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31 October 2012

16:00, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the "Ladies of Téviec" (pictured) were murdered in the Stone Age, their bodies decorated with shell jewellery and buried in a midden under a roof of antlers?
... that Marjory Stephenson, along with Kathleen Lonsdale, was one of the first two women to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society?
... that women who die in childbirth or pregnancy are believed by some to return as undead vampires and suck blood of their male relatives?
... that the crew of the armoured cruiser HMS Shannon attempted to rescue survivors from HMS Natal after Natal's magazines exploded on 30 December 1915?
... that John Eliot Gardiner performed Bach's cantatas for Reformation Day in the Schloßkirche, Wittenberg, including Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79?
... that the San Carlos tree frog is an "explosive breeder" and is stimulated to breed by the arrival of heavy rain?

08:00, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the larva of the purple sunstar (adult pictured) attaches itself to the seabed with a sucker before changing into a juvenile starfish?
... that Tan Tjoei Hock's 1941 film Tengkorak Hidoep has been credited as the first horror film made in Indonesia?
... that Evan Gattis spent four years wandering in Texas, New Mexico, California, Colorado, and Wyoming before becoming a professional baseball player?
... that the Fujiwara no Hirotsugu Rebellion created the first vengeful spirit?
... that in Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc., a United States district court is currently deciding whether or not it is legal to buy and sell pre-owned digital music?
... that vampire prostitutes are believed to enter a man's house naked in the night and suck his blood through his toes?

00:00, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Wojciech Stattler (pictured) introduced live model studies as well as nude art models to the School of Fine Arts in Kraków?
... that Brihat Jataka is described as India's foremost astrological text?
... that the female tree frog Aplastodiscus leucopygius inspects the underground nesting chamber prepared by the male before accepting his advances?
... that the father of actress Jane Cameron worked as a set designer on Emmerdale, which Cameron later appeared in as Sophie Wright?
... that the shortest fossil termite bug is Termitaradus avitinquilinus?
... that Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has expressed support for the Doubleday myth, which states that American Civil War officer Abner Doubleday invented baseball?

30 October 2012

16:00, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray (pictured) made his last documentary in 1987 on his father, as a tribute to celebrate the centenary of his birth?
... that Helen Porter helped to pioneer the use of radioactive tracers in botany?
... that the Early Neolithic settlement of Nea Nikomedeia is one of the earliest known sites in Macedonia, dated to 6250–6050 BC?
... that HMS Ambrose was a British cargo liner that was converted into an armed merchant cruiser and then into a submarine depot ship during World War I?
... that the variable bushy feather star is sometimes kept in a reef aquarium but usually dies because of starvation?
... that neuropsychologist Eleanor Maguire was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that London taxi drivers have large hippocampi?

08:00, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Cecil Vandepeer Clarke (pictured) invented military equipment including a limpet mine, an underground tank, a spigot gun, an exploding trouser sausage, and a rocket propelled bridge?
... that Jovita Feitosa of Tauá was not allowed to fight in the Paraguayan War because of her gender?
... that the female Mozambique rain frog lays her eggs in an underground chamber and often stays nearby while they develop?
... that Enrique Dávila Pacheco was appointed as the Acting Governor of Yucatán by García Sarmiento de Sotomayor in 1644?
... that Michael Trevino won two Teen Choice Awards for his role of a vampire-werewolf hybrid in The Vampire Diaries?
... that the Tombs of the Sanhedrin may have contained someone else?

00:00, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Xu Xusheng (pictured) discovered the Erlitou culture?
... that the German war film U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien portrayed the combat career of the U-boat captain Günther Prien, commander of German submarine U-47?
... that Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon both were given BunaBs?
... that the Royal postmaster Roberto Bandinelli moved to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to escape lawsuits which threatened him with imprisonment in Florence?
... that the Central American frog Duellmanohyla soralia is critically endangered and its population decline is due, at least in part, to the fungal disease chytridiomycosis?
... that Australian field hockey goalkeeper Tristan Clemons is researching nanoparticles that could treat injuries and fight cancer?

29 October 2012

16:00, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

... that kissing the spotted cort mushroom (pictured) may help in its identification?
... that the stars of the binary system EK Trianguli Australis orbit around a common centre of gravity every 1.5 hours?
... that in the first half of the 19th century, the Sejm of the Grand Duchy of Posen continued Polish parliamentary traditions in the territories of the Prussian partition?
... that the anemone crab often lives in close association with the sea anemone Lebrunia danae?
... that Younus Khan has scored 20 centuries in Test cricket, which is the fourth-best tally by a Pakistan batsman?
... that Gibraltar Creek is not located in Gibraltar at all, but is a 13.1-kilometre (8.1-mile) long river found in Australia?

08:00, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

... that star trail observations of Polaris (example pictured) have been used to measure the vibrations in telescope mounting systems?
... that organic chemist Darshan Ranganathan did pioneering work in protein folding?
... that the Denton House in New Hyde Park, New York, was to be demolished for a McDonald's restaurant, before local authorities required the restaurant to restore the mansion?
... that wheelchair basketballer and para-alpine skier Shannon Dallas was afflicted with necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bug, that sidelined him for seven months?
... that polar bear researcher Steven Amstrup found that polar ice packs destroyed by climate change could grow back if global temperatures cool?
... that Carolina false morels should not be eaten because they may contain a compound that, when digested, breaks down into a rocket fuel propellant?

00:00, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the historical figure Lady Godiva (pictured) probably did not ride naked through the streets?
... that popes awarded blessed swords and hats to defenders of Christendom, including at least 12 emperors, 10 kings of France, 7 kings of Poland, 6 kings of Spain, and the nation of Switzerland?
... that the grass genus names Tuctoria and Orcuttia are anagrams?
... that the area around the Spanish beach of Cala Arenas has been inhabited for thousands of years due to its strategic position facing the Strait of Gibraltar?
... that in sound recognition, context effects from other sounds in the environment cause us to change the way we categorize a sound?
... that painted and lacquered spider webs are sold as art at Knight's Spider Web Farm in Vermont?

28 October 2012

16:00, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

... that St Eata's Church, Atcham (pictured), in Shropshire, is uniquely dedicated to Eata of Hexham?
... that the Lanczos tensor of general relativity exists only in four dimensions, suggesting our universe of four spacetime dimensions is special?
... that Vladimir Nabokov's play The Tragedy of Mister Morn, written in 1923–24, was not published during his lifetime?
... that in October 2012 a movie channel dedicated to the James Bond film franchise was launched to celebrate its 50th anniversary?
... that the fleshy disk coral is small but aggressive and attacks neighbouring corals?
... that after being coined by the British political satire The Thick of It, the word "omnishambles" was used in Parliament by real politicians?

08:00, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the Bocaina tree frog (pictured) has green bones and muscles?
... that the work of the American designer, artist and sculptor Ward Bennett was said to have defined an era?
... that Leona Lewis and Ryan Tedder decided to write the up-tempo song "Glassheart" as Lewis was experiencing personal issues and thought a ballad would upset her further?
... that Tibúrcio Spannocchi proposed to sling a chain across the Strait of Magellan to prevent ships sailing through it?
... that rubbish has been illegally dumped on Gibraltar Peak near Canberra?
... that the Atlanta Braves negotiated exclusive rights with Warner Bros. Cartoons to use animated scenes of the Road Runner in honor of Ralph Garr?

00:00, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Harold A. Lafount (pictured), a 1927–34 member of the Federal Radio Commission who was influential in early broadcasting regulation in the U.S., is the maternal grandfather of Mitt Romney?
... that the term Al Jazeera effect used to describe the revolutionary impact of Al Jazeera network on Arab world media has been generalized more globally to other forms of new media?
... that Mary Pickford was the first woman appointed to a medical professorship at Edinburgh University?
... that the mangrove tree crab prefers animal food but mostly feeds on mangrove leaves?
... that Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book (1959) was the first book-length work of original comics in the United States?
... that French fishermen threw rocks and nets at British fishing boats during a dispute about scallop fishing with British fishermen in the English Channel?

27 October 2012

16:00, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Cnapan Hotel (pictured) in Newport, Pembrokeshire, takes its name from the medieval Celtic sport of cnapan?
... that suffragist Margaret Cousins went on a hunger strike seeking to be classed as a political prisoner?
... that the third season of Millennium sought to reduce its central conflicts to a struggle between two friends?
... that Robert Burnell, founder of St Mary's Church, Acton Burnell, Shropshire, became Lord Chancellor of England, and then Bishop of Bath and Wells?
... that Poland and Spain had no diplomatic relations following the end of World War II, until two years after general Francisco Franco's death?
... that consuming the cinnamon bracket fungus can cause symptoms of neurotoxicity, and violet urine?

08:00, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Dr. Ben Goldacre (pictured) argues in Bad Pharma that "medicine is broken," because the evidence on which it is based is systematically distorted by the pharmaceutical industry?
... that Baynard Rush Hall was the first professor at Indiana University?
... that the austro dripping bonnet probably had a Gondwanan origin?
... that Kamala Sohonie received the Rashtrapati Award for her work on supplementing tribal diets with the beverage neera?
... that Indigo Lake in Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley National Park is not a natural lake?
... that legislators in Arizona have banned bans on toys accompanying kids' meals?

00:00, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

... that throughout U.S. history, different types of mail bags have been called mail pouch, mail sack, mail satchel, catcher pouch, mochila saddle mailbag (pictured), and portmanteau depending on form, function, place and time?
... that in August 2011 the Australian soap opera Neighbours aired a storyline which highlighted two of the major causes of road fatalities and injuries among young Australian drivers?
... that the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings was once burned in effigy?
... that Karl Beth is considered one of the founding fathers of the psychology of religion?
... that 1930 Wimbledon Championships mixed doubles runner-up Daniel Prenn was of Jewish origin and thus got expelled from the Germany Davis Cup team and subsequently moved from Nazi Germany to England?
... that the Washington Bee's masthead slogan was "Sting for Our Enemies – Honey for Our Friends"?

26 October 2012

16:00, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Vignoles Bridge (pictured), one of the 10 Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Coventry, originally spanned the Oxford Canal before being moved to its current location over the River Sherbourne in 1969?
... that Manolis Roubakis is one of the few footballers who have played for all three big clubs of Heraklion in Greece: OFI Crete, Ergotelis and Atsalenios?
... that in the early 19th century, if you were out on the streets of Gibraltar after midnight without a permit you risked being sent to the Main Guard?
... that Lady Lindsay of Birker, the first Chinese-born peeress, smuggled supplies and taught English to communist guerrillas fighting the Japanese occupation?
... that the town of al-Dana in northern Syria is identified with "Adennu", the first Aramaean city to be captured by Assyrian emperor Shalmaneser III?
... that coral fungi can be red, yellow, beige, ashen, upright, green-staining, bitter, or blah?

08:00, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the State Farm Downtown Building (pictured) in Bloomington, Illinois, features the intact 1951 office of company founder George J. Mecherle?
... that as a member of the California Column, Andrew J. Doran was granted a brevet commission due to his experience with the Butterfield route?
... that the Faux Namti Bridge is also called the "Inverted V Bridge" because its supporting trusses form the shape of an upside-down letter V?
... that Chief Wilson set the Major League Baseball single-season record for triples in 1912, a record that still stands?
... that streets in Tbilisi and Tirana are named after former US President George W. Bush?
... that black-leg causes white rot?

00:00, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Rewa Prasad Dwivedi said that Rambhadracharya (pictured) is an encyclopedia of learning whose literature is like numerous Narmada rivers flowing out simultaneously?
... that 1928 Wimbledon Championships mixed doubles champion Pat Spence and tennis partner Miss Betty Nuthall formed a real-life couple when they won the 1931 French Championships mixed doubles title?
... that, after the female Jog night frog has laid a clutch of eggs, both parents are involved in guarding them?
... that Suhaimi Yusof, a Malay stand-up comedian, received the Best Comedy Performance award at the 2011 Asian Television Awards for his efforts in The Noose?
... that the Spanish painter José Cruz Herrera worked in Casablanca for much of his life, where he was a prolific painter of scenes of Moroccan everyday life?
... that the made-for-TV film Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal was inspired by the true story of five unruly high-school cheerleaders?

25 October 2012

16:00, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the camera used to create Google Street View images (example pictured) of the Great Barrier Reef is controlled by a Samsung Galaxy Tab?
... that the Duchess of Westminster was one of only two women to compete in sailing at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
... that the bird-voiced treefrog and the pine woods treefrog can be recognised by their distinctive calls?
... that war profiteering by U.S. military contractors in Iraq brought calls for a new form of the investigative Truman Committee which operated in World War II?
... that the concert choir Frankfurter Kantorei performed Mozart's Requiem and Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht with the Israel Chamber Orchestra in Tel Aviv in a concert for the city's 100th anniversary?
... that Keret House is the world's narrowest house?

08:00, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the 18th-century BC fresco the Investiture of Zimrilim (pictured) depicts the king of ancient Mari receiving the symbols of rule from the goddess Ishtar?
... that the historic La Playa Trail in San Diego is the oldest commercial trail in the western United States?
... that every "deep desire" is a prayer, and God "answers every selfless prayer", according to Easwaran in Seeing with the Eyes of Love?
... that HIT Squad, founded by UFC Hall of Fame inductee Matt Hughes in 2007, changed its name to Finney's HIT Squad when it was purchased in 2011?
... that Millennium's second season finale "The Time Is Now" was inspired in part by a cattle disease in the United Kingdom?
... that the spiny flower coral attacks other corals that try to grow too close to it?

00:00, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the Classical story of Achilles on Skyros was the basis for a lost play by Euripides, a painting (pictured) by Nicolas Poussin, and operas by Domenico Scarlatti and George Frideric Handel?
... that All Saints Church in Lydd is the longest parish church in Kent at 199 feet (61 m)?
... that Richard Belzer insisted Law & Order: Special Victims Unit creator Dick Wolf cast Dean Winters as his partner, Brian Cassidy, before he would join the cast?
... that the Opa-Locka Thematic Resource Area includes 20 buildings developed by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss using an "Arabian Nights" theme?
... that Neil Young's new audio format takes its name from the Hawaiian word for righteousness?
... that prior to winning a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics, Ukrainian sport shooter Artur Ayvazyan was detained by his nation's customs agency for having an unregistered gun?

24 October 2012

16:00, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Gamleborg (fortress ruins pictured) represents Bornholm's oldest defence works?
... that 444 years ago, Poland's Royal Posts were entrusted to an Italian banker, Sebastiano Montelupi?
... that at the 2012 Berlin Biennale, one artist blocked Friedrichstraße with a wall, which was removed early after public protest?
... that despite only playing one match for Bayer Leverkusen, the Norwegian footballer Terje Olsen does not regret moving to Germany at the age of 15?
... that Swiss composer Hermann Suter's symphonic oratorio Le Laudi is a setting of St. Francis of Assisi's Italian Canticle of the Sun for choir, soloists, voci di ragazzi, organ and orchestra?
... that John Lennon married Yoko Ono at The Rock Hotel?

08:00, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the 1955–56 Marathi radio programme Geet Ramayan describing the events from an Indian epic Ramayana (central characters pictured) has been translated to eight Indian languages, English, and also transliterated in Braille?
... that the desert rain frog leaves distinctive footprints on the dunes and a little pile of sand showing the location of its burrow?
... that the extent of Lie Kim Hok's poem Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari in the Wong brothers' film Siti Akbari is uncertain?
... that while researching In the Shadow of the Sword, Tom Holland found that the oldest biography of Mohammed was written two hundred years after he had died?
... that Termitaradus protera was the first termite bug found in amber?
... that the bagel head is a type of extreme body modification?

00:00, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Works Progress Administration employees were accused of campaigning for Kentucky Senator Alben W. Barkley (pictured) during the 1938 Democratic primary, prompting passage of the Hatch Act of 1939?
... that the fungus Rhopalomyces elegans can be grown on a medium containing baby beef liver and lamb fat?
... that the 82nd Airborne Division participated in two end-of-World War II victory parades, the Berlin Victory Parade of 1945 and the New York City Victory Parade of 1946?
... that Jørgen Tengesdal played for Viking in the 2001 Norwegian Football Cup Final despite his contract expiring five days before the final?
... that Christchurch Steeple was originally part of a 13th-century friary, was mostly destroyed during World War II, and is now a bar and one of 24 Grade II* listed buildings in Coventry?
... that several reviewers criticized the romance between Sam and Diane in the second season of Cheers because it lasted too long and presented a poor relationship role model?

23 October 2012

16:00, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Prince Henry the Navigator handed over his brother Ferdinand the Holy Prince (pictured) as a hostage, and preferred to let him die in captivity rather than fulfill the treaty he had signed?
... that Adele's theme for the James Bond film Skyfall went to number one in the UK's iTunes online store less than ten hours after it was released?
... that the Church of Julianos in the village of Barad in northern Syria, was one of two three-aisled basilicas in the Dead Cities?
... that the nudibranch Tritonia hamnerorum feeds exclusively on the purple sea fan?
... that in Armenia, wrestling is one of the nation's oldest sports?
... that Chao Mae Tuptim in Bangkok is a site crammed full of wooden circumcised penis statues which are said to endow good fortune and fertility on anybody coming into contact with them?

08:00, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

... that several thousand people lived on Washington's National Mall (pictured) for six weeks in 1968 as part of the Poor People's Campaign?
... that Ann Bishop, an early female protozoologist, studied treatments for parasitic diseases including amoebic dysentery and malaria?
... that Mother Teresa's father Nikollë Bojaxhiu was the only Catholic member of the city council of Skopje and his company constructed the city's first theater?
... that Namus is the first Armenian feature film?
... that the St Albans Hoard, one of the largest hoards of Roman gold coins ever found in Britain, was discovered by a man using his new metal detector for the first time?
... that Mohammad Said Hamid Junid wrote a film about a man becoming his father's uncle-in-law?

00:00, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the bolete mushrooms B. illudens, B. carminiporus (pictured), B. miniato-olivaceus, B. projectellus, B. rubripes, B. subvelutipes, Boletinellus merulioides, Phylloporus leucomycelinus, P. rhodoxanthus, Pulveroboletus ravenelii, and Suillus cothurnatus can be used to make dyes?
... that Thomas Rowley's homestead in Christchurch, New Zealand, is used as a school library?
... that the venom of the tarantula Psalmopoeus cambridgei contains vanillotoxins?
... that Bach's cantata Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen, BWV 49, ends with a "religious-erotic" love duet between Jesus (bass) and the Soul (soprano)?
... that Mastotermes electromexicus was the first giant northern termite described from the New World?
... that Gordon Ramsay orchestrated the theft of the reservations book from his restaurant Aubergine so that he could blame it on Marco Pierre White?

22 October 2012

16:00, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the Royal Palace (gate pictured) of ancient Ugarit in Syria had fortification walls whose base sloped outward 45 degrees?
... that Norwegian footballer Jon Midttun Lie had Tom Nordlie as head coach in three different clubs?
... that Mehtab Bagh was the last of eleven Mughal-built gardens along the Yamuna River opposite the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort?
... that Angelo Masci grouped Illyrian, "Epirote", and Macedonian into one language family, which he considered to be the proto-language of Albanian?
... that to seek self-fulfillment is to seek the good life?
... that the Witchcraft Suppression Act of 1957 makes it illegal to call another person a wizard in South Africa?

08:00, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

... that according to Swedish peasant folklore, the lichen Vulpicida (pictured), when consumed, kills foxes but not dogs or wolves?
... that the recent changes to the copyright law of Panama, introduced as part of the Panama–United States Trade Promotion Agreement, have been criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation?
... that the members of acid punk band Bo Ningen are all Japanese, but met in London?
... that the eggs of the horned marsupial frog are the largest to be laid by any known amphibian?
... that Meryl Streep made her film début in The Deadliest Season, a 1977 film about sports violence?
... that Chinese softshell turtles urinate using their mouths?

00:00, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the edible bear's head fungus (pictured) once grew to a mass of about 100 lb (45 kg)?
... that a lecture delivered in Baltimore by philosopher Jacques Derrida popularized French post-structuralism among American academics?
... that a Governor of Virginia is buried at St Mary's, Twickenham, encased in lead exactly fitted to the shape of his body?
... that although the Ramped Cargo Lighter was used extensively in World War II, afterwards many were surplus to requirements and sunk by their own side?
... that the endangered Mazumbai warty frog and the more common Krefft's warty frog are both found in the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania?
... that the BBC documentary programme Dinosaurs, Myths and Monsters speculates that the Cyclopes, the one-eyed giants of Greek mythology, may have been inspired by elephant skulls?

21 October 2012

16:00, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Karl-Friedrich Beringer conducted the Windsbacher Knabenchor (pictured), winner of the 2007 Rheingau Musikpreis, in Bach's St John Passion in Eberbach Abbey?
... that the Battle of Trafalgar is commemorated today in Gibraltar's Trafalgar Cemetery, where some of the casualties are buried?
... that Robert John Sholl, the only Resident Magistrate in north-west Western Australia between 1865 and 1883, had so much power that he was described as "virtually a Lieutenant Governor"?
... that the pharmocological products derived from the Spanish foxglove are up to three times more potent than those obtained from the common foxglove?
... that the Irish horror film Stitches marks the movie debut of English stand-up comedian Ross Noble as a homicidal undead clown?
... that the 2013 Manila mayoral election includes police officer Dirty Harry, gang leader Asiong Salonga, a fortune teller, a driver, and an engineer?

08:00, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

... that at least one species of the extinct termites Parastylotermes (fossil pictured) was found in the Calico Mountains?
... that Count Emeryk Hutten-Czapski gathered his historical collections for the National Museum in Kraków mainly through purchasing the entire collections of other noble families?
... that the Bab al-Nairab neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, was originally a 13th-century gate planned by the Ayyubid ruler az-Zahir Ghazi, but built by his successor al-Aziz Muhammad?
... that American sociologist Melvin Tumin challenged the Davis–Moore hypothesis and went on to write a widely used text book on social stratification?
... that the Russian monitor Bronenosets was converted into a coal barge in 1903 by the removal of her gun turret, side armor, and the division of her hull into three holds?
... that for the 1975 Bollywood classic film Sholay, M. S. Shinde edited 300,000 feet (91,000 m) of reel down to 18,000 feet (5,500 m)?

00:00, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Colorado State Highway 82 (pictured, as Aspen's Main Street) intersects only one other state highway along its 85-mile (137 km) length?
... that the Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque in Homs contains the mausoleum of Khalid ibn al-Walid, an ornate dome with interiors which depict over 50 victorious battles that he commanded?
... that the squat shrimp is normally found among the tentacles of a sea anemone?
... that within the painter's easel lie a relativistic jet 800,000 light years long and a galaxy cluster with 800 trillion stars?
... that the once rare mulch fieldcap mushroom has become more common due to the increasing use of woodchip mulch in ornamental flower beds?
... that the Bombay night frog has been found living in a cave piled high with fruit bat droppings?

20 October 2012

16:00, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the lapis lazuli inlays used in the 25th-century BC Statue of Ebih-Il (pictured), discovered in ancient Mari in Syria, were imported from as far east as Afghanistan?
... that the 1898 torpedo boat Storm was the only Norwegian warship to fire a torpedo at the invading Germans during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign?
... that LW5/7 classified skiers use two skis and no ski poles while competing in skiing disciplines like the downhill and Giant Slalom?
... that Vehbi Dibra was the first chairman of the Albanian senate?
... that in Goya's Portrait of the Duchess of Alba, the duchess is wearing her mourning clothes, as her husband died the year before?
... that German historian Hellmut G. Haasis, who won the Schubart Literature Prize for his biography of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, also performs for school children as "Druiknui, the fairy-tale clown"?

08:00, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the orange sun star (pictured) can be found on the seabed in waters anywhere from 11 to 3,740 metres (36 to 12,270 ft) deep?
... that the graphic novel Building Stories by Chris Ware was published as a box that contained fourteen printed objects, including cloth-bound books, newspapers, broadsheets, and flip books?
... that although José Rivera Indarte wrote the Blood tables against Juan Manuel de Rosas, he had previously been his supporter?
... that William W. Cooper, a pioneer of management science, dropped out of high school and worked as a professional boxer before becoming an academic?
... that male Suillia flies pick a Hebeloma radicosum mushroom and actively defend their territory while waiting to mate with females?
... that Adam White has been picked for the Australia men's national volleyball team 118 times?

00:00, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the 1911 Tauzieher sculpture (pictured) in Cologne depicts a worker tying a rope to a bollard as a "Herculean" nude?
... that Arbëresh scholar Giuseppe Crispi wrote the first monograph on the Albanian language?
... that on 22 August 1914, a British cavalryman in the Great War fired in anger during combat, the first time that had happened on mainland Europe since the Battle of Waterloo 99 years earlier?
... that Chief Justice Edward Kent, Jr. of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court determined relative water rights for roughly 5,000 land owners in the Salt River Valley?
... that the silky rosegill – once wrongly implicated in a case of fatal mushroom poisoning – was called the "ghost mushroom"?
... that Jedd Gyorko began his college baseball career with a 21-game hitting streak?

19 October 2012

16:00, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the 8 House (pictured) designed by Bjarke Ingels won the best green roof in Scandinavia award?
... that, as Arkansas' first lady, Betty Bumpers started a program that took the state from one of the lowest to one of the highest in the U.S. in its rate of childhood immunization?
... that Residenz Ansbach and the churches of St. Gumbertus and St. Johannis are venues for the biennial Bachwoche Ansbach?
... that the Russian corvette Navarin was so badly damaged by a series of storms enroute to the Far East in 1853 that she was deemed too expensive to repair and was sold for scrap?
... that Lord Richard Cavendish's loan saved the Canterbury Association from financial collapse?
... that you need a microscope to reliably distinguish a pine spike from its relatives?

08:00, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

... that in para-alpine skiing (pictured), outrigger skis are an assistive device used by skiers with balance issues or amputations?
... that American aviator Robert William Prescott founded the Flying Tiger Line, the first scheduled cargo airline in the United States?
... that the Atlantic paper mussel has been found growing at densities of over 3000 per square metre (11 sq ft)?
... that a ghost ship is engraved on the Capt. John Jeffries Burial Marker?
... that Amby McConnell lined into the first unassisted triple play in Major League Baseball history on July 19, 1909?
... that the extinct fly Schwenckfeldina archoica has spines on its genitalia?

00:00, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

... that after he retired from professional baseball, Harry Wolverton (pictured) became a police officer with the Oakland Police Department?
... that North Front Cemetery in Gibraltar is the burial site of Victoria Cross recipient Thomas Henry Kavanagh?
... that the producer, director, choreographer and writer of the upcoming Broadway musical Kinky Boots have all won Tony Awards, while its lyricist is a Grammy Award winner?
... that in the Naroda Patiya massacre, 97 Muslims were killed by a mob of approximately 5000 people?
... that Amanda Marshall was nominated in November 2010 to become the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, but did not take the position until October 2011?
... that Hyptia deansi is the only fossil ensign wasp described from Mexican amber?

18 October 2012

16:00, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

... that poet William Wordsworth described Wythburn Church in Cumbria (pictured) as a "modest house of prayer"?
... that the beaded sea cucumber moves by means of peristalsis?
... that in 1894, Ottoman agents burnt the house of Babë Dud Karbunara because he taught Albanian?
... that the red heart urchin feeds on the film of algae and bacteria that surrounds grains of sand?
... that Sylvia Day's Bared to You was initially self-published, but was picked up by Berkley Books due to the popularity of the similarly themed Fifty Shades of Grey?
... that the yellow tube sponge appears bright greenish yellow in deep water because it emits fluorescent light?

08:00, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the National Museum in Wrocław (pictured) holds one of the largest collections of contemporary art in Poland, extending even to the museum's remodelled attic?
... that the lyrical content of "Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control)" was interpreted by the media as an "insult" to Sugababes member Amelle Berrabah?
... that the Hackensack Drawbridge, once part of the "costliest railroad" in the United States, was abandoned after being struck by the collier Jagger Seam?
... that in 2011, The Crown at Whitebrook was one of four restaurants in Wales to hold a Michelin star?
... that the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus sydowii causes aspergillosis in sea fans and may be carried between them by the flamingo tongue snail?
... that Georges Grisez died on stage after playing the opening glissando of Rhapsody in Blue?

00:00, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the Venus sea fan (pictured) feeds by catching plankton that drift past?
... that the inaugural meeting of the North/South Inter-Parliamentary Association, first envisioned in 1998 as part of the Northern Ireland peace process, was held in Dublin on 12 October 2012?
... that Dhimitër Mborja donated his mansion in Korçë in order to house the Albanian National Lyceum?
... that "A Change Is Gonna Come" was the first episode of Grey's Anatomy in which Isaiah Washington did not appear?
... that Nakayama Tadachika wrote Questions and Answers on Court Matters?
... that Andrew Vázsonyi became past president of The Institute of Management Sciences without ever having been its president?

17 October 2012

16:00, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the British Library (pictured) has records of what 46,000 people did on 17 October 2006?
... that chef Philippe Etchebest hosts the French language version of the television show Kitchen Nightmares?
... that Altes Stadthaus in Dortmund was rebuilt in a simplified form, after being damaged in World War II?
... that Millennium's "A Room With No View" features the Paul Mauriat rendition of "Love Is Blue"?
... that Flat Bastion Magazine in Gibraltar, built by the British in the 19th century to store gunpowder, is now used as a geological research facility and exhibition centre?
... that liquid nitrogen is added to cocktails to create a smoky, bubbling "cauldron effect"?

08:00, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park contains dozens of monuments, including the Bawaman, Jama (pictured), Kevada, Lila Gumbaj, and Nagina mosques, as well as the Kalika Mata Temple atop Pavagadh Hill?
... that despite being a nine-time Australian WNBL Defensive Player of the Year, Emily McInerny was not selected to play for the national team at three Olympic Games?
... that in certain species of bees, ants, and wasps, workers sometimes cannibalize the colony's eggs if they aren't laid by the queen?
... that Millennium's "Anamnesis" features the song "Dancing Barefoot" by Patti Smith?
... that Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart's Chambersburg Raid was his second ride around McClellan?
... that the extinct pseudoscorpion Pseudogarypus synchrotron is named for the synchrotron imaging equipment?

00:00, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the red mangrove (propagule pictured) can regenerate among dense growth of golden leather fern?
... that St. Swithun's Way was opened by Hampshire County Council in 2002 to mark the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II?
... that the Saudi government did not lift their long-standing ban on some of Minister of Labor Ghazi Al Gosaibi's books until two weeks before his death on 15 August 2010?
... that the 2012 National League Wild Card Game was delayed for 19 minutes when fans threw debris on the field?
... that the historic Rosia Water Tanks, which provided water for Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson's fleet in Gibraltar, were demolished in 2006?
... that a fish and a bird sued two United States Federal agencies in Rio Grande Silvery Minnow v. Bureau of Reclamation?

16 October 2012

16:00, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the Koutoubia Mosque, or "Bookseller's Mosque", was named after the bookselling trade practiced in the nearby souk (mosque and souk pictured)?
... that Katie Hill, Clare Nott and Sarah Stewart are all members of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team that won the bronze medal at the 2008 Paralympics and the silver medal in 2012?
... that Shanghai Botanical Garden has a penjing garden that covers 4 hectares (9.9 acres)?
... that among the early problems within the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Caransebeş were defections to Greek Catholicism prompted by a simoniac bishop and a priest who disregarded the fast?
... that the Russian ironclad Petropavlovsk was the flagship of the Baltic Fleet during the 1860s and 1870s?
... that when Benny Goodman called to commission a clarinet concerto, Malcolm Arnold yelled "Sod off!" and hung up?

08:00, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the sound made by the bigclaw snapping shrimp (pictured) is made by the bursting of a cavitation bubble?
... that Port Vale goalkeeper Sam Johnson saved three penalties and then scored the winning penalty on his debut in professional football?
... that the Women's Image Network Awards are given annually to honor women in media and promote the creation of positive images of women in film, television, and advertising?
... that Rønne Theater in Rønne, Bornholm, is Denmark's oldest provincial theatre still in active use?
... that Victoria Tereshuk was named Ukrainian Sportswoman of the Year after winning the 2011 World Modern Pentathlon Championships?
... that the rediscovery of the long-lost Roman colony of Carteia in Spain led to Sir Isaac Newton's niece finding a husband?

00:00, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the figurehead of the German wooden frigate SMS Niobe (pictured) survives in the Naval Academy at Mürwik?
... that Christoffer Hjort, priest of Akershus Castle, was expelled from Denmark–Norway in 1613 for Catholicism?
... that the 6th-millennium BC settlement of Tell Sabi Abyad in northern Syria featured multi-room rectangular buildings with round structures called tholoi that were probably used for storage?
... that Millennium's "19:19" has been seen as mixing the themes of its first and second seasons?
... that the Golden Door Film Festival Women in Film Award is named for Alice Guy-Blaché, a pioneer in the movie industry?
... that George Foster claimed he used a black baseball bat to "integrate the bat rack"?

15 October 2012

16:00, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Lister's tree oyster and the flat tree oyster sometimes grow on the shell of the Atlantic thorny oyster (pictured)?
... that Natasha Baker rode her horse Cabral to two gold medals in the 2012 Paralympics even though she has no feeling in her legs?
... that the 1996 video game Soviet Strike featured a fictional mission to rescue then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin?
... that the HMS Victory, containing the remains of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, was towed into Rosia Bay, Gibraltar, after the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar?
... that successive Bishops of Râmnic played an important role in adopting Romanian as the liturgical language of the Romanian Orthodox Church, in place of Greek and Old Church Slavonic?
... that 1932 French Tennis Championships runner-up Giorgio de Stefani was ambidextrous but was banned from using two rackets, one in each hand?

08:00, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Tara VanDerveer (pictured) had to take a one-year leave of absence from her position at Stanford to coach the 1996 U.S. Women's Olympic Basketball team?
... that Saul Steinberg's famous New Yorker cover, View of the World from 9th Avenue, was named the fourth greatest magazine cover in a 40-year survey?
... that the Canon EOS-1D X is a full-frame flagship model for Canon?
... that Broad Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, went from vacant storefronts to a vibrant arts district in less than a decade?
... that the humming frog aestivates in an underground burrow during the hottest part of the summer?
... that after collaborating with actress Laura Dern on three films, David Lynch and a cow personally lobbied for her to win the Academy Award for Best Actress?

00:00, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

... that from 1950 to 1960 the CIA ran a domestic astroturfing campaign called Crusade for Freedom (stamp from campaign pictured)?
... that Realist painter Carlos de Haes (1829–1898) has been cited as the "first contemporary Spanish artist able to capture something of a particularly Spanish 'essence' in his work"?
... that when the population size of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium monilatum increases, it can cause a red tide that kills fish?
... that Cordell Schachter oversaw the development of a web-based application that reduces the duration of New York City street construction inspections to one day?
... that actors playing Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on Broadway or in American cinema have earned acclaim such as three Golden Globe Awards and three Tony and Emmy nominations?
... that the British garrison of Gibraltar relied on water from the medieval Nun's Well for making their supply of beer?

14 October 2012

16:00, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the organ of the Baroque Stiftsbasilika Waldsassen (pictured), a papal basilica minor, has over seven thousand pipes?
... that Abd al-Karim al-Jundi presided over the state appropriation of Syrian farm land from its traditional owners after becoming the minister of agrarian reform?
... that "Bleeding Love", a song performed by Leona Lewis, is her first and only song to reach number one on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart?
... that World War II memoirist Kirsten Brunvoll, who survived Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, saw her husband and oldest son survive Sachsenhausen, while her youngest son was trained as a pilot in Canada?
... that university professor Brian Dawson is a successful Australian rules football coach?
... that some graves in the Sanhedria Cemetery of Jerusalem are five times closer to residential housing than the law allows?

08:00, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

... that "short bangs" was a very popular hairstyle in the 1950s, favored by women such as First Lady Mamie Eisenhower (pictured)?
... that Haseo, the protagonist of the .hack//G.U. games, is a reincarnation of Sora from the anime series .hack//Sign?
... that in Shadrake v. Attorney-General, where a British journalist was charged with scandalizing the Singapore courts, the Court of Appeal declined to apply the American "clear and present danger" test?
... that Peter Stuart began writing material for his album, Propeller, at a songwriters' workshop held in a French castle by Miles Copeland III?
... that the Communist Party daily Aththa was the only Sinhala-language newspaper to cover the burning of Jaffna library?
... that American football linebacker Carlos Jenkins reportedly survived a motorcycle accident at 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) despite not wearing a helmet?

00:00, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Darío de Regoyos (self-portrait pictured) has been cited as contributing to "the renewal of modern Spanish painting"?
... that the most significant aspect of moral conversion is the withdrawal from the moral convictions of the past?
... that Champion Bridge Co. was charged with criminal antitrust violations in 1906 as part of the Ohio Attorney General's "war on the bridge trust"?
... that Friedrich Zehm composed four songs for men's choir that he called Grasshoffiade in honor of Fritz Grasshoff, the author of their lyrics?
... that the September 2012 Camp Bastion raid was described as the worst loss of U.S. air-power in a single incident since the Vietnam War?
... that after Norwegian footballer Jonatan Tollås posted a nude photo of a teammate on Twitter, he said that his goal was to upload one new photo every day?

13 October 2012

16:00, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the Flemish Synagogue (pictured), one of the synagogues of Gibraltar, was built in response to the informality that had evolved at the Great Synagogue?
... that King Edward III of England ordered stars effaced from the coat of arms of Sir Amery of Pavy for trying to sell Calais, a seaport of which he was the governor, to the French?
... that a remix version of The Police song "When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around" reached the UK Top 40 two decades after the song's initial release?
... that the aquarium plant Anubias gigantea and the closely related species Anubias afzelii only differ by the shape of their leaf-blades?
... that only one of the 114 registered museums in Poland is privately owned?
... that Gaston Hamelin taught his students not to bite?

08:00, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the ivory barnacle and the bay barnacle (pictured) have extended their ranges by fouling the hulls of ships?
... that First & Main in Portland, Oregon, was the first new office tower in Portland's downtown in ten years?
... that Pre-Tolstojan refers to the oldest period in the history of planet Mercury from its moment of formation?
... that Downtown College Prep in San Jose was the first charter school in Santa Clara County, California?
... that the Nikon Coolpix S1000pj is the first compact digital camera of its kind with a built-in projector?
... that evangelist W. E. Biederwolf played football despite objections from his family?

00:00, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

... that para-alpine skiing (pictured) uses a mono-ski developed in Austria by an above-the-knee amputee?
... that the works of Joseph C. Wells, a founding member of the American Institute of Architects, include "Old First" in Greenwich Village?
... that Jacob the Liar was the first East German film to be entered into the Berlin International Film Festival and the only one to win a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
... that on September 13, 2012, nearly 200,000 Argentines protested against the policies of the president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner?
... that Leona Lewis recorded an acoustic cover version of the Counting Crows song "Colorblind" for the deluxe edition of her third studio album, Glassheart?
... that snow mold, a type of fungus, can severely damage grass if it snows?

12 October 2012

16:00, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Gibraltar F.C. (team in 1895 pictured) was one of the first civilian football clubs established in Gibraltar?
... that, during preparations for Operation Barras, soldiers trained on a scale model of the village they were to assault?
... that the 2011 Bengali film Abosheshey, about a son exploring his dead mother's life, was shot in Roopa Ganguly's own house, where she plays the role of the mother?
... that the inaugural Eclipse Stakes, at the time the largest prize in British horseracing, was won by the stallion Bendigo in 1886?
... that the female Tornier's forest toad is viviparous and has been known to carry 35 young at one time?
... that Alan Phillips wasn't allowed to compete in badminton for South Africa in the 1992 Olympics because he was too old at 36, but he played baseball in the 2000 Olympics at 44?

08:00, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the J. Edgar Hoover Building (pictured), the FBI's headquarters since the 1970s, is now "aging" and "deteriorating", and the FBI is considering renovating it or having a new headquarters built elsewhere?
... that the Eltanin Impact of a small asteroid in the Pacific Ocean resulted in the highest density of deposited meteoritic material on Earth?
... that former Major League Baseball player Mike Capel pitched to a 135.00 earned run average in 1990?
... that "Like You'll Never See Me Again", a song performed by Alicia Keys, ranked as the number one R&B single of 2008 in the United States?
... that Lemuel Moss's time as president of Indiana University saw the end of its schools of law and medicine?
... that Turnbull Thomson Park in Invercargill, New Zealand, was used for growing crops during World War II?

00:00, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Louden Machinery Co. designed more than 25,000 barns (catalog pictured) as well as monorail devices used in manufacturing the first atomic bomb and at a B-29 bomber plant?
... that Team AND1's first international loss was against the debuting Puerto Rico Streetballers team after remaining undefeated for six years?
... that Venezuela's second satellite, VRSS-1, was launched at the end of September?
... that by the time of his death in 1764 BC, Yarim-Lim I, king of Yamhad (modern-day Aleppo, Syria) was said to be the "mightiest ruler in the Near East outside of Egypt"?
... that Orkla Mining Company was the largest mining company in Norway in the interwar period?
... that the shovelnose salamander and the blackbelly salamander both live in the Appalachian Mountains, but the former feeds exclusively in water while the latter mainly forages on land?

11 October 2012

16:00, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

... that The Free Besieged, an unfinished epic by Dionysios Solomos (pictured) and one of his greatest works, was inspired by events from the Greek War of Independence?
... that in 1369, Count Eberhard I of Eppstein built a hunting lodge in the Schloßborn area?
... that Onufry Zagłoba, a character in Henryk Sienkiewicz' The Trilogy, has been compared to William Shakespeare's Falstaff?
... that despite being a centre back, Norwegian footballer Edvard Skagestad has played most of his matches as a striker?
... that the Leiden Glossary, produced c. 800 in St. Gallen, possibly preserves glosses by Aldhelm from Eusebius's Historia Ecclesiastica?
... that the Duchess of Marlborough kept a revolver in her bedroom in Blenheim Palace to prevent her husband from entering?

08:00, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Thompson-Starrett Co. built six National Historic Landmarks in the U.S., including the Rockefeller Estate and the tallest skyscraper in the world from 1913 to 1930 (pictured)?
... that a family in Whitehorse, Canada, was so afraid of animal aggression that the parents went fully armed to walk their children to school?
... that the Duchess of Norfolk asked Captain James Cook to name an island after her, but died before he discovered Norfolk Island?
... that future College Football Hall of Fame coaches Earle Bruce and Don James faced off in the 1972 Tangerine Bowl?
... that the constellation of Pyxis represents a ship's compass?
... that Steve Woodmore, the world's current fastest talker, can articulate at 637 words per minute?

00:00, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Indiana's only nuclear reactor (pictured) has the energy output of a toaster?
... that Carolyn Sampson was the first soprano to record all of Bach's aria BWV 1127, which had been lost until 2005?
... that no Irish-trained racehorse had won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes in more than five decades until Pourparler did so in 1964?
... that the newly built Dikgatlhong Dam has far more capacity than the Gaborone Dam, formerly the largest in Botswana?
... that the frogs Colostethus palmatus and Colostethus agilis are endemic to Colombia?
... that ten Florida fish cabins and icehouses built by the Punta Gorda Fish Co. have been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?

10 October 2012

16:00, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the 2.0-millimetre (0.079 in) long Nanotermes (pictured) are possibly the smallest adult termites known?
... that Selena's "No Quiero Saber" was included in the official Latin album for the 1996 Summer Olympics?
... that soldiers in the mixed-gender Israeli Caracal Battalion successfully thwarted what was described as "a very big terrorist attack" on 21 September 2012?
... that the painting Les orangers by Gustave Caillebotte depicts his brother in the same outfit that Gustave was shown wearing in a painting by Renoir?
... that Millennium's "Owls" was inspired by the earlier episode "The Hand of St. Sebastian"?
... that a stained glass window in St Oswald's Church, Ravenstonedale, Cumbria, is to the memory of "the last female martyr burnt at Tyburn for the cause of the Protestant religion" in 1685?

08:00, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the architectural diversity of the South End of Albany, New York (Clinton Street pictured), is a result of most of its rowhouses being built singly by their owners rather than in groups by developers?
... that the black lines formed by Coccomyces dentatus result from antagonistic interactions between individuals of different genotypes?
... that geochemist Terry Plank, awarded a 2012 MacArthur genius grant, grew up in a schist quarry and in third grade was the youngest member of the Delaware Mineralogical Society?
... that the Canon EOS 6D is Canon's smallest and lightest full-frame DSLR?
... that Paralympic equestrian Jonathan Wentz, who died September 30, posted the best performance of any American equestrian at the 2012 Olympic or Paralympic Games?
... that the cookie star feeds on the cloud sponge?

00:00, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the Montebello Genocide Memorial (pictured) was opened in 1968 and is the largest Armenian Genocide memorial in the United States?
... that in 1886, the filly Miss Jummy won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes by one and a half lengths and then defeated the same horse to win the Epsom Oaks by half a length?
... that Channel 4 cancelled a public screening of Islam: The Untold Story because of security concerns?
... that Faith Hill's "American Heart" was the October 1, 2012, USA Today song of the week?
... that trade union leader Lech Wałęsa was a target of fake police reports produced by the Communist secret service in the People's Republic of Poland?
... that the thallus of the umbrella alga, which grows up to 7 centimetres (2.8 in) tall, consists of a single large cell?

9 October 2012

16:00, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Rogelio Bernal Andreo was the first amateur astronomer to win the Discover Bad Astronomy image of the year with his image "Orion, from Head to Toe" (pictured)?
... that Marco Pierre White became the youngest chef to win two Michelin stars while at Harvey's in Wandsworth, London?
... that Shibtu, wife of Zimrilim and queen consort of the ancient city-state of Mari, was described as "the most prominent of the Mari ladies"?
... that Anil Kumble took the most economical five-wicket haul of the Indian Premier League in the 2009 season, and won the "Best breakthrough performance" award for it?
... that St Columba's Church, Warcop, Cumbria, stands on the site of a former Roman camp, and in the medieval era was owned by Shap Abbey?
... that Alvin Leung serves an edible condom at his Hong Kong-based restaurant, Bo Innovation?

08:00, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the range of the Golden-winged Sunbird coincides with its major food item, the nectar of the plant Leonotis nepetifolia (both pictured)?
... that the works of Henry W. Cleaveland, a founding member of the American Institute of Architects, include the original Palace Hotel, San Francisco?
... that if handled, the flaming gold bolete fungus will stain one's hands yellow?
... that while "Let Yourself Go" was released on 5 September 2012, it had been played at Green Day's secret show on 27 October 2011?
... that in the "drinking and hacking" scene in The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg, as Mark Zuckerberg, can be seen wearing an Ars Nova T-shirt which originally belonged to Eisenberg himself?
... that Charles Johnson Pharazyn wore a sign around his neck walking through Wellington, New Zealand, to advertise that he had lost his spectacles?

00:00, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

The tallest minaret of the world (210 m)

... that the minaret (pictured) of Hassan II Mosque, the world's tallest at 210 m (689 ft), is fitted at the top with an electronic laser directing rays towards Mecca?
... that the Chicago Teachers Union was formed after unpaid teachers revolted against Chicago banks during the Great Depression?
... that the 13th-century Treatise by Walter of Bibbesworth is one of the earliest books explicitly intended for children to hear and read?
... that in 1943, the American cargo ocean liner SS Santa Paula was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Arabian Sea?
... that Retskrivningsordbogen, with around 64,000 words, contains a detailed guide to Danish orthography?
... that the church preceding the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Kamloops, British Columbia, was destroyed by fire on Ash Wednesday of 1919?

8 October 2012

16:00, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

... that for portraying both Rama and Sita in the 1917 silent film Lanka Dahan, Salunke (pictured) is credited with playing the first double role in Indian cinema?
... that although Mihal Zallari was an ardent Germanophile, he prevented the execution of the employees of the Albanian state radio service by the German Army, which suspected them of being communists?
... that the extinct termite Zophotermes ashoki is named after a "sage of Indian paleontology"?
... that Richard Tylman, Mayor of Faversham during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, was a sole supplier of corn to the London merchants among the local exporters in 1580?
... that the Tampa Spartans college football program was disbanded after their 1974 season?
... that in his television special "How to Control the Nation", illusionist Derren Brown attempted to stick viewers to their seats using a subliminal film?

08:00, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

... that before embarking on his Hall of Fame baseball career, Frank Chance (pictured) pursued a career in dentistry?
... that Columbia University failed to turn a profit on Fathom.com, an early online learning website?
... that Khalid Nabi Cemetery in Iran is a notable example of phallic architecture and a major tourist attraction?
... that the immunosuppressant and anti-cancer drug rapamycin was discovered in 1975 from a soil sample collected on Easter Island?
... that Tomahawk's fourth album Oddfellows will be the first to feature new bass player Trevor Dunn?
... that the appressorium—a specialized cell typical of many fungal plant pathogens—can develop enough turgor pressure to puncture Mylar?

00:00, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the bells in Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral (pictured) were originally cast in Savoy, France?
... that past human rights issues in Guinea include the black diet, a total lack of food and water which killed prisoners at Camp Boiro?
... that Baseball Hall of Fame manager Connie Mack said that selling Herb Pennock was his greatest mistake?
... that the edible African species Amanita zambiana is sometimes called the "Christmas mushroom" because it is most abundant in December and early January?
... that racehorses trained by George Dawson earned £77,914 of prize money in 1888, setting a record that stood for 43 years?
... that despite such actors as Christopher Plummer and Orson Welles, New York Magazine described Oedipus the King as an "almost comical" film adaption of the dramatic play by Sophocles?

7 October 2012

16:00, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Ludwig Gies designed the eagle (pictured) found hung at the front of the Plenary Hall of the modern Reichstag Building in Berlin?
... that in 1963, Paddy Prendergast became the first Irish-based horse trainer to win the British trainers' championship, retaining the title for the succeeding two years?
... that Rabbi Akiva Ehrenfeld, founder of Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem, was the guest of honor at an official reception hosted by the President of Austria in Vienna's Hofburg Palace in 1995?
... that the Sacramento Mountain Salamander is preyed on by the western terrestrial garter snake?
... that Martin Dardis linked a Watergate burglar to US President Nixon's reelection campaign with a check written by fundraiser Kenneth Dahlberg, a pilot Dardis had rescued in the Battle of the Bulge?
... that the extinct termite Prostylotermes is known from a female, male, and two eggs?

08:00, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

... that of the five women who served on the New Zealand Legislative Council (Mary Dreaver pictured), three were there to abolish the institution?
... that during the Second Red Scare, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the United States Department of State had been infiltrated by 57 "card-carrying Communists"?
... that Geastrum fimbriatum, Lycoperdon marginatum, P. rubicundus, Scleroderma polyrhizum, S. verrucosum, Clathrus crispus and the wood witch are fungi that have been featured on postage stamps?
... that most of the film directors of the Dutch East Indies were ethnic Chinese?
... that the Loring Air Force Base Double Cantilever Hangar was capable of storing five B-36 Peacemaker or six B-52 Stratofortress aircraft?
... that one reviewer called "A Single Blade of Grass" "yet another adventure in weird, Native American mysticism from the folks at 1013 Productions"?

00:04, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the female common rocket frog (pictured carrying tadpoles) and the male rainforest frog Colostethus stepheni are both involved in the parental care of their young?
... that Johnny Cash took most of the lyrics of "Folsom Prison Blues" from Gordon Jenkins' song "Crescent City Blues"?
... that the late Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev's cult of personality has become a significant part of Azerbaijani politics and society in recent years?
... that Queen Elizabeth II has owned over 30 corgis since she ascended the throne in 1952?
... that the Russian ironclad Sevastopol was converted into an ironclad while still under construction in the 1860s?
... that the stark color changes undergone by the mushroom Boletus pseudosulphureus led one author to suggest that its "personal grooming skills go to hell in a handbasket"?

6 October 2012

16:19, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

... that confused terminology and misconceptions about strepsirrhine anatomy and phylogeny were factors in the media hype over the "Ida" fossil (pictured)?
... that the name of the Syrian town Taftanaz is likely of Hittite origin?
... that at the age of 15, Cody Bollinger made his mixed martial arts debut, winning two fights in one night?
... that the Norwegian Troll Satellite Station in Antarctica's Queen Maud Land is one of only two ground stations capable of communicating with all low Earth orbit satellites?
... that the SoundHound mobile app can recognise a song even from a badly hummed version?
... that part of John London's punishment for his role in a failed plot against Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was to ride through several towns seated backwards on a horse and be pilloried?

08:34, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the Giant's Grave (pictured) is in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Penrith, Cumbria?
... that the 1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team was the first Alabama squad to play in New England and fly to a game for their contest against Boston College?
... that Mostafa Hussein Kamel was appointed as the Egyptian Minister of State for Environmental Affairs after the Al-Nour Party rejected the position as "insulting"?
... that the red-cheeked salamander, which is distasteful to predators, is mimicked by the harmless imitator salamander?
... that in 1967, Jack Jarvis became the first horse trainer to be knighted by the Queen?
... that the $10 million Battle of the Dance dinner theater in Anaheim, California, closed after 18 months, partly because the food was so bad?

00:49, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

... that in Flight of the Butterflies, writer-director Mike Slee documents Dr. Fred Urquhart's decades-long study into the migration of the monarch butterfly (pictured) in 3D IMAX format?
... that Tuber lijiangense, T. microspermum, T. microspiculatum, T. polyspermum, T. sinoalbidum, and T. sinoexcavatum are Chinese truffles that have been described as new species in the past two years?
... that Edward Upcott, Acrobatic Gymnastics Men's Pairs world champion in 2010 and Spelbound flyer, has had chronic asthma since infancy, almost dying from his first attack?
... that hundreds of thousands of art pieces were looted from Poland during World War II by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union?
... that Inoe Perbatasari's last films all dealt with the Indonesian National Revolution?
... that the orange knobbly star produces dark eggs which drift with the current and orange eggs which sink immediately to the seabed?

5 October 2012

16:00, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the two-centuries-old tomb of Mah Laqa Bai (pictured), a Nizam-era Urdu poetess and courtesan, was renovated in 2011 using funds from the Consulate General of the United States in Hyderabad?
... that Australian adventurer Ben Carlin travelled over 80,000 kilometres (50,000 mi) over land and sea in a modified Jeep, becoming the first person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle?
... that the Cumberland Dusky Salamander is believed to hybridize with the Ocoee Salamander?
... that although set in Europe, parts of RED 2, the upcoming sequel to the 2010 film RED, were filmed in Montreal?
... that Roestam Sutan Palindih was a farmer, politician, journalist, film director, and literary documentarian?
... that the sponge brittle star is often found living on the surface of the red tree sponge?
... that Constance Stokes got the idea for her painting Girl in Red Tights when she walked in on a model who was getting undressed?

08:00, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

... that King George III called James Luttrell (pictured), captain of HMS Mediator at the action of 12 December 1782, "the best of [a] strange family"?
... that Death of a Salesman, a 1966 television remake of Arthur Miller's 1949 play by the same name, won three Primetime Emmy Awards at the 19th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1967?
... that the black jumping salamander, the dwarf false brook salamander, the admirable false brook salamander, the Smith's false brook salamander and Thorius pennatulus are all endemic to Mexico, and critically endangered?
... that José Paniagua never returned to Major League Baseball after flipping off an umpire?
... that following the capture of Baldwin I of Edessa in 1104, the inhabitants of al-Fu'ah, Sarmin and Maarrat Misrin in northern Syria revolted against their Crusader rulers?
... that Reiner Stach has written two of three volumes of his massive Franz Kafka biographical trilogy?
... that the enforcement of a 2009 three strikes policy introduced to the copyright law of South Korea has led to tens of thousands of Koreans being disconnected from the Internet?

00:00, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

... that sugar is extracted from the stems of Saccharum officinarum (pictured) and Saccharum barberi, but it is the flower heads of Saccharum edule that are eaten?
... that future Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Cook scored the first goal in New York Rangers history in 1926?
... that Arthur von Oettingen and his family lost their farm and family home in Kuremaa when Estonia expropriated all land from the Baltic nobility in 1919?
... that Michael Le Bourgeois was the first Jerseyman to sign a professional rugby contract with Jersey?
... that the electoral support of the Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement of Botswana increased by more than ten times between 1999 and 2009?
... that Clandestine Childhood is Argentina's submission for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
... that the genus Clivia was named after Queen Victoria's childhood governess, the Duchess of Northumberland, who was the first to cultivate those plants in Great Britain?

4 October 2012

16:00, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Brow Monument and Brow Monument Trail (geo disc pictured) still has a survey marker placed by John Wesley Powell in 1872?
... that Irish Republican politicians in the 1920s were expected to pay for their own meals in order to prevent political corruption?
... that Eva Naa Merley Lokko was the first female engineer to be employed at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and is the first Vice Presidential Candidate of the PPP in Ghana?
... that the Christchurch, New Zealand, suburb of Linwood is named after Joseph Brittan's house?
... that entry into the Druze faith has been prohibited since Al-Muqtana Baha'uddin ended the Divine call in 1043 CE?
... that the starfish Leptasterias polaris and Leptasterias tenera both brood their developing eggs?
... that The Backstreet Boys had a song called "Fuck Off"?

08:00, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the Beaverslide haystacker (pictured) is named after Beaverhead County, Montana?
... that Camelot's bid to win this year's Triple Crown of English Thoroughbred Racing failed when he was beaten by three-quarters of a length at the St. Leger Stakes by Encke, a 25/1 longshot?
... that the sale of William Robinson's farm to the government paved the way for land reform in New Zealand?
... that the Syrian village of Deir al-Bukht ("Monastery of the Bactrian Camel") was so named because the eighth-century Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik kept a bactrian camel at the site?
... that Bose Ikard was an inspiration for the character of Josh Deets in Lonesome Dove?
... that because of how the 18th Arizona Territorial Legislature adjourned, they failed to authorize payment of territorial debts for the next two years?
... that LdMNPV's EGT gene is responsible for the infected larvae's 'zombie-like' behavior?

00:00, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the sea urchin Echinometra viridis (pictured) hides in crevices while Echinometra lucunter and Echinometra mathaei dig themselves into the surrounding rocks?
... that the linguist Ekkehart Malotki refuted the common myth that the Hopi have no concept of time?
... that the Humble Oil Building was once the largest office building in Houston, and was the first office building in the city with central air conditioning?
... that in 1947 Prince Philip held his stag night at The Hinds Head in Bray, Berkshire, which went on to win a Michelin star under chef Heston Blumenthal?
... that it is unclear whether William Augustus Hancock built the first building in Phoenix, Arizona, or only the first building after the town was established?
... that the fungus Stereum ostrea gets its common name "False Turkey-tail" due to its great resemblance to the Turkey-tail (Trametes versicolor)?
... that the Market Gate of Miletus was damaged from above and destroyed from below?

3 October 2012

16:00, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

... that a 1.7-ton, 130-year-old cannon (pictured) was stolen and transported 3000 miles from Pasadena to Cambridge as part of the Caltech–MIT rivalry?
... that the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius celebrates 150 years today, singing in Wiesbaden the premiere of a Missa solemnis by Colin Mawby, conducted by Gabriel Dessauer?
... that the successful Byzantine defence in the Siege of Nicaea in 727 encouraged Emperor Leo III the Isaurian to proceed with his policy of iconoclasm?
... that Argentine actress Mirtha Legrand worked in La Dueña after 46 years without acting in television?
... that Tennessee Governor William Trousdale fought in three U.S. wars and was nicknamed "War Horse of Sumner County"?
... that police fingerprinted over 45,000 men to find the killer of June Anne Devaney, the first time mass fingerprinting had been used to solve a crime?
... that ceramic parchment grows on rotting wood?

08:00, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the northwest tower and spire of St Mary's Church, Longfleet (pictured), form one of Poole's most important landmarks?
... that human rights lawyer Suliman al-Reshoudi was convicted of possessing literature by social anthropologist Madawi al-Rasheed?
... that Jennifer Lopez's partnership with American cable television network nuvoTV will see her work on the creative side of the network, as well as managing marketing and program production?
... that only eight restaurants in the UK have been awarded three Michelin stars?
... that the musical work The Sinking of the Titanic by Gavin Bryars was originally a sheet of typed instructions?
... that social engagement has been positively linked to health and happiness?
... that the truffle-like species C. argyrionus, C. basorapulus, C. caesibulga, C. cinereoroseolus, C. kaputarensis, C. maculobulga, C. nebulobrunneus, and C. sinapivelus, all newly described in 2010, are known only from New South Wales?

00:00, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Bartolomé Sureda was director of three royal factories, La Moncloa, Buen Retiro (picture of an art piece made in the factory) and Cristales de La Granja?
... that Paresh Mokashi's debut film, Harishchandrachi Factory, depicts the making of India's first feature film, Raja Harishchandra (1913), and in 2009 was India's official entry to the Academy Awards?
... that the mineral collection of Lady Clive, a pioneer among female rock collectors, is one of the most important historic mineral collections at the National Museum Wales?
... that prior to the broadcast of Grey's Anatomy's season nine premiere, ABC asked Patrick Dempsey to remove a spoiler photo from his Twitter?
... that the captain of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, Bridie Kean, is nicknamed "bird" because people in the United States could not pronounce her first name correctly?
... that although its colonies are commonly known as "sewage fungus", Sphaerotilus natans is bacterial?
... that Fly, a 2009 play about the Tuskegee Airmen, uses a tap-dancing Griot figure to express emotions through sound and dance for characters who had to control their behavior and hide their emotions?

2 October 2012

16:00, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

... that in both 1969 and 2009, Helmuth Rilling conducted the Gächinger Kantorei in Bach's Mass in B minor at the festival Bachwoche Ansbach in St. Gumbertus (pictured)?
... that Gene Sharp's book Gandhi as a Political Strategist seeks to rebut what it asserts are six mistaken views about Gandhi that have "masqueraded as 'realistic' assessments"?
... that in May 1981 David Blatherwick advised the British Prime Minister on how to respond to criticism following the deaths of hunger strikers in Northern Ireland?
... that Njoo Cheong Seng's first film without his wife was 1941's Djantoeng Hati?
... that a blog was created on tumblr to cover the errors found on the new version of Apple Inc.'s map app?
... that when the newly discovered comet C/2012 S1 reaches its perihelion on 28 November 2013, it may appear brighter than the full moon?
... that the Denkoroku by Keizan, the Great Patriarch of Sōtō Zen, is not historical fact?
... that though Oliver Bosbyshell claimed to have been the first Union soldier wounded in the American Civil War, his name does not appear on official casualty lists?

08:00, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Twinkle Toes (pictured), used in Christchurch to demolish tall buildings following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, is the largest excavator in the Southern Hemisphere?
... that Fred G. Hughes, who served as President of the Council in the 19th Arizona Territorial Legislature, was a gambler and embezzler and was killed by a bolt of lightning?
... that the sand star can move across the seabed at the fast speed of 280 centimetres (9.2 ft) per minute?
... that people were hunting bison in the Albuquerque Basin 12,000 years ago?
... that Ariffien, who directed two Japanese propaganda films, was initially an Indonesian nationalist?
... that the constellation Telescopium has shrunk since its creation in the 1750s?
... that Katy Perry made her maiden performance in India at the 2012 Indian Premier League opening ceremony?
... that the domicile cup fungus degrades wooden historical monuments in Moldavia?

00:00, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Madrid's Palacio de Velázquez (tiled palace arch pictured) by Ricardo Velázquez Bosco was built for the 1883 Exposición Nacional de Minería, with tiles by Daniel Zuloaga?
... that the landlady's wig can be confused with the similar red alga Cordylecladia erecta, both of which grow on sand-covered rocks?
... that Neill Brown resigned as U.S. Minister to Russia during his first winter in the country, saying the climate was "unfitting for the abodes of Man", but withdrew his resignation in the spring?
... that the Zelter-Plakette has been awarded annually by the President of Germany since 1956 to German and foreign choirs which have served cultural life continuously for 100 years or more?
... that three-time wheelchair basketball Paralympian Helen Turner has won four European Championship bronze medals?
... that Stephen Elop, the CEO of Nokia, was once told that the Wilhelm Carpelan, the small green vessel moored in front of the company's head office in Finland, was a "Motorola spy ship"?
... that the Laymoor Quag nature reserve in Gloucestershire, England, is a refuge for the Great Crested Newt?
... that Norwegian football club Kristiansund BK was founded in 2003 by local rivals Clausenengen FK and Kristiansund FK?

1 October 2012

16:00, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

... that the German town of Bacharach was captured by Spanish forces led by Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (pictured) on this day in 1620?
... that the Anglo-Saxon Bamburgh Sword is thought to be unique due to the number of strands of iron used to create the blade?
... that Boletus abruptibulbus, Leccinum arenicola, and Phylloporus arenicola are the only North American Boletaceae mushrooms that grow in coastal sand dunes?
... that Byzantine aristocrat Manuel Maurozomes became the father-in-law of the Seljuk sultan Kaykhusraw I and helped him regain his throne?
... that Bach based his chorale cantata Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114, on the hymn by Johannes Gigas and first performed it on 1 October 1724, two days after his previous chorale cantata?
... that dark eggplant skins were historically used by aristocratic women in China to make black dye, which they often used to stain their teeth?
... that the management regimen for Ridley Bottom nature reserve in Gloucestershire, England, calls for both hay cutting and grazing by sheep?
... that six of Fred Young's films have the word Solo in the title?

08:00, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

... that commercial fishing of the redfish was restricted to prevent its extinction after chef Paul Prudhomme (pictured) popularised it in a dish?
... that the songs "Si Tú Me Besas" and "Ella Lo Que Quiere Es Salsa" helped Víctor Manuelle become the artist with the most number-one singles on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart?
... that the Lepiota mushroom species L. ananya, L. anupama, L. babruka, L. babruzalka, L. harithaka, L. nirupama, L. shveta, and L. zalkavritha all have names derived from Sanskrit?
... that Jeptha Vining Harris, a Mississippi militia general during the American Civil War, was the son of Jeptha Vining Harris, a Georgia militia general during the War of 1812?
... that Protostephanus was the first extinct wasp genus in the family Stephanidae to be described from a fossil?
... that Rihanna described her 2012 single "Diamonds" as "happy and hippy rather than dancey"?
... that Norwegian footballer Michael Jamtfall retired at the age of 25?
... that when Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov ordered White Coke, President Truman quickly obliged?

00:00, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

... that Amanita thiersii (pictured) has the genetic capability to decompose cellulose and can survive on it alone?
... that King Koko of Nembe captured a Royal Niger Company trading post and took hostages who were later eaten?
... that the Port Royal, Virginia, Horne's restaurant is the last remaining of the former chain?
... that German organist Günther Kaunzinger studied with Maurice Duruflé, taught at the Catholic University of America, and recorded the complete works of Louis Vierne?
... that the shooting down of an F-117 in 1999 during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was the first confirmed downing of a stealth aircraft?
... that at the Royal Academy School, Peter Rouw trained Samuel Joseph, who is known for creating a statue of William Wilberforce?
... that the Sixth Asian Science Camp, hosted by Israel in Jerusalem, is the largest Asian Science Camp event to date?
... that the first Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, Alfred Franklin, withdrew from society and went to live alone in the desert?