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31 October 2007

22:57, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Russian cellist Anatoliy Brandukov (pictured) entered the Moscow Conservatory aged eight?
...that Victor-Alphonse Huard styled himself the "disciple" of Léon Abel Provancher?
...that the Iroise Sea on the Atlantic Ocean is France's first marine park?
...that Richard Rougier, son of novelist Georgette Heyer, became a British High Court judge?
...that HMAS Stalwart was the largest Australian designed and constructed naval vessel?
...that the case of Rice v. Collins concerned a juror who may have "rolled her eyes" under questioning?
...that Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Paget was also an MP for Carnarvon despite his active navy career?
...that, in 1987, Bolaji Akinyemi proposed the development of nuclear weapons by Nigeria?
...that John L. Fugh was the first Chinese American to be Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army?
...that Gavin Kaysen was undone at the Bocuse d'Or cooking competition because a dishwasher ate part of his entry?
...that Joe Robertson, Dean of Oregon Health and Science University, lives on a houseboat?
...that The Legendary Buster Smith was the only solo album by Charlie Parker's mentor Buster Smith?

13:54, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the first temple to be built in soapstone was constructed in Western Chalukya architecture (pictured), in Karnataka, India?
...that it was Frances Seymour, the Duchess of Somerset who interceded with Queen Caroline to obtain a pardon for the poet and murderer Richard Savage?
...that royal fish, such as whales and sturgeons, are property of the Queen when found on the shores of the United Kingdom?
...that the "negro of Banyoles" was a human piece of taxidermy which prompted debate by the United Nations?
...that most trains stop before reaching the platform at Coombe railway station in Cornwall, UK, and then reverse away?
...that the Minority Treaties of 1919-1921, designed to protect ethnic minorities, were not implemented on the victorious allies of World War I?
...that the construction of Tellico Dam on Little Tennessee River in 1979 put several 18th century Overhill Cherokee towns underwater?
...that Ian Smith's 24 international tries, scored for Scotland in rugby union between 1924 and 1933, was an international record until 1987?
...that the Ukrainian pogroms in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917 were falsely attributed by the communists to Symon Petlura, despite his efforts to save Jews?

07:30, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the standard version of Sojourner Truth's famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?" was recorded by Frances Dana Barker Gage (pictured)?
...that criteria of truth are standards and rules used to judge the accuracy of statements and claims?
...that the Hearst Medical Papyrus, considered to be an authentic ancient Egyptian document for more than a century, may be an almost perfect fake?
...that two male lovers of German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder committed suicide?
...that Jehovah's Witnesses have had an impact on civil liberties in the United States, winning 47 cases involving religious beliefs brought by them before the U.S. Supreme Court?
...that Ellen Hammer is regarded as one of the first Americans to study the history of Vietnam?
...that Nanda, the half-sister of Gautama Buddha, went on to be the foremost nun in the practice of jhana?
...that Belinda Dann, a member of Australia's Stolen Generation, died just months after being reunited with her family, who had been searching for her for over a century?
...that 27 years passed between the discovery of Ravenel's stinkhorn and the publication of its scientific description?
...that Le Naturaliste Canadien is the oldest French-language academic journal in North America?
...that one of the television advertisements from the Good things come to those who wait Guinness advertising campaign was voted the "Best ad of all time" by the British public?

30 October 2007

23:46, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in "Thou Art the Man", one of Edgar Allan Poe's (pictured) lesser-known detective stories, ventriloquism is used to expose a murderer?
...that the award for European Parliament's newly established cinema prize, Lux, consists of subtitling the winning film in the 23 official EU languages and an original language adaptation for the deaf and hard of hearing?
...that due to backlash from the trial of John Hinckley, Jr., under US law an expert witness can no longer testify on legal issues such as the insanity defense?
...that Captain Clack Stone led the intense defense of Apple River Fort against 150-200 Sauk and Fox warriors, which resulted in only one death at the fort?
...that the Whitman-Walker Clinic adopted oral testing for HIV in 1993, before most major AIDS clinics in the US?
...that PlumpJack Winery was the first winery in the Napa Valley to use screwcaps as a wine closures on Cabernet Sauvignon wines sold for over USD$100 per bottle?
...that after being suspended for life from the Ontario Hockey League, Marc Laforge still played professionally for two National Hockey League teams?
...that when Richard Fort won a seat in the 1950 general election, he became the third person with the same name to represent Clitheroe in the British House of Commons?

16:04, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Crown Colony-class cruiser HMS Jamaica (pictured) was nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost of the Korean Coast" because the North Koreans claimed that she had been sunk on three occasions?
...that in Tennard v. Dretke, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it a cruel and unusual punishment to ignore the defendant's mental retardation in sentencing the death penalty?
...that archaeological evidence has shown that the Indian threadfish (Alectis indicus) has long been a resource for humans, with prehistoric and more modern sites in the United Arab Emirates preserving its remains?
...that Bob Odom, Louisiana's Commissoner of Agriculture and Forestry, is, with 28 years experience, his state's longest-serving statewide constitutional official?
...that U.S. Senator Henry F. Ashurst had a cameo as a U.S. Senator in Otto Preminger's film Advice and Consent?
...that the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area in Ontario will be the largest freshwater marine protected area in the world?
...that Frederick Garling was the second solicitor admitted to practice in the Australian state of New South Wales?

04:51, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the medical papyri (pictured) show that ancient Egyptian physicians of the 19th century BC knew about migraines?
...that Ann Northrop gave up a successful career at CBS to eventually become an AIDS educator for the Hetrick-Martin Institute and co-host of TV news program Gay USA?
...that even though nothing definite can be said about the existence of Sebaldus, the patron saint of Nuremberg, his veneration continued even after the Protestant Revolution?
...that before U.S. short track speed skater Cathy Turner won a gold medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics, she had left the sport for eight years to pursue a singing career under the stage name "Nikki Newland"?
...that the Little Treaty of Versailles was the first of several Minority Treaties, and Poland's renouncing of it was the deathblow to the League of Nations' ethnic minority-protection regime?
...that before competing in luge, Bonny Warner competed for Stanford University on a field hockey scholarship?
...that the founding of the Church in Malta is described in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible?

29 October 2007

22:29, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the African pompano (pictured), a tropical marine game fish, is not a pompano, but belongs to the genus Alectis?
...that only three of the largest islands of the United States – the Big Island of Hawaii, Kodiak Island, and Puerto Rico – are greater than 3,000 square miles (8,000 km²) in size?
...that descendants of Betsy Mix Cowles's brother Edwin founded Cowles Publishing Company, the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, and the Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company?
...that at King of the Ring 1998, Mick Foley was thrown head first off a sixteen foot high cell onto a table by The Undertaker and it has since become one of the most famous moments in professional wrestling?
...that the Spiral Q Puppet Theater in Philadelphia uses puppetry, street theatre and pageantry to promote social and political change?
...that Varbola Stronghold was the largest circular rampart fortress and a trading center built in Ancient Estonia that only lost its importance in the 14th century?
...that José María Campo Serrano became President of Colombia after the resignation of the President and the dismissal of the Vice President by Congress?

15:58, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar (pictured) in Spain is reputed to be the first church dedicated to Mary through history?
...that the hydroid Hydractinia bayeri was named by Emperor Hirohito of Japan in honor of a fellow marine biologist, Frederick Bayer?
...that visual evidence of the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba which triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was found in reconnaissance photographs by CIA analysts led by Arthur C. Lundahl?
...that the rent control program in New York State is America's longest-running?
...that Michael G. Strain is Louisiana's first elected Republican commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry?
...that the Utah Scenic Byways program includes the highest paved road in the state with a summit at 10,715 ft (3266 m)?
...that Charles Morris Woodford wrote a dispatch appointing himself the first Deputy Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, and then convinced the High Commissioner to sign it?

07:24, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Culbone Church (pictured) is the smallest English parish church still holding services?
...that Raspberry Island in the Gulf of Alaska boasts some of the largest Roosevelt elk ever recorded?
...that the Heller House marked a turning point in Frank Lloyd Wright's shift to Prairie School architecture?
...that Sumitro was a prominent Indonesian General in the early years of General Suharto's New Order, but retired after student riots in Jakarta in 1974?
...that the 1999 Sydney hailstorm is the costliest natural disaster in Australian history, causing over A$1.7 billion in insured damages?
...that the unusual Mexican ball game of pelota mixteca is thought to be a development of real tennis?
...that the Rose Quarter sports and entertainment complex in Portland, Oregon was constructed in the parking lot of the Memorial Coliseum?
...that the Winchester Model 1895 is one of the few lever-action rifles equipped with a charger guide, allowing it to be reloaded by charger clips?
...that in 2002, Devon and Cornwall set up a scheme where travellers on rural railways were rewarded for visiting pubs along the route?

01:21, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

...that a 120-year old Bodhi tree (pictured) in Jin Long Si Temple, standing over 30 m tall with a girth of 8.5 m, is the oldest and largest of its kind ever found in Singapore?
...that the chief suspect in the 1919 Green Bicycle Case tried to destroy the bicycle that tied him to the victim, but was nonetheless acquitted?
...that scientific jury selection is used by some U.S. attorneys in high-stakes cases?
...that the book This Is Not The Life I Ordered, co-authored by former California State Senator Jackie Speier, has twice reached the San Francisco Chronicle best seller list?
...that Canada's first dedicated movie theater, the Ouimetoscope, was created in 1906 with an original investment of only seventy-five dollars?
...that Chris Cosentino, a contestant on The Next Iron Chef famous for cooking offal, hated his grandmother's tripe as a child?
...that poet Violet Kazue de Cristoforo wrote haikus while she and her family were detained in Japanese American internment camps during World War II?
...that near the end of World War II, American soldiers conducted a raid behind Soviet lines to rescue the bay stallion Witez II from a Czechoslovakian stud farm at the behest of captured German officers?

28 October 2007

18:53, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Piffles Taylor (pictured) quarterbacked the Regina Roughriders to the Western Canada rugby championship in 1919 after losing an eye in World War I?
...that ethnic cleansing of Poles in 1943 Volhynia was resisted by the Defence of Przebraże?
...that Joseph Throckmorton was called a "second Nero or Calligula (sic)" for his actions on his steamboat Warrior at the 1832 Battle of Bad Axe?
...that in 2004, the Children's Court of Victoria in Australia granted a teenager a "divorce" from his mother?
...that Goose Creek State Park, a North Carolina state park off Pamlico Sound, is in an inlet that once provided cover for Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet and other pirates?
...that Lothar Neethling of the South African Police confiscated and denied crash investigators access to the aircraft flight recorders from the wreckage of the air disaster which killed President Samora Machel of Mozambique in 1986?
...that Ugaritic culture hero Danel may have been a model for the Biblical Daniel of Ezekiel?
...that NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. examined photographs and newsreels for three days before determining that unofficial 1959 Daytona 500 race winner Johnny Beauchamp had actually finished second behind Lee Petty?

09:40, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the volcano Mount St. Helens is named after Alleyne FitzHerbert of Derby (pictured)?
...that from 1955 to 1973, the United States conducted a scientific initiative aimed at producing gravity-manipulation technology?
...that intoxication is never recognized as an excuse for crime, but settled insanity due to substance abuse is?
...that former Finance Minister of Israel Pinchas Sapir was famous for carrying a "black notebook" of economics-related observations in his travels?
...that G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary?
...that artist R. B. Kitaj blamed the death of his second wife on the savagely negative reactions to his 1994 retrospective?
...that wide receiver Mercury Hayes caught the game-winning touchdown in Lloyd Carr's Michigan coaching debut?
...that Fermin Rocker, son of anarchist writer Rudolf Rocker, once sold a painting to rock star Mick Jagger?
...that despite being found guilty of conspiring with Mary, Queen of Scots to assassinate Elizabeth I, Charles Paget was given the manor of Weston-on-Trent?
...that the first film to take advantage of the relaxation of communism in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s was The Sun in a Net?
...that the now-Polish Gliwice Canal was known as the "Adolf Hitler Canal" during WWII?

27 October 2007

21:10, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

...that American sports car racing driver Dick Thompson (pictured) was known as the "Flying Dentist"?
...that the NATO commander in Afghanistan labelled the Siege of Sangin against Taliban insurgents the most intensive engagement involving British soldiers since the Korean War?
...that sculptor Tom Otterness delivered more than four times the amount of work commissioned for his popular "Life Underground" subway installation?
...that Professor Padraig O'Malley of the University of Massachusetts Boston helped bring 16 Iraqis to a conference in Finland, where they met with participants in the internal reconciliations in South Africa and Northern Ireland?
...that Singapore’s Fort Tanjong Katong, one of the oldest military forts built by the British colonial government, never saw combat action and was nicknamed the "Wash-out Fort"?
...that in his 1968 Declaration of Perth, British Conservative leader Edward Heath pledged his party's support for Scottish devolution, a policy later reversed by Margaret Thatcher?
...that the Louisiana Tigers Confederate Army brigade were a key part of the Army of Northern Virginia and developed a reputation as fearless, hard fighting shock troops?
...that the training exercises in Flash Focus were developed under the supervision of a professor at Japan's Aichi Institute of Technology?

10:35, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in January 1859, over 30,000 people gathered on Dealul Mitropoliei in Bucharest in support of Alexander John Cuza (pictured) in his election to become the first Domnitor of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia?
...that the US Navy Bayfield class attack transports USS Alpine, USS Barnstable, USS Callaway, USS Cecil and USS Goshen all found use as cargo vessels after World War II but were scrapped at Kaohsiung in Taiwan in the 1970s?
...that Heuneburg, an early Celtic settlement by the upper Danube, was already fortified with a massive ditch-and-bank enclosure by the Middle Bronze Age (15th to 12th century BC)?
...that Derbyshire M.P. George John Venables-Vernon who enthused about Italian literature is the namesake of Vernon County in Australia?
...that Harold E. Martin, a newspaper publisher and editor, won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1970 and served for twenty years on the board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association?
...that when Sir Francis Rodes bequeathed a yearly £20, it was enough to run a secondary school in the 16th century?
...that a dispute over the Sudanese region of Abyei may determine the fate of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the 22-year civil war?

26 October 2007

21:38, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the conditions at the chapel of St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn (pictured) in 1703 protected the unburied Duke Eugène de Croÿ from decaying and his body became an attraction remaining on display until 1897?
...that the United States Supreme Court held in Moyer v. Peabody (1909) that the U.S. government may imprison citizens without probable cause during an insurrection so long as it acts in good faith?
...that Mafia turncoat Baldassare Di Maggio claimed that Cosa Nostra boss Totò Riina respectfully kissed former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti at a meeting?
...that it was John Hollingshead who brought together Gilbert and Sullivan in 1871?
...that Jüri Vilms, a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee, issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in February 1918, and was executed by German troops less than two months later?
...that Harris Wash is a 40-mile long tributary of the Escalante River within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah?
...that the Mourning of Muharram, observed by Shi'a Muslims, commemorates the anniversary of the death of Imam Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680?
...that London will soon have a Walk of Fame for dogs?

13:28, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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...that Anna Laetitia Barbauld's (pictured) Lessons for Children (1778–79) revolutionized children's literature, introducing what novelist Frances Burney called a "new walk"?
...that Gershwin's musical Primrose had its Broadway première more than sixty years after its 1924 London debut?
...that the Praetorian Building, a high-rise in Dallas, is regarded to be the first skyscraper constructed in the Southwestern United States?
...that Douglas Bruce is so associated with Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights that attempts to loosen its spending restrictions are known as "de-Brucing"?
...that during a copper miners' strike in Michigan in 1913, labor leader Charles Moyer was shot in the back by unknown assailants and then expelled by Calumet city police while still bleeding?
...that a prosecution was started against Benjamin Robinson for starting a school in Findern in 1693?
...that Zhenzhu Khan of Xueyantuo once offered 50,000 horses, 10,000 cattle or camels, and 100,000 goats to Emperor Taizong of Tang China to serve as bride price for a princess?
...that Unnale Unnale was the director of Jeeva's final film before his death?
...that nine workers died at India's Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited due to a blast that occurred when leaking water was accidentally mixed with molten steel?

06:49, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Union Monument (pictured) in Romania was unveiled in 1927, demolished in 1947 by the Communists, and rebuilt in 1999?
...that Speak, Mnemosyne was replaced by Speak, Memory as the title of Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography for fear that people could not pronounce it?
...that Ron Cole was involved in a violent standoff with Amo Bishop Roden, the wife of former Branch Davidian leader George Roden, at the site of the compound destroyed in the Waco siege?
...that major league baseball player Terry Pendleton participated in the World Series in 1985, 1987, 1991, 1992 and 1996, but lost all five times?
...that Edward Laurillard produced musical comedies in London and New York in the early 20th century, in partnership with George Grossmith, Jr.?
...that the Mustagh Pass crosses the Baltoro Muztagh range in the Karakorams, from Pakistan to China?
...that Shripat Amrit Dange was a founding member of the Communist Party of India?
...that the Jacobean play The Widow's Tears is thought to be the last comedy written by George Chapman?
...that the Blue-throated Piping-guan is a South American bird similar to a turkey?

00:37, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Delaware and Hudson Canal (pictured) was the first American business with a million-dollar market capitalization?
...that the Đorđe Martinović affair, concerning a farmer hospitalised with a beer bottle in his rectum, was a major ethnic and political controversy in Serbia in 1985 and contributed to the collapse of Yugoslavia?
...that former Palermo mayor Vito Ciancimino explained that Italy without bribes would be "as though someone wanted to remove one of the four wheels of a car"?
...that numerous references to Wikipedia on The Colbert Report, an American satirical comedy series, defined the word Wikiality as "Truth by consensus, rather than fact"?
...that in Floyd's algorithm for cycle detection, the tortoise and hare move at very different speeds, but always finish at the same spot?
...that Molly Badham, co-founder of Twycross Zoo, trained the chimpanzees who appeared in the long-running Brooke Bond PG Tips television advertisements?
...that during the first six years of the Australian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? nobody won the top prize of one million dollars?
...that Belfast streetfighter "Buck Alec" Robinson kept two lions at his home, frequently walking them on the streets of the city?

25 October 2007

15:52, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Turkish shadow puppet characters Karagöz and Hacivat (pictured) are supposedly based on two laborers who were executed because their banter slowed down the construction of a mosque?
...that the Hunt Memorial Building in Ellenville, New York, has served as a public library, an appliance store, and several other things?
...that Alexey Ekimyan, the author of many Soviet hits, was considered the only popular composer in the world who ruled a law enforcement department at the same time?
...that the 1997 volcanic eruption of Pillan Patera on Jupiter's moon Io was the largest effusive eruption ever witnessed?
...that "Pick You Up" was the first Powderfinger song to be nominated for an ARIA Music Award; the 1996 award for "Song of the Year"?
...that cricketer Steve Atkinson has played for both the Netherlands and Hong Kong in international cricket?
...that the giant jellyfish Chrysaora achlyos is the largest invertebrate discovered in the 20th century?
...that road slipperiness causes over 53,000 accidents a year in the United Kingdom alone?
...that Sholom Schwartzbard was acquitted in the Schwartzbard trial despite pleading guilty to murder, and that the family of his victim was ordered to pay for the cost of the trial?

09:13, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the book You Don't Need Meat by Peter Cox (pictured), the first chief executive of the Vegetarian Society, is the best-selling vegetarian book of all time?
...that St Patrick's Marist College, the oldest school in Australia run by Marist Brothers, started out as a primary school?
...that William Wallace disguised himself as a woman to hide at the castle in Riccarton, a village and parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland?
...that Randle Holme III of Chester painted memorial boards without the permission of the English College of Arms resulting in its King of Arms, William Dugdale, travelling north on at least three occasions between 1667 and 1670 to destroy them?
...that the Muslim Revolution of Agriculture industrialized sugar production, building the first sugar refineries and sugar plantations in the 8th century?
...that former Branch Davidian leader George Roden was shot twice in a gun battle with his rival David Koresh and seven other Branch Davidians, before being evicted from the Mount Carmel Center near Waco?
...that South Africa and England had already played each other during pool play before meeting in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final?
...that a single raccoon reduced the entire population of White Cay iguanas to 140 males and 10 females in one year?

01:11, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Stevens Arch (pictured) is one of the many geological features formed from Navajo Sandstone along Coyote Gulch in southern Utah, USA?
...that in Colombian folklore the legendary Alligatorman (Hombre Caiman) is said to be a fisherman converted by the spirit of the Magdalena River into an alligator, that returns every year on St. Sebastian´s Day to hunt human victims?
...that some liverwort species in the class Haplomitriopsida rafted from Gondwana to Asia via the Indian subcontinent?
...that Walter Plunkett's "barbecue dress" for Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind was one of the most widely copied dresses in fashion of the 1930s and early '40s, second only to the Duchess of Windsor's wedding dress?
...that Colombia's 12th President, Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, was nicknamed Monsieur Veto for his common practice of vetoing many bills he considered were not in the best interest of his nation?
...that Andrew Winch, an award-winning yacht designer, has been selected to design the interior of a version of the Boeing 787, a commercial airliner?
...that the Suevi of Gallaecia were converted from a form of Germanic paganism to Arian Christianity by a Celtic missionary, Ajax, sent by the Visigoths?

24 October 2007

16:16, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Barnenez Mound (pictured) in Brittany, France, is a cairn with 11 chambers built of 13,000 to 14,000 tons of stone dating to about 4500 BC, making it one of the earliest megalithic monuments in Europe?
...that the population of the Falkland Islands was only 50 people in 1841?
...that German nuclear physicist Heinz Barwich had illegal contacts to the Soviet secret police NKVD during Nazi rule, and then spied on the Soviet Union for the West while working in the East?
...that Senator Ron May is credited with installing the first wireless internet network in the Colorado State Capitol?
...that the White-browed Scrubwren, which inhabits dense undergrowth, can occur close to urban areas in Sydney?
...that between a half and two million Poles were deported from the Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union to the Regained Territories in the repatriation of 1944-1946?

04:52, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

...that English actor, singer and playwright Arthur Williams (pictured), best remembered for his comic operas, Edwardian musical comedies and musical burlesques, played over 1,000 roles in his career?
...that country musician Johnny Sea's spoken word recording "Day For Decision", a response to Barry McGuire's protest song, "Eve of Destruction", was a Top 40 hit in the U.S. and was nominated for a Grammy award?
...that leading New Testament scholar C. F. D. Moule was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, the oldest chair in the University of Cambridge, for 25 years?
...that Ove Karlsson is both the name of a Swedish sports player and a Swedish sports journalist?
...that Transfusion was the first EP by Powderfinger to receive significant commercial airplay, and was their first work to top the ARIA alternative music chart?
...that Andy Papathanassiou, a former college football player who was the first person hired as a NASCAR pit crew coordinator, started use of trained athletes to cut pit stop times from 19 down to 13 seconds?

23 October 2007

20:24, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Church of South India, a union of Anglican, Methodist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Reformed churches in South India, was inaugurated in 1947 at St. George's Cathedral (pictured) in Madras (now Chennai)?
...that the French space agency funded the operation of the Soviet space observatory Granat after the dissolution of the USSR?
...that the Finsch's Flycatcher-thrush, a flycatcher-like thrush of West African forests, sings four melodious whistles and responds to recordings of its own songs?
...that the election of Dominican friar Laurence de Ergadia as Bishop of Argyll in Scotland was voided by Pope Urban IV in 1274 on a technicality?
...that in the anonymous Breton lai Melion, one of King Arthur's knights was transformed into a werewolf by his wife using a magic ring before she ran off with another man to Ireland?
...that English football referee Matt Messias once urged a Portsmouth defender not to kick an opposing player during a match against Newcastle United because "the devil was trying to get him sent off"?
...that American archaeologist and flintknapper Errett Callahan produces and sells obsidian scalpels that are 100 times sharper than the traditional surgical scalpels made of steel?

14:13, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

...that although he was an illegitimate child, the 13th century prelate of Scotland Albin of Brechin (Brechin cathedral pictured) had a successful career in the Roman Catholic Church after obtaining dispensation from the Bishop of Porto?
...that Mdm2, whose role in regulating p53 was discovered by British scientist Karen Vousden, is a potential target for anti-cancer drugs?
...that eleven months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. four-star admiral Charles P. Snyder opted to lose two ranks rather than serve under incoming Pacific Fleet commander Husband E. Kimmel?
...that the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu is considered the holiest Catholic shrine in Sri Lanka?
...that Giles Clarke, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, studied Arabic at the University of Damascus?
...that a U.S. government funded research project is concluding that racial discrimination is a significant factor when jurors make death penalty decisions?
...that the Austrian industrialist Johan E. Zacherl made a fortune in the late 19th century by selling dried flower heads of Chrysanthenum cinerariifolum as insecticide?
...that Oscar M. Laurel, a south Texas Mexican-American Democratic state representative known for his flamboyant oratory, opposed a late 1950s bill that would have declared cactus peyote an "unlawful dangerous substance"?

03:11, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Zoroastrian (Faravahar pictured) religious ceremony Visperad consists of the rituals of the Yasna and is only performed between sunrise and noon on the six gahambar days?
...that in 1890, future centenarian and four-star admiral Richard H. Jackson was commissioned ensign by special act of Congress after originally being cashiered from the Navy for poor grades at the U.S. Naval Academy?
...that a series of explosions destroyed two miles of Louisville, Kentucky's sewer system on Friday the 13th in February 1981?
...that James Roche became CEO and chairman of the board of General Motors without a college education?
...that Yekaterina Zelenko was the only woman to perform an air ramming and the only female pilot in the Winter War?
...that though many troubadours wrote about the Crusades and either encouraged or mocked them as politics dictated, the jongleur Peirol was one of the few to actually travel to the Holy Land, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1221?
...that American football coach Dick Anderson, who led Rutgers to its first victory over Penn State in 70 years, was a Penn State assistant coach before and after his time at Rutgers?

22 October 2007

21:02, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

...that mounting blocks (example pictured), stone or wood blocks for mounting and dismounting a horse or cart, began to fall out of use around 1790?
...that John Popper, now frontman of the rock band Blues Traveler, once convinced a teacher to let him play harmonica in his high school band with an in-class solo performance of the song "She Blinded Me with Science"?
...that Arumuga Navalar, a Hindu revivalist, also helped translate the Bible into Tamil?
...that the Spanish military engineer Julio Cervera Baviera, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, pioneered radio technology in his native country?
...that although it is commonly referred to as Fort Detroit, the fort William Hull surrendered to the British without a fight during the War of 1812 was actually named Fort Lernoult?
...that British Conservative Member of Parliament Cyril Banks was friendly with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and left his party over the Suez Crisis?
...that Dr. Chris Hatcher convinced the jury in a capital punishment case without having interviewed the defendant?
...that Joe Shishido transitioned from a moderately successful melodrama actor into a popular villain and then action star after he underwent plastic surgery to severely enlarge his cheeks?

14:00, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the festival of Qoyllur Rit'i (pictured) in the Cusco Region of Peru commemorates events which included the transformation of a boy into a bush with an image of Christ hanging from it?
...that the New Zealand Journal of Forestry was first published in 1925 with a title in Māori?
...that the first Hawaii showing of From Here to Eternity premiered at the Iao Theater?
...that when former New Mexico Governor Tom Bolack died, his ashes were scattered over his ranch by 16 specially-made fireworks?
...that Wilhelm Koppe, one of the chief Nazi Holocaust perpetrators in occupied Poland, escaped arrest and under false name managed a Bonn chocolate factory for over a decade?
...that many works of the Romanian Symbolist poet Traian Demetrescu survived as popular romanzas after their author died from tuberculosis in 1896?
...that Darren Heitner was a champion Nintendo video game player aged six and then defeated over 400,000 other students at age ten in a US educational poster contest run by the National Football League?

04:35, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Monument to Diana Turbay in Bogota

...that the Colombian journalist Diana Turbay (monument pictured) was killed while kidnapped by the Medellin Cartel in order to create pressure against the Colombia-USA extradition treaty?
...that merchant, sugar grower and politician George Raff helped establish the Brisbane government and was the main substantiater of wool trade between Brisbane and London?
...that Gatot Soebroto, who would become a leader in the Indonesian independence movement, was expelled from elementary school for fighting?
...that Dudley Ryder, a managing director of Coutts private bank for 40 years, was also a director of English Big Four bank NatWest for 19 years until he succeeded his father as 7th Earl of Harrowby?
...that Edmund Blacket became known as "the Christopher Wren of Sydney" for building four cathedrals, 80 churches and a university?
...that the book South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today analyzes the animated television comedy series South Park using philosophical concepts?
...that Catherine Pegge from Derbyshire had a son who was named Charles like his heirless and exiled father, Charles II of England?

21 October 2007

22:31, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

...that William Wadsworth Hodkinson (pictured) merged 11 film rental bureaus in 1914 to form Paramount Pictures, the first U.S.-wide distributor of feature films?
...that the Christian mission founded by Florence Young on her brothers’ sugar plantation in Queensland led her to make annual trips to the Solomon Islands for twenty years?
...that when Dorothy Andrews Elston married Walter Kabis, she became the first, and so far the only, Treasurer of the United States to have her name changed while in office?
...that the British General John Reid, second in command in Henry Bouquet's expedition against the western and Ohio Indians, was also a proficient flute-player and a musical composer?
...that before the launch of a satellite, a group of scientists from ISRO's Master Control Facility at Hassan offer prayers to a miniature model of the satellite and donate it to a temple in Dharmasthala?
...that passengers for Lympstone Commando railway station have to pass an armed guard as the only access is through the adjacent Royal Marine Commando Training Centre?
...that the majority of St. Thomas' ciguatera cases are linked to the same species of fish, the bar jack, or Caranx ruber?

15:16, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

...that sandstone layers (pictured) now exposed in the Canyons of the Escalante in Utah were deposited during the Mesozoic period, when the area was covered with sand dunes about 180 to 225 million years ago?
...that NBA point guard John Bagley was the first Boston College Eagle to earn Big East Men's Basketball Player of the Year honors?
...that Sakina Akhundzadeh is considered the first female playwright and dramatist in Azerbaijani literature?
...that Craigiehall, a country house designed for the Earl of Annandale by Sir William Bruce in 1699, is now the headquarters of the British Army in Scotland?
...that Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, a well preserved Victorian residential boulevard, is home to three National Historic Landmarks and five other structures on the National Register of Historic Places?
...that rye and oats used to be crop-mimicking weeds before they became domesticated?
...that Martin Meehan was the first person to be convicted of membership of the Provisional IRA and the last prisoner released following the abolition of internment in Northern Ireland?

08:44, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the largest known metal vessel from antiquity is an elaborately decorated bronze volute krater (pictured) discovered at the Vix Grave in Burgundy, France in 1953?
...that Madame Tussauds Hong Kong is the oldest permanent wax museum in Asia?
...that Blanca Errázuriz was acquitted of the murder of her ex-husband John de Saulles, due to the testimony of Rudolf Valentino?
...that, according to Shinto tradition, four kami, including the soul of Emperor Meiji, are enshrined at the Hokkaidō Jingū, a Shinto shrine in Sapporo, Japan?
...that in 2004, running back Mike Hart broke Ricky Powers' Michigan Wolverines freshman rushing record and matched Jon Vaughn, the only other Michigan back with consecutive 200-yard games?
...that the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall houses the remains of victims of the Nanking Massacre in a building shaped like a coffin?
...that over 60.1% of Colombian families are below the poverty threshold?
...that the Greek submarine Delfin was the second submarine to enter service in the Greek navy?
...that the entire population of Exuma Island Iguanas on Leaf Cay in the Bahamas was translocated to Pasture Cay in 2002 in an effort to protect the species?

20 October 2007

22:07, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Charter Arms Bulldog revolver (pictured) became notorious after it was revealed to be serial killer David Berkowitz's weapon of choice?
...that the freshwater weed Azolla may have grown in the Arctic Ocean with enough vigour to plunge the world into an ice age?
...that North American helitack crews are airlifted into remote areas to "attack" wildland fires before they get out of control?
...that in the USSR, people such as Nikolai Yezhov and Leon Trotsky were removed from photos to erase them from Soviet history?
...that sky anchors combine a gas balloon for buoyancy and a superpressure balloon for ballast?
...that lignosulfonates, wood pulp byproducts, are used to make concrete, tanned leather, and even artificial vanillin?
...that Polish painter and politician Henryk Józewski protected Ukrainian leader Symon Petliura from extradition to Soviet Union by hiding him in his flat?
...that a translocation mutation in chromosome 11 may result in mantle cell lymphoma?
...that though Alfred Balfour was a British MP for 14 years, he made only a single speech in the House of Commons?
...that English civil engineer James Trubshaw's straightening method used on Wybunbury's St Chad's tower in 1832 was later used to stabilise the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

15:50, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Cogan House Covered Bridge (pictured) in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, USA was built by a millwright who preassembled the frame in a field beside the sawmill to make sure it all fit?
...that the mother of PIRA prisoner Jackie McMullan chained herself to railings outside 10 Downing Street in London?
...that the Solomon Islands Christian Association came out of a meeting of church representatives that included the future first Prime Minister and first Governor-General?
...that the rules for a scrum in rugby union were changed in 2007 to try to reduce the number of serious neck injuries to players?
...that the extinct crocodile-like Prionosuchus is the largest amphibian known to have existed?
...that Admiral Clarence S. Williams, commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, directed a 1926 military intervention to protect foreign nationals in Shanghai at the start of the Chinese Civil War?
...that the Coat of arms of Asturias bears the Victory Cross, a Christian cross carried by King Pelagius of Asturias of Spain at the Battle of Covadonga?
...that Leonid Hurwicz, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics at the age of ninety, is the oldest recipient of any Nobel Prize in any category?

09:49, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in an upcoming presentation ceremony at the White House, the late Navy SEAL Michael P. Murphy (pictured) will become the first person awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in the current War in Afghanistan?
...that there is space for an additional 15,000 names to be added to the British Armed Forces Memorial?
...that the Sapporo Factory in Japan, a building complex with a shopping mall, offices, a multiplex movie theatre and a Meissen porcelain museum, was originally constructed as a brewery?
...that when British diplomat Sir Alan Campbell became ambassador to Ethiopia, he noticed people kneeling down in reverence as his car drove to the palace of Emperor Haile Selassie?
...that missionary Don Richardson discovered that aborigines of Western New Guinea have a concept called the Peace Child which is very similar to the incarnation of Jesus?
...that from 1747 to 1831, present-day Iraq was ruled by Georgian Mamluks?
...that Los Angeles considered changing the name of the geographic region known as San Fernando Valley in 2002 to San Angeles, the same name used for the fictional city in the 1993 movie Demolition Man?

02:03, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the stock for the captive breeding program of the Galapagos Land Iguana descended from iguanas which William Randolph Hearst translocated from Baltra Island to North Seymour Island in the 1930s?
...that the Solomon Islander Peter Ambuofa, who had converted to Christianity while working on a sugar plantation in Queensland, was left to starve by his own relatives when he returned home?
...that in 2004, a California Senate committee passed a youth suffrage constitutional amendment called Training Wheels for Citizenship to give 14-year-olds one-quarter of a vote and 16-year-olds one-half of a vote in state elections?
...that low energy ion scattering causes various phenomena at a material's surface, that are used to explore its structure and composition?
...that the accuracy of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was challenged in the English High Court of Justice case Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills?
...that United States Presidential candidate Ron Paul has won a total of fifteen Republican straw polls, placing him second among all candidates yet remains near the bottom of statewide polls?
...that early Indian Christians were Nestorians until the arrival of Portuguese in the 16th century introducing Roman Catholicism to the country?

19 October 2007

17:25, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Albrecht Dürer's Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate (pictured) is one of 16 woodcuts completed between 1501 and 1511, which display the Virgin as an intermediary between the divine and the earth, yet with a range of human frailties?
...that Thomas de Dundee, later Bishop of Ross, was one of three men from the small Scottish burgh of Dundee studying Roman law at the University of Bologna at the same time in the later 13th century?
...that the Yorkshire Museum paid £2.5 million pounds for an item found in Yorkshire using a metal detector?
...that Mormon settlers on the 1879 San Juan Expedition to establish a colony in what is now southeastern Utah spent several months widening a "Hole-in-the-Rock" for the passage of wagons?
...that the development of the Lockheed XF-104, a single-engine, high-performance, supersonic interceptor aircraft prototype, earned aircraft engineer Kelly Johnson his first Collier Trophy in 1958?
...that Elizabeth F. Ellet was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to and survived the American Revolutionary War?

10:23, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Tower of the Sun

...that the Tower of the Sun (pictured), created by Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto for the 1970 Expo, has three faces, representing the past, the present and the future?
...that the Sauk and the British Army defeated the U.S. Army at Campbell's Island during the War of 1812?
...that at Bougon, a prehistoric burial mound in France, archeologists found the skull of a man who had undergone three trepanations during his lifetime?
...that St Lawrence's Church, a listed building in Stoak, Cheshire, England, has a Tudor hammerbeam roof, a Jacobean altar, a Georgian pulpit, an Elizabethan chalice and chairs from the time of Charles II?
...that in Bigby v. Dretke, the defendant put a gun to the judge's head, but the judge testified the assault did not bias him, and refused to recuse himself?
...that the automatic tire chain system OnSpot was created in 1977 by a Swedish inventor who mounted it onto a local milk delivery truck?
...that Pat "Gravy" Patterson, the head coach of the Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 1990, was the winningest baseball coach in the state's history?
...that Kenneth Lockwood, one of the first six British prisoners at Colditz in 1940, remained a POW until the castle was liberated in April 1945?
...that Nigerian businessman Alhassan Dantata was the wealthiest person in West Africa at the time of his death in 1955?

06:00, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

...that archaeological excavations near the Andries DuBois House (pictured) in Wallkill, New York, found evidence that it was built half a century later than previously believed?
...that A Gift to Young Housewives, a Russian cookbook condemned under communism, contained nearly 4,000 recipes in some editions?
...that former Belfast City Councillor Pat McGeown was a Provisional IRA volunteer referred to as the "11th hunger striker" in the 1981 Irish hunger strike?
...that in 1959, Barksdale Hamlett, the U.S. commandant in Berlin, threatened to forcefully prevent the East German government from flying its new flag over elevated railway stations in West Berlin?
...that a galdr was an incantation that Viking men chanted in falsetto?
...that the New Caledonia cricket team have lost every international they have ever played, including the only known loss by more than 500 runs?
...that four member states of the European Union have de jure opt-outs and do not participate fully in all common policies?

18 October 2007

17:47, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in the early 20th century, when education was segregated in the United States, the Calhoun Colored School (pictured) focused on vocational education for African Americans instead of classical education to protect the school from being closed down?
...that the wine-producing region of Blackwood Valley is named after the longest continually flowing river in Western Australia?
...that Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story Never Bet the Devil Your Head spoofs moral tales and Transcendentalism?
...that on September 29, 1968 a global horizontal sounding technique superpressure balloon became the first balloon to fly for a full year?
...that John Grant's moated manor near Stratford-on-Avon was chosen for storing weapons for the rebellion that was to follow the Gunpowder plot?
...that Japanese matinée idol Akira Kobayashi wore a gash across his face and large, Brezhnevian eyebrows for his role in the Seijun Suzuki yakuza film Kanto Wanderer?

09:46, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Milly Witkop (pictured) and her common-law husband Rudolf Rocker were denied admission to the United States in 1898, because they refused to get legally married?
...that former Portland mayor Frank Ivancie was defeated in his run for re-election by a local tavern owner with no prior political experience?
...that Negombo Tamil identity survives primarily in just one village called Udappu in Sri Lanka?
...that Eliza Jumel married former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr in 1833, only to divorce him three years later?
...that the former Iraqi Air Force commander, politician and ambassador Hardan al-Tikriti was assassinated on Saddam Hussein's orders in 1971?
...that Wiley W. Hilburn was in 1962 among the youngest editorial writers for major daily newspapers in the U.S.?
...that the Red-chested Goshawk (Accipiter toussenelii), a hawk of West Africa, was named after French journalist Alphonse Toussenel?

17 October 2007

23:39, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the figures in Johannes Vermeer's The Wine Glass (pictured) are taken directly from Pieter de Hooch's A Dutch Courtyard?
...that the murder of Michael Francke while he was at work became the basis of the movie Without Evidence?
...that students at the four ancient universities of Scotland are no longer afforded a traditional Meal Monday holiday, but manual staff at the University of St Andrews still are?
...that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a mental illness is a mitigating factor in death penalty cases, but the Supreme Court of California in one case ruled that mental illness is an aggravating factor?
...that Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said that The Four-Gated City is Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's most important work?
...that everything biologists know about the Small-eyed whiting (Sillago microps) came from studies conducted on two specimens found at a market in Taipei in 1985?
...that Dr. Edward Smith showed that muscles did not get their energy from proteins but from fats and carbohydrates?
...that Scotland Yard introduced the murder bag forensics kit after a police officer was reported to have scooped chunks of flesh from a murder victim into a bucket with his bare hands?

14:32, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the experiment which outlined the principles (pictured) behind backscattering spectroscopy was described by Ernest Rutherford as "the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life"?
...that the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha, Nebraska was almost destroyed by mob violence only five years after it was built?
...that although Brian Elliott was drafted second-last in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, he recently played a regular-season game for the Ottawa Senators?
...that Bernt Carlsson, the last United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988, while travelling to the signing ceremony of the Namibian independence agreement in New York?
...that rayon fibers used to make clothes come from trees pulped using the sulfite process?
...that the Portuguese football champion has been one of S.L. Benfica, F.C. Porto or Sporting Clube de Portugal on 78 out of 86 occasions?
...that by the end of 19th century, there were an estimated two thousand English language schools in the Kingdom of Mysore?
...that Lady Isle, a small Scottish island in the Firth of Clyde, is Britain's first seabird reserve?
...that Shyampukur was the site of one of the two tents Jamshetji Framji Madan set up to screen films when he entered the ‘bioscope’ scene in Kolkata in 1902?

01:01, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

...that some experts believe a cylinder seal (pictured) from the prehistoric San Andrés site is evidence for an Olmec writing system?
...that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1963 that a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to "effective" legal counsel, but "effective" was not defined until Wiggins v. Smith in 2003?
...that Swami Vipulananda was the founding Professor of Tamil at both University of Ceylon and Annamalai University?
...that the Folly Theatre, which specialised in burlesque and opéra bouffe, was originally the residence for Catholic priests of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in London?
...that 120,000 people participated in the 2005 Siyum HaShas, celebrating their completion of the eleventh 7½-year Daf Yomi study cycle, in which one folio of the 2,711-page Babylonian Talmud is studied each day?
...that Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya has won the Ananda Purashkar and the Rabindra Puraskar, prestigious awards for Bengali literature, for his writing on insects and popular science?
...that Second World War bomber pilot "Micky" Martin broke the speed record flying from England to Cape Town?
...that a baby Indian Rhinoceros at the San Diego Wild Animal Park was named Ecko after fashion designer Marc Ecko donated funds to launch a campaign by the International Rhino Foundation?

16 October 2007

16:55, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Southern black bream (pictured), a species endemic to Australia valued for its flavorsome and moist flesh, has a high tolerance to salinity and is of possible use for inland aquaculture in saline dams?
...that United States v. Binion upheld the conviction of a defendant who was found guilty of obstruction of justice for feigning madness in a competence-to-stand-trial evaluation?
...that the Schuster Building in Louisville, Kentucky was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a "significant example" of Colonial Revival architecture?
...that the medieval Noraduz cemetery contains the largest cluster of khachkars (stone crosses) in Armenia?
...that Russell Adam Burnham, the U.S. Army Soldier of the Year in 2003, became the U.S. Army Medical Command NCO of the Year in 2007?
...that bromopyruvic acid, a simple inexpensive chemical, is being studied as a potential treatment for cancer?
...that Rod Millen lost the 34 hour long Baja 1000 off-road race across the desert by 33 seconds, which is considered to be a photo finish?
...that Aramaean treaty-making in the first millenium BCE, as documented in the Sefire inscriptions, included loyalty oaths that invoked magical rites with curses to befall any violators?

08:09, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

...that John Pegram (pictured) was the first former U.S. Army officer to be captured while in Confederate service?
...that the Kerguelen Shag, a species of cormorant of the Kerguelen Islands, is the smallest species amongst Blue-Eyed Shags?
...that the Mahāvyutpatti is the first substantial bilingual dictionary known?
...that Princess Vera Konstantinovna was the last surviving member of the Romanov family who could remember Imperial Russia?
...that George J. Adams led an ill-fated effort to establish a U.S. colony in Palestine?
...that British MP Arthur Allen became Sir Stafford Cripps' assistant right after defeating Cripps' nephew in an election?
...that technology from 18th-century France and China was used to improve the economy of Mysore kingdom?
...that the city of Sapporo has the only beer museum in Japan?
...that in eighteen years, baritone William Walker performed over 360 times at New York's Metropolitan Opera?
...that one of the first discoveries of atmospheric neutrinos was made at India's Kolar Gold Fields?

01:20, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in 1966, Heinz Waaske created the smallest 135 film camera made to that date, the Rollei 35 (pictured)?
...that bibliographers determined that Edward Allde had printed early editions of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by comparing damaged type used in his other works?
...that in 1956, The New York Times ran a front-page story featuring Winston H. Bostick's "plasma gun"?
...that Louis Pienaar was the last Administrator-General of South West Africa before Namibian independence was declared in 1990?
...that despite sweeping the elimination round of the 2007 UAAP men's basketball tournament, the University of the East was still beaten by De La Salle University-Manila 2-0 in the finals series?
...that according to the U.S. landmark court case Rennie v. Klein, an involuntarily committed mental patient has a constitutional right to refuse psychiatric medication?
...that c.300, Egyptian alchemist Agathodaimon produced arsenic trioxide, an amphoteric oxide which he described as a 'fiery poison'?

15 October 2007

18:15, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Hogettes (pictured), a group of Washington Redskins fans who dress in drag and wear pig snout masks, have collected over US$100 million for charity since 1983?
...that the killing of a gay Marvel superhero by Wolverine led to the creation of the novel Hero, whose protagonist is a gay teenager?
...that a three-horse omnibus plied briefly between Dharmatala, a neighbourhood in Kolkata, and Barrackpore in November 1830?
...that the Kaiparowits Plateau in Utah contains fine details of bones, teeth, eggshells, and even tracks of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs and other animals?
...that Central Asia plus Japan is an ongoing dialogue between Japan and the Central Asian republics to promote regional cooperation?
...that Chicago City Council alderman Toni Preckwinkle has dissented against Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley more often than any other alderman in council votes?
...that Saint Olaf's Church in Novgorod was a church especially for Vikings who stayed in Novgorod, Russia?
...that only twenty Marines have received the Marine Corps Brevet Medal?

12:09, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Michael Crabtree making a leaping catch for a touchdown

...that after only six games in 2007, college football player Michael Crabtree (pictured) broke the record for most touchdown receptions in a freshman season?
...that Wildenstein Index Numbers are used to chronologically index works of art by specific artists?
...that the Łódź insurrection was one of the largest disturbances of the Russian Revolution of 1905?
...that an American Revolution-era cannonball fired at Saint Paul's Church in Norfolk, Virginia was later reinserted into its wall?
...that in 1975, British historian Marcus Binney founded a lobby group for the preservation of endangered historic buildings?
...that the fire tower on Hunter Mountain in the Catskills is the highest in New York?
...that Polish-American historian Jerzy Jan Lerski was a member of the cichociemni, a Polish elite commando unit, during WWII?
...that Amsterdam has a concentric belt of canals around it?
...that Jesse Bankston was fired as director of the Department of Hospitals for refusing to release the Louisiana Governor from involuntary commitment to a mental institution?

05:23, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

...that close studding (example pictured) of timber-framed buildings was a 15–16th century status symbol, due to its lavish use of timber?
...that Wang Wanxing is the only person to have been released from a Chinese Ankang asylum to a Western country?
...that itinerant minister Adam Payne was decapitated by a band of Potawatomi during the 1832 Black Hawk War?
...that the town of Sant'Oreste, Italy grew up around the site at which Saint Orestes was said to have been buried alive during the reign of Nero?
...that Zdzisław Peszkowski, one of the few Polish Army officers who survived the Katyn massacre, became a priest and preached forgiveness for the massacre's perpetrators?
...that Patrick Ivuti's photo finish victory in the 2007 Chicago Marathon, one of the five major marathons, was his first marathon victory?
...that in 1988, North Carolina politician Wendell H. Murphy was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine?
...that literary magazine Mundo Nuevo had to be abandoned by its founder because of a CIA scandal?

14 October 2007

23:16, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

...that gamma ray burst progenitors include massive, rapidly rotating stars that may explode as hypernovae (Eta Carinae pictured)?
...that Daniel Theron formed a military bicycle corps for the Boer Army, leading British Frederick Roberts to put a £1,000 reward on his head?
...that Seattle's Ballard Carnegie Library remains standing 44 years after it was sold, despite experts' claims that it would not survive an earthquake?
...that Hema Sardesai is the only Indian singer to have won the Grand Prix award at the International Pop Song Festival in Germany?
...that when Tungning forces under Koxinga captured Fort Zeelandia after a siege in 1662, they ended decades of European colonial rule in Taiwan?
...that Jack Daniels, a New Mexico politician, gave out Jack Daniel's whiskey at campaign events?
...that Bashful Brother Oswald took his stage name so that it would appear that an unmarried female member of his band had a family member accompanying her?

16:45, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

...Julius Kuperjanov (pictured), a partisan leader in the Estonian War of Independence, died in a successful assault in the 1919 Battle of Paju?
...that in the landmark case Erie v. Pap's A. M., the Supreme Court of the United States upheld an ordinance requiring some erotic dancers to wear nipple pasties and a G-string?
...that during the St. John's University strike of 1966–7, Jewish professor Israel Kugler sought an audience with Pope Paul VI to win his support?
...that in 1948, Frank W. Mayborn, a Texas newspaper publisher, cast the tie-breaking vote to certify Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's U.S. Senate nominee?
...that while Al Jaffee created the comics character Ziggy Pig, it was Stan Lee who named him?
...that the Randy Van Horne Singers performed the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons?
...that the megalithic Niedertiefenbach tomb in Hesse, Germany has at least ten discernible layers of burials from the New Stone Age?

09:54, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

...that archaeological finds from the German Glauberg plateau include a life-sized statue of a warrior (pictured) dating from around 500 BC?
...that former U.S. Representative Berkley Bedell left Congress in 1986 after contracting Lyme disease from a tick bite?
...that the New South Wales Court of Arbitration is claimed to be the first court devoted to resolving labour disputes in the world?
...that Ipi Tombe, a Thoroughbred racehorse, was sold for the equivalent of US$30 and went on to earn more than $1.5m in races on three continents?
...that William E. Metzger opened one of the United States' first automobile dealerships and co-organized Cadillac Motor Car Co?
...that Adriana Pirtea lost the 2007 Chicago Marathon to Berhane Adere when Adere slipped down the side of the street and crossed outside of the finish-line tape?
...that before becoming Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, Barthélemy Boganda was a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the French National Assembly?

03:42, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Rembrandt cut his 1661 painting The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis (detail pictured) to a quarter of its original size for easier sale?
...that the U.S. Forest Service airtanker scandal resulted in millions of dollars' worth of military aircraft being illegally transferred to private companies?
...that the Don Cesar beach resort in Florida is named after the title character in William Vincent Wallace's 1845 opera Maritana?
...that the 203 BC Battle of Utica was the turning point of the Second Punic War?
...that Wilf Wild was the first Manchester City manager to win the League Championship?
...that Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, the king of the Kingdom of Mysore in India, was also a collector and an inventor of board games?
...that Chapter XVI of the United Nations Charter declares that if there is a conflict between the UN Charter and any other treaty, the Charter will prevail?

13 October 2007

21:09, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

...that physicians have tried using Coca-Cola to disintegrate food stuck in the esophagus (pictured)?
...that the academic journal African Affairs was first published to commemorate the travels of the explorer Mary Kingsley?
...that the Solarium Augusti in ancient Rome was the largest sundial in history?
...that the Orthodox cave monastery in Bakota, Ukraine is said to have been founded by St. Anthony of Kiev?
...that Peter Paul Rubens produced a series of paintings depicting episodes from Marie de' Medici's life for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris?
...that former mayor of San Jose, California Ernie Renzel was called the "Father of San Jose International Airport" for his work in establishing the city's first airport?

15:10, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the tidewater glacier cycle describes the centuries-long cycle of alternating advances and retreats of fjord-carving glaciers (pictured) terminating in tidewater?
...that the Indo-Burma barrier, a 1,624 kilometer-long barrier between India and Burma, is being built to curtail gunrunning and illicit drug trafficking?
...that legally, a Mett, a preparation of minced pork popular in Germany, is not allowed to contain more than 35% fat?
...that in Orangeville, Illinois, four of the five Registered Historic Places: Union House, Masonic Hall, People's State Bank, and Central House are all within three blocks of each other?
...that Chinua Achebe's novel A Man of the People described a coup d'état so similar to the real circumstances of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi's rise to power in Nigeria that Achebe was suspected of knowing about the coup in advance?

08:49, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

...that John William Waterhouse's 1888 painting The Lady of Shalott (pictured), based on Alfred Tennyson's 1832 poem, portrays the Lady sailing towards Camelot and certain death?
...that the Shrapnel Valley Cemetery at Gallipoli is named after the distinctive sound produced by shrapnel in the area?
...that Jenna Bush's book Ana's Story, about a young woman with AIDS, has been criticized for not taking a stand on her father U.S. President George W. Bush's policies toward United Nations AIDS programs?
...that the government of Burmese Prime Minister U Nu was saved from a parliamentary no confidence vote in June 1957 by the communist Burma Workers and Peasants Party?
...that the works of poet Frank Messina include responses to the September 11, 2001 attacks, and poems about the New York Mets?

02:05, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the 1673 history of Cheshire by Sir Peter Leycester (pictured) questioned Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the Mainwaring family?
...that in the post-World War I business slump, Chicago meat packing magnate J. Ogden Armour lost a million dollars a day for 130 days?
...that the first ever Representative Assembly in 19th century British India was formed in the Kingdom of Mysore?
...that when John Sands excavated a ~2,000 year old building on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda he unearthed tools that the 1877 residents recognised?
...that the Niedermünster in Regensburg was the wealthiest and most influential house of canonesses in Bavaria?
...that least-squares spectral analysis is a method for estimating a frequency spectrum, based on a least squares fit between data and trigonometric functions?
...that the events surrounding the lynching of Joe Coe in Omaha, Nebraska in 1891 are said to foreshadow the lynching of Willy Brown 28 years later?
...that Dutch abstract artist Jules de Goede described his art by saying "A reflection of the world like it visually appears is not quite enough ... I try to show what is invisible"?

12 October 2007

19:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Gagarin's Start rocket launch site (pictured) at Baikonur Cosmodrome was used for over 400 space missions, including the world's first artificial satellite and the first human spaceflight?
...that C.W.W. Kannangara, Sri Lanka's first Minister of Education, made education free for all children in the country?
...that Clarence W. Wigington, the first African American municipal architect, designed four buildings in two cities that are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
...that Joe Keenan's 2006 novel My Lucky Star won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2007?
...that Joe Mitty launched the first Oxfam charity shop in the United Kingdom, in Oxford in 1949?
...that the 1945 sinking of USS Eagle 56 was classified as a boiler explosion until 2001 when historical evidence convinced the Navy to reclassify it as a combat loss due to enemy action?
...that 'Dus-rong Mang-po-rje acceded to the Tibetan throne in AD 676, when he was only six or seven years old?

13:07, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Vincent Thomas Bridge (pictured) was named after Vincent Thomas, a California State Assembly politician, in honor of his foresight and work during its construction?
...that the Great Wall of China has impacted the process of evolution in plants?
...that the reconstruction of the Saalburg, Germany's most completely reconstructed Roman fort, began under Kaiser Wilhelm II?
...that the 1832 capture and execution of Lucy and James Sample by burning was one of several minor attacks of the Black Hawk War?
...that Rizwanur Rahman was charged with abducting his wife by West Bengal police after her father disapproved of the marriage?
...that William Wordsworth's poem "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways", an ode to loneliness and loss, is more concerned with his own emotions on the death of an unrequited love, than with the death itself?
...that the U.S. state of Oregon has a rail network of over 2,400 miles?
...that Ethiopian Abebe Aregai saved his resistance from defeat by repeatedly misleading the Italian occupiers into thinking he was about to join their side?

03:49, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Astronomische Nachrichten, founded by H. C. Schumacher (pictured) in 1821, is the world's oldest extant astronomical journal?
...that the Mona Lisa is named for Lisa del Giocondo?
...that Quentin L. Cook is the latest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles?
...that the National Mint of Jubia was created in an attempt to counter a shortage of coin production in Spain during the Peninsular War?
...that Gavrinis, an island in the Gulf of Morbihan off the coast of Brittany, France, has a rich abundance of megalithic art from the New Stone Age?
...that Vernice Armour was the first female African-American combat pilot in U.S. military history?
...that the "van" in the name of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven is a remnant of his Flemish ancestry?
...that Ann Moore - the fasting woman from Tutbury was actually from Rosliston in Derbyshire and she had not eaten "for nearly five years"?
...that the Broomfield Rowhouse in Omaha, Nebraska was designed for a 1909 competition sponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine?

11 October 2007

21:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Sloan’s Urania (Urania sloanus) (pictured), a Jamaican day flying moth of the Uraniidae family, was last reported in 1894 or 1895?
...that railroad water stops contributed to the development of bass fishing in the 19th century United States?
...that Mir Geribert defied the Count of Barcelona for nearly two decades in the 11th century, even claiming the title of Prince of Olèrdola?
...that Emir Rodríguez Monegal had a cameo in Jorge Luis Borges's 1949 short story The Other Death?
...that Friedrich Hayek's assertion that price fluctuations are an essential part of the economy was initially rejected by his peers?
...that Finnish-American Klaus Nordling is best known for his work on comic books, including the 1940s masked crimefighter "Lady Luck"?
...that St. Trudpert's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Münstertal in the southern Black Forest, was plundered during the Peasants' War and destroyed by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War?
...that 17th century London printer Nicholas Okes printed the first quartos of Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello?
...that future space tourists may use the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination (Quid) as currency when traveling?

12:24, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Züschen tomb (pictured) and the Lohra tomb in Hesse, Germany, are prehistoric gallery graves belonging to the Late Neolithic Wartberg culture?
...that a person must be deemed competent to receive the death penalty in order to be executed, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ford v. Wainwright?
...that after his release from prison, Laurence McKeown, a former volunteer in the Provisional IRA who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, earned a Ph.D. from Queen's University Belfast and co-founded the Belfast Film Festival?
...that the Hillsboro Police was the first law enforcement agency in Oregon to collect demographic statistics from traffic stops to combat racial profiling?
...that the Michigan Wolverines are college football's most victorious program by total wins and percentage?
...that early Seattle real estate developer George Kinnear served as the Captain of the "Home Guard" that put down the city's Anti-Chinese riots of 1885–1886?
...that U.S. President Ronald Reagan timed his first proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion case?
...that despite a Nazi ban on all sports, soccer matches with hooliganism still occurred in Poland?
...that Isaac Jefferson was a valued slave at U.S. President Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation?

05:23, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

...that after the 1832 Native American attack at Ament's Cabin (pictured), a 16 year old boy was sent to Hennepin, Illinois by horseback for help?
...that "The fate of the language", a radio lecture in Welsh by Saunders Lewis on February 13, 1962, was the catalyst for the formation of the pressure group Welsh Language Society?
...that Tyolet is an anonymous 13th century Breton lai in Francien which shares elements with Chrétien de Troyes' Le Conte du Graal?
...that Outhwaite Park in Auckland, New Zealand, is named after early settlers, the Outhwaite family?
...that in 2000, Tony Blair established a commission to review how the British co-operative movement could be modernized?
...that Colonel William H. Wilbur of the United States Army received the Medal of Honor for attempting to arrange an armistice with Vichy French forces in Casablanca and then leading an assault on an artillery battery during Operation Torch?
...that the megalithic Altendorf tomb in Hesse, Germany contains bones from at least 235 individuals from the New Stone Age?

10 October 2007

23:35, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Pennsylvania's Kinzua Bridge (remnants pictured) was the world's longest and tallest railroad bridge when built in 1882, became a state park in 1970, and was knocked down by a tornado in 2003?
...that segregated seating known as ghetto ławkowe ("ghetto desks" or "ghetto benches") were introduced in Polish universities in the late 1930s, primarily for Jewish students?
...that the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island includes three books bound in human skin?
...that the Fehr Round Barn, the Otte Round Barn and the Harbach Round Barn are three of 21 round barns that were built in Stephenson County, Illinois during the early 20th century?
...that the Susukino district was established as a red-light district in Sapporo, Japan in 1871 to keep labourers in Hokkaidō?
...that most land south of latitude 40°S is part of the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom, with plant species that remain closely related despite their physical separation, dating back to the prehistoric southern hemisphere supercontinent of Gondwana?
...that English clergyman Ralph Tollemache gave his many children increasingly eccentric names, such as that of British Army officer Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache?

15:12, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health (pictured) is one of the most frequented religious sites in India, drawing nearly 2 million pilgrims annually?
...that in his book James the Brother of Jesus, Robert Eisenman contends that the Twelve Apostles were in fact an artificially expanded replacement of the factual smaller circle of the brothers of Jesus?
...that Nellie Farren was best known for her roles as the "principal boy" in burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre in London?
...that Simon Girty's son Mike called Potawatomi chiefs Waubonsee and Shabbona cowards when they opposed Sauk Chief Black Hawk in the 1832 Black Hawk War?
...that a dispute about S$60 has led to a court appeal amounting to over S$120,000 in legal costs?
...that moot hills in Scotland were mostly artificial mounds built as traditional meeting places for de facto lairdly courts and courts of law?
...that an Ivorian air attack in 2004 which killed 9 and wounded 37 French soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire prompted a retaliation that annihilated the Air Force of Côte d'Ivoire on the same day?

04:41, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

...that English opera singer and actress Florence Perry (pictured) was best known for her performances with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the late 19th century?
...that the Ephraim Smith House is the only unaltered Greek Revival rural house in Kane County, Illinois?
...that construction of the Brussels-Charleroi Canal was ordered several times over nearly 400 years before work finally began in 1827?
...that 16th century Scottish Bishop of Ross Henry Sinclair was simultaneously Lord President of the Court of Session, and was succeeded in that office by his brother, John Sinclair, Bishop of Brechin?
...that Lake Karla is the only lake in the plain of Thessaly?
...that South African rugby player Jannie du Plessis is both a physician and professional athlete?
...that Godfrey Howitt had to wait over ten years for his family to visit him in Victoria and in the same year he also played host to three Pre-Raphaelite artists?
...that the 13th century Prussian Crusade commanded by Hermann Balk led to the conquest and gradual Christianization of the Old Prussians by the Teutonic Knights?

9 October 2007

22:08, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Ebenezer Rhodes (pictured), Sheffield's Master Cutler, was declared bankrupt after losing money publishing books about Derbyshire?
...that Czech fighter pilot Otto Spacek survived three air crashes and won five Czechoslovak War Crosses during the Second World War, but then spent 40 years in exile in Canada after the Communists came to power?
...that Dykes on Bikes have regularly participated at gay pride events, such as Pride parades, Dyke Marches, and other LGBT events, such as the Gay Olympics, since 1976?
...that in the landmark decision United States v. Oppenheimer, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the common law principle of res judicata applies to criminal cases?
...that Chicago Police Department Police Commander Jon Burge was absolved of responsibility for police brutality and torture by statute of limitations after a $17 million investigation of 148 cases?
...that the first ever Ranji Trophy cricket match, played in the year 1933 between Mysore and Madras teams, is the only game in the history of the Ranji Trophy to have been completed in a single day?
...that Sting won a Grammy Award for the 1980 The Police instrumental "Behind My Camel" (as a band member) even though he didn't play on it, hated it, and even buried the tape of it in a garden?

15:16, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Akhtala monastery (pictured) was originally an Armenian Apostolic monastery that was converted into an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the 1200s?
...that Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee originally served as Florida's first penitentiary?
...that Nathaniel Butter published the first English newspaper?
...that the idea of spoofing Soviet radars' blip-to-scan ratio led to the design of the Convair KINGFISH and Lockheed A-12 high-speed aircraft?
...that the cuisine of Gibraltar includes Maltese, Genoese and Portuguese influences?
...that Naval Aircraft Factory PN flying boats were a series of US patrol aircraft in the 1920s and 1930s?
...that German physical chemist Max Volmer became head of a design bureau for the production of heavy water in the Soviet Union after the Second World War?
...that English biochemist Ernest Baldwin (1909 – 1969) was a pioneer in the field of comparative biochemistry?
...that Dutch 19th century scientist Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff was his country's War Minister for 10 months?
...that British farmer Sir Nigel Strutt, great-nephew of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Lord Rayleigh, declined an offer of peerage, as did his great-great-grandfather, Joseph Holden Strutt?
...that whether Gaius Stertinius Xenophon, a Roman physician, was involved in the death of Claudius is debated to this day?

08:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Espoo Cathedral (pictured) was built as a church in the 15th century but did not become a cathedral until 2004?
...that Richard Honeck, an American murder convict, was freed after serving 64 years of a life sentence, reputedly the longest prison term which ended in parole?
...that Singaporean Venerable Ho Yuen Hoe worked nineteen-hour days hairdressing for nearly thirty years, and used the money to open a nursing home at age 61?
...that both ancient and modern examples of Roman brick have similar proportions?
...that the 1½ km long Odori Park which bisects the Japanese city of Sapporo was originally intended as the city's main street?
...that Russian pastor Gennadi Kryuchkov led his illegal Baptist organisation for 20 years in the USSR while hiding from the KGB?
...that Dutch linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk published a Batak-Dutch dictionary to enable him to translate the Bible into Batak in 1861, and his posthumous trilingual Kawi-Balinese-Dutch dictionary was republished in English in 1971?
...that the EPA's lead and copper rule restricts allowable lead levels in drinking water to 15 parts per billion?
...that the first Swedish alphabet book, the Runa ABC, was mainly intended to teach the runic alphabet in an attempt to supplant the Latin one?

01:19, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Michelsberg culture of Neolithic Central Europe is known for its tulip-shaped pottery (pictured)?
...that R. C. Evans, an apostle in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, became the leader of a schismatic sect in 1918 after concluding that Joseph Smith, Jr. was a false prophet?
...that Major-General John Hill rose high as a courtier and officer in the British Army in the reign of Queen Anne, becoming Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance despite having no particular military ability?
...that Mary Howitt wrote "The Spider and the Fly" (the poem parodied in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) and 120 other books, and translated Hans Christian Anderson?
...that the National Bike Registry is a database in the United States that has helped to identify and return stolen bicycles and scooters to their rightful owners since 1984?
...that a tasting room for Twisted Oak Winery in Murphys, California is located in a building that was once the childhood home of Albert Abraham Michelson, the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Physics?
...that Apo Reef in Sablayan, Mindoro is the world's second-largest contiguous coral reef system and the largest in the Philippines?

8 October 2007

16:23, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

...that John Harrison (pictured), seventeenth century benefactor of Leeds, is reputed to have slipped Charles I a tankard of gold coins disguised as beer?
...that the 1955 novel Teneke by Turkish author Yaşar Kemal was adapted into an Italian opera of the same title by Fabio Vacchi in 2007?
...that the Chinese national basketball team is guaranteed of a berth in the upcoming Olympics despite finishing ninth in the FIBA Asia Championship 2007?
...that 16th century Indian musician-composer Miyan Tansen laid the foundations of Hindustani classical music by mixing Sufi and Bhakti musical traditions ?
...that the Hillsboro Civic Center was only the second city hall in America to earn an LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council?
...that some editions of Tom Wolfe's first published book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, quoted Kurt Vonnegut, "Verdict: Excellent book by a genius", but omitted the rest of his quote, "who will do anything to get attention"?
...that the Baal teshuva movement refers to the phenomenon that began during the mid-20th century, whereby large numbers of previously highly-assimilated Jews chose to move in the direction of practicing Judaism?

10:12, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the bluestripe snapper (pictured) was introduced to Hawaii in the 1950s as a sport fish, and now outcompetes native fish for space and food?
...that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, recently elected president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was a member of the Union of Communist Students in his youth?
...that the Freedman's Savings Bank, created in 1865 for emancipated African-Americans, had 19 branches in 12 states and assets worth $3.7 million at the height of its success?
...that the Building of Bath Museum was originally constructed in 1765 as a chapel for Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon?
...that Nils Alwall initiated the treatment for two of the longest known survivors on dialysis worldwide over 35 years ago?
...that Lord Canning wanted to build a port at Canning, now in West Bengal, that could rival Singapore but gave up when the Matla River surged its fury on the new port town in 1867?
...that "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker magazine, and its title a phrase still used around the world?
...that over 130,000 species of plants from Colombia have been described?

00:04, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Kalanchoe pinnata (pictured), a succulent plant native to Madagascar, has been recorded in Trinidad and Tobago as being used as a traditional treatment for high blood pressure?
...that the first drive thru in the United States is at Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop along U.S. Route 66 in Springfield, Illinois?
...that the Tsalenjikha Cathedral, a medieval cathedral in Georgia, is decorated with murals of Byzantine Palaeologan art from the 12th to 14th centuries?
...that English inventor Edward Butler produced an early three-wheeled automobile capable of travelling up to 10 mph, but was prevented from adequately testing it because it exceeded the legislated speed limit of 4 mph at the time?
...that although William Quesse was convicted of conspiracy in 1922, less than five years later his union was one of the most politically powerful organizations in Chicago?
...that Prince Dimitri Romanov is the first member of the Romanov dynasty to be married in Russia since its fall in 1917?
...that Reinald, a 13th century Cistercian monk and Bishop of Ross, was nicknamed Macer, French for "skinny"?

7 October 2007

17:48, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

...that White House Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery (pictured) in the Ypres Salient contains 1163 World War I burials, including Private Robert Morrow who won a Victoria Cross, and four men executed for cowardice and desertion?
...that the tamburi, the principal drone instrument in Carnatic music to this day, was introduced during the Vijayanagara era in India?
...that George P. Kane, Marshall of Police in Baltimore, Maryland, was imprisoned in Fort McHenry along with Mayor George William Brown and pro-South members of the city council by the Northern Army during the American Civil War?
...that Church of Scotland clergyman William Couper protested against the introduction of episcopacy in 1606, but became Bishop of Galloway four years later?
...that the Blackstone Hotel in Omaha, Nebraska introduced both the Reuben sandwich and Butter Brickle ice cream to the world?
...that Ali Murtopo laid down the party platform for Sekber Golkar, which was instrumental to the party's success in the 1971 legislative elections and the transition to the New Order in Indonesia?

10:16, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

...that notable former residents of Zwanenburgwal (pictured), a canal and street in the centre of Amsterdam, include Dutch painter Rembrandt and philosopher Baruch Spinoza?
...that American trade union leader William McFetridge switched from Democrat to Republican in 1948 and supported Thomas E. Dewey for president even though Dewey had successfully prosecuted his predecessor for labor racketeering?
...that Charles B. Thompson, who had converted to Mormonism in 1835, later claimed to be the reincarnation of the biblical figure Ephraim and established a communitarian commune with his followers in Iowa?
...that the legislator from Kultali was sentenced by the Kolkata High Court, in 2005, to life imprisonment in a case where a mob dragged two persons out of their house and tortured them to death?
...that every autumn more than 23,000 Common Cranes stop at Matsalu National Park in Estonia, making it the biggest autumn stopping ground of Common Cranes in Europe?
...that about 22% of all reported species of mammals in Colombia are endangered or critically endangered?

6 October 2007

23:47, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Emin Minaret (pictured) in Turfan, Xinjiang, built in the 18th century during the reign of Qing Emperor Qianlong, is the tallest minaret in China?
...that the once-standing Palmer Mansion in Chicago, Illinois, had a self-supported spiral staircase which rose 80 feet into a tower?
...that natural oil polyols from soy beans are used to make car parts and mattresses?
...that Dale Houston and his singing partner Grace Broussard, both performed as Dale and Grace while singing with other singers?
...that in 1986 the Basque coat of arms had one of its quarters removed following a legal suit by the Navarre Government claiming that the usage of the arms of a region on the arms of another was illegal?
...that Anne Montgomery, who has been a sportscaster for several local television stations as well as SportsCenter, was the first female football referee in Arizona?
...that in graph theory, a pseudoforest can contain trees and pseudotrees, but cannot contain any butterflies, diamonds, handcuffs, or bicycles?

17:31, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in April 1802, Georgian nobles who opposed the Russian annexation of Georgia were assembled in Tbilisi's Sioni Cathedral (pictured), surrounded by Russian troops, and forced to take an oath to the Imperial Crown of Russia?
...that the John R. Oughton House was used to house patients from the Keeley Institute, where over 400,000 people were treated for alcoholism with injections of "bichloride of gold" from 1879 to 1930?
...that Tikigaq Inuit children attending public school in Point Hope, Alaska can take a three-week whaling class to learn specific whaling traditions and skills?
...that Holmöarna, an island group in the Gulf of Bothnia, forms the largest island nature reserve in Sweden?
...that the design for the 1941 Art Moderne Illinois State Police Office in Pontiac was also used for the state police headquarters building in Rock Island, Illinois?
...that the seeds of Capparis masaikai found in Yunnan, China contain mabinlins, sweet-tasting proteins more than 100 times sweeter than sucrose on a weight basis?
...that Icelandic operatic soprano Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir, better known as Diddú, began her singing career in the 1970s with a folk and pop group?

11:09, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Singapore's Gallery Hotel (pictured), with its twisted cuboid form and seemingly random and multi-coloured windows, stands like a massive pop art signpost?
...that gold was first discovered in Oregon in 1850 in the Illinois Valley near Cave Junction, Oregon, the same valley in which a 17-pound gold nugget was found, the largest in Oregon history?
...that the ashes of hillwalker and author Alfred Wainwright lie in his favourite fell, Haystacks in the Western Fells of the English Lake District?
...that Romanian writer Dumitru Ţepeneag was a founding member of the Oniric group, an avante garde aesthetic movement, which tries to describe a world which cannot be seen?
...that the autobiography has been called the oldest form of Egyptian literature?
...that in April 1999, Australian Justice Carolyn Simpson joined Margaret Beazley and Virginia Bell to form the first all-female bench to sit in Australia, England or New Zealand?
...that singer Al Bernard, known as "The Boy From Dixie", helped popularize W.C. Handy's blues songs, and also recorded as the female half of a vocal duo with Ernie Hare?

5 October 2007

23:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Ambler's Texaco Gas Station (pictured) in Dwight, Illinois was the longest operating filling station along U.S. Route 66?
...that King Narasaraja Wodeyar II, who ruled over the Indian Kingdom of Mysore for a decade in the 18th century, was either mute or preferred to remain silent throughout his rule?
...that political donations in Australia up to $1500 were made tax-deductible in 2006?
...that Ethel Benjamin was the first woman in the British Empire to present a legal case in court?
...that a street corner in New York City is named after IRA member Joe Doherty, who was convicted in absentia for the murder of the highest ranking SAS officer killed during The Troubles?
...that Kelbessa Negewo was charged with murder in his home country of Ethiopia after one of the women who claims he tortured her discovered him working as a bellhop in an Atlanta, Georgia hotel elevator?
...that the arcade conversion of the 2001 video game Ballistics features a unique reclined seating cabinet?

15:45, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the First Texas Navy comprised four schooners: Brutus, Independence (pictured), Invincible and Liberty?
...that Cosa Nostra boss Gerlando Alberti, on his arrest in 1980, claimed that he thought that Mafia was a kind of cheese?
...that architect Frank Lloyd Wright's belief that banks should not "put on the airs of a temple of worship" is reflected in the design of the 1905 Frank L. Smith Bank?
...that Sam Ormerod was the first manager to gain promotion to the First Division, the highest level of English football, with Manchester City F.C.?
...that the Global Community Communication Alliance, an Arizona religious sect led by the New Age figure Gabriel of Sedona, has been compared by the media to the Heaven's Gate group?
...that Spanish soldier Manuel la Peña was widely regarded as incompetent, but rose to become Captain General of Andalusia in the Napoleonic Peninsular War?
...that wood paneling from the ruins of Colden Mansion in Montgomery, New York is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

03:13, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Victoria Mansion (pictured) in Portland, Maine was built in 1860 with many conveniences including wall-to-wall carpeting, central heating, hot and cold running water, gas lighting and a servant’s call system?
...that in 1924, the Calgary Tigers became the first ice hockey team from Calgary to compete for the Stanley Cup?
...that U.S. Route 70 runs across the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and can be closed several times per week for missile tests?
...that relative volatility in a liquid mixture of chemicals measures the difficulty of separating them by distillation?
...that Dr. John Stevenson, 18th century Scottish merchant and developer of Baltimore, was known as the "American Romulus"?
...that after hundreds of years of construction and use, few gunpowder magazines remain in the United Kingdom as gunpowder has not been manufactured there since 1976?

4 October 2007

20:04, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Black Kangaroo Paw (Macropidia fuliginosa; pictured), is a plant native to Western Australia and survives being burned to the ground?
...that NW Natural in Portland, Oregon was the first gas company in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States when it started in 1859?
...that Hampshire and England cricketer Derek Shackleton took over 100 wickets in 20 consecutive seasons of first-class cricket?
...that although William McFetridge retired as president of BSEIU in 1960, his successor, David Sullivan, fought him for control of the union until 1964?
...that Anglo-Sudanese entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim is offering a US$ 5 million prize, plus $200,000 a year for life, to an African leader whose term as head of state meets certain criteria?
...that David Quinn, a first-round selection in the 1984 National Hockey League entry draft, was forced to retire before turning professional due to being diagnosed with Christmas disease?
...that in 1901, Dombrau, a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic, was bought by a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria?

10:04, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Henry Fuseli's 1781 painting The Nightmare (pictured) portrays a contemporary folktale about lone sleepers?
...that British Member of Parliament Alfred Edwards, a Christian Scientist, campaigned to allow Christian Science Nurses to call themselves "Nurses" despite not being registered?
...that the Old Loggers Path, a loop hiking trail in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, uses old logging railroad grades and roads, and its trailhead is a lumber ghost town?
...that the inscription on the memorial stone of Ingram de Ketenis is the earliest known English inscription north of the River Forth?
...that Julius Joseph Overbeck was unable to be received into the Orthodox Church as a priest for his Western Rite project because he had married after his ordination as a Roman Catholic priest?
...that female bolas spiders attract moth prey by mimicry of sex pheromones?
...that Halotus was an Ancient Roman royal servant who, despite being a prime suspect in the poisoning of Claudius in 54 AD, was granted royal stewardship by Galba in 68 AD, even when the public was calling for his death?

01:18, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

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...that Man Enters the Cosmos (pictured) is one of four Henry Moore sculptures in Chicago, two of which are at National Historic Landmarks?
...that in 2002, two firefighting airtankers crashed after their wings came off in flight, revealing safety problems that led to the permanent grounding of almost the entire U.S. fleet of tankers?
...that the residents of Basanti and other deltaic islands in the Indian part of the Sundarbans thanked the French author Dominique Lapierre for the floating dispensaries he had provided?
...that the Hilton Hotels brand, Waldorf-Astoria, is attempting to expand its brand beyond the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, with new hotels such as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Residence Tower in Chicago?
...that Sir Edward Tomkins, British Ambassador to the Netherlands and then France in the 1970s, owned Winslow Hall, a house often attributed to Christopher Wren, for nearly 50 years?
...that diamonds have been known in India for at least 3000 years, but most likely 6000 years?

3 October 2007

19:17, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

...that an easy keeper (pictured) is a term used to decribe a horse, pony, or other equine that can live on relatively little food?
...that facilitating, or "grease" payments to foreign officials, unlike bribes, are lawful under U.S. law, but still considered to be questionable from the point of view of business ethics?
...that Aaron Sapiro, a Jewish-American lawyer and cooperative organizer in the farmers' movement of the 1920s, won a court case against Henry Ford for antisemitic comments in his book The International Jew?
...that Horseferry Road takes its name from a horse-ferry from The Embankment to Lambeth Stairs, once one of the most important Thames crossings in London, and which was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury?
...that the first gas works in the United Kingdom was built by the Gas Light and Coke Company, incorporated by Royal Charter in 1812 with a share capitalisation of £1m (approximately £9bn at today's prices)?

12:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Belgium's sillon industriel (steelmaking pictured) was the first fully industrialized area in continental Europe?
...that, prior to English physicist C.G. Darwin’s 1952 conception of man as a human molecule, in 1813 British chemist Humphry Davy had compared man to a "point atom"?
...that the song "Swanee" was written in ten minutes by George Gershwin and Irving Caesar, and sold over two million copies after being recorded by Al Jolson in 1919?
...that the May 1945 Battle of Kurylowka was one of the biggest clashes fought between the NKVD and Polish anti-communist resistance?
...that the French physician and agronomist Jules Guyot revolutionized the training of grape vines, and the Guyot-system is extensively used throughout vineyards in Europe?
...that Tom Jennings won the 1977 U.S. Open 14.1 Pocket Billiards Championship by coming back from a score of 196–42 to win by a score of 200–197, an event called the best comeback in billiards history?

2 October 2007

22:38, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Tornabuoni Chapel in Florence contains one of the largest fresco-cycles (pictured) in the city, with many details showing the life of Domenico Ghirlandaio's day?
...that fighting during the 1998 Six-Day War of Abkhazia actually lasted for more than six days?
...that actor Frederick Baltimore Calvert toured America lecturing on the English poets and then toured England talking about America?
...that the namesake for Hondo Dog Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, won an award for valor just weeks before being killed in the line of duty?
...that the Orthodox Church of France is a Western Rite Orthodox church that uses a restored Gallican liturgy known as the Divine Liturgy of Saint Germain?
...that the Italian invasion of Albania was launched by Benito Mussolini in April 1939 as a response to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, and was completed within five days?
...that players had to submit their turns by ZX Microdrive cartridge in the play by mail version of video game Dark Sceptre?
...that the 1999 Athens earthquake and the 1999 İzmit earthquake, which happened less than a month earlier, gave rise to the "Greek-Turkish earthquake diplomacy"?

15:35, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the International Plaza (pictured) is the tallest commercial building with residential apartments in Singapore?
...that labour law expert Ron McCallum is the first totally blind person to have been appointed to a full professorship at any university in Australia or New Zealand?
...that the Belgian French Community Holiday celebrates a victory over the Dutch army, while the Dutch speaking region's holiday celebrates a victory over the French army?
...that Korean independence activist Jang In-hwan used Arthur Schopenhauer's "patriotic insanity" defense when on trial for the murder of Japan lobbyist Durham Stevens, in San Francisco in 1908?
...that from 1985 through 2004, about seventy-five honey collectors from Gosaba and the surrounding areas of West Bengal were killed by tigers in the forests of Sundarbans, but none since?
...that an essential component for hillclimbing cars is named after racing driver Patsy Burt, who was once said to be a "waste of a beautiful motor car"?

07:52, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

...that many of the most famous Italian Renaissance artists were enlisted to provide temporary decorations for flattering allegories of a Royal Entry (example pictured)?
...that release of the award-winning film Lost in Beijing was delayed in part because censors insisted on removing a scene of a Mercedes-Benz driving through a puddle-filled pothole?
...that new bacterial species names are not considered valid until published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology?
...that three 500-goal scorers appeared on a single hockey team for the first time during the 2001–02 Detroit Red Wings season, helping the team to win their tenth Stanley Cup?
...that British Conservative MP Richard Hornby unsuccessfully challenged former Prime Minister and Labour leader Clement Attlee before securing a safe seat?
...that Teamsters president Dave Beck invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 117 times before a U.S. Senate investigating committee?

01:03, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Trowulan in Mojokerto, east Java, is surrounded by a huge archaeological site (pictured), and is believed to be the capital of the ancient Majapahit Empire?
...that two Dutch professors who lost an article written by Samuel Iperusz Wiselius were nonetheless to join him in forming the Batavian Republic in the Netherlands?
...that New World, the first and largest family-oriented amusement park in Singapore, was known for its striptease, cabaret girls, and wrestling matches during its heyday?
...that Dennis Spurgeon, formerly chief operating officer at uranium supplier USEC Inc., became U.S. Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy in 2006?
...that some of Frank Sinatra's recordings of the 1964 song "My Kind of Town" change the original lyrics to omit reference to the Union Stock Yard which closed in 1971?

1 October 2007

17:10, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in the late 17th century, the staveless runes (rune stone pictured) of Scandinavia were purported to be the origin of stenography?
...that the 1476 edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium by Flemish printer Colard Mansion was the first printed book with engraved illustrations?
...that Oregon pioneer Levi Scott is the namesake for a town, a valley, and a mountain, as well as the highest peak in Crater Lake National Park?
...that the play Charlie Victor Romeo has a script consisting of the almost-verbatim cockpit voice recorder transcripts from six real-life air disasters?
...that the 2001 GMAC Bowl set a record as the highest-scoring bowl game in college football history even before it went into overtime?
...that Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake is in six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day?
...that Silma Ihram decided to found Al-Noori Muslim Primary School in Greenacre, New South Wales after Presbyterian Ladies' College would not allow her daughters to wear hijabs in school?

06:02, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

...that musical theatre star Phyllis Dare (pictured) published her autobiography in 1907, but continued to perform in Edwardian musical comedy and on stage until 1951?
...that in 1921 the United States Department of State mailed out invitations for the Second International Eugenics Conference around the world?
...that under the 1557 Edict of Compiègne all those who travelled to Geneva or published books in this Protestant city could be put to death?
...that mountains are sometimes bombed to trigger small avalanches and thus prevent larger, more dangerous ones?
...that the three-month Great Tea Race of 1866 to bring tea to London from China almost ended in a tie?
...that the Tibetan Empire reached its greatest extent under Ralpacan's rule from 815 to 838 CE?
...that Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Nancy Montanez Johner has suggested changing the name of the Food Stamp Program?
...that The Victim, a 2006 Thai horror-thriller film, was shot on locations of actual crime scenes?