hope that a US intervention would topple the Communist regime?
... that a Jueju, a type of Chinese poem, is a quatrain with either five or seven characters per line?
... that in the six months after the Beerhouse Act was passed in England in 1830, nearly 25,000 new licenses to open pubs, taverns and alehouses were issued?
... that D'Oyly Carte Opera Company star Donald Adams could only perform in his own Gilbert and Sullivan for All theatre group on his nights off?
... that the 1971 film Sentinels of Silence featured Orson Welles narrating the English version and Ricardo Montalban narrating the Spanish version?

02:17, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

... that "squash and stretch" (example pictured) is considered the most important of the 12 basic principles of animation?
... that the Ralph J. Bunche House in South Los Angeles was the boyhood home of Ralph Bunche, the first person of color to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
... that the extinct sea turtle Psephophorus was once mistaken as an ancient armadillo due to the specimen's poor condition?
... that Welsh footballer Roy Clarke played in three different divisions of the Football League in three consecutive matches?
... that Leonide Massine wrote the choreography and the libretto for the ballet La Boutique fantasque and also danced in the lead role?
... that, in order to prevent storage of nuclear waste in Utah's Skull Valley, the main county road through the valley became State Route 196 in 1998?
... that the Treaty of Salynas in 1398 marked the third time that Vytautas the Great granted Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights in 14 years?
... that the original building of Trondheim Central Station in Norway has been preserved as a cultural heritage?