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30 November 2019
- 00:00, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Gongnyong Ridge
29 November 2019
- 00:00, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Opening night of the film
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
28 November 2019
- 00:00, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Eugen Ernst
27 November 2019
- 00:00, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Painting of lotus flowers
and birds by Li Yin
26 November 2019
- 00:00, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Front view of Rye station
25 November 2019
- 00:00, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Flag flown by the NAACP
24 November 2019
- 00:00, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Dulan village elders performing
at the 2016 Amis Music Festival
- ... that Taiwan'sAmis Music Festival(performers pictured) does not publish its schedule in advance, preferring to focus attention on the overall theme of aboriginal heritage rather than individual performers?
- ... that American diplomatGeorge Kent speaksUkrainian,Russian, andThai, as well as somePolish,German, andItalian?
- ... thatRed Dead Redemption 2 features1,200 actors and 500,000 lines of dialogue?
- ... that in 2005, multidisciplinary artistSerge Rezvani married actressMarie-José Nat, whom he had first met nearly half a century before?
- ... thatThe Boring Company plans to usecar elevators to lower cars into its proposed undergroundHyperloop system?
- ... that tropical ecologistWinifred Hallwachs helped develop and expand theÁrea de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica, which is now a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site?
- ... that in 1972, theSchools Action Union organised two strikes by schoolchildren in London?
- ... that the main shrine of theHarshat Mata Temple depicts a royal figure and his consorts engaged in amorous activities?
23 November 2019
- 00:00, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
- ... thatFred Rogers's 1969 testimony(video shown) resurfaced in 2012 and 2017 to counter calls for defundingPBS and similar non-profit arts-related organizations?
- ... thatBenjamin Britten, who composedA Hymn of St Columba for the 1,400th anniversary ofSaint Columba's voyage toIona, wanted it sung "with fire"?
- ... that nurse and suffragetteMary Bartlett Dixon helped establish the first hospital inEaston, Maryland?
- ... that the male of the hoverfly speciesSyritta pipiens darts sharply in flight to facilitate mating?
- ... thatMustafa Güzelgöz was called the "Librarian with Donkey" as he circulated hundreds of books among villagers inÜrgüp, Turkey, on the back of a donkey?
- ... that theIsaac T. Hopper House, built during the development of one of New York City's wealthiest neighborhoods, is now ahalfway house for women?
- ... that Japanese fetish artistNamio Harukawa contributed artwork to aBDSM pulp magazine while still in high school?
- ... that in 1998 a buyer of Colorado radio stationKGRE risked his entire savings and maxed out seven credit cards to acquire it?
22 November 2019
- 00:00, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
21 November 2019
- 00:00, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Tamara Vrooman
20 November 2019
- 00:00, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Gara Medouar
- ... that a film set forThe Mummy was built atGara Medouar(pictured), an 11th-century fortress on a rock plateau nearSijilmasa, Morocco?
- ... that theWilliam Ulmer Brewery, the first brewery to be designated a New York City landmark, produced up to 3,200,000 U.S. gal (12,000,000 L) of beer per year?
- ... that withDanielle Dithurbide's appointment to anchor the morning newscast onLas Estrellas, a majority of Mexican news broadcasterNoticieros Televisa's news programs are hosted by women?
- ... that theRacecourse Ground, which hashosted more Wales home international matches than any other stadium, is the oldest stadium in the world still hosting international football fixtures?
- ... that Kurdish civil engineer and politicianHevrin Khalaf, who worked for tolerance among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the2019 Turkish offensive into Syria?
- ... thatSt. Charles College in Louisiana was the firstJesuit college established in the southern United States?
- ... that in addition to writing operas that premiered inPorto and Paris, Italian classical organist and composerFrancesco Filidei has collaborated with a singer-songwriter on a theatrical show?
- ... that soldiers were reduced to eating rats during theSiege of Masaka?
19 November 2019
- 00:00, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Page from Bach's
Credo,
revised by C. P. E. Bach
- ... thatmusicologistUwe Wolf conductedX-ray research to distinguishJ. S. Bach's handwriting in the score of hisMass in B minor from changes made by his son,Carl Philipp Emanuel(revised page pictured)?
- ... that in 1939, alert workers at West Virginia radio stationWBLK saved equipment from a devastating fire, and the station returned to the air within 45 minutes to report the blaze?
- ... that the diaries ofJames Humphreys, the "Emperor of Porn", were used to convict thirteen members of theMetropolitan Police Force of accepting his bribes?
- ... thatCalvert Vaux Park, named afterthe landscape architect found dead in a nearby bay, is largely made of landfill from the construction of theVerrazzano Bridge?
- ... thatXie Gaohua established theYiwu Market, which has grown into the world's largest small commodities market?
- ... that the last British troops left India in 1948, post independence, from theGateway of India?
- ... thatOrder of Canada recipientThelma Finlayson wasSimon Fraser University's first professor emerita?
- ... thatA. N. Wilson describedOxford'sClarendon Shopping Centre when it opened as "the most grotesquely horrible building I have ever seen"?
18 November 2019
- 00:00, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Female black-capped tanager
17 November 2019
- 00:00, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Naoshi Kanno
16 November 2019
- 00:00, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

John Ystumllyn
15 November 2019
- 00:00, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Michigan Firehouse Museum
14 November 2019
- 00:00, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Walk-in-the-Water
- ... thatWalk-in-the-Water(pictured), which made her maiden voyage fromBuffalo toDetroit in 1818, was the first steamboat to run on LakesErie,Huron, andMichigan?
- ... thatManisha Moun kept herboxing interest a secret from her father until he read in a newspaper that she had won a medal?
- ... that in hisPurcell Realizations,Benjamin Britten created arrangements for voice and piano of songs byHenry Purcell, as a commemoration of the 250th anniversary in 1945 of Purcell's death?
- ... thatAnne C. Morel was the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics at theUniversity of Washington?
- ... thatShinori Fort inHokkaido was twice sacked by theAinu?
- ... that businessmanDelford M. Smith acquired theSpruce Goose for theEvergreen Aviation & Space Museum inMcMinnville, Oregon?
- ... that subjects ofVenezuelan films of the 1890s includea dentist pulling teeth in a hotel anda man getting into a brawl with a stagecoach driver?
- ... that botanistGeorge R. Proctor collected more than 55,000 specimens, had 31 species named after him, and was convicted of a conspiracy to murder his wife?
13 November 2019
- 00:00, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

John A. Barnes III
12 November 2019
- 00:00, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
11 November 2019
- 00:00, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Lois Ellen Frank
10 November 2019
- 00:00, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
9 November 2019
- 00:00, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Tumour cells in peripheralblood smear
8 November 2019
- 00:00, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Robert Hunter
7 November 2019
- 00:00, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Xia Peisu
- ... thatXia Peisu(pictured), the "mother of computer science" in China, and her husbandYang Liming, who helped explainmagic numbers, were elected to theChinese Academy of Sciences at the same time?
- ... thatSeneca Village, a community composed mainly of free black people, was destroyed in the 1850s to make way for New York City'sCentral Park?
- ... that German engineerHermann Oestrich became a Knight of theLegion of Honour for developing theSnecma Atar turbojet engines?
- ... that just three years after starting radio stationWESQ,North Carolina Wesleyan College sold it, partly because of a failure to integrate the station into its curriculum?
- ... thatJames Brown, a visually impairedParalympian, recently climbed atop an aeroplane to protest against government inaction onclimate change?
- ... that theSociety of Gentleman Practisers in the Courts of Law and Equity sought to increase the fees payable to solicitors and attorneys, which had been fixed for more than a century?
- ... thatPresident of Georgetown UniversityLawrence C. Gorman worked to have the first black students admitted as undergraduates?
- ... that one user said ofJOSS, an interactive programming system atRAND, "it's better than beer"?
6 November 2019
- 00:00, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Lang Ayre
5 November 2019
- 00:00, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Michael Hargrave with other
medical students who assisted
at Bergen-Belsen
- ... that in 1945, British medical studentMichael Hargrave(pictured, second from right) volunteered to provide assistance in the Netherlands, but was sent to help survivors atBergen-Belsen concentration camp instead?
- ... thatToki Pona, aconstructed language devised in 2001, uses only around 120 to 125 root words?
- ... thatRamatoulie DK Sanneh, The Gambia's first woman general, has campaigned against gender-based violence?
- ... thatRamin Djawadi was nominated for aPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for an episode of theWestworld season 2 soundtrack, but lost out to his own work onGame of Thrones season 7?
- ... thatJiang Weipu has been called the "patron saint oflianhuanhua"?
- ... that theassassin bugRhynocoris longifrons will feed on moth larvae in preference tosap-sucking pests?
- ... thatMikhail Semyonov swapped a career in mining for one in politics, rising to the position of Chairman of thePeople's Khural of Buryatia?
- ... thatMill Creek, Washington, was not named after a mill or a creek?
4 November 2019
- 00:00, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Brants's whistling rat
- ... thatBrants's whistling rat(illustration shown) seldom ventures more than 30 cm (12 in) from one of the many entrances to its burrow?
- ... thatKhema, one of the Buddha's chief female disciples, attainedenlightenment before even becoming a nun?
- ... that none of the people who established North Carolina radio stationWVSP had any prior experience in radio broadcasting?
- ... that Hungarian pianistsMárta Kurtág andher husband performed together for 60 years, often from his collection entitledJátékok ('Games')?
- ... that Brazil was the only country with an exhibit at the 1918Bronx "World's Fair"?
- ... that RabbiShimon Baadani, a senior leader of Israel'sShas party, once said that those who did not vote for the party would go to hell?
- ... that theSierra de Ajusco-Chichinauhtzin mountain range in Mexico is made up of more than one hundred volcanic cones?
- ... thatErnest Graves Jr. was one of four generations of his family to go toWest Point, all of whom graduated first or second in their class?
3 November 2019
- 00:00, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Mother Poulard in front of her restaurant
2 November 2019
- 00:00, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
[[File:|212px|Protesters in Hong Kong ]]
Protesters in Hong Kong
1 November 2019
- 00:00, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Shey, the capital of Maryul