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31 July 2009

20:14, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the 74,500 capacity Millennium Stadium (pictured), Cardiff, "an icon of the modern Wales", is wholly owned by the Welsh Rugby Union, one of the governing bodies of sports in Wales?
... that Jared C. Monti is only the second person to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the War in Afghanistan?
... that in 2008 one of Jamaica's most wanted fugitives evaded police capture when a motorist flashed his headlights to warn of police activity ahead?
... that Wyoming newspaper publisher Charles E. Richardson won a Sharpshooter Medal for his skill with a .38 caliber pistol while serving in the Army in the late 1950s?
... that during the Japanese conquest of Burma in 1942, the heavily defended Taukkyan Roadblock was unexpectedly abandoned overnight, allowing the Allied forces to escape safely from Rangoon?
... that Snorri Thorfinnsson, son of explorers Thorfinn Karlsefni and Guðríðr Þorbjarnardóttir, is said to be the first European born in North America?
... that Agaricus albolutescens, unlike other species of Agaricus, turns tawny-brown rather than yellow when bruised?
... that Canadian professional wrestler Billy Two Rivers decided to move to the United Kingdom because of a coin toss?

13:30, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

... that between 1909 and 1912, soprano Margarethe Siems (pictured) sang leading roles in the world premieres of three operas by Richard Strauss—Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and Ariadne auf Naxos?
... that after a massive expansion program in the 1980s, Lavalin's corporate bankers forced it to merge with the rival SNC Group, forming one of the largest civil engineering firms in the world?
... that Kjell Fjalsett, Arnold Børud, Ivar Skippervold and Rune Larsen constitute the gospel group Frisk Luft, called the first Christian supergroup in Norway?
... that T.H.E. Fox, drawn on a C64 KoalaPad and published on CompuServe, Q-Link and GEnie, is among the earliest online comics?
... that "Calexico Kid" Primo Villanueva led UCLA to the NCAA football championship in 1954 and was inducted into the British Columbia Restaurant Hall of Fame in 2009?
... that during June 1976 protests in Poland, the biggest demonstrations took place in Radom, where workers burned the local office of the Polish Communist party?
... that the clubhouse of the Royal Findhorn Yacht Club was originally the home of its first Commodore, James Chadwick?
... that Sir William Cheyne has been described as one of the most obscure Chief Justices of the King's Bench in the late medieval period?

07:28, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

... that in 1941, the tower at St Michael and All Angels Church, Southwick, West Sussex (pictured) was wrecked by an unexploded bomb which was found embedded in the churchyard two years later?
... that both Margot Marsh's Mouse Lemur and Arnhold's Mouse Lemur are separated from their closest relatives by species barriers?
... that the French won a victory over the Royal Navy in a naval battle off Cape Breton during the American Revolutionary War?
... that in the mid-1880s, Nelson's Greenbrier Distillery dwarfed Jack Daniel's in its output of Tennessee whiskey?
... that Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland was a political hostess who introduced the dahlia to the United Kingdom in 1804?
... that the New Jersey version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship is one of at least five championships that share the same name?
... that the Habeas Corpus Act 1862 was passed to prevent Britain's courts from issuing writs of habeas corpus in British colonies and dominions?
... that psychologist Sidney W. Bijou would not punish his 15-year old son for a joyriding arrest as he "had punishment enough", his son recalling that "it can pay off to have a psychologist for a father"?

01:28, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the State Capitol of Pennsylvania (pictured) is the third capitol building to be in Harrisburg, after the first one burned down in 1897 and the second was deemed "ugly" by its designer?
... that the German battleship SMS König sank the Russian battleship Slava during Operation Albion in 1917?
... that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was accused of plagiarism over his poem "Hymn Before Sunrise"?
... that the 1973 parliamentary election was the last to be held under imperial rule in Ethiopia?
... that the distinctive foliage of Hydrangea radiata, a shrub of the southern Appalachians, is dark green on one side but silvery white on the other?
... that Irish-born journalist and poet Daniel O'Connell worked for a number of newspapers in San Francisco and was one of the co-founders of the Bohemian Club?
... that three conclavists—personal aides to cardinals during a papal conclave—have gone on to be elected Pope?
... that French philosopher Denis Diderot posed naked for a Berlin innkeeper's wife?

30 July 2009

19:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

... that John P. Charlton invented the first private postal card (pictured) in 1861?
... that the Southern sennet, a member of the Barracuda family, has been linked to ciguatera poisoning?
... that an Australian football player was banned for life for umpire abuse?
... that Ziegfield Girl Susan Fleming found Harpo Marx, despite his non-speaking film persona, to be "a warm, fun, darling man to talk to", and they married in 1936 after she had proposed to him three times?
... that the Hunt-class destroyer HMS Badsworth was named after a fox-hunt in Yorkshire and adopted by the town of Batley, following a Warship Week campaign in March 1942?
... that Immigration Equality has been the main advocate for the Uniting American Families Act to give same-sex couples the same status as heterosexuals under the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act?
... that the cam follower, which is a specialized type of roller bearing designed to follow cams, was invented in 1937 by the McGill corporation?
... that one mixed martial arts fight at the Insomnia Summer Show in Satu Mare, Romania, lasted only seven seconds?

13:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

... that when Captain Robert Corbet suggested that captains be allowed to flog lieutenants, Rear-Admiral Edward Buller (pictured) declared that admirals should therefore flog captains?
... that the St. Johns River was Florida's first tourist attraction and the primary travel route to the more remote parts of the territory before it was developed?
... that when the Four Mile uranium mine commences operations in 2010, it will be the first new uranium mine in Australia for nearly ten years?
... that mayors elected in the 1900 Cuban local elections had to swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Military Government before taking office?
... that pocket neighborhood developments have included smaller homes around a landscaped common area to promote neighborly contact while keeping parking out of view?
... that of the 13 named storms in the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season, 6 were major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale)?
... that Felix Hathaway helped construct the first American-built ship in what is now the state of Oregon?
... that bottlenose dolphin Moko rescued two pygmy sperm whales from possible death?

07:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

... that molded parts with an undercut can still be molded with the use of a side action (animated)?
... that Congregation B'nai Israel is the oldest synagogue in Bridgeport, and the third oldest in the U.S. state of Connecticut?
... that Czech children's writer Ondřej Sekora was also one of the first propagators of rugby in Czechoslovakia?
... that the Grutas de Cacahuamilpa National Park in Mexico includes one of the largest cave systems in the world, with some openings wide enough to be used as concert halls?
... that Walter O. Bigby, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives during the 1970s, was called the "Dean of the House" because of his reputation for integrity, fairness, and hard work?
... that the Chichester to Silchester Way was discovered when the boundary banks of a mansio were seen by Ordnance Survey archaeologists on an aerial photograph?
... that the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel lost an estimated $2.4 to $7 million because the owner donated $125,000 to help California Proposition 8?
... that Tekno Team 2000, a "futuristic" professional wrestling tag team, was said to have the goal of bringing the World Wrestling Federation "into the 21st century"?

01:25, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

... that when the Applegate River was dammed in 1980, the resulting lake (pictured) completely submerged the town of Copper?
... that Saint Ninian, the subject of Ailred of Rievaulx's Life of Saint Ninian, is an "unhistorical doppelgänger" of the real-life British churchman Finnian?
... that in partnership with McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co., the Adelaide Steamship Company developed the world's first purpose built container ship, MV Kooringa?
... that the Renfrew County Courthouse was described as "one of the finest in Canada" by the County Atlas of 1881?
... that after helping Werner von Braun publish a book in post-war Germany, Heinz-Hermann Koelle joined von Braun's team at the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency, where he worked on Saturn rockets?
... that the papal conclave, October 1503 was the shortest papal conclave in history due to the lack of a conclave capitulation?
... that only one aircraft, a Bombardier Dash 8 of Amakusa Airlines, uses Amakusa Airfield?
... that Gordon Brown's independent advisor on ministerial conduct, Sir Philip Mawer who was given a knighthood in 2002, has also been a dame?

29 July 2009

18:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Australian musician Monique Brumby (pictured), who has won two ARIA Awards, was selected for the national under-19 women's soccer team?
... that the Shanta Creek fire has burned over 13,000 acres (53 km²; 20 sq mi) on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula since it was started by lightning on June 29, 2009?
... that in 1904, the whitewash was removed from the west wall of St. George's church, Trotton, leading to the discovery of an unprecedented 600-year-old wall painting?
... that the first newspaper in Hawaii was printed by students of Lorrin Andrews in 1834, on a printing press brought to the islands in 1820?
... that in 1901, two former political adversaries in Cuba, the Cuban National Party and the Republican Party of Havana, united behind the presidential candidature of Tomás Estrada Palma?
... that the marbleized appearance of the granite siding on the Gerard Crane House in Somers, New York, is a naturally occurring feature of the locally quarried stone?
... that in each Summer Olympic Games since 1992, the women's singles gold medalist in table tennis has also won gold in either the doubles or team competition?
... that Pink Dot is a Los Angeles–based chain of grocery stores that offers delivery service of groceries, deli food, cigarettes, and alcohol?

12:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles have eight properties of cultural and natural heritage (Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout pictured) listed on UNESCO's World Heritage List?
... that Kenneth W. Winters, a member of the Kentucky State Senate from Murray, did not begin his legislative service until he was 70 years old?
... that no footballer has scored a hat-trick against England since Marco van Basten in 1988?
... that during the 1700s, businesswoman Anna Krefting operated the largest ironworks in Norway?
... that the westernmost and easternmost points in the United States by travel, in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, are both named "Point Udall," after brothers Mo and Stewart Udall?"
... that Weston Dressler of the Saskatchewan Roughriders set 19 school records in football at the University of North Dakota?
... that Bob Dylan sang his 1964 song "Chimes of Freedom" at Bill Clinton's 1993 presidential inauguration?
... that professional poker player Ilari Sahamies lost over US$3 million playing online poker while drunk, including more than $700,000 in a single day?

06:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the invariant set postulate may help to resolve some of paradoxes of quantum mechanics aired in the Bohr–Einstein debates, using fractal geometry such as the Mandelbrot set (pictured)?
... that Barbara Margolis, creator of a Rikers Island restaurant training program, was held in such regard by inmates that her car was returned after prisoners learned it was stolen from a prison lot?
... that astronomer William Herschel was the first organist at the Octagon Chapel in Bath?
... that the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau serves as the secretariat of the Economic Intelligence Council of India?
... that the first Hof's Hut was opened in Belmont Shore by Harold Hofman on September 16, 1951, the same day that his son was born?
... that due to a violent intimidation campaign of the Federal Republican Party, no other political groups dared to contest the 1900 municipal elections in Las Villas, Cuba?
... that Morgan Henry Chrysler was one of only four men who rose from private to major general during the American Civil War?
... that John Ruskin's "wretched rant" influenced architects, artists and ecclesiologists?

00:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

... that a papyrus containing the Loyalist Teaching scripture (pictured), dated to the second half of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, survives to this day?
... that Rocketdyne's E-1 rocket engine never saw production, but gave NASA confidence to develop the F-1 that powered the Saturn V to the Moon?
... that in Bishop Lloyd's House, Chester, Cheshire, is a fireplace with an overmantle containing a carving of Cupid riding on a lion?
... that 21-year-old professional poker player Sami Kelopuro experiences daily swings of up to one million dollars when playing online poker?
... that many of the world's pelagic fish species are threatened with extinction, including the devil fish?
... that the Cuban People's Party was barred from contesting the 1901 elections, as the government demanded the party produce a register of thousands of members in just two hours?
... that National Football League All-Pro linebacker and Super Bowl champion Cato June was co-class president, salutatorian and a member of the National Honor Society in high school?
... that the Battle of the Oranges is the largest organized food fight in Italy?

28 July 2009

18:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

... that when the public house The Falcon (pictured) was a town house owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor in 1643, it was the first building to enclose its portion of the Chester Rows?
... that Homer Paine was one of several college football players that Oklahoma Sooners head coach Jim Tatum lured away from the school's rivals after World War II?
... that Nazi German regulation of Polish forced laborers intentionally created and supported discrimination on the basis of ethnicity?
... that in baseball, no Gold Glove Award-winning catcher posted an errorless season until Charles Johnson and Mike Matheny accomplished the feat twice in six years?
... that Killiniq, an abandoned settlement on the Hudson Strait, was formerly a part of Labrador, and then the Northwest Territories, but is now on the Nunavut side of Killiniq Island?
... that ornithologist Robert Thomas Moore, who is credited with discovering more than 30 bird species and subspecies, also founded the 29-volume series of Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards?
... that All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is one of the largest Unitarian Universalist congregations in the world?
... that giant Daniel Cajanus appeared in pantomime on the London stage in 1734?

12:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Trojan wave packet animation

... that in physics, a Trojan wave packet (animation pictured) is a type of wave packet that is nonstationary and nonspreading?
... that French singer Georges Guétary, who played the "older man" in a romantic triangle with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in the film An American in Paris, was nearly three years younger than Kelly?
... that William Blake's poem "The Mental Traveller" went unpublished during Blake's lifetime but was translated multiple times after his death?
... that Jack Hennemier, head coach of the Calgary Stampeders, was sued by the Washington Redskins for attempting to sign two of their players?
... that an inscription from Korba, Tunisia, records the town's fortification by Pompeian generals during the Roman civil war?
... that Meridian Baptist Seminary was the first school in Mississippi to offer high school diplomas to African-American students?
... that Czech composer Jan Rychlík played the drums in the jazz orchestra of Karel Vlach?
... that the fruit of the pondberry, an endangered wetland shrub, was used by children in the rural Southern United States as ammunition in toy pop guns made from hollowed-out elderberry stems?

06:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Kwakwaka'wakw art includes a wide variety of wooden masks (example pictured), some of which can transform into different figures?
... that as a variable-pitch turbofan aircraft engine, the Turbomeca Astafan could generate reverse thrust in midair without the use of a thrust reverser?
... that the Chicago Tribune claimed that hundreds of applicants to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between 2005 and 2009 had received "special consideration"?
... that the document known as the Remonstrances was presented in 1297, as England was on the brink of civil war?
... that a colony of sex offenders forced to live under a highway bridge in Miami, Florida, numbered approximately 140 members as of July 2009?
... that A Vision of the Last Judgment is a painting by William Blake that disappeared after an exhibition was cancelled in 1810?
... that Bridgecorp Holdings, a former Australian real estate development group, collapsed in 2007 owing 14,500 investors a total of A$467 million?
... that Robert V. Decareau was known as "Mr. Microwave" for his research on microwaves in food that led to the development of the microwave oven?

00:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Space Shuttle mission STS-8 flew Guy Bluford (pictured), the first African-American astronaut?
... that Felix Salten's novel Bambi, A Life in the Woods, originally published in Austria in 1923, is considered the first environmental fiction novel to be published?
... that Poh Ling Yeow, the runner-up of MasterChef Australia, has appeared in four films?
... that the 1969 Jefferson Airplane psychedelic folk-rock song "Good Shepherd" is derived from an early 1800s hymn from a backwoods preacher and a 1930s gospel blues recording by a blind axe murderer?
... that the earliest activities of the Port of Amsterdam, today the Netherlands' second largest port, date back to the 13th century?
... that when hired as CEO of Rocket Chemical Company, John Barry changed its name to WD-40 to match its primary product, whose name came from "water displacement, formulation successful in 40th attempt"?
... that three armies surrounded the papal conclave, September 1503, held during the Italian Wars?
... that Xavier Petulengro, known as "The King of the Gypsies", led traditional Romany weddings in Yorkshire where he mingled the blood of the couple and bound their wrists with a silk cord?

27 July 2009

18:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the domesticated animal breeds originating from Scotland include the Scottish Fold cat (pictured), the Rough Collie of "Lassie" fame, and the Grice, a somewhat aggressive pig?
... that 23% of the world's uranium reserves are held in Australia?
... that Czech violinist Karel Hoffmann was the only permanent member of the Bohemian Quartet throughout its 42-year existence?
... that Denis Potvin has played the most games with the New York Islanders while holding the title of team captain?
... that the ancient Tzippori Synagogue in Israel was discovered by workers building a parking lot?
... that the 1995 Mayfest Storm was the costliest hailstorm ever to hit the United States when it occurred?
... that Nick Cave requested all television cameras be switched off during his performance of the song "Into My Arms" at the funeral of INXS singer Michael Hutchence?
... that airline pilots in the 1930s and 1940s flew with their ears when visibility was poor?

12:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel (pictured) in Washington, D.C. has been described as a miniature Gothic gem?
... that the third officer of the MV Horizon-1, a cargo ship recently hijacked by Somali pirates, is a 24-year old Turkish woman?
... that U.S. Army major William Stewart Walker was credited with leading 380 of his fellow soldiers to safety in Belgium from behind German lines during World War II?
... that the Manggahan Floodway in the Philippines was built to reduce flooding along the Pasig River but in turn contributed to flooding along the shores of Laguna de Bay?
... that professional wrestler Pablo Fuentes Reyna took the ring name "MS-1" from the highest rank of a Mexican Antiterrorist corps?
... that Under Your Spell, director Otto Preminger's first English language film, was a remake of the Spanish language release Las fronteras del amor?
... that two Victoria Crosses were awarded for action during the Umbeyla Campaign led by Neville Chamberlain in 1863?
... that an ad campaign for the MMORPG Evony featured depictions of scantily clad women and the tagline "Save the Queen!", despite the fact that there is no queen to save in the game?

06:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the rough skin of the nursehound (pictured) was once used as an abrasive called "rubskin", which cost a hundred times more than sandpaper?
... that quarterback Lindy Berry played in a game one week after suffering a broken jaw, and since it was the era before football helmet facemasks, he wore a hockey mask instead?
... that the first expedition of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa ended disastrously, when the bishop and several others died of malaria?
... that, when Murray Chotiner produced the infamous "pink sheet" against opponent Helen Gahagan Douglas, Richard Nixon's Northern California campaign manager Harvey Hancock refused to run it?
... that Nói Síríus is Iceland's largest candy manufacturer and now owns English chocolate company Elizabeth Shaw?
... that in one of his Posen speeches, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler said that the decision had to be made to make the Jews "disappear from the Earth"?
... that the Dunns Pond Mound in Ohio may have been used for Native American burials for nine centuries?
... that Arnon Grunberg's award-winning 2003 novel The Asylum Seeker features a ménage à trois involving a former john, a terminally ill former prostitute, and an Algerian asylum seeker?

00:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

... that St Julian's Church in Kingston Buci, West Sussex, has the well-preserved remains of an anchorite's cell (hagioscope pictured), in which a hermit would have been walled up for life?
... that as of 2008, there is no treaty covering the border between Botswana and Namibia, which remains as defined in a treaty signed between the British and German Empires in 1890?
... that Horace Barker was awarded the National Medal of Science for discovering the coenzyme of vitamin B12, which Barker had isolated from mud taken from San Francisco Bay?
... that the White-bellied Sea Eagle and the Grey-headed Fish Eagle are the notable raptors of Gal Oya National Park?
... that Statutes of Casimir the Great from the 14th century were the first codification and the basis of modern Polish law?
... that the O'Kane Building in Bend, Oregon, was built for Hugh O’Kane who, as a boy, came to the United States illegally from Ireland by stowing away on a New York bound ship?
... that in World War II, the British Indian Army was driven out of Burma at the Battle of Sittang Bridge?
... that professional wrestler Pirata Morgan lost his right eye in a mid-match accident?

26 July 2009

18:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

... that a comet over Africa saw the birth of a small country (map pictured) on July 26, 1882?
... that the Spadena House, a storybook house also known as The Witch's House, was originally built as offices and dressing rooms for a movie studio?
... that an East German defector hijacked a Polish plane in 1978 to escape to West Germany?
... that Jane H. Smith is not only the first woman state legislator from Bossier Parish in Louisiana, but she is the first woman to have been a high-school principal and school superintendent there as well?
... that the Gurgaon Metro will be India's first privately owned and operated metro?
... that sprint athlete and British 200 metres champion Toby Sandeman did a photoshoot for Vogue with Naomi Campbell?
... that the Superior multimineral shale oil extraction process was developed to combine the production of shale oil with that of sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, and aluminum?
... that Patsy's Pizzeria first served up its coal oven pizza pies in 1933 and vies with Rao's to be the "best bite" in New York's Spanish Harlem?

12:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the possibility of scrapie resistance in sheep was tested by experimentation with a selection of Swaledales (pictured), a breed of domesticated sheep native to the Yorkshire Dales and the fells of Cumbria?
... that when confronted by a rebellion and an invasion, King Valagamba promised the rebel leader the throne and sent him against the invading army?
... that founders of the National Fibromyalgia Association first met through the internet?
... that F. Springer's novel Bougainville features a character who slept with Mata Hari on the boat taking them to the Dutch East Indies?
... that Bob "Horse" Reynolds founded the Los Angeles Angels baseball team and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame within a year?
... that the Indian Economic Intelligence Council is chaired by the Finance Minister?
... that a year after the American Civil War ended, discharged soldiers had conflicts with local policemen in Memphis, which escalated into one of the worst race riots in U.S. history?
... that German cigar maker Josef Feinhals wrote a compendium on scatology and smoking, under the pseudonym Collofino?

06:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

... that SS Archimedes (pictured), built in 1839 by Henry Wimshurst, was the world's first propeller-driven steamship?
... that most Hindus in the Netherlands are immigrants from Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America?
... that no services have been held in Mt. Zion Methodist, the oldest church in Somers, New York, for almost 80 years?
... that Nguyen Van Tuong helped install and depose three Vietnamese emperors in the space of a year?
... that, for a period of 100 days, families featured on the television series The 100 Mile Challenge were not allowed to consume any food or drink grown or produced more than 100 miles from their home?
... that female professional wrestler Jean Antoine married her high school sweetheart in the middle of a wrestling ring because she had a match afterward?
... that on 18 February 1942, Brigadier "Punch" Cowan personally went to Rangoon to ask permission to retreat at the Battle of Bilin River?
... that Judge William C. Conner ruled that $2 million in lost cash was worth $634.90?

00:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the longest horn ever recorded on a Marco Polo sheep (mounted head pictured) measured 1.9 m (6.2 ft) and weighed 60 lb (27 kg)?
... that when Khirbat al-Minya, an Umayyad-built palace near the Sea of Galilee, was first excavated in 1932, it was mistaken by archaeologists for a Roman fort?
... that at the Battle of Cape Finisterre, HMS Malta forced the surrender of one Spanish ship, and sent her boats to take possession of another?
... that the players selected for the 1935 College Football All-America Teams included SMU's "Iron Man" Wetsel, Stanford's "Vow Boy" Bobby Grayson, military historian Jac Weller, aspiring G-Man Paul Tangora, Charles Wasicek of the "unbeaten, untied and uninvited" Colgate team, Minnesota's "battering ram fullback" Sheldon Beise and tackles Ed Widseth and Dick Smith, Cal end Larry Lutz, Ohio State end Merle Wendt, Princeton second-generation All-American Gilbert Lea and Walter Winika, the first Rutgers varsity athlete killed in World War II?
... that 24 people died digging Bramhope Tunnel, known for its eccentric Neo-Gothic portal?
... that surgeon Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane signed his handiwork by tattooing the letter K in Morse code on his patients in India ink?

25 July 2009

18:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the largest known ovules produced by any non-flowering seed-plant came from the Medullosales (fossilized leaves pictured), an order of extinct seed ferns?
... that professional wrestler Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. wrestled for a year before his father, Rayo de Jalisco, Sr., found out?
... that when the horse in her first maquette of The Scout was criticized for looking too "eastern", Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney shipped a horse from Buffalo Bill's ranch to her studio in New York?
... that the Indian Defence Intelligence Agency was established because of intelligence lapses during the Kargil War?
... that Republican State Senator Vernie McGaha of Russell County, Kentucky, considers his highest priority helping constituents "stuck in the red tape of government"?
... that the first pulsar was discovered as a result of an experiment designed to study interplanetary scintillation?
... that The Ivy restaurant was sued over an accident involving Lindsay Lohan and her 604 horsepower V-12 Mercedes Benz SL65?
... that Susanna Montgomery, Lady Eglinton taught rats to come to her table for food?

12:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Annette Nelson's performance (pictured) as The Mountain Sylph in Washington, D.C. in 1837 was highly appreciated by a group of Native American chiefs?
... that Chinese-Australian businessman Stern Hu, accused by Chinese officials of espionage, is said to have "caused huge loss to China's economic interest and security" by the Chinese Foreign Ministry?
... that humans living next to a lake at the Bouri Formation in Ethiopia 160,000 and 154,000 years ago butchered not only adult Hippopotamuses but also those that were newborn?
... that more than 130 people died in July 2009 after consuming adulterated bootleg liquor in Gujarat, India, where alcohol consumption is prohibited?
... that biochemists Ralph F. Hirschmann and Robert Bruce Merrifield both led teams that synthesized the enzyme ribonuclease and while Merrifield won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Hirschmann did not?
... that the HMS Cockchafer played host to the regent of Iraq Amir Abdul Illah who had been deposed and was fleeing an assassination plot in Baghdad?
... that Western marksman Joe Bowman learned as a boy how to shoot flies off a garbage can with his BB gun?

06:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

... that an uncommon sentry tower (pictured) at Banashankari temple is a mélange of Vijayanagara Hindu and Islamic architectural styles?
... that Gaynell Tinsley, a two-time All-American end at LSU, set an NFL record with 675 receiving yards as a rookie in 1937?
... that before marching to the Battle of White Wolf Mountain, the warlord Cao Cao fooled his enemy into thinking he had retreated by simply erecting a sign saying so?
... that the automated Launch Processing System used by NASA for Space Shuttle launches has reduced the required number of firing room personnel to half of those required for an Apollo launch?
... that in 1957, West Germany's Federal Minister of Justice Hans-Joachim von Merkatz was the focus of an East German propaganda campaign, which portrayed him as a "fascist" and "leading Nazi functionary"?
... that the Mansion District was once known as the "Garlic Core" of Albany, New York, due to its large Italian American population?
... that professional wrestler Mr. Niebla once wrestled as "Batman"?

00:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

... that there are many diverse types of fish, including sea dragons (pictured) camouflaged to look like floating seaweed?
... that the artwork of full-blood Tsimshian photographer Benjamin Haldane has enjoyed a revival after his glass plate negatives were discovered in an Alaskan dump?
... that Moss Force, a waterfall in the English Lake District, was described by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge as "an awful Image and Shadow of God and the World"?
... that India's Narcotics Control Bureau was created in 1986 to enforce the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act?
... that in the Broadway comedy Two Blind Mice, two government workers keep their office running after its abolition by Congress by renting out rooms and hiring out the front lawn as a parking lot?
... that in English law, legal relations created in a social context are not considered binding?
... that while playing baseball at Shibe Park, outfielder Herschel Bennett crashed into a wall, causing him to fall into a 36-hour coma and helping to end his major league career?

24 July 2009

18:07, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

... that troilite, a form of pyrrhotite, is extremely rare on Earth but is abundant on Mars (pictured)?
... that Andrew Carroll went on a 1998 nationwide tour sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, distributing 100,000 free poetry books at truck stops, hospital waiting rooms and train stations?
... that Swiss mechatronics company Stäubli was originally founded in 1892 as a workshop for producing dobby looms?
... that Utah's Patchwork Parkway is the second-highest paved road in the state of Utah at 10,626 feet (3,239 m) above sea level?
... that Canadian House of Commons member Philéas Côté introduced a private member's bill in 1946 seeking to rename Dominion Day to Canada Day?
... that Sri Lankan Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was forced to abandon an agreement aimed at solving that country's ethnic problems amidst protests by radical Buddhist monks?
... that Lorraine Sneed, partner for 15 years of blade server inventor Christopher Hipp, said she had "got him" on their first date after asking "if he wanted to come see my SGI"?

12:07, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

... that USAAF Lieutenant General Harold L. George (pictured), the unofficial leader of the "Bomber Mafia", became mayor of Beverly Hills, California, after World War II?
... that the ringlegged earwig gets its common name from the noticeable dark bands around the middle of its six legs?
... that Swedish film director Tomas Alfredson stated that he had grown tired of the Swedish film industry after finishing Let the Right One In?
... that in 1988, a West German court appointed an ex-notary to represent the interests of the German Reich concerning the Upper Mundat Forest against the Federal Republic of Germany?
... that Sid Wagner led Michigan State to their first consecutive football wins over the Michigan Wolverines and was the first player selected by the Detroit Lions in the first NFL Draft?
... that Jake Gyllenhaal has a brief part as the son of a widower played by Robin Williams in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "Bop Gun"?
... that Dutch writer Louis Ferron, born of a German soldier and a Dutch mother during the German occupation in World War II, wrote a series of novels later called The Teutonic Trilogy?

06:05, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Banaue Rice Terraces (pictured) of the Philippine Cordilleras are part of a World Heritage site, which was recognized by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in 1995?
... that The Office writer Jennifer Celotta and Office actor Rainn Wilson won a Writers Guild of America Award for writing the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards ceremony?
... that Judy and Alfred were two 90-inch (2.3 m) tall steam locomotives specially designed to fit under a bridge at Par that was only 96 inches (2.4 m) high?
... that the farming of celery was first introduced to the United States by George Taylor in 1856?
... that Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell and Evander Holyfield were all election monitors at the 1997 Jamaican general election?
... that during the mutiny at the Nore, Captain William Hotham and Admiral Adam Duncan had to imitate an entire British fleet with just two ships?
... that 1975's Tropical Storm Hallie existed as three types of cyclones: subtropical, tropical, and extratropical?

00:05, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

... that with a total weight of over 100 tonnes (example of fragment pictured), Campo del Cielo is the heaviest meteorite ever found on Earth?
... that the band "Goodtime Washboard Three", with Peter R. Arnott on banjo, played on April Fools' Day in 1967 for Bing Crosby as he hosted the television show The Hollywood Palace?
... that the Gateway Protection Programme provides the opportunity for an annual quota of 750 especially vulnerable refugees selected by the UNHCR to be resettled in the United Kingdom?
... that Tom Paton, a member of the Montreal hockey club, was the first goaltender to win the Stanley Cup in 1893?
... that the Hutchinson County Historical Museum, which opened in 1977, is housed in a two-story building constructed in 1927?
... that New Zealand moved 30 centimetres (12 in) closer to Australia during a recent 7.8 magnitude earthquake?
... that Louisiana Sheriff Henderson Jordan sought to keep the death car of Bonnie and Clyde to compensate the officers who in 1934 risked their lives to capture the fugitives?

23 July 2009

18:05, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

... that in the wake of the Sino-Soviet split, Albanian, Chinese and Korean editions of the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism (commemorating stamp pictured) were cancelled during 1962–1963?
... that the Victorian-style White-Pool House, built in 1887, is the oldest standing structure in Odessa, Texas?
... that Andrew Jordaan was the first cricketer to be timed out in a first-class match after poor weather delayed him in reaching the ground to start his innings?
... that antique china dolls were predominantly made in Germany in the 1800s?
... that Robert Isabell had four tons of glitter dumped on the floor of Studio 54 for a 1970s New Year's Eve party, which owner Ian Schrager described as like "standing on stardust"?
... that the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra participated in recording of the Vendetta album by the Finnish power metal band Celesty?
... that in 1908, accountant William Abner Eddy took a kite aerial photograph of two men who had stolen his ice cream?

12:00, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Giovanni Caselli made the world's first practical operating fax machine (pictured) 11 years before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone?
... that Bagel Bakers Local 338 controlled bagel making in New York City for decades, with a 1951 strike creating a "bagel famine" that resulted in sales of lox dropping up to 50% in area delis?
... that actor Knut Wigert was a driving force behind the establishment of a Henrik Ibsen museum in Oslo?
... that the Big Apple dance was popular at the Big Apple Club, an African-American night club at the former House of Peace Synagogue?
... that Josef Pleskot designed the administrative building of the ČSOB Bank, the first European building awarded the gold certificate of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design?
... that the unsolved murder of Miss Garnett-Orme at Savoy Hotel, Mussoorie, India in 1911, inspired Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1916)?
... that SMU All-American Truman "Big Dog" Spain, known for his "rumba king" good looks, was described as "hard as ship's steel and as torrid as a foundry furnace"?

06:00, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Jamie M. Morin (pictured) was 34 years old when President Barack Obama appointed him to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, responsible for managing the $160 billion U.S. Air Force annual budget?
... that if a supermassive black hole is ejected from a galaxy, it can carry a dense cluster of stars called a hypercompact stellar system?
... that legend tells of how 15th-century Chief Justice of the King's Bench Sir William Hankeford committed an early form of suicide by cop?
... that amateur footballer Jürgen Wilhelm scored Germany's 1983 Goal of the Year while playing for BFV Hassia Bingen in the third division Oberliga Südwest?
... that Iuliu Ilyés, the current mayor of Satu Mare, Romania, has twice been elected to the office with close to double the vote of his opponent?
... that the closest transportation to Davidof Volcano is 199 miles (320 km) away in Adak, Alaska?
... that four-time U.S. table tennis champion Lou Pagliaro hated when the sport was called "ping-pong", a name that he said "sounds sissy" in a 1942 article in The New Yorker?

00:00, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Sabil Abu Nabbut (pictured) was a public fountain built by Ottoman governor Muhammad Abu Nabbut in 1812 to facilitate the journey between Jaffa and Jerusalem?
... that for about a millennium, the Hindu kings of Bishnupur were supreme in the Bankura area, even after Muslims conquered Bengal?
... that as a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, Elton Trowbridge worked with a bipartisan group to bring public television to his state?
... that the mineral erionite is a carcinogen, and chronic exposure to this mineral has been linked to excess mortality from mesothelioma in a number of villages in Turkey?
... that the tallest building in Mobile, Alabama, is the 745-foot (227 m) RSA Battle House Tower?
... that the loss of television reception—caused by the Canary Wharf Tower—for several hundred households was held not to be a nuisance in Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd?
... that wealthy newspaper publisher Joe Knowland played a prison guard in his first feature film, Escape from Alcatraz, at the age of 49?

22 July 2009

18:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

... that East Dereham Windmill (pictured) was sold to Breckland District Council in 1978 for £1?
... that singer-songwriter Craig Bickhardt, formerly of Schuyler, Knobloch & Bickhardt, has written Number One hits for The Judds and Ty Herndon?
... that the Vajpayee government called a joint session of the Indian Parliament in 2002 to pass the Prevention of Terrorism Act?
... that Dartmouth Conferences is one of the longest ongoing bilateral unofficial dialogues between American and Soviet (now, Russian) representatives?
... that during the first recording session of Sanctus Real's album The Face of Love, the studio was 90° F and "nobody wanted to be there"?
... that Guido di Tella was an Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Relations between 1991 and 1999?
... that shark bite victims have met with U.S. Senators to express their support for the Shark Conservation Act, which is pending approval by the Senate?

12:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Jeff Swanagan, the Georgia Aquarium's first employee, oversaw the importation of live whale sharks (pictured) from Taiwan to Atlanta for exhibition?
... that Montacute Priory was a dependency of Cluny Abbey from its foundation around 1100 until 1407?
... that Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In was built by owner Juan Delgadillo using mostly scrap lumber from the nearby Santa Fe Railroad yard?
... that professional wrestler Black Warrior was forced to unmask after losing a match to Místico?
... that the lake in Adams Lake State Park was built as a water source for West Union, Ohio, and became the focus of the new park in 1950, when a new water source was developed?
... that the incorporation of terms in English law requires a party to take "reasonable steps" to bring a term to the other party's attention?
... that Thomas E. Trowbridge, who served in the Wyoming House and Senate, was originally a dairy farmer and rancher committed to rural development?
... that nude weddings have become a $440 million dollar industry?

06:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the fall of a meteorite (pictured) was first documented in 1766 by Domenico Troili?
... that Hebrew National's kosher hot dogs, three-quarters of which are bought by non-Jews, have been advertised for decades under the slogan We answer to a higher authority?
... that Charles Lock, British consul in Naples, hated the British ambassador's wife Emma Hamilton, and wrote widely read scabrous letters back home denouncing her and her lover Lord Nelson?
... that unless HR 2267 passes, there will be no federal or state regulatory agency protecting US citizens or ensuring "standards of integrity and fairness" on certain interstate activities?
... that after surviving almost two years in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Lise Børsum wrote a book about her experiences in the camp?
... that "Mr. Tambourine Man" was the first song written by Bob Dylan to reach #1 on a pop music chart?
... that photographer Fred Hartsook went from driving a mule-drawn mobile darkroom around California to taking pictures of Hollywood stars like Mary Pickford?

00:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Colorado-class battleships (USS Maryland pictured) did not undergo a significant modernization prior to the Second World War despite various proposals that had been circulating since 1933?
... that Albert Midlane wrote over 700 hymns, his best known being "There's a Friend for Little Children"?
... that the election in 1181 of Pope Lucius III was the first papal election held in accordance with the decree that the pope is to be elected with a two-thirds majority by the cardinals?
... that Richard Morningstar is the Special Envoy of the United States Secretary of State for Eurasian Energy?
... that the Bobrof Volcano is an uninhabited island in the Andreanof Islands, part of Alaska's Aleutian archipelago?
... that Gothabhaya of Sri Lanka banished 60 Buddhist monks from the Abhayagiri monastery for following Mahayana teachings?
... that Helen Callaghan of the AAGPBL and son Casey Candaele are the only mother/son duo to play professional baseball, with Candaele having a career batting average seven points lower than his mother's?

21 July 2009

18:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

... that according to the chronicler Jan Długosz, Mszczuj from Skrzynno was the Polish knight who killed the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Ulrich von Jungingen (pictured), during the Battle of Grunwald?
... that the U.S. 10th Mountain Division Special Troops Battalion was to take part in the invasion of Japan, but instead returned to the U.S. two days after Japan's surrender?
... that David L. Cole served in the labor mediation field under every US President from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon?
... that in 2007 the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, took part in Thevar Jayanthi celebrations, after shunning the event for two decades?
... that philanthropist Elliott Cresson received autographs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson from ex-president James Madison?
... that Milwaukee held the 2009 Great Circus Parade after a six-year hiatus?
... that the next Finnish Chief of Defence Lieutenant-General Ari Puheloinen, is a son of an electrician, while the four preceding chiefs-of-defence have come from officer families?

12:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

... that rich Halifax mill-owner Edward Akroyd had everything except children, so he illustrated his home, Bankfield Museum, with images of babies (example pictured)?
... that Edward R. Tinsley, who rescued K-Bob's Steakhouse from bankruptcy in 1992, is a former president of the National Restaurant Association?
... that when appointed, Sir Rigby Swift was the youngest judge in the High Court of Justice?
... that the former common pasture was the first area outside Albany, New York's stockade to be settled?
... that the Mayor of Danzig, Conrad Letzkau, was treacherously murdered in 1412 by the Teutonic Knights for his support of Poland and refusal to pay taxes?
... that the abandoned Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, once owned by a Belgian company, was used as the set for Kreuzberg in a Bulgarian film?
... that at the 1929 Rose Bowl, Benny Lom stopped Cal teammate Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels who had run 60 yards in the wrong direction and was about to score a safety, in a game Cal lost 8–7 to Georgia Tech?

08:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

... that one theory suggests that the unique Chester Rows (pictured) were constructed in the medieval era on top of debris from the ruins of Roman buildings?
... that the tutor of Peter the Great, Nikita Zotov, became the "Prince-Pope" of The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters?
... that before the NCAA began sponsoring a women's collegiate basketball tournament in 1982, the AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament crowned national champions from 1972 to 1981?
... that Sidonia von Borcke, executed for witchcraft in 1620, became a cult femme fatale in Victorian art and Gothic fiction?
... that the 1850 Squatters' Riot in Sacramento, California, effectively ended land speculation in the region?
... that Lionel Pincus, who ran Warburg Pincus from 1966 to 2002, has donated more than $5,000,000 to the New York Public Library, including an endowment for the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division?
... that the idiom kick the bucket probably comes from a method of suicide in the middle ages?

00:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the octagonal Roof-top synagogue (cupola pictured) in Hove, England, was built as a replica of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock?
... that State Senator Coleman Lindsey became lieutenant governor of Louisiana, when Earl Long succeeded Governor Richard W. Leche?
... that footballer Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored a 12-minute hat-trick after coming on as a substitute?
... that at least 10 members of the Sadeler family were active as engravers between 1572 and 1675?
... that plug and feather, still used today, was the method used by the ancient Egyptians to cut stone?
... that Martin Siem was among the leaders of the naval intelligence organization RMO in Norway during World War II?
... that Gwen Verdon was nominated for an Emmy for playing a widow wishing death upon her husband in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "Ghost of a Chance"?

20 July 2009

18:00, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Van de Passe family engraved portraits of important people in Jacobean England including the Gunpowder Plotters (pictured) and Pocahontas?
... that the President's Surveillance Program, authorized by George W. Bush, included "unprecedented collection activities" that are still highly classified?
... that Canadian football wide receivers and Murray State University graduates Andrew Nowacki and Jason French caught touchdown passes nearly one minute apart?
... that the MILA tracking station provides the primary voice and data link during the first 7½ minutes of a Space Shuttle launch?
... that in 1960, top US labor mediator Joseph F. Finnegan said employers shouldn't be stuck with "antiquated rules" nor should workers hit by automation be handled as "a robot to be cast on a trash heap"?
... that Caroline Anthonypillai helped found the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the oldest political party in Sri Lanka, along with her brother Philip?
... that nurses have been alarmed by brain-dead patients moving their arms in front of their faces, a phenomenon named the Lazarus sign after the biblical character resurrected by Jesus?

11:59, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

... that ice calving (pictured) in Greenland results in over 12,000 icebergs each year?
... that Eddisbury hill fort, the largest and most complex Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire, was destroyed by the Romans to prevent it being used against them?
... that Mexican professional wrestler La Sombra made his in-ring debut at the age of thirteen?
... that the first upper division college was the College of the Pacific?
... that after 30,000 people visited the Roman-era mosaic in Lod in one weekend, it was reburied to prevent damage until the Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center opened?
... that the University of Virginia men's lacrosse game against Maryland in 2009 extended into seven overtime periods, making it the longest game in college history?
... that during the ancient Anuradhapura Kingdom of Sri Lanka the slaughter of cattle was a crime punishable by death?

05:56, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Gothic Revival-style Jones House (pictured) is the second oldest brick house in Pontiac, Illinois?
... that the funding for the German König-class battleships was secured by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's threat of resignation?
... that Donold Lourie, a former Princeton University football star, was appointed to a State Department post by President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
... that the 1998 Seychellois general election saw the Commonwealth of Nations and the Francophonie send a joint team of election monitors for the first time?
... that scenes in a "desolate, shabby" psychological clinic in the Skins episode "JJ" were shot at the show's own offices?
... that Robert Leiber, Jesuit adviser to Pope Pius XII, advised Bishop Alois Hudal that he should think of his plan for a "ratline" for fascists escaping Europe as a "crusade"?
... that Mark Twain wrote the essay "The Awful German Language" to express his frustrations when learning German?

19 July 2009

23:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

... that St Mary's Church in Sompting—one of 26 extant places of worship in the Adur district of West Sussex—has an 11th-century tower with the only Rhenish helm (pictured) in England?
... that Diana Golden, who lost a leg to cancer at the age of 12, was named female skier of the year in 1988 by the United States Olympic Committee?
... that in 1999 at the Battle of Aidabasalala an Australian SAS team was surrounded but were able to shoot their way out, killing five of their attackers before being successfully extracted?
... that in 2009 the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera, Texas, named the late folklorist J. Frank Dobie to its new Texas Heroes Hall of Honor?
... that Carl Daniel Ekman, who first commercialized the sulfite process of wood pulp paper production, was the last of his father's sixteen children, who were all born in the same house?
... that the skin colour of the Pokémon Jynx was modified because of complaints that the original design was racist?
... that the prize fund for chuckwagon racing at the Calgary Stampede has grown from $275 at its inception in 1923 to $1.15 million in 2009?

17:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Tinker Air Force Base was hit by two tornadoes in six days in 1948, the second of which (damage pictured) was heralded by the first tornado forecast in history?
... that the Lebanese are the most numerous community in Uruguay after the Spanish and Italians?
... that Frances Fuller Victor, an influential writer of history and fiction, was initially uncredited for her major contributions to historian Hubert Howe Bancroft's monumental work, The History of the West?
... that Ryan Smyth has been captain of the Canadian Ice Hockey World Championships five times, more than any other Canadian player since 1977?
... that the authorship of the Instructions of Kagemni is attributed to a vizier of the fourth dynasty of Egypt, even though the earliest source is the Prisse Papyrus of the twelfth dynasty?
... that although the design of the Livingston County Courthouse was chosen in part for its fireproof qualities, the building was called "hardly fireproof" in 1915?
... that Domhnall Gleeson, son of Brendan and cast as Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has also played a randy young farmer who falls in love with a call girl?

11:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

... that grosgrain ribbons or textiles finished by calendering become the thin, glossy and papery fabric known as moire (pictured)?
... that the now defunct Heritage Christian School in Hillsboro, Oregon, once held a chariot race?
... that the first point of the 1940 Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania demanded to put Kazys Skučas, Minister of the Interior, and Augustinas Povilaitis, Director of the State Security Department, on trial?
... that as a struggling actor in 1993, Edie Falco paid for a month's rent by appearing in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Son of a Gun"?
... that while governor of Jaffa in the early 19th century, Muhammad Abu-Nabbut initiated the city's fortification, the erection of two public fountains, and renovation of the Mahmoudiya Mosque?
... that in 1893, The Philadelphia Record "held its own" as "one of the best and most widely circulated newspapers in the United States" despite a troubled economy?
... that Leonardo Carrera who wrestles as Damián 666 is nicknamed "The Beast of the Apocalypse"?

05:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

... that George Lycurgus (pictured), who developed two historic hotels in Hawaii, was arrested and imprisoned for treason after the failed 1895 counter-revolution?
... that in order to attract new residents to the town, the community of Greenethorpe, New South Wales, has developed a farmhouse rental scheme offering houses for rent at AU$1 per week?
... that Nuclear Assault's EP The Plague includes mocking references to singer Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe?
... that the cuticle of the mushroom Agaricus arorae, which was first described in Santa Cruz County, California, turns yellow in potassium hydroxide when cut?
... that Louisiana State Representative Jim Morris tried without success in 2009 to gain repeal of his state's compulsory motorcyclist helmet law?
... that the first Czechoslovakian flag was handed over by the French President in the small Vosges town of Darney?
... that drunkards are held not to have the capacity in English law to enter into ordinary contracts?

18 July 2009

23:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Northern sennet (pictured) is the smallest of the barracudas, with many adults growing to less than 1 foot in length?
... that to save money, new Minnesota radio station KYES shares studio space with KKJM, which founder Andy Hilger had donated to the Diocese of St. Cloud in 2000?
... that, being created in 1934, the Mexican National Lightweight Championship is one of the oldest professional wrestling championships still in use today?
... that V.V. Whittington was a Louisiana state senator from 1928 to 1932 and later president of the Louisiana Bankers Association?
... that in 1996, the University of Glasgow renamed its Chair of Drama after former professor James Fullarton Arnott?
... that the Museum of Western Art in Kerrville, Texas, features the works of living artists in the genre of Remington and Russell?
... that in 1990, drug lord Haji Ayub Afridi used his Pakistani government connections to gain a seat in the Pakistani National Assembly for the Islamic Democratic Alliance?

17:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Brazilian orchid I. virginalis (pictured), the first species of Isabelia discovered, remained without a formal description or scientific name for four decades after its discovery?
... that the intensity of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been described as the worst in the world?
... that in 2009, theater students performed a series of old-style radio dramas on WNJR, Washington & Jefferson College's radio station?
... that the Quartet has supported election reform in Palestine through a UN-sponsored Elections Reform Support Group?
... that in Marcel Bellefeuille's head coaching debut, wide receiver Prechae Rodriguez had 198 total yards to help Bellefeuille record his first win?
... that the SS Ferret was stolen from Scotland and reappeared several months later in Australia under a new name?
... that the direct action group Queer Liberaction staged same-sex kiss-ins and a marriage ceremony to draw attention to same-sex marriage issues?

11:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Conrad Hubert (pictured) was the first commercial vendor of flashlights?
... that on July 9, 2009, the racing yacht Alfa Romeo II broke the Transpac record for miles sailed in one day, by sailing 431 nautical miles in 24 hours?
... that the killing of Aza Gazgireeva, former Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia, was described as "brutal" and "brazen"?
... that the National Policy on Education of 1968 called for education spending to increase to six percent of India's national income?
... that over ten million people watched Sweden's Melodifestivalen 2009 final through Sveriges Television's online service compared to only 3,592,000 who watched the actual television broadcast?
... that during his tenure as West Germany's Federal Ministry of Justice, Fritz Neumayer worked primarily on reforming criminal law?
... that children's book publisher Kane/Miller published the English language edition of Everyone Poops?

05:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

... that some audience members fainted while others fled the 350-seat Grand Ducal Theatre in Stuttgart at the first appearance of the Furies in Jean-Georges Noverre's (pictured) 1763 ballet Jason et Médée?
... that rough hits from Michigan's Richard France induced Wisconsin star Pat O'Dea to slug France, leading to O'Dea's ejection from the 1899 Western Conference championship game?
... that Bed and Sofa is a 1927 Soviet silent film that satirizes polygamous relationships amongst the Moscow working poor?
... that the Presidential Museum and Leadership Library in Odessa, Texas is uniquely dedicated to the presidential office rather than specific presidents?
... that Howiesons Poort, a Middle Stone Age culture in South Africa, shows evidence that humans used symbolism in the form of ground ochre 25,000 years before the start of the Upper Paleolithic?
... that IGN's Chris Roper compared Gravity Games Bike: Street Vert Dirt unfavorably to E.T. for the Atari 2600, which is often considered one of the worst video games of all time?
... that the diesel exhausts from the Royal Navy's Dark-class fast patrol boats caused the ships to become so dirty that they had to paint the hulls black?

17 July 2009

23:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

... that after overcoming Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1989, K-Bob's Steakhouse (sign pictured) still operates in mostly smaller cities in the cattle country of New Mexico and Texas?
... that later Verdens Gang editor-in-chief Oskar Hasselknippe was a sub-editor in the newspaper Ringerikes Blad under editor Kaare Filseth before an intermezzo in Milorg?
... that the Latrobe Gate was one of the few structures at the Washington Navy Yard not destroyed when British forces burned the city?
... that the National Interventions Museum in Mexico City is located at the site of the 1847 Battle of Churubusco of the Mexican–American War, in a former Franciscan monastery built on top of an Aztec shrine?
... that in summer 2008, future Memphis Grizzlies draft pick Sam Young, then a player for the University of Pittsburgh, slept at the school's basketball arena for a month?
... that a selvage is the edge of a piece of woven or knitted fabric that does not fray or come unraveled?
... that Oscar Mayer, maker of hot dogs and processed meats, was led by three generations of Oscar Mayers as chairmen, founder Oscar F. Mayer, his son Oscar G. Mayer, Sr. and grandson Oscar G. Mayer, Jr.?

17:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Canary Islands are one of the few places left where there are still substantial numbers of angelsharks (pictured), once common all around Europe?
... that in his Major League Baseball debut on July 30, 1961, pitcher Art Mahaffey gave up two singles but picked off each of those baserunners at first base?
... that Udawatta Kele Sanctuary contains a 200–300 years old giant Entada rheedii liana?
... that Dutch writer Hans Warren (1921–2001) published 21 volumes of his Secret Diary, a diary he kept until three days before his death?
... that the radio station now called KARP-FM was launched in 1968 as the FM sister station to KDUZ in Hutchinson, Minnesota?
... that Jasper Conran bought the 18th-century Ven House in rural Somerset and complained about plans to extend a slurry pit and install polytunnels close to the land?
... that James Yoshimura wrote the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Subway", about a dying man pinned between a subway car and a train platform?

11:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Ina Coolbrith (pictured), the first woman granted honorary membership in the Bohemian Club, was also the first California Poet Laureate?
... that the doom metal band Bloody Panda performs wearing executioner's hoods and robes?
... that almost a quarter of the brown lanternsharks found in Suruga Bay, Japan, have both male and female organs?
... that You Chung Hong, the first Chinese American admitted to practice law in California, helped develop the new Chinatown in Los Angeles in the 1930s, including designing its neon-lit gateway?
... that statues of The Boy with the Leaking Boot are found in Cleethorpes (England), Winnipeg and Toronto (Canada) and several cities in the United States, but his origins are obscure?
... that Kentucky State Representative Sam B. Thomas coached fellow army soldiers in Olympic basketball trials in Japan after World War II?
... that today, most Butts are Muslims, although some practice Hinduism or Christianity?

05:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

... that giant kelp (pictured) can grow as much as two feet per day, making it the fastest-growing organism on Earth?
... that Rhode Island industrialist Rowland G. Hazard helped win the release of nearly 100 African-Americans who were being held as slaves in the pre-Civil War American South?
... that the conviction of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain was formally overturned by the Supreme Court of India on November 7, 1975?
... that the time travel video game Achron allows players to play simultaneously and independently in the past, present, and future?
... that the bench from which David Salomons rose to become the first Jew ever to speak in the British Parliament is preserved in the Salomons Museum?
... that courts applying the dominant factor test have determined that poker is not gambling?
... that Togo Tanaka publicly called Japan's government "stupid" the day after Pearl Harbor for starting an unwinnable war but was one of 10,000 Japanese Americans forcibly relocated to the Manzanar camp?

16 July 2009

23:56, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Puerto Rican astronomer Victor Manuel Blanco has the distinction of having an open cluster and a 4 m (13 ft) telescope in Chile (pictured) named after him?
... that "Racing in the Street" commemorates the racing that occurred on a little fire road outside Bruce Springsteen's home town of Asbury Park?
... that in 1696, Catherine Bernard established the aesthetic principle of the French literary conte de fées with the dictum: "the [adventures] should always be implausible and the emotions always natural"?
... that the Whitehead Memorial Museum in Del Rio, Texas, contains the graves of legendary Justice of the Peace Roy Bean and his son, Sam?
... that some historians believe Goscelin of St Bertin may have been the author of the anonymous Life of King Edward?
... that, although mayor Hardin Bigelow served the city of Sacramento for only seven months, a flood, several fires, a riot, and a cholera epidemic all afflicted the city during his term?
... that the Gangavaram Port is the deepest port in India?

16:14, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

... that King Kot aMweeky of the Kuba Kingdom told his people that William Henry Sheppard (pictured) was his deceased son, in order to spare Sheppard's life?
... that the Japanese visual novel Princess Lover!'s anime adaptation was first exhibited as a video hosted by Television Kanagawa prior to its televised broadcast?
... that The New York Times said Paul Hemphill's first book The Nashville Sound was "generally regarded as one of the best books on country music ever written"?
... that the Hetaireia, the Byzantine guards unit responsible for the safety of the emperor on campaign, was composed chiefly of foreigners?
... that Martin Wheelock, football player for the Carlisle Indian School in the 1890s, was inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in 1980?
... that much of the Mahmoudiya Mosque in Jaffa was built during the Ottoman era using construction materials acquired from Roman columns?
... that James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh was the first assassin to use a gun?

10:07, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

... that before Strategic Simulations, Inc.'s first game, Computer Bismarck (screenshot pictured), most computer games were packaged in zipper storage bags?
... that Cyneweard of Laughern, last Anglo-Saxon sheriff of Worcestershire, lost his office to the Norman incomer Urse d'Abetot around 1069?
... that during World War II, Australia produced almost 500,000 barrels of shale oil by operating the Nevada–Texas–Utah type of oil-shale retorts?
... that John Brown was the first physiotherapist of the Scotland national rugby union team?
... that Plymouth Synagogue is the oldest synagogue built by Ashkenazi Jews in the English speaking world?
... that Sandra Warfield met future husband James McCracken when they sang the leads in Samson and Delilah, the same opera in which the couple performed in her Metropolitan Opera farewell performance?
... that the distribution of the snail Escargot de Quimper is disjunct?

03:51, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

... that more than $200 million in US currency was burned at both a crematorium and the Aiea Sugar Mill in Hawaii, due to being redeemed for HAWAII Overprint Notes ($20 Note pictured)?
... that homosexuality has been labeled by some communists as a product of bourgeois decadence?
... that Bovista aestivalis is so similar to Bovista dermoxantha that a microscope is required to differentiate the two fungi based on their spores?
... that the Opera Krakowska, one of the leading Polish opera companies, founded in 1954, moved into its first permanent house only in 2008?
... that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed Robert E. L. Taylor's 1963 contempt conviction for refusing to reveal sources in a corruption case as his actions were protected by the state's shield law?
... that after their defeat at the Battle of Arnhem, 138 men were able to escape German occupied territory in Operation Pegasus?
... that the levels in the iPhone video game Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid are in 2.5D while the characters remain in 2D?

15 July 2009

21:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

... that in non-sexual images of two women, the presence of the Erotes (Anteros statue pictured), a group of winged gods and demi-gods associated with love and sex, has been interpreted to indicate a homoerotic subtext?
... that research done by D. Mark Hegsted in the 1960s on the effects of diet on cholesterol levels led to recommendations to reduce consumption of the saturated fats found in meat and eggs?
... that the World Uyghur Congress's activities have been described as "cyber-separatism"?
... that Robert Kenner won an Emmy in 2006 for producing and directing the Vietnam War documentary "Two Days in October" for the PBS television program American Experience?
... that Montreal up-and-comers Hollerado accompanied The Stills to the TransmitCHINA conference, an event established to promote musical exchange between Canada and the People's Republic of China?
... that a recent court case in South Carolina dealt with an 1802 law that makes Sorry! and Monopoly illegal?
... that taekwondo practitioner Logan Campbell has opened a brothel to fund his bid to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics?

15:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the electric flash-lamp (pictured), a photographer's light source, was used as an underwater mine detonator fuse?
... that Johann Friedrich, Duke of Pomerania was host and chief mediator at the peace conference ending the Northern Seven Years' War?
... that the 1930 film Tom Sawyer was the third screen adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, following silent versions in 1907 and 1917?
... that the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, which is tasked with drafting the bills of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, is staffed by 61 lawyers?
... that Aubrey Epps of the Pittsburgh Pirates had three hits in four at bats in the final game of the 1935 season, but never played another major league game, ending his career with a .750 batting average?
... that the yellow passionflower is the only known pollen host for the passionflower bee, but this bee species is not known to pollinate this flower?
... that according to different versions of his legend, Hindu cattle-god Bir Kuar was killed by either a tigress, seven witches, Mughal soldiers, or his own sister?

09:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Canadian researchers led by Michael Bigg discovered that many killer whales (pictured) travel primarily with their mothers throughout their lives?
... that the Phineas and Ferb episode "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together" was nominated for an Emmy award for the song "I Ain't Got Rhythm"?
... that Insadong is a district of Seoul consisting of galleries and antique shops, known for "culture of the past and the present"?
... that the location for the Hauz-i-Shamsi tank, revealed to Sultan Iltutmish in a dream by the Prophet Muhammad, has Jahaz Mahal (Ship Palace) built on its eastern edge?
... that Paul Bunker died in a Japanese POW camp in 1943 but kept hidden a remnant of the U.S. flag from Corregidor now displayed at the West Point Museum?
... that Anchor Church in Derbyshire had its caves extended to be a summerhouse for Sir Francis Burdett?
... that, although the NWA Wrestling Legends Hall of Heroes has announced the induction of three sets of "brothers", only George and Sandy Scott are actually related?

03:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Letters on a Regicide Peace, by Edmund Burke (pictured), criticises the British government for seeking peace with the Directory of revolutionary France when France threatened to invade Britain?
... that Rob Smets suffered a broken neck three times before retiring for good from the sport of rodeo bullfighting in 2006?
... that all twenty of David Bowie's solo studio albums from Hunky Dory (1971) to date have reached the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart?
... that the Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad was the last railroad in America to use steam locomotives exclusively in common carrier freight service?
... that during World War II, Jan Dahm, Leif Utne and Bjarne Thorsen helped operate an illegal radio transmitter in Bergen codenamed "Theta"?
... that in 1861, plans to build St John the Evangelist's Church closer to Burgess Hill town centre than first agreed caused local landowners to place a newspaper advert with their strong objections?
... that Charles de Saulles coached an undefeated football team of workers from a Kansas zinc smelting works that defeated the Carlisle Indians and was dubbed "the oddest football team in the country"?

14 July 2009

21:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

... that William Blake's The French Revolution calls for the destruction of the Bastille (pictured) and sees the revolution in apocalyptic terms?
... that three species of sea turtle, including critically endangered Hawksbill turtle, visit the Hikkaduwa coral reef?
... that the four rowhouses at 744–750 Broadway in Albany, New York, are the only ones left along that street in the city's Fifth Ward?
... that Zhou Youguang is credited as the "father of pinyin", the official romanization in the People's Republic of China?
... that the 1954 syndicated TV series Stories of the Century, starring Jim Davis as a railroad detective, was the first western to win an Emmy?
... that the 1977 Pacific hurricane season is the least active Pacific hurricane season since 1949?
... that All-American fullback John Baird was forced to withdraw from Princeton in 1898 after playing a football game on a wet field while recovering from tonsilitis?

15:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

... that France: An Ode, by Samuel Coleridge (pictured), describes his support of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror but not the invasion of Switzerland?
... that despite being an All-American running back with the University of Evansville, Sean Bennett played fullback at Northwestern?
... that the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council won the last round of the Christian elections in Iraq?
... that singer-songwriter Tatsuo Kamon began studying with rakugo master Tsuruko Shōfukutei at age 16?
... that Hillsboro, Oregon-based RadiSys was founded by former employees of Intel and 20 years later purchased a division of Intel?
... that the horror film Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep received its name through a 2006 contest held by the Sci Fi Channel?
... that after his company struck oil, William Walkley stopped traffic in the middle of Sydney, Australia, wearing a red ten gallon hat?

09:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Robert Southey's contributions in The Fall of Robespierre praise Robespierre (pictured) as a liberator of mankind and a destroyer of despotism?
... that Bemus Pierce, a guard for the Carlisle Indians football team, ran back three kickoffs for touchdowns in an 1896 game against the University of Illinois?
... that the Royal Opera House in Mumbai is India's only surviving opera house?
... that Zigzag district office was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and is one of nineteen historic buildings at the Zigzag Ranger Station in Oregon's Mount Hood National Forest?
... that Polish philosopher Władysław Heinrich wrote the first report in experimental psychology to be presented to the Polish Academy of Learning in 1898?
... that the restaurant of the hotel Chester Grosvenor and Spa, overseen by executive chef Simon Radley, was awarded its 19th consecutive Michelin star in 2009?
... that radio and TV announcer Ken Roberts voiced the skit Love of Chair on the PBS show Electric Company, spoofing his decades-long run as announcer of the soap opera Love of Life?

03:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

... that although neodymium(III) chloride itself does not have strong luminescence, it serves as a source of Nd³⁺ ions for Nd:YAG lasers (pictured)?
... that in 1925, journalist and historian J. Marvin Hunter published a posthumous autobiography of John Wesley Hardin, an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West?
... that the Soviet Peace Committee, a peace movement created and sponsored by the Soviet Union, criticized Western policies but defended Soviet ones?
... that in 1973, composer Richard Bunger Evans wrote The Well-Prepared Piano, a classic work describing prepared piano technique?
... that under modern principles of vicarious liability in English law, employers are answerable for the intentional wrongdoings of their employees?
... that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Three Men and Adena" was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 100 greatest television moments?
... that although Florida-based slave holder and trader Zephaniah Kingsley wrote pamphlets defending slavery, he freed dozens of his own and married four of them?

13 July 2009

21:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the edible fungus Polyozellus multiplex (pictured) has attracted research interest as a possible chemopreventative agent against stomach cancer?
... that Richard Ravitch was appointed Lt. Governor of New York on July 8, 2009, in a move that New York's attorney general claimed was unconstitutional?
... that those villages defeated by the Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa signalled their surrender by sending small betel nut trees to their conquerors?
... that composer David Braham began playing the violin because he could not fit his harp on a stagecoach?
... that the 13th-century Hanging Chapel in Langport has been a town hall, grammar school, museum and armoury before becoming a masonic hall?
... that Toys in the Attic, a semi-autobiographical play by American playwright Lillian Hellman, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play in 1960?
... that Charles Boit's enamel group portrait of the family of Emperor Leopold I cracked after one of the Imperial princes accidentally sat down on it?

15:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

... that while perinatal mortality of twins that share the same placenta is fairly low, the survival rate of twins that share the same amniotic sac (example pictured) within their mother's uterus is less than 60%?
... that Anthony Haswell, Postmaster General of the Vermont Republic, was later convicted of seditious libel under the Alien and Sedition Acts?
... that threats of war between England and France and English antagonism to French dancers led to riots in 1755 with the first London production of Noverre's Les Fêtes Chinoises completely destroyed?
... that roll-off is an electronic filter parameter of significance for removing muscle activity noise in electrocardiograph machines?
... that Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, who died in 2009 during Operation Panther's Claw in Afghanistan, is the highest-ranking British officer to be killed in action since Lt Col 'H'. Jones in the Falklands War?
... that Tropical Storm Dottie in 1976 was compared to a mere thunderstorm by local officials?
... that Annie M. G. Schmidt, the "queen of Dutch children's literature," euthanized herself a day after her 84th birthday?

09:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the geology of the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland includes many Devonian era Old Red Sandstone rock formations, such as the Old Man of Hoy (pictured)?
... that the 1972 Rose Bowl was the last football game that Stanford University played using "Indians" as their nickname?
... that shed is a weaving term for the temporary separation in warp threads so the shuttle with the weft can go through?
... that the NYU University Village is a former Mitchell-Lama housing complex that hosts a Pablo Picasso sculpture?
... that on July 1, 2009, Nils Ušakovs became the first Russian mayor of Riga since Latvia's restoration of sovereignty in 1991?
... that the Moneymaker Effect is the name of poker's sudden growth in popularity after amateur Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event and claimed the US$2.5 million first prize?
... that genderbending Chinese spy Shi Pei Pu, inspiration for M. Butterfly, had a sexual relationship with a French diplomatic worker who believed that he was a she and had given birth to their "son"?

03:36, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

... that every major street in New York's Downtown Albany Historic District (17th-century map pictured) has a major building as a focal point?
... that Sri Lankan Minister Maithripala Sirisena escaped an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber in 2008?
... that the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications was cited as "a major driving force" behind the introduction of unmetered Internet access in the United Kingdom?
... that an 11-time NFL Pro-Bowler's mother was the first African-American woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court?
... that despite being excommunicated by Pope Eugene IV, Prospero Colonna was the leading candidate to be Eugene's successor as Pope?
... that President of Lithuania Antanas Smetona was ridiculed by Soviet propaganda for fleeing the country across the shallow Liepona rivulet in the aftermath of a Soviet ultimatum?
... that J. Curtis Counts, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service director in the Nixon Administration, first met the future president when their respective girlfriends were roommates?

12 July 2009

21:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

... that former Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Isaac Blackford (pictured) described the court's decisions in an eight-volume work that earned him the nickname "Indiana Blackstone"?
... that the Ducati 98, called the racy motorcycle brand's "first true sporting model," was a hit in the Italian la passeggiata (street cruising scene) of the 1950s?
... that Fernand, Alain and Hakeem Kashama have all played for the Calgary Stampeders?
... that obesity in Australia was made a "national health priority" by the government in 2008, officially elevating awareness to the same level as other health risks like cancer, heart disease and diabetes?
... that the British boyband One True Voice split up in 2003 despite reaching the top ten with their first two releases?
... that the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is responsible for the Abel Prize and the Kavli Prize?
... that Grambling State running back Walter Dean was nicknamed "American Express" in reference to the credit card company?

15:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Clinton Avenue Historic District has the greatest concentration of 19th-century rowhouses (pictured) anywhere in Albany, New York?
... that Hiltgunt Zassenhaus was the only person from Germany decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for her activities during World War II?
... that Marxist sociology, despite Marxist influences on the Russian Revolution, has been suppressed in the Soviet Bloc, while flourishing in the West?
... that the South Dakota-class battleships are considered to be the best "treaty battleship" ever built?
... that Italian composer and American citizen Nino Marcelli led the San Diego High School orchestra to achieve a national reputation in the 1930s?
... that Jimi Hendrix originally wanted to cover Bob Dylan's "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" from the John Wesley Harding album, but covered "All Along the Watchtower" from the same album instead?
... that when he was crown prince the future Emperor Jing of Han killed the Prince of Wu during an argument over a game of Liubo by throwing the game board at his opponent?

09:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Shanhua Temple (pictured) in Datong, China, contains a hall that is over 900 years old?
... that the earthquake of 1348 in the Alpine region of Friuli hit at the same time as the plague in Italy and it caused odours to come up through the earth?
... that the Japanese ammunition ship Kashino was specifically designed to transport the Yamato class battleships' main battery to the shipyards where they were being built?
... that Bob Dylan's song "Joey" is a sympathetic portrayal of real-life gangster Joey Gallo?
... that after affixing blame for the death of Empress Xiao Xian on Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Yang Guangxian took his place as head of the Chinese Bureau of Astronomy?
... that in 2004, there were 1.8 million traditional fishing boats, such as dugouts and coracles?
... that nobody knows what happened to the bishopric of Hexham after Tidfrith?

03:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Diorhabda carinata (pictured), D. sublineata and D. elongata, three species of leaf beetle in Eurasia and North Africa, are used as biological pest control agents against invasive tamarisk trees in North America?
... that in designing a new analogue filter, Sidney Darlington found tables of the exact elliptic functions required in an 1829 Latin paper by Carl Jacobi in the New York City Library?
... that Franz von Rintelen, a German spy living in New York during World War I, used pencil bombs to sabotage Allied shipping?
... that Lee Child took inspiration for his novel Echo Burning from the grave of "the gentlemen gunfighter" Clay Allison?
... that the wild zebrafish is the first vertebrate to have its entire genome sequenced in India, a task carried out by the scientists at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology?
... that in 1937, members of a boy's club in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, demolished their own hut to allow St Richard's Church to be built on the site?
... that Harvard All-American Bert Waters was accused of jabbing a finger into a Yale player's eye in the 1893 football game that became known as "The Bloodbath in Hampden Park"?

11 July 2009

21:35, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the spread of red palm mite (pictured) is the biggest mite explosion ever observed in the Americas?
... that in 1901, Emir of Kuwait Mubarak Al-Sabah asked the Russian Empire for protection, only two years after his country became a British protectorate?
... that Albert Sharpe participated in football, basketball, baseball, gymnastics, rowing, and track and field, and was called "the greatest living all round athlete" in 1915?
... that during the early 20th century, the depopulated Palestinian village Sarafand al-Amar was the site of the largest British Army base in the Middle East?
... that the pump station built to supply Hudson River water to Albany, New York, is now home to a brewpub, planetarium and the city's visitor center?
... that a priest refused quarter and perished in his burning church during the 1759 St. Francis Raid by Rogers' Rangers?
... that the glamorous American actress Mary Castle was once dubbed more like Rita Hayworth than Hayworth herself?

15:23, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's only novel, Hyperion, was partly based on his attempts to woo Frances Appleton (pictured) who later became his wife despite disapproving of her depiction in the book?
... that after the destructive Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347, the treasury of the Byzantine Empire contained "nothing but the atoms of Epicurus"?
... that Howard Reiter has been credited by some with developing the overhand spiral forward pass while playing for the Philadelphia Athletics of the original National Football League (1902)?
... that although Balao halfbeaks are mainly used as baitfish for sailfishes and marlins, they are also utilized as a food source in the West Indies?
... that Saturn Award winning costume designer Marilyn Vance once produced films with E! Entertainment founder Alan Mruvka?
... that Davidson Ditch was inspected by engineers working on problems faced by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline?
... that Australian jazz singer Grace Knight, ex-Eurogliders, organised a nude protest of 750 women against the 2003 invasion of Iraq?

08:49, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

... that U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey (pictured) entered the 1968 presidential race too late to participate in the Democratic primaries, and had to use "favorite son" candidates as stand-ins for his campaign?
... that according to Big Bang cosmology, neutrinos, a type of elementary particle, ceased to interact significantly with the other constituents of the Universe about one second after the Big Bang?
... that in the 1970s, female professional wrestler Betty Niccoli helped lift the New York State Athletic Commission's ban on women's wrestling?
... that the Montefiore Synagogue in Ramsgate, built in 1833 for Sir Moses Montefiore using a design by David Mocatta, was the first synagogue built in England by a Jewish architect?
... that Princeton All-American Dudley Riggs was the son of a wealthy banking family that lent $16 million to the United States to fund the Mexican-American War?
... that the eruption of Amak Volcano in about 2550 BCE was confirmed by tephrochronology?
... that, while filming Skins episode "Katie and Emily", actress Kathryn Prescott genuinely punched her co-star by accident during a fight scene?

02:49, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

... that American football halfback Franklin Morse (pictured) was the model for a drawing, prints of which reportedly "hung in most college rooms throughout the country" during the 1890s?
... that SMS Blücher was the last armored cruiser built by the German Imperial Navy?
... that Mary Lou Forbes, whose reporting on school integration in Virginia won a 1959 Pulitzer Prize, had been hired as a copy girl by the Washington Star after the accounting spot she wanted was filled?
... that at least eleven of the twenty electors of the papal conclave, 1362 were from the Limousin province of France?
... that De Schoolmeester, a smock mill at Westzaan, Noord Holland, is the only wind powered paper mill in the world?
... that in 2008, the United States produced 5,778 million bearing balls?
... that 27 years after Barbara George's hit "I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)" was released, a cover by Marisela peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart?

10 July 2009

20:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the family of Józef and Wiktoria Ulma (pictured), Polish Righteous among the Nations from Markowa, was summarily executed for rescuing their Jewish countrymen during the Holocaust?
... that the fungal genus Hericium includes the monkey's head fungus, used in Traditional Chinese medicine?
... that in 1975 professional wrestlers Sandy Parker and Jean Antoine had the first legal women's wrestling match in Oregon in 50 years?
... that the 1973 album Love Devotion Surrender by Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin was made as a tribute to guru Sri Chinmoy?
... that convergence of the iterative proportional fitting procedure for estimating cell values of a contingency table was rigorously proved using differential geometry?
... that much of the recorded rowdyism in New York of the 1820s took place at the short-lived Lafayette Circus?
... that the Elizabeth Cross will be given to the next of kin of members of the British Armed Forces killed in action or as a result of a terrorist attack?

14:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the stained glass windows (pictured) of Alois Plum, found in many German churches in Germany, integrate the architecture of the church's space with the liturgy?
... that Peter J. Bowler said that he was interviewed under false pretenses for The Voyage that Shook the World, a creationist documentary about the life of Charles Darwin and his voyage on the Beagle?
... that the Wabash College Little Giants were the only football team to defeat Notre Dame at home during a period of 29 years and 125 games?
... that Sugarland's 2009 single "Joey" was co-written by Bill Anderson?
... that a 1977 memo by Robert Derzon, overseer of U.S. Medicaid/Medicare programs, supported federal abortion funding for poor women, citing $1,000 in annual welfare savings on each unwanted child?
... that although its fossils were first discovered in 1946, the pliosaurid genus Gallardosaurus was not declared a valid taxon until 2009?
... that KATR-FM was honored by the Colorado Broadcasters Association for giving away an "ugly" pickup truck?

08:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

... that in 2005, researchers at the Spanish National Research Council wrote the first ten lines of Don Quixote on a few square microns of silicon, using local oxidation nanolithography (process pictured)?
... that Roy McCardell was the first hired film screenwriter, and the first to start a Sunday paper comics supplement in color?
... that the Wołów bank robbery was the biggest bank robbery in the history of the People's Republic of Poland?
... that Mickey Stanley is the only Gold Glove-winning outfielder to have posted more than one errorless season, amassing a fielding percentage of 1.000 in 1968 and 1970?
... that Irish playwright Hamilton Deane introduced the tuxedo and high-collar to the costume of Count Dracula to facilitate him vanishing off-stage through the floor in the 1920s stage production of the novel?
... that the rust fungus Puccinia jaceae var. solstitialis is the first plant pathogen approved by the United States Department of Agriculture as a biological control agent?
... that Alfred Henningsen, three-term member of the Storting, has referred to the Norwegian Parliament as "the loony bin"?

02:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

... that so many Chinese actresses have gained recognition from starring with Stephen "Sing Yeh" Chow (pictured), they are collectively known as Sing girls?
... that London's old Artillery Church was used by five different kinds of Protestants before becoming the Sandys Row Synagogue?
... that Robert Brown was only 22 when he was commander of the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition in 1864?
... that in 1926, Odd Gleditsch, Sr. founded the company Jotun Kemiske Fabrik, since 1972 named Jotun?
... that Maggie Cogan was the first female horse and buggy driver in New York City's Central Park?
... that of the 81 Canadian casualties during Hurricane Hazel, 35 lived on Raymore Drive in Weston, Toronto, Ontario?
... that The 1940s House is a British historical reality television program about a modern family that tries to live as a typical middle-class family in London during The Blitz?

9 July 2009

20:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Pope Pius XII's retention of Cesare Orsenigo (pictured left, with Hitler and von Ribbentrop) as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany is a "chief point of criticism" of his response to the Holocaust?
... that the Metropolitan Opera House is a movie theatre in Iowa Falls, Iowa?
... that Julius Caesar speculated his name Caesar to have been derived from the elephant, reportedly called caesai in the "Moorish", probably Punic language?
... that the flamboyant TV appearances of British rock and roll singer Wee Willie Harris led to concerns about the BBC's role in promoting teenage decadence?
... that the 1947 Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim included eleven songs George and Ira Gershwin had written but never used in any productions?
... that the Środa treasure, one of the most valuable archeological finds in 20th-century Europe, was originally lost during the Black Plague?
... that the Cremation of Care ceremony is performed on the first night of the Bohemian Club's annual summer encampment at the Bohemian Grove?
... that England-born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists?

14:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Classic Maya archaeological site of Yaxchilan, on the Mexican border with Guatemala, is known for its preserved sculpted lintels (example pictured) detailing the dynastic history of the city?
... that Tommy Thevenow hit his only two home runs in a six-day span in 1926, but none in his next 12 seasons, setting a Major League record of 3,347 consecutive regular season at bats without a home run?
... that the Merthyr Synagogue may be the only synagogue in the world with a dragon on its gable?
... that in 1958, female professional wrestlers Kay Noble, Lorraine Johnson, Penny Banner, and Laura Martinez were charged with inciting a riot when they began fighting outside of the ring, but pleaded not guilty in court?
... that Sir Albert Napier was described as the "midwife to civil legal aid"?
... that a lake scene in the Skins episode "Naomi" had to be shortened when one of the actors was suspected to have hypothermia?
... that incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate?
... that the campus of Columbia University occupies a former lunatic asylum?

08:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Rani Padmini in 1433 AD and Rani Karnavati in 1537 AD led the jauhar or self-immolation ritual by over 13,000 ladies of Rajput warriors who died in battles at Chittorgarh Fort (pictured)?
... that when Auguste Forel named the zona incerta area of the brain in 1877, he did so because it was a "region of which nothing certain can be said"?
... that England-born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists?
... that the MCW Heavyweight Championship was won by Jerry "The King" Lawler, who has held over 200 professional wrestling championships throughout his career?
... that Julius Babao was awarded best male newscaster in the 2008 PMPC Star Awards for TV?
... that incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate?
... that The Naked Ladies of Twickenham were covered with grey sludge during World War II to hide them from the Luftwaffe?

02:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Jonathan Stokes was an English physician and botanist, a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, and an early adopter of the heart drug digitalis (pictured)?
... that the 1994 production of The Pirates of Penzance by Essgee Entertainment became the top-selling music video in Australian history?
... that Nikolai Schei survived an assassination attempt while serving as Director of Provisioning and Rationing in Norway?
... that, originally established as the Federation of Crippled and Disabled in 1935, Fedcap Rehabilitation Services switched to its current name in 1992?
... that the Jewish mother of former German Federal Minister of Justice Gerhard Jahn died at Auschwitz?
... that the ecosystem contained in Myanmar's N'Mai River watershed contains some of the most diverse flora of its type in the world, yet it is threatened with destruction through damming?
... that Thomas Patch, who painted men on their Grand Tours, had to leave Rome after a homosexual act?

8 July 2009

20:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Nancy Cartwright (pictured) received a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance category for her performance as Bart Simpson in the Simpsons episode "Separate Vocations"?
... that Italian composer and bandleader Ulderico "Rico" Marcelli married the violin soloist from his own Fibber McGee and Molly radio show band?
... that the French pre-dreadnought battleship Henri IV was the first ship to mount a superfiring gun turret?
... that McCaw Cellular began business by buying, selling and trading licenses for cellular frequency allocations after an AT&T article that suggested they were being sold at a discount?
... that Johnny Sylvester received a promise from baseball player Babe Ruth while suffering from a life-threatening illness that he would hit a home run for him during the 1926 World Series?
... that the 2002 Redditch Council election saw no party win a majority for the first time in over 50 years?
... that Parke H. Davis, who retroactively named the American college football national champions between 1869 and 1933, was the only historian to select college champions based on research?

14:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the artillery of France in the Middle Ages (pictured) had a key role in the French victory in the Hundred Years War?
... that in 2005 Georgian ambassador to Israel Lasha Zhvania asked Hebrew speakers to stop calling his country Gruziya?
... that country music singer Colt Ford is a former professional golfer?
... that Per Jacobsen, a Norwegian resistance member who died in Natzweiler, was twice national champion in figure skating in the interwar period?
... that the interrogation of Saddam Hussein revealed that as a fugitive, he took refuge in the same place in 1959 and 2003?
... that after withstanding three years of siege by the Crusaders on the Acrocorinth, Leo Sgouros committed suicide by jumping off a cliff on horseback?
... that grunting in tennis has been labelled as cheating by former player Martina Navratilova?

08:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

... that a new porch at St Matthew's Church, Buckley (pictured) in Flintshire, Wales, was paid for by the vicar's wife with money made from publishing letters to her from John Ruskin?
... that U.S. President John Quincy Adams said U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Condy Raguet's "rashness and intemperance" nearly "brought this country and Brazil to the very verge of war"?
... that in 1944, the Greek Socialist Party leader Professor Alexandros Svolos became President in the Greek resistance government?
... that theater impresarios Shelly Gross and Lee Guber, creators of the Valley Forge Music Fair and Westbury Music Fair, met after being seated in alphabetical order next to each other in high school?
... that following the revelation of the Secret Intelligence Service radio station Skylark B in Trondheim in September 1941, eleven of the group members were sent to German death camps?
... that Robert Keable's 1921 novel Simon Called Peter propelled him to prominence when it sold 600,000 copies, was cited in a double murder trial, and referenced in The Great Gatsby?
... that holocaust denier David Irving accidentally referred to the judge as 'Mein Führer' in his libel suit against historian Deborah Lipstadt?

02:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian (pictured) was given command of the largest troop convoy to leave England, but twice had it forced back to port by severe gales?
... that the Cheltenham Synagogue still has a prayer for the health of Queen Victoria and her family on its wall?
... that P. Chr. Andersen, a Norwegian sports journalist, official and radio commentator, also refereed football matches at the 1924 Summer Olympics?
... that Winnetka School District 36 was the subject of a 1919 educational experiment?
... that the fire at Lakanal House, Camberwell, London was described as "one of the most significant fires in some time in terms of lives lost" by the Assistant Commissioner of the local Fire Brigade?
... that Domenico Brescia wrote in 1919 that he was probably the first composer to use a chromatic set of cowbells as a symphony instrument?
... that the California-based donut shop Psycho Donuts has generated controversy for its mental health-themed products, such as the "Manic Malt" and "Bipolar"?

7 July 2009

20:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Eyelash Cup (pictured) normally grows on rotten wood, but can sometimes be found on bracket fungi?
... that federal authorities in New York may have gambled that there would be no legal challenges to their unexpected seizure of $34 million from 27,000 bank accounts in the United States?
... that during World War II, Norwegians Erik Welle-Strand, Egil Reksten, Sverre Midtskau, Einar Johansen, Haakon Sørbye and Bjørn Rørholt operated illegal radio transmitters codenamed "Skylark" for the Secret Intelligence Service?
... that Kenny Tate, one of college football's top wide receiver recruits in 2008, was ultimately switched to the position of strong safety?
... that Vice-Admiral Sydney Fremantle was assigned to guard the German High Seas Fleet, but had taken his ships out on exercises when the German fleet was scuttled in Scapa Flow?
... that in the penalty shootout during the London Senior Cup final 2009, Serge Makofo was the only player to score for Croydon Athletic?
... that the motivation behind the assassination attempt against Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene in 1987 was his signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord a few weeks before?

14:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

... that when Alaska Governor Sarah Palin resigns on July 26, 2009, Craig Campbell (pictured) will become the new Lieutenant Governor of Alaska?
... that oil extracted from the common prickly-ash Zanthoxylum americanum has been used to treat "chronic rheumatism, typhoid and skin diseases and impurity of the blood"?
... that the final results of the 1940 elections to the People's Parliaments in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were published in London before the voting booths closed?
... that passengers mourned the closure of the Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Line so much that they poured a bucket of water over a double dressed as Richard Beeching, associated with closure of British railway lines in the 1960s?
... that British politicians Sir Peter Fry and William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon served as consultants to political research company Parliamentary Monitoring Services?
... that Frithjof Sælen was known for the book Snorri the Seal, banned during the German occupation of Norway for being a subtle satire on Nazi Germany?
... that the flag of New Mexico is designed after the Zia tribe's symbol?

08:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the first official airmail stamp (pictured) issued for an airmail flight was in May 1917 when Poste italiane overprinted their existing special delivery stamps?
... that Charles Dickens used his father John Dickens as his inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in his novel David Copperfield?
... that Maiden Castle, an Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire, is so-called because it is thought never to have been taken in battle?
... that The Rookie (1959) was the first film to give starring roles to the comedy act of Tommy Noonan and Peter Marshall?
... that although a row of six houses was built in 1870 at 37-47 North Fifth Street in Hudson, New York, ten years later the census recorded only two?
... that Arne Bonde stepped down as editor of Verdens Gang due to his own sentiment that he was not young enough for the newspaper?
... that a modern hippodrama, featuring 32 horses, will be shown in London in September 2009?

02:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Nils Kjær (pictured) had success on Scandinavian stages with his comedy Det lykkelige valg?
... that film and television producer Alan Mruvka, founder of E! Entertainment, is now a real estate developer in Southern California?
... that the Sibyllenbuch fragment may be the earliest surviving remnant of any book printed by movable type, before the Gutenberg Bible?
... that the Janata Morcha had defeated Indira Gandhi's Congress (R) in the elections in Gujarat, 15 days before the start of the Indian Emergency on June 26, 1975?
... that Union Mills, Burnham Overy is a combined windmill and watermill, and that each mill could drive the other's machinery?
... that the Prewitt-Allen Archaeological Museum in Salem, Oregon, has a mummy of a 3,500 year-old falcon?
... that Augustus Dickens, the brother of English novelist Charles Dickens, abandoned his blind wife in London and ran away to America with another woman?

6 July 2009

20:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

... that eleven of the Twelve Heavenly Generals at Shin-Yakushi-ji temple (hon-dō pictured) in Nara, Japan, are made of clay and date to the 8th century while the wooden statue of Haira was made in 1931?
... that the 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team's Western Conference championship inspired a student to write the fight song "The Victors"?
... that the pro-communist 1950 May Day speech given by the Trade Union Congress president Thakin Lwin revealed a major split in the Burma Socialist Party?
... that Thompson Pass holds the Alaskan records for snowfall in a single day, a whole winter, and the annual average snowfall?
... that medieval historian Dorothy Whitelock called the Liber Eliensis "unique among post-Conquest monastic histories"?
... that the Norwegian coastal steamer SS Barøy replaced a vessel sunk by the Royal Navy during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign and was herself sunk by the Fleet Air Arm the next year?
... that producer Anna Turner, co-host of Hearts of Space as "Annamystic", reportedly communicated with a spirit named Lazaris?

14:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Charles Wesley Shilling, a physician in the United States Navy, was the first person to transfer from a submarine to the surface in a rescue diving bell (pictured)?
... that the album Here We Go Then, You And I was said to confirm Morten Abel's status as Norway's "king of pop"?
... that Cooks syndrome is a hereditary disorder characterized by the absence of toenails?
... that professional wrestler Brain Damage held the CZW Iron Man and the CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championships simultaneously?
... that Sir George Coldstream, the Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office, was described as "one of the 10 men who run Britain"?
... that the setting of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem Snow-Bound, a house in which a family is trapped for three days by a snowstorm, is still standing?
... that William Lewis Moody, Jr. once took over all of Conrad Hilton's hotels?

08:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the MasterCard International Global Headquarters building (pictured) was designed by modernist architect I. M. Pei?
... that Indian musician Ram Narayan's album Rāg Lalit was recorded in a single unedited take of over 73 minutes?
... that the 1982 Washington Metro train derailment resulting in three fatalities was the deadliest accident involving the Washington Metro until the 2009 collision resulting in nine?
... that the Samarkand clan's main rival in Uzbekistan is the Tashkent clan?
... that Alec Gallup, co-chairman of The Gallup Organization and the son of founder George Gallup, was described as someone who could "smell out a bad question or an unreasonable interpretation of data"?
... that the traditional account of the papal conclave, 1513 has been judged extremely improbable by a modern mathematician?
... that the catchphrase "To Infinity and Beyond" from Toy Story helped to save an autistic child lost at sea in Daytona Beach, Florida?

02:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

... that untreated persistent hypertension can lead to serious complications, such as dementia, strokes, renal failure and heart disease (left ventricular hypertrophy pictured)?
... that John G.F. Francis, who co-devised the QR algorithm for computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, had no idea of the impact his work had made until contacted almost 50 years later?
... that Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's X Division, which uses a fast-paced style of wrestling, has been praised by Kevin Nash?
... that a reed is a comb-like tool used in weaving that determines how fine the cloth is?
... that Ukrainian runner Yuliya Krevsun ended her track career in 2005 to start a family, but later made a comeback and reached the 800 metres final at the Beijing Olympics?
... that more than 18 million viewers saw the series finale of Will & Grace, making it the most watched episode of the final two seasons of the show?
... that the Sassoon Mausoleum is now a hip supper club?

5 July 2009

20:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the ruined Craigie Castle (keep pictured) contained one of Scotland's best vaulted halls?
... that German-American saboteur Richard Quirin was described as a "cool, cruel man who would not hesitate to kill anyone to accomplish the mission's objectives?"
... that Jan van Riebeeck established the first vineyards in South Africa to help Dutch East India Company sailors ward off scurvy while traveling the spice route?
... that William E. Simkin, longest-serving head of the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, first got involved in arbitration when a professor asked him to assist with a hosiery industry dispute?
... that officers of the Sarsfield Grenadier Guards were traditionally elected by the men?
... that William Michael Rooke's opera Amilie, or the Love Test enabled New Yorkers of 1838 to appreciate "a broad new repertoire"?
... that the electric drill was invented in 1889 by Arthur James Arnot?

14:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

... that luminescence of holmium oxide is so bright that the material changes its color from yellow to orange-red under fluorescent light (pictured)?
... that the 1890 College Football All-America Team was composed entirely of players from Harvard, Yale and Princeton, including Ralph Warren, John Cranston, Billy Rhodes, Frank Hallowell and Jesse Riggs?
... that some prints of the Mass of Saint Gregory claimed to offer indulgences of up to 45,000 years?
... that Stanley R. Jaffe, who resigned as president of Paramount Television in 1971, returned to become president of Paramount Communications in 1991 and president of Paramount Pictures in 1992?
... that the earliest example of humans having the skill to manufacture artifacts with a compound glue was found in Sibudu Cave, South Africa?
... that White Dome Geyser erupts from one of the largest geyserite cones in Yellowstone National Park?
... that the first Spanish film shot in English is La residencia, a 1969 horror film about murders in a female-only boarding school?

08:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

... that interbreeding with dingoes (pictured) can even occur with dogs that were acquired by their owners to specifically kill dingoes?
... that the Revolutionary War spy Enoch Crosby was the basis for the character Harvey Birch in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Spy?
... that the Dresden Elbe Valley in Germany is only the second delisted UNESCO World Heritage Site?
... that Currambena School student David Heilpern went on to become one of New South Wales' youngest magistrates and Southern Cross University's Alumnus of the Decade?
... that an extreme derecho that struck the southern portions of the Midwestern United States on May 8, 2009, is considered the worst in at least a decade?
... that on appointment in 1486, Robert Morton became the last English Bishop of Worcester until the English Reformation?
... that Fancy Nancy parties are held throughout the United States?

02:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

... that in the 1774 speech "On American Taxation", British member of Parliament Edmund Burke (pictured) argued that Britain should reconcile with the thirteen colonies?
... that in 1864, René Dagron produced a stanhope which enabled the viewing of a microphotograph that included the portraits of 450 people in an area of 1 mm²?
... that since its release in 1978, Space Invaders and its many sequels have been remade for numerous video game platforms?
... that under UNESCO's new biosphere reserve concept, Brighton and Hove is bidding to become the first urban biosphere reserve?
... that Stephen van Rensselaer III is considered the tenth richest American in history because of his ownership of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck during the 19th century, which he inherited at the age of five?
... that though the Raša River in Croatian Istria is less than 30 km (19 mi) long, it has formed a political boundary for much of the last two millennia?
... that the bus for Australian jazz band leader, pianist and composer, Graeme Bell, had groupies posing as band member's wives?

4 July 2009

20:49, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

... that both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were signed with pens dipped in the Syng inkstand (pictured)?
... that Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu is a seventh-generation jurist?
... that Washington State Route 113 was given to Clallam County in 1955, only to be given back to the state in 1991?
... that Irv Hall's 1,904 at bats without a home run from 1943 to 1946 places him second among batters since 1900 who never hit a home run during their Major League Baseball career?
... that the American victory in the Battle of Johnstown during the American Revolutionary War effectively ended fighting in the Mohawk Valley?
... that Chinese actress Zhang Yuqi was first discovered because of a role she played in a 30-second Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial?
... that the spermaceti beam press exhibited at the Nantucket Whaling Museum is the only one in the world still in its original location?

14:49, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

... that during the Soviet era the only country that fashion designer Slava Zaitsev (pictured) was able to travel to was Czechoslovakia, and it was not until 1986 that he was able to travel to a capitalist country?
... that the study of sociology in China was repressed as a bourgeois pseudoscience during the early communist era?
... that Phoemela Baranda placed 23rd in the FHM Philippines 100 Sexiest Women of the World in 2006?
... that in the late 1960s, Philadelphia residents held Annual Reminder protests claiming that LGBT Americans did not enjoy the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"?
... that in 1973, A. J. Antoon was nominated for two Tony Awards for Best Direction, a feat not repeated until 2009?
... that the executive director of Homicide: Life on the Street said Richard Belzer was a "lousy actor" when he first auditioned for the role of John Munch in the pilot episode "Gone for Goode"?
... that radio broadcaster Frank Ford adopted his name while hosting a show sponsored by Frankford Unity Grocery Store, and later wondered what his name would have been if the sponsor had been Piggly Wiggly?

08:44, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

... that despite a large leak since its commissioning in 1992, the Samanalawewa Dam hydroelectric power station (pictured) in Sri Lanka continues to function normally?
... that Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Martin was the grandson of another admiral of the fleet, William Rowley?
... that the Elisha Williams House is different from other Federal style houses in Hudson, New York, because Williams came to Hudson from Connecticut instead of Massachusetts?
... that Broadway producer Morton Gottlieb described theater as a profession easiest to start at the top, noting "All you need is chutzpah. You call all the agents and say, 'Here I am — a producer!'"?
... that an East German, upon finding a deer shredded by the SM-70 antipersonnel mine, reported that the area "appeared as if it had been worked over by a rake"?
... that the last autofictional texts by Romanian novelist Mircea Nedelciu, written during his losing battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, compare his own biography with deep-sea diving?
... that Red Dog, California, now a ghost town with only a cemetery remaining, was named by a 15 year old California gold rush prospector?

3 July 2009

23:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery (pictured) in the Netherlands is the final resting place of three Victoria Cross recipients?
... that in January 2009, Theodore Hoskins became the only Democratic chairman of a committee in the Missouri House of Representatives?
... that the annual Grove Plays staged by the Bohemian Club at the Bohemian Grove have been described as "lumbering pageants?"
... that former Gloucestershire cricket captain Sir Derrick Bailey founded an airline and based the colour of its planes on the racing colours of his South African father?
... that the Late Classic Maya archaeological site of La Muerta, in northern Guatemala, is distinguished by its unusual subterranean labyrinth?
... that the book The Post-American World was criticized for not delivering on what the title promised: an examination of a world not dominated by America?
... that Bob Dylan has stated that the Queen Jane, the subject of his 1965 song "Queen Jane Approximately", is a man?

17:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the concept of headroom (pictured) in still and motion picture photography originates in the rule of thirds from classic portrait painting?
... that Finnish mountain bike orienteer Päivi Tommola has won eight medals at the World Championships?
... that the first person to die in Australia from the 2009 flu was a Pintupi man whose people gave up hunting to settle the remote community of Kiwirrkura at the time of his birth?
... that conversation poems of Samuel Coleridge were inspired by many events: adulterous love, marriage sex, a French invasion, a bad childhood, depressed birds, a fever, burning his foot, and a better poet?
... that the Mercedes-Benz W25 was withdrawn from the 1934 Belgian GP as the Belgian customs asked the German teams to pay 180,000 francs duty for their alcohol-based special fuel?
... that Jesse Lee Kercheval got the idea of Underground Women after seeing a woman collapse in a launderette in Paris?
... that Gay Bowel Syndrome, currently considered obsolete, is neither gay-specific, confined to the bowel, nor a syndrome?

11:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the poet R. S. Thomas was rector of St Michael's Church, Manafon, (pictured) in Powys, Wales, between 1942 and 1954?
... that ballerina Virginia Zucchi once performed an entire solo en pointe?
... that the Gold Stealing Detection Unit is the oldest specialist police service in Western Australia?
... that the British officer Henry Lindsay Bethune became a Major General in the Persian Army of Mohammad Shah and received the Order of the Lion and the Sun for his services?
... that the core of the tribe Moreae (part of the mulberry family) are thought to have originated 59–79 million years ago in Laurasia, the northern supercontinent?
... that it was speculated that J.K. Rowling based the Harry Potter character Albus Dumbledore on the "splendidly bearded" T.P. Wiseman, her classics professor at Exeter University?
... that the Four-State Tornado Swarm of 1787 is considered to be the earliest example of a tornado outbreak on record?

05:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the velvet belly lantern shark (pictured) has proteins in its liver that can detoxify heavy metals such as cadmium, copper, mercury, and zinc?
... that while training to become a mountain guide, former Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Karine Ruby was killed in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc?
... that Bob Dylan's song "From a Buick 6" borrowed some lyrics from the 1930 Sleepy John Estes song "Milk Cow Blues"?
... that following the Supreme Court's ruling on Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Coeur d'Alene Mines share prices increased by over five percent?
... that the works of Romanian sociologist and novelist Dan Lungu refer to concealed communist-era phenomena, such as the working class practice of stealing state property?
... that the New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired covers nearly ninety percent of its operating expenses with income from lands held in trust for it by the State Land Office?
... that American hammer thrower Walter Boal astonished passengers on a ship traveling to England in 1899 by skipping rope around the deck with another athlete on his back?

2 July 2009

23:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that medical doctor A.C. Steckle (pictured) gained fame coaching the University of Nevada, a school with only 80 students, to a victory over the University of California football team?
... that the house where Edvard Grieg grew up, located in the street Strandgaten, was destroyed when the steam trawler Voorbode exploded in 1944?
... that George McTurnan Kahin was expelled by Dutch authorities while conducting research in Indonesia for his dissertation on the country's struggle for independence?
... that several popes of the Byzantine Papacy were forced to wait months for the approval of the Byzantine emperor before consecration?
... that Dutch children's writer Paul Biegel wrote comics for Marten Toonder before publishing his first novel?
... that some 9,000 weddings a year are held in Queens Borough Hall in New York City, with Friday as the most popular day?
... that Max Manus referred to the release of Norwegian resistance member Kolbein Lauring from Grini concentration camp in 1943 as a "miraculous mistake" by the German authorities?

14:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Spanish poet and librettist Federico Romero (pictured) was originally a mining engineer?
... that the Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act names programs after Representatives Joe Moakley, who died of myelodysplastic syndrome, and Geraldine Ferraro, who has multiple myeloma?
... that the killers of Aladi Aruna, former Law Minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, were sentenced to death?
... that Bob Dylan was heckled by fans while playing "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" during his controversial electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival?
... that Matthias Bernegger in 1635 translated Galileo Galilei's Dialogo from Italian into Latin?
... that the Lublin Ghetto was one of the first German-created ghettos in occupied Poland to be "liquidated"—its inhabitants murdered and many of the remaining cultural landmarks destroyed?
... that John Callaway created the award-winning news program Chicago Tonight and was awarded 10 honorary doctorates, despite being a college dropout who hitchhiked to Chicago with 71 cents in his pocket?

08:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the false earthstar in the fungal family Astraeaceae (pictured) can open and close its rays in response to changes in humidity?
... that in 2006, current Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach Marcel Bellefeuille helped the Montreal Alouettes have the CFL's only two receivers with 1,000 receiving yards?
... that Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler (1763–1920) was the first newspaper in Norway?
... that architect Wilfrid Lacroix, designer of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, later became a member of the Canadian House of Commons?
... that in 1739, the chiefs of Clan Macdonald of Sleat and Clan Macleod were involved in a scheme to kidnap their own clansfolk, transport them to the American Colonies, and sell them into slavery?
... that Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh had nearly no involvement in the video game based on their television series Phineas and Ferb?
... that while with the Edmonton Eskimos, Canadian football linebacker Tumbo Abanikanda was called "T. A." because his head coach couldn't pronounce his name?

02:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the flag of the Canadian territory of Nunavut (pictured) features an inukshuk, a traditional Inuit monument that guides travelers and marks sacred sites?
... that Frank J. Low, an infrared astronomy pioneer, used data from an infrared telescope flown on a Learjet to show that planets Jupiter and Saturn generate and emit internal energy into space?
... that the 11th century medieval tractate De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi is the first surviving detailed account of an English state-trial?
... that the Edmonton Eskimos were reportedly looking to draft either Dimitri Tsoumpas, Samuel Giguère or Keith Shologan with the second pick in the 2008 CFL Draft, but after Shologan and Giguère signed with the NFL, the team traded the pick?
... that the extreme metal band Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky took their name from the 1989 text "Apocalypse" by William S. Burroughs?
... that Canadian professional wrestler Billy Red Lyons won a tag team championship with his real-life brother-in-law, Dick Beyer?
... that even after Germany lost its colonies during WWI, colonial postage stamps continued to be sold by the German post office?

1 July 2009

20:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Markus Howell (pictured), broke the 1,500 career yard mark in both kickoff and punt returns in 2008?
... that while robbing the countryside east of Toronto, members of the Markham Gang found a way to sell the same stolen horses over and over?
... that in the shuffle ensuing from the 1983 resignation of Yves Bérubé and two other Quebec ministers, four unelected people became ministers, the highest number since 1936?
... that Ham Hill, a nature reserve managed by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, is one of only two confirmed sites in the county where Musk Orchid grows?
... that after recording two sacks against Winnipeg during the 2008 CFL season, Jonathan Brown passed Harold Hallman for most sacks in Toronto Argonauts team history?
... that the Royal Mail consumes nearly 1 billion rubber bands per annum at a cost of almost £1,000,000?

14:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Edmonton Eskimos head coach Richie Hall (pictured) is the first African-American head coach in Eskimos history?
... that gambling on papal elections has been documented since the 16th century, despite being punishable by excommunication?
... that in 1992, the Naval Reserve of Canada created a reenactment group of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine, a colonial military force of New France?
... that Benito Mussolini emigrated to Switzerland in 1902, only to be deported after becoming involved in the socialist movement?
... that species in the fungal genus Rhodocollybia have spores that are dextrinoid?
... that Canadian football cornerback Stanford Samuels recorded the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' only blocked punt of 2006?

08:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Papuan King Parrots (pictured) often go unnoticed because they feed quietly in dense forest?
... that gridiron football player Lenny Walls recorded multiple tackles in every game he played for the Calgary Stampeders in 2008?
... that one of a series of hotels called the Volcano House, built at the edge of Kilauea volcano since 1846, burned to the ground from a kitchen fire?
... that the loss of nine military crew members and passengers when Buffalo 461 was shot down over Syria in 1974, remains the largest single-incident loss of life in Canadian peacekeeping history?
... that actor Paul Scofield came out of retirement in 1998 in order to play the part of Hermes in the BBC radio play Troy?
... that according to Edmonton Eskimos general manager Danny Maciocia, Canadian linebacker Mark Restelli "plays as if his hair is on fire"?

02:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the reredos installed in 1864 in the chapel of Jesus College, Oxford (pictured) has been described variously as "handsome", "somewhat tawdry" and looking like "corned beef"?
... that Samuel Sutton joined HMS Monarch as an able seaman in 1777, and twenty-one years later was commanding her as a flag captain?
... that the Artocarpeae, one of the five subdivisions of the mulberry family, is best known as the tribe that includes the breadfruit and the jackfruit, two widespread tropical crops?
... that Johannes Klingenberg Sejersted, who created a military defence plan for Norway somewhat before its 1814 independence declaration, drew experience from an 1808 campaign by Christian August of Augustenborg?
... that non-payment of papal income tax was punishable by excommunication?
... that as GM of the Wenatchee Chiefs, Frank Dasso ran a 1953 promotion where fans could pay whatever they wanted for admission, with game profits exceeding those of any three games so far that season?
... that since 2006, The World Hypertension League has assigned 17 May as World Hypertension Day?