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30 April 2011

18:00, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the French Government issued a postage stamp(pictured) bringing attention to the theft ofCézanne'sThe Card Players in 1961?
... that a 17th-centuryYemeniOrphans' Decree requiring the conversion of orphans toIslam was still being enforced as late as 1948?
... thatWilhelmine Reichard, the firstGerman womanballoonist, fell unconscious at 7,800 metres (25,600 ft) during her third flight in 1811 and crash-landed in a forest?
... that onApril 15, 2011,United States v. Scheinberg resulted in the end ofonline poker play forUnited States residents on the three online poker sites that account for approximately 95% of the market?
... that despite being told by doctors that he might never walk again, British swimmerGraham Edmunds has won twoParalympic gold medals in world record times?
... that as many as 6,400 human and animal illustrations, includingBir Hima Rock Petroglyphs and Inscriptions, have been recorded inSaudi Arabia's southwestNajran area?
... thatMormon bigamistWarren Jeffs spent a year in a prison calledPurgatory?

12:00, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatSir Winston Churchill'sAmerican grandfather paid$125,000 for a new luxurysteam yacht,Clara Clarita(pictured), that could only manage a speed of½mph (0.8km/h)?
... that the inscription onLeoš Janáček's gravestone was inspired by his choral compositionThe Wandering Madman?
... that theUnlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 was reportedly voted on without anycommittee members reviewing the actual language?
... that despite questions about the suitability of hisbatting temperament,three of Andrew Strauss's centuries are among the five highest scores byEngland batsmen inODI cricket?
... thatCivic Commons is anorganization reducing governmentIT costs withopen source technology?
... thatBrigadierPhilip Hicks, the commander of anairborne brigade, had to swim ashore during theAllied invasion of Sicily?
... that clips ofVHS tapes from the websiteEverything is Terrible! include how to massage a cat, an anti-pedophilia yellow dinosaur, and a direct-to-video crime drama featuringJay Leno?

06:00, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theWilma Dykeman RiverWay Plan(pictured) is a 17-milegreenway system designed to encourage economic development and multi-modal transportation along theFrench Broad River?
... thatRyan Bourque, son ofHockey Hall of Famer Ray Bourque, has won four medals, including two gold medals, with Team USA inInternational Ice Hockey Federation tournaments?
... thatBarranquilla is the fourth most populous city ofColombia?
... that recently retired Fr.Daniel Coughlin was the firstCatholic priest to serve asChaplain of the United States House of Representatives?
... that the offices ofAir India were attacked as part of the violentreaction to the Babri mosque demolition inPakistan andBangladesh?
... that the "Irish of Vincennes", threeIrish nationals arrested inParis onterrorism charges in 1982, wereframed by members of aPresidential secret police unit?
... thatJohn Haldeman, a journalist covering theLouisville Grays baseball team, was asked to playsecond base for the team for one game during the1877 season?

00:00, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatAlbert Bierstadt's 1863 paintingThe Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak(pictured) is sometimes likened toFrederic Edwin Church'sThe Heart of the Andes?
... that visually impaired skierRichard Burt won fourWinter Paralympic medals forGreat Britain?
... that despite losing an1896 eminent domain case in theUS Supreme Court, thebattlefield touristtrolley betweenGettysburg andRound Top operated over theGettysburg National Military Park for 20 more years?
... thatLa Voz de un Ángel byYuridia ranked among thebest-selling albums of the year in Mexico for three years in a row?
... that photographerMary Ellen Matthews has been responsible for the celebrity portraits used ascommercial bumpers onSaturday Night Live since 1999?
... that the interior part of theMooghaun fort was demolished to facilitate its use as apicnicking spot?
... thatMike Loan amassed a careerbatting average of .500 byhitting safely once in twoat-bats in his only careerMajor League Baseball game?

29 April 2011

18:00, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

... that for much of theMiddle Ages, churchaltars were hidden from view at points in services by curtains hung from aciborium(example pictured)?
... thatHMS Prince William was named for the futureKing William, who was present at theengagement she was captured in?
... that in 1919, the Pacific Coast Parks Association namedPortland, Oregon'sLaurelhurst Park the "most beautiful park" on theWest Coast?
... thatPovilas Budrys was voted Best Actor by theLithuanian Theatre Union for the 1991/92 season?
... thatLower Swell is located on thebanks of the River Dikler?
... thatFilep Karma is serving a 15-year jail sentence for raising theflag of West Papua inJayapura,Indonesia?
... that writer-directorTom Shadyac made the documentaryI Am after sufferingpost-concussion syndrome from a serious bicycle accident—and sleeping in his closet to avoid acutesensitivity to light and sound?

12:00, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the festival ofRidván, the "King of Festivals" of theBahá'í Faith, celebrates events that took place in agarden in Baghdad(pictured) almost 150 years ago?
... that controversy overPedro Almodóvar's 1990 filmTie Me Up! Tie Me Down! led to the creation of theNC-17 rating?
... that in 2007, the Amber Palace ofAmer Fort inRajasthan was visited by1.4 million tourists?
... thatWilson Onsare made the fastest evermarathon debut at the 2003Paris Marathon, but never improved upon his debut time?
... that the only knownspecimen of theextinct spiderPalaeoperenethis is in theRoyal Ontario Museum?
... that the churchyard ofSt James' Church inCooling,Kent, is said to have provided the inspiration for the opening chapter ofCharles Dickens' bookGreat Expectations?
... that in hisMajor League Baseball debut,Marcos Mateo came into the game in the 11th inning,loaded the bases, then gave up asacrifice fly to lose the game?

06:00, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatJeremy Kerley(pictured) was recruited byTexas andStanford to play baseball and byOklahoma to playcollege football, but he ultimately decided to play football forTexas Christian University?
... that theGilgamesh restaurant inCamden,London, is said to be "an ostentatious replica of aBabylonian palace"?
... thatLewis Milestone's1926 sports drama comedy silent filmThe New Klondike was the first film assignment of writerBen Hecht?
... that Japanese composerKenichi Maeyamada remixesanime andvideo game music under the pseudonym "Hyadain"?
... that, unlike the closely relatedhouse mouse, the wildAlgerian mouse clears away its own droppings?
... thatBurundian Internet journalistJean-Claude Kavumbagu was arrested and charged with treason after writing a blog post criticizing his country's security forces?
... thatMeadow Lake revelers took aferry tohurdy gurdy houses?

00:00, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatGeneral Franco(pictured) denied the fact that theBritish merchant shipBritish Corporal had been attacked by his forces during theSpanish Civil War?
... that althoughaudio spill is often undesirable in the recording of popular music, it can be heard on records byThe Beatles andChristina Aguilera?
... thatAnthony Sadowski, after escaping captivity in theGreat Northern War in 1704, came to America and helpedDaniel Boone's father foundAmity Township,Pennsylvania?
... thatBerry Hinton had only three losing seasons in his twenty-three years as headbaseball coach from 1943 to 1967 atLouisiana Tech University inRuston?
... that the use ofherbicide on the natural habitat of theLesser Prairie Chicken may have created aperceptual trap?
... thatKipling'sRewards and Fairies includes "If—" which has been voted Britain's most popular poem?
... thatBurmese prisoner of conscienceNilar Thein once evaded police capture byrickshaw taxi?

28 April 2011

18:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theumbrella mouth gulper(pictured) lives in deep seamarine habitats where it swallows fish much larger than itself?
... that "Semper Fidelis" byJohn Philip Sousa is regarded as the officialmarch of theUnited States Marine Corps?
... thatUS actorMartin Sheen has advocated on behalf of imprisonedKyrgyzstani activist and journalistAzimzhan Askarov?
... that a riot after the1980 Scottish Cup Final betweenCeltic F.C. andRangers F.C. resulted in a ban on the sale ofalcoholic beverages at sporting events inScotland?
... that the sex organs ofAnthoceros laevis are visible on its dorsal surface?
... thatNBC accidentally ran a promo about a secret wedding from theParks and Recreation episode "Andy and April's Fancy Party" two months before the episode aired?
... thatNamibian entrepreneurHarold Pupkewitz (age 95) has managed his business conglomerate since 1937?

12:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatJaigarh Fort inRajasthan, which was a center of artillery production, has the world's largest cannon on wheels, theJaivana(pictured)?
... that in 1889, theBoston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company agreed to build asmelter inGreat Falls, Montana, if a local power company built adam to supply it with power?
... that on his debut album,The Experiment,Dane Rumble found it difficult to write his former band's usualhip hop music, so he turned topop rock?
... thatRichard Waghorn was awarded theAir Force Cross after winning the 1929Schneider Trophy seaplane race?
... that the extinctplanthopperTainosia quisqueyae was named for theTaíno people andHispaniola?
... that when he made hismajor league debut,Chicago Cubs pitcherJames Russell became the 97th formerTexas Longhorn to play in the major leagues?
... thatTheâtre de l'Étoile du Nord has been said to be "asboho asTunis gets"?

06:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Australian creeping plantCommelina cyanea(pictured) is known as scurvy weed as early settlers ate it to ward offscurvy?
... that in 2007, the foundation headed byGuatemalan human rights activistNorma Cruz helped to convict over 30 individuals accused of murdering women?
... that despite having won all itsround-robin matches,South Africa lost toIndia in the final of theTitan Cup?
... thatAfrican American artistHerman "Kofi" Bailey was the one-time artist-in-residence forKwame Nkrumah, the first president ofGhana?
... thatWalraversijde, the site of a reconstructed medievalfishing village, is the most studiedarchaeological site of its type in Europe?
... thatHal Stalmaster landed his role inDisney's 1957 film about theAmerican Revolution,Johnny Tremain, without the help of his brother, casting directorLynn Stalmaster?
... that theJanet Smith case, the unsolved 1924 murder of a Scottish nursemaid inVancouver, led to an attempt to make it illegal to employ Orientals and white women in the same household?

00:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatCharles Elliott Perkins(pictured) was appointed assistant treasurer of theBurlington and Missouri River Railroad at the age of 20?
... thatGolondrina points are considered the most prevalent ofPaleo-Indian points in theSouth Texas Plains and typify the region's first distinguished cultural pattern?
... that the plantFumaria painteri has only been found twice in Britain, and both times by theRev. W. H. Painter?
... that during theSixth Congress of theCuban Communist Party,Raúl Castro proposed term limits for the country's leaders?
... that, in the1918 season,Joseph McCulloch coached starAmerican football players from multiple schools, including1917 All-American Archie Weston?
... thatAvenue Habib Bourguiba is the principal thoroughfare ofTunis?
... thatPerry Como's musical conductor,Mitchell Ayres, was offered his long-time job with the singer during agolf game?

27 April 2011

18:00, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theBritish destroyersHMS Diamond(pictured) andHMS Wryneck were sunk byGerman aircraft on27 April 1941, about four hours after they rescued over 500 troops from a sinkingDutch troopship?
... that after theRwandan Genocide,social worker and survivorGodeliève Mukasarasi founded a group to help widows and orphans further their socio-economic rights?
... that the 1934United States Trust Company theft was the work of an international gang that stole more than$2,000,000 in multiple robberies?
... that theMillennium Dam on theBlue Nile inEthiopia will house Africa's largesthydroelectric power plant and impound the continent's largestreservoir when completed?
... that the release from prison ofIosif Begun, a leader ofthe campaign to free the Jews of the USSR, was announced in 1987 bySoviet politicianGeorgy Arbatov onFace the Nation?
... that in theFinnish card gameRistikontra, a player wins atrick by playing another card of the same rank as the first card in the trick?
... thatChristopher Isherwood named the characterSally Bowles afterPaul Bowles, because he found Bowles attractive?

12:00, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

... that formerpresidential sonMikey Arroyo(pictured) currently sits as asectoral representative oftricycle drivers and security guards in theHouse of Representatives of thePhilippines?
... thatLiberty Cinema inMumbai got its name as it was built in 1947, the year ofIndian Independence?
... thatSmall Heath F.C. went through the1893–94 season without drawing aLeague match?
... that the dense forest in the area aroundCsóványos in NorthernHungary has been described as "almost mystical"?
... thatKenyanEmmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai ran a course record towin the 2011London Marathon and become the fourth fastest man ever in themarathon?
... that during convoy escort duty in theBattle of the North Atlantic in 1943,HMSPolyanthus was sunk byU-952 using new weapons technology?
... thatGendang beleq, a music and dance performance popular inLombok,Indonesia, is so named because it usestwo big drums?

06:00, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatHavana'sNational Schools of Art(school of ballet pictured), conceived byFidel Castro andChe Guevara, are considered to be outstanding architectural achievements of theCuban Revolution?
... thatLouisiana Attorney GeneralPercy Saint in 1929 ruled thatimpeachment proceedings againstGovernor Huey Pierce Long, Jr. were constitutional?
... thatartificial deformation of a skull enabled archaeologists to identify theAdena as the builders of theHodgen's Cemetery Mound inTiltonsville, Ohio?
... thatJames Parfitt's best bowling infirst-class cricket came in his second match, when he claimed sevenwickets in the firstinnings, allbowled?
... that thebone diseaseopsismodysplasia was named from theGreek wordopsismos meaning "late"?
... thatByzantine historianTimothy E. Gregory served as director of theOhio State University excavations atIsthmia?
... that after plans for theDouglas 2229SST left no room for fuel other than in the fuselage, a designer sketched a cartoon withdiving suit-clad passengers immersed in fuel, under "No Smoking" signs?

00:00, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatbaseball pitcherAndy Hansen(pictured) earned his firstmajor league victory against thePhiladelphia Phillies, the only other major league team for which he would ever play?
... that despite being banned by Spanish colonial authorities inMexico, the making ofamate, or bark paper, never disappeared?
... thatpro-Palestinian activistVittorio Arrigoni was kidnapped by suspected members of aIslamic militant group operating inGaza and later foundhanged?
... thatWill Ferrell produced and stars in the upcomingSpanish-language comedy filmCasa de Mi Padre, which has been described as in the style of "an overly dramatictelenovela"?
... that around 252glider infantry of the1st Airlanding Brigade were drowned during theAllied invasion ofSicily?
... that althoughCharles Messier discovered thegalaxyM91 in 1781, it was added tohis catalogue only two centuries later?
... that after her role in the 1972horror filmFrogs, actressLynn Borden began collecting frog figurines as a hobby?

26 April 2011

18:00, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatChristiane Ziegler excavated theTomb of Akhethetep(pictured) from 1991 to 1999?
... that whenBach derived his thirdcantata forEaster of 1724,Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß, BWV 134, fromhis secular cantata forNew Year's Day, he just wrote new text under old text?
... that poetJacqueline Berger compares thewriting process todreaming?
... that theFalkland Islands have on average only 2–3 hours of direct sunlight per day inwinter and only 6 hours insummer?
... that "Heartaches," featuringElmo Tanner'swhistling, became anumber 1 hit fourteen years after it was recorded?
... thatLagmann mac Gofraid, a late 11th-centuryKing of Mann and the Isles, has been labelled as the only knownScot who took part in theFirst Crusade?
... that the upcoming 2012 film,Jack the Giant Killer (directed byBryan Singer), is expected to take an adult look at theJack and the Beanstalk legend?

12:00, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatCelts(helmet pictured)once inhabited Transylvania?
... thatSteven Hallard andRichard Priestman were part of a team that wonGreat Britain's firstOlympic archery medal in 80 years?
... thatAbutilon pitcairnense isextinct in the wild after the single wild plant died in a landslide in 2005?
... that after eight years singing inGilbert and Sullivan operas with theD'Oyly Carte Opera Company,Thomas Lawlor went on to perform more than 60 roles for otheropera companies?
... that atwo-mass-skate bicycle has demonstratedself-stability even though it has minimalgyroscopic effects and does not havepositive trail, two features most commonly associated with bike stability?
... thatAlexander, the eldest son ofBulgarian tsar Ivan Shishman, converted toIslam to avoid execution and died as governor ofOttoman Smyrna?
... that even though...And the Native Hipsters's firstsingle, "There Goes Concorde Again" was initially a 500-copy private release, it went on to reach number five on theUK Indie Charts?

06:00, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the genusComesperma contains such plants as theBroom Milkwort(pictured),pink matchheads andlove creeper?
... that thesinking of the Blanco Encalada was the first successful attack on a ship by a torpedo boat?
... thatGeorge B. Jackson, a businessman inSan Angelo,Texas, who had been born intoslavery inVirginia, was termed "the wealthiest colored man in Texas" in the late19th century?
... that most of the victims of2011 Cirebon bombing werepolice officers attendingFriday prayer?
... that the Woodsboro and Frederick Turnpike, which is now part ofMaryland Route 194, was the lastprivate toll road inMaryland when it was purchased by the state in 1921?
... that in 1991,Vladimir Velichko became the firstFirst Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union?
... thatrugby league clubWarrington paid£20 to signRiki Papakura fromNew Zealand in 1911?
... that one hotel inMogadishu advisestourists visiting Somalia to hire at least ten armed guards for their protection?

00:00, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatEdward II of England madeAndrew Harclay(pictured)Earl of Carlisle in 1322, only to have himhanged, drawn and quartered less than a year later?
... that despite theprevious session permanently fixing the territorialcapital inTucson, the9th Arizona Territorial Legislature's first act was to move it toPrescott?
... thatsportswriterNeil Stevens was presented with theHockey Hall of Fame'sElmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2008?
... that the ocean linerSSRanpura ran aground nearGibraltar on15 April 1936 while carrying$50 million (1936dollars) of rareChinese art?
... thatcatcherDave Liddell faced only onepitch in hisMajor League career, and got ahit?
... that the 1929drama filmBetrayal was the lastsilent film directed byLewis Milestone and the last silent film performed byGary Cooper?
... that as principalbassoonist of theBBC Symphony Orchestra,Julie Price celebrated her predecessorWilliam Waterhouse in the recent concertThe Proud Bassoon atWigmore Hall?
... thatRhett Akins was inspired to writeBlake Shelton's song "Honey Bee" after reading an article onMike Huckabee?

25 April 2011

18:00, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatLa Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin(pictured) is the only publicmuseum inEurope that combines collections of magic with a site for performing arts?
... that the opening chorus ofBach's cantata for theSecond Day of Easter,Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66, has been termed "one of the longest and most exhilarating of Bach's early works"?
... that archaeologists believe they have uncovered theMonastery of the Virgins described in a 6th-century account ofByzantine Jerusalem?
... that four-timeWinter Paralympic bronze medalistMatthew Stockford became the manager ofOlympic skierChemmy Alcott?
... thatWharton Reef Light, now on display at theTownsville Maritime Museum,Queensland, is the only survivor of a series of 20 automaticlighthouses installed from 1913 to the early 1920s?
... that authorAndrew Morton's biography,Madonna, sold only half of its initial print run of 500,000 copies?
... thatThe Motherfucker With the Hat was theBroadway debut for actorChris Rock?

12:00, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatFranz Liszt dedicated hisFantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H (theBACH motif) to the organistAlexander Winterberger(pictured) who premiered it at theMerseburg Cathedral?
... that theRuislip-Northwood Urban District was formed in 1904 following concerns over the expansion of theMetropolitan Railway and the growth in population ofNorthwood?
... thatJovan Skerlić's role inliterature and generalcultural andpolitical development has resulted in the suggestion that the 1900–1914 period inSerbian history should be named after him?
... that theHuntsman Marine Science Centre inSt. Andrews, New Brunswick, has the largest collection ofAtlantic organisms inCanada?
... thatMetropolitan Police officerChris Allison was theGold Commander for police operations in the aftermath of the7/7 London bombings?
... that the community-initiatedNata Bird Sanctuary inBotswana opened in 1993 and the same year received the "Tourism for Tomorrow" award for theSouthern Hemisphere?
... that while playing forBarrow,footballerFred Laycock left the pitch to sign forNelson before completing the match, and was then fined for representing Barrow while contracted to another club?

06:00, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

... that more than 100 people died in theCTV Building(ruins pictured) in the2011 Christchurch earthquake?
... that inGhanian women's health,breast cancer is the leadingmalignancy, accounting for over 15% of all malignancies inGhana?
... thatCenter Point, Camp County, Texas, was settled in 1865 by freed slaves after theEmancipation Proclamation, and is the birthplace of mezzo-sopranoBarbara Smith Conrad?
... that theextinct trapdoor spidersBaltocteniza andElectrocteniza were both identified from specimens inBaltic amber?
... that a plaque onPhoenix Tower inChester states thatKing Charles I stood on the tower in 1645 as he watched his soldiers being defeated atRowton Moor?
... thatDemocratic andRepublican plans for the2012 United States federal budget both focus ondeficit reduction, but differ in their changes totaxation,entitlement programs, andresearch funding?
... that the longest-running number one of theUK Dance Chart in 2005 was "Hung Up" byMadonna, which spent four weeks at the top of thechart?
... that Representative J. D. Rumberg of the10th Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ tried to ban allhorse racing in the territory but was only able to have it outlawed on his own ranch?

00:00, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

... that thewinner of the 1912Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show,Kenmare Sorceress(pictured), was purchased from a brick-layer inWales?
... that the award-winning writerEvelyn M. Richardson lived on a 600-acre island for 35 years?
... thatnordic skier Peter Young won a bronze medal forGreat Britain at the 1994 Winter Paralympics, ten years after winning his first Paralympic medal at the1984 Games?
... that after energy and climate "czar"Carol Browner left theObama administration,Heather Zichal took over those responsibilities but not the informal title?
... that music writerPiero Scaruffi called the 1980s Americanexperimental rock group theOrthotonics, "one of the most surreal and unpredictable combos of the era"?
... that the first woman to write a book on childbirth wasLouise Bourgeois Boursier?
... that alive album released in 2009 includes aduet byFito Páez andJoaquín Sabina, who had not spoken for more than 10 years?

24 April 2011

18:00, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatBach was only in his twenties when he composed thecantataChrist lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, forEaster(pictured), using in seven movements the words and tune ofMartin Luther'sEaster chorale?
... thatchild actorDarryl Richard made his lastTV appearance on theseries finale ofABC'sThe Donna Reed Show,March 19, 1966, a day after his 20th birthday?
... that it is said thatThomas à Becket preached either in thechurch dedicated to him, inCapel,Kent, or in its churchyard?
... thatJoseph Bloomfield Leake left theIowa State Senate to serve in theAmerican Civil War but was later elected back to the Senate?
... thatSt. Andrews Biological Station inNew Brunswick is Canada's firstmarine biological research station?
... thatNelson F.C. lost only one home match in theFootball League Third Division North during the1924–25 season?
... thatGeoff Emerick, who co-created thesend tape echo echo delay audio effect atAbbey Road Studios, once said that "God only knows" how it worked?

12:00, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the star clusterMessier 103(pictured) can be observed with the use of binoculars?
... thatJames C. Nelson, appointed as aMontana Supreme Court Justice byGeorge W. Bush'scampaign chair, wrote that blockingsame-sex marriage was a "societal cancer grounded in bigotry andhate"?
... thatSt Mary Magdalene's Church inTortington is decorated with carvings of grotesque, boggle-eyed monsters, rare beakhead figures and chevron ornamentation?
... thatAziz Ahmad is considered one of the bestBuzkashi players inAfghanistan?
... thatAngry Birds was named App of the Year at the BritishAppy Awards?
... that in the Fourth Test of the1965–66 Ashes series theAustralian cricket captain Bobby Simpson and his batting partnerBill Lawry made 244 runs in 255 minutes, the highest opening stand againstEngland inAustralia?
... that in the burrowingwolf spiderAllocosa brasiliensis, males often eat older, less fecund females that they lured into their burrow using pheromones, while preferredly mating with virgins?

06:00, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatHenry Conybeare, a civil engineer who planned a water-supply scheme forMumbai which is still in use today, also designedSt Mary's Church(pictured) inItchen Stoke, Hampshire?
... that the only known specimen of theextinct planthopperGlisachaemus jonasdamzeni is preserved with a parasiticmite?
... thatFelipe González González wasGovernor ofAguascalientes from 1998 to 2004?
... that artistEdward Hopper's wife served as the model for both women in his paintingHotel Lobby?
... thatSteve andChristian Thomas are the first father-son combination to each score at least 50goals in a singleOntario Hockey League season?
... that in the2010 documentary film180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless, Jeff Johnson emulates the 1968 journey made byYvon Chouinard andDoug Tompkins?
... thatCharles Silent tried to resign from theArizona Supreme Court almost immediately upon taking up the office?

00:00, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the snailTheodoxus fluviatilis(shells pictured) can reachpopulation density up to 6412 snails per m²?
... thatM. A. Muqtedar Khan callsJewish rabbiMukhayriq "the first Jewish martyr of Islam" and "a true Islamic hero"?
... that police used cryptic messages placed in a newspaper and disguised asMensa puzzles to communicate with the perpetrator of aletter bomb campaign?
... thatJuice Newton playedAustralian rules football for theMelbourne Football Club?
... thatattack helicopters racked up an impressive five-to-onekill ratio overjet fighters during theJ-CATCH exercises in the late 1970s?
... that boxerAdrian Dodson competed forGuyana at the 1988 Summer Olympics and forGreat Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics?
... that the5th Arizona Territorial Legislature had difficulty maintaining aquorum in itslower house due to the large number of members that did not attend the session?

23 April 2011

18:00, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

... that a portion ofBlack Eagle Dam(pictured) was dynamited onApril 14, 1908, so that floodwaters from the collapsedHauser Dam could pass through?
... that wrestlerCharles B. Sprott sued the reigningWorld Heavyweight Champion in 1973 for calling him names in a parking lot?
... thatBright Angel, composed byGraham Waterhouse for threebassoons andcontrabassoon, relates to theBright Angel Trail of theGrand Canyon which the composer hiked withhis father at the age of nine?
... thatAlimuddin Zumla was the firstZambian doctor to be shortlisted for theBMJ Group's Lifetime Achievement Award?
... thatorganocerium compounds can serve as an "environmentally friendly alternative" to otherorganometallic reagents?
... that thefirst musical episode ofGrey's Anatomy was conceived over seven years before it was produced, while the series was still untitled?
... that a conspiracy of silence surrounded the fate of EnglishcricketerWalter Gilbert for 60 years after his death?

12:00, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatTamil devotional poetry describes how clothes of married women slipped off at the sight of theHindu godShiva appearing in the form of anaked beggar(pictured)?
... thatBarend Joseph Stokvis, aDutch professor of medicine, was the first to describe the rare diseaseacute porphyria in a 1889 study?
... that the first phase ofMitt Romney's 2012 U.S. presidential campaign was announced via a video message?
... thatPedro Virgili, fromVilallonga del Camp, was one of the most prominent royal surgeons ofSpain in the 18th century?
... that theSpring Creek Site in westernMichigan is atype site forOttawa pottery?
... thatAlaungpaya was a village headman who founded theKonbaung Dynasty ofBurma, and unified the country for the third time in its history?
... that up to 200 people played a game offootball on land nearBrothertoft,Lincolnshire, in the 1760s as a protest againstenclosure?

06:00, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the extincttrilobiteBumastus(artist's rendition pictured) was named after its resemblance to largegrapes?
... that theIndianapolis Art Center was founded in 1934 as aWorks Progress Administration project?
... thatSupernatural, a 1998 album by British singerDes'ree, sold 50,000 copies in the United States, although her 1994 albumI Ain't Movin' sold over a million copies?
... that artistCharles Alston's bust ofMartin Luther King Jr. was the first image of anAfrican American displayed at theWhite House?
... thatRCA used itsTriniscopecolor television design duringFCC meetings, even though it was clear it would not be accepted?
... thatEdward J. Burke coached theDrexel Dragons men's basketball team to their firstNCAA Tournament?
... thatDickshooter was named for Dick Shooter?

00:00, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

... that according toKawasaki's theorem, anorigami crease pattern with onevertex may befolded flat(pictured) if and only if the sum of every other angle between consecutive creases is 180º?
... that the6th Arizona Territorial Legislature was delayed from 1869 until 1871 because no Territorial Governor was available tocall for elections?
... that the flash of light accompanying an earthquake in 1896 was attributed by some residents ofNorth Piddle,Worcestershire, to a large meteor?
... that when the first cents coined by theU.S. Mint were ridiculed for their crudeness, Mint workerAdam Eckfeldt replaced the chain design with a wreath and put atrefoil underLiberty's head?
... that the medieval fortressesLardea andKtenia in modern southeasternBulgaria were lost by theSecond Bulgarian Empire toByzantium in 1322 only to be recovered in 1324, then ceded back and once again recaptured in 1332?
... thatGandrung traditional dance, popular inJava,Bali andLombok, was originally dedicated to the rice goddess,Dewi Sri?
... thatMontana Supreme Court JusticeBrian Morris, who clerked forU.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, was thestarting fullback in the 1986Gator Bowl for theStanford Cardinal football team?

22 April 2011

18:00, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

... that in 1864 theChurch of St John the Baptist, Upper Eldon,(pictured) inHampshire was being used as a cowshed, and in 1973 its only occupant was "a beautiful white owl"?
... that everyGood Friday since 1922,De Nederlandse Bachvereniging (The Netherlands Bach Society) has performedBach'sSt Matthew Passion inNaarden?
... thatLouisa Hubbard founded theWomen's Emigration Society in 1880 to help young women from London find employment outside of theUnited Kingdom?
... that most of the remainingredwoods inOregon are in theWinchuck River watershed?
... thatAfrican-American writerFelicia D. Henderson has worked on projects as varied as the television seriesSoul Food,Gossip Girl, andFringe, and the comic seriesTeen Titans?
... that theLoire Valley chansonniers are 15th century illustratedsongbooks that are smaller than a modernpaperback?
... that the possiblyextinct wall crab spider speciesGarcorops jadis was named for C.S. Lewis'Jadis, the White Witch?

12:00, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatJesus at Herod's Court(pictured) is mentioned in only onecanonical gospel, theGospel of Luke?
... that in the 1820s, chemistAntoine Labarraque won a prize of 1,500francs for discovering a way to remove the appalling smell fromParis'sgut-processing factories?
... that afterThe Redmond Spokesman wonUniversity of Oregon'sHal E. Hoss trophy for the best weekly newspaper inOregon three times in five years, the award was retired and given toThe Spokesman's publisher?
... that the record-settingFinnhorse trotterReipas was originally a thin, weakfoal of unknown parentage?
... that footballersDenis Law,Robert Smyth McColl andHughie Gallacher have each scored threehat-tricks for Scotland?
... that thequeen ant of theAcropyga acutiventris carries amealybugXenococcus annandalei in herjaws on hernuptial flight?
... that during the trial that led to theU.S. Supreme Court caseMancusi v. DeForte, which established a reasonableexpectation of privacy at work, thejury deliberated for 28 hourswithout sleep?

06:00, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatCourtney Vandersloot(pictured) was the firstNCAA Division I basketball player, male or female, with 2,000 points and 1,000 assists in a career?
... that theLivens Large Gallery Flame Projectors were large, 17 metres (56 ft) long, fixedflamethrowers used in theMametz sector of theBattle of the Somme, and that the remains of one have recently been rediscovered?
... thatFelix Schlag won the prize for designing theJefferson nickel, but was required to submit an entirely new "tails" orreverse side?
... that when theABB Group andCMS Energy investedUS$1.5 billion into projects at theMoroccan port ofJorf Lasfar, it was the largest foreign investment ever in that country?
... that at age 18,Australian country music singerSamantha McClymont was crownedGrafton Jacaranda Queen, named Trans-Tasman Entertainer of the Year, and was a Top 118 finalist forAustralian Idol?
... that theCarlton Hotel soldNew Zealand's first beer on tap?
... that 17 years afterBruiser Brody's 1988 murder, the stadium where he was killed was one of the venues of theBruiser Brody Memorial Cup Tour, which featured his assailant,Invader I, on thecard?

00:00, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the first recordedascent ofGermany's highestmountain, theZugspitze(pictured) on27 August 1820, was led by aBavarian Army officer,Josef Naus?
... that JudgeC. C. Bridgewater's tenure on theWashington Court of Appeals ended when he missed the deadline to file for re-election—because he was in a medicallyinduced coma after aheart attack?
... thatMote Park stopped being used byKent after a green wicket cost them eightCounty Championship points due to a low scoringcricket game that ended in under two days?
... thatjazz guitarist Julian Lage recorded hisGrammy-nominated debut albumSounding Point when he was only 20 years old?
... that theForesight Institute'sFeynman Prize in Nanotechnology includes both annual prizes and aUS$250,000 Grand Prize modeled after historical technological prizes such as theLongitude prize?
... thatThe King of Rome's skin is preserved inDerby Museum because he survived where other pigeons died?
... thatRepublican Texas high court JudgeCathy Cochran took her husband'ssurname when they married in 1966, and he took hermaiden name in 2001?

21 April 2011

18:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

... that depictions of theLast Supper in Christian art(example pictured) date back toearly Christianity and can be seen in theCatacombs of Rome?
... thatJurassic Park's discussion ofchaos theory was inspired byIvar Ekeland?
... that five thousand types ofcommunion tokens have been issued byPresbyterian churches?
... that the historianJosephus wrote that theJordan River had its source inAaiha, because of an underground stream feeding theHasbani River?
... that one-quarter of the plant diversity ofMexico occurs inLanda de Matamorosmunicipality inQuerétaro?
... thatFort Center may be the earliestarchaeological site in Florida wheremaize wascultivated?
... thatDwight B. Heard is credited with making Arizona's cotton industry more competitive after becoming president of the Arizona Cotton Association?
... that "You Debt Your Life" was the secondAmerican Dad! episode to feature the story of howRoger the Alien savedStan Smith atArea 51, the first episode having been "Roger Codger"?

12:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the ancient British custom ofrushbearing(pictured) was opposed by thePuritans, probably for encouraging intemperance, but deemed acceptable byKing James I in hisDeclaration of Sports?
... thatRadix natalensis is a widespreadfreshwater snail in Africa?
... thatBlue Labour is a socially conservative trend in the British Labour Party that argues for Flag, Faith and Family?
... thatOx Baker, a former tag team partner ofWalter "Killer" Kowalski, was among the wrestling legends who spoke at theKiller Kowalski Memorial Show in 2008?
... thatGroupe Bogolan Kasobané ofMali is a pioneer in thebogolan fine arts movement?
... thatAir India One is the call sign of any aircraft carrying either thePrime Minister of India or thePresident of India?
... that at its peak, theGare de la Bastille inParis handled over 1,000,000roses a night?

06:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theHai Van Pass(pictured) has been the scene of at least two ofVietnam's most seriousrailway accidents?
... that addition ofsulfur increases therefractive index of polymers?
... that several members of the4th Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ were accused of acceptingbribes after the session created the territory's first "permanent"capital?
... thatAncient Greek girlMyrtis was made a friend of theMillennium Development Goals by theUnited Nations Regional Information Centre?
... thatOregon Court of Appeals JudgeDavid Schuman finished second in the North Americanspeed skating finals in the 220-yard competition at the age of 17?
... that decoration of theMichoacán Market inMexico City withstencils increased sales?
... that on theAustralasian Antarctic Expedition,Leslie Whetter was accused of incompetence, "chiefly through lack of determination in character and failing to do his level best"?

00:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatPiper's Opera House(pictured) was used by boxing championGentleman Jim Corbett as a training facility in preparation for his title bout withBob Fitzsimmons?
... thatBreton writerJacques Cambry (1749–1807) published important works onCeltic history and monuments, and in 1805 founded theCeltic Academy?
... that theLate Eocene marineHoko River Formation is noted for producingcrab,gastropod,cephalopod, andwood fossils?
... that the monument toSir Henry Furnese inAll Saints Church, Waldershare,Kent, fills a chapel, and has been described as "outstanding"?
... that afterRick Wakeman leftYes without a full-time keyboardist in 1997, the band borrowedToto keyboardistSteve Porcaro for their final rock radio hit "Open Your Eyes"?
... that the GermanChancellor Otto von Bismarck sought the imprisonment of AdmiralReinhold Werner, who nearly precipitated a war between Spanish rebels and Germany in 1873?
... that the oldest knownmuseum labels are from c. 1900 BCE, describing 2000 BCE objects?

20 April 2011

18:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theEthiopian eunuch(pictured) has been described as the "firstbaptized gay Christian"?
... that in theU.S. Supreme Court caseStoner v. California,Potter Stewart wrote that the police could not depend on their bud, a hotel clerk, to help smoke out a suspected robber?
... thatLandysh, a Russian vessel built with funding fromJapan todecommission nuclear submarines, was requested by Japan to assist in the aftermath of theFukushima I nuclear accidents?
... that Americanceramics sculptorRichard Deutsch had a piece exhibited at theSmithsonian Institution in 1981, just three years after his first solo show?
... that "G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N (You Know I've Got A)" byEverybody Was in the French Resistance...Now! is a reply toAvril Lavigne's song, "Girlfriend"?
... thatCombretum glutinosum, found inThe Gambia and theSahel belt, is used to makeyellow dye?
... that, after chopping off her husband's penis,Lorena Bobbitt won her trial by employing theabuse defense?

12:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the concept ofself-propelled particles can explain whyflocking birds(pictured) suddenly change direction for no apparent reason, or abruptly switch from a flying state to a landing state?
... that in one concert,bassoonist Lyndon Watts premieredBernd Redmann'sMigrant, playedJörg Duda's firstFinnish Quartet, which he had commissioned, and theBassoon Quintet ofGraham Waterhouse, which he had premiered?
... that the BritishminelayerHMSPlover laid over 15,000mines duringWorld War II, including two that sank theGerman destroyer Z8 Bruno Heinemann off the Belgian coast inJanuary 1942?
... thatJohn VI Kantakouzenos concealed the purpose of the meeting that resulted in the 1327Byzantine–BulgarianTreaty of Chernomen by describing it as eight days of rejoicing and feasts?
... that theRome bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics will use 70 percent of the city's existing venues?
... that among the many children ofThomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald were inventors, clergymen,civil servants,Members of Parliament,army officers andadmirals?
... thatGermanart nouveau painter and architectRichard Riemerschmid began designing furniture after he could not find what he wanted for his flat following his marriage?

06:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theJohn Hancock Tower(pictured), inBoston,Massachusetts, won theTwenty-five Year Award thirty-five years after it was completed?
... thatJean-François-Auguste Moulin was one of the last two holdouts in theFrench Directory to resistNapoleon Bonaparte's seizure of power?
... that in 1916, members who attempted to remove a "whites only" clause from the constitution of theCommercial Telegraphers Union of America were accused of "fomenting socialism"?
... that formerCalifornia State AssemblymanGeorge W. Milias, a graduate of bothSan Jose State andStanford, was President of theCalifornia Republican Assembly andstate Republican Party Chairman?
... thatWhite Ware orVaiselle Blanche was alimestone basedprototype ofclay pottery developed somewhere in theLevant in the ninth millenniumBC?
... that after graduating from theUniversity of Chicago Law School,Colorado Supreme Court JusticeAllison H. Eid clerked forU.S. Supreme Court JusticeClarence Thomas?
... that before he entered politics,Joseph Stalin's poetry was widely read and much admired inGeorgia?

00:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatCaptainCharles Inglis(pictured)helped frustrate aplanned French invasion of Britain?
... that artistMaya Lin worked with theU.S. Geological Survey to create herBluespring Caverns-inspired sculptureAbove and Below?
... thatLev Voronin, aFirst Deputy Chairman of theCouncil of Ministers, was actingPremier of the Soviet Union betweenNikolai Ryzhkov's hospitalisation andValentin Pavlov's election as Premier?
... that theLyceum Theatre inCrewe,Cheshire, was opened in 1887, destroyed by fire in 1910, and rebuilt on the same site in 1911?
... thatErnst Cadman Colwell, together with his students, elaborated a new method of textual criticism known as theClaremont Profile Method?
... that the albumGloria byMexican singerGloria Trevi features a song dedicated toThe Rolling Stones?
... that the2011 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, held inFrance in April 2011, marks the first time that all of theSix Nations will participate in thecompetition?

19 April 2011

18:00, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Shamash delivering the measuring rod and line

... that ameasuring rod is depicted on both theCode of Hammurabi and theTablet of Shamash(pictured)?
... thatHollingworth Magniac had business relationships withWilliam Jardine andJames Matheson, whoseJardine Matheson and Company partnership became Asia's largesttrading company?
... that in 2010, a white member of theMonticello Association was one of threeThomas Jefferson descendants given the "Search for Common Ground" award for working to heal the family's past and legacy ofslavery?
... that the firstOttoman governor ofSyria,Janbirdi al-Ghazali, revolted against Ottoman rule two years into his reign?
... that all that remains of theOld Church of St Mary the Virgin inPreston Candover,Hampshire, is thechancel?
... that only one side of theextinct parasitic waspNeanaperiallus is visible in its solefossilized specimen?
... that a week after co-producing anUsher concert in thePhilippines,RepresentativeRonald Singson was jailed inHong Kong for alleged drug trafficking?

12:00, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatElizabeth J. Feinler(pictured), better known as "Jake", ran theNetwork Information Center of theInternet until 1989?
... that five members of the popular Irish bandThe Miami Showband were shot in an ambush by theUlster Volunteer Force at a bogus military checkpoint in Northern Ireland?
... that after theCalifornia Court of Appeal treated a teenager's letter as a formalappeal,Presiding JusticeDaniel J. Kremer wrote aunanimous opinion overturning the boy'sspeeding ticket fine?
... that angry residents burned down a toll booth on the west end ofPerkiomen Bridge in 1867, and another on the east end in 1872?
... thatAsh-sha'ab yurid isqat an-nizam (The people want the fall of the regime) was the most common slogan ingraffiti during the2011 Egyptian Revolution?
... that, to raise money for theall-black high school where he was principal,Charles W. Cansler sometimes held demonstrations of his ability to calculate large columns of numbers faster thanadding machines?
... that newPolice Commissioner ofNew ZealandPeter Marshall held off aninvasion of his home by 13 people in theSolomon Islands with aceremonial sword?

06:00, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatUSAF GeneralVogt "shut down the war" and sent 119 aircraft torecover MajorRoger Locher(pictured) only 60 miles (97 km) fromHanoi—the deepest rescue insideNorth Vietnam during theVietnam War?
... thatPeñamiller,Querétaro,Mexico, is promoted as the gateway to theSierra Gorda?
... thatracist music is considered an effective recruiting tool for the modernneo-Nazi andwhite supremacy movements, and a breeding ground fordomestic terrorism in the United States?
... that pamphleteerGeorge Thomson criticized his fellowphysicians for fleeingLondon during theGreat Plague, just when the city needed them most?
... that the total amount spent onlobbying in theUnited States in 2010 was$3.49 billion?
... that in 2007Lucy Aharish became the firstArab to present the news on mainstreamIsraeli television?
... that, when trying togain the rights to use aBjörk song for anupcoming episode, the creators ofGlee initially could not reach her as she apparently did not have atelephone number?

00:00, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatNikolai Ryzhkov(pictured), theChairman of theCouncil of Ministers of the Soviet Union, was considered to be aconservative by radical reformers during theGorbachev Era?
... thatAllah Made Me Funny is a documentary featuring three AmericanMuslim comedians?
... thatJacques Cauvin said theNeolithic Revolution moved intoAnatolia via "the acculturation of a local cultural background by a dominant, expansionist culture"?
... that at the time of the3rd Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ there were nostage coaches running inArizona?
... thatShoot to Kill (1990) had to be made as adrama documentary because many of its subjects had either beenshot by the RUC, givennew identities, or forbidden to talk by theOfficial Secrets Act?
... that the first paintingexhibited at theRoyal Academy byHenry Thomson was ofDaedalus fastening wings on his sonIcarus?
... thatAbraham Bolden was the firstAfrican American member of theUS Secret Service Presidential Protective Division?
... that two people owed their survival of theSture Murders to an ambiguous order issued by amad king?

18 April 2011

18:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theArchaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut(pictured) is the third oldest museum in theNear East?
... that historianLeslie Bethell became only the second English citizen elected to theBrazilian Academy of Letters?
... that theWorld War II U-boat commanderHeinz-Otto Schultze was the son of theWorld War I U-boat commanderOtto Schultze?
... thatWilliam F. Yardley, the firstAfrican American candidate for governor ofTennessee, is believed to have been the first African American attorney to argue before thestate's supreme court?
... that thefirst life insurance company was founded in 1706?
... that theartwork created for theMBTA'sRed Line Northwest Extension cost one half of one percent of the total construction costs of the rail line?
... that traditionalCornish fairings were sold atfairs for young men to give to their sweethearts?

12:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the 7th-centuryLaw of Æthelberht(first folio pictured), aKentish legal text, is the earliest extant document in theEnglish language?
... that during the 11½ dayrescue of Bat 21 Bravo, the Americans flew an average of 90sorties a day to protect their airman, hitting theNVA with over 800 air strikes in direct support of his rescue?
... that until 1959, theFinnhorse was the only horse breed allowed to beraced in Finland?
... thatChristoph Schlingensief died before the Berlin premiere of the opera which he had staged,Metanoia. Über das Denken hinaus byJens Joneleit, conducted byDaniel Barenboim?
... that theredundant churches ofSt John andSt Mary both stand nearThe Ridgeway long-distance path inOxfordshire?
... that 140-poundquarterbackFerris Jennings ran 66 yards for the first of only twotouchdowns scored all year by the1934 Michigan football team that also featured futureUS President Gerald Ford?
... that, despite speculation that thePanama Creature was analien life form, it was later shown to be a decomposingBrown-throated Sloth?

06:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatWarner's Hotel inChristchurch demolished its northern end and built a theatre in its place to shield its patrons from the noise of the printing presses in the adjacentLyttelton Times Building(buildings pictured)?
... that playwrightFranz Xaver Kroetz turned his controversial playStallerhof into an opera libretto forGerd Kühr, which premiered at theMunich Biennale?
... that theJardín del Arte Sullivan art market inMexico City does not permit works with political or religious themes?
... thatLord's Cricket Ground in London has been the venue for fourCricket World Cup Finals matches?
... that an unidentified suspect, dubbed theLong Island serial killer, is believed to havemurdered as many as eight people and dumped their bodies along theOcean Parkway inNew York?
... that artistJeppe Hein createdBench Around the Lake to appear as if it tunnels in and out of the ground at theIndianapolis Museum of Art?
... thatJames Watt askedSir Joseph Banks PRS to support thePneumatic Institution, where willing subjects, including its laboratory superintendent, a youngHumphry Davy, were givenlaughing gas?

00:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatPinal de Amoles,Querétaro,Mexico hosts an annual national levelHuapango dance competition(pictured)?
... thatValentin Pavlov, thePrime Minister of the Soviet Union andde facto Chairman of theCabinet of Ministers, was involved in the1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt againstMikhail Gorbachev?
... that the sculptureConfluence byRobert Stackhouse and Carol Merrit was inspired byLangston Hughes' poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
... thatStanford University graduateCharles Coiner, aRepublican Idaho Senator from 2004 to 2010, supported efforts to teach aboutJapanese-American internment in Idahopublic schools?
... that theHeroes' Monument of the Red Army inVienna was built to commemorate 17,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in theVienna Offensive ofWorld War II?
... that in 1886, 200,000 salmon and salmon trout fry (young trout) were deposited in theChamcook Lake inNew Brunswick?
... thatMaud Gage Baum forcedher husband to eat stale doughnuts because he did not consult with her before buying them?

17 April 2011

16:00, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatBach composedHimmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182, forPalm Sunday as his firstcantata for the Schlosskirche(pictured) of the court inWeimar?
... thatthe first car that had a body entirely of plastic was manufactured by theFord Motor Company in 1941?
... that theCodex Sangallensis 1395 is one of the oldest manuscripts of theVulgate?
... that the design of theWest Washington Street Bridge inMuncie, Indiana was inspired by the work of anAmerican Civil War engineer who built military bridges?
... that Tell Arslan in theSands of Beirut was the oldest knownneolithic village settlement in theBeirut area?
... that missionaryE. E. Aiken was a member ofSkull and Bones atYale in 1881 and the next year wrote a book denouncing suchsecret societies?
... that inJones v Kaney, theUK Supreme Court overturned a line of authority going back 400 years to allow anexpert witness to be sued forprofessional negligence?
... that theNational Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) established theElite 88 Award in 2009 to recognize thestudent athlete with the highestgrade point average at each NCAA championship?

08:00, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

... that 84% ofBotswana is covered by theKalahari Desert(pictured), a flat terrain known as a "thirstland", which harbours some of thewildlife of Botswana?
... that in 1903,Benjamin Franklin Yoakum began building theGulf Coast Lines in southernTexas as a link in a projected transcontinental railroad system stretching fromChicago toMexico?
... thatMonte do Gozo, a hill inSpain, is most known for its view of a sight below, a view that is now largely obscured?
... that preacherJohn "Zion" Ward was jailed forblasphemy in 1832, prompting a petition toParliament byHenry Hunt, and a speech in theHouse of Commons byMP Joseph Hume?
... that the GermandestroyerZ9Wolfgang Zenker had exhausted her ammunition after theSecond Naval Battle of Narvik and she had to bescuttled by placingdemolition charges after she had beenbeached?
... thatHospital Tobar García is the only facility in the federated capital ofBuenos Aires that specializes inmental illness in children and adolescents?
... that nearly all orders forNintendo'sLaser Clay Shooting System were canceled as a result of the1973 oil crisis, plunging the company¥5 billion into debt?

00:00, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the original walk-insafe from a bank that once occupied the first floor of theWheeler Opera House(pictured) inAspen, Colorado, is still on display in the lobby?
... thatZenith Productions, which producedInspector Morse, was later also responsible forAnt & Dec'sSMTV Live?
... thatIvan Silayev was the lastPremier of the Soviet Union?
... thateditorJohn Jympson was fired during production ofStar Wars because directorGeorge Lucas disliked hisrough cut of the film?
... that, according to the excavator, the more than 3000-year-old "Green Palace" ofTell al-Fakhar inIraq was pillaged and burned with the defenders still inside?
... thatbizarre silks of the early 18th century feature "some of the most extraordinary shapes to be introduced intosilk design" before the development ofArt Nouveau?
... thatNeptune, god of the sea, can be found inHenderson Street,Edinburgh?
... that theSpirit Fruit Society is considered to have existed longer and more successfully than any otherutopian group in theUnited States?

16 April 2011

16:00, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

... that three million trees, includingpine,oak,sweet chestnut, andacacia(pictured), are being planted every year as part of reforestation efforts inCape Verde?
... thatEdward Litt Laman Blanchard, who later became a prominent writer for theDrury Lane pantomime, began writing forThe Town when he was 17 years of age?
... thatEpitaphium, composed forstring trio byGraham Waterhouse, is performed today inWigmore Hall in a memorial concert for his father, thebassoonist William Waterhouse?
... that theNatural Bridges National Monument Solar Power System inUtah was the world's largestsolar cell power plant when it opened in 1980?
... that singerJenny Silver debuted with the Swedishdance band Candela, when it was signed toBert Karlsson's labelMariann Grammofon?
... that in theIndian state ofBihar, pressure fromcommunistParty Unity guerrillas forced the upper-caste paramilitary Bhoomi Sena to surrender to the peasant organisationMKSS?
... that theLincoln Thornton Manuscript, compiled around 1430-1440 by an amateur scribe and country gentleman, contains the only extant copies ofSir Degrevant and theAlliterative Morte Arthure?
... that SirPeter Maxwell Davies’s newopera aboutstudent activism,Kommilitonen!, was intended to be performed by students?

08:00, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the extinctEocene parasitic waspBrevivulva electroma(pictured) was named from the Latin words meaning "short amber wrapper"?
... that theMuseum of Lebanese Prehistory exhibitsneolithic relics from theBeqaa Valley recovered byJesuits?
... thatrecycling in Canada is administered by the provincial and local governments?
... thatHamburger Feuerkasse was the first official fire insurance company established in the world?
... that SirHenry Primrose, the chairman of the board of theInland Revenue, played twointernational football matches for Scotland in the 1870s?
... that a performer'sauthenticity in art may involve conforming to the composer's intention or ignoring it?
... that theFordwich stone in theChurch of St Mary inFordwich,Kent, may have been part of the shrine ofSaint Augustine of Canterbury?
... thatAlaska Supreme Court JusticeCraig F. Stowers worked as apark ranger before he earned hisJuris Doctor fromUC Davis School of Law?

00:00, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

... that American artistColin Campbell Cooper helped rescue survivors of theTitanic, and during the rescue created several paintings(example pictured) which document the events?
... that the17th century Jacobean mansionSwakeleys House inIckenham was visited bySamuel Pepys in 1665 and recorded in his diary?
... that theTasmanian pygmy possum is the world's smallest species ofpossum?
... that a match at theWorld Wrestling Federation'sSurvivor Series (2000) event ended withone wrestler using a forklift to destroy a car, supposedly withhis opponent trapped inside?
... thatWarren Matthews, a graduate of bothStanford andHarvard appointed byRepublican Governor Jay Hammond, was the second-longest servingSupreme Court justice inAlaska history?
... thatLumley Chapel is the oldest standing building in theLondon Borough of Sutton?
... that as many as 11 geological features inUtah are namedMollie's (or Molly's) Nipple?

15 April 2011

16:00, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatRomania's Symbolist movement(iconography pictured) fostered the literary careers offar-right theoristNae Ionescu, defrocked monkTudor Arghezi, andDada co-founderTristan Tzara?
... thatRuislip Manor was largely undeveloped rural land at theturn of the 20th century until the arrival of theMetropolitan Railway in 1912?
... that duringWorld War II,Germany andJapan wanted todivide all of Asia between each other along a line on the70th meridian east longitude?
... that although described as one of the finest buildings inGlasgow,The Egyptian Halls may be demolished?
... that formerHillsboro, Oregon, mayorHarry T. Bagley worked to get a conviction overturned from a trial his brotherGeorge R. Bagley presided over?
... thatBlackbutt,Christmas Bells, andTurpentine grow in theGarawarra State Conservation Area?
... thatJohn Fenn, winner of the2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and his colleagues atMonsanto "practically bathed" inPCBs during the early 1940s?

08:00, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

... that coachBilly Gillispie once madeKentucky Wildcats centerJosh Harrellson(pictured) sit in a bathroom stall duringhalf-time of a game?
... that under the ongoingRussian police reform, the name ofRussia's law enforcers was changed from "militia" to "police"?
... thatGyanvapi Mosque inVaranasi,India, built on the site of the originalKashi Vishwanath Temple, still shows evidence of the temple in its foundation, columns, and rear?
... that whenAntoinette Sterling sang theEnglish folk song "Three Fishers" in the late 1800s, she made the first verse "quite bright" so as not to give away the unhappy ending?
... that theBeaux Arts exterior of the 1907Surrogate's Courthouse inNew York features no fewer than 54 sculptures of historical and allegorical figures?
... thatNamibianHans Daniel Namuhuja was the first author to publish poetry inOshindonga, a dialect ofOshiwambo?
... that soon after he wasordained,John Wesley preached inSt Mary's Church inFleet Marston,Buckinghamshire?
... that as an unelectedCongressional delegate fromJefferson Territory,George M. Willing claimed to have created the word "Idaho" as a name forColorado?

00:00, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the 75-metre (246 ft) tall towers ofSt. Florian's Cathedral(pictured) inWarsaw's eastern district ofPraga highlight its role as a form of protest against theRussian domination ofPoland?
... that while building a wagon road alongUnion Creek, Francis M. Smith and John M. Corbell rediscoveredCrater Lake, the deepest lake in theUnited States and one of the clearest in the world?
... that the extinctparasitic wasp genusAspidopleura is known from only twofossils found inBaltic amber?
... thatDitsworthy Warren House, built onDartmoor for the keeper of arabbit warren, was used as a filming location forSteven Spielberg's forthcoming movieWar Horse?
... that the GermandestroyerBruno Heinemann was forced to transferfuel oil to the destroyerFriedrich Eckoldt during theNorwegian Campaign to allow the latter to return toGermany?
... that theMariana Islands period of prehistoric stone megaliths, such as those found atHouse of Taga onTinian, may have originated with theRota Latte Stone Quarry?
... thatHospital Borda's Radio La Colifata is the world's firstradio station broadcast from inside apsychiatric hospital?

14 April 2011

16:00, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatJames FitzGerald(pictured), the first editor of theLyttelton Times, later founded its main competitor,The Press?
... thatriparian forests contain some ⅓ of the estimated3000 flora species inBenin?
... that the firstAllied soldier killed during theNormandy landings was part ofOperation Deadstick?
... that theChapman Swifts, a flock ofVaux's Swift, inspired aPortland,Oregon, community to raise overUS$60,000 for a new school heating system so the birds could have the oldchimney to roost?
... that because it was too dark inside theChurch of St Peter ad Vincula inColemore,Hampshire, the parishionerspetitioned thebishop in 1669 to have the southtransept removed?
... thatDecuriasuchus may be the first knownarchosaur to exhibitgroup behavior?
... that thePistol River received its name after James Mace lost hispistol in it in 1853?

08:00, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

... that staff of the historicThe Press Building(pictured) were two weeks away from moving into a new office building when the2011 Christchurch earthquake struck, killing one?
... thatRobert Phelps is a "grandfather" ofmodern variational principles, according toIvar Ekeland?
... thatLlanwenarth House was a recipient ofThe Good Hotel GuideCésar Award for Best Welsh Country House of the Year 2002?
... thatHurricane Hiki was the wettesttropical cyclone on record in theUnited States?
... thatReform RabbiAmmiel Hirsch, who led the struggle againstIsrael'sOrthodox establishment to recognize the Reform movement, co-authored a book withan Orthodox rabbi?
... that someone was once stabbed at theSunset Esplanade inHillsboro, Oregon, for complimenting anOakland Raiders hat?
... that in the early19th century, the wordgullible wasn't in thedictionary?

00:00, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theGeorge Washington Masonic National Memorial(pictured) was proposed in 1852, began construction in 1922, dedicated in 1932, and finished in 1970?
... that pirate leaderEmilio Changco operated out ofManila Bay till his arrest in the 1990s?
... that above thearcade in thechancel screen ofSt Mary's Church, Capel-le-Ferne inKent is a large round-headed opening that is unique in England?
... that composerJan Müller-Wieland called his first stage work, premiered at theMunich Biennale in 1992, a "Cabaret Farce for singers,pianists andpercussionists"?
... that there is pressure to close theFessenheim Nuclear Power Plant, the oldest inFrance, because of concerns over the risk ofearthquakes?
... that the commander of theheavy cruiserPrinz Eugen, CaptainHelmuth Brinkmann, was a classmate of thebattleshipBismarck's commanderErnst Lindemann?
... that inOregon's 1990 U.S. Senate election, incumbentMark Hatfield's opponent in theRepublican primary was best known for having spent 40 daystree sitting to protestold-growth logging?

13 April 2011

16:00, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatSan Francisco fireboatPhoenix(pictured) pumped some 5.5 million gallons (20.8 ML) of seawater to help fight fires after the1989 Loma Prieta earthquake?
... thatRudolf Fränkel'sLichtburg cinema inBerlin, with its rooftop searchlights, probably influencedCecil Clavering'sOdeon cinema inKingstanding?
... thatTal Brody was drafted 12th in theNational Basketball Association draft, but chose instead to play basketball forIsrael?
... that a stained glass window in St. Paul's Church,King Cross,Halifax built in 1911, is dedicated in memory of Edward Wainhouse, whose daughter married the firstvicar of the prior church built in 1846?
... that leadingUlster Defence Association memberStephen "Top Gun" McKeag sang "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" after committing a sectarian killing?
... that theextinct Miocene redwood,Sequoiadendron chaneyi, is the probable ancestor to thegiant sequoias inCalifornia?
... thatQuezon RepresentativeLorenzo Tañada III's first girlfriend was formerAkbayan RepresentativeRisa Hontiveros while they were studying at theAteneo de Manila University?

08:00, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

... that inThailand, thesmiling terrapin(pictured) is believed to contain the souls of people who died while trying to save others from drowning?
... thatNo. 1 Basic Flying Training School was formed in 1951 in response to theRAAF's increased demand for aircrew during theKorean War andMalayan Emergency?
... that the story of Indian mathematicianSrinivasa Ramanujan, the topic ofSandeep Bhagwati's opera for the 1998Munich Biennale, was considered fit for a film?
... that the two branches of New Zealand'sAshburton River flow in parallel less than 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) apart for 20 kilometres (12 mi) before they join?
... that the adjective "Polish-Lithuanian" refers to pre-nationalistic,multicultural inhabitants of thePolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, unlike the modern understanding of the twonationalities?
... thatR. E. Grant Govan, founder ofIndian National Airways Ltd, also co-founded theBoard of Control for Cricket in India andCricket Club of India?
... that, according to legend, on theadvice ofXenoclea,Hercules agreed to become aslave of theQueen of Lydia?

00:00, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

... that approximately 6,500 out of a national population of an estimated 56,452 people (2010) inGreenland are employed in thefishing industry(fishing vessel pictured)?
... that theKnoxville Riot of 1919, one of the events of that year'sRed Summer, began when alynch mob stormed the jail in pursuit of a man believed to have been the mayor's illegitimate son?
... that theOttoman torpedo boatSultanhisar attacked and seriously damaged theAustralian submarineHMASAE2 in 1915 but rescued all the crew before the submarine went down in theSea of Marmara?
... that 1986Nobel Prize winnerJohn Polanyi spent three years inCanada as a child to avoidGerman bombings duringWorld War II?
... thatAbu Ali Iyad was one of the last remainingFatah commanders fighting theJordanian Army until he was killed nearAjloun during a major offensive by the latter?
... that theFrench ship of the lineCenseur was captured during theBattle of Genoa in 1795 after coming to the assistance of adamaged ship?
... thatMammotrectus super Bibliam, a guide book to understanding theBible, was popular in the 15th century, but was criticized in the 16th century?

12 April 2011

16:00, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatThe Man in the Moone, a 1638 book(frontispiece and title page pictured) by the Englishbishop Francis Godwin, is considered one of the firstscience fiction books?
... thatUrbanus, theGrammy-nominated album byStefon Harris, was recorded in the days leading up toBarack Obama's inauguration?
... that theSierra Gorda region in centralMexico has more butterfly species than theUnited States andCanada combined?
... thatDetlev Glanert's operaCaligula, after theplay byAlbert Camus on the cruelRoman emperor, was first staged at theOper Frankfurt in 2006?
... thatRhodactis howesii, asea anemone-likecorallimorph, is eaten by theSamoans but can prove fatal if consumed raw?
... that the homemadeIsraeli mortar memorialized inJerusalem'sDavidka Square was totally inaccurate, but it made such a huge noise that it sent the enemy fleeing in panic?
... that the 15th-centuryTreatise of Love is based on the 13th-centurymonastic manualAncrene Wisse, but shows considerably less interest incarnal love?

08:00, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatPrincess Ennigaldi, daughter of the last Neo-Babylonian kingNabonidus, createdthe world's first museum(ruins pictured)?
... that during a career lasting almost fifty years at TV stationWJXT inJacksonville, Florida,George Winterling helped develop televisionweather forecasting?
... that traditionally, eachseason ofcross country running inItaly concludes in March withTrofeo Alasport on the island ofSardinia?
... that goaltenderBen Scrivens signed with theNHL'sToronto Maple Leafs organization mainly for the opportunity to work with goalie coachFrançois Allaire?
... thatPerry Como's musical arranger,Nick Perito, also helpedBob Hope's wife,Dolores, revive her singing career after 60 years?
... that inJalpan de Serra inQuerétaro,Mexico, there is an annual festival to celebrate "countrymen" visiting from the United States?
... that theNorth American Star League, a professionale-sports league for players of the video gameStarCraft II, will awardUS$100,000 to the winner of its inaugural season?

00:00, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theFranciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda(example pictured) inQuerétaro,Mexico, have been classified as "mestizo architecture" because of the mixture of European and indigenous influences?
... thatRear-Admiral Horatio Nelson wrote a personal letter toLieutenantCharles Inglis congratulating him for his part in theaction of 31 March 1800?
... that on July 28, 2006,Daytona Cubs baseball player Ryan Harvey set aFlorida State League record by hitting four home runs in a game against theClearwater Threshers?
... thatFrank Searle designed theX-type andB-type bus, and was the Managing Director ofDaimler Airway andImperial Airways?
... that theGroßgaststätte Ahornblatt, a concrete building in the shape of amaple leaf in formerEast Berlin, was built in 1973 and demolished in 2000?
... thatPele's hair, and Pele's tears are well preserved atDevastation Trail after the 1959 eruption of Kīlauea Iki crater?
... that 19th-century English artistJohn Carter learned to draw, paint and write with his mouth, after a fall from a tree left himparalysed below the neck?

11 April 2011

16:00, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

... that thePawtuxet-classrevenue cuttersAshuelot,Kankakee,Kewanee, andPawtuxet were all sold in 1867 after barely three years service, but their sister shipLevi Woodbury(pictured) retired in 1915 as theCoast Guard's oldest cutter?
... thatJerry Harper was the firstAlabama Crimson Tide men's basketball player to lead his team in scoring all four years?
... thatSalvador Dalí insisted that his paintingGalatea of the Spheres be displayed on an easel previously owned byJean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in theDalí Theatre and Museum inFigueres?
... that an annual award is given in honor of theGeorgia old-timecraftsman andblacksmithAlex W. Bealer, author ofThe Art of Blacksmithing?
... thatKeipert syndrome affects thenose andbig toes?
... that acquisitions whilstChristopher Wright was Head of Manuscripts at theBritish Library included the archives ofPunch magazine and that of SirArthur Conan Doyle?
... thatTommy Lyttle, the leader of theUlster Defence Association's West Belfast Brigade, liked to readJames Bond novels?

08:00, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

... that in 1986, a possible image ofPresident Abraham Lincoln was discovered in an 1860s photo(pictured) of the deck ofrevenue cutterUSRC Wayanda?
... that theGerman town ofBingen am Rhein has usedKlopp Castle for city administration since 1897?
... thatAmy Krouse Rosenthal is the only author to have threechildren's books onPennsylvania State University'sbaker's dozen list of the "very bestpicture books published in 2009"?
... that the crew of theSantorini tried and failed to smuggle weapons, hidden inside barrels, into theGaza Strip three times, before being caught on their fourth attempt?
... that theJersey J-Cup, patterned after theSuper J Cup Japanese wrestling tournament, is the second-oldestindependent wrestling tournament in the United States?
... that theMuseo Soumaya, a private museum inMexico City based on one couple's art collection, has the largest collection ofAuguste Rodin sculpture outside ofFrance?
... that the oldtelevision game showPlace the Face askedcontestants to recognize glimpses of nearly forgotten persons from their past?

00:00, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theU.S. government imprisoned theBaron of Arizona(pictured) after learning he had damaged books inMexican andSpanish libraries?
... that the proposed construction of theHalabiye Dam on theEuphrates inSyria threatens theRoman–Byzantine sites ofHalabiye andZalabiye?
... that the land atWest Weber, Utah, was reported in 1903 to have a reputation as one of the poorest soils between theGreat Salt Lake andOgden?
... thatAlexander Gradsky is believed to be the firstRussian artist to have performedrock and roll music in a concert, when he was 13 years old?
... that theBlockade of Wonsan in theKorean War was the longestnaval blockade in modern history, lasting 861 days?
... that automotive journalistDavid E. Davis wore a full beard after a racing accident severely disfigured his face – and theambulance attendant threw away pieces of hisnasal cartilage?
... that as a teenager,Justine Thornton, the fiancée ofBritish Labour Party leaderEd Miliband, appeared in the controversial television comedyHardwicke House?

10 April 2011

16:00, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theBeagle Channel inTierra del Fuego National Park inArgentina is named after theBritish shipBeagle(pictured), which sailed with the explorerCharles Darwin in 1833–34?
... that the debut album by Americansinger-songwriterLotti Golden was listed byNew York Times music criticNat Hentoff as one of the most influential albums of the late 1960s?
... that the city ofAjdabiya,newly recaptured byLibyan rebels, was founded as a staging post on the crossroads of two key trading routes?
... that theFranciscan Church inZamość was among the largest churches in 17th-century Poland?
... that as a senior,basketball playerPete Padgett received the Doc Martie Award, given annually to theUniversity of Nevada's top male athlete?
... that theneo-realist filmA Berlin Romance is a strong critique of the obsession with consumer goods and the Americanization of mid-1950sBerlin?
... thatIsaac Perrins, an 18th-centurybareknuckle prizefighter, was described as "the knock-kneed hammerman from Soho"?

08:00, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

... that although thenuclear policy of the United States regulates thenuclear energy industry more strictly than most others, there have been 52 incidents(Three Mile Island cleanup pictured) costing an estimated$8.56 billion?
... that just one day after arrest,Lithuanian partisan commanderAdolfas Ramanauskas was transferred to a hospital in a critical condition with a punctured eye and missing testicles?
... that the decorative, "humpbacked"Chamberlain Bridge inBarbados, named after British Colonial SecretaryJoseph Chamberlain, replaced an older bridge destroyed by the Great Hurricane of 1898?
... thatGeorge Johnstone was aRoyal Navy officer, anMP, adirector of theEast India Company, a member of theCarlisle Peace Commission and the first Governor ofWest Florida?
... thatMarino Murillo, the former Minister of Economy and Planning ofCuba, believes the Cuban economic system is too paternalistic and supports the creation of a small-scale private market?
... that the unauthorized use of data from theNational Register of Electors, the permanent database of eligibleCanadian voters, can carry a penalty of a year in prison?
... thatAcid-Fest, aprofessional wrestling memorial show forTrent Acid, featured one of the largestbattle royals ever held?

00:00, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatHenry Seidel Canby compared the ruins ofIsabella Furnace(pictured) to a 12th-centuryPersian mosque?
... that cadetFrancis A. Dales beganOperation Pedestal on an American merchant ship, continued on a British destroyer, and ended it on an American tanker requisitioned and manned by a British crew?
... that by winning the1979 Gillette Cup Final,Somerset County Cricket Club won their first trophy since forming 104 years earlier?
... that the documentary filmBerlin im Aufbau has historical significance in that it documents the first phase of the rebuilding of the destroyed city ofBerlin afterWorld War II?
... thatPenally Abbey inPembrokeshire is believed to have been founded bySaint Teilo in the6th century?
... that although thedespot of ValonaJohn Komnenos Asen plundered aVenetian ship in 1350, he became a Venetian citizen three years later?
... that in theFringe episode "The Ghost Network", the writers wanted guest actorZak Orth to shave his head in preparation for a scene, but he successfully "begged" them not to?

9 April 2011

16:00, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

... thattrolleybuses in Derby(example pictured) last operated in 1967, but there are still five preserved by collectors?
... thatGent Strazimiri, who began his career as ananti-communist activist, is now a member of theAlbanian parliament for theDemocratic Party of Albania?
... that the influential 2000oncology paper "The Hallmarks of Cancer" identified six features that all cancers have in common?
... thatReverendHeinrich Schmelen, aGerman missionary inSouth-West Africa, married an indigenousNama woman in 1814, an action encouraged by the missionary societies of that time?
... that the1965 Pacific hurricane season had 10 named storms, with one storm becoming a hurricane?
... thatJayden Pitt, the lightest player on theFremantle Football Club playing list at only 70 kg (150 lb), was a surprise selection when he made his début in the opening round of the2011 AFL season?
... thatJohn T. Cunningham, who has chronicled much ofNew Jersey's past, once said, "My goals did not include either the writing of books or becoming a historian"?

08:00, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatHensley Settlement inKentucky(school pictured) is anAppalachian living history museum?
... that theconvoy, a group ofmerchantmen ortroopships travelling together with anaval escort, was revived duringWorld War I?
... thatDanny Goodwin, theChicago White Sox first-round draft pick and first overall pick in 1971, decided not to sign with the team?
... thatSt Mary's Church, inSandwich,Kent, was damaged by the French in 1217 and again in 1457, and by an earthquake in 1578?
... thatH. S. Lloyd is the most successful dog breeder inCrufts history, winningBest in Show on six occasions?
... thatAlbert Bandura's 1986 bookSocial Foundations of Thought and Action was said to contain "outlines of the grand theory" of human behaviourpsychologists were seeking for over a century?
... thatDead Women Crossing inOklahoma is reputedly haunted by a schoolteacher who disappeared the day after she filed for divorce in 1905, and was found murdered two months later?

00:00, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

... that somewhales "lunge feed" onbait balls(pictured), an extreme method of feeding which has been called the largestbiomechanical event on Earth?
... that formerKennel Club ChairmanLeonard Pagliero flew supplies to theNorwegian resistance movement duringWorld War II?
... that theTask Force on Childhood Obesity, established by theObama Administration in 2010, seeks to eliminatechildhood obesity in theUnited States within ageneration?
... that TheinSpiral Lounge is avegetarian restaurant,organic bar andlive music venue inCamden Lock,London that hosts performances ofacoustic andelectronic music?
... thatBloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, byTimothy D. Snyder, discusses the estimated14 million deaths that occurred inEastern Europe between 1933 and 1945?
... thatThe Washington Post namedLibyan female lawyerIman al-Obeidi, who accusedMuammar Gaddafi's troops of politically motivated rape, a "symbol of defiance against Gaddafi"?
... that theMajor League Baseball career ofLarry McLean ended at theBuckingham Hotel inSt. Louis, Missouri, during a drunken encounter with his manager,John McGraw?

8 April 2011

16:00, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

... that during araid on Berlin in 1944,RAAF Squadron LeaderBill Brill's(pictured)Avro Lancaster was struck byincendiary bombs dropped by another Allied aircraft above him?
... thatAnesrif is managing the construction of theHigh Plateau line, a railway acrossAlgeria?
... thatTim Tebow,Maya Moore andMatt Bonner were two-timeteam members of the Year inAmerican football,women's basketball, andmen's basketball, respectively?
... thatMehadia,Romania, is located on the site of theancient Roman colony Ad Mediam, noted for its Hercules baths?
... that before theHershey–Chase experiment confirmed the role ofDNA, scientists believed thatgenes were carried byproteins?
... thatFrench marshal Victor-Perrin, on his way to command theSiege of Kolberg (1807), was captured by aPrussian freikorps?
... thatTrey Songz' 2011 single "Love Faces" is amid-tempo piano-basedballad that discusses facial expressions that people make when havingsexual intercourse?

08:00, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatAlice Manfield(pictured), commonly known as Guide Alice, worked as amountain guide on Australia'sMt Buffalo for forty years from the 1890s?
... that the yachtAmazon's former owners includeArthur Lowe of theBritish sitcomDad's Army?
... thatJohn R. Isbell was the primary contributor to the mathematical theory ofuniform spaces?
... that the 2011murder of Sian O'Callaghan inSwindon,England, has been linked to the 1996 unsolved murder ofMelanie Hall?
... thatJohn Adams' "Christian Zeal and Activity" fromAmerican Standard is an arrangement of "Onward, Christian Soldiers", a popular hymn tune byArthur Sullivan?
... that in 2003 theGerman authorDieter Schenk became an honorary citizen of Gdańsk after his work led a German court to overturn aWorld War II ruling on thedefenders of the Polish Post Office in Danzig?
... that37 photographs,12 home movies, abunch of books and asearch warrant havehad their day in theU.S. Supreme Court?

00:00, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

... that at the height of battle the wolf's head of theDacian Draco(pictured), with its several metal tongues, made a shrill sound and its strips of material waved in the wind?
... thatPaul Signac praisedCharles Angrand's drawings as "masterpieces", calling them "poems of light"?
... that in the churchyard ofAll Saints Church, inLittle Somborne,Hampshire, is the grave ofThomas Sopwith, the pioneeraviator?
... thatHans Stadlmair, conductor of theMünchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades, in 1971 premieredWilhelm Killmayer'sFin al punto, of which the composer said, "The calm already contains the catastrophe"?
... that despite being set up similarly, government-sponsoredfixed markets never replaced "tianguis" or open air markets inMexico?
... that in 1918Morris S. Halliday, aNew York State Senator for the forty-first Senate District, resigned his seat to enter theUnited States Army Air Service?
... that a parrot was branded sectarian after being heard whistling "Follow Follow"?

7 April 2011

16:00, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatUkrainian composerMykola Leontovych(pictured), known for the "Carol of the Bells", was nicknamed "UkrainianBach" inFrance?
... thatGeorge, aJack Russell Terrier, died from injuries sustained while protecting several children from an attack by twoPit Bulls?
... thatAustrian American biochemistOskar Baudisch, whose study of trace elements in aqueous solutions led to his discovery of theBaudisch reaction, died by drowning?
... that the mass of theextrasolar planetKepler-11g could not be determined because its orbit is too far from those of its sister planets?
... that formerWashington Times editorJames R. Whelan claims he wasdismissed from the paper after control of it was "seized" by leaders of theUnification Church?
... thatKenny Meadows has been described as one of the best illustrators to work forPunch in the magazine's early years?
... thatGrant Hill's response toJalen Rose's comments inThe Fab Five—the highest-ratedESPN documentary—was shared by nearly 100,000 people on Facebook in the next few days?

08:00, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatNahuel Huapi National Park inArgentina is named afterNahuel Huapi Lake(pictured), withnahuel andhuapi meaning "jaguar" and "island" in theMapuche language?
... that theM-64 highway designation inMichigan was moved twice in two years by exchanging the number with different roads?
... that thefirst manual on a double-entry bookkeeping system was written byBenedikt Kotruljević in 1458, more than 36 years earlier than previously thought?
... that in the 1970s,Shreveport historianWalter M. Lowrey headed a project onLouisiana Methodism, which included a study ofcircuit riders?
... that two of the venues used for theFour Hills Tournament have also been used forOlympic ski jumping competitions?
... that saxophonistKing Curtis was stabbed to death a week after releasing his albumLive at Fillmore West?
... that Miss San Antonio 2010Domonique Ramirez temporarily lost her title after pageant officials complained that she had gained weight and allegedly told her to "get off the tacos"?

00:00, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatFrances Howard, Duchess of Richmond(pictured) was known as the "Double Duchess"?
... that Czech actorMartin Miller portrayedKublai Khan inDoctor Who?
... that near the end of its lengthy run, thetelevision seriesThis Is Show Business introduced the futurenovelist Jacqueline Susann as apanelist?
... that Norwegianbehavioral neuroscientistTerje Sagvolden showed that thespontaneously hypertensive rat strain is a validanimal model for theattention deficit hyperactivity disorder?
... that a tavern inBaltimore, theHenry Fite House, served as the United States capitol for two months?
... thatRay William Johnson is the second most subscribed person onYouTube?
... that thedimachaerus, a type of gladiator, used a fighting style adapted to defend with his weapons rather than a shield?
... that in theParks and Recreation episode "Camping", protagonistLeslie Knope (Amy Poehler) revealed she once dreamed of being happily married to the fictional alienALF?

6 April 2011

16:00, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatCubs' pitcherCarl Lundgren(pictured) had "speed to burn green hickory and an assortment of curves that would keep acryptograph specialist figuring all night but he was wild as aMarch hare in a cyclone"?
... thatHezekiah Hollandreckoned in 1650 that theend of the world and theDay of Judgment were then 216 years away?
... that the2011 Jerusalem bus stop bombing was a bomb attack carried out in a bus station in downtownJerusalem which killed a 59-year-oldBritish national?
... that theArgentine superhero live-action TV seriesLos únicos is influenced by theX-Men film series,Heroes andSky High?
... that sociologistMax Weber suffered anervous breakdown after his father,Max Weber Sr., suddenly died following a father–son argument?
... thatPolish State Forests oversee 77.8% offorests in Poland?
... thatRebecca Black's "Friday", dubbed the "worst song ever" by some critics, has made Black a "viral star" with the video attracting over 80 millionYoutube hits?

08:00, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theLion Gate(pictured), the main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel ofMycenae inGreece, is the sole surviving monument ofMycenaean sculpture?
... that for her second novel,The Space Between Us,Indian-American writerThrity Umrigar modeled the character of Bhima after a real-lifedomestic servant who worked for her family?
... thatPensacola Dam on theGrand River inOklahoma is referred to as the longest multiple-arch dam in the world, with 51 arches?
... that the extinctmason bee speciesAnthidium exhumatum andAnthidium scudderi are known from theEocene Florissant Formation inColorado?
... that the music to the hymn "Follow On" was later adopted byRangers F.C. as the music for their anthem, "Follow Follow"?
... thatMinnette Gersh Lenier usedstage magic to teachremedial reading?
... that atBrighton Extra Mural Cemetery inEast Sussex,England, Mr. Bacon is buried next to Mrs. Egg?

00:00, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

... that thewildlife of the Falkland Islands includes no native terrestrialreptiles,amphibians, or eventrees, and that the only native terrestrial mammal, thewarrah(pictured), became extinct in the mid-19th century?
... thatChee Dodge was elected vice-chairman of theNavajo Council in 1946 but died before taking office?
... that "Hammerhead" byJeff Beck won the2011 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance?
... that during the making ofLes Femmes du 6e étage, a 2011 French comedy film byPhilippe le Guay, Spanish actresses Berta Ojea and Concha Galán learnt their French dialogue phonetically?
... thatTrinidadian virologist Dr.Joseph Lennox PawanM.B.E. was the first person to show thatrabies could be spread byvampire bats to other animals and humans?
... that theMyth of Skanderbeg is one of the main constitutivemyths ofAlbanian nationalism?
... thatHarley Warrick, painter ofMail Pouch barn signs, would sometimes spell 'tobacco' with three 'c's just to see if anyone noticed?

5 April 2011

16:00, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theStele of the Vultures(fragment pictured) celebrates a victory ofEannatum ofLagash (2460 BC) overUmma in southernMesopotamia?
... that a girls' school that was burned in 1863 during theUnion Army occupation ofTriune, Tennessee, in theAmerican Civil War was notreplaced until 30 years later?
... that, while thecriss-cross algorithm visits all eight corners of theKlee–Minty cube when started at aworst corner, it visits only three more cornerson average when started at arandom corner?
... that theprinting house ofAnton Wilhelm Brøgger, inOslo,Norway, was carried on by his descendants until 1981, almost 100 years after Brøgger's death?
... that the emblem ofBellerophon riding the flying horsePegasus was designed forBritish airborne forces during the Second World War?
... that at the end of his career as a professionalhandball player in 2005,István Csoknyai had won morenational league and cup titles than any other Hungarian player?
... that theworld's largest pelican is over 15 feet (4.6 m) tall?

08:00, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theBank Street Historic District inWaterbury, Connecticut, has a rareQueen Anne Style commercial building(pictured second from right)?
... that 425,000German prisoners of war were held in 700camps throughout the United States during World War II?
... thatJames Monroe Smith, who had been forced from the presidency ofLSU onfraud charges, was thereafter named vocational rehabilitation director at theLouisiana State Penitentiary?
... that theextinct parasitic waspMetapelma archetypon is thought to have preyed upon wood-boring beetles?
... that entrepreneurRalph Høibakk was one of a group ofNorwegians who skied to theSouth Pole in 1990, the first people to do so sinceRoald Amundsen?
... that television producerEugenio Derbez sends actors and actresses toMexico City'sLa Lagunilla Market to pick up the vocabulary and accents of the people they will portray in hisreality series?
... thatnetball became anOlympic-recognised sport in 1995after 20 years of lobbying?

00:00, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatBoston BeaneaterBobby "Link" Lowe(pictured) was the firstMajor League player tohit four home runs in a game and was selected in 1911 as the bestutility player inbaseball history?
... that theearly Britons were skilled horsemen and facedJulius Caesar with a well-organized force of 4,000 horse-drawnchariots?
... that after more than 40 years as a recording artist, 31studio albums and one award as anart director,Neil Young won his firstGrammy Award as a musician for "Angry World"?
... thatAdolf Eichmann felt he was given his "big break" by fellowAustrianLeopold von Mildenstein?
... thatBeidha, a majorarchaeological site nearPetra inJordan, hadNatufian,Neolithic andNabataean occupations?
... thatVirginia Woolf stayed at theCarbis Bay Hotel in the spring of 1914 for three weeks whilst recovering from a bout ofmental illness?
... thatParaguayan actorArnaldo André used to slaptelenovela actresses who worked with him?

4 April 2011

16:00, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

... that among the replicas exhibited in theJurassic Museum of Asturias inColunga,Spain, are thecopulatingTyrannosaurus rexdinosaurs(pictured)?
... thatNorth Carolina A&T State University PresidentJames B. Dudley organized a society whose aims included discouragingAfrican American farmers from gettingmortgages?
... that after a series ofausterity measures were voted down in thePortuguese parliament inMarch 2011,Prime Minister José Sócrates resigned and called for alegislative election?
... thatconductorChristoph Poppen played Bach'sPartita for Violin No. 2 interspersed with related Bachchorales, sung by theHilliard Ensemble?
... that in the 1950s,Woolverstone Hall was theInner London Education Authority's only state-runboarding school?
... thatChris Hill is one of only threeBig Ten Conference men's basketball players to have been named anAcademic All-America three times?
... that after receiving a letter during the1702 Siege of Nöteborg,Peter the Great offered the defending officers' wives safe passage, if they took their husbands with them?

08:00, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatOxford Terrace Baptist Church(pictured), collapsed in the2011 Christchurch earthquake, was considered by thedean ofChristChurch Cathedral as one of the "iconic churches of the city"?
... thatJane Austen's brother,Francis, captured two Frenchmerchant ships and fought off their escorts while captaining thesloop-of-warHMSPeterel?
... thatKeith Richards made a guest appearance onPhantom, Rocker & Slick's debut album?
... that members of the2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team won earnedCCHA Best Defensive Forward and Best Goaltender awards?
... thatEverett Bowman was the founder of the Cowboys' Turtle Association, the first organization of professionalrodeo cowboys?
... that theZagreb School of Economics and Management is the largestprivate institute forhigher education inCroatia?
... that because it depicts asame-sex marriage, thechildren's picture bookKing & King was the subject of a question in the2008 Democratic U.S. presidential primary debates?

00:00, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Perry Prichard established a 24-hourmotocross distanceworld record(pictured) atGravity Park USA as abenefit for Haitian relief?
... that there are 672Indigenous Territories inBrazil, covering about 13% of the country's land area?
... thatSusie Fishbein, best-selling author ofArtScroll'sKosher By Design cookbook series, has been called "the JewishMartha Stewart" and "the kosherdiva"?
... thatcycloids are believed to have been driven toextinction whencrabs spread across their territory?
... thatsocialist SalvationistFrank Smith stood for theBritish House of Commons twelve times before he was finally elected, at the age of 74?
... that "Zawinul's Mambo" from theGrammy winningChucho's Steps was dedicated toJoe Zawinul who heard a recording of it before he died?
... that theKing of the nonexistentKingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia calls himself a "Republican monarchic"?

3 April 2011

16:00, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

... thatLeonardo da Vinci's studentSalaì painted a nude version of theMona Lisa calledMonna Vanna(pictured)?
... thatplaces of worship in the Englishdistrict of Horsham include amosque in a former Baptist chapel?
... that theDanmark served as atraining ship for theUnited States Coast Guard after it was trapped in the United States by the outbreak ofWorld War II, leading to the acquisition of theUSCGCEagle?
... that in 1999 the seaflooded the Blayais Nuclear Power Plant inFrance, knocking out the power supply and safety systems and resulting in aLevel 2 event on theInternational Nuclear Event Scale?
... that frustration in mixing all of the microphones in a musical production ofHair was what sparkedDan Dugan's invention of theautomixer?
... that Ohio'sPaulding County Carnegie Library was the firstCarnegie library in the United States to serve an entirecounty rather than an individual city?
... thatMichigan baseball coachFrank Sexton was confronted with a knife, a cane and an arrest warrant after declaring a forfeit whenIndiana refused to continue play due to darkness?

08:00, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theItalian wine grapeVespaiola is named after thewasps(pictured) that are attracted to thesugary pulp of theripening grapes?
... that artistWill Henry Stevens was inspired for his subject matter by writersRalph Waldo Emerson,Henry David Thoreau, andWalt Whitman?
... that, starting in 1944, aNazi labor subcamp ofBuchenwald concentration camp was set up outside everyHASAGarms factory in Germany?
... thatSt Elmo Courts, a heritage building registered as Category II with theNew Zealand Historic Places Trust, is currently being demolished?
... thatArnold Schoenberg has been only one of many composers to set poems from Albert Giraud'sPierrot lunaire to music?
... that a rare breed of horses found in the high mountains ofSierra del Sueve inAsturias,Spain, does not trot but moves with an easy gait, leading to its popularity as a "ladies' mount"?
... thatAnthony Robles won a nationalNCAA wrestling title despite being born with only one leg?

00:00, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

... that larvae ofCuban endemicfireflyAlecton discoidalis(pictured) attackland snails?
... that Polishanti-Communist fighter turnedStalinist informantEdward Wasilewski committed suicide in 1968, on the day of theWarsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia?
... thatnuclear magnetic resonance crystallography can be used to explore features ofmicrocrystalline formation too fine to be seen throughX-ray,neutron, orelectron diffraction?
... thatComputer and Video Games magazine wrote thatThe Mystery of the Druids holds "very little appeal for anyone but the most patient and geeky PC-head"?
... that the publisher ofThe Town newspaper,Renton Nicholson, once engaged in a public feud with rival publisherBarnard Gregory?
... that in 1903,The Kennel Club merged fourbreeds of toy spaniels into theKing Charles Spaniel?
... thatdoctorBohdan Pomahač performed the first fullface transplant in the United States?

2 April 2011

16:00, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

... that, in 1960,Volkmar Wentzel photographed Capt.Joseph Kittinger making a record-setting 102,800-foot (31,300 m)skydive(pictured)?
... that, even though theValle d'Aosta is surrounded by theAlps in the far northwest region ofItaly, nearly 90% of its wines are red androsé made fromvarieties likePetit Rouge?
... that the titular character of the 15th-centuryromanceSir Degrevant was called the "perfect romance hero" precisely because he was untouched by love?
... that thelarva of the Texasbeetle,Brachypsectra fulva, can live for over two years without feeding?
... thatCharles Edward Roehenstart was thenatural son of a Catholic archbishop and aduchess?
... thatRevlon named a fragrance"Charlie" after the company's founder, because competitorEstée Lauder released one called "Estée"?
... that, after leavingUCLA and theUniversity of Georgia, basketball playerNicole Kaczmarski started waiting tables atOutback Steakhouse?

08:00, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

... that "special correspondent"military artists followed Victorian armies round theBritish Empire, sending back illustrations(1881 example pictured) that "left an indelible stamp on the art of thecomic strip"?
... thatLouisiana educatorStephen A. Caldwell became aschool principal 14 years before he received hisbachelor's degree?
... thatfigure skating was the firstWinter Olympic sport to hold all of its events indoors, during the Winter Olympics in1932?
... that in 2007, the110th U.S. Congress introduced theFAIR USE Act, which would have prevented theSupreme Court from levying damages against companies forsecondary infringement?
... thatRomanian art historianAlexandru Tzigara-Samurcaş, the alleged son ofKing Carol I, was police chief underGerman occupation duringWorld War I?
... that for the2003 horror filmDeep Freeze, directorJohn Carl Buechler created a gianttrilobite as the "monster"?
... that formerMr. Belvedere actorRob Stone later became a producer of documentaries, including a short film onhomelessness that featuredMr. Belvedere himself?

00:00, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

... that theCalifornia Senate passed a bill making the sale ofballoons(pictured)illegal inJanuary 2011?
... that 14-metre (46 ft) tallSiberian crabs are being used in experimental breeding programs?
... thata wanderer survived both theFrench Revolution of 1789–99 and theRussian Revolution 127 years later?
... that in early 2010 reporters claimed that anunprecedented attack on Jordan was targeted at both terrorists from Al-Qaida and U.S. military bases?
... that the inhabitants of theSand Ridge Site atedrums?
... thatClubfoot George was executed byvigilantes because they believed that he was innocent?
... that theU.S. military hopes to incorporateTransformers into its combat units?
... that the noble ladySayyida al Hurra became well respected for her booty?
... thatThomas Jefferson wished to practicefree love butthe object of his affections became pregnant and gave birth toFrankenstein?

1 April 2011

16:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Australian government requires high-risksex workers to wear full-facerespirators(example pictured)?
... thatNtrepid was paid$2.76 million by theU.S. military to createsock puppets?
... thatBatman is half female?
... thatnesting is not used by breedingMute Swans but they do usethis thing?
... thatRobert Tappan Morris wasconvicted of a crime for releasinga worm?
... thatDr. Who's parents areBrazilians from afamily known forpineapples?
... that even small amounts ofdead cat can explode when heated?
... thatEurope was ruled by achild during theAmerican Revolutionary War?
... that a typicalLabia minor is chocolate brown, up to 7 mm long, and equipped with pincers?

08:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

... that there is adesk full of candy(pictured) on the floor of theUS Senate?
... thatRudyard Kipling's final resting place is at the bottom of the sea off the coast ofIreland?
... that recent quantum chemical calculations have established thatarsoles are only moderately aromatic?
... thatSt. Joseph has been inEgypt since 1852?
... that in 2010, three survivors of theTitanic were rescued by theUSCGC Chincoteague?
... thata real Bastard commandedAfrica in the nineteenth century?
... that a species ofcrab,Tumidotheres maculatus, has been found living on anasteroid?
... thatice cream grows inFlorida?

00:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the2011 Honda CBR250Rsport bike(pictured), styled after theVFR1200F, shows design influence from theChrysler 300 car?
... thatMatt Howard is the first player named to theHorizon League Men's Basketball Tournament All-Tournament team four times?
... that theMunich Biennale is anopera festival created in 1988 byHans Werner Henze, focused on opera premieres of young composers?
... that thestoning murder of two Israeli boys on the outskirts of theirsettlement in theJudean desert in 2001 led to U.S. legislation cracking down on killers of Americans overseas?
... thatLa Nueva Viga Market inMexico City is the second-largest seafood market, after theTsukiji fish market?
... that duringOperation Kita inFebruary 1945, sixImperial Japanese Navy warships, sailing fromSingapore toJapan, evaded the 26Allied submarines which were positioned to attack them?
... that theGlee cover ofThe Beatles' "Blackbird", included onan upcoming album, marked the first time the song charted on theBillboard Hot 100?

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