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31 May 2021

Cut glass punchbowl, 1895
30 May 2021

Philipp Harnoncourt in the chapel in 2017
- ... thatPhilipp Harnoncourt(pictured) initiated the restoration ofa Gothic chapel with a triangle floorplan, originally dedicated to theTrinity and reopened onTrinity Sunday 2020?
- ... that at 100,Eric Tweedale is the oldest living Australian rugby international player?
- ... that the editor of thePixar filmSoul directed its prequel short film22 vs. Earth?
- ... that social workerMary Treglia died before the Mary J. Treglia Urban Renewal Project razed the neighborhood of immigrants inSioux City, Iowa, whom she had helped?
- ... thatPop Smoke's debut albumShoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon was released nearly five months after his death?
- ... that a proposal was made to build a shoe factory onWaterloo Park?
- ... that Irishassociation footballerMargaret Saurin later worked as a coach in the US?
- ... that while the current record-holdinggiant pumpkin weighed 2,624.6 lb (1,190.5 kg), an ideal pumpkin could grow up to 20,000 lb (9,100 kg)?

Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid
29 May 2021

Meeri Kalavainen

USS LST-1081
28 May 2021

219 East 49th Street

Chris Colfer
27 May 2021

Pipe organ of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin
26 May 2021

A Boy with a Flying Squirrel

Photograph of a man by Rashid Mahdi
25 May 2021

Henderson Hall
24 May 2021

Kerttu Saalasti
23 May 2021

Sculpture of Lady Katharine Berkeley
22 May 2021

Serpent eel
21 May 2021

George Mogridge
20 May 2021

President Bush waving from the train outside
Bowling Green during his whistle-stop campaign
19 May 2021

Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art
18 May 2021

488 Madison Avenue
17 May 2021

Florence Jepperson Madsen
16 May 2021

Comstock mealybug infestation
- ... that in a 1980 Japanese study, virgin female adultComstock mealybugs(examples pictured) were taken from pumpkins so that scientists could extract theirsex pheromone to capture the males?
- ... that the2021 FA Cup Final between Leicester City and Chelsea today is expected to be the first football match in England with more than 8,000 supporters since March 2020?
- ... that construction site visits for theDenny Centre in Seattle were conducted through360-degree video for the Canadian developer due to theCOVID-19 pandemic?
- ... thatOrvokki Kangas authored six books, including a novel, memoirs, and religious devotionals, after she left theFinnish parliament at the age of 61?
- ... thatRuss Ford developed theemery ballpitch and taught it toEd Sweeney andEarle Gardner, who taught it toCy Falkenberg, before it was banned byMajor League Baseball whenRay Keating was caught using it?
- ... thatA Question of Love was widely regarded as a bold film for portraying homosexuality, a rare topic for television dramas in 1978?
- ... that 47,000 bodies fromLafayette Cemetery in Philadelphia were reinterred to allow for the construction of a playground?
- ... thatMiroslav Fryčer's wish for his former head coachJohn Brophy to be fired after scoring two goals against theToronto Maple Leafs came true that same month?
15 May 2021

Place Marie de Hongrie, Mariembourg
14 May 2021

Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Mathura
13 May 2021

Kate Lutkins
12 May 2021

Columnar basalt at Cape Stolbchaty, Russia
11 May 2021

Prince Philip's personal standard
- ... that thestandard of the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh(pictured), contains references to his status as a former prince of Greece and Denmark, and his title as Duke of Edinburgh?
- ... thatSarah Zettel wrote her first short story at the age of 20 and it was published inAnalog Science Fiction and Fact five years later?
- ... thatOntario's last German-language newspaper, theBerliner Journal, was forced to publish in English in 1918 after the Canadian government prohibited German publications?
- ... that whenRisa Tsumugi was hired to be the disc jockey and rapper for the bandRaise A Suilen, she had no prior experience in either disc jockeying or rapping?
- ... that one of the first two women diagnosed withtetrasomy X was living semi-independently 26 years after her diagnosis, instead of in an institution?
- ... thatIrma Toivanen, who was part of a group of Finnish volunteer medics during World War II, helped make a film about the group six decades later?
- ... that the1972 invasion of Uganda was described by a historian as "one of those rare events in military history. A perfect failure."?
- ... thatacid house music promoterTony Colston-Hayter directed people to his countrysideraves by answerphone messages?

Arthur Kopit
10 May 2021

Morton Feldman

Animation showing the flooding of the Long Sault rapids
9 May 2021

Isabelle Andréani as Carmen
8 May 2021

Great hornbill with a casque

Sudanese woman with facial scarification
7 May 2021

Adelaide Level lead mine at Arn Gill

Rosa von Milde
6 May 2021

Spherical concretion on Ward Beach

Róża Maria Goździewska
5 May 2021

Interior courtyard of the Currency Building
- ... thatKolkata'sCurrency Building(pictured) has housed theAgra Bank, an office for the issue and exchange of currency, theReserve Bank of India, and a public art museum?
- ... thatVieno Simonen was first elected to theFinnish parliament in 1948, ten years after she was widowed with seven children?
- ... thatLangston Hughes allowed his poem "Mississippi–1955", written in response toEmmett Till's lynching, to be republished in all newspapers that wanted to?
- ... thatChris Horn, founder of the NASDAQ-listedIONA Technologies, was still living with his wife and four children in a three-bedroomsemi-detached house at a time when his net worth exceeded 300 million dollars?
- ... that the Los Angeles restaurantEl Cholo Spanish Cafe is credited with introducing theburrito to the U.S.?
- ... that the fossil torchwood genusBarghoornia was named in honor of paleobotanistElso Barghoorn?
- ... thatFrederic Growse finished the first complete and illustrated English translation of theRamayana ofTulsidas in 1883?
- ... that the playKarl Marx in Kalbadevi depicts an imaginary visit by Marx toKalbadevi, the hyper-capitalist area of Mumbai, India?

"The finest two acres of private garden" in Scotland
4 May 2021

Linn Sömskar

Model of theFlying Dutchman
- ... that theFlying Dutchman(model pictured), a locomotive powered by a horse on a treadmill, could carry 12 passengers at speeds of around 12 miles per hour (19 km/h)?
- ... that toy manufacturer siblingsNick,Anna, and Mat Mowbray boughtCoatesville mansion nearAuckland, New Zealand, forNZ$32.5 million when they were in their early thirties?
- ... thatsafe listening prevents risks to hearing from voluntary sound exposure rather than unwanted noise?
- ... that "Kiss Me More"interpolates the melody from "Physical" byOlivia Newton-John?
- ... that a report byWitold Pilecki, a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz, was translated into English in 2012 asThe Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery?
- ... that Facebook has estimated that fake news reached 126 million voters onsocial media in the 2016 United States presidential election?
- ... that one of theCehennemağzı Caves in northwestern Turkey features a very old Christian church, which was used as a secret place of worship in thefirst years of Christianity?
- ... that geographerJohn Fraser Hart does not use a computer, preferring to type emails on his typewriter and have an assistant re-type them digitally?
3 May 2021

Hercules ant
- ... that in North America, theHercules ant(pictured) tends aphids, as well as the larvae of thesilvery blue butterfly?
- ... thatFour Arguments for the Elimination of Television is the first book that collects information from various sources to determine how the wide availability of television affects society?
- ... that after theBBC suspended its regular programming following thedeath of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the broadcaster received criticism for its continuous coverage of the event?
- ... thatAaron Nola was the firstPhiladelphia Phillies pitcher since 1989 to make his major league debut the year after he was drafted?
- ... that the live-action television drama adaptation ofKakafukaka was the first show broadcast onMBS's programming block, Drama Tokku?
- ... that for his 2015 muralMutual Entanglements, artistSandeep Mukherjee instructed the gallery to install the 10 panels in whatever order and orientation they wanted?
- ... that the president of thePalestine Oriental Society was of the opinion that the monuments and antiquities of Palestine belonged to the Palestinians?
- ... that on Christmas Eve in 1917, LieutenantCedric Naylor and some of his crew remained aboard their sinking ship so they could fire upon the submarine that had torpedoed her?

72nd Street station original entrance
- ... that the original entrance to New York City's72nd Street station(pictured) was once called "a miserable monstrosity as to architecture" and recommended for demolition?
- ... that the 2011 single "Chic C'est la Vie" byLuann de Lesseps was called "stunningly un-self-aware and over the top" by a critic?
- ... thatPhiladelphia Phillies backupcatcherAndrew Knapp changed his number in 2018 to honorRoy Halladay and then a second time in 2020 to honorDick Allen?
- ... that inOpen Wounds,Vicken Cheterian argues that "by censoring the Armenian Genocide, its impact, traces and consequences do not simply disappear. It continues in various forms"?
- ... that actressBertha Belmore starred in theZiegfeld Follies of 1925 withW. C. Fields andWill Rogers?
- ... that Class 1 protected forests inSabah, such asTenompok Forest Reserve,Tawai Forest Reserve,Binsuluk Forest Reserve, andUlu Telupid Forest Reserve, are threatened by encroaching agriculture, illegal logging, and man-made fires?
- ... that Canadian geneticistPhyllis McAlpine was among the first to promote a unified gene nomenclature system and helped found theHUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee?
- ... that there is amountain of gold in French Guiana?
2 May 2021
- ... thatSussex Drive(pictured) forms part of a ceremonial route used by foreign dignitaries and royal visitors to Canada?
- ... thatMikoto Misaka, a fictional character fromA Certain Magical Index, inspired the name ofBilibili, a real-life streaming service?
- ... that theFuller Building, with a black granite base and limestone tower, has been called "the Brooks Brothers of Art Deco"?
- ... that in 1908,Louisa Wilkins went toDamascus without local language skills, wearing long skirts and riding side saddle?
- ... thatKanye West andSpike Jonze expanded a music video for "See You in My Nightmares" into the filmWe Were Once a Fairytale?
- ... thatRumahis ibn Abd al-Aziz, the governor ofPalestine for CaliphMarwan II, escaped toIslamic Spain where he became governor ofAlgeciras andSidonia?
- ... that theChristuskirche, a German Protestant parish church in Paris completed in 1894, has been a venue for performances of Bach'sChristmas Oratorio?
- ... that theCloud9League of Legends division won back-to-backLeague of Legends Championship Series titles in their first two seasons of existence?

Detail from Matilda de Bailleul's illuminated psalter
1 May 2021

Charles A. Bevilacqua