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31 January 2007

21:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatRalphie (pictured), the livemascot of theColorado Buffaloes, is actually afemale American bison?
...that theAbukuma, a veteran of thePearl Harbor raid, was sunk in1944 when her ownLong Lance torpedoes exploded in the torpedo room?
...that thePaço Imperial, aBaroque palace inRio de Janeiro,Brazil, served as a main government seat for almost 150 years?
...that theGerman actorHeinz Rühmann was 42 years old when he starred as a high school student in the 1944 filmDie Feuerzangenbowle?
...that lyrics fromthe B-52's song"Love Shack" were quoted in a 2005 majorityopinion byEleventh Circuit Court judgeWilliam H. Pryor, Jr.?
...that most of thetrees in theMountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve inBelize burnt down just five years after the reserve was established?
...that thePolish writerGustaw Morcinek survived threeNazi concentration camps during theSecond World War?

09:42, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

...that thePalala River bluffs inLimpopo province,South Africa have 10,000 year oldrock art(pictured) from theStone Age?
...thatBhai Taru Singh was aSikh martyr who was executed for refusing to cut his hair?
...thatfeminist authorYuriko Miyamoto wrote over 900 letters to her imprisoned husband, defyingJapan's draconianPeace Preservation Laws?
...that thegene that creates the crest of theBali Duck also causesphysical defects which can kill it before ithatches?
...thatJMWAVE was a secretCIA base onUniversity of Miami campus grounds during the 1960s?
...thatAfrican-American economistAbram Lincoln Harris was a four-time recipient of theGuggenheim Fellowship ineconomics?
...that theSheet Metal Workers International Association Local 28 inNew York City negotiated the firstpension plan in theconstruction industry?
...that theGeorge's Block inSycamore, Illinois once hosted talks from the likes ofHorace Greeley,Bayard Taylor andCharles Sumner?

30 January 2007

21:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

...that one sample of a proposedUnited States aluminum cent(pictured), dropped by aUS Congressman, was found by aUS Capitol Police officer and is now known as theToven Specimen?
...thatIndian cricketerSachin Tendulkar was awarded theCricket World Cup award of Man of the Tournament in the2003 Cricket World Cup after he scored a record 673 runs?
...that1979'sHurricane Bob was the first male name ever used for ahurricane in theAtlantic basin?
...thatDonald Cameron of Lochiel, a major figure in theJacobite Rising of1745, was nicknamed the "Gentle Lochiel"?
...that the ultra-modern disposablefemale urination device, which lets womenurinate upright, was actually invented in1922?
... thatOil Creek State Park inPennsylvania is the site of the world's first commercialoil well?

09:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatBolli Bollasson, a character in theMedieval Icelandic Laxdœla saga, is credited as the first WestNorse member of theVarangian Guard (pictured)?
...that as an art student,Soviet painterFyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov was employed as an "artistic reporter" on anArctic expedition aboard the doomedChelyuskin steamship?
...that in1955,What's the Story, anAmerican game show, was the lasttelevision series broadcast on theDuMont Television Network?
...that theSiege of Lathom House during theFirst English Civil War ended in victory for theCavaliers because the lady of the house,Charlotte de la Tremoüille, defended it defiantly?
...that the1991 Hamlet chicken plant fire resulted in 25 deaths andprison sentences for the owners?
...thatLord Nolan was the first chairman of theCommittee on Standards in Public Life?
...thatLeonard Crofoot, a dancer inThe Singing Detective, has had threeStar Trek roles?

29 January 2007

18:22, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatGeorge Pocock invented akite-drawn carriage (pictured) that could outstrip the horse-drawnmail coach?
...that the medievalMargraviate of Brandenburg was called "thesandbox of theHoly Roman Empire"?
...that theMayan ruins inBelize calledNim Li Punit take their name from the "big hat"headdress on an 8th centurystela?
...that theyaw string, a simpletuft ofyarn used as aflight instrument by theWright brothers, is still in use today?
...thatLarantuka is anIndonesian district known forRoman Catholic Holy Week processions?
...that in1973, anexperiment successfully demonstrated that spiders can spinwebs in space?
...thatWilliam Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were huntingrabbits when they stumbled upon aquartz outcropping that eventually would yield 13.5 million ounces ofgold?

10:39, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

...that humanamyloid precursor protein (pictured), whencleaved by specific types ofproteases, generates theamyloid beta peptide that may be a cause ofAlzheimer's disease?
...thatManseibashi Station inTokyo was rebuilt after a1923 earthquake and later becamea museum?
...that although the official cause of the2007 Balad aircraft crash isfog, theinsurgent group Islamic Army in Iraq says they shot it down?
...that formerNCAA American football quarterbackWyatt Sexton's career for theFlorida State University Seminoles ended when he didpushups in the street and proclaimed he wasGod?
...that theGriggsville Landing Lime Kiln is one of the best preserved periodiclime kilns in theU.S. state ofIllinois?
...thatQueen band members teasedFreddie Mercury for looking like aprawn in thevideo forIt's a Hard Life?

03:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

...that according toThemba Mabaso(pictured), the StateHerald ofSouth Africa, theflag of the republic is like a written document?
...that theNusa Kambangan, "theAlcatraz ofIndonesia", has held a son of formerPresident Suharto and terrorists of the2002 Bali bombing?
...that when theKälvesten Runestone was rediscovered in the walls of a church, it was removed and again used as building material?
...that theUnion forces in theAmerican Civil War won theBattle of Simmon's Bluff without inflicting casualties?
...that theAkhurian River is said to have turned completely red because of a major battle nearby?

28 January 2007

19:13, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
...that theSecurities and Exchange Commission of thePhilippines was temporarily abolished during theJapanese occupation?
...thatlabor leaderVictor Kamber createdplaying cards with public figures in1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie"music video depicting arapping Ronald Reagan in1984?
...thatAlan Jay Lerner, lyricist ofMy Fair Lady, also co-wrote a disastrousmusical version ofNabokov'sLolita?
...that Soviet actorPavel Luspekaev played in the classic RussianOstern movieWhite Sun of the Desert with both feet amputated?
...thatNV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw was a firm created byGermany in1922 to illegally manufacture submarines?
...thatsnow in Florida has been reported at least 34 times, including as far south asHomestead?

27 January 2007

22:55, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatSurgeon GeneralWilliam Alexander Hammond(pictured) both founded theNational Museum of Health and Medicine and wrote the first American treatise aboutneurology?
...that actorEdward Chapman, known for his role as "Mr. Grimsdale" in manyNorman Wisdom films, tried to haveSir John Gielgud thrown out ofEquity?
...that in his lifetime,Thomas Brassey was involved in building one-third of therailway built in theUnited Kingdom and in one-twentieth of the railway built in the world?
...thatHerkus Monte, one of the most famous leaders of the Great Prussian Uprising, was kidnapped in the13th century by theGermans as a boy?
...thatRachel Paulose is the first woman inMinnesota to become aDistrict Attorney?
...thatSimplicity Patterns has been a leader in homepattern sewing since 1927?

16:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatPoecilostomatoida (pictured) areparasitic crustaceans?
...thatthe wordjazz was originally aCalifornia baseball slang term and was first applied to astyle of music inChicago?
...thatStephan Körner's majorphilosophical work was in thephilosophy of mathematics and the study of "exact" and "inexact"concepts?
...thatLa Casa Pacifica,President Richard Nixon's private retreat inSan Clemente, California, became known as the "Western White House"?
...that criminal andboxer,James Field, was so feared by thepolice force ofLondon in the18th century, that they would pretend not to recognize him rather than arresting him?
...that 60 percent ofCarnatic musicians inKarnataka come fromRudrapatna?

00:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

...that poet andepistolary novelistAnn Eliza Bleecker (pictured) lost three generations of her family fleeing toAlbany duringBurgoyne's Saratoga campaign?
...thatSerenade No. 10 for winds byWolfgang Amadeus Mozart is scored for twelvewind instruments anddouble bass and consists of sevenmovements?
...that formerBritish Member of ParliamentWalter Scott-Elliot was murdered by "Monster Butler"Archibald Hall?
...thatMunir Bashir, known for his mastery of themaqam scale system, was a famous musician in theMiddle East during the20th century?
...that theHeinkel He 50, designed for theImperial Japanese Navy in 1931, was used operationally byGermany almost until the end ofWorld War II?
...thatDuff Goldman ofAce of Cakes hired somepainters andsculptors as assistants even though they didn't have experience aspastry chefs?

26 January 2007

18:14, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatYakov Kreizer(pictured) was the firstSoviet general awarded theHero of the Soviet Union title duringWorld War II?
...that inFaridah Begum bte Abdullah v. Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah, it was held that non-Malaysian citizens cannotsue aMalay ruler?
...that when theGeats saw the Swedish kingRagnvald Knaphövde travelling among them without Geatish hostages, they deemed him so arrogant that they murdered him?
...thatOneirocritica, the first major work ondream interpretation, was written in thesecond century byArtemidorus?
...that theCity of York was a Britishbarque which sank after hitting a reef offRottnest Island within sight of its destination?
...that there are severaltheories about the origins of thename of Poland?

08:26, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

...that theHunnestad Monument (pictured), one ofScandinavia's largestViking memorials, was destroyed at the end of the18th century?
...thatEriogonum parvifolium is aCalifornia endemic dunes shrub that ishost to severalendangered butterflies?
...that the first time inWorld War II submersible tanks were used was onJune 22,1941, byGerman tanks of the18th Panzer-Division?
...that theAnjajavy Forest holds manyendangered species including four of the 99 pairs ofMadagascar Fish Eagle?
...that Alix, the wife of Viscount of Rochechouart Aymeric VI, was imprisoned inChâteau de Rochechouartcastle with a lion, but the animal did not hurt her and laid down at her feet?
...thatJ-ska is contemporaryJapanese music with origins inJamaica?

00:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatokiagari-koboshi dolls(pictured) are considered symbols of perseverance inJapan because they never fall down?
...that Japanesesurrealist gothic horror authorYumeno Kyūsaku dropped dead due to acerebral hemorrhage while at anautograph signing party hosted by his publisher?
...that after anaffirmative action dispute,Yale freshmanJian Li was the subject of a controversialparody in the annual joke issue ofThe Daily Princetonian?
...thatW. Harry Davis, who helpeddesegregate Minneapolis, overcame childhoodpolio to become aGolden Gloves coach and manager ofU.S.Olympics boxing teams?
...that results of the1946 Romanian general election, the first in Romania underuniversal suffrage, were manipulated by theCommunist Party?
...thatDralasites are anamoeboid extraterrestrial race depicted inscience fiction role-playing games for the past 25 years?
...that thePolish minority in Lithuania is the country's largestnon-Lithuanian ethnic group?

25 January 2007

15:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatWilliam Hogarth'sFour Times of the Day(pictured) shows a sign for a pie shop with a picture of the severed head ofJohn the Baptist and the words "Good Eating"?
...that theConstitution of the Kingdom of Poland of1815, considered among the mostliberal constitutions of its time, was increasingly disregarded by thePolish government, leading to theNovember Uprising of 1830?
...thatRobert Spear Hudson used paintings by professional artists foradvertising before Pear's Soap andLever Brothers?
...that the Department ofFood Science atPurdue University was created duringBernard J. Liska's tenure as Dean ofAgriculture in1983?
...thatTom Chick is a prolific games journalist andHollywood actor who has a degree in divinity fromHarvard Divinity School?
...thatJames Palacio of theHBO seriesOz was anempress of theImperial Court System?
...that the firstGerman U-boat sunk by theUnited States Navy inWorld War II wasU-656, sunk on 1 March 1942?

24 January 2007

22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the importantmedieval fresco cycle inCastelseprio,Italy, (pictured) was rediscovered only in1944?
...thatHarold G. Schrier led the patrol ofU.S. Marines whoraised the first American flag onMount Suribachi?
...that theCarbonera Creekwatershed inCalifornia has diverseplant communities including a rare assemblage known asMaritime Coast Range Ponderosa Pine forests?
...that theRound Tower in Sandiway,Cheshire, was originally the gate lodge of the great house ofVale Royal Abbey?
...thatLithuania's name was recorded in chronicles by itsLatinized Slavic name formLitua, for the first time in1009?

15:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatpoet andplaywrightMaria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (pictured), known as the PolishSappho, discussed topics such asabortion, extra-marital affairs, andincest?
...that the femaleSmith's blue butterfly has only seven days to feed,court,mate, andlay eggs?
...thatJohn Freke was the firstophthalmic surgeon?
...that theRyuho was the only major warship damaged in theDoolittle raid, and the last Japaneseaircraft carrier to make a war-time voyage outside theHome Islands?
...that theGouin Reservoir inQuebec,Canada is not one contiguous body of water, but the collective name for a series of lakes with highly irregular shapes?
...thatcock throwing was a popularblood sport inEngland for centuries?

00:18, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

European Wild Cat

...that thefauna of Scotland includes almost half of the EU’s breeding seabirds, but only oneendemic vertebrate species, and that although a population ofWild Cats (pictured) remains, many of the larger mammals were hunted to extinction in historic times?
...that51 Birch Street, alow-budget documentary about the mystery of asuburban marriage, was named one ofTheNew York Times top ten films of 2006?
...thatUpdown Court, a private residence inEngland, is valued at over US$120 million?
...thatRoger Bacon sent hisOpus Majus, a treatise ofnatural science, toPope Clement IV in 1267?
...thatMurderers Among Us was the firstGerman post-World War II film?
...that 2003'sHurricane Ignacio was the latest-forming firsthurricane of aPacific hurricane season since reliablesatellite observation began in 1966?
...that the championracehorseCorrida, a two-time winner of thePrix de l'Arc de Triomphe, disappeared during theBattle of the Falaise Gap?

23 January 2007

17:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatHortus deliciarum (pictured) was amedieval illuminated encyclopedia created to teach about everything, including the torments ofhell?
...that theFinnish Air Force selected theSaab 91 Safir as its primary trainer aircraft over the domesticValmet Tuuli III?
...that according to the bookCivilization One, there are 366 degrees in a circle?
...thatRichard E. Cavazos, recipient of twoDistinguished Service Cross awards, was theUnited States Army's firstHispanic 4-star general?
...that acopper mine onBrim Fell inEngland appears as in the novelThe Plague Dogs?
...that theMayurakshi river inIndia wreaks havoc with its floods even after the construction of a dam?
...thatPeter Prendergast was recognised as the leadinglandscape painter inWales after the death ofSir Kyffin Williams in September 2006?

10:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatakabeko(pictured), redcow toys from theAizu region ofJapan, are believed to ward offdisease?
...thatBroken Glass, a1994 play byArthur Miller, was nominated for the 1994Tony Award for Best Play, but lost out toAngels in America: Perestroika?
...thatRandy Conrad became a local celebrity inCape Breton Island, Nova Scotia after appearing in aMcDonald's TV commercial?
...that althoughAbkhazia is not recognised by any nation, theAbkhazian Air Force had a reported roster of 250 men and seven aircraft in2001?
...that the first president of theWorld Association of Copepodologists was aveteran of thePolish resistance movement in World War II?
...thatLes Taylor only captainedWatford in the1984 FA Cup final because regular captainWilf Rostron was suspended?
...that the interaction ofbees and toxic chemicals can makebees drunk or producepoisonous honey?
...thatAndreas Joseph Hofmann proclaimed thefirst republican state inGermany onMarch 18,1793?
...thatMaurice K. Goddard helped create 45Pennsylvania state parks?

22 January 2007

22:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatErnest "Boots" Thomas, one of theU.S. Marines whoraised the flag on Iwo Jima (pictured), was able to enlist in spite of beingcolor blind by memorizing the results of another man's test?
...thatJunqueirópolis, a municipality inSão Paulo,Brazil, isnicknamed "Acerola Capital" for itsagriculture?
...thatSeb Clover, who sailed theEnglish Channel solo at age 11, set aworld record at age 15 when he raced against his father in anAtlantic Ocean crossing?
...thatTarget for Tonight was a1941 documentary filmed, acted, and written by theRoyal Air Force?
...that fewer than 100 of 500colonists in theVirginia Colony survived theStarving Time during the winter of 1609-1610?
...that theBlohm und Voss Bv 144 was an attempt byNazi Germany to develop an advanced commercialairliner for post-war service?
...that aJacksnipe is a two-man racingsailing dinghy created in1968 by prolific boat designerJack Holt?

05:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

File:AdamBruce.jpg

...that in 2005,Adam Bruce (pictured) became the firstherald appointed toClan Donald ofScotland in 510 years?
...thatMajor GeneralKeith L. Ware, who was awarded theMedal of Honor duringWorld War II, was the firstU.S. Army general officer to bekilled in action in theVietnam War?
...that theSuisun Shrew is arare mammal species that survives only in a narrowmarshland at the northern extremity ofSan Francisco Bay?
...that theStingray Nebula, discovered in 1987, is the youngest knownplanetary nebula?
...thatEdwin D. Hill was the first president of theInternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to be elected bysecret ballot?
...that an Egyptian army of 1,500 was defeated by 300 women and old men ofDiro during theEgyptian Invasion of Mani in1826?
...that theWitches of Belvoir supposedly believed acat named Rutterkin helped themcast spells?
...thatLa Salle Road inHong Kong is named afterFrench educatorJean-Baptiste de la Salle?
...thatArnold Zamora, aFilipino musician, is one of theSinging Priests of Tagbilaran?

21 January 2007

22:06, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

...that theTokyo Big Sightconvention center(pictured) looks like four upside-downpyramids?
...thatDavi Kopenawa Yanomami, ashaman of theindigenous people of Brazil, received an award from theUnited Nations Environmental Program?
...that theGettlinge gravefield contains astone ship, made ofstanding stones in the shape of the traditionalViking sailing vessel?
...thatLarin Paraske, aFinnish oral poet, could recite over 32,000 verses of poetry?
...that during theWinter War, aSwedish fundraising drive paid for the purchase of aFokker F.VIIIairliner for theFinnish Air Force?

21:16, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
...thatElisabeth Rivers-Bulkeley was one of the first women to become a member of theLondon Stock Exchange?
...that theking stropharia, a prized ediblemushroom, develops spinycells which killnematodes?
...thatmatches were so prized during theImperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition thatAlfred Cheetham offered a bottle of champagne for one?
...thatCraignethan Castle was the last private fortress built inScotland?

15:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

...that in thedepositioninitiation ritual(pictured) of Medieval and Early Modernuniversities, new students were dressed up with horns which were then removed with grindstones, axes, and pliers?
...that in his satirical 1827 pamphletGrand Erratum, French physicistJean-Baptiste Pérès argued thatNapoleon never existed, but was just another expression of an ancient myth?
...that modelRebecca Twigley became a household name inAustralia after wearing a revealing dress to an event in 2004?
...that theGolden Resources Mall inBeijing, the second-largestshopping mall in the world, has attracted as few as 20 shoppers in an hour?
...that the Soviet spotter aircraftSukhoi Su-12, though approved, was never produced due to lack of manufacturing capacity in theUSSR?

01:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

...that theCathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul(pictured) inNantes,France took 457 years to complete?
...that after serving as asurgeon in the Army of theRepublic of Texas,David Catchings Dickson was elected to theFirst Texas Legislature?
...that theBlack Fell comprised a chapter in thePictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells because of its excellent view?
...that theHeinkel He 46, designed for theLuftwaffe in 1931, was still being used to fight theSoviets in 1943?
...that thegeology of London includes abundantfossilized animal remains?
...that theSingapore Conference Hall was the first building to be built in theShenton Way financial district?
...thatsculptorBernardo Cennini helped produce theDoors of Paradise for theBattistero di San Giovanni?

20 January 2007

18:12, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Sergey Gritsevets

...that theSoviet pilotSergey Gritsevets(pictured), twice awarded the honorary title ofHero of Soviet Union, is credited with downing 42 enemy planes?
...that theKnoxville Campaign ended with aUnion Army victory even though the final battle of the campaign atBean's Station had resulted in aConfederate victory?
...thatCamp Cuddly Pines: Power Tool Massacre is the firstadult film to be released in theHD DVD format?
...thatHawayo Takata, aNisei fluent in the language and culture of bothJapan and theUnited States, introducedReiki to theWestern World?
...that theAjacan Mission, a failed attempt by SpanishJesuit priests to bring Christianity to theNative Americans of theVirginia Peninsula, predated the establishment ofJamestown by about 36 years?
...thatJapanese writerNaoki Sanjugo (literally "Naoki 35") changed hispen-name four times, once per year, to match his age?

19 January 2007

22:57, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

...that more than 500varieties of mango (pictured) are showcased in theInternational Mango Festival held inDelhi?
...that at theAtlantic House onCape Cod duringWorld War I,Pulitzer Prize-winnerEugene O'Neill was arrested atgun point as aspy for theKaiser?
...thatErn Westmore was the only member of the famedWestmore family to be given a specialAcademy Award formake-up, bestowed for his work on the filmCimarron?
...that "bohemian" Japanesesymbolist poetNakahara Chuya remained close friends with influentialliterary critic Kobayashi Hideo all of his life, despite the fact that his girlfriend left him for Kobayashi soon after they met?
...that althoughLehigh Gorge State Park inPennsylvania is now known forwhitewater rafting on theLehigh River, in the 19th century it was the site of acanal built to bypass those same rapids?

10:48, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

constitutional amendments

...that twenty-sevenU.S. states (pictured) have adoptedconstitutional amendments to preventsame-sex marriage orcivil unions?
...that 11-year oldPrince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein is regarded byJacobites as third in line for the throne ofEngland,Scotland,France, andIreland?
...that theAmerican composerPaul Moravec won thePulitzer Prize for Music in2004 for hisShakespeare-inspired chamber pieceTempest Fantasy?
...that in 362 AD, therhetoricianProhaeresius, a friend of thepagan Emperor, was allowed to keep his teaching post in spite of a ban on Christians but resigned in protest?
...thatKen Okuyama, aJapanese person, designed theEnzo Ferrari super car?

05:25, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatCreobroter(pictured) is apraying mantis that usesant mimicry as a juvenile andflower mimicry as an adult?
...thatSharon Sayles Belton was the first female and firstAfrican-American mayor ofMinneapolis, Minnesota?
...that theShort Sturgeon started life as a high-performancetorpedo bomber, became atarget tug, then anaval reconnaissance bomber, and finally ananti-submarine aircraft, before failing altogether?
...thatArthur William Hodge was the onlywhite person in the history of theBritish West Indies to beexecuted for killing ablack slave?
...thatColonel Frederick Gough was the first person to receive theRoyal Aero Club Parachutist Certificate?

18 January 2007

22:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the prefabricated and portableWhite Castle restaurant Building No. 8(pictured) inMinneapolis, Minnesota has had three different locations?
...thatMichael Beetham,World War II bomber pilot, is now seniorMarshal of the Royal Air Force?
...thatTrachodon, despite being a well-known and often-usedduckbill name in the past, is based on teeth that include bothduckbill andhorned dinosaur specimens?
...that theNikolayevsk Incident, in whichJapanese people were killed byBolshevik revolutionaries, was pretext for the invasion ofSakhalin island?
...that theNational Security League formed the first knownpolitical action committee in theUnited States in 1918, and spent more than $100,000 to defeatcongressmen who opposed its positions?
...thatSouth Korean United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon andTanzanian Deputy Secretary-GeneralAsha-Rose Migiro previously worked together as foreign ministers?
...thatTobias Lear probably destroyed six letters of conflict betweenGeorge Washington andThomas Jefferson?

14:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

...that theAustralian steamerTSSKanowna (pictured) wasrequisitioned twice duringWorld War I, first as atroopship and then as ahospital ship?
...that malespiders,scorpions andmantids have special strategies to avoidsexual cannibalism?
...thatJoseph E. Widener, a major figure inU.S.Thoroughbred horse racing, lost his elder brother and nephew in theTitanic disaster?
...that theFederal Corrupt Practices Act was the primary law regulatingcampaign finance inU.S. federalelections until the passage of theFederal Election Campaign Act in 1971?
...thatTrondheim Tramway was reopened in 1990 after being permanently closed for two years, the process costing twomayors inTrondheim their jobs?
...thatRussian billionaire, politician and philanthropistAlexander Lebedev started his career as aKGB agent working inLondon?
...thatWindows DreamScene displays videos inMPEG orWMV format asdesktop wallpaper?
...thatÖpir, the "shouter", was the most productive of the oldViking runemasters?

01:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatSt. Clement's Church inBüsum,Germany (pictured) is furnished with items looted fromPellworm by thepirate Cord Widderich?
...thatOne is aJapanese adult renai game (orvisual novel), developed byTactics?
...that theschoonerRouse Simmons, known as "The Christmas Tree Ship", was transporting over 5,000Christmas trees toChicago when it sank in 1912?
...thatSingaporean Web Map ServiceStreetdirectory.com successfully sued several businesses forcopyright infringment, but is now being sued on the same charge by theSingapore Land Authority?
...that only one of the 2661076 Class steam locomotives built for theGreat Western Railway was named, and the rest had only numbers?
...thatSheila Gallagher has been theCity of London's last remaininglollipop lady since 1990?

17 January 2007

19:42, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatJames MacLaine (pictured), the "Gentleman Highwayman", oncerobbed Horace Walpole?
...that theNuyorican Poets Cafe began in theapartment living room of one of its founders?
...that theBrazilian labour movement was predominantlyanarchist until the 1920s?
...that themedieval pirateCord Widderich occupiedEiderstedt and made thePellworm church tower his base?
...that futureMaltese diplomatArvid Pardo was successively detained byFascist Italian,Nazi German, andSoviet authorities between 1940 and 1945?
...that many of theimage stones of theViking Age depict lost tales fromNorse mythology?
...that the lateDame Joyanne Bracewell was the fifth woman to be appointed as anEnglish High Court judge?

10:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatAn Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump(pictured) depicts the recreation of an experiment first carried out byRobert Boyle over a hundred years earlier?
...thatSir Samuel Davenport, aSouth Australian parliamentarian, had anelectoral district named after him?
...that "Push It To The Limit", apop rap song backed byThe Walt Disney Company, was recently the mostdownloaded song at theiTunes Store?
...that in the1950s, the names and telephone numbers of women who attended the integrated meetings ofcivil rights activistVirginia Foster Durr were published in aKu Klux Klan magazine?
...that recently-departedDame Joyanne Bracewell was the fifth woman to be appointed as anEnglish High Court judge?
...that despite having won theCricket World Cup only once (1983),Indian cricket team batsmen hold mostCricket World Cup batting records?
...that theSao civilisation is the earliest to have left clear traces of their presence in the territory of modernCameroon?

16 January 2007

23:42, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

...that in 1881 theSharps Island Light was pushed five miles (8 km) down theChesapeake Bay by an ice floe — with its keepers inside — and that its replacement (pictured) has been leaning since 1977?
...that theMediterranean mantis is capable ofvirgin birth?
...thatLéonce Perret was a prominent moviedirector andactor, involved in more than four hundred films from 1909 to 1935?
...that the twenty-six tons ofbooks andartifacts fromDr. Robert Bell's privatelibrary were almost destroyed in anOttawa fire?
...that the110th United States Congress freshman class contains members from diverse backgrounds, including a professionalfootball player, aNavy vice admiral, several former teachers, and the firstBuddhist andMuslim members?
...that the first plate ofWilliam Hogarth'sThe Four Stages of Cruelty features a boy supposed to be a youngGeorge III?

15:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

...that despite its name,East Kowloon Corridor(pictured) is actually located inWest Kowloon District inHong Kong?
...thatSoviet surgeonAleksandr Bakulev pioneered the first successfullung ablation with openductus arteriosus?
...that thehaiku poetTakahama Kyoshi edited theliterary magazineHototogisu?
...that allBarrier Reef Anemonefish are born sexless and develop into males, and only become females if they rise to the top of the hierarchy?
...thatsailplane winglets were first successfully implemented byAmerican inventorPeter Masak?

05:20, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

...that theFokker Spin(pictured) was the first aircraft built byAnthony Fokker, in which he taught himself to fly and earned hispilot license?
...that theGerman physicistOtto Laporte discovered what is known inspectroscopy as theLaporte rule?
...that theSoviet Union considered occupying its allyLithuania soon after signing theSoviet-Lithuanian Treaty of 1920, but theRed Army's defeat at theBattle of Warsaw rendered such plans obsolete?
...thatKen Cranston began playingTest cricket for theEnglish cricket team within 8 weeks after his debut infirst-class cricket in 1947, but retired in 1948 to concentrate on his career as adentist?
...thatMujahedeen KOMPAK has divertedcharitable donations fromAustralia to produce recruitment videos formilitant Islamic groups?
...thatAmerican basketball playerFred Roberts was chosen by theMiami Heat in their expansion draft, but never played a game for them in theNBA?

15 January 2007

23:01, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

...that theDash-and-dot goatfish(pictured) bears a stripe and spot that is usually black, but which is red when the same species lives in deeper waters?
...that theGilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory, containingores bearinguranium-238, is one of many products that have beenrecalled in the interests oftoy safety?
...thatalchemistJames Price committed suicide by drinkingprussic acid after being challenged to prove he could turnmercury intogold?
...thatTombo Ati, a traditionalJavanese song based on a popularhadith of the prophetMuhammad, is still popular five centuries after its composition?
...thatHall of Fame football playerEd Molinski was also aGolden Gloves stateboxing champion and served in theU.S. Marines duringWorld War II?
...thatSir Colin Figures was the ninth Chief of theBritish Secret Intelligence Service, known informally asMI6?
...that theBattle of Sangarará was a decisive victory for rebel forces underTúpac Amaru II against theSpanish inPeru?
...thatArthur McIntyre became England's oldest livingTest cricketer after the death ofKen Cranston?

16:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatGerman poet and playwrightKlabund(pictured) was charged withtreason for calling for the abdication ofWilliam II in an open letter?
...thatIndonesian freedom fighterErnest Douwes Dekker is related to theDutch writer,Eduard Douwes Dekker and volunteered on theBoers' side during theSecond Boer War inSouth Africa as a youth?
...thatAir Chief MarshalSir Lewis Hodges was awarded twoDSOs and a Bar to hisDFC for flying secret missions forSOE in Europe and the Far East in theSecond World War?
...that two officers have quit their jobs over purportedparanormal activity atGeorge Stickney House, home to theBull Valley, Illinois Police Department?
...thatStephen Maylad becameVoivode ofTransylvania with the help ofPetru Rareş, who later doomed him to a wretched death in theYedikule dungeons?
...that Americanpapermaking authorityDard Hunter published a volume created entirely by himself—including itspaper,type design,typesetting, andprinting?

01:44, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatDarwin Falls(pictured) is the tallest waterfall inDeath Valley National Park and features a rare example ofriparian greenery in the driest place inNorth America?
...thatWilliam E. "Bud" Davis, who had a successful career aspresident at four universities, originally wanted "to be the world's greatestfootball coach" before he went 2-8 in 1962 and never coached again?
...that, in autumn 1934,Amicii URSS, aRomanian left-wing cultural society, dispatched the writerAlexandru Sahia on an illegal visit to theSoviet Union, as a means to commemorate theOctober Revolution?
...thatMandy Mitchell-Innes was the last survivingEnglish cricketer to have playedTest cricket before theSecond World War?
...thatWilliam Dronfield founded theUnited Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades, which inspired the creation of theTrades Union Congress?
...that "On the very first of May", a work composed bysinger andorganistWilliam Savage, was set tononsense verses by his wife?

14 January 2007

14:58, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

...that renownedbrothel-keeperElizabeth Needham, depicted inWilliam Hogarth'sA Harlot's Progress(pictured), was pelted so severely in thepillory that she died 3 days later?
...thatScottish international rugby playerTremayne Rodd was banned from playing amateurrugby union in 1966 after accompanying theBritish and Irish Lions?
...that theBBC journalistBarbara Plett's admission of having cried at the sight of the terminally illYasser Arafat led to a controversy?
...that the title ofNamestnik of Kingdom of Poland became unused and replaced with that ofGovernor-General ofWarsaw without any formaldecree after the death of the lastnamestnik?
...that members of themusic trioQueen of Japan usealiases that sound likeJapanese names and are known forsynthpop covers of artists such asJohn Lennon andBob Dylan?

12:46, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
...that theKentucky High School Athletic Association divides its member schools into separate enrollment classes in only three of the 13 sports in which it conductsstate championships?

00:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatBeaumont House(pictured) was constructed forAugustus Short, the firstAnglican bishop ofAdelaide and founder ofSt Peter's Cathedral?
...that American activistNelson Cruikshank is considered the most important non-legislator responsible for the enactment of the U.S.Social Security Disability Insurance in1956 andMedicare in1965?
...thatTêtes à Claques was originally intended to bestop motion animation, but insteadsuperimposed faces on thefigurines to save time?
...that theKarnataka politicianHotte Paksha Rangaswamy is theworld record holder for number ofelections contested?
...that during the1793Siege of Mainz,Goethe was a military observer and later wrote a book about the bombardment of the city?
...that the first three Ministers of the Privy Treasury of theOttoman Empire were Armenian, the first beingHagop Kazazian Pasha?

13 January 2007

17:01, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

...that ofKraków's eight originalmedieval city gates, only theGothicFlorian Gate(pictured) remains?
...thatDutch governor-generalJan Willem Janssens surrendered both theCape Colony and theDutch East Indies in separate incidents during theNapoleonic Wars?
...that at the 1974Coalition of Labor Union Women convention, Myra Wolfgang declared "...there are 3,000 women inChicago and they didn't come here to swaprecipes!"?
...that three members of theHot 8 Brass Band have died as a result ofgun violence inNew Orleans?
...thatrunestones have allowedarchaeologists to reconstruct the family saga of the powerfulViking womanEstrid?
...thatRobert Keyes was related to five of the otherGunpowder Plot conspirators?

01:20, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatConstantine the Great ordered the construction ofAbu Mena after his daughter was cured by the body ofSaint Mina(pictured)?
...thatDavid Colville Anderson, whose career was ended by a scandal involvingteenage girls, blamed it on theKGB?
...that theAlliance for Retired Americans was instrumental in enactingMedicare?
...that theSajama Lines inBolivia took 3,000 years to make and might be considered the largestartwork in the world?
...thatCecilia Muñoz-Palma was thePhilippines' first female prosecutor, district judge, andSupreme Court justice?
...that the sixCharles Tayleur locomotives ordered byIsambard Kingdom Brunel for theGreat Western Railway were unsuccessful?
...thatPope Pius XII tried to prevent thebombing of Rome in World War II?

12 January 2007

17:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatChroogomphus(pictured) is an ediblemushroom that grows as aparasite on otherfungi inpine forests?
...thattoso is amedicinal sake drunk duringJapanese New Year celebrations?
...thathippocamps aremythological sea-horses that frolic in theTrevi Fountain?
...that theTerrace Mutiny of1944 was the most serious disciplinary breach inCanadian military history?
...thatpastor andlinguistChristoph Mrongovius was honored by having atown named after him?
...thatBaghdad Street inIstanbul was named byMurad IV to commemorate his conquest ofMesopotamia?
...that the mythical Canadian water monsterOgopogo inspired the British filmMee-Shee: The Water Giant?
...thatLouisiana politicianArthur C. Watson lost the use ofhis legs in infancy?

05:34, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

...that theEgyptian Theater(pictured) inDeKalb, Illinois is purportedly haunted byghosts?
...that theImperial Japanese Army 14th Division madeChinese dumplings a specialty ofUtsunomiya upon returning fromManchuria?
...thatIya Abubakar, aNigerian mathematician, served as his country'sMinister of Defence?
...thatSgurr na Ciste Duibhe, aMunro inScotland, is one of the "Five Sisters of Kintail"?
...thatOvidiu Pecican co-wrote atextbook ofRomanian history that caused a national scandal?
...that aprotoplanetary nebula is a short-lived phase ofstellar evolution?
...thatRolf Dudley-Williams helped set up the company that manufactured the world's first workingjet engine?
...thatJohn Casor was the first knownslave in theThirteen Colonies?

11 January 2007

20:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

...that an aircraft'spitot-static system(pictured) allows a pilot to know itsairspeed,Mach number, altitude, and altitude trend?
...that theOxford University Ice Hockey Club claims to be the second oldest ice hockey team in the world?
...that during the 1933Simele massacre nearly 3,000 people were killed and more than 63Assyrian villages were destroyed?
...that award-winning Japanese novelistTachihara Masaaki was aZainichi Korean, whose works were strongly influenced byZeami's traditional JapaneseNoh dramas?
...that most of the numerousJarlabanke Runestones were made by a Viking chieftain in an attempt to immortalize his power and greatness?
...that theLand Coastal Defence that defended thePolish coast during theGerman invasion of Poland was subordinate to thePolish Navy, not theArmy?

07:54, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

...that thenipples of theAncient Greek statueVictorious Youth(pictured) were cast incopper to contrast with thebronze of thetorso?
...that twoViking women namedGerlög and Inga documented their tragic and dramatic family saga on a series ofrunestones during thecivil wars of11th century Sweden?
...that theAston Martin DBR1sports car won the1000km Nürburgring round of theWorld Sportscar Championship in all three years it entered?
...that theIngvar Runestones commemorateVikings who died in the raid led byIngvar the Far-Travelled which pillaged the coasts ofPersia?
...thatSt. Cyril's Monastery inKiev,Ukraine was closed by theTsarist Government and its living quarters were converted into ahospital and later aninsane asylum, which lasted until the mid-late20th century?
...thatZhang Zhenshi created a widely reproduced image ofMao Zedong which is known asChina'sMona Lisa?

10 January 2007

22:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the face ofChicago nativeHazel Lavery(pictured) adorned thebanknotes of Ireland for seventy years?
...that theFree Association of German Trade Unions was the onlytrade union inGermany to reject theBurgfrieden, a civil truce between thesocialist movement and the German state duringWorld War I?
...that MajorAlan Shapley, survivor of the sinking of theUSSArizona during theattack on Pearl Harbor, had been relieved of duty on theArizona the previous day, but had stayed aboard overnight before reporting to his next duty station?
...that Grand DuchessKira Kirillovna of Russia was urged by hermother-in-law to testify in the case ofAnna Anderson, the woman who claimed to beGrand Duchess Anastasia?
...that there are fourUNESCOWorld Heritage Sites in Scotland and four more sites currently undergoing a process of evaluation including the iconicForth Bridge?

19:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
...that the inhabitants ofFjuckby,Sweden want to change the name of their village because of its unfortunate associations?

15:22, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatJohn Pasco(pictured) advisedNelson to change the wording of "England expects that every man will do his duty", his famous signal at theBattle of Trafalgar?
...that the17th century Puritan physicianAlexander Leighton incurred the wrath ofKing Charles I for publishing a pamphlet denouncing bishops, and was sentenced by hisStar Chamber to public whipping,branding, and having his ears cut off?
...that the 1927American silent filmThe Cat and the Canary was directed byGerman expressionist filmmakerPaul Leni?
...that the world's only memorial towar correspondents is located inMaryland'sGathland State Park?
...thatKenny Leon directed theBroadway premiere of theAugust Wilson playGem of the Ocean?

9 January 2007

22:35, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatRosersberg Palace (pictured), one of theSwedish Royal palaces, was used as a school ofmusketry for 101 years?
...thatAlejandro Maclean, Spanish television producer andRed Bull Air Race World Series pilot, isnicknamed "The FlyingMatador"?
...that the2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, which left over 500,000 homeless, was the firsttropical cyclone of hurricane intensity to hitSri Lanka since 1978?
...that thecornerstone for the first museum ofspace exploration, theKonstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics inKaluga,Russia, was laid byYuri Gagarin?
...that the1968 Florida teachers' strike was the first statewidestrike byteachers inUnited States history?
...that theRaven banner, a standard used by variousViking leaders includingSigurd the Stout andHarald III of Norway, was atotem believed to have the power to grant victory to its holder?

11:52, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Smokey the Mascot

...thatSmokey(pictured) was selected as mascot by theUniversity of Tennessee students after abluetick coonhound howled during a halftime contest?
...that the1939 plannedencyclical ofPope Pius XI,Humani Generis Unitas, which condemnedracism andpersecution of Jews, became known as "The Hidden Encyclical" or "The Lost Encyclical," because it was never promulgated?
...that the1985 Oregon State vs. Washington football game resulted in the biggest overcomepoint spread incollege football history when theBeavers beat theHuskies, 21-20?
...that David Robinson, who tried to hijackQantas Flight 1737 in 2003, wanted to crash the plane into aTasmanian national park to release theDevil and bring aboutArmageddon?
...thatkabuki actorMatsunosuke Onoe became the first superstar ofJapanese cinema, appearing in over 1,000 films during the course of his 17-year career, including over 80 per year at his peak?
...thatIan Harvey, aConservative junior minister in theUnited Kingdom, resigned his seat in 1958 after a sex scandal?

01:10, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

...that features ofThe Jurist in the painting byGiuseppe Arcimboldo are composed of fish and poultry?
...that theUniversity of Cambridge deniedEdward A. Irving aPhD when he submitted evidence supportingcontinental drift?
...thatDelaware Canal State Park inPennsylvania contains the only intact 19th centurytowpath canal in theUnited States?
...that 199 of the 210 soldiers of the 5th Infantry Regiment of theImperial Japanese Army's 8th Infantry Division froze to death as a result of a winter training accident in January 1902?
...thatU.S. CongressmanCecil R. King ofCalifornia, deeply involved in the issue ofMedicare, ran unopposed for his first 10 years in office?
...that the twelfthsultan of Aceh,Iskandar Muda, had his own son killed and named as his successor the son of the sultan ofPahang, whom he had brought to Aceh twenty years earlier?

8 January 2007

18:53, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

...that about half of the collection of theWürttembergische Landesbibliothek(pictured) inBaden-Württemberg was destroyed in afire following anair raid onStuttgart duringWorld War II?
...that beforeHurricane Katrina struckNew Orleans, theUnited Teachers of New Orleans was the largesttrade union in the city?
...that the removal of PresidentRolandas Paksas from office by theConstitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania was the first successful case ofimpeachment of ahead of state in the history ofEurope?
...thatDave Burrell'soperatic live jazz albumWindward Passages was his response toland development inHawaii during the late1970's?
...thatAcallam na Senórach, a tale of ancient heroes surviving to recount their deeds toSt. Patrick, is the longest original text in medievalIrish literature?

04:14, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

...that theGerman fresco painterJohannes Zick(pictured: self-portrait) started his career as ablacksmith in his father's workshop?
...that theVietnam War veteranWesley Autrey jumped onto aNew York City Subway track in front of an oncoming train to save another man?
...that theRomanian anti-communist resistance movement, operating between 1948 and 1960, was one of the most enduring armed resistance movement in the formerSoviet bloc?
...that the song "Shambala" byThree Dog Night has agospel music sound andTibetan Buddhist subject matter?
...that theSwedish sculptorWilly Gordon received some attention with a sculpture showing a naked male figure carrying a piece of meat on his shoulders before a reclining female figure?
...thatSir Francis Mitchell was the last Britishknight of the realm to be publiclydegraded?

7 January 2007

21:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatXanten Cathedral(interior pictured), declared abasilica minor by PopePius XI, may be the biggestcathedral betweenCologne and theNorth Sea?
...that famed Japaneseliterary criticKobayashi Hideo touredChina as a guest of theImperial Japanese Army, with futureNobel-prize winnerKawabata Yasunari?
...that after formerHouse representativeJohn H. Burke was not a candidate for renomination in1934, he went back to his home inLong Beach, California and became areal estate broker?
...thatWilliam Henry Holbert, a catcher for the 19th centuryNew York Metropolitans baseball team, still holds the records for the most career at-bats without ahome run?
...that theLandmarks Foundation helpsconserve sacred sites such as thestone spheres of Costa Rica and themoai ofEaster Island?
...that the carom billiards game,cushion caroms, was enjoyed on occasion byMark Twain?

14:48, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

...that theBelgian military leaderHerman Baltia(pictured) exhibited hiswatercolour paintings on theYser Front while he was serving as acommander inWorld War I?
...thatByron N. Scott was a public school teacher inLong Beach, California prior to being elected to theUnited States House of Representatives in 1934?
...that theMecelle, theOttoman civil code of 1877, was the first attempt tocodify part of the laws of anIslamic state?
...that mathematicianĐuro Kurepa lectured at almost every university inYugoslavia?
...that theFlorida Education Association led the first statewideteachers'strike inAmerican history in1968?

03:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatcurb feelers(pictured) are especially popular forhotrods withwhitewall tires?
...that the1978 musical filmThe Wiz re-tellsL. Frank Baum's popular storyThe Wizard of Oz in an urban setting and with an entirelyAfrican-American cast?
...thatUSS Stewart, now amuseum inTexas, is the only surviving example of anEdsall class destroyer escort?
...thatAni, amedieval city once rivalingConstantinople, was ransacked byMongols and now stands inruin?
...that formerCalifornia representativeBertrand W. Gearhart ran unopposed and captured nearly 100 percent of the vote in hisbiennial re-election bids from1936 to1944?
...that theRussian composerVladimir Shainsky created music and songs for popularcartoons such asCheburashka and his best friendCrocodile Gena?

6 January 2007

18:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

...that approximately one-third of nearbygalaxies containlow-ionization nuclear emission-line regions?
...that theMcCarthy-style interrogations of theFlorida Legislative Investigation Committee caused the firing or expulsion of scores of professors and students fromFlorida universities between 1956 and 1966?
...that among the earliest accounts of the use of aman-lifting kite is in the story ofIshikawa Goemon's robbery fromNagoya Castle?
...that MajorMegan McClung, the first femaleUnited States Marine Corps officer killed in combat inIraq, organized and competed in the first satellite running of theMarine Corps Marathon in Iraq?
...thatJohn Litchfield trod on the foot of onePrime Minister, sat on the lap of another, and was the first person to toast the health ofQueen Elizabeth II?
...that the future mother-in-law ofKunikida Doppo urged her daughter to commit suicide rather than marry the Japanese author?

11:18, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

...that theHearthstone House(pictured) became the first residence in the world to be lit by a centrally locatedhydroelectric station using theEdison system?
...that for seven centuriesRunamo was famous inScandinavia as arunic inscription until scientists determined it to be natural cracks in therock?
...that theUnion of Salvation, aRussian secret society of revolutionaryDecembrists, was organized according to a complexMasonic style system of rituals and vows?
...thatNobel Prize-winning authorKawabata Yasunari was a houseguest of fellow authorKambara Ariake for almost two years after the end ofWorld War II?
...thatSandra Feldman, former president of theAmerican Federation of Teachers, was mentored bycivil rights activistBayard Rustin and arrested twice during theFreedom Rides?
...thatBritish MPAnthony Courtney wasblackmailed by theKGB usingphotographs of him with atour guide?
...thatNikki Haley ofSouth Carolina is the firstRepublican Indian-American state legislator in theUSA?

01:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

...that theEdmonson sisters(pictured) wereAfrican-American slaves who tried to escape to freedom and becamecelebrity abolitionists?
...that thementally ill Egyptian policeman who perpetrated theRas Burqa massacre, killing sevenIsraeli tourists, including four children, was hailed in the Egyptian opposition press as a national hero?
...that formerCalifornia representativeAllan O. Hunter was appointed as the president and chairman ofFannie Mae byPresident Richard Nixon in1970?
...that sixteen people were killed during ageneral strike in Nepal in 1992, an incident that contributed to the breakout of acivil war four years later?
...that apentimento is an alteration to apainting that can often only be seen in anX-ray or aninfra-red photograph?
...thatJapanese poetKitahara Hakushu was jailed foradultery in 1912?

5 January 2007

15:31, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

...that those crossing theFallasburg Bridge(pictured), aBrown truss covered bridge inVergennes Township,Michigan at a speed faster than a walk may be subject to a $5 fine?
...thatNepalese politicianRadha Krishna Mainali, once acommunist revolutionary and a political prisoner for 16 years, was appointed Minister of Education & Sports byKing Gyanendra after the king's seizure of power in February 2005?
...that the2006 Insight Bowl featured the biggest comeback inNCAA Division I-A football bowl history?
...that 2006 was the 650th anniversary of the1356 Basel earthquake, the most significant earthquake to have occurred inCentral Europe in recorded history?
...thatchildren's writer andillustratorShirley Hughes has written more than fifty stories, and illustrated over two hundred?
...thatGeorgie White was the first woman to run a commercialGrand Canyon river guiding service?

04:27, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the2006 Alamo Bowl(pictured: theAlamodome) set a record for the most people to view a sporting event live inSan Antonio, Texas, as well as the most television viewers ever to watch abowl game onESPN?
...that inJohnson Tan Han Seng v. Public Prosecutor, theMalaysian Federal Court held that a Proclamation ofEmergency remains in force after the circumstances it was meant for have expired?
...thatThe Mall at Turtle Creek inJonesboro, Arkansas was the only enclosed mall to open in theUnited States in 2006?
...thatPowelliphanta Sp.Augustus is found only on a fivehectare area northeast ofWestport,New Zealand?
...thatHillsborough County, Florida CommissionerRonda Storms was the author of an ultimately successful proposal that banned the county from acknowledging "gay pride"?
...thatTigranakert was a center ofArmenian culture until theArmenian Genocide of1915, when the population was eradicated and replaced byKurds?

4 January 2007

21:50, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

...that somefour-leaf clovers are actuallyferns in the familyMarsileaceae(pictured)?
...that an editor forKanguramagazine was convicted at theInternational Criminal Tribunal for inciting theRwandan Genocide?
...that the firstradiosonde was made bySoviet meteorologistPavel Molchanov?
...thatBeard Liberation Front efforts led to the inclusion ofbeard ism in theOxford English Dictionary?
...that in1936, 11-termU.S. CongressmanFrederick R. Lehlbach closely lost his re-election bid to a political newcomer,Frank W. Towey, Jr.?
...thatBharatiya Janata Party leaderRajnath Singh has been active in the party since age 13?
...that in1945,Frederick C. Branch became the firstAfrican-American U.S. Marine Corps officer?

13:14, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatIchikawa Danjūrō I(pictured) was killed onstage by a fellowKabuki actor?
...that theSwedish forces at theSiege of Jasna Góra were actuallyGerman mercenaries andPolish supporters ofCharles X Gustav?
...thatjazz musicianRoscoe Mitchell, while inGermany for theU.S. Army, studied under the firstclarinetist of theHeidelberg Symphony?
...that theAustralian punk rock single "(I’m) Stranded" pre-dated theSex Pistols' debut release?
...thatJaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate, aKannada poem, was declared the officialanthem of theIndian state ofKarnataka in2004?
...thatPlagiostomum vittatum, the "Candy Cane Worm", is aflatworm with redstripes?
...that theNormal School for Colored Girls was incorporated into theUniversity of the District of Columbia?

3 January 2007

23:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatHaghpat Monastery(pictured) inArmenia was placed on theWorld Heritage List over 1,000 years after it was founded?
...thatRandy Shilts was the first openlygay man in the mainstreamU.S.media?
...that thechaperon was ahat from theMiddle Ages that could be worn in at least six different ways?
...thatMillennium City, Hong Kong hasskyscrapers numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5, possibly because 4 is consideredunlucky?
...that theLouvre describesVirgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle as the most beautifulronde-bosse ivory carving ever made?
...that in his1560s work theZimmern Chronicle Count Froben Christoph von Zimmern tried to establish a lineage to the ancienttribe ofCimbri just because his name sounded similar?

17:30, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatFord Madox Brown painted most ofThe Last of England(pictured) outdoors in badweather?
...thatWashburn University'smascot, "the Ichabod", is named afterIchabod Washburn, an owner of the world's largestwire mill?
...that inPublic Prosecutor v. Khong Teng Khen & Anor. it was held that theYang di-Pertuan Agong ofMalaysia can promulgateordinances with the force of law?
...that women in some societies may be subject tohonor killing for violation ofnamus?
...that afterFrank W. Towey, Jr. lost hisHouse of Representatives re-election bid, he became assistant to theU.S. Attorney General?
...that theYoung Bengal leaderDakshinaranjan Mukherjee was largelyostracized for marrying thewidow ofMaharaja Tejendra?
...that theMalta Summit was the first face-to-face meeting betweenGeorge H. W. Bush andMikhail Gorbachev?

03:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatNew York'sPanther Mountain(pictured) was the site of aprehistoric meteor crash?
...thatBritish MPWill Owen was nicknamed "greedy bastard" by theCzechoslovak intelligence agency to whom he sold secrets?
...that2-methylhexane andheptane are liquids with the samemolecular formula but they have differentdensity,freezing points andboiling points?
...that despite being aSoviet citizen and a confirmedNKVD agent,Alexandru Nicolschi served as head ofCommunist Romania'ssecret police?
...that abotánica is aLatin American store that sellsreligious goods,magical paraphernalia andbrand name health care products?
...thatJosef Frings,Archbishop of Cologne, was observed by theGestapo duringWorld War II?

2 January 2007

21:48, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

...thatElizabeth Margaret Chandler(pictured) introduced the famousabolitionist image of the kneeling femaleslave with the slogan "Am I not a Woman and a Sister"?
...that despiteIrish neutrality, weather reports fromMet Éireann were used to plan theD-Day landings?
...thatScottish language prodigyJames Murdoch, after participating in a failedcommunist commune inParaguay, was hired by theAustralian Ministry of Defence as an expert onJapanese issues?
... thatIra Goldstein, an advertisement campaign character for theASB Bank inNew Zealand, supposedly drives a metallic-brown 1979Leyland Princess 2000 HL?
...that formerNew Jersey RepresentativeHenry Helstoski was charged with receiving bribes fromillegal aliens in1976?
... that theAyles Ice Shelf atEllesmere Island in theCanadian Arctic Archipelago collapsed in less than an hour in August 2005, setting a 66 km² (25 mi²) ice island adrift in theArctic Ocean, but the collapse was only discovered during the recent analysis of satellite images captured byMODIS?

14:18, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

...that theBrown truss(pictured: truss detail) waspatented in 1857, enjoyed a brief spurt in popularity, was used inseveral covered bridges inMichigan in the mid 19th century, and was apparently never used again?
...thatAustralian cricketerTrevor Chappell was reprimanded by thePrime Ministers ofAustralia andNew Zealand when he rolled anunderarm delivery tobatsman Brian McKechnie to stop him from lofting the ball forsix?
...that inAssa Singh v. Menteri Besar of Johore, theFederal Court of Malaysia found that an unconstitutional violation of a person's constitutional rights may be permitted throughgrandfathering of pre-independence laws?
...that the earliest fossilreef formations that show highbiodiversity, containing the earliestcorals, form the mid-OrdovicianChazy Formation, reaching fromTennessee toLabrador?
...thatDave Burrell recordedEcho to honor anall-star groupArchie Shepp asked him to be a part of during the 1969 Pan-African Music Festival inAlgiers?
...thatEspiritismo is theLatin American andCaribbean belief thatgood and evil spirits can affecthealth,luck and other elements ofhuman life?

1 January 2007

22:59, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the history of the carom billiards disciplines,balkline and straight rail(balkline table pictured), features a veritable billiardsevolutionary arms race, in which each new rule implemented was interdicted by a shot developed to counter it?
...that formerNew Jersey RepresentativeEdward J. Patten was unanimously cleared by theHouse Ethics Committee of charges associated with the1978 Koreagate scandal?
...thatBruce Campbell was removed from office as a Circuit Court Judge in theUnited Kingdom after being convicted of importing whisky and cigarettes without paying customs duty on them?
...thatsleeve garters were first used in the19th century and are still worn bypoker dealers andbarbershop musicians?
...thatsonofabitch stew is acowboy dish made with meats and organs from a freshly killedcalf?

15:21, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

...that dust supplied by theBodélé Depression(pictured) in theSahara Desert not only feeds some of the world's largestdust storms, but also supports the continued existence of theAmazon Rainforest?
...that formerNew Jersey RepresentativeFred A. Hartley, Jr., co-sponsor of the1947 Taft-Hartley Act, served as the chairman of theU.S. House Committee on Education and Labor?
...thatRobert Satloff researched the involvement ofMuslims andArabs both as rescuers and perpetrators duringthe Holocaust in the course ofthe Axis occupation ofNorth Africa?
...that David Gross andAlan Kotok builtExpensive Tape Recorder, adigital audio program that ran onMIT'sTX-0 computer circa1960?
...that the creator of thesnack foodPirate's Booty was inspired by the ingredients of another brand'scheese puffs?
...that thePueblo Clowns were priests in theKachina religion of thePueblo Indians?

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