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30 April 2008
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- ... that American theater critic and historian T. Allston Brown (pictured) earned the title "Colonel" by riding on the back of a tightrope walker in a circus performance?
- ... that the endowment by Edmund Meyrick, a Welsh cleric and philanthropist who died in 1713, is still awarding scholarships to students at Jesus College, Oxford in England after nearly three centuries?
- ... that British author Bernard Newman, an authority on spies, gave more than 2,000 lectures throughout Europe during the Interbellum?
- ... that the February 4, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, in which nearly 4,000 people were killed and 15,000 homes destroyed, was also felt at Tashkent and Dushanbe?
- ... that Kenyan public health advocate Miriam Were and British biomedical researcher Brian Greenwood are the inaugural laureates of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize?
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29 April 2008
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28 April 2008
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- ...that the bronze of Mary (pictured) atop Mary Star of the Sea, known as the "Fishermen's Church," is lit at night so she can be seen from the Port of Los Angeles harbor?
- ...that a recent report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has shown an increase in felony waivers by U.S. military recruiters?
- ...that young shoots of the ornamental Australian tree Alphitonia excelsa give off an odour of sarsaparilla when broken?
- ...that Canada's largest dry-bulk shipping company, The Fednav Group, has a fleet of over eighty ships?
- ...that construction of the stupa of Giac Lam Pagoda was halted for 18 years after the Fall of Saigon?
- ...that Kikuchi lines, formed in diffraction patterns by diffusely scattered electrons, are useful tools in electron microscopy of crystalline and nanocrystalline materials?
- ...that unlike other sampradayas in Hinduism, which insist that the clergy lead an ascetic's life, the clergy in most Rudra sampradaya sects are expected to marry and live a worldly life with their family?
- ...that Mary K. Shell, the first woman mayor of Bakersfield, California, chided NBC's Johnny Carson for his jokes about "beautiful downtown Bakersfield" and invited Carson to visit the city to see its improvements?
- 12:34, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that Florentine law required the commissioning of unflattering frescoes, pittura infamante (representation pictured), on the exterior of the Bargello, of those found in contempt of court for financial offenses?
- ...that anti-German and anti-Chinese sentiments have motivated two riots in the history of Calgary?
- ...that the World Bank says that investment commitments in Chile's water and sanitation sector reached US$ 5.7 billion in 1993–2005?
- ...that gallery owner Victoria Miro described Jake Chapman—now famous for art which includes explicit and distorted mannequins—as an "adorable" baby sitter?
- ...that hexachlorobutadiene, a colorless solvent commonly used for chlorine-containing compounds, is a potent herbicide, but this use has been discouraged because it is too toxic?
- ...that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama refused to hand out street money, a political tactic common in Philadelphia, during the 2008 Pennsylvania primary?
- ...that Tuoba Gui, the prince of Northern Wei, crushed Later Yan forces at the Battle of Canhe Slope, leading to Later Yan's decline and Northern Wei's rise?
- ...that Julian Sturgis, the novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist, was the first American to play for the winning team in an English FA Cup Final in 1873?
- ...that environmental stress cracking accounts for around 15–30% of all plastic-component failures in service?
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27 April 2008
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26 April 2008
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- ...that the Long View Center (pictured) in Raleigh, North Carolina is used as a church, concert venue, office building, and art gallery?
- ...that Paul Auster's Leviathan is named after the biblical whale used by Thomas Hobbes as a metaphor for the State in his own book of that title?
- ...that from 1787 to 1793, American music printer John Aitken was the only publisher of sheet music in the United States?
- ...that the first ever tea in Russia was a gift from Mongolian ruler Altyn Khan to Tsar Michael I?
- ...that Ukrainian Nazis have been blamed for the 1944 Huta Pieniacka massacre of Polish civilians?
- ...that the National Library of Wales was established in Aberystwyth instead of the capital, Cardiff, partly because its founder regarded Cardiff as having "a non-Welsh population"?
- ...that Mahendralal Sarkar, an allopath-turned-homeopathic physician, was the founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, the first national science association of India?
- 15:51, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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- ...that the Our Lady of Atonement Cathedral (pictured), consecrated in 1936, is the largest Catholic church building in Baguio City?
- ...that after losing to Tiger Woods in the 1994 U.S. Amateur Championship, amateur golfer Trip Kuehne pursued a career in finance in lieu of professional golf?
- ...that San Sebastian Church, the only all-steel church in Asia, is threatened by rust caused by the salty sea breeze from nearby Manila Bay?
- ...that Lt. John Weston Brooke, a veteran of the Second Boer War and an explorer with the East African Syndicate, was the first Englishman to gain an audience with the Dalai Lama, in 1906?
- ...that the first U.S. patent, numbered X000001, was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1790 for "the making of pot ash and pearl ash"?
- ...that the inscription eulogising Kappe Arabhatta, a 7th century Chalukya warrior, records the earliest example of Kannada poetry metre Tripadi?
- ...that the court appointment of valet de chambre, nominally as a personal servant, was given to a wide range of artists, musicians, poets and others, including the first air crash fatality?
25 April 2008
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- ...that Kloster Wienhausen, a medieval convent in Germany (pictured), has the world's oldest surviving example of rivet eyeglasses?
- ...that sprinter Jaysuma Saidy Ndure holds both the Gambian and Norwegian records in both the 100 and 200 metres?
- ...that the Ellsworth Street Bridge in Albany, Oregon, was designed by Conde McCullough who was both a bridge engineer and an attorney?
- ...that Sarre Windmill was the first windmill in Kent to have a steam engine installed as auxiliary power?
- ...that at 15 years and 156 days, Albert Geldard became the youngest player to appear in The Football League in 1929?
- ...that Annie Armstrong, for whom the Southern Baptist Easter collection for domestic missions is named, resigned from the missionary organization she founded vowing never to serve the SBC again?
- ...that Magat Dam was at one time Southeast Asia's largest multipurpose dam?
- ...that in May 1899, less than 18 months after he led the Australian cricket team to an Ashes victory over England in 1897–08, Australian Test cricket captain Harry Trott was committed to a psychiatric hospital?
- ...that Platt Fields Park in Manchester, England, was used as a country park for over 400 years before being converted for public use in 1908–1910?
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24 April 2008
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23 April 2008
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- ...that the village of Denshaw in Greater Manchester (pictured) achieved international notoriety when spoof information added to its Wikipedia entry was reported in national and international media?
- ...that in his first major league appearance, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jim Nelson struck out Willie Mays and got Willie McCovey to hit into a double play?
- ...that although spoken by less than 18,686 people, the Kulung language has eight dialects and covers the "Mahakulung" ethno-linguistic area?
- ...that Juan Garcia Abrego, in 1995, was the first drug trafficker to be listed on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List?
- ...that in 2006 Austrian alpine style mountain climber Christian Stangl went up the northeast ridge route of Everest from Camp III (elev. 6,500 m) to the summit (elev. 8,848 m), alone and without an oxygen tank, in the record time of 16h 42min?
- ...that L. B. Henry of Pineville, overcame a missing forearm at birth to become a plumber-businessman and then a statewide figure in Louisiana parish government?
- ...that Wilf Hurd, a former member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, resigned less than a year after being re-elected?
22 April 2008
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- ...that Academy Award winner Going My Way was filmed at St. Monica's (pictured), and the irascible old Irish priest character was based on its pastor?
- ...that Lionel Monckton, the most popular musical theatre composer of the Edwardian period, after dropping into obscurity by the end of the 20th century, recently has had two albums of his music released?
- ...that over 25% of Brazil's electricity is generated by a hydroelectric plant at Itaipu on the Paraná River?
- ...that state senator Larry George sued Senate President Peter Courtney in an attempt to prevent an experimental session of the Oregon Legislature?
- ...that a Muslim fundamentalist beheaded a statue of the Virgin Mary at St. Augustine's and carted a statue of Father Serra to a nearby mosque in October 2001?
- ...that Vasyl Krychevsky, a Ukrainian artist, designed the state emblem of the National Republic at the request of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi?
- ...that Sheenboro, Quebec, started as a trading post on the Ottawa River and has retained its character as a "Little Corner of Ireland"?
- ...that John Percy Farrar recommended George Mallory for inclusion on the 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition to Mount Everest?
- ...that the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, founded in 1853, was edited for 68 years by the Lankester family?
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21 April 2008
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- ...that the Condemnations of 1277 at the University of Paris (pictured) are cited by historians as the birth of science, as they forced scholars to question Aristotle and think about the physical world in new ways?
- ...that Pullmantur Cruises is the largest Spain-based cruise line?
- ...that a diary attributed to Jose Enrique de la Peña claims that Davy Crockett surrendered at the Battle of the Alamo and was executed on the orders of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
- ...that Hurricane Cosme in 2007 helped relieve a persistent drought in Hawaii?
- ...that Cognos Reportnet is compatible with multiple databases including Oracle, SAP, Teradata, Microsoft SQL server, and Sybase?
- ...that Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln sent the Secret Service and Pinkerton's detectives to find and capture convicted embezzler Capt. Henry W. Howgate?
- ...that Moti Masjid, built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, was turned into a gemstone repository during the Sikh rule of Punjab?
- ...that archbishop Joseph Signay cited the man's poor eyesight to delay Michel-Édouard Méthot's tonsuring?
- ...that while James Howard was Mayor of Bedford in 1864, he entertained Giuseppe Garibaldi, who planted a Giant Sequoia that was later struck by lightning?
- ...that the Rab battalion was a Yugoslav partisans unit of Jewish survivors of Rab concentration camp?
- ...that George Steiner's 1975 book on language and translation, After Babel, was the first comprehensive study of the subject?
- 12:32, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that Emmy Noether (pictured) was called "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began" by Albert Einstein?
- ...that the Poughkeepsie Trust Company building has been described as the Hudson Valley's first modern skyscraper despite being only six stories high?
- ...that the Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway to Waltham, Quebec was completed in 1888, but not opened until 1894, stopped in 1959, and finally was removed in 1984?
- ...that despite being one of the strongest tropical cyclones to make landfall on Western Australia, Cyclone Glenda caused minimal damage and no deaths?
- ...that broken remains of three medieval high crosses were found in 1874 during the construction of Barnes Hospital in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, but the location of only one is known today?
- ...that the Delhi-Lahore Bus, a symbol of Indo-Pakistani friendship, continued running during the 1999 Kargil War?
- ...that actor Jason Beghe became best friends with John F. Kennedy, Jr. and David Duchovny when they attended Collegiate School in New York City?
- ...that Children At Risk, a Houston-based non-profit, publishes a biannual report, Growing Up In Houston, which tracks 130 Quality of Life Indicators?
- ...that the mine countermeasures ship USS Scout used her sonar to locate hazardous sunken debris off the Louisiana coast after Hurricane Katrina?
- ...that Chillenden Windmill was the last post mill built in Kent, replacing a mill that had blown down in 1868, and that it was itself blown down in 2003?
- 06:32, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that the gates (pictured) of Warrington Town Hall, Cheshire, erected in 1895, had been shown at the 1862 International Exhibition in London?
- ...that Reuben Gaylord, the recognized leader of missionary pioneers in Omaha City, Nebraska Territory, has been called the "father of Congregationalism in Nebraska"?
- ...that many gift books, decorative anthologies published annually just before the holidays to be given as gifts, featured popular authors of the day such as Dickens, Wordsworth and Poe?
- ...that Poughkeepsie's Market Street Row includes one of the oldest houses in the city?
- ...that the southern terminus of the first suburb-to-suburb commuter rail in the United States is Wilsonville Station in Oregon?
- ...that Richard Devlin, the majority leader of the Oregon State Senate, has faced Republican Bob Tiernan three times, in races for two offices?
- ...that despite being dominated by the military elite, the Guatemalan Institutional Democratic Party was ousted from power in 1978 by a military opposition?
- ...that film director Brett Simon taught film history, film theory and video production at the University of California, Berkeley while completing two degrees there?
- ...that the Nez Perce thought they gave nicer gifts to the Lewis and Clark Expedition than they received at a meeting in the Weippe Prairie in 1805?
- 00:31, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
20 April 2008
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- ...that Rev. D'Ewes Coke (pictured), colliery owner and philanthropist, was descended from Dr. George Coke (pictured), Bishop of Hereford who was charged with high treason?
- ...that Helen Yglesias, best known for writing the 1981 novel Sweetsir, died one day before her 93rd birthday?
- ...that New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain Merv Wallace has been called "the most under-rated cricketer to have worn the silver fern"?
- ...that the Fifteen Guinea Special, one of the last British Rail steam services before the steam ban of 1968, was so called because of the high prices from popular demand for it?
- ...that East German sprinter Sabine Günther won three gold medals in 4 x 100 metres relay at three different European Championships?
- ...that rugby union footballer Farah Palmer captained the Black Ferns to three consecutive Women's Rugby World Cup titles?
- ...that Harlow Row was named for and designed by a former mayor of Poughkeepsie?
- ...that Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, was founded in 1869 as a police camp?
- ...that anti-conscription activist Ivan Toms served as the only physician for approximately 60,000 people in a Cape Flats shanty town during South Africa's Apartheid era?
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19 April 2008
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- ...that Sans Pareil (pictured), one of five locomotives to compete in the 1829 Rainhill Trials, was later used on the Bolton and Leigh Railway?
- ...that A. V. Meiyappan produced India's first dubbed film, Harischandra, in 1944?
- ...that Cyclone Gamede in February 2007 was among the wettest tropical cyclones on record, dropping more than 5.5 metres (18 ft) of precipitation in a nine day period on Réunion island?
- ...that John Heisman, namesake of the Heisman Trophy, played for the Brown Bears before eventually transferring to the University of Pennsylvania?
- ...that the original specimen of the mauve splitting waxcap, a fungus from eastern Australia, found its way from Melbourne to Budapest but disappeared during the First World War?
- ...that there was an element of eroticism concerning death in Viking culture, and that the dead were often described as being received by a lady?
- ...that the world's largest factory trawler, the 144 metres (472 ft) long Atlantic Dawn, is able to process 350 tonnes of fish a day?
- ...that when St. Andrew's Church in Pasadena was built in the 1920s, it was compared to "a jeweled crown on the head of a Byzantine queen"?
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18 April 2008
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The church of St Mark in Vrba
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- ...that a pit crater (example pictured), unlike an impact crater, is formed by the ground sinking over a void such as an emptied magma chamber or caldera?
- ...that when Gui de Cavalhon besieged Castelnaudary in the fall of 1220 he requested assistance from friend and fellow troubadour, Bertran Folcon d'Avignon, in a poem?
- ...that river miles measure distances along a river from its mouth and are used to reference locations and to name islands?
- ...that the Rev. Teddy Boston was immortalized as "the Fat Clergyman" in The Railway Series of children's books by the Rev. W. V. Awdry?
- ...that Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino was the largest naval shipbuilding firm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
- ...that although Norman Rockwell felt Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Worship were the most successful of his Four Freedoms painting series, Freedom from Want has had the most enduring success?
- ...that Muhamed, a German horse, seemed to extract cube roots and tap out the answer with his hooves?
- ...that in 1933, Ed Walsh (Jr.), son of Hall of Famer Ed Walsh, stopped Joe DiMaggio's minor league record 61 game hitting streak?
- ...that the headquarters for Crater Lake National Park are in the Munson Valley Historic District near the summit of the Cascades where average annual snowfall is 533 inches (1,354 cm)?
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17 April 2008
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- ...that mineralogist George Switzer persuaded Harry Winston to donate the Hope Diamond (pictured) to the Smithsonian Institution, establishing the National Museum of Natural History's gem and mineral collection?
- ...that Douglas Hadow slipped on the descent after the first ascent of the Matterhorn, dragging Lord Francis Douglas, Charles Hudson and Michel Croz to their deaths?
- ...that some species of Vireo, a genus of passerines, bind their nests with spider silk and ornament them with spider eggs?
- ...that Hugh Daily, a pitcher with only one arm, once struck out 19 batters in a Major League Baseball game?
- ...that Bob Kames was given his stage name when an announcer on Armed Forces Radio could not pronounce his real name?
- ...that Section 171 of the Criminal Code of Cyprus, which prohibited homosexual acts between men, was repealed just eight days before a May 29, 1998 deadline set by the Council of Europe?
- ...that the Order of the Faith and Peace, founded by the Archbishop of Auch c. 1230 for the defence of the peace in Gascony, was patronised by Gaston VII of Béarn?
16 April 2008
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- ...that the portrait by Pontormo of Maria Salviati with the young Giulia de' Medici (pictured) is one of the first portraits in Europe of a child with presumed African and European ancestry?
- ...that the sound of fingernails scraping chalkboard may not be the world's most unpleasant sound?
- ...that the palm tree Ptychococcus lepidotus is used in the New Guinea highlands to make bows and arrows?
- ...that medieval Perpendicular Gothic Somerset Towers typically feature pinnacles, lacy tracery windows and bell openings, gargoyles, arches, buttresses, merlons, and external stair turrets?
- ...that the American mathematician Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler married a former professor, who was actually a Russian double agent named Sergei Degaev?
- ...that David Powel compiled and published the first printed history of Wales in 1584, which popularized the legend that Prince Madoc discovered America in about 1170?
- ...that Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Sidorenko, a World War II Soviet sniper, destroyed a tank and three tractors, in addition to killing five hundred Wehrmacht soldiers?
- ...that the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company was among the earliest and the last major electric streetcar systems in the United States?
- 11:41, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that the entrance to Neptune's Grotto (pictured) in Sardinia lies only around a meter (3 ft) above the sea, so the cave can only be visited when the waters are calm?
- ...that Fred Walker boosted sales of his new spread Vegemite, now an Australian cultural icon, by giving away free jars?
- ...that only about 10% of Brazil's water resources is located in the southeast, the agricultural and industrial heartland of the country, where 73% of the population lives?
- ...that revolution in the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Revolution, included a three-year-long school strike against the russification of the Polish educational system?
- ...that nationalists seek a Greater Nepal that extends into Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim in India?
- ...that Rondel was the first racing team founded by current McLaren chairman and CEO Ron Dennis?
- ...that British politician Jock Stallard was expelled from the Labour Party in the 1950s for flying the red flag from St Pancras town hall, but later served as a Labour MP and life peer?
- ...that Ermita are all namesakes for a character, a place, and a novel by Filipino author F. Sionil José?
- ...that the asymmetrical monoplane BV 141 is one of many military aircraft designed by Richard Vogt?
- 03:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that while Peover Hall in Cheshire, England (pictured), is a Grade II* listed building, its stable block is listed Grade I because of its elaborate internal architecture?
- ...that Max Weber argued that the increasing rationalization of human life traps individuals in an "iron cage" of rule-based, rational control?
- ...that Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, founder of the Mazdaznan religion, claimed to have been sent as a child to a secret society of Zarathustrians?
- ...that Royal Brunei Catering, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Brunei Airlines, was named as Best Regional Caterer 1995/1996 by Singapore Airlines?
- ...that Pei Guangting, a chancellor of the Tang Dynasty, traced his ancestry to officials serving several dynasties, including the Han Dynasty?
- ...that Abraham Esau was the head of the physics section of the Reich Research Council, Nazi Germany's centralized planning institution for almost all basic and applied research?
- ...that although the 1996 Tropical Storm Arthur made landfall in North Carolina, total damage amounted to only $1 million?
- ...that former Anglican clergyman and Liberal Party life peer Tim Beaumont was the only Green Party representative in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1999 until his death in 2008?
15 April 2008
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14 April 2008
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13 April 2008
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Monte Testaccio in the 19th century
- ...that Monte Testaccio (pictured) in Rome is an artificial hill, 35 m (115 ft) high and 1 km (3,300 ft) in circumference, consisting entirely of the fragments of 53 million ancient Roman amphorae?
- ...that the Blank family, the maternal ancestors of Vladimir Lenin, were relatives to Nazi field marshal Walter Model, archeologist Ernst Curtius, and President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker?
- ...that Charles Starr and Bruce Starr were the first father and son to serve at the same time in the Oregon State Senate?
- ...that William Thomas Havard, who was bishop of two Welsh dioceses (St Asaph, then St David's), once represented Wales in an international rugby union match?
- ...that, with an estimated 308,000 members as of 2005, the Bahá'í community in Kenya constitutes 1% of the country's population?
- ...that Naats'ihch'oh National Park Reserve takes its name from a Dene phrase meaning "stands like a porcupine"?
- ...that despite peaking at 38 in the UK Albums Chart, seven-year-old child singer Connie Talbot's debut album Over the Rainbow was rated gold in Britain shortly after its release?
12 April 2008
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- ...that Rear Admiral Ralph Christie (pictured) of the U.S. Navy was so incensed by the decision not to award Samuel Dealey the Medal of Honor, he sent a blunt message to Thomas Kinkaid that some viewed as bordering on insubordination?
- ...that in 1989, the Popular Front of Moldova was initially backed by a range of ethnic groups, but quickly lost support from Russian speakers and Gagauz?
- ...that Australian veterinary student Barry Larkin carried a fake Olympic Flame in the 1956 Summer Olympics as a protest, because he thought the flame was given too much reverence?
- ...that film producer Neil Kopp stood in as a location scout, location manager, assistant director and grip while filming Old Joy?
- ...that the second-largest mobile operator in Slovenia, Si.mobil, was one of the first worldwide to offer EDGE?
- ...that Jeremy Dalton was suspended, and later expelled, from the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus in the provincial legislature?
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- ...that Nathaniel Higginson (signature pictured), the first Mayor of Madras city and the second American-born President of Madras, was the son of Puritan minister John Higginson, a leading investigator in the Salem witch trials?
- ...that the Taipei Metro C301 cars were built in the former Otis plant in Yonkers, New York, which was the first elevator factory in the world?
- ...that the Biographicon aspires to be an online directory of biographies for "all the people of the world"?
- ...that after becoming Bishop of Brechin at the instigation of the Earl of Argyll, Alexander Campbell of Carco, still only a minor, handed most of his bishopric's lands over to the earl?
- ...that the 1937 Western fiction book Buckskin Brigades was Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's first published novel?
- ...that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, impressed with Zhang Jiazhen but forgetting his name, almost made Zhang Qiqiu chancellor instead of Zhang Jiazhen?
- ...that the Shoshone was the first of only two steamboats to be brought down through Hells Canyon, North America's deepest gorge, to the lower Snake River?
11 April 2008
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- ...that sailors use a tool called a needlegun (pictured) to remove old paint and corrosion aboard ships?
- ...that the Chronicle of Man claimed William Russell to have been the first Bishop of the Isles consecrated by the pope, even though he was not consecrated by the pope, and even if he had been, he would not have been the first?
- ...that the Danville 97s minor league baseball team name of 97s was selected as a tribute to the victims of the Wreck of the Old 97 train accident?
- ...that Banaag at Sikat, a novel by Lope K. Santos, was once considered the “Bible of Filipino laborers”?
- ...that the name of Lake Burrumbeet, a large but shallow eutrophic lake in Victoria, Australia, derives from the local aboriginal word burrumbidj, meaning "muddy or dirty water"?
- ...that The Guardian newspaper was founded 189 years ago in Manchester, England as a direct response to the Peterloo Massacre?
- ...that Adrianne Calvo is the youngest chef to have cooked for the United Nations?
10 April 2008
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- ...that Mid-State Regional Airport is a Keystone Opportunity Zone to promote economic growth, but, to protect the Pennsylvania state park and forest (pictured) it was formed from, cannot legally expand?
- ...that in 1998, the Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni, the first comprehensive Hopi language dictionary, was almost prevented from being published for fear of having non-Hopis learning the language?
- ...that real-life medical cases in the book The Medical Detectives, by Berton Roueché, inspired many of the medical mysteries on the television show House?
- ...that Johanne Sørensen became the first Bahá'í in Denmark in 1925, and the only Bahá'í in her country till 1947?
- ...that Moseley Wanderers represented Great Britain and Ireland at Rugby Union in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, winning the Silver medal despite losing their only game?
- ...that the US National Park Service is funding improvements to county road H-58, the main access road to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan?
- ...that the Madras Bank, India's oldest Western-style banking institution, was established in 1683 by William Gyfford, the Agent of Madras at the time?
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- ...that the Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood (pictured) is the oldest authenticated and extant work of Paolo Uccello?
- ...that when Norman Rockwell's model for his World War II Willie Gillis series enlisted, The Saturday Evening Post demanded that Rockwell continue the character?
- ...that seven whaling ships escaped the Whaling Disaster of 1871, but were forced to abandon their catch in order to accommodate 1,219 people from 33 other ships trapped in ice off the Alaskan coast?
- ...that Etta Palm d'Aelders, whose salon in Paris was frequented by Jean-Paul Marat, François Chabot and other prominent political figures during the French Revolution, might have been an agent for the Dutch government?
- ...that when the senior officials Yuan Qianyao, Song Jing, and Zhang Shuo were commissioned with new offices in 729, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang held an elaborate ceremony, with music and food from the imperial kitchen?
- ...that Polyandrococos, a genus of palm trees endemic to Brazil, is so named partly because of its hairy tomentum?
- ...that Alojz Rebula is a Slovene author who wrote extensively about the philosophy of Jacques Maritain?
- ...that natural gas in the Marcellus Formation could increase United States energy reserves by one trillion U.S. dollars?
9 April 2008
- 18:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that Gordon Dam (pictured), a 140-metre (460 ft) tall arch dam on the Gordon River, is the tallest in Tasmania, Australia?
- ...that the USS Mount Vernon, a control ship in the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, was destroyed off the coast of Hawaii in 2005?
- ...that New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky?
- ...that compression of the duodenum by the aorta and the overlying superior mesenteric artery may lead to nausea, bilious vomiting, abdominal pain and weight loss?
- ...that turquerie became popular in Europe and America primarily due to the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu?
- ...that as a result of a 1972 referendum, the boundary between time zones in British Columbia ended up being different from the provincial boundary?
- ...that the C-Leg microprocessor-controlled prosthetic leg records the motion of the user?
- ...that the Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology is the only research center in the world built on a coral reef?
- ...that among the effects of Hurricane Dennis in Georgia was the death of a Decatur man from a tree that fell on his bedroom?
- 12:47, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that Claire Clairmont (pictured) was the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley's posthumously published poem "To Constantia, Singing"?
- ...that the Gens de Terre River in Quebec, Canada, has a 25 km (15.5 mi) section with continuous whitewater while flowing through 25 m (80 ft) high cliffs?
- ...that in 1985, overflowing from the Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Dam in Sonora, Mexico resulted in the evacuation of 20,000 people?
- ...that books by the writer of romantic fiction Denise Robins sold more than one hundred million copies?
- ...that the barnacle Megabalanus can reach 7 cm (2.8 in) in length?
- ...that in 1128 Geoffrey, Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, became the first Abbot of Dunfermline?
- ...that nearly US$1 million worth of tickets were sold during the week following the first New York Times ad announcing Elizabeth Taylor's appearance in the 1981 Broadway revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes?
- ...that Thurston Rostron is the fourth-youngest player in the history of the England national football team?
- ...that the name of Mohrland, Utah was formed as an acronym from the surnames of the principal investors in its coal mining company?
- 06:24, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
8 April 2008
- 23:09, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
- 16:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
- 10:35, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that Robert Kennedy stayed at the Sportsmen's Lodge (sign pictured), formerly the "Hollywood Trout Farms", in Studio City, California the night before his assassination?
- ...that Lee Bible had no experience in driving at land speed record speed when he was hired to drive the White Triplex in an attempt to take the record back from Henry Segrave?
- ...that Don Starkell and his son Dana paddled from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Belem, Brazil by canoe, a trip covering more than 12,000 miles (19,000 km)?
- ...that in 1877 the 4,000-seat Queen's Theatre staged a spectacular and expensive production of The Last Days of Pompeii that flopped: the earth did not quake, the volcano did not erupt, and acrobats fell onto the cast?
- ...that the Islamic Emirate of Bari in Southern Italy was conquered in 871 by Frankish and Lombard ground forces under Louis II of Italy, together with a Croatian fleet?
- ...that Kot Filemon is the hero of a Polish animated TV series by Academy Award-winning studio Se-ma-for?
- 04:19, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
7 April 2008
- 21:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- 14:28, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that, instead of being displayed at the British Museum, the Warwick Vase (replica pictured), a Roman vase discovered at Hadrian's Villa in about 1771, was restored and preserved in a greenhouse at Warwick Castle?
- ...that despite inundating Omaha, Nebraska for more than 26 days the Great Flood of 1881 killed only two people there?
- ...that Moses, the first Arab Orthodox bishop, administered his duties while journeying with a nomadic confederation of Arabs in the fourth century?
- ...that Cuban First Lady Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista became a contributor to Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital while in exile in Florida?
- ...that during the English Civil War, the Crown Inn in Nantwich, Cheshire was used as a place of worship, as the church was used as a prison?
- ...that Alene B. Duerk, head of the Navy Nurse Corps, was the first woman in the U.S. Navy to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral?
- ...that some legislatures resort to literally stopping the clock in order to meet constitutional or statutory deadlines?
- 08:11, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- 00:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
6 April 2008
- 17:00, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that Chorley Old Hall, the oldest inhabited country house in Cheshire, consists of two ranges, one medieval (c.1300) (pictured), the other Elizabethan (mid-16th century)?
- ...that the traditional Scottish folk song Ye Jacobites by Name was re-written by Robert Burns around 1791?
- ...that Amaranthus brownii, an endangered species of pigweed endemic to the Northwestern Hawaiian Island of Nihoa, was discovered in 1923, but has not been seen in the wild for twenty-five years?
- ...that although Desmond Lardner-Burke, Minister of Justice in Rhodesia, died in the 1980s, his name appeared on the electoral roll for the Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008?
- ...that mutations of the ATN1 gene result in dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, a neurological disorder with diverse problems as dementia, ataxia, seizures and obstructive sleep apnea?
- 10:10, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- 01:49, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
5 April 2008
- 19:04, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that Claire Clairmont blamed Lord Byron for the death of their daughter Allegra Byron (pictured)?
- ...that scientists are unsure why Lake Phalen, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is home to a population of rainbow darters, a fish normally found in fast-moving streams?
- ...that 50 years after winning A£100 in a fridge-decorating competition, Australian artist Robert Dickerson commands from A$80,000 for a painting today?
- ...that approximately half of the distributed water in Ghana is lost as non-revenue water due to leakage and illegal connections?
- ...that the Comer Strait in the Canadian Arctic, and the Gallinula comeri, the flightless moorhen of Gough Island, were both named after whaling Captain George Comer?
- ...that Ince Manor and Saighton Grange Gatehouse are the only two surviving monastic manorial buildings in Cheshire, UK?
- 11:08, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- 03:59, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
4 April 2008
- 20:57, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
- 13:21, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that the earliest known portrait of Frédéric Chopin, painted by Ambroży Mieroszewski in 1829 when the composer was nineteen (pictured), was lost in the opening days of World War II?
- ...that Saint Paul, Minnesota was once known as "Pig's Eye"?
- ...that during the Third American Karakoram Expedition's attempt to climb K2, Pete Schoening saved the lives of six falling climbers?
- ...that Flora Sandes, who served with the Serbian Army, was the only British woman to officially enrol as a soldier in World War I?
- ...that Sara Larraín, who finished in fifth place in the 1999 Chilean presidential election, was a founder and the first director of Greenpeace in Chile?
- ...that the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland both set rainfall records in 1950?
- ...that Mary Meader, best known for taking more than 1,000 aerial pictures, was also a major philanthropist, once giving US$4 million to Western Michigan University?
- ...that Chai Trong-rong, a Taiwanese legislator, was unable to return to Taiwan while studying abroad because he was placed on the Kuomintang's black list?
- 06:18, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that the parents of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini gave him the middle name "Amilcare" in honour of the revolutionary anarchist Amilcare Cipriani (pictured)?
- ...that Myrialepis paradoxa, a species of palm trees native to Southeast Asia, is used to make thatched baskets?
- ...that, on a per capita basis, foreign aid donated by Saudi Arabia is one of the highest in the world?
- ...that at a cost of US$7.9 billion, Meghna Bridge in Bangladesh is the single largest project with Japanese assistance in the world?
- ...that Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia released her first recording the same year as her brother Caetano Veloso, even though he was four years older?
- ...that in a Maranao myth, the Agus River was constructed to prevent Lake Lanao from becoming an ocean?
- ...that the Malay kite, a model of kite used for hundreds of years in the Far East and introduced to the West in 1894, provided the inspiration for the now widespread and popular "Eddy" kite design?
- ...that Portland, Oregon–based evangelical minister Luis Palau has collaborated with government leaders, and 500 Christian pastors, to rally volunteers to address homelessness?
3 April 2008
- 23:52, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that troco (pictured), also called "trucks" or "lawn billiards", is a traditional English lawn game played with wooden balls and long-handled cues at the ends of which are spoon-like ovals of iron?
- ...that the Colonel Wright was the first steamboat to run on the Snake River?
- ...that at the height of Wally Phillips' radio career, roughly half the entire Chicago listening audience, or about 1.5 million listeners, tuned into his show?
- ...that at the Council of Acre in 1148, the decision was made to attack Damascus, leading to the failure of the Second Crusade?
- ...that Scottish actor Russell Hunter was so concerned about being identified with "Lonely", the anxious, smelly sidekick he played in the 1960s spy series Callan, that he took pains to smell nice?
- ...that of the twenty-five clipper ships owned by the Loch Line, which operated between the United Kingdom and Australia, seventeen were lost at sea?
- ...that Pasquale Condello of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, recently captured by Italian police in February 2008, was previously sentenced in absentia to four life prison terms plus another 22 years in jail?
- 16:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
- 10:08, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that American showman Michael B. Leavitt (pictured) staged the anti-Mormon play The Danites in the Mormon capital, Salt Lake City, Utah, as a publicity stunt?
- ...that Lytocaryum weddellianum, an endangered species of palm trees endemic to Brazil, may be saved from extinction as it has become a common potted plant in Europe?
- ...that the ancient Egyptians set up hundreds of ka statues in Abydos so the dead could participate in religious festivals?
- ...that the decision of a Pennsylvania provincial court in 1764, The King v. Haas, is one of the first attempts to apply the writ of habeas corpus in the Thirteen Colonies?
- ...that when Masashi Kishimoto was creating the characters of the Naruto manga, he used other shōnen manga as references, including Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball?
- ...that the former Australian Supreme Court justice and barrister, Sir John Vincent Barry, qualified as a lawyer after graduating from an articled clerk course?
- ...that the yellow livery of the German postal service was decreed by the Allied Control Council in 1946?
2 April 2008
- 18:34, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
- 12:14, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that the fire and explosion of SS Fort La Monte wrecked the nearby Royal Navy destroyer HMS Arrow (pictured)?
- ...that John Latenser, Sr., an early architect in Omaha, Nebraska, designed more than 12 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places?
- ...that Michigan State University, which gave technical assistance to South Vietnam from 1955 to 1962, provided cover for the CIA?
- ...that the globe in the initial release of the NT$1,000 fifth series of the New Taiwan Dollar banknote was mirror-reversed?
- ...that the Hatfield Government Center light rail station in Hillsboro, Oregon, was the busiest on the Westside MAX extension within a year of opening?
- ...that Giampietro Campana financed his collection of Roman sculpture, Greek vases and Etruscan and Greek gold jewelry in part by embezzling money from the Papal pawnbroker?
- 06:02, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
- ...that at less than 11 feet (3.4 m) wide, the Skinny House (pictured) is the narrowest house in Boston, Massachusetts?
- ...that the fact that no one has been arrested for the murder of Indian ex-parliamentarian Ehsan Jafri is seen as evidence of government complicity?
- ...that Stone Bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia was so steep, that in the 19th century bus passengers had to disembark in order for the bus to go over it?
- ...that attractions at Indianapolis, Indiana's White City Amusement Park included baby incubators and a Mount Vesuvius reenactment?
- ...that the Veterans for Peace erect a memorial called Arlington West every Sunday at Santa Monica Beach consisting of a cross in the sand for each U.S. military person who has died in the Iraq War?
- ...that since as early as the 10th century, Nabulsi soap, a traditional olive oil-based soap, has been exported across the Arab world and even to Europe?
- ...that prior to screening The Round-Up in Cannes, in order to appease the Hungarian government, director Miklós Jancsó had to declare the film was not an allegory of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956?
- 00:01, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
1 April 2008
- 13:01, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
- 03:02, 1 April 2008 (UTC)