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31 March 2008

20:59, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the species name of South Africa's Eastern Cape Blue Cycad (pictured), horridus, is Latin for 'sticking out' or 'prickly', after the plant's stiff, spiny leaflets?
...that Charles-Edward Amory Winslow was the founding professor of the Yale School of Public Health and the first editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bacteriology?
...that the Roman fort Longovicium has one of the best preserved ancient aqueducts in Britain?
...that Crispin Sanchez, a pioneer of education and athletics among Mexican Americans in South Texas, turned down an opportunity to play baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals in order to attend college?
...that a higher H-point in an automobile design would lead to more legroom in the vehicle?
...that numerous wells and springs were dedicated to Saint Quirinus of Neuss, who was invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, gout, and a siege of the city of Neuss during the Burgundian Wars?
...that in Medellín v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, absent an act of Congress or Constitutional authority, the U.S. President lacks the power to enforce decisions of the International Court of Justice?
...that Robert Mondavi recommended that Christian Moueix establish his Dominus Estate winery in the Napa Valley?

14:51, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Zygmunt Szendzielarz (pictured), regarded as one of the persons responsible for the Dubingiai massacre in 1944, got a posthumous award from Polish president Lech Kaczyński in 2007?
...that Dauer Sportwagen converted Porsche 962C racing cars into street-legal road cars, then converted them back into race cars in order to exploit a rulebook loophole and win the 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans?
...that Swedish–Ukrainian relations have long traditions and that the Swedish king Charles XII was named protector of Ukraine in the first Ukrainian constitution of 1710 and that Hetman Pylyp Orlyk lived in Sweden 1716–1720?
...that the practices of the Followers of Christ church in Oregon, United States, which include faith healing and forbid medical treatment, prompted a 1999 state law making parents liable if their children are harmed by a lack of treatment?
...that Georgia Tech professor Rebecca Grinter supervised a 2005 study which found that iTunes users in the workplace experience "playlist anxiety"?
...that Firestar's Quest, a book in the Warriors fantasy novel series, has been translated into Russian?

07:41, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Mahendranath Gupta (pictured) was closely associated with two notable figures in Hinduism—as a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna and as a teacher to Paramahansa Yogananda?
...that Captain Michael Heck was an American B-52 pilot in the Vietnam War who became a conscientious objector and refused to continue bombing North Vietnamese targets during the Christmas operation of 1972?
...that Acorn Antiques The Musical was directed by Trevor Nunn and opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket with a three month sell-out run?
...that footballer Graham Lewis was nearly prevented from making his début for Belper Town F.C. when the referee and assistant referee failed to spot his name on the team sheet?
...that Tony Dungy is the winningest coach, among Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coaches?
...that Thomas Rawson Birks, Cambridge Professor, used science and theology to reason that other stars did not have their own planets?
...that, inspired by Sylvester Stallone's experience selling the script for Rocky, actor/screenwriter J. P. Davis refused to sell his script for the film Fighting Tommy Riley unless he was guaranteed to play the lead?

01:34, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the 1947 song "Pico and Sepulveda" about an intersection on LA's Pico Boulevard (pictured) was frequently on Dr. Demento's radio show?
...that the steamboat Flyer, which by 1930 had covered more miles than any other dedicated inland vessel, had an imperfectly sealed hull, causing it to list to port throughout its working life?
...that the Haitian military leader and former slave Lamour Desrances allied with the enemies of Haitian Revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture in the War of the Knives?
...that when Demi Moore appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair in the body painting/photograph Demi's Birthday Suit, it commemorated More Demi Moore's one-year anniversary?
...that Shaw University’s Leonard Hall housed the first class of four year African-American medical students in the United States?
...that jazz drummer Butch Ballard was hired by Duke Ellington as a backup drummer due to the excessive drinking of his regular drummer Sonny Greer?
...that Evergreen Lutheran High School lost its lease in DuPont, Washington in 1988 and has been looking for another site while sharing land at a local church?

30 March 2008

17:39, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Hofkirche (Court Church) in Innsbruck was built by Ferdinand I as a memorial for his grandfather, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor?
...that wine writer André Simon had only two magnums of claret in his cellar when he died in 1970, believing that "a man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar"?
...that Hindus believe that god Vishnu falls asleep in the cosmic ocean of milk on the cosmic serpent, for a period of four months on the day of Shayani Ekadashi?
...that Gloria Shayne Baker and Noel Regney co-wrote the Do You Hear What I Hear? Christmas carol as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
...that Reginald Turvey, "The Father of the Baháʼís of South Africa", spent 13 years unaware that there were fellow believers in the Baháʼí Faith in his country?
...that before the Second World War, the Synagogue in Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva apart from religious functions, was also used as a lecture hall for Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva?
...that stems and sheaths of Korthalsia palm trees, named after Dutch botanist P. W. Korthals who first collected them from Indonesia, can be made into rope?

11:17, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the first Estonian stamps (example pictured) were put into circulation in November 1918?
...that Native American Thomas Wakeman organized the first Sioux Indian YMCA at Flandreau, Dakota Territory on April 27 1879?
...that the incompleted Montana-class battleships would have had a heavier broadside than the Yamato-class battleships?
...that it took Midvinterblot, a controversial painting from Sweden, 82 years and a detour to a Japanese collector before it could finally be installed where it was intended to be?
...that Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland received the final surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard his ship HMS Bellerophon after the Napoleonic Wars?
...that ITV Network Centre did not want to broadcast the first series of Cold Feet at 9 p.m. because that was a timeslot traditionally reserved for programmes that viewers could do their ironing to?
...that the proposed WALLY commuter rail line in southeast Michigan would run over track first laid over one hundred years ago?
...that a Carley float was a liferaft fashioned from a large ring of copper tubing surrounded by cork and canvas?

03:33, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

...that in 1806, Murrays' Mills (pictured) in Ancoats, Manchester was the largest mill complex in the world?
...that Kitty Kielland had to take private landscape painting lessons from Hans Gude because she was a woman?
...that Andrei Kravchuk gave up his almost-completed master's degree in Mathematics to study film after Aleksei German offered him a job as a director's assistant?
...that Isaac Moores, Sr. served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature, with his son Isaac Moores, Jr. later serving in the Oregon State Legislature?
...that the hero of the Loch Ard disaster, Tom Pearce, lost one of his sons when the Loch Vennachar was wrecked off Kangaroo Island in 1905?
...that Richard Nixon credited Tony Mazzocchi with being the primary force behind enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970?
...that Theophilus Browne disagreed with his congregations at Cambridge and Warminster and he was paid to leave the Octagon Chapel in Norwich in 1809?

29 March 2008

21:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Lord Francis Douglas fell 4,000 feet (1,200 m) to his death shortly after sharing in the first ascent of the Matterhorn (pictured)?
...that the oldest steam locomotive in Switzerland is an Engerth locomotive, a form of articulated locomotive?
...that the Tlaxcaltec forces led by Xicotencatl II "The Younger" had nearly defeated the army of Hernán Cortés when he was ordered to ally with them instead?
...that the founder of Byzantine studies in Germany is Hieronymus Wolf who, approximately 100 years after the fall of Byzantium, began to edit and translate Byzantine literature?
...that the influence of wine critic Robert Finigan declined when he panned the 1982 Bordeaux vintage, which Robert Parker described as one of greatest of the century?
...that East Smithfield was given to the Knighten Guild by King Edgar, after they each performed three combats—one above the ground, one below, and one on water?

14:17, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Dunning House (pictured) in Wawayanda, New York, has features from several different 19th-century architectural styles?
...that the sinking of the ferry Greycliffe with the loss of 40 lives in 1927 was the deadliest shipping accident ever in Sydney Harbour, Australia?
...that the Przemyśl fortress was the site of one of the largest sieges of the First World War, the Siege of Przemyśl?
...that the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism is a Muslim advocacy group which monitors media coverage of Islam and Muslims in the U.K.?
...that Jeremy Doner was the first student at Harvard University to write a screenplay as a creative thesis?
...that according to Inca mythology, lunar eclipses are caused by animals attacking Mama Quilla, the goddess of the moon?
...that American four-star admiral Lynde D. McCormick became NATO's first Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic despite opposition from British prime minister Winston Churchill?

08:15, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Bourbon County Confederate Monument (pictured) is unique for being shaped like a thirty-foot (nine-meter) chimney?
...that the Roman Baths of Strand Lane were featured in David Copperfield?
...that Chen Chi-mai received the flag of the World Games and officially made Kaohsiung the host city of World Games 2009?
...that production of the cervelat, the Swiss national sausage, is set to cease in 2008, causing a public upset in Switzerland?
...that Polish Countess Delfina Potocka served as muse to both Romantic poet Count Zygmunt Krasiński and composer Frédéric Chopin—who both wrote works in her honor?
...that the title of the film Woman Is the Future of Man comes from a line in a poem by Louis Aragon that the director Hong Sang-soo saw printed on a French postcard?
...that John Blackner, who wrote a history of Nottingham in 1815, explained why the anti-industrial group was called Luddites; a group he may have been a member of?
...that when the commander of the German forces in the Dodecanese came to surrender aboard HMS Kimberley, he did so aboard a captured British Motor Launch?

02:13, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the historical landmark U-Drop Inn (pictured), located on Route 66 in Shamrock, Texas, was the inspiration for the fictional Ramone's body shop in the 2006 Disney and Pixar film Cars?
...that the Occupational Safety and Health Act went into effect in the United States on April 28, 1971, the same day as Workers' Memorial Day?
...that William M. Bass, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Tennessee, established the "Original Body Farm" in 1971 to study decomposition in cadavers?
...that Oregon State athletic director Percy Locey claimed that the Philadelphia Athletics stole John Leovich from the college, yet he ended up playing only one major league game?
...that the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union called off a merger with the United Mine Workers just two hours before the unions planned to announce the agreement?
...that one of Kentucky's first two judges, James John Floyd, was once a privateer?
...that Drew Goddard described writing the fourth-season episode titled "The Shape of Things to Come" as possibly his best experience while working on the television show Lost?
...that a replica of the château from the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beauregard was constructed for the Guggenheim family on Long Island, New York?

28 March 2008

19:49, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Confederate Monument (pictured) in Cynthiana, Kentucky was the first monument to the Confederate States of America in Kentucky, and long believed to be the first one anywhere?
...that traditional artisans in one village in the Bagmundi area of Purulia district in West Bengal make the masks used in Chhau dance?
...that a curse supposedly placed on Írgalach mac Conaing by Saint Adomnán for the killing of Niall mac Cernaig Sotal was said to be linked to Conaing's death in battle a year later?
...that Katie Sierra was accused of treason and suspended from high school in October 2001 for attempting to start an anarchist club?
...that Germany still held 1.2 million Russian prisoners of war in December 1918, nine months after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk obliged it to release them?
...that "The Unicorn and the Wasp" will be the first comedic episode in the science fiction television series Doctor Who since the 1966 serial The Gunfighters?
...that the number of recognized species of palm trees in the genus Hydriastele has jumped from 9 to 48 in the last four years?

12:53, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

...that when Catalyst museum (pictured) in Widnes, Cheshire was opened in 1989, it was the world's first museum devoted to the chemicals industry?
...that bad advice from Flaithbertach mac Inmainén, abbot of Scattery Island and chief adviser to King Cormac mac Cuilennáin, is said to have caused a war in which Cormac and many others died?
...that The Curse of Steptoe, a 2008 television play based upon the making of the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son, gained the highest audience figures to date for BBC Four?
...that the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande resulted in the death of the French impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille whilst leading his unit in the attack?
...that although he is famous for inventing the Crampton locomotive, Thomas Crampton was also responsible for the world's first international submarine telegraph cable?
...that scriptwriter Richard Baer's writing credits for television included twenty-three episodes of Bewitched and five episodes of The Munsters?

03:58, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Captain Philip Beaver (pictured) once read the entire Encyclopædia Britannica during one of his cruises?
...that in February 1944, the retreating forces of Nazi Germany razed the Gdov Kremlin almost entirely with only its walls remaining?
...that Leon Greenman was reportedly the only Englishman sent to Auschwitz?
...that Carl Størmer, "the acknowledged authority" on aurorae and the motion of charged particles in the magnetosphere, began his academic career inventing formulae for π?
...that Quite Interesting Limited provides the research for UK TV programme QI and The Museum of Curiosity?
...that the Somers Hamlet Historic District in Westchester County, New York includes the Elephant Hotel, considered the birthplace of the American circus?
...that after Edward Phelan was acquitted of murder, indicted on perjury charges and killed by companions in self-defense, one of the largest lakes in Saint Paul, Minnesota was named after him?

27 March 2008

20:29, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Haulotte Group are the third-biggest manufacturer of aerial work platforms (pictured) in the world?
...that apart from blowflies, some flesh-eating beetles can also be used by forensic entomologists in determining the time of death of a corpse?
...that Artie Wilson, who hit .402 in 1948 with the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues, is often considered the last professional major league baseball player to bat over .400 for a season?
...that the Palestinian town of Jifna, believed to be the biblical Gophna, was a Roman regional capital and considered the second most important town in Iudaea after Jerusalem?
...that photographer Stewart Shining has shot photos for the covers of both the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and the People Magazine Most Beautiful People issue?
...that the Church of St James the Great, Haydock, Merseyside was built with timber framing because its flexibility would provide greater protection against possible mining subsidence?

12:24, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Roman Emperor Maximian (coin pictured) was forced to abdicate on three separate occasions?
...that the presence of certain insects in a corpse may be indicators of elder or child abuse?
...that photographer Raphael Mazzucco has had images on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in each of the last four years?
...that Invicta was the steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson and Company after building the Rocket?
...that in the 1934 film Evergreen the actress Jessie Matthews played both mother and daughter?
...that drag racer Al Hofmann had to get a friend to come over to start his first Funny Car?
...that Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified by Song Chinese investigator Song Ci documents some of the earliest work in forensic entomology?
...that the earliest full-length portrait of Elizabeth I by Tudor court painter Steven van der Meulen, was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2007 for £2.6 million, more than twice its expected maximum?

03:18, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the goddess Hathor (pictured) was worshipped by miners in ancient Egypt?
...that Children and Youth Sports Schools, which originated in the Soviet Union, continue in Russia, and form the basis of the modern system in the People's Republic of China?
...that the Nokomis Community Library, named for Nokomis in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, is the only library in the Minneapolis Public Library System to be named for a fictional character?
...that despite being appointed to the usually profitable post of comptroller to Prince Charles in 1616, John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery later claimed that serving the Prince had cost him £20,000?
...that the steam locomotive thought for many years to be Timothy Hackworth's Bradyll may, in fact, be Thomas Richardson's Nelson?
...that journalist Néstor Mata was the sole survivor of the 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash which killed Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others?
...that the French once had an outpost called La Belle, where Louisville now stands?
...that John Orloff was inspired to write his own screenplay when his wife, working for the HBO network, continually brought home "awful" scripts?

26 March 2008

18:25, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the medieval wall paintings in the Norfolk church of Crostwight include an image of the Seven Deadly Sins (pictured)?
...that when the 1987 America's Cup was raced off Fremantle, Western Australia it was the first time for 132 years that the regatta had not been hosted by the New York Yacht Club?
...that activist Michael Mansell convinced Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to recognise an Aboriginal Australian passport to draw world attention to the issue of Aboriginal land rights?
...that the St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, founded in 1884, was the first independent African-American church in Raleigh?
...that Merril Sandoval did not reveal to his family that he had served as a Navajo Code Talker in the United States Marines during World War II until records of the unit were declassified in 1968?
...that the Lackham campus of Wiltshire College created a "virtual farm" in 2005 to avoid limitations to practical teaching caused by foot and mouth disease?
...that the Confederate States of America bought fast steamboats from Edward Harland's company Harland & Wolff during the American Civil War so they could outrun the Union blockade?

10:18, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the artist commissioned by the Royal Marines in 1920 to paint Brigadier General F.W. Lumsden VC (pictured), was Helen Donald-Smith, whose views of Venice were described as "pretty pictures"?
...that the Polish interbellum organization Maritime and Colonial League‎ promoted Polish colonies and settlements in Africa and South America?
...that John Jacobs was expelled from the Weatherman organization after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion for advocating the "military error" of violent revolution?
...that Israel's future Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, and its future President of the Supreme Court, Meir Shamgar, were both interned in Africa by British Mandate authorities for membership in Lehi and Irgun?
...that Erkki Karu founded both Suomi-Filmi and Suomen Filmiteollisuus, the two largest film production companies during the 'Golden Age' of Finnish cinema?
...that U.S. Route 12 was extended into Washington in 1967, taking over most of the routing of U.S. Route 410?
...that Laurence Fox was cast in the British TV detective drama Lewis after his co-star Kevin Whately caught the last 10 minutes of a film he was in?

03:58, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

...that "many-sided" priest Father Patrick McLaughlin (pictured) promoted links between the Church and the world of literature by staging plays, and by commissioning lectures from T. S. Eliot and Dorothy L. Sayers?
...that video sharing website YouTube has held two YouTube Awards, which honor the best videos on the site, as voted by the YouTube community?
...that the petioles of some species of Eugeissona palm trees can be used as darts in blowgun hunting?
...that Home of Truth, Utah was a religious utopian community in the 1930s whose leader claimed to receive divine revelations through her typewriter?
...that 2006 novel Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead, was featured among The New York Times' 100 Most Notable Books of The Year?
...that a rock edict of Emperor Ashoka found at Maski in the Indian State of Karnataka in 1915, was the first one to refer him by the name Asoka?
...that the Stalingrad Madonna was flown out on the last transport plane to leave the trapped Sixth Army during the Battle of Stalingrad?

25 March 2008

18:06, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the interrupted brome (pictured) was the first plant species classified as extinct in the wild to be reintroduced in British history?
...that a spite house is a house built to annoy and aggravate someone, usually a neighbor?
...that the discovery of antennae swords at Kallur in the Indian state of Karnataka, was the first instance of the Copper Hoard culture being found in South India?
...that systems art is an art movement from the 1960s influenced by systems theory, which reflects on natural systems, social systems and social signs of the art world itself?
...that the oldest known lemon squeezers were found in Kütahya, Turkey and date to the first quarter of the 18th century?
...that Sinnott Memorial Observation Station is a sheltered viewpoint built into the caldera cliff 900 feet (270 m) above Crater Lake in Oregon?
...that the voter turnout of the 2006 DPP chairmanship election in Taiwan was only 19.96%?
...that Saint Foutin was a syncretic amalgam of the first bishop of Lyon, France and pre-Christian Gaulish phallic worship?

11:12, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Signor Brocolini (pictured), the original Pirate King in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, took his stage name in honor of Brooklyn, where he grew up?
...that the Russian composers Peter Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Serge Rachmaninoff used Ukrainian folk melodies in their works?
...that Ho people, in Jharkhand, India, have a literacy rate of 39.2%, lower than the state average which is amongst the lowest literacy rates in India?
...that the San Francisco-based electro-acoustic improvisation music ensemble Maybe Monday features a traditional Japanese musical instrument, the koto?
...that St. Thomas, the apostle of Jesus Christ, established the Church in India in 52 AD?
...that Conall Guthbinn continued the feud begun when his father, Suibne mac Colmáin, was killed by Áed Sláine by killing two of Áed's sons, Congal and Ailill; soon after he was killed by Diarmait, a third son of Áed?
...that the larvae of primary screw-worm flies feed on living tissue, but secondary screw-worm flies feed only on necrotic tissue?

04:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

...that despite a wartime career lasting less than a year, HMS Codrington transported a number of dignitaries, including King George VI (visit pictured), Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill?
...that Polish–Ukrainian relations have been steadily improving since the fall of communism, and both countries now have a strong strategic relationship?
...that a song about the 1973 Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape topped the popular music charts in the Republic of Ireland despite being banned by the government?
...that as National Secretary for Students for a Democratic Society, Michael Klonsky advocated revolution in the U.S., but now focuses on education reforms such as creating small schools?
...that following the collapse of Renaissance Cruises in late 2001, MS R Two and five of her sister ships were laid up together, first at Gibraltar and later at Marseille?
...that Pollyanna, a 1920 melodrama/comedy starring Mary Pickford, grossed $1.1 million, equivalent to about $10 million in 2008?
...that football (soccer) became the last Olympic sport to sign up to the World Anti-Doping Agency code, when FIFA ratified it in 2006?

24 March 2008

19:46, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Dragon Bridge (pictured) is the first bridge in Slovenia paved with asphalt and the first reinforced concrete bridge in Ljubljana?
...that the blue bottle fly (Calliphora vicina), the green bottle fly (Lucilia illustris), the hairy maggot blowfly (Chrysomya rufifacies), the black blow fly (Phormia regina) and the coffin fly (Megaselia scalaris) are useful tools to forensic entomologists in determining the time of death of a corpse?
...that the cruise ship MS Columbus C. sank in Cádiz harbour after accidentally ramming the harbour's breakwater in 1984?
...that African American artist James W. Washington, Jr. first gained visibility in 1938 working with the WPA in his native Mississippi, but was later associated with the Northwest School?
...that the olive tree is the ultimate symbol of sumud, a key ideological theme among Palestinians since the 1967 war?
...that since 2006 Beijing has had a legal limit of one dog per family?
...that the career of Tiia Piili, four-time FISAF World Champion in sport aerobics, was threatened when she got food poisoning attending a competition in Morocco?

12:02, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

...that in his print Columbus Breaking the Egg (pictured) William Hogarth attempted to draw parallels between himself and Christopher Columbus?
...that the Intelligencer Journal of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, established in 1796, is one of the oldest newspapers in the United States?
...that the 2003 documentary Prisoner of Paradise is a chronicle of the life of Kurt Gerron, a German Jewish actor who was forced to make a Nazi propaganda film and later murdered in a Nazi concentration camp?
...that the shot tower of the Colonial Ammunition Company is the only surviving tower of its kind in New Zealand?
...that there are hints of political opposition to the land acquisition for the Special Economic Zone and industrial hub at Saltora in the "neglected" Bankura district in India?
...that the U.S. Department of Defense pays the owners of the MV Baffin Strait (T-AK W9519) US$12,550 per day to carry cargo from Singapore to Diego Garcia?
...that Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey in Ile-de-France, founded in 1118, had a saintly abbot, was bought by a Rothschild and is now a hotel?

00:06, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

...that in 1669, the Jesuit missionary and astronomer Ferdinand Verbiest (pictured) persuaded the Kangxi Emperor to remove a month from the Chinese calendar?
...that Fahmida Mirza is the first female Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan?
...that Peter Carl Fabergé crafted the Czarevich Fabergé egg in 1912 as a tribute to Czarevich Alexei after his survival from a hemophilia-related illness?
...that Roman Catholic priests afflicted with alcoholism or other ailments can use unfermented grape juice, known as mustum, in place of sacramental wine during the Eucharist?
...that the American southern gospel group The Dixie Nightingales at one time included future Temptations lead singer David Ruffin among its ranks, and later evolved into the secular Stax Records soul group "Ollie & the Nightingales"?
...that Walter of Pontoise was the last person to be canonized in Western Europe by someone other than the Pope?

23 March 2008

15:39, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

...that 15th-century heralds attributed a coat of arms (pictured) to Jesus based on the instruments of the Passion?
...that chef and restaurateur Suzanne Goin won the 2006 James Beard award for Best Chef in California as well as being a five time James Beard foundation award nominee?
...that Bhutan has a low crime rate and is the first nation in the world to ban tobacco sales?
...that Helen Bee identified that people make both an inner and outer journey through adulthood?
...that according to the old hexachordal principle, the sixth aria of Hexachordum Apollinis should have been in B-flat major, but the composer Pachelbel wrote it in 1699 as an F minor?
...that Clarence Lightner was the first African-American elected mayor of any metropolitan Southern United States city?
...that Hans Gude replaced Johann Schirmer as the professor of landscape painting at the Düsseldorf school, even though as a professor Schirmer had told Gude to give up painting?

08:45, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the late 18th-century watercolor The Old Plantation (pictured) contains the first known depiction of a banjo precursor in American art?
...that the Rev. James Hackman, Rector of Wiveton in Norfolk, was hanged for the murder of Martha Ray, mistress of the fourth Earl of Sandwich?
...that the Eva archaeological site in Tennessee was inhabited from about 6000 to 1000 BC, but it is now below water?
...that three-foot-tall stone slabs were placed every five miles to mark the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee?
...that 1050 AM ESPN Radio in New York City was launched by American politician Rob Astorino?
...that Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven" while living at what is now called Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Fordham section of The Bronx in New York City?

01:19, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

...that from 1908 the Cone Mills Corporation (mill pictured) was the world's largest producer of denim fabric, making its founder Moses H. Cone the "Denim King?"
...that after the Aztec Coatlicue statue was discovered, it was buried again to prevent it becoming the object of a cult?
...that the only black college to field a NCAA lacrosse team is the Morgan State University Lacrosse Bears?
...that after Norwegian film maker Odd F. Lindberg made a documentary exposing inhumane Norwegian seal hunting methods, the hostile reaction encouraged him to emigrate?
...that the script for the Lost episode "Meet Kevin Johnson" was completed on the day that the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike began?
...that one of Catherine de' Medici's court festivals featured an artificial whale that spouted red wine when harpooned?
...that the Anekāntavāda philosophy of Jainism encourages its adherents to consider the beliefs of their rivals and opposing parties?

22 March 2008

17:03, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

...that according to Hindu mythology, the deity Revanta (pictured) was born from the union of the sun-god Surya and his wife Saranya in the form of horse and mare?
...that four of the fifteen head coaches of the Green Bay Packers are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
...that the Rose bedeguar gall was used as a cure for baldness, colic and toothaches?
...that Scripps marine chemist Edward D. Goldberg suggested using mussels to measure the amount of pollution in the oceans?
...that when built in 1868, Louisville's Fourteenth Street Bridge was the longest iron bridge in the United States?
...that Polish novelist Bolesław Prus, who had been a young soldier in the Polish 1863–65 Uprising, wrote a short story, "Fading Voices", whose protagonist had served in the 1830–31 Uprising?
...that English sculptor Henry Weekes' monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, modelled on Michelangelo's Pietà, includes realistic touches such as seaweed wrapped around the drowned poet's arm?
...that microorganisms in the Archaea domain produce antimicrobial protein toxins known as archaeocins?

09:49, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

...that an honors student was suspended from a New Haven school for buying Skittles brand candy?
...that the Da Ming Hun Yi Tu‎ Chinese world map (pictured), painted on silk in 1389, includes the earliest surviving depiction of the Drakensberg mountains in southern Africa?
...that General Benjamin Tupper's horse was killed under him at the Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolutionary War?
...that the Zamość Uprising was one of the major operations of the Polish resistance movement in World War II, and succeeded in significantly delaying German plans to evict the Polish inhabitants and colonize the region?
...that several private homes in the Los Cerritos neighborhood of Long Beach, California have been used in movies, including depicting the Bueller family's Chicago home in the 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
...that Joseph Canyon was named after Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe, who was born in a cave at the mouth of the canyon?
...that in 1962 doctors went on strike in Saskatchewan for 23 days in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the introduction of universal health insurance?

02:06, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

...that British wine critic Stuart Pigott (pictured) published five commandments regarding wine drinking and appreciation, including "for wine, there is no connection between price and quality"?
...that homoclines are tilted rock structures that can form ridges?
...that John Tavener's "Song for Athene", sung at the funeral of Princess Diana, combines texts from the Orthodox funeral service and Shakespeare's Hamlet?
...that after discovering a suitcase with US$800,000 in Maletinazo, policewoman Maria de Lujan Telpuk appeared on the cover of the Argentine and Venezuelan editions of Playboy?
...that the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 included 90% of the British Army units normally based in the United Kingdom, leaving less than a division of regular soldiers for home defence?
...that in the days immediately following the revelation of her role in the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, the MySpace page of Ashley Alexandra Dupré was viewed over 9 million times?
...that in the 1944 Battle of Murowana Oszmianka, the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa dealt a significant defeat to the Nazi-Lithuanian Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force?

21 March 2008

18:38, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

...that traditional Easter games such as egg rolling, egg tapping, egg tossing, egg hunting and egg dancing date back hundreds of years to a time when the egg was considered a symbol of rebirth?
...that despite its name, the Togian White-eye, a species of bird endemic to the Togian Islands of Indonesia, lacks the white eye rings typical of its genus?
...that after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, former President Ronald Reagan established the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute to work toward a cure for Alzheimer's?
...that the Virginian Railway Passenger Station in Roanoke was named to the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places after it was extensively damaged in a fire?
...that actor Daniel Dae Kim was arrested for driving under the influence just days before shooting "Ji Yeon", an episode of Lost's fourth season?
...that Van Nuys Boulevard, running through the heart of LA's San Fernando Valley, was a center of teenage cruising from the 1950s through the 1970s?
...that Cymric Oil Field has the fastest-growing production of any oil field in California?
...that the Upper Brook Street Chapel in Manchester, designed by Sir Charles Barry shortly before he designed the Palace of Westminster, is said to be the first neogothic Nonconformist chapel?

11:52, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Gustave Courbet's erotic painting Femme nue couchée (pictured), recovered in 2005 after disappearing during World War II, had been given to a Slovak doctor in return for medical treatment?
...that Hamilton Disston purchased four million acres of land—larger than the state of Connecticut—for just $1 million in 1881 in a failed attempt to drain the Everglades?
...that the discovery of horse bones at the archaeological site of Hallur in south India refuted the theory that horses were introduced to this region as part of the Indo-Aryan migration?
...that Sixty Rayburn, a 44-year member of the Louisiana State Senate who died in 2008, was the driving force behind the establishment of the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine?
...that Sami Hadawi, author of works on the land rights of Palestinian refugees, was exiled by Israel in 1948 and denied permission to have his remains returned to his native Jerusalem for burial in 2004?
...that Still Restless, a 2004 album by country band Restless Heart, was their first album of all-new material in fourteen years?
...that Stanislav Konopásek lost five years of his ice hockey-playing career when he was imprisoned for allegedly trying to defect from Czechoslovakia in 1950?

02:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the creation of Grosvenor Museum, Chester (pictured) was inspired by a society formed by Charles Kingsley, then a canon of Chester Cathedral?
...that the Eurymedon vase has been cited as evidence of Ancient Greek sexual mores?
...that Labour Party politician Hugh Brown was a British negotiator with Iceland during the third Cod War in the 1970s?
...that Tajikistan was one of the deadliest countries for journalists in the 1990s, with dozens of journalists killed, including Belarusian documentary filmmaker Arcady Ruderman and Bukharan Jewish journalist Meirkhaim Gavrielov?
...that Virgil Johnson, the lead singer of the doo wop group The Velvets, retired from his career as a school principal and is now a deejay in Lubbock, Texas?
...that in 1964, units of No. 81 Wing RAAF were deployed to Darwin, Northern Territory as contingency in the event of an air attack on Australia during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation?
...that the inbred villagers of Stoccareddo in Italy are a medical phenomenon, with unusually low frequencies of hypertension, strokes and heart attacks despite a high-cholesterol diet?

20 March 2008

16:16, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Meeker's Hardware (pictured), a hardware store in Danbury, Connecticut, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, sold Coca-Colas for five cents until 2005?
...that Thursday of the Dead is a springtime feast day shared by Muslims and Christians in the Levant that involves colouring eggs, visiting the cemetery and distributing food to the poor?
...that the Māori name for the New Zealand Agency for International Development is Nga Hoe Tuputupu-mai-tawhiti, which means 'the paddles that bring growth from afar'?
...that Samuel Lines' art lessons in Birmingham started at 5 a.m.?
...that a skyscraper in Croydon has been nicknamed the 50p Building because it resembles a pile of 50p coins?
...that, before signing to Career/Arista Records in 1996 and charting three singles, country singer and pianist Tammy Graham was a regular performer at Caesars Palace?
...that Robert H. Pruyn, the second American Minister to Japan, was instrumental in negotiating reparations over the 1863 Bombardment of Shimonoseki?

08:35, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

...that a group of Forest Grove, Oregon residents posed nude for a calendar to raise funds to buy the Alvin T. Smith House (pictured)?
...that chemist Ernest Beaux created Chanel No. 5 perfume?
...that The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is the first major film or television production to be shot on location in Botswana?
...that the military theories of the 18th-century Welsh soldier Henry Lloyd were studied by George Washington and George S. Patton?
...that despite being involved in high school theatre, Darla Vandenbossche only decided to pursue acting when she reached the age of 36?
...that the Central Library in Portland, Oregon was one of the first libraries in the United States to feature an open plan design?
...that Filipino jazz singer Katy de la Cruz was once a top-billed performer at the famed Forbidden City nightclub in San Francisco?
...that the writer Mikhail Mikhalkov, brother of Sergei Mikhalkov, who wrote the Soviet anthem, was an NKVD agent acting in Nazi Germany and later a GULAG inmate?

00:52, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the palm Dictyosperma album (pictured) in the Mascarene Islands is commonly called "hurricane palm" because of its ability to withstand strong winds by easily shedding leaves?
...that cell-free protein array technology attempts to simplify protein microarray construction by using cells from sources such as E. coli, rabbit reticulocytes and wheat germ?
...that Eugene, Oregon's The Register-Guard is the second largest newspaper in Oregon?
...that the Joseon Korean official Choe Bu wrote a travel diary about his shipwrecked stay in Ming China that eventually became widely printed in Korea and Japan during the 16th century?
...that about 63 dams with a capacity of over 100 million cubic metres account for 95% of the water storage capacity of Mexico?
...that 2007 Colorado Buffaloes' starting quarterback Cody Hawkins was on ESPNU's reality show Summer House?
...that Cassià Maria Just was one of the Catholic Church members in Spain who showed their opposition to Francisco Franco?
...that some Norton, Massachusetts residents complain they have trouble selling their homes because Lake Winnecunnett is "a weed-infested, mosquito breeding swamp"?

19 March 2008

15:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

...that, buried in the porch of St Alkmund's Church, Whitchurch (pictured), is the heart of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who was killed at the Battle of Castillon in 1453?
...that television pioneer Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. became the inventor of the video game when he took out a video game patent in 1948?
...that the 2002 surge of the Kolka Glacier resulted in deaths of at least 125 people?
...that the Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 entitles all persons in England who are over the age of 60 or disabled to free bus travel throughout the country during off-peak hours?
...that Johnson Creek, one of the few free-flowing streams in the Portland, Oregon area, overflowed its banks 37 times between 1971 and 2006?
...that Major League Baseball player Sparky Adams was part of the St. Louis Cardinals team in 1930 when every single regular player had a batting average over .300, the only time in history this has happened?
...that the original Victoria Dam constructed in 1891 was the first dam in Western Australia, and it stood for almost 100 years before being replaced with the current dam?
...that in 1745, Daniel Juslenius, a Finnish Fennoman, finished the first formal Finnish dictionary?

07:59, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

...that military engineer Thomas Phillips (pictured), is depicted in a 17th-century painting with Brave Benbow, but an almost identical painting has him replaced by the Earl of Orford?
...that the Emberá in Panama use the hard, durable trunks of Dictyocaryum palms to construct coffins?
...that Finnish film director Valentin Vaala was reportedly so disappointed with his first film that he dumped the original camera negatives into the sea?
...that over 90% of Lithuanian Jews perished in the first few months of Operation Barbarossa in the Holocaust in Lithuania?
...that Max Noether, called "one of the greatest mathematicians of the nineteenth century", learned advanced mathematics mostly through self-study?
...that rock edicts of Emperor Ashoka, found at Brahmagiri in the present-day Karnataka state of India, indicated the southernmost extent of the Mauryan Empire?
...that Mike Menosky, a probation officer who was a former baseball player, helped to dismiss a court case by proving the defendant could not have thrown a rock 250 feet (76 m)?
...that Kenneth Woollcombe, a former Bishop of Oxford, was a member of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved when it granted a faculty for the controversial altar by Henry Moore?

01:04, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Cone sisters (pictured) were friends of Gertrude Stein and amassed a collection of artwork of Picasso, Renoir, Gauguin and van Gogh — now worth one billion US dollars?
...that Japan Steel Works is the only company in the world which can make the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, and a backlog may lead to a global delay in constructing nuclear power plants?
...that the practice of slavery in Wallachia and Moldavia lasted until the 1850s, and is what forced many local Roma people into sedentism?
...that Xue Ji was considered one of the four great calligraphers of the early Tang Dynasty?
...that the Baháʼí community in Brazil was established when Leonora Holsapple Armstrong, the first Baháʼí permanent resident in South America, arrived in Brazil in 1921?
...that Mohamed Camara's 1997 film Dakan was the first West African film to explore homosexuality?
...that the Landing Vehicle Tracked was developed after future admiral Edward C. Kalbfus showed a magazine article about an amphibious rescue vehicle to a Marine Corps general at a party?
...that the history of aspirin has been marked by fierce competition, patent and trademark battles, and even an international conspiracy known as the Great Phenol Plot?
...that the contemporaries of Jean-Étienne Liotard regarded The Chocolate Girl as the artist's masterpiece?

18 March 2008

13:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

...that after Crewe Hall (pictured) in Cheshire was gutted by fire in 1866, E. M. Barry was employed to restore it to a facsimile of the Jacobean original?
...that hard bop jazz drummer Roy Brooks, who played with Horace Silver and Max Roach, was sentenced to four years in prison for assault at age 62?
...that, as a protection against abuses by a temporary majority, any two members of a deliberative assembly may postpone action to another day with a motion to reconsider and enter on the minutes?
...that Ron Arias, a senior writer and correspondent for People magazine and People en Español, was influenced by twentieth-century Latin American literature?
...that Alexander Solzhenitsyn composed his 12,000-line-long poem Prussian Nights while imprisoned in a GULAG camp, writing down each day a few lines on a bar of soap?
...that the 1940 Battle of France forced 72-year-old British engineer William Binnie to work for his passage home as a cook's assistant on a collier?
...that Stonehenge in its landscape, described by one reviewer as "one of the more important British archaeological publications this century", had a print run of just 800 copies?
...that Bess Thomas, a former Australian librarian, became the first female to be given the position of "Chief Librarian" in New South Wales?
...that, during a conflict which split the Romanian far right, the antisemitic newspaper Sfarmă-Piatră oscillated between the fascist Iron Guard and the corporatist National Renaissance Front?

03:14, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Irish-born Major League Baseball player Jimmy Archer (pictured) received a medal from the National Safety Council in 1931 for reviving two men overcome by carbon monoxide in the Chicago stockyards?
...that the indemnity money paid to the U.S. after the Boxer Rebellion was used to fund a scholarship program which led to the founding of Tsinghua University in Beijing?
...that former Chilean presidential spokesman Ricardo Lagos Weber was the main organizer of the 2004 APEC annual meeting held in Santiago, Chile that year, and the president of APEC's Senior Officials Meeting II?
...that King Lugaid mac Lóegairi was said by the Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii to have been struck dead by lightning because he mocked Saint Patrick?
...that a 1970 bomb caused US$170,000 worth of damage at City Hall in Portland, Oregon, but no one was ever arrested for the crime?
...that the current Northam Bridge in Southampton, England was the first major road bridge to be built using prestressed concrete in the United Kingdom?
...that Archbishop John Ireland refused to allow the Irish in Saint Paul, Minnesota to have a Saint Patrick's Day parade due to previous celebrations turning into what he called "midnight orgies"?

17 March 2008

16:43, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

...that St. Patrick's Blue, rather than green, was long the colour most associated with the patron saint of Ireland, and is present on Ireland's Presidential Standard (pictured)?
...that physicists Herbert Anderson, Eugene Booth, G. N. Glasoe, John Dunning, Francis Slack and Enrico Fermi worked on splitting atoms in the basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University in 1939?
...that Thomas Clarke Luby and James Stephens took the oath as founding members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood on Saint Patrick's Day, 1858?
...that Chris Levesque was studying for an exam when the Vancouver Canucks signed him to an emergency one-game National Hockey League contract?
...that members of the Senegalese rap group Daara J were hired by campaigners in the Senegalese election of 2000 to edit their speeches?
...that Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet established the Madras Record Office, the oldest record office of the British East India Company and one of the oldest archival institutions in the world?
...that a passenger train ran away backwards for over three miles (5 km) following a collision in Torquay railway station?

09:18, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the influx of Irish to Louisville (example of Irish-built housing pictured) led to the diminishing of slaves in Louisville by 1860?
...that when Drake University basketball player Adam Emmenecker was named 2008 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, the conference called him "perhaps the most improbable Player of the Year" in its history?
...that the Kentucky Irish American counted among its subscribers Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman?
...that the Albatros was the last sailing ship in European waters carrying commercial cargo?
...that 150 Irish from Indianapolis participated in the Fenian raids, an attempt to invade Canada from Buffalo, New York in 1866?
...that Kiz, Utah, now a ghost town, was named for the first woman to settle in the area?
...that French comics artist Patrice Killoffer was in 2005 the first foreigner to design stamps for the Swiss Post?
...that on the festival celebrated in the month of Toxcatl the Aztecs sacrificed, flayed and ritually cannibalized a young man who had been impersonating the god Tezcatlipoca for an entire year?
...that, according to Tirechán's life of Saint Patrick, King Lóegaire mac Néill refused to be baptised by Patrick, as his father Niall of the Nine Hostages had said that he must be buried in the walls of his fort on the hill of Tara?

01:39, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Emancipation Memorial (pictured), a monument in Washington, DC depicting Abraham Lincoln in his role of the "Great Emancipator", was paid for by former slaves?
...that Senegalese hip hop group Positive Black Soul's name abbreviation, PBS, is a play on that of the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais, PDS?
...that the earliest known athletics competition in Australia took place in Sydney in 1810?
...that Maharam's Synagogue in Lublin, Poland was burnt down during the Cossack–Muscovite invasion in 1655?
...that the Gaiety Girls in shows produced by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre were so popular that the restaurant where they dined became the centre of nightlife in London during the Victorian era?
...that the 2007 documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience was based on a collection of writings by U.S. soldiers who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq?
...that Oakmere Hall in Cheshire was built for John and Thomas Johnson of Runcorn but they became bankrupt before it was completed and the house was sold to a Liverpool merchant?

16 March 2008

17:26, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

...that listed buildings in Peckforton, Cheshire, include a carved stone elephant bearing a replica of a medieval castle (pictured)?
...that jazz saxophonist John Coltrane's song "Ogunde" is based on the Afro-Brazilian folk song "Ogunde Varere", which translates to "Prayer of the Gods"?
...that Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, who founded Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky, appeared on the TV show This is Your Life in 1955 to raise money for the college?
...that the ethics guidelines for Israeli broadcasting have been revised four times since their introduction in 1972, and are now four times their original length?
...that Garry Lake and the Christian cross are both translated as Hanningajuq in the local Inuktitut language?
...that excavations at Chandravalli in the Indian state of Karnataka have unearthed coins of Roman emperor Augustus and Chinese Han emperor Wu Ti?
...that more than half of the United Kingdom's specialist victim recovery dogs were used during the search for nine-year-old Shannon Matthews?

11:20, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

...that two of the oldest buildings in Manchester's Shambles Square (pictured) were physically moved twice – once in 1974 and again in 1999?
...that neoclassical Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi portrayed George Washington with a Roman haircut and a toga?
...that Slindon Cricket Team was the winning team recorded on the earliest surviving cricket scoresheet?
...that Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy's oldest national park?
...that quarterback Jack Crabtree of the Oregon Ducks football team was named Most Valuable Player of the 1958 Rose Bowl even though his team lost the game?
...that French mycologist René Maire wrote a work on the local flora of the Haute-Saône in the Franche-Comté region of northeastern France when he was only 18 years old?
...that several US Navy WWII troop transports, such as USS Hermitage, USS Monticello and USS Lejeune, were former ocean liners that were seized from the enemy?
...that the same spectacular mountain, Kriváň, links a Polish rock band, a King of Saxony, and the Slovak national movement from the 19th century?

03:22, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Lady Florence Dixie (pictured), feminist, big game hunter, war correspondent, and suffragette, was the aunt of Oscar Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas?
...that the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, Israel, is named after Hillel Yaffe, a doctor who served nearby Jewish settlements in the early 20th century?
...that Maria, the Finnish form of Mary, is the most popular Finnish name used during the modern era?
...that Robert D. Knapp's squadron failed to see any action in World War I because the propellers for their Handley Page O/400 bombers arrived late?
...that Lake Piso, a brackish water lake in western Liberia, is the largest in the country?
...that the final decades of Visigothic rule in Spain have been labelled "protofeudal" by Spanish historians, but this label has been largely rejected in English historiography?
...that Wesley L. McDonald was the last admiral to hold the Allied Atlantic Command and the U.S. Atlantic Command, and lead the U.S. Atlantic Fleet at the same time?

15 March 2008

16:37, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Kiev Pechersk Lavra

...that Ukrainian Baroque architecture (example pictured) is distinct from Western European Baroque in its moderate ornamentation and simpler design?
...that after retiring, former Premier League footballer Adrian Whitbread worked in four different clubs as assistant coach for Martin Allen?
...that Jonathan Swift's "A Description of a City Shower" is considered by many, including Swift himself, to be his best poem?
...that Nurul Izzah Anwar, daughter of Malaysia's de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, defeated a three-term minister incumbent in her first contest for a parliament seat in Lembah Pantai?
...that oil tanker MV Transpacific is currently under contract to transport fuel for the U.S. Defense Department for US$18,848 a day?
...that Te Kopuru once had the largest sawmill in New Zealand?
...that writer-director Zoe Cassavetes appeared in her late father's film Minnie and Moskowitz at the age of one?
...that Salem First United Methodist Church is the tallest building in Salem, Oregon and is also the oldest Methodist church west of the Rocky Mountains?

10:26, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Silas C. Overpack's Michigan logging wheels (pictured), designed to haul logs across rough terrain, were 9 to 10 feet (2.7 to 3 m) high and always painted red?
...that A Walk to Beautiful, a film about five Ethiopian women with childbirth injuries, was picked by the International Documentary Association as the best feature documentary of 2007?
...that "Spieprzaj dziadu!" (Polish for "Piss off, old man!"), said by current Polish President Lech Kaczynski, has become one of the most famous phrases in modern Poland?
...that English writer Anne Brontë is buried in Scarborough, and not in Haworth with all her family?
...that Cumberland was a short-lived rugby league team in the inaugural NSW premiership season in 1908?
...that the Mitchell Recreation Area near Bly, Oregon, is the only location in the continental U.S. where Americans were killed during World War II as a direct result of enemy action?
...that Honoré de Balzac's novel Louis Lambert contains many autobiographical elements relating to his time at an Oratorian school in Vendôme?

04:19, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Jonathan Swift's (pictured) 1709 poem "A Description of the Morning", which discusses contemporary life in London, provided inspiration for William Hogarth's series of paintings Four Times of the Day?
...that only one of the twenty-six tunnels on the Blue Ridge Parkway is in Virginia?
...that Knut Rød, a Norwegian police inspector who arranged the deportation of over 500 Jews to Auschwitz in 1942, was acquitted after the war although no one denied he did it?
...that St John the Evangelist's Church in the village of Sandiway, Cheshire, was designed by John Douglas who had been born in the village and who was lord of the manor of Sandiway?
...that the town of Gratiot, Wisconsin is named after French–American U.S. Indian Agent Henry Gratiot?
...that most of the land that makes up the Santiam State Forest today was acquired by Oregon authorities because of delinquent taxes or purchases at minimal costs prior to foreclosure during the Great Depression?
...that Dennis Letts, who began acting at the age of fifty, made his Broadway theater debut in December 2007 in August: Osage County, which was written by his son, Tracy Letts?

14 March 2008

21:57, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Chamunda (pictured), a fearsome aspect of the Hindu Divine Mother, was worshipped by ritual human and animal sacrifices along with offerings of wine?
...that the 2007 Texas Longhorns football suspensions involved seven players, including one of the highest-ranking recruits for the Texas Longhorns college football team?
...that Nazi Germany's animal protection laws were the first in the world to place the wolf under protection?
...that after having over 912 million barrels of oil pumped out since the late 19th century, the Coalinga Oil Field, the eighth-largest oil field in California, is close to exhaustion?
...that Norwegian Parliament member Kjell Bondevik was the uncle of Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik?
...that mole rats home through their large burrows using the Earth's magnetic field?
...that Messina, Italy, known as Messene during the Sicilian Wars, was sacked by the Carthaginians in 397 BC in retaliation for the attack on Motya by Dionysius I of Syracuse?
...that Grey's Anatomy writer Gabrielle Stanton appeared as the character "Gabrielle" in the 1998 film Free Enterprise?

14:45, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Tjängvide image stone (pictured) is held to show a man, or Odin himself, arriving at Valhalla on Sleipnir where he is welcomed by a valkyrie?
...that the palm Actinorhytis calapparia is widely cultivated in Southeast Asia and Malesia, where local villagers attribute it magical or medicinal powers?
...that Paul Simon's ballad "Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" portrays Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte as a secret admirer of doo-wop music?
...that Naulakha pavilion, situated in Lahore Fort, was the inspiration behind Rudyard Kipling's novel The Naulakha and his house Naulakha?
...that the 2003 Insight Bowl, won by California 52–49 on a last-second field goal, was the second-highest-scoring regulation-length college football bowl game in history?
...that Polish novelist Bolesław Prus's tomb at Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery was designed by his nephew, the sculptor Stanisław Jackowski?
...that the RMS Sylvania was built for the transatlantic trade but spent only the first 10 years of her 46-year career in that role?
...that the Sydenham Hill Wood and the adjacent Dulwich Wood in South London form the largest remaining tract of The King's Wood?

08:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Howmet TX (pictured) earned the first win for a gas turbine racing car in 1968, before earning three more victories and setting six FIA land speed records?
...that Ismat ad-Din Khatun was the wife of two important medieval Muslim princes, Nur ad-Din and Saladin?
...that the Edinburgh Phrenological Society started its own journal to promote phrenology in 1824, after the Royal Medical Society refused to publish the results of a debate about the subject?
...that Ólchobar mac Cináeda, king of Munster and abbot of Emly, may be the "king of the Irish" who sent an embassy to Charles the Bald announcing Irish victories over the Vikings in 848?
...that garden plant Grevillea 'Peaches and Cream', a hybrid of G. banksii from humid subtropical Queensland and G. bipinnatifida from the Mediterranean climate of Western Australia, tolerates the climates of both its parents?
...that the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop was owned by the same family for over 140 years, and served two American presidents and Robert E. Lee?
...that Gaffney Ridge, an undersea ridge in the South China Sea, was named for Paul G. Gaffney II, President of Monmouth University and a former United States Navy Vice Admiral?

01:42, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

...that much of medieval Chester Castle (pictured) was rebuilt in neoclassical style by architect Thomas Harrison around 1800?
...that the original arcade cabinet of the shooter game The Typing of the Dead used two QWERTY keyboards?
...that the Battle of Shaizar in 1111, between King Baldwin I of Jerusalem's Crusader army and a Seljuk army led by Mawdud bin Altuntash of Mosul, ended in a tactical draw?
...that the edible mushroom Boletus barrowsii is popular with maggots, who often beat mushroomers to their goal?
...that according to Ukrainian folklore, the girl who finds Chervona Ruta, "Red Rue" in Ukrainian, on Ivan Kupala Day, will be happy in love?
...that British Columbians will get a second chance to vote on replacing the winner-takes-all election system with a single-transferable-vote system?
...that the Telugu film Amma Cheppindi was inspired by the science fiction story Flowers for Algernon?
...that American football head coach Skip Holtz is the son of the famed college football coach Lou Holtz?

13 March 2008

17:37, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Southampton Corporation Tramways tram No. 45 (pictured) was purchased for preservation by the Light Railway Transport League?
...that novelist Joseph Conrad was strongly influenced by his uncle and mentor Tadeusz Bobrowski, who is himself remembered in Poland as a notable memoirist?
...that the U.S. Supreme Court case Radovich v. National Football League, which held professional football subject to antitrust law, began with a brief drafted on the back of a napkin?
...that Funny Car drag racing pioneer Jack Chrisman set a class record at 188 mph, only to have the engine blow up two weeks later and the car burn to the ground?
...that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, wrote the story for the 1938 Columbia movie serial The Secret of Treasure Island?
...that Keewassee, a Potowatomi warrior, attempted to destroy a dam built by settler William Davis and was severely beaten with a hickory rod when caught?
...that Marzieh Meshkini's 2000 film The Day I Became a Woman depicts three stages in the lives of Iranian women, focusing on a nine-year-old girl, a married woman, and an elderly widow?
...that Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy won the 2007 Rookie of the Year Award by a near-unanimous vote despite missing almost a third of his first season in the NBA due to injuries?

10:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Paul Cézanne's The Bathers (pictured) is often considered his greatest work and one of the masterpieces of modern art?
...that rumored use of lard or tallow, offensive for religious reasons, to lubricate paper cartridges was one of the causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
...that John Knatchbull was the first person to plead moral insanity in Australia?
...that over 120,000 cubic yards of asbestos-containing sediment from an active, slow moving landslide is deposited into Swift Creek, Washington each year?
...that critics from the Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly have described "The Other Woman" as the worst episode yet of the fourth season of the television show Lost?
...that Kashmir Singh, an Indian spy, was released last week after 35 years of captivity in Pakistan?
...that the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims uses 70,000 fiber optic lights to represent the number of people killed by the atomic bomb?
...that film composer Mateo Messina has written a benefit symphony concert for the Seattle Children's Hospital each year for the past decade?

04:24, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Grover Cleveland laid the cornerstone of the central sculpture at Lafayette Square (pictured) when he was Mayor of Buffalo, and dedicated it when he was New York Governor?
...that George Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury, helped organise the building of fifty new churches to replace those lost in the Great Fire of London?
...that the wood of Myoporum sandwicense, a shrub-like plant known as "bastard sandalwood", was used by the early Hawaiians as log frames for thatched houses and torches for night fishing?
...that gothic Trinity College Kirk, a 1460 memorial to King James II of Scotland, was demolished in 1848 to make way for Edinburgh's Waverley Station?
...that Epigraphia Carnatica, compiled by Benjamin L. Rice, contains a study of about 9000 inscriptions found in the Old Mysore region of India?
...that the American Loyalist surveyor Augustus Jones fled to Canada, where he raised families by a Mohawk wife and a Mississauga mistress?

12 March 2008

17:41, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

...that double flowers were first documented as a floral abnormality in ancient Greece and are found in many common flower varieties including impatiens (example pictured), carnations, camellias and roses?
...that Padfield in Derbyshire belonged to William the Conqueror, but was given away by his heirs, firstly Henry I, then Henry II and then Henry VIII?
...that Russian musician Vassily Vassilievich Andreyev is considered the father of the academic folk instrument movement in Eastern Europe?
...that the Australian common Leaf curling spider is unusual in that pairs cohabit in the same leaf, though at opposite ends, even before mating at maturity?
...that Arthur A. Denny, one of Seattle's founders and a lifelong teetotaler, had customers buy their liquor from sea captains so he could stay out of the transactions?
...that Soviet scholars coined the term ‘democratic satire’ to describe the three-century old Russian tale of Frol Skobeev?

10:12, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Union's Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church (pictured) was the first church in New Jersey to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
...that the Indiana state constitution specifically states that Indianapolis' Military Park can never be sold?
...that Nalknad Palace in the Indian state of Karnataka was the final refuge of Chikka Veerarajendra, the last king of Kodagu?
...that David Beckham and Victoria Adams were given a replica of Cheshire's Rookery Hall as a cake at their engagement party?
...that 16 people died when the top two floors of the Northridge Meadows Apartments on Reseda Boulevard collapsed in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake?
...that despite his complete lack of mountaineering experience, the English adventurer Maurice Wilson reached an elevation of 22,700 feet (7,450 m) on his doomed solo attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1934?

02:25, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Channel-billed Cuckoo (pictured) of Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia is the world's largest brood parasite?
...that American late model dirt track racer Scott Bloomquist races at selected high money events instead of in national touring series?
...that Canterbury Music Hall, which opened in 1852, was the first purpose-built tavern music hall?
...that Vietnamese-born artist and photographer Binh Danh has created leaf images called chlorophyll prints, using the negatives of photographs?
...that Bishop George Algernon West, the Lord Bishop of Rangoon 1935–1954, became for two months the Bishop of Atlanta, Georgia while the Japanese occupied Burma?
...that the author of The Strange Death of Tory England advises UK Conservatives to learn from the conservatism of the socialist George Orwell?
...that Western Brook Pond, a landlocked fjord in Gros Morne National Park on the island of Newfoundland, was the site of a 30 m (98 ft) tsunami in the early 20th century?
...that the water managed by the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company of London was once described by a microbiologist as "the most disgusting I have ever examined"?

11 March 2008

19:37, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the subject in art of Christ taking leave of his Mother (pictured) has no biblical basis but derives from medieval devotional writing?
...that Union Army Paymaster General Benjamin Brice changed the recruitment of deputy paymasters from being political nominees to ones who passed examinations?
...that the Yokohama Museum of Art has Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí and Henri Matisse represented in its collection?
...that Endel Puusepp became a Hero of the Soviet Union after flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front?
...that the Willamette Collegian, the college newspaper of Willamette University in Oregon, was named an all-star publication by the National Pacemaker Awards a record 16 times in a row?
...that Eugenio Perez was the Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives when the Philippines became independent from the United States in 1946?
...that Arthur Sullivan's Boer War Te Deum was written to celebrate the expected British victory in the Boer War, but because the war dragged on for almost two more years, both Sullivan and Queen Victoria had died before the piece premiered?
...that the 1951 film Where No Vultures Fly is a fictionalised account of the work of the conservationist Mervyn Cowie?

12:44, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Victory Boulevard (pictured), running the 25-mile length of the San Fernando Valley, is mentioned in Randy Newman's I Love LA: "Victory Boulevard (We Love It!)"?
...that before Danish director Bille August made his Oscar-winning Pelle the Conqueror, he had great domestic success with the children's television series and movie Busters verden?
...that part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 was rushed through, which enabled the Russian government to allow Matisse's painting of The Dance into the UK?
...that the book Description of Africa by the Muslim slave Joannes Leo Africanus was an important source of information on the North African Islamic civilization during the European Renaissance?
...that in his easy re-election in the 2004 North Dakota gubernatorial election John Hoeven was endorsed by the state teachers' union, which normally supports Democrats?
...that Broad Clyst railway station attracted residential development in the immediate area and even today the area around the former station is known as "Broadclyst Station"?
...that the Kaipara Harbour of Northland, New Zealand, was named at a hāngi on the Pouto Peninsula, at which the para fern (Marattia salicina) was served?

05:10, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

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...that it took 38 years to build the Indiana World War Memorial (pictured), which deteriorated during its building?
...that Pope Pius XII Church policies after World War II involved global reconstruction of war-damaged Catholic institutions?
...that in 999, Bishop Bernard of Gaeta had to seek help from an aide of the Emperor Otto III to force the diocese's slaves to work?
...that Alex, the Stroh's dog that would fetch and pour beer, died of cancer?
...that the South Carolina secessionists had to relocate from their original meeting site at Columbia's First Baptist Church, due to a smallpox outbreak?
...that the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations required all 241 UK work-related deaths in 2006/7 to be reported — even if the victims take a year to die?
...that current Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister and ambassador to the OAS Jorge Valero, a vocal spokesman for the Chavez government, fell out with his brother Hidalgo, an anti-Chavez activist?
...that the Calhoun Beach Club building in Minneapolis, Minnesota has served as a social club, a TV studio, a hotel, apartments, a home for the elderly, and most recently as a sports and social club?

10 March 2008

23:00, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Mamadou Diabaté (pictured), a Malian kora player, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005, but lost to his cousin Toumani Diabaté?
...that the Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act 2007 will allow social security information to be passed to the BBC?
...that the insect hormone bursicon hastens the tanning of the cuticle and hardens it?
...that Operation Himmler was a Nazi Germany false flag operation, intended to create an appearance that the German invasion of Poland was a defensive war provoked by a Polish attack on Germany?
...that Maturinus was the patron saint of jesters, comic actors, and clowns during the Middle Ages?
...that a papillary fibroelastoma, typically involving one of the valves of the heart, is the third most common type of primary tumors of the heart?
...that the Eve of Destruction, named after a protest song and on display at the U.S. Army Transportation Museum, is the only surviving example of a Vietnam era gun truck?
...that Swami Rama Tirtha was one of the first Hindu swamis to teach Vedanta in the West?

13:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

...that despite the lack of native vegetation, the endangered San Joaquin Kit Fox (pictured) continues to use areas of the South Belridge Oil Field in California as habitat?
...that whilst both Richard Kirkby and George Walton were present at the Action of August 1702, Walton went on to be an Admiral, whilst Kirkby was executed for cowardice?
...that under the 2002 Andean Trade Preference and Drug Eradication Act the United States eliminated tariffs on 6,300 products from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru?
...that the Kannada writer Kirtinath Kurtakoti died of cardiac arrest just hours after his wife's death?
...that the Murat Centre is the only Shrine temple with a French name, and is the largest Shrine temple in North America?
...that television writer Josh Senter rarely watched television until he was fourteen because of his parents' fundamental Christian beliefs?
...that the Wärtsilä Turku shipyard in Finland built five state-of-the-art cruiseferries for the Black Sea Shipping Company, Soviet Union, in 1975–1976?
...that Karol Szajnocha, one of Poland's leading 19th century historians, was self-taught as he was expelled from university?
...that retreating glaciers of the Himalayas produce vast and long-lived supraglacial lakes, many kilometres in diameter and scores of metres deep?

07:11, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the tragic ending of Shakespeare's King Lear was found to be so distasteful that it was replaced on stage for over 150 years by Nahum Tate's adaptation (pictured), with a happy ending and a love story?
...that the proposed Doncaster railway line, Melbourne, first planned in 1890, would cost around ten times as much to build now as the A$41 million estimated in 1972 when the route was decided?
...that Scottish nurse and serial killer Colin Norris is thought to have killed his four geriatric victims because he had "a real dislike of elderly patients"?
...that most urban water service providers in Peru can be considered bankrupt as water bills are often not paid?
...that Mrs Sherwood's evangelical story The History of Little Henry and his Bearer was in print for 70 years after its publication in 1814 and was translated into eight languages?

9 March 2008

23:49, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Dr. Demento (pictured), a DJ specializing in novelty songs and parodies, got his start at KRRC (FM), the student-run radio station of Reed College?
...that after being paralyzed in a car accident in 1964, Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996 for her services to disabled people?
...that Banduan and Manbazar in West Bengal, India, are located in an area of violent political activities by Maoists?
...that Cornelio Villareal and Jose Laurel, Jr. were the last two Speakers of the House of Representatives before the Philippine Congress was abolished by Ferdinand Marcos in 1972?
...that the discovery of gold by Custer's 1874 Expedition triggered the gold rush that precipitated the Black Hills War?

16:28, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Giovanni Faber (pictured), doctor to the Pope, botanist and art collector, coined the name "microscope"?
...that the Town Hall in Słupsk, Poland, was built on land reclaimed from a lake?
...that The Queen producer Andy Harries was fired as a newsreader for speaking too fast in a broadcast?
...that Larrys Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania has 42 named tributaries in its watershed, including one named "Little Dog Run"?
...that the Hertford East Branch Line, a railway line in the United Kingdom, used to link to the Hertford Loop Line but was severed due to the Beeching Axe?
...that medieval cycles of the Life of the Virgin could have as many as 53 scenes before reaching the Annunciation of her pregnancy?

08:38, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Tibetan Buddhist monks attending a shedra university (example pictured) may be asked to completely memorize their school texts before they begin to study them?
...that The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. is a controversial 1981 novella by George Steiner in which Hitler is found alive in the Amazon jungle and claims to be the Jews' benefactor?
...that the Elk Hills Oil Field in San Joaquin Valley is the largest natural gas-producing oil field in California, and has produced over 2 trillion cubic feet (60 billion m³) of gas since its discovery in 1911?
...that the 1989 Spanish film If They Tell You I Fell was nominated for seven Goya Awards?
...that the main opposition party Fidesz supported the 2003 Hungarian European Union membership referendum but warned that up to 100,000 jobs could be lost?
...that as New York's General Counsel, Michael C. Finnegan ended a century-old debate over New York City's water supply when he brokered the New York City Watershed Agreement?

01:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Museum Wharf in Boston has a 40' (12 m) tall milk bottle (pictured) that was built during the Great Depression and transported to the wharf by barge in the 1970s?
...that Bhanbhagta Gurung returned to his farm in Nepal in 1946, after receiving a Victoria Cross for his actions while serving with the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles in Burma?
...that the troop transport USS Wakefield, a former luxury liner, operated in World War II as a "lone wolf" by relying on her speed to avoid Nazi U-Boats?
...that Scottish footballer Kevin Bremner scored for five different teams in the Football League during the 1982–83 season?
...that the Julian Price Memorial Park, developed in Julian Price's honor, and the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park are the largest developed recreational areas on the Blue Ridge Parkway?

8 March 2008

17:25, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

...that legend at Banagher says its church (pictured) was founded by a saint, led there by a stag acting as a lectern and carrying a book on its antlers?
...that state representative Dianne Primavera, a breast and cervical cancer survivor, sponsored legislation for the Colorado Breast and Women's Reproductive Cancers Fund?
...that because of its dorsal fin, Carolus Linnaeus first described the Permit as Labrus falcatus, with the latter part of the scientific name meaning "armed with scythes?"
...that former football player and manager Alan Brown quit Huddersfield Town and became a policeman for two and a half years before rejoining the club?
...that in 1955, black promoter Thurman Ruth booked the Selah Jubilee Singers, to perform in a music venue, New York's Apollo Theater, the first gospel group to play commercially?

11:34, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

...that writer and spinster Lady Louisa Stuart (pictured) wrote a ballad about cannibal brothers and the fate of a woman who married for money?
...that Robert DeBlieux, a former mayor of Natchitoches, Louisiana, was the local advisor when the film Steel Magnolias was shot in the city?
...that Lieutenant Commander Willis Lent and his submarine the USS Triton fired the first United States Navy torpedo to be used against the Japanese during World War II?
...that Pope Innocent XIII was not elected till the seventy-fifth ballot at the papal conclave in 1721?
...that the first Dutch satellite, the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, had the Main Belt asteroid 9996 ANS named after it?
...that the Willhire 24 Hour race became the first 24 hour endurance race to take place in the United Kingdom in 1980?

04:27, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the painting Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten (pictured) by Hans Gude was sold by the Kunsthalle Bremen art museum in part because its large size—4.76 m² (52 square feet)—made it difficult to store?
...that singer Irvan Perez was considered to be one of the last performers of the traditional Isleño décimas of Louisiana, since there are few members of that community who still know how to sing the songs?
...that Canada's first urban Indian reserve was established in 1981 at Kylemore, Saskatchewan?
...that nearly a decade before the official Bordeaux wine classification was released, the directory Cocks & Féret published their own ranking of Bordeaux wine estates?
...that the Best Bakery case is a legal case involving the killing of 14 people in Vadodara, India, during the 2002 Gujarat violence?
...that 75 people in the Soviet Union were awarded the Order of the Red Banner, with their names published in Pravda, for the successful mass deportations out of the Baltic States in 1949?

7 March 2008

18:50, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

...that "Brave" Admiral Benbow (pictured), celebrated in song, was compensated by the British Treasury after a three month visit by Tsar Peter the Great left his house "entirely ruined"?
...that the establishment of the quaestura exercitus by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I helped to economically secure the lower Danube region?
...that Malheur Reservation in Oregon was set aside for Native Americans in 1872 and opened to European American settlement by Ulysses S. Grant in 1876?
...that the Kapodistrias Museum in Corfu, Greece, donated by Maria Desylla-Kapodistria the first female Greek mayor, was dedicated to the memory of the first Greek governor, Ioannis Kapodistrias?
...that Gamma, a gamma-ray telescope, was launched in 1990, 25 years after it was originally conceived?
...that botanist Henry Lyte's Niewe Herball of 1578 was an English translation of the 1564 Cruydeboeck of Rembert Dodoens printed in Antwerp with the woodcuts of the original edition?
...that Mosida, Utah was a failed planned community whose developers tried to irrigate the desert with water pumped from Utah Lake?

10:38, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

...that after the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, the Loop Retail Historic District (pictured) was Chicago's premier retailing district until it was replaced by commuter suburbs and the Magnificent Mile?
...that Eastern Christians believe that the tomb on the Mount of Olives is the Tomb of Mary?
...that the ten cannons of Fort Guijarros, built in 1797 as the first defensive fortifications for San Diego Bay, California, have been fired in action only twice since?
...that Florence J. Harriman, an American socialite, suffragist, diplomat and author, was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the Norwegian royal family when Germany invaded Norway in 1940?
...that if all the video games traded at Goozex in 2007 were stacked on top of each other, the resulting pile would reach 2,132 feet (650 m), more than 450 feet (137 m) taller than Taipei 101?
...that Socialist Paulina Veloso, exiled during Pinochet's rule in Chile, has served in the governments of all four post-Pinochet presidents, including holding the cabinet-level presidential Chief of Staff position from 2006 to 2007?

6 March 2008

20:39, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

...that heddles (pictured) have an integral role in weaving, and that a loom will use several hundred at once?
...that Sultanahmet Jail in Istanbul, Turkey, which served mostly as a prison reserved for intellectual dissidents, is today a five-star hotel?
...that Baxter v. United States determined that since poker was a game of skill, poker winnings should be treated as earned income instead of unearned income?
...that the original name of Euphemia, empress consort of Justin I of the Byzantine Empire, was 'Lupicina', which led historian Alexander Vasiliev to associate her with she-wolves and prostitution?
...that while one naval historian praised Richard Lestock for his "zeal and attention", another declared he "ought to have been shot"?
...that the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beau-Séjour Bécot was demoted in the Saint-Émilion classification amidst controversy, only to be later re-instated?
...that the Söflingen Abbey in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg is the oldest nunnery of the Order of Poor Ladies in Germany?

11:40, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

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...that Zouave Guards of Indianapolis volunteered to fight before the American Civil War broke out, but its leader Francis A. Shoup (pictured) switched sides and joined the Confederates before the war began?
...that both William Wentworth, Earl of Strafford and his wife were painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds?
...that antiepileptic drugs have been shown to prevent early post-traumatic seizures but not post-traumatic epilepsy?
...that the earliest surviving ensenhamen (an Occitan didactic poem) was written by the troubadour Garin lo Brun around 1155?
...that hawkers in Kolkata, numbering 275,000, occupy pavements and generate annual business worth around 2 billion dollars?
...that Professor Lalit Goel of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore became an internet celebrity after footage of his lectures were uploaded to YouTube?
...that the briefly popular "I'm Backing Britain" campaign in 1968 suffered embarrassment when a number of t-shirts bearing the slogan were found to be made in Portugal?
...that the Marshall Field and Company Building has three separate atria?

02:20, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

...that although Peckforton Castle in Cheshire (pictured) was built as a family home in 1850, it mimicked a Norman castle in design and position?
...that the Persian political-philosophical treatise, the Siyasatnama, provides evidence for the survival of pre-Islamic traditions within the Seljuq empire?
...that in Toolson v. New York Yankees, the U.S. Supreme Court first considered a player's challenge to Major League Baseball's reserve clause?
...that the Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary in Chełm, Poland, now a Catholic church, was formerly an Orthodox one?
...that the first psychosurgery in the United Kingdom was performed in Bristol in December 1940?
...that Hugh Ruttledge led the 1933 Mount Everest expedition on which Andrew Irvine's ice axe was discovered?
...that on 28 November 1968 the Finnish ferries MS Ilmatar and MS Botnia collided in the Åland archipelago, resulting in the death of six people?

5 March 2008

19:46, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Chardin's painting Le Bénédicité ("The Grace") (pictured) was given as a gift to King Louis XV?
...that during World War II, the Roosevelt Community Library in Minneapolis held storytimes for children, partly to help reduce juvenile delinquency in the Standish neighborhood?
...that as he lay dying, the American Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen declared that there is no hope without the active obedience of Christ?
...that Israeli agricultural output is now 16 times what it was at independence in 1948, which means that it has risen three times more than the population growth rate?
...that while in charge of the MESAN political party, President for Life Jean-Bédel Bokassa appointed Elisabeth Domitien to serve as the prime minister of the Central African Republic, making her Africa's first female head of government?
...that Japanese American journalist Bill Hosokawa and his family were released from the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center in 1943 in order to take a job as a copy editor with The Des Moines Register?
...that Tanaz Eshaghian's film Be Like Others explores the experiences of transsexuals in Iran, a country that outlaws homosexuality but sanctions sex-reassignment surgery?

12:29, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

...that many of the viaducts (pictured) on the Chemin de Fer de Côtes du Nord were two-tiered structures, and that the Viaduc de Souzain had a railway junction on the viaduct itself?
...that Robert Oxnam, who wrote a memoir describing his dissociative identity disorder, was president of the Asia Society for over a decade?
...that the original Roanoke Street Railway Company streetcar tracks were removed from the Memorial Bridge during its 2002–03 restoration?
...that British industrialist Sir Maurice Laing was the first president of the Confederation of British Industry?
...that despite much preparation by Prussia, Toruń Fortress, one of the largest defence complexes in Central and Eastern Europe, did not play a significant role in World War I?
...that the 1940 Czortków Uprising was a failed attempt by anti-Soviet teenagers to free Polish soldiers?
...that Flat Top Manor, built by textile industrialist Moses H. Cone in 1900, gets nearly 250,000 visitors annually as the main feature of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in North Carolina?

03:09, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Air Marshal John McCauley's (pictured) university degree was an unusual qualification for a pilot in the pre-war RAAF, whose officers generally "valued little beyond flying ability"?
...that the author of the best-selling book Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, who claimed to be a Holocaust survivor, admitted her memoir was a hoax?
...that lawyer James A. MacAlister was the first president of Drexel University?
...that with over 370 officers and ratings, HMS President is one of the largest "stone frigates" of the Royal Naval Reserve?
...that according to historian Rev. H B Kendall, five Camp Meetings which led to the establishment of Primitive Methodism as a denomination in 1811 were held in Ramsor in Staffordshire?
...that the conservative Thai Social Action Party was founded in 1974 by politician and former Prime Minister of Thailand Kukrit Pramoj?
...that the Chelembra Bank Robbery, one of the biggest bank robberies in Kerala, was quickly solved by the Kerala Police and the stolen goods recovered?

4 March 2008

21:09, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Heinz Guderian

...that Heinz Guderian (pictured) and Adolf Hitler had heated arguments while planning for Operation Solstice, one of the major German offensive operations on the Eastern Front during WWII?
...that writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse were careful not to create a paradox in the plot of "The Constant", a fourth season episode of Lost that features time travel?
...that free MMS were sent out to all 5.5 million mobile phone subscribers in Singapore to alert them of the prison break of ISA detainee Mas Selamat bin Kastari?
...that Evagrius Scholasticus, John of Ephesus, Gregory of Tours and Paul the Deacon all accused Byzantine Emperor Justin II and his empress consort Aelia Sophia of greed?
...that treated wastewater from Kern River Oil Field, the fifth-largest U.S. oil field, is used to irrigate crops in the San Joaquin Valley in California?
...that the hazaj meter was the most popular meter for Iranian romantic epics in the 11th century?
...that artist Chryssa constructed The Gates to Times Square, a 10 ft (3 m) cube of neon, acrylic glass and stainless steel through which museum visitors may walk?

11:11, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Folk Art Center (pictured) located in Asheville, North Carolina is the most popular attraction on the Blue Ridge Parkway with 250,000 visitors per year?
...that Sir Ralph Howell, farmer and Conservative MP for North Norfolk for 27 years, argued for the adoption of a "workfare" system of unemployment benefits in the UK?
...that the 2004 Montana gubernatorial election saw the first bipartisan ticket since the constitution required Governors and their Lieutenants to run as a team?
...that Christopher Tin is the first Fulbright scholar for film scoring?
...that former Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday footballer Brian Hornsby trekked to Machu Picchu with musician Tony Hadley in aid of Action Medical Research?
...that Frank Winder, one of the leading Irish rock-climbers of the 1950s and 60s, started climbing to search for rare plants and insects?
...that in two decades Australian record producer, audio engineer and mixer Tim Whitten has worked with artists including Powderfinger, The Go-Betweens, and Hoodoo Gurus?

05:09, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Admiral John Forbes (pictured) refused to sign the death warrant imposed on fellow Admiral John Byng, convinced of his innocence?
...that the song "Vodka" will represent Malta at Eurovision Song Contest 2008?
...that Stockport County physio Rodger Wylde formed a rock group with player Tom Bennett whilst treating his broken leg?
...that Nihon Go Gakko, a Japanese language school in Tacoma, Washington, later became a gathering point for Japanese residents during World War II, being sent to internment camps?
...that Adam Franz Lennig organized the first Katholikentag in Mainz in 1848?
...that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Cui Shi was believed to have risen to power through affairs with Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping?
...that the final streetcar to service Roanoke, Virginia went from Grandin Road Commercial Historic District to downtown on July 31, 1948?
...that Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer made their sitcom debut with their 1992 Channel 4 pilot The Weekenders?
...that American rockabilly musician Bobby Lee Trammell nearly fell off a radio broadcast tower during a botched practical joke?

3 March 2008

23:11, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

...that a Venetian foundation seeking to rebuild the Bucentaur (model pictured) has written to Nicolas Sarkozy for a financial contribution as compensation for Napoleon's 1798 destruction of the original ship?
...that Joyce Carlson, designer of the Disney theme park attraction "It's a Small World", was the first female employee to achieve a fifty-year service record with Disney?
...that the 1917 Pinar del Río hurricane is the third most intense cyclone to make landfall in Cuba, with a low atmospheric pressure reading of 928 mbar (27.40 inHg)?
...that Sherefudin's White Mosque, where the mihrab, minbar and minarets have a folk art character subtly enhanced by the avant-garde geometries of their setting, won the 1983 Aga Khan Award for Architecture?
...that the 13th-century troubadour Guilhem de Montanhagol encouraged the conversion of the Cathars to Catholic orthodoxy by persuasion and opposed their violent suppression by the Albigensian Crusade?
...that Tews Fall, located within the Spencer Gorge / Webster's Falls Conservation Area, is the tallest of 96 waterfalls found in Hamilton, Ontario?
...that the Rolls-Royce Conway, a turbofan engine, was the first commercial aero engine to be awarded clearance to operate for periods up to 10,000 hours between major overhauls?
...that St James's Hall, London's principal concert hall and home of the Philharmonic Society in the 19th century, had annual seasons of blackface minstrelsy?

15:24, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

...that when Chester Cathedral (pictured) was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 19th century, its exterior was almost completely recased in Runcorn sandstone?
...that Heba Kotb, Egypt's first licensed sexologist, hosts a call-in show named The Big Talk where she gives Qur'anic advice?
...that Interstate 37 is one of the few limited-access hurricane evacuation routes away from the Texas coast?
...that wig wearing and addressing judges as "My Lord" or "Your Lordship" in Singapore courts was abolished by Chief Justice Yong Pung How in 1990?
...that Africans from the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the U.S. formed their own community of Africatown near Mobile, Alabama after the Civil War?
...that a group of Philippine congressmen were named after the Spice Girls?
...that upon his death, Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov told his son to destroy his final novel, The Original of Laura, but the manuscript remains in a Swiss Bank vault, its fate uncertain?
...that the 11th century Duke Yaropolk Izyaslavich is an Eastern Orthodox saint?
...that as a non-military form of conscription, a Finnish rescue authority official is entitled to order anyone in the municipality to assist in a rescue operation?
...that a poem by William Newton led to an end to gibbeting corpses in Derbyshire?

07:13, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Cray House (pictured) is a rare surviving example of post-and-plank style, once common across the Eastern Shore of Maryland?
...that Italy's Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico shipyard built two ocean liners named MS Stockholm for the Swedish American Line between 1936 and 1941, neither of which operated commercially?
...that during the Chicago Federation of Labor's 1903 convention, seven major brawls broke out, hospitalizing one man?
...that Kjesäter, a Swedish manor, was later the main assembly point for up to 50,000 refugees from German-occupied Norway during World War II?
...that Interstate 80 in Nevada crosses the Forty Mile Desert, the most dangerous part of the California Trail?
...that the butterfly Heliconius heurippa may be a separate species from—but a hybrid of—the species Heliconius cydno and Heliconius melpomene, a possible example of hybrid speciation?
...that Times Square Stores, which went bankrupt in 1989, was once considered Long Island's most prominent discount department store chain?
...that John Roby ignored some Lancashire oral traditions in writing about the boggart of Clegg Hall?
...that Democrat Bob Holden was the first incumbent Missouri Governor to lose a primary?
...that despite being a National Historic Landmark and the site of Washington's oldest known human remains, the Marmes Rockshelter was submerged after the Lower Monumental Dam construction?

01:11, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

...that after Dr. William Penny Brookes (pictured) began organising Olympian Games in Much Wenlock, England, in 1850, he was credited with inspiring the modern games?
...that HMS Bonaventure became the first ship to re-enter service with the Clan Line after the end of the Second World War, having spent five years as a submarine depot ship?
...that Abby and Julia Smith fought for women's suffrage by refusing to pay taxes to the Town of Glastonbury, Connecticut and almost lost their property Kimberly Mansion?
...that the Maltese European Union membership referendum saw the lowest support for joining, and highest turnout, of any of the states that held referendums on joining in 2003?
...that the Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek were Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth who offered their lives during the Holocaust in exchange for the release of citizens of Nowogródek?
...that much of Glencoe, Oregon, was relocated to the new town of North Plains after the railroad bypassed the old town?
...that the Dix of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet, a steamboat which sank and drowned over 45 people after a collision off Duwamish Head, Washington in 1906, was twice refused a seaworthiness certificate?

2 March 2008

18:36, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

...that NASCAR champion David Pearson won three auto races in a season in a Ray Fox-prepared Pontiac (pictured) ?
...that the first medical missions in China began in part because the missionary Robert Morrison wanted to discover whether the Chinese pharmacopoeia could cure disease in the West?
...that French geometer Émile Lemoine proposed a system of five operations to measure the "complexity" of compass and straightedge constructions?
...that the Brindavan Gardens in Karnataka is a Mughal style garden having a design similar to that of Shalimar Gardens in Kashmir?
...that in the post-WWII era, the Zidell family business based in Portland, Oregon became the largest shipbreaking operation in the U.S.?
...that the broadhead catfish, a carnivore, can be fed with rice bran?
...that French cardinals in the Papal conclave of 1758 vetoed the candidature of cardinal Cavalchini when he was only one vote short of being elected to the papacy?
...that Royal Navy captain Kenneth Dewar was controversially court-martialled in 1928 for criticising his flag officer, an event the press described as a mutiny?
...that in 1956 the Pidhirtsi Castle in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine burned for three weeks costing US$12 million in damages?

10:23, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Rear Admiral Patrick H. Brady (pictured), commander of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, is one of four active Hispanic Admirals in the U.S. Navy?
...that Adolf Hitler never thought much of the Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders despite its iconic status in the U.S.?
...that the Chinese government had no objections when the Eastern Orthodox Church canonized Metrophanes, Chi Sung and other martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion, but did object to canonizations by the Roman Catholic Church?
...that the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj in Central America were conquered when the Kaqchikel people allied with a Spanish force?
...that the 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake was the largest earthquake to hit the UK for over twenty years?
...that the Maratha Ditch was excavated around Calcutta, India, as a protection against attacks by Marathas, who, however, never attacked?
...that seeds of the water lily Euryale ferox may be toasted and eaten like popcorn?
...that the Augustaion, named after the Augusta Helena, was the main public square in medieval Constantinople?
...that the monk responsible for the current state of Thuyen Ton Temple in Vietnam lived to 102 years?

04:18, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Romanian clergyman Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni (pictured) was the first head of the church in Bessarabia after the Russian annexation?
...that the "Sound of Insanity" in Powderfinger's 2008 single "Who Really Cares (Featuring the Sound of Insanity)" is simply a sitar with synthesised effects overlaid?
...that pig fat, cannabis oil, fish, scorpions and hot sand were used in various offensive weapons in ancient and medieval warfare?
...that restaurant Beyti in Istanbul, famous for its Beyti kebab, once catered U.S. president Richard Nixon's Air Force One?
...that Truc Lam Temple is named after the Zen sect founded by Emperor of Vietnam Tran Nhan Tong, who abdicated the throne to become a monk?
...that the Sheffield Improvement Act 1818 required all owners of steam engines in the Yorkshire town to "consume" the engine's smoke?
...that Filipino poet José García Villa was known for his extensive use of commas, which made him known as the "Comma Poet"?

1 March 2008

20:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

...that Frances Siedliska (pictured) founded 29 communities of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth between 1875 and 1902?
...that the Telugu film Anasuya was said to be inspired by the Hollywood film The Silence of the Lambs?
...that Randi Weingarten, the openly gay president of the United Federation of Teachers, has been called one of the 25 most powerful women in New York City business?
...that Denmark's debut in the Eurovision Song Contest took place in 1957, when the country finished third and would be the most successful debutant until 1994?
...that General Anthony Bacon, hero of Waterloo, resigned his commission in protest when the colonelcy of the 17th Lancers was purchased by Lord Lucan?
...that Konrad Bartelski is the only British alpine ski racer to finish on the podium in a World Cup downhill race?

13:42, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the Reichstag dome (pictured) was originally designed as a cylinder by its architect Norman Foster?
...that a large number of Rwandans converted to Islam after the 1994 Genocide?
...that New York Assemblyman Gregory R. Ball proposed a measure offering free education for United States military veterans?
...that eight well preserved Maronite mummies dating back to the 13th century were uncovered by speleologists in the Qadisha Valley, Lebanon?
...that author Ken Kesey taught a course at the University of Oregon where he and thirteen students collaboratively wrote Caverns?
...that Ngo Duc Ke advocated the adoption of the Romanised quoc ngu to replace the chu nom script used in Vietnam for writing?
...that the young leaves and flowering stems of Senecio congestus can be made into a "sauerkraut"?
...that the Midway-Sunset Oil Field contains an estimated 584 million barrels of oil, which amounts to 18% of California's total estimated reserve?

05:52, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

...that the pot-de-fer (pictured) was the first metal cannon?
...that Inteco, a Russian company owned by Yelena Baturina, controlled 20% of the construction in Moscow?
...that the law professor Boudewijn Sirks has written on papyrology, food distribution in ancient Rome, and Sailing in the Off-Season with Reduced Financial Risk?
...that the current configuration of Sun Pass State Forest in Oregon was the result of a land swap between the state government and the federal forest service?
...that J.R.R. Tolkien was so incensed by the adaptation of proper names in the Dutch translation of The Lord of the Rings that he wrote a guide to advise future translators?
...that the abbot of Linh Son Pagoda, one of the tourist attractions in Da Lat, Vietnam, has held the post for more than forty years?