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31 January 2011

18:00, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the monkey-queen Tara (pictured with her first husband) is described in the Hindu epic Ramayana to have set a habit to visit her second husband Sugriva drunk before indulging in sex?
... that Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer claims that passing secret account details to WikiLeaks is the only hope he has to let "society know what's going on" in the banking sector?
... that repertoires of contention slowly change over time, and include such concepts as rough music, sit-ins and hacktivism?
... that Gulet Mohamed, an American citizen who was detained in Kuwait, was blocked from flying home by the U.S. "no-fly list" until a federal court intervened to allow him to return?
... that when Winnington Hall in Cheshire was used as a girls' finishing school in the 19th century, it was visited by Sir Charles Hallé and John Ruskin?
... that despite being home to Zihuatanejo and Ixtapa and near to Acapulco, most of Guerrero's "Big Coast" lacks significant tourism infrastructure?
... that the script to season one of the Swedish comedy series Solsidan has been sold to the American television network ABC, which plans to create their own version of the series in the United States?

12:00, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

... that two destroyers of the Royal Navy's Fishery Protection Squadron, commanded by a commodore aboard a fishing trawler (pictured), once thwarted an Icelandic boarding attempt?
... that approximately 1500 tourists were trapped in the Torres del Paine National Park as a result of recent protests against the rising price of natural gas in the Magallanes Region of Chile?
... that the bell from the wreck of SS Edmund Fitzgerald is on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum?
... that in 1911, John Gaunt's second biplane nearly crashed because a bystander bent the aircraft's elevator before a flight?
... that claspingleaf doll's daisy can grow underwater, produce an inflorescence above the surface, bloom and produce seeds, and thus propagate during floods?
... that Rebecca Breeds' Home and Away character Ruby Buckton will begin a relationship with Romeo Smith, played by Breeds' real life partner, Luke Mitchell?
... that despite a fire, dismantling and having parts sold off since its first installation at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Tiffany Chapel is now open to the public again in Florida?

06:00, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the original Lady Elliot Island Light (pictured) was the first lighthouse in Australia to be constructed of a timber frame clad with cast iron plates?
... that part of the bed of South Branch Kishwaukee River in Illinois was the plain of an ancient lake?
... that Themistokli Gërmenji, an Albanian nationalist, received the French Croix de Guerre in November 1917, but was executed shortly thereafter by a French military court?
... that chess grandmaster Rosendo Balinas Jr. was a candidate in the 1994 special election for the seat of Rizal's first district in the House of Representatives of the Philippines?
... that Dave Downs pitched a complete-game shutout in his Major League Baseball debut with the Philadelphia Phillies?
... that St Denys' Church, Little Barford, Bedfordshire, was built to serve a medieval village which has since been deserted?
... that Saguaro boots are the co-creation of a bird and a cactus?

00:00, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the decorations in St John's Church, Duxford (pictured) range from medieval wall paintings to modern graffiti?
... that Ben Roberts-Smith's receipt of the Victoria Cross for Australia for gallantry in Afghanistan, makes him the most highly decorated service person currently in the Australian Defence Force?
... that the closure of the Clinton Falls Bridge in its 100th year led local residents to successfully push for its historic preservation?
... that wine historians theorize that, during the Roman occupation of what is now Moravia, Grüner Veltliner and Welschriesling may have been introduced to the Czech wine region of Mikulovská?
... that the Virginia–Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine serves as the state-supported veterinary school for both Virginia and Maryland?
... that English soprano Joanne Lunn recorded Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir, such as Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir, BWV 73?
... that Miller is one of the ten most popular typefaces used in American newspapers?

30 January 2011

18:00, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

... that a standing stone (pictured) near St Tyfrydog's Church, Llandyfrydog, Wales, is said to be a man turned to stone by St Tyfrydog for stealing a Bible from the church?
... that in Florida v. Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that a state court decision is not "final" if a trial has not concluded in a verdict?
... that Andreu Mas-Colell, currently the Minister of Economy and Knowledge of Catalonia, Spain, has studied general equilibrium theory by using differential topology?
... that when built as currently planned, the Stad Ship Tunnel would allow ships to bypass Stad, one of the most dangerous sections of the Norwegian coast?
... that Nicholas Longworth built America's first commercially successful winery with a pink sparkling wine made from Catawba?
... that English classical singer Anna Reynolds recorded Bach cantatas with Richter's Münchener Bach-Chor, including Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen? BWV 81?
... that law in Vanuatu combines a legacy of English common law, French law and indigenous customary law?

12:00, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the remains of Confederate soldiers buried at Camp Nelson National Cemetery (pictured) were exhumed after the American Civil War and re-buried elsewhere?
... that Brent Knoll Camp on the Somerset Levels was used for military purposes in the Iron Age and again in World War II?
... that American primatologist Harold J. Coolidge, Jr. was the inaugural vice president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature as well as a founding director of the World Wildlife Fund?
... that Walter Baetke, who became a professor of Scandinavian studies and history of religion, wrote his doctoral thesis on children in English literature during and after Shakespeare's time?
... that the Hall XPTBH, a patrol torpedo bomber, was the only aircraft that ever received three mission designation letters in the U.S. Navy's aircraft designation system?
... that Nepal's first public bus service was founded in 1959 by Karuna Ratna Tuladhar and his brother?
... that Penny and the Quarters are a "lost" soul band which came to prominence in 2010 after an unreleased demo of their song "You And Me" was used in the film Blue Valentine?

06:00, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Wilmer Tanner (pictured with a tiger trophy), born 1909, described at least fifteen new species or genera?
... that Bermuda hedge fund Juniperus Capital was named after the Juniperus bermudiana, Bermudian cedar trees that are extremely hardy in the face of adverse conditions?
... that Hungarian team handball player József Éles was top scorer at the 1993 World Championship?
... that German musicologist Alexander Ferdinand Grychtolik reconstructed Bach's homage cantata O angenehme Melodei, BWV 210a, from Bach's wedding cantata O holder Tag, erwünschte Zeit, BWV 210?
... that Joe Heitz of California wine producer Heitz Wine Cellars‎ is considered the first in the U.S. to champion single vineyard designated wine?
... that one of the T-shirts found in a backpack bomb in Spokane referred to a play put on by high school students in Chewelah, Washington?
... that it took a replay and then eighty minutes of extra time for Brighton & Hove Albion reserves to win the 1920–21 Southern League title?

00:00, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Sweetwater Dam (pictured) near San Diego, when first constructed in 1888, was the tallest masonry arch dam in the United States?
... that the sinking in October 1942 of the German prisoner transport Palatia off Lindesnes is the second deadliest ship disaster in Norwegian history?
... that California Supreme Court Associate Justice Marshall F. McComb swore in Ronald Reagan as Governor of California?
... that the highest point on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was 965 feet (294 m) above sea level, just to the east of Britannia railway station?
... that although the Parks and Recreation third season premiere "Go Big or Go Home" was filmed immediately after the second season ended to accommodate actress Amy Poehler's pregnancy, the premiere was delayed until January?
... that renewable energy in Russia is largely underdeveloped, despite it being one of the top energy producers in the world?
... that the lunar crater Hell is named after a priest?

29 January 2011

18:00, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

... that McCants Stewart (pictured), the first African American lawyer in Oregon, was the son of an Associate Justice of the Liberian Supreme Court?
... that ryot and zerat were two labour-hiring processes practised by indigo planters in Bihar and Bengal during the Indian colonial period?
... that the 2010–11 Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball team is the first since 2003 to record a win over a top-ten ranked team?
... that Elektro–L is the first Russian weather satellite to operate successfully in geostationary orbit?
... that Stone Jam was Slave's second album to be certified Gold and was named by Jam-Master Jay of Run–D.M.C. as one of his favorite albums?
... that both Thomas-Morse R-5s competed in the 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race, but placed last among aircraft that completed the event?
... that British author Sunjeev Sahota had not read a novel until he bought Midnight's Children in an airport at the age of 18?

12:00, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the two largest Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir trees in the United States survived the B&B Complex Fires (pictured) that burned 90,769 acres (367.33 km²) of forest in the Cascade Range of Oregon?
... that the assassin Ablabius was paid fifty pounds of gold for his failed plot against Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in November 562?
... that the book Beyond the First Amendment argues freedom of speech on the Internet is not easily addressed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution?
... that while Swedish archaeologist Olov Janse originally argued for European rather than Chinese origins of Bronze Age culture in Vietnam, he reversed his view after he began excavating at Đông Sơn?
... that in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court in Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin began the regulation of wellhead natural gas prices, which lasted until Congress deregulated them on January 1, 1985?
... that several ordas (hordes) originated on the Eurasian Steppe, including the famous Golden Horde?
... that Tony Lombardi, who took over when Rick Rasnick was fired, was the head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team for just five days?

06:00, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Nordhordland Bridge (pictured), designed by Aas-Jakobsen, has no lateral anchorage because of the depth of Salhusfjorden?
... that in Booth v. Churner, over 30 U.S. states asked the United States Supreme Court to require prisoners to resolve all administrative claims before pursuing litigation?
... that Tupaia miocenica, known from a single tooth, is among the few known fossil treeshrews?
... that after beginning his baseball career with the Philadelphia Phillies, right fielder George Durning led the Salisbury Indians in games played, times at bat, and hits in his first full season?
... that a 300-metre (980 ft) long bridge has been recently built near Tojg, in western Afghanistan, funded by the Commander's Emergency Response Program?
... that George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow both lived in the same house on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts?
... that Carlina White, kidnapped when 19 days old, was reunited with her parents 23 years later as a result of her own investigative work, the longest recorded gap in a non-parental abduction?

00:00, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

... that when the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel (pictured) opened in 1973 in Washington, D.C., the dedicatory festivities included a birthday party for author Anita Loos, and Carol Channing singing while seated upon a cake?
... that, according to the United Nations, the 2004–2005 Uíge Province, Angola, outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever was the world's worst epidemic of any kind of hemorrhagic fever?
... that boxing promoter Don King was the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in Cedric Kushner Promotions, Ltd. v. King?
... that the Chilean movie 03:34: Earthquake in Chile will narrate three different stories based on the events that occurred after the 2010 Chile earthquake?
... that the proposed Bridge Canyon Dam would flood Lava Falls, one of the most spectacular rapids on the Colorado River?
... that Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 is a Marxist study of the period of the Belle Époque?
... that Eric Doeringer has sometimes sold up to US$1,500 worth of "bootlegs", small copies of paintings by eminent modern artists, in one day?

28 January 2011

18:00, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

... that RAAF Air Vice-Marshal Alan Charlesworth (pictured) once survived an accident with future Governor of New South Wales Eric Woodward when their aircraft landed upside down on a fence?
... that the Mayo Clinic argued in Mayo v. United States that medical residents, who work up to 80 hours a week and are paid approximately $50,000 a year, should be considered students instead of employees?
... that International Commission of Control, established on October 15, 1913, to assume the administration of Albania, was composed of the representatives of each Great Power and one Albanian?
... that while Oregon's Willamette Valley is known primarily for Pinot noir, Cristom Vineyards in the Eola-Amity Hills has been growing Syrah since 2002?
... that Congregation Dorshei Emet is the first synagogue in Canada and the third in the world to receive a Torah scroll handwritten by a woman?
... that the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis completed a clinical trial to test whether hypothermia (cooling) within the first few hours of a traumatic spinal cord or brain injury makes a difference in the severity of injury?
... that an 11-year-old girl beat the video game Diva Starz: Mall Mania in 42 minutes?

12:00, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

... that cyanotoxins are produced by bacteria which float on lakes and oceans as a green scum (pictured) and can kill animals by causing respiratory failure?
... that in the 1970s, the Pelican Bowl was played to determine the national champions of black college football in the United States?
... that during the Yuan administrative rule of Tibet, the Mongol approved d-pon chen, or "Great Administrator", was responsible for the administration of Tibet under the Yuan Dynasty?
... that the Vought XSB3U was designed as a result of the U.S. Navy's reluctance to embrace the monoplane for carrier operations?
... that claims to unite the Ottoman vilayets of Kosovo, Shkoder, Monastir and Ioaninna into one, the Albanian Vilayet, often included the Salonica Vilayet too?
... that the Fringe episode "Brown Betty" was inspired by The Princess Bride?
... that a memorial all-star game was held in 1937 to raise money for the family of Howie Morenz, who was said to have died of a broken heart in the belief a broken leg had ended his hockey career?

06:00, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the largest native land animal on Ascension Island is a crab, Johngarthia lagostoma (pictured)?
... that The Cars, The Primitives, The Lemonheads and Tarnation have all released recordings of The Nightcrawlers' "slightly bizarre nursery rhyme" "The Little Black Egg"?
... that in January 1917, New Zealander Clive Franklyn Collett was the first British or Commonwealth military pilot to parachute from an airplane?
... that land for the defunct rural Ashland High School in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, was donated in 1907 by later State Senator Andrew R. Johnson?
... that Anni Dewani was a Swedish woman who was kidnapped and murdered during her honeymoon in Cape Town, South Africa?
... that when first described in the 1890s, the Bornean Slow Loris was said to have the face of a bear, the hands of a monkey, and to move like a sloth?
... that when the troops in front of his soldiers broke and fled at the Battle of Guilford Court House, General Edward Stevens told his brigade that the retreat was part of the battle plan?

00:00, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

... that in 1941, RAAF Squadron Leader Peter Jeffrey (pictured) introduced the radical concept of commissioned and non-commissioned pilots sharing a common mess while on combat duty?
... that bones of Hypsibema missouriensis, now the state dinosaur of Missouri, have only been found in Bollinger County, Missouri?
... that bongo player Chaino, whose albums included Jungle Mating Rhythms, claimed to be an orphan from a lost tribe in central Africa but was actually born in Philadelphia and raised in Chicago?
... that the earliest known fragment of the Testament of Ba, an account of the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet, was discovered in the British Library in 2009?
... that in 1776, to warn authorities in Halifax of the siege of Fort Cumberland, Redcoat Thomas Dixson successfully navigated the Minas Basin, home to the Earth's highest tides, in a small open boat?
... that, if built as currently planned, the Storfjord Bridge will have the longest span of any suspension bridge in the world?
... that prior to authoring Freedom of Expression®, Kembrew McLeod successfully registered the phrase "freedom of expression" as a trademark in the United States?

27 January 2011

18:00, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Life magazine estimated 136 million people saw the photograph "Bloody Saturday" (detail pictured) after the August 1937 bombing of Shanghai?
... that Justice Thomas said the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Penry v. Johnson on the relevance of mental retardation in death penalty sentencing sent "mixed signals" to lower courts?
... that Samrong Sen is a prehistoric archaeological site in Kampong Chhnang Province, Cambodia, consisting of a very large fluviatile shell midden?
... that during World War II, George R. Salisbury, Jr., later a Wyoming rancher and state representative, was a Bronze Star-winning tank commander?
... that St Mary's Church, Pentraeth, Wales, was decorated in the 18th century with paper garlands, perhaps to celebrate parishioners' weddings?
... that after losing a job, the Salty Dogs Jazz Band would sometimes find that they had been replaced by another jazz band with the same name?
... that François Rochebrune, the French commander of the Zouaves of Death, once disciplined panicked Polish troops by asking them what time it was, which was the only Polish he knew?

12:00, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Elmer Mitchell (pictured) boasts the highest winning percentage in the history of Eastern Michigan Eagles men's basketball and is considered the father of intramural sports?
... that the International Dunhuang Project has made over a quarter of a million images of Silk Road manuscripts and other artefacts available online?
... that the E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency built bicycle racer Major Taylor a revolutionary steam powered pacing tandem he used to break the world record at a speed of 45.56 miles per hour (73.32 km/h)?
... that California wine producer Tablas Creek Vineyard is the "sibling winery" of Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate Château de Beaucastel?
... that the Cornubian batholith and Haig Fras granite are similar in age and have the same orientation, but are separate intrusions?
... that Jared Lee Loughner was detained at the Federal Correctional Institution at Phoenix after the 2011 Tucson shooting?
... that Allegro, the third musical of Rodgers and Hammerstein, was called "an out-and-out failure"?

06:00, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Miguel Angel Galluzzi's Ducati Monster (pictured) is credited with both reviving the retro standard motorcycle and creating a new naked bike niche?
... that by 1961, Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, had trained "the largest number of black doctors and nurses in the world"?
... that singer Gary Williams played Frank Sinatra in the West End production of The Rat Pack?
... that public perception of graffiti in New York is slowly changing from an act of vandalism to a form of art?
... that the Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Assam, India, is named after the only ape in India, the hoolock gibbon?
... that Graciela Chichilnisky, who proposed the Kyoto Protocol's market for carbon credit trading, obtained her PhDs in mathematics and economics without ever having been an undergraduate?

00:00, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

... that General Nicolas-Marie Songis des Courbons (pictured) served under Napoleon I, as commander of the Grande Armée artillery?
... that Abo Elementary School in Artesia, New Mexico, was built entirely underground and equipped as a fallout shelter, in case of nuclear war?
... that minuscule 817 was used by Desiderius Erasmus in his Novum Instrumentum omne?
... that the FBI and CIA used vein matching as evidence that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed of al-Qaeda had killed journalist Daniel Pearl?
... that when construction of the Bjorøy Tunnel in Norway hit a section of sand, a new tunneling method had to be developed to continue?
... that the Nazi storyline in the Fringe episode "The Bishop Revival" was well-received by Entertainment Weekly for featuring a "good threat"?
... that André Duchesne's group, Les 4 Guitaristes de l'Apocalypso-Bar (The 4 Guitarists of the Apocalypso Bar) was billed as a band from post-apocalypse Canada "inspired by the ghost of Jimi Hendrix"?

26 January 2011

18:00, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the surface of the South African plant Peucedanum galbanum (pictured) is covered with blister-causing toxins, and that exposure to sunlight could make the blisters worse?
... that the Emmanuel DeHodiamont House, a stone house built in 1830, shares the status of being the oldest house in St. Louis, Missouri?
... that Francesco Nullo is commemorated in both Italy and Poland as a hero of those countries' struggle for independence?
... that the Republic of Ireland has no honours system, though the issue has been considered by successive governments since 1930?
... that controversy over New Brunswick's Common Schools Act of 1871 resulted in two deaths in the town of Caraquet?
... that Cully Dahlstrom was the first American born player to win the Calder Trophy as the National Hockey League's rookie of the year?
... that the I.S.T. XL-14 Maya, a light aircraft, was constructed primarily from woven bamboo?

12:00, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Prince Sozisa became the 'Authorised Person' of Swaziland (flag pictured) after the death of King Sobhuza II?
... that, following the collision of Hughes Airwest Flight 706 with a Marine Corps F-4B Phantom II, the US Armed Forces required military aircraft to obey civilian air traffic controllers?
... that Gervasio won the international competition at the 1983 Viña del Mar International Song Festival?
... that the Royal Moroccan Navy is constructing a new naval base at Ksar es-Seghir?
... that French encyclopédiste Claude Yvon was forced to flee to Holland because he was believed to have contributed to a controversial thesis published in 1752 by Jean-Martin de Prades?
... that after his professional basketball career ended, Boo Ellis worked as a security guard in his hometown of Hamilton, Ohio?
... that some of the Chinit River diversion and canal structures of the Khmer Rouge era were built by forced labour and damaged by regime soldiers who were "grenade fishing"?

06:00, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Douglas XCG-17 glider (pictured) was converted from a C-47 transport that had originally flown for Northwest Airlines?
... that the fossil primate ? Nycticebus linglom is known from a single tooth, which is said to be the smallest known prosimian molar?
... that the Wainwright Tomb was described as "the most sensitive and the most graceful" of the tombs designed by Louis Sullivan?
... that Stage AE in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a concert venue partially owned by the Pittsburgh Steelers?
... that All Saints Church, Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire, has been called the "Cathedral of the Marsh"?
... that Alvin Young, cut from his high school basketball team every single year, went on to lead NCAA Division I in scoring in college?
... that three different versions of "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" reached the radio airplay charts in the same year?

00:00, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

... that over 400 species of birds (state bird, Brown Thrasher, pictured) have been recorded in the American state of Georgia?
... that the recall of a weather ship for budgetary reasons was blamed for the minimal warning given in advance of the Great Storm of 1987 for Great Britain?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court said Congress did not exempt certain federal banks from state taxes in Director of Revenue of Mo. v. CoBank ACB notwithstanding the landmark decision in McCulloch?
... that, as women in Sweden were not allowed to join the Swedish Tailoring Workers Union, they founded a separate Women's Trade Union in 1902?
... that Dwight Eisenhower's Chance for Peace speech and his farewell address have been called the "bookends" of his administration?
... that German musicologist Werner Neumann founded the Bach-Archiv Leipzig in 1950 and contributed Bach cantatas to the Neue Bach-Ausgabe?
... that Boops boops is a species of Boops called "the bogue"?

25 January 2011

18:00, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the mushroom Auriscalpium vulgare (pictured) is named for an instrument used for personal hygiene?
... that Kevin Houston holds the U.S. Military Academy's men's basketball records for points in a game (53), season (953) and career (2,325)?
... that the Mitsubishi 1MF9 was the first Japanese-designed fighter intended for use from aircraft carriers?
... that the design of the Richmond Memorial Library in Batavia, New York, was inspired by the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, Massachusetts?
... that as a condition of paying for restoration work, a 19th-century benefactor of St Mary's Church in Bodewryd, Wales, required the church to have Islamic-style stained glass?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 2001 securities fraud case that secret plans to disregard an oral contract are illegal?
... that infants born with Malpuech facial clefting syndrome may have a tail?

12:00, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the steam engines and boilers of the Russian ironclad Petr Veliky (pictured) were so defective that they had to be replaced five years after she entered service in 1876?
... that Bob McCurdy, described by former basketball teammate Kevin Eastman as having virtually no quickness, dribbling skills, jumping ability or foot speed, led NCAA Division I in scoring in 1974–75?
... that the European SARTRE Project conducted its first successful trial of an electronically controlled road train in January 2011?
... that two holes in the ceiling of the Prohodna cave in Bulgaria are known as the "Eyes of God"?
... that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal is the only British judicial body that can investigate whether surveillance carried out by MI5 or MI6 is legal?
... that U.S. President Barack Obama gave a speech on January 12, 2011, honoring the victims of the 2011 Tucson shooting?
... that squab pies, which Charles Dickens said inspired "hatred of the whole human race", are not actually made with squabs?

06:00, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Frédéric Chopin dedicated his two Nocturnes, Op. 55, to his Scottish pupil Jane Stirling (pictured), who was interested in the arts and prison reform?
... that New York Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas, one of the first two Greek American women elected to office in New York, was unopposed in her first general election?
... that the British Library Philatelic Collections has over 8 million items and was established in 1891 with Thomas Tapling's bequest?
... that Hong Kong Observatory Director Lam Chiu Ying was criticised for issuing the number eight typhoon signal when Typhoon Nuri approached Hong Kong in 2008, as well as issuing it too late?
... that Obed "O.B." Borgen founded radio stations KFIL and KFIL-FM to serve Fillmore County, Minnesota?
... that Obie Trotter ended up playing college basketball at Alabama A&M because his mother felt their head coach was a "godly man"?
... that Vince Gill and Patty Griffin provide background vocals to the song "Country Strong" by Gwyneth Paltrow?

00:00, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

... that bacon ice cream (pictured) was originally created for April Fools' Day but went on to be one of Heston Blumenthal's signature dishes?
... that the March 2, 1957, disappearance of attorney Maud Crawford from her Camden, Arkansas, home remains officially unsolved?
... that although the Nuri Demirağ Nu D.38 transport aircraft was completed in 1941, it was not flown until 1944?
... that a Chinatown in St. Louis, Missouri, existed until its demolition for Busch Memorial Stadium in 1966?
... that the Ticha Reservoir in northeastern Bulgaria bears the medieval name of the Kamchiya river?
... that, in 1993, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory agreed to develop an online reference system for the California Film Commission's library containing hundreds of thousands of location images?
... that the University of Cambodia, established in 2003, bestowed an honorary doctorate degree to the Hong Kong actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Jackie Chan?

24 January 2011

18:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

... that many years after Mughal Emperor Akbar's manuscript of the Khamsa of Nizami was created, his son ordered a portrait of the scribe added (pictured)?
... that U.S. Senator Jesse Helms suggested a new series of gold medallions that would make it easier for people to buy gold?
... that Alberta's Beaver Hills were protected by Canada's first forest reserve in 1899?
... that two of BYU's starting football players were suspended from playing in the 1998 Liberty Bowl for violating the Brigham Young University Honor Code?
... that Lower Saxony's finance minister sold the important medieval archaeological site in Nienover to a horse breeder at a fire-sale price, without ensuring that 12 years of research could continue?
... that the song "Es Demasiado Tarde", written and performed by Ana Gabriel, was the best-performing Latin single of 1991 in the U.S.?
... that Tropolis has been called an attempt to "snackify" beverages?

12:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the churchyard of St James' Church, Stanstead Abbotts, Hertfordshire (pictured) has six monuments and a tomb that are all listed buildings?
... that, at the turn of the 20th century, the third largest winery in the world was Stone Hill Winery from the Hermann wine region of Missouri?
... that Diallo Telli, first Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity, died of starvation at Camp Boiro in Guinea?
... that the Creative Research On Weapons project proved the practicality of the solid-fueled ramjet engine?
... that sports club Løkken IF was represented with one Norwegian, one American and one Swede at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships?
... that the New Harmony Toll Bridge, which opened in 1930, is owned by the only remaining joint state toll bridge commission chartered by the U.S. Congress?
... that, in 1551, hours after a pregnant woman was hanged during the Spanish Inquisition, two dead infants were seen to fall free of the body in an unusual case of coffin birth?

06:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Low Head Lighthouse (pictured) is Australia's oldest continuously used pilot station and was only the third lighthouse to be constructed in Australia?
... that American Nisei Richard Sakakida, while working undercover as an interpreter for the Imperial Japanese Army, engineered a mass escape of about 500 Filipino prisoners during World War II?
... that polo and ice hockey player Stewart Iglehart is the only man to represent the United States internationally in two sports?
... that Fringe star John Noble considers "Johari Window" one of his favorite episodes?
... that, although the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire was badly damaged during the War of the Roses in 1461, St John's Church was apparently unharmed?
... that the Terasca sounding rocket's three stages were a combination of the existing Terrier, ASROC and Cajun rockets, respectively?
... that a 1940 live recording of Duke Ellington by "audio magician" Jack Towers won a Grammy Award in 1980?

00:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Matterhorn Peak (pictured) is the highest point in the Dunn Peak massif in the Shuswap Highlands of British Columbia?
... that Rim Kin, the author of the first published novel in Cambodia, was president of the Khmer Writers' Association?
... that the Carlson Sparrow was declared Grand Champion ultralight aircraft at the Experimental Aircraft Association's 1987 Oshkosh Airshow?
... that illustrations from three of the Katie Morag series of children's picture books by Mairi Hedderwick have been used in a health promotion campaign to encourage breastfeeding?
... that Ádahooníłígíí was the first newspaper written entirely in Navajo?
... that the Italian monitor Alfredo Cappellini was built during World War I by converting a floating crane?
... that the inspiration for WePay originated when co-founder Rich Aberman had difficulty fundraising for his brother's bachelor party?
... that performic acid explodes upon rapid heating to about 80 °C (176 °F)?

23 January 2011

18:00, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Miller Reese Hutchison invented an early portable electric hearing aid (pictured)?
... that Sathyamangalam forest is the only reserve forest in South India with a significant presence of tigers, that is not yet declared as one of the tiger reserves in India?
... that despite fumarolic activity and earthquakes near the Olca-Paruma volcanoes, none of them appear to be hazardous?
... that defunct Detroit-based music retailer Harmony House began in 1947 as a Hallmark Cards store?
... that although he is not a Catholic bishop, Father Keith Newton will carry a mitre and crozier in his role as Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham?
... that the December 2010 Gascoyne River flood in Western Australia was triggered by rainfall exceeding 6,000% of the region's monthly mean?
... that the Dajti Castle near Tirana, Albania, is thought to have been built by Justinian I in the 6th century AD in order to protect the area from Slavic attacks?
... that after Myrrha made love with her father, she was transformed into the myrrh-tree and gave birth to Adonis?

12:00, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the second Ministry, led by Thomas Forsaith (pictured), was the shortest in New Zealand's parliamentary history?
... that Malosco Castle in the Italian Province of Trento was once the residence of the Vicedomini Judge of Val di Non, commander of the Imperial Austrian royal court?
... that Ely S. Parker, the prevailing Seneca plaintiff in Fellows v. Blacksmith (1857), later drafted the surrender at Appomattox and became the first indigenous Commissioner of Indian Affairs?
... that alder trees have a symbiotic relationship with the bacterium Frankia alni which may have been exploited by the Incas to increase soil fertility?
... that the Flys have played on the same bill as the Buzzcocks, The Psychedelic Furs, the Pretenders, and Black Slate?
... that future Hall of Famer Scotty Davidson was the first professional hockey player to volunteer with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of World War I?
... that, when it opened in 1971, the Sotra Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in Norway?
... that votive offerings used in Vietnamese lên đồng mediumship rituals may include sweets, alcohol, cigarettes, and even cans of Coca-Cola?

06:00, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

... that during Vedic times Makara (pictured), known as the "water monster vehicle", was the Vahana or vehicle of Varuna, the Vedic deity?
... that Justice Robert Cooper Grier observed in New York ex rel. Cutler v. Dibble (1858) that "no law of Congress can be found which authorizes white men to intrude on the possessions of Indians"?
... that Auditorio Monte do Gozo, a Spanish outdoor concert venue in Santiago de Compostela, has resulted in pop music stars coming where Christian pilgrims usually walk?
... that Textbook of Biochemistry originally came about because Alexander Thomas Cameron, not being a fluent speaker, would write out his university lectures in full?
... that one 19th-century writer said that St Peirio's Church, Rhosbeirio was "one of the humblest ecclesiastical buildings in Anglesey"?
... that interments at the Gunnersbury Cemetery in London include a Polish president and Commander-in-Chief?
... that the Toyota Prius V is the first spinoff from the Prius platform, and the Prius V hybrid gasoline-electric station wagon is scheduled to be released to the U.S. market by mid 2011?
... that bowler Guppy Troup chose his nickname based on a youth team he captained?

00:00, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

... that general Paul-Jean-Baptiste Poret de Morvan (pictured) with his Guard Grenadiers was in the first line of fire during the final French assault at the Battle of Waterloo?
... that the Oregon Portage Railroad was the first railroad in Oregon, and had the first locomotive in the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon Pony?
... that in 1944, the Holy See received an envoy from Charles de Gaulle's French Committee of National Liberation?
... that occupation of the La Soledad de Maciel archeological site in Guerrero, Mexico, lasted for over 3,000 years?
... that Kaiǀkhauan Captain Andreas Lambert probably was the first traditional leader to be executed by the Germans in their South-West African colony?
... that the Stearman XOSS observation biplane was equipped with full-span flaps on its upper wing, allowing its pilot better control at low speeds?
... that art historian André Grabar fled St. Petersburg a few days after the Russian Revolution, to become a leading expert in Byzantine and Medieval art?
... that the Sega Toylet, an interactive urinal, allows users to play video games with their urine?

22 January 2011

18:00, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

... that although the Vought XSO2U (pictured) was judged superior to the Curtiss XSO3C by the U.S. Navy in a competition for a new scout aircraft for operation from cruisers, the Curtiss aircraft won the contract?
... that King George III wrote a letter about General Sir John Doyle's exploits in the American and French Revolutionary Wars ... "so that his zeal and exertions in our service may be known to posterity"?
... that three days before his wedding, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway thanked his family and fellow countrymen for not making his choice of bride a succession issue?
... that despite being that year's U.S. champion in the 200 m breaststroke, Iris Cummings still had to raise her own funds to travel to the 1936 Summer Olympics?
... that the Areni-1 winery is believed to be the world's oldest surviving wine production facility?
... that slavery of indigenous people in modern Bolivia was temporarily abolished during the First Upper Peru campaign?
... that Herbert McLeod invented the McLeod gauge?
... that the arrival of the railway eventually left the Ault Store as the only remaining commercial building in Dundas, Minnesota's original business district?

12:00, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

... that St Mary's Church, Rhodogeidio, Wales, was built as a chapel of ease for St Ceidio's Church, but both are now disused and St Mary's (pictured) is in ruins?
... that a wreck off the coast of Argentina was identified in January 2008 as the passenger ship Ussukuma, which was scuttled in 1939?
... that the US Supreme Court ruled in Shafer v. South Carolina that defendants must be allowed to inform a jury of an alternative sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole?
... that the original Cape Bowling Green Light was prefabricated in Brisbane, constructed in Cape Bowling Green, moved twice due to coastal erosion, and finally relocated to Sydney?
... that the Persian ruler Khosrau II used a man who he claimed to be Theodosius, the eldest son of the murdered Byzantine emperor Maurice, as a justification for launching a war against Byzantium?
... that the executive office of the Organization of American Historians is located at Millen House in Bloomington, Indiana, a federally designated historic site?
... that the Flying K Sky Raider II ultralight aircraft is described as an "intimate tandem two seater"?
... that Clint Eastwood described accountant Irving Leonard as being "like a second father to me"?

06:00, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Jay-Eye-See (pictured), the horse named for Jerome Increase Case, briefly held records for both trotting and pacing?
... that the 2007 Ajmer Dargah attack was carried out by explosives hidden in a Tiffin carrier?
... that most of French kings of the Bourbon era took oath on the Reims Gospel, a medieval book written in Old Church Slavonic languages?
... that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams that the phrase "contracts of employment" in the Federal Arbitration Act actually does not refer to employment contracts?
... that Oldfields, the 26 acre historic home once owned by J.K. Lilly, Jr., is an example of an American country place estate located on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art?
... that American singer "Weird Al" Yankovic received a Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video for "Fat", a parody cover version of Michael Jackson's song "Bad"?
... that, as an expert in Norse mythology, Gro Steinsland wrote an Op-ed article in 2000 calling Thor Heyerdahl’s Odin expedition a charade orchestrated by Snorri Sturluson?
... that Frank Freyer of the United States Navy became Chief of Staff of the Peruvian Navy in 1921?

00:00, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Borat Sagdiyev's son, who appeared in photos in the movie Borat, was actually trans woman and porn star Brittany CoxXx (pictured)?
... that bivariate analysis is one of the simplest forms of quantitative (statistical) analysis?
... that Eric Bachmann from Crooked Fingers provided backing vocals on the song "Simple Hello" from the Damien Jurado album On My Way to Absence?
... that part of an inscribed medieval gravestone is set into a window sill at St Fflewin's Church, Llanfflewin, Wales?
... that the Vigra Fixed Link had more debt after 22 years of toll collection, than when the project was originally finished?
... that James Fenimore Cooper was very dissatisfied with his American Revolutionary War novel Lionel Lincoln, his only "strict attempt" at historical fiction?
... that the Forest and Farm Workers Union of Sweden advocated an agrarian reform modelled on the Soviet one?
... that composers Itaal Shur and Rob Thomas won the 1999 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for Santana's hit song "Smooth"?

21 January 2011

18:00, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the apparent timber framing of St John's Church, High Legh, Cheshire (pictured) is "a sham"?
... that the Diamondback air-to-air missile was originally known as the "Super Sidewinder"?
... that the bearded tylophora is now classified in the dogbane family?
... that a system created by Husk Power Systems uses rice hulls, a waste product of rice milling, to generate power for under US$2 per month for thousands in India with no access to the electrical grid?
... that Britney Spears' 2011 comeback single, "Hold It Against Me", broke the U.S. airplay record for the most number of radio plays in one day?
... that Ischaemia by New Zealand poet C. K. Stead won the £5,000 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine in 2010?
... that a recording of a benefit concert for The Prince's Trust won producer Anthony Eaton a Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video?
... that the 1915 Parnell Tunnel in New Zealand replaced a steeper single-track tunnel known to inundate open carriages with smoke and sparks, causing burns and clothing stains?

12:00, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the rare mineral Matlockite (PbFCl) (pictured) is named after a town in Derbyshire?
... that Enver Hoxha was a teacher in the Albanian National Lyceum in Korçë, a French high school established in the Republic of Korçë in 1917?
... that the development of the BQM-108 UAV was a response by the U.S. Navy to the threat of attack by advanced cruise missiles?
... that only past participants of the popular talent shows Greek Idol and The X Factor were selected to compete to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011?
... that the Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy at the Vail Ski Resort is the first public winter sports academy in the U.S., combining public school education with rigorous ski and snowboard training?
... that Essex Hall, where, in 1774, Theophilus Lindsey established the first such congregation in England, still serves as the headquarters for the British Unitarians?
... that Tiger Mask, Momotarō, Joe Yabuki, and Santa Claus have "donated" numerous randoseru and other goods to orphanages across Japan?

06:00, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

... that nonagenarian Edward Proger (pictured) died of cutting teeth?
... that the replacement for Norberto Romuáldez, who died a day before the 1941 Philippine Senate election, still won due to block voting in the Philippine senatorial elections?
... that the Mesa Distance Learning Program is a grades 7–12 distance learning program sponsored by Mesa Public Schools in Mesa, Arizona, that offers students worldwide US based education leading to a high school diploma?
... that, in 2004, Paolo Padovani and a team at the European Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO) discovered 30 supermassive black holes which were previously obscured by dust clouds?
... that the motif of acanthus leaves on the south doorway to St Andrew's Church, Sapiston, Suffolk, is unusual in the county?
... that the oldest building in downtown Waterbury, Connecticut, has been so extensively altered that it is not a contributing property to the historic district?
... that the British Sea Wolf SAM was considered a possibility for meeting the U.S. Navy's Shipboard Intermediate Range Combat System missile requirement?
... that Quest Crew, who competed on America's Best Dance Crew, appear in "Meatball It Up", the second episode of Shake It Up?

00:00, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the October 1926 crash of a Blériot 155 (pictured) at Leigh, Kent, whilst trying to reach Penshurst Airfield was the result of the first mid-air fire on a civil airliner?
... that Rose de Freycinet sailed around the world with her husband from 1817 to 1820 as a stowaway disguised as a man?
... that the Edison Mall in Fort Myers, Florida, was the first mall to have both J. C. Penney and its rival, Sears, as anchor stores?
... that on December 13, 2005, Rashad Jones-Jennings became just the tenth NCAA Division I men's basketball player since 1973 to record 30 or more rebounds in a single game?
... that 1919 agitations by left-wing socialists in Småland resulted in the formation of a separate Farm Workers Union?
... that the United States Supreme Court has ruled in Daniels v. United States that a defendant cannot challenge previous convictions that were used to enhance his sentence?
... that a slogan of the Israeli–Palestinian Comedy Tour is "If we can laugh together, we can live together"?

20 January 2011

18:00, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Zouaves of Death (pictured), a Polish military unit of the January Uprising, drew their traditions from the French Zouaves of the Crimean War?
... that Vittorio Erspamer (1909–1999) discovered the chemical compound octopamine, isolating it from the salivary glands of an octopus?
... that the Grambling State Tigers college football team has made the most appearances in and won the most SWAC Championship Games since the inaugural 1999 contest?
... that thanks to the song "Sopa de Caracol", the musical ensemble Banda Blanca became the best-known Honduran band?
... that the Google Science Fair is an online science competition sponsored by Google, Lego, CERN, and Scientific American?
... that Karl Marx wrote his Das Kapital while living in the building now occupied by Soho restaurant Quo Vadis?
... that antitumor agents isolated from bohemic acid are named after the characters of the opera La bohème?

12:00, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Derby's Silk Mill is used as a design theme for the bobbins on the St Alkmund's Way Footbridge (pictured) and a needle on the nearby swingbridge?
... that Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein discovered the element that would later be named tellurium by Martin Heinrich Klaproth?
... that an increased printrun for author Amish Tripathi's first book, The Immortals of Meluha, led him to switch to a bigger publisher?
... that Beauchamp Doran, a British Army general, was sacked from command of his brigade in 1914, reinstated, and sacked again from command of a division in 1916?
... that the United States Supreme Court has ruled that interscholastic athletic associations have police power?
... that convicted Indonesian serial killer Verry Idham Henyansyah became known as the "singing serial killer" after he entertained audiences at his prison cell by singing a song from his upcoming album?
... that Burnett, a village in Somerset, had a civil parish of 608 acres until it was merged into the neighbouring village of Compton Dando?
... that Queen Calafia, fictional ruler of the Island of California, was the subject of a sculpture garden designed by Niki de Saint Phalle?

06:00, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Hudson Valley Rail Trail (pictured), once owned by a felonious charlatan, is patrolled by a police officer riding a Segway?
... that Horace Robertson accepted the surrender of an Italian general, an Italian admiral and a Japanese general?
... that All Saints Church, Saltfleetby, in the marshlands of Lincolnshire, has a leaning west tower?
... that it had been said that the new Michigan Wolverines football coach Brady Hoke would "crawl on hot, broken glass to work inside Schembechler Hall as the head coach"?
... that Gene Kelly's first Broadway appearance was in the 1938 musical Leave It to Me!?
... that a 1968 paper by Jack Ertle Oliver helped confirm the existence of continental drift, a theory that had been scoffed at by mainstream scientists when proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912?
... that the prototype Bölkow Phoebus sailplane was placed third in its class at the 1964 German national gliding championship?
... that the roots of lovage contain angelic acid?

00:00, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Washington wine grape grower Dick Boushey (pictured) opposed the creation of the Rattlesnake Hills AVA because he felt that it would undermine his vineyard's appellation?
... that the Long Tail Point Light survived attempts to demolish it in 1870, and has outlasted both its successors?
... that the winners of the 1871 Belmont Stakes – Harry Bassett, the 1872 Belmont – Joe Daniels, and the 1873 Belmont – Springbok, were all owned and trained by the same person?
... that activity at Calabozos, a Holocene caldera complex, has produced stratovolcanoes, hot springs, and a complex volcano?
... that instruments played by Cardiff-based group Under the Driftwood Tree include the didgeridoo?
... that Ruth Cavin edited hundreds of works of mystery fiction in a career that began in her 70s, and was described by Sue Grafton as "soul mother to mystery writers for years"?
... that Bhutan is also known as Drukyul, which means Land of the Thunder Dragon?

19 January 2011

18:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

... that, in the early 1900s, the Brookside Mills textile factory (workers pictured) was Knoxville's largest employer?
... that the German dreadnought battleship SMS Thüringen destroyed the British armored cruiser HMS Black Prince at the Battle of Jutland?
... that the Icelandic census of 1703 was the first census to record the names, addresses, and ages of every inhabitant of a country, regardless of social class?
... that, while undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer, actor Peter Donaldson gave a series of acclaimed stage performances?
... that the Lucidarius, the first German language summa, written around 1190, was reprinted at least 25 times in two decades three hundred years later, between 1479 and 1499?
... that, as a result of the agitations carried out prior to the founding of the Farm Workers Union of Central Sweden in 1906, the annual wages of statare increased by approximately 40 SEK?
... that Bach used an obbligato bassoon in a duet of his cantata Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange? BWV 155, first performed in Weimar on 19 January 1716?
... that Daniel Balsam became enraged after he received unsolicited e-mails offering him breast enlargement products?

12:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the atrium cross (pictured) of the 16th century church in Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacán, Mexico, has an obsidian mirror, which was the symbol of the Aztec deity Tezcatlipoca?
... that the relationship between France and Monaco entails a Frenchman being chosen to oversee certain state affairs of Monaco?
... that hyperlocal media company Main Street Connect is based around a franchising model that has been compared to that of McDonald's?
... that the Game Boy Advance, PlayStation Portable, and Nintendo DS versions of the video game Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts! are all different genres?
... that "Start It Up", the series debut of Shake It Up, is the most-watched premiere for a Disney Channel series after the 2006 premiere of Hannah Montana, according to the Nielsen ratings?
... that the B&F Fk12 biplane can be purchased as either a complete aircraft or as a kitplane?
... that the Edward T. Archibald House was home to a man who took "the leading place among flour makers of [the U.S.] or of the world"?

06:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Bombardment Aircraft Rocket carried a 20 kiloton nuclear warhead, was unguided, and was launched using an "idiot loop" manoeuvre (pictured)?
... that English actor and opera singer John Fryatt co-wrote a Gilbert and Sullivan pantomime adaptation entitled The Sleeping Beauty of the Savoy?
... that Smaart software was used to tune the sound reinforcement system during U2's PopMart Tour 1997–1998?
... that development of the VisionAire Vantage very light jet was terminated by a U.S. federal judge's order that the company be liquidated?
... that the newly released film Season of the Witch was scheduled to be released in March 2010, but the original distributor, Lionsgate, pulled it five weeks before the release date?
... that early dyers combined natural dyes with salt, vinegar, natural alum or stale urine?
... that the Romanian company Grup Servicii Petroliere owns five jackup independent leg cantilever drilling rigs: Atlas, Jupiter, Orizont, Prometeu and Saturn?
... that the Steele Dunning Historic District in Bloomington, Indiana, includes two different Sears Modern Homes and a shotgun house?

00:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Immaculate Conception Catholic Church (pictured) in Celina, Ohio, was built just 43 years after the first Catholic moved into the city?
... that Central America's highest volcano is located in the department of San Marcos in Guatemala?
... that new Stanford Cardinal football head coach David Shaw is the first Stanford alumnus to lead the team in over a quarter of a century?
... that the Johnson-Corey-Chaykovsky reaction, now used in a total synthesis of chemotherapeutic drug taxol, was developed after an attempted Wittig-like olefin synthesis yielded an epoxide instead?
... that the 1925 harvest strike in Uppland is portrayed in novels by Swedish authors Ivar Lo-Johansson and Jan Fridegård?
... that the U.S. Coast Guard's HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft have been used for search and rescue, oil spill monitoring, and sea-turtle transport?
... that information on the Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative list leaked by WikiLeaks was stated by some companies on the list to be "out of date and full of errors"?

18 January 2011

18:00, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Canadian winery Burrowing Owl Estate is named after the endangered Northern Burrowing Owl (pictured) with money collected from tasting fees going to the conservation of the owls?
... that the B&F Fk9 lightplane can be equipped with either a tricycle or conventional undercarriage?
... that, despite repeated proposals to extend the Holmenkollen Line of the Oslo Metro to Tryvandshøiden Station, passenger trains never served the station since it was partly built in 1916?
... that William Grigsby McCormick's son Chauncey and nephew Robert bought the Hickory Hill estate more than 100 years after their great-grandfather built it?
... that Soviet tank commander Aleksandra Samusenko was buried near the monument to German Emperor William I in Łobez?
... that the 1938 German musical The Stars Shine was a Busby Berkeley-style film intended to promote The Third Reich?
... that it took the U.S. Supreme Court less than three months to decide a case concerning an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act in 2001?

12:00, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Mount Pleasant Road extension (pictured under construction in 1948) is considered Toronto's first expressway?
... that Cayuga Indian Nation of N.Y. v. Pataki reversed a US$247.9 million jury award to the Cayuga Nation of New York based on the state's alienation of their land in violation of the Nonintercourse Act?
... that Kepler-10b is the first definitively confirmed rocky exoplanet?
... that Doris, a large racing yacht built in 1905, led the 1932 Bermuda Race until light winds undercut its advantages?
... that the Japanese visual novel Subarashiki Hibi won the bronze prize in the overall category of the Moe Game Awards 2010 and the gold prize in the scenario category?
... that despite being designated as an X-plane by NASA, the Gulfstream X-54 project does not otherwise involve the space agency?
... that by the time St Peter's Church, Offord D'Arcy, Cambridgeshire, was declared redundant, people had to take umbrellas to the church and the heating no longer worked?

06:00, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

... that unlike other stereospondyl amphibians, the Triassic Lydekkerina (restoration pictured) lived entirely on land?
... that the construction of the German dreadnought battleship Oldenburg sparked a major escalation in the international naval arms race before World War I?
... that Duke Ellington's 1940 live recording At Fargo was an amateur bootleg not officially released until 1978?
... that the Swiss Fort de Chillon is being converted into a wine cellar?
... that art critic and novelist B. H. Friedman wrote about his experiences using psychedelic drugs with Dr. Timothy Leary in his 2006 memoir Tripping?
... that engraver Wenceslaus Hollar was an eyewitness to the action of December 1669 off Cadiz, where HMS Mary Rose, under the command of Rear-Admiral John Kempthorne, fought off seven Algerine men-of-war?
... that Clint Eastwood had his first audition for the 1955 film Six Bridges to Cross but was rejected?

00:00, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

... that General Claude-Étienne Guyot (pictured) fought at the Battle of Waterloo as commander of Napoleon's Guard heavy cavalry division?
... that cyclopentenone has been isolated from pressure-cooked pork liver using distillation and solvent extraction techniques?
... that the 1994 thriller film Drop Squad includes scenes satirizing stereotypical portrayals of African Americans in advertising campaigns?
... that stray animals, which include dogs, bulls and cows, are common on the runways of Indian airports and pose a major threat to air safety?
... that the Ram was the first air-launched rocket to carry a shaped charge warhead?
... that "Stop", the Spice Girls' seventh single, peaked at number two in the United Kingdom, ending their streak of six consecutive number-ones?
... that despite wartime rationing during World War II, volunteers at the North Platte Canteen were able to hand out food to up to 8,000 servicemen and women a day for four and a half years?

17 January 2011

18:00, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the oil painting Interior (pictured) has been called "the most puzzling of Degas's major works"?
... that Douglas Coupland's Player One: What Is To Become Of Us is the first entry in the Massey Lectures series to be a work of fiction?
... that, following the crash of a Beechcraft Super King Air in Australia in 2000, air traffic control checklists were altered to include procedures for a flight crew incapacitated by hypoxia?
... that the Malagasy rodent Voalavo antsahabensis, which was only described as a species in 2005, is endangered because of slash-and-burn agriculture?
... that soil and ash from six Holocaust extermination camps are buried at the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Portland, Oregon?
... that the SNCASE SE-400 was cancelled before the second prototype of the French floatplane could be completed?
... that American ice hockey goaltender Tim Regan was awarded an Olympic silver medal in 1972 despite not playing a single game and leaving the Olympics early to return to college?

12:00, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Javan Slow Loris (pictured) is threatened by the exotic pet trade and was included in the 2008–2010 list of "The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates"?
... that the Grumman XSBF was designed to the same specification that produced the SBD Dauntless of World War II fame?
... that Albanian rebels managed to capture Skopje, center of Ottoman Kosovo Vilayet, during the Albanian Revolt of 1912?
... that former Miami University and Oberlin College head football coach C. K. Fauver played professional baseball with the Cleveland Lake Shores?
... that the planned Giurgiu–Ruse natural gas pipeline includes a 4.14 kilometres (3 mi) section to be built under the Danube river?
... that the album A Time for Love recorded by Arturo Sandoval was inspired by trumpeter Bobby Hackett and the album Clifford Brown with Strings?
... that Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets and Jerry Posin of Steppenwolf teamed up to perform music while both were imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution in Phoenix, Arizona?

06:00, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Hurricane Able (track pictured) was the only hurricane to make landfall in the United States during the 1952 hurricane season?
... that during a political rally on October 29, 1918, in Ljubljana, Mihajlo Rostohar shouted: "We soldiers renounce Austria and swear obedience to the state of our nation, to Yugoslavia!"?
... that Rhode Island Claims Settlement Act extinguished all aboriginal title in Rhode Island?
... that Hendrik Samuel Witbooi and Hosea Kutako could not present their 1947 UN petition for independence from South African occupation because they were not allowed to leave South-West Africa?
... that Clint Eastwood named his film company Malpaso Productions after Malpaso Creek which is located on his property in Monterey County, California?
... that Ernest P. Goodrich was the third head coach of the Michigan State Normal football team and the first president of the Institute of Traffic Engineers, both of which have since changed their names?
... that in the 63 years after it opened, the cost of a liquor license for the Winter Saloon rose over 72,000%?

00:05, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Decatur County Courthouse (pictured) in Greensburg, Indiana, has a tree growing on it?
... that the sculptor Gilbert Ledward created a new Great Seal of the Realm in 1953?
... that in the North Leicestershire by-election in February 1857, Charles Frewen campaigned on a slogan of "No Popery"?
... that for almost three decades, Terra Chã on Terceira Island in the Azores was the location of the only Portuguese Air Force hospital?
... that the short story "Conscience in Art" has been described as "a pleasant reminder of the inventiveness and cleverness" of author O. Henry?
... that despite coaching the only bowl game win and only 10-win season in school history, Jim Harkema resigned as head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team with a losing record?

16 January 2011

18:15, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Saudi Arabian officials detained a vulture (example pictured) and accused it of spying for Israel?
... that the house in Tekirdağ, Turkey, where Hungarian national hero Francis II Rákóczi spent his last years, is a museum now and is regarded as a cultural bridge between the two countries?
... that the Farman F.281 only logged four hours of flight time between January 1933 and the spring of 1935, despite being in service with Air France?
... that in the case of budget bills and urgent matters, a bill must be passed in the same session of Parliament in Bhutan?
... that The Concord Review is the only academic journal in the world to publish the research papers of high school students?
... that Croatian high jumper Blanka Vlašić was named after Casablanca, a city where her father Joško Vlašić won the decathlon gold medal at the 1983 Mediterranean Games?
... that in a 1946 incident, three ammunition magazines exploded at the Swiss Fort de Dailly?

12:25, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

... that with its round tower, semicircular apse, and thatched roofs, St Margaret's Church, Hales, Norfolk (pictured) is described as "an almost perfect Norman church"?
... that a human relations award honoring those who promote diversity in employment is named for Roy Bass, who served as mayor of Lubbock, Texas, from 1974 to 1978?
... that Essad Pasha Toptani, supported by the Kingdom of Serbia, established the Republic of Central Albania on October 16, 1913?
... that Oregon politician Michael Dembrow helped to create the Cascade Festival of African Films?
... that the National Hockey League and its players' association founded the Hockey Fights Cancer charity in 1998 after former player John Cullen attempted to come back from Non-Hodgkin lymphoma?
... that Manzanar internee Tak Shindo went on to become a "Giant of Jazz" for exotica albums like Mganga! and Brass and Bamboo?
... that the Navajo Times was the first daily newspaper published by an American Indian Nation?

06:35, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the pantropical jumping spider Plexippus paykulli (pictured) is highly agile, and can cover many times its own body length in a single jump?
... that Kenny Francis began his racing career at the age of eight by racing go-karts?
... that Namibian President Sam Nujoma has visited India 11 times?
... that the life of a nun, Agnes of Jesus, inspired Henri Cormier to join the Dominicans, and they were beatified together on November 20, 1994?
... that Casey Close was Baseball America's National Player of the Year, married former Miss America Gretchen Carlson and negotiated more than $350 million in contracts for Derek Jeter and Ryan Howard?
... that the chemical structure of PEPPSI was published in 2006?

00:45, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the GTR-18 rocket (launch pictured), used extensively by the U.S. military, is made using phenolic paper and styrofoam?
... that despite releasing three EPs in less than a year, most of the material on dubstep producer James Blake's self-titled debut album is brand new?
... that after 53 years, Indiana's last remaining manual bridge toll booth on the Wabash Memorial Bridge, was replaced with an automated toll collection system?
... that Clearwater Fine Foods, a company owned by multi-millionaire John Risley, owns all fishing rights to offshore lobster in Canadian Atlantic waters?
... that attorney Tom Tureen pioneered Nonintercourse Act litigation, negotiating an $81.5 million settlement of the Passamaquoddy case and the creation of the largest casino in the world?
... that the People's Republic of China is the world's top producer of sex toys?

15 January 2011

18:50, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Euprenolepis procera is the first ant discovered that harvests and feeds on mushrooms (pictured)?
... that the Sky Scorcher air-to-air missile would have carried a two-megaton nuclear warhead?
... that the C-SPAN Video Library offers a complete archive of the American legislative broadcaster's content since 1987?
... that in November 2010, pest controller Chris Swan bowled the third-best figures for a first class match in the history of the Queensland cricket team?
... that Malibu Lake has been featured in over 100 films and television programs, including the 1931 version of Frankenstein?
... that Robin Oswald hijacked TWA Flight 541 in an effort to free Garrett Brock Trapnell, who was in jail for hijacking a jetliner, after a failed attempt to hijack a helicopter by her mother?

12:00, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Zoharei Chama (Sunrise) Synagogue (pictured) in Jerusalem, Israel, features a huge sundial built to help worshippers determine the exact moment of sunrise and sunset?
... that Oregon judge Jack Landau attended two different Benjamin Franklin High Schools?
... that the rail line at the Swiss Fort Heldsberg incorporated a turnout to derail enemy armored trains?
... that Russian teammates Roman Lyashenko and Mikhail Donika are the only two players in the history of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships to win a medal of each colour?
... that the mushroom Marasmius sasicola, known from Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, grows on the fallen leaves of Sasa bamboo?
... that playwright Lanford Wilson wrote The Madness of Lady Bright on the typewriter of the reservations desk of the Americana Hotel while working there as a receptionist?

06:00, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

... that a kindergarten student began a campaign which made the Alaskan Malamute (pictured) Alaska's state dog breed?
... that the first rabbi of Beth Israel Congregation of Washington, Pennsylvania served for 50 years?
... that before Mary of Teck married Prince George, Duke of York, she had been engaged to his brother Prince Albert Victor?
... that the bark of Alphitonia petriei gives off a strong smell of liniment or oil of wintergreen when bruised or cut?
... that it took more than half a century to complete the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second edition of the collected works of Johann Sebastian Bach?
... that the Gimlet rocket may have been given its name because it was a small rocket for use against MiGs?

00:00, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Operation Tarnegol, in which an Israeli Meteor NF.13 (pictured) shot down an Egyptian Ilyushin Il-14 transport, was only made public 32 years after the event?
... that Arthurian author Nancy McKenzie wrote her novel Queen of Camelot to make Queen Guinevere "into someone a 20th-century person could understand"?
... that the founder of the Churchill Machine Tool Company said business was good in 1896 because a boom in bicycling increased demand for automatic screw machines and similar machinery?
... that actor William Caskey Swaim was drafted into the Army in 1968 and served as a medic during his tour on the island of Okinawa?
... that although in 1697 Zhuluo County covered more than half the landmass of Taiwan, a visiting Qing official wrote that the county contained "no residents, only savages"?
... that one day before the 1996–97 NBA season began, Golden State Warriors player Marcus Mann quit the team to become a Christian minister?
... that the signal pattern displayed by the Fitzroy Island Light depended on the direction from which it was viewed?

14 January 2011

18:00, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

... that angel's bonnets (pictured) smell strongly of iodoform?
... that during Marburg's Bloody Sunday massacre, military units commanded by Rudolf Maister killed between 11 and 13 German civilian protesters in a central Maribor square?
... that The New York Times in 1912 wrote that the expert passing of "Squib" Torbet had placed the Michigan football team "on a higher plane than they have reached before"?
... that 17 Polish songs by Frédéric Chopin were published after the composer's death as his Op.74?
... that the Louisiana attorney and politician Arnold Jack Rosenthal owned racehorses and maintained a long-term interest in the racing industry?
... that Peter Grippe was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of fine arts in 1964?
... that when the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, the crew of the incomplete Sleipner class destroyer Tor scuttled their vessel at the shipyard and joined the land forces fighting the invasion?
... that Polly Bergen closed each episode of her 1957–58 NBC variety program, The Polly Bergen Show, with the 1956 song "The Party's Over"?

12:00, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Vale of Avoca bridge in Toronto was opened in 1924, replacing an iron bridge from 1888 (both pictured)?
... that Rameshwar Prasad became the first Naxalite member of Parliament elected from the Indian state of Bihar in 1989?
... that the woman for whom Memphis' Messick High School is named was superintendent of schools in 1908, when the school was established?
... that the Louisiana politician Albert Estopinal, Jr., was involved in hurricane relief efforts in his native storm-prone St. Bernard Parish?
... that variables and attributes are some of the most basic concepts in science?
... that Russian journalists Viktor and Marina Kalashnikova claim to have been poisoned because of their political writings?
... that Jacksonville's Atlantic Boulevard, which is considered to have been the beginning of Florida's highway system, was just 18 ft (5.5 m) wide when first built?
... that a Nazi saluting dog nearly brought the wrath of the Third Reich upon a Finnish pharmaceutical company?

06:00, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Prudence Crandall School for Negro Girls operated in a Canterbury, Connecticut, mansion (pictured) until mob violence led to its closure?
... that two of the illustrations in the Leofric Missal, a 10th and 11th century illuminated book from England, depict a method of divination derived from Coptic Egypt?
... that Julio Ibarra became Governor of Cardenal Caro Province, in Chile just after two major earthquakes in the country?
... that above the chancel arch of St Barbara's Church, Haceby, Lincolnshire, are the Royal arms of Queen Anne on top of a medieval Doom painting?
... that Baths' debut album, Cerulean, though recorded in his bedroom in two months, was acknowledged by "album of the year" lists?
... that the Greek city Phoenice became the center of the federal government of the Epirote League after the assassination of the last Aeacid dynasty ruler, Deidamia II of Epirus?
... that the 55-point margin of victory by Alabama in the 1953 Orange Bowl was the largest for a college football bowl game until surpassed by Tulsa 55 years later in the 2008 GMAC Bowl?

00:00, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

... that RAAF flying ace Peter Turnbull (pictured) was fired on by his own anti-aircraft gunners as he brought his Kittyhawk fighters in to land at Port Moresby, New Guinea, in March 1942?
... that the Inclined Plane Bridge spans Stonycreek River, connecting the Johnstown Inclined Plane to the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania?
... that Roberto Córdova became the mayor of Pichilemu, Chile, after Marcelo Cabrera Martínez was removed permanently as mayor of the city on August 19, 2009?
... that at the end of the 19th century, E. C. Stearns & Company was one of the most extensive hardware manufacturers in the US?
... that James Cecil was impeached by the House of Commons for high treason?
... that iron smelting furnaces over 2500 years old have been found in Taruga, Nigeria?
... that after her Baby Tooth Survey showed kids took in strontium-90 from nuclear fallout, Dr. Louise Reiss's son picked up the phone and heard the caller say "This is John Kennedy, can I talk to your mom?"

13 January 2011

18:00, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

... that long jumper Dawn Burrell (pictured) set a lifetime best to win at the 2001 World Indoor Championships, but suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury the following month and never again competed internationally?
... that the Swiss Fort du Scex and the Fort de Cindey are connected by a natural cave, the Grotte aux Fées?
... that Paul Pyant designed lighting for the production of George Frideric Handel’s Xerxes at the Houston Grand Opera in 2010?
... that pyridine is a part of the Cornforth reagent and Crabtree's catalyst?
... that in order to travel to Moscow to study their T-3 fusion reactor, physicist Derek Robinson got married so he would always be "properly accompanied by a reliable person"?
... that the Forest of Compiègne was the site of armistice agreements in both the First and the Second World Wars?
... that 20 years after scoring a goal in Luxembourg's first-ever football victory over France, Zénon Bernard became the first communist elected to the Luxembourgian parliament?

12:00, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

... that St Nicholas' Church, Feltwell, Norfolk (pictured) is unusual in being broader than it is long?
... that fairytale author Mary de Morgan told stories to the young Rudyard Kipling and his relatives?
... that according to a BBC report, the ethnic conflict in Sampit town in Indonesia caused 500 deaths, with over 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes?
... that Michigan football player and author Lewis Reimann wrote in 1916 that post-game celebrations by students "filled with 'spirit'" were damaging the university's reputation?
... that the Ballistic Missile Target System target rocket could be launched in any of four different configurations?
... that the song "For a Friend" from The Communards' album Red was written in memory of Mark Aston, a friend of the band members, who died from AIDS?
... that the explosion to move Antoinette, wrecked on Doom Bar, blew in all the windows in the port town of Padstow?

06:00, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

... that United States Navy, British Royal Navy and Royal New Zealand Navy warships bombarded several Japanese cities (bombardment of Kamaishi pictured) during the last weeks of World War II?
... that Eugene K. Garfield used a personal Pullman car when he rode the Auto-Train service he started to carry people and their vehicles between Virginia and Florida?
... that discussions on the knowledge of Christ have had a central place in Christology for centuries?
... that proper design of a sampling frame can be crucial in statistical research?
... that record producer Cachorro López co-wrote "Color Esperanza", a song performed in Argentina back to back with the national anthem?
... that a tropical depression in 1970 was the wettest tropical cyclone on record in Puerto Rico?
... that in the 1920s revue Casanova, the dancer La Jana was carried on-stage semi-naked on a silver platter?

00:00, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Bengal Slow Loris (pictured) is found in numerous protected areas, yet is still threatened by poaching and illegal logging?
... that during William Fones' tenure as a Tennessee Supreme Court judge, the court upheld a law banning snake-handling in religious services?
... that not only can sodium tungsten bronze conduct electricity like a semiconductor or a metal, but it can also superconduct?
... that an 1848–49 crime thriller set in the world of horseracing, written by journalist Angus Reach, was later described as a "template for the pulp tradition"?
... that the original wooden bell tower of the First Presbyterian Church in Batavia, New York, blew down within a year of its construction and was replaced by the stone one originally intended?
... that following a referendum in 1984, Liechtenstein became the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote?
... that the Fuller Rock Light in Providence, Rhode Island, was destroyed in an explosion?

12 January 2011

18:00, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

... that in a 1979 fundraiser at the Jersey City Armory (pictured), the Mayor of Jersey City challenged Muhammad Ali, then World Heavyweight Champion, to an exhibition bout before a crowd of 8,000?
... that the 1991 illustrated children's book of the year, The Mousehole Cat, is based on the legend of the stargazy pie?
... that although its main expedition was focused on Bulgaria, the Savoyard crusade nevertheless included the first Christian success against the Ottomans?
... that the Scotsman John Jardine Paterson was President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce in 1966?
... that the American Thoroughbred Gen. Duke was named for General Duke, the racehorse that won the Belmont Stakes in 1868, as well as for Confederate General Basil Duke?
... that the Conclave of 1740 elected Benedict XIV after he advised them "If you wish to elect a saint, choose Gotti; a statesman, Aldrovandi; an honest man, me"?

12:00, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

... that even though the Canadian wine region of the Okanagan (pictured) is on the same degree of latitude as Champagne and Rheingau, they grow warm climate varieties, such as Zinfandel, Malbec and Barbera?
... that Yeshayahu Yerushalmi was the presiding judge of the initial enquiry into the USS Liberty incident in 1967?
... that the mushroom Xeromphalina setulipes is known only from Ciudad Real Province, Spain?
... that the British detective series Saber of London ran on two American television networks between 1951 and 1960 under four different show titles?
... that Polad Bülbüloğlu, an Azerbaijani singer, actor, politician and diplomat, won the Russian Order of Friendship and numerous other national awards in post-Soviet states?
... that the LOCAT rocket, intended to provide 50% savings in target practice costs, was constructed from plastic and paper tubing?

06:00, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

... that when St. John's Cathedral (pictured) was built in St. John's, Antigua, it was criticized by ecclesiastical architects for being like "a pagan temple with two dumpy pepper pot towers"?
... that William D. Cochran, former Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, was known as "Pink Cheeks" as a Michigan Wolverines football player?
... that the stabilizing fins of the MQR-16 Gunrunner rocket were made from plywood?
... that there are hundreds of monotowns in Russia—towns whose economy is dominated by a single industry or company?
... that Point Danger Light on the Queensland – New South Wales border lays claim to being the first lighthouse to experiment with laser technology?
... that the 1968 pamphlet Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex? claimed that sex education was a Communist conspiracy?

00:00, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the first president of the Ford Motor Company was not Henry Ford, but candy maker John S. Gray (pictured)?
... that a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed five minutes after taking off from Lamidanda Airport, Nepal, last month?
... that Jenova Chen designs video games such as Flow and Flower so that they appeal to universal emotions rather than specific cultures?
... that the extinct Jamaican Flightless Ibis developed unique club-like wings that could be used as a flail?
... that Australian professional road racing cyclist Chloe Hosking began competitive cycling after injuring herself rock climbing when she was twelve?
... that during their campaign to sabotage the French-controlled Vietnamese railway network, Viet Minh guerrillas built their own 300 km railway out of tracks stolen from the main line?

11 January 2011

18:00, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Cornish delicacy Stargazy pie (pictured), which includes pilchards protruding through the crust, was designed to be fun and amusing to children?
... that New Zealand MP George Macfarlan's grave was removed to make way for the Wellington Urban Motorway?
... that the 1912 revolt in Himarë, Albania, led by Greek officer Spyros Spyromilios, overthrew the Ottoman forces from the region?
... that despite being the second youngest player at the 2011 World U-17 Hockey Challenge, Canadian forward Nathan MacKinnon finished seventh in tournament scoring?
... that the Grotte aux Fées in Switzerland features a 77-meter high underground waterfall?
... that E.B. Harris, former president of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, paraded an Angus calf around the trading floor to celebrate the beginning of live cattle futures trading on the exchange?

12:00, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

... that 407 species of birds have been recorded in Pennsylvania (Ruffed Grouse, the state bird, pictured), including four that are extirpated and two that are extinct?
... that German scientist Jens Blauert was honored with the Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America in 1999?
... that Te Matua Ngahere is believed to be the second largest living kauri tree, and to have the biggest girth of any kauri in New Zealand?
... that a song by England Dan & John Ford Coley, "It's Sad to Belong", topped the adult contemporary chart for five weeks in 1977?
... that Cornelius Dupree was cleared by DNA profiling of committing a robbery for which he served 30 years in prison, longer than any other exonerated inmate in Texas?
... that the name of the Town of Macamic, in Quebec, Canada, comes from the Algonquin word Makamik meaning "limping beaver"?

06:00, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

... that 101 Roundhill Crescent (pictured in foreground), in Brighton's Round Hill suburb, housed England's first hospital for the treatment of mental illness?
... that rapper Scribe is the only artist to have had two year-end number-one singles in New Zealand?
... that American historian Kenneth Setton spent nearly two decades finishing his classic work The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571?
... that Jacques Kallis has scored more Test centuries than any other South African cricketer?
... that Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Grateful Dead, and Moby Grape performed at the Mantra-Rock Dance, a charity event for the San Francisco Hare Krishna temple?
... that Dinocochlea was thought to be a giant snail shell or fossilised dinosaur dung but is actually a solidified worm's burrow?

00:00, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

... that all the streets in the centre of the Auckland suburb of Henderson were once named after members of the family of Thomas Henderson (pictured)?
... that Carrier Strike Group Fourteen is currently the only U.S. carrier strike group that does not have an assigned aircraft carrier or carrier air wing?
... that British chef Gordon Ramsay, who was threatened at gunpoint whilst filming in Costa Rica, described the illegal shark fin trading in the country as "a multi-billion dollar industry"?
... that Blessed Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was such a talented organist that Franz Liszt declared him to be a "master of the art"?
... that during the 1765 Sino-Burmese War the Qing army built a stockade "as big as a city" at Shwenyaungbin?
... that Dicky Moegle was awarded a touchdown for Rice in the 1954 Cotton Bowl Classic after Tommy Lewis entered the field of play from the Alabama sideline to tackle him?

10 January 2011

18:00, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the 240-foot (73 m) clock tower on the former Union Station (top pictured) that dominates the skyline in Waterbury, Connecticut, was modeled on the Torre del Mangia in Siena, Italy?
... that as theologian to the Pontifical Household, Wojciech Giertych provides advice to the Pope on theological issues?
... that in the 1930s, the Indochinese Communist Party and the Vietnamese Trotskyists collaborated on the joint publication La Lutte?
... that Daniel Bellemare, chief prosecutor for the UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon, is also the longest-serving head of the Federal Prosecution Service in Canadian history?
... that demonstrators in New Delhi wore garlands made of onions to protest against the rising onion prices in India?

12:00, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

... that a buried subfossil forest, submerged under pumice after the eruption of Taupo (c. AD 186), was discovered in Pureora Forest Park (pictured), New Zealand, in 1983?
... that German musicologist Alfred Dürr has been called "the scholar who has done most to establish the new chronology of Bach's vocal works"?
... that there was a public outcry from onion farmers after Vincent Kosuga cornered the onion futures market?
... that in November 2010 it was reported that two Iranian Secret Intelligence agents arrived in Ghorband District and were accused by the U.S. of helping insurgents to attack coalition forces?
... that halfback Otto Carpell and ends Efton James and Curtis Redden were the three Michigan Wolverines football players killed while serving in the military during World War I?
... that in the 1981 Pacific hurricane season, Tropical Storm Lidia caused more damage and casualties than Hurricane Norma?

06:00, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

... that a wooden stork on the façade of the Rathaus (pictured) in the German town of Großbottwar nods its head when the town hall clock strikes the hour?
... that Heidi Løke won a gold medal with the Norwegian team at the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship, and was also selected into the all-star team as best pivot of the tournament?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Central Green Co. v. United States that the term 'flood waters' includes accidental flooding from a canal?
... that despite an embargo on the sale of military aircraft due to the Spanish Civil War, the French government allowed the sale of the Farman F.480 Alizé to Spain on the grounds that they were, as built, civilian?
... that wearing a pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness has been denounced as a form of feel-good slacktivism that saves no lives?
... that a defeated candidate in the 2005 special election at Cebu's 5th district in the Philippines remarked that the election was a waste of money?

00:00, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

... that a wilt disease, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, could cause the Cavendish banana (pictured) to become commercially unavailable?
... that Polish athlete Edward Sarul became the first ever World Champion in the shot put in 1983 but missed the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics due to the Eastern Bloc boycott?
... that the Groningen gas field is the largest natural gas field in Europe and the tenth largest in the world?
... that first white settlers of the Town of La Sarre, in Quebec, Canada, were squatters on the land who were discovered during a survey in 1908?
... that Julia Bonds was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for leading the fight against the practice of mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachian mountain range?
... that the name of the Brazo Anti-Radiation Missile was intended as a pun?

9 January 2011

18:00, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

... that during a river cruise Russian statesman Grigory Potemkin (pictured), unable to organise dinner for Catherine the Great and the Holy Roman Emperor, resorted to cooking for them himself?
... that the range of the rodent Macrotarsomys petteri is believed to have shifted as a result of climatic change?
... that Bach's cantata Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren, BWV 154, first performed on 9 January 1724, "contains a graphic evocation of ear drumming", according to Gardiner?
... that the last will and testament of Adolf Hitler was discovered in 1945 by Arnold Weiss of the United States Army, who had come to Wisconsin as a Jewish orphan from Nazi Germany at the age of 13?
... that Neil Young scored the winning goal in the 1969 FA Cup Final?
... that Bishop Oldham liked to eat punctually on the hour, so when he was late his servant manipulated time to make sure that he did?

12:00, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

... that writer Daphne du Maurier lived in a house near the Fowey ferry in Bodinnick (pictured) for several years?
... that U.S. Rep. Albert Estopinal of Louisiana led three missions during the Civil War to transport Union prisoners to the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia?
... that the Blue Sulphur Springs Pavilion is the only surviving building from the Blue Sulphur Springs Resort, a mineral spa visited by U.S. Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren?
... that Indian Maoist guerrillas killed seven prominent local members of Agragami Adivasi Samiti in Purulia District in December 2010?
... that, as a junior in 2009–10, Lavoy Allen became the first Temple basketball player to average a double-double since Ollie Johnson accomplished the feat in 1970–71?
... that the town of Angangueo, Mexico, was nearly moved completely because of landslides and flooding in February 2010?

06:00, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the German battleship SMS Ostfriesland (pictured) was sunk by American bombers during air power tests conducted by Billy Mitchell in 1921?
... that the Mikea Forest, one of the largest remaining forest blocks in southwestern Madagascar, is yet to be protected?
... that although Juan Solano came to South America to be the bishop of Cuzco, he first joined the Spanish army and fought at the Battle of Jaquijahuana?
... that a Singapore Subordinate Court criminal case appealed to the High Court cannot be further appealed to the Court of Appeal, but questions of law can be referred to that Court for determination?
... that Steve Collins was the first freshman in Oklahoma Sooners football history to start at quarterback in a season opener?
... that Frans Otto Eriksson was a Swedish baker who committed a double murder in 1909?

00:00, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Pratt & Whitney J48 turbojet engine (pictured) was originally designed by Rolls-Royce, who abandoned it in favor of a different project?
... that Chuck McCoy was inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009?
... that the ancient Catalonian village of El Fonoll was rebuilt as a naturist resort?
... that Chateau Grand Traverse produced Michigan's first commercial ice wine and the 1987 vintage was served at the presidential inauguration of George H. W. Bush?
... that Drove Cottage Henge is around 54 metres (177 ft) in diameter, yet is hard to see because repeated ploughing has heavily damaged it?
... that Joseph Tabarlet was made mayor of Jonesboro, Louisiana, four times, but only completed one full term?

8 January 2011

18:00, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Thomcord grape (pictured), a seedless hybrid of the Concord and Thompson Seedless grapes, underwent 17 years of testing before being declared ready for growers and gardeners?
... that Patience and Sarah has been called the first lesbian opera?
... that the Chicago Bears have more individuals inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame than any other National Football League franchise?
... that the hulk of the USS Wateree, stranded by an 1868 tsunami, was shifted several kilometres along the coast by an 1877 tsunami?
... that there are more male snails than females in the shallow waters of Lake Alexandrina, New Zealand, and that snails are sicker in the lake's shallower rather than deeper water?
... that Barbara Newhall Follett, who by age fourteen had published two novels to critical acclaim, left her apartment the night of December 7, 1939, at age twenty-five, and was never seen again?

12:00, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

... that H. A. Saintsbury (pictured) met the thirteen-year-old Charlie Chaplin at the Green Room Club in 1903, to approve him for a part on stage?
... that the Illinois River channel was carved out in a matter of days by the Kankakee Torrent?
... that the tympanum of the Norman doorway of St Benedict's Church, Haltham-on-Bain, Lincolnshire, contains carvings of a Maltese cross in a circle, a fan-shaped shell, and a knot in a circle?
... that 69 people were killed in 1971 when the Vickers Viscount they were flying in crashed on approach to Minangkabau International Airport, Padang, Indonesia?
... that before being cast as Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza, Dan Blocker appeared in four episodes of John Payne's NBC western series, The Restless Gun?
... that the story of Winter, a dolphin with a prosthetic tail, is being made into a film?

06:00, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

... that a reviewer wrote that Mound of Butter (pictured) by Antoine Vollon looks so real that it might have been painted with butter itself?
... that in 2000, a Wuhan Airlines Xian Y-7 aircraft crashed in China, killing 51 people, after it was struck by lightning?
... that songwriter Marty Balin said that "Miracles", which became Jefferson Starship's biggest hit single, was originally perceived by the other band members as "pretty weird"?
... that in 1929, a group of laborers discovered a 958 carat doubly truncated bipyramid sapphire near Gwebin, which sold for £13,000 to a New York dealer, who cut it into nine different sapphires?
... that a wrestler was briefly declared unable to compete at the World Wrestling Federation's Fully Loaded (2000) event when he faked food poisoning?
... that the English Springer Spaniel Buster has a specially made pen to protect it from biological attack?

7 January 2011

23:53, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

... that users of the Sinclair ZX81 (pictured), a British home computer of the early 1980s, balanced cartons of cold milk on top of the case to stop it from overheating?
... that the first major rock and roll concert, 1952's Moondog Coronation Ball, was to include rhythm and blues singer Varetta Dillard, but the show was shut down before she could perform?
... that the newly opened Hainan Eastern Ring Railway employed 50,000 workers, and is Hainan's largest single investment project to date?
... that newly inaugurated California Board of Equalization Member Sean Wallentine surpassed five-day Governor Milton Latham of 1860 as the state's shortest-serving constitutional officer?
... that outdoor hockey games played in football, soccer and baseball stadiums have resulted in numerous attendance records, including a world record of 113,411 at an American college game?
... that Kit Villiers was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to James I, but not to Charles I, who "would have no drunkards of his chamber"?

17:42, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

... that William Gullick, designer of the Coat of arms of New South Wales, had a colour photograph of his family (pictured) as early as 1909?
... that many Western scholars working in Chinese studies now receive funding from the Taiwan-based Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation?
... that R&B singer Alexa Goddard's debut chart hit, a cover of "Turn My Swag On", topped the UK Indie Chart on its second week of release?
... that al-Insaniyyah, founded in 1925, was the first official Arabic communist newspaper?
... that the U.S. Navy purchased a Russian missile for use as a target drone after the AQM-127 SLAT failed seven of eight test firings?
... that Villanova coach Marty Stern initially thought that future Olympic runner Vicki Huber "was a wimp" who he hoped would "leave and go home"?

11:31, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Alpha Draco rocket (pictured), developed as part of Weapons System 199, evaluated the lifting body principle for reentry vehicles?
... that a hacktivist known as The Jester claims to have taken down the website of the Taliban through a denial-of-service attack?
... that Matt Taibbi's book Griftopia has been described as a "necessary ... corrective" to the assertion that bubbles are an inevitable part of the market economy?
... that former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak condemned two letters written by Israeli rabbis that urged Jewish Israelis not to rent property to, date, or socialize with Arabs?
... that the Knoxville L&N rail station had three waiting rooms: one for ladies, one for "colored" people, and a general waiting room?
... that Louis Gilbert, who scored all 21 points in Michigan Stadium's dedication game, was described as "the campus sheik" who "wears bear grease on his hair and dances a mean black bottom"?

05:20, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the dedication of North Stoke Church (pictured)—forgotten for centuries—was accidentally rediscovered in 2007 when a researcher examined a piece of vellum in The National Archives?
... that Tom Oran was the first Native American to play Major League Baseball?
... that Wallblake House is reported to be the oldest structure on the island of Anguilla, built in 1787?
... that Flora and Maria were the first two of nine female Christian Martyrs of Córdoba?
... that the Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile was intended to be effective against both hardened ground targets and AWACS aircraft?
... that Steve Hanley, who played for rugby union side Sale Sharks from 1998 to 2007, scored 75 tries in the English Premiership which remains a record?

6 January 2011

23:09, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

... that instruments in Bach's cantata for Epiphany (pictured), Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen (They will all come from Sheba), have been compared to the salamiya and zurna?
... that the inquiry into the murder of Joanna Yeates, dubbed "Operation Braid", has become one of the largest police investigations in Bristol, England?
... that Saint Bernadette of Lourdes entered the convent of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers named for the seventh-century Saint Gildard, not the sixth-century Saint Gildard?
... that construction plans of the first Cape Capricorn Light, a lighthouse on Curtis Island, Queensland, failed to include a lamp room, so one had to be urgently constructed?
... that Lewis Strong Clarke established his innovative sugar plantation Lagonda in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, and named it for a creek in Ohio?
... that the dentist Pauls Dauge translated several works of Friedrich Engels into Latvian?

16:58, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the capitals of the Norman chancel arch in St Michael's Church, Burwell, Lincolnshire (pictured) are carved with dancing stags and volutes?
... that the death of Aristotelis Goumas led to public demonstrations in the predominantly ethnic Greek region of Himarë in Albania?
... that in the United States some defendants chose to appear pro se because of the Perry Mason syndrome?
... that the People's Republic of China is the world's second largest consumer market for luxury goods, next only to Japan?
... that college football coach Doug Dashiell resigned in 1938 after his football players and the University of Nevada student president went into "open rebellion"?
... that the hairless half-meter parasite Helixanthera schizocalyx was discovered by lepidopterist Colin Congdon on the lookout for loranths near the summit of Mozambique's Mount Mabu?

10:47, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Star Wars character R2-D2

... that after getting his start in Hollywood creating a model of the great white shark in Jaws, special effects artist Grant McCune, as chief modelmaker for the Star Wars films, designed R2-D2 (pictured)?
... that the rectory at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McCartyville, Ohio, was named a historic site in 1979, just two years after it was deemed ineligible for that designation?
... that the Wedgwood scale was used to determine the temperature in pottery kilns?
... that former Georgia State Senator Nancy Schaefer died in what police concluded was a murder–suicide perpetrated by her husband?
... that the award-winning novel Gould's Book of Fish is based on the life of English painter William Buelow Gould, who was transported as a convict to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land for stealing a coat?
... that according to legend, Battlegore Burial Chamber is the site of a conflict between the devil and a giant?

04:36, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

... that a Tyrian purple dye can be extracted from the West African Horned Murex sea snail (shell pictured)?
... that the Wagtail missile, upon being launched, fired retrorockets to allow the carrier aircraft to escape the effects of its own weapon?
... that the Molasses Reef Wreck in the Turks and Caicos Islands is the earliest wreck of a European ship in the Americas to be scientifically excavated?
... that Clare Maguire has been nominated by the BBC Sound of 2011 list as one of the top 15 most promising new artists and is one of MTV's Brand New: For 2011 acts?
... that fleet racing is the most common form of sailboat racing?
... that the development of the Chengdu J-20 fighter aircraft may have been assisted by cyberespionage?

5 January 2011

22:25, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

... that while in space, Apollo 11 astronauts hand canceled the die proof of a stamp (pictured) designed by Paul Calle to commemorate the first manned moon landing?
... that the hydroxide ion is a natural constituent of water?
... that Gramoz Palushi was murdered while he was celebrating the football victory of Albania over Greece?
... that Enid A. Haupt has been described as "the greatest patron American horticulture has ever known"?
... that the Japanese air attacks on the Mariana Islands between November 1944 and January 1945 sought to disrupt the bombing of Japan by United States Army Air Forces aircraft based on the islands?
... that although the little brown mouse Monticolomys koopmani was first collected in 1929, it was not formally described until 1996?

16:14, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the U.S. Navy's Carrier Strike Group Nine is the first to deploy an entire LAMPS helicopter squadron onboard its aircraft carrier (pictured)?
... that the Museum of Mosaics in Devnya, Bulgaria, exhibits a mosaic of the gorgon Medusa which was supposed to turn away evil?
... that the Indonesian pioneer movement Fadjar Harapan was merged into the national scouting organization on a presidential order in 1961?
... that the Stripsenjochhaus is a club hut in the Northern Alps that has been a base for some of the most famous rock climbing in the Alps?
... that the Louisiana State Rep. Cliff Ammons was the "father of Toledo Bend Lake," the largest lake both within and along the borders of Texas?
... that The Bakersfield Californian's 1926 building gave women a public restroom in downtown Bakersfield, California?

10:03, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the devil's matchstick (pictured) supplies fixed nitrogen to the environment?
... that Sy Mah, who held a Guinness World Record for the most lifetime marathons, completed his first marathon in the same race in which he coached 13-year-old Maureen Wilton to a women's world record?
... that the Leviathan gas field – discovered in 2010 and located 130 kilometres (81 mi) west of Haifa, Israel, in the eastern Mediterranean Sea – is one of the world’s largest offshore gas finds of the past decade?
... that J. Howell Flournoy, the longest serving sheriff in the history of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, was the son and grandson of earlier sheriffs?
... that the First Baptist Church complex in Bakersfield, California, was the only religious structure of its era to survive the massive 1952 Kern County earthquake?
... that the number of known major lineages of bacteria has more than quadrupled in the past 20 years but many of them cannot be grown in a lab?

03:52, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

... that a critic said that landscapes by Rinaldo Cuneo (self-portrait pictured) "are the very soul and essence of California materialized in line and color"?
... that the German battleship SMS Prinzregent Luitpold was the only ship of her class designed to mount a diesel engine, though it was never fitted?
... that Charles Coolidge Parlin, the founder of the field of market research, was once a schoolteacher in the state of Wisconsin?
... that the Hopi missile could carry a nuclear warhead of up to 400 kilotons yield?
... that pilgrims came to St. Mary's Abbey in Trim from all over Ireland to see the miraculous statue of the Blessed Virgin until it was burned in the Reformation?
... that Roberto de la Madrid, the first American-born governor of a Mexican state, earlier appeared in the 1959 Dennis Hopper film The Young Land, playing a character named Don Roberto de la Madrid?

4 January 2011

21:41, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Have Dash II (artist's concept pictured) missile was an attempt to develop a stealthy air-to-air missile?
... that Aporo, Michoacán, is part of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, but tourism is not part of its economy?
... that Channel 4 music presenter Jameela Jamil was struck by a car at the age of 17 and was told she might never walk again?
... that the Missouri Fur Company, founded in 1809, was one of the earliest American fur trade companies in St. Louis, Missouri?
... that Al Burris was a Major League Baseball player, a college baseball coach, and a college athletic director at the age of 20?
... that Bob Dylan did not perform his song "Drifter's Escape" live in concert until almost 25 years after it was released?

15:30, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the explosive chemical ascaridole (structure pictured) can be found naturally in the oil of Mexican Tea, traditionally used in Mexican cuisine to prevent flatulence?
... that in The Empathic Civilization, author Jeremy Rifkin argues that extending empathy to subsequently larger groups is paid for with increasing entropy in terms of environmental problems?
... that in 1964, R. B. Walden, director of the Louisiana Department of Hospitals, ordered the desegregation of his state's charity hospitals?
... that the English clergyman George Edmundson worked for the British Government on the Boundary Arbitration between British Guiana and Venezuela?
... that Kota tribe shows M haplogroup frequency of 97%, which is one of the highest in India?
... that the 1503 Challenge of Barletta was sparked by a French knight who insulted the Italians, having consumed too much of their local wine?

09:19, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Palace of Cortés (pictured), built more than 450 years ago in Cuernavaca, is the oldest conserved civil building in Mexico?
... that the Bold Orion air-launched ballistic missile was the first missile ever to intercept an artificial satellite?
... that, after his rookie season in Major League Baseball, Sam Moffet and his brother extracted over US$200,000 worth of gold and silver from a mine in Butte, Montana?
... that in 1975, former Texas lawmaker E L Short urged that citizens be warned door-to-door of the hazards of hydrogen sulfide after the gas exploded in Denver City?
... that almost 30 percent of Soviet prisoners of war in the Continuation War died?
... that during recent renovations to the former Batavia Club building in Batavia, New York, an old safe was found that so far no one has been able to open?

03:08, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Songgwangsa (pictured), originally founded in 867, is one of the oldest Zen temples in Korea?
... that German aircraft designer Gottlob Espenlaub began testing his rocket-propelled gliders in as early as 1929?
... that the crest of the Blauberge, a mountain range in the Bavarian Alps, forms part of the border between Austria and Germany?
... that naturally occurring quasicrystals can be found in the rare minerals khatyrkite and cupalite?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Green Tree Financial Corp.-Ala. v. Randolph that arbitration agreements do not need to discuss the costs of arbitration?
... that after the Cornfield Bomber landed in a field, one of the members of the 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron received a call from a sheriff who got excited when the plane started moving?

3 January 2011

20:57, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the historic Clutts House (pictured) in Wellston, Ohio, retains many of its original decorative details and structural elements despite being converted to law offices?
... that the Biham-Middleton-Levine model may be the simplest model of traffic flow that has both phase transitions and self-organization?
... that Frank Baldino, Jr. is founder and CEO of a company seeking to market its narcolepsy medication to treat jet lag?
... that there were multiple V-2 rocket facilities in World War II?
... that the song "When We Die As Martyrs" is performed by the Arab children's choir Birds of Paradise?
... that minuscules 2276, 2277 and 2278 were classified twice by Gregory under numbers 815, 816 and 812 (in 1886 in Greece), and under numbers 2276, 2277 and 2278 (in 1904 in London)?

14:46, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

... that due to its long life cycle, the adult Great Arctic (pictured) is only seen every other year?
... that t'aenghwa is a characteristic type of Korean Buddhist visual arts?
... that The Double Sunrise was a non-stop, approximately 30-hour airline flight, crossing over 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) above the Indian Ocean during World War II?
... that Mr. Kay of Manhattan's Upper West Side donated his barbershop interior to the Museum of the City of New York?
... that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is assisting 5pb. with the development of Robotics;Notes, their upcoming visual novel and latest entry in their science adventure series?
... that the first recorded case of dognapping in Britain was that of a racing Greyhound named Hi Joe in 1965?

08:35, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Louis Kahn's design of the Richards Medical Research Laboratories (pictured) at the University of Pennsylvania influenced other architects despite criticisms by scientists who work there?
... that Humphrey Dacre fought for Lancaster at the Battle of Towton and was attainted afterwards?
... that Murray Farm Public School in Australia teaches various subjects bilingually in English and Japanese?
... that after the crash of a U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy near Saigon, Robert Macauley mortgaged his house so he could charter a Boeing 747 from Pan Am to evacuate orphans from South Vietnam?
... that a candidate in the 1981 Philippine presidential election who advocated that the country become the 51st U.S. state received almost 4% of the vote?
... that Greek Idol winner Valanto Trifonos failed the audition for the rival Greek talent competition The X Factor?

02:24, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

... that Henry S. Baird, the first lawyer in territorial Wisconsin, bought a small Greek Revival former land office building to serve as his law office (pictured) as he felt its style befit his position?
... that the mushroom Gymnopilus maritimus is known only from collections in a very localised area of Sardinia, Italy?
... that erythropoietin became a billion dollar business for Amgen, though its discoverer Eugene Goldwasser at the University of Chicago never profited from its development?
... that the first production at the Prince's Theatre in Manchester was Shakespeare's The Tempest, on 15 October 1864?
... that the Louisiana educator John Keeny was a promoter of the New York-based Chautauqua movement?
... that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez that the First Amendment protects against free speech viewpoint discrimination?
... that the first patient in whom Sir Robert Jones described his eponymous fracture was himself?

2 January 2011

20:13, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

... that a General Dynamics F-111C bomber (RF-111C pictured) of the Royal Australian Air Force sank the North Korean freighter Pong Su in 2006?
... that, by the age of fourteen, each of the three orphaned daughters of Thomas Dacre married one of the three sons of their stepfather?
... that Lee Emmett Thomas, as mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, pushed for construction of his city's Municipal Auditorium, which hosted the Louisiana Hayride between 1948 and 1960?
... that Bach began the fifth cantata of his first Christmas season in Leipzig, Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind, BWV 153, first performed on 2 January 1724, with a chorale?
... that a match at the World Wrestling Federations' 1999 Fully Loaded event was fought in a parking garage?
... that, for the 80th birthday of King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga, Adrienne Kaeppler, curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, set up a special exhibition at the Tongan National Museum?
... that there are no prisons for women in Wales?

14:02, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Montepulciano grape (pictured) is not grown anywhere in Montepulciano nor is it an ingredient in the Tuscan wine Vino Nobile di Montepulciano?
... that Moses Bloom was the first Jewish settler and mayor of Iowa City (1873–1875), and the first Jewish member of the Iowa Senate?
... that Australian writer Kaaron Warren won two national awards for her debut novel, Slights, a horror story about near death experiences?
... that the membership of the Japanese trade union centre Sanbetsu dropped from 1.5 million in 1946 to 13,000 in 1953?
... that Steven W. Fisher presided over the trial in the Wendy's massacre and became the last judge in New York to impose the death penalty?
... that members of the Philippine political party Lapiang Malaya, armed with amulets and bolo knives, tried to overthrow President Ferdinand Marcos in 1967?

08:02, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Mezcala Bridge (pictured) in Mexico suffered a fire and damages to one of its stayed cables in March 2007 due to a traffic accident involving a coconut truck?
... that Evgenia Obraztsova, who appeared as a ballerina in the film The Russian Dolls, really is a First Soloist at the prestigious Russian Mariinsky Theatre?
... that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Illinois v. McArthur that police do not need a warrant when they have probable cause to complete a search?
... that the Austrian mycologist Meinhard Moser interrupted his degree after only three terms of study, resuming it several years later upon his release from a prisoner-of-war camp?
... that the Louisiana State Rep. Allen C. Gremillion pushed for passage of a bill creating the community college known as Louisiana State University at Eunice?
... that between 1799 and 1804, warships of the Royal Navy captured one French frigate and five different French privateers all with the name Egyptienne?

02:02, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the 13th-century Church of the Holy Sepulchre (pictured) at Warminghurst, West Sussex, was restored for the first time in 1959, only to be made redundant in 1979?
... that Georg Carl Amdrup's 1900 expedition included traveling 730 km by open boat along the Greenland coast, returning to Copenhagen with a live muskox and lemmings?
... that physical education teacher Mary Pratt pitched a no-hitter in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League?
... that Tsa Yig refers to the legal code enacted by the founder of Bhutan, Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, around 1629?
... that John S. Kyser pioneered the first graduate programs at a state college in Louisiana, beyond those already available at LSU?
... that the Saynor & Bell Canadian Club biplane was constructed in a Montreal basement?

1 January 2011

20:02, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Gospel of Luke states that the Circumcision of Jesus (pictured) took place eight days after his birth?
... that David Shirk, owner of the historic David L. Shirk Ranch in southeastern Oregon, killed an employee of cattle baron Peter French over a land claim?
... that the opening chorus of Bach's cantata for New Year's Day, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 190, combines verses of two psalms and Luther's Te Deum?
... that in the past, Arubans used the caves of Aruba for performing sacrificial services and holding assemblies, and sometimes also to hide in during enemy attacks?
... that territory now included in the Quetzaltenango Department of Guatemala was the scene of a decisive battle between Spanish conquistadors and the army of the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj?
... that baseball manager Roarin' Nick Allen "baited" and argued with umpires on the field because he wanted to increase attendance?

14:02, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the first Russian platinum coin (pictured) was sent to the German scientist Alexander von Humboldt and then redeemed by the Russian emperor Alexander II?
... that the Seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was first used on January 1, 1941 and represents the values, standards and history of the FBI and its agents?
... that the premiere of W. S. Gilbert's pantomime, Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren, was marred by "the want of sufficient preparation"?
... that Lewis "Snake" Wiltse once pitched a shutout and collected four extra base hits in the same Major League Baseball game?
... that a divided wartime control system forced the leader of RAAF Command, Air Vice Marshal Bill Bostock, to serve two masters, one for operational tasking and another for supplies and equipment?
... that before his death, John Warhola's father told him to take care of John's younger brother, Andy Warhol, and "make sure he goes to school, because he's going to be successful someday"?

08:02, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

... that brands such as Coke and M&M's have been advertised through commercial graffiti (pictured)?
... that Leo Fishel was the first Jewish pitcher in Major League Baseball?
... that in the late 1950s and 1960s, E. W. Gravolet, a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature, joined his political ally Leander Perez in opposing school desegregation?
... that the German dreadnought battleship SMS König Albert was the only German dreadnought active at the time to miss the Battle of Jutland, due to engine problems?
... that although Sulphurdale was established due to nearby sulfur deposits, it was abandoned and the area is now exploited for its geothermal power?
... that the Lemnia wine described by Aristotle was likely made from the Greek wine grape Limnio, which is still being grown today?

02:02, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

... that the Balsas River valley (pictured) is regarded as one of the earliest maize growing sites in Mexico, dating from around 9,200 years ago?
... that Morris L. Cohen, described by The New York Times as "one of the nation's most influential legal librarians", wrote a six-volume summary of all law sources published in the U.S. before 1860?
... that the Waveney was the first class of lifeboats built for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution capable of speeds in excess of 10 knots (19 km/h)?
... that Welsh novelist Ron Berry once wrote a book about his observations of Peregrine Falcons?
... that Vikings may have navigated using a light-polarizing mineral they called a sunstone to locate the sun in cloudy skies?
... that in 1959, Baton Rouge mayor Jack Christian moved Halloween to October 30 to accommodate the LSU Tigers football game against the Ole Miss Rebels?