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31 March 2017

02:40, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Lucie Ingemann

... that Danish artist Lucie Ingemann (pictured), known for her large altarpieces depicting biblical figures, also created flower paintings with religious and mystical themes?
... that myriad recipes for corn chowder began circulating in U.S. cookbooks after a recipe for the dish was published in the Boston Cook Book in 1884?
... that Lucius Caesennius Sospes probably received the cognomen Sospes ("safe and sound") from an event in his childhood?
... that adult pumpkin beetles feed on the foliage of cucurbits, sometimes cutting and removing circular discs?
... that Egyptologist Caroline Ransom Williams supervised the reception and installation of the Tomb of Perneb at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
... that Richard B. Wright was nominated for the Governor General's Awards and the Scotiabank Giller Prize for The Age of Longing (1995), but eventually won both for Clara Callan (2001)?
... that Jackie Evancho is set to become the youngest performer ever at Café Carlyle when she performs songs from her new album Two Hearts in April?

30 March 2017

00:00, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Priyanka Chopra in 2010

... that Priyanka Chopra (pictured) played twelve different characters, one from each zodiac sign, in the film What's Your Raashee?
... that Ron Hackenberger is selling his collection of 700 vehicles, including over 250 Studebakers?
... that the Sierra de las Quijadas National Park contains a Lagerstätte-type fossil site, particularly famous for its pterosaurs?
... that the publication of Earl Mazo's series of exposés on election fraud in the 1960 United States Presidential Election was stopped following the intervention of Richard Nixon?
... that the soprano Leonore Kirschstein appeared as Alice Ford, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff?
... that President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent a congratulatory telegram upon the opening of the Bonfils Memorial Theatre in Denver?
... that Joaquín Vargas Gómez opened a restaurant in a retired North Star DC-4 parked near the Mexico City International Airport?
... that use of the code phrase "London Bridge is down" will signal the death of Queen Elizabeth II?

29 March 2017

00:00, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Samuel Noble Monument

... that the Samuel Noble Monument (pictured) honors the founder of Anniston, Alabama?
... that Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton used liquid methane experimentally to power a bus?
... that the Revolutionary Communist Party of India attacked the Dum Dum Airfield in 1949?
... that in Mozart's early Piano Concerto in B-flat major, two oboes play in the outer movements, and two flutes instead in the Andante?
... that warning signs and rotating shift work are forms of administrative hazard controls?
... that Spencer Weisz was the Most Valuable Player of the 18-under basketball competition of the 2013 Maccabiah Games?
... that the yellow mangrove is very similar to the Indian mangrove, but the two can be distinguished when in fruit?
... that Ken Vining was acquired by the Chicago White Sox as part of the White Flag Trade?

28 March 2017

00:00, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Trump Tower

... that when it was revalued at $600 million in 2015, New York City's Trump Tower (pictured) became the most expensive property owned by Donald Trump?
... that the ancient Romans used to bathe a sacred stone in the waters of the Almone on March 27?
... that Rosel H. Hyde was the first chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to be reappointed, and the first chairman to be appointed by a president of a different political party?
... that the DVD release of Final Destination 3 has a feature called "Choose Their Fate" that acts as an interactive movie, allowing viewers to alter the course of the film's story and the fate of the characters?
... that, in 1525, Charles V ordered the conversion of his Muslim subjects in the lands of Aragon, despite having sworn an oath not to do so?
... that sociologist James D. Wright co-authored a 1983 study which showed that approximately 1% of privately-owned guns in the United States were used in crime?
... that the historic characters in Françoise de Rimini, the last opera by Ambroise Thomas, include not only Francesca da Rimini, but also Dante and Virgil?
... that the English inventor Paul Rapsey Hodge built the first steam fire engine in the United States?

27 March 2017

00:00, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

PlayStation Vita

... that the developers of the video game Wipeout 2048 speculated that they influenced design elements of the PlayStation Vita console (pictured), such as the inclusion of two analogue sticks?
... that Captain James Cook thought the now-extinct Tahitian Dog of the Society Islands tasted like English lamb?
... that the population of Marysville, Washington, grew five-fold from 1980 to 2000?
... that Mel Olson commissioned music from John Rutter for his choirs in Omaha, Nebraska, and traveled to England to discuss his specific wishes with the composer?
... that the mythological events of the kuni-yuzuri may be rooted in real historic events?
... that despite being severely wounded in the American Civil War in 1864, Armistead Burwell became licensed to practice law five years later?
... that King John's Hill, near Alton, Hampshire, is topped by an unusually small Iron Age hillfort, and is thought to have been the site of a hunting lodge of King John?
... that Mr. Trash Wheel removed 19 tons of garbage from Baltimore's Inner Harbor in one day?

26 March 2017

00:00, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

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G3DP glass printing process

... that in 2015, Neri Oxman's architecture group and MIT's Glass Lab built the first 3D printer for optically transparent glass (pictured)?
... that an autonomous underwater vehicle deployed by the MV Havila Harmony during the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 discovered a shipwreck?
... that American diplomat Herbert Reiner Jr. played a key role in capturing Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse in 1948?
... that when the Beethoven Orchester Bonn was founded as a professional orchestra in Beethoven's hometown in 1907, Richard Strauss conducted his own works?
... that the Detroit version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship was one of at least 22 NWA World Tag Team Championships that existed between 1949 and 1991?
... that pastor brothers John Blair and Samuel Blair both received their theological education at the Log College?
... that during the Trunajaya rebellion, rebels overran Mataram's royal court at Plered and took at least 300,000 reals from the treasury?
... that Chris Bertish is the first person to complete a stand-up paddle board crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, a 7,400 km (4,600 mi), 93-day journey that put him into The Guiness Book of World Records?

25 March 2017

00:52, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

INSV Tarini

... that this August, an all-woman crew plans to circumnavigate the globe on the Indian Navy's second ocean-going sailboat, INSV Tarini (pictured)?
... that Zeynab Begum was one of the most influential princesses of Iran's Safavid dynasty?
... that Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery is buried in the graveyard of the Church of the Holy Cross in Binsted?
... that the American contralto Margarethe Bence appeared as Marcellina at the Salzburg Festival, as Erda in Bayreuth, and in a premiere at the Schwetzingen Festival?
... that the extinct Polynesian Dog never became feral because of the scarcity of food in the forests of Polynesia?
... that Robert Lyster Thornton returned to Berkeley in 1942 to assist with the development of the calutron?
... that the spotted imperial pigeon's specific name carola is derived from the name of a daughter of the ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte?
... that Edward Hutchinson Synge described a theory for a near-field scanning optical microscope in a letter to Albert Einstein fifty years before various corporations sought patents on the technology?

24 March 2017

00:00, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Mariah Carey

... that Luis Miguel hinted that the title for his 1999 album Amarte Es un Placer (Loving You Is a Pleasure) was based on his relationship at the time with Mariah Carey (pictured)?
... that K. B. Sainis is the Indian representative to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation?
... that male black twig borers normally mate with their sisters?
... that Izydor Borowski was born in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth but later rose to the rank of general in Qajar Iran?
... that Arthur Mailey's best Test bowling figures of 9 wickets for 121 runs has been the Australian cricket record for 96 years?
... that the opera Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen (Murderer, Hope of Women) was based on a play by an expressionist artist and was performed with stage set and choreography by a Bauhaus artist?
... that John Blair, who served four times as acting governor of the Colony of Virginia, resigned his life appointment in 1770 so he would not be acting governor a fifth time?
... that banana pasta is lower in calories and fat, higher in protein, and less expensive to produce than whole wheat pasta?

23 March 2017

00:00, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Giant panda

... that bears are classified as carnivores, but most are omnivorous and the panda (pictured) is almost entirely vegetarian?
... that mezzo-soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner has portrayed such characters as Schoeck's Penthesilea, and Cassandre in Les Troyens?
... that American folklorist J. Mason Brewer broke the color barrier at the Driskill Hotel when he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters?
... that the blob sculpin is the first egg-laying, deep sea fish known to provide parental care?
... that field goals in rugby union, which were worth the same number of points as tries, were abolished in 1905?
... that Indonesian Muslim cleric Hasyim Muzadi said that the September 11 attacks were a "tragedy of humanity" and must not be turned into a religious conflict?
... that Abraham Lincoln's "immense" hearse was escorted by 160,000 people as it was drawn through New York City?
... that classical scholar Miriam T. Griffin believes that the Roman emperor Nero was hounded by fear, panic, and persecutory delusions at the end of his reign?

22 March 2017

00:00, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

South African Defence Force Ensign

... that the South African National Defence Force initially used the South African Defence Force Ensign (pictured), which contained the former flag of South Africa, despite the adoption of a new national flag?
... that convicted murderer David Martin Long was on life support two days before he was executed?
... that Sébastien Bourdais won the 2017 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg after starting in last place?
... that Y. D. Sharma established a genomic library of Plasmodium vivax, a protozoan parasite, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi?
... that the title of Edna O'Brien's book, The Little Red Chairs, refers to performance art commemorating the 11,541 victims of Radovan Karadžić?
... that Canadian football player Dave Amer played as a quarterback, running back, slotback, and tight end at various points in his career?
... that Guillotière Cemetery in Lyon, France, was mistakenly bombed by the American military during the Second World War?
... that the Sacramento Valley Development Association built a life-sized bear out of prunes for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair?

21 March 2017

00:00, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

... that the Rest on the Flight into Egypt is a popular subject in Christian art, but the earliest known example (pictured) only dates to about 1379?
... that Narinder Kumar Mehra identified that a subtype of the serotype HLA-DR2 made humans susceptible to diseases such as leprosy and tuberculosis?
... that the 17th-century German hymn "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" has been described as "one of the most exquisite strains of pious resignation ever written"?
... that Canadian Football League player Randy Ambrosie helped oversee the league's expansion into the United States?
... that despite the loss of Trunajaya's rebel court at the Battle of Surabaya, his forces captured and sacked the Mataram royal court one month later?
... that Chris Cate is the first Asian American to serve as a San Diego City Council member in decades?
... that a protostar in the Sh2-297 nebula is driving an outflow of gas more massive than the Sun?
... that suffragist Jane Maria Strachey was born on a ship off the Cape of Good Hope in 1840?

20 March 2017

00:00, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Licancabur

... that Licancabur volcano (pictured) was venerated by the Atacamenos?
... that the first female British professor of Greek, Dorothy Tarrant, analysed Plato's style to conclude that he did not write the Socratic dialogue on beauty?
... that the release of Wipeout HD was delayed for a few months because it had failed epilepsy tests?
... that Yu Zigao's expedition against the Dutch on Penghu Island was responsible for their colonization of Taiwan?
... that the 2015 film Ringan, set against the backdrop of farmers' suicides in India, won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi?
... that Christian ethicist Henlee Hulix Barnette was investigated by the FBI after meeting Nikita Khrushchev and marching with Martin Luther King?
... that the Romans built a temple possibly dedicated to a boar cult within the prehistoric Chanctonbury Ring hillfort?
... that in 2016, footballer Dries Mertens became the first player to score seven goals in two matches in Serie A since Antonio Valentín Angelillo (1958)?

19 March 2017

00:50, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Bryant McIntosh

... that Bryant McIntosh (pictured) holds the single-season and career assist records for Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball?
... that Blewburton Hill in Oxfordshire features unusual lynchets of unknown age and function?
... that civil rights activist Theodora Lacey helped lead the campaign which, in 1964, resulted in Teaneck, New Jersey, becoming the first town in the United States to vote for school integration?
... that the Peñol de Cerquín, a Lenca fortress in southern Honduras, successfully resisted the Spanish conquistadores for months?
... that Peter Van Hoesen, an American Civil War deserter, was paid $300 to enlist by a drafted man, and performed a Medal of Honor-worthy deed at Fort Fisher in 1864 for which he got no credit?
... that when Siegfried Wagner wrote the libretto for his opera An allem ist Hütchen schuld!, he used themes from many fairy tales?
... that Annora Brown was commissioned to paint 200 Albertan wildflowers, some of which are now extinct?
... that the 2014 annexation of Crimea by "little green men" was typical of a long history of Russian military deception dating back to the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380?

18 March 2017

12:00, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Sacra conversazione

... that in earlier paintings of a sacra conversazione ("holy conversation"), the figures are rarely shown speaking (example pictured)?
... that the planned Toluca–Mexico City commuter rail suffered four construction accidents in a three-month period in 2016?
... that Liza Ferschtman used seven different violins for her "tour de force" performance of the Rosary Sonatas?
... that Roz Chast's graphic memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, about her parents in their final years, was No. 1 New York Times Bestseller in 2014?
... that Mike Watt chose the Italian band name Il Sogno del Marinaio in honor of his mother's Italian heritage and father's maritime service?
... that Susanna Elm's book Virgins of God draws on little-known sources such as the Letter to the Virgins Who Went to Jerusalem?
... that proper use of engineering controls should prevent contaminants from being excessively deposited on sticky mats at a laboratory's exits?
... that George W. Hooker captured a Confederate troop detachment, consisting of 116 men and their colonel, all by himself?

00:00, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Fresco of Crispus, Crispinianus, and Benedicta

... that according to their martyrdom account, Crispus, Crispinianus, and Benedicta (fresco pictured) went to comfort John and Paul, only to become buried next to them?
... that Canadian football player Richard Alston both gained and lost a starting role with the Edmonton Eskimos due to dropped passes?
... that the most effective way to control a hazard is to eliminate it?
... that Sidney Howe Short produced the first electric motor without gears that operated a streetcar directly from its built-in armature?
... that Karl Kessler's 1874 description of the Balkhash perch as a new species was based on specimens collected on Alexander von Schrenk's expedition to Turkestan in 1842?
... that though the onion thrips is tiny, it is the most serious insect pest attacking onion crops in the tropics?
... that Susannah Fox, the U.S. government's former chief health technology executive, cited the maker movement as a promising source of future healthcare innovation?
... that Free Radio presenter Andy Goulding thought that "Scared of the Dark" by Steps should have been the United Kingdom's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017?

17 March 2017

12:00, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

São Vicente Suspension Bridge

... that the São Vicente Suspension Bridge (pictured), constructed 1911–1914, was one of the first suspension bridges in Brazil, and was originally conceived to carry a sewage pipeline?
... that although Thomas Hjalmar Westgård was born and raised in Norway, he competes internationally in cross-country skiing for Ireland?
... that Fulham Refuge was the "most distinctively feminine of the early convict prisons"?
... that the 1991 mayoral election in West Palm Beach was the city's first direct election for mayor since 1919?
... that in 1994, the fantasy novel The Kingdom of Kevin Malone by Suzy McKee Charnas won the Mythopoeic Society Award in the Children's Literature category?
... that Robert Lockhart Hobson compiled catalogues of the British Museum's English pottery and porcelain?
... that the Mayiladuthurai–Coimbatore Jan Shatabdi Express is the first train in South India to use solar-powered coaches?
... that basketball player LaMelo Ball once scored 92 points in a single game, prompting Charles Barkley to criticize the way he did it?

00:00, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Hanover Lodge

... that London's Hanover Lodge (pictured) sold for £120 million in 2012, but the underground swimming pool, which converts into a ballroom, is considered "too small"?
... that Hans Larwin painted Soldat und Tod in 1917 when he was the official war painter for the Austria-Hungary dual monarchy?
... that fossils from the Paleocene period have been found near Saunders Creek, Alberta, including an upper molar from a possible pantodont?
... that the voice of Hawaiian soprano Nani Alapai was compared to the music of the singing snails?
... that a Taiwanese religious movement teaching feng shui and I Ching since 1984 now has around 300,000 members?
... that the American Leonie Turpeau, the Nicaraguan Maymie de Mena, and the Jamaican Madame Aiken were the same person?
... that in the upcoming film LAbyrinth, Johnny Depp portrays a detective investigating the murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.?
... that Denver, Colorado, philanthropist Helen Bonfils inherited US$14 million from her father and US$10 million from her mother?

16 March 2017

12:00, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

A Man with a Quilted Sleeve

... that the sitter in Titian's A Man with a Quilted Sleeve (pictured) has been thought to be the poet Ludovico Ariosto, a Venetian patrician, or Titian himself?
... that Lutheran children's educator Magdalena Heymair was the first woman to have her works listed as heretical in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum?
... that the United States gave nuclear weapons to Britain as part of Project E?
... that Undurti Narasimha Das provided evidence that gamma-linolenic acid inhibited the progress of human gliomas?
... that gridiron football player Ronnie Amadi played alongside his brother, Donnie Amadi, in high school and college?
... that Max Reger recorded some of his 52 Chorale Preludes, Op. 67, on the Welte Philharmonic organ?
... that Mary Ivy Burks has been called the "mother of Alabama wilderness"?

00:00, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Bugatti Type 37A

... that Home Kidston owned a Bugatti Type 37A (example pictured) while still a schoolboy at Eton?
... that an AT&T Corporation Project Office in North Carolina was built with rubber plumbing?
... that Albert Horne conducted Gershwin's Porgy and Bess for the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden, with the chorus of the Cape Town Opera and the Wiesbaden orchestra?
... that Nancy Run in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, is named after an old fortune teller?
... that Japanese voice actress Miyu Tomita was a member of her school's manga research club?
... that the Angolan African dormouse usually dwells in trees, but has been found in the roof of a hut and in an old beehive?
... that in the mid-1800s, French scientist Félix Archimède Pouchet believed air itself was able to generate life?
... that Bob Dylan's "Nothing Was Delivered" has inspired interpretations ranging from a failed drug deal to Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus?

15 March 2017

12:00, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Bricard octahedron

... that a Bricard octahedron (pictured) can change its shape without changing the shapes of its faces?
... that Shyam Swarup Agarwal studied the genetic effects of the Bhopal gas tragedy?
... that a mountain fortress called Orange One was built for use by the President of the United States in emergency situations?
... that the mezzo-soprano Iris Vermillion, who became known for Mozart roles with Harnoncourt in 1988, received a prize for her portrayal of Schoeck's Penthesilea at the Semperoper 20 years later?
... that Mendip Hospital in Somerset was built in 1848 for 350 patients, but became crowded within a few years of opening?
... that the Day of Potsdam was used by the Nazis to symbolize continuity with German history?
... that the Sack of Shamakhi was used as the casus belli by the Russian Empire in order to launch the Russo-Persian War of 1722–1723?
... that 50 years after a mural by Fay E. Davis depicting Native Americans in battle was installed in the post office in Oglesby, Illinois, a janitor claimed it was pornographic?

00:00, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Erythranthe peregrina

... that Erythranthe peregrina (pictured) is a rare example of a species developing in multiple locations from parents that normally produce sterile hybrids?
... that the unroofing of hundreds of homes by Cyclone Althea in December 1971 prompted Queensland to overhaul its state-wide building codes?
... that the porch of Clapton Court in Somerset is two centuries older than the rest of the house?
... that in 1938, Georg Thurmair co-published the hymnal Kirchenlied, which had an ecumenical approach and became the germ cell for a common German Catholic hymnal?
... that the Micronesian imperial pigeon barks, moans, and coos?
... that Bonnie Burnard's 1999 debut novel, A Good House, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize?
... that the phonograph and gramophone company Edison Bell was required to use Edison's name?
... that Abraham Lincoln probably named his horse Old Bob to differentiate it from his son, "Young Bob"?

14 March 2017

12:00, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Golda Meir portrait

... that when the stalls of a Jerusalem shuk close, Solomon Souza's spray-painted portraits (example pictured) become visible?
... that in Operation Hurricane, an atomic bomb was exploded in the hull of HMS Plym?
... that although Parmenian is considered by some historians to be the most important Donatist writer of his day, none of his works survive?
... that Petra Hřebíčková was named Best Actress in a Play at the 2008 Thalia Awards?
... that the original Nakatsu Castle was destroyed in a fire in 1877, and the current structure was built in 1964?
... that Canadian football player Jeff Almon was drafted by the Calgary Stampeders after leaving a favourable impression on coach Mike Benevides, whom he happened to be seated near on a flight?
... that TLC rapper Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes wrote two verses for the song "Kick Your Game", recapping a dialogue between herself and someone who was trying to flirt but did not "pass the cleverness test"?

00:00, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery

... that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery (pictured) is not a monastery and actually contains close to 13,000 Buddha statues?
... that after the disappearance of Dora Bloch, Britain cut all diplomatic ties with Uganda?
... that in 17th-century French medicine, hospitals were not staffed by doctors, but mostly by sisters from the Daughters of Charity?
... that in 1945, Lieutenant James B. Thayer and his platoon liberated the Gunskirchen Lager concentration camp, saving thousands of Jewish and political prisoners from starvation?
... that the Somerset building Wraxall Court was a house for hundreds of years before becoming a convalescent home, then student residences and then a private house again?
... that Canadian football player Jim Ambrose collapsed during a game and later died due to inflammation of the brain?
... that the unroofing of hundreds of homes by Cyclone Althea in December 1971 prompted Queensland to overhaul its state-wide building codes?
... that while exploring whether a person's name affects the job they choose, Don Celender wrote to a dentist named Toothman and a rectal surgeon named Butts?

13 March 2017

12:00, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Manet's portrait of Émilie Ambre as Carmen

... that the soprano Émilie Ambre was portrayed by artist Édouard Manet in the title role of Bizet's Carmen (pictured)?
... that the family of Yue Yi-chin, a Chinese flying ace of the Second Sino-Japanese War, claim to be descended from the Song dynasty general and folk hero Yue Fei?
... that the top-three finishers in the 2010 Pepsi Max 400 all drove Chevrolets?
... that Therese Benedek submitted to a five-month training analysis under an associate of Freud before embarking on her own career in psychoanalysis?
... that the Church of Scientology used espionage, front groups, private detectives, and over 2,500 lawsuits to gain tax exemption in the United States?
... that Euclidean space can be completely filled without overlaps by copies of any plesiohedron, a type of convex shape whose known examples have up to 38 sides?
... that Richard Nixon and his longtime valet, Manuel "Manolo" Sanchez, sometimes communicated using "words that only the two of them understood"?
... that according to local lore, Texarkana's Ace of Clubs House was built with US$10,000 won in a game of poker with an ace of clubs?

00:00, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Ace of Clubs House

... that according to local lore, Texarkana's Ace of Clubs House (pictured) was built with US$10,000 won in a game of poker with an ace of clubs?
... that Charmian Gooch's investigation into the Cambodian timber trade deprived Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime of US$90 million a year?
... that a new electrical substation in Seattle will feature a dog park, a theater, a walking path, and public art?
... that Théophile Schuler illustrated Verne, Hugo, and an alphabet for children?
... that Beacon Hill, on the South Downs in West Sussex, supports the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort, an Anglo-Saxon burial mound, and a late 18th-century telegraph station?
... that a hat-trick was taken during Phillip Gillespie's first-class debut as a cricket umpire?
... that despite the Reich Ministry of Transport running trains to extermination camps during the Holocaust, the US later ruled some of their personnel only had "lukewarm" connections to the Nazi Party?
... that crossword compiler William Lutwiniak was promoted to sergeant the same day he joined the army?

12 March 2017

12:00, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Audrey Hepburn

... that the molecular biologist Nessa Carey cites the slight figure of actress Audrey Hepburn (pictured) to illustrate the possible impacts of epigenetics?
... that Birdy, the first feature film partially shot with the Skycam camera system, was described by a reviewer as "a heavy adult drama about best friends and the after-effects of war"?
... that gunmen of Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes shot down a Mexican Army helicopter using a rocket-propelled grenade?
... that the 2017 Manchester Gorton by-election was called after the death of the Father of the House?
... that the Adiyogi Shiva statue is the world's tallest bust of the Hindu god Shiva?
... that fans of the composer and conductor Robert Farnon attended tapings of the television series Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town to hear his instrumentals?
... that gas chromatography–mass spectrometry equipment, first developed by Robert E. Finnigan, was fundamental to the EPA's ability to carry out environmental testing in the 1970s?
... that video game character Chris Redfield was suspected of abusing steroids?

00:00, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Sculpture of the Lovell Telescope

... that Snugburys, a British ice cream manufacturer, has constructed a series of large sculptures made of steel-reinforced straw, including one of the Lovell Telescope (pictured)?
... that Joe Biden went door-to-door with Stephanie Hansen to help her win a recent special election to the Delaware Senate?
... that the Rhodesian folk song "The U.D.I. Song" was written by a Northern Rhodesian and first performed by a South African?
... that Rafael Brache was declared a traitor to the Dominican Republic for denouncing the "parsley massacre"?
... that the founders of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund are husband and wife?
... that Villa-Lobos State Park in São Paulo, named after composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, was created on the site of a landfill in 1989 and now has around 37,000 trees?
... that Archibald Spencer introduced Benjamin Franklin to the study of electricity, and was his mentor?
... that Lincoln City's win over Burnley meant that they became the first non-league football club to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals in 103 years?

11 March 2017

12:00, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

[[File:|133px|A young ground pangolin ]]

Ground pangolin

... that pangolins (example pictured) are believed to be the world's most trafficked mammal?
... that Luther Bradley was considered the most prominent political cartoonist opposing America's involvement in World War I?
... that it is unknown if the Dehn invariant of a flexible polyhedron stays invariant as it flexes?
... that John Rutter set Psalm 23 in The Lord is my Shepherd for choir and organ, and later included it in his Requiem?
... that the salumeria originated in Italy and dates to the Middle Ages?
... that pharyngeal aspiration is a widely used method for studying the respiratory toxicity of carbon nanotubes?
... that Edward C. Cardon was given command of the Second United States Army upon its reactivation in 2014 because he was already commander of the United States Army Cyber Command?
... that a Tofu Curtain divides two neighborhoods in Melbourne and two counties in Massachusetts?

00:00, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

A bouncing basketball

... that the physics of a bouncing ball (motion shown) can be used to understand supernovae and gravitational slingshot manoeuvres?
... that although he left school at the age of 14, Paul D'Ortona later served for two decades on the Philadelphia City Council?
... that the Xbox Game Pass has been described as "Netflix for video games"?
... that Subramanian Kalyanaraman was the first Indian to receive a PhD in neurosurgery?
... that the hymn "Herr Jesu Christ, wahr Mensch und Gott" ("Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God") by the Lutheran Paul Eber appeared in Catholic hymnals from 1567?
... that a whole cabbage plant can be devoured by the cabbage cluster caterpillars that hatch from a single egg cluster?
... that in 2016, the Parliament of Canada passed a motion condemning Islamophobia in the country?
... that professional wrestler Sam Adonis has been described as the "most hated man" in Mexico for his pro-Donald Trump character?

10 March 2017

12:00, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Lightning rod umbrella

... that the lightning rod fashion (lightning rod umbrella shown) was a fad in 18th-century Europe?
... that Nuggehalli Raghuveer Moudgal established a Primate Research Laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science in 1965, the then largest primate house in India?
... that "Better Place" was inspired by the engagement of Rachel Platten's sister?
... that in the Sasak language, the verb "to eat" differs depending on the social status of the speaker and the addressee?
... that gridiron football player Charles Alston was the first college athlete to play in NCAA football and basketball games on the same day?
... that the original 1620 "L" shape of Urchinwood Manor was made into a "U" by a mid-17th century extension?
... that the fossil elm Ulmus okanaganensis had been tentatively identified as two other plants before it was formally described in 2005?
... that the Seattle City Council approved a street vacation for an Amazon.com office building in 2016, provided that a public "free speech zone" be designated at the site?

00:00, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Lamborghini Miura SV

... that Simon Kidston's car collection includes the last Lamborghini Miura SV (example pictured) ever produced?
... that Fitzsimons station in Aurora, Colorado, was moved away from the Anschutz Medical Campus after concerns that vibrations and electromagnetic interference from trains would affect research equipment?
... that Russian-Jewish banker Avraam Zak received an offer to become deputy finance minister of Russia on condition that he convert to Christianity?
... that planar transmission lines were developed for the US military, but can be found today in household mass-produced items such as mobile phones and satellite television receivers?
... that the leaf beetle Zygogramma suturalis was introduced into Russia in 1978 in an attempt to control the invasive plant common ragweed?
... that there are approaching one hundred self-portraits by Rembrandt in paintings, etchings, and drawings?
... that men and women from the Sidama people sing radically different songs about Queen Furra?
... that 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the composition of "Hail, America" by the German-born George Drumm?

9 March 2017

12:00, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Tsukemen

... that tsukemen (pictured) became a popular dish at Taishoken restaurant in Tokyo soon after its 1961 invention there, and has since become popular throughout Japan?
... that the Montreal Alouettes won the 37th Grey Cup in 1949 but did not make the playoffs the following season?
... that the Renault Trezor features a single-piece canopy roof that opens by hinging forward?
... that Mary Boggs and her first husband won the competition to create the United States post office mural in Newton, Mississippi?
... that tree debris from Cyclone Tessi in Townsville, Queensland, was processed into 25,000 m³ (880,000 cu ft) of mulch and used in local botanical gardens?
... that the first recorded owner of Greifenstein Castle joined a crusade as penance for assassinating a bishop?
... that in 1837, nativist rioters in Boston attacked the Montgomery Guards, an Irish-American militia company?
... that Kokichi Sugihara's illusions make marbles appear to roll uphill and circular pipes look rectangular?

00:00, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Mary Hardy

... that the diary of Mary Hardy (pictured) provides a detailed record of an 18th-century English farming and brewing business?
... that Alice Bowman, Mission Operations Manager of the New Horizons Pluto exploration mission, is also a bassist and clarinetist?
... that Arachne used a crossword puzzle to protest police corruption in the investigation of the murder of Daniel Morgan?
... that the starfish Diplasterias brucei broods its young until they have developed into juveniles?
... that LDS Relief Society president Belle S. Spafford directed the Singing Mothers at the 1964 World's Fair?
... that Viaduto do Chá, São Paulo's first viaduct, was originally constructed from German iron before being replaced by a concrete span?
... that composer Jessica Curry has won a BAFTA award for her video game scores, and has also worked with a Poet Laureate?
... that Rheidol, a former locomotive on the Vale of Rheidol Railway in Wales, was originally called Treze de Maio, after the date that slavery was abolished in Brazil?

8 March 2017

12:00, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Mary Hogarth

... that Mary Hogarth (pictured) is believed to be the inspiration for Charles Dickens' characters Rose in Oliver Twist and Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop?
... that India's third highest civilian award was bestowed upon Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand in 2017?
... that Marjorie G. Horning demonstrated that drugs and their metabolites can be transferred from a pregnant woman to her developing child?
... that Barbara B. Smith created the Monument to Women Memorial Garden to defend traditional women's values from the perceived threat of the Equal Rights Amendment?
... that the soprano Erna Ellmenreich appeared in the premieres of Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss and of Hindemith's Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen, the latter causing a scandal?
... that Rosemary Vrablic has been called "Trump's personal banker"?
... that besides reporting on Aimee Semple McPherson's visit to Denver in 1921, Helen Marie Black arranged publicity stunts to show off the evangelist's preaching and faith healing skills?
... that M2M were going to call themselves M&M until they realised the name was already being used by a type of candy?

00:00, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Jesse Ashbridge house

... that descendants of the family who settled Toronto's Ashbridge Estate (pictured) were still living on the same property over 200 years later?
... that Perdur Radhakantha Adiga identified N-oxalyldiaminopropionic acid in grass pea as the cause of neurolathyrism?
... that Super flumina Babylonis is the first of Jules Van Nuffel's psalm settings for choir and organ written for Mechelen Cathedral?
... that Donald L. Cunningham, an original Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, once lost everything in a fire except for a single office chair?
... that the Cão de Gado Transmontano is a giant livestock guardian dog that is used to defend flocks of sheep from the Iberian wolf?
... that the Detachment Hotel nuclear bunker on Peanut Island, Florida, was constructed in less than two weeks?
... that a senior British general described Winston Churchill's proposal to invade Arctic Norway, Operation Jupiter, as "not merely dangerous but useless"?
... that the racing game Wipeout Fusion contains 45 race tracks and 32 ship models?

7 March 2017

12:00, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Claude Grahame-White landing on West Executive Avenue in October 1910

Claude Grahame-White landing on West Executive Avenue in 1910

... that in 1910, the British aviator Claude Grahame-White landed his biplane on West Executive Avenue (pictured) and then lunched with United States Secretary of War Jacob Dickinson?
... that Rudyard Kipling's first novel, The Light That Failed, was published in at least four different versions over a two-year period?
... that while jailed on charges of violating the Sedition Act, Matthew Lyon was re-elected to Congress?
... that in his cantata Sécheresses, French composer Francis Poulenc set four poems by the English surrealist Edward James?
... that Masashi Kishimoto has a five-step process for drawing the characters for the manga Naruto?
... that the United and Cecil Club, a British dining club, was the single largest donor to Conservative Party candidates in marginal seats in the run-up to the last general election?
... that when completed in June 2017, Küçük Çamlıca TV Radio Tower will replace most of the steel communications masts in the area, which cause visual pollution?
... that J. W. E. Maikai succeeded a Major Funk as Adjutant General to the Forces?

00:00, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

1000 Second Avenue

... that construction of 1000 Second Avenue (pictured) in downtown Seattle, Washington, required demolition of a building that had been donated for fire testing?
... that seen from Bolívar Square, Bogotá, the Sun on the solstices rises directly over Monserrate and Guadalupe, the two best known Eastern Hills?
... that three Bangla Congress ministers, Charu Mihir Sarkar, Bhabatosh Soren, and S.K. Dhara, resigned on the same day in 1970 from the West Bengal government?
... that the Ashkelon dog cemetery, which contains possibly thousands of dog burials, may have been created by an ancient cult that treated dogs as healers?
... that according to research by Roger P. Minert, local church records in the United States are more likely than naturalization records to have information about the birthplaces of German immigrants?
... that last month, four members of the U.S. House of Representatives formed the Congressional Cannabis Caucus?
... that when the Islamic State captured Qandala in 2016, the group hoisted its flag on the building in which Somali folk hero Ali Fahiye Gedi had been imprisoned for burning the Italian flag in 1914?
... that Chinese legend holds that Han Zhuo tried to feed the archer Houyi's body to his sons and killed them when they refused to eat it?

6 March 2017

12:00, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Cuetlajuchitlán archeological site

... that Mexican Federal Highway 95D passes under an archeological site (pictured) uncovered during its construction?
... that investigative journalist Andrew Schneider's work earned back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes in 1986 and 1987?
... that Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball was developed in just 61 days?
... that bus rapid transit was chosen for Seattle's RapidRide G Line, because Madison Street was considered too steep for streetcar service?
... that Abu Omar al-Turkistani, an al-Qaeda militant from China who fought in the Battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, eventually died during the Syrian Civil War?
... that the Packhorse Inn, a Somerset pub, has been designated as an asset of community value?
... that Bobby Egan, the owner of a New Jersey roadside barbecue restaurant, has been criticized for participating in diplomatic negotiations between North Korea and the United States?
... that a tiny embryonic skeleton found inside the fossil dinosaur egg Continuoolithus died approximately 8 to 10 days into development, making it the youngest fossil vertebrate ever discovered?

00:00, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

The missionary ship Duff

... that Missionary Day, celebrated on 5 March in French Polynesia, commemorates the 1797 arrival of the Protestant missionaries in Tahiti aboard the Duff (pictured)?
... that Alice Hirson played Eileen Riley Siegel, an Irish Catholic married to a Jew, on the soap opera One Life to Live?
... that the early Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone by Francis Poulenc was described as offering a "variety of tone colors, striking rhythms, delicious dissonances, and elegant wit"?
... that Bill Gulley, who for years was responsible for the nuclear football, was officially on the U.S. Post Office payroll, to make the president's staff look smaller than it was?
... that Loch Ewe Distillery in Drumchork was allowed to open in 2006 with stills over 90% smaller than the legal minimum, due to a loophole in the 1786 Wash Act?
... that construction on the 179th Street terminal station on the New York City Subway's Queens Boulevard Line was delayed for almost 20 years?
... that every single ballot cast for the Canadian Football League all-star team in 1989 included a vote for Gerald Alphin, but he did not make the squad?
... that the first three video game titles in the popular edutainment franchise Carmen Sandiego saw players chase Carmen and her henchmen across the world (1985), the United States (1986), and Europe (1988)?

5 March 2017

12:00, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Miami Railway Station

... that in 1889, a US company built the Miami Railway Station (pictured) in Canada, now a National Historic Site and museum?
... that the aged, hernia-afflicted Alecu Filipescu-Vulpea reportedly ran in the Wallachian princely election only to hamper other candidates?
... that AllMusic thought Phil Collins' "Two Worlds", featured in Disney's 1999 animated movie Tarzan, "eerily echo[ed]" the worldbeats of former Genesis bandmate Peter Gabriel?
... that the only player strike in Japanese professional baseball history occurred during the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment and lasted for two days?
... that Julian Radcliffe is the founder of the world's largest private database of lost and stolen art?
... that the 1887 book Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising presents 177 biographies of African American men, many of whom were born as slaves?
... that judge William Henry Daniels committed suicide in 1897, three years after being dismissed for not taking an oath of allegiance to the Provisional Government of Hawaii?
... that Paludititan is a Romanian island dwarf?

00:00, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Pärnu River

... that the river Pärnu (pictured) has been called "the Mississippi of Estonia"?
... that Tony Collins became the first black manager in the English Football League when he was appointed by Rochdale in 1960?
... that the rock dormouse sometimes lives in association with rock hyraxes?
... that The Globe and Mail called Canadian football player Waymon Alridge "the newest Rider star" after he caught passes for 75 and 90 yards in a single game?
... that Count Basie's "Jumpin' at the Woodside" is about a Harlem hotel where African American jazz musicians and baseball players stayed during racial segregation?
... that Canadian-American student Shmuel Schecter finished his four-year high school requirements in three years so that he could go to Poland to study at the Mir Yeshiva at the age of seventeen?
... that The Trumpeteers' cover of "Milky White Way" reached number eight on the Billboard "Race Records" chart?
... that if the sun anemone shrimp is separated from its host for more than 24 hours, it loses its immunity to the sea anemone's stinging cells?

4 March 2017

12:00, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Souper Salad restaurant

... that one location of the all-you-can-eat Souper Salad buffet restaurant is in a former bank branch (pictured) that has been called one of the "10 Coolest Buildings" in Phoenix, Arizona?
... that grey-hooded parakeets make twittering and warbling sounds similar to those made by barn swallows?
... that a painting of Hilo Bay by Joseph Nāwahī, the first Native Hawaiian to paint in the Western style, was featured on the Antiques Roadshow?
... that Buddy Alliston won the 1958 Shrimp Bowl with the Eglin Air Force Base football team after pausing his professional career to join the military?
... that in seven last pieces for organ, Sieben Stücke, Op. 145, Max Reger quotes Lutheran chorales and a patriotic anthem?
... that the Can You Hear Me? telephone scam reported by CBS News was subsequently classified as "unproven" by Snopes?
... that the Romanian Senate election of 1868, which consolidated the "reddish" liberal legislature, was held in July, when many conservative voters had left on vacation?
... that Ramen Street is located in a basement?

00:00, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

John Plankinton statue

... that William Plankinton, for whom the William Plankinton Mansion is named, commissioned the John Plankinton statue (pictured) from the sculptor who was his sister's ex-fiancé?
... that Joey Fischer was murdered after he refused to take US$500 to date his ex-girlfriend?
... that the Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton, was built in 1869 and was recently restored, only for its roof and interior to be destroyed by fire in February 2017?
... that most members of the woodpecker family have four toes on each foot, but the rufous piculet and the white-browed piculet have just three?
... that TROPEX 2017 witnessed the participation of forty-five major surface ships, five submarines, and fifty aircraft from the Indian Navy's Western and Eastern Naval Command?
... that "Es woll uns Gott genädig sein", a paraphrase by Martin Luther of Psalm 67 in German, appeared in the Erfurt Enchiridion in 1524?
... that during the American Civil War, William V. Rinehart served as an officer in both the 1st Oregon Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment?
... that software company Lucas Learning did not know whether to market Star Wars: Droid Works on retailers' "game" or "education" shelves?

3 March 2017

12:00, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Mary at Rocamadour

... that Francis Poulenc composed Litanies à la Vierge Noire, a French litany to the Black Virgin at Rocamadour (statue pictured), after a pilgrimage to the shrine?
... that Yale University architecture professor Louis Kahn said he would have given a failing grade to Uris Buildings Corporation's Three Penn Center?
... that the use of puns by Peter Adamson in his History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series, has been both praised and criticized?
... that HMS Pearl escorted troops to Kip's Bay during the American Revolutionary War in September 1776?
... that actor Ryan Phillippe played Billy Douglas in his first professional acting role on the American soap opera One Life to Live, one of the first gay teenage characters in television?
... that Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, besieged the Illyrians at Pelion (in modern Albania) in 335 BC, a year before waging war against the Achaemenid Empire?
... that Printer's Devilry crossword puzzles were among Ximenes' most popular, even though they break Ximenes' rules of cryptic crossword setting?
... that economist Susan Dynarski, who advocates for simplifying the US Federal Student Aid application process, was the first member of her family to attend college?

00:00, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

East Base

... that East Base (pictured) in Antarctica housed Jackie Ronne and Jennie Darlington, the first women to spend a winter on the continent?
... that M. J. Thirumalachar named two genera of fungi he discovered, Narasimhania and Narasimhella, after his father, M. J. Narasimhan?
... that readers requested that Glenn McCoy be terminated from the Belleville News-Democrat after the newspaper published his editorial cartoon, Trying to trash Betsy DeVos?
... that the Northern Ireland Assembly will lose 18 MLAs because of the Assembly Members (Reduction of Numbers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, effective at the snap election today?
... that professional American football player Butch Allison was the brother of another professional athlete?
... that Akatombo, or "Red Dragonfly", written by poet Rofū Miki and composed by Kosaku Yamada, is one of the most-loved Japanese songs according to a 1989 survey?
... that during the last decade, Lance Ryan appeared as Siegfried at three Bayreuth Festivals?
... that when Clam Lake Canal freezes over early in the Michigan winter, the lakes on each side remain unfrozen, but when the lakes later freeze over, the canal thaws and flows once more?

2 March 2017

12:00, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Lake Meke

... that Lake Meke (pictured), a crater lake beside a volcanic cone, is a natural monument and a Ramsar site in Turkey?
... that King Kalākaua electioneered during the 1886 Hawaiian elections by visiting the districts of politicians J. W. Kalua, G. W. Pilipō and J. Nāwahī, and campaigning against them?
... that, no matter how $n$ non-overlapping pennies are arranged on a table, there is a subset containing at least $0.258 n$ of them that will not touch other pennies in the subset?
... that in 1891, a fire at the State Normal School at Cheney destroyed the school's only building?
... that intratracheal instillation, the introduction of a substance directly into the trachea, is a widely used alternative to inhalation for respiratory toxicity testing?
... that through his political associations, Jesse Root Grant secured an appointment for enrollment at West Point for his son, Ulysses S. Grant?
... that two former Princes of Wallachia ran for deputy seats in 1857, both of them losing at Buzău and recovering to win at Dolj?
... that The Learning Company's educational video game franchise Reader Rabbit sold over 25 million copies between 1984 and 2002?

00:00, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Rossa Matlida Richter

... that the first recorded human cannonball act was an 1877 London performance by 14-year-old Rossa Matilda Richter (pictured)?
... that the Bronx neighborhood of Kingsbridge was built on what was once an island in Tibbetts Brook?
... that Wipeout Pulse was developed around the feedback received about its predecessor, Wipeout Pure?
... that Stratford City Hall, a National Historic Site of Canada, was built on a triangular square?
... that the fossil tupelo Nyssa spatulata was described from seeds found in Oregon?
... that the etchings of Léon Davent include Michelangelo at the Age of Twenty-Three made some forty years after Michelangelo was that age?
... that some Democrats in the New York State Senate formed the Independent Democratic Conference to caucus with Republicans?
... that the Professional Rapid Online Chess League (PRO Chess League) is a worldwide online rapid chess league with 48 teams, whose members include more than 100 grandmasters?

1 March 2017

12:00, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Karolina Styczyńska

... that Karolina Styczyńska (pictured) is the first non-Japanese person to be awarded professional status by the Japan Shogi Association?
... that Donald Trump and Merv Griffin fought for control of casino operator Resorts International in 1988?
... that the Dronacharya Award is an Indian sports coaching honour, named after Drona, the royal preceptor from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata?
... that while studying art in Paris, impoverished Canadian painter Henri Beau copied eleven paintings hanging in the Louvre and sold them to support himself?
... that concerns over whether video game Call of Cthulhu had been cancelled proved unfounded, when it was revived by a different developer more than two years after its original announcement?
... that the Wayzata Bay Center shopping mall was built over wetlands?
... that Antonín Cyril Stojan, who led a life of heroic virtue, was given the title of Venerable by Pope Francis?
... that the jazz piece "Mannenberg", considered a notable example of music in the movement against apartheid, has no words?

00:00, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Oroville Dam

... that nine million fish were rescued from the Feather River Fish Hatchery during the 2017 Oroville Dam crisis (pictured)?
... that New Zealand actor George Mason secured his first acting role in 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous when he was thirteen years old?
... that because of a water-soluble pigment, Erythranthe cuprea has copper-colored flowers instead of the more common red and yellow flowers found in its genus?
... that Canadian football player Wayne Allison was known as a dual-threat quarterback in college but was converted to play as a defensive back professionally?
... that the Landscape with the Flight into Egypt by Pieter Bruegel I includes two tiny salamanders, symbols of evil?
... that Hiram Kahanawai left his position as steward to Queen Emma to become commander of the Household Troops for her political rival King Kalākaua?
... that the new Propsteikirche, the third church St. Trinitatis in Leipzig, is the largest church built in East Germany since unification?
... that during the Emergency Alert System misactivation of 2005, everyone in Connecticut was ordered to flee the state, but the most common reaction was to change the channel?