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31 July 2007

22:51, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the date of the translation (pictured) of a Christian saint's relics was often observed as a separate feast day?
...that in 1926, author Helen Dore Boylston and Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, drove from Paris to Albania in a Model T Ford called "Zenobia"?
...that some catfishes of the subfamily Glanapteryginae live exclusively in sand?
...that just as there is a "Fifth Beatle," Phillip Wilcher is called the "fifth Wiggle" for leaving The Wiggles shortly before they became Australia's highest grossing entertainers?
...that writer and publisher Bernard d’Abrera is a fervent creationist who blames environmental problems on the "waste" of studying evolution?
...that Bernard de Neufmarché was the first of the Norman conquerors of Wales, who annexed the Kingdom of Brycheiniog to England?
...that the great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Leela Gandhi, is a senior lecturer at La Trobe University in the English program?

11:33, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the two versions of Manfred on the Jungfrau, a watercolour by John Martin (pictured) and an oil by Ford Madox Brown, were painted just five years apart?
...that on 28 April 1285 at Girona, Jean Cholet crowned Charles of Valois with his galero and pronounced him King of Aragon, earning Charles the affectionate moniker roi du chapeau (king of the hat)?
...that Ed Trice, creator of the chess variant known as Gothic Chess, helped Jonathan Schaeffer solve the game of checkers, the largest game ever solved?
...that the Australian solicitor and politician, Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott was a Freemason, and the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of NSW and ACT?
...that all four deaths in the thirty annual Chicago Marathons have occurred in the last ten years?
...that when Nizah Morris, an African American transgender woman, was murdered, the medical examiner immediately labeled it a homicide, but the Philadelphia police took over a month to do so?
...that Jeffrey Pollack, Commissioner of the World Series of Poker, won two Emmy Awards for the work he did as NASCAR's marketing director?

30 July 2007

23:25, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

...that several British Royal Air Force Stations were used by the U.S. Strategic Air Command (emblem pictured) for almost 20 years?
...that Thai actor Mitr Chaibancha died while filming a stunt for the final scene of the 1970 film, Insee thong?
...that Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania was America's first student union?
...that the last archbishop of Bordeaux of the Hundred Years' War, Pey Berland, built annexed to the cathedral a tower that still bears his name: the Tour Pey Berland?
...that East Perth Cemeteries' first recorded burial was of Private John Mitchell from the 63rd regiment who died on 6 January 1830?
...that the praetorian prefecture of Africa, a Byzantine province established after the Vandalic War, saw continuous warfare and two major military mutinies during its first 15 years of existence?
...that most species of catfishes of the subfamily Sarcoglanidinae are small and transparent?
...that Mozart was a frequent guest at the villa Bertramka on the outskirts of Prague and that the house is now a museum in his memory?

07:15, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Singapore's Burmese Buddhist Temple has the largest white marble statue of the Buddha (pictured) outside of Myanmar?
...that in 2006 Gibraltar was granted a new constitution, giving it a modern constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom?
...that Oscar the Cat was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine for his purported ability to predict the impending death of the terminally ill?
...that when severely disturbed, catfish of the genus Acrochordonichthys may release a milky-white mucus-like substance that can kill other fish?
...that Abraham Lincoln helped bury the dead at Kellogg's Grove following the second Battle of Kellogg's Grove during the Black Hawk War?
...that the online business term Enterprise 2.0 originated with Participate Systems CEO Alan Warms in 2001 and has spawned an annual collaborative technologies conference of the same name?
...that children who turn 16 during the validity of a Family Railcard may still travel at child fares until the card expires?

00:53, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the Jerusalem city hall at Safra Square (pictured) was rebuilt in 1993 with help from Brazilian-Lebanese financier Edmond J. Safra?
...that the Duncan Hunter presidential campaign, 2008 has been endorsed by both Chuck Yeager and Ann Coulter?
...that Ed Bruneteau was traded twice to the Detroit Red Wings within two years?
...that the children's group The Wiggles, Australia's most successful entertainers, have franchised their image and songs to groups in Taiwan and South America?
...that the winners at the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe in September, 2007, will receive the first WSOP bracelets ever awarded outside of Las Vegas?
...that Auburn Tigers offensive coordinator Al Borges wrote both a book and an instructional video titled Coaching the West Coast Quarterback?
...that members of the genus Breitensteinia have a longer body than other stream catfishes due to an increase in number of vertebrae?

29 July 2007

11:52, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Raine Island, a vegetated coral cay located off the North coast of Australia, harbours the largest population of Green Turtles (pictured) in the world and is the most significant seabird rookery in the Great Barrier Reef?
...that in terms of political ideology, American economists tend to be liberal?
...that oleoresin extracted from Byadgi chilli is used in making nail polish and lipstick?
...that library@esplanade is Singapore's first public library for the performing arts?
...that Iraqi world-class wrestler and weightlifter Kadhem Sharif attempted to use a sledgehammer to bring down the statue of Saddam Hussein at Baghdad's Firdos Square?
...that University Hall, Northwestern University's oldest building, is composed of Joliet limestone - the same kind used to build the Chicago Water Tower?

00:27, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the influence of singer Jeff Tweedy's side group Loose Fur on Wilco's 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot led to the dismissal of two other Wilco members?
...that the homosexual relationship between Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone only became a major on-screen plot line on All My Children after the series fans demanded it?
...that the Cleeves Cove caves were used as a refuge for the local Covenanters, a religious group seeking religious freedom, during the time of their persecution by Charles II's government?
...that Johnny Ramensky was a Scottish criminal who used his safe-cracking abilities to help the British Army?
...that in 1999, John Pollack quit his job as a Congressional speechwriter to build a boat made entirely out of corks?
...that State Route 69 (road sign pictured) in the U.S. state of Utah was renumbered State Route 38 in 1993, due to sign theft caused by one connotation of the number?
...that catfish of the genus Leporacanthicus are also known as vampire plecostomus because of the presence of very long teeth on their upper jaw?

28 July 2007

11:31, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
...that Russian parliamentarian Vasily Maklakov is suspected of having procured the poison that was used to murder Grigori Rasputin?
...that Christopher Wright, one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, could be the source of the letter that betrayed the plan?
...that the Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important constitutional documents of the Commonwealth of Nations, is thought to have been unenforceable until the Harare Declaration twenty years later?
...that besides writing 3000 songs during his life, Clifford Grey also competed for the United States in bobsledding while still a British citizen?
...that the Esplanade in Calcutta, which formed a favourite promenade for "elegant walking parties" in the eighteenth century, now sees some 200,000 to 300,000 vehicles pass through during rush hour?

00:15, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the windowless skyscraper at 33 Thomas Street (pictured) in New York City was designed to resist nuclear fallout and be self-sufficient for up to two weeks?
...that William Gaskell, husband of the well-known Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, was a pioneer in the education of the working classes?
...that Tan Howe Liang is Singapore's only Olympic Games medallist?
...that algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
...that the Austrian government gave the American soprano Teresa Stich-Randall the title of Kammersängerin given to esteemed artists?
...that the Javanese Damarwulan legend may be based on events during the reign of Queen Suhita of the Majapahit Empire?
...that the Calendar of saints of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa includes feasts for a number of individuals from Africa, including Bernard Mizeki, Robert Gray, Manche Masemola, and Charles Frederick Mackenzie?

27 July 2007

16:32, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

...that double cloth or double-woven cloth (pictured) is a type of weaving used in Pre-Columbian Peru and Victorian furnishing textiles in which two or more sets of warps and one or more sets of weft or filling yarns are interconnected to form a two-layered cloth?
...that Jews of Iran is the first documentary film about Iran's Jewish minority?
...that Carpenter's Coffee House in Covent Garden, London, became known as "The Finish" as it was the place revellers went when all the other coffee houses and taverns closed?
...that subjective logic can help you deal with uncertainty?
...that Choir is the site of the longest runway in Mongolia?
...that while under construction the Lena Water Tower in Lena, Illinois had to be demolished and rebuilt because it began to crumble?
...that there were no police in Cascade City, British Columbia in 1897 and when thieves broke into a store, taking 150 pounds of tobacco, a book-keeper was sent to arrest the suspects?
...that Edgar Allison Peers was an English Hispanist who coined the term "red-brick university"?
...that prominent pops conductor and arranger Jeff Tyzik released six albums from 1981–1990 as a solo trumpeter?

08:10, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Erasmus Darwin's sexualized poem The Loves of the Plants (illustration pictured) was a defense of Carl Linnaeus's botanical classification scheme?
...that former sumo wrestler Asahikuni Masuo suffered from chronic pancreatic trouble and sometimes commuted to tournaments from a hospital?
...that in the years 1936–1939 about 3 million Poles gave their personal savings, jewelry and valuables to the Fundusz Obrony Narodowej (National Defence Fund), to improve the equipment of the Polish Army?
...that Pareuchiloglanis catfishes can be distinguished from other members of the Sisoridae family only by their premaxillary tooth bands?
...that the Cody Caves are part of the setting of the children's book, The Kootenay Kidnapper by Canadian author Eric Wilson?
...that the story of the video game Code Age Commanders is set in a fictional "intraglobular world" similar to a Dyson sphere?
...that road maintenance depots have been used as fronts to disguise entrances to military installations?
...that Count Vladimir Lambsdorff managed to talk Nicholas II of Russia out of the projected Russian-German alliance against Britain?
...that John Beckett is the only American football player to have been the team captain for two different Rose Bowl teams: the University of Oregon in 1917 and Mare Island in 1918?

01:43, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

...that of the sixty delegates to the Oregon Constitutional Convention, (Oregon Territory Seal pictured) thirty-four were farmers, while eighteen were lawyers, including three justices of the Oregon Supreme Court?
...that the medieval Irish narrative The Sickbed of Cúchulainn gave its name to the first song on The Pogues' 1985 album Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash?
...that the Bilbie family produced more than 1,350 bells, from the late 1600s to the early 1800s?
...that the BBC reported that the John West Salmon's "Bear Fight" videos have been viewed over 300 million times making it the sixth most viewed online video?
...that according to a legend, Polish-Lithuanian noble Mikołaj Sapieha stole a Holy Painting from a private Papal chapel in Rome?
...that horses hauled both passenger and goods trains to Weston-super-Mare railway station, England, from 1841, when the railway opened, until 1851?
...that The French Connection led the Buffalo Sabres to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in each of the seven full seasons they were together except the one Gilbert Perreault's broken leg limited him to 55 games?
...that in 1078 the Chinese statesman and poet Su Shi (1037-1101) wrote a memorial to the throne warning of the potential danger of bandits overrunning the iron industry of Xuzhou?

26 July 2007

15:31, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Motza (pictured), founded in 1859, was the first modern village established near Jerusalem?
...that Christina Lake, British Columbia is the first golf course in Canada to offer black sand traps?
...that the 29 species in the fish genus Sillago are so similar they can only be positively identified by the shapes of their swim bladders?
...that Tom Wolfe's book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers was set at a party hosted by composer Leonard Bernstein in which Manhattan socialites mingled with the Black Panther Party?
...that ⁶⁴Cu-ATSM (diacetyl-bis(N4-methylthiosemicarbazone)), a chemical with a radioactive isotope of copper, has been shown to increase the survival time of tumor-bearing animals with no acute toxicity?
...that papal conclaves from the 14th to 17th centuries attempted to use capitulations to influence the popes they elected in matters from the appointment of cardinal-nephews to papal travel and construction projects?
...that Len Waters was the first Australian Aboriginal military pilot, flying P-40 "Kittyhawk" fighter planes during World War II?
...that Anonymous Christian is Karl Rahner's controversial theological premise used to postulate that people can be saved through Christ even if they explicitly reject Christianity?

07:18, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

...that part of the first line of the Berlin U-Bahn was built as an elevated railway (pictured), because the City of Berlin feared that an underground railway would damage one of its new trunk sewers?
...that the Stuart Oil Shale Project, the world’s first application of the Alberta-Taciuk Processor technology on oil shale, was in operation only five years?
...that Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Sazonov, who brought the country into World War I, was the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin?
...that, except in 1987, the United States presidential candidate who wins the Ames Straw Poll has always gone on to win the Republican Party's Iowa Caucus?
...that a Cossack community existed in Beijing as early as 1685?
...that in the Polish-Ottoman War of 1672-1676, a few years before crippling the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was forced to sign an unfavorable treaty with the Empire?
...that Thomas L. Bromwell is a former Maryland State Senator who, along with his wife, pleaded guilty to public corruption charges?
...that poet Sekou Sundiata taught alternative musicians Ani DiFranco and Mike Doughty?

00:58, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the Gangetic whiting (pictured) is the only known species of fish to host the intestinal parasite Dichelyne alatae?
...that the Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977 was the largest protest movement against the Communist regime in Romania before the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
...that Silas Rhodes co-founded what would become the School of Visual Arts in order to help returning World War II veterans transition back to civilian life?
...that General Augusto Pinochet was once kept under house arrest at a house on the Wentworth Estate, an exclusive residential area surrounding the Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey, England?
...that Catherine Troeh, a Native American activist, often signed her letters "member of the Chinook Tribe Allottee 1865 Quinault reservation" as a reference to 80 acres of land granted to her by the U.S. federal government?
...that Taiwanese alternative musician Deserts Chang wrote her first song at the age of 13 before she learned how to play a musical instrument?
...that the discovery of the dinosauromorph Dromomeron, from the Late Triassic of New Mexico, indicates that dinosaurs did not rapidly replace their close relatives?

25 July 2007

14:22, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Tang Choon Keng, who established Tangs and built the former Dynasty Hotel (pictured), was also known as the "Tin Trunk Man" in Singapore for his rags to riches legacy?
...that Byzantium under the Komnenoi was the Medieval continuation of the Roman Empire, and played a key role in the history of the Crusades in the Holy Land?
...that Rani Abbakka, who fought the Portuguese in the 16th century, is regarded as the 'first woman freedom fighter of India'?
...that David Feldman, philatelist, achieved the world’s record price of 2.5 million Swiss Francs for a single postage stamp, the Treskilling Yellow for which he appeared in the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records?
...that Captain Austin M. Knight was court-martialed for allowing the USS Puritan to sink, but nevertheless became a four-star admiral whose textbook Modern Seamanship was a standard shiphandling reference for over eight decades?
...that after reading the Vietnam War memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Oliver Stone realized that his films Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July lacked a Vietnamese perspective, leading to his directing of Heaven & Earth?
...that John Salminen is an award-winning American watercolorist well known for his realistic urban landscapes?

08:52, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the landowner and grazier Joshua John Moore (pictured), was the first pastoralist to occupy the current day location of Canberra, Australia?
...that Vikkamabahu was the first Sri Lankan monarch to mount an organised campaign to expel the Chola army which invaded the island in the 12th century?
...that pioneer claim clubs were used in the American Old West to protect land claims by settlers against claim jumpers and to promote claim jumping against absentee land owners?
...that The Land of the Settlers is a five-part documentary series made by Chaim Yavin, dubbed "Israel's Walter Cronkite", and was so controversial that his station refused to air it?
...that Fort Greble was built so fast that there was no time to construct proper earthen magazines for artillery, and three years later company quarters had to be demolished to add them?
...that the seeds of Prunus mahaleb, a spice, contain coumarin?
...that one of the most influential people in Polish-French relations was Napoleon Bonaparte, still considered a hero in Poland and mentioned in the Polish national anthem?
...that Fancy Farm, Kentucky is recognized as the home of the world's largest picnic?

02:32, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the Roman marble head of a Polyclitan Diadumenos (pictured) found at the Abbey of Vauluisant in Bourgogne, France suggests that the site was once a Roman villa?
...that British general Frederick Barton Maurice was forced to resign after writing a letter accusing David Lloyd George of misrepresenting the strength of British forces during the Spring Offensive?
...that Samson was made by Academy Award winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda and blends the Biblical tale of Samson with his Holocaust coming-of-age story?
...that on January 27, 1987 83 workers of a shrimp farm in Kokkadichcholai, Sri Lanka were shot, allegedly by Special Task Force officers?
...that pioneer James Harrod established the first permanent European settlement in the U.S. state of Kentucky on June 16, 1774?
...that construction of 'Tagore Castle' in Pathuriaghata, a Calcutta neighbourhood, was modelled on that of an English castle, a departure in the way of building residences in India?
...that Artine Artinian was used as a fictional character by two of the most prominent American writers of the 20th century?
...that the Baptist Foundation of Arizona (BFA) filed for the largest bankruptcy of a religious organization in U.S. history after its 600 million dollar fraud went undetected by the same Big Five firm that audited Enron?

24 July 2007

15:44, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

...that it took four sword strokes for St. Bademus' (pictured) terrified executioner to sever his head?
...that the Gestapo and NKVD convened four conferences discussing the elimination of the Polish resistance movement?
...that after Hugo Chávez's September 2006 speech to the United Nations, gas stations operated by the United Refining Company starting removing Citgo signs from their buildings?
...that the saint Hermagoras of Aquileia gave his name to the Austrian city and district of Hermagor?
...that the Southern right whales off the coast of Argentina 'sail' by raising their flukes and catching the wind?
...that Shalom Yoran, a Jewish partisan during World War II and the author of The Defiant: A True Story of Jewish Vengeance and Survival, played a major role in developing Israeli Aircraft Industries?
...Glassworts are plants named to indicate that their ashes contain an alkali that is important in making glass?
...that Marcin Czechowic, a 16th-century Polish theologian, frequently changed his religious views as far as from Catholicism to Arianism?

06:33, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Citoyenne Henri (illustration pictured) was only allowed to take a balloon trip with Andre-Jacques Garnerin after it was ruled that "there was no more scandal in seeing two people of different sexes ascend in a balloon than it is to see them jump into a carriage"?
...that Smederevo fortress survived for over 500 years without much damage, then was devastated in a single explosion during World War II?
...that, in addition to having a passion for opera, dramatic soprano Othalie Graham enjoys music by Prince and Jamaican reggae musician Jimmy Cliff?
...that Dode Criss is considered by historian Bill James to be the first player to be used as a baseball pinch hitter regularly?
...that the comprehensive metabolic panel is a suite of 14 blood tests routinely administered to screen for many different diseases?
...that Captain William Walter Kouts located the son of the Medal of Honor recipient who died while saving Kouts during World War II after over sixty years of searching?
...that famous Mexican poet and politician Guillermo Prieto saved the life of President Benito Juárez by interposing himself between the guns of rebellious guardsmen and the president?
...that Quebec City's Clarendon Hotel originally hosted the Queen's Printers for Canada?

23 July 2007

22:25, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Będzin Castle (pictured), an important fortress in medieval Poland, fell into disrepair in the Renaissance era, was almost demolished in the 19th century and was rebuilt only in the 1950s?
...that the title of Mary Wollstonecraft's conduct book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters alludes to John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education, one of its primary philosophical influences?
...that the Group C Nissan R90Cs won the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship three times, the 1000km Suzuka twice, and the 24 Hours of Daytona once in their four years of competition?
...that silver coins in the 10th-century Viking Harrogate Hoard, recovered intact in Yorkshire, January 2007, came from as far as Afghanistan?
...that Chin Gee Hee (1844–1929) was a successful labor contractor in the United States and later a railroad entrepreneur in his native China?
...that Lowell Observatory staff resisted building the telescope used to discover the dwarf planet Pluto until trustee Roger Putnam ordered them to do so?
...that Chilean cricketer John Jackson was once on the opposing side to his brother Alfred in an international match against Argentina?
...that in the PlayStation 2 live action adventure game 0 Story, two Japanese female actresses kiss while one is possessed by the player's ghost?
...that the 1988 Chiado district fire caused more damage to the city of Lisbon than any catastrophe since the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake?

13:20, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Abada (engraving pictured) was only the second rhinoceros seen in Europe since the Roman era, and was thought by some observers to be a unicorn?
...that after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the population of the neighboring Hyde Park Township exceeded that of the devastated Chicago?
...that Eddy Brown, an English football player who had originally planned to take Holy Orders, was well known for his goal celebrations as early as the 1950s?
...that in Tum Teav, a classic 19th century Cambodian tragedy, a novice monk named Tum sleeps with an adolescent girl named Teav and then is killed after kissing her at her wedding?
...that a catfish of the genus Helogenes is known to jump out of the stream during rotenone fishing by locals, and jump back afterwards?
...that the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway was opened in 1930, more than 20 years after the original plans were drawn up?
...that the origin of the Azerbaijanis has been traced to indigenous Caucasians from more than a millennium ago?

06:12, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the main Post Office (pictured) for Minneapolis, Minnesota contained peepholes to protect the mail, and recreation rooms, a rifle range and a hospital unit for employees?
...that the Australian town of Thangool, Queensland produces over 60% of the Australian market for squab?
...that Sarangapani Temple is named after Sarang, the bow of Rama?
...that approval in 1963 by Bishop Hermann Volk of Mainz resulted in a former Lutheran minister with two children becoming a Roman Catholic priest?
...that the bagarius, a carnivorous catfish that lives on eating other fish, breeds in rivers prior to the beginning of the annual flood season in southeast Asia?
...that 1900 was the only year in the history of Baltimore City College that no public commencement was held because the students made fun of the professors in the school's yearbook?
...that Somerset County Cricket Club player Peter Denning was known for an unorthodox shot called the Chewton carve?
...that architects Eggers & Higgins took over construction of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial after the death of John Russell Pope, despite protests that their appointment was "un-Jeffersonian"?

22 July 2007

23:12, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

The Singapore Stone

...that the Singapore Stone (fragment pictured), a sandstone slab bearing an undeciphered 13th century inscription, was blown up by the British in 1843 to make way for a fort?
...that Pyongyang's Central Zoo was accused of staging death matches between caged animals for the filming of a so-called nature documentary?
...that Loai al-Saqa was denied entry to his own trial for wearing a copy of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's uniform?
...that Nicolás Zúñiga y Miranda considered himself the President of Mexico for two decades, despite losing in each of the ten elections he entered?
...that Rico J. Puno, a popular Filipino pop singer, launched his career by incorporating Tagalog lyrics into the American song The Way We Were, among others?
...that the Olson Hotel in Ainsworth, British Columbia had a two-story outhouse?
...that the Karrinyup Shopping Centre was the first mall in Western Australia to implement a complete ban on smoking?
...that yak racing is a spectator sport held at many traditional festivals in Tibet and Mongolia?

17:18, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Short's goldenrod (pictured), one of the world's rarest plants, grows only in parts of Kentucky and Indiana?
...that Boden Fortress not only served to protect northern Sweden from enemy attacks, but was also used to store some 280 tonnes of the Swedish gold reserve?
...that Bhudev Mukhopadhyay taught at Hindu, Muslim and Christian schools?
...that Maes Titianus penetrated farther along the Silk Road than any other Westerner in Antiquity, reaching the Stone Tower of Tashkurgan in the Pamirs?
...that catfish of the genus Dekeyseria can rapidly change their colouration to fit their mood or their surroundings?
...that Singapore's Middle Road is home to over 21 Hainanese clan and sub-clan associations?
...that, prior to the introduction of regulation seamen's uniforms in the Royal Navy, the commanding officer of HMS Harlequin once paid for his entire crew to dress as harlequins?
...that madame Anna Wilson, the "Queen of the Underworld" in early Omaha, Nebraska, bequeathed her 25-room brothel mansion to the city to use as an emergency hospital upon her death?

09:53, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Olimpia Maidalchini, the sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X (pictured), spent three days after his death looting the papal palace before his body was found?
...that Jewish mandarin Zhao Yingcheng helped rebuild Kaifeng's synagogue after its destruction in 1646?
...that the government of Korkai, an important industrial center of ancient Tamil country, employed convicts as pearl divers?
...that, believing himself to be George Washington, the 19th-century phrenologist Frederick Coombs petitioned Congress to give him the Washington Monument?
...that the Trumpeter Swans introduced into the Wye Marsh in the 1980s were the first seen in Ontario since 1884?
...that Swedish chemist Gustaf Erik Pasch invented the safety match?
...that U.S. President Ronald Reagan lived in an apartment on the second floor of the H.C. Pitney Variety Store from 1919 to 1920?
...that in mid-1939 almost 5000 Poles volunteered as living torpedoes?
...that the William H. Roberts House is the only property in Pecatonica, Illinois listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?

21 July 2007

22:33, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the U class submarine HMS Vandal (pictured) had the shortest career of any Royal Navy submarine, being lost with all hands just four days after its commission?
...that Canada's first female columnist wrote under the pseudonym Faith Fenton so she could retain her day job as a teacher?
...that Kumortuli neighbourhood of Calcutta supplies images of Goddess Durga to Indian communities in about 90 countries?
...that Chen Wen Hsi was the first Singaporean artist to be conferred an honorary doctorate by the National University of Singapore?
...that the 2005 docudrama The Burnt Theatre is set in Cambodia's Suramet National Theatre, which was destroyed by a fire in 1994?
...that the Robert Weber Round Barn is one of 31 round barns constructed in a four-county area centered on Stephenson County, Illinois?
...that the city of Piteşti was the original site of Seventh-day Adventist activities in Romania?
...that the spy Aldrich Ames handed over U.S. secrets to the Soviets at the Brickskeller saloon near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C.?

15:00, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the English-born activist Maria Rosetti (pictured) was the model for Constantin Daniel Rosenthal's personification of Romania?
...that the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales was commissioned by the Governor of Havana but took so long to build that another five Governors had come and gone before it was completed?
...that the Jews in Pagan Armenia were deported from Palestine to Armenia by Tigranes the Great?
...that the Evelyn tables, acquired by John Evelyn in Padua in 1646, are thought to be the oldest anatomical preparations in Europe?
...that an effigy mound in the shape of a turtle is located in the Beattie Park Mound Group in downtown Rockford, Illinois?
...that Saionji Kinmochi, the 11th Prime Minister of Japan, was a member of the Saionji family, a line of court nobles stretching back to the 12th century?
...that the capital city Chang'an during the Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) had 111 Buddhist monasteries and 41 Daoist abbeys within its walls?
...that Russian poet Dmitri Prigov wrote approximately 36,000 poems with much of his work distributed as samizdat?

06:58, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the Romanian Symbolist writer Alexandru Bogdan-Piteşti was an anarchist, an associate of the occultist Sâr Péladan (both pictured), and a supporter of his country's alliance with the Central Powers?
...that Wilhelm von Pressel designed the first railroad in Turkey?
...that Kobayashi Kiyochika, the last great ukiyo-e artist, extensively studied photography and Western-style painting, the two forms which heralded the demise of his art?
...that several of the Orkney islands' highest points are named "Ward Hill" due to the many old warning beacons in the area?
...that under the First Organic Laws of Oregon, the de facto constitution of the Provisional Government, women could get married at the age of 14?
...that the 2007 Super 14 Final between the Bulls and the Sharks was the first all-South African final in Super rugby history?
...that the assassination of Ottoman sultan Osman II came about in part due to the military reforms made following his defeat at the Battle of Khotyn in 1621?
...that Chao Tzee Cheng, a Singaporean forensic pathologist, performed over 25,000 autopsies?
...that in one Indonesian legend, Prince Panji's vanished bride disguised herself as a man and became king of Bali?

20 July 2007

19:22, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

...that it has been suggested that the Parthenon Frieze (pictured) might be a war memorial for the Athenian dead at the Battle of Marathon?
...that Academy Award-winning American singer Barbra Streisand filled in a tooth gap with Aspergum when she started out in theater?
...that the nickname Ned arose from an instance of rebracketing, as children interpreted the term of endearment "mine Ed" as "my Ned"?
...that the vigilante actions of the Omaha Claim Club, including many founding fathers of Omaha, Nebraska, were later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Baker v. Morton?
...that York radiate groundsel (Senecio eboracensis) is a hybrid plant species thought to have evolved suddenly within the last 300 years?
...St Peter's Church, Plemstall in Cheshire, England, is built on the site of a hermitage occupied by Plegmund who was later the Archbishop of Canterbury?
...that John Wylde (1781-1859) at one time filled the post of Deputy Judge Advocate of New South Wales, where he effectively had to simultaneously perform the roles of committing magistrate, public prosecutor and judge?
...8,909,200 pounds of cast iron were used to build the United States Capitol dome?
...that the Mosque of Kefeli in Istanbul was used jointly as a church by Roman Catholic and Armenian believers before becoming a mosque?

12:39, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

...that smoking (cigarette pictured) has a history that dates back at least 5,000 years and is one of the most widely practiced recreational activities in the world?
...that the dwarf pygmy goby (Pandaka pygmaea), a freshwater fish from the Philippines, is the smallest fish in the world?
...that Stirling Moss is the only racing driver who was given a distinctive caricature design (wearing a helmet), differing from the usual design, by Autosport's cartoonist Jim Bamber in 1998?
...that in 2007, British forces serving in Basra, Iraq were accused of using killer badgers as a weapon?
...that What to Expect When You're Expecting has been called "the Bible of American pregnancy" and consistently tops the New York Times Best Seller list in the paperback advice category?
...that Karnataka is home to the largest concentration of Siddhis (a tribe of African descent) in India?
...that after the Hospital Real de Todos os Santos was destroyed in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, its remains were demolished to create a public square?

19 July 2007

19:43, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

...that while Angelina di Marsciano (pictured) was preaching in Naples, she was arrested under charges of sorcery and Manichaeism, because of how readily young women accepted her call to virginity?
...that for special effects in the 2001 Cambodian film, The Snake King's Child, live snakes were glued to a cap worn by the lead actress?
...that on the same day Arbroath beat Bon Accord 36-0 in the Scottish Cup that 18 miles away in Dundee, Dundee Harp had beaten Aberdeen Rovers 35-0?
...that the known writings of Caius, Presbyter of Rome exist only in fragments, many of which were preserved in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea?
...that Pakistani artist Anwar Shemza changed his name so it would match that of his studio in Lahore?
...that the auto racing division of Sigma Automotive (later known as SARD) became the first Japanese team to compete in the 1973 24 Hours of Le Mans?
...that family lawyer Harry Fain played a significant role in the introduction of no-fault divorce law in California in 1970?

11:48, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the former Schiller Piano Factory (pictured) in Oregon, Illinois has been a shopping center since 1975?
...that the fruit of the apple dumpling was one of the first bushfoods to be commonly eaten by Europeans in Australia?
...that the Timucua Indians of the St. Johns culture left many large shell middens, including one estimated to be 75 feet high, even though shellfish were a minor part of their diet?
...that Sabarna Roy Choudhury sold to the British, for Rs. 1,300, the land rights of Sutanuti, Kalikata and Gobindapur, that ultimately merged to become Calcutta?
...that the construction of the Édifice Price was originally so criticized that it caused an ordinance prohibiting buildings exceeding 65 feet in Old Québec?
...that the former imperial vineyard at Abrau-Durso is known for a brand of Russian wine marketed as the Soviet Champagne?
...that Arundinaria appalachiana is one of only three bamboos native to temperate North America?

04:49, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

...that John Henry Dearle (example of work pictured) was an apprentice tapestry weaver to Pre-Raphaelite artist and craftsman William Morris who rose to become Morris & Co.'s chief designer and Art Director after Morris's death?
...that Ian Pont is the only professional cricketer to have played a professional baseball game?
...that due to safety concerns, a number of U.S. states require air ambulance services to be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems?
...that the Chinese philosopher Wang Chong (27-97 AD) accurately described the water cycle in meteorology?
...that Alexander Pope was expelled from Twyford School for writing a poem that poked fun at one of his school masters?
...that the Klaus Advanced Computing Building is named for Chris Klaus, who donated $15 million to his alma mater, Georgia Tech, when he was just 26?
...that Gundoin was the first Duke of Alsace, a duchy which existed as part of the Frankish Empire from the 630s?
...that Shardha Ram Phillauri, a Punjabi, wrote the first Hindi novel?

18 July 2007

22:02, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Tombstone at Hope Cemetery

...that 75% of the tombstones (example pictured) in Vermont's Hope Cemetery were designed by the people they house?
...that Rice People, a 1994 drama film by director Rithy Panh, was the first Cambodian film to be submitted for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
...that Megaloprepus caerulatus, a giant damselfly with a wingspan of up to 19 centimeters (7.5 inches), breeds in water-filled tree holes?
...that Choke, an upcoming film adaptation of the 2001 novel by Chuck Palahniuk, will be the author's first film adaptation since Fight Club?
...that Édouard Richard, a two-term member of the Canadian House of Commons and Acadian historian, practiced law with future Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier?
...that the Dima Halim Daoga and the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland broke ties because of competing separatist ideologies?
...that World War II Imperial Japanese Navy light cruiser Kuma was torpedoed by a Royal Navy submarine while engaged in anti-submarine warfare training?
...that Song Du-yul, a professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Münster in Germany, was the only South Korean to attend the 1994 funeral of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung?

15:46, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

...that despite being known from many specimens, the fossil Fuxianhuia (pictured) remains one of the most controversial Cambrian arthropods?
...that the 2007 main event World Series of Poker bracelet, awarded on July 17, 2007, is made with 136 grams of 18-carat white gold set with 120 diamonds?
...that after seeing the documentary, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan was moved to admit the existence of the S-21 torture center in Phnom Penh after years of publicly denying it?
...that the United States Army formed 106 tank destroyer battalions in World War II, all of which were disbanded by 1946?
...that Besalú was an independent county from 988 to 1111, when Ramon Berenguer III inherited it, annexing it to the County of Barcelona?
...that the hostility of English alchemist Thomas Charnock's neighbours forced him to barricade himself in his cottage?
...that the Shuguang spacecraft was designed by the People's Republic of China with the goal of achieving a manned space flight in 1973?
...that the unimportance and consequent emptiness of Kalikata afforded the British room to settle there and establish Calcutta?

00:12, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the Polish-Teutonic War of 1519-1521 was the last of the Polish-Teutonic Wars, and ended with the Prussian Homage (pictured)?
...that the 1993 film Heaven & Earth, directed by Oliver Stone, was based on the life of the Global Village Foundation initiator Le Ly Hayslip, who had a cameo appearance in the film?
...that Josephus's Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades is actually the work of Hippolytus of Rome, but was considered Josephus's by his translator William Whiston?
...that the Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard ferry, Sankaty, set fire to the famous whaler Charles W. Morgan before being commissioned as a minelayer by the Royal Canadian Navy?
...that the Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project that allows members of the public to help classify previously unseen images of galaxies?
...that the Roman merchants who traded with ancient Tamil country, used the monsoon winds to reduce the travel time between Egypt and India to forty days?
...that the San Rafael Wilderness was the first U.S. Primitive Area to be reclassified as wilderness after the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act?
...that although in 1939 the Polish Army had an elaborate plan for defence against the Soviet invasion, it couldn't implement it when the invasion began due to being committed against an earlier German invasion?

17 July 2007

13:26, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

...that William Leybourn (pictured) wrote the first English language astronomy compendium?
...that William W. Powers State Recreation Area's Wolf Lake co-hosted a BioBlitz by over 150 scientists who unofficially counted 1,815 species in a day?
...that infanticide is committed by animals as diverse as gray langurs, pigs, jacanas and water bugs?
...that Union Army color bearer Thomas J. Higgins received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Vicksburg during the US Civil War at the request of his Confederate captors?
...that the 1975 U.S. Supreme Court case NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. allowed all workers in unionized workplaces to have a union representative present during management inquiries that might result in discipline?
...that there is a 14 foot (4.3 m) tall miniature Stick style house on the grounds of the Ellwood House in DeKalb, Illinois?
...that John Hill, former Texas Attorney General, was prominent in shutting down the Chicken Ranch known as the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas?
...that the Christian Specht Building is the only existing building with a cast iron facade known in Nebraska today, and one of the few ever built there?
...that in 1920, KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first radio station to broadcast Major League Baseball on the radio?

05:33, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Sozodont (advertisement pictured) was an extremely popular oral hygiene product whose name came from the Greek meaning "to save the teeth"?
...that Juliana Anicia commissioned the largest church of pre-Justinian Constantinople?
...that 18th century brothel-keeper Jane Douglas sold condoms in silken bags to her customers?
...that the critically endangered totoaba, a member of the drum family which weighs up to 100 kg, is found only in the northern end of the Sea of Cortez?
...that nineteenth-century ventriloquist Alexandre Vattemare originally studied to be a physician, but was refused a diploma after making cadavers seem to speak during surgical exercises?
...that the first chancellor of the University of Houston, Andrew Davis Bruce, was a former lieutenant general in the US Army and the founder of Fort Hood?
...that the first railway in Germany, the Bayerische Ludwigsbahn, was originally mostly horse-hauled because of the high cost of importing coal from Saxony?

16 July 2007

23:22, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

...that in 1894 officials in Whiteside County, Illinois paid a man $1.50 per day to watch the construction of Lyndon Bridge (pictured)?
...that Vanvoorstia bennettiana is the only protist on the IUCN's Red List?
...that though musicologist Knud Jeppesen wrote that without voice crossing "no real polyphony is possible," many counterpoint exercises prohibit it?
...that all of the publications of 17th century Milanese historian Gregorio Leti were listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum?
...that during engineering work in 1979, the collapse of the Penmanshiel Tunnel severed the main railway line between London and Edinburgh for five months?
...that the American neurophysiologist Ralph W. Gerard developed an intracellular recording microelectrode, that revolutionized research in neurobiology?
...that the architect Hans Price was responsible for the distinctive look of buildings in Weston-super-Mare, England, during the Victorian era?

17:19, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the Malvern Roller Mill (pictured) was closed in 1942 due to shortages caused by World War II?
...that the modern-day role of women in the Philippines is similar to their social status during pre-colonial times?
...that despite over a hundred years of scientific study, fierce debate still rages about how arthropods' heads are constructed?
...that the Australian native Dagger Hakea is an effective plant for sheltering small birds such as the Superb Fairy-wren, especially in the natural landscaping style of gardening?
...that the Union Station in Omaha, Nebraska was the first Art Deco style train station in the United States?
...that besides taking the athletes' oath, Paul Aste also competed on the bobsleigh track that he designed for the 1964 Winter Olympics?
...that Charles Sargeant Jagger sculpted three World War I memorials, all in London?
...that John Little, established in 1845, is the oldest department store in Singapore?
...that General Ulysses S. Grant's Civil War dispatch boat Monohansett was a chartered Martha's Vineyard ferry?

02:15, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

...that 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan was born in an apartment above a 19th century commercial building (pictured) in downtown Tampico, Illinois?
...that Pelton's Rose Gentian was recently discovered by a retired mechanic and is only found in a single county in Arkansas?
...that an unnamed hurricane in 1975 attained hurricane status further north than any other Pacific hurricane before dissipating near Alaska?
...that the Poker Players Alliance hired former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato to help overturn the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that makes it illegal for financial institutes to deal with online gambling sites?
...that Father Joseph Le Caron, the first European to see Lake Huron, also assisted at the first Catholic mass in Quebec and performed the first Christian marriage in Canada?
...that the naval history of China goes back as far as the Spring and Autumn Period (722 BC-481 BC)?
...that English missionary Andrew White, the "Apostle of Maryland", celebrated the first Catholic mass in the original Thirteen Colonies on March 25, 1634 on St. Clement's Island?

15 July 2007

15:46, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the Tarxien Temples (pictured) in Malta were discovered when the owner of a field figured that the large stones his workers kept hitting while ploughing may have some archaeological significance?
...that those opposed to the construction of the Stroudwater Navigation used poetry to support their cause?
...that fear of retaliatory terminations is a leading obstacle to union organizers in their efforts to unionize a workplace?
...that the demolition of the Jobbers Canyon Historic District in Omaha, Nebraska represents the largest loss of buildings on the National Register of Historic Places to date?
...that in three days of nearly non-stop negotiations, Nathan Feinsinger mediated an end to a 1947 pineapple workers' strike which threatened the entire Hawaiian economy?
...that girls received the right to inherit the Danish throne as the result of a referendum in 1953?
...that Marcin Dunin, primate of Poland, was once interned and arrested by the Prussian authorities?

04:00, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

...that a "witch's egg" (pictured), the immature form of the carrion-odoured common stinkhorn, is eaten in parts of France and Germany?
...that Anna Mae Winburn led the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, the only integrated, all-female big band of the 1940s?
...that the first Baptist baptism in Ukraine took place in 1864 on the river Inhul of today's Kirovohrad Oblast?
...that the First cabinet Gerhardsen in 1945 featured the first female Norwegian Government minister, Kirsten Hansteen?
...that at the 25th CMA Music Festival in 1996, country music artist Garth Brooks signed autographs for 23 hours and 10 minutes without taking a single break?
...that the Danish land laws referendum of 1963 is the only referendum in the history of Denmark to have been held by a minority of parliament?

14 July 2007

20:30, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

...that many modern breeds of hound trace their bloodlines back to the extinct Southern Hound (pictured) and North Country Beagle?
...that the Israeli four-door Jeep Wrangler-based AIL Storm was produced before Jeep's own model?
...that the Mayfair Club, the real life underground gambling hall loosely depicted in the movie Rounders, was in the mid-80's the training grounds for five poker players who have since won 20 World Series of Poker titles?
...that French Jesuit Pierre Nicolas d'Incarville introduced the Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) and Pagoda Tree (Styphnolobium japonicum) to Europe?
...that Lorenzo M. Tañada was the longest-serving senator in Philippine history?
...that the Narasinganavar family residing in the Indian state of Karnataka is one of the largest undivided families in the world?

11:48, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the snow events of the 2014 Winter Olympics will be hosted in the ski resort of Krasnaya Polyana (pictured), which had its origin in the Tsar's hunting lodge?
...that the United States superhero film John Hancock went through four directors before succeeding in being made with director Peter Berg?
...that The New 7th Storey Hotel, a budget hotel catering to backpackers in Singapore, is actually nine storeys high and was the tallest building in the Beach Road area in the 1950s?
...that George W. Taylor assisted unions by mediating more than 2,000 strikes, but also helped draft New York's Taylor Law—which banned strikes by public employees?
...that Ossubtus xinguense is an endangered species of fish that has an unusual downturned mouth which gives the appearance of a beak?
...that Australian bishop Sydney James Kirkby, who presided at the synod to elect the successor of Archbishop John Charles Wright, actively worked to not be given the job himself?

13 July 2007

20:01, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

...that after his defeat in the American Civil War, Union Army General William Sooy Smith (pictured) returned to engineering and helped build the Glasgow Railroad Bridge, winning the Centennial Exposition prize in 1876?
...that the wimple piranha is a specialized predator whose diet consists primarily of fish scales?
...that the Pali Lookout in Hawaii was originally the site of the bloody Battle of Nu'uanu, where 400 warriors were driven over a cliff by Kamehameha I?
...that the Hungarian-born Jew Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln was successively a Presbyterian missionary in Canada, a British Member of Parliament, an international double agent, a German right-wing politician, and a Buddhist abbot in China?
...that in a Danish referendum in 1916 64.2% of the voters were in favour of selling the Danish West Indian Islands to the United States?
...that despite only being eight inches tall, the Tiny Hawk, a raptor found throughout much of the central neotropics, successfully hunts hummingbirds?

12:44, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Istanbul's Vefa Kilise Mosque (pictured) is an example of a Byzantine church since converted into an Ottoman mosque?
...that Emma Crawford was described as "the principal benefactress" of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane for her work in establishing several religious schools?
...that the Augustinian monk Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro was instrumental in persuading King Robert of Naples to make Petrarch the first poet laureate since antiquity?
...that Polish I Corps in Russia, originally intended to fight for the Triple Entente against the Central Powers, was forced to ally itself with the German Ober Ost forces?
...that Lapland's Sjisjka railway stop was built in part because it was the only place in the country where the letters SJ occurred in the name twice?
...that Delta Sigma Theta Sorority founder Myra Hemmings starred, co-produced and co-directed the 1941 film Go Down, Death! The Story Of Jesus and the Devil?
...that, at one time, Eliza Marsden Hassall's school produced roughly three-quarters of Australia's foreign missionaries?

00:03, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the Illinois Central Stone Arch Railroad Bridges (pictured) in Dixon, Illinois were constructed without the use of bonding materials?
...that the German historian Albert Brackmann argued that the Poles should be pushed farther eastwards, into Ukraine?
...that advertising executive Lois Wyse came up with the slogan "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good!"?
...that Michael Dadap, the popular Filipino guitarist, is married to the eldest sister of American cellist Yo-Yo Ma?
...that after the Battle of Deir ez-Zor in World War II, most Syrian troops avoided capture by changing into civilian clothes?
...that the Kallanai dam, built by Karikala Chola to support agriculture in ancient Tamil country, is considered the oldest water-regulation structure still in use?
...that the papal election of 1061, the first carried out solely by cardinal bishops, resulted in a war between Pope Alexander II and Antipope Honorius II?
...that the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile's French neoclassical building was built to commemorate the centenary of the independence of Chile?

12 July 2007

16:47, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

...that while Mary Wollstonecraft (pictured) wrote her revolutionary treatise the Rights of Woman in six weeks, its novelistic sequel, The Wrongs of Woman, was still unfinished at her death, despite a year's work?
...that the site of a crashed JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft is now marked with a sculpture of a crumpled paper aeroplane?
...that the Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse are among the oldest Canadian buildings of their type?
...that, owing to Henry Babson's selective breeding work, thousands of Arabian horses today have "Babson-influenced" bloodlines?
...that the Australian White-naped Honeyeater derives its Latin epithet lunatus from the crescent-shaped markings on its nape?
...that the Hibbs Bridge on the Snicker's Gap Turnpike, which partly replaced the first toll road in the United States, still carries traffic, and is being rebuilt in its original state?
...that the village of Montgomery, New York, was originally named Ward's Bridge?
...that the "Amerikansky Golland" class submarines ordered by the Imperial Russian Navy also served in the Soviet and United States navies?
...that Roman Catholic priest Paul Couturier helped establish the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity?

10:36, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

...that in the Islamic tradition, Bahira (pictured) was a Christian monk who foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future prophetic career?
...that, in addition to horror fiction, Edgar Allan Poe wrote an essay on interior decorating called The Philosophy of Furniture?
...that Raeapteek in Tallinn, Estonia is one of the oldest continuously running pharmacies in Europe?
...that brewer and politician Michael Thomas Bass introduced legislation into the British House of Commons to ban organ grinders as nuisances?
...that Gunnhild, "Mother-of-Kings", the wife and queen of Erik Bloodaxe of Norway, was rumored to be a witch?
...that after the HMS Tyger wrecked in 1742, the crew survived 56 days on a desert island and another 56 days sailing to Jamaica in small boats, at a loss of only 11 out of 281 men?
...that Benjamin Pearse, later an influential provincial politician in British Columbia, came to Vancouver Island working for Hudson's Bay Company?

00:37, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Stanisław Chełchowski

...that 19th century Polish noble and farmer Stanisław Chełchowski (pictured) published academic works ranging from ethnography through agriculture to mycology?
...that musician Ian Craig Marsh, once of pop groups The Human League and Heaven 17, began his career in a band called "Musical Vomit"?
...that global mining magnate Charles W. Engelhard, Jr. was the inspiration behind the character Auric Goldfinger in author Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger?
...that Danny Barcelona was a Filipino American self-taught drummer for Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars jazz band?
...that Indian youth Meraj Khalid Noor was used for political campaigning in Muslim-dominated areas of Bihar as he resembled Osama Bin Laden?
...that the prosperous Caspian Sea port of Abaskun disappeared from records in the 13th century?
...that the Code of Ur-Nammu is the world's oldest extant example of a legal code?

11 July 2007

17:45, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the administrative capital of Samarai (pictured) in Papua New Guinea was demolished in World War II to avoid its falling into Japanese hands?
...that the Pennsylvania Ministerium was the first Lutheran church body in North America?
...that Rabanus Maurus's attribution of the Liber Pontificalis to Saint Jerome was the prevailing view throughout the Middle Ages?
...that no piece of goldwork embroidery has ever actually used pure gold?
...that the racially charged Escambia High School riots, which reached a climax in 1976, continued in various forms for five years?
...that despite being dissolved as a kibbutz in the 1980s, Ir Ovot continues to host Christian volunteers working on its Solomonic/First Temple period archaeologic site?
...that the musical piece composed by Will Schaefer for the United States Bicentennial earned him a Pulitzer Prize nomination?
...that Observatory Hill, Darjeeling, the site of Darjeeling's oldest Buddhist monastery is now home to a Hindu temple?

11:22, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

...that as the Northern Division headquarters for the Illinois Central Railroad the Amboy Depot (pictured) had authority over 53 train stations?
...that Lee Choon Seng, a Singaporean philanthropist built a Buddhist temple with the intention of liberating the spirits of those killed during the 1942 Battle of Pasir Panjang?
...that the 1922 Swatow Typhoon killed 50,000 people in Swatow (now Shantou, China), out of a total population of 65,000?
...that in three years during World War II, the U.S. Army prisoner of war camp called Camp Atlanta had more occupants than the nearby town of Atlanta, Nebraska has had in its entire existence?
...that auto racing icon Dan Gurney tricked competitors into installing his Gurney flap upside down?
...that voice exchange, the preeminent compositional technique of the medieval Notre Dame school, died out in art music but remains a characteristic feature of rounds?

00:09, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

...that more than 13.5 tonnes of gold were extracted in 13 months at Poverty Reef, near the Australian town of Tarnagulla, Victoria (pictured) from an area only 3 metres wide and 120 metres deep?
...that as many ballots were cast in four days electing Chris Young and Hideki Okajima in the All-Star Final Vote as in ten weeks electing the 2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game starting lineup?
...that although no fossils of the extinct Malagasy Hippopotamus have been dated within the last 1,000 years, villagers in Madagascar described a similar creature still alive as recently as 1976?
...that the SS Suevic of the White Star Line ran into rocks off the coast of England while steaming at full speed in dense fog at night in 1907 but everyone on board survived?
...that before he became Pope Urban IV, Jacques Pantaléon mediated the Treaty of Christburg between the pagan Prussians and the Teutonic Knights?
...that Dungeons & Dragons, an album by Midnight Syndicate, is the only official soundtrack to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game?
...that although Paul MacGillivray's main interest was natural history, he was also the president of the Medical Society of Victoria and a member of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria?

10 July 2007

17:10, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Stephen Sayre

...that the American merchant Stephen Sayre (pictured) was committed to the Tower of London on charges of plotting to kidnap King George III?
...that Miss Pittsburgh was the first plane to deliver airmail between Pittsburgh and Cleveland?
...that the Blue-faced Honeyeater of eastern and northern Australia is also known as the "Bananabird" for its fondness for that fruit?
...that cross stitches are part of the embroidery traditions of the Balkans, Middle East, Afghanistan, Colonial America and Victorian England?
...that the 1646 Union of Uzhhorod was brokered by the Basilian monastic order on the model of the earlier Union of Brest?
...that the television drama Hill Street Blues imitated the visual style of The Police Tapes, a low-budget documentary about a police precinct in the South Bronx?
...that Rob Mazurek's avant-garde Chicago Underground projects began as a workshop at local jazz club The Green Mill?

10:38, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Darjeeling's Rock Garden (pictured) was built to re-attract tourists following the damage to the industry caused by the actions of the Gorkha National Liberation Front?
...that, during the Basque witch trials, 1,384 children voluntarily reported themselves and denounced their "accomplices"?
...that the versorium, the world's first electrical device, was invented in 1600 by one of Queen Elizabeth I's physicians?
...that the smallest papal election since the expansion of suffrage to all cardinals was undertaken by only six cardinal electors?
...that many Japanese POWs continued to toil in Siberian labor camps ten years after the end of World War II?
...that St. Stephen's is the last remaining Bulfinch-designed church in Boston?
... the transition from Renaissance to Baroque in instrumental music occurred partly as a result of deliberate actions taken by the Florentine Camerata?
...that Abraham Klausner was the first rabbi at the Dachau concentration camp after it was liberated?
...that Y. G. Parameshwara was the first blind Indian to qualify as a doctor?

9 July 2007

22:15, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Fumio Kyuma (pictured) resigned as Japanese Minister for Defense over statements that the atomic bombing of Nagasaki "could not be helped" while also representing Nagasaki in the Diet of Japan?
...that the town of Santikhiri in northern Thailand has been home to a "lost division" of the Republic of China Army since 1961?
...that the church of St John the Divine, Kennington suffered severe bomb damage in 1941 during World War II but was restored and re-opened in 1959?
...that although Lloyd Hunter played trumpet and led a big band for 38 years, he only recorded once, for the race record label Vocalion?
...that airman Timothy Tovell smuggled a French orphan adopted by his squadron as a mascot back to Australia in an empty sack of oats?
...that the fifteenth and sixteenth-century Hochstetter family were for a time on a par with the Fugger and the Welser controlling metal ores in Bohemia, Slovakia, Hungary and Tyrol?
...that the Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic is the largest African American parade in the United States?

15:39, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Luxembourg City Hall (pictured) was constructed while all of Luxembourg outside the capital was controlled by rebel forces?
...that Estonia joined World War II in 1940, after the Soviet Union blockaded the country, a Finnish airliner was shot down and three diplomatic couriers were killed?
...that though students and educators agree on the importance of student engagement in learning, there is little consensus on a working definition?
...that the short film 5 Men and a Limo showcases the world's five most prolific English language film trailer voiceover artists narrating a shared limousine ride?
...that a portion of Connecticut Route 108 was part of an early highway system in the town of Stratford, Connecticut?
...that Halsey Ives was involved in six world's fairs, directed the art departments of two of them, and was the first director of the Saint Louis Art Museum?

09:24, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

...that couching embroidery technique, in which yarn laid on top of fabric is held in place with small stitches, featured in the creation of the Bayeux tapestry (pictured) and Central Asian suzani rugs?
...that Claude Pompidou was responsible for choosing much of the art for the Centre Georges Pompidou, named after her husband?
...that Vibhuti Narayan Singh was the last king of the ancient city Benares?
...that Angola gained its independence from Portugal through the Alvor Agreement?
...that the first family-run Hawaiian language preschool, or Pūnana leo (Hawaiian: "nest of voices"), was opened illegally?
...that the Luxtorpeda, looking more like a cross between a rail bus and a limousine than a train, was the fastest and most luxurious train in interbellum Poland?
...that Salazar's associate Fernando Santos Costa was appointed Deputy Minister of War while holding only the junior rank of captain?

8 July 2007

20:25, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

...that students at Iowa State University are traditionally not considered "true Iowa Staters" until after they have been kissed underneath the Campanile (pictured) at the stroke of midnight?
...that 4th century martyr Emygdius is said to have carried his own severed head away after being decapitated?
...that former professional boxer Giichi Nishihara was the writer-director of such Japanese cult pink films of the 1960s and 1970s as Abnormal Reaction: Ecstasy and Grotesque Perverted Slaughter?
...that Birtles Shorrock Goble, the founders and original singers/songwriters of Little River Band, are legally prevented from using that band name?
...that only two of the fourteen French cardinals were in Italy at the start of the papal conclave, 1549-1550 because a clause of the Concordat of Bologna allowed the pope to redistribute their benefices if they died in Rome?

11:31, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Moffat Library (pictured) in Washingtonville, New York, was formally opened in 1887 but did not have any books until bookcases were bought a year later?
...that in 1942 survivors of the British submarine P36 were shipwrecked again less than six weeks later when the submarine HMS Olympus hit a mine off Malta?
...that the First National Bank of Omaha, founded by Herman Kountze, is a privately held company in its sixth generation of family ownership?
...that American systems theorist Debora Hammond explores new ways of thinking about complex systems that support more participatory forms of social organization?
...that Sir Richard Garth was a barrister, MP, Privy Counsellor and Chief Justice of Bengal as well as Lord of the Manor of Morden?
...that Bill Apiata of the Special Air Service of New Zealand was the first ever recipient of the Victoria Cross for New Zealand?

01:45, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

...that there are fords at Illinois' White Pines Forest State Park (crossing pictured) allowing visitors to drive through the stream?
...that the Victoria Cross for Australia, instituted in 1991 as the highest award for gallantry that can be awarded to Australian military personnel, has yet to be awarded to anyone?
...that Wing Commander George H. Stainforth AFC RAF was the first man to exceed 400 mph in an aircraft?
...that Charles A. Johns went from being a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court to a justice on the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1921?
...in the 4th century, the Persian Chosroid Dynasty introduced Christianity as the official religion in ancient Georgia?
...that during the Glasgow Hillhead by-election, 1982, future leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy wore a sandwich board reading "The real Roy Jenkins is number 5"?

01:43, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
...that national service in Cuba's law enforcement agencies is regarded as more dangerous than serving in the country's armed forces?
...that Crystle Stewart won the Miss Texas USA title on her fifth attempt, after placing first runner-up for two consecutive years?
...that news of the British victory in the Battle of Trafalgar was reported in the Gibraltar Chronicle a fortnight before it reached England?

7 July 2007

17:29, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Laurence Mancuso was the founding abbot of the Eastern Orthodox monastic community of New Skete (pictured), which is known for its dog training?
...that Fernando Amorsolo was the first Filipino to be distinguished as a National Artist of the Philippines in painting?
...that the Battle of Damascus was the final action of the Allied advance on Damascus in Syria during the Syria-Lebanon campaign in World War II?
...that Joseph Jukes, an English-born colonial Australian geologist, sketched the very first complete map of Australia?
...that authorship of a research article in fields such as genome sequencing and particle physics is sometimes claimed by over 100 scientists?
...that the four state-owned Regional Health Authorities run all the public hospitals in Norway?
...that Texas Tech track and field runner Sally Kipyego is the first Kenyan woman to win an NCAA cross country individual championship?
...that Saint Maximilian Kolbe sacrificed his life at Auschwitz to save the life of Polish Army sergeant Franciszek Gajowniczek?
...that the last territorial expansion of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, took place in 1972, creating Greater Bratislava with the 17 current boroughs?
...that the first shot fired by British Empire forces in World War I was targeted at the German ship Pfalz which was departing Melbourne, Australia as Britain declared war on Germany?

10:08, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the Moldavian intellectual Gheorghe Asachi (pictured) opposed his country's union with Wallachia and endorsed the pro-separatist electoral fraud of June 1857?
...that Operation Salaam was a World War II covert operation led by the aristocratic explorer László Almásy to insert two German spies into British-held Cairo?
...that Hindus in the ancient Tamil country worshipped different deities depending on the landscape of the region they lived in?
...that Yavapai is an overarching term for four distinct tribes of Native Americans from central Arizona?
...that the official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, prematurely announced the death of Bishop Donald Trautman?
...that Dr. Henry Woodward was the first British colonist of colonial South Carolina?
...that In Nomine Domini, promulgated by Pope Nicholas II in 1059, established cardinal-bishops as the sole electors of the pope?
...that the Pub Design Awards are annually given to exceptional pubs in the UK that have undergone construction work?
...that the WWF in 1986 introduced a stable of masked wrestlers to keep the injured wrestler Andre the Giant on television, but off the ring?

6 July 2007

21:33, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

...that in 1859 John Wise (pictured) made the first airmail delivery in the United States?

19:54, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
...that in an attempt to speed up the longest papal election in history, the magistrates of Viterbo removed the roof of the Papal Palace?
...that the inmates of San Pedro prison run a hotel for visiting tourists and sell cocaine to the local community?
...that the Church Slavonic word for "nativity scene" has come to denote "the den of depravity" in modern Russian?
...that the novel Pioneer, Go Home! (adapted into the Elvis movie Follow that Dream) was inspired by squatters who settled on land created when Florida built a bridge to Pine Island?
...that the Darjeeling Ropeway was stopped on 19 October 2003 after four tourists were killed in an accident?
...that W. Gene Corley investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center, as well as the performance of the Murrah Building in response to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing?
...that Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia gave away his cat to one of the soldiers tasked with his execution?

13:40, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the developer of the Mendota Hills Wind Farm (pictured) provided landowners with contracts for up to $1,500 per megawatt of electricity produced by wind turbines on their land?
...that the first poet in the Russian language, Symeon of Polotsk, was ethnically Belarusian?
...that "Being Boiled", the first single by The Human League, cost just £2.50 to record?
...that the pentadic numbers on the Spirit Pond runestones have led to speculation that they contain an authentic record of Thorfinn Karlsefni's expedition to Maine in 1010?
...that when the Italian medalist and sculptor Leone Leoni was accused of counterfeiting by Pope Paul III's jeweler in 1540, he came so close to killing the man that he was sent to the galleys?
...that Stoke City F.C. is the second-oldest English football league club, as it was founded in 1863?
...the Efficiency Medal of Great Britain and the Commonwealth has been awarded with three different ribbons in over thirty separate countries, and featured three monarchs wearing four distinct crowns?

06:41, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the prehistoric marine reptile Excalibosaurus (pictured) was named after King Arthur's sword because of the sword-like appearance of its upper jaw?
...that though George Bernard Shaw called fellow Edwardian playwright St John Hankin’s death "a public calamity," his work was largely neglected until the 1990s?
...that Takemoto Gidayū's contributions to the form of bunraku (Japanese puppet theatre) were so influential that all chanters (narrators) in bunraku are now called gidayū?
...that although the No Child Left Behind Act in the United States prescribes the consequences for schools failing to meet Adequate Yearly Progress, it leaves responsibility for defining that progress up to each state education agency?
...that David Nash, the managing director of Nash Timbers, single-handedly stopped the Australian Government's practice of burning down old railway bridges, thus saving timber up to 400 years old?
...that in the Battle of Kissoué during the Syria-Lebanon campaign in World War II, the outnumbered defenders at Quneitra, Syria surrendered because they ran out of ammunition?
...that the words "Never Again" were supposedly inscribed in English and Hebrew on the first warhead from Israel's nuclear program?

00:14, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the PS Moyie (pictured) was the last working sternwheeler in Canada and is the oldest intact sternwheeler in the world?
...that Confederate brigadier general James Morrison Hawes studied advanced military tactics at the Cavalry School of Saumur, France?
...that the Austrian Rieger Orgelbau and Czech Rieger-Kloss are two organ-building firms formed after World War II with origins in a single company?
...that the staff of the mayor of Mirik, West Bengal vowed to spend a month's salary in SMS voting for Indian Idol contestant Prashant Tamang, the first finalist of Nepalese descent?
...that the proglacial lakes of Minnesota were massive freshwater lakes covering many times the area of the Great Lakes at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation?
...that, after driving the French Republicans from Italy, Russian Field-Marshal Alexander Suvorov managed to conduct a masterful flight across the snow-capped Alps?
...that early 20th century German explorers mounted many expeditions to the Ramu river in German New Guinea in the hope of finding gold?

5 July 2007

17:01, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

...that during the Schmalkaldic War, the Imperial Duke Eric II fled from the Battle of Drakenburg (etching pictured) by swimming across the Weser River?
...that in 1970, University of Oregon head baseball coach Don Kirsch fell to his death out of a second-story window at Stanford University Medical Center?
...that the Swan by-election, 1918 not only resulted in the election of the youngest person ever to be elected to the Parliament of Australia, but directly prompted the introduction of instant-runoff voting in Australia?
...that scandal erupted after the Department of Justice initiated prosecution of Jackie Presser only to abruptly end it once the press revealed Presser had been an informant for the FBI for over 10 years?
...that the Oregon Coast Range was created by a forearc basin along the Pacific Ocean?
...that Hugh Johns commentated for England's only FIFA World Cup victory during his first year as a commentator?

04:25, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Mirror of Human Salvation) (one page pictured) was one of the most popular illustrated books of the Middle Ages?
...that Rod Marsh was the first Australian wicketkeeper to score a century in Test cricket?
...that the Logan Fontenelle Housing Project in Omaha, Nebraska, along with restrictive covenants and redlining, were used to segregate African Americans in the Near North Side neighborhood?
...that the poet Dinakara Desai is known as Chutuka Brahma (creator of chutukas) because he invented a four-line limerick form of Kannada poetry known as chutuka?
...that Francis Price Blackwood, a colonial Australian naval officer and sea surveyor, charted locations like Whitsunday Island and the Great Barrier Reef?
...that Irish cricketer and rugby union player Dickie Lloyd was regarded as one of the most famous pupils of Portora Royal School, alongside Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde?
...that George Rogers Clark was called the "Conqueror of the Northwest" because of his victorious Illinois campaign in the American Revolutionary War?
...that HNoMS Heimdal became the first Norwegian ship to apprehend a ship for illegal fishing when she seized the British trawler Lord Roberts in 1911?

4 July 2007

19:10, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the stray dogs Bummer and Lazarus (pictured) were so popular with the people of San Francisco in the 1860s that they were given special exemption from the leash laws?
...that Operation Tracer was a top-secret WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the Rock of Gibraltar so that they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock's capture?
...that the bark of Kleinhovia hospita is used to treat hair lice in Indonesia?
...that Rear Admiral Sir Richard Trowbridge was the twenty-fifth Governor of Western Australia and the first officer of the Royal Navy to rise from boy seaman to captain of the Queen's yacht HMY Britannia?
...that the first teacher and practicing doctor in Portland, Oregon, Ralph Wilcox, killed himself with a Deringer pistol while at work at the federal court?
...that Sycorax, an unseen character in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, is viewed by some as a symbol of the silenced African woman?
...that Huynh Phu So, the founder of the Hoa Hao religious sect, converted his doctor after being put in a mental asylum by the French colonial forces?
...that the bestselling children's book The History of the Fairchild Family by Mary Martha Sherwood inspired the character of Pip in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations?

12:45, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Moodna Creek (pictured), a tributary of the Hudson, was originally known as "Murderers' Creek" after a family was massacred on its banks?
...that Ariel, a sprite in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, may be based on the biblical Ariel in Isaiah?
...that in 1968 Eldridge Dickey was the first African-American quarterback to be drafted to a professional American football league in the first round?
...that Friz Freleng's 1937 cartoon Clean Pastures narrowly evaded Hollywood Production Code censors, before being removed from distribution by United Artists in 1968?
...that the Dawesville Channel, a 2.5 kilometre long, 200 metre wide man-made channel near Mandurah, Western Australia, was built specifically to counter algal blooms?
...that Bill Barber played tuba on a number of Miles Davis albums including Birth of the Cool, Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain?
...that the Yamasee War of 1715-17 nearly annihilated the colony of South Carolina and paved the way for the founding of Georgia?
...that the Cheat Mountain salamander of West Virginia is the only vertebrate known to be unique to that state?
...that when John Torrington's corpse was exhumed 138 years after his death, it was almost perfectly preserved?
...that the United States Capitol crypt was intended as the entrance to George Washington's tomb?

05:53, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Daniel Hughes (pictured) was a mulatto raftsman who led fugitive slaves to freedom by transporting them in his barge and providing shelter at his Loyalsock Township, Pennsylvania home?
...that the Queensland Court of Disputed Returns once heard an election dispute from a person who claimed that the Queensland Government was unconstitutional but who still wished to be elected to it?
...that Liz Claiborne Inc. was the first company founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500?
...that the Kannada film Shanti is one of just a few narrative films with only a single actor?
...that the Trygg class was a class of three torpedo boats built for the Royal Norwegian Navy and that they were all sunk during World War II, two after having been captured by the German Kriegsmarine?
...that Selvarajah Rajivarnam was the fourth journalist to be killed on April 29, during the last three years of the Sri Lankan civil war?
...that Dumfries House, designed by John and Robert Adam in the 1750s, was recently bought by a consortium of charities organised by Prince Charles?
...that the Australian legal case of D'Emden v Pedder followed United States legal precedent in holding that state and federal governments were immune from each other's laws?

3 July 2007

23:50, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Charles Chaplin decided the best way to bring The Tramp (pictured) into the new era was by re-releasing three silent films he made with First National as a feature-length film?
...that Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vice President of South Vietnam under Ngo Dinh Diem, was not allowed to take part in policy discussions and was slapped at the order of Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Nhu?
...that the first person in Britain to suggest studying modern history was eighteenth-century clergyman Joseph Priestley?
...that the Stephen Wright House in Paw Paw, Illinois is located on a road that was once a stage coach and Native American trail?
...that the film Hellbreeder's distinct look was created by being shot on color reversal stock and then cross processed?
...that the crown-cardinals of Austria, France, and Spain could exercise the jus exclusivae during papal conclaves from the 16th to 20th centuries?
...that Spiral Scratch was the first independently-released Punk rock record, and inspired a wave of DIY record labels across the United Kingdom?
...that although the South American Bittern is widespread, much about its life history remains little-known, due to its skulking habits?

17:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Seacliff Lunatic Asylum (pictured) in New Zealand was plagued by landslips, a fatal fire in a locked psychiatric ward and allegations of abuse before reverting to a forest reserve?
...that viable sperm has been extracted from cadavers up to 36 hours after the donor's death?
...that José María Robles Hurtado, a martyr during the Cristero War, placed the noose that would be used to hang him around his own neck, telling his executioner "Don't dirty your hands"?
...that the Arts Club of Chicago arose from the success of the Art Institute of Chicago's handling of the Chicago showing of the Armory Show?
...that Danish botanist Christen C. Raunkiær made quantitative studies of plants in literature?
...during the annual romeria from the Guadalajara Cathedral to the Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan, the statue of Our Lady of Expectation is accompanied by more than 3,000,000 people?
...that the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in Connecticut will be reconstructed as the first extradosed bridge in the United States?
...that 19th century Polish general Ludwik Mierosławski led revolutionaries in Poland, Germany and Italy?

11:30, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
...that the Hills Memorial Library of Hudson, New Hampshire had 60% of all area residents sign up for library cards in 1909, its first year of operation?
...that the Battle for Saigon in 1955 started as Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem tried to wrest control of the police from the Binh Xuyen organised gang licensed by Emperor Bao Dai?

06:35, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

De Tomaso Longchamp

...that only 395 De Tomaso Longchamp two-door 2+2 coupés (example pictured) have ever been built?
...that the War of the Two Peters, fought between Castile and Aragon during the 14th century, lasted 19 years?
...that Antonio Salieri's opera Europa riconosciuta was recently revived for the re-opening of La Scala in Milan, after not being seen for 226 years after it premiered?
...that Flight Lieutenant Bobby Gibbes landed his single-seat fighter in the North African desert in 1942 to rescue a comrade who had been shot down, jettisoning his own parachute to accommodate his passenger?
...that the lifelong Democrat Jim Naugle is in his sixth straight term as the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale and supported only Republicans for President since 1968?
...that during the 1998 Guinea-Bissau Civil War, as many as 100 refugees an hour passed through the border checkpoint of Mpack, Senegal, which has a population of 518?
...that the Itchen Navigation canal provided an essential trading route between the historic city of Winchester and the port of Southampton?

00:19, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Napoleon Crossing the Alps

...that Jacques-Louis David produced four slightly different versions of Napoleon Crossing the Alps (pictured) between 1800 and 1805?
...that the Bangalore Palace in India, which was built to resemble Windsor Castle in England, has hosted music concerts of bands like Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones and Deep Purple?
...that Jeroen Straathof is the first and still only sports person in the world to represent his country at the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics?
...that Lynn Visson, a United Nations conference interpreter, is also a Russian cuisine cookbook author?
... that Romanian poet, dissident, and journalist Dorin Tudoran was only allowed to leave Romania for the United States after a 42-day-long hunger strike in 1985?
...that the Land of Onias, a region in Ptolemaic Egypt settled by Jewish military colonists, had its own Temple separate from that of Jerusalem?
...that the White Building in Bloomington, Illinois, represents an interesting example of the Chicago school architecture?

2 July 2007

17:31, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the 1870s Harrison P. Young House (pictured) in Oak Park, Illinois was remodeled by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1895?
...that women in the Early Pandyan Society dressed their hair differently according to their marital status?
...that in New South Wales, a Sentencing Council which is the first of its type in Australia, conducts research to improve the consistency of sentencing of criminals?
...that the Silurian Lau extinction event caused the Earth to temporarily return to a condition similar to how it was before multicellular life evolved?
...that the Eastern Spinebill of Australian forests has adapted to urban gardens and can feed from Fuchsias as well as native banksias and grevilleas?
...that Texas has a long history of producing wine with grape vines planted by Franciscan missionaries over 100 years before vineyards were planted in California?
...that Marine corporal Charles W. Lindberg was part of the first flag raising on Iwo Jima hours before the famous photo was taken by Joe Rosenthal?
...that Nkiru Books, the oldest African American bookstore in Brooklyn, was saved from being closed down by rappers Mos Def and Talib Kweli in 2000?

07:22, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

...that St. Mary's Collegiate Church (pictured) is the longest church in Scotland at 62.8 m?
...that Hiptage benghalensis is considered a weed in Florida?
...that Williamsport, Pennsylvania was once known as the "Lumber Capital of the World" and is the birthplace of Little League Baseball?
...that the Adivasi Cobra Force was formed after ethnic conflict between Santal and Bodo erupted in 1996?
...that originally a mudflat, Lido Isle in Newport Beach was one of the first master planned communities in California?
...that Ulley reservoir was sold to Rotherham council for £1 in 1980, when it was no longer needed to supply drinking water?
...that Robert Raymond founded Australia's longest running current affairs television program?
...that the steam rail motors, introduced by the Great Western Railway in 1903 to stimulate traffic, were so successful that they had to be replaced by conventional trains?
...that Australian male singing duo Bobby & Laurie had a national number-one hit with Hitchhiker for five weeks in 1966?

00:58, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the organizers of the 1937 Soviet Census (poster pictured) were imprisoned because the counted population numbers were far lower than expected by Joseph Stalin?
...that Fort Pasir Panjang, part of the 11 coastal fortifications built to repel the Japanese invasion, saw little action during the Battle of Singapore?
...that Juanelo Turriano was forced to build a second version of his Artificio de Juanelo as the city of Toledo refused to pay for the first one?
...that legend has it that Alexander Campbell slapped a muddy handprint on a prison cell wall in 1877 which has never been removed, despite extensive efforts?
...that the British architect William Benson was relieved from his position as Surveyor General of the Royal Works after falsely insisting that the House of Lords Chamber was in imminent danger of collapse?
...that the airport in the Nigerian city of Calabar is named after Margaret Ekpo, the 1950s civil rights activist?

1 July 2007

16:23, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

...that the submarine HMS Storm (pictured) was the first to be commanded by a British Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer?
...that the discovery of Icadyptes salasi, a prehistoric five-foot-tall penguin in Peru, has caused scientists to reconsider the timeline of penguin evolution?
...that outlaws John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, and Baby Face Nelson were tried in the historic Landmark Center in St. Paul?
...that money donated in 1905 by the fans at Celtic Park football stadium in Glasgow, Scotland was given to the mother of international Scottish footballer Barney Battles, Jr. while Battles was still in the womb?
...that the newly-merged Franco-Dutch firm Unibail-Rodamco is the largest public real estate company in Europe?
...that a portion of the Palatine Library returned to Heidelberg in 1816, almost two centuries after it was looted from city by the Catholic League?
...that the rotation of a star slows down as it grows older?

09:05, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

...that Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Francis J. Woolley House (pictured) was influenced by his first teacher, Joseph Silsbee, and the Arts and Crafts movement?
...that although the first meeting of the Indian Independence League took place in Tokyo in March 1942, it was not formally proclaimed until June of that year in Bangkok?
...that the professional wrestling promotion International Championship Wrestling was owned and operated by Angelo Poffo, father of wrestling legend Randy Savage, and starred Randy Savage and his brother Lanny Poffo?
...that abbot Gerald of Sauve-Majeure began the practice of celebrating mass and the Office of the Dead for 30 days for the recently deceased?
...that opinion polls in Armenia suggest that 64% of its population favors eventual Armenian membership in the European Union?
...that sexual relations between a man and his daughter-in-law were fairly common in pre-revolutionary rural Russia?