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31 August 2019

12:00, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Kruszyniany Mosque

... that the historic woodenKruszyniany Mosque(pictured) was targeted in 2014 during a wave ofattacks on mosques in Poland?
... that in 1999,Pam Coats was promoted to senior vice president of creative development atWalt Disney Animation Studios, becoming the highest-ranking woman at the company?
... thatNeanderthals in theValencian Valldigna valley hauled young elephants up a 100-metre (330 ft) climb to theBolomor Cave, for use as food?
... thatClaude Batchelor, a former trumpet player with the1st Cavalry Division Band, was convicted on charges related to collaboration with China during theKorean War?
... that theTransgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill introduced in 2019 by theIndian parliament has been met with protests and criticism by the queer community?
... that Scottish economistHugh Quigley was a member of the secretXYZ Club in the 1930s?
... that forests in theGuineo-Congolian region of Africa include patches dominated by a single species of tree, such asBrachystegia laurentii,Julbernardia seretii,Michelsonia microphylla, orGilbertiodendron dewevrei?
... that theBBC has produced a new version of their 1953 filmLondon to Brighton in Four Minutes every 30 years?

00:00, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Prince George held by
his brother, the future
KingEdward VIII

... that oneroyal christening gown(pictured in 1903) was worn by 62 British royal babies over its 163-year history?
... that African-American educatorJennie Porter refused to let teachers at her all-black school join theNAACP after its local leaders criticized her views onsegregation?
... thatWayne and Shuster's comedy sketch "Rinse the Blood Off My Toga" recasts Shakespeare'sJulius Caesar as a detective story?
... that when an angry mob overran the palaces inGranada in 1309,the sultan was spared, but hisvizier,Abu Abdallah ibn al-Hakim, was killed?
... that theblue korhaan favours habitats with short grass, dwarf shrubs, and termite mounds, but few trees?
... thatBarbara Zechmeister, who appeared in world premieres at theOper Frankfurt, portrayed Clarissa in a recorded production of Weber'sDie drei Pintos at the 2004Wexford Festival?
... that theNational Salt Satyagraha Memorial honors the participants of theSalt Satyagraha, a nonviolent civil disobedience incolonial India led byMahatma Gandhi in 1930?
... thatNicholas Emery tried to negotiate the sale ofMaine's northern territory to the American government for one million acres (4,000 km²) of theMichigan Territory?

30 August 2019

12:00, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Female kob and calf

... that thewildlife of Uganda includes theUgandan kob(pictured), theUganda mangabey, and theUgandan musk shrew?
... thatMisty Talley, who directed shark horror films forSyfy, edits about five feature film projects at a time?
... that a railroad bisects the Italian town ofMiramare di Rimini into a residential neighborhood and a prominent tourist area?
... that shortly after the arrest of the leaders of theIndonesian National Party,Sartono disbanded it and founded theIndonesia Party?
... that during change of command ceremonies of theUnited States Marine Band, theJohn Philip Sousa Baton is transferred from the outgoing to the incoming director?
... that theCISF Unit Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is the largestCentral Industrial Security Force unit?
... thatAllen F. Donovan worked for theManhattan Project on the design of the shape of theFat Man atomic bomb?
... that there will be awomen's Twenty20 cricket tournament for the first time at the2022 Commonwealth Games?

00:00, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Swarup Rani Nehru

... thatSwarup Rani Nehru(pictured) appealed to women to make salt in defiance of thesalt laws in British India?
... thatMDR Rundfunkchor, the radio choir of theMDR in Leipzig, performed Dvořák'sStabat Mater in the opening concert of the 2019Rheingau Musik Festival atEberbach Abbey?
... thatJīvaka, a child left behind on a trash heap, later became the physician of the Buddha?
... that the 2020Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins may become theUnited States Mint's first color coinage?
... that whenZhai Xiangjun's teaching career was interrupted by dental surgery, he began writing English textbooks, two of which have since been adopted by most Chinese universities?
... thatPollichia campestris was first described in 1789 by the Scottish botanistWilliam Aiton in the publicationHortus Kewensis, a catalogue of all the plants then being cultivated atKew Gardens?
... thatThomas M. Owen founded theAlabama Department of Archives and History, the first such agency in the U.S. to become a distinct department of a state government?
... that in 1355, the Englishmarched 675 miles (1,100 km) through French territory and took so much booty that they discarded silver objects to be better able to carry off gold and jewellery?

29 August 2019

12:00, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Heronry in the Carp Hills

... that because of their pristine, rugged nature, theCarp Hills(pictured) in westernOttawa, Canada, are called an "ecological jewel"?
... thatJohannes Fatio performed the first successful separation ofconjoined twins in 1689?
... thatThe Debut wasJackie Evancho's eighth consecutive release on theBillboard Classical Albums chart to reach number one?
... that former Mexican police chiefZeferino Peña Cuéllar may have escaped through a secret tunnel during an attack by a drug cartel?
... thatstorm surge and abnormally high tides generated by the1875 Indianola hurricane in Texas swept boats as far as 9 mi (14 km) inland?
... thatFang Renqiu was a member of the firstnational football team of the People's Republic of China and later coached the national team?
... thatan exhibit of Czech Jewish art and ritual objects confiscated by the Nazis for a planned "Museum of the Extinct Race" was seen by more than half a million people on its U.S. tour?
... that in 1968,Mark E. Silverman andJohn Willis Hurst used what they described as a "Sherlock Holmesian approach" to show that the condition of the heart might be found in clues in the hands?

00:00, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Dining room atSandringham House

... that the 1920s–1930s interior design styleCurzon Street Baroque(example pictured) was also known as Buggers' Baroque?
... that theRoss Volunteers are the military escort for theGovernor of Texas?
... thatWang Qidong served as the first chair of the first university department ofmaterials science and engineering in China?
... that theRedoute in Bad Godesberg, which opened in 1792 whenBeethoven played in the orchestra, was used for receptions of thePresident of Germany?
... thatAlgernon Burnaby won theQuorn Hunt's Midnight Steeplechase in 1890?
... that some critics prefaced their reviews ofSpellForce 3: Soul Harvest with assurances that it was not asbuggy as the main game?
... thatWilliam R. Crawford Jr. was appointed asU.S. ambassador to Cyprus afterRodger Davies, his predecessor, was assassinated?
... that peregrine falcons live at the top of New York City'sThrogs Neck Bridge?

28 August 2019

12:00, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Alina Morse with Zollipops

... that teenage CEOAlina Morse's(pictured) sugar-free candy company had US$6 million in sales when she was thirteen years old?
... that theArgus tortoise beetle is named after the mythical Greek giantArgus Panoptes?
... that Turkish television and film actressSerenay Aktaş was once awomen's footballer?
... that department store chainKastner & Öhler, based inGraz, began as a shop formercery in 1873, and was the first in Central Europe to introduce fixed prices and run amail order service?
... thatThomas Perkins Abernethy's dissertationThe Formative Period in Alabama, 1815–1828 earned him a doctorate fromHarvard University and was published in book form?
... thatJapanese literature of the 12th through 16th centuries ceased to be the reserve of the aristocracy and became "national literature"?
... that in 1946, entomologistsE. B. Pinniger andCynthia Longfield were the first to identify thedainty damselfly in Britain?
... thatIggy Azalea joked withPeppa Pig onTwitter overMy First Album's release date?

00:00, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Coxton Tower

... thatCoxton Tower(illustration shown), despite having been uninhabited since the 1860s, was used to house Canadian troops stationed in Scotland during the Second World War?
... thatHai-Quan Mao was elected anAIMBE fellow for engineeringnanomaterials for regenerative medicine and drug delivery?
... that the finalists in tonight'sU.S. Open Cup Final both joinedMajor League Soccer as expansion teams during the 2017 season?
... that archaeologistPaul Pascon was aPied-Noir whose devotion to the situation of Moroccan peasants led him to take Moroccan citizenship?
... thatRyan Ashley Malarkey is the only woman to winInk Master in its first eleven seasons?
... that theAfrican hut tampan can transmitrelapsing fever in humans andAfrican swine fever in pigs?
... thatJill Martin was the only actor to appear in all threeWest End runs of the musicalMy Fair Lady?
... that Chicago'sWCLM radio was investigated for leasing an audio channel without permission to a service that broadcast horse racing results tobookies, later losing its license over other violations?

27 August 2019

12:00, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Robert M. Adam

... that in 1905, Scottish photographerRobert M. Adam(pictured) was among the last to photographMingulay island before it was abandoned?
... that in the nocturnalBattle of Kapetron, theByzantines in the flanks defeated theirSeljuk opponents, but on the next morning learned of theirGeorgian allies' defeat in the centre?
... thatCynthia Whitchurch's discovery of a novel role for DNA in nature is credited with creating aparadigm shift in the study ofbiofilms?
... that there has been a boom inLGBT+ cinema produced in Latin America, in contrast to its traditionally religious andmachismo culture?
... that historianCharles Henry Ambler earned his PhD using the first eight chapters of his book,Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776 to 1861, for his dissertation?
... that despite its reported disappearance from Britain and other European countries, thefountain spleenwort is still considered to have a stable population trend?
... that Slovak ice hockey refereeJuraj Okoličány translated the internationalice hockey rules into hisnative language?
... that the ancient Jewish text ofPerek Shirah asserts that spiders and rats praise God using verses fromPsalm 150?

00:00, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Silk funeral banner

... that the earliest-known paintings on fabric in China(example pictured) were artifacts of theChangsha Kingdom?
... thatHans-Georg Münzberg continued to work on the development of theSnecma Atar engine in France despite being a professor at theTechnical University of Berlin?
... that a $100-million donation to theCentral Park Conservancy in 2012 was the largest ever to New York City's park system at the time?
... thatAgnes Twiston Hughes was the first woman in Wales to qualify as a solicitor?
... that critics called the comedy adventure video gameThe Haunted Island "suitably goofy" and "pretty gosh darn rad"?
... that whenJessie Grayson played Mrs. Higbee inCass Timberlane, it was the first time an African-American had been addressed on screen by the honorific "Mrs."?
... that U.S. endocrinologistLewis E. Braverman found the reason for a Midwestern outbreak ofhyperthyroidism was contaminated ground beef?
... thatCharles X of France donated a painting of theincredulity of St Thomas by François Dubois toSt Thomas's Church in the small Scottish town ofKeith, Moray?
... that beforeGryan Miers was even drafted to anAustralian Football League club,Fox Sports labelled him one of the competition's "next big cult heroes"?

26 August 2019

12:00, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Ruspolia nitidula male

... that the bush cricketRuspolia nitidula(pictured) is commonly eaten in Uganda, where theprice per unit weight is periodically higher than that of beef?
... thatDorothy Olsen was one of only twelve American women certified for night flight in World War II?
... thatEthiopian Jews protesting police brutality in Israel used a slogan from theBlack Lives Matter movement?
... thatDonald Dean Jackson, known for his editing of theGeorge Washington papers, originally felt he did not have the proper background and hesitated to act in that capacity?
... that the operaBehold the Sun byAlexander Goehr, about theAnabaptists inMünster, was premiered in an abridged version in German, but theBBC aired it in full in English?
... thatYuri Korolev led theSoviet Union national ice hockey team's research group for 28 years while the team won 17 Ice Hockey World Championships and 7 Winter Olympic Games gold medals?
... that theLouisville Sinking Fund Building went from being slated for demolition to being listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in six years?
... thatR. K. Wilson, the surgeon behind the hoax"surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster, was later awarded theCroix de Guerre and theOrder of Orange-Nassau?

00:00, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Colonel Jason Fettig

... thatDonald Trump's official musical adviser isJason Fettig(pictured)?
... that whenEgon Schiele's paintingDämmernde Stadt was auctioned for US$24.6 million in 2018, the descendants of two former owners shared the proceeds?
... that a young woman who went missing in aRosemont, Illinois, hotel was laterfound dead inside a walk-in freezer?
... that therock parrot often nests in the old burrows of seabirds?
... that in 1968, students atColumbia University protested against their college's proposed construction of a gym atMorningside Park?
... that Chinese legal scholarSu Huiyu regardedcapital punishment as "irrational" and supported its eventual abolition?
... that minimalistcity-building gameIslanders deliberately omits features such as resource accumulation andtechnology research in order to focus on the coremechanic of building placement?
... that in 2001,Ben Kimondiu became the firstpacesetter to win theChicago Marathon?

25 August 2019

12:00, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Flat bottle with mailer

... thatGarçon Wines produces a wine bottle(pictured) designed to fit through a letter box?
... thatHermin Esser performed 14tenor roles at theBayreuth Festival dedicated exclusively to stageworks byRichard Wagner, beginning in 1966 asFroh and ending in 1981 asTristan?
... thatvoice actressYuki Nakashima is a public relations officer for Japan'sWakayama Prefecture?
... that the Scottish surgeonDavid Wallace was appointed to theOrder of St Michael and St George for his work in theBoer War and knighted for his work in WorldWar I?
... that theMaple River State Game Area contains the only knowninland salt marsh in the state ofMichigan?
... thatSophie Luff, who captained the boys' cricket team whilst at school, was named the "most promising young female cricketer" of 2015?
... that the different types ofcombined hormonal contraception include apill, apatch, aninjection, and avaginal ring?
... thatBetty Cantor-Jackson recorded over 1000 tapes of theGrateful Dead,Legion of Mary,Jerry Garcia Band, andOld & In the Way, but lost them when she could not pay the storage fees?

00:00, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Tomb of Imam Zamin

... that theQutb Minar complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Delhi, housesthe tomb(pictured) of one ofMuhammad's descendants?
... that every Saturday for decades,Miriam Butterworth protested against wars such as those in Nicaragua, Iran, and Iraq, as well as in opposition to nuclear arms?
... that theswamp musk shrew scrambles around among aquatic vegetation in the dark?
... thatAlejandro Finocchiaro, Argentina's current Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology, produced the 2008 documentaryMujeres de la Shoá ('Women of the Holocaust')?
... that the story of the legendary Christian saintsBarlaam and Josaphat is based on theGreat Renunciation of the Buddha?
... that footballerCraig Bellamy was the first player to score for seven different teams in thePremier League?
... thatWest Palm Beach, Florida, was the site of the2000 U.S. presidential election recount, which led to theBush v. Gore decision giving Florida's 25 electoral votes toGeorge W. Bush?
... that afterpyrimethamine wasprice-hiked by 5000 percent, Sydney University chemistsMatthew H. Todd andAlice Motion supportedthe high school students who showed it could be synthesised cheaply?

24 August 2019

12:00, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Greta Thunberg

... that unlikeThe 1975's previous eponymous songs, all of which use the same set of lyrics, theirfourth eponymous song is a spoken-word protest aboutclimate change byGreta Thunberg(pictured)?
... thatZhuo Renxi developed theanti-fog coating forMao Zedong's crystal coffin that is displayed inhis mausoleum?
... that strips of bark from theWest African copal are used to make beehives, while the flowers are attractive to bees?
... thatJohn Shearer was the second African-American staff photographer atLife and a neighbor of the first,Gordon Parks?
... that the original article describingBerlekamp's root finding algorithm did not contain aproof of correctness?
... thatWill Dismukes, a 29-year-old member of theAlabama House of Representatives, is also an ordained minister and former baseball player, and suffered a massive stroke at the age of 22?
... that a match at the2019 WPA World Ten-ball Championship was temporarily halted due to a fire alarm, but both players opted to play on?
... thatCharity Lamb was the first woman convicted of murder in theOregon Territory?

00:00, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Cannonball mangrove

... that thecannonball(pictured) andwhite-flowered black mangroves are among the ten species of mangrove listed asoccurring in Mozambique?
... that althoughSpitzeln was also called Germanl'Hombre, it had little more in common with the most successfulcard game ever invented than the fact that it was played by three players?
... that after a friend toldToni Sharpless 10 years ago today that she wastoo drunk to drive, Sharpless ordered her out of the car and has not been seen since?
... that the surveillance radar at theKürecik Radar Station in southeastern Turkey providesNATO missile defense in Europe?
... thatKris Knoblauch accumulated 298 wins over seven years as a head coach in the Canadian juniorice hockey leagues before becoming head coach of theHartford Wolf Pack?
... that the executive producer ofWomen of '69, Unboxed was a member of the 1969 all-woman graduating class ofSkidmore College, on which the film focuses?
... thatOlivier Latry, organist atNotre-Dame de Paris, played a concert atSt. Martin inLorch am Rhein in 2019?
... that some German child-rearing theorists of the 1970s tiedNazism andthe Holocaust to authoritarian, sadistic personalities produced by punitivetoilet training techniques?
... that British authorHarold Clunn saw the destruction done bythe Blitz as ablessing in disguise?

23 August 2019

12:00, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Kiwi engine fire-up

... that during the 1960s and 1970s,Project Rover tested nuclear-powered rocket engines(example pictured) at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station atJackass Flats?
... thatJörg Breiding, only the second leader of theKnabenchor Hannover in its 69-year history, conducted the choir and theCanadian Brass quintet in folk song arrangements in 2019?
... thatEdward Riegelmann was opposed to having theConey Island Boardwalk named after him?
... thatRathindranath Tagore, the first vice-chancellor ofVisva-Bharati University, initially became involved with the school at the urging ofhis Nobel Prize-winning father?
... thatMark Hamill had his first regular voice-acting job on the 1973 television seriesJeannie?
... that after their beloved Canadian leader,Captain Dyer, died, his Slavo-British unit took to carrying a massive portrait of him and would later murder all of the unit's other officers?
... that a solar-powered device for extracting water from the air, co-designed byEvelyn Wang, has been compared to the moisture vaporators inStar Wars?
... thattoxic vacuolation, the presence ofvacuoles inside certain types ofwhite blood cells, can be a sign ofsepsis?
... that whenVirginia suffragistAnna Whitehead Bodeker was not allowed to cast a ballot in the 1871 municipal election inRichmond, she put a note in the ballot box claiming her right to vote?

00:00, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Gentoo penguins on a
stamp by Leonard Fryer

... thatLeonard Fryer's designs included a stamp for the Falkland Islands featuringGentoo penguins(pictured)?
... that in 1994, the principal of Alabama'sRandolph County High School threatened to cancel theprom if interracial couples planned to attend?
... that according to legal theoristJiang Shigong, China has two constitutions?
... that New York City's 407-acre (165 ha)Shirley Chisholm State Park, named afterthe first black Congresswoman in the U.S., was created on a landfill?
... that Gujarati writerManilal Dwivedi was invited to present a paper at the 1893Parliament of the World's Religions, but was unable to attend due to financial constraints?
... that the toxic bark ofa Madagascan tree species has been used as a poison intrials by ordeal?
... that after traveling through India, Tibet, and the Qing Empire for more than 20 years, 18th-century Dutch explorerSamuel van der Putte ordered his notes and journals to be burned rather than accept their misuse?
... that theNaval Medical Research Unit Dayton moved to Ohio fromBethesda, Maryland, in part because their building was about to be lost to termites?

22 August 2019

12:00, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Yvette Lévy

... thatYvette Lévy(pictured) has returned to theAuschwitz concentration camp more than 200 times with students, to teach them about her experience at the camp where she survivedthe Holocaust?
... that when the Three Marias publishedNew Portuguese Letters as a direct challenge to Portuguese censors, they were arrested and the book was banned, leading to international protests?
... that during the 1960s,Harold Finger was in charge of the development of NASA'snuclear rocket andnuclear power systems, including generators left on the Moon byApollo missions?
... that there are no longer any chimpanzees inMarahoué National Park?
... thatfootballerRachel Rowe made her international debut forWales while still working as a guard in the prison service?
... that the structure ofnanoparticle cancer drugsaffects their function in such complex ways thatnanoinformatics approaches are useful?
... that among themusical roles performed byAnke Sieloff at theMusiktheater im Revier are Maria inWest Side Story, and a witch in the first German production ofThe Witches of Eastwick?
... that 50,000 years ago aNeanderthal defecated on an old campfire inEl Salt, Spain, and proved the Neanderthal diet also included plants?

00:00, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Pampa mesa inParcoloma, Ecuador

... thatindigenous people in the Ecuadorian highlands sometimes mark special occasions with apampa mesa(pictured), a communal meal eaten from a cloth spread on the ground?
... thatHelen Appo Cook, an African-American activist, publicly admonishedSusan B. Anthony in 1898 for failing to supportuniversal suffrage?
... that "Let Nature Sing", a single consisting of nothing but uneditedbird song, reachednumber one on the UK Singles Sales Chart?
... that a prize for contemporary art ofStyria is named afterViktor Fogarassy, the managing director of a department store?
... thatManresa Island inConnecticut was used by theJesuits as a retreat center before being developed as an electrical power plant?
... that Japanesevoice actressKanon Takao won an international piano competition when she was ten years old?
... that it is not known whether larvae ofDeretaphrus beetles spin their cocoons from their mouths or anal glands?
... thatAustralian rules footballerCallum Wilkie, who had been overlooked in four previous national drafts, was working as an accountant when he was selected bySt Kilda?

21 August 2019

12:00, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Konstantinos Smolenskis

... thatKonstantinos Smolenskis(pictured), a future general and hero of theGreco-Turkish War of 1897, was expelled from the Greek military academy byhis own father for unruly behaviour?
... that the2003 FIFA Women's World Cup was moved to the United States after theSARS outbreak in China, the original host?
... that Quaker abolitionistDavid Cooper's anonymously authored 1783 tract condemning slavery was distributed to theNew Jersey State Assembly, theConfederation Congress, andGeorge Washington?
... that theCozzi porcelain factory of Venice had a stock of 118,000 pieces by 1784, mostly old and out of fashion?
... that Polish philosopher and World War II resistance memberJan Gralewski likely died in the controversial1943 GibraltarB-24 crash?
... that despite their names, thegreater Egyptian gerbil and thelesser Egyptian gerbil are found across much of North Africa?
... that the sentence of 241 years given toBobby Bostic was the longest term of imprisonment ever handed down inMissouri to a juvenile for non-homicide offenses?
... thatWayne and Shuster poked fun at Canada'sStratford Festival witha skit about a baseball game where the manager, players, and umpires all speak in Shakespearean verse?

00:00, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

"The Last Caliph",Le Petit Journal,March 1924

... that after the 1924abolition of the Caliphate(illustration shown), numerous leaders vied unsuccessfully to resurrect the title of caliph for themselves?
... thatJames J. Mason Brown was the first paediatric surgeon to serve as president of theRoyal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh?
... thatFlat Rock Speedway's opening was delayed by a week after a raccoon drowned in its drainage system and rain led to track flooding?
... that new Austrian Finance MinisterEduard Müller began his career as a tax inspector?
... that in 1919a race riot broke out inNorfolk, Virginia, during a homecoming celebration for African-American veterans of WorldWar I?
... that the ItalianNicholas Laucella became principal flute of theNew York Philharmonic in 1909 whenGustav Mahler was chief conductor?
... that thelesser seedcracker enjoys rice and the large, hard seeds ofcarrycillo?
... that 18-year-oldGerda Hofstätter was given akey to the city ofAlthofen after winning Austria's firstEuropean Pool Championship?

20 August 2019

12:00, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Kristine M. Larson

... thatKristine M. Larson(pictured) and her research team were the first to demonstrate thatGPS could be used to detectseismic waves?
... that "The U.S. Air Force Blue" started as an advertisingjingle for United States Air Force recruitment advertisements?
... that the 6th-centuryLakhmid rulerAmr ibn Hind was killed by the poetAmr ibn Kulthum after Hind's mother had insulted Kulthum's mother?
... that in Cameroon, edible caterpillars are cultivated ondwarf red ironwood leaves?
... that Thai chefBo Songvisava was once asked by a visiting foreign chef about Thai food and realized she knew very little about it?
... thatKnut Nystedt wroteImmortal Bach as a scheme for many voices to sing the first line of Bach's "Komm, süßer Tod" simultaneously in differenttempi, meeting on the last word meaning peace?
... thatPerla Farías has createdtelenovelas, such asJuana la virgen andLa Reina del Sur, which avoid classic stereotypes?
... thatChurchill's Port was not bottled until 1982?

00:00, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

P. lutzii (yeast phase)

... thatdeforestation in Brazil could be linked to higher rates of the severe fungal infection caused byP. lutzii(pictured), aneglected tropical disease?
... thatChristel Boom passed information aboutNATO exercises toEast Germany for theStasi?
... that "A Rugrats Kwanzaa" was one of the first mainstream television episodes to featureKwanzaa?
... that the pianistErik Werba, professor at theWiener Musikakademie for four decades, is known as an accompanist oflieder singers?
... that theNamib brush-tailed gerbil uses ultrasonic whistles and foot drumming to communicate?
... thatHubert William Lewis was awarded theVictoria Cross after capturing three enemy soldiers and carrying an officer to safety despite being wounded twice?
... thatDeepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals usesGPS to track its vehicles transportingammonium nitrate, as the chemical has been used byNaxalites to create the explosiveANFO?
... that Chinese political scientistWang Shaoguang views Westernrepresentative democracy as a failure?

19 August 2019

12:00, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

A streetcar from Milan in the1987 Historic Trolley Festival

... that theSan Francisco Historic Trolley Festival featured streetcars from cities in Australia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, England, Germany, and Italy(pictured)?
... thatmanhua artistXia Da'sApril Story was published in 2003 before she had even graduated college?
... that by approvingselinexor, theFDA overruled a panel of independent experts that had voted 8–5 against the anti-cancer drug?
... that afterJohn R. Allan died, seven complete or partly-finished unpublished novels were found in his effects?
... that librettist Gerhard Müller and composerGeorg Katzer wroteAntigone oder die Stadt inEast Germany, but it premiered at theKomische Oper Berlin only afterreunification?
... that footage ofAnn Peterson diving was the first1968 Summer Olympics coverage to be aired byABC in the eastern United States?
... thatantelope grass can recover quickly afterwildfires even in the middle of the dry season?
... that pilotWalter Anderson and observerJohn Mitchell were hit by communist fire but landed, rescued two pilots, and took off with Mitchell on the wing and his fingers plugging their leaking tank?

00:00, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

The yellow dwarf on aNain Jaune game board

... that the classic French card game ofNain Jaune is named after the seven of diamonds, which is depicted as a yellow dwarf on the game board(pictured)?
... thatsumo wrestlerEnhō Akira is 50 kilograms (110 lb) lighter, and 15 centimetres (6 in) shorter, than most of his top division opponents?
... thatU.S. Border Patrol agents reported that somemigrant detainees at the U.S.–Mexico border in 2019 were housed in standing-room conditions for days or weeks?
... thatArudji Kartawinata left theMasyumi Party and reformed theIndonesian Islamic Union Party in exchange for a cabinet post?
... that theSorana bean is grown in such small quantities and is in such demand that it commands prices six to ten times higher than those of othercannellini beans?
... that in 1954,George Ian Scott became the first professor of ophthalmology in Edinburgh?
... that the sea anemoneAnemonia sulcata is known asortiguilla in southern Spain, where it is a popular seafood?
... that Turkishrace walkerMeryem Bekmez escaped the traditional social practice ofchild marriage for girls when her athletic abilities were discovered?

18 August 2019

12:00, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Christopher Nolan

... thatChristopher Nolan(pictured) wrote and directed ano-budget film titledDoodlebug as a student atUniversity College London?
... that Welsh international footballerPeyton Vincze discovered she was eligible to represent the nation only when a Welsh football club visited her town in the United States?
... that the large leaves ofMarantochloa purpurea are used for wrappingcola nuts to prevent them from becomingdesiccated?
... that afterWilliam Tarrant was sacked from the civil service ofBritish Hong Kong, he became a journalist and ran a 12-year-long vendetta that led to his imprisonment?
... thataccording to the U.S. Supreme Court,Medicare payment levels count as "substantive legal standards"?
... that the baritoneErnst Gerold Schramm was thevoice of Christ forKarl Richter in Bach'sSt John Passion andSt Matthew Passion?
... that in 1982,Brooks Resources, originally a subsidiary of theBrooks-Scanlon Lumber Company, donated 135 acres (55 ha) to helpDonald Kerr establish theHigh Desert Museum nearBend, Oregon?
... thatSylvia Stoesser was called the "nasal chemist" because she could often identify the ingredients in an unknown laboratory mixture by smelling it?

00:00, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Sagu served in a ramekin

... thatsagu(pictured) is a southern Braziliandessert made withtapioca balls that are extracted fromcassava, not fromsago palms?
... that in 1979, fifteen-year-oldLaura Michalek became the youngest athlete ever to win theChicago Marathon?
... that woollen fabrics have been produced at theKnockando Woolmill since the 18th century?
... that the score of the song "Sweet Little Woman o' Mine", composed byFloy Little Bartlett, was played in the 1925 silent filmThe Big Parade?
... that thecrimson seedcracker has twomorphs, large-billed and small-billed, but this trait is not related to sex, age, body size, or location?
... thatJohn Soothill gave "boy in the bubble syndrome" its formal name,severe combined immunodeficiency?
... that New York City'sEastern Parkway, built in the 1870s, is considered the world's first parkway designed for personal and recreational traffic while prohibiting commercial traffic?
... thatJohn Talbot White's last nature column before his death described a mouse escaping a weasel by jumping over its back?

17 August 2019

12:00, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Nanhaipotamon macau

... that the densely-populated territory ofMacau is home to a recently discovered, endemic species of freshwater crab of the genusNanhaipotamon(pictured)?
... that in 2017,Australian rules footballerTom Atkins laid 23 tackles in aVictorian Football League match, equalling the competition record?
... that New Jersey high school radio stationWHPH, itself shared between two schools, had to share time withanother high school radio station?
... thatArswendo Atmowiloto wrote around 20 books while imprisoned?
... that, following the1925 London County Council election, theLabour Party became the official opposition on the council for the first time?
... thatTerry Dempsey's songs reached number one in the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia, and his native South Africa?
... that the captain of theSS Grampian intentionally rammed an iceberg head-on so as to avoid theTitanic's fate?
... that chefAsma Khan's husband is not a fan of her food?

00:00, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Clyde Foster

... thatClyde Foster(pictured), a mathematician withNASA, persuaded former Nazi rocket scientistWernher von Braun to support a computer science program at historically blackAlabama A&M University?
... thatQueens at Heart, which features fourtrans women in the mid-1960s, has been called both a documentary and anexploitation film?
... thatGavin Arneil is credited with the near-eradication ofrickets in Glasgow?
... that the actors from the television dramaJamie Johnson competed at theGothia Cup international youth football tournament, reaching the quarter-finals?
... that despite being described as a "weak candidate",Arvind Sawant defeated his nearest competitor by more than 120,000 votes to represent theMumbai South constituency in the2014 Indian general election?
... that theMonument to the Fighters of the Revolution incorporates Russia's firsteternal flame?
... thatNicolas Joel, general manager of theParis Opera from 2009 to 2014, directed Wagner'sRing in 1979 after having assistedPatrice Chéreau forthe cycle's centenary?
... that in 1982, theKing of Janow, son of theQueen of Poland, moved to California?

16 August 2019

12:02, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Warming stripes for 1850 to 2018

... that a British climate scientist inventeda graphic(shown) depicting historical global temperatures using coloured stripes to portrayglobal warming to non-scientists?
... that PresidentGerald Ford delayed the signing ceremony for the 1974Jackson–Vanik amendment becauseMark E. Talisman's wife was in labor?
... thatthe only building in England designed by the artistPiet de Jong could be turned into aWetherspoons?
... that German physicianWolf-Dieter Montag was the inaugural recipient of thePaul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
... that theManhattan blackout of July 2019 occurred exactly 42 years after theNew York City blackout of 1977?
... that despite being the majority language in the Indonesian town of Belang before World War II, thePonosakan language had only four fluent speakers left in 2014?
... thatSuzy Dietrich was part of the first women's team to finish an international-standard 24-hourmotor race?
... that among the many uses ofErythrophleum ivorense andLannea welwitschii, trees growing inAssagny National Park, are rope-making, canoe-building and to poison fish?

00:00, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Célia Xakriabá

... that activistCélia Xakriabá(pictured) is the first individual of indigenous descent to represent indigenous Brazilians in theMinas Gerais Department of Education?
... that the historicCollingwood mansion in Virginia is expected to be demolished later this year?
... that British physicianDonald Irvine was the onlygeneral practitioner to have been a president of theGeneral Medical Council?
... thatBronx Park contains theBronx Zoo, theNew York Botanical Garden, and what is believed to be New York City's only remaining uncleared forest?
... thatAlice Evans was the first British female professionalfutsal player?
... that in 1946, Indonesian nationalist forcesburned half of Bandung and evacuated at least 200,000 civilians, preventing the British from capturing the city intact?
... that in 1845,Samuel Mulledy was thePresident of Georgetown College, a Jesuit institution, but five years later was expelled from theJesuit order?
... that the nickname ofa Russian submarine constructed from interconnected spheres comes froman animated circus animal made out of juggling balls?

15 August 2019

12:00, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Wächter der Goitzsche

... that policeman and artistAnatol created the outdoor iron sculpture seriesWächter, including a group guarding the environment(pictured) and a memorial to fallen police officers?
... thatLauren Price was the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal?
... that technology developed for use ininkjet printers helped make the automatedwhite blood cell differential, a common blood test, possible?
... thatGeorge Dashnau started the firstmail order delivery service that supplied human skulls?
... that thebrown-cheeked hornbill is among the eleven species of hornbillnative to Ivory Coast?
... thatAsamardhuni Jivayatra byTripuraneni Gopichand is regarded as the first psychological novel inTelugu?
... that Polish colonelAndrzej Marecki was one of the victims of the controversial1943 GibraltarB-24 crash?
... that U.S. Supreme Court JusticeSandra Day O'Connor preservedher house with skim milk?

00:00, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Barney Smith at his Toilet Seat Art Museum

... thatBarney Smith(pictured) was a pastor before opening a museum at his home dedicated totoilet seat art?
... that theAfrican giant shrew was first described from a mummified specimen found in an ancient Egyptian tomb?
... thatChance Rencountre is the first member of theOsage Nation to win a match in theUltimate Fighting Championship?
... that because thehalf-life ofberyllium-8 is less than 10⁻¹⁶ seconds, there is a bottleneck instellar nucleosynthesis that limits the abundance of heavierchemical elements?
... that having wanted to appear in aSailor Moon stage play since childhood,Momoyo Koyama was cast asSailor Mercury in a theatrical production of the series in 2014?
... that theSolicitor of Labor leads the second largest litigation department in the U.S. federal government?
... that in 1966, British journalistJohn Anderson led an expedition across the Atlantic to replicateLeif Erikson's voyage?
... thatthe bridge built to cross theRed Canal inSaint Petersburg now spans an entirely different watercourse?

14 August 2019

12:00, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Continental Currency dollar coin

... that theContinental Currency dollar coin(obverse pictured), the firstpattern coin of the United States, was designed byBenjamin Franklin?
... thatRaja ibn Haywa, an adviser to theUmayyad caliphs, supervised the financing for the construction of theDome of the Rock in Jerusalem?
... that theornate rainbowfish can survive in water as acidic as orange juice?
... thatMyrtle Driver Johnson can translate intoa language that has been declared to be in a state of emergency?
... that the albumOpen Here byField Music has what one band member calls "definitely the angriest songs I have ever written", inspired byBrexit?
... thatGreen Bay Packers lawyerGerald Francis Clifford served as assistantAttorney General of Wisconsin, was a delegate to theDemocratic National Convention, and lost a congressional election in 1934?
... that theSwan Canal, one of the oldest canals inSaint Petersburg, is crossed by theUpper andLower Swan Bridges, the former being one of the oldest stone bridges in the city?
... that according to legend,Gabriel Boughton treatedJahanara Begum's burns and in return received the right to free trade for theEast India Company from her fatherShah Jahan?

00:00, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Anna Eckstein

... thatAnna Eckstein(pictured) dressed in white and collected six million signatures to promoteworld peace before the First World War?
... that theNorthwestern Pacific Railroad interurban lines were the first use ofthird rail electrification in California?
... that as a surgeon,John Campbell had the right to sit unelected onEdinburgh Town Council?
... thatDardanus deformis is one of at least 24 species ofhermit crab that transfersea anemones to a new shell?
... thatGreen Bay Packers presidentEmil R. Fischer was also a nationally-recognized leader in theWisconsin cheese industry?
... that with his victory at the2004 24 Hours of Le Mans, DaneTom Kristensen became the first driver to win theendurance motor race five times in a row?
... thatRavindra Dave directedJesal Toral, one of the biggest hits ofGujarati cinema, to keep his production crew employed?
... that the British governmentexperimented on Berkshire residents in the 1950s?

13 August 2019

12:00, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Vezzi porcelain beakers

... that the third European factory to make "true"hard-paste porcelain(examples pictured) was theVezzi porcelain factory ofVenice, founded in 1720?
... thatAmbroise Ouédraogo, who became the firstBishop of Maradi, Niger, in 2001, has focused on dialogue with Islam?
... that all five components of theclimate system—air, water, ice, Earth's crust, and life—help determine Earth'saverage weather?
... that pool playerHan Yu did not celebrate after winning her first world championship?
... that theEthiopian white-footed mouse and theEthiopian forest brush-furred rat are two of the most abundant rodents in themontane forests of Ethiopia?
... thatElsie Joy Davison was Britain's first female director of an aircraft company and its first woman pilot to die in WorldWar II?
... that in its early years, New York City'sQ35 bus was considered unprofitable, despite charging a double fare for travel between two boroughs?
... that aftera Buddha statue was installed on anOakland trafficmedian, neighborhood crime dropped by 82 percent?

00:00, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Rose Hollermann

... thatRose Hollermann(pictured) was the youngest player on the Team USA women's wheelchair basketball team at the2016 Summer Paralympics?
... that theSahel bush sparrow, found in theOti Valley Faunal Reserve, is one of 676 species ofbird recorded in Togo?
... that American composerEunice Lea Kettering, who had almost 20,000 copies of her work published, started composing music at age six?
... that the sons ofPyotr Rumyantsev turned down the offer of a palace built at public expense to honour their father, in preference fora public monument?
... thatZhang Xu discovered the regulatory mechanisms insensory neurons foropioid receptors?
... that in one of the vigilantewitch-hunts in Nepal, an 18-year-old girl was dragged from her home and tortured for hours in public onInternational Women's Day 2018?
... thatMike Pringle andColin Bradley are credited with developing and institutingsignificant event audit (SEA) into primary care in the UK?
... thatUnbox Therapy sparkedApple's "Bendgate" controversy when host Lewis Hilsenteger used only his hands to bend hisiPhone 6 Plus?

12 August 2019

12:00, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Durant-Dort Factory Onein 2010

... thatDurant-Dort Factory One(pictured) inFlint, Michigan, is often considered the birthplace ofGeneral Motors?
... that pianistAlexandre Kantorow won the first prize, gold medal, and Grand Prix in the 2019International Tchaikovsky Competition, becoming the first French winner in the competition's history?
... thatKSOM inTucson, Arizona, suffered two transmitter fires in less than four years of broadcasting?
... thatGuðrún Björnsdóttir, a 20th-century Icelandic politician andwomen's rights activist, was at one time a milk vendor?
... that the nine balls ofParapivot come from nine different countries?
... thatHarold Forsyth, the Peruvian ambassador to Japan, is the father of aprofessional football player and husband of abeauty pageant queen?
... that sheep infected with the parasitic nematodeTeladorsagia circumcincta may suffer from protein deficiency?
... thatThe Twilight Zone episode "The New Exhibit" features axe-murderer and last pirate of New York,Albert W. Hicks?

00:00, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Weebill

... that theweebill(pictured), measuring 8 to 9 cm (3.1 to 3.5 in) long, is Australia's smallest bird?
... thatPaul Loicq from Belgium was the first European to be inducted into theHockey Hall of Fame?
... that theC train, described as the "least loved of New York City subway lines", still uses subway cars that date to the 1960s?
... that the North AfricanMuhammad ibn Rushayd befriended the futureGranadan vizierIbn al-Hakim when the two travelled toMecca forpilgrimage and study?
... thatCarlos Carrera'sEl héroe was the first Mexican entry to win theShort Film Palme d'Or, in 1994?
... that Norwegian violinistMari Samuelsen became a student ofArve Tellefsen by the age of four?
... thatColombian Supreme Court judgeAugusto Ibáñez Guzmán claimed that in 2008 a dozen armed men stormed his house to steal his personal computer?
... thatKarski's reports were the first comprehensive documents onthe Holocaust in Poland to reach thegovernment-in-exile?
... that a century after Irish antiquarianFrancis Joseph Bigger had revived theUlster Journal of Archaeology, sites he had dug were still being referred to as "well and truly Biggered"?

11 August 2019

00:00, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Wibke Bruhns

... thatWibke Bruhns(pictured), the first female German television news presenter, was a correspondent forStern in Jerusalem and wrote the biography ofher father, who was executed by the Nazis?
... that theMeers Fault inOklahoma was active during the last 3,000 years and features ascarp that reaches 16 feet (5 m) in height?
... thatNizamNasir-ud-Daulah established a modern revenue administration system inHyderabad State?
... that thequeen parrotfish feeds on the algae it scrapes from corals and other surfaces, resulting inbioerosion?
... thatKaren Saywitz developed "non-leading" techniques for interviewing child witnesses and victims?
... that theAtascadero Printery, founded byEdward Gardner Lewis, housed the firstrotogravure printing press in theWestern United States?
... that in 2011,Stephen J. Challacombe and colleagues laid out research challenges of global health inequalities and oral health, relating toTB,STDs,HIV, andNoma?
... that a0-year-old genderless fairy baby otter once threatened to "visit your house" with a baseball bat?

10 August 2019

02:00, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

[[File:|160px|Sports and exercises on theField of Mars,pre-1914 ]]

Sports and exercises on theField of Mars,pre-1914

... that over its 300 years, the area ofSaint Petersburg'sField of Mars has been a military parade ground, public meeting space, festival site, and location for sports and exercises(pictured)?
... that prolific British authorS. H. "Tim" Burton hand-wrote his books because he could not stand typewriters?
... thatimaging scientistKatie Bouman first learned of theEvent Horizon Telescope in 2007, while still in high school, and joined the project six years later?
... that the investigational drugSEP-363856 may represent a new class ofantipsychotics?
... that in addition to founding Tmura, an anti-discrimination center that advocates for women's rights,Yifat Bitton was shortlisted for Israel'sSupreme Court twice?
... that the mapleAcer beckianum was described from a piece of petrified wood found nearVantage, Washington, in 1954?
... that the 1813 sinking of the British warshipHMS Peacock was celebrated with a song byEliakim Doolittle?
... thatOttessa Moshfegh's second novel,My Year of Rest and Relaxation, was originally planned to focus on theSeptember 11 attacks?
... thatIna Kaplan was six months pregnant when she won three of the four 2014 German nationalpool championships?

9 August 2019

02:19, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Afsarwala tomb

... that the name of theAfsarwala tomb(pictured) translates as 'officer's tomb', but the identity of the occupant is unknown?
... thatGünther Leib, who often sang at theHalle Handel Festival, was called a "first rateBeckmesser" byThe New York Times when he first appeared at theMetropolitan Opera?
... thatElongatoolithus,Macroolithus, andNanhsiungoolithus were the first types offossil eggs to be given names in the modern classification system?
... that American academicAmy Wax graduated fromHarvard Medical School before becoming a lawyer?
... that thePampean flat-slab is an area oflow angle subduction in South America, associated with a large volcano-free gap in theAndean Volcanic Belt?
... thatStarting for the Hunt byAelbert Cuyp is an early example of anequestrian portrait of someone who was not a member of court?
... thatLionel Matthews was posthumously awarded theGeorge Cross for the courage he displayed while aprisoner of war?
... that following the release of "You Need to Calm Down",GLAAD reported an "influx" of $13 donations?

8 August 2019

00:00, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Sonny West in 2010

... thatSonny West(pictured), the co-writer ofBuddy Holly's hits "Oh, Boy!" and "Rave On", took 40 years to finish the follow-up songs?
... that fronds of the seaweedHalimeda tuna each consist of a single cell?
... that after fleeingChihuahua due to death threats,Patricia Mayorga dedicated her 2017CPJ International Press Freedom Award to two murdered journalists?
... that the Hong Kong commercial–residential high-riseOcean One has a concert hall on its first floor?
... that paediatric surgeonRobert Zachary and his colleagues improved the survival rate of babies withspina bifida from 10% to 90% by operating within hours of birth?
... that in 2015,Nanjing Golden Dragon Bus announced a joint research agreement withSan Diego State University to develop electric batteries and other technologies?
... that Turkey'sAksungurMALE UAV has a designed maximum payload nearly four times that of its predecessor?
... that footballerAlice Griffiths represented Wales for the first time after playing as the only girl in an otherwise all-boys league?

7 August 2019

00:00, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

The Carron Bridge arching overtheRiver Spey

... that theCarron Bridge(pictured) was the last cast-iron railway bridge to be built and used in Scotland?
... thatIsoldé Elchlepp began her career as aprotest song singer and later appeared as Wagner'sOrtrud at theBayreuth Festival and as Schoeck'sPenthesilea at theStaatsoper Hannover?
... that an inscription at thetomb of Isa Khan claims that it is an "asylum of paradise"?
... thatMurtaja Qureiris, the youngestpolitical prisoner in Saudi Arabia, is a member of theShia minority who may face execution for taking part in anti-government protests when he was 10 years old?
... that theCreole Petroleum Corporation's 1956 propaganda filmAssignment: Venezuela sought to convince American oil workers that the anti-capitalist military dictatorship had embraced the American way of life?
... thatWilliam Pope created "the first comprehensive, well executed pictorial record of Canadian birds"?
... that ina 2019 court case, theUS Supreme Court ruled thatWyoming's statehood did not void theCrow Tribe's right to hunt on unoccupied lands?
... thatCharles Clarke acted as a watcher forThe Great Escape and helped forge papers for the escapees?

6 August 2019

00:00, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Mary Robinson Foster

... that philanthropistMary Robinson Foster(pictured) was known as the first HawaiianBuddhist?
... thatLawrence of Arabia's plan to install theSharif of Mecca's sons as rulers in what became modern Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and western Saudi Arabia was only partially successful?
... that in 1599,Henry IV of France appointedHumphrey Bradleymaître des digues du royaume ('master of dykes of the kingdom'), giving him an effectivemonopoly of alldyking andland reclamation work in France?
... that the 2018 art installationWe Come in Peace was described as "eerie, other, unnerving, ambiguous, even alarming"?
... thatGordon Bell was awarded theMilitary Cross 31 years before becoming president of theRoyal Australasian College of Surgeons?
... that critics found the couch gag ofThe Simpsons episode "Dad Behavior" "pretty darned grim" and "bleak", as all but one of the Simpsons die during its otherwise familiar title sequence?
... that a biography ofJoel Roberts Poinsett, co-authored byCharles Lyon Chandler, went unpublished after two others came out the same year?
... that during thePeasants' Revolt, Margery Starre danced with a mob that sackedCorpus Christi College, Cambridge, and burnt its charters, shouting: "Away with the learning of clerks, away with it!"?

5 August 2019

00:00, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Dry mouth

... that theChallacombe scale assesses the severity of adry mouth(illustration shown)?
... thatJeanne Laisné appeared as Aurore in the 1894 world premiere ofMassenet'sLe portrait de Manon, a sequel to hisManon?
... thata clandestinely-distributed poem about theKurds became aUkrainian symbol of national revival and resistance against the Soviet Union?
... that afterJosephine Groves Holloway's petition to form an officialGirl Scout troop for African-Americans was rejected, she formed her own troop and encouraged her friends to do the same?
... that theKivu Ebola epidemic was declared aPublic Health Emergency of International Concern on 17 July?
... that at a young age, German TV personalityRanga Yogeshwar learnedKannada,Hindi, andMalayalam in order to communicate with his housekeeper, teacher, and gardener, respectively?
... that thenew pine knot-horn is a serious pest ofmaritime pine plantations?
... that Americancollage artistEunice Parsons, who turns 103 today, is the last of the "Northwest Matriarchs of Modernism"?

4 August 2019

00:00, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Mexico–United States barrier inSmuggler's Gulch

... that trash, sediment, and debris fromTijuana flow into the United States throughSmuggler's Gulch(pictured)?
... thatJohann Münzberg ran leading textile factories inBohemia and promoted the building of theEmpress Elisabeth Bridge over theElbe?
... thatWBUZ and four other operating radio stations lost theirFCC licenses as a result of the owner being convicted of felonies?
... thatMother Berry, a jockey who rode disguised as a man, earned her nickname after she adopted a runaway child?
... that theChief Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation investigates bothNazi crimes andcommunist crimes?
... thatNing Bin, who won a national special prize for his contribution to theBeijing–Shanghai high-speed railway, died in a traffic accident?
... that the treeHumbertia madagascariensis, whose durable timber is used in heavy construction, is a member of themorning glory family?
... that HollywoodfurrierWillard H. George was known as "thechinchilla industry's greatest friend"?

3 August 2019

00:00, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Arthur Sullivan

... thatArthur Sullivan(pictured) was awarded theVictoria Cross for rescuing four drowning soldiers under fire during theNorth Russia intervention in 1919?
... that the excavatedAsthall barrow was found to contain a high-statusAnglo-Saxon burial?
... that East GermanUdo Zimmermann composed his fifth opera,Die wundersame Schustersfrau, based on a Spanish play byFederico García Lorca, on a commission for the West GermanSchwetzingen Festival?
... thatCharles H. Stonestreet received theFirst Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1852 asPresident of Georgetown University?
... thatDioscorea chouardii is known from a single crag in the Pyrenees and has been monitored using scaffolding and telescopes?
... that since 2001, street artistJohn Hamon has postered and projected his image on the buildings of Paris and 76 other cities around the world?
... that prior to the firsttown council elections inLoxahatchee Groves, Florida, a political forum for the candidates was hosted at anudist resort?
... that English theatre historian "Popie" calledRobert Michaelis "one of the very best performersDaly's ever had"?
... that, described as being "cursed",Rispin Mansion was variously used as aSWAT practice ground, a residence, a real-estate showroom, aghost hunting site, and anunnery?

2 August 2019

00:00, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Wilhelmine and Heinrich Lübke withQueenSirikit of Thailand

... thatWilhelmine Lübke(pictured, center), who joined her husband, President of West GermanyHeinrich Lübke, on more than 50 state visits, was fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian?
... that theUptown Hudson Tubes in New York City were constructed with sharp curves to avoid the demolition of preexisting basements?
... thatZhang Xu played a major role in developingfiber-optic communication in China?
... that many residents who were relocated prior to the filling ofLake Kossou were able to return to their land when the reservoir failed to reach full capacity?
... that American historianPamela Nadell traced the origins of the first agitations for a female rabbi to a short story published in 1889?
... thatAssam Petro-Chemicals became the first Indian company to sellmethanol as cooking fuel?
... that the first episode of thefirstDoctor Who series had to be rerecorded because theTARDIS doors would not close?
... that Japanese pool playerNaoyuki Ōi once responded to a question asked at a press conference with lyrics from the comedy song "Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen"?
... that the Mongols were advised toinvade Sakhalin island in 1273 by marching across the frozenStrait of Tartary?

1 August 2019

00:00, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Fire at theUniversal Music Group warehousein 2008

... that the2008 Universal fire(pictured) may have destroyed the audiomaster tapes of up to half a million songs?
... thatKent Angus, a Canadian businessman andPaul Loicq Award winner, incorporated hidden details intohockey jerseys for Team Canada and other countries at the2010 Winter Olympics?
... thatPuke Ariki, the name for the combined library and museum inNew Plymouth, New Zealand, isMāori for "hill of chiefs"?
... that on June 29, Major GeneralLaura Yeager became the first woman to command an infantry division in the United States Army?
... thatJohn Rutter wrote the text and music ofA Clare Benediction for choir and orchestra to honourClare College, Cambridge, where he had studied?
... thatfalguera, a plant known from only one valley in Spain, is threatened by rock climbers and by road maintenance?
... that thirty million copies of the university textbook compiled byXu Zhongyu have been printed?
... that hundreds of stockbrokers protested outside theBombay Stock Exchange demanding removal of theBig Bull after the market crashed?

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