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31 May 2008

19:03, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

... that driedteasel pods(pictured) were used to raise thenap on woolen fabrics?
... that theGazette Building inLittle Rock,Arkansas served as headquarters for the1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign?
... thatWeeb Ewbankcoached the most games inNew York Jets franchise history?
... that theNorwegian lakeLutvann leaked 1,000 liters of water per minute into the railway tunnelRomeriksporten during its construction in 1997?
... thatIsfield railway station, now the terminus of apreserved railway line, was used during theFirst World War to take Germanprisoners of war to work in nearby woodland?
... that theMartinican Communist Party became the largestpolitical party in theFrenchdépartement d'outre-mer ofMartinique in the 1960s?
... that the emotional, agitated figures depicted in the 9th-centuryEbbo Gospels bear a striking resemblance to illustrations in theUtrecht Psalter?
... thatPoole Stadium, a formerfootball ground now used forgreyhound racing andspeedway, was the venue for the2004 Speedway World Cup final?

13:01, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatAythorpe Roding Windmill(pictured) is the largest survivingpost mill inEssex,England?
... that, although projects forrestoration of the Everglades are the most comprehensive attempts at environmental repair in history, they are in danger of being eliminated?
... thatCarlos Minc, the currentBrazilian Minister of Environment, was one of the founding members of theGreen Party?
... thatMaryland'sFrederick High School can trace its roots back more than a century, and has won over 35 state championships in various sports since the late 1950s?
... that in 1880 theUnited States Congress adjourned so members could watch thesingle scull race on thePotomac River betweenCharles E. Courtney andNed Hanlan?
... that the1881 children's novelToby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus byJames Otis was made into a1960 Disney film?
... thatGeorgian footballerGeorgi Kiknadze won five consecutiveleague championships withDinamo Tbilisi?
... that theSeaboard Air Line Railroad was the first to providestreamlined passenger trains from New York to Florida, beginning with theSilver Meteor in 1939?

06:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Flammulated Flycatcher

... that theFlammulated Flycatcher(pictured), atyrant flycatcher endemic toMexico, was eventually placed in themonotypic genusDeltarhynchus because of its broadbill?
... that by the timeFort Scott was completed, it was already obsolete?
... thatGeneralZiauddin Butt, former head of thePakistani intelligence agency, was nominated to head the army in 1999?
... that during theWar of 1812,Laura Secord went toDeCou House to warnJames FitzGibbon and hisBritish troops about the surpriseAmerican attack now known as theBattle of Beaver Dams?
... that inVictor Hugo's novelLes Misérables,Cosette'swedding gown was made ofBinche lace because Hugo remembered it from his youth as being a lace of beauty?
... that land agentTimothy Dwight Hobart from 1886 to 1924 supervised the stringing of hundreds of miles ofbarbed wire and the digging of hundreds ofwells topped bywindmills to settle theTexas Panhandle?
... thatIslam: The Straight Path byJohn L. Esposito is an introductory text onIslam that devotes half its content to the development ofIslam in modern andreformist times?

00:25, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

... that inflatable and woodendummy tanks(pictured) were used inOperation Fortitude to confuse German intelligence?
... that in 1866,French chessplayerNapoleon Marache published one of the first chess books in theUnited States, which also discussed strategy forbackgammon anddominoes?
... thatFountains Fell, a mountain in theYorkshire Dales,England, is named afterFountains Abbey whose monks grazed sheep there in the 13th century?
... thatMark Goffeney, nicknamed "Big Toe", is a professionalguitarist who plays with his feet because he wasborn without hands?
... that theGibraltar Football Association had theirUEFAmembership application blocked by Spain due to theirclaim on the territory?
... thatNorth 24th Street inOmaha, Nebraska, considered the heart of thecity's African American community, has not fully recovered sinceseveral riots destroyed businesses along the strip in the 1960s?
... that 1999 bookGone with the Wind in the Vatican narrated alleged scandals inVatican City usingpseudonyms fromGone with the Wind?
... thatMary Augusta Dickerson found it inspirational to write herchildren's books inside aPickle Barrel House?

30 May 2008

18:23, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the stationmaster of the Kinokawa train station inKinokawa,Japan is acat namedTama(pictured)?
... thatneurologistDerek Denny-Brown introducedBritish anti-Lewisite as a treatment for thecopper overload disorderWilson's disease?
... that theoldest firehouse still standing inLouisville,Kentucky was once a church?
... that afree trade agreement made effective in 2000 strengthenedIndo-Sri Lankan relations and quadrupledbilateral trade, which grew toUS$2.6 billion by 2006?
... that 17th-centuryFrench buccaneerMontbars the Exterminator attackedSpanish settlements in theNew World, after reading aboutconquistador atrocities?
... that despite being considered "much too far away" to affect weather inCalifornia,Hurricane Liza of 1968 causedUS$5,000 in damage and the closure of a portion of Ocean Boulevard inLong Beach?
... that somepulvinones have shownanticoagulant activity inrats, whilst other pulvinone derivatives arepatented antibiotics for use in animals?
... that theGolden Age Passport has been replaced by the "Senior Pass" of the new pass series now called "America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass"?

12:22, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theForest Kingfisher(pictured) ofAustralian forest andMelaleucaswampland, burrows its nest intermite moundsin trees up to 12 metres (39 ft) above the ground?
... that thepresidential campaign of Bob Barr began following a successfuldraft effort onFacebook?
... that in a major improvement inbilateral ties since it blockedBangladesh's entry in theU.N. in 1972,China offered to help Bangladesh construct its firstnuclear plant?
... thatNative American actor and directorJames Young Deer and his wife were an "influential force" in the production of one-reelWesterns during the earlysilent film era?
... thattorchon lace is one of the oldestbobbin laces and has strictly geometric patterns?
... thatPhilippine National Artist Amado V. Hernandez wrote his masterpieces while being imprisoned in theNew Bilibid Prison?
... that theRio Napo Screech-Owl is part ofa group of owls that have been reclassified three times since 1850?
... thatA Stillness at Appomattox byBruce Catton won the1954 Pulitzer Prize in history?

06:21, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatU.S. Route 127 in Michigan(pictured) was tripled in length by extending the highway to replace its parent route,U.S. Route 27 in 2002?
... that theYoung Religious Unitarian Universalists protested againstVictoria's Secret for allegedly printing their catalogues with paper sourced from endangered forests?
... that theyuja hwachae,Korean traditionalfruit punch made withKorean pear andyuja, is often served withflower pancakes made ofchrysanthemum?
... thatmathematicianNathan Mendelsohn was on the firstPutnam Competition-winning team in 1938, but also won second prize in anInternational Brotherhood of Magicians contest?
... that theWebster ruling is a legalprecedent clarified by theCourt of Arbitration for Sport in 2008, which extends to professionalfootballers inEurope the samecontractual freedom of movement as workers in other industries?
... thatZaha Hadid's architectural design won an international competition for the upcomingVilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum?
... that father and sonJames E. Bolin andBruce M. Bolin both served in theLouisiana House of Representatives and as a state district courtjudge – thirty-eight years apart in each case?
... that after serving three terms in theNorwegian Parliament for theConservative Party,Georg Apenes took over as director of theNorwegian Data Inspectorate?

00:06, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

... that although theIshvara temple(pictured) inKarnataka,India, seems modest in construction, it is in fact the most complicatedHoysala monument?
... thatJohn Kempthorne defeated an attack by sevenAlgerine corsairs on his single ship,HMSMary Rose?
... thatDwight Eisenhower's home cost more than six times to renovate than it did to purchase, due to union labor andMamie Eisenhower's whims?
... thatGerman chemistAlbert Niemann became the first person to isolatecocaine in 1859?
... that theU.S. suspended theCommercial Import Program toSouth Vietnam after concluding that PresidentNgo Dinh Diem was using the funds to repressBuddhists rather thancommunists?
... thatCornelia Adair, duringWorld War I, invitedBelgian refugees to stay at herGlenveagh Castle inCounty Donegal,Ireland?
... that theMuseum at Bethel Woods is devoted mostly to theWoodstock Festival, and located on its site?
... that the remnants ofdefensive walls and stone shelters built byshipwreck survivorWiebbe Hayes and his men onWest Wallabi Island in 1629, areAustralia's oldest knownEuropean structures?

29 May 2008

17:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theNeoclassicalHollywood Masonic Temple(pictured) has been used as aMasonic Lodge,opera house, andnightclub, and is now the home of theJimmy Kimmel Live! television show?
... thatGerobatrachus is considered to be amissing link that supports the hypothesis offered bycladistics, thatfrogs andsalamanders had a common ancestor?
... thatNgo Dinh Diem'spresidential visit to Australia saw him receive theKnight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, one of the highestBritish imperial honours bestowed on a non-British subject?
... that theCosmographia bySebastian Münster from 1544 is the earliest German description of the world?
... that soldiers fromFort Benning patrolled the woods around theLittle White House duringWorld War II?
... thatBishop Hannington Memorial Church inHove,England, is dedicated to amissionary killed inUganda onKing Mwanga II's orders?
... that in his bookA More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights,U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. proposed eightconstitutional amendments?

11:16, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatRobert Parker Parrott's last home,Plumbush(pictured), outsideCold Spring, New York, is now abed and breakfast?
... that theSperrgebiet, adiamond mining area closed to the public, makes up 3 percent ofNamibia's surface area?
... that the oddly-namedSaints' Roost Museum inClarendon, Texas refers to the town having been aprohibition settlement in the 1880s thatcowboys referred to as where the "saints roost"?
... that theAcademic Gymnasium Danzig, along with similar schools inElbląg andToruń, transformedRoyal Prussia into a center ofclassical studies in the 16th century?
... thatTexas rancherMontie Ritchie was thephotographer on a British Alpine Club expedition in 1949 to theBaffin Islands in theCanadian Arctic?
... that theAsia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is proposing aregional free trade area that would account for almost half ofworld trade?
... thatJack Christiansen andBill Walsh are the onlySan Francisco 49ers head coaches in thePro Football Hall of Fame?

05:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatHindus often worshipKrishna as the small childBala Krishna(pictured), crawling on his hands and knees with a lump of butter in his hands?
... that boundarysurveyorJoseph Smith Harris climbed a ship's mast to directmortars during theCivil War Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip?
... thatPetubastis III led arevolt inEgypt againstPersian rulecirca 522 BCE?
... that theCoffee Creek Correctional Facility is the only women'sprison inOregon?
... thatWalter Emden designedLondon theatres andmusic halls in the late 19th century, including thePalace Theatre, theDuke of York's, theGarrick and theRoyal Court?
... thatJohn Aspinall was the first recipient of theJames Watt International Medal?

28 May 2008

23:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the original images ofLord Swaminarayan(pictured) at theShri Swaminarayan Temple inKarachi,Pakistan were removed and taken toIndia during the turbulent times of itspartition?
... thatQUIET, anastronomy experiment due to start observing in 2008 at theLlano de Chajnantor Observatory,Chile, will make measurements of thepolarization of thecosmic microwave background radiation?
... thatprehistoric people used the same 89 °F (32 °C)warm springs thatFranklin Delano Roosevelt would use in the 20th century?
... thatKaunas University Hospital, the largest medical institution inLithuania, was designated a cultural monument in 2008?
... thatNielluccio,Sciacarello andVermentino are the three leadinggrape varieties formakingCorsica wine?
... that theWeb Site Administration Tool simplifies the creation of anauthentication andauthorization system in anASP.NET website?
... that in1968,The Detroit Wheels recorded "Linda Sue Dixon", a thinly-veiledpaean to the illicithallucinogenic drugLSD?
... that theWawelberg Group was aPolish special-forces unit which began the 1921Third Silesian Uprising by blowing up seven rail bridges linkingUpper Silesia with the rest ofGermany?
... thatRichard Neutra'sJardinette Apartments building inHollywood is considered one of the firstModernist buildings in America?

16:38, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatsamite was a luxurious and heavysilk fabric worn in theMiddle Ages, and famously byTennyson'sLady of the Lake(pictured)?
... that before the release of theJapanese visual novelSora o Tobu, Mittsu no Hōhō, there was a similarly basedmanga series byKensha Shimotsuki?
... that a cat named "Room 8" was the subject of a book, a documentary, a song byLeo Kottke, and obituaries that appeared in papers from theLos Angeles Times to theHartford Courant?
... that theRed Cross with Imperial PortraitsFabergé egg commemorates the work of women from theHouse of Romanov for theRed Cross duringWorld War I?
... thatAmerican physicistHugh Bradner developed the firstneoprene wetsuit but was unable topatent it?
... that the presentCape Rachado Lighthouse, erected in 1863 inMalacca,Malaysia, includes an additional concrete tower that was completed in 1990 to house aMEASAT radar?
... thatCalsoyasuchus valleyceps, an extinctcrocodile relative from theEarly Jurassic, has a deep groove in itsskull from which itsspecies name, "valley head", derives?
... that in 1847Thomas Huling sold the town ofZavala, Texas forUS$1,000 and 5,000 boxes of "Green Mountain Vegitable Ointment"?

10:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the120-cell 4-dimensional puzzle(pictured) is one of severaln-dimensional sequential move puzzles that have been implemented as virtual puzzles but have never been solved?
... thatRachel Wall was the first American-bornfemale pirate, and the last woman to behanged inMassachusetts?
... that in a major improvement inbilateral relations in 2008,Pakistan proposed sharingnuclear technology withBangladesh?
... that theCaptain Andrew Offutt Monument barely mentioning Sherman's March to the Sea makes it only one of twoCivil War related monuments in Kentucky to stress strong Union sentiment?
... thatÉtienne-Théodore Pâquet defeated a man twice his age to become one of the youngest ever members of theLegislative Assembly of Quebec?
... thatJeb Bush became the firstRepublican Governor of Florida to be re-elected to a second term after winning the2002 Florida gubernatorial election?
... that thePhiladelphia Phillies were the last of the original 16Major League Baseball franchises to win theWorld Series?
... thataviation historianRandy Acord was awarded theAlaska–Siberian Lend Lease Award for his role in improvingRussian–North American relations duringWorld War II?

02:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the suit ofarmour on theeffigy ofSir Ralph Fitzherbert(pictured) has been reproduced as aSecond Lifeavatar?
... thatmathematician Paul Erdős called theHadwiger conjecture, a still-open generalization of thefour-color problem, "one of the deepest unsolved problems ingraph theory"?
... that the1975 filmJacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris starred theater andcabaret stars Elly Stone and Joe Masiell in their only film performances?
... that more than 5 million peopledied of starvation or disease in theSouthern India famine of 1876–78?
... thatneo-Nazi politician and member of theBundestagFritz Rössler, who resembledAdolf Hitler, had a habit of attending parliament drunk?
... thatMuscatatuck State Park was the firstIndiana state park to need no additional financial assistance, even though it never charged admission?
... thatParis-basedNaye Prese was the soleYiddish-languagecommunist daily newspaper inEurope during theinterbellum period?
... that theCrown Point Light, constructed as a conventionallighthouse, was rebuilt in 1912 as a monument toSamuel de Champlain's explorations?

27 May 2008

19:08, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the 850-foot (260 m)Commerzbank Tower(pictured) is thetallest building in theEuropean Union?
... that the discovery of acelt withIndus script in Tamil Nadu in 2006 was regarded byepigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan as the "greatest archaeological discovery of a century inTamil Nadu"?
... thatRussian right-wing politicianNikolai Markov tried to convinceGermany to contribute to a conspiracy to re-instate theHouse of Romanov after the post-World War I revolutions?
... that the first live television broadcast viewed on a moving train was onOctober 7,1948, when passengers on theB&O Railroad'sMarylander saw the second game of the1948 World Series?
... that the1994 Bolivia earthquake was the largestearthquake ever recorded with a focal depth greater or equal to 300 km (190 mi)?
... thatBucks point lace is abobbin lace from theEast Midlands in England with both floral and geometric designs?
... thatpaleoecologistHeinz Lowenstam discovered that living organisms can producemagnetite within their bodies?
... that theOmaha Star building housed theDePorres Club after they were asked to leaveCreighton University because of theiractivism inOmaha's civil rights movement?

13:07, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

... that although theSiddhesvara Temple(pictured) inKarnataka,India is currently atemple ofShiva, historians are unsure of its originalfaith?
... thatEnglish musician andpoetRobert Wydow is the earliest known recipient of aBachelor of Music degree fromOxford University?
... that the2003 earthquake that killed more than 2,200 was the strongest to hitAlgeria since 1980?
... that theRohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters' main architectural feature is the use of sunscreens on thefacade made of their principal product,Plexiglas?
... thatKenyan lawyerGitobu Imanyara was reported to have died after he was rumored to have been slapped by Kenyan first ladyLucy Kibaki?
... that the cap and sails ofShiremark Mill were blown off in 1886?
... that historianLon Tinkle demanded that he not be credited as historical advisor ofJohn Wayne's 1960 filmThe Alamo because he felt the film misrepresented theBattle of the Alamo?
... thatBangladesh declined to renew its1972 Friendship Treaty with India, criticizing it as unequal and an imposition of excessiveIndian influence?
... that whenJohn Stanley recreated one of his covers forLittle Lulu for the cover of theOverstreet Comic Book Price Guide in 2005, both editions sold out within three days?

06:57, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the age of aGreen Sea Urchin(pictured) is generally calculable based on its size since it grows 10 mm (0.4 in) every year?
... that during theBattle of Ridgefield in April 1777,Benedict Arnold escaped unharmed after being pinned to the ground when his horse was shot?
... that the city ofNairobi,Kenya, averages aboutten vehicle hijackings per day?
... thatJoshua Packwood is the firstwhite man to graduate asvaledictorian of the all-maleHBCU,Morehouse College, an overwhelminglyAfrican American university inAtlanta, Georgia?
... that theBedouin villagers ofal-Sayyid developedtheir own form of sign language in response to the high rate ofdeafness amongst their tribe?
... thatStave Puzzles makes a 44-piecejigsaw puzzle namedChamp that can be put together 32 different ways but has only one correct solution?
... that in 1898, theEgyptian government appointedMaurice Fitzmaurice as their chief resident engineer for the construction of theAswan Dam?
... that theConfederate Monument in Danville,Kentucky was built on grave plots local citizens had given up to fallen soldiers?

00:54, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

... that among gifts whichToirdelbach Ua Briain, laterHigh King of Ireland, received from his patronDiarmait mac Maíl na mBó was the sword ofBrian Boru(pictured)?
... thatMukti Bahini guerrillas were absorbed into the ranks of regularmilitary officers andenlisted personnel upon theformation of Bangladesh's armed forces?
... that theGreasestock festival inNew York showcasesgreen technologies, such asvegetable-powered vehicles,solar vehicles, andorganic farming exhibits?
... thatWorld War II flying aceFranz Barten is credited for shooting down a total of 55 enemy aircraft?
... thatThe Metros, a five-piecepunk pop band fromPeckham,London, were formerly known as The Wanking Skankers?
... that apoem byEdward Coote Pinkney, a failed lawyer and formerNavy midshipman, was used byEdgar Allan Poe to wooSarah Helen Whitman?
... that a 2007 treaty significantly modifiedIndo-Bhutanese relations by reducingIndia's guiding role overBhutan'sforeign policy?
... that theChamplain Valley Transportation Museum inPlattsburgh,New York is home to the only known Type 82Lozier in existence?

26 May 2008

18:53, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

... that with a height of 154 m (505 ft), thewooden pagoda of Tianning Temple inChangzhou,China(pictured) is the tallestBuddhist pagoda in the world?
... thatZygmunt Rumel, aPolish poet and soldier of theBataliony Chlopskie, wastied to four horses and ripped apart in 1943 during theMassacres of Poles in Volhynia?
... thatThe Locusts, an early 19th-century house inNew Paltz, New York, has nofireplaces?
... thatBritish Army officerSir William Horrocks confirmedSir David Bruce's theory thatMalta fever was spread throughgoat'smilk?
... that duringHossain Mohammad Ershad's rule, chiefs ofBangladeshi intelligence agencies were amongst his closest advisers?
... that afilm director hiredindependent film actressTanna Frederick when she praised a film of his—one she had not seen?
... thatBanya: The Explosive Delivery Man is aKorean action comic that combines the styles ofMad Max,Dune andThe Lord of the Rings?
... that theDictionary of Information Security byRobert Slade has fiveforewords, each by an expert in the field ofinformation security?

12:51, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatLake Balaton(pictured), a populartourist attraction in Hungary, is the largestfreshwater lake inCentral Europe?
... that the1820 children's storyMaurice byMary Shelley was lost until 1997?
... that the 9th centuryNavalinga temple inKarnataka,India, is a cluster of nineHindu temples, each containing aShivalinga?
... that in an uncommon job for women, Mary Herwerth was appointedlighthouse keeper atBluff Point Light onValcour Island upon the death of her husband while on duty in 1881?
... theBritish MI6 tried to hire theAustrian-German physicistJosef Schintlmeister as a spy in theSoviet Union, where he had worked for ten years?
... that a collection of 247 tiles illustratingchildren's books are installed on the Story Book Wall at theAlamogordo Public Library inNew Mexico, U.S.?
... that the first regularBritish light infantry regiment, the52nd Regiment of Foot, awarded the title "Valiant Stormer" to those who survived theForlorn Hopes atCiudad Rodrigo andBadajoz?
... that after preachingBaptist ideas in the 1760s,Toliver Craig, Sr. and his sons were imprisoned by colonial authorities?

06:50, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatrabbiDow Ber Meisels ofKraków andWarsaw was a prominent supporter of Polish independence, including both theNovember(artist's impression pictured) andJanuary Uprisings?
... thatAntwerp lace is also known as "Pot Lace" because of its repeated flowerpotmotifs?
... that the 1945 loss ofGerman U-boat U-864 duringOperation Caesar, a secret mission to deliver technology toJapan, is the only known incident of one submerged submarine sinking another?
... thatFire Station No. 19 inMinneapolis, Minnesota is the birthplace ofkittenball, a forerunner of modernsoftball?
... that theJabalpur and theMandla districts inMadhya Pradesh were the worst affected districts in the1997 Jabalpur earthquake?
... that the percussion instruments thetxalaparta andkirikoketa originated as pieces of equipment from aSagardotegi?
... that famousHispanics in the United States Navy include the country's firstfull admiral,David Glasgow Farragut?
... that thepopulation dynamics of fisheries is a discipline used byfisheries scientists to determinesustainable yields?

00:36, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theDutch Gift was a collection of 40 paintings and sculptures(example pictured), presented to KingCharles II of England by theDutch Republic in1660?
... that theUS government took control of theAlaska Steamship Company's fleet duringWorld War II?
... that theNootka Crisis of 1789–90 marked the beginning of the end of theSpanish Empire?
... thatMaharajbagh zoo inNagpur,India, has been built on the garden ofBhonsle,Maratha rulers of theNagpur kingdom?
... that futureAdmiralJohn Moore joined theRoyal Navy when he was just 11 years old?
... that in theprimaries for the2002 Oregon gubernatorial election, candidates included one who called himself the "flying governor"?

25 May 2008

16:48, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theHotel Bellevue Palace inBerne(pictured) was called "the best-protected building in Europe" by participants inCold War negotiations?
... thatNona L. Brooks, a founder of theChurch of Divine Science and leader in theNew Thought religious movement, was the first womanpastor inDenver?
... thatCanadian broadcasterLinden MacIntyre wrote hismemoir during a fifty-day lockout at theCBC?
... that onSeptember 23,1868, theRevolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico led a revolt inLares, declaring it the "Republic of Puerto Rico"?
... that according to one account, afterThomas Attwood accused fellow composerCharles Edward Horn ofplagiarizing a song, Horn helped clear himself in court by singing his version and that of Attwood's?
... that the church of St. Barlock atNorbury has a monument to the "lewd and vile" wife of its thirteenth Lord?

10:19, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

... that only three people have been awarded theState Prize of the Russian Federation(medal pictured) for theirhumanitarian work?
... thatAston Villa'sBob Chatt scored anFA Cup Final goal 30 seconds after kick-off?
... that theCatalan municipality ofAlcanar is officially stated as being founded in 1252, despite having acharter signed in 1239?
... thatThomas Jefferson Ramsdell built theopera house whereJames Earl Jones started his career?
... that the 12th-centuryAll Saints Church, Patcham, largely unchanged since the 14th century, was rebuilt or restored four times in a 74-year period from 1824?
... that formerIsraeli politician andSpeaker of the KnessetShlomo Hillel was in charge of an undergroundammunition factory disguised as alaundry facility during theBritish Mandate of Palestine?

04:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

... that thebaesuk(pictured) is aKorean traditionalfruit punch made bysimmering slices ofKorean pear,black peppercorns,ginger,honey or sugar, and water?
... thatAlexander Wilkinson managed to play 74 morefirst-class cricket matches despite an injured hand that almost had to beamputated afterWorld War I?
... thatcaste-basedcommunal reservations inTamil Nadu were introduced by the government of theRaja of Panagal in August1921?
... that theRotunda Museum houses one of the foremost collections ofJurassic geology on theYorkshire Coast?
... thatTime magazine covers have featuredself-portraits offilm director and artistMatt Mahurin, who has portrayed himself asSigmund Freud, acaveman and anAbu Ghraib prisoner?
... that theSociety for the Protection of Ancient Buildings was surprised to learn of the existence ofBuckland Windmill, the onlywind sawmill in theUnited Kingdom?

24 May 2008

22:11, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

... that some of the fingers ofGrand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia(pictured), still with rings on them, were found in a building of theKremlin?
... thatClan Campbell of Cawdor is aScottish clan which currently does not have a recognisedclan chief?
... that theHotel Monaco inWashington, D.C. is located inside aNational Historic Landmark building that was patterned after theRoman Temple of Jupiter?
... that theFirst Congress of Vienna was held three hundred years before the more famous1815 Congress?
... thatErnie Fletcher became the firstRepublican Governor of Kentucky in thirty-two years after winning the2003 Kentucky gubernatorial election?
... that between 1920 and 1929 theCanadian Pacific Steamships vesselSSPrinz Friedrich Wilhelm bore six different names, but sailed under only four of them?
... thatcomputer security expertDan Kaminsky demonstrated a security vulnerability by setting upRickrolls onFacebook andPayPal?

15:25, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the1957 nonfiction novelOperación Masacre(cover pictured) byRodolfo Walsh was published seven years beforeTruman Capote'sIn Cold Blood, which is frequently cited as creating the genre?
... thatHall of Fame basketball coachClarence "Big House" Gaines originally planned to become adentist before taking on a temporarycoaching job that lasted 47 years?
... thatAction Hyacinth was an operation of thePolish communist police, carried out in the years 1985–1987, whose purpose was to create a national database ofPolish homosexuals?
... thatNarciso Bassols foundedMexico's first systematicsex education program whileSecretary of Public Education?
... that "Uncommon Sense" byHal Clement received aHugo Award for Best Short Story 51 years after it was first published?
... thatLen Boyd, captain ofBirmingham City F.C. in the 1950s, once played four games with a fractured leg?

09:12, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the influence of theGulf Stream on theclimate of Northern Ireland gives the landscape ofNorthern Ireland(pictured) its green colour?
... thatactorBuck Taylor, though he still appears in mostlyWestern films, is also a prolificartist of theAmerican West?
... thatTroubled Island is an opera about theHaitian revolution leaderJean-Jacques Dessalines, who crowned himself emperor after independence was declared?
... that theSection of Painting and Sculpture, aNew Deal federal art program operated by theUnited States Department of the Treasury, commissioned more than 1300 murals and 300 sculptures, most of which were placed in U.S.post offices?
... that thefamine of 1873–74 inBihar,India was less severe than had originally been anticipated, and 100,000 tons ofgrain was left unused at the end of therelief efforts?
... that theJewish War Veterans of the United States of America, represented by theAmerican Civil Liberties Union, wereplaintiffs in alawsuit seeking the removal of theMount Soledad cross?
... that theFrieze of Parnassus on theAlbert Memorial was inspired byHippolyte Delaroche'sHémicycle des Beaux Arts?

01:31, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatSamuel B. Huston(pictured) switchedcounties and political parties between two elections to theOregon State Senate?
... that the supremegod of thesouthern African Bushmen isCagn, atrickster whoshapeshifts into apraying mantis?
... that anApril Fool's Day "news story" which suggested thatbull sharks had been found inMinneapolis'sMinnehaha Creek drew almost 1,000 hits a day to theNokomis East Neighborhood Association's website?
... that1944 filmHaridas was the last completed work ofKollywood icon M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar prior to his arrest in the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case?
... that theMaster of Anthony of Burgundy was one of theFlemish miniature painters of the late 15th century, and may have made the firstengravings for books?
... thatMargie (ABC,1961–1962) is one of the few network programs set during theRoaring Twenties, complete withjalopies,raccoon coats, period music, and references toflappers?

23 May 2008

19:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the contributions ofMary Shelley(pictured) toLives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men are considered early works offeminist historiography?
... that the two-inch-tall people ofThe Teenie Weenies were aChicago Tribunecomic strip written byWilliam Donahey for over 50 years?
... that theNorthern Irish marilynSlieve Gallion is avolcanic plug?
... thatPage Cortez, aRepublican member of theLouisiana House of Representatives, gained vital name recognition in part fromtelevision ads promoting hisfurniture store?
... thatAshby's windmill inBrixton worked bysteam rather than wind power after 1902?
... thatRussian writer and activistZoya Krakhmalnikova'sbaptism in 1971 resulted in her dismissal from her job and from theUSSR Union of Writers, which effectively banned her from publishing?

12:28, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

... that despite weighing little more than a pound (0.45 kg), theDutch Bantam breed ofchicken(rooster pictured) can lay more than 160eggs in a year?
... thatHenriade, anepic poem byFrench Enlightenment writerVoltaire, was written in honour of the life ofHenry IV?
... that much of the interior of the 19th-centurySt Patrick's Church, Hove has been rebuilt as anight shelter which includes a variation on the 1970s "sleep capsule" concept?
... that aBrazilian music expert notedCaetano Veloso's uncertain sexual orientation in his2006 albumcê?
... thatCalifornia v. Byers was the 1971U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that providing one's own information in a vehicle accident does not violate the privilege against self-incrimination under theFifth Amendment?
... that thePalestinian town ofTuqu' is the birthplace of theHebrew prophetAmos?

05:02, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

... that thefederal administration of Switzerland(government buildings pictured) has been described as "seven co-existing governments" due to the absence of hierarchy in thegovernment?
... thatRadha Ramana is the only image ofKrishna that remained inVrindavana during the 17th-century raids byIslamic king Aurangzeb?
... thatCamille Le Mercier d'Erm and his colleagues formed theBreton Nationalist Party in 1911 to advocate the independence ofBrittany fromFrance?
... that theColored Soldiers Monument inFrankfort, Kentucky is the only one dedicated toBlack Union soldiers inKentucky?
... that nineriparian countries alongRiver Nile launched theNile Basin Initiative in 1999 to better manage their commonwater resources?
... that 19th-centuryEnglish architectJohn Foulston was responsible for the construction ofUnion Street acrossmarshland?

22 May 2008

21:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the age of aStair-step Moss(pictured) can be estimated by counting the number of "steps"?
... that the Chief Minister of theEastern Province ofSri Lanka,Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan joined theTamil Tigers as achild soldier at the age of fourteen?
... thatVictoria Hotel inDarwin,Australia, has survived three majorcyclones andJapanese air raids duringWorld War II?
... thatBlonde lace was made out of two different thicknesses of thread to create greater contrast between the pattern and the ground?
... thatU.S. First Lady Laura Bush serves as ambassador ofThe Heart Truth awareness campaign?
... thatCaptainRichard Whitaker Porritt was the first BritishMember of Parliament to be killed inWorld War II?
... that theancient Greek city ofPsophis was said to have been ravaged by theErymanthian Boar?
... thatHazel Dolling, thechâtelaine ofLissan House, always kept achainsaw in her car while driving, in case trees had fallen on her mile-long avenue?

15:34, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theaccolade(pictured) was a ceremony forknighthood in theMiddle Ages?
... thatYolngu aboriginal leaderRaymattja Marika wasNorthern Territory'sAustralian of the Year in 2006?
... that theAtlantic bumper is only found in theAtlantic Ocean because itsecological niche is filled by the only other member of itsgenus elsewhere?
... thatdirectorGoran Dukić chose only songs by musicians who had committed suicide to accompany his2007 filmWristcutters?
... that after achest injury, air can escape from thelungs and travel to thesubcutaneous tissue of theskin, causingsubcutaneous emphysema?
... thatOladevi, adeity whose worship may have originated in theIndus Valley Civilization, was honoured and feared as thegoddess ofcholera in ruralBengal?
... thatReigate Heath Windmill is the onlywindmill inEngland that has beenconsecrated as achurch?
... that theU.S. Fish & Wildlife Service paid for the establishment ofMuscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge, along theMuscatatuck River, by sellingwaterfowl stamps?

08:20, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

... that a 12th-centuryepigraph styles theMahadeva temple(pictured) inKarnataka,India, as "the emperor among temples"?
... that theSeaway Trail Discovery Center is one of the fewattractions in theNorth Country, New York, that is open year-round?
... thatGerman mathematicianFriedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin wrote an important two-volume treatise onpotential theory andspherical functions in 1909 and 1921?
... that aConfederate scouting party enteredIndiana in June 1863 dressed as anUnion army patrol searching for deserters?
... thatBritish Conservative MPAlan Gomme-Duncan, despite being stronglyunionist, did not want theStone of Scone returned toWestminster Abbey after Scottish nationalists stole it in 1951?
... that theCoalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus was the first electedsocialist municipal government inMexico?
... thatMalinda Cramer, a founder of theChurch of Divine Science and an early influence in theNew Thought movement, died in the1906 San Francisco earthquake?

02:20, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

... that in addition toballistics, theballistic pendulum(pictured) was also used byphysicists to evaluate theelasticity and flight ofgolf balls?
... thatRepublican Monty Warner called on hisDemocratic rivalJoe Manchin to endorseGeorge Bush for re-election during the2004 West Virginia gubernatorial election?
... that thePolish-Lithuanian union of Lublin in 1569 marked the beginning of centuries of strugglebetween Poland and Russia overCentral andEastern Europe?
... that the colonialghost town ofBrunswick, North Carolina was named afterBraunschweig,Germany, the birthplace ofGreat Britain's King George I?
... that a large part of the firstvintage from theSpanish wineryDominio de Pingus was lost in 1997 when the transporting ship disappeared?
... thatNathan Daboll wrote themathematics textbook most commonly used in American schools during the first half of the 19th century?

21 May 2008

19:40, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatcystatin C(structure pictured) is a humanprotein studied as abiomarker of decreasedkidney function andprognosis incardiovascular diseases?
... that the forcedremoval of 700,000 people from slums inZimbabwe in 2005 was called "acrime against humanity" by theUN?
... thatJuniper Valley Park inNew York City used to be aswamp owned byArnold Rothstein, who in the 1920s tried to sell it to the city for use as an airport?
... thatIndo-Iraqi relations improved considerably afterIraq supportedIndia's1998 nuclear tests and its stand on theKashmir dispute?
... thatSir William Edge, aLiberal MP, once raced against a flock ofhoming pigeons fromLondon toLeicestershire by car and train, but lost the race by two minutes because the train was delayed?
... that the 1964CBS sitcomMany Happy Returns featuredcharacter actor John McGiver managing the complaints division of a fictitiousCalifornia department store?

12:54, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatKosa Pan(pictured) led one of the earliestSiamese embassies to France in the 1680s?
... thatNew Zealand currently hasfree trade agreements withAustralia,Singapore,Thailand,Brunei,Chile andChina?
... thatHarvard JapanologistSusan Pharr was recently awarded theOrder of the Rising Sun by theJapanese government?
... that the town ofMelattur inTamil Nadu,India is famous for itsBharatanatyam, a classicSouth Indian dance?
... that theWallingford Tornado of 1878 was the deadliesttornado inConnecticut history, and the second-deadliest to strikeNew England?
... that Fidler Point onLake Athabasca is named forPeter Fidler, amap-maker,fur trader and explorer who worked for theHudson's Bay Company?
... thatBolton Hall, the community center for aUtopian community formed in 1913 in the foothills north ofLos Angeles, was later used as a jail?

04:55, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

... that duringWorld War I, atorpedo struck theocean linerSSKroonland,(pictured) but failed to explode?
... that the 1948Tamil filmChandralekha had the longest sword-fight sequence in anyIndian film?
... thatEquality North Carolina was successful in getting the 2008 edition of the State Personnel manual to prohibitdiscrimination based on sexuality and gender identity?
... thatEnglish musician and composerCharles Frederick Horn served as personal music tutor toQueen Charlotte?
... that the City ofLos Angeles has186 sites listed on theNational Register of Historic Places?
... that theWelsh Tractarian priestJohn David Jenkins, known as the "Rail men's Apostle", became President of theAmalgamated Society of Railway Servants?

20 May 2008

21:48, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

... that thePickle Barrel House(pictured), a cabin built of two largebarrels, is based oncomic strip characters that were two inches (5 cm) tall and lived in a pickle barrel?
... thatinternational airport projectMIHAN inNagpur is the biggest economic development project currently underway inIndia in terms of investment?
... thatATF undercover agentWilliam Queen infiltrated theMongols motorcycle gang so successfully that he was elected treasurer and vice-president of his chapter?
... that the newMaoist-led government seeks to scrapNepal's1950 treaty with India, which sought to build strongIndo-Nepal relations to counter perceived threats fromChina?
... thatwater supply and sanitation in Uganda are recognized as key issues under the government's 2004 national "Poverty Eradication Action Plan"?
... thatKentucky'sLivermore Bridge starts and ends inMcLean County, but passes over two rivers andOhio County to reach its destination?

15:32, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

... that erotic sculptures(example pictured) found in the 11th centuryTripurantaka Temple inKarnataka state,India, are miniatures?
... thatThe Town Talk, the principalnewspaper ofCentral Louisiana, was established byIrish immigrants onSt. Patrick's Day in1883?
... that the only items found in theburial chamber of thePyramid of Neferefre upon excavation weremummy fragments and brokencanopic jars?
... that elevenU.S. presidents stayed at thePortland Hotel, aQueen Anne-style,Châteauesque hotel which opened inPortland,Oregon in 1890?
... that the game betweenFC Bayern Munich and1860 Munich on23 April 1945 in theGauliga Bayern, ending 3–2, was the last officialfootball game played inNazi Germany?
... thatIndiana's state parks were initially designed to preserve their natural state, but gradually began to include recreational activities?

09:18, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatHoly Roman Emperor Maximilian I commissioned theTriumphal Arch(pictured), a monumentalwoodcut print over 3½ m (11½ ft) tall and nearly 3 m (10 ft) wide printed from 192 separatewood blocks?
... that theWallowa-Whitman National Forest inOregon is home to a small population ofwolverines, which are rare within the United States?
... thatOutwood is the oldest workingwindmill in the United Kingdom, having been built the year before theGreat Fire of London?
... thatUS-CERT developed theEinstein program that monitors and protects the computer networks ofU.S. departments and agencies?
... thatsociology was banned as abourgeois science by thePolish government in theStalinist period 1948–1956?
... thatHenry Failing won his second term asmayor ofPortland,Oregon with only five dissenting votes?

02:51, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the last man to begibbetted inDerbyshire was hung in chains nearWardlow and Wardlow Mires(pictured) because he had the tollkeeper's red shoes?
... thatThomas Garrigus ofOregon was a silver medalist for the 1968 U.S. Olympic Team at theSummer Games in Mexico City?
... that thearmed merchant cruiserHMSHector was in the process of being decommissioned when she was sunk in theEaster Sunday Raid?
... that the oldestcourthouse west of theAllegheny Mountains is in thehistoric district of Greensburg, Kentucky?
... that theSaharan silver ant has several uniqueadaptations that led it to be called "one of the most heat-resistant animals known"?
... thatEdmund Graves Brown, a member of theLouisiana Ewing newspaper family, was aU.S. Army officer in theBattle of the Bulge in 1944?

19 May 2008

18:44, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatEdward Lamson Henry paid such close attention to detail that hisnostalgic paintings ofagrarian America(example pictured) were considered authentic historical reconstructions?
... thatG1.9+0.3 is the youngest knownsupernova remnant in theMilky Way?
... that the only peacetimeGeorge Cross won by a woman was awarded toBarbara Jane Harrison as a result of her actions during the fire on boardBOAC Flight 712 in 1968?
... that the WF01, the firstracing car built byEmbassy Racing, was named after team founder Jonathan France's recently born son?
... thatHaley Barbour became only the secondRepublican Governor of Mississippi sinceReconstruction after winning the2003 Mississippi gubernatorial election?
... that 22-year-oldLing Ling was the oldestpanda inJapan at the time of his death in April 2008?
... that theHooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House features an indoorwell pump, but a five-hole, two-storyouthouse connected to the house via askyway?

12:33, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatlithophane(example pictured) is an artwork inporcelain that can only be seen clearly when lit from behind?
... thatJohn Benjamin Murphy was an early advocate ofappendectomies as an intervention for signs ofappendicitis?
... that theGauliga was aGerman football league system introduced by theNazis after theytook over the country in 1933?
... that theOregon Korean War Memorial was not built until nearly 50 years after theKorean War began?
... that makers ofChantilly lace wereguillotined during theFrench Revolution because they were seen asprotégés of the royals?
... that despite being the firsthot blast ironfurnace inCentre County, Pennsylvania,Bellefonte Furnace was idle for more than six of its first ten years of existence?
... that by the end of theSecond World War 60,968ratings had passed through theRoyal Navy stone frigateHMSGanges?
... thatRun, Buddy, Run, a 1966CBS sitcom, featuredJack Sheldon fleeing from the mob after he overhears agangster during asteam bath plotting a murder?

06:20, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatJordanian politicianSa`id al-Mufti's wife continued living in theAl-Mufti House(pictured) after his death?
... that for 25 years,Jack O'Brien conducted two paralleldirecting careers:Broadway musicals inNew York City andShakespeare inSan Diego?
... thatWelsh lawyerEdward Wynne was, in 1714, the first landowner to growturnips onAnglesey?
... that theethnic population of Omaha, Nebraska, includingnew andfirst generation immigrants, comprised fifty percent of that city's population in the1920s?
... that in 1876, British historianEdwin Pears, as correspondent ofThe Daily News, sent letters home describingOttoman atrocities inBulgaria during theApril Uprising which aroused demonstrations inEngland led byWilliam Gladstone?
... that a 2003 medical study byPeter Pronovost, anintensive care physician atJohns Hopkins Hospital, on the use of simplechecklists helped save 1500 lives and US$100 million?

18 May 2008

23:52, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

... that in the 1430s, thefeudal lord Ashina Morihisa keptAizu Matsudaira's Royal Garden(pictured) as a villa believing it to be a sacred place?
... that theIrish in Omaha, Nebraska were singled out by theAmerican Protective Association for exclusion frompublic office in the 1890s?
... that music printerRobert Birchall published the first English edition ofJohann Sebastian Bach'sWell-Tempered Clavier in 1810?
... that attempts to merge Cardiff Rugby Football Club and Cardiff Cricket Club to formCardiff Athletic Club began as early as 1892, but were unsuccessful until 1922?
... that although an engineer's report proposing thedraining and development of the Everglades in 1912 was riddled with errors, it was still promoted byreal-estate developers?
... thatProject Runway Australia will air onArena, which was recently re-branded to the AmericanProject Runway's first station,Bravo?
... thatMalcolm Baker won a national championship inrowing as a freshman atBrown University although he never rowed in high school?

17:25, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

... that golferEdith Cummings(pictured) was the first female athlete to appear on the cover ofTime magazine and the inspiration for a character inThe Great Gatsby?
... that a year after conducting rivalnuclear tests,India andPakistan issued the 1999Lahore Declaration, committing to develop safeguards to preventnuclear conflict?
... thatAaron Lopez, who was denied citizenship inColonial Rhode Island because he wasJewish, later becameNewport's wealthiest resident?
... that before1 January 2008,milk with afat content of 1 or 2% could not be labelled as milk in theUnited Kingdom?
... thatOrlando Magic general manager Otis Smith founded achildren's charity in his nativeJacksonville which ran for two decades?
... that theMusselburgh and Fisherrow Co-operative Society created headlines when it began a process ofdemutualization after 140 years as aco-operative?
... that theCaprock Chief was a proposedpassenger train which would have connectedFort Worth, Texas andDenver, Colorado via theTexas Panhandle?

10:36, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the 12th centuryDoddabasappa Temple(pictured) inKarnataka state,India, has a 24-pointed star-shaped plan?
... thatWilliam Henry Leonard Poe wrote a short story about the failed relationship of his younger brotherEdgar Allan Poe withSarah Elmira Royster?
... thatJimmy Doolittle commanded a 22plane demonstration celebrating the opening ofHenderson, Kentucky'sAudubon Memorial Bridge in 1932?
... thatBritish Major-GeneralEric Cole, who helped plan theinvasion of Normandy, was born inMalta and once played cricket with theEgypt national cricket team?
... that theNew York Times wrote thatW. S. Gilbert's playCreatures of Impulse was a "burletta of the stamp that was in vogue a hundred years ago, resemblingMidas"?
... thatKuxa Kanema is a documentary about theMozambique government’s first attempts to create a nationalcinema?
... thatKentucky'sUnion County largely supported theConfederacy in theCivil War and builta monument to its Confederate dead afterwards?

04:35, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatThomas Scott(pictured), amember of theCanadian House of Commons, organized the 95th Manitoba Grenadiers in thirteen days to put down theNorth-West Rebellion of 1885?
... thatWhitney Ellsworth became associated withMajor Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's fledgling companyNational Allied Publications, later known asDC Comics?
... that 6 of the Top 8 players at the 2002Magic: The Gathering World Championship usedPsychatog decks?
... that by 1901,£4m of shares in theSuez Canal bought byBenjamin Disraeli in 1875 during hispremiership were rising in value by £2m per year and yielding an annualdividend of £880,000?
... that duringWorld War I,aerial warfare expertPhilip Roosevelt, first cousin once removed ofTheodore Roosevelt, helped theUnited States Army plan its first air-land battle?
... thatBrussels lace is made in pieces, with the design made separate from the ground, unlikeMechlin lace orValenciennes lace, and is known for its delicacy and beauty?
... that theSoviet Union won a medal at every singleIce Hockey World Championships competition in which it participated?

17 May 2008

22:33, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

... that when theWeekly Arizonian withdrew its endorsement forRichard C. McCormick's(pictured) reelection, he repossessed the newspaper's printing press and began theArizona Citizen?
... thatAre you aTrue Scotsman? is part ofScottish military ritual determining that akilted soldier is not wearing undergarments?
... thatVerna Arvey got her first break as anopera librettist after poetLangston Hughes left his libretto for the productionTroubled Island unfinished?
... that although the firstCallawayasaurusfossil was discovered in 1962, it was not until 1999 that they were recognized as a separategenus?
... thatAyesha Omar sparked controversy inPakistan when she painted two semi-nude self-portraits?
... that Operation Facelift unified the United Kingdom's co-operativeretailers with a singlelogo in1968, reinforcingThe Co-operative brand?

15:39, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatHMNZSTe Mana (F111)(pictured) was the firstNew Zealand warship to visit a Russian port?
... thatGeorgia Moffett was selected for the eponymous role in theDoctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter", but not because her father isPeter Davison, theFifth Doctor?
... that the 1911 Confederate Dedication Day ceremony key speakers at theBattle of Tebb's Bend Monument were formerUnion officers?
... that theAfrican mustardSubularia monticola can be found forming a dense mat on sometimes flooded muds in a lake onMount Elgon at 4,150 meters (13,620 ft) high?
... that the unsolved murder ofMary Rogers was fictionalized as "The Mystery of Marie Roget" byEdgar Allan Poe?
... that the town ofLa Balize, Louisiana, at the mouth of theMississippi River, was rebuilt several times after 1699 because ofhurricanes before it was destroyed and abandoned around 1860?
... thatErik Möller, Deputy Director of theWikimedia Foundation, helped to develop bothWikinews andWikimedia Commons?

07:12, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theHarihareshwara temple inKarnataka,India, was consecrated in 1224 CE, in dedication toHarihara(pictured), a fusion of theHindu godsShiva andVishnu?
... that theSt. Philip's Church Ruins include the graves of twoNorth Carolina governors and anAssociate Justice of theSupreme Court?
... thatPythagoras, asculptor fromSamos in the 5th century BCE, was credited with the innovation of sculptingathletes with visibleveins?
... thatserial killerNathaniel White claimed his first murder was inspired by a scene inRoboCop 2?
... that Ichitaro Kanie grewJapan's firsttomatoes in 1899, founding the¥157 billionKagome tomato empire?
... that theConfederate-Union Veterans' Monument inMorgantown, Kentucky was built due to the feelings of reconciliation following theSpanish-American War?

01:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the termchoral symphony was coined byFrench composer Hector Berlioz(pictured) when describing hissymphony,Roméo et Juliette?
... that theGottlieb Storz House inOmaha, Nebraska is home to the Astaire Ballroom, which is the only memorial toAdele andFred Astaire in their home city?
... that the1999 Chamoli earthquake inIndia, in which 103 people died, was also felt in theBaitadi,Dadeldhura andKanchanpur districts inNepal?
... that formerDetroit Red Wingshead coachJacques Demers is the only coach in theNational Hockey League to have won theJack Adams Award twice with the same team?
... thatHoi Khanh Temple inThu Dau Mot was once used as a meeting place by Vietnamese independence activists, includingHo Chi Minh's father?
... thatA Bayou Legend byWilliam Grant Still was the firstopera composed by anAfrican American to be broadcast on television?

16 May 2008

18:46, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatUnion generalStephen G. Burbridge spent many years trying to remove the lettersCSA from theThompson and Powell Martyrs Monument(pictured)?
... thatIsraeli actressHanna Maron lost her leg after agrenade was thrown at her airplane, but resumed her acting career a year later?
... thatJordan'sMunicipality of Salt derives its name from theLatinsaltus meaningvalley of trees as there is much greenery in the area?
... thatHarold Clapp's "fiendish efficiency" in improvingVictorian Railways' train reliability was credited with losingMelbourne commuters "another excuse for being late for work in the mornings"?
... that theJapanese visual novelYotsunoha allows the player to navigate in atop-down perspective similar to aconsole role-playing game?
... that beforeHomer Plessy challenged theSeparate Car Act leading toPlessy v. Ferguson, Daniel Desdunes had challenged it but had his charges dropped?

12:25, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

... that thefirst generation jet fighters include designs fromWWII-eraME-262(pictured) toKorean War-eraF-86?
... that theOrton Plantation nearWilmington, North Carolina, was attacked byNative Americans, used as a military hospital, and once owned by a Colonial governor?
... thatBrazilian actressCarmen Silva was diagnosed with the same illness,multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, asactor Oswaldo Louzada, who played her husband on the Braziliantelenovela,Mulheres Apaixonadas?
... that scholars disagree on whether the name of theViking chieftainJakun means either "blind" or "the handsome one"?
... thatSafi Faye's 1975 filmKaddu Beykat was the first commercially distributedfeature film made by aSub-Saharan African woman?

04:10, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

... that brothers andEngland football defendersArthur Melmoth Walters andPercy Melmoth Walters(pictured) were known as "Morning" and "Afternoon" in allusion to their initials?
... that six governments have jurisdictional boundaries atFour Corners?
... thatFrench top-ten single "Nuit" by the trioFredericks Goldman Jones was penned in just a few hours?
... that theNashville Predators actually increased theirteam payroll by 44.30% between the2003–04 NHL season and2005–06 season, despite a league-wide drop of −22.73% after asalary cap was implemented?
... thatSpeaking in Strings is a 1999 documentary film about classical violinistNadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, whose emotional concert performances have alienated some critics?
... thatCMKC Group will construct and retain 30-year management rights over 1500 km of new and 512 km of renovated railway in theRepublic of the Congo?

15 May 2008

21:56, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

... that one of the major differences betweenMechlin(pictured) andValenciennes lace is thecordonnet, a loosely spunsilk cord used to outline and define the pattern?
... that although she was born inArgentina,Renata Fronzi pursued a successful acting career intheater,film andtelenovelas in the neighboring country ofBrazil?
... that while theNew York Vauxhall Gardens drew in colonialNew Yorkers with awax museum and outdoortheater, a copycat competitor attracted them withice cream?
... that thekhutbah is the sermon delivered before theMuslim congregational Friday prayers and after the congregational prayers on each of the two annualMuslim festivals?
... that the second majorland reform in Romania took place in 1921, following a promise made byKing Ferdinand to the troops duringWorld War I?
... thatMajor League Baseball pitcherDom Zanni was once knocked unconscious in the seventhinning, yet went on to finish pitching the game and earn the win for theChicago White Sox?

14:57, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theUpplandrunestone U 328(pictured) is an example of theRingerike style?
... that theTamil filmNam Iruvar featured songs written byIndian nationalist Subramania Bharati?
... thatSan Diego'sEl Cortez Hotel, site of the world's first outdoor glasselevator andmoving sidewalk, became a school forevangelists in the 1970s?
... that in his first murder case,real estate anddivorce specialistFrederick Geoffrey Lawrence saved suspectedserial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams from being hanged?
... that in her 1992documentary filmNitrate KissesBarbara Hammer filmed an elderlylesbian couple having sex as part of an exploration of the repression and marginalization ofLGBT history?
... thatrailwaytransport in Nagpur started in 1867 when theNagpur railway station was constructed using locally found pinksandstone?
... that the track "Hell's Angels" fromRoy Harper's 1970 albumFlat Baroque and Berserk features anacoustic guitar played through awah-wah pedal?

08:36, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the $2 millionBaltimore City Hall(pictured) was designed in 1860 by architectGeorge A. Frederick?
... that thetheory of camouflage led theSpecial Air Service to use pink as the primary color on thedesert camouflaged Land Rover Series IIA patrol vehicles, leading to the nicknameThe Pink Panthers?
... that the assembly locationArkils tingstad may have been made toChristianize theVikings who lived in its vicinity?
... that the firstroadside park in the world was in 1919 atIron River, Michigan?
... that thePolish minority in Ireland is the country's largest minority group apart fromBritish people?
... that theMaster of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece was among the leading painters inCologne at the beginning of thesixteenth century?
... thatastronauts have a patch ofvelcro inside theirhelmets that acts as a nose scratcher and that the manufacturing process used to create silent velcro for theU.S. Army is a military secret?

02:21, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatBert Haney(pictured) lost an election to theU.S. Senate, but was later confirmed by the Senate for a seat on theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit?
... that atimber inNutley Windmill, anopen trestle post mill inSussex,England, has been dated bydendrochronology to 1738–70, and the main post is even older, dating to 1533–70?
... that formerUniversity of Texas at Austin PresidentWilliam S. Livingston also chaired the committee that established theLyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs?
... thatThe Janus Man, athriller concerningespionage and betrayal, is the fourth book in the "Tweed and Co." series, for whichColin Forbes published a book every year from 1982 to his death in 2006?
... that the40th Grey Cup in 1952 was the first time thisCanadian football championship wasbroadcast on television?
... thatGilberto Gil describes his 2006 albumGil Luminoso as being religiously themed, although he is anagnostic?

14 May 2008

20:13, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the day after the death of sixIDF soldiers in theBattle of the Beaufort(pictured),Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was still under the impression that it was won without casualties?
... that the historicGolden Gate Theater was saved by a stop-work order afterdemolition crews had begun to dismantle the walls?
... thatSam Cowan is the onlyfootballer to have representedManchester City in threeFA Cup finals?
... that after writingConfederates in the Attic,Tony Horwitz was sued for callingAlberta Martin's husband adeserter in the book?
... thatDePauw Avenue Historic District,New Albany, Indiana, was once the summer estate ofthe man who owned two thirds of theplate glass business of theUnited States?
... that a report criticizing seniorPakistani leaders—includingGeneralAbdul Hamid Khan—over their conduct during the 1971Bangladesh Liberation War, was long suppressed by the Pakistani government?
... thatHarley Parker, in1973, was selected to be the first William A. Kern Institute Professor of Communications at theRochester Institute of Technology, inRochester, New York?

12:57, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatAmman'sMango House(pictured) was built in separate halves for the two brothers who lived there?
... that thecargo shipMVVirginian, now under contract toMilitary Sealift Command, was accidentally hit by anExocet missile while unloading cargo inIraq in 1986?
... that theMadhu school bus bombing was one of a number of attacks on civilian buses inSri Lanka in early 2008?
... that prior to his election to theOregon State Senate,Rick Metsger was best-known as asportscaster for aPortland, Oregon television station?
... that theidiopathic inflammatory lung diseasediffuse panbronchiolitis has the highest incidence amongJapanese,Korean,Chinese andThai cases, indicating agenetic predisposition amongEast Asians?
... thatDr Arthur Henry Douthwaite's testimony in court against suspectedserial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams is said to have cost him the presidency of theRoyal College of Physicians?
... thatDaddy Cool’s 1971 single "Eagle Rock" remained at #1 on theAustralian National charts for a record ten weeks before being replaced by the single "Daddy Cool" by another band cashing in their success?

04:51, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

... that 37 people were killed during construction of theBig Four Bridge(pictured) connectingLouisville, Kentucky toJeffersonville, Indiana across theOhio River?
... thatItaly's newly appointed Minister for Equal Opportunity,Mara Carfagna, used to be ashowgirl and aglamour model?
... that the1952 Pittsburgh Pirates, the worstPirates team of the20th century, were so bad that theircatcher Joe Garagiola later said "In an eight-teamleague, we should've finished ninth"?
... that the highesttemperature ever recorded inIreland, where theclimate istemperate oceanic, was 33.3ºC (91.9ºF) atKilkenny Castle on26 June,1887?
... that theKaleva Bottle House was built using over 60,000bottles?
... that S.A. Swaminatha Iyer protested theBritish salt tax in India at the first session of theIndian National Congress in1885?
... that after months of work, futureCanadian impresarioSamuel Gesser made only $200 from his first production, a 1953Pete Seeger concert?

13 May 2008

21:52, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatHurricane Alma(pictured) was the first of three consecutivetropical cyclones tostrike thePacific coast ofMexico during a ten day span?
... thatMethodist ministerEphraim Kingsbury Avery is amongst the firstclergymen known to have beentried formurder in theUnited States?
... thatSafi Faye is aSenegalese film director whose work is better known inEurope than in her nativeAfrica?
... thatEngland'sAuditor of the Imprests, an office responsible forauditing the accounts of public officials such as thePaymaster of the Forces, became a lucrativesinecure before being abolished in 1782?
... that after being found not guilty of murdering her ex-husband,Mary Leonard became the first woman inOregon allowed to practice law?
... thatUlysses S. Grant sent his family to live in theLicking Riverside neighborhood ofCovington, Kentucky in 1862?
... thatMichigan Limestone and Chemical Company is the world's largest limestone quarry?
... that The ReverendJohn H. Taylor served as post-Chief of Staff for formerUnited States President Richard Nixon from 1979 to 1994?

15:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatFriedrich Guggenberger'sU-81 sank theRoyal Navy aircraft carrier HMSArk Royal(pictured) with a singletorpedo?
... thatassociation footballersJimmy Willis andSteve Finnan are the only players to have scored in the top five divisions ofEnglish league football?
... thatLakshmisha's 16th centuryKannada writing, theJaimini Bharata, focuses on thehorse sacrifice chapter of theHindu epicMahābhārata?
... that in addition to providing cargo service toAscension Island, thefreighterMVAscension also helped researchers study itsgreen sea turtle population?
... that in 1838,Philip Kelland became the first English-born and wholly English-educated mathematician to hold the chair of Professor of Mathematics at theUniversity of Edinburgh?
... thatAmerican manufacturing executiveChris J. Lee left the business of makingair springs,elastomers,rate controls,rope isolators andsolenoid valves torun forCongress?

08:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theghost town ofBuffalo City, North Carolina(pictured) was once the largest community inDare County?
... thatthe largest post mill in Sussex received the largestHeritage Lottery Fund grant for an individualwindmill in the United Kingdom?
... thatJ. Evetts Haley, thehistorian of theAmerican West who ran in 1956 forgovernor of Texas, toldDuval County political boss George Parr that "it will be my pleasure to lock you up"?
... that in aVFL game againstNorth Melbourne,Fitzroy playerFrank Curcio famously stated "hit me as hard as you like, but don’t hurt my fingers"?
... thatGibraltarian degree-level students studying in aUK university receive afull scholarship from the Government of Gibraltar?
... thatOmaha pioneerAndrew J. Hanscom started a large-scale fight in theNebraska Territory House of Representatives over the location of the territorial capital?

00:55, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatNew Mill, Cross in Hand(pictured), was the lastwindmill to operate commercially by wind inSussex?
... thatVan Hanh Zen Temple is the base of a team ofBuddhist scholars who are producing aVietnamese translation of thePali Canon?
... that the effects oftides can affectice sheet dynamics up to 100 km (60 miles) inland?
... that the author of Captain Lindley Miller's 1864 "Marching Song of the First Arkansas" has only recently been determined?
... that dissidents within thePolish community in Omaha burnt down a church in theSheelytown neighborhood in 1895 rather than relinquish control to thelocal Roman Catholic bishop?
... thatHeinrich Barbl, anSS-Rottenführer, helped install piping for the gas chambers atSobibór extermination camp?
... that in 1892,George Brann became only the thirdcricketer to score twocenturies in a match, afterW. G. Grace andWilliam Lambert?
... thatSac Tu Tam Bao Temple was used byVietnamese revolutionaries as a munitions factory by in the1916 Cochinchina uprising?

12 May 2008

18:41, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

... that aswift(pictured) is a tool with an adjustablediameter used to hold askein ofyarn while it is being wound off?
... that theTinh Xa Trung TamBuddhist temple inHo Chi Minh City is regarded as the spiritual birthplace of thekhất sĩ tradition?
... thatElvia Carrillo Puerto founded the firstfeminist leagues to providefamily planning programs with legalizedbirth control in theWestern Hemisphere?
... thatHall of Fame goaltender Glenn Hall ended hisrecord-setting 502 consecutive-games streak in theNational Hockey League as aChicago Black Hawk during the1962–63 season?
... thatBritish actressJacqueline Voltaire won a "most bizarre sex scene" award in 2005 for her performance in theMexican filmMatando Cabos?
... that theKh'Leang Temple inSoc Trang is aKhmer Theravada building from 1533—predatingVietnamese settlement—which incorporatesGreek architecture?
... thatscreenwriterAllan Loeb'sagent dropped him the day he began writing thescript that saved his career?

12:08, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

...that thefootprints of the Buddha(pictured) often bear distinguishing marks, such as aDharmachakra or the 32, 108 or 132 auspicious signs of theBuddha?
...that fire is one of the most important forming processes of thegeography and ecology of the Everglades?
...that thebarrack atAghavannagh, which was primarily built so that British forces could more easily track rebels of the1798 rebellion, became ayouth hostel during the 1900s?
...that sportswriter andGreen Bay Packers employeeLee Remmel was one of twelve people to cover the first fortySuper Bowls?
...that to preserve national unity,Polish king Stefan Batory restored the city ofDanzig'seconomic and religious privileges afteran uprising?
...that theSilver Snoopy award is presented to recipients personally byastronauts?
...thatIsraeli writerEli Amir called for moreIsraeli literature to be translated intoArabic to promote understanding?
...thatBobby Hull became the third player inNHL history to score 50 goals in a season during the1961–62 Chicago Black Hawks season?
...that the main hall ofTay An Temple contains around 200Buddhist statues?

03:46, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

... that at age 14Amy Evans(pictured), aWelsh singer and actress, won theWelsh National Eisteddfod inCardiff?
... that as a college athlete,Detroit Tigers outfielderMatt Joyce played in anexhibition game against the Tigers three years before hisMajor League debut with them?
... that Belgian filmmakerArmand Denis, who became famous for hiswildlife documentaries with his wifeMichaela in the 1950s, began his career working as a scientist and inventor?
... that the rural settlement ofMount Mee, Queensland, gets its name from the localIndigenous Australian wordmia-mia, meaning "lookout"?
... that a youngblack aspiring actor by the name ofJames Earl Jones had his beginnings at theRamsdell Theatre inManistee, Michigan?
... thatSri Lankan Tamil Nationalism was a concept adapted by thesame people who earlier thought that this concept was suicidal?
... thatKitch-iti-kipi is Michigan's largest freshwater spring and a major tourist attraction?

11 May 2008

21:11, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatpulmonary laceration was thought to be uncommon beforeCT scanning(example pictured) became widely available, because the injury is difficult to detect withX-rays alone?
... thatsanfedisti irregulars, led byCardinal Fabrizio Ruffo, toppled theParthenopaean Republic in 1799, restoring the monarchy ofFerdinand I of the Two Sicilies?
... thatBarzillai Quaife has been described both as "New Zealand's first public anti-racist" and "Australia's firstphilosopher"?
... that thePond Eddy Bridge, built in 1904, is the only artery to access 22 homes inPennsylvania?
... that because it reflectsHungarian phonology, the original middle name of singer and comedianIoan Gyuri Pascu was misspelled on hisRomanian-issuedbirth certificate?
... that Devil's Dengully, located within theHeber Down Conservation Area, was so named because the local inhabitants believed that theDevil was holding court there?
... thatChris Garneau's debut albumMusic For Tourists has ahidden track that is a cover of anElliott Smith song?

14:46, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theMedusa Rondanini(pictured) in a prominent Roman collection was ignored until it was praised byGoethe in 1786?
... that the ReverendHenry Tibbs was accused of callingWinston Churchill a drug addict in 1940?
... thatBirely, Hillman & Streaker was the onlyPhiladelphian manufacturer of wooden ships to survive the post-Civil War slump?
... thatOdd With, member of theNorwegian Parliament for theChristian Democratic Party, was the grandfather of2006 Pop Idol victorAleksander Denstad With?
... that theUS Navy'sCasco-classmonitors, long delayed due to the exacting standards ofChief EngineerAlban C. Stimers, proved barely able to float on debut and were quickly withdrawn from service?
... that theVondelpark inAmsterdam,Netherlands annually attracts around 10 million visitors?
... that theNebraska Republican Party nabbedDemocratic candidateMax Yashirin's namesakedomain name and posted unflattering photos of him there after he stood forNebraska's 1st congressional district?

08:33, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theBuis(pictured) was first adapted for use as a fishing vessel in theNetherlands, after the invention ofgibbing made it possible to preserveherring at sea?
... thatMilorg resistance memberOsmund Faremo later served as member of thenational parliament and localmayor for theNorwegian Labour Party?
... that the lastold-Kannada grammar, authored byBhattakalanka Deva in circa 1604 CE, followed the model ofSanskrit grammar?
... that USabolitionistRobert Purvis had two grandparents who wereEnglish, a grandmother kidnapped at twelve fromMorocco and enslaved inCharleston, and a grandfather who wasGerman Jewish?
... that inHoly Trinity Church, Warrington, is a brasschandelier which formerly hung inSt Stephen's Chapel in theBritish House of Commons?
... thatpublisherGopal Raju, considered a pioneer ofethnic media in theUnited States, foundedIndia Abroad, which claims to be the oldestIndian American newspaper inNorth America?
... that theKlaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant inKlaipėda,Lithuania, constructed during the late 1990s and early 2000s, is the firstgeothermal heating plant in theBaltic Sea region?

02:17, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Eisenstein holding a skull made of sugar. Skulls and skeletons appeared in ¡Que Viva México! depicting the Day of the Dead festival.

... thatSoviet film directorSergei Eisenstein(pictured) shot many miles of film inMexico with the backing of American authorUpton Sinclair to make¡Qué viva México!?
... that the military prowess of theTulunid dynasty ofArab Egypt was due to itsmulti-ethnic army composed ofTurkish people,Sudanese, andGreek soldiers?
... that anuclear bomb test that significantly fails to produce its estimatedyield is called afizzle?
... that theYan emperorShi Chaoyi committed suicide to avoid capture, and that after his death, his head was delivered to theTang Dynasty capitalChang'an?
... thatTheodore O'Hara'sBivouac of the Dead, popularized inAmerican Civil Warmemorials, was actually written for fallenKentucky soldiers inLatin America a decade before the War?
... thatWilliam Miles Maskell was aNew Zealandic farmer andentomologist who advocatedbiological pest control?
... thatHarold Dow Bugbee ofTexas sought to become the premier artist of theSouth Plains, asCharles M. Russell became for the northernGreat Plains?

10 May 2008

15:39, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

... that after surviving adynamite attack in 1896,fraternity parties in the 1940s, and anearthquake in 1994,Stimson House(pictured) is now aconvent forCatholic nuns?
... thatRajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar was the firstMayor ofChennai Corporation, after the mayoralty was reinstated in 1933?
... that U.S.shipping companySealift Incorporated has been awarded overUS$400,000,000 in government contracts since the start of the 2000fiscal year?
... thatBahá'í Faith in Niger began during a period of wide scale growth in the religion acrossSub-Saharan Africa near the end of itscolonial period?
... thatAlbert Kidd scored twogoals in the last 10 minutes of the1985-86 Scottish football season to denyHearts thechampionship, despite having not scored in the whole season until then?
... that theChampionpassenger train connectedNew York City andSt. Petersburg, Florida for forty years beforeAmtrak consolidated it with its former rival theSilver Meteor?

08:28, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatMatilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones(pictured) was the first African-American to sing atCarnegie Hall?
... that the bookFear byJan T. Gross has been a subject of significant controversy inPoland?
... that theCentral Eurasian Studies Society is the first society forCentral Asian scholars based in North America?
... thatDe Doctrina Christiana, identified asJohn Milton's attempt to define his own particularChristian theology, was suppressed by the government of the day and not published until 150 years after his death?
... thatValda Cooper became the first femalemanaging editor of anydaily newspaper inNew Mexico?
... thatLouisville, Kentucky's firstrock and roll venue, inLake Dreamland, may have been burned down by an angry resident?

01:41, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the portrait bust of theBeriah Magoffin Monument(pictured) inHarrodsburg, Kentucky was built inNeoclassical style, a style more commonly used a century before the monument was constructed?
... that in 1686Michael Shen Fu-Tsung, aJesuit convert fromNanking, arrived at the court ofJames II and became the first recordedChinese person to visitBritain?
... that in theJilava Massacre, perpetrated inRomania in 1940, 64 prisoners were shot to death, including a former prime minister, justice minister, and chief of secret police?
... that Indian film directorNitin Bose, who directed the blockbusterGanga Jamuna in 1961, had introducedplayback singing inIndian cinema in 1935?
... that during theLiberian Civil Wars over 5,000 artifacts were looted from theLiberian National Museum but a 250-year-old dining table given as a gift fromQueen Victoria toLiberia's first President remains?
... thatRaleigh Springs Mall inMemphis, Tennessee lost three of its fouranchor stores (JCPenney,Dillard's andGoldsmith's) all in the same year?
... thatFlaithbertach Ua Néill,king of Ailech inIreland, was called Flaithbertach an Trostáin, Flaithbertach of the Pilgrim's staff, as a result of hispilgrimage toRome in 1030?

9 May 2008

16:44, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatWilliam H. Mumler claimed to take a photograph(pictured) showingMary Todd Lincoln with thespirit of her deceased husband,Abraham Lincoln?
... that besides training its own officers, thePakistan Naval Academy has trained over 2000 officers of allied navies including the Chief of Naval Staff of theQatar Emiri Navy?
... that theUnited States Forest Service andOregon Department of Fish and Wildlife partnered with thePaisley, Oregon community to restore theChewaucan River habitat for nativeredband trout?
... that FrenchJesuit missionary and mathematicianGuy Tachard was involved in embassies toSiam, which came as responses to embassies sent by the Siamese KingNarai to France in order to obtain an alliance against the Dutch?
... that theSchweizer SGP 1-1glider was launched by an elasticbungee cord, originally pulled by children and later by aFord Model A car?
... that Governor ofItalian Libya Italo Balbo brought 20,000Italians to Libya in 1938, founding 26 new villages for them, in an attempt to colonise it?
... thatbouclé is a type ofnovelty yarn that uses specialplying techniques to obtain its charateristic loopy appearence?

09:54, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1687Philippe Couplet publishedConfucius Sinarum Philosophus(pictured), the first knownWestern translation of aChinese literary work?
... thattourism in Kenya is the country's second largest source of foreign revenue?
... that theBuckeye is the only U.S. breed ofchicken known to have been created by a woman?
... that theTARDIS broke while filming the final scene of theDoctor Who episode "The Poison Sky"?
... that a story inJanna's 13th-centuryKannada classicYashodhara Charite deals withsadomasochism andtransmigration of the soul?
... that the land acquisitions for theSouthern Railway's Spencer Shops in 1896 were secretly done to preventland speculation?
... thatanthropologist Therkel Mathiassen describedComer's Midden as the only substantial find of pureThule culture inGreenland?
... that the revitalizedHistoric District ofApex, North Carolina has been described as a "Gucci Mayberry"?
... that legendary princessYennenga, the "mother" of theMossi people, was such a great warrior that her father refused to allow her to marry?
... that publication ofMalaysian newspaperMakkal Osai wassuspended following its printing of acaricature ofJesus holding a cigarette and a can of beer?

02:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

... that atornado outbreak(damage pictured) produced up to 3 inch (76 mm) diameterhail nearMidwest City,Oklahoma?
... thatSimbolul was aRomanian literary magazine published byTristan Tzara andMarcel Janco, later two ofDadaism's founders, while they were still in high school?
... that theChicago Blackhawks, with thelongest active Stanley Cup drought in theNational Hockey League, last won the Cup in the1960–61 season?
... that as a result of dog shows,dog fanciers established stud books and began refining breeds from the varioustypes of dogs in use?
... that althoughLookdown are common intropical Atlantic waters, they are rarely seen in theGreater Antilles?
... thatRonald Joy was an Englishcricketer, who played eight County Championship matches in the1928 season?
... that theIndian Coast Guard estimates more than100 fishing boats and an unknown number of fishermen annually stray across theterritorial waters ofIndia andPakistan?
... that the most populartourist attraction in Omaha has been voted thebest zoo in America, with the largestcat complex inNorth America?

8 May 2008

18:45, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatSark Windmill(pictured), built in 1571, is the oldest survivingwindmill in theChannel Islands?
... thatJoseph M. Street, a19th century American pioneer, was present at the signing of thepeace treaty ending theWinnebago War?
... that following theDarwin Rebellion of December 1918,HMASEncounter was sent toDarwin to protectAdministrator John Gilruth and his family?
... that troops ofTadayoshi Sano, alieutenant general for theImperial Japanese Army, were reported to have committed atrocities against civilians inHong Kong andBritish prisoners of war?
... that, during aFersommling, the only language spoken isPennsylvania Dutch and that anyone who speaksEnglish has to pay a fine for each word?
... that theFrench stormed theBagration flèches eight times during theBattle of Borodino in 1812?
... thatCanadian radio broadcasterClyde Gilmour hosted a weekly national show for more than 40 years, presenting from his substantial personal music collection?
... that in 1789Spain seized theBritish sloopPrincess Royal, nearlycausing a war, then used the vessel to explore theStrait of Juan de Fuca, finding theSan Juan Islands and the entrances toPuget Sound and theStrait of Georgia?

12:38, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatBenjamin Motte published many famous works such asJonathan Swift'sGulliver's Travels(pictured) and the first English edition ofIsaac Newton'sPrincipia, an edition that became the standard translation for over 200 years?
... that theobscure mealybug, apest ofvineyards inNew Zealand andCalifornia, is believed to have beenintroduced fromAustralia orSouth America?
... that the present-day city ofDavenport, Iowa is named afterGeorge Davenport, a 19th century American frontiersman, trader and US Army officer?
... that theTamil filmThyagabhoomi is the only Indian film banned by theBritish Raj for propagating the cause ofIndia's freedom struggle?
... thatDaniel Carter Beard'sboyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became aNational Historic Landmark?
... that it was rumored that someseals escapedMinneapolis'sLongfellow Zoological Gardens into nearbyMinnehaha Creek?
... that the forthcoming Tamil filmGuru En Aalu, starringMadhavan andMamta Mohandas, is a remake of the1997 filmYes Boss?

01:14, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatMcCarty Church(pictured) inLos Angeles gained attention for its pastor's decision to racially integrate his white Protestant church in the mid-1950s?
... thatBradford City footballersGeoff Smith andGeorge Mulholland each played more than 200 consecutive appearances for the club during the 1950s?
... thatSalt Lake City-based robotics firmSarcos is developing a militarypowered exoskeleton allowing wearers to easily lift 200 pounds (91 kg)?
... that in 1847French AdmiralJean-Baptiste Cécille sent a captain to attackVietnam to obtain the release of abishop, not knowing the bishop had already been freed?
... that a riot reportedly instigated by writerAndré Breton broke out during the 1923 premiere ofTristan Tzara'sLe Cœur à gaz, a play written as a nonsensical dialog between human body parts?
... that in 1994Martin Doherty became the first person to be killed in theRepublic of Ireland byloyalist paramilitaries since 1975?
... that inscriptions found on a stone pillar in the village ofTalagunda inIndia describe the rise of theKadamba dynasty?
... that theSilky Sifaka is a white,diurnal rainforest sifaka found solely within a small area of northeasternMadagascar?

7 May 2008

18:17, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

... that in spite of its similar appearance to theEuropean Robin, the colourfulRose Robin(pictured) of southeasternAustralia is more closely related to thecrow family?
... thatAndayya's 13th centuryKannada workKabbigara Kava is considered important for its strict adherence to the indigenousKannada language?
... that the sacrifice of Jean Cadieux on behalf of his companions during anIroquois attack in 1707 is still commemorated by the inhabitants ofCalumet Island?
... thatLena Guerrero, who became aTexas state legislator at twenty-five, was the first non-Anglo person to have served on theTexas Railroad Commission?
... thatRobert the Devil, an operatic parody byW. S. Gilbert ofMeyerbeer's operaRobert le diable, ends with the devil being punished by becoming part of the exhibit atMadame Tussaud's?
... thatVFL footballerCharlie Moore, the firstAustralian to die of gunshot wounds in theBoer War, played in the1898 VFL Grand Final againstStan Reid, who died in the same war six weeks later?
... that theStöðulög laws of 1871 declaredIceland an inseparable part ofDenmark?
... that the18th century American soldierIsaac Bowman, his fatherGeorge Bowman, and his grandfather Jost Hite were all prominent pioneers in theColony of Virginia?

09:44, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

... that thewindmill at South Barrule,Isle of Man(pictured) worked anincline on a railway at aslate quarry?
... thatShabdamanidarpana, a comprehensive and authoritative work on thegrammar of theKannada language, was written in the 13th century by theIndian linguist and poetKesiraja?
... that the1927 disappearance of the French biplaneThe White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc), in an attempt to make the first nonstoptransatlantic flight fromParis toNew York, is one of the great unexplained mysteries ofaviation?
... thatEnglish football full backAlfred Bower was the lastamateur player to captain theEnglish national team in 1927?
... thatscreenwriterDaniel Knauf'spolio-afflicted father was the inspiration for histelevision seriesCarnivàle?
... that a majority of the 114 killed in the1994 Gowari stampede atNagpur were women and children crushed to death under the crowd’s feet?
... that according toBrunei folklore Nakhoda Manis disrespected his mother, which caused a storm to sink his ship in theBrunei River, transforming the ship into the rock known asJong Batu?
... thatElizabethan mathematician andcartographerEdward Wright is said to be "the onlyFellow ofCaius ever to be grantedsabbatical leave in order to engage inpiracy"?

00:33, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatAberdour Castle(pictured), with parts dating from around 1200, is one of the two oldest datable standingcastles inScotland?
... thatKim Swoo Geun, a leadingSouth Korean architect, was referred to as "Lorenzo de Medici ofSeoul" byTime for his contributions toKorean culture?
... that theBevier House Museum inMarbletown, New York includes the earliest knownland grant map forUlster County?
... that the lawsuitMotte v. Faulkner in 1735 was a legal dispute over the right to publishJonathan Swift's complete works and its outcome was viewed by Swift as another example of English oppression?
... that although there is no commercialmining in Equatorial Guinea, 200 kilograms (440 pounds) ofgold were retrieved in 2006?
... thatSwedish soldierCharles F. Henningsen participated in civil wars and independence movements inSpain,Nicaragua,Hungary and theUnited States, but died without ever winning any of the causes for which he fought?
... that thedistribution companyBunzl once held a virtualmonopoly on the manufacture ofcigarette filters in theU.K.?

6 May 2008

16:48, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

... that in April 2008,Forbes listedOmid Tahvili(pictured) as one of the world's ten most wantedfugitives?
... thatDr. Seuss'sThe Seven Lady Godivas is one of his few books written for adults, and though it was initially a failure when first published in 1939, original editions have sold for upwards ofUS$300?
... thatL'Insoumis, afilm noir alluding to theAlgerian war, wasAlain Delon's first real failure despite his acclaimed performance?
... that thePinchot Sycamore, a centuries-oldAmerican sycamore, is the largest tree inConnecticut?
... thatablative brain surgery, which involves destroyingbrain tissue by heat or freezing, was used until recently in thePeople's Republic of China to treat people withschizophrenia?
... that Winkhurst Kitchen and Titchfield Market Hall, which are now at theWeald and Downland Open Air Museum,Singleton,Sussex, have been dismantled and re-erected twice?
... that theCongressional Bowl is one of two newcollege football bowl games that will be played in the United States this year?

10:20, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatJane Loftus, Marchioness of Ely(pictured) was one ofQueen Victoria's closestladies-in-waiting for nearly forty years?
... thatRosetta Genomics Ltd. is a molecular diagnostics company that usesmicro-ribonucleic acid biomarkers to develop diagnostic tests designed to differentiate between various types ofcancer?
... that the firstpublic library inCovington, Kentucky was built by itsTrinity Episcopal Church?
... that at only five weeks old,Flocke thepolar bear cub from Nuremberg Zoo was touted byBild to be the future "Mrs.Knut"?
... that when the firstindigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in southernFlorida 15,000 years ago, the region was an arid sandy landscape?
... that visitingCistercian monks could extend the hospitality ofStratford Langthorne Abbey, nearLondon, by supplying wine and beer for themselves and oats and hay for their horses?
... that theMark Eden bust developer, a product claimed toenlarge women's breasts, actually worked by increasing thepectoral andback muscles?

03:59, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theMoscow Kremlin'sChurch of the Deposition(pictured) is named after aByzantine tradition that the robe of theVirgin Mary was taken toConstantinople?
... that theGalena Historic District inIllinois,USA, includes more than a thousandhistoric properties and occupies as much as 85 percent of the city ofGalena?
... that inClaude Ashton's only international appearance for theEnglish national football team, hecaptained the squad?
... that the 12th centuryKannada poetHarihara was initially an accountant in theHoysala court?
... that restoration of theOld Savannah School House was the first project undertaken by theNational Trust for the Cayman Islands after its creation?
... that theKnickerbocker Baseball Club ofNew York used the first recordedbaseball uniform in1849?

5 May 2008

21:58, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

... that inSt Peter's Church, Heysham,Lancashire, is aViking hogback stone, and in the churchyard is the base of anAnglo-Saxon cross(pictured)?
... that asGeneral Secretary of theMexican railroad workers union,Demetrio Vallejo renounced his salary of 20,000pesos a month, requesting it be turned over to the railway union treasury?
... that the 1842Lombard Street Riot capped thirteen years of recurring racial violence inPhiladelphia,Pennsylvania?
... that afterRoche MacGeoghegan,Bishop of Kildare, died in 1644, his library was divided between hisdiocese and theDominican Order?
... that excavations of theCherokee townTallassee, burnt down during theChickamauga Wars and submerged by anartificial lake since 1957, uncovered evidence of habitation as early as theWoodland period?
... thatKisan Kanya made byArdeshir Irani in1937 isIndia's first indigenously madecolor film?
... thatOmaha's zoo was renamed in honor of longtimeOmaha World-HeraldpublisherHenry Doorly in 1963?

13:58, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatOregon'sWarrior Rock Light(pictured) operated uneventfully for 80 years until it was struck by a barge in 1969?
... that forces of theDutch West India Company capturedAxim in present-dayGhana and signed atreaty with the localWest Africans in 1642 to become the major European power in theGold Coast region?
... thatFrank Ford, anorganic food farmer inDeaf Smith County, Texas, was the chiefadvertising spokesman for the health foods industry during its founding decades of the 1960s and the 1970s?
... thatLithuanian noblemanFeodor Ostrogski was agovernor ofVolhynia, a region ofUkraine?
... that theIlmin Museum of Art is an art museum ofSouth Korea, located onSejongno,Jongno-gu, central district ofSeoul where royal palaces and gates ofJoseon dynasty are also situated?
... that some scholars believe thatJohn Wannuaucon Quinney was the originator of the termNative American?

02:51, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the 122-year oldBaltimore Steam Packet Company ("Old Bay Line")(pictured) was the last overnight steamship service in the U.S. when it ceased operation in 1962?
... thatChina andPeru are expected to sign afree trade agreement during the2008 APEC summit?
... that the tinyDinkey Train of only a passenger coach and dummy engine went toMammoth Cave?
... that in February 2008,rugby league playerDan Dempsey was named in the list of Australia's100 Greatest Players?
... that eight buildings inNewport, Rhode Island'sBellevue Avenue Historic District are designated asNational Historic Landmarks, in addition to the district itself?
... thatHNoMSHonningsvåg was a German fishing trawler captured in theNorwegian Campaign and served theRoyal Norwegian Navy throughoutWorld War II?
... thatSpanish American cardiologistValentin Fuster is the only cardiologist to receive all four major research awards from the world's four majorcardiovascular organizations?

4 May 2008

19:58, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

... that thesteam yachtGondola(pictured) onConiston Water is thought to be the inspiration forCaptain Flint's houseboat inArthur Ransome'sSwallows and Amazons?
... that theMay 30, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake was also felt atSamarkand inUzbekistan,Islamabad inPakistan, andDushanbe inTajikistan?
... that the lateactress andtheatrical producer,Madeline Lee Gilford, who wasblacklisted during theMcCarthy Era, is scheduled to appear in the forthcoming 2008 film,Sex and the City?
... thatSabr is theIslamic virtue ofpatience andendurance?
... that theRoanoke Apartments, which opened asRoanoke's largestapartment complex, are an example ofStreamline Moderne architecture?
... thatMathilde Ludendorff, a leader in the GermanVölkisch movement, claimedastrology was part of a Jewish effort to enslave the Germans?
... that an uncle ofChristopher Columbus served as akeeper ofGenoa'sTorre della Lanterna?
... that the spirits of a wealthy rancher and his Indian wife have been seen and heard since the 1920s atLeonis Adobe, according to TV showMost Haunted?

12:17, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatTurkey was so dissatisfied withits first set of stamps that it hadFrance make the second set(example pictured)?
... that ashrew's fiddle was used to punish women who were caught fighting or arguing inGermany andAustria, often until both women agreed to stop bickering?
... that a 150 year-old weepingbeech tree, considered to be the source of weeping beeches in theUnited States and declared alandmark in 1966, was located in Weeping Beech Park atKingsland Homestead inQueens,New York?
... that in February 2008,rugby league playerBrian Hambly was named in the list ofAustralia's100 Greatest Players?
... thatSamuel Johnson failed to get a job atBrewood Grammar School because headmasterWilliam Budworth was concerned with Johnson's head movements?
... thatLopez andPico Adobes, built near theSan Fernando Mission, are the oldest residences inSan Fernando Valley,California?
... that theDenver Broncos, who made theNational Football League playoffsseventeen times between1977 and2005, did not make the playoffs at all in their first seventeenseasons?

06:14, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the photographs taken ofPeter Jones in 1845(pictured) are the oldest surviving photographs of aNorth American Indian?
... that theOld Stone House is the oldest standing building inWashington, D.C.?
... that despite nine hundredRoman Catholic churches being built inEngland in the fifty years after1791,St John the Baptist's Church inBrighton was only the fourth to beconsecrated since theReformation?
... thatU-boat commanderHeinrich Bleichrodt refused to wear hisKnight's Cross until his subordinate,Reinhard Suhren received one as well?
... thatNASCAR took away the first win for itsall-time winningest driver atLakewood Speedway afterhis father protested the scoring?
... that despite never making landfall, remnant moisture fromHurricane Madeline in1998 contributed tosevere flooding in centralTexas which killed 32 people?
... that the annualChembuduppu festival atSt. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally is held in commemoration of non-Christians bringingrice to feed hundreds of voluntary labourers during its construction?

00:08, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theherbForsskaolea tenacissima was sonamed byCarl Linnaeus because it was as stubborn and persistent as his studentPeter Forsskål(pictured) had been?
... thatBreed Street Shul, now vacant in a Hispanic part ofLos Angeles, was the largestOrthodox synagogue in the westernUnited States from 1915 to 1951?
... that"Guten Tag", the first single of German bandWir sind Helden featured a video which was a self-ironic statement against commercial music?
... thatRaghavanka, a 12th century writer ofKannada literature, penned five classics just to expiate asin hisguru felt he had committed?
... thatOmaha University was first located in theRedick Mansion ofNorth Omaha's once-affluentKountze Place suburb?
... thatAn Qingxu killed his fatherAn Lushan, the Emperor ofYan, because he feared that his father would kill him and make his brothercrown prince?
... that the firstEast Lake Community Library inMinneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront?

3 May 2008

18:05, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theEnglish names for the towns ofBrecon(pictured) andCardigan derive from the names ofWelsh mediaeval kingdoms, but theWelsh names for those same places refer to local rivers?
... thatTamil politicianE. V. K. Sampath, nephew ofPeriyar, co-founded theDravida Munnetra Kazhagam party?
... that thepumpman is the person aboard anoil tanker who maintains the liquid cargo system?
... thatscreenwriterJamie Linden interpreted his winning ofUS$5,000 ongame showThe Price Is Right as a sign to relocate toHollywood,California?
... that theG.A.R. Monument inCovington, Kentucky is the onlyAmerican Civil War monument in theBluegrass state shaped like asarcophagus?
... thatRussell B. Cummings, as a member of theTexas House of Representatives in the 1960s, was credited with procuring passage of his state's openbeach andkindergarten access laws?

12:03, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatRim Drive inOregon, a scenichighway cited by theAmerican Automobile Association as one of the ten most beautiful roads in theU.S., is a 33-mile loop that follows thecaldera rim aroundCrater Lake(pictured)?
... that theJapanese virtual 3D massively multiplayer online social gameAi Sp@ce will launch in summer 2008 featuring interaction withbishōjo game characters?
... thatCormac mac Cuilennáin,bishop andking of Munster, later considered asaint, was killed in battle in908 while leading an invasion ofLeinster?
... that theZimbabwe Open University is the largest university inZimbabwe and the onlydistance education university in the country?
... that theVeteran's Monument in Covington inKentucky is the state's onlyCivil War platform memorial and also the only one referring to that conflict as the "War Between the States"?
... thatFrederick II of Prussia was elated by theFirst Partition of thePolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?

00:53, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatsilva rerum(pictured) was a multi-generationalchronicle kept by manyPolish noble families from the 16th through 18th centuries?
... that the 27thU.S. President William Howard Taft'sboyhood home almost became afuneral parlor?
... thatmale prostitutes in Pakistan generally range from fifteen to twenty-five years of age?
... that, in a bid to remain in power,Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos asked hisLabor MinisterBlas Ople to reach out to theSoviet Union?
... thatRaymond Berry is a member of thePro Football Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1973, eleven years before he became thePatriots' head coach?
... thatShnaim Ohazin was anIsraeli Educational Television show that taught basic concepts from theTalmud with fictionalizedtime travel segments?
... thatcouncilmanLarry Gossett works in an office at theKing County Courthouse inKing County, Washington, located exactly where he was jailed forunlawful assembly after a 1968sit-in?

2 May 2008

16:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theBerthouville Treasure(pictured) of first- and second-centuryRoman silver was uncovered accidentally by a farmer's plough in 1830?
... that EnglishengineerRoy Lunn was responsible for the development of theFord Mustang I and the firstAmerican 4WD cars?
... that the maintourist attractions of Botswana are its game reserves?
... that despite over 85% ofAmerican Indian students giving it their support, themascot controversy atHumboldt High School inSaint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of itsIndiansmascot?
... that someBahá'í prayers have been translated into more than five hundred languages?
... thatCheryl Dunye's 1996 filmThe Watermelon Woman was the first feature film to be directed by a black lesbian?
... that theFailing Office Building inPortland, Oregon is named after a mayor of Portland and built by a locally prominentarchitecture firm?

10:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

... that theart decoBurbank City Hall(pictured), withmurals byHugo Ballin, uses more than twenty types ofmarble in its main lobby?
... that theflora of Scotland includesthe world's tallest hedge,a yew which may beEurope's oldest tree, andDughall Mor ("big dark stranger") –Britain's tallest tree?
... that the dialogues for theTamil filmParasakthi were penned byM. Karunanidhi who later became theChief Minister of Tamil Nadu?
... that a scrappeddemolition proposal for theBaytown Tunnel inBaytown, Texas would have utilized former pieces of its structure in the creation of anartificial reef in theGulf of Mexico?
... that the first organizedpostal system inIndia was established between theBritish East India Company factories atMadras andCalcutta during the tenure ofEdward Harrison?
... thatMaher Arar was deported toSyria and tortured after being wrongly identified as an "Islamic Extremist" byProject O Canada?
... thatwildlife biologistOlaus Murie was the firstAmerican Fulbright Scholar to study inNew Zealand?

03:12, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatPogórzanie(pictured) are anethnic group ofPoles from theSubcarpathian Voivodeship?
... thatClarence Hailey Long, aranch foreman in theTexas Panhandle, was the inspiration for the originalMarlboro Man advertising campaign byPhilip Morris?
... thatprison contemplative programs likemeditation were used in 19th centuryPennsylvania as an earlyprison reform?
... that after 12 years of legal tussling over delays and cost overruns on theTaipei Metro Muzha Line, theTaipei City Government was ordered to compensate its contractorMatra for US$50 million?
... thatMinneapolis businessmanRobert "Fish" Jones droveUlysses Grant andWilliam T. Sherman downNicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on their post-war tours?
... that theDoctor Who episode"The Sontaran Stratagem" is the first appearance of theeponymous aliens since the 1985 serialThe Two Doctors?
... that theLynchburg Ferry inLynchburg, Texas is the oldest operatingferry service inTexas?

1 May 2008

19:59, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

... that on everyMay 1, thehamlet ofIckwell celebratesMay Day withdancing around aMaypole(pictured) and with the crowning of aMay Queen?
... thatBen Gold was just 14 years old when he was elected assistant shop chairman by his localunion during the firstfurriers'strike in the United States?
... that theAbyssinian slaveJamal-ud-Din Yaqut was a close adviser and speculated to be the lover ofRazia Sultana, the first and only femaleSultan of Delhi?
... that by using theBevatron and nuclear emulsion technique,Sulamith Goldhaber was the first person to observe nuclear interactions of theantiproton?
... thatDurum wheat was used to makeal-fidawsh, a drypasta popular inMuslim Spain?
... that theTennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company was the second largest steel manufacturer in the USA before it merged withU.S. Steel in 1907?

13:45, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

... thatSteven Spielberg filmed much ofAmistad inNewport'sdowntown historic district because it has enoughcolonial buildings(pictured) to resemble 1840sNew Haven?
... that the ground livingwarblers in thegenusTesia appear to almost lack atail and have very long legs?
... that the people of theplanetKrikkit are the mainantagonists in theDouglas Adams novel,Life, the Universe and Everything?
... that within theSpecial Economic ZoneSEEPZ,Mumbai lies an abandonedPortuguese church built in 1579?
... thatJane Addams,Mother Jones andAbe Fortas have all made notable contributions to thehistory of children's rights in the United States?
... that thePiliyandala bombing ofApril 25,2008 was the deadliest attack on acommuter bus inSri Lanka since the January 16Buttala attack?
... that theTregenna Castle Hotel inSt Ives, Cornwall was theGreat Western Railway's first holiday destination hotel?

06:17, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

... that thebombardment of Brussels byFrench troops(ruins pictured) in 1695 was later described byNapoleon Bonaparte as being "as barbarous as it was useless"?
... that theTransition Towns movement inspiredTotnes,England to introduce their own town-wide currency redeemable only in local shops?
... thatanarchist Internet archiveSpunk Library was once falsely accused of collaborating with the terrorist guerrilla outfitRed Army Faction?
... that inGrosvenor Park, in the city ofChester, is an archway which had been in the city'sSt Michael's Church?
... thatAnna Maria Garthwaite, the daughter of aLincolnshire clergyman, became the leadingdesigner offlowered fabrics for theSpitalfields silk-weaving trade in18th century England?
... thatWade Phillips holds the bestcoaching record for the Atlanta Falcons, winning two out of the three games he coached?
... thatRatnakaravarni, the noted 16th-centuryKannada poet of theVijayanagara times, was an expert on erotic writings?

00:13, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

... that thePurna-Kalasha(pictured), worshipped byHindus as theDivine Mother, symbolizesMother Earth with her water, minerals and vegetation?
... that afossil plesiosaur skull namedKimmerosaurus may be the missing head of aColymbosaurus?
... thatRichard Honaker,Bush nominee forU.S. District Judge inWyoming, washed dishes in awork-study program while studying atHarvard University with futurecomedian Al Franken?
... that in 2007 theRoyal Australasian College of Physicians revoked the teaching accreditation ofShellharbour Hospital due to a lack of senior staff?
... thatNorwegian sociologistIngrid Eide was also aUnited Nations official and a politician for theNorwegian Labour Party?
... that the first refuge frommalaria that residents ofMemphis, Tennessee had in 1878 wasBowling Green, Kentucky'sLouisville and Nashville Railroad Station?
... thatHeinrich Böll's humorous short storyAnekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral was written for aMay Day broadcast on theNorddeutscher Rundfunk?

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