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31 October 2014

12:00, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

... that several 19th-century buildings were integrated into the design of Jerusalem's outdoor Mamilla Mall (pictured), including the Convent of St. Vincent de Paul?
... that Romeyn Beck Hough's American Woods is a set of over 1,000 paper-thin wood slices collected from 354 different tree species?
... that the capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo, was founded in 1625 by King Andrianjaka on the site of a village occupied by Vazimba, the island's earliest inhabitants?
... that visitors to the Florentine villa of Theodosia Trollope found the atmosphere less intense than that at the nearby home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
... that no part of Stranger Hollow is within 500 metres (1,600 ft) of a road?
... that according to one review of The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin, Shostakovich would be "horrified" by the film's "mickey-mousings" of his music?
... that a revealing red frock by Australian designer Ruth Tarvydas had more coverage than Jennifer Hawkins when she won Miss Universe 2004?

00:00, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

... that when a Mercedes-Benz CLR (pictured) somersaulted almost 15 metres (49 ft) airborne at the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans, it ended the model's racing career?
... that Minnesota's Circus Juventas is the largest youth circus school in North America?
... that "Beck's Bolero" begins with a reworking of Ravel's two-chord progression, transposed to the key of A?
... that according to Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon, the Lithuanian word for "pelvis" is derived from a Proto-Indo-European word stem meaning "deep"?
... that Australia's defeat of New Zealand in cricket's 2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final was their fifth consecutive win after becoming finalists in multi-team tournaments since 1999?
... that the Arafura large-footed bat scoops up fish and insects from the surface of water with its feet?
... that sources relate that while her pagan husband was away, Bilihildis sailed to Mainz and started an abbey?

30 October 2014

12:00, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Gold bird pin discovered in the Dumfriesshire Hoard

... that the newly-discovered Dumfriesshire Hoard (gold bird pin pictured) has been described by experts as "one of the most significant Viking hoards ever found in Scotland"?
... that English model Jean Shrimpton caused a global sensation by wearing a daring white minidress to Derby Day in Melbourne, Australia, on 30 October 1965?
... that the horror manga series Uzumaki was adapted into a live-action film and two video games in 2000?
... that Warren Delabere Barnes, a member of the Malayan Civil Service who conducted an expedition in Pahang in 1900, had a plant in the Loranthaceae family named after him?
... that the first president of Poland, Gabriel Narutowicz, was assassinated five days after taking office, amidst a right-wing propaganda campaign accusing him of being "an atheist, a Freemason, and a Jew"?
... that efforts are underway to help Mahikeng Airport, a former air force base in South Africa, regain its status as an international airport?
... that places of worship in the borough of Guildford include a former telephone exchange, two 19th-century barns and the "Bingo Chapel"?

00:00, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Golden Hall (pictured) received its name when the walls were decorated with mosaics created by the artist Einar Forseth on a proposal by the architect Ragnar Östberg?
... that the wasp Agelaia multipicta removes ants from its nest with blasts of wing buzzing?
... that Sir Hugh Beadle, Rhodesia's Chief Justice, recognised Ian Smith's post-UDI government as legal in 1968?
... that the long-tailed marmot spends seven or eight months of each year in hibernation?
... that Hong Kong's Fan Lau Fort was captured by the very pirates it was built to repel?
... that in the motet Locus iste, composed for the dedication of the votive chapel of Linz Cathedral, Anton Bruckner requests a pause "by carefully measuring out five beats"?

29 October 2014

12:00, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Luftwaffe fighter pilot Karl-Gottfried Nordmann (pictured) later became president of Mercedes-Benz in North America?
... that Robotomy is the shortest-running show on Cartoon Network?
... that Singaporean swimmer Amanda Lim won the women's 50-metre freestyle event in the 2009, 2011, and 2013 Southeast Asian Games?
... that according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook's real-name policy "disproportionately affect[s] the LGBTQ community"?
... that six systems commands not only design, construct, and maintain the U. S. Navy's military hardware, but also include the chiefs of two of the Navy's eight staff corps?
... that the tallest known tree is more than 115 metres (377 ft) tall?
... that Makode Linde made and decorated a cake in the shape of a black Venus of Willendorf for his art piece Painful Cake?

00:00, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

... that The Skating Minister (pictured) is among the famous pieces of Scottish art in the eighteenth century?
... that Luxembourg's role at the United Nations began when it was the smallest founding member state in 1945?
... that Stephen Simpson, writing under the pseudonym Brutus, in 1810 criticized the First Bank of the United States as primarily serving foreign interests?
... that Kawasaki made a "supercharged" Ninja bike with wings called the Ninja H2?
... that The Utility of Force, by General Sir Rupert Smith, has been described as an update of Clausewitz's On War for our times?
... that bass Michael Pospíšil and his ensemble Ritornello recorded music from the hymnal Capella Regia Musicalis, "one of the jewels of Czech musical history"?
... that the southern grasshopper mouse preys on the Arizona bark scorpion even when stung repeatedly in the face?

28 October 2014

12:00, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

... that a lawsuit over the construction of the Cochecton–Damascus Bridge (pictured) led to a ruling that sovereign immunity does not extend to states' joint bridge commission?
... that the Southeast Asian social wasp Parischnogaster jacobsoni has a gland that creates an ant repellent?
... that Bob Litherland was the first British MP sponsored by the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades trade union?
... that with a discharge of over 6,000 gallons per minute, the Quakake Tunnel is the largest abandoned mine discharge in the Lehigh River watershed?
... that the film The Fault in Our Stars is based on John Green's novel of the same name, inspired by the late Esther Earl's life?
... that the Puzzle Lovers Club served as a testbed for hundreds of direct marketing techniques?
... that the Wandervogel, the Hitler Youth, the Swing Kids, the bright young things, the flappers, and the Boy Scouts are all featured in the 2013 film Teenage?

00:00, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Megaponera analis (pictured) raid termite mounds so effectively they have been nicknamed after the fierce Matabele tribe of the 19th century?
... that security considerations forbade the judge performing Priscilla Duffield's marriage from knowing the surnames of the bride and groom?
... that if built as planned, the Old Chicago Main Post Office Twin Towers will be the tallest building in North America?
... that the hat designer Otto Lucas died when the plane he was on crashed, killing all 63 people onboard?
... that following a fire in 1972, three new vestries in Modernist style were added to the apse of the chancel of St Luke's Church, Great Crosby?
... that Auguste van Biene composed incidental music for the play The Broken Melody and performed the leading role of a cellist?
... that where their ranges overlap, the Italian cave salamander sometimes hybridises with Ambrosi's cave salamander?

27 October 2014

12:00, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Roger Sant, after whom Liopropoma santi (the spot-tailed golden bass) (pictured) was named, participated in a manned submersible dive in which an exemplar of the fish was collected?
... that the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series have seen multiple actors, such as Clark Gregg and Hayley Atwell, reprise their roles from the MCU films?
... that in his album Sinema, rapper Swoope asks listeners to examine themselves to discover their selfish desires?
... that psychologist Jonas Wood explores the psychological effects of various spaces through art?
... that toads found in Egypt around 1909 and identified as Degen's toad are now considered a separate species, the Nile Delta toad?
... that the upcoming film The Stanford Prison Experiment is about a psychological experiment involving prisoners and prison guards, conducted by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971?
... that one of Lilian Shelley's jobs at The Cave of the Golden Calf was to feed Madame Strindberg's monkey each evening at the Savoy Hotel?

00:00, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Swedish-American John Alvin Anderson (pictured) documented and photographed influential Sioux over a 45-year period?
... that the podcast Serial was number one on the iTunes Store even before it debuted?
... that The Drew Carey Show episode "In Ramada Da Vida" featured guest appearances by Lisa Loeb, Slash, Joey Ramone, and other musicians?
... that the ceiling of St Mary's Church, Little Crosby is painted with the Litany of Our Lady?
... that the upcoming film Ricki and the Flash will be the second in which Meryl Streep and her daughter Mamie Gummer appear together, the first being 1986's Heartburn?
... that after Ji Dengkui helped Hua Guofeng purge the "Gang of Four", he himself was ousted as a member of the "Little Gang of Four"?
... that the queen wasp Belonogaster petiolata inspects her nest to ensure the eggs are hers, and eats any that aren't?

26 October 2014

12:00, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the oil painting The Fog Warning (pictured) by Winslow Homer shows a lone fisherman in danger of being lost at sea?
... that despite Anthony William Hall's claim to the English throne in the 1930s, King George V didn't want him to be imprisoned?
... that Thornton's Corners GO Station will be built along a rail extension connecting the Canadian National Railway line to the Canadian Pacific Railway line?
... that Kira Kazantsev is the third consecutive Miss New York to win Miss America?
... that the first church of Bay was constructed from cane and nipa by the Augustinians?
... that the pH of Lake Choctaw increased from 4.5–5.0 to 6.5–7.0 within two months of the installation of a treatment system at the Oneida Number One Tunnel in 2000?
... that Lloyd M. Smith created the world's first glow-in-the-dark DNA sequencer?

00:00, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

... that in 1849 Henry Jacob Bigelow presented Phineas Gage to the Boston Society for Medical Improvement (pictured), immediately following a phallic stalagmite?
... that after pioneering free jazz in the Netherlands during the 1960s, Cornelis Hazevoet gave up music to study zoology in 1980?
... that Townsend's vole creates runways among vegetation, with large latrines often forming near junctions?
... that Alvin C. Graves was badly injured in the 1946 laboratory criticality accident at Los Alamos that killed Louis Slotin?
... that the book The Road from Home is the true story of a girl whose father, mother, brothers, and sisters all died during the Armenian Genocide?
... that Swedish bus maker Scania has delivered its first ethanol-powered bus made in India to Nagpur Mahanagar Parivahan Limited for trial runs?
... that the model Dolores was a "happy prisoner" of the sculptor Jacob Epstein?

25 October 2014

12:00, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

... that one of the designers of the Swedish Navy stealth ship HSwMS Visby (pictured) said it looked like a "lunchbox"?
... that although Don Bitterlich scored the first points in Seattle Seahawks history, he was released after three games?
... that a beaver attack killed a fisherman in Belarus?
... that Nicolae Colan was the only Romanian Orthodox bishop who remained in Northern Transylvania after the region was ceded to Hungary in 1940?
... that the fossil ant Azteca eumeces is one of two Azteca species found in Dominican amber?
... that Emily Sartain was the first woman in Europe and the United States to practice the art of mezzotint engraving?
... that The Caravan Club in London claimed to be "the most unconventional spot in town" with "All night gaiety" and "Dancing to Charlie"?

00:00, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Amsterdam businessman Maup Caransa (pictured) lent his name to the ugliest building in the country and to the sons of the gods?
... that young Iberian wall lizards sometimes have blue tails?
... that Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Emily Ratajkowski is featured in the music video for "Blurred Lines", which was the number one song of 2013 in several countries?
... that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected to represent Vadodara, Gujarat, in the parliament by a victory margin of 570,128 votes in 2014, the second highest ever?
... that under Orfeo Vecchi, the Santa Maria alla Scala Cathedral returned to a place of musical prominence in Milan?
... that the upcoming film Our Brand Is Crisis, based on the documentary of the same name, is about Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada's 2002 Bolivian presidential election campaign managed by James Carville?
... that the National Football Museum described Paul Gascoigne as "the most naturally gifted English midfielder of his generation"?

24 October 2014

12:11, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

... that accommodation in the Butterfly Valley, Fethiye (pictured) at the Turkish Riviera is possible only in tents or wooden bungalows because any type of construction is prohibited by law?
... that in World War II, Zenon B. Lukosius and his crew mates captured the U-505 submarine, which had an important German code book on board?
... that Asolo in the Province of Treviso is called "the city of a hundred landscapes"?
... that the Dutch right-wing military veterans organization Oud-Strijders Legioen was compared to a "Boy Scout organization for the elderly"?
... that Ralph Landau, a chemical engineer and economist, formulated the concept of technology as capital?
... that The Punisher can be distinguished from other beat 'em up games by its frequent use of firearms?
... that Frank Facer's recruiting was seen as a key factor in the success of the St. George Dragons, including eleven straight titles between 1956 and 1966?

00:26, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the 6th-century Kızıl Kilise (pictured) is one of the oldest churches in Turkey's Cappadocia region?
... that Iron Foot Jack, "a more agreeable kind of Alistair Crowley in a poorer way of business", was an inspiration for a young Ian Dury?
... that the experimental Ebola drug candidate ZMapp is manufactured in the tobacco plant Nicotiana benthamiana in a bioproduction process known as "pharming"?
... that John Messinger, the first Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, helped to set the state line between Illinois and Wisconsin?
... that the upcoming film Freeheld is based on the true story of a police officer's battle to transfer her pension to her domestic partner?
... that the death of a Dutch fascist in Amsterdam in February 1941 was an excuse for the German authorities to start raids in the Jewish Quarter and install a Judenrat?
... that a second wind makes sleep-deprived persons feel less sleepy on the fifth sleepless day than they did on the fourth?

23 October 2014

12:41, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

... that during work on a predecessor to the Royal Air Force's Airborne Interception radar, Mark VIII (pictured), Herbert Skinner would use its klystron as a cigarette lighter?
... that The GNOME Project's Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women started because no women were among the 181 applicants to a student mentorship program in 2006?
... that populations of the Chinese goral are declining, probably due to over-hunting?
... that in putting together episodes of Off the Air, series creator Dave Hughes seeks clips "with some kind of truth or integrity to them"?
... that the Polish inventor and bridge designer Marian Lutosławski was killed in a mass execution by the Bolsheviks several days before his trial was supposed to take place?
... that in order to write the novel Strike Zone, author Peter David spoke with actress Marina Sirtis to gain insight into her character in Star Trek: The Next Generation?
... that Theora mesopotamica was once given the name Abra cadabra, because a scientist believed it "had been dead for a long time, and could be described as a cadaver"?

22 October 2014

13:11, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Italian pool frog (pictured) has been introduced into the United Kingdom?
... that The Verge predicts Apple Pay will do to the mobile payments market what the iPhone did to the smartphone market?
... that Gertrude Melville was nicknamed the "grand old lady of the Labor Party" despite serving only one term in parliament?
... that the Ocala Star-Banner considered John Ritter's comedy style in the 1983 film Sunset Limousine to be the "magic ingredient" for the film's success?
... that Flemish separatists took the German occupation of Belgium during World War I as an opportunity to declare independence in 1918?
... that Lindita Arapi's first book of poetry, Am Meer, nachts ("By the sea, at night") was the first such work written by an Albanian poetess in German?
... that the Venus of Savignano was found by a farmer who gave it to a sculptor in exchange for 200 kg (440 lb) of grapes?

01:26, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Kate Vaughan (pictured), who developed the skirt dance, was considered the greatest dancer of her time?
... that the Romanian communist Constantin Doncea made a well-publicized break from prison, finding his way to Moscow and then to the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War?
... that Narendra Modi got the idea for the Bharatiya Janata Party slogan for the 2014 Indian general election, Achhe din aane waale hain ("Good days are coming"), from his opposition leader, Manmohan Singh?
... that in his later career, Clifford Hall painted women covered almost head to toe and with their faces usually hidden?
... that film titles like India Speaks, Africa Speaks!, and Mussolini Speaks gave Duke Ellington the idea to call his song "Harlem Speaks"?
... that Stephen Phillips originally auditioned to play the Winners & Losers character Doug Graham, but was cast as Zach Armstrong instead?
... that the penis in male canids contains a structure at the base which helps to create a copulatory tie during mating, locking the animals together for up to an hour?

21 October 2014

13:41, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Stewart Gray (pictured) was a "heroic dreamer" who originated the back-to-the-land movement in the UK and started an artists' colony in London?
... that Corn Run was likely named for bushels of corn washed into it during a flood?
... that Clarence N. Hickman, a developer of the bazooka, was also the "Father of Scientific Archery", and is an AMICA Hall-of-Famer for his improvements to player pianos?
... that burglars attacking a Barretville, Tennessee, bank vault with blowtorches in 1930 failed to steal any money, but burned down the adjacent general store?
... that the French singer Christophe got the inspiration for the title of his 1965 hit song "Aline" during a visit to the dentist?
... that Hugh Bolton Jones exhibited at New York's National Academy of Design for sixty years?
... that part of Ashutosh Gowariker's Everest has been filmed at over 17,000 feet (5,200 m) above sea level?

01:56, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Broadbottom Viaduct (pictured), originally of wooden construction, was replaced with a wrought iron structure less than 20 years after its completion?
... that the Swedish stand-up comedian Robin Paulsson became known for his imitations of footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović?
... that less than four months after Guatemala declared independence from the Spanish Empire, it was annexed by a different empire?
... that the social worker Pah Wongso turned an extortion charge into a 25-cent fine and a school for impoverished youth?
... that the first Canadian Platinum Maple Leaf coin was struck by a Japanese?
... that German TV broadcaster ZDF used Dominik Kuhn's (Dodokay's) fandub of a Romney-Obama debate to start reporting on the outcome of the 2012 U.S. presidential election?
... that the snail species Aegista diversifamilia was named in recognition of the same-sex marriage movement in Taiwan?

20 October 2014

14:11, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the first U.S. revenue stamps (example pictured) were issued in 1862 to raise money for the American Civil War?
... that in 1920 Louise Pearce tested a cure for the fatal epidemic of African sleeping sickness in the Belgian Congo?
... that the Nobel Banquet is held each 10 December, after the Nobel Prize ceremony?
... that the composer Joseph Maria Wolfram became mayor of Teplice?
... that after his speech in the trial of Thomas Paine, a crowd unhitched Thomas Erskine's horses and pulled his carriage home?
... that certain crabs injected with calitoxin, found in the nematocysts of the sea anemone Calliactis parasitica, are paralysed within one minute?
... that Cindy Smart knows five languages and basic mathematics, but is "a little creepy"?

02:26, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the triangles on the flag of Saint Lucia (pictured) represent the Pitons, two volcanic plugs on the island that are a national symbol of the country?
... that MacArthur Fellow Tami Bond, known for her study of black carbon, became interested in engineering after her car broke down?
... that bowfins can survive up to five days' exposure to air because they can breathe both air and water?
... that the logo of No-Li Brewhouse depicts the Skyride over Spokane Falls?
... that the Hasidic singer Yehuda Green, who performs in the style of Shlomo Carlebach, has been called "more Carlebach than Carlebach"?
... that of the 26 named tributaries of Catawissa Creek, 11 are considered by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission to be Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that Arthur Drewry chose the England football team that lost 1–0 to the United States in a shock defeat?

19 October 2014

14:41, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Mostafa Salameh (pictured) rang his partner, his parents, and the King of Jordan via satellite phone from Mount Everest?
... that the first Wikipedia Monument in the world will be unveiled in Słubice, Poland, in late October 2014?
... that when the gynecologist Thomas Ashby died in 1916, he was the only University of Maryland faculty member to have served in the Maryland State Legislature?
... that the parasitoid wasp Kollasmosoma sentum can deposit its egg within the abdomen of an ant in as little as 0.052 seconds?
... that Florian Znaniecki was the founder of sociology in Poland?
... that The Fine Young Capitalists produced a series of videos about the achievements of female game developers at the request of 4chan members?
... that even as Brian Kim was speaking on CNBC as a guest expert on the legality of dark pools, he was running an illegal Ponzi scheme?

02:56, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Swedish actress Görel Crona (pictured) played an ex-prostitute in the television series Varuhuset?
... that at 1034 letters, Howard Bergerson's poem "Edna Waterfall" was once recognized as the world's longest English palindrome?
... that Andrew Garfield has been described by the media as an LL Bean Boyfriend?
... that Paul Emile Diou, described as a "shy and timid" subaltern, fell while leading his troops as a brigade commander in the First World War?
... that Illinois State Senator Lorenzo D. Whiting was the father of journalist Lilian Whiting?
... that the Japanese people who conserve Article 9 were among the favourites to win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, but lost to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai?
... that the tiered belltower of Tumauini Church resembles a wedding cake?

18 October 2014

15:11, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Ermita Church (pictured) is home to what is considered to be the oldest Marian image in the Philippines?
... that Bruce Mozert took underwater photographs in Silver Springs, Florida, as early as the 1940s?
... that the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program has flown 96 student experiments into low Earth orbit since 2010?
... that Harutyun Shahrikyan was tortured and killed during the Armenian Genocide?
... that the original Five Mile Point Lighthouse (1805) was a 30-foot (9 m) octagonal wooden tower, its fixed white light supplied by eight oil lamps with 13-inch (330 mm) parabolic reflectors?
... that the British fashion photographer John Cowan was known for his "high-octane image-making"?
... that the record label PC Music has never produced a physical release?

00:00, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

... that a molecular gyroscope (pictured) can spin at 2,400,000,000,000 revolutions per second?
... that Du Xinwu's opium habit led his teacher to dangle him by the hair from a bridge?
... that poor education and an immature pension system are contributing to high levels of poverty in Cyprus?
... that after the construction business of 12-year-old Bill Walker's family was ruined in the 1964 Alaska earthquake, he worked as a janitor?
... that the Cemetery for North Korean and Chinese Soldiers in Paju, South Korea, contains the graves of North Korean agents killed on espionage missions in the South?
... that the Armenian academic Levon Harutyunyan has authored over 400 research papers and some 400 essays?
... that Hunkydory Creek has the lowest gradient of any tributary of Catawissa Creek, 5.2 meters per kilometer?

17 October 2014

12:00, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the 2014 Internet Slowdown Day (logo pictured) has been compared to the Internet Blackout Day of 2012?
... that the majority of the Mikea people live in and around the spiny Mikea Forest on the southwestern coast of Madagascar, between Morombe and Toliara?
... that the landscape painter Willis E. Davis was informed over the phone of his daughter's elopement?
... that the closure-threatened Secombe Theatre was converted from a Christian Science church in 1984?
... that in 1996 Jamie Nabozny sued school officials for failing to protect him from years of homophobic bullying?
... that Scottish religion in the seventeenth century included intense conflicts between Presbyterian Covenanters and government forces?
... that Shloime Gertner has been called "the Hasidic Robbie Williams"?

00:00, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Queen's Building (pictured) in Wolverhampton started life as the carriage entrance to the town's railway station?
... that the Republic of Cuba's silver certificates were designed and produced by the US Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing?
... that the 1967 sex-education film Helga – Vom Werden des menschlichen Lebens contained West Germany's first publicly shown scenes of childbirth?
... that Chinese politician Zhang Xi was posthumously denounced as a traitor and his ashes were discarded?
... that Mother 3 was in development for over a decade and then translated from Japanese into English by its fans?
... that a supercargo on an East Indiaman could take a sloop from Whampoa anchorage to Jack-ass Point at the Thirteen Factories?

16 October 2014

12:00, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

... that actress Florence Pernel (pictured) portrayed Nicolas Sarkozy's second wife Cécilia in the 2011 film La Conquête?
... that Kiswe Mobile's app for the WNBA's Washington Mystics was the first where a U.S. professional sports team streamed live games to its local viewing area via a mobile application?
... that there are two colour forms of the sharp-snouted rock lizard and both provide camouflage on the limestone cliffs on which they live?
... that Uzo Aduba won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress as Orange Is the New Black's "Crazy Eyes", while Taylor Schilling was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress as Piper Chapman?
... that University of Santo Tomas Baybayin Documents are part of the biggest collection of extant baybayin scripts?
... that although he was the leading Democratic candidate for most of the 1885 U.S. Senate election in Illinois, William Ralls Morrison only received one vote on the legislature's final ballot?

00:00, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Swedish illustrator John Bauer is best known for his illustrations of gnomes and trolls (example pictured)?
... that the fairy lorikeet forages high in the forest canopy and is assumed to feed on pollen and nectar?
... that a pharmacist, a newspaper publisher, an alcoholism counsellor, and the state Transportation Secretary were among those indicted in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority kickback scandal?
... that although Cross Run is only 1.1 miles (1.8 km) long, it contains two reservoirs?
... that despite a legislator's warning to refrain from mixing art with politics, Hong Kong's upcoming M+ museum of visual culture has acquired 26 works by artist-activist Ai Weiwei?
... that anonymous music producer Sophie chose his name because he thought "it tastes good and it's like moisturizer"?

15 October 2014

12:00, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

... that shoddy tunnel construction in the 1840s forced the Hastings Line to use a restricted loading gauge and special narrow-bodied trains (Class 33/2 locomotive pictured) until 1986?
... that Twitterature has been called a literary genre, but is more accurately an adaptation of various genres to social media?
... that the 1982 dungeon crawler Telengard began as a hobbyist game for the PDP-10 mainframe computer and later joined what Gamasutra called "The Silver Age" of computer role-playing games?
... that Todd Lake in the Deschutes National Forest of Oregon is well known for its summer wildflowers display?
... that the 1989 film Masque of the Red Death, produced by Roger Corman, is a remake of the 1964 picture of the same name which was directed by him?
... that Francis Henry Medcalf was Mayor of Toronto for five years – spread over a twelve-year period?
... that umpires in German hobby horse polo force punitive sherries on non-galloping players?

00:00, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Karolina Lassbo (pictured), creator of A Glamour Princess Blog, competed in the Miss Sweden beauty pageant in 2006?
... that GamersGate was the result of Paradox Interactive's decision to allow an Argentine fan to download a game?
... that Lady Meng Jiang is one of the Four Great Folktales of China?
... that the reed vole stores grain and pieces of grass in its burrow for winter use?
... that public service trade union General Secretary Barry Reamsbottom refused to stand down after the election of his successor Mark Serwotka, until a high court judge forced him out?
... that the Hofileña Ancestral House was the first ancestral house in Silay City to open its doors to the public?
... that prior to becoming the film commissioner of Belize, Nigel Miguel spent seven years as the body double for Michael Jordan?

14 October 2014

12:00, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the prickly foliage of Grevillea juniperina (pictured) makes it a good shelter for birds in the garden?
... that Hoylande Young was the first woman division head at the Argonne National Laboratory?
... that the speed of the red whip snake enables it to feed largely on lizards?
... that Reginald's Tower in Ireland has served as a fortified tower, a mint, a prison, a military storehouse, an air raid shelter, and a museum?
... that at the request of an encomendero to the rector of the Society of Jesus in Manila, the Jesuits were assigned to Silang Church in 1599?
... that London's Endell Street was the site of a World War I military hospital staffed entirely by women?
... that Anastasios Tsonis's research has concluded that, as a result of natural processes, the Earth might have entered a new "climate state" in 2001 or 2002?

00:00, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Greek rock lizard (pictured) often has two blue spots above the shoulder?
... that Wan Laisheng's teachings on martial arts pre-dated Bruce Lee's by about 50 years?
... that the first stone church of Cavinti in the Philippines, built in 1621, was severely damaged in a Chinese uprising?
... that Winton Square in Stoke-on-Trent has been described as the best example of neo-Jacobean architecture in Staffordshire?
... that the discovery of the fossil of Shenshou, a squirrel-like early mammal from the Tiaojishan Formation, pushed the origin of mammals back to the Late Triassic, 220 million to 200 million years ago?
... that the Egyptian folklorist and writer Ahmed Taymour was educated by his feminist sister?
... that in 1855 three passengers, believing they had arrived at their destination, fell to their deaths when they stepped from a train that had halted on Dinting Viaduct?

13 October 2014

12:00, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Loreto Church and the St. Anthony Shrine (pictured) are known as the "twin churches of Sampaloc"?
... that the Karnataka politician and former minister B.T. Lalitha Naik wrote dialogue for, and acted in, the Banjara film Zadero Pankheru?
... that the 966-foot (294 m) Callicoon Bridge connecting New York and Pennsylvania is the longest on the Upper Delaware River?
... that the Jungdeutsche Partei members of the German minority living in prewar Poland sent the call to the world: "We want to be Germans, and nothing but Germans"?
... that 1 is a documentary film about Formula One's progress from multiple fatalities per season in its early years to the 1994 death of Ayrton Senna, its most recent?
... that Jovan Albanez was the first commander of the Serbian Hussar Regiment of the Imperial Russian Army?
... that in the 1990s, Little Crooked Run was considered to be Class A Wild Trout Waters, despite being infertile and acidic?

00:00, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Three Sisters (pictured) in Oregon are part of a complex volcano?
... that Sidney L. Jones held the same senior position in the U.S. Department of the Treasury under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush?
... that refunds for the two-day charity event PLDT HOME: The Last Home Stand were offered after the scheduled exhibition game between NBA players and Gilas Pilipinas was cancelled?
... that the Prosphorion Harbour in Constantinople could have derived its name from the goddess Hecate?
... that Nelson Mandela chaired peace talks between Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko and rebel leader Laurent Kabila on board the SAS Outeniqua in May 1997?
... that the BBC Young Musician of the Year was the inspiration for the inaugural Eurovision Young Musicians contest in 1982?
... that Eloy Mestrelle, the man who introduced machine-struck coinage to England, was executed for coin counterfeiting?

12 October 2014

12:00, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Cape starling (pictured) is a host to the greater honeyguide, a bird that lays its eggs in other birds' nests?
... that Franz Wolf was sentenced in the Sobibór trial to eight years in prison for taking part in the murder of "at least 39,000 Jews", an arbitrary number?
... that the 1971 Salem, Illinois derailment was Amtrak's first fatal accident?
... that Electric Light Orchestra, Nina Simone, James Brown and John Barry all influenced Labrinth's "Let It Be"?
... that the Canadian para-athlete Robbi Weldon competed in both the Summer and Winter Paralympics?
... that three of the eleven five-wicket hauls in the Asia Cup tournament were taken by Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga, the most by any player?
... that Miss Corner's Historical Library raised many questions?

00:00, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Martin Lücker (pictured) played 3,000 free organ concerts at the Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt?
... that 94% of the members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are male?
... that Brian Brushwood walked away from his job designing computer systems to perform magic full-time?
... that the Pyrenean frog breeds in mountain streams after the snow has melted?
... that William W. Naismith founded the Scottish Mountaineering Club and invented a rule for estimating how long it will take to walk a given route?
... that Gustav Mahler said that the Vertegrand – the same type of piano as used by The Beatles on "Lady Madonna" – could "satisfy a musician's requirements in every respect"?
... that after College Football Hall of Fame inductee Buck Flowers returned two punts for touchdowns, a writer suggested that the opposition Auburn Tigers made a dying request: "Please omit Flowers"?

11 October 2014

12:00, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

... that, in their depictions of the capture of Diponegoro, Nicolaas Pieneman portrayed him as submissive (pictured), while Raden Saleh represented him as defiant?
... that the National Council of Women of Australia made Margaret Windeyer an honorary life president in 1918, though she had never been a member of the council's executive board?
... that Sanath Jayasuriya's six centuries at the Asia Cup are the most by any player in the tournament's history?
... that Lia Olguța Vasilescu is the first female mayor of a county capital in Romanian history?
... that the Zaisan mole vole uses its incisors and upward movements of its head to burrow through the soil?
... that the Chinese immunologist Shu Hongbing went to school barefoot because he could not afford shoes?
... that in the 2014 National League Wild Card Game, Brandon Crawford hit the first Major League Baseball postseason grand slam by a shortstop?

00:00, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the African giant toad (pictured) resembles a dead leaf?
... that The Who's album Tommy has sold in the order of 20 million copies since its release in 1969?
... that Father Mapple in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick preaches from a pulpit in the form of a ship's prow?
... that for the first two decades of Knesset elections, Israeli Arabs were represented mainly by Arab satellite lists and communist parties?
... that the American racehorse Bayern was named after soccer team Bayern Munich, and nicknamed "Little Dude" after fellow racehorse Game On Dude?
... that the results of a Royal Commission into the Torbanlea Colliery Disaster were shelved until a similar accident in which 75 workers were killed two decades later?
... that the bio-hacker Heather Dewey-Hagborg collects discarded hair, gum, and cigarette butts, sequences the DNA, and turns it into a 3-D sculpture?

10 October 2014

12:00, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the physicist Edward Creutz published a paper on a rare flower (pictured) found only on the island of Raiatea in French Polynesia?
... that the Pacific International was Amtrak's first international passenger train?
... that the blind Canadian swimmer Brian Hill prepared for the 2008 Paralympics by swimming 120 km (75 mi) in two weeks?
... that the slender head of the narrow-headed vole may have evolved to allow it to move more easily through crevices in frozen ground?
... that the historian Jalmari Jaakkola, who was criticized for overtly nationalist assertions and extensive speculation, chose the words "The seer of early Finnish history" for his memorial medal?
... that the South African cricketer Jacques Kallis was the first player to take a five-wicket haul in the ICC Champions Trophy?
... that at least six people turned down the job of Director of Research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory before Alvin M. Weinberg accepted it in March 1948?

00:00, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

... that in 2013, Chris Davis (pictured) led all American League baseball players with 53 home runs?
... that the fatal crash of Aero Flight 217 occurred in poor visibility at Mariehamn Airport, Finland, where local land disputes had prevented the installation of an instrument landing system?
... that Amethi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has been represented in the parliament by four members of the Nehru–Gandhi family since 1980?
... that M. Stanley Livingston and Hans Bethe were the first to demonstrate that the neutron has a magnetic moment?
... that Chest Creek is the first major canoeable tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River?
... that the second album of the Argentine band Kamikaze had low sales because of the 1989 Argentine hyperinflation?
... that Marcus Morris, the founder of the Eagle comic, was vicar of St James' Church, Birkdale in the 1940s?

9 October 2014

12:00, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the underparts of the male Sicilian wall lizard (pictured) may be suffused with orange, pink or red during the breeding season?
... that Nadav Ben Yehuda, an Israeli mountain climber, abandoned his attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest to rescue a fellow climber?
... that one of the founders of Lemurs' Park near Antananarivo is the grandson of Pierre Boiteau, the Founding Director of the Tsimbazaza Zoo?
... that Johann Konrad Kern was a major author of Switzerland's first federal constitution in 1848?
... that Mthatha Airport was turned into a military zone and no-fly zone to accommodate the body of Nelson Mandela and heads of state attending his funeral in the nearby village of Qunu?
... that the pro-Beijing Alliance for Peace and Democracy was established to counter the Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement?

00:00, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Rudolf Koller painted "the Swiss national animal" running in the road in front of traffic (pictured)?
... that the commemorative stela of Nahr el-Kalb include inscriptions dedicated to Ramesses II in hieroglyphics, Esarhaddon in cuneiform, Caracalla in Latin, Barquq in Arabic and Napoleon III in French?
... that due to local sensitivities, the North Stafford Hotel was the location for the inaugural meeting of the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent council?
... that wood from common alders is valued in turnery and carving, in making furniture, window frames, clogs, toys, blocks, pencils and bowls?
... that the Mason County Sculpture Trail is a garden of public art with exhibition pieces located only outdoors?
... that Enrique Zileri was praised by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa as an "indefatigable defender of freedom and democracy" who could not be bribed or intimidated?
... that the antagonists of the indie horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's drew comparisons to Chuck E. Cheese's and Weeping Angels?

8 October 2014

12:00, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Margaret McLean (pictured) was president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria for almost a decade, and was appointed an honorary vice-president after her retirement?
... that the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's Merchants Limited was the last all-parlor car passenger train in the United States?
... that David A. Randall obtained the typescripts of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels for the Lilly Library?
... that during dry weather, the Texas toad remains dormant?
... that when the Transcendentalist poet and banker Samuel Gray Ward became a merchant rather than a painter, it deeply disappointed his friends Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson?
... that despite the upper reaches of the Crooked Run being acidic due to acid rain, the creek is still considered Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that the Kray twins allegedly extorted Esmeralda's Barn from Peter Rachman?

00:00, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the elongated rostrum of the planktivorous American paddlefish (pictured) is used like an antenna to locate swarms of zooplankton?
... that the founder and executive director of KMG Ethiopia is credited with almost single-handedly eradicating the practice of female genital mutilation in Ethiopia?
... that thirteen years after directing the first episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Jean de Segonzac returned to direct the 300th?
... that the Redmond–Bend Juniper State Scenic Corridor serves as a buffer of natural high desert habitat along U.S. Route 97 between the cities of Bend and Redmond in central Oregon?
... that J. Carson Mark wrote a paper dispelling the myth that reactor-grade plutonium could not be used for nuclear weapons?
... that India and Sri Lanka were declared the joint winners of 2002 ICC Champions Trophy after the final was washed out twice?
... that Philip Somerville designed hats for Queen Elizabeth, Diana, Princess of Wales, and two James Bond villainesses?

7 October 2014

12:00, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

... that before the Trinity nuclear test (pictured), Enrico Fermi offered to take bets on whether the atmosphere would ignite, and if so whether the entire planet would be destroyed?
... that the original type specimens of the Electrostephanus fossils may have been burned up during World War II?
... that the entire length of Sugarloaf Creek is within 300 metres (980 ft) of a road?
... that the diarist Teresa Wilms Montt attempted suicide before escaping from a convent?
... that the architects Maxwell and Tuke designed Blackpool Tower and the even taller (since demolished) New Brighton Tower?
... that the first African American elected to the Washington State Legislature from King County was Charles Stokes?
... that patags once used in combat are especially valued?

00:00, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Acacia cultriformis (pictured) is so named for the resemblance of its foliage to knives?
... that in the Battle of Halmyros, the Catalan Company annihilated much of the nobility of Frankish Greece and conquered the Duchy of Athens?
... that the Detroit Red Wings' new arena will anchor a $650 million redevelopment project in Downtown Detroit?
... that the Maribojoc Church, with one of the remaining fourteen Spanish-era pipe organs in the Philippines, was destroyed in the 2013 Bohol earthquake?
... that there are at least 35 sources of acid mine drainage in the Mahanoy Creek watershed?
... that a consultative referendum on whether Ukraine should federalise was held in the Donbass region during the 1994 parliamentary election, twenty years prior to the disputed 2014 status referendums in the same region?
... that after Athena Farrokhzad hosted a show on Sveriges Radio, the Moderate Party's Gunnar Axén claimed to have thrown out his TV so he could stop paying the license fee (which also supports radio)?

6 October 2014

12:00, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Lieutenant General Raymond A. Thomas (pictured) was deployed to Afghanistan for part of every year for over a decade, except for one year when he was sent to Iraq?
... that The Fifteen Whispered Prayers by Imam Zayn al-Abidin contains different prayers to be recited in accordance with one's present mood?
... that the first European tofu factory was opened outside Paris in 1908 by the Chinese anarchist Li Shizeng?
... that St George's Church, Southport, has a tall broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes?
... that the galls of the golden wattle bud-galling wasp can be so heavy that branches break under their weight?
... that Djibouti's flag bearer at the 2008 Summer Olympics was not a competitor?
... that after Gabriel Wells bought a book whose 1,050-jewel binding had required two years to complete, he decided to send it to the U.S. via a passenger on the RMS Titanic?

00:00, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the 1828 self-portrait Beauty Revealed, by Sarah Goodridge (pictured), has been considered to "erase" her body by drawing attention to her breasts?
... that some users of popular Web sites such as Facebook are being tricked into attacking their own Web browser?
... that the Swedish film director Anna Odell staged a suicide attempt and psychosis for her film Okänd, kvinna 2009–349701?
... that the Indian state of Nagaland's first member of parliament, S. C. Jamir was elected unopposed?
... that the fashion designer Michael Sherard was employing 40 assistants at the time of the Queen's coronation?
... that the 18th century merchant Jean Abraham Grill was Sweden's first major drug runner?
... that communists once had considerable influence in the DMV?

5 October 2014

12:00, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

... that Southport Arts Centre, Southport Town Hall (pictured), and the Atkinson Art Gallery and Library form a group of listed buildings in Lord Street, Southport?
... that the lizard catshark is considered a "vulnerable species" because trawling is damaging the patches of coral in which it breeds?
... that Wang Ruofei was killed in a plane crash along with three other Chinese Communist Party leaders?
... that Jella Haase won the Bavarian Film Award for Best young actress in 2012 for her roles in Lollipop Monster and Kriegerin?
... that members of the Demoulas family include a race car driver, a college hockey player, a bar owner, and an Archon Depoutatos?
... that in his essay The Analytical Language of John Wilkins, Jorge Luis Borges speculated that, "it is not impossible to think of a language where the name of each thing says all the details of its destiny, past and future"?
... that the remains of greater long-tailed shrew tenrecs have been found in a cavern alongside bones of the extinct elephant bird?

00:00, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Conversations with an Executioner are between the man who destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto (pictured, left) and a fellow prisoner?
... that in the Bellevue War, Iowa Territory politician Thomas Cox led a posse that killed one of his political rivals?
... that Max Harzof once owned the book that reputedly inspired Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick?
... that the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Southport, apart from the two cathedrals, is the only choir in the Diocese of Liverpool to regularly sing a full midweek choral evensong?
... that the development of Mother 3 took place over a decade and spanned four consoles?
... that a scene in the film Azúcar Amarga showing people deliberately infecting themselves with HIV to protest against the Cuban government is based on actual events?
... that "Life Is a Minestrone" was originally released as the lead single from The Original Soundtrack due to 10cc's reluctance to release "I'm Not in Love"?

4 October 2014

12:00, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

... that acquacotta (pictured), an Italian peasant food dating to ancient times, was originally devised to make stale bread palatable?
... that Martin Scorsese's first British film, Tomorrow, marks the directorial debut of his long-time script supervisor, Martha Pinson?
... that the Nagcarlan Church was first built from light materials in 1583 under the chaplaincy of Franciscan missionary Tomas de Miranda, who also pioneered the cultivation of wheat in the country?
... that John Calhoun, publisher of the first newspaper in Chicago, was originally apprenticed to be a carpenter in Watertown, New York?
... that Adolf Ulric Grill of the Swedish Grill family once traded a mounted moose for 60 rare birds?
... that the Carpathian newt sometimes hybridises with the smooth newt?
... that the tomb of Zu Dashou, a Ming dynasty Chinese general, is in Toronto, Canada?

00:00, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Marcos GT (pictured) had a plastic body, a wooden chassis, and a cast-iron engine?
... that the New England tree frog and the Davies' tree frog are threatened by the introduction of exotic fish, such as trout, into the streams in which they breed?
... that Jean Gordon, the first woman elected to the Yukon Territorial Council, said she decided to run because "I couldn't keep my mouth shut"?
... that parts of Château de Kerjean, damaged during the French Revolution, were dismantled for sale as building material?
... that the Nuwara Eliya Racecourse is the only remaining horse racing track in Sri Lanka?
... that Vekuii Rukoro "had to fight back tears" when accepting his election as Paramount Chief of the OvaHerero people?
... that one enters the wine cellar of 5 North St, a Michelin star restaurant, through a trapdoor in the women's bathroom?

3 October 2014

12:00, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

... that in his NFL debut season, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Len Ford (pictured) was injured so severely in a game he required plastic surgery to "virtually rebuild" his face?
... that a pub may have existed at the site of the East India Arms since 1645?
... that some populations of Carbonell's wall lizard inhabit oak woodland, and others sand dunes?
... that Susann Müller was top scorer at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship, and further elected to the All-Star team of the tournament?
... that the rivalry between Alexander Leith Hay and the Gordon family extended to the British Army, with Leith Hay's 109th Regiment of Foot competing for recruits with the Gordon Highlanders?
... that Tumalo State Park in central Oregon was created in 1954 to preserve a portion of the Deschutes River where scenic basalt cliffs flank the river?
... that in the 1956 Hindi film Raj Hath (Royal stubbornness), the prominent actress Madhubala dressed up as a man?

00:00, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the companion-piece pair of paintings by Gabriël Metsu, Man Writing a Letter and Woman Reading a Letter (both pictured), were stolen and recovered twice?
... that Dattatraya Parchure, also called the "second Savarkar", was initially convicted but later acquitted in the assassination case of Mahatma Gandhi?
... that the curve-billed thrasher will resort to feeding older fledglings and letting the younger ones starve if food sources are scarce?
... that Rona Fairhead is the preferred candidate for the Chair of the BBC Trust, and if confirmed, would be the first woman to hold that post?
... that an abnormal basal metabolic rate can be caused by both hot and cold environments, or even a fever?
... that wine sauce may be prepared using a fish velouté base, which is a base for several other sauces as well?
... that the demonic poison frog is critically endangered because its total range is less than 10 square kilometres (4 sq mi) and its habitat is threatened by gold mining?

2 October 2014

12:00, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Japanese common toad (pictured) eats certain ants and beetles that are unpalatable to other predators?
... that Viktor Pietschmann's photographs of deportees during the Armenian Genocide of 1915 were unearthed in 2007?
... that the current director of the University of Oklahoma's Carl Albert Center is also the Mayor of Norman?
... that September Morn survived the October Revolution, caused widespread controversy in the United States, and was featured on bottle openers, calendars, and candy boxes, but is now in a warehouse?
... that the luxury steam yacht Rover was bought unseen by American business tycoon Howard Hughes in 1933?
... that the 19th-century feminist Henrietta Müller persuaded employers to hire women by "cannily pointing out that this would save money since women were paid less than men"?
... that some retailers did not believe banknotes in the Scenes of Canada series were real money when the series was first circulated?

00:00, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

... that the Aqueduc de Roquefavour (pictured) is the world's largest stone aqueduct?
... that Lieutenant Jenny Lewis, killed in a helicopter crash in 2002, was believed to be the first female Royal Navy pilot or observer to die on duty?
... that Project Guardian was launched after a survey showed that 90% of incidents of sexual harassment on London's public transport went unreported?
... that in 1899 the eccentric journalist and politician Ture Malmgren started building Tureborg Castle, a faux-medieval castle in Uddevalla, Sweden, inspired by his journeys in the Rhine Valley?
... that the Spanish town of Almazán was where the lexicographer María Moliner grew up?
... that Tang Yijie, who died in September 2014, spearheaded a project to compile all the known classics about Confucianism?
... that the small dorcopsis is sometimes preyed on by New Guinea singing dogs?

1 October 2014

12:00, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

... that, with the issue of United States Sesquicentennial coinage (half-dollar pictured), Calvin Coolidge became the only living American President to feature on U.S. coinage?
... that the Burmese hare is found in traditional rice fields but not in heavily-irrigated intensive rice crops?
... that the Indian filmmaker Balu Mahendra saw the shooting of David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) on a school trip?
... that P. M. Sayeed represented Lakshadweep in the Indian parliament for ten consecutive terms from 1967 to 2004?
... that the Campbell Soup Company devised its cream of broccoli soup to be used both as a soup and as an ingredient in other dishes?
... that Iranian authorities have not disclosed the whereabouts, welfare, or reason for the detention of Washington Post Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his wife?
... that Raven Creek may have once been known as Raving Creek?

00:00, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

... that a Strati (pictured), the world's first 3D-printed electric car, was printed in 44 hours?
... that The Finest Hours, currently in production, is a film based on the US Coast Guard's 1952 rescue of the crews of two oil tankers which had broken apart during a storm?
... that the violinist Mela Tenenbaum recorded in the US works that Dmitri Klebanov had composed for her in Ukraine, including Japanese Silhouettes for soprano, viola d'amore and ensemble?
... that Whychus Creek, a perennial stream that flows through Sisters State Park, has its headwaters in the Three Sisters Wilderness area of Oregon?
... that the Filipino journalist Betty Go-Belmonte co-founded the newspapers Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star, and Pilipino Star Ngayon?
... that the southern spotted skunk feeds on insects, small mammals and birds, eggs, grain and fruit?
... that the captured British spies Captain Stewart and Captain Trench were pardoned and released by the German Kaiser as a present to the Duke of Brunswick when the duke married the Kaiser's daughter, Victoria Louise?