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30 September 2010

18:00, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

... that "Sirmilik", the name of a National Park (pictured) in the northern part of Baffin Island, means "the place of glaciers" in the Inuktitut language?
... that during the "Southbelt Shuffle" event on M-6 south of Grand Rapids, Michigan, horses were ridden on the partially completed freeway?
... that Hong Kong-born Rebecca Nolin plays as a defender for the Atlanta Beat and helps coach the Kennesaw State Owls?
... that the Evangelical School of Smyrna was the most important Greek educational institution in İzmir, Turkey, possessing an archaeological museum, a natural science collection and a library?
... that Jonas Mouton was nationally ranked as a safety in high school football but has started for three seasons at weakside linebacker for the Michigan Wolverines?
... that "Peligroso Amor" was Chilean singer Myriam Hernández' first number-one song in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in the United States?
... that seven carpenters were required to build the Mt. Pleasant farmhouse near Indian Falls, New York?
... that despite a warning by Field Marshal Michael von Melas that the man had "a soul as black as his countenance", Heinrich von Bellegarde retained Anton von Zach as Chief of Staff?
... that before the construction of North Main Street School, schoolchildren in Spring Valley, New York, were attending classes in the local fire station?

12:00, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Samuel Colt only began producing the Colt Model 1878 double action revolver (pictured) over twenty years after his patent on the design had expired?
... that the Feathered Helmet that was included in the painting of Captain James Cook's death is said to be the helmet given to Cook when he first landed in Hawaii?
... that members of the public are encouraged to climb and rearrange pieces of the Family sculpture in front of the Federal Building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
... that the Special Survey system allowed people to purchase areas of the Port Phillip District in New South Wales for as little as £1 per acre?
... that the Sopwith Cobham triplane bomber was the only twin-engine aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company?
... that George W. Rice was the only Canadian in the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition to the Canadian Arctic?
... that the two finishes by a Toyota Celica LB Turbo (4th and 8th) in German championship auto racing marked the best results for a racecar that was not a Porsche 935?
... that the Islamization of the Gaza Strip includes government campaigns against playing cards and dating?
... that to maintain a low profile for their appearances at the Hampton Coliseum, the rock band Grateful Dead asked to appear on the billing as Formerly the Warlocks?

06:00, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

... that critics debate whether the differences between Thomas Eakins' two portraits of Mary Adeleine Williams (second portrait pictured) are the result of an affair between the pair?
... that Scottish footballer John Durkin worked at a local coal mine while playing for Gillingham F.C.?
... that there is only a single extant example of the K-5 Air Coach aircraft?
... that the 19th-century Russian tenor Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky retired to the Italian town of Sanremo and died there while tending his roses?
... that during a 2010 game, University of the Philippines basketball coach Boyet Fernandez told a player to deliberately cross the shaded lane while a free-throw was being attempted to force a jump ball?
... that Zhuge Shuang rose from a street beggar to a military governor of the Tang China?
... that as a leader of the anti-Internet pornography organization Enough Is Enough, a former political sex scandal "other woman" became an influential Washington, D.C. lobbyist?
... that artist and sculptor Samuel Rabin was also a professional wrestler and opera singer who appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel and won a bronze medal in wrestling at the 1928 Summer Olympics?
... that the Golden Submarine could travel at over 100 mph (160 km/h)?

00:00, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the pioneering journalist Pearl Rivers (pictured) took her nom de plume from the river that ran near her home?
... that according to Greek mythology, the Thriasian Plain was flooded by Poseidon after he lost control of Attica to Athena?
... that the Tamaulipas massacre that occurred on 24 August 2010 has been described as "the worst known atrocity" of the Mexican Drug War?
... that the 1493 Sejm held at the Piotrków Trybunalski Castle was the first two-chamber parliament in Poland?
... that Bill Erickson started the Rockford College men's basketball program and was its first head coach?
... that the Philippine hornet Vespa luctuosa has the most lethal venom by weight of any known wasp species?
... that Fô Kankam, the founder of Batoufam, Cameroon, was a Tikar?
... that Alfred Marshall Bailey was Director of the Denver Museum of Natural History from 1936 to 1969?
... that psychologists have theorised that people interpret sensory information that their brains can easily process as beautiful?

29 September 2010

18:00, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

... that there is a James Bond Island (pictured) in the Andaman Sea?
... that American nuclear physicist Leonardo Mascheroni has attempted to lobby U.S. Congress to fund his idea of using hydrogen fluoride lasers to generate nuclear fusion?
... that it took over 26 years to plan and construct the Orangeville Bypass of Ontario Highway 9?
... that The New York Times called Leonard Skinner, the namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd, "arguably the most influential high school gym teacher in American popular culture"?
... that Gonggar County of Shannan Prefecture in Tibet contains the Gonggar Choide Monastery, a dzong, and a regional airport which serves Lhasa, despite being located about 62 kilometres (39 mi) from it?
... that Hodo Sokoli, a 19th-century Albanian leader, publicly removed his Ottoman insignia and uniform and put on an Albanian national costume?
... that Pope John Paul II's 1982 visit to the United Kingdom was the first made to that country by a reigning Pope?
... that Rodolph Crandall replaced his brother-in-law as mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon?
... that a French expedition to Hudson Bay in 1686 found Fort Albany only because its English occupants fired a cannon at sunset?

12:00, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Cape Town's Chavonnes Battery once served as a prison along with a quarantine and convalescent wing of the old Somerset Hospital (pictured)?
... that the Andrew Jackson was one of only two square-rigged ships to sail from New York City to San Francisco in under ninety days?
... that amber fossils of ants carrying the extinct mealybug genus Electromyrmococcus represent the oldest record of symbiosis between mealybugs and Acropyga ants?
... that Bud Ogden played for the Philadelphia 76ers, his younger brother played for the San Francisco Warriors and their father was a Medal of Honor recipient?
... that the Ian Tyson song "Someday Soon" has been a charted single for Judy Collins, Moe Bandy and Suzy Bogguss?
... that journalist Amir Mir declined an award from former Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, criticizing him as a dictator who violated the Constitution of Pakistan?
... that the Portuguese–Mamluk naval war was an attempt by the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to stop the expansion of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean in the early 16th century?
... that after winning a Pulitzer Prize at The Oregonian, Wallace Turner went on to The New York Times where he covered the murder of Harvey Milk?
... that UBS Warburg had an email disclaimer of more than 1,000 words?

06:00, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Itumbiara Dam (pictured) is Eletrobras Furnas' largest power plant and the sixth largest in Brazil?
... that, by the end of the 20th century, the Peachtree Presbyterian megachurch had the largest Presbyterian congregation of any church in the United States?
... that Flight from Folly is one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most-Wanted Films"?
... that proteins from pokeweed have shown antiviral properties?
... that the Edumanom Forest Reserve is the last known chimpanzee habitat in the Niger Delta?
... that the first salvage license granted by South Carolina was for the wreckage of the SS Georgiana?
... that the parakoimomenos Joseph Bringas opposed the rise of the general Nikephoros Phokas to the Byzantine throne, but was defeated after three days of street clashes in Constantinople?
... that the first proper society page in the United States was the invention of James Gordon Bennett, Jr. for the New York Herald?
... that after a journalist published an article criticising the leadership of Nigeria's Rivers State, the governor's aide-de-camp ordered that he be caned and have his head shaven with an old blade?

00:00, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Bill McKown (pictured) went from being a youth with 200 model airplanes hanging from his bedroom ceiling to being a Navy E-2C Hawkeye pilot, commander of squadron VAW-114, and Distinguished Eagle Scout?
... that Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy predicts that the upcoming episode "Grilled Cheesus" will be the "most controversial episode of the series to date"?
... that Dzanga-Ndoki National Park and Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve of the Dzanga-Sangha Complex of Protected Areas in the Central African Republic form the Sangha Tri National Landscape with Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo and Lobéké National Park in Cameroon?
... that in The Color of Crime, Katheryn Russell-Brown writes that crime and young black men have become synonymous in the American mind, giving rise to the "criminalblackman" stereotype?
... that Scottish footballer John Durkin worked at a local coal mine while playing for Gillingham F.C.?
... that after the Battle of Landriano, the French monarch Francis I was forced to concede defeat in the War of the League of Cognac?
... that John Logan served as the first treasurer of the U.S. state of Kentucky and held the office for 15 years thereafter?
... that Scribe's debut single "Stand Up"/"Not Many" was the number-one single in New Zealand for twelve weeks, the most by any New Zealand artist?
... that, after being rejected for the American Idol talent show, Ian David Benardo demanded to see panel judge Simon Cowell's work visa?

28 September 2010

18:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1992, French mountaineer Catherine Destivelle became the first woman to complete a solo ascent of the Eiger's north face (pictured)?
... that Thomas Shea was the first New York City policeman ever to be tried for murder on duty due to his role in the 1973 shooting in South Jamaica, Queens?
... that the status of Bhutanese refugees located in seven U.N.-run camps in Nepal is a major issue affecting Bhutan–Nepal relations?
... that American Industrialist Samuel T. Hauser lobbied for creation of Yellowstone National Park after he prospected along the Yellowstone River?
... that during the 1527 sacking of Rome, the Swiss Guards sacrificed themselves to protect the Pope's retreat?
... that, using the mantra of states' rights, former Louisiana State Rep. W. Scott Wilkinson of Shreveport argued in the 1950s for school segregation and tidelands oil revenues?
... that the finless sleeper ray may be the smallest cartilaginous fish, with the smallest adult specimen measuring 8.2 cm (3.2 in) long?
... that English footballer Graham Lovett was forced to retire at the age of 26, after being involved in two serious road traffic collisions in less than three years?
... that Harrisburg, now a ghost town in Utah, was named after an early resident named Moses, and most of its residents left by 1895 due to grasshopper plagues and floods?

12:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

... that James E. Winner Jr. created The Club (pictured in use), an anti-theft device for cars that had sold 14 million units by 1994 with the slogan "If you can't steer it, you can't steal it"?
... that after the Norwegian monitor Mjølner ran aground in 1869 the court of inquiry found the ship's commander and pilot liable for the repairs, but the parliament cancelled the debt two years later?
... that Four Freedoms Park is being built from plans found in the architect's pocket when he died of a heart attack?
... that the first American performance of Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci was conducted by Gustav Hinrichs with Giuseppe Campanari singing the role of Tonio?
... that the designer of the Wag-Aero CUBy aircraft flew one to 20,000 ft to show that it would not suffer vapor lock from using automotive fuel as a power source?
... that Alaska Territorial Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr. led the team which surveyed the Alaskan–Canadian border from the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean?
... that the educational practice of teaching to the test has been criticised for excluding creative and abstract-thinking skills?
... that the Southern Baptist missionary Chris Clarke carries the gospel to equestrian events, mostly in his home state of Kentucky?
... that Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity will go head-to-head with Stephen Colbert's March to Keep Fear Alive?

06:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the plantation-era museum Francis Land House (pictured) has a Georgian style exterior but a Federal style interior?
... that the Siderno Group has been involved in the movement of narcotics across three continents?
... that Tommy Amaker coached the 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06 and 2006–07 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams, winning the 2004 NIT and finishing runner-up in the 2006 NIT?
... that the Ottoman replacement of Albanian-speaking pashas in 1844 led to a rebellion?
... that Symantec claims that the majority of systems infected by the computer worm Stuxnet were in Iran?
... that as a member of the Minnesota Twins in 1997, baseball player Matt Lawton gave 38 tickets to his family so they could attend one of his games against the Houston Astros at the Astrodome?
... that at least one incident of kleptoparasitism was documented at Bénoué National Park, a UNESCO-designated Biosphere Reserve in Cameroon?
... that Zuhal Sultan founded the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq at the age of 17?
... that a match at the World Wrestling Federation's Unforgiven (2001) event resulted from the destruction of a mop?

00:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the ADEOS II satellite (artist's drawing pictured), which cost 70 billion yen (US$570 million) to develop, failed 10 months into the mission after the solar panel malfunctioned?
... that the H. R. Stevens House in New City, New York, shows the convergence of Dutch and English building traditions?
... that the Serra da Mesa Dam creates the largest reservoir by volume in Brazil?
... that Linda G. Tucker wrote that portrayals of criminal black men perpetuate the view that "a nigger is not a person so much as a form of behaviour"?
... that in 1892, Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen composed a Romanze in F major for clarinet and piano which had been influenced by the teachings of Johannes Brahms?
... that Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Brian Ellerbe featured Robert "Tractor" Traylor and include the 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000 and 2000–01 teams?
... that via Urban Land Committees, more than 300,000 Venezuelan urban households have benefited from a land titling program?
... that Jennifer Love Hewitt enthused about decorating her vulva with crystal glass while promoting her book The Day I Shot Cupid?

27 September 2010

18:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the domed atrium of Indiana's West Baden Springs Hotel (inside pictured) was the largest free-spanning dome in the United States for over 50 years and in the world from 1902 to 1913?
... that Robert Abbott is the inventor of logic mazes?
... that Minuscule 482 was written by an inaccurate copyist?
... that Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Steve Fisher featured Fab Five stars Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose and Chris Webber, and include the 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96 and 1996–97 teams?
... that in the mid-nineteenth century Argentina successfully resisted a two-year naval blockade by France?
... that linaclotide has shown promise in clinical trials as a treatment for irritable bowel syndrome with constipation, a condition that may affect as many as 10 million Americans?
... that comedian Micky Flanagan claimed his catchphrase was lifted for a television commercial?
... that after teaching at Wānanalua Church and Punahou School, William Harrison Rice managed the first irrigation system for sugar plantations in Hawaii?
... that as a Major League Baseball scout for decades, Al LaMacchia would not use computers, radar guns or stop watches as scouting tools, saying "I trust my eyes ... Been good so far"?

12:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Major-General Sir Reginald Pinney (pictured) was the subject of Siegfried Sassoon's 1917 poem The General, as the "cheery old card" who smiled to his men as they "slogged up to Arras"?
... that a new section of U.S. Highway 2 in Michigan was detoured around the Cut River Bridge when the latter was delayed due to World War II?
... that European traders originally called the Nembe Kingdom "Brass", after the local phrase for turning down a trade?
... that the coastline of Bideford Bay incorporates both 60-metre (200 ft) high cliffs and one of the largest dune systems in Britain?
... that former American football player Manny Martin made the Buffalo Bills team in 1996, despite being considered by media as "the longest of long shots"?
... that an irrigation dam failed on Bully Creek in 1925, flooding the city of Vale, Oregon, with 3 feet (1 m) of water and causing US$500,000 in damage?
... that the Sanok Castle was the seat of Isabella Jagiellon, queen of Hungary after her escape from Transylvania?
... that the case of Charles Stuart, a white man who murdered his wife and pretended that a black man did it, is often cited as an example of a racial hoax?
... that Darwin's bark spider makes the longest known spider web, spanning distances of up to 25 metres (82 ft), using the toughest known biomaterial, that is ten times as tough as Kevlar?

06:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Meyrick Helmet (pictured) combines the shape of a Roman auxiliary helmet with Celtic La Tène style decoration?
... that the Dulit Frogmouth forms a superspecies with the Large Frogmouth?
... that, at age 12, Samuel South and another youth were sent by the women of Fort Boonesborough to call for help in defending the fort, touching off the Battle of Little Mountain?
... that the 1958 Pakistani coup d'état led by General Ayub Khan was validated by the Supreme Court of Pakistan under the "doctrine of necessity"?
... that Catherine Chipembere was the first woman elected to the Malawi Parliament?
... that the Godwin-Knowles House was built as a home for an industrialist in East Liverpool, Ohio, but was later converted into a Masonic lodge?
... that Mickey Mangham, a walk-on player from Maryland, scored the only touchdown in the 1959 Sugar Bowl to secure a national championship for the undefeated 1958 LSU Tigers football team?
... that in 1940, England was protected by 15,000 miles of scaffold tubing?

00:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

... that golden-flowered Australian native daisy Xerochrysum bracteatum (pictured) was developed into a wide variety of colours in Arnstadt, Germany, in the 1850s?
... that Detroit mayor De Garmo Jones was eulogized as "a sort of western Vanderbilt, with a great big head"?
... that the 73.8-metre (242 ft) tall Cross of All Nations located near the Lebanese town of Baskinta is the largest lit cross in the world?
... that in 2006, professional baseball player Fehlandt Lentini broke the Northern League's single-season triples record with 13, one more than the mark set during the previous year?
... that a 63 m (207 ft) length of hull of the German battleship Preussen, a veteran of World War I, was used as a torpedo target before being bombed and sunk by Allied bombers during World War II?
... that Louis Theroux traveled to Kansas to interview members of the Westboro Baptist Church for the documentary film The Most Hated Family in America?
... that pianist and session musician Don Randi claims to have played on over three hundred hit records?
... that the Wal-Mart brand of women's clothing White Stag was originally a company that manufactured downhill skiing apparel in Portland, Oregon, in the 1930s?
... that clinical studies of cheiralgia paresthetica resulting from handcuffing are hampered by the inebriated subjects?

26 September 2010

18:00, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

... that New York's New Hempstead Presbyterian Church (current building, pictured) was the first established in the colony west of the Hudson River by a congregation of English descent?
... that Riegeldale Tavern was opened by an owner of a mill?
... that Bach used four movements of his church cantata Es wartet alles auf dich, BWV 187 for his Missa in G minor, BWV 235?
... that the short-tail stingray is the largest stingray species in the world?
... that art by Varnette Honeywood showing African American life was included in the Huxtable living room on the set of The Cosby Show after Bill Cosby and his wife first saw her work on greeting cards?
... that the Waterloo Helmet, dredged from the River Thames in 1868, is the only Iron Age helmet with horns ever to have been found in Europe?
... that the 1994 documentary, Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys, brought increased attention to the pedophile group NAMBLA?
... that the Kendall Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Canada's Northwest Territories is a traditional Inuvialuit whaling site?
... that glass discovered in craters at the Descartes Highlands, the landing site of Apollo 16 on the Moon, was described as having the appearance of dried mud by mission commander John Young?

12:00, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott considered All Souls, Halifax, West Yorkshire (pictured), now redundant, to be his finest church?
... that the club fungus Clavariadelphus ligula is commonly known as the strap coral?
... that Bach scored an alto aria for two oboes d'amore and oboe da caccia in his cantata Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens, BWV 148 for the 17th Sunday after Trinity?
... that the insignia of the 84th Infantry Regiment in the French Army carried the words "UN CONTRE DIX" (One Against Ten) to commemorate the regiment's successful defence in the Battle of Graz in 1809?
... that Rewa Prasad Dwivedi won a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 for his Sanskrit epic poem Svatantrya-sambhavam that portrays the Indian national freedom movement?
... that following The Office and Extras, the next sitcom from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant is Life's Too Short, starring Warwick Davis and about the life of a showbiz dwarf?
... that Warden Head Light, a lighthouse near Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia, was relocated in 1889 to its current location?
... that Leiden University's Rolf Bremmer, an expert on Old Frisian language, published an alphabet book explaining the Christian aspects of concepts such as sin and foreskin?
... that Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Quackenbush was promptly traded after winning the Lady Byng Trophy for gentlemanly conduct because his manager felt any player who won it did not belong on his team?

06:00, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the predatory insect Orius insidiosus (pictured) is mass-reared for use in the biological control of thrips?
... that Richard Funkhouser, a geologist and former U.S. Ambassador to Gabon stated, "Oil men tend to divide government people as either 'for them' or 'against them'"?
... that Colonia Juárez in Mexico City is home to a Korean community called "Little Seoul"?
... that Pat "Awesomely Awesome" Audinwood makes his Ultimate Fighting Championship debut in a match against Thiago Tavares today at UFC 119 in Indianapolis?
... that the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount still contains the steps that Jesus "must have walked" on?
... that the recently described genus Koilamasuchus from the Early Triassic of Argentina is the best-known early archosauriform in South America?
... that at some Maya cities, the earliest production of stone stelae coincided with the establishment of dynastic rule?
... that the British breastwork monitors designed by Sir Edward Reed were the direct ancestors of the pre-dreadnought battleship and the dreadnought?
... that a TV ad "I'm not lovin' it" has a woman grieving over a dead man holding a half-eaten burger as a narrator says "High cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attacks. Tonight, make it vegetarian"?

00:00, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Superintendent John Perry Robinson (pictured) was first elected because the supporters of the opposition candidate stayed away, as they never expected Robinson to be able to win?
... that Julia Pirie, longtime personal secretary to British Communist Party head John Gollan, was a British spy?
... that the Dockum Drug Store sit-in that led to desegregation of lunch counters in Wichita, Kansas, started in July 1958, 18 months before the more widely publicized Greensboro sit-ins?
... that Seven Presidents Park in Long Branch, New Jersey, was the site of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, whose performers included Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley and Chief Sitting Bull?
... that Romsilva owns and manages 4,000,000 hectares (9,900,000 acres) of forests, representing 63% of all forests in Romania?
... that James Billington's use of a longer drop than usual when hanging the prisoner immortalized as "C.T.W" in Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, stretched C.T.W's neck by eleven inches?
... that the extinct species Trochodendron drachuckii is known from a single Eocene fossil found near Cache Creek, British Columbia?
... that in his three total professional basketball seasons, Bob Kinney played in the BAA, NBA and NPBL?
... that Graham Hawkes is a deep-sea explorer and James Bond stuntman, who invented the first robot armed with a machine gun?

25 September 2010

18:00, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Geastrum leptospermum, G. jurei, G. welwitschii and G. quadrifidum (pictured) are species of earthstar fungi that elevate their spore sacs?
... that the Dr. Archibald Neil Sinclair House on the National Register of Historic Places on Oahu has a bomb shelter in its front yard?
... that the hairpin ribozyme is an RNA that can encode genetic information and catalyze biological reactions?
... that after Annie Louisa Walker heard Ira D. Sankey's hymn The Night Cometh she recognized that he had used her words?
... that the discovery of the Penrith Hoard of Viking silver brooches stretched over 200 years, from 1785 to 1989?
... that M-66 is the only state highway that runs the length of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan?
... that accountant David J. Porter handily unseated Victor G. Carrillo in the 2010 Republican primary for Texas railroad commissioner?
... that Somerset cricketer Robert Porch was the first cousin of Winston Churchill's stepfather and first cousin once removed of political writer Walter Bagehot?
... that during World War II, Boeing's Plant 2 was camouflaged with houses made of plywood, cloth as well as fake streets?

12:36, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Crosby Garrett Helmet, discovered this year, has a winged griffin on it, whereas the similar Ribchester Helmet (pictured) may have had a sphinx on top, but the Newstead Helmet only had a plume holder?
... that on 28 June 1816 five men were executed for their part in the Ely and Littleport riots?
... that in The Chainbearer James Fenimore Cooper presents a very strong critique of 19th-century American expansionism and concepts of land ownership?
... that the Rawalpindi conspiracy was the first first coup attempt in Pakistani history and involved poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz?
... that IGN's Doug Perry felt that Moto Racer World Tour was one of the five best motorcycle racing video games for the PlayStation?
... that the Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Richard V. Thomas was once the Judge Advocate General at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne?
... that Chirocephalus diaphanus is the only species of fairy shrimp to occur in Great Britain?
... that Communist leader Haji Mohammad Danesh, a leader in the Tebhaga movement, served as vice-president and general secretary of the National Awami Party?
... that a rock band did not survive playing for Rob Roy?

06:00, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the first highway centerline (pictured) was painted on the Marquette–Negaunee Road by K.I. Sawyer in 1917?
... that Henry Howard was a 19th century banker, lumberman, alderman, and mayor of Detroit, and the unrelated Henry Howard was a 19th century banker, lumberman, alderman, and mayor of nearby Port Huron?
... that in Minuscule 788, manuscript of the four Gospels, some passages of text are relocated (Luke 22:43–44 and John 7:53–8:11)?
... that Hermann Gollancz became the first British rabbi to receive a knighthood when the honour was bestowed on him by King George V in 1923?
... that Barbadian singer Rihanna's new single "Only Girl (In the World)" has been called a "stronger, sexier version of her" 2007 single, "Don't Stop the Music"?
... that the aircraft industry of Russia is one of the backbones of the country's economy, employing around 355,300 people?
... that The Child's Eye is the first Hong Kong horror film to be entirely shot in 3-D and high definition?
... that when St Gregory's Church, Vale of Lune, Cumbria, was built, the London and North Western Railway sent a scripture reader to the church to minister to the navvies building their Ingleton Branch?
... that Craig "Death" Roh adopted a diet of six meals and more than 4,000 calories a day because he considered himself "tiny" at 230 pounds (104 kg)?

00:00, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Sugarloaf Point Light (pictured), near Seal Rocks, New South Wales, is one of only two lighthouses in Australia with an external stairway?
... that in his will, temperance campaigner Joseph Livesey left a copy of his "malt liquor lecture" to every household in Preston, Lancashire?
... that one Keeper of the Archives at Oxford University in the early 20th century criticised his predecessors' "fatal inability" to "destroy things when they are done with"?
... that one-third of the structures in Heppner were swept away by Willow Creek in a flash flood on June 14, 1903, killing 247 people in the "most deadly natural disaster in Oregon's recorded history"?
... that Scottish postman and mycologist Charles McIntosh was very likely the physical model for Mr. McGregor in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit?
... that Temple II, the most thoroughly restored pyramid at the Maya ruins of Tikal in Guatemala, was probably built by king Jasaw Chan K'awiil I to honour his wife, Lady Kalajuun Une' Mo'?
... that music of the Baroque composer Fortunato Chelleri on Don Quixote was recorded by organist Kalevi Kiviniemi on the Las Piñas Bamboo Organ?
... that the Cuban idiom El Niágara en Bicicleta is used to describe a situation that is difficult to overcome?
... that Barbara Holland enjoyed smoking cigarettes and drinking scotch and wrote her 2007 book, The Joy of Drinking, as a protest against what she saw as the rise of broccoli, exercise and Starbucks?

24 September 2010

18:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Early Medieval Irish penannular brooches (example pictured) were copied and imitated in the 19th century Celtic Revival?
... that the lowest temperature ever recorded in Israel, −13.7 °C (7.3 °F), was measured in the Beit Netofa Valley on February 7, 1950?
... that in the Haidbauer incident of April 1926 the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein knocked an 11-year-old boy unconscious during class?
... that even after returning to association football as a professional at age 30, Bulgarian player Nikolay Bozhov has continued to manage his late father's ironmonger's business?
... that the font in St Mary's Church, Roecliffe, North Yorkshire, came from Holy Trinity Church, Hull, while the vestry door and marble steps came from York Minster?
... that the pointed boobialla can be found in rainforest or wet eucalyptus forest in eastern Australia?
... that Canadian Olympic shot putter Bishop Dolegiewicz admitted to selling steroids in the 1980s but later warned athletes of their health risks as a throwing coach?
... that the JPL Science Division's research areas include studying Mars' surface, causes and mitigation of ozone depletion and global warming, search for life in and nature and evolution of the universe?
... that fighting crickets are provided with female company before the fight, stimulated with tickling during the fight, and buried in silver coffins after it?

12:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

... the Laotian national ritual of the baci (pictured) involves tying strings around a person’s wrist to preserve good luck?
... that the Warrior class ironclads HMS Warrior and HMS Black Prince towed a floating drydock to Bermuda in 1869?
... that three separate wrestlers won the WWF Hardcore Championship in a single match at Unforgiven (2000)?
... that the abbot of Kinloss was a permanent member of the chapter of Fortrose Cathedral, seat of the medieval diocese of Ross?
... that advertising executive Gene Case developed the "Thanks. I needed that." face slapping campaign for Mennen's Skin Bracer aftershave and the Dragnet-inspired "tum-ta-tum-tum" for Tums antacid?
... that Skënder Muço was one of the founders of the first battalion of the antifascist resistance movement of Balli Kombëtar in Vlorë?
... that What's New Pussycat? was a box office hit for British film director Clive Donner, but screenwriter Woody Allen hated the film, saying his original script had been distorted?
... that Solomon Goldstein, a Bulgarian-born communist and personal friend of Vladimir Lenin, has been called the mastermind behind Albania's June Revolution of 1924?
... that Fifteenmile Creek is 54 miles (87 km) long?

06:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Amanita species A. atkinsoniana (pictured) and A. ravenelii have an odor resembling bleaching powder?
... that Marc Tessier-Lavigne, chief scientific officer of Genentech, was named as President of Rockefeller University, making him the first non-academic to be chosen for the post?
... that Mizil is the only city or town in Romania to lie on the 45th parallel north?
... that Royal Navy officer Edward Nicholas Kendall discovered Wollaston Land?
... that the radio station KOHI, in Columbia County, Oregon, broadcasts a late-night radio program dealing with paranormal topics?
... that the serial sex offender Batman rapist has committed at least 17 attacks in Bath since 1991 and is the subject of Britain's longest-running serial rape investigation?
... that three main span girders on Croatia's Dobra Bridge collapsed into the Dobra River during construction in 2000?
... that the first college undergraduate to win the James E. Sullivan Award as leading U.S. amateur sportsman was athlete Leslie MacMitchell in 1941?
... that the leak of nine-year old singer Willow Smith's single "Whip My Hair" was covered by Billboard, Time, and CNN the day of its release, as well as garnering over 100,000 YouTube views?

00:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Black False Hellebore (pictured) is a toilet cleaner which may be a cure for cancer?
... that Jordan Valley, Oregon, is the only permanently inhabited population center along Jordan Creek?
... that Romania has the third largest natural gas reserves in the European Union?
... that John Cassell, a leading educational publisher and temperance campaigner, was brought up in a public house?
... that the Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing, who became a strong supporter of Darwinism, was ordained by Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, one of its greatest opponents?
... that Seattle Genetics withdrew its drug lintuzumab as a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia in September 2010 after a clinical study found that it offered no greater benefit than placebo therapy?
... that cartoonist Francis Wilford-Smith recorded blues musicians in his English farmhouse using a hired tape recorder and a piano borrowed from the local village hall?
... that the Panamanian ferry Avrasaya was hijacked by pro-Chechen rebels in January 1996, in the Black Sea hostage crisis?
... that double leg amputee Bob Wieland finished the New York City Marathon in three days and crossed America in three years, eight months, and six days—all while walking on his hands?

23 September 2010

18:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

... that it is uncertain where adult speartooth sharks (pictured) live, as none have been captured?
... that Lucius Walker blamed Ronald Reagan for a 1988 river boat attack by Contra rebels in Nicaragua in which two were killed, saying he had come "face to face with the terrorism of our own government"?
... that the British breastwork monitor HMS Hydra saw service during the Russo-Turkish War with Admiral Sir Cooper Key's Particular Service Squadron in Portland Harbour?
... that depleted student bodies at American universities caused by World War II enabled Dick Ives to play basketball for Iowa as a 17-year-old freshman?
... that historian A. L. Rowse said the biography Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins "got nearer to penetrating the secret of the most remarkable woman in history than any other"?
... that Nadine Gordimer says her novel Burger's Daughter was "a coded homage" to Bram Fischer, Nelson Mandela's treason trial defence lawyer?
... that a pit-house discovered near Trout Creek is at least 5,000 years old?
... that at 11.38 km (7.07 mi) long, the Eng Sérgio Motta Dam on the Paraná River is the longest in Brazil?
... that the Eternal Peace, concluded between the Byzantine Empire and Sassanid Persia in 532, lasted for just eight years?

12:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

... that riots erupted in Charles Town, Province of Carolina, after Governor James Moore's failed 1702 Siege of St. Augustine (fortress pictured)?
... that now-retired professional wrestler Abe Jacobs once defeated three other wrestlers in Johannesburg despite suffering from jet lag and competing at a high altitude?
... that the last prioress of North Berwick nunnery handed the lands of her nunnery over to her kinsman, the fifth Lord Home?
... that Serbia has large but undeveloped reserves of oil shale?
... that Petter Jakob Bjerve defended his doctorate thesis while serving as Norway's Minister of Finance?
... that the British breastwork monitor HMS Cyclops and other ships of her type were described by Admiral G. A. Ballard as being like "full-armoured knights riding on donkeys, easy to avoid but bad to close with"?
... that Thomas Guinzburg hired Jackie Onassis as a book editor, but she left after Viking Press published Shall We Tell the President? about a fictional plot to assassinate President Ted Kennedy?
... that the Miage Glacier is the largest debris-covered glacier in Europe and the longest glacier in Italy?
... that the Watervliet Shakers are thought to have been the first seed sellers to package seeds in small, paper envelopes?

06:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

... that before reaching the Iguazu Falls (pictured) on the border of Brazil and Argentina, the Iguazu River is interrupted by the hydroelectric José Richa, Salto Osório, Salto Santiago, Ney Braga and Bento Munhoz Dams?
... that after the county cricket match between Yorkshire and Middlesex in July 1924, Yorkshire's Abe Waddington was accused of inciting the crowd to jeer the opposition?
... that Lake Zabuye is the major source of lithium in China?
... that Kyle Watson, a competitor on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck, is also the head Jiu-Jitsu instructor at the H.I.T. Squad?
... that Bruce Erickson, an American paleontologist, has a collection of about a million specimens of ancient fossils?
... that the accommodations aboard the Cyclops-class monitors were rated the worst in the Royal Navy and referred to by ordinary seamen as "ratholes with tinned air"?
... that the founding leader of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, also co-founded the East Pakistan Renaissance Society which promoted East Pakistan as an independent state?
... that in the Battle of Satala in 530, a Byzantine officer captured the Persian general's flag, causing the Persian army to panic and retreat?
... that Holly Hunter sang the traditional murder ballad "Down in the Willow Garden" as a lullaby in the 1987 film Raising Arizona?

00:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the northernmost city of Russia, Pevek (pictured), stands on the East Siberian Sea?
... that Hugh of Amiens, archbishop of Rouen, was the first abbot of Reading?
... that the Itá, Machadinho and Barra Grande Hydroelectric Power Plants can together generate 127% of the energy demand in Brazil's state of Santa Catarina?
... that despite turning professional scarcely more than a year prior, Alexander Volkov reached the final of the M-1 Global Eastern Europe tournament?
... that Becconsall Old Church, Lancashire, was built with handmade bricks supplied by the lord of the manor?
... that Oscar Torp, later Prime Minister of Norway, was responsible for the successful flight of the Norwegian National Treasury in 1940?
... that archaeological finds in Călineşti-Oaş demonstrate it was inhabited by the Starčevo culture during the Early Neolithic Age?
... that a college scholarship program, a technical college, and a middle school are all named for T. H. Harris, who served as Louisiana education superintendent from 1908 to 1940?
... that it is possible to calculate the age of three children from just the sum, product and uniqueness of their ages?

22 September 2010

18:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Army general Maxwell Woodhull donated his family home (pictured) to George Washington University in Washington, D.C.?
... that James Haldenston, Prior of St Andrews and Dean of Theology at St Andrews University, was praised by the medieval historian Walter Bower for his hatred of Lollards?
... that of the nine British battlecruisers built before World War I only HMS Tiger was retained by the Royal Navy after the tonnage limits of the Washington Naval Treaty came into effect in 1922?
... that American diplomat R. Smith Simpson wrote in 1962 that many students interested in joining the Foreign Service knew little about the U.S. and were "wholly unprepared for diplomatic work"?
... that the range of the pearl oyster Pinctada radiata extends from Japan to Victoria?
... that Sharif El-Gamal, the Muslim real estate developer behind the "Ground Zero mosque", is a member of the local Jewish Community Center, which he says served as an inspiration for his project?
... that the old bridge on Highway 61 at the Ontario–Minnesota border, known as The Outlaw, was built by local citizens without approval from the Canadian or American governments?
... that Stephen A. Swails may have been the first African American commissioned as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War?
... that the official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup was recently bumped off the top spot on the French music chart by a single by René la Taupe, a virtual singing groundhog?

12:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Te Rewa Rewa Bridge (pictured) in New Plymouth, New Zealand, is located on the site of one of the Musket Wars battles?
... that the origins of the team sport bando are closely connected to hockey, shinty and bandy?
... that on the chancel arch of St Martin's Church, Allerton Mauleverer, North Yorkshire, is a painting of Moses and Aaron?
... that 2010 Summer Youth Olympics diving bronze medalist Michael Hixon's parents are both coaches in American collegiate sports?
... that the Fenton Hill Observatory is home to the RAPTOR telescopes, which can swivel to any point in the sky in less than three seconds?
... that Tony Blair was pelted with shoes and eggs the day after promoting his book on The Late Late Show in Dublin?
... that the Legg House was built outside of Bloomington, Indiana, but now lies near the heart of the Indiana University campus?
... that Bob Dylan did not release his 1963 song "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" until 1985, but it was covered by The Byrds and other artists in the interim?
... that Triggs was once described as the "the fittest dog in Cheshire"?

06:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the box pews in St John the Evangelist's Church, Lancaster, (pictured) were modified to form a double pew for the use of the Corporation?
... that Percy Reeve, known for composing operettas and writing music criticism, also produced a book of poetry, Love & Music?
... that the Japanese escort ships Okinawa, CD-63 and CD-207 sunk the American submarine Bonefish?
... that The Causeway in Washington, D.C., is an estate named for a bridge rather than an occupant?
... that the fictional parish of Stoneground, setting for E. G. Swain's Stoneground Ghost Tales, is based on Stanground, Peterborough, where Swain himself was Vicar?
... that Moto Racer DS was the first Moto Racer video game to be released since 2002?
... that British Army General Sir Charles Grene Ellicombe was created one of the first Companions of the Order of the Bath?
... that the New Ireland stingaree is the only stingaree with dermal denticles, and may represent a new genus?
... that Eberhard von Brauchitsch called his company's donation of about 26 million Deutsche Mark to all the major German parties between 1969 and 1981 "cultivating the political scene"?

00:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the leopard whipray (pictured) and honeycomb whipray have large dark spots when young, that become rings when adults?
... that the Homagial Crown was probably the coronation crown of king Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland?
... that some of the Sugar Grove Petroglyphs have been interpreted as showing Ojibwe themes, although the Ojibwe never lived near the petroglyph site?
... that the hidden camera conversations between Patrick van der Eem and Joran van der Sloot set a television broadcast record in the Netherlands?
... that although the Paulo Afonso Complex in Brazil dammed a waterfall, its spillways can recreate it?
... that professional baseball player Eddie Phillips never batted or fielded a ball in the major leagues, but scored four runs for the St. Louis Cardinals during their 1953 season?
... that the broken top of the Aviation Martyrs' Monument in Istanbul is to symbolize the incomplete status of the flight missions?
... that Louisiana Republican figure Bob Reese in his later years was a gymnastics coach and a portrait painter?
... that after capturing the Prussian capital of Berlin in 1757, cavalrymen of the Holy Roman Empire demanded a dozen pairs of gloves for the Empress as part of the city's ransom?

21 September 2010

18:00, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Flanginian School in Campo dei Greci (pictured), Venice, produced several teachers who contributed to the modern Greek Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries?
... that Medal of Honor recipient Richard Etchberger's original nomination for the medal was rejected because the mission he was on was classified?
... that Old Sarum Cathedral, the Norman church built at Old Sarum, Wiltshire, was replaced by a new cathedral at Salisbury in the 13th century?
... that the 1989–90 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set the current Big Ten Conference single-game field goals made record of 55?
... that Bulat Okudzhava wrote song lyrics for The Adventures of Buratino but some of his work was considered too philosophical and was left out?
... that the flushwork decorating parts of St John the Baptist's Church, Pilling, Lancashire, is in two colours of sandstone rather than the more usual materials of flint and stone?
... that Silver Creek flows through a canyon near Riley, Oregon, with over 200-foot (60 m) tall walls?
... that Indian leader Jairamdas Daulatram represented East Punjab in the Constituent Assembly of India before becoming the Governor of Assam?
... that Albin Eines started working on the right-wing newspaper Tidens Tegn in 1928, less than a year after he edited the Communist Party newspaper Norges Kommunistblad?

12:00, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Janusz Radziwiłł, considered by some as the traitor of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, died in the besieged Tykocin Castle (pictured)?
... that Morton Cohen's 1995 biography of Lewis Carroll is generally considered the definitive scholarly work on Carroll's life?
... that the 1980 Michigan defense, led by All-Big Ten linebackers Andy Cannavino, Paul Girgash and Robert Thompson, gave up an average of only 1.8 points per game in the last five games of the season?
... that for the film Reign of Assassins, John Woo spent over a week directing an action scene featuring his daughter Angeles?
... that Mozambique's Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago is the focus of WWF and CARE projects aimed at preserving its spectacular reef system?
... that former Louisiana Attorney General Bolivar Kemp, Jr. was a brother-in-law of Cajun humorist and chef Justin Wilson?
... that despite extreme physical similarities to the Kingdom Hearts character Roxas, Ventus is a completely different character from the same series?
... that in April 2010, New Jersey cat sanctuary Tabby's Place received three cats from a U.S. Marine in Okinawa, Japan, marking the organization's first international rescue?
... that Cody McKenzie, who appeared on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck, has the second-most guillotine choke victories in the world according to Sherdog.com?

06:00, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

... that, unlike the drab-coloured wrens of the Northern Hemisphere, the fairywrens of Australasia can be Purple-crowned, Orange-crowned, White-shouldered, or ... Lovely (pictured)?
... that the newly described monkey, Rondon's Marmoset, was named in honor of Amazonian explorer Cândido Rondon?
... that Hinder's lead singer, Austin Winkler, considers the band's upcoming album, The All-American Nightmare, to be the record he is proudest of?
... that the creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender plan to make a spinoff called Avatar: Legend of Korra, which is set at least 70 years after the defeat of Fire Lord Ozai?
... that Eva Maria Mauter wrote that the 1994 children's book The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan gets neglected in treatment about McEwan's works because it is a children's novel?
... that the Kai stingaree has only been collected by the HMS Challenger, in 1874?
... that Sako Chivitchian holds 11 U.S. national judo titles and won his debut mixed martial arts fight in 98 seconds at age 15?
... that the George D. Oakley House on the National Register of Historic Places on Oahu has a window through its lava rock chimney?
... that Canadian artist Will Munro became known for fashioning artistic works out of men's underwear?

00:00, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

... that architect Thomas Lainson's works include a Queen Anne-style hospital, a Second Empire-style furniture repository (pictured) and a High Gothic working men's club?
... that the recently described dwarf black stingray looks like, but is less than a third as wide as, the black stingray?
... that in 1848, James Mathews Leigh founded a popular art school in London, providing training for many leading British artists?
... that Gubazes II, the king of Lazica, was assassinated by two Byzantine generals whom he had accused of incompetence?
... that the extinct fern Wessiea is known from Miocene fossils found at the "Ho ho" locality in Yakima County, Washington?
... that Brian Birdwell, the newest member of the Texas State Senate, was a burn victim of the terrorist attack on The Pentagon on September 11, 2001?
... that Deltaterrasserne, containing features of both Independence I and Independence II cultures, is one of the largest archaeological sites in Peary Land?
... that John Rudometkin's NBA career was cut short due to his battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma?
... that Seymour Pine, who led the NYPD raid that triggered the Stonewall riots, later admitted that such raids were seen as an easy way to improve arrest numbers as the gays "never gave you any trouble"?

20 September 2010

18:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

... that many prisoners escaped from the Allen County Jail (pictured), which was hailed as the best jail in southeastern Kansas upon its completion?
... that Shantungosuchus, a small, primitive crocodile from the Cretaceous period, was terrestrial instead of aquatic?
... that Manoj Pradhan, an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party, was elected from Orissa's G. Udayagiri assembly constituency?
... that former Louisiana Atty. Gen. Fred S. LeBlanc, as a district judge in 1959, signed the letter committing his old rival, Earl Long, to undergo evaluation for paranoid schizophrenia?
... that the UK charity Counsel and Care was one of the first advocates of a "death tax" as a method to fund the care of the elderly?
... that in the first round of the 2004 Grand Prix snooker tournament, Stephen Maguire was docked a frame for not having his chalk at the start of his match against Shaun Murphy?
... that artist William W. Fenn, although blind, was a popular writer for The Magazine of Art (1878–1904)?
... that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton, Lancashire, was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel?
... that the Aruba Police Force was once stationed in a clock tower at Fort Zoutman, the oldest establishment on the island?

12:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1553–54, while seeking a northern passage from England to the Indies, Richard Chancellor established a trade route to Russia through the White Sea (pictured) instead?
... that, in later life, English illustrator Lawson Wood was a recluse, living in a 15th century medieval manor house he had moved brick by brick from Sussex to the Kent border?
... that Dickie Boon, Stanley Cup champion player with the Montreal Hockey Club of 1902–1903 is credited with inventing the poke check used in ice hockey to knock the puck off an attacking player's stick?
... that Old St John the Baptist's Church, Pilling, Lancashire, has been called "an unusual survival of a small Georgian church"?
... that Charles Folkard created the first British daily newspaper cartoon strip, The Adventures of Teddy Tail, for the Daily Mail in April 1915?
... that the Luiz Gonzaga Dam in Brazil was renamed in honor of Luiz Gonzaga who is known as the "king of Baião" and "Gonzagão"?
... that part of the bed of the Dry River in central Oregon is used as a hiking trail?
... that in 1830, 80% of the residents of Mexican Texas—part of the Mexican state Coahuila y Tejas—were from the United States or Europe?
... that This Ain't Avatar XXX, an American pornographic film parody of Avatar, is being shot in 3D and is the most expensive film Hustler Video has ever produced?

06:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Japanese surgeon Hanaoka Seishū (illustrated) performed the world's first operation under general anesthesia in 1804?
... that Bach used recorders and pizzicato of the strings to evoke funeral bells in his cantata Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161, written in Weimar for the 16th Sunday after Trinity?
... that during the Nannygate political controversy of 1993, Americans were asked if they had a "Zoë Baird problem"?
... that U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan's dictum in Cone Hospital that the Federal Arbitration Act applied to state courts later became the central holding of Southland Corp. v. Keating?
... that about 67 powerful and destructive earthquakes occurred in 1985?
... that the Academy Honorary Award and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award are presented at the Governors Awards?
... that Greenland's well preserved archaeological site on Nipisat Island contains some stone artifacts that were previously unknown from the Saqqaq culture?
... that the two Scorpion class ironclads that were ordered by the Confederate States Navy in 1862 from a British shipyard were seized in 1863 by the British Government to prevent their delivery?
... that footwraps, pieces of cloth wrapped around the feet in place of socks, are being phased out by the army of Belarus in 2010?

00:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

... that from 1980 to 2005, the Ust-Ilimsk Hydroelectric Power Station (pictured) in Russia generated over 600 billion kWh of electricity?
... that radio mogul John Lynch initially played football for the Pittsburgh Steelers, but joined the broadcasting industry after only a few weeks because of a knee injury?
... that the new Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey lays out a roadmap for exploring extrasolar planetary systems and investigating the nature of dark energy?
... that American organist Carl Weinrich performed the premieres of Samuel Barber's Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, Louis Vierne's Organ Symphony No. 6, and Arnold Schoenberg's Variations on a Recitative?
... that after leaving the aircraft by evacuation slide, some of the passengers from Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise Flight 514 foraged for mushrooms whilst awaiting rescue?
... that the Arkansas River bridge between Johnson and Logan counties in Arkansas is named for Ada Mills, who lobbied 40 years for the project?
... that the Church of Saint Andrew in High Ham, Somerset, England, has a 12th century lead-lined font on a stem with rope moulding?
... that Montana Territorial Governor John Schuyler Crosby fought and subdued a crazed knife wielding valet from his sick bed?
... that ten years after releasing an entire album of 18- to 21-minute songs, progressive rock band Yes won their first Grammy for "Cinema", a two-minute instrumental?

19 September 2010

18:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Norcon pillbox (pictured) has been described as "possibly the most dangerous, cheap and nasty of all pillbox designs"?
... that author and wine educator Karen MacNeil‎'s book The Wine Bible was ten years in the making?
... that Canpotex manages the entire Saskatchewan potash-exporting industry, representing one-third of global capacity?
... that all of mixed martial artist Mairbek Taisumov's documented victories have come by knockout or submission?
... that the first ever UK City of Culture will be Derry in 2013?
... that the detection of supernova SN 2008D on January 9, 2008, by Alicia M. Soderberg using data from NASA's Swift X-ray space telescope marked the first time a supernova was observed as it occurred?
... that the cathedra at Beirut's Saint George Maronite Cathedral is the armchair used by Pope John Paul II during his 1997 visit to Lebanon?
... that Colonia Hipódromo was home to refugees from the Spanish Civil War?
... that after keeping a clean sheet in an FA Cup match against defending champions Manchester United, Bournemouth goalkeeper Ian Leigh was rewarded with a lifetime supply of pizzas from a local Italian restaurant?

12:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the 5,000 year-old Ötzi the Iceman was carrying four pieces of Hoof Fungus (modern specimen pictured) when he was found?
... that two players named John Schultz, one a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and one a catcher for the St. Louis Browns, each enjoyed cups of coffee during the 1891 Major League Baseball season?
... that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton, Lancashire, was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel?
... that the quilting show Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel has been on the air for more than 30 years?
... that the 7.5 M_w 1985 Pichilemu earthquake lasted about three minutes?
... that a potential candidate for a presidential election in Singapore must apply for a certificate of eligibility to show he has the necessary qualifications to be nominated?
... that the blackedge whipray is known in Tamil as the "salt-like ray"?
... that the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Bill Frieder won five consecutive NCAA tournament berths and include the 1980–81, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, and 1987–88 teams, and 1988–89 national championship team?
... that the Deaf Smith County Historical Museum contains artifacts from a World War II Italian POW camp located near Hereford, Texas?

06:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

... that there are 21 endemic Australian stingarees, including the brown, circular, common, Coral Sea, greenback, Kapala (pictured), lobed, masked, mitotic, patchwork, sandyback, sparsely-spotted, spotted, striped, wide, and eastern, western and yellow shovelnoses?
... that beginning in the 18th century, Tanners' Bridge was used to cross Lanë in Tirana until the stream was redirected in the 1930s?
... that Malcolm, Lord Douglas of Mains was hung, drawn and quartered in 1584 for kidnapping King James VI of Scotland in the Raid of Ruthven?
... that there is some confusion about whether Shigeki Osawa's MMA fight against Katsuya Toida was a no contest or a disqualification win for Osawa due to accidental kicks to the groin?
... that the McBarge, a futuristic floating McDonald's built for Expo '86, has been anchored derelict next to an oil refinery since 1991?
... that the 4th century Roman glass Lycurgus Cup is dichroic; lit from in front it is green, but thanks to surface plasmon resonance it is red when lit from behind?
... that the Rrashbull Tunnel of the Durrës–Tiranë railway in Albania was dug by Bulgarian volunteers, members of the Youth section of their Communist Party?
... that French royal troops attacked the Spanish Netherlands when portions of that province were not ceded to Louis XIV as part of his wife's dowry?
... that American musicologist and critic Joseph Kerman described Puccini's opera Tosca as "a shabby little shocker"?

00:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Robert Clotworthy

... that Robert Clotworthy (voice sample right) is the voice of Jim Raynor in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty?
... that author and wine educator Mary Ewing-Mulligan was the first female American Master of Wine?
... that Route Trident in Afghanistan was the first road to be built by the Royal Engineers during combat since the Dhofar Rebellion in the early 1970s?
... that when Gordon MacInnes won a State Senate seat in 1993 in the 25th Legislative District, he became the first Democrat from Morris County in 18 years to be elected to the New Jersey Legislature?
... that Parque México in Mexico City exists because environmental laws in the 1920s did not allow housing to be built on a former racetrack?
... that in retaliation for Nepal recognising Bangladesh in 1971, Pakistan broke off its ties with Nepal?
... that historian David J. Weber of Southern Methodist University was called "at least a generation ahead of his time in recognizing how entwined Mexico and the United States were and are"?
... that the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Johnny Orr featured Rudy Tomjanovich, Campy Russell, Rickey Green and Phil Hubbard and included the 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1976–77, and 1979–80 teams, and the NCAA Tournament runner-up 1975–76 team?
... that playwright A.R. Gurney promised his parents that his play The Cocktail Hour would not be produced in their hometown of Buffalo, New York, during their lifetimes?

18 September 2010

18:04, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the keels of both British Renown class battlecruisers (HMS Renown pictured) were laid six weeks before the contracts were finalized in 1915?
... that Chile is celebrating its bicentennial on September 18, today?
... that James L. Swauger continued his archaeological work with petroglyphs for fifteen years after his nominal retirement?
... that Dick Button performed the first triple jump in competition at the men's figure skating event at the 1952 Winter Olympics?
... that Krohn Air was started by a local businessman to continue servicing the route from Molde to Trondheim, Norway, after Scandinavian Airlines terminated its service?
... that Frank Perls, who found a copy of the Nuremberg Laws signed by Hitler, also uncovered a series of forgeries attributed to Degas and Picasso?
... that catcher Rocky Gale made his professional baseball debut with the Eugene Emeralds, a team he watched while growing up in the area?
... that Iraqi television presenter Riad al-Saray was assassinated the same day that Reporters Without Borders announced the Iraq War had killed more journalists than any since the Second World War?
... that Jerusalem's Beit Hadfus Street was named "Street of the Printing Press" for the printing houses that were established there?
... that descendants of Wigglesworth Dole included a missionary to Hawaii, a governor of Hawaii, an attorney general of Hawaii, and a "pineapple king"?

12:00, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Larry Ashmead wrote the book Bertha Venation: And Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People, with such people as Stan Dupp, a dentist named Dr. Fang and Jaime Cardinal Sin (pictured) of the Philippines?
... that Don Graham developed the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, the largest outdoor shopping mall in the United States?
... that Colonia Guerrero in Mexico City was part of an old colonial-era indigenous neighborhood?
... that Chicago native Scotty Moylan, who became one of Guam's most prominent businessmen, introduced the first Volkswagen automobiles to the island in the 1960s?
... that, in a storyline, several referees attacked Jim Korderas at the World Wrestling Federation's Unforgiven 1999 event for not joining them in their strike?
... that Deborah and John Coleman Darnell of the Theban Desert Road Survey followed ancient caravan trails to discover a 3,500-year-old site at the Kharga Oasis in the middle of Egypt's Western Desert?
... that the $30 million renovation of Proctor's Theatre in 2007 has been seen as the catalyst for the revival of downtown Schenectady?
... that Alex Caceres' nickname "Bruce Leeroy" is inspired by the character of the same nickname in The Last Dragon?
... that in the 1970s the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding was one of the few organisations that could arrange visits from the United Kingdom to China?

06:00, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

... that 1520 Sedgwick Avenue (pictured) in The Bronx has been recognized as the "birthplace of hip hop"?
... that as civil defense director at the height of the Cold War in 1961, Frank B. Ellis pushed for the adoption of fallout shelters to protect civilians from nuclear attack?
... that Antardwand, an Indian film that was based on the practice of groom kidnapping, won a National Award for Best Film on Social Issues?
... that 141 people died when Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed into a mountain in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, making it the deadliest aviation accident ever in Norway?
... that while still the sitting Governor of Alaska Territory, Mike Stepovich appeared on the game show What's My Line?
... that Tanymastix stagnalis is the only species of fairy shrimp to occur in Ireland?
... that former professional footballer George Catleugh suffered a broken leg on two different occasions?
... that the Wetumpka State Penitentiary was the first state prison established in Alabama?
... that due to his pale complexion and resemblance to a character from the Blade films, Aaron Wilkinson's coaches nicknamed him "The Daywalker"?

00:00, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the woodlouse Hemilepistus reaumuri (pictured) can only survive in the desert because it looks after its young?
... that M. C. Burton, Jr. of the 1958–59 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team became the first player to lead the Big Ten Conference in scoring and rebounding for a season?
... that the Pakistani High Commissioner to Britain condemned the Int'l Cricket Council's suspension of the three Pakistani cricketers charged with spot-fixing in the 4th Pakistan-England Test?
... that in 1133, the English economy received a major boost when huge silver deposits were discovered near Carlisle?
... that the family of Oskar Höcker, a German writer and a celebrated actor of the Lessing Theater, included three more writers: his brother Gustav, his son Paul Oskar, and his granddaughter Karla?
... that the Inland Customs Line stretched across more than 2,500 miles (4,000 km) of British India and was compared to the Great Wall of China?
... that the paleobotanists David P. Penhallow and Chester A. Arnold both published studies on the extinct water-fern Azolla primaeva?
... that upon completion, the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station was called "a pearl of Soviet water-power engineering" and 349 of its workers were awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour medal?
... that the film Who's That Girl? features a live cougar, which one day escaped from the set before shooting started?

17 September 2010

18:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the meat of the slipper lobster Ibacus peronii (pictured) is considered inferior to that of the Moreton Bay bug because it sometimes tastes of garlic?
... that former world snooker champion Shaun Murphy reached the semi-finals of a ranking event for the first time at the 2004 British Open?
... that each of the five sides of Mitford Castle's keep has a different dimension?
... that the electricity sector in Canada is the world's second-largest producer of hydroelectricity, which accounted for 58% of all electric generation in 2007?
... that during his 60-year career, character actor Leon Belasco appeared in films with the Marx Brothers, Bob Hope, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire?
... that The World of Strawberry Shortcake, the first television special to feature American Greetings' popular character, was rejected by the major U.S. networks and premiered in syndication instead?
... that Satch Davidson was plate umpire when Hank Aaron hit his record 715th home run, and also when Carlton Fisk hit his 12th-inning home run to win Game 6 for the Boston Red Sox in the 1975 World Series?
... that Arthur Eaglefield Hull invented the term "mystic chord" to describe the music of Russian composer Scriabin?
... that due to a copy-editing error, The Washington Post inadvertently suggested that Public Enemy's 1990 song "911 Is a Joke" referred to the September 11, 2001 attacks?

12:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Operation Power Flite, in which three U.S. Air Force B-52s flew non-stop around the world (route pictured), was made to show that "the United States had the ability to drop a hydrogen bomb anywhere in the world"?
... that fans threw silver coins onto the field to celebrate Bobby Lowe hitting four home runs in a single Major League Baseball game, the first player to accomplish that feat?
... that in 1927, at the same time as the Norwegian Labour and the Social Democratic Labour parties reunited, a competing Unified Party of the Working Class was founded?
... that Scottish artist Christine Berrie is known for her industrial-themed illustrations, including gas meters, dials, buttons, switches, machinery, and appliances?
... that Princess Margaret stayed at Fort Belan for the investiture of Prince Charles in 1969?
... that for his book Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, Theodore Dalrymple interviewed over 10,000 people who had attempted suicide?
... that Theodore Roosevelt called Medicine Rocks in Montana "as fantastically beautiful a place as I have ever seen"?
... that Tony Clunn, a British Army Major looking for Roman coins with a metal detector, discovered the site of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest?
... that the front porch on the John Shelp Cobblestone House in West Shelby, New York, was probably built as a result of a heating stove fire in the dining room?

06:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Scoresby Sund (pictured) is the world's largest fjord system?
... that within hours of its publication, A Journey, the memoir of Tony Blair, became the fastest-selling autobiography of all time?
... that The Bravo is James Fenimore Cooper's first novel set in Europe and was largely disliked by contemporary American critics?
... that Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London from 2000 to 2008, is running to regain the office in the 2012 London mayoral election?
... that the Action of 9 November 1822, fought between the USS Alligator and a squadron of pirate schooners, saw the death of Lieutenant William Howard Allen after he stood up to rally his men?
... that Sauternes wine producer Château Raymond-Lafon remains unclassified since its five-year-old vines were too young for the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855?
... that Michael Johnson has signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship promotion to appear on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck?
... that Norid manages two unused top-level domains, .sj for Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and .bv for Bouvet Island?
... that art historian Andrew Ladis has described Domenico di Bartolo's Madonna of humility, painted in 1433, as one of the most innovative devotional images from the early Renaissance?
... that every year, a narrow land pass opens for a few hours between the Modo and Jindo Islands in the Yellow Sea?
... that Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive lineman Kitwana Jones was nicknamed "Batman" after chasing down and apprehending a purse snatcher?

00:01, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

... that according to legend, Tomorr Mountain in Berat County (pictured) was personified by a giant who fought his brother for the love of a young woman, who weeped over their deaths to create the Osum River?
... that the Amantaka hotel in Luang Prabang, Laos, used to be a hospital until 2005?
... that John Phillips returned victoriously to mixed martial arts at Cage Rage 28 after being the first Cage Rage fighter to test positive for a banned substance?
... that in April 1952, five Norwegian seal hunting ships disappeared in the West Ice of the Greenland Sea?
... that Earl K. Long in 1956 used humor to derail the candidacy of gubernatorial opponent Fred Preaus, a scrupulously honest, small-town automobile dealer from Farmerville, Louisiana?
... that former World Champion and record holder in weightlifting, Ymer Pampuri, was an acrobat of the Tirana Circus before and after his athletic career?
... that the title of "Darling It Hurts", a top 20 Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart single by Australian rock group Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, was based on a piece of infamous Sydney graffiti?
... that the Banglabandha inland port is aimed at increasing trade between Bangladesh and Nepal, India, and Bhutan?
... that of his internment in Sachsenhausen, Rabbi Leo Trepp said "I know God was there. In the concentration camp with me. And it was the worst place for it. That's why it was the best"?

16 September 2010

18:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the so-called Hungarian Crown (pictured), part of the Polish Crown Jewels, was modeled after the Holy Crown of Hungary?
... that constable William Piers received a reward for bringing the head of Shane Ó Neill, "pickled in a pipkin", to Sir Henry Sidney?
... that the 1974–75 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team finished the season ranked in the AP Poll, but unranked in the Coaches' Poll?
... that Henri Gascar painted portraits of many leading ladies at the court of King Charles II of England, including several of the king's mistresses?
... that Jerry Lawler and Ultimate Warrior's match at the World Wrestling Federation's 1996 King of the Ring resulted from an argument over artistic abilities?
... that a song by the 16th c. Bengali Vaishnava padavali poet Govindadasa was included in an opera written under a disguised name by Rabindranath Tagore?
... that for many decades, the schoolhouse in Mississippi known as the birthplace of the Order of the Eastern Star housed a segregated school for African Americans?
... that on Swedish runestone Sö Fv1948;295, the R rune is represented by the shape of the tongue of a serpent?
... that Tamora, Nebraska, was named for the day after today?

12:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the porcelain Kakiemon elephant (pictured) was made when elephants would not have been seen in Japan?
... that Colorado cowboy artist Arthur Roy Mitchell created more than 160 cover paintings for western pulp magazines?
... that in 1942, seven commandos captured during Operation Musketoon were executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?
... that after seeing a map of the U.S. showing higher cancer rates in Northern states, Frank C. Garland did a study which found that increased Vitamin D from sun exposure can reduce colon cancer risk?
... that the executive chef of the Colony in Central London is Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar?
... that the 1962–63 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set the current Michigan Wolverines men's basketball single-game rebound record?
... that illustrator of children's literature Mark Burgess has been noted for his ability to reproduce the style of dead artists such as Allan Curless and E. H. Shepard?
... that the first Klingon language opera, ’u’, premiered at The Hague on 9 September 2010?
... that the LucyPhone service was inspired by the frustration of waiting lengthy periods of time when placed on hold by call center operators?

06:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the former factory and headquarters (pictured) of the Hamilton Watch Company, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was converted into an apartment and condominium complex?
... that in 958 the Muslim caliph of Cordoba Abd-ar-Rahman III hosted his grandmother Onneca Fortúnez's Christian daughter, Toda of Pamplona, so his Jewish doctor could cure her grandson of obesity?
... that John Tidwell of the 1960–61 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team became the first Michigan Wolverines men's basketball player to average 20 points per game for his career?
... that the design of Amankila, a coastal Balinese hotel, was inspired by the palaces of Ujung and Tirtagangga?
... that the location of Aboyne Castle was selected for its strategic position near the Dee and controlling the northern end of one of the Mounth crossings?
... that Seattle Sounders FC will be defending their U.S. Open Cup title in their home stadium, Qwest Field, in the 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final against the Columbus Crew?
... that Alice of Champagne, the widowed Queen Consort of Cyprus, married Bohemond V of Antioch on Palm Island, offshore of Tripoli in 1224?
... that Gabriele von Lutzau, the "Angel of Mogadishu", sculpts wooden "guardian figures" using chainsaws and flamethrowers?

00:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

... that, though originally described as members of the genus Notocactus, cacti Parodia tenuicylindrica (pictured), P. buiningii and P. arnostiana are now considered members of Parodia?
... that the 1964–65 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team continues to hold the Big Ten Conference single-season rebounding record?
... that Italian tenor Vincenzo Calvesi created the role of Ferrando in the world premiere of Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1790?
... that a hydrocarbon lake on Saturn's moon Titan and an active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io are among the Solar System features named after deities from Māori mythology?
... that Carrier Strike Group Three was the first U.S. Navy carrier strike group to make an overseas deployment with a Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) as part of its embarked air wing?
... that Michigan linebacker Marty Huff intercepted three passes thrown in one game by Hall of Fame quarterback Mike Phipps?
... that for music concerts held at the Millennium Stadium, 12 drapes can vary the audience size from over 73,000 down to between 12,000 and 46,000, depending on where they are hung?
... that Alaska Territorial Governor B. Frank Heintzleman proposed dividing the territory in two and granting statehood to only one section?
... that Bògòlanfini, a traditional Malian fabric, is dyed with fermented mud?

15 September 2010

18:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the German battleship SMS Braunschweig (pictured) engaged the Russian battleship Slava during the Battle of the Gulf of Riga during World War I?
... that Italian tenor Nicola Zerola began his professional operatic singing career in 1898 performing in Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, but as a baritone?
... that the 1965–66 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set a record 17-game home winning streak that stood for the next 11 years?
... that Tyonajanegen, a woman from the Oneida tribe, fought in the American Revolutionary War?
... that Bing Crosby was a key backer in the development of Longitudinal Video Recording in the 1950s?
... that Sartaj Aziz was the Finance Minister when Pakistan conducted its 1998 nuclear tests, and the Foreign Minister of Pakistan during the Kargil War with India in 1999?
... that unlike other Eocene crocodilians found in Zamora, Spain, the extinct genus Duerosuchus was primarily a fish eater?
... that the Amanjiwo hotel in Central Java, Indonesia, is built from local limestone?
... that in his first two games as a starter, Denard "Shoelace" Robinson achieved the two highest single-game total offense totals in Michigan Wolverines history—and did so with his shoes untied?

12:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Indonesia is the fifth largest tobacco market (tobacco factory pictured) in the world, and that in 2008 over 165 billion cigarettes were sold there?
... that Gail Koff, one of three partners in Jacoby & Meyers, had her prenuptial agreement with attorney Ralph Brill invalidated, with Koff granted 65% of marital assets?
... that the Indian film Mithya marked the singing debut of Sanchita Bhattyacharya in the Hindi cinema industry?
... that English minister Samuel Eyles Pierce was accused of antinomianism by his congregation in Truro, and that even his wife withdrew her financial support of his ministry?
... that the 1963–64 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team earned the University of Michigan its first trip to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament final four?
... that interior designer Michael S. Smith is responsible for the 2010 makeover of the Oval Office at the White House?
... that the Clyde Refinery located in Clyde, New South Wales, is Australia's longest operating oil refinery?
... that at 354 metres (1,161 feet) long and 60 metres (200 feet) high, the Dabar Bridge carries the Croatian A1 motorway across a flash flood gully?
... that the brothers Stephen and Constantine Lekapenos overthrew their father, the Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos, only to be themselves removed from power by Constantine VII after a few weeks?

06:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Tsar Alexander II of Russia had a monument (pictured) erected in an English churchyard to commemorate Finnish prisoners of war whose story inspired a 2007 opera?
... that fullback Ed Shuttlesworth became Michigan's all-time leader in rushing attempts while playing for teams that finished 30–1–1 from 1971 to 1973?
... that the Italian operatic tenor Giuseppe Siboni founded the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen?
... that in the Norwegian 1906 election second round of voting, Torgeir Vraa was endorsed by the Liberal Party, which he left in 1897 together with Christopher Hornsrud?
... that according to Minuscule 782, Jesus wrote sins of his opponents on the ground?
... that Elton John had a number one in the 1980s with "Nikita"?
... that the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service's first tests at dropping torpedoes from aircraft were carried out with Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.3 floatplanes?
... that Jim Wilkinson helped sell the idea that Al Gore claimed to have "invented the Internet"?
... that former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ralph Haben has nearly died four times, surviving a black widow bite, a sinking boat, a plane crash, and a bad case of Hashimoto's thyroiditis?

00:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

... that BMW advertising executive Jack Pitney convinced the company to market the Mini (pictured) in the U.S., despite concerns that American buyers would not buy cars that small given the popularity of SUVs?
... that the Mesa Oil Field is within the Sespe and Vaqueros Formations, which together form the second-most-prolific oil-producing geologic unit in Southern California?
... that Niels Ødegaard of Gjøvik, with 40 years of total mayoral service, is the longest-sitting mayor in any Norwegian municipality?
... that the Brazilian ironclad Rio de Janeiro struck two mines on 2 September 1866, during the War of the Triple Alliance, and sank instantly with the loss of 53 of her crew?
... that 39.2% of Schenectady, New York's Bellevue neighborhood is zoned industrial, but excluding the General Electric plant it is only 1%?
... that the cat statues atop the Cat House in Riga have their backside with raised tails turned to the house of the Great Guild to seek retribution?
... that fragrant sachets were used by Queen Isabella of Spain?
... that one species of the extinct wasp Palaeovespa fed caterpillars to its larvae?
... that when asked his profession in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, poet George Hitchcock responded, "I am a gardener. I do underground work on plants"?

14 September 2010

18:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the house (pictured) in Danbury, Connecticut, where Charles Ives was born has been moved twice to allow local banks to expand their buildings?
... that Mexico City's first formal horse racing track was built in Colonia Exhipódromo de Peralvillo?
... that the common name Emu-wren of the Southern, Rufous-crowned and Mallee Emu-wrens comes from their emu-like tail feathers?
... that Oregon cattle baron Peter French was murdered near the Sod House Ranch in 1897?
... that Italian operatic soprano Angiolina Bosio portrayed Gilda in the UK premiere of Verdi's Rigoletto and Lady Macbeth in the US premiere of Verdi's Macbeth?
... that the proposed design of the Albany Convention Center in Albany, New York, includes saving the city's oldest building, which was built in 1728?
... that the Andhra Pradesh Vidhan Parishad was created in 1958, abolished in 1985 and re-created in 2007?
... that Charles "Buffalo" Jones, the first game warden at Yellowstone National Park, once roped an unruly bear and spanked the animal on its behind?

12:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Children of the Stars is a documentary about the Beijing Stars and Rain School (pictured), founded in 1993 as the first non-governmental educational organization in China dedicated to serving children with autism?
... that portions of an 1820s mill race may remain underneath Main Street in Medina, New York?
... that World Wrestling Entertainment brought back the King of the Ring tournament in 2006 for the first time since discontinuing it in 2002?
... that value-added modeling rates teacher performance by comparing prior and current year student test scores and can be used to award bonuses to top performers and fire those with the lowest ratings?
... that Venezuelan farmer Franklin Brito amputated a finger for the television cameras when a court ruled against him?
... that Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg had two sons with his mistress, the Berlin Opera star Mafalda Salvatini?
... that the engines of the Brazilian ironclad Tamandaré broke down while she was passing in front of the Paraguayan guns at Curupaity during the War of the Triple Alliance and she had to be towed to safety by the ironclad Silvado?
... that actor Paul Rudd appears as the title character in a 1976 production of Shakespeare's Henry V, opposite Meryl Streep as his love interest?
... that the missing wife of William Trickett Smith II was discovered in a suitcase that surfaced after the 2007 Peru earthquake?

06:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

... that, while home to skyscrapers, such as the Torre Mayor (pictured) and the Mexican headquarters of HSBC, Colonia Cuauhtémoc, in Mexico City, is primarily residential?
... that the Davara was the first British trawler to be sunk in World War II?
... that Romstrade is the largest construction company in Romania?
... that Katukurunde Nanananda Thera was the first to point out a unique grammatical shift in a controversial Buddhist Pali passage?
... that, after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the practice in the 1977 case Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, the law firm of Jacoby & Meyers was the first in the United States to advertise on television?
... that, after a 15-year career as a principal with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Peggy Ann Jones moved to musicals, including in the original cast of The Phantom of the Opera?
... that Dawid Baziak began his professional mixed martial arts career with five consecutive technical knockout victories?
... that every round-robin tournament either has a set of players who win all games against players outside the set, or its graph of wins and losses is pancyclic, having directed cycles of all lengths?
... that, as president of U.S. Trust, Daniel P. Davison classified clients with less than $300,000 in assets as "poor", but was willing to have staff walk a dog for those with assets exceeding $2 million?

00:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

... that artist N.C. Wyeth named his Maine home after Winslow Homer's 1886 painting Eight Bells (pictured)?
... that contralto Sonia Prina performed the title role of Antonio Vivaldi's 1727 opera Orlando furioso at the Frankfurt Opera, staged as a rocker?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler that the use of the word "blackmail" in an article by reporter Dorothy Sucher did not constitute libel?
... that Gene Englund won the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and National Basketball League championship in back-to-back seasons?
... that the 2008 thriller Proyecto Dos is the feature film debut of Spanish television director Guillermo Fernández Groizard?
... that in 1967 Venezuela's ruling Democratic Action party denied the winner of its primary election the nomination for the 1968 presidential race, for being too leftwing?
... that the village of South Salem, Ohio, was founded to serve the needs of the Salem Academy?
... that Italian castrato Carlo Scalzi performed at the wedding of Anne, Princess Royal and William IV, Prince of Orange in London, 1734?
... that the Craig telescope in Wandsworth Common, London, was once the world's largest refracting telescope?

13 September 2010

18:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the main campus of the Polytechnic of Namibia includes Elisabeth House (pictured), Windhoek's former obstetrics hospital?
... that Basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving has won the most American Basketball Association awards with five Most Valuable Player awards—three in the regular season and two in the playoffs?
... that the Brazilian ironclad Barroso was hit 20 times between March 26 and 28, 1866, during the War of the Triple Alliance, but was not significantly damaged?
... that "The Most Unwanted Song" includes bagpipes, a children's choir, and an opera singer who raps about cowboys?
... that San Francisco Church in Valparaíso, Chile, was severely affected by a large fire in the middle of its reconstruction after the 2010 Chile earthquake?
... that a kulhar, a traditional handle-less terracotta cup from North India and Pakistan, gives the hot beverages it contains an "earthy" taste and aroma?
... that diplomats from some countries still wear ornate diplomatic uniforms on certain occasions?
... that the Francis Farm Petroglyphs are among Pennsylvania's leading petroglyph sites, even though the culture of their creators is unknown?
... that Corsair pilots of Caleb Bailey's Marine Aircraft Group 11 would make chocolate ice cream on missions in the Palau campaign during World War II?

12:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

... that former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Daniel Webster (pictured) served in the Florida legislature for 28 years, making him the longest-serving legislator in Florida history?
... that Puritan minister Thomas Tregosse was imprisoned for holding a Conventicle in Budock?
... that the American Quarter Horse stallion Skipper W got his chance as a breeding stallion when his sire slipped on some ice and broke his neck?
... that the Movimiento 2D is a Venezuelan opposition movement founded and led by the editor/proprietor of the daily El Nacional?
... that C. Joseph Genster of Mead Johnson developed Metrecal in 1959 as part of a weight loss craze that had dieters subsist on nothing other than the 900 calories offered by drinking four cans a day?
... that on his List A cricket debut, Lewis Gregory claimed four wickets against the Pakistanis?
... that Missouri French is a nearly extinct dialect of French that developed in what is now the midwestern United States during the colonial period?
... that after investing enough money to create a Million Dollar Backfield for the Chicago Cardinals, the team's owner died before he could see it defeat its championship rival?
... that Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow argue in their new book The Grand Design, that without God "the universe can and will create itself from nothing"?

06:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Parachartergus apicalis (pictured) will attack Camponotus atriceps if they try to tend their treehoppers?
... that the Aktio-Preveza Undersea Tunnel is the first and so far only undersea tunnel in Greece?
... that Māori men achieved universal suffrage in the First Māori elections, midway through the term of the 4th New Zealand Parliament in 1868 and twelve years before the European colonists?
... that 9 out of the 36 members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council are to be elected exclusively by certified teachers and local governing bodies?
... that in 2011 the American Quarter Horse stallion Mr San Peppy will join his son Peppy San Badger and his full brother Peppy San in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame?
... that the Radio Caroline ship Mi Amigo served with the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War?
... that the 11th century Dhuvjan Monastery in Albania contains an icon which includes remains of very important early Christian saints?
... that the Spanish mixed martial artist Daniel Tabera has defeated two opponents in one night on two separate occasions?
... that paper clothing was briefly very popular in the 1960s?

00:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Gothic Revival "Wedding Cake House" (pictured) in Grosse Ile's East River Road Historic District was built over 150 years ago and has never been remodeled?
... that Ancient Church Orders is a genre of early Christian literature which has the aim to offer authoritative prescriptions on matters of moral conduct, liturgy and church organization?
... that the film Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story is a dramatized recreation of Hank Gathers' struggle to leave a North Philadelphia ghetto to become a basketball player for the Loyola Marymount Lions?
... that Leymah Gbowee organized a peace movement that ended the Second Liberian Civil War and led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female president in Africa?
... that the Podgorica–Shkodër railway, built in 1985, was the first international railway of Albania?
... that in 1905 Edward Mead Johnson established Mead Johnson, maker of Enfamil and other nutrition products, after leaving the Johnson & Johnson firm that he had co-founded with his brothers in 1886?
... that Rena Kubota has been crowned world champion at the previous two Women's Shoot Boxing Tournaments?
... that during the Vietnam War the South Vietnamese Army came close to "annihilating or capturing" the Vietcong leadership but was prevented from doing so by General Hoàng Văn Thái and his successful plan for the escape of the Provisional Revolutionary Government?
... that Wolfgang Krause continued his scholarly work in runology even after he became blind?

12 September 2010

18:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Italian castrato Domenico Annibali (pictured) made a sensational debut at the Royal Opera House in London in the title role of Handel's opera Poro?
... that Araneus angulatus was the first scientific name validly published in zoological nomenclature, when it appeared in Svenska Spindlar in 1757?
... that Bulgarian Roman Catholic archbishop and diplomat Petar Parchevich was made baron by the Habsburgs?
... that Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent are characters of the Baccano! light novels and anime, set in the Prohibition-era United States, but also appear in the Durarara!! anime, set in modern Tokyo?
... that after missing the whole of 2009 through injury, Jan Błachowicz returned at KSW XIII to defeat two opponents on the same night?
... that the earliest Scottish surnames were already hereditary in England, before arriving in Scotland with Anglo-Norman settlers in the 12th century?
... that George Alexander Parks was appointed Governor of Alaska Territory after an impressive stint as a tour guide?
... that Bach's cantata for the 15th Sunday after Trinity 1723, Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz, BWV 138, was criticized by Philipp Spitta and Albert Schweitzer?
... that former mayor of Tirana, Qemal Butka, was the architect of the municipality building of Korçë?

12:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Neosho class monitors USS Osage and USS Neosho (pictured) were saved by Bailey's Dam after being trapped at the Mississippi River's Alexandria Falls during the Red River Campaign in 1864?
... that the antifascist and freedom fighter Abaz Kupi was the founder of the Legality Movement, which aimed to return Zog of Albania back to his throne?
... that in 2009, a white boar helped locate the Battle of Bosworth Field where Richard III died in 1485?
... that Viktor Nemkov is an M-1 Global veteran who was approached by World Wrestling Entertainment to become a professional wrestler?
... that the planned Marvel Comics superhero film, X-Men: First Class is intended to take place during the 1960s and will parallel the history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X?
... that the English educational reformer James Pierrepont Greaves (1777–1842) described himself as a "sacred socialist" and advocated vegetarianism, water drinking, hydrotherapy and celibacy?
... that Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for history?
... that Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee William "Moon" Evans, who twice led the United States in scoring, saw action in the Battle of Okinawa and the Battle of Peleliu?
... that Plön Castle was once an elite Nazi school bearing the name of Ernst Röhm?

06:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

... that scaly ink cap mushrooms (pictured) can attack and consume soil bacteria by growing hyphae that secrete digestive compounds?
... that before becoming a Glossop mill owner, Francis Sumner lived at Glossop Hall after his mother and father died?
... that HMS Aeolus was involved in the pursuit of USS Constitution and the capture of USS Nautilus, the first warship lost by either side in the War of 1812?
... that the K2K experiment was the first experiment to directly measure neutrino oscillations using a laboratory source of neutrinos?
... that the New Jersey Americans were supposed to play a playoff game on their home court in the 1967–68 ABA season, but the Teaneck Armory was booked by the circus and the team had to forfeit the game?
... that Lucas Duda faced Tommy Hanson, whom he previously played against in high school, in his Major League Baseball debut?
... that the tower of St Michael's Church, Cowthorpe, North Yorkshire, has been described as "more like a castle fortification than a religious symbol"?
... that soprano Ada Adini, a singer of Verdi's Gilda and Leonora, appeared as Brünnhilde in the Italian premiere of Wagner's Die Walküre at La Scala in 1893?
... that Bajzë Rail Station was completely cleaned up in 2009 from toxic chemicals dumped in 1991–92?

00:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Lawrence E. Roberts (pictured) was a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen, a colonel in the United States Air Force, and the father of newscaster Robin Roberts?
... that in 1931 Aziz Çami tried to assassinate Zog of Albania when the king was exiting the Vienna State Opera?
... that the Labrador Sea contains the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel, one of the world's longest underwater channels?
... that the Jacobean fittings in St John the Evangelist's Church, Leeds, West Yorkshire, have been described as the glory of the church?
... that during the 1689 Boston revolt, Puritan Bostonians overthrew their governor who was loyal to the Catholic James II of England?
... that quarterback George "Shorty" Chalmers was considered a triple threat man, and alongside Boze Berger, "one of the most dangerous pass–catch combinations in Maryland history"?
... that the USCGC Point Caution, an 82-foot USCG Point class cutter originally designated as WPB-82301, later acquired the name Point Caution when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 feet?
... that association football club Bradford City's first game at Wembley Stadium in their 93-year history was the 1996 Football League Second Division play-off Final?
... that independent musician and podcaster George Hrab has customized his album packaging with such things as a tin box in order to encourage his fans to purchase his music?

11 September 2010

18:00, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the black-spotted whipray (pictured) was at first thought to be the same as the brown whipray, which itself was at first thought to be the same as the honeycomb stingray?
... that the international Reger-Chor celebrated its 25th anniversary, singing music of Bach, Van Nuffel, Ryelandt, and Reger's Hebbel-Requiem in Wiesbaden and Bruges?
... that Michigan linebacker Tom Beckman worked more than 30 years for General Motors where he was in charge of new vehicle launches?
... that members of Senostoma kill their hosts when ready to emerge?
... that Puerto Rican-American singer José Feliciano was awarded his sixth Grammy Award for his performance of the song "¿Por Qué Te Tengo Que Olvidar?"?
... that Romanian police officer Virgil Ardelean avoided having to take sides in the 1989 Revolution by feigning deafness when his superior ordered him to become involved?
... that the French ironclad Marengo was on her sea trials in July 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War began and was immediately placed in reserve; she was not commissioned until after the war was over?
... that the nickname of Japanese mixed martial arts fighter Mei Yamaguchi comes from the V1 armlock wrestling move?
... that in 1891, Somerset County Cricket Club regained first-class status, after remaining unbeaten against county sides in 1890?

12:09, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Kelli Scarr (pictured) completed a challenge with Moby by National Public Radio to write and perform a song in less than two days?
... that the Rin Grand Hotel in Bucharest, Romania, is the largest hotel in Europe with 1,459 rooms?
... that Albanian nationalist Safet Butka killed himself because in Albania the war against fascism was degenerating into a civil war?
... that Åre Old Church remains the only stone church in the Scandinavian Mountains from the Middle Ages?
... that inhibiting protein pigeon homolog may provide a treatment for Alzheimer's disease?
... that Jacob Mayer resigned in 1876 from his position as rabbi of Baltimore's Har Sinai Congregation amid charges that he had been a convert to Christianity who worked as a missionary in Africa?
... that all 17 then-current cast members made appearances in "Respect", the series finale of The Bill?
... that German Admiral Franz von Hipper was vilified as a "baby-killer" in the British press during World War I?
... that the Kucadikadi are a band of Northern Paiute Native Americans, whose names translates to "brine fly eaters"?

07:16, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the 19th-century Danish Golden Age did not just cover painting (example pictured) but a range of other cultural developments in architecture, sculpture, music and literature?
... that the French ironclad Océan was assigned to the Northern Squadron that attempted to blockade Prussian ports on the Baltic Sea during the Franco-Prussian War until recalled on 16 September 1870?
... that guard Pete Ladygo went to Canada to play football for the Ottawa Rough Riders rather than accept a trade to the Detroit Lions?
... that Schenectady, New York's Mont Pleasant neighborhood had a residential vacancy rate of 28% in 2009, the third highest in the US state of New York?
... that Francisco Drinaldo, better known as Massaranduba, is a Brazilian kickboxing champion with an undefeated professional mixed martial arts record?
... that the hipposandal was a metal shoe laced to horse hoofs in Celto-Roman countries?
... that the Harris Dental Museum in Bainbridge, Ohio, preserves the first dental school in the United States?
... that soprano Nellie Melba and tenor Agustarello Affré made their debut together at the Paris Opéra in 1890 as Lucia and Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor?
... that Cameroon is named after the crustacean Lepidophthalmus turneranus which Portuguese settlers observed swarming in the Wouri River in the 15th century?

00:00, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Bronze statue of a woman in colonial dress with basket of rosemary and a raccoon

... that every year a mysterious dancing light is said to appear over the spot where Grace Sherwood, "The Witch of Pungo", (pictured) was tested by ducking as part of her trial for witchcraft?
... that during the Battle of the Bulge, a gun crew of the American 825th Tank Destroyer Battalion knocked out a Tiger II tank by making it reverse into a house?
... that American feminist author and journalist Inez Haynes Irwin estimated that between 500,000 and 750,000 women were killed in World War I?
... that after the Mill Creek flooded Erie, Pennsylvania in 1915, it was diverted to a tube that is large enough for a pickup truck to drive through?
... that the French ironclad Suffren was assigned to the international squadron gathered at Ragusa in 1880 to force the Ottoman Empire to carry out its obligations under the Treaty of Berlin and turn over the town of Ulcinj to Montenegro?
... that Michigan strong safety Julius Curry in 2006 formed Curry Racing, the first NASCAR racing team with sole minority ownership?
... that historian Hilda Ellis Davidson theorizes that the swastika symbol was used by Norsemen to represent Thor's hammer?
... that in 1881, Florida granted 2.8 million acres of public land to the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad to build a rail line that ended the Panhandle's isolation from the rest of the state?
... that, despite losing a leg in his first term of service, Edward A. Gisburne completed two more war-time stints with the United States Navy?

10 September 2010

18:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Rabbi David Einhorn (pictured) of Har Sinai Congregation in Baltimore sermonized in 1861 in opposition to slavery and had to flee to Philadelphia after a mob sought to tar and feather him for his views?
... that the bobsleigh run at the 1952 Winter Olympics was made entirely of snow?
... that the COSMIC cancer database has documented somatic mutations from over half a million tumour samples?
... that Jersey Circus is a webcomic mashup of images from The Family Circus newspaper comic strip and dialogue from MTV's Jersey Shore?
... that suicide victim Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is believed to have been the first royal woman to be cremated?
... that an Australian, Alexander Sutherland, was recommended for the U.S. Medal of Honor by General William Westmoreland after the Battle of Suoi Chau Pha on 6 August 1967?
... that Anthony Roberts is the only other NCAA Division I men's basketball player besides Pete Maravich to score 60+ points in two or more games?
... that Walter Powell ended his term as MP for Malmesbury when he vanished over the English Channel in a hot air balloon?
... that Manhattan Project scientist Jacob Bigeleisen became an advocate for nuclear disarmament, saying "having lived through that time, that any further use of nuclear weapons is out of the question"?

12:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

... that at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the Kaqchikel Maya city of Iximche (pictured) was the second most important city in the Guatemalan Highlands?
... that Valerie Bettis was the first modern dance choreographer to work with a major ballet company?
... that United States Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bombers attacked targets in and near Singapore on eleven occasions between November 1944 and March 1945?
... that in 1798, artist George Garrard successfully campaigned to introduce the first copyright protection for model-makers in Britain?
... that when completed, the Kannagawa Hydropower Plant in Japan will be the largest pumped-storage power station in the world?
... that Gioachino Rossini's opera Tancredi premiered in 1813 at Teatro La Fenice in Venice with Adelaide Malanotte performing in the title role?
... that Canadian painter Lorne Kidd Smith designed a poster for Canada's Victory Loan campaign and worked in the art department at General Motors?
... that Reinert Torgeirson managed the publishing house of the Norwegian Labour Party until he changed party to Communist?
... that for building the Ukrainian city of Kherson, Empress Catherine II gave Russian General Ivan Gannibal two orders of chivalry, a jewel-encrusted snuff box, and a 20,000 desiatina estate?

06:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

... that many of the renowned autoethnographic works of Absentee-Shawnee artist Ernest Spybuck (pictured) are held by the National Museum of the American Indian?
... that a round tower was built to house the Kloster Berge school after a schoolmaster hanged himself in the cloister previously used for classes?
... that the 1946 National League tie-breaker series was the first ever tiebreaker for the playoffs in Major League Baseball history?
... that there are eight different ways to earn the Scouter's Key Award?
... that the first Black church in Schenectady, New York, was begun by a White college student and located in the Hamilton Hill neighborhood in 1870?
... that the operatic mezzo-soprano Adelaide Borghi-Mamo sang the part of Azucena in the French premiere of Verdi's Il trovatore at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris in 1854?
... that Electrica has an electric power distribution network of 116,500 km?
... that Sergeant John A. Kirkwood received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Slim Buttes?
... that the Church of Saint Laud's original, octagonal, Gothic-panelled font is buried under the church floor?

00:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Sir Richard Conyers, who built St Mary's Church, South Cowton (pictured) between 1450 and 1470, also built South Cowton Castle nearby, but destroyed the village of South Cowton?
... that operatic soprano Shirlee Emmons won an Obie Award for her portrayal of Susan B. Anthony in the 1956 Off-Broadway revival of Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All?
... that according to the visa policy of South Korea, Canada is the only country whose citizens receive six months of visa-free entry?
... that species of Azotobacter bacteria are used in the production of ice cream and instant puddings?
... that under the 1960 Iraqi Associations Law, Daud as-Sayegh's tiny faction (which published al-Mabda') was accorded recognition as the "Iraqi Communist Party", while the main communist group (which published Ittihad ash-Sha'ab) was denied legal status?
... that actor George Roubicek had small roles in The Dirty Dozen, Doctor Who and the first Star Wars film before becoming a dialogue director who dubs foreign films into English?
... that American voice actors "kept slipping into a Jamaican accent" when voicing Malaysian characters in Kampung Boy?
... that according to U.S. Senator Ernest Gruening, Alaska Territorial Governor J. F. A. Strong was not reappointed to the post because he was not a United States citizen?

9 September 2010

18:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the "big kiln" at La Graufesenque in Roman Gaul could fire up to 40,000 terra sigillata vessels (example pictured) at a time?
... that in 1935, Irish children's illustrator John Robert Monsell composed the songs and music and designed the sets for an operetta based on Sheridan's The Rivals?
... that Malaysian graphic novel The Kampung Boy was not first published in the country's official language, but later translated back to it instead?
... that in April 1945, Martin Dannenberg, a Jewish U.S. Army intelligence officer, found an original copy of the Nazi Nuremberg Laws signed by Adolf Hitler in a Bavarian bank vault?
... that angiomyolipomas are the most common benign tumour of the kidney and are composed of blood vessels, smooth muscle cells and fat cells?
... that Ukraine is considered to have the greatest freedom of the press of all the former Soviet Union states?
... that after Penryn MP John Bettesworth-Trevanion rebuilt Caerhays as a Gothic-style castle, he fell into debt and fled abroad?
... that the fossil squirrel Lagrivea is characterized by deep basins in its teeth?
... that Arvid G. Hansen edited both Arbeideren and Arbeidet, the latter in a time when Arbeidet struggled because Arbeideren was prioritized by their common owner?

12:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Israeli ace Amir Nachumi scored seven aerial kills while flying the F-4 Phantom II (pictured) during the Yom Kippur War and seven kills flying the F-16 Fighting Falcon fighting over Lebanon in the early 1980s?
... that Cornish MP Alexander Pendarves was listed as a member of the October Club, a group that posed a threat to the Harley administration?
... that Shoeless Joe Jackson's Black Betsy broke the record for the most expensive baseball bat in history, selling for US$577,610 in 2001?
... that Venezuela's 2006 National Commission on Police Reform proposed a new model of policing with a new police force specifically trained in human rights?
... that Gil Chapman was Michigan's career leader in kickoff return yards and the first African-American elected to office in Elizabeth, New Jersey?
... that the May 2010 Mogadishu bombings were the deadliest to occur in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, since the 2009 Hotel Shamo bombing?
... that Soviet spy Ignace Poretsky was assassinated shortly after he defected?
... that The Right Reverend Bavi Edna Rivera is the first Hispanic woman bishop and the 12th woman bishop in the Episcopal Church?
... that Alban Stepneth lost the 1571 Haverfordwest election despite polling more votes than his opponent John Garnons?

06:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

... that soprano Erminia Frezzolini (pictured) created the title role in Verdi's opera Giovanna d'Arco at La Scala in 1843 opposite her husband, Antonio Poggi, as Charles VII of France?
... that to India's dismay, China's Zangmu Dam will be the first on the Brahmaputra River?
... that according to folklore, dwarfs guard treasures hidden in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's megalith tombs?
... that competitors of the Hamar newspaper Demokraten (later Arbeideren) refused to mention it by name in their columns?
... that LeFleur's Bluff State Park is named for a French Canadian trader who established a trading post in what is now Jackson, Mississippi?
... that St. Luke's Hospital in Rathgar, Ireland, was awarded an RIAI Gold Medal for architecture?
... that, the week before he was scheduled to meet Queen Elizabeth II in a pre-game ceremony, University of Maryland football co-captain Gene Alderton lost a tooth—so the university had it replaced to ensure he could smile properly?
... that due to potential tax implications, Governor Wilford Bacon Hoggatt opposed granting territorial status to the District of Alaska?
... that Sverre Krogh, a delegate at the Second Comintern Congress, worked as an informer for the Nazi Sicherheitspolizei many years later?

00:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

... that two of the twelve 4-6-0T locomotives (E332 pictured) built for the Réseau Breton have been preserved?
... that Japanese pagodas, with very rare exceptions, have an odd number of tiers?
... that in 2009, Romania cultivated around 12,900 hectares (32,000 acres) of rice fields, ranking third in the European Union?
... that publication of British newspaper Labour Elector was discontinued in 1890 as its editor H. H. Champion travelled to Australia?
... that while historian Fred Bachrach was a Japanese prisoner of war, he was allowed to keep a copy of the works of William Shakespeare by convincing the guards that it was a "holy book"?
... that Bob Topp helped the New York Giants defeat the Cleveland Browns in 1956 by intercepting radio signals used to relay plays onto the field from the Browns' bench?
... that 25 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir are for constituencies currently lying in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and thus are officially vacant?
... that HMS Chatham was laid down at Flushing, in Holland, and launched at Woolwich in England?
... that the Treaty of Bonn (7 November 921) was signed on a ship in the middle of the Rhine, the border between kingdoms of the two signatories, Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler?

8 September 2010

18:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Appalachian cottontail (pictured) is unique among cottontails because it eats conifer needles?
... that Lat found the inspiration to draw cartoons about circumcision while on assignment as a reporter to investigate dead bodies in a morgue?
... that the 2008 King of the Ring event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment featured Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama impersonators in a match?
... that Borg-Warner CEO Robert S. Ingersoll supported "better housing, economic opportunities and voting rights for the colored race", noting that the firm's "labor force will be increasingly Negro"?
... that the Plebiscite Front became the principal opposition to the state government of Jammu and Kashmir in the 1960s before merging into the National Conference in 1975?
... that actress Ellen Hillingsø is the goddaughter of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark?
... that the first five columns of Lectionary 283, a Greek manuscript of New Testament gospel lessons housed at the Biblioteca Communale in Siena, are written in gold?
... that, during the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, Greek aviator Christos Adamidis landed his Farman MF.7 in the central square of his hometown, Ioannina, as soon as the city had come under Greek control?
... that Glenn Beck introduced a "Black-Robed Regiment" of pastors from various denominations during his Restoring Honor rally in 2010, and launched a news website called The Blaze three days later?

12:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Hōshō (pictured) served as a repatriation transport after the end of World War II, returning some 40,000 soldiers and civilians to Japan?
... that Honor C. Appleton illustrated more than 100 children's books between 1902 and 1950?
... that, as a member of the Parliament of Norway, Ole Gausdal proposed total disarmament?
... that when Einar Li objected to military service in 1908, he was exempted from a prison sentence he had received in 1906 and 1907?
... that, after receiving contact lenses in 2010, Michigan wide receiver Darryl Stonum reported, "I could see everything like in HD"?
... that the alabaster monuments in All Saints' Church, Harewood, West Yorkshire, comprise the largest collection of such monuments in an English parish church within the dates 1419–1510?
... that Mississippi-born singer J.D. Short sang the blues after both his testicles were shot off?
... that, in 2009, there were 1,224 reports of groom kidnapping in Bihar?
... that the eunuch official Nikephoritzes was the chief minister and de facto governor of the Byzantine Empire during most of the reign of Michael VII Doukas?

06:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Alaska Territorial Governor Walter Eli Clark (pictured) was interested in rose cultivation and was President of the American Rose Society?
... that the chancel and a chapel of Old Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth, South Yorkshire, were restored, but the nave is in ruins and the tower has been truncated?
... that as a member of the U.S. Army during World War II, professional baseball player Andy Anderson was taken captive by German soldiers and later rescued from a Stalag?
... that, despite her party's policy of secularism, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed had created an alliance with the Islamist Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish?
... that despite the 1941 Stanford Indians being considered a favorite for the national championship, head coach Clark Shaughnessy correctly predicted at least two losses for his team?
... that Millicent Sowerby illustrated 30 sets in the Postcards for the Little Ones series, and was one of the first to illustrate Alice in Wonderland when it went out of copyright in 1907?
... that the NME chart placed the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen" at number one even though the song was banned by some major retailers?
... that Prince Nikolaus of Thurn and Taxis renounced his princely rights and title to marry actress Carola Reichenberger in 1913?
... that, when first ordered into combat in 1945, the 827th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the U.S. Army had three men shot in brawls before it even left camp?

00:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Winslow Homer sarcastically explained that the figure in The Gulf Stream (pictured) "will be rescued & returned to his friends and home, & ever after live happily."?
... that the Milk Pail Restaurant, formerly known as Country Tea Room, was opened in 1926 by Max McGraw, the inventor of the Toastmaster?
... that Walter Pilliet was a popular Resident Magistrate in the New Zealand settlement of Akaroa, where many French settlers lived, as he spoke both English and French?
... that over one hundred Atari 2600 homebrew games, including Duck Attack!, have been created since that console was withdrawn from the market in 1992?
... that, for protesting the Trial of the Four, Russian academic Grigory Pomerants was barred from defending his thesis at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies?
... that, when completed, the Deriner Dam will be the tallest in Turkey?
... that Michael Puntervold, Magnus Nilssen, Arne Magnussen and Olav Kringen were the Norwegian delegates at the Labour and Socialist International founding congress in 1923?
... that there are five different ways to earn the Scouter's Training Award?
... that the Aboriginal Memorial contains 200 coffins, but not a single dead person?

7 September 2010

18:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

... that St Mary's Church, Lead, North Yorkshire (pictured), is known locally as the Ramblers' Church because it was saved in the 1930s by a local group of ramblers?
... that the Taurus-Littrow valley, the landing site of Apollo 17 on the Moon, is deeper than the Grand Canyon?
... that the 1957 Maryland Terrapins football season included a game attended by Queen Elizabeth II?
... that Eugène Olaussen, a one-time personal acquaintance of Lenin, shifted views and wrote in Nazi publications during WWII?
... that Puerto Rican singer Lourdes Robles recorded a Spanish language cover version of The Beatles' "Long and Winding Road"?
... that Dutch illustrator H. Willebeek Le Mair published her first book Premières Rondes Enfantines in Paris, in 1904, at the age of fifteen?
... that Star Wars Uncut is a fan film made up of 473 15-second clips, submitted by Internet users, that amount to a shot-for-shot remake of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope?
... that, in 2009, the Haus des Meeres attracted a record-high number of visitors while attendance at other tourist attractions in Vienna abruptly dropped?
... that after John Cullen's National Hockey League career was ended by cancer, he operated a car dealership until Chrysler closed him down?

12:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the crystal structure of boron-rich metal borides may contain extended atomic units shaped as "superpolyhedra" and "tubes" (pictured)?
... that Jack Karwales spent time as a Wolverine, Bear, and Cardinal, and a coach of Billikens?
... that Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer won the Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist at age 73, after he had been performing for 60 years?
... that the Nazi government's withholding of Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach's passport was considered by the Dutch government to be "an insult to the Queen"?
... that Vistula delta Mennonites founded the first Russian Mennonite settlement in Chortitza in 1789?
... that Jackson Gillis, a screenwriter who spent decades working on such shows as Lassie and Columbo, watched little on television other than football, as "he thought most of what was on TV was junk"?
... that the Yukon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan involved controlling the population of the Yukon Wolf in the Yukon through aerial wolf hunting?
... that, during his tenure as head of the University Library of Oslo, Axel Drolsum successfully worked towards reinstating the legal deposit in Norway?
... that, in 1902, SS Doric brought over 33,000 pounds (15,000 kg) of opium to San Francisco, the largest such shipment to that date?

06:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

... that "sailors' eyeballs" (pictured) is one of the largest single-celled organisms?
... that E. Normus Johnson is a fictional advertising mascot depicted in comic art on Big Johnson T-shirts that use double entendres?
... that invoking paduasoy silk for 18th-century local colour has got historical novelists into errors about a Paduan origin?
... that the title track of the album Who's That Girl made Madonna the first solo female performer to get six US number-ones in the 1980s?
... that Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack gave Wayne Ambler money for tuition when he attended Duke University?
... that Michel Montignac developed a glycemic index-based plan to help himself lose weight, which led to a book promoting his Montignac diet which has sold 16 million copies worldwide?
... that the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner described St Peter's Church, Wintringham, as "the most rewarding church in the East Riding"?
... that Kensington (Olympia) station lies on part of the grounds of Lee and Kennedy, the prominent nurserymen in Hammersmith, London, who introduced the Chilean fuchsia, Fuchsia magellanica, to English gardens in 1788?
... that the socialist-oriented newspaper Yorkshire Factory Times began as an off-shoot of a conservative publication in 1899?

00:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Maduru Oya (pictured), Wasgamuwa, Flood Plains, and Somawathiya national parks of Sri Lanka were established under the Mahaweli Development Project?
... that the usually plain-colored Jenkins' whipray has a spotted variant, the dragon stingray, once considered to be a different species?
... that although most of the bridges of the Dresden–Görlitz railway were destroyed near the end of World War II, the line was usable once again by late 1945?
... that criminal suspect Joran van der Sloot wrote the book De zaak Natalee Holloway as his "opportunity to be open and honest about everything that happened"?
... that the World Wrestling Federation's 1997 King of the Ring event led to a storyline in which Caucasian, African American, and Latino gangs fought each other?
... that the Milford Oyster Festival, billed as the largest one-day festival in New England and listed among the top 10 annual events in Connecticut, draws over 50,000 attendees each year?
... that the important orchid pest snail Ovachlamys fulgens can suddenly move several inches?
... that the Double-headed serpent may have been given to Cortés when he invaded the Aztec Empire?
... that fungi in the Ceratobasidium cornigerum complex cause diseases such as "silky threadblight", "sharp eyespot", "yellow patch", and "black rot"?

6 September 2010

18:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

... that, in the southern counties of Maine, the New England Cottontail (pictured) has been reduced to perhaps 250 individuals?
... that Kai G. Henriksen, CEO of Norwegian alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet, is the company's first managing director to achieve a wine trade education?
... that Jane Austen began writing her novel Pride and Prejudice (originally named First Impressions) after staying with her brother at Goodnestone Park, Kent, in 1796?
... that the first commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe, Air Marshal Norman Walsh, resigned after Central Intelligence Organisation agents tortured his senior officers?
... that research on the interplay between exercise and music has found that faster-tempo music motivates people to work harder when performing at a moderate pace, but has no effect on peak performance?
... that Philip Michael Faraday authored a standard book on property taxes before writing comic operas, including the curtain raiser to H.M.S. Pinafore?
... that Utah's Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway is the fifth highest paved road in the state, at 9,200 feet (2,800 m), but that its unpaved portion rises even higher, at over 10,200 feet (3,100 m) in elevation?
... that Chinese Director of Religious Affairs Ye Xiaowen said that Buddhism has a "unique role in promoting a harmonious society"?
... that Operation Lucid was a plan to "singe Mr Hitler's moustache" in 1940?

12:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Dutch publisher Luitingh-Sijthoff was founded in the "city of books" by Albertus W. Sijthoff (pictured), who opposed the Berne Convention because he felt copyright restrictions stifled the industry?
... that the 1876 clock on the east face of the tower of St James Church, Stretham, is by JB Joyce & Co of Whitchurch, Shropshire, the oldest firm of tower clockmakers in the world?
... that former Michigan halfback Darrell Harper scored the first points and kicked the first field goal and extra point in the history of the Buffalo Bills?
... that the 11 provinces of Bắc Giang, Bắc Kạn, Cao Bang, Ha Giang, Lang Son, Lao Cai, Phu Tho, Quang Ninh, Thai Nguyen, Tuyen Quang and Yen Bai are part of the 59 administrative provinces and 5 municipalities in Vietnam?
... that American recording artist Miguel signed a recording contract with Jive Records after submitting a highly personal song entitled "Sure Thing"?
... that the Arad–Szeged pipeline that connects Romania and Hungary has a transport capacity of 4.4 billion cubic meters per year?
... that professional baseball player Rogelio Álvarez failed to report to spring training with the Washington Senators in 1963 because he was unable to leave Cuba for the United States?
... that the Brazilian river monitor Rio Grande bombarded the Paraguayan capital of Asunción on 24 February 1868, during the War of the Triple Alliance?

06:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

... that one of Albany, New York's former city halls (pictured) was the location of the 1754 Albany Congress, where Benjamin Franklin proposed the Albany Plan of Union?
... that Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest created a temperature scale that used a cellar 84 feet under Paris Observatory as its base point?
... that the edible mushroom Lactarius sanguifluus can bioaccumulate heavy metals from polluted soil, such as near roadsides subject to heavy traffic?
... that in 1880, Rear Admiral Bergasse du Petit-Thouars, commanding the French ironclad Victorieuse, helped pacify the Marquesas Islands, conquered by his uncle Abel Dupetit Thouars in 1840?
... that Ottoman rule of Macedonia lasted for roughly 500 years?
... that until it was razed in the 1940s, New York City's Little Syria, the "heart of New York's Arab world", existed just blocks away from the site of the controversial proposed mosque complex?
... that the 40/4 stacking chair created by David Rowland, which won the grand prize at the 1965 Milan Triennale, got its name from the fact that 40 chairs could be nested in a stack 4 feet (120 cm) high?
... that ice shifted the original, one-room Musselbed Shoals Light by four feet in 1875?
... that during the Brazilian Fleet Revolt of 1893–94, the rebel river monitor Alagoas had to be towed into position to fire on the government forts in Rio de Janeiro because her engines had been removed?

00:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the slimy mushroom Hygrophorus eburneus (pictured) is commonly known as the "cowboy's handkerchief"?
... that the L'Hermitage Slave Village Archeological Site had one of the largest slave populations in Maryland, and was noted for its harsh conditions?
... that Holy Trinity Church, Wensley, North Yorkshire, contains a screen moved from Easby Abbey at the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
... that the Brazilian river monitor Santa Catharina sank at her mooring in 1882 while under repair due to the poor condition of her hull?
... that Michigan tackle Jack Carpenter later played for the Toronto Argonauts and was described as "the pillar of strength on the Argos' front wall"?
... that the folk festival held in Horňácko is focused solely on the authentic folklore of the region?
... that British illustrator Margaret Tarrant launched her career at the age of 20 with Kingsley's The Water Babies?
... that the Bartlett Dam is the first dam of its type constructed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation?
... that Jirrawun Arts was founded in 1998 after Indigenous Australian artist Freddie Timms decided that AUS$300 and a cheap suit wasn't fair pay for a month's work painting pictures?

5 September 2010

18:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

... that former slave Lisette Denison Forth worked as a maid, but willed her life savings to build the St. James Episcopal Church (pictured) in exclusively white Grosse Ile, Michigan?
... that the Manila Police District, with the motto "Manila's Finest," was harshly criticized for its handling of the Manila hostage crisis?
... that the gun turret of the Brazilian Pará-class monitor was manually rotated by four men via a system of gears and required 2.25 minutes for a full 360° rotation?
... that Welsh half-back Jack Newnes was the only footballer ever to be capped at international level while playing for Nelson?
... that Palasë, on the Albanian Riviera, is built around a 100 year-old platanus (plane tree), which is the pride of the village?
... that Sarcoscypha dudleyi was named after the botanist William Russell Dudley?
... that Nathan Redmond became Birmingham City Football Club's second-youngest player ever when he made his first-team debut in August 2010 at the age of 16 years and 173 days?
... that Vuno, a village in the Albanian Riviera, was reported to have shown sympathy for the 1997 rebellion in Albania?
... that Linnaeus once named a plant after fellow Swedish botanist Johannis Browall, but later changed the name after discovering Browall courted his fiancée Sara Lisa while Linnaeus was working abroad?

12:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

... that webcaps can be yellow (pictured), variable, cinnamon, frosty, bitter, goliath, bruising, gassy, or contrary?
... that Mickell Gladness once recorded 16 blocks which set the NCAA Division I men's basketball single game record?
... that Southland Corp. v. Keating was described as "perhaps the most controversial case in the Supreme Court's history of arbitration jurisprudence"?
... that Ryan Boyle, who holds the Ivy League lacrosse career scoring record, once set the Maryland high school football single-season pass completion percentage record?
... that the father of Oklahoman folk singer Woody Guthrie attended the lynching of Laura Nelson and her son Lawrence in May 1911?
... that Edward Kean coined the word "cowabunga" and tried to put a puppet President in the White House?
... that the manor of Nether Tabley in Cheshire, including Tabley Old Hall and Tabley House, was owned by the Leicester family for almost 700 years?
... that the town of Tlayacapan, Morelos, Mexico, is the origin of the Chinelos dance?
... that King of France Louis XIV (1638–1715) used toilet water for his shirts and called it "heavenly water"?

06:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Krka Bridge (pictured) comprises the longest span of all Croatian A1 motorway bridges, surpassing the Maslenica Bridge span by only 4 m (13 ft)?
... that soprano Gerlinde Sämann performed with La Petite Bande Bach's cantata for the 14th Sunday after Trinity, Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17?
... that the owners of MV Mariam intend to use it to cross the blockade of the Gaza Strip?
... that young specimens of the mushroom Coprinellus impatiens have a powdery stem that eventually sloughs off to leave a smooth surface?
... that Dale Warren was a conservatory-trained violinist whose work as an arranger for Stax Records and others has been a fruitful source of breakbeats?
... that minor league baseball manager Tom Stouch advanced the career of player Shoeless Joe Jackson by signing him to the Greenville Spinners?
... that a British rider at the Rolex Kentucky Three Day whose horse fell on him said that without an automatically inflated air bag vest he "would be in a box or in America for a month"?
... that the Carnegie, a brigantine made almost entirely from non-magnetic materials, covered nearly 300,000 miles measuring Earth's magnetic field and discovered the Carnegie Ridge in 1929?
... that in 1861, a local Cornish farmer proposed to destroy the ancient Zennor Quoit site but was prevented by the vicar who paid him a financial incentive to build his cowshed elsewhere?

00:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Phobjika Valley welcomes the Black-necked Cranes as winter visitors from Tibet, in Bhutan, and in the process the cranes circle the Gangteng Monastery (pictured) thrice on arrival and again on departure?
... that lacrosse goaltender Trevor Tierney has won an NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship, a Major League Lacrosse Steinfeld Cup Championship and a World Lacrosse Championship gold medal?
... that astronomers have detected as many as seven planets orbiting the star HD 10180, making it the exoplanetary system with the most known planets to date?
... that Bob Latshaw managed minor league baseball for eight seasons, though he only managed three seasons completely?
... that the number-one song "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" performed by Juan Gabriel was featured as the theme song of a telenovela of the same title?
... that Miss Russia 2010 Irina Antonenko presented a set of matryoshka dolls hand-painted with the pictures of the five most recent Miss Universe winners as her gift to the 2010 competition?
... that the Metamora sank near Pointe au Baril in 1907 and that part of the wreck is still visible above the water?
... that in 1929, a crowd of 11,000 people attended an exhibition game between the Waco Cubs and the New York Yankees at Katy Park, which only held 4,000?
... that Cat's Pee on a Gooseberry Bush and Goats Do Roam are examples of wine humour?

4 September 2010

18:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

... that American photographer Amelia Van Buren was the subject of one of Thomas Eakins' most famous paintings (pictured)?
... that Newton Hills State Park in South Dakota holds an annual pumpkin chunking competition?
... that radio station KRMS in Osage Beach, Missouri, was once partly owned by then-U.S. Senator John Danforth?
... that the 2,485 metres (8,153 ft) long Drežnik Viaduct is the longest viaduct in Croatia?
... that the 1956 Maryland Terrapins lost players to the military draft and jaundice, and The Baltimore Sun called the head coach and quarterback "the biggest fall guys in college football"?
... that on 26 April each year, the 'El Retorno' festival is held in Ibarra to celebrate the return of the inhabitants in 1872, four years after the Ecuadorian town's destruction in an earthquake?
... that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joe Willie Wilkins, had the childhood nickname of "Walking Seeburg"?
... that two men, Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson, wrestled in evening gowns at the WWF's 2000 King of the Ring event?
... that Jurek Wilner, who took part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, left his notebook of poems with the Dominican nuns in Wilno, where he hid during the early part of Nazi occupation of Poland?

12:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the porcelain crab Pisidia longicornis (pictured) is sometimes found among mussels and oysters in European fish markets?
... that nobody was ever convicted for the 1949 Menarsha synagogue attack in Syria, which left 12 people dead?
... that the garden of Caerhays Castle is home to the largest collection of magnolias in England?
... that Major-General Humphrey Atherton's accidental death was seen by the Quakers as a punishment from God for his persecution of them?
... that the book Actors on Acting by Helen Chinoy, collections of essays about theatre, have been used widely as college text and remained in print for more than 50 years?
... that Matt Striebel ranks eighth on the Princeton Lacrosse career assists list and eleventh on the Princeton soccer career assists list?
... that the Brazilian river monitor Pará was so badly damaged after passing the Paraguayan fort at Humaitá on 23 February 1868 that she had to be beached to prevent her from sinking?
... that by winning the 2010 Irwin Tools Night Race, Kyle Busch became the first driver to win a race in all three major NASCAR divisions in the same weekend?
... that Cornish Saint Endelienta, a hermit, is believed to have subsisted solely on the milk of a cow who was also her only companion?

06:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the French ironclad Triomphante (pictured) helped to capture the Pescadore Islands in March 1885 during the Pescadores Campaign of the Sino-French War?
... that Emmanuel Rodríguez's boxing championship at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics was Puerto Rico's first gold medal in an event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee?
... that the first two chairmen of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City were Frederic Delano (uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Owen Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice?
... that the gulls of Seymour Island breed on raised beaches unlike other Canadian Ivory Gull colonies?
... that cartoonist Suzy Spafford, creator of the whimsical animal characters known as Suzy's Zoo, has been drawing since she was three years old?
... that exploration for geothermal power in Indonesia dates back to the Kawah Kamojang test borings of 1926?
... that in June 2010, a Ming-era tomb near Nanjing was identified as that of Hong Bao, one of the admirals of Zheng He's fleet?
... that Triple-A fill-in umpire Scott Barry ejected three Major League Baseball All-Stars within one week in August, 2010?
... that Arab geographers described the Little Zab and the Great Zab as "demoniacally possessed"?

00:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Aqueduct of the Gier (pictured) was one of four Roman aqueducts supplying Lugdunum (Lyon, France)?
... that B. J. Prager has scored overtime game-winning goals in both state high school and national collegiate championship lacrosse games?
... that soon after the creation of the Heu-Aktion, the systematic kidnapping of Polish children by Nazi Germany began?
... that the Parke Lane Road Bridge is a rare cantilevered concrete arch, with two independent half-arches supporting a center slab rather than the full arch of the traditional arch bridge?
... that California cult wine producer Scarecrow is named for its founder's connection to The Wizard of Oz?
... that the term "the war to end war" was first used to describe World War I?
... that the development of the Wikiscanner software by Virgil Griffith in 2007 revealed Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia?
... that the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum was first established in a mosque?
... that mattresses lined the inside of the gun turrets of the Swedish John Ericsson-class monitors in order to catch splinters?

3 September 2010

18:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that with its two-dollar coin (reverse pictured), Newfoundland was the only British colony to issue circulating gold coinage?
... that Lacrosse Hall of Fame electee Scott Bacigalupo won the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the NCAA top goaltender three years in a row?
... that the newly described Microhyla nepenthicola is the smallest species of frog in the Old World?
... that Jordan of Laron was once excommunicated with the entire regions of Limousin and Aquitaine?
... that a new airport is being built in Indonesia as part of the government's plan to promote Lombok and Sumbawa as the number two tourist destination in the country after Bali?
... that Kevin Noreen, current Minnesota Mr. Basketball, is the highest scoring basketball player in Minnesota high school history?
... that the French ironclad La Galissonnière bombarded the Tunisian port of Sfax in July 1881 as part of the French occupation of Tunisia?
... that the American Delta blues guitarist and singer, Houston Stackhouse, taught Robert Nighthawk how to play the guitar?
... that St. Ninian's Church, Tynet looks like a barn because it had to be hidden from Protestants?

12:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that among mountain bike orienteers with multiple world championships gold medals are Michaela Gigon, Christine Schaffner (pictured), Ksenia Chernykh, Adrian Jackson and Ruslan Gritsan?
... that Carrier Strike Group Ten can trace its organizational lineage to Destroyer Flotilla Two created during World War I by the U.S. Navy?
... that Dr. James Mourilyan Tanner developed a scale to measure sexual maturation, based on size of the genitals and the quantity of pubic hair?
... that in the last days of World War II, the Red Army's arrival in Demmin triggered a mass suicide of several hundred people?
... that Michigan's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bennie Oosterbaan included John Ghindia (1949), Lou Baldacci (1953–1954), and Jim Maddock (1954–1956)?
... that a newly constructed powership, a floating power plant, supplies 144 MW of electricity to Basra in south-eastern Iraq?
... that Mikołaj Błociszewski was the Polish negotiator in the diplomatic negotiations whose failure led to the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War?
... that Jon Hess, Chris Massey and Jesse Hubbard formed the 1996, 1997 and 1998 national champion Princeton lacrosse potent offense, while Christian Cook led the defense and Josh Sims developed as a midfield scoring threat?
... that on Easter Monday, 1916, George Plunkett waved down a tram in Dublin with his revolver and paid for 52 tickets to get his heavily armed Irish Volunteers to take part in the Easter Rising?

06:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that on 12 December 1782, a single British frigate defeated five enemy ships (battle pictured), taking two as prizes?
... that Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of President Boris Yeltsin, worked at Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center until 1994?
... that Phule's Company by Robert Asprin follows the fictional adventures of Willard J. Phule in the Space Legion?
... that Schenectady, New York's Woodlawn neighboorhood makes up 22.5% of the city's land area, but generates only 17.9% of the city’s property tax revenue?
... that both Patrol 35, based in Israel, and Tsagaan Khass, based in Mongolia, are openly neo-Nazi organizations?
... that Michigan's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bump Elliott included Stan Noskin (1957–1959), Dave Glinka (1960–1962), and Wally Gabler (1965)?
... that unitarian minister Hans Tambs Lyche was the founder and first editor of the periodical Kringsjaa?
... that the Sam Mills company supplies 40% of the Romanian corn pasta market?
... that lacrosse defenseman and founder of Warrior Lacrosse David Morrow helped design the titanium lacrosse stick?

00:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that a study found that around 50 out of the 70 examined specimens of the subantarctic octopus species Benthoctopus levis (pictured) had fed exclusively on brittle stars?
... that Ray Van Orman was expelled from Cornell University for "cribbing", but later returned to complete his veterinary doctorate and to coach the lacrosse and football teams?
... that the Battle of Graveney Marsh on 27 September 1940 between British and German troops was the last action involving a foreign invading force to take place on mainland British soil?
... that the Youth Olympic champion in the girls' hammer throw, Alexia Sedykh, is the daughter of two current world record holders in athletics?
... that more than 50 rivers and creeks on the list of longest streams of Oregon are at least 40 miles (64 km) long?
... that the original nickname of Norman MacLeod, 22nd chief of Clan MacLeod, was "The Wicked Man", but a 20th century chief tried to change it to "The Red Man"?
... that a loan from one of its members, Benjamin Franklin, allowed the American Philosophical Society to complete its headquarters, Philosophical Hall?
... that Prudent Joye, the 1938 European Champion in the 400 m hurdles, escaped from a Nazi internment camp and joined the French Resistance?
... that in Bulgarian mythology, the razkovniche is a magical herb that can open all locks and transmute iron into gold, but it can only be identified by a tortoise?

2 September 2010

18:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the redundant Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire, (pictured) stands within the earthworks of a settlement originating in the early Iron Age?
... that the recently described Hortle's whipray is found only off southern New Guinea and has a bright yellow underside?
... that former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta William Egbert was described as "one of the most popular lieutenant governors this province has ever had"?
... that Peter Trombino was the first Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse freshman to score at least one goal in all 15 of his games?
... that owners of the Empire State Building oppose construction of 15 Penn Plaza, a 1,216-feet skyscraper planned to be 900 feet away from what is now New York City's tallest building?
... that Winnipeg Blue Bombers star Jeff Nicklin was one of the first Canadians to jump into Normandy on D-Day and into Germany?
... that Brian Twyne wrote the first published history of the University of Oxford in 1608?
... that in the 1765 Larache expedition against Larache in Morocco, the French Navy lost hundreds of men, some of whom were taken as slaves?
... that shaved drunk bears wearing women's clothing were exhibited as pig-faced women in the 19th century?

12:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Dora Ratjen (pictured) was stripped of the women's high jump gold medal from the 1938 European Athletics Championships because he was a man?
... that the debut albums by rock bands Illinois Speed Press and Aorta, together with those by Chicago Transit Authority and The Flock, were released simultaneously in 1969 and were marketed as "the Chicago Sound"?
... that Pedro Almodóvar's first film Pepi, Luci, Bom was based on a story titled "General Erections", which parodied the 1977 Spanish general elections?
... that a clinical trial on the treatment of scurvy was conducted in as early as 1747 aboard the 50-gun warship HMS Salisbury?
... that Alex Hewit earned the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the best NCAA lacrosse goaltender in part for holding the three highest scoring teams in the nation to half of their scoring average?
... that a condition set for design of Gacka Bridge in Croatia was that no part of the structure makes contact with the river spanned?
... that mutations in the DHHC domain of the human enzyme, ZDHHC9, can cause sex-linked mental retardation?
... that in the Battle of Kalavrye, Alexios Komnenos rallied his scattered army, counterattacked, and drew the numerically superior enemy army into a successful ambush?
... that Peter Cushman Jones, who founded the Bank of Hawaii, arrived in Honolulu with only 16 cents?

06:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the opening of the Franjo Tuđman Bridge (pictured) was controversial due to a public naming dispute?
... that Cerithidea decollata is a sea snail that can foresee the future?
... that Ryan Mollett was the first player drafted in the first Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft?
... that the influential modernist poet of 1960s China Guo Lusheng now lives in a mental institution in Beijing?
... that Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter irked her publisher when she began The Tale of Mr. Tod with "I am quite tired of making goody goody books about nice people"?
... that a person with sleep state misperception may believe they slept for only four hours while, paradoxically, sleeping a full eight hours?
... that Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Boadt suggested that Christians "could gain some feeling for the Old Testament by attending a Friday night Sabbath service at a local temple or synagogue"?
... that, in the early years of the Dominion Wrestling Union, many National Wrestling Association wrestlers came from Canada and the United States to face off against New Zealand wrestlers?
... that in November 1944, No. 4 Commando captured 1,200 German prisoners during the Battle of the Scheldt?

00:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the eastern mole (pictured) is the most widely distributed mole in North America?
... that Dan Cocoziello is the only defenseman to have won the Ivy League men's lacrosse rookie of the year?
... that the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly was first convened in 1970 as a body of 37 indirectly elected members when Meghalaya was an autonomous state within the state of Assam?
... that a co-founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Mario G. Obledo, organized a boycott of the Taco Bell Chihuahua, citing the dog's stereotypical Mexican accent?
... that the Pennsylvania Railroad Anacostia Bridge collapsed in the wake of a hurricane on August 24, 1933, causing the Crescent Limited train to plunge into the river below?
... that a number of medieval English bishops each served over 60 times as papal judges-delegate?
... that former Michigan quarterback Jim Van Pelt set Canadian Football League records with a 107-yard touchdown pass and seven touchdown passes in one game?
... that Catholics in the Dutch Republic were allowed to build clandestine churches as long as they were not visible to Protestants?
... that retired footballer Fred Else arranged to have his wedding on a Saturday morning so that he was free to play for Preston North End reserves in the afternoon?

1 September 2010

18:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Maslenica Bridge (pictured) carrying the Adriatic Highway was completely destroyed during the Croatian War of Independence and reconstructed 14 years later?
... that Michael Eisner credited research economist Harrison Price with being "as much responsible for the success of the Walt Disney Co. as anybody except Walt Disney himself"?
... that, in 1944, the Canadian corvette HMCS St. Thomas rescued the entire crew of a U-boat she had just attacked?
... that humorist Alonzo Delano made US$400 in three weeks by drawing portraits of whiskered gold miners at an ounce of gold dust per head?
... that the tubemouth whipray can protrude its jaws to form a tube longer than its mouth is wide?
... that the Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse is the only historic lighthouse in landlocked western Ohio?
... that prior to Count Luitpold of Castell-Castell's marriage proposal to Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark, she had often been cited as a possible queen consort to Edward VIII of the United Kingdom?
... that the 1939 Stanford Indians football team won its only game of the season after being told during halftime that they were "the worst group of players who have ever worn the Stanford red"?
... that Moustache, a French poodle, is said to have been awarded a medal by Marshal Jean Lannes for saving a regimental flag at the Battle of Austerlitz?

12:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden (both pictured) made their debut as the band MGMT playing the theme to the movie Ghostbusters over and over for hours?
... that Lusia Harris, who was drafted in the seventh round of the 1977 NBA Draft, was the first and only woman ever drafted in the NBA?
... that a riot ensued when a Catholic rang the bell of St. Martin's Church, Biberach during a Protestant wedding?
... that Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg was the first woman to attempt, and to perish in, a transatlantic airplane flight?
... that the Woodlawn Preserve is one of the most biologically diverse habitats in Schenectady County, New York, due to the combination of swamp, wetlands, water bodies, and dune vegetation?
... that British Museum keeper John Thomas Smith wrote a life of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens that was noted for its "malicious candour"?
... that the winemaker of the eponymous Piemonte wine producer, Bruno Giacosa, is known as "the genius of Neive"?
... that in the early history of Baptists in Kentucky there were three church Associations and twelve churches recorded in Asplund's Register for 1785?
... that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Walter Vinson co-wrote the blues standard, "Sitting on Top of the World"?

06:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Giora Romm assumed command of Israeli Air Force 115 Squadron a day before the Yom Kippur War broke out, making his debut flight in the A-4 Skyhawk (pictured) on a combat mission?
... that although Haile Fida was an important political advisor to Mengistu Haile Mariam, the military ruler of Ethiopia, in 1977 Mengistu had him arrested and later executed?
... that Lugu Lake is the highest lake in China's Yunnan Province?
... that with an area of over 40,000 square feet (3,700 m²), etnies Skatepark is the largest free to use skatepark in California?
... that trade unionist Lt-col. David Watts Morgan CBE DSO JP was known by the miners he represented as "Dai Alphabet"?
... that death is directly mentioned in 19 of the 38 poems in Maya Angelou's first book of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie?
... that while Romanian politician Viorel Hrebenciuc was pushing to have President Traian Băsescu removed from office, his son was dating the President's daughter Elena?
... that CBS News journalist Elaine Quijano originally trained as an engineer?
... that the iron furnace at Old Furnace State Park in Connecticut produced horseshoes for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War?

00:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1838, Henriette d'Angeville (pictured), the first woman to climb Mont Blanc on her own strength, received a calling card from a Polish nobleman on her way to the summit, at 10,000 feet?
... that even though the Dollarway Road, Arkansas' first road, is now covered by Arkansas Highway 356, a portion of the road has been preserved by the National Register of Historic Places?
... that, in 1888, Henry Porter pitched the only no-hitter in the two-season existence of the Kansas City Cowboys Major League Baseball franchise?
... that the only production of Don Quixote in a non-German speaking country was in Moscow in 1911?
... that Wilson Industrial Park in Edmonton, Alberta, is named in honour of Herbert Charles Wilson, who served as the city's mayor in the late 19th century?
... that tomatoes were the first commercially available genetically modified food?
... that Lacrosse Hall of Famer Kevin Lowe has scored overtime game-winning goals in both an NCAA Championship game and a Major League Lacrosse Steinfeld Cup Championship game?
... that the Albion River Bridge, the only wooden bridge on California State Route 1, has been proposed for replacement by the California Department of Transportation?
... that when Luis Figo was taking a corner in a football match against FC Barcelona, the Boixos Nois threw a pig's head after him?