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31 August 2011

16:00, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

... that causes of the deaths at the Berlin Wall (examples of memorials pictured) included shooting, drowning, suffocation, suicide, and falling from a balloon?
... that Edward Fitzgerald's clients have included public hate-figures such as Myra Hindley, Mary Bell, Maxine Carr, Jon Venables, various IRA prisoners and Abu Hamza?
... that the Kotezi Viaduct was renamed twice before its official opening, following a naming dispute between two villages?
... that sculptor Louise Nevelson had an affair with Diego Rivera, much to the dismay of Frida Kahlo?
... that the houseboat Vallejo, made an icon of Bay Area culture by artist Jean Varda and philosopher Alan Watts in the 1960s, originally served as a passenger ferry in Portland, Oregon in the 1870s?
... that coal balls are not made of coal?

07:45, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

... that during the Prohibition era, the National League's leading pitcher Heinie Meine (pictured) operated a speakeasy known for "moose milk that would peel the paint off a battleship"?
... that the Port of Rijeka, the largest Croatian port, was once the only Hungarian seaport?
... that the historic Cuckoo house was damaged in the 2011 Virginia earthquake?
... that with a 150-millimetre (5.9 in) wingspan, Sinomeganeura is small for the Griffenfly family Meganeuridae, known for species with spans over 700 millimetres (28 in)?
... that Kid Ory's composition "Ory's Creole Trombone" was the first jazz record made by a black jazz band from New Orleans?
... that shrimp, seaweed, and milkfish are found in Bone?

30 August 2011

23:30, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

... that pink pores and a very bitter taste help identify Tylopilus species (T. felleus pictured) from other boletes?
... that the album Ballad of Salah, released as an act of charity during Ramadan, includes songs based on the Quran and the life of Muhammad?
... that during B. B. Davis' basketball career at Lamar University, his team won the conference championship every year?
... that the men of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project took two weeks to assemble their first atomic bomb in December 1946?
... that the discovery of the extinct golden silk orb-weaver species Nephila jurassica extended the fossil record of the genus by 130 million years?
... that after the death of Alexander the Great Achaemenid subjects shaved their heads?

15:15, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the first Arab settlements in Indonesia (family pictured) may date from the fifth century?
... that American singer Soraya earned the first Latin Grammy Award for Best Singer-Songwriter Album in 2004?
... that a fossil of the extinct monitor lizard Saniwa preserves cartilage, scales, and even a wind pipe?
... that British actor Michael Socha was injured at least seven times during filming of his scenes on the supernatural drama Being Human?
... that despite being captured on D-Day, 6 June 1944 by British paratroops, the Merville Gun Battery remained in German hands until 17 August?
... that Emerentia was reputed in the late 15th century to be the great-grandmother of Jesus?

07:00, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the film career of Bruno Kastner (pictured) began in 1914 with the silent film Engelein (Little Angel), opposite Asta Nielsen, and ended with the advent of sound, because he stammered?
... that in 1953, Paul Arizin won a belated most valuable player award for his performance in the previous year's NBA All-Star Game?
... that the tallest and fastest roller coaster in Canada will be Leviathan when it opens at Canada's Wonderland in 2012?
... that Sam Greene, who covered Detroit sports from 1922 to 1963, was called "one of America's best known sports chroniclers," "a gentlemanly patriarch" and one of sport's "most beloved figures"?
... that the Patriotic Party of the late 18th century Great Sejm succeeded in passing one of the first constitutions in Europe influenced by the Enlightenment ideals?
... that despite the fact that the majority of submitted films are set in contemporary times, the Academy Award for Best Costume Design has only been awarded to films with such a setting twice since 1967?

29 August 2011

23:00, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Gun Hägglund (pictured) was Sweden's first female TV news presenter?
... that for most of its history, Ixtonton was the most important Maya city in the upper Mopan Valley of Guatemala?
... that the largest roller derby competition ever held outside of the United States was hosted by Adelaide Roller Derby and won by the Victorian VRDL All Stars?
... that the cotton manufacturer John Horrocks is commemorated twice by St Mary's Church, Penwortham, Lancashire?
... that Kristian House did not finish first in the London – Surrey Cycle Classic but did win its King of the Mountains award?
... that, shortly before sunrise, mass spawning by sea grapes may create a green cloud?

08:00, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the Niagara Whirlpool (pictured) formed when the Niagara River intersected an ancient pre-glacial river gorge?
... that the first Bayfield group quarry opened in 1868 on Basswood Island?
... that Prahalada was remade 20 times in numerous languages, with most of the remakes box-office successes?
... that Mark Knopfler's publisher made a country-style tape of Knopfler's song "Water of Love" without his knowledge, which led to a cover of the song by The Judds?
... that in the central movement of Bach's cantata Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101, a "furious ritornello" of three oboes is followed unexpectedly by a line of the chorale?
... that although the 1992 Flores earthquake was to its north, Babi Island may have been hit by tsunamis from both the north and south?

00:00, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

... that a giant elephant (engraving pictured) in Paris was protected by a man living in one of its legs?
... that the reformers of Kołłątaj's Forge popularized the ideals of the French Revolution in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth?
... that the first film directed by actor Leon Herbert was the British comedy/drama Emotional Backgammon?
... that the recently deceased, long-time human rights figure Jerome J. Shestack may have survived a kamikaze attack during World War II by being Jewish?
... that the fake report Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage hoaxed many global news organizations into reporting that Internet Explorer 6 users had remarkably low IQs?
... that Heinie Peitz was on the receiving end of the famed "Pretzel Battery" in the 1890s?

28 August 2011

16:00, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

... that supplejack, blackbutt and soapy box can be found along the Hacking River (pictured)?
... that J.L. Forster's school band played in Expo '67, Expo '70, and for Queen Elizabeth II?
... that wood of the Mexican logwood is used to make traditional medicines and bows for stringed instruments?
... that after being developed for the National Aerospace Plane, HyperSizer software was used to improve the design of wind turbines and a one-of-a-kind airplane?
... that in 1730, rebels under the command of a silversmith named Alejo Calatayud seized control of Cochabamba, Bolivia?
... that the extinct monitor lizard Ovoo gurvel has "mystery bones" in its skull?

08:00, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Liverpool's Tower Buildings (pictured) were among the first steel-framed buildings in England?
... that Irish country singer Larry Cunningham and his band got their first break when Jim Reeves walked off the stage during a concert?
... that Mammoth at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari will be the world's longest water coaster when it opens in 2012, taking the title from the park's Wildebeest water coaster?
... that the actress who plays Amy Wyatt in the British soap opera Emmerdale has been nominated for two "Best Newcomer" awards?
... that in 1622 a civil war broke out in present-day Bolivia between Basques and Vicuñas?
... that the Swiss cargo ship Nyon was 5.40 metres (17 ft 9 in) longer when she sank than when she was launched?

00:00, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

... that a kichō (pictured) is a portable multi-paneled silk partition used in aristocratic households during and following the Heian period in Japan?
... that Italian artist Sara Pichelli was the first to illustrate the half-black, half-Hispanic Spider-Man?
... that Urocyon progressus, a species of extinct fox, was formally described after two bones and a tooth were found?
... that the Royal Burmese Army employed a conscription system that required local chiefs to supply men from their jurisdiction on the basis of population?
... that Indonesian comedy band Project Pop originally sang about "food and martial arts fighters"?
... that "Little Luke"'s Ponzi scheme may lead to the "death penalty" for Miami?

27 August 2011

16:00, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Lisa Stublić's (pictured) debut marathon was the fastest marathon run by any Croatian athlete in 2010, including men?
... that the modern Warlander, a new Baroque horse breed derived from the Andalusian and Friesian breeds, was inspired by a historic war horse cross that has been bred since at least the 16th century?
... that Nano Riantiarno's works include the Cockroach, White Snake, and Constipation "operas"?
... that, though cancer pain can usually be eliminated or controlled, nearly half of all patients receive inadequate treatment and suffer pain needlessly?
... that despite saving hundreds of wounded soldiers during World War II, Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina had to wait until 1990 to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union?
... that the male Cook Strait giant weta attracts mates using the aroma of its feces?

08:00, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Hugo Steinhaus (pictured) "discovered" Stefan Banach and helped re-establish Polish mathematics at the University of Wrocław after World War II?
... that Whiggism took different forms in England and Scotland?
... that after 26 nuns signed A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion, the Vatican stated that all but two had recanted, leading 11 others to issue a statement of solidarity denying that they had done so?
... that Linton Park in Kent, England, has an avenue of Giant Sequoia trees planted in 1864?
... that Singapore paid uneducated women to get sterilised as part of its Stop at Two campaign?
... that Rod Stewart forgot the name of the mandolin player for his song "Mandolin Wind"?

00:00, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

... that little Neptune grass (pictured) forms meadows on the seabed and can be used to measure the movement of underwater dunes?
... that although fair dealing in United Kingdom law is interpreted liberally, it is still narrower than the United States equivalent?
... that decision fatigue can influence irrational impulse purchases at supermarkets?
... that Philadelphia Phillies rookie Michael Schwimer was featured on ESPN while walking across a baseball field wearing a pink feather boa, and matching pink purse and pink backpack?
... that the bottle for Katy Perry's Purr perfume was inspired by her Catwoman stage costume?
... that although the Muria generally encourage premarital sex, some communities punish young people who take the same sexual partner for more than three nights?

26 August 2011

16:00, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

... that hundreds of people daily practice Yogic flying in the Golden Domes (pictured) in Fairfield, Iowa?
... that the Hetman Party of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth called upon Russia to help defend their Golden Liberties?
... that Rex Putnam had a longer tenure as Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction than did any other superintendent in history?
... that even when LED street lighting produces less light than conventional forms of lighting, it can still cause more ecological light pollution?
... that Leo Suryadinata has written more than 50 books, with a focus on Chinese Indonesians?
... that Thomas Rigby of Liverpool, England, added medieval-style grotesques to Rigby's Buildings?

08:00, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the Hotel Jerome (pictured) in Aspen, Colorado, was one of the first buildings west of the Mississippi to have full electric lighting?
... that a survey found women in free-to-play massively multiplayer online games spent, on average, 50% more money than men?
... that Mi Gao Huang Chen was beaten to death in 2005 by a large group of youths outside the Chinese takeaway he owned in Scholes, Greater Manchester?
... that the report Public Finance Balance of Smoking in the Czech Republic found that the "effect of smoking on the public finance balance in the Czech Republic in 1999 was positive"?
... that the effigy of Jan Suchorzewski, who once threatened to kill his son to prevent the signing of the Constitution of 3 May, was hanged during the Kościuszko Insurrection?
... that the complete works of Brunette Coleman were not published until seventeen years after the death of Philip Larkin?

00:00, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the Cuban Friendship Urn monument (pictured) originally stood in Havana, was moved to Washington, DC, in 1928, disappeared around 1959, and was found and re-erected in the 1990s?
... that in 1992, Black British civil rights activist Frank Crichlow was awarded record damages of £50,000 for false imprisonment, battery and malicious prosecution?
... that after going undrafted in the 2009 NFL Draft, current Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Todd Carter took a job at Tropical Smoothie Cafe?
... that the motor vehicle fleet in use around the world surpassed the one billion mark in 2010 and is expected to reach two billion motor vehicles by 2020?
... that Detroit sportswriter E.A. Batchelor popularized a nickname for the Notre Dame football team by opening a 1909 game account, "Eleven fighting Irishmen wrecked the Yost machine this afternoon"?
... that Detroit sportswriter Paul Bruske drove a Flanders "20" roadster from Quebec to Mexico City in 1910 and later managed Eddie Rickenbacker's racing team?

25 August 2011

16:00, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Michael Herrmann (pictured) is founder-director of the Rheingau Musik Festival, which holds about 150 concerts every season in vineyards and historical buildings?
... that Digya National Park is the oldest protected area in Ghana?
... that future Chairman of the Federal Reserve William McChesney Martin and future Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford were tennis doubles partners in 1922 at Soldan High School in St. Louis, Missouri?
... that many pages of Herculaneum papyri carbonized by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 were restored to legibility by multi-spectral imaging?
... that Željko Ivanek, who plays the title role in The X-Files episode "Roland," was the first person to audition for the part?
... that the World War II military dog Rifleman Khan was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery under heavy enemy fire?

08:00, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

... that English novelist, poet and dramatist Laurence Alma-Tadema (pictured) explained the meaning of happiness to Americans on her 1907–08 U.S. tour?
... that the Canon FL 300mm lens was the first to use synthetic fluorite crystals in its lens elements?
... that National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman worked during 1965–1967 for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)?
... that it took over half a century to identify Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1?
... that disagreement about the expansion of the Namibian holiday settlement of Wlotzkasbaken went all the way to Supreme Court?
... that George Graves was a leading comedian in operetta and Edwardian musical comedies although he could neither sing nor dance?

00:00, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

... that after the Toxteth riots of 1981, the Hargreaves Building (pictured) in Liverpool was converted for the use of the Liverpool Racquet Club?
... that despite being a two-star recruit in 2006, American football player Scott Lutrus was a 2007 Freshman All-American at Connecticut?
... that the Vineyard Gazette, the only paid circulation newspaper on the island of Martha's Vineyard, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Bob in 1991?
... that after killing a man in a duel over dogs, Captain James Macnamara asked naval officers including Viscounts Hood and Nelson, Lord Hotham, Sir Hyde Parker and Sir Thomas Troubridge, to testify on his behalf?
... that Deaf Wrestlefest provides funding for educational programs for hearing-impaired students?
... that Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare is said to be the world's only shrine to William Shakespeare?

24 August 2011

16:00, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the Yellow-billed Spoonbill (pictured) has a row of small knobs inside its bill which detect vibration?
... that sportscaster Nat Allbright broadcast 1,500 games for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers to a network of more than 100 radio stations, though he never saw any of the games played?
... that the Tosa Yamauchi Family Treasury and Archives contain the oldest extant manuscript of the Kokinshū, dating from the 11th century and designated a National Treasure of Japan?
... that Tufele Liamatua served as the first elected Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa?
... that the expression "going round the bend" is said to come from operators stationed on Telegraph Island who were desperate to escape to India by sailing round the bend in the Strait of Hormuz?
... that November 1828 came in 1979?

08:00, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

... that tips of the stamens of the Pagosa skyrocket (pictured) are covered with blue pollen that turns yellow as the flower ages?
... that a Libyan hip hop artist using the pseudonym Ibn Thabit wrote "Benghazi" in support of the city of that name during the 2011 Libyan civil war?
... that handball goalkeeper Andrea Farkas won Olympic bronze and silver medals with the Hungarian national team?
... that the five largest public library systems in the United States are in Boston, New York, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and Detroit?
... that the "Street Doctor", who delivers food to the poor of Newark, New Jersey in his van and seeks to end street violence, spent 10 years in solitary confinement?
... that the Fairey Stooge was a surface-to-air missile powered by air-to-ground rockets?

00:00, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the Indian Head gold pieces (quarter eagle pictured) are the only circulating U.S. coins to have a recessed design?
... that South Sudan could be the location of "the biggest migration of large mammals on Earth"?
... that Rear Admiral Ronne Froman, the first woman to serve as the "Navy Mayor of San Diego", became the Chief Operating Officer of the city of San Diego after retiring from the Navy?
... that Vikram is only the third actor to receive a National Film Award for Best Actor in the Tamil film industry?
... that Joe S. Jackson founded the Baseball Writers Association after reporters at the 1908 World Series had "to climb a ladder to the roof of the first base pavillion and write in the rain and snow"?
... that Sanzo Nosaka trained Japanese prisoners of war to fight for Mao Zedong?

23 August 2011

16:00, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Texas Governor Rick Perry (pictured) compares the current Social Security system to a Ponzi scheme in his 2010 book Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington?
... that Gerhard Präsent composed Partita sagrada for chamber orchestra, premiered by the ensemble Kontrapunkte at the Musikverein in Vienna in 2010?
... that the Abrams Building, demolished in 1987 to make way for the Knickerbocker Arena, had one of the few remaining original storefronts in downtown Albany, New York?
... that Edward Leo Krumpelmann is one of the two Maryknoll priests who set up the Catholic parish of Kwun Tong, Hong Kong?
... that a judge ruled that spectators were not entitled to any refund of their admission money when a match in Small Heath F.C.'s 1895–96 season was abandoned after only 37 minutes?
... that the Franciscan friar Manuel Antonio de Rivas, who was tried for heresy in 1775 in Mexico, wrote the first science-fiction text in the Americas?

08:00, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

... that early European settlers of Australia used woody pear (illustration pictured) to make gun stocks?
... that sports editor Alan J. Gould invented college football's AP Poll in 1936 as an "exercise in hoopla," to fill space between games, and "to keep the pot boiling"?
... that the Indian miners' union Sikasa was banned in 1992, accused of being a front organisation of the People's War Group?
... that Eden II, an art installation within the Indianapolis Museum of Art's 100 Acres, features a mock refugee ship to highlight the problem of climate change?
... that New Democratic Party strategist Kenneth Bryden introduced the concept of door-to-door election canvassing to Canada?
... that 98 species of bug have been recovered from sally?

00:00, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Pierre-François Palloy (pictured) began the demolition of the Bastille on the same day that it was attacked?
... that the American adaptation of the BBC cooking show MasterChef was hosted by famous British restaurateur Gary Rhodes for two series?
... that sportswriter Bill Farnsworth teamed with Damon Runyon in promoting boxing bouts that raised more than $1 million for Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies?
... that there is little wildlife and game in Isangano National Park due to subsistence hunting practiced by those living in the park?
... that the first industrial robot, the Unimate, was installed in 1961 by General Motors at its Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey?
... that the Royal Commission on Opium, set up at the instigation of anti-opium campaigners, set back the anti-opium cause by 15 years?

22 August 2011

16:00, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

... that a masterpiece painting (fragment pictured) by Jan Matejko shows more than a dozen figures involved in the passing of the Polish-Lithuanian Constitution of May 3, 1791?
... that the Matthew Callahan Log Cabin is one of the few such structures left in Aspen, Colorado?
... that advanced plans were developed for a film version of the award-winning 2002 novel The Cutting Room involving actor Robert Carlyle and screenwriter Andrea Gibb?
... that Denmark has a network of cycle routes extending more than 12,000 kilometres (7,500 mi)?
... that Lyall Smith successfully lobbied for the first post-bowl AP Poll in 1948 to settle competing championship claims by undefeated Notre Dame and Michigan football teams?
... that in Bach's cantata Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort, BWV 168, virtuoso string writing underscores the "word of thunder"?

08:00, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the fruit of the rainforest tree Dysoxylum pettigrewianum (pictured) provides food for Metallic Starlings and cassowaries, and the leaves are eaten by Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo?
... that the 2011–12 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team will be the first Michigan team to host ESPN's College GameDay college basketball television show?
... that Polish Jacobin activist, officer of the Polish Legions, Kazimierz Konopka, gained notoriety for his involvements in the unrest and hangings during the Kościuszko Uprising?
... that US Presidents Clinton and Bush were awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service by their respective Secretaries of Defense?
... that in 2010 Elinor Joseph became the first Arab woman to serve in a combat role in the Israel Defense Forces?
... that when Wilfred main cast member Fiona Gubelmann first read the script for the pilot, she "didn't quite get the whole guy in the dog suit thing"?

00:00, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Jan Buijs' De Volharding Building (pictured) was a famous example of architecture of the night?
... that The X-Files star David Duchovny "detested" the episode "Born Again", despite appearing alongside his then-girlfriend Maggie Wheeler?
... that Archaeorhizomycetes is a class of fungi that was not described until 2011?
... that the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, contains more than 3,000 objects of folk art?
... that after the Battle of the Meander, a rumour spread amongst the crusaders that their successful counterattack had been led by an unknown white-clad knight?
... that during the New England Patriots' 1985–86 playoff run, an opposing player hit general manager Patrick Sullivan with a football helmet?

21 August 2011

16:00, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Dorival Caymmi (pictured), one of the fathers of bossa nova, loved to skinny dip?
... that during the 1946 Shibuya incident over a thousand Yakuza fought hundreds of Formosan gang members for control of the local black markets in Tokyo?
... that after debunking Abner Doubleday as the inventor of baseball, Frank Menke was placed in "the class that would belittle Washington, Lincoln and other men who have played their part in American history"?
... that "O Tú o Ninguna" performed by Mexican singer Luis Miguel received a nomination for Song of the Year at the 1st Latin Grammy Awards?
... that the extinct fern species Osmunda wehrii was named in honor of Northwest school painter and amateur paleobotanist Wesley C. Wehr?
... that a fossilized dragon has been found in Poland?

08:00, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the Riverside Inn (pictured) is a former mineral springs resort turned hotel and dinner theater in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania?
... that Typhoon Pamela contributed to the wettest month on record in Guam after slowly crossing the island, dropping 27 in (690 mm) of rainfall in a 24 hour period?
... that the congregation of her church was outraged when E.R. Shipp criticized her pastor in print, but he led them in a standing ovation when she won the Pulitzer Prize?
... that "legendary" Indonesian composer A. T. Mahmud wrote around 500 children's songs?
... that the 1978 song Man Free by Linton Kwesi Johnson was about Darcus Howe, then editor of black political magazine Race Today?
... that the Eastern Bettong eats native cranberries?

00:00, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

... that according to his diary, the future Emperor Uda (pictured) was "shuddering with fear" on his father's enthronement?
... that the Twoline eelpout feeds primarily on bottom-dwelling organisms?
... that S&P sovereign ratings division head David T. Beers is responsible for the recent downgrade of the U.S. credit rating?
... that Emma Thompson earned twelve accolades for Sense and Sensibility, including the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay?
... that Max Kase wrote in support of jazz and flappers in 1922, helped found the NBA in 1946, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for exposing college basketball point-shaving scandals?
... that Washington was the second largest tree of its kind until its collapse in 2005?

20 August 2011

16:00, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Gakhwangjeon Hall (pictured), a National Treasure of South Korea, was built to replace Jangnyukjeon Hall, which had been destroyed during the Imjin War?
... that the recent Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved the 2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis, will not actually reduce the overall size of the U.S. public debt?
... that Perseverance IV is the last floating River Wey barge in existence?
... that the Paleocene Alaskan maple Acer alaskense was described from a fossil leaf that may be atypical for the species?
... that in 1912, during the First Balkan War, the Kingdom of Serbia established Durrës County on territory captured from the Ottoman Empire?
... that the Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill, London, attracted a clientele that included Christine Keeler, Mandy Rice-Davies, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, and Bob Marley?

08:00, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Paul Klee’s Twittering Machine (pictured), now held by MOMA, was designated a work of degenerate art by the Nazi German government and sold for $120 in 1939?
... that a cell bank stores cell lines in a mixture of liquid nitrogen that freezes them to a temperature lower than −70° Celsius?
... that RHI Entertainment's miniseries based on Moby-Dick is the first to air on the U.S. pay-television network Encore?
... that Hall of Fame sportswriter Frank Graham, once described as "psychopathically polite," loved the "shadowy figures and rogues that dwelt on the fringes of his favorite sports"?
... that jingū-ji, Buddhist temples with a shrine dedicated to the worship of a local Shinto kami, were common in Japan until they were outlawed in 1868?
... that although English actor Andrew Gower won the Spotlight Prize in 2010, his new Being Human character is accustomed to the dark?

00:00, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the Rosendale Theatre (pictured) once banned popcorn because the "crackling paper bags disrupted quiet scenes"?
... that Jeanne L. Noble published the first studies about African-American women in college?
... that the Kneeland Prairie penny-cress is a mustard flower with spoon-shaped petals and spatula-shaped leaves?
... that Robin Dunne was nominated for a Constellation Award for his portrayal of Will Zimmerman in the television series Sanctuary, but narrowly lost to Doctor Who actor David Tennant?
... that Arthur Matsu was the first Asian American student at The College of William & Mary, the first Asian American quarterback in the NFL and the first Japanese coach in American football?
... that a "terrible Mouse" weighing 500 kg (1,100 lb) has killed three people in Spain in the last five years?

19 August 2011

16:00, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

... that after World War II, Polish resistance organizer and Warsaw Uprising fighter Jan Mazurkiewicz (pictured) was brutally tortured by the authorities in communist Poland?
... that actress Amanda Tapping accepted the part of Helen Magnus, the protagonist of Sanctuary, after she was encouraged to move on from her eleven-year role as Samantha Carter in Stargate?
... that the British-supported Greek-Yugoslav confederation was signed during World War II, but never came to pass?
... that Pulitzer winner William A. Caldwell wrote approximately 12,000 editorial columns, each exactly 85 lines long, six per week for 41 years?
... that after the fall of Suharto, the circulation of his party's newspaper, Suara Karya, dropped by a factor of a hundred?
... that sales of Montana artist Monte Dolack's poster, "Restoring the Wolf to Yellowstone," were banned in Yellowstone and Glacier national parks by the U.S. National Park Service in 1990?

08:00, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the Cook Statue (pictured) in Christchurch was a gift to the city from Matthew Barnett?
... that, even though it mainly included Romanian peasants, the breakaway Inochentist church worshiped Russian Tsar Michael and the Romanovs?
... that in 1912 Ivan Ivanić became the first governor of Durrës County in the Kingdom of Serbia?
... that on two separate occasions in 2010, five One Piece releases simultaneously debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list for manga?
... that Bhutan House, an estate owned by the Dorji family in West Bengal, India, was once the conduit for communication between the government of Bhutan and the rest of the world?
... that Riek Machar, first Vice-President of South Sudan in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) government, once fought against them, with government support?

00:00, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

... that, in 2007, for the Toposa (pictured) and other children from Nadapal the nearest secondary school was 25 km (16 mi) away at Narus, South Sudan?
... that Sister Carmela Marie Cristiano was the first Catholic nun to run for political office in New Jersey?
... that one of the churches in the English district of Rother is a former Lifesaving Rocket Apparatus Station?
... that Madam Auring shot to fame when she correctly predicted that Amparo Muñoz would win the 1974 Miss Universe title?
... that in 2004 there were two terrorist attacks in Sulawesi, one on a bus and one in a cafe?
... that the variable saw sedge is food for caterpillars of the moth genus Elachista?
... that Happy Salma, wife of a prince, agreed to play a prostitute in 7 Hearts 7 Loves 7 Women, but only if no men could touch her on set?

18 August 2011

16:00, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

... that journalist Jay Bahadur (pictured) lived with pirates in Somalia?
... that over 650,000 people visited the Alexander McQueen exhibition Savage Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and some queued for more than four hours?
... that footballer Hasan Ahmet Sari left Istanbul with his family after living through the 1999 İzmit earthquake?
... that the low numbers of injuries in carnivorous dinosaurs indicate they may have been less aggressive with individuals of their own species than modern crocodilians?
... that Reg, Doug and Max Bentley made history on January 1, 1943, when they became the National Hockey League's first all-brother forward line?
... that Caxton Hall in Westminster, London, was the venue for the marriages of two Beatles, a future Prime Minister, and several movie stars?

08:00, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Central Saint Giles (pictured) in London, designed by architect Renzo Piano, has been compared to "giant mutant chewy sweets" and Marmite?
... that after Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter Earl Lawson had altercations with both Johnny Temple and Vada Pinson, he joked that Pinson was a harder puncher?
... that the perpetrators of a terrorist attack in Aceh on New Year's Eve 2003 are still unknown?
... that after Luke Evans played for the Australian Schoolboys rugby union team, he joined the Welsh under-20 team?
... that Muslim Mosque, Inc., which was founded by Malcolm X, was awarded 35 scholarships to send students to Al-Azhar University and the Islamic University of Madinah?
... that ballet teacher Anneliese von Oettingen was featured in Sports Illustrated for training professional football players at her ballet school?

00:00, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

... that in 1959, President Sukarno (pictured) declared himself to be also Prime Minister of Indonesia?
... that future US Marine Lieutenant General Edward A. Craig was arrested by Marines at age 10 for photographing the Washington Navy Yard?
... that the author of Sitti Nurbaya never returned to his hometown after publishing it?
... that the Union of Concerned Scientists created a Hybrid Scorecard to compare hybrid electric vehicles available in the U.S.?
... that in Liverpool Bay, the white furrow shell, the transparent razor shell and the trumpet worm live side by side beneath the sand?
... that Henry Lamar, who coached all four Kennedy brothers, originally intended to help coach at Harvard University for a few weeks but remained there for four decades?

17 August 2011

16:00, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

... that actress Christine Baranski (pictured) canceled a birthday trip to Paris to appear in the television film Who Is Simon Miller?
... that Ismail Marzuki wrote his 1945 song "Gugur Bunga di Taman Bakti" to honor the Indonesian casualties of the Indonesian National Revolution?
... that in the center of Bach's cantata Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist, BWV 45, the voice of Christ appears in a "highly virtuosic aria, half Vivaldian concerto, half operatic scena"?
... that Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas F. Darcy drew a political cartoon featuring an L-shaped coffin and the caption "Good news, we've turned the corner in Vietnam!"?
... that in St Botolph's Church, Botolphs, a series of arches on the wall indicate a long-demolished aisle?
... that Indonesian band Kekal has remained active and continues to release newly recorded material even though there are no longer any official members?

08:00, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

... that during the Indonesian National Revolution the first Indonesian flag, Bendera Pusaka (first hoisting pictured), was cut in half to save it from the Dutch military forces?
... that Iván Erőd composed a sinfonietta called Minnesota Sinfonietta, an opera titled Silk Worms, and a song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra, named Baby Tooth Songs?
... that although she was unsuccessful as a cross-Channel ferry, Castalia served for twenty years as a hospital ship?
... that the Western cicada killer wasp paralyzes cicadas for its offspring to eat after hatching?
... that the music video of the song "Express Yourself" had a budget of $5 million, making it the most expensive music video at the time of its release?
... that baseball humorist Charles Dryden dubbed the 1906 White Sox the "Hitless Wonders" and said of the 1909 Senators: "Washington – first in war, first in peace and last in the American League"?

00:00, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

... that before 1238, St Edward the Confessor parish church (pictured) in Westcott Barton was dedicated to St Edmund rather than St Edward?
... that the oldest known member of the mayfly family Neoephemeridae is the Eocene species Neoephemera antiqua?
... that according to music critic Greil Marcus, the track "Every Picture Tells a Story" represents Rod Stewart's greatest performance?
... that John Marburger, President George W. Bush's science advisor, publicly stated his belief that intelligent design is not a scientific theory?
... that in 1920 Balai Pustaka brought Pain and Suffering to Indonesia?
... that when he was 20, shipping executive Lewis A. Lapham played a foursome with golf champions Bobby Jones and Francis Ouimet?

16 August 2011

16:00, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

... that San Francisco, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Syracuse all have Goethe–Schiller Monuments that are modeled on the "beloved" 1857 monument to the poets (pictured) in Weimar, Germany?
... that only four great uncial codices have survived until the present day?
... that two cousins, both called Benjamin Handley, were in a boat that capsized crossing the Tagus river during the Peninsular War—and one drowned while the other survived?
... that because he has brittle bone disease, motivational speaker Sean Stephenson is just three feet (91 cm) tall?
... that the World War II idea of a Polish-Czechoslovakian confederation was eventually discarded by the Czechs, whose leader favoured a prospective alliance with the Soviet Union?
... that David Holston scored over 2,000 points during his high school basketball career, yet was not offered a single college scholarship?

08:00, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Giuseppe Cassioli created a design for the Summer Olympic Games medals (1980 bronze medal pictured) that was used for 40 years?
... that the tallest rock-fill dam in Japan can be found at the Shin-Takasegawa Pumped Storage Station in Nagano Prefecture?
... that Marcus Aurelius wanted to create a new Roman province called Marcomannia in what is now Slovakia?
... that Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman "Black Jack" Stewart quipped that his stick was not for scoring, but for "breaking arms"?
... that the Indian port of Khejuri was destroyed by a devastating cyclone in 1864?
... that the fungus Bloxam's entoloma was named after an English clergyman?

00:00, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

... that when the serpent star (pictured) is discarded with unwanted invertebrates from fishing nets, it rarely survives?
... that the first year of Caribana in Toronto set records for Toronto Island attendance?
... that coining new words such as "picture place" (for "art gallery") is a communication strategy used by people learning to speak a foreign tongue?
... that Seacology has preserved 957,852 acres (3,876 km²; 1,497 sq mi) of marine habitat and 852,651 acres (3,451 km²; 1,332 sq mi) of terrestrial habitat since it was founded in 1991?
... that after largemouth bass were illegally placed into Davis Lake, it gained a reputation as one of the best bass lakes in Oregon?
... that drainage pits under London Underground tracks help reduce the number of suicides?

15 August 2011

16:00, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Whorlton Castle (gatehouse pictured) in North Yorkshire is an unusual example of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle that continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages?
... that Hanna Zemer, who became the first female editor-in-chief of a major Israeli newspaper, had survived imprisonment in two Nazi concentration camps?
... that the William Armson-designed Guthrey Centre fell victim to the Christchurch earthquake, but his Excelsior Hotel will be rebuilt?
... that the song "If I Had a Heart" by Fever Ray was featured in the Breaking Bad episode "Open House" because it matched the "full, heavy darkness" of its scene?
... that the lord of the Sanjak of Dukagjin was hanged by the sultan's order in 1536?
... that the Dickin Medal winner Peter was given a kiss on the nose by the future Queen Elizabeth II in 1946?

08:00, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Billy Waters (pictured), known for his peculiar antics, appeared in Tom and Jerry?
... that during the Singaporean parliamentary general election of 2011 the opposition Workers' Party won a Group Representation Constituency for the first time?
... that David Dunwoodie had two separate runs with the Ice Dogs?
... that the divergence in the Sino-Tibetan language family between the Sinitic languages in China and other Sino-Tibetan languages likely occurred during Neolithic migrations into the Tibetan plateau from the Neolithic cultures of the Yellow River?
... that photographer Chris Schlechten was briefly expelled from Montana State College for helping create a spoof annual which portrayed the basketball team as a row of Butterfinger candy bars?
... that Jana Sterbak created a dress made of meat 23 years before Lady Gaga wore one?

00:00, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

... that in the 1895 Kentucky gubernatorial election, the candidacy of Democrat-turned-Populist Thomas S. Pettit (pictured) was a major factor in William O. Bradley's election?
... that Scottish naturalist Ramsay Heatley Traquair received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1907 for his work on fossil fish?
... that the 2005 science fiction and horror film spoof The Naked Monster took 21 years to make and was Kenneth Tobey's final film?
... that the fungus Cortinarius badiolaevis has only been recorded in Spain and Sweden?
... that Tischendorf's Editio Octava Critica Maior and Westcott and Hort's text were sufficient to make the Textus Receptus obsolete for the scholarly world?
... that the eyelids of some Elliot's short-tailed shrews are permanently closed?

14 August 2011

16:00, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the 19th-century swindler Bertha Heyman (pictured), known as "The Confidence Queen," conned men by pretending to be a wealthy woman who was unable to access her fortune?
... that in the Holmes' no Mokushiroku story arc of the Case Closed series, the character Minerva Glass was based on professional tennis player Steffi Graf?
... that Roscoe C. Wilson was the United States Army Air Forces liaison to the Manhattan Project?
... that although the slender devil's twine looks and behaves like dodder, it is a laurel?
... that Wacław Gluth-Nowowiejski's World War II memoir The Commonwealth of Ruins, about his experience of hiding in a destroyed city as a Robinson Crusoe of Warsaw, was adapted into a short comic?
... that computer input methods are blamed for individuals forgetting how to write Chinese characters?

08:00, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

... that although the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon (fragment pictured), the commander was later relieved of his position?
... that the 644-kilometre (400 mi) European route E59 links three European capitals – Prague, Vienna and Zagreb?
... that the Ridgeway Site is the type site for the Glacial Kame Culture?
... that the extinct moth Epiborkhausenites is noted for having very similar color patterning to the living species Tubuliferola josephinae and Hofmannophila pseudospretella?
... that in translating the Republic of Plato, Desmond Lee preferred "magnificent myth" to what he considered the conventional mistranslation "noble lie"?
... that the online game EteRNA, funded by the National Science Foundation, allows players to design RNA molecules that may be synthesized in a Stanford biochemistry lab?
... that Kingdom Tower is to be raised by bin Ladin's family's business and is expected to be the world's tallest building?

00:00, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

... that FBI special agent Herman Hollis (pictured) was involved in the Bureau's shootouts with John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and possibly Pretty Boy Floyd?
... that sarcoids are non-fatal tumors but are a common reason for euthanasia in horses?
... that phantasmagoria showman Paul Philidor convinced Marie Tussaud to exhibit her waxworks in England?
... that the Hartington City Hall and Auditorium was built to a Prairie School design when that style was in decline and "stands as a progressive building in an otherwise conservative community"?
... that S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson, played by Clark Gregg in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will appear as Peter Parker's school principal in the upcoming cartoon series Ultimate Spider-Man?
... that Flustra foliacea looks like a seaweed but is actually a colony of animals?

13 August 2011

16:00, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

... that HMS Phoenix (N96) (pictured) was the 18th Royal Navy warship to carry the name Phoenix?
... that Comala, Colima, Mexico, may be the setting for Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo?
... that Fantasy Studios was built on profits from hit songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival?
... that actor Ron Taylor performed the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner" at several sporting fixtures after playing a similar role in an episode of L.A. Law?
... that in May 1933, the Nazis stormed the General German Trade Union Federation and all its member unions, seizing their assets and putting their leaders in "protective custody"?
... that undefeated Boyd Melson donates all the money he earns in boxing matches to stem cell research?

08:00, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the BNSF Railway Bridge 5.1 (pictured), in Portland, Oregon, which once had the world's longest swing span, was converted in 1989 to one of the world's highest vertical-lift spans?
... that following opposition calls for a boycott, voter turnout in the 1983 general elections in Jamaica was just 2.7%?
... that Herb Kawainui Kane died on the 36th anniversary of the launch of the Hōkūle‘a, a voyaging canoe he designed?
... that Murtaja, launched in 1889, was Finland's first state-owned icebreaker?
... that Richard Chavez designed the black eagle logo of the United Farm Workers while his brother, César Chávez, chose the red and black coloring?
... that after Kenneth R. Shadrick became the first U.S. foot soldier reported killed in the Korean War, his father traced the tragedy back to a stolen football uniform?

00:00, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

... that after an injury during his 13th season of Major League Baseball, Duff Cooley (pictured) was replaced by rookie Ty Cobb?
... that when the Mayor of Liverpool turned on the Steble Fountain in 1879, its effect was said to have been "dismal"?
... that The X-Files episode "Shapes" reunited Twin Peaks cast members David Duchovny and Michael Horse?
... that Nickolaus Hirschl, in addition to winning two Olympic medals in wrestling, won Austrian national championships in shotput, discus, and pentathlon?
... that a flattop crab, when trying to escape from a predator, can cast off limbs as a diversion, with the claws of a cast limb still gripping vigorously after separation?
... that The Throne's hip-hop single "Otis" was remixed as an alleged diss track by Game?

12 August 2011

16:00, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

... that three-time Paralympian Amanda Fraser (pictured) has won medals in both athletics and swimming?
... that after the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority ordered the demolition of Wharetiki House, its powers were for the first time tested in the High Court?
... that Ethical Oil, a book that argues in favour of the exploitation of the Athabasca oil sands, won the National Business Book Award in 2011?
... that the schooner Shearwater was hit by falling debris from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?
... that Lord Irvine dismissed a record of fifteen magistrates of England and Wales in a single year in 1999?
... that "Miracle Man" was the first episode of The X-Files written by Howard Gordon without his long-term collaborator Alex Gansa?
... that Thelma Pressman opened the first microwave cooking school in the United States?

08:00, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the causeways over Lake Scugog on Ontario Highway 7A were constructed over a floating bridge (pictured) built in 1856?
... that Indonesian peacekeeping forces have served in Egypt, Israel, Bosnia, Somalia, and the Philippines?
... that The Knack's second comeback attempt, the 1998 album Zoom, was described as their best since their debut album Get The Knack?
... that the direction and photography in the Breaking Bad episode "Thirty-Eight Snub" was compared to the work of filmmakers Sergio Leone and Quentin Tarantino?
... that the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project attracts thousands of volunteers to build homes for low-income families around the world?
... that the Permian amphibian Trimerorhachis either brooded young in its mouth or ate them?

00:00, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Dacian bracelets (example pictured) were used as currency and votive offerings?
... that Wat Tyler Cluverius, Jr., who died in 1952, was the last surviving officer of the sinking of the USS Maine?
... that although Christchurch was an Anglican settlement, the first three mayors (Wilson, Anderson and Duncan) were all Presbyterian?
... that at the beginning of 16th century the Sanjak of Elbasan had the highest population density of all Ottoman Balkan sanjaks?
... that Crothers Memorial Hall, one of two Stanford University dormitories funded by gifts from Judge George E. Crothers, was named in memory of the judge's mother?
... that Flat Horse dance is said to represent male virility or female irrationality?

11 August 2011

16:00, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the portraits of his parents (father's portrait pictured) that Albrecht Dürer painted when he was 19 are renowned for their depiction of the effects of ageing?
... that pink fairy lilies usually produce flowers only after heavy rains?
... that the Indianapolis Museum of Art's outdoor sculpture The Three Graces is based on a c. 1797 painting by noted Italian artist Antonio Canova, but its sculptor is unknown?
... that the 1 May 1951 U.S. Navy raid on the Hwacheon Dam during the Korean War was the last use of aerial torpedoes against a surface target?
... that during production tapis is warped and couched?
... that the Jug Tavern, possibly the oldest building in Ossining, New York, may not have been a tavern at all, or if it was did not serve liquor legally?

08:00, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

... that promin (molecule pictured) was one of the first effective treatments for leprosy?
... that Mike Cahill, director and screenwriter of Another Earth (2011), was National Geographic's youngest field producer, editor and cinematographer?
... that after its colonel was cashiered for drunkenness, the 68th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was commanded by a German prince?
... that the Great Terrestrial Globe in the lobby of New York's Daily News Building was made by American muralist and painter D. Putnam Brinley?
... that poet and minister Johann Heermann wrote the hymn Was willst du dich betrüben (Why do you want to distress yourself) during the Thirty Years' War?
... that although shattered by his imprisonment at Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps, in 1952 Czech writer Norbert Frýd fearlessly protested a friend's arrest in Communist Czechoslovakia?

00:00, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

... that tiny Paederus beetles (pictured) may have caused some of the ten Plagues of Egypt?
... that the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds was deliberately built to be wider than the British Museum Reading Room, on which it was modelled?
... that Jerry Green was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005 and is one of four sports writers to cover each of the first 45 Super Bowls?
... that Slalom was the first video game developed by UK-based video game company Rare?
... that British Library, Add. 17212 is a rare example of a double palimpsest with three successive writings?
... that Ute lady's tresses are threatened by saltcedar and peppergrass?

10 August 2011

16:00, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

... that US Army Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma was awarded the Medal of Honor (pictured) in the Korean War for singlehandedly killing approximately 250 North Korean troops?
... that, to comply with obscenity laws, the first two editions of Eric Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English contained slang with asterisks in place of vowels in vulgar words?
... that Mozart built the final scene of his opera The Magic Flute "upon a solemn fugato around the chorale Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein" by Martin Luther?
... that Jason Richardson is the only track and field athlete to have won both the 110 metres hurdles and 400 metres hurdles at a world youth championships?
... that the pulpit in Christ Church, Barnton, Cheshire has been described as "Puginesquely elaborate"?
... that pink beard-heaths blossom around Sydney in spring?

08:00, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

... that in 1966, the C. M. Russell Museum Complex in Montana wanted to tear down its namesake's home (pictured) even as it was about to receive National Historic Landmark status?
... that the arrest of Brownie Mary led to one of the first clinical trials studying the effects of cannabinoids in HIV-infected adults?
... that Parvathi is said to have worshipped Shiva while in the form of a peahen at the Mayuranathaswami Temple in Mayiladuthurai?
... that the National Benevolent Fund for the Aged held tea party fund-raisers?
... that the Monarch Contemporary Art Center and Sculpture Park also includes boarding facilities?
... that Paul Speratus was in prison, sentenced to death by fire, when he wrote the hymn Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (Salvation now has come for all)?

00:00, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Oscar Clayton (caricature pictured) diagnosed the Prince of Wales's typhoid?
... that the Eastern Cape dwarf cycad was one of the first three Cape cycads to be declared endangered by the Cape provincial nature conservation authorities?
... that William Randolph Hearst dispatched a "damn fool" to deliver a gold and diamond encrusted sword to Cuban independence leader Máximo Gómez?
... that the North Bank Depot Buildings in Portland, Oregon, were built in 1908 as terminals for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway?
... that Arthur Barnett founded a department store that was to become the most successful in the Otago Region?
... that, according to some legends, Batara Kala was conceived when a fish swallowed Shiva's sperm?

9 August 2011

16:00, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the seeds of the European sedge Carex pilulifera (pictured) may be dispersed by the ant Myrmica ruginodis?
... that there is to be a US version of Jeremy Kyle's successful British talk series?
... that the 1605 Keichō Nankaidō earthquake has been identified as a tsunami earthquake, because the recorded tsunami was much larger than would be expected from the estimated earthquake magnitude?
... that US Air Force Major General Nels Running, a recipient of seven Distinguished Flying Crosses, had never boarded an airplane until he left his home town to attend the Air Force Academy?
... that the Chinese philosophy of Agriculturalism advocated that leaders not be paid by the government, instead earning their wages from working in the fields with peasants?
... that former Audio Adrenaline front-man Mark Stuart talked more than he sang on the self-titled debut album of his new project, the Know Hope Collective?

08:00, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

... that a gecko from the British Virgin Islands called the Virgin Islands dwarf sphaero (pictured) is nearly as small as a U.S. dime and weighs at most 0.15 g (0.0053 oz)?
... that the first Lutheran hymnal contained only eight hymns on five melodies by three poets, Martin Luther, Paul Speratus and probably Justus Jonas?
... that the actions of Arthur Seymour contributed to the capital of the Marlborough Province, New Zealand, shifting from Blenheim to Picton and back to Blenheim five years later?
... that French engineering firm Colas Group has its origins from patents filed by two British scientists and a Dutch oil company?
... that Amitabh Bachchan is the most frequent winner since 2000 at the National Film Award for Best Actor (India), winning two awards?

00:00, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Henry Godwin's capture of Rangoon in 1852 was completed by the storming of the Great Dagon Pagoda (pictured)?
... that the Davis Waite House in Aspen was home to the eighth governor of Colorado, a Bauhaus architect and an oil company executive?
... that the Faial Botanical Garden aims to preserve the endemic plants of Faial Island in the Azores?
... that art critic and cookbook collector Elizabeth Robins Pennell wrote the first independent biography of proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft?
... that Holy Trinity Church, Northwich, was the largest of the three churches designed by Edmund Sharpe for the Weaver Navigation Trustees?
... that Prince Diponegoro thought that Chinese Indonesians brought bad luck upon his campaign?

8 August 2011

16:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences operates JAGO (pictured), the only manned research submersible in Germany?
... that the Virginia spiraea may have become extinct in Pennsylvania due to damming of the Yough?
... that Olson House, made famous by its depiction in Christina's World, was designated a National Historic Landmark in June 2011?
... that the Cuno strikes on August 11, 1923, helped force the resignation of the German chancellor and his entire cabinet on August 12 and inspired the Communist Party to plan a coup?
... that the black sea cucumber releases special chemicals into the water to warn potential predators that it may taste bad?
... that Albert Schweitzer likened the bass line of an aria mentioning Satan in Bach's cantata Was willst du dich betrüben, BWV 107, "to the contortions of a huge dragon"?

08:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Indian-born British soldier Edward Hay Mackenzie Elliot (pictured) played association football for Scotland against England and cricket for the MCC?
... that the town of Fakfak has both pro-Indonesian and pro-independent Papua factions?
... that Belle Mina, completed in 1826, is one of the earliest examples of a columned plantation house in Alabama?
... that despite New South Wales having no political party system at the time, the Third Parkes ministry was a coalition government from 1878 to 1883 between former Premiers Henry Parkes and John Robertson?
... that the post-hardcore album The Drug in Me Is You by Falling In Reverse contains a hip-hop beat sample created by Dr. Dre and Eminem?
... that two mummified cats hang from the wall in the Stag Inn at Hastings, England?

00:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the San Francisco Peaks ragwort (pictured) is found only around the peaks in Coconino County, Arizona?
... that both the Spitzer and the Hubble Space Telescopes have probed SN 1961V to check Fritz Zwicky's 1964 claim that it's a supernova impostor?
... that the Atomic Energy Commission of India concluded that the Tummalapalle uranium mine might have one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world?
... that English stunt performer Jacquie de Creed broke the world record for the long distance car ramp jump in 1983?
... that the family placement for the fossil moth genus Dominickus was not noticed until entomologist Norman Tindale was looking at pictures of modern moths from Australia?
... that Michel Demazure, a mathematician from the pseudonymous Nicolas Bourbaki group, led two French science museums, the Palais de la Découverte and the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie?

7 August 2011

16:00, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

... that after his successful Siege of Jerusalem, Pompey the Great entered the Temple's Holy of Holies (15th-century painting by Jean Fouquet, pictured), where none but the High Priest were allowed?
... that scientists first discovered the biological screw joint in the Papuan weevil Trigonopterus oblongus?
... that several defunct Roman amphitheatres, including the Arles Amphitheatre, were converted into churches or fortifications?
... that U.S. Congressman Thaddeus McCotter mounted a 2012 campaign for president after being asked to run by Red Eye satirist Greg Gutfeld?
... that the Alabama variety of the purpleflower pinkroot is found exclusively in Bibb County?
... that Guillaume Rondelet performed a public autopsy on his infant son?

08:00, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the eggs and larvae of fish (salmon larva pictured) can be sampled as an index of the relative abundance of spawning adult fish?
... that the Nepalese Chamber of Commerce, Lhasa, formed in 1943, was the first chamber of commerce established by Nepalese traders in Tibet?
... that, while Peniophora quercina typically grows upon dead oak, it has been known to colonise living plants?
... that Morris Meyerfeld, Jr. was called "the Rockefeller of Vaudeville"?
... that the early Eocene maple species Acer douglasense is the second-oldest maple known from Alaska?
... that the 13th Light Bomber Squadron was the first Greek military unit to be formed in exile after the German conquest of Greece in World War II?

00:00, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

... that from her work for the South Africa Conciliation Committee, Emily Hobhouse (pictured) went on to publicise the suffering of Boer women in British concentration camps during the Second Boer War?
... that Patriarch Dionysius I of Constantinople showed his penis to a synod, so that everyone could see that he was not circumcised?
... that the director of Battlefield Heroes wanted the film to show how countries such as China, Japan and the United States have affected Korea?
... that, up to 2011, Andrew Brokos has had top-100 finishes in his last three World Series of Poker?
... that the extinct prehistoric moth species Tortrix? destructus and Tortrix? florissantana are each known from just one fossil found at Florissant, Colorado?
... that TV presenter George McGavin cooks and eat insects?

6 August 2011

16:00, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Italian sailors in the Middle Ages used trigonometry and the rule of Marteloio (pictured) to navigate at sea?
... that in 2005 Elvis Presley achieved three posthumous number-one hits in the UK Singles Chart as part of a record company campaign to mark his 70th birthday?
... that New York's Potsdam Sandstone was deposited in rising seas and consists of sediments eroded from unvegetated terrestrial landscapes?
... that Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed was the second person in two years to die while in the custody of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission?
... that the prototype of the British Type 281 early warning radar was mounted on the light cruiser HMS Dido in October 1940?
... that in some places in the video game Beep, players must stack dead enemies in order to advance?

08:00, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Piva Monastery (pictured) contains a psalm from the Crnojevic printing press (1493–1496), which was the first printing press in the Balkans?
... that when Rodney Blake graduated from Saint Joseph's University in 1988, his 419 career blocks were the most in NCAA Division I men's basketball history?
... that the current Scotland national under-16 football team squad features players from Real Madrid and Liverpool?
... sportswriter Dick "Scoop" Gordon earned his nickname for reporting at The Daily Princetonian in 1930, and filed his last sports story for the Villager in 2008?
... that the soundtrack of the 2000 film Me You Them is also Gilberto Gil's tribute to Luiz Gonzaga, "The King of Baião"?
... that the writing of the English play, The First Domino, was inspired by its author's injury in a 1999 nail bomb attack in Soho?

00:00, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

... that in Australia, basket ferns often contain amethystine pythons (pictured)?
... that Highland Cottage, the first concrete house in Westchester County, New York, was nicknamed "Mud House" during its construction?
... that as a member of the Desinfektionskommando, one of Adolf Theuer's responsibilities was to insert the Zyklon B into the gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp?
... that FIFA eligibility rules were changed in 2004, reportedly in response to a growing trend in countries such as Qatar and Togo to naturalise Brazil-born footballers?
... that the rare and threatened Florida skullcap does not bloom unless it burns at least every three years?
... that Leal Garcia v. Texas, a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case, dealt with the relationship between international law, U.S. state law, and acts of Congress?

5 August 2011

16:00, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

... that James E. Lawrence (pictured) was once "considered the greatest place-kicker the University of Michigan ever had"?
... that due to the urban setting of the Great Forest Park Balloon Race some balloonists have landed in yards, golf courses, street intersections, and a walled convent garden?
... that simply knowing about and understanding the illusion of transparency might help reduce speech anxiety?
... that the cost of the final 20-kilometre (12 mi) segment of the Croatian A2 motorway was twice that of the other two-thirds of the route?
... that after five previous attempts to evangelise the Kavango people in German South-West Africa, Joseph Gotthardt's journeys eventually led to the establishment of a mission station in 1910?
... that according to the Hindu epic Ramayana, Jaya gave birth to fifty magical divine weapons?

08:00, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Bitar Mansion (pictured) is the most expensive home ever sold in Southeast Portland, Oregon?
... that T-Mobile myTouch 4G spokesperson Carly Foulkes has been cast in the FX Network television series Powers?
... that despite originally being compared to a Kuntilanak (a female vampire in Indonesian mythology), Berlian Hutauruk's vocals on "Badai Pasti Berlalu" were well received?
... that "Donde Quiera Que Estés" was recorded by Selena and the Barrio Boyzz to boost each others' fan bases in different parts of America?
... that in the road movie Children of the Stork, which highlights themes of social exclusion and illegal immigration, a stork must obtain a forged passport to cross the Franco-German border?
... that major league baseball rookie Jason Kipnis of the Cleveland Indians also played high school football and was considered "quite simply one of the top receivers in the state" of Illinois?

00:00, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

... that although the Pacific sand crab can only crawl and burrow backwards (pictured), it can also tread water?
... that in his Florentine Chronicle, Baldassarre Bonaiuti, tells how during the Black Death of 1348 sick people in Florence were abandoned by their families?
... that the cough suppressant medication pentoxyverine is used in experimental pharmacology as a sigma-1 receptor agonist?
... that Jim Eastwood became known as "Jedi Jim" because of his powers of persuasion on The Apprentice?
... that after a boiler explosion aboard the sternwheeler Sarah Dixon, survivors rowed four miles (6 km) to find medical assistance?
... that the title of a 2008 article by German journalist Julia Voss translates as "Jim Button saves the theory of evolution"?

4 August 2011

16:00, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Gisborough Priory (ruins pictured) was one of the last monastic houses in England to fall victim to the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540?
... that Operation Archery was delayed by a full day because HMS Prince Charles was flooded with 14 feet (4.3 m) of seawater?
... that the habitat of the wishbone blue-eyed grass is being seized by "the vine that ate the South"?
... that the bracken club fungus feeds on dead bracken as a saprotroph?
... that surgeon George Crile, Jr. was instrumental in changing how breast cancer is treated by doctors?
... that the Selena song Techno Cumbia is believed to be one of the early templates for pop-cumbia-rap fusions?

08:00, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

... that Australasian Robins can be Pink (pictured), White-rumped, White-browed, White-winged, Grey-headed, Black-sided, Black-chinned, Black-throated, Yellow, Ashy or Slaty?
... that the Arabic translation of Mein Kampf has been a bestseller in parts of the Middle East?
... that in 1944, the baseball team at Beaumont High School in St. Louis, Missouri, included five future Major League Baseball players?
... that, when it was built, the 87-metre (285 ft) high Tsukabaru Dam was the tallest gravity type dam in Japan?
... that Indonesian sociologist Mely G. Tan participated in student protests at the University of California, Berkeley until warned that she could be deported?
... that the only known report of bloodshed during the simulated Nazi invasion of Winnipeg was from a woman who cut her thumb while preparing toast?

00:00, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

A giant cicada fossil

... that fossils of extinct giant cicadas (pictured) were once misidentified as the oldest known butterflies?
... that after returning from the Crimean War and the Siege of Sebastopol, Richard Taylor took command of Fort George in Scotland?
... that Frank Darabont, developer of the television series The Walking Dead, said he went through "four years of frustration" trying to get a network to pick up the pilot episode, "Days Gone Bye"?
... that the Tumblebug Complex Fire burned 14,570 acres (5,900 ha) of Willamette National Forest land in Oregon in 2009?
... that the scheme of stained glass by Shrigley and Hunt in Christ Church, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, has been described as "one of their best and most important ensembles"?
... that the Icelandic Phallological Museum collection of penises includes 55 from whales but only one from Homo sapiens?

3 August 2011

16:00, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the Mermaid Inn (pictured) in England has a strong connection with the notorious Hawkhurst Gang which used the inn in the 1740s?
... that in Normandy on 7 June 1944, the surgeons of the 224th (Parachute) Field Ambulance kept on operating, despite being surrounded on three sides by German forces, the nearest being only 300 yards (270 m) away?
... that the sea cucumber Synaptula lamperti feeds on detritus from the elephant ear sponge?
... that author Babette Rosmond (1921–97) was an important early advocate against traditional treatments for breast cancer?
... that Eynesbury Rovers are the most westerly football club ever to play in the Eastern Counties League?
... that while Pauline Ashwell was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best New Author in 1958, her first story was actually published in 1942 when she was only fourteen years old?

08:00, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

... that a field study in Brazil found the territories of the 11.5 cm long Black-cheeked Gnateaters (adult male pictured) to average 2.94 hectares (7.3 acres)?
... that Death in the Afternoon, a cocktail containing absinthe and Champagne, was popularized by Ernest Hemingway in a 1935 recipe book?
... that Samuel Fisk Green was a pioneering American missionary who founded Sri Lanka's first medical teaching hospital?
... that the Type 79 radar was the first radar system deployed by the Royal Navy and was developed before World War II?
... that Guo Jie is the last surviving member of China's delegation to the 1936 Summer Olympics?
... that Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston, champion of the 1972 World Series of Poker, won his title in a fixed match after an under-the-table tournament deal?

00:00, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the inscriptions in St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, (pictured) include a prayer for deliverance following the Gunpowder Plot?
... that Israeli swimwear designer Lea Gottlieb used flowers in her designs because she felt flowers saved her life?
... that the Pilbara Toadlet has recently been identified as a new species using DNA analysis?
... that journalist Leon Daniel was one of the few reporters to remain in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon?
... that construction of the Fukuji Dam was begun by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but the Japanese government was responsible for its completion?
... that Bryan Cranston was cast as Breaking Bad protagonist Walter White based on his performance in an episode of The X-Files?

2 August 2011

16:00, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the 103-year-old Oregon Slough Railroad Bridge (pictured) is one of only two surviving swing-span bridges in the Portland metropolitan area?
... that wildfires are beneficial to the herb Nelson's checkerbloom?
... that during a hurricane in November 1861, a man charged two cents per ride to transport passengers by boat to and from a popular New York City bar surrounded by floodwaters?
... that ERC, included with GNU Emacs since 2007, is one of a handful of IRC clients available for the text editor?
... that Calcinus tubularis is one of only two known species of hermit crab whose males and females inhabit different types of shell?
... that science fiction and horror author Jane Rice had been a professional author for over fifty years before the publication of her first book, The Sixth Dog?

08:00, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

... that some species of the stick insect genus Timema (example pictured) have not had sex for over a million years?
... that Nelson Story was the first cattleman to drive Texas Longhorns to Montana along the Bozeman Trail in 1866?
... that Russia planted a flag at the North Pole as part of its current arctic policy?
... that while serving in World War II, future National Labor Relations Board chairman John C. Truesdale helped sink the German submarine U-550 on his first day at sea?
... that when the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a "free-market think tank," criticized Al Gore's energy use, CNN mistakenly called the organization an environmental group?
... that the Mapuche military leader Alejo gave up his attack on Concepción, Chile, after having a military parley with his mother?

00:15, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

... that on 26 April 1881 HMS Doterel (pictured) exploded, killing 143 of the 155 crew members?
... that Gigantolithic tools may predate agriculture?
... that because of the Great Depression, the members of the Anshei Minsk synagogue offered to pay the builder with a lifetime membership in lieu of full fees for his services?
... that Buddhist temples in Japan are protected by special Shinto shrines called chinjusha?
... that a first edition of Darwin's On the Origin of Species is in the collection of the University of California, Santa Barbara Library?
... that in "Judy's Turn to Cry", singer Leslie Gore gloats about the return of the boy she cried over in her previous hit song "It's My Party"?
... that SeaLifeBase is an online database, modelled on FishBase, that attempts to provide key information on all marine species apart from finfish?

1 August 2011

16:30, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the Wicklow Mountains (pictured) are the largest area of continuous high ground in Ireland?
... that Praunus flexuosus, the first mysid shrimp ever to be described, may have been transported to North America during World War II?
... that medium Leslie Flint sometimes performed séances from a cupboard?
... that Handel's Gloria, a setting of the Gloria for soprano and strings, was attributed to the composer in 2001?
... that former Michigan linebacker Mike Keller has played in the NFL and held executive positions in the USFL, XFL and World League of American Football?
... that the Faroe Islands national football team won its first ever competitive match against Austria in 1990?
... that Haneji Dam in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, includes an airlift system which enables fish from downstream to go up into the reservoir formed by the dam?

08:45, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the 1872 main building (pictured) at the Brandreth Pill Factory in Ossining, New York, was one of the first to have an Otis elevator installed?
... that NFL halfback Bruce McLenna was killed in 1968 while riding in the rear of a military truck that crashed?
... that Okukubi Dam in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, will be the world's first trapezoidal cemented, sand and gravel dam?
... that Judge Jerold Krieger was a co-founder of the first lesbian and gay synagogue?
... that "She's a Fool", the third single recorded by Lesley Gore, charted in the top 5 in the US?
... that the actor Yoshio Harada, noted for playing antihero roles in his youth, won a Medal of Honor from the Japanese government?
... that the Pacific lugworm must turn its esophagus inside-out when feeding?

01:00, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

... that the highest point in the Tatoosh Range (pictured) is Unicorn Peak at 6,917 ft (2,108 m) of elevation?
... that the extinct Hydriomena? protrita was the first geometer moth to be described from the American fossil record?
... that director Malcolm Venville planned to make a feature film entirely in sign language starring Orlando Bloom?
... that the Forth Valley Royal Hospital was the first in the UK to use robotic porters?
... that the steam-powered cargo liner Empire Dynasty carried a Supermarine Spitfire from Liverpool to Bombay in 1945?
... that the Simon and Garfunkel song "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" has been interpreted both as a tribute to the eponymous architect and as a farewell from writer Paul Simon to partner Art Garfunkel?
... that the northeastern bulrush has died out of Quebec, but is still found in some sinkholes in the Eastern United States?