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31 January 2008
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- ...that Kasztanka, Polish Marshal Józef Piłsudski's favorite combat mare, (pictured) was stuffed upon her death in 1927 and after World War II was destroyed allegedly on the orders of Piłsudski's enemy, Marshal Michał Rola-Żymierski?
- ...that Colorado state representative Victor Mitchell secured state funding for Project Lifesaver programs that would provide tracking bracelets for the cognitvely impaired?
- ...that Independent Learning Centre started the Railway School Car Program in 1926, in which a teacher lived in a train car that traveled to students in isolated Northern Ontario communities?
- ...that the Allied force which landed on Morotai in September 1944 was over a hundred times larger than the Japanese force defending the island?
- ...that Dr. Frederick Madison Allen prescribed a "starvation diet" for patients at his Physiatric Institute, the leading way of prolonging lives of diabetics in the days before the isolation of insulin?
- ...that Dell Comics issued contemporaneous comic books featuring the ABC network's 1961 TV series, Follow the Sun?
- ...that so far, 350,000 people have been relocated in Turkey by dam projects carried out by the State Hydraulic Works, and 250,000 more will be affected in the future?
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30 January 2008
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- ...that University of Michigan elocution professor Thomas Trueblood (pictured) received nationwide attention when the Chicago Tribune reported in 1903 that he was offering a new "course in love making"?
- ...that the Australian Ambassador to Chile, Crispin Conroy, once proposed marriage to Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala?
- ...that Son Goku, a German rock band, is named after the protagonist of the anime series Dragon Ball Z?
- ...that both Augustus and Eleftherios Venizelos exiled opponents to the Cyclades?
- ...that with little prior experience, South Korean actress Kim Ok-bin was given a leading role in her first film, Voice, and was nominated for "Best New Actress" at the Blue Dragon Film Awards?
- ...that through the opening of the Thomson MRT Line and Eastern Region MRT Line by 2020, Singapore's rail network density will rise from 31 km per million residents today to 51 km per million, surpassing what Hong Kong and Tokyo currently have?
- ...that Half-Breed Tracts were set aside for people of Mixed Blood descent in several U.S. states, including Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin?
29 January 2008
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- ...that the Contracts House (pictured), located in Kiev, Ukraine, was visited by writers Honoré de Balzac, Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, and poets Adam Mickiewicz and Taras Shevchenko?
- ...that during World War II, the Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze survived four major fleet actions against the American, British, Australian and Dutch fleets, but was sunk after colliding with a Japanese cruiser?
- ...that Scotland's North West Highlands Geopark contains some of the oldest rocks in Europe and the site of a famous geological controversy?
- ...that British MP Ronnie Campbell accidentally supported National Fetish Day due to his thinking that the word "fetish" meant "worry"?
- ...that Cliff Keen's tenure as Michigan’s wrestling coach (1925-1970) was the longest of any coach in any sport in NCAA history as of 1991?
- ...that Séon Carsuel, Scottish Protestant reformer, Bishop of the Isles and author of the first book to be printed in any Goidelic language, was over seven foot tall?
- ...that Salisbury Cathedral School was founded over 900 years ago by a saint?
- ...that Dorothy Canning Miller was the first professionally trained curator of the Museum of Modern Art?
28 January 2008
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27 January 2008
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- ...that the US Navy's Haskell class attack transports Meriwether (pictured), Tazewell, Natrona, Okaloosa, Oneida and Rawlins all participated in only one battle - the invasion of Okinawa in 1945 - before being collectively struck from the Naval Register on the same day in October 1958?
- ...that the ceremony marking the Japanese surrender of Timor on 11 September 1945 was held aboard HMAS Moresby?
- ...that 24-year old Alondra de la Parra was the first Mexican woman to ever conduct a concert in New York City?
- ...that Al Hoisch of UCLA returned a kickoff for 103 yards and a touchdown at the 1947 Rose Bowl, a record that still stands as of the 2008 game?
- ...that William Fawcett, a character actor in B-films and television from 1946 to the early 1970s, held a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and was a drama professor at Michigan State University prior to the start of his acting career?
- ...that the adobe house that is the centerpiece of the Alviso Adobe Community Park in Pleasanton, California, was built in 1854 and continuously in use until 1969?
- ...that the Garrison Union Free School in New York traces its origins back to 1793?
- ...that Count John A. Creighton was ennobled by Pope Leo XIII in recognition of his contributions to Creighton University, the Catholic community in Omaha, and the city of Omaha in general?
- 14:35, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- ...that the Cleveland Cliffs ore dock (pictured, similar one at Ashland, Wisconsin) at Marquette, Michigan has been used to ship over 400 million tons of iron ore in the over 95 years since it was built?
- ...that the US Navy's Haskell class attack transports Montrose, Renville, and Okanogan all saw action in three major wars – World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War?
- ...that the village of Selworthy was rebuilt by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland in 1828 as a model village for the aged and infirm of his Holnicote Estate?
- ...that former child actor Richard Eyer, who played the boy who runs "afowl" of the goose in William Wyler's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, is now an elementary school teacher in Bishop, California?
- ...that 1985 NCAA hurdling champion Thomas Wilcher won the Michigan High School Athletic Association team track & field championship three consecutive times, both as an athlete and a coach?
- ...that after winning three medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a 16-year-old, Anita Nall retired from competitive swimming in 2000 due to chronic fatigue syndrome?
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26 January 2008
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25 January 2008
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- ...that Hungarian company Zsolnay (its fountain pictured), known for its manufacture of decorative tiles, became the largest company in Austro-Hungary prior to WWI?
- ...that the poisonous mushroom Russula emetica, commonly known as "the sickener", is hoarded and eaten by the Red Squirrel?
- ...that preselection is the process by which a candidate is selected, usually by a political party, to contest an election for political office, an example being the United States presidential primary?
- ...that the Belgian cartoonist Karl Meersman was at first disqualified from a drawing contest at age thirteen, because the jury did not believe his drawing had been created by a child?
- ...that The Drug Years, a documentary chronicling illicit drug use in the United States, features never-before-seen film of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' acid-fueled bus trip across America in 1964?
- ...that Ian Browne and Tony Marchant won the tandem track cycling at the 1956 Olympics after being eliminated?
- 08:12, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
- ...that the Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument (pictured) in Hart County, Kentucky is unique for being built with geodes, and for honoring a Louisiana soldier who died accidentally by his own rifle?
- ...that Mayor Frank E. Rodgers served 48 years as mayor of Harrison, New Jersey, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-serving mayor in United States history?
- ...that James A. Forbes planned to build the first flour mill in California, but delays in construction allowed competitors to flourish, driving down prices and forcing him into bankruptcy?
- ...that for a pure wave motion in fluid dynamics, the Stokes drift velocity is the average velocity when following a specific fluid parcel as it travels with the fluid flow?
- ...that Jack Brod was the last remaining original tenant of the Empire State Building, New York City, at the time of his death in 2008?
- ...that Earnshaw Cook performed his early baseball statistics calculations with a mechanical calculator and slide rule, the latter of which resides in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum?
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24 January 2008
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- ...that the 1937 film Natalka Poltavka (poster pictured), directed by Vasyl Avramenko, was the first Ukrainian language film produced in the United States?
- ...that Entoloma sinuatum was implicated in 10% of mushroom poisonings in Europe in the mid-20th century?
- ...that Walter Bowart was a proponent of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, the writer of a seminal book on mind control, as well as a prolific publisher and editor of both newspapers and magazines?
- ...that in the process of carbonic maceration, which is used to produce Beaujolais wine, fermentation takes place inside the individual grape berry?
- ...that William Larkin was identified as the Jacobean era portraitist formerly known as "The Curtain Master" by art historian Roy Strong?
- ...that 250,000 kilometers (150,000 miles) of roads complement air, pipeline, hiking trail, and waterway travel to provide transportation in Saskatchewan?
- ...that straight pool champion "Cowboy" Jimmy Moore earned his nickname by appearing at a professional tournament wearing the required tuxedo, but nevertheless sporting cowboy boots and his signature white Stetson hat?
- 12:02, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
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- ...that Clem Hill (pictured), batting with Roger Hartigan against the 1907–08 England touring team at the Adelaide Oval, set an Australian Test cricket record partnership for the eighth wicket which stands to this day?
- ...that the Italian wine Orvieto was historically made with noble rot, but, unlike other botrytized wines such as Sauternes, the fungus was introduced after harvest in humid storage caves?
- ...that Iranian dutar player and vocalist Qorban Soleimani is credited with inventing a new form of the ancient Azeri stringed instrument the gopuz?
- ...that the Alvin C. York Institute in Tennessee, which opened in 1929, was established as a private agricultural school by World War I hero Alvin York?
- ...that Scott Shafer, hired in January 2008 as the Michigan Wolverines defensive coordinator, started in football as a high school and college quarterback in Ohio?
- ...that London's Army and Navy Club stands on a site once partly occupied by the house of the actress Moll Davis, a mistress of King Charles II?
- ...that the Right Revd Graham Charles Chadwick served as a naval intelligence officer in World War II and was expelled from South Africa for anti-apartheid activism?
23 January 2008
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- ...that St. Elizabeth's Church (pictured), constructed in memory of a Russian princess, is the only Russian Orthodox church in Wiesbaden, Germany?
- ...that the director of the 1981 Spanish film Deprisa, Deprisa (English: Hurry, Hurry!) was accused of paying his cast in hard drugs?
- ...that Academy Street was part of Poughkeepsie's first planned neighborhood?
- ...that Prince Esper Ukhtomsky's account of Nicholas II's Eastern tour, Travels in the East of Nicholas II, was written in close consultation with the Tsar himself?
- ...that after his father told him to "Get out and make a living and don't ask me for a dollar!", James Rand, Jr. founded American Kardex, which purchased his father's company five years later?
- ...that the German Renaissance castle Schloss Brenz now regularly hosts concerts?
- ...that intelligence analyst Richard Barlow was fired for claiming that the Pentagon had falsified information about weapons of mass destruction in 1989?
- ...that the British First World War general Sir William Peyton served as Delhi Herald of Arms Extraordinary at the Delhi Durbar of 1911?
- 09:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
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- ...that opera singer Jessie Bartlett Davis (pictured) volunteered to pay for the publishing of the parlor song "I Love You Truly", the first song written by a woman to sell one million copies?
- ...that the Felixstowe Fury was a five-engined triplane flying boat that crashed in 1919, the day before a planned 8,000 mile (12,900 km) flight from England to South Africa?
- ...that the South Korean film The Host was recognized as Best Picture at the 1st Asian Film Awards, held in 2007?
- ...that Othniel Charles Marsh named two species of the dinosaur Coelurus from the same quarry, not knowing that the bones belonged to the same skeleton?
- ...that the Weekly Arizonian, first published in 1859, was Arizona's first newspaper?
- ...that annual construction of the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in Switzerland takes three weeks, fifteen ice workers, 5,000 m³ of snow, and 4,000 m³ of water?
- ...that members of the Appalachian Volunteers were charged with sedition in 1967 for plotting the violent overthrow of Pike County, after the group's successful efforts led to closure of a Kentucky coal mine?
- ...that American swimmer Nancy Merki began swimming at age 8 after contracting polio, and set three national swimming records at age 13?
22 January 2008
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21 January 2008
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- ...that the Texas Tower lighthouses (one pictured) were based on the design of off-shore oil platforms?
- ...that Joan Ingpen and her pet dachshund Williams were the founding partners of the Ingpen & Williams classical music talent agency?
- ...that the last ever train on the Plymouth to Launceston line failed to complete its journey on 29 December 1962 due to heavy snow?
- ...that British Conservative MP Sir Adam Butler called in the receivers at the De Lorean Motor Company while serving as minister for economic development in Northern Ireland in 1982?
- ...that Przemysław I Noszak, Duke of Cieszyn unsuccessfully tried to negotiate peace between England and France fighting the Hundred Years' War?
- ...that City Academy High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota, became the first charter school in the U.S. when it opened its doors to 30 students on September 7, 1992?
- ...that neurologist Michael Ashby, an expert witness for the prosecution in the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams, was widely blamed for its failure because his evidence was too indecisive?
- ...that Victoriatown, a Canadian village bulldozed by the Montreal government in preparation for Expo 67, was used as a setting for Ha Jin's award-winning novel, Waiting: a Novel?
- ...that, after helping enact abstinence-only sex education as a school board member, Colorado state senator Scott Renfroe attempted to amend statewide comprehensive sex ed standards to exempt schools in his native Weld County?
- 15:37, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
- ...that the Mosque of Omar (pictured) is Bethlehem's only mosque, named after the Caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab, who prayed at the location of the mosque?
- ...that Alyosha Karamazov, the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, is based on Vladimir Solovyov, a Russian philosopher and poet?
- ...that none of Louisville's fortifications for the American Civil War were ever used, as Louisville was never endangered while they existed?
- ...that the German architect Walter Gropius visited Peru in order to attend a graduation ceremony at the National University of Engineering Faculty of Architecture?
- ...that in 1824, the Kentucky General Assembly responded to a disfavorable ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals by abolishing the court and replacing it with a new one?
- ...that James A. Martin was the world's oldest Jesuit priest at the time of his death at the age of 105 in 2007?
- ...that preservationists moved the Boscobel mansion 15 miles (24 km) up the Hudson River to save it?
- ...that after being convicted of first-degree murder in 2007, Jason Coday headbutted his own attorney in a Juneau, Alaska, court?
- ...that the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, founded in 1914 as part of the Smith-Lever Act, is the largest Cooperative Extension Service agency in the U.S.?
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- ...that Charles Le Gendre (pictured), was born in France, married in Belgium, but died an American general in 1899, working for King Gojong, Emperor of Korea?
- ...that during the 1917 Kazan Gunpowder Plant fire, its manager Vsevolod Luknitski died after flooding explosives with water, in order to save the whole city from a major explosion?
- ...that a large coastal defense gun was temporarily installed at Oregon's scenic Cape Perpetua during World War II?
- ...that of the members of Australia's Quietly Confident Quartet that won the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Olympics, Mark Tonelli, Mark Kerry and Neil Brooks were either suspended or expelled by the Australian Swimming Union while Peter Evans refused coaching orders to train harder?
- ...that the St. James-Belgravia Historic District of Louisville, Kentucky, the site of the 1883-87 Southern Exposition, has buildings modeled after London's Belgravia?
20 January 2008
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19 January 2008
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- ...that dhakis (pictured), traditional Bengali drummers, allegedly kill more than 40,000 egrets, pheasants, herons and open bill storks every year to decorate their instruments with feathers?
- ...that British Conservative politician Sir John Loveridge published poetry and exhibited paintings and sculpture after serving 13 years as a member of Parliament?
- ...that the Aboriginal Community Court is an Australian court which aims to reduce the overrepresentation of aboriginal criminal offenders in the justice system?
- ...that because of Canada's controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow, 428 All Weather Fighter Squadron of the RCAF was disbanded on June 1, 1961?
- ...that New York Giants quarterback Harry Newman threw the first touchdown pass in an NFL Championship Game 75 years ago in the 1933 NFL Championship Game against the Chicago Bears?
- ...that less than two months after showing what would become the dress of the season for Spring 2006, Roland Mouret split from his backers and took a two-year hiatus from the fashion industry?
- ...that when San Francisco–based photographer William Rulofson fell to his death, he was heard to have exclaimed, "I am killed"?
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18 January 2008
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17 January 2008
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16 January 2008
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- ...that on August 5, 1893, Cub Stricker (pictured) of the Washington Senators baseball team was arrested after intentionally throwing a baseball into the crowd that broke the nose of a fan?
- ...that Adelaide Johnson, sculptor of a memorial to women's suffrage in the US Capitol, was married in 1896 by a female minister, with two of her busts as bridesmaids?
- ...that the Directa Decretal (385 AD) was a strongly-worded letter by Pope Siricius reminding priests of the perpetual celibacy required of them?
- ...that graphic artist Rea Irvin's portrait of Eustace Tilly, a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle, appeared on the debut issue of The New Yorker in 1925, and annually each February until 1994?
- ...that the vote by Stanley Forman Reed to join the majority in Brown v. Board of Education made the ruling unanimous, helping to win public acceptance for the decision?
- ...that two teenage brothers from Poland escaped in 1985 to Sweden under a truck, and this event was presented in a 1989 film 300 Miles to Heaven?
- ...that the landmark 1924 case Tournier v National Provincial and Union Bank of England clarified English law on the obligations that a bank has to protect the confidentiality of its customers?
- ...that the supermassive black hole at the center of the quasar OJ287 has been measured to be 18 billion times the mass of the Sun, six times heavier than the previous record holder?
- ...that Karachi’s Lyari River is the major contributor to the annual discharge of 200 million gallons of sewage and Industrial waste into the Arabian Sea?
- ...that Cliff Friend co-wrote "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", the theme tune of the Looney Tunes cartoon series?
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15 January 2008
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- ...that Robert Peake the Elder worked in the Office of the Revels under Elizabeth I before being appointed "Serjeant Painter" to James I, a role in which he was responsible for portraits of Prince Henry (pictured)?
- ...that years after Adolph Spreckels shot M. H. de Young, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (which he donated) and the De Young Museum merged to form the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco?
- ...that three different Somali government organizations have sold rights for oil exploration in Puntland in the last three years?
- ...that under the guidance of civil engineer Eugène Belgrand, Paris's sewer system expanded four-fold between 1852 and 1869?
- ...that one of the classifications used in proxemics is the classification of spaces into sociofugal or sociopetal spaces (the names being analogues of the words "centrifugal" and "centripetal")?
- ...that as well as being the only contemporary anthology of 17th century Scottish Gaelic verse, the Fernaig manuscript is written in a form of English orthography unique to the author?
- ...that Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, which ran on CBS from 1956–1961, had five spin-off series, the most successful having been Chuck Connors' The Rifleman, which ran on ABC from 1958–1963?
- ...that writer Ngaire Thomas was forced at the age of 15 to apologise in front of 600 members of her church congregation for "fornicating" with her cousin, when in fact she had only kissed him?
- ...that Peter de Villiers was named coach of South Africa's national rugby union team, the Springboks, in January 2008, the first ever black coach of the team?
- 14:32, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
- ...that the largest private home in the U.S. in 1790, Hampton Mansion (pictured), was occupied by the same family until 1948 and is the first national historic site selected by the U.S. National Park Service for architectural significance?
- ...that Louisville's Eleven Jones Cave is the only known location for the Louisville cave beetle, Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes?
- ...that "Big" Alma Spreckels once successfully sued an ex-lover for "personal defloweration"?
- ...that the church of Hagia Thekla in Constantinople, now a mosque, was rebuilt by Emperor Isaac I Komnenos as thanks for surviving a hunting accident?
- ...that the six episodes of the Japanese original video animation series FLCL were produced by the FLCL Production Committee, which included Gainax, Production I.G, and Starchild Records?
- ...that Hurricane Henri of 1979 was only one of four tropical cyclones in the 20th century to enter the Gulf of Mexico and not make landfall?
- ...that Alameda Street was built by Los Angeles County, California as a "truck boulevard" to the port?
- ...that Jeffrey Miles, a chief justice in Australia, once heard a case in which a woman sought damages for losing the opportunity to work as a prostitute following a fall in a supermarket?
- ...that American lyric soprano Helen Jepson was first soprano on the original recording of Porgy and Bess?
- ...that Böttcherstrasse in Bremen, Germany, is an unusual ensemble of expressionist architecture?
- 04:08, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
- ...that Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's Grande Odalisque (pictured) is thought to be painted with between two and five vertebrae "too many"?
- ...that at age 13 Susy Clemens wrote a biography of her father Mark Twain that was included in his posthumously published work, Chapters from my Autobiography?
- ...that the Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court heard the first Australian criminal prosecution of a bank for failing to protect its employees from armed holdups by improving safety at branches?
- ...that Towson (Md.) Methodist Church's membership split in two for 90 years after a dispute over the American Civil War?
- ...that Capitol Offense, the rock band of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, has opened for REO Speedwagon, Percy Sledge, Willie Nelson, and even Grand Funk Railroad?
- ...that Lorenzo Sawyer was the first judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit?
- ...that the main house of the Thaddeus Hait Farm is built of wood and stone, an unusual combination in a Federal style building?
- ...that Blessed Veronica of Milan unsuccessfully tried to teach herself to read until an apparition of the Virgin told her that spiritual lessons were more important?
- ...that Hurricane Ava was the first Pacific hurricane flown into by NOAA aircraft?
- ...that since its original completion in 1972, the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Oberhof, Germany has undergone three separate renovations?
14 January 2008
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- ...that the Frauenfriedenskirche (pictured) at Frankfurt am Main (Germany) is an unusual expressionist church, decorated with monumental mosaics?
- ...that two new amphibious warfare ships of Australia to be added to the nation's fleet starting in 2012 will each be able to carry an entire infantry battalion and up to 16 helicopters?
- ...that The Expert at the Card Table, one of the most famous books on magic and card tricks, was written in 1902 by S. W. Erdnase, an author whose identity has been an enduring mystery for over 100 years?
- ...that Robert Campbell Reeve, the founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways, set a new world record for the highest landing of a ski equipped aircraft at 8,750 feet (2,667 m) on Mount Lucania in 1937?
- ...that the Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque in Istanbul features a cypress tree with a chain that was swung between two people who gave contradictory statements to determine which one was telling the truth?
- ...that William Melmoth's 1711 work The Great Importance of a Religious Life Consider'd went through thirty editions and sold over 420,000 copies by the end of the century?
- ...that Polly Horvath's award-winning 2001 children's novel Everything on a Waffle tells the story of Primrose Squarp, an 11-year old girl whose parents are lost in a typhoon?
- ...that Hurricane Greg caused one of Mexico's highest rainfall totals from a Pacific hurricane?
- ...that the original land deed requires that a jail cell from the original Dutchess County courthouse be preserved in the current building?
- ...that the Nepalese Maoist Newar National Liberation Front sponsored the 'Miss Newa' beauty pageant despite having previously demonstrated against it?
- 14:37, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
- ...that William Hogarth's The Distrest Poet (pictured) depicts a very poor family living in a squalid garret while the man of the family, who pursues a literary career in disregard of his family's poverty, attempts to write a poem entitled "Upon Riches"?
- ...that London's historic United University Club (1821-1972) is now occupied by the London Centre of the University of Notre Dame?
- ...that Francisco de Quevedo's 1626 novel El Buscón, a major work of Spanish literature, was published without the permission of the author?
- ...that Operation Camargue, one of the largest operations of the First Indochina War, failed to snare the Viet-Minh's Regiment 95?
- ...that in 1920, George Shima was dubbed "The Potato King" as he controlled 85% of California's potato market?
- ...that Think!, the Jeopardy! theme song by show creator Merv Griffin, has earned over $70 million in royalties since it debuted in 1964?
- ...that Vereniging Basisinkomen is an organization that advocates granting all Dutch residents a guaranteed minimum income?
- ...that Mike Trinh, an American attorney who represents a Guantanamo detainee on a pro bono basis, studied under Viet Dinh, author of the Patriot Act?
- ...that Le chemin de fer, a piano composition by Charles-Valentin Alkan, is the first musical depiction of a railway?
- ...that Hugh Denis Macrossan was one of Queensland's shortest serving chief justices, a post also held by his brother and his nephew?
- ...that Catherine O'Flynn's mystery novel What Was Lost won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards?
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- ...that Cyclone Inigo (pictured) caused more casualties before forming than after?
- ...that R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck wanted to produce Uncle Tupelo's album March 16–20, 1992 after seeing the band perform a cover version of the Louvin Brothers' "Great Atomic Power"?
- ...that American mathematician and classical pianist Leonard Gillman received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953, a decade after completing the required coursework?
- ...that the captain of the steamboat Natchez would increase his boat's speed by putting bacon and hog fat in its engines, and giving his men whiskey?
- ...that Pachycheilosuchus, an Early Cretaceous crocodile relative, was less than a meter (3.3 ft) long and had an armored neck?
- ...that the Hebrew term Illui, meaning genius, refers to Talmud scholars held in the highest regard?
- ...that Traffic in Towns, a 1963 report by the UK Department of Transport, warned of damage to town centres by car traffic, and offered solutions to the problem?
- ...that as part of the redesign of the Grand Staircase in the Truman-era White House, architect Lorenzo Winslow developed a series of maquettes, detailed scale models showing the proposed designs?
- ...that the current Australian prime minister and treasurer both attended Nambour State High School?
- ...that even as he embarked on a 24-year career in the U.S. Congress, William Alden Smith oversaw construction of the Grand Rapids, Kalkaska and Southeastern Railroad?
- ...that the Noric language is attested in only two inscriptions, one from Grafenstein, Austria, and the other from Ptuj, Slovenia?
- ...that New York City's General Motors Building sold for the record high price of $1.4 billion in 2003?
- ...that Hermann Göring's chief art looter, Bruno Lohse, controlled a secret vault of looted paintings, discovered in Zurich in May 2007?
- ...that the Rural City of Marong, a local government in Victoria, Australia, voted itself out of existence in 1994?
13 January 2008
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- ...that the Poughkeepsie YMCA building (pictured) is the only one in the city using glazed terra cotta?
- ...that Doris Day rejected an offer to star in the 1957 biopic The Helen Morgan Story with Paul Newman, refusing to portray the sordid story of a character that conflicted with Day's on-screen persona?
- ...that the Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna Kingdom led to all the remaining royal descendants becoming nuns and monks in holy orders?
- ...that Sir Christopher Chancellor was selected to lead the Reuters news agency in 1944, after keeping the agency's reporting from China operating during the seven years following the Japanese invasion?
- ...that the BBC have used Appreciation Index ratings to gauge reactions of children to their programming?
- ...that the French flying boat Breguet 730 was designed in the 1930s, but didn't enter service in the French Navy until after the end of World War II due to the German occupation of that country?
- ...that, before building the landmark Gandy Bridge, George Gandy was known for building a large successful theatre, originally derided as "Gandy's White Elephant"?
- ...that Bruce Barton, in his bestselling 1925 book, The Man Nobody Knows, portrayed Jesus as "the founder of modern business"?
- ...that despite dropping out of a screenwriting course at university before graduating, Christopher B. Landon went on to write the box office hit film Disturbia?
- ...that Spanish officer Félix María Calleja del Rey was named "Count of Calderón" after leading his outnumbered forces to victory at the Battle of Calderón Bridge in the Mexican War of Independence?
- ...that Eric John Underwood spent 30 years researching the effects of sulphur, botulism and the nutritional value of hay on sheep at Avondale Agricultural Research Station?
- 13:57, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
- ...that the large hanging nest of the Yellow-throated Scrubwren (pictured) is used by the Golden-tipped Bat as a daytime roost in the forests of Eastern Australia?
- ...that the Maniot pirate, Limberakis Gerakaris, was twice held as a prisoner by the Ottomans and spent the last fourteen years of his life as a Venetian prisoner?
- ...that freestyle swimmer Kim Peyton, a gold medalist at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, won a gold medal at the 1971 Pan American Games at age 14 and set three U.S. swimming records at ages 9 and 10?
- ...that the influence of Ancient Greece on wine has played a formidable role in the history of nearly every major European wine region and of wine itself?
- ...that Eric Clapton's guest appearance playing lead guitar on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was uncredited?
- ...that the Anglo-Bavarian Brewery, constructed in Somerset in 1864 and now designated as an historic site, was the first brewery in Britain to produce lager?
- ...that Paul Worley, a Grammy Award-winning country music record producer and guitarist, got his start in the 1970s playing guitar for Janie Fricke and Eddy Raven?
- ...that the Canal de Marseille, built in 1849, is an 80 kilometres (50 mi) canal which runs through Provence to bring water from the Durance to Marseille, in France?
- ...that David O. Selznick acquired the rights to make 1957's A Farewell to Arms from Warner Bros. by trading the foreign rights to remake A Star Is Born that Selznick owned and Warner needed?
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12 January 2008
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- ...that the hull of the kettuvallams, Kerala houseboats, (pictured) are built of wooden boards tied together by coir rope?
- ...that despite not being the most favored version of the three Mazda AZ-550 concept cars unveiled at the 1989 Tokyo Motor Show, the "Type A" ended up being selected for production?
- ...that the Tuanku Ja'afar Cup was a cricket tournament contested by the national sides of Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand from 1991-2004, and was won by Hong Kong in 9 of the 14 competitions?
- ...that French physician Edme Castaing is thought to have been the first person to commit murder using morphine, 18 years after it was discovered?
- ...that Nicholas de Balmyle, former Chancellor of Scotland, became Bishop of Dunblane in 1307 when he was likely in his 70s, but nevertheless lived on to hold the position for at least another 12 years?
- ...that the Cascade Locks and Canal, completed in 1896 to allow the steamboats of the Columbia River to bypass the Cascades Rapids, were submerged in 1938, when the Bonneville Dam was constructed?
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- ...that the construction of the Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial (pictured), commemorating over 250,000 Turkish soldiers who participated in the Battle of Gallipoli in WWI, was completed with nationwide financial contributions?
- ...after years of studying airflow at supersonic speeds, Adolf Busemann suggested that aerodynamicists, who had forgotten his swept wing work until they got together again during Operation Paperclip, need to become 'pipe fitters'?
- ...that Earl Bakken who invented the wearable cardiac pacemaker and co-founded Medtronic also created The Bakken, the world's only library and museum devoted to electricity in life?
- ...that the Hoornbeek Store Complex in Napanoch, New York reflects the transition from the Federal style to Greek Revival in American architecture?
- ...that the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Wheeler that the Constitution alone did not give the government of the United States the authority to prosecute kidnappers?
- ...that Tom Wolfe left Farrar, Straus and Giroux, his publisher for 42 years and 13 books, to make a deal with Little, Brown and Company for his forthcoming novel Back to Blood?
- ...that the Ladies' Confederate Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky was described by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as "the most perfect thing of its kind in the South"?
11 January 2008
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- ...that during World War II, No. 233 Squadron RAF (pictured) lost four aircraft out of a total of twenty-four supply flights flown at the end of D-Day, June 6, 1944?
- ...that 19th century magician and vaudeville star Anton Zamloch was accused, and then exonerated, of having "bewitched" a woman's wedding ring from her gloved hand?
- ...that in the 1783 Peace of Paris, the Dutch Republic granted to Great Britain unobstructed navigation rights in the eastern seas?
- ...that Australian poet and writer, Dame Mary Gilmore recorded her childhood memories of the dispossession of the Wiradjuri people and the destruction of native habitat by European settlers around Wagga Wagga?
- ...that in 1957, Art Houtteman was called "a pitcher of considerable promise" by Hal Lebovitz despite playing in his 12th and final Major League season that year?
- ...that the Workers and Peasants Party leader K.N. Joglekar successfully moved a resolution that the Indian National Congress should demand full independence for India?
- ...that the 1980s oil glut caused the world price of oil, which had peaked during the 1979 energy crisis at over US$35 per barrel, to dip below US$15 in the early 1980s?
- ...that a former principal of Tubman Elementary School in Washington, D.C. received a national award for her work which included a discipline program featuring a due process system for punishment referrals?
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- ...that the tropical marine fish razorbelly scad (Alepes kleinii, pictured) has a complicated taxonomic history in which the species has been described and named no less than seven times since 1793, including twice re-classified in 1833?
- ...that Humphrey Chetham founded Chetham's Library, the oldest public library in the English-speaking world?
- ...that Tiefland, Leni Riefenstahl’s last full-feature film, made it into the Guiness Book of World Records on account of its long production time?
- ...that Reeve Aleutian Airways was started with a down payment of $3,000 on one DC-3 aircraft, and that Robert Campbell Reeve, the founder, earned enough money in 53 days to purchase the aircraft outright and buy another three aircraft?
- ...that the sitcom pilot Free Agents is likely to become the third show from Channel 4's Comedy Showcase to be given a full series?
- ...that the East End Historic District in Newburgh, New York, has the most contributing properties of any Registered Historic District in the state?
- ...that the site of Endymion's cave, where Selene's beloved sleeps forever, a sanctuary on the slopes of Latmus, still exists in Aydin Province, southwestern Turkey?
- ...that two local Christians stopped by the dedication ceremony for Spring Glen Synagogue's Torah scrolls and presented the congregation with a Bible?
- ...that the BMW R1150GS motorcycle was used by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on their 2004 Long Way Round ride from London to New York?
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- ...that San Martín Pajapan Monument 1 (pictured), a large Olmec statue of a young lord raising the axis mundi under supernatural protection, was found near the peak on an extinct volcano?
- ...that the Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad was also known as "The Sole Leather Line"?
- ...that football midfielder Evan Berger was nominated for an informal Australia Day award by his local council for representing Australia in the national under-20 team?
- ...that the unofficial representative of Soviet Russia in the USA, Ludwig Martens, created an illegal Soviet Bureau that established links with more than one thousand American firms including J.P. Morgan banks?
- ...that although Were Ilu served as an organizing point for the Ethiopian army at the beginning of the First Italo-Abyssinian War, as late as 1962 this settlement was connected to nearby towns by only trails?
- ...that the drowning of Edwin, son of Edward the Elder, half-brother of King Athelstan of England, in 933 was described as an execution and a suicide by medieval English historians?
- ...that after losing the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in Japan's 1868 Boshin War, Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu took refuge on the USS Iroquois rather than spend the night in Osaka Castle?
- ...that All-American end Ed Frutig was the main pass receiver for Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon from 1938-1940?
- ...that Bury Castle in Greater Manchester was razed to the ground in 1485, 16 years after it was built, because its owner supported the losing side in the Wars of the Roses?
10 January 2008
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- ...that the Cross of Valour and the Star of Courage (pictured) are the two highest ranks of Canadian Bravery Decorations?
- ...that with a rapidly declining birth rate, Japan's elderly, with the world's highest proportion at 20% of the population, is expected to double to 40% of residents by 2055?
- ...that although Hillary Clinton has fewer delegates than John Edwards to the state convention of the 2008 Iowa Democratic Caucuses, she would receive one more to the national convention?
- ...that Storm 91C of 2006 has been classified a tropical, subtropical, and extratropical cyclone?
- ...that the actors in the film Planet of Dinosaurs had to sign partial payment deferments on their contracts, because most of the budget was spent on stop motion dinosaurs?
- ...that the kitchen of the Conde-Charlotte House was originally constructed in 1822 to be the first courthouse and jail of Mobile, Alabama?
- ...that George the Hagiorite from Georgia who became Saint George to the Georgian Orthodox Church had his biography written in 1084 by a disciple who was called George?
- ...that before brick became available as a building material, churches in medieval Northern Europe were commonly built with glacial erratics and rubble?
- ...that in only his second Major League start, Dick Selma threw a New York Mets franchise record 13 strikeouts in a 10-inning shutout victory?
- ...that Bombardment of Algiers, an oil-on-canvas by Thomas Luny, depicts the titular battle in which over 1000 Christians were liberated from slavery in Algeria?
- ...that Job Charnock landed at Jorabagan, Sutanuti ghat in 1690, which is believed by many to be the starting point of the metropolitan growth of Kolkata?
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- ...that Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the doors of All Saints' Church, Wittenberg, Germany (pictured), in which he is also buried?
- ...that painter Herman Rose was noted for his Impressionistic portraits, created by painting large numbers of small blurry squares to create his highly detailed images of cityscapes?
- ...that Vorpostenboot, the patrol boats that the Kriegsmarine used in World War II, were in fact modified fishing ships?
- ...that the Japanese role-playing game Night Wizard! was adapted into an animated television series consisting of thirteen episodes?
- ...that Bunscoill Ghaelgagh is the only primary school that teaches only in the Manx language?
- ...that the Little Guilin in Singapore is given its name because of its resemblance to the scenery in Guilin, China?
- ...that Winston's Hiccup refers to the huge zigzag in Jordan’s eastern border with Saudi Arabia, supposedly because Winston Churchill hiccuped as he drew the boundary of Transjordan after a generous and lengthy lunch?
- ...that the Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder, founded in 1926, was the first coed Scout association in Germany, and that they had strong ties to Scouts in the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Scandinavia?
- ...that Sir James Hutchison, known as the "Pimpernel of the Maquis" for his liaison work with the French Resistance, was so well known to the Gestapo that he had plastic surgery before being parachuted into France after D-Day?
9 January 2008
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- ...that the Hood Mockingbird (pictured) will occasionally attack people in an attempt to get fresh water from them?
- ...that despite its northern location, the Ahr produces more red wine from grapes like Pinot noir than any other wine region in Germany?
- ...that Pearson's Candy Company, a Saint Paul, Minnesota confectioner, once produced the Seven Up Bar and the Chicken Dinner Bar?
- ...that upon his 1915 arrest from the lines of the 12th Cavalry at Meerut, Vishnu Ganesh Pingle is said to have had enough explosives to blow up an entire regiment?
- ...that Ælfwynn became the second woman to rule the Mercians when her mother Æthelflæd died in 918, but was deposed by King Edward the Elder and sent into exile in December of that year?
- ...that when Rudolf Rocker became the editor of the short-lived Yiddish anarchist newspaper Dos Fraye Vort, he did not speak Yiddish?
- ...that the amino acid glutamine can be broken down to produce glutamate, aspartate, carbon dioxide, pyruvate, lactate, alanine and citrate?
- ...that James Duncan helped co-found both the American Federation of Labor and the International Labor Organization?
- ...that the Warsaw Armoured Motorized Brigade of the Polish Army during the German invasion in 1939, was commanded by Stefan Rowecki, who later became the first commander of the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa?
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- ...that significant buildings of the Brick Gothic style (pictured), which came after Brick Romanesque and before Brick Renaissance, survive in 10 Northern European countries?
- ...that during the American Civil War, Indiana, a Northern state, saw one township secede from the Union?
- ...that the West India Fruit and Steamship Company's ferries carried cars and rail freight between the United States and Cuba until the American embargo on trade with Cuba?
- ...that children's TV show Supernormal was developed by the creators of the controversial internet cartoon Happy Tree Friends?
- ...that the 1951 Polish-Soviet territorial exchange was one of the biggest border corrections in Europe after 1945?
- ...that although South African rugby union player Werner Greeff scored only four tries, one of them was named his country's try of the year in 2002?
- ...that the Canadian Order of Military Merit has three different classes?
- ...that Siam Park, a water park under construction in Adeje, Tenerife, will have the world's largest collection of Thai buildings outside Thailand?
- ...that, despite being added to California's state highway system in 1933, the portion of State Route 190 over the Sierra Nevada remains unconstructed?
- ...that in addition to the 22 suspects listed by the Los Angeles District Attorney in the notorious unsolved Black Dahlia case of 1947, about 60 people confessed to the crime?
- ...that the Genoese troubadour Simon Doria was podestà of both Savona and Albenga?
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8 January 2008
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- ...that the tropical fish cleftbelly trevally (A. atropos, pictured) has no scales on its chest between its pectoral and pelvic fins?
- ...that the first major international chess tournament took place in London in 1851?
- ...that California State Route 174, which includes a historic 1924 bridge, was not designated a State Scenic Highway due to opposition by residents concerned about their property rights?
- ...that Helen Abbott Michael, originally trained as a pianist, became a plant chemist and earned her MD after a chance purchase of Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics on a trip to Europe?
- ...that Yvon Pedneault is the only person to have worked full-time for all three Montreal daily papers, as well as every television station that has carried Montreal Canadiens games?
- ...that Lód, the most recent book by Polish science-fiction writer Jacek Dukaj, is an alternate history novel of over 1000 pages?
- ...that a trio of pet Mexican Spinytailed Iguanas released on Gasparilla Island, Florida by a resident in the 1970s has led to a current population explosion of over 12,000 lizards?
- 15:33, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
- ...that the Westinghouse Time Capsules (pictured) of the 1939 New York World's Fair and the 1964 New York World's Fair were made of special metal alloys to resist corrosion for 5000 years, the time span of all previous recorded human history?
- ...that the Soviet 16th 'Lithuanian' Rifle Division had more enlisted Jews than any other division in the Red Army?
- ...that Lilstock church only holds one service a year, and the last marriage held there was in 1834?
- ...that Ben Finney, one of the Polynesian Voyaging Society founders who designed, built, and sailed the Hokulea on its first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti, wrote his thesis on surfing for his M.A. degree?
- ...that the ticket lottery site for the December 2007 Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert featuring Led Zeppelin, crashed due to over a billion page views of fans seeking to purchase the 20,000 tickets on sale?
- ...that yards from scrimmage, total offense, all-purpose yardage, and return yards are all American and Canadian football statistics to measure advancement of the football?
- ...that the testament of Bolesław III Krzywousty, High Duke of Poland, in 1138, led to the fragmentation of Poland which lasted for 200 years?
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7 January 2008
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- ...that Indianapolis's Scottish Rite Cathedral (pictured) is the largest building dedicated to Freemasonry in the United States, and features many measurements in multiples of 33?
- ...that many streets in Coconut Grove, Northern Territory, Australia are named after victims of the shipwreck of SS Gothenburg off the coast of Queensland in 1875?
- ...that the German Agricultural Society sets the assessment scale for the German wine classification system?
- ...that due to a lack of freight crossings of the Hudson River, trains must take a 280-mile (450 km) detour, the Selkirk hurdle, to cross into New York City from the south or west?
- ...that the Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse, a cyclo-cross race held in Overijse, Belgium, was won 11 consecutive times in the 1980s by former four-time world champion Roland Liboton?
- ...that the sources of William Shakespeare's Hamlet lie in legends which may trace to an Indo-European origin?
- ...that Nigerian John Ezzidio, who was freed from a slave ship and landed in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1827, became the city's mayor eighteen years later, in 1845?
6 January 2008
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5 January 2008
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4 January 2008
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- ...that the current Foreign Minister of Chile, Alejandro Foxley (pictured), served both in the cabinet of Salvador Allende in the 1970s and in the first cabinet after the restoration of democracy in 1990?
- ...that Tang Chinese scholar Yao Silian was the lead author of the official histories of both Liang and Chen Dynasties?
- ...that the "Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne", based on the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, exhibits Voltaire's rejection of optimism and Providence and is considered an introduction to his famous work Candide?
- ...that Hurricane Rick of 1997 caused coffee prices on the New York Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange to jump 4.7%, because it threatened coffee crops at a time when they were vulnerable to winds blowing them down?
- ...that Tabasco sauce heir Edward Avery McIlhenny was an arctic explorer who, in 1897 and 1898, helped to rescue over a hundred whaling fleet sailors stranded at Point Barrow, Alaska?
- ...that, although former Michigan Wolverines wide receiver Marquise Walker was selected in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft, he was Jon Gruden's first draft pick as Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach?
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3 January 2008
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2 January 2008
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1 January 2008
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- ...that Heinrich Steinhowel, a 15th-century German scholar and humanist who was physician to Eberhard, Count of Württemberg, is better known for translating Aesop's Fables (pictured) into German?
- ...that wine made from the Italian grape Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso was praised by Pliny the Elder and a favorite of Caesar Augustus' wife Livia?
- ...that the Brocard points, the Brocard circle and the Brocard triangle are named after French geometer Henri Brocard, who spent most of his life studying meteorology with no notable original contributions to the subject?
- ...that Ernest Dynes, best known as an English cricketer in the 1920s and 1930s, served as Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II between 1955 and 1957, for which he was awarded the CBE?
- ...that William W. Bedsworth, a judge at the California Courts of Appeal, is also a goal judge with the National Hockey League?
- ...that prior to the emergence of anarcho-pacifism at the outbreak of World War II, there was a general agreement among anarchists that violence was inevitable?
- ...that Campanula gelida, an endemic species of a bellflower, grows in nature only on one rock in the Czech Republic?
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