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28 February 2010

18:00, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the deadly skullcap (pictured) may cause gastrointestinal bleeding, a coma, kidney failure, or even death within seven days after eating?
... that in Das Erbe, a Nazi propaganda movie, a friendly professor shows a young blonde woman how animals pursue "racial policy"?
... that ambulanceman Stanley Skinner was awarded the British Empire Medal for his actions in the aftermath of the train crash at Marden, Kent in 1969?
... that the Three Parishes pilgrimage churches in the Slovenian village Rosalnice contain a 15th-century Gothic sanctuary with wall paintings depicting the crucifixion and Saint Christopher?
... that John Pittenger, former Pennsylvania Secretary of Education, was the first legislator to regularly employ high school seniors as legislative pages in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives?
... that the Philippine edition of Playboy magazine does not display frontal nudity or human genitalia in order not to go against Filipino values?
... that former football official Lencie Fred was the first Vanuatuan to be included on the FIFA list of referees?
... that David Hockney took two weeks to paint a moment that lasted two seconds in his 1967 painting A Bigger Splash?

12:00, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the extinct monkey lemurs, including Hadropithecus (pictured), were most closely related to modern indris and sifakas, as well as the extinct sloth lemurs?
... that when Francis Close retired as Dean of Carlisle Cathedral in 1881, he was the oldest dean in the Church of England?
... that Pocheon, a South Korean city located between Seoul and Gangwon province is famous for makgeolli (unfiltered rice wine) and galbi (marinated short beef ribs)?
... that human barricades, coordinated by the Dresden Without Nazis alliance, blocked Europe's largest annual neo-Nazi demonstration in February 2010?
... that George Meredith's book The Adventures of Harry Richmond first appeared in Cornhill Magazine between September 1870 and November 1871, with illustrations by George du Maurier?
... that biathlete Evgeny Ustyugov won the gold medal at the mass start event at his first Olympics three months after winning his first World Cup race?
... that the 9th century Pustakasala Hindu temple was discovered under the library construction site of Indonesia Islamic University?
... that Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon is considered a pioneer of fire insurance in England?

06:00, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

... that many works by "Brooklyn's greatest architect", Frank Freeman, have been destroyed, including the Hotel Margaret, Germania Club House, Brooklyn Waterworks, Bushwick Democratic Club House, Brooklyn Savings Bank and Thomas Jefferson Building (pictured)?
... that the Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park on Halmahera island of Indonesia, is considered vital for 23 endemic bird species?
... that despite serving the Chalcedonian Byzantine Empire, the Ghassanid ruler Al-Harith ibn Jabalah actively contributed to the revival of the monophysitic Syriac Church?
... that infragravity waves generated along the Pacific coast of North America propagate across the oceans and contribute to the breakup on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica?
... that Paula Dow, the New Jersey Attorney General, is the first African American woman to serve that post in the state's history?
... that while both U-117 and U-66 were attacked by aircraft from the USS Card on 7 August 1943, only U-117 was sunk?
... that the appearance of Raphael Friedeberg at the Monte Verità sanatorium turned Ascona into a center for itinerant anarchists?
... that fossils of the temnospondyl amphibian Kourerpeton were notoriously discovered in the window of a barber's shop in Arizona?

00:00, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the position of Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford was endowed by John Ireland (pictured), who was Dean of Westminster for more than 25 years?
... that the Patrick Henry Brittan House in Montgomery, Alabama, was built in 1858 by the 10th Secretary of State of Alabama?
... that Putsy Caballero is the youngest player ever to play in a game at third base in Major League Baseball history?
... that Archiinocellia is the only snakefly fossil genus from British Columbia and one of only two from Canada?
... that designated heritage designs by the early 20th-century Canadian architect Neil R. Darrach can be found in both St. Thomas, Ontario, and Regina, Saskatchewan?
... that Memories Off 5: Encore's PlayStation Portable port includes a built-in screen capture feature to download images onto a memory stick?
... that former professional footballer Tony Larkin helped to establish Britain's first football academy for visually impaired players?
... that a class action lawsuit was brought against a Pennsylvania school district for allegedly using webcams in school-issued laptop computers to spy on students at home?

27 February 2010

18:00, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Mark McGwire (pictured) hit more home runs than any player in Major League Baseball in 1997 yet did not lead a league in home runs?
... that at just over 18 millimetres (0.71 in), Fibla carpenteri is the largest species of snakefly known from amber?
... that in the four largest cities within the Greater Austin metropolitan area (US) the percentage of college-educated individuals in each is over 39% (compared to the national average of 24.4%)?
... that Tom Walley managed Watford's 1982 FA Youth Cup winning team, which included John Barnes, Nigel Gibbs and Neil Price?
... that eclectic and non-traditional Quartet San Francisco has been nominated five times for Grammy Awards, most recently for QSF Plays Brubeck, the first all-Dave Brubeck string quartet recording?
... that Iro ni Ide ni Keri Waga Koi wa was the result of both Windmill's staff and fans wanting a game that was set in a school setting?
... that the inaugural inductees into the University of Connecticut Huskies of Honor included 23 basketball players and four head coaches, including Hall of Fame coaches Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemma?
... that the short story "The Congress" by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was published in a deluxe edition with the letters made of gold?

12:00, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Rosenmontag parade of the Mainz carnival (pictured) had been filmed since 1910?
... that former Scotland international rugby union player Andrew Balfour led a health initiative that reduced malaria deaths in Khartoum, Sudan, by 90%?
... that 1967's Hurricane Doria was described as "one of the most erratic storms ever observed"?
... that after her European Parliamentary career, Anne André-Léonard served as the Assistant Commissioner for Belgium at the World Expo in Zaragoza from 2006 to 2008?
... that in Fort Geldria in South India there is a well-preserved Dutch cemetery, with tombstones carved in the Netherlands, cared for by the Archeological Survey of India?
... that the Latin poem Carmen Priami features an artificially archaic language as a reaction to the Hellenizing trend in Latin poetry led by Ennius?
... that the Israeli politician and diplomat Adin Talbar was the national 800 meter dash champion in 1942?
... that the tyranny of small decisions is a concept developed by the American economist Alfred E. Kahn in 1966, and has been applied to market failures, environmental degradation and health outcomes?

06:00, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

... that surviving works by Brooklyn architect Frank Freeman include the Herman Behr Mansion, Eagle Warehouse, Brooklyn Union Gas Company Headquarters, Villa Maria and Crescent Athletic Club House (pictured)?
... that in 2007, Fiji international goalkeeper Simione Tamanisau was prevented from playing in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match by the New Zealand authorities?
... that the mushroom Stropharia ambigua has been said to taste like old leaves?
... that Nasrullah Khan was Emir of Afghanistan for one week in February 1919?
... that the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway is the only NASCAR-sanctioned asphalt track in Wisconsin?
... that the American television program Cannabis Planet features horticulturist and author Ed Rosenthal as a cannabis "expert"?
... that in 1988, the Major League Baseball ERA title was decided by a margin of less than 1⁄100 of a run between Allan Anderson and Teddy Higuera?
... that some modern K'iche' Maya revere rival syncretised forms of the pre-Columbian Moon goddess Awilix that are said to be the lovers of St. James?

00:00, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Catskills' Esopus Creek (pictured, near Shandaken) is one of the most productive trout streams in the Northeast?
... that the English pirate Peter Love set up a base of operation in the Outer Hebrides, but was betrayed by an associate outlaw and executed by the Scottish Government in 1610?
... that for The Kinks' 1968 album Live at Kelvin Hall, sessions were held to "sweeten" the original live recording?
... that Fulcran Vigouroux was the first secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission?
... that the broad whitefish is eaten by brown bears when they cannot find salmon?
... that Joe Oeschger co-owns the Major League Baseball record for most innings pitched in a single game with 26?
... that the Tiller Ranger Station in southern Oregon served as the administrative headquarters for five different Umpqua National Forest ranger districts?
... that Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram survived the Dunkirk evacuation because the soap dish he was carrying in his military backpack stopped a bullet that would have hit him in the back?

26 February 2010

18:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the female sweetpotato bug (pictured) is very protective of her young?
... that King Farouk I of Egypt secretly communicated with representatives of Nazi Germany during World War II through his father-in-law Youssef Zulficar Pasha, Egypt's first ambassador to Iran?
... that the Church of the East, originally the Christian church of Sassanid Persia, eventually established churches throughout Asia, including in Mesopotamia, India, Central Asia, and China?
... that recombination refers to the formation of the first electrically neutral hydrogen atoms in the universe?
... that Andrea Fay Friedman's first voice-acting role was portraying Ellen, a young woman with Down Syndrome, on the "Extra Large Medium" episode of Family Guy?
... that KV35YL, a mummy that was discovered in the ancient Egyptian tomb KV35 in 1898 and thought to be male at the time, was recently determined by DNA testing to be King Tut's mother?
... that former Philadelphia Eagles running back Perry Harrington was expected to compete for the starting fullback job in 1981 when he broke his leg in the fourth game of the season?
... that the Alexandria Zoological Park in Alexandria, Louisiana, US, started mostly with discarded pets when it opened in 1926?
... that despite not sinking a single ship in her career, U-241 managed to shoot down a Norwegian Catalina flying boat?

12:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the brightly coloured Hildebrandt's Starling (pictured) nests in abandoned woodpecker burrows and holes in telegraph poles and fenceposts?
... that the Battle of Mingtiao marked the beginning of the Shang dynasty?
... that after Willy Schaeffler taught George Patton to ski, he moved to the US and became the most successful ski coach in US history?
... that Ororaphidia and Styporaphidia are the oldest snakeflies known from China, dating from the Middle Jurassic?
... that the BBC Sound Archive was founded in 1936 by Marie Slocombe while she was working as a temporary secretary disposing of sound recordings?
... that the spinnenkopmolen Arkens, Franeker, is the only windmill in the Netherlands fitted with Vlinderwieken (English: Butterfly sails)?
... that Australian triathlete Mirinda Carfrae in her first attempt at the Ironman distance broke the women's marathon course record at the 2009 World Championships?
... that Louis Robertshaw flew combat missions in World War II and Korea and flew an F-4D Phantom fighter in Vietnam as commanding general of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing?
... that in the Treaty of Bromberg, Poland-Lithuania accepted Hohenzollern sovereignty in the Duchy of Prussia in turn for an "eternal alliance"?
... that Thai director Yongyoot Thongkongtoon's debut film was The Iron Ladies, a fact-based sports comedy about a volleyball team of gay and transgender men?

06:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

... that a humongous fungus (example pictured) caused a media stir after it was reported to cover an area of 37 acres (15 ha), weigh at least 21,000 pounds (10,000 kg), and be 1,500 years old?
... that during the Convention of Aguascalientes the Zapatista Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama said that the Mexican flag symbolized "triumph of clerical reaction" and was then threatened by other attendees?
... that some participants in the men's singles luge event at the 2010 Winter Olympics complained that track changes made after the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili gave an advantage to stronger starters?
... that Alf Whist, Minister of Industry and Shipping in the Quisling regime, had no political experience prior to joining the Fascist party during Nazi Germany's occupation in the 1940s?
... that the American Pie franchise, consisting of a trilogy and spin-off spiritual successor series of four more films, spawned from the 1999 film American Pie?
... that Robert C. Janiszewski, longtime County Executive of Hudson County, New Jersey, was the highest-ranking elected official in state history ever to work undercover for the FBI?
... that Bangladesh football goalkeeper Biplob Bhattacharjee made his international debut at the age of 18?
... that the female Green Pygmy Goose has a lower pitched whistle than the male?
... that Norwegian journalist Audhild Gregoriusdotter Rotevatn is known for her unusual name and consistent use of Nynorsk?

00:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the residents of Cookham had to wait 1,400 years for a new bridge (pictured)?
... that Magnar Lundemo competed in international championships in both running and skiing in 1962?
... that only one of the twenty-five aircraft operated by Invicta International Airlines was a jet, a Boeing 720B?
... that in 1871, Lars Havstad became one of the first two deaf people to pass the final examination in secondary schools in Norway?
... that the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway has been described as "the most successful of all railways in Southern England"?
... that the substellar object orbiting G 196-3 was the second discovery of a brown dwarf found around a young low-mass star?
... that Egyptian diplomat Amr Bey picked up squash while posted in the United Kingdom and went on to win six consecutive British Open Squash Championships in the 1930s?
... that Electrinocellia peculiaris is named for the Latin "electrum" meaning amber, "Inocellia", the type genus for Inocelliidae, and "peculiaris" for the enigmatic nature of the species?

25 February 2010

18:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the oldest surviving translation of the Gospels into English was made at St Mary and St Cuthbert (pictured), Chester-le-Street, England?
... that Frank Allen originally worked as a coal miner before becoming a professional footballer at the age of 24?
... that the Humboldt Fault Zone, which produced the 1867 Manhattan, Kansas earthquake, still poses a formidable threat to the state of Kansas?
... that Cao Văn Viên was one of only two four-star generals in the history of South Vietnam?
... that the catfish Pimelodus pictus has extremely long barbels, or whiskers, that can extend past the fish's tail fin?
... that Chicago-born record producer Lou Reizner conceived and produced the orchestral version of The Who's rock opera Tommy?
... that the trial mode from Moto Racer 3 requires the player to maneuver an obstacle course on a motorcycle?
... that in 1955, former Belgian Member of the European Parliament Jean-Maurice Dehousse studied in Beverly Hills, California?
... that squire Richard Cooke shot dead two tax collectors as he claimed that they were poachers?

12:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

... that despite winning the first land victory against Japan in World War II at the Battle of Milne Bay, Major General Cyril Clowes (pictured) was relieved of his command for showing insufficient "vigour"?
... that the title story from Shakespeare's Memory by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is about a man who is given the memory of William Shakespeare?
... that in 1929, Wales international footballer Moses Russell was threatened with a pistol during a pitch invasion whilst on a tour of Canada?
... that Tsui Sing Lau Pagoda, a Declared Monument in Hong Kong, was built in 1486 to improve the local fung shui?
... that Gandhi biographer Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, a student of Eisenstein, is considered to be one of the pioneers of documentary film making in India?
... that the Vĩnh Tế Canal, built during the Nguyễn Dynasty in southern Vietnam, was a symbol of mistreatment of the Khmer people and later used by the Khmer Rouge in anti-Vietnamese propaganda?
... that Edwin C. Burt's shoe company issued a series of trade cards, one of which featured children sitting in a sailboat-shaped shoe?
... that Perica Vlašić won Diamonds at Henley, even though he turned up the day before the regatta without a boat?

06:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the whitefin, Cook's, Australian reticulate, spotted, leopard-spotted, painted, flagtail, speckled, saddled, and narrowbar swellsharks were all scientifically described in 2008, more than doubling the number of species in the genus Cephaloscyllium (example pictured)?
... that David Wilson was Nelson F.C.'s first manager in the Football League?
... that residents of Texcoco, Mexico State have resisted, sometimes violently, the development of a major airport since the 1990s?
... that Tony Award-winning producer Richard Barr took part in the infamous radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds?
... that four members of the Australian 7th Battalion received the Victoria Cross for their actions during the Battle of Lone Pine in August 1915?
... that Norman Doidge, author of popular science book The Brain That Changes Itself, presented his research into psychotherapy at the White House in 1993?
... that the Bahá'í Faith was first brought to Haiti in 1927?
... that Bloom Energy was awarded a patent in 2009 for a power device that utilizes yttria-stabilized zirconia?
... that the late Louisiana State Rep. Shady Wall once pulled a pistol on colleague Carl Gunter, Jr., when Gunter inadvertently disconnected Wall's telephone?

00:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

... that members of the United States Marine Corps (pictured) that were stationed in Central America in the early 20th century have been credited with bringing the sport of baseball to Nicaragua, and popularizing it in the area?
... that Alhaji Grunshi was the first soldier in British service to fire a shot in the First World War?
... that the principles of insanity in English law have been described as based on a "now obsolete" belief and "not therefore a satisfactory test of criminal responsibility"?
... that comedian and actor Dane Cook is referenced in the Archer episode "Training Day" when main character Archer negatively compares karate to him?
... that out of the described snakefly specimens from the Florissant Formation, the Raphidia funerata holotype is the most complete?
... that Fox Brothers, established in 1772, has provided cloth to Bob Hope, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor and Cary Grant?
... that Norwegian cross-country skier Øystein Pettersen won a gold medal in the team sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics after filling in for a teammate who withdrew from the race due to illness?
... that copies of a forthcoming Kraken Opus book about Diego Maradona will be sold with samples of his blood and hair?

24 February 2010

18:00, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Harold Bell co-created Woodsy Owl (pictured), mascot of the United States Forest Service, on the set of the television series Lassie?
... that West Indian cricketer Brian Lara has made the highest individual score and only quadruple century in Test cricket?
... that in order to convince defensive end Jody Schulz to sign a letter-of-intent, former East Carolina Pirates football coach Ed Emory took a plane to Kent Island during a snowstorm?
... that Joseph Gutnick, chairman of Great Central Mines, was advised by the Rebbe Menachem Schneerson to go back to the Australian desert and search for "gold and diamonds"?
... that Chinese Buddhist monk Song Yun and companions traveled to northwest India at the request of Empress Hu during the Northern Wei dynasty?
... that some historians consider a 1619 strike by Polish craftsmen in the Jamestown Settlement to be the first strike in North American history?
... that cartoonist Ken Emerson wrote the second-longest running comic strip in Australia?
... that pre-colonial sexual customs in the Philippines involved equating the size of a woman's breasts and the wideness of her hips with the price of the dowry?

12:00, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Oswald Watt (pictured) became the first Australian citizen to gain his Royal Aero Club pilot's certificate, before joining the French Foreign Legion on the outbreak of World War I?
... that Francisco Goya's Witches' Sabbath was a protest against superstitious beliefs encouraged by leaders of the Spanish Inquisition?
... that literary historian Rolf Nyboe Nettum, one of Norway's central Knut Hamsun researchers, grew up as a neighbour of polar explorer Otto Sverdrup?
... that the ancient Amber Road passed through the Postojna Gate to reach the Mediterranean?
... that 18th-century Swedish admiral Olof Strömstierna was the son of a fisherman?
... that rubicline was the first mineral discovered with rubidium as an essential constituent?
... that Marc'Antonio Mazzoleni was Galileo's personal instrument maker and helped Galileo make military compasses and other instruments?
... that French athlete Jason Lamy-Chappuis, who beat American Johnny Spillane in the final stretch of the individual normal hill/10 km Nordic combined event at the 2010 Olympics, was born in Montana?

06:00, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Batillus class supertankers Pierre Guillaumat, Prairial, Bellamya and Batillus (pictured) were four of the five biggest ships ever built?
... that after inheriting her late husband's tools in 1760, Hester Bateman successfully ran a family silversmithing business for 30 years?
... that over 100 Florida Black Bears are killed on Florida roadways each year?
... that Dean Fredericks, who portrayed Air Force pilot Steve Canyon in the 1958–59 NBC television series, was awarded a Purple Heart during World War II?
... that the mushroom Cortinarius archeri is featured on the cover of the book Fungi of Southern Australia?
... that during the Mexican Revolution, the rebel leader Jesús Salgado, whose revolt often shaded into outright banditry, led 5000 Zapatista troops in the taking of the capital of Guerrero, Chilpancingo?
... that between its 1960 closing and its current use as a museum, District School No. 14 in Pine Hill, New York, was a coat factory and a furniture repair shop?
... that Amy Williams, gold medal winner in skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics, was accused of getting an unfair advantage from ridges in her helmet?

00:00, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

... that after nearly two centuries of active use, the Royal Tobacco Factory (pictured) in Seville, Spain, was converted into the seat of the rectorate of the University of Seville?
... that college basketball point guard Demetri McCamey and Big Ten Conference foe Evan Turner were once teammates at Isiah Thomas' former high school?
... that Camp Na'aleh, which was established in 1932 with help from Golda Meir, the future Prime Minister of Israel, is the oldest Habonim Dror summer camp in North America?
... that for most of his European Parliamentary term, Gerhard Hager was a member of the Freedom Party of Austria, before leaving the party just over one year before the end of his second term?
... that R&B singer Barrence Whitfield changed his name from Barry White, to avoid confusion with the other Barry White, who had changed his name from Barrence?
... that College Sports Information Directors of America has conferred Academic All-American to athletes in all National Collegiate Athletic Association championship sports since 1952?
... that the arrest of the Ghassanid ruler Al-Mundhir ibn al-Harith in 581 provoked a two-year revolt by his sons against the Byzantine Empire?
... that the Old Harbor Light in Savannah, Georgia, also known as the Savannah Harbor Rear Range Light, resembles a giant streetlight?

23 February 2010

18:00, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Portuguese soldiers used Elephanta Caves – now a World Heritage Site – sculptures for target practice, sparing only the Trimurti (pictured)?
... that Erin Carmody's curling team twice won the Prince Edward Island provincial junior championships with an undefeated record?
... that Nanoraphidia electroburmica, known from a fossil in amber, is the smallest known snakefly species, living or extinct?
... that American Zen Buddhist monk Claude AnShin Thomas has walked 19,000 miles (31,000 km) on peace pilgrimages?
... that the renovated Russian embassy has been described as the most magnificent embassy in Luxembourg?
... that Crystal Taliefero, percussionist with the Billy Joel Band, also narrates children's audiobooks?
... that efforts to remove street vendors in the Tlaxcoaque area of Mexico City have resulted in threats to public officials?
... that Janet Vida Watson's first job involved researching the growth of chickens, but that she went on to become the first woman president of the Geological Society of London?

12:00, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Dương Vân Nga (statue pictured) is the only woman in the history of Vietnam to be married to two emperors, Đinh Tiên Hoàng of the Đinh Dynasty and Lê Hoàn of the Early Lê Dynasty?
... that Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient Arved Crüger was married to the actress Carola Höhn?
... that the 14.44-mile (23.2 km) Stert and Westbury Railway shortened the distance from London Paddington station to Weymouth by 14.24 miles (22.9 km)?
... that West Indians Viv Richards and Hallam Moseley top the batting and bowling charts in List A cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club?
... that the mushroom Russula integra is a popular food in Northern Europe?
... that Joseph Huddart, who made a fortune from making rope, first worked with his father to process fish that suddenly appeared in Solway Firth?
... that players can use the Wii Balance Board and shift their weight to control the monkey ball in Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll?
... that Alphastates vocalist Catherine Dowling has been compared to both Beth Gibbons and Shirley Manson and called "a lady with the most evocative vocals in Irish music"?
... that Marchwood Military Port in Southampton supported war efforts in both the Normandy landings and the Falklands war?
... that Austrian brothers Wolfgang and Andreas Linger beat out Latvian brothers Andris and Juris Šics for the gold medal in the doubles luge event at the 2010 Winter Olympics?

06:00, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Henry A. Peirce arranged the first state visit (pictured) of a ruling monarch to the U.S. for King Kalākaua and Ulysses S. Grant in 1874?
... that the Amalgamated Sugar Company, the second-largest polluter of sulfur dioxide in Oregon in 1995, marketed its White Satin sugar as "Oregon's Own and Only Sugar"?
... that sibling alpine skiers Ornella and Manfred Oettl Reyes are members of Peru's first team at the Winter Olympics, despite being born and living their entire lives in Germany?
... that critics of the prosecution of anarchist Sherman Austin pointed out that Wikipedia contained more online bomb-making instructions than his website did?
... that Neighbours actor Jordan Smith was born in Scotland and did not emigrate to Australia until 2003?
... that the bloater, which inhabits the depths of the Great Lakes, swells when brought to the surface?
... that Continental Navy Captain William Pickles' ship, the Morris, was destroyed by a hurricane and replaced shortly before the 1779 Battle of Lake Pontchartrain?
... that indoor plumbing was not installed in a former lock tender's cottage on the Delaware and Hudson Canal at High Falls, New York, until the 1960s, over a century after it was built?
... that Manuel Pinho was forced to resign as Portugal's Minister of Economy and Innovation after making a gesture towards an opposition member during a session of parliament?

00:00, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

... that in Florida, even Key Largo Woodrats (pictured) "want enormous homes"?
... that University of Michigan freshman Devin Gardner compiled 3,287 yards of total offense as a high school junior and was ranked as the top quarterback prospect in the United States in 2009?
... that "The Iron Shroud" by William Mudford influenced Edgar Allan Poe's writing of the "Pit and the Pendulum"?
... that the American Piedmont blues guitarist Baby Tate worked with a Blind Boy and a Peg Leg during his five-decade-long career?
... that Jeon Ok, a Korean actress and the mother of actress Kang Hyo-shil, was referred to as "Queen of Tears" for her excellence at acting for tragic dramas?
... that in TCU's first season in the Mountain West Conference, the 2005 TCU Horned Frogs football team won its first outright conference championship since 1958?
... that before becoming a Member of the European Parliament, Peter Sichrovsky edited a book featuring a collection of interviews with the children of Nazi families?
... that women who wish to participate in the Danza de los Voladores de Papantla must ritually ask forgiveness for being a woman?

22 February 2010

18:00, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the 1836 painting Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers (pictured) by Delaroche was thought lost in the Blitz of London of 1941, but was found in 2009?
... that the American Detroit blues musician Washboard Willie, derived his backing group's name, the Super Suds of Rhythm, from his job as a car washer?
... that the Maya site of Altar de Sacrificios in Guatemala was one of the first places to be settled in the Maya lowlands?
... that most of the world's pure bred Holstein cattle descend from the herd of 20th century Canadian actuary Thomas Bassett Macaulay?
... that Irish-born artist Francis Bacon painted 28 known triptychs between 1944 and 1984?
... that former Governor of American Samoa Gatewood Lincoln was the first cousin once removed of Abraham Lincoln?
... that numerically-controlled oscillators offer several advantages over other types of oscillators in terms of agility, accuracy, stability, and reliability?
... that in 1749, London newspapers advertised that at the Haymarket Theatre, and in full view of the audience, the Bottle Conjuror would climb into a wine bottle?

12:00, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

... that illegal logging in Madagascar has been an ongoing problem, which escalated after the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, threatening endangered species such as rosewood trees (pictured) and lemurs?
... that in 2004, MEP Hans Kronberger unsuccessfully contested his fellow Freedom Party of Austria candidate's election to the European Parliament in the Constitutional Court of Austria?
... that Captain Phil Harris, best known from the Discovery Channel's reality TV series Deadliest Catch, developed a line of coffees called "Captain's Reserve"?
... that Vespula flaviceps larvae are considered a delicacy in Japan?
... that Bulgarian graphic artist Stefan Kanchev, the author of 1,600 logos, has been called the "father of Bulgarian graphic design" and the "master of the trademark"?
... that the silent comedy Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford was playing at Washington, D.C.'s Knickerbocker Theatre when it collapsed under the weight of snow from a blizzard in 1922, killing 98 people?
... that Latvian Haralds Silovs is the first Olympic athlete to compete in both the short and long track speed skating events on the same day?
... that one oldfield mouse was observed gently pulling out her young with her forefeet while giving birth?

06:00, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Stephen Crane (pictured) based the 1898 short story "The Open Boat" upon his personal experience of having survived a shipwreck off the coast of Florida?
... that the recently discovered extrasolar planet HIP 79431 b is regarded as one of the most massive planets around M dwarf stars?
... that Arthur Stayner, an English horticulturist who was important in the founding of the sugar industry in Utah, died in 1899 of lead poisoning from a lead pellet embedded in his heel?
... that Galentine's Day, an episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, had a story so romantic, its characters said it made The Notebook look like Saw V?
... that the Arlington Club, a private club organized by business and banking leaders in Portland, Oregon, excluded women from membership for 123 years before admitting them in 1990?
... that Björn Ferry, winner of the Men's pursuit biathlon event at the 2010 Winter Olympics, has suggested that athletes who use banned substances be given the death penalty?
... that despite being the oldest covered bridge in Lane County, Oregon, the Mosby Creek Bridge still remains open to traffic?
... that during the "Christmas coup" at radio station WBAI, Utrice Leid changed the locks on the doors?

00:00, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Presidential Medal of Freedom winner J. Warren Madden (pictured) was the first Chair of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, and said of his service on the Board, "It was all very frustrating"?
... that in 2003, Member of the European Parliament Marialiese Flemming proposed more than 80 amendments to a European Commission human tissue safety standards proposal?
... that at the Osborne House, Lonicera nitida shrubs were clipped to form stags that rise from beds of Felicia amelloides, Festuca glauca, and scarlet pelargoniums?
... that Paul Harrington, inventor of the Harrington implant, once tried out for the United States Olympic team?
... that the Trent Waterworks Company introduced Britain's first high pressure constant supply of mains water in Nottingham in 1831?
... that the Lefschetz theorem on (1,1)-classes proves the only case of the Hodge conjecture, a Clay Mathematics Institute million-dollar Millennium Prize Problem, which is known to be true on all Kähler manifolds?
... that in the Treaty of Labiau, Charles X Gustav of Sweden released Frederick William I of Brandenburg from the vassalage he had imposed on him in the Treaty of Königsberg?
... that Louis Merrilat played football with Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, trained Iran's Persian Guard, and served as a soldier of fortune in China and with the French Foreign Legion?

21 February 2010

18:03, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

... that of the twenty-three species of bustard found in the world, the Great Indian Bustard (pictured), found in Kutch Bustard Sanctuary in Gujurat, is the only one listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List?
... that Johnny Spillane's silver in the individual normal hill/10 km at the 2010 Winter Olympics is the first medal won by an American in Nordic combined?
... that the Beaverkill Valley Inn, near Lew Beach, New York, is the only remaining fishing lodge on the upper Beaver Kill from the early days of dry-fly trout fishing in the Catskills?
... that country music songwriter Chris Waters, who has written songs for Tim McGraw, Terri Clark and Rhett Akins, is the older brother of singer Holly Dunn?
... that the Beit Hanoun wedge was part of the Israeli strategy in Operation Yoav that sought to divide the Egyptian army into a number of pockets?
... that Stephen Crane's novella The Monster is thought to have been inspired in part by the 1892 lynching of Robert Lewis in Port Jervis, New York?
... that according to the National Geographic Society, Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva found the richest unlooted pre-Columbian tomb in the Western Hemisphere?
... that silver nitride is a contact explosive which can detonate from even the slightest touch, such as a falling water droplet?

12:03, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Cleopatra's Barge (pictured), built for the Crowninshield family in 1816, became the Royal Yacht of King Kamehameha II and the first American pleasure craft to sail across the Atlantic?
... that Austrian court painter Peter Fendi, known for his erotic paintings, was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier period?
... that Đại Việt sử lược is considered the oldest remaining annals of the history of Vietnam?
... that Mo Tae-Bum, a South Korean long track speed skater, won a 2010 Olympic gold medal on his 21st birthday?
... that the oldest association between Trypanosoma, which causes Chagas disease, and its vector, the assassin bug Triatoma, is found in Triatoma dominicana and Trypanosoma antiquus?
... that in 2003, Austrian Member of the European Parliament Daniela Raschhofer was conferred a Grand Decoration of Honour?
... that Horagolla National Park is the only urban park in the Western Province of Sri Lanka?
... that Bernhard Heiliger was regarded as "West Germany's foremost sculptor"?
... that when police raided the Cambridge College of Learning, a London-based bogus college for overseas students, they discovered just three classrooms and eleven desks?

06:03, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the grandson of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Boer general Ben Viljoen, and future Hollywood Western star Tom Mix (pictured) fought for the rebel army in the Battle of Ciudad Juárez, part of the Mexican Revolution?
... that Kurao Hiroshima was a two-time Olympian, two-time Japanese marathon champion, and two-time winner of the Fukuoka Marathon?
... that Who Let the Dogs Out by Baha Men was the first number one of the Billboard's Independent Albums chart, and would later go on to be the biggest selling independent album of 2001?
... that director and writer Juanita Wilson spent time in "the most radioactive place on earth" while working on her debut Academy Award-nominated short film?
... that the Polish Independent Socialist Labour Party of Joseph Kruk merged into the Labour Zionist Poalei Zion in 1937?
... that an electronic gear-shifting system for bicycles can shift faster than a traditional mechanical system and calibrate itself to minimize maintenance?
... that in 1968 American archaeologist A. Ledyard Smith received the Order of the Quetzal from the Guatemalan government for his services to the cultural heritage of the country?
... that Anthony R. Cucci, the 40th Mayor of Jersey City, threatened to foreclose on the Statue of Liberty and sell it at auction for an overdue water bill?

00:03, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

... that, despite being named for Antelope, Antelope Island State Park (map pictured) is noted for being the home of one of the largest herds of Bison in the United States?
... that Glen "Frosty" Little is one of only four people ever to be named "Master Clown" by the Ringling Brothers circus organization?
... that One City Center was the largest urban shopping mall in the United States when it opened in 1986?
... that the title Mai the Black Emperor (Mai Hắc Đế) of Mai Thúc Loan came from his distinctively dark complexion?
... that the Magellan Planet Search Program has discovered five eccentric Jupiter-mass extra-solar planets since the program started gathering data in December 2002?
... that Martie Maguire and Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks will be releasing an album as the Court Yard Hounds?
... that Culham Bridge has twice been an important defensive position on the River Thames?
... that BDTH₂, an industrial chelation agent that separates heavy metals from polluted soil, is also marketed as a dietary supplement for children with autism?

20 February 2010

18:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the British battlecruiser Princess Royal (pictured) fired 271 13.5-inch shells during the Battle of Dogger Bank, but only scored three hits?
... that many of the Paterson, New Jersey, textile mill workers who struck in 1835 demanding shorter working hours were children?
... that the tragic romance of Tristan and Iseult is the subject matter of the Tristan Quilt, a rare survival of medieval trapunto quilting?
... that Facebook polls asking whether Barack Obama should be assassinated have been investigated by the government as possible felonious threats against the President of the United States?
... that Phelps Dodge bought the El Paso and Northeastern Railway and its associated properties to secure access to superior coke for their smelters?
... that several karaoke bars in the Philippines had banned the song "My Way" due to the deaths attributed to it?
... that future sugar beet processing executive Henry Arthur Benning was a "rotten stenographer", then failed at selling tobacco, since he didn't partake in tobacco?
... that "Motorway man" is reluctant to cook, rarely has children, and may decide the next United Kingdom general election?

12:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the South Ball Court of El Tajín, Mexico, has a panel (pictured) showing a ballplayer being beheaded?
... that Peter Clarke was head of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command from 2002 to 2008?
... that the discovery of the shipwreck SS Ellengowan in 1991 off Channel Island, made it the oldest known shipwreck in Darwin harbour?
... that directing the film Holy Lola made Bertrand Tavernier fall in love with Cambodia?
... that the bioluminescent crustacean Vargula hilgendorfii, named after Franz Hilgendorf, was used as a light source by Japanese soldiers in World War II?
... that after his arrest in 1940, Norwegian Army officer Odd Lindbäck-Larsen was referred to by the Germans as Reichskommissar Josef Terboven's personal prisoner?
... that Google Buzz allows Gmail users to share messages and links across various social networking websites?
... that the longest obscenity trial in English legal history partly concerned a cartoon of Rupert Bear ravaging a granny?

06:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Honda CB900F (pictured), known as the Hornet 900 in Europe and the 919 in North America, was out of production for 19 years before returning in 2002?
... that the frontman of the band Ignite, Zoltán Téglás, saves injured pelicans in his free time?
... that during the January 1961 nor'easter on the eve of John F. Kennedy's presidential inauguration, thousands of abandoned cars led to massive traffic jams, including on the inauguration parade route?
... that the 1998 Merlin Miller film A Place to Grow starred country singer Gary Morris and also featured appearances by Boxcar Willie, Wilford Brimley, and John Beck?
... that the Super-Earth orbiting HD 156668 has an orbital period of less than five days?
... that Patrick Hemingway, the son of Ernest Hemingway, owned a safari business in Tanzania during the 1950s?
... that in France, the Picardy Spaniel is used for hunting snipes?
... that one former Chair of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board described the position as "more like a bully pulpit than a position of authority"?

00:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the draughtsboard shark (pictured) has been known to bark like a dog?
... that the first-ever paid youth soccer coach in the United States was an Englishman named Derek Armstrong?
... that Paul M. Herzog's grandfather-in-law, Oscar Straus, and his step-son, Alexander Trowbridge, were both United States Secretary of Commerce?
... that the capture of the French frigate Modeste by the British in the neutral port of Genoa in 1793 created a diplomatic incident?
... that Stewart Scullion played alongside Pelé and Bobby Moore in the 1976 U.S.A. Bicentennial Cup, scoring their team's only goal of the tournament?
... that fossils from the Paleocene-age Cerrejón Formation in Colombia are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforests?
... that despite writing multiple hits such as "Sticks and Stones," "Tell Me Why", and "Leave My Kitten Alone", the American R&B singer Titus Turner only recorded one album?
... that a Coade stone statue built at Brighton's Royal Crescent in 1802 to impress the Prince of Wales had to be removed after excessive weathering made its arm drop off?

19 February 2010

18:00, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

... that antique bisque dolls (pictured) are collectible, and dolls from French companies like Jumeau can be worth over US$20,000?
... that YouTube artist Beckii Cruel from the Isle of Man has become popular in Japan?
... that the Rhône producer Chapoutier was the first winery to feature Braille script on their wine labels?
... that Arthur Coningham was the first bowler to take a wicket with his first ball in a Test cricket match?
... that after the Swedish dominions Estonia and Livonia capitulated to Russia in 1710, their recovery remained a Swedish war aim for nearly a century?
... that stage and film actor Bruno Barnabe studied mime under Theodore Komisarjevsky?
... that Manchester Tram number 765 is the last remaining electric car from Manchester Corporation Tramways still in operation?
... that the title story from The Book of Sand by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges describes a book with an infinite number of pages?
... that marathon races only receive IAAF Gold Label Road Race status if organisers have taken steps to preserve the environment?
... that during his 25 years on the U.S. National Labor Relations Board John H. Fanning took part in more than 25,000 decisions?

12:00, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Beaverkill Bridge (pictured) near Roscoe is one of only two extant Town lattice truss covered bridges in New York to have additional diagonals at the ends?
... that some of the tallest trees left in West Africa are found in Bia National Park?
... that Israeli politician and settlement activist Gershon Shafat spent ten months as a Jordanian prisoner of war?
... that We Are Scientists' fourth studio album, Barbara, is their first recorded with drummer Andy Burrows and the band's debut release with PIAS Recordings?
... that diplomat Ted Lipman, the current Canadian ambassador to North Korea and South Korea, is married to Chinese singer Dadawa?
... that the Myitsone Dam being built by the Burmese government and the China Power Investment Corporation is planned to provide 3,600 to 6,000 megawatts of electricity for Yunnan, China?
... that in 2001, Wolfgang Ilgenfritz, along with several other Members of the European Parliament, declared his personal financial interests online?
... that the evacuation of its base at Žatec, Czechoslovakia, in August 1948 allowed the Israeli Air Force to bring over 2,000 tons of supplies to the besieged Negev in Operation Avak?
... that before Sir Edward Moon, 2nd Baronet, was a baronet, he was a rower?

06:00, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the first copyright act, the Statute of Anne or "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning" (pictured), became law almost 300 years ago?
... that Maryland politician Karen S. Montgomery has an adult son with autism whom she has referenced in her advocacy for better developmental disability services in the state?
... that Big Butte Springs, located in the Big Butte Creek watershed, produces 26,000,000 US gallons (98,000,000 L) of drinking water a day that serves 115,000 residents 30 miles (48 km) away in the Rogue Valley?
... that Horatio Nelson described Captain George Elliot as one of the best officers in the navy?
... that in 1960, 33 years before Dick Van Dyke began Diagnosis Murder, CBS ran the similarly titled series, Diagnosis: Unknown, with Patrick O'Neal as a crime-solving pathologist?
... that Minuscule 614 is one of the very few witnesses of the Western text-type with complete text of the Acts of the Apostles?
... that architect H. Neill Wilson designed massive summer cottages in Massachusetts' Berkshire County, including Shadowbrook where Andrew Carnegie died?
... that the Gonâve Microplate originated as part of the Caribbean Plate, but is expected to end up accreted to the North American Plate?
... that, according to the hotel's owner, before Marshall's Hotel opened in 1880 in Yellowstone Park, a visiting U.S. Interior Secretary had to sleep outdoors, and it rained that night?

00:00, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Pope John Paul II placed rosary devotions (example pictured) at the very center of Christian spirituality and called them "among the finest and most praiseworthy traditions of Christian contemplation"?
... that the sports arena Wesley Brown Field House at the United States Naval Academy is named after Wesley A. Brown, the first African American to graduate from the academy?
... that Pedro Matias typed a 264 character text message in 1:59, beating the existing Guinness Book of World Records record in the LG Mobile World Cup?
... that in 1939 it was ruled that a child born in the United States to alien parents retains U.S. citizenship, even if the parents take the child back to their home country?
... that the Norwegian long jump record for women, which Margrethe Renstrøm broke in 2009 with a 6.64 metres jump, was at the time the oldest Norwegian athletics record?
... that singer Janet Jackson appeared on the Will & Grace episode "Back Up, Dancer" nine months after the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy?
... that Jean Charpentier, press secretary for former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was the first foreign journalist to interview General Augusto Pinochet following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état?
... that the bulbs of the plant Nerine bowdenii have been said to be shaped like old-fashioned Chianti bottles?

18 February 2010

18:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Burmese–Siamese War of 1548–49 saw the legendary death of Ayutthaya's Queen Suriyothai during elephant-mounted combat (statue pictured)?
... that Tanums store rettskrivningsordbok, the dictionary of choice for solvers and makers of Norwegian crossword puzzles, was edited by Marius Sandvei for more than five decades?
... that the Codex Carolinus is one of very few Gothic fragments of the New Testament on parchment that has survived to the present day?
... that in September 1924, Jack Fowler scored five goals in a football match for Swansea Town against Charlton Athletic, which remains the club record for most goals in a match?
... that a single cave in the Phou Hin Poun National Biodiversity Conservation Area in Laos is used by at least 22 species of bats?
... that the French fast minelaying cruiser Pluton exploded in Casablanca Harbor, French Morocco, on 13 September 1939 while disembarking fuzed mines?
... that Clara Hughes, who led the Canadian athletes in the parade of nations during the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, is the only athlete to have won multiple medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics?
... that in Francisco Goya's painting Carlos IV in his Hunting Clothes the artist showed his debt to Titian's 1533 Charles V by showing a dog sniffing at the royal crotch?

12:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Plains Garter Snake (pictured) is one of the most cold-tolerant snakes and often emerges from hibernation to bask on sunny winter days?
... that glazed black mathematical tiles, as seen at Patcham Place and 9 Pool Valley, are a characteristic 18th-century architectural motif in Brighton, England?
... that the early Maya farming village of Cuello in Belize has a mass grave containing 26 sacrificed war captives?
... that the Norwegian high jumper Stine Kufaas set a national record in the standing high jump in 2009?
... that four months after a mass resignation, which caused a loss of 22 jobs, Major League Baseball umpires voted to form a new union?
... that S Ori 70 is a mid-T type astronomical object, discovered in 2002 in the direction of the Sigma Orinis cluster?
... that the American Piedmont and country blues singer and guitarist Alec Seward was one of at least five musicians billed as 'Guitar Slim'?
... that the Beppu-Ōita Marathon in Japan produced world record-breaking marathon runs in both 1963 and 1978?
... that Mazisi Kunene's Emperor Shaka the Great was originally written in Zulu and compiled from the Zulu oral tradition?
... that character actor I. Stanford Jolley performed some 500 times on film or television but reportedly never received more than $100 for each screen appearance?

06:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Papantla, Mexico, is home to vanilla, the El Tajín World Heritage site and the Voladores (pictured)?
... that the architecture of Agudas Achim Synagogue in Livingston Manor, New York, reflects both the Eastern European origins of its founders and the older Protestant churches in the area?
... that former RTÉ Gaelic Games Correspondent Jonathan Mullin previously guided Mayo Ladies' Gaelic football team to two All-Ireland Senior Championships and a National League title?
... that experimental rock band Yeasayer joked that they wanted their second studio album Odd Blood to challenge the music of Rihanna in clubs?
... that thirteen-year-old David Sills has verbally committed to play college football for USC although he is not eligible to sign a letter of intent until 2015?
... that the sawmill of Mitford, Alberta, failed partly because most of the good quality lumber to be found in the area was used in the construction of the railway designed to haul said lumber to market?
... that Franz Anton Knittel deciphered the Gothic text of the palimpsest Codex Carolinus in 1762?
... that according to folklore, The Shoe Dog howled mournfully outside any dwelling that would soon suffer a bereavement?

00:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the intended occupant of the empty throne (example pictured) may have been Alexander the Great, Buddha, Julius Caesar, or Jesus Christ?
... that prior to joining Motown, The Jackson 5 recorded songs such as "You've Changed", "We Don't Have To Be Over 21 (to Fall in Love)", and "Big Boy" at Steeltown Records?
... that prominent sociologist Nathan Glazer has, at different points in his career, been referred to as a Marxist, a neoconservative, and an espouser of "armchair intellectual liberalism"?
... that about a million birds were banded at the Rossitten Bird Observatory between its establishment in 1901 and the end of the Second World War?
... that Simon J. Hall was listed among New York Magazine's Best Doctors in 2007, 2008, and 2009?
... that a class action suit was filed in US Federal Court against R2C2, a company that sells term papers online, alleging copyright infringement for reselling papers written by other authors?
... that former Welsh international footballer Wayne Jones was forced to retire at the age of 24 when it was discovered that he had a previously undiagnosed arthritic condition?
... that in 1782, the rector of the University of Osuna reminded the students to "abstain from throwing rocks, both inside and outside the university?"

17 February 2010

18:00, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

... that a crowd of 20,000 rioted in an attempt to secure the release of the mutinous crew of the battleship SMS Helgoland (pictured) in November 1918?
... that actor and acting teacher Bryan O'Byrne is credited with launching the acting career of Nick Nolte, whom he discovered while coaching Nolte's college roommate?
... that social bookmarking service AddThis, combined with its parent company Clearspring, reach an online audience of more than 200 million monthly viewers?
... that in 1887, Marius Nygaard co-published a Latin-Norwegian dictionary which is still in use?
... that Sri Lanka scored a world record 952 runs for six wickets in a Test cricket match at the R. Premadasa Stadium against India in 1997?
... that Richard Allen, a Dublin draper, raised £20,000 for Irish famine relief efforts by writing letters to America?
... that once established, Labrador's Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve will be the largest National Park in Atlantic Canada?
... that Irish meteorologist Gerald Fleming has been noted to wink while giving weather forecasts?

12:00, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

... that even though it is known primarily for Sauvignon blanc wines, Sancerre can also be a red wine made from Pinot noir (pictured)?
... that speed skater Tomomi Okazaki, currently competing in her fifth Olympic Games, is the oldest member of the Japanese team at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
... that Myglaren, a social satire, was the first made-for-television film produced in Sweden and aired in 1966?
... that Ngô Sĩ Liên compiled Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, the oldest remaining historical record of a Vietnamese dynasty?
... that the concert venues of the Rheingau Musik Festival include Eberbach Abbey, Schloss Johannisberg and Lorch?
... that the mediaeval Gaelic manuscript MS 1467 contains the earliest known pedigree which gives Clan Campbell a "British" ancestry, from Uther Pendragon, and King Arthur?
... that Robert Scholl, the father of White Rose members Hans and Sophie Scholl, was imprisoned for 18 months in 1943 for listening to a "Feindsender"?
... that South Korea was on track to sweep the men's 1500 metre short track speed skating event at the 2010 Winter Olympics before Sung Si-Bak and Lee Ho-Suk crashed into each other on the final lap?

06:00, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

... that between 5,000 and 180,000 Burmese pythons (pictured) are estimated to be loose in the Everglades?
... that the first gold medal of the 2010 Winter Olympics was won by Simon Ammann of Switzerland in the normal hill ski jump?
... that Ron Swanson builds a harp in the Parks and Recreation episode "Sweetums", which was inspired by actor Nick Offerman's real-life carpentry skills?
... that Selective Service System director Lawrence Romo testified to the U.S. Senate that he knew of no more ways that the Defense Department can assist in increasing registration compliance?
... that the world's tallest concrete-faced rockfill dam is Shuibuya Dam on the Qingjiang River in China?
... that Richard Coughlan has been called "one of art rock's longest tenured musicians"?
... that Costa Deliziosa will be the first cruise ship to be christened in an Arabian city?
... that The Wolves in the Walls, a book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean that went on to become an off-Broadway musical, was inspired by a nightmare had by Gaiman's youngest daughter?

00:00, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

... that in the 19th century, Ganoga Lake (pictured) in Pennsylvania had a hotel, its own ice cutting company, and a branch railroad line to serve both?
... that Wales wartime international footballer Taffy Davies spent his entire 20-year professional career at Watford Football Club?
... that the Classic Period Maya city of Motul de San José in Guatemala made tribute payments of high quality ceramics after its military defeat?
... that William C. McInnes, one of the first Jesuits to study business administration, simultaneously served as the president of both Fairfield University and the University of San Francisco for four months?
... that 21st Century Slave is a concept album with a narrative inspired by William Gibson's series of Cyberpunk novels?
... that British painter Walter Westley Russell was appointed Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools in 1927?
... that uranium hydride was investigated as a promising bomb material in 1943 during the early phases of the Manhattan Project?
... that in 2002, the dice throw was used as a journalistic method of review in 41 daily newspapers in Norway?

16 February 2010

18:00, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the porbeagle (pictured) has been known to "play" with kelp fronds, pieces of wood, and fishing floats?
... that Abhimanyu Mithun was called up to the India Test squad only ten weeks after making his first-class cricket debut?
... that the Exchequer of Ireland had exclusive jurisdiction over all Irish cases involving money owed to The Crown?
... that in 1963, Claude Hall, a historian of American diplomacy, published a full-scale biography of Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur?
... that many 16th-century faculty members at the University of Baeza were of Jewish ancestry and came under the suspicion of the Spanish Inquisition?
... that the Soviet 130 mm/50 B13 Pattern 1936 naval gun was produced in three versions with mutually incompatible ammunition and range tables?
... that in 1865, Henry Martin Tupper founded the first historically black college in the American South, Shaw University of Raleigh, North Carolina?
... that Spongiforma, a sponge-like bolete newly described in 2009, smells like coal tar?
... that in 1937, Bangladeshi film director Khan Ataur Rahman won the first prize of Dhaka Zilla Music Competition, when he was in third grade?

12:00, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

... that at age 20, cricketer Cameron White (pictured) became the youngest ever captain of the Australian state-side, the Victorian Bushrangers?
... that the 1536 edition of Swenske songer eller wisor is the first preserved hymnal published in the Swedish language?
... that scholar Gérard Prunier states that Major General John Numbi is a member of a ruling clique running the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
... that Graceland, a 2006 short film directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong, was the first Thai short film to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival?
... that Timurid relations with Europe in the early 15th century led to the exchange of ambassadors and offers of offensive, defensive and commercial alliances?
... that in 2009, triple jumper Fabrizio Donato set a new championship record for the European Indoor Championships at 17.59 metres?
... that UMOPAR, the anti-narcotics forces in Bolivia, funded and trained by the U.S. government as part of the War on Drugs, staged an unsuccessful coup d'état against the Bolivian government in 1984?
... that Bình Ngô đại cáo is considered the second declaration of independence of Vietnam, after the poem Nam quốc sơn hà which was written by Lý Thường Kiệt in the early Lý Dynasty?
... that the self-proclaimed "Gifted, Eccentric and World Famed Physician" Francis Tumblety sold "Pimple Destroyer"?

06:00, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Ionian volcano Pele, encircled by its own reddish plume deposit (pictured), was named after a volcano goddess in Hawaiian mythology?
... that David Brown's two years in jail was the longest sentence ever for violating the U.S. Sedition Act of 1798?
... that in 519, Roman statesman Cassiodorus published his Chronicle to congratulate the Visigothic prince Eutharic who had risen to the position of consul?
... that in traditional Plains hide painting, Native American women painted abstract, geometric designs while men painted representational, narrative images?
... that in 1891, Gus Weyhing won 31 games pitching for the Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association, the third of his four consecutive 30-win seasons in baseball?
... that nine Mayan languages are spoken in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango?
... that John Scagliotti's 2003 film Dangerous Living was the first documentary about the experiences of gay and lesbian people in the non-Western world?
... that at the time of its 1914 construction, the Railway Exchange Building was the tallest building in St. Louis, Missouri?
... that Fanny Burney described a poem of George Huddesford's as "vile" because it revealed that she had written the novel Evelina?

00:00, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

PopMart Tour stage

... that when U2 played a concert in Sarajevo in 1997 (concert stage pictured), they attempted to include all the conflicting ethnicities of the region in the audience?
... that Margaretta Faugères called Thomas Jefferson an "eminent reasoner" but nevertheless challenged his claim that slaves lacked "finer feelings"?
... that Whitstable Museum and Gallery holds a permanent display dedicated to the life of Hammer Films actor Peter Cushing, who lived in Whitstable, South East England?
... that the North American Newspaper Alliance, a major news syndicate, hired Ernest Hemingway to report on the Spanish Civil War in 1937?
... that Bulgarian middle-distance runner Vesela Yatsinska failed to make it past round one in the 1980 Olympics despite achieving a personal best time?
... that the film Mihai Viteazul cast over 5,000 soldiers of the Romanian army as extras to reenact various battles?
... that Sir David Veness was the United Nations' first Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security?
... that the former District 10 School outside Margaretville, New York, was demolished in the mid-19th century only to be rebuilt from the same stones three years later?

15 February 2010

18:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

... that to join the Australian Flying Corps in 1917, future fighter ace Roy Phillipps (pictured) falsified his age by declaring he was four years younger?
... that the late Roman Red Church near Perushtitsa in Bulgaria featured frescoes of apocryphal scenes such as the flight of Elizabeth and the murder of Zechariah, John the Baptist's parents?
... that freestyle BMX rider Craig Campbell pioneered the Rocket Air and the 540 wallride on a BMX bike?
... that the 14th century Sanskrit poem Madura Vijayam chronicles the conquest of Madurai Sultanate by the Vijayanagar Empire?
... that in addition to serving as the Leader of the Opposition in Queensland, Nev Warburton was also noted as an enthusiastic lawn bowls player?
... that because a Hang Trong painting was once indispensable for each Hanoi family during the Tết holiday, it was also called Tết painting?
... that archaeologist Vance Haynes challenged the right of Native Americans to rebury Kennewick Man—skeletal bone fragments about 9,000 years old—which Haynes said should be studied further?
... that while accompanying her sister for her marriage in Florence, Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony met and eventually married the groom's father, becoming her sister's own step-mother-in-law?

12:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the barque Parma (pictured) recorded the fastest ever time for a sailing ship from Australia to the United Kingdom?
... that Ernest Hemingway's True at First Light, a book about his 1953 safari, was not published until almost 40 years after his death?
... that comedian Felix Herngren created, directed, wrote the scripts and plays a main character in the currently airing Swedish television series Solsidan?
... that among the items exhibited at the Bsous Silk Museum in Lebanon are silkworms and the traditional dresses and trousers worn by princesses in the 19th century?
... that the American Chicago blues singer, harmonicist, and songwriter, Shakey Jake Harris, acquired his nickname from his previous career as a professional gambler?
... that the strike of the Calton weavers, during which six people died, was the first major industrial dispute in Scottish history?
... that James Oliver invented a line of improved and specialized farm plows and produced up to 300,000 of them annually?
... that the French Gothic Niederhaslach Church in Alsace was plundered in 1525 during the Peasants' War, burnt in 1633 during the Thirty Years' War, and became a slaughterhouse in 1744?

06:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

... that St. Henry's Catholic Church (pictured) in rural St. Henry has been described as the most costly church in northwestern Ohio?
... that the new champion of the culinary contest Bocuse d'Or USA 2010 is the sous-chef James Kent?
... that the establishment of the Marshal Foch Professorship of French Literature in Oxford was announced a few days after Marshal Foch signed the Armistice with Germany to end the First World War?
... that in U.S. college football, the 2010 East-West Shrine Game had the lowest attendance of any of the 85 East-West Shrine Games?
... that after his final Tarzan film, Johnny Weissmuller starred in the 1955–1956 TV series Jungle Jim, which features stories about a hunter, guide, and explorer?
... that the English treatise Dialogus de Scaccario was written as a series of questions and answers between a learned lawyer and his pupil?
... that "discoveries" by baseball scout Paul Krichell included future Hall of Famers Lou Gehrig and Whitey Ford?
... that Hindu pilgrims to Pushkar Lake in Rajasthan, India, considered it lucky to be devoured by the crocodiles there?

00:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

... that a Margaretville, New York, businessman named a new movie theater after Amelita Galli-Curci (pictured) in return for her singing at its opening night?
... that Yongjiacaris represents the second report of freshwater caridean shrimp from the Mesozoic era?
... that Isabel Ashdown's acclaimed first novel Glasshopper was written as part of her BA and MA and work at the University of Chichester?
... that the 1893 New York hurricane virtually destroyed an entire island?
... that Alexander Milne served as an executor of Thomas Telford's last will and testament?
... that Stephen Fry asked on Twitter for suggestions to name a BBC television series on the impact of the Internet, now called The Virtual Revolution?
... that a Maginot Line fortification became a mushroom farm after it was deactivated in 1972?
... that British novelist Martin Amis believes his sister, Sally Amis, was one of the sexual revolution's most spectacular victims?

14 February 2010

18:00, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Filipino men and women engage in a form of courtship (example pictured) that is far more subdued and indirect compared to Western cultures?
... that Virginia Bolten was deported from Argentina to Uruguay in 1902 because of her anarchist activities?
... that Heart-kun is a Japanese puppy that was born with a heart-shaped patch of brown hair on its white-haired body?
... that Westgate Hall, Canterbury's sole music and dance venue, is to be demolished by the Council in favour of a car park?
... that the UK video game magazine Edge described Amy Hennig as one of the 100 most influential women in the video game industry?
... that Israel's Yiftach Brigade was transferred to the southern front for Operation GYS in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and returned after the operation?
... that Bela S. Huntington was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1897, but the legislature never organized in 1897 and he never served during another session?
... that hundreds of words still in use today, including accident, cinnamon, desk, scissors, vacation, and Valentine, first appear in manuscripts written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1300s?

12:00, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the white colour of Dong Ho painting (example pictured), a genre of traditional Tết painting in Vietnam, is obtained from powder of egg shells?
... that the Iranian embassy in London protested after The Queen's College, Oxford, established a scholarship named after Neda Agha-Soltan, who died in the 2009 Iranian election protests?
... that the Chrysler ball-stud hemi was intended to replace three engine block and two cylinder head designs with a single model?
... that Somali-Norwegian writer Amal Aden (pseudonym) is a noted critic of the Norwegian integration policy, as well as the Somali community in Oslo itself?
... that Abraham Shakespeare, an illiterate casual laborer, won a $17 million Florida Lotto jackpot in 2006, but was murdered three years later?
... that tò he, a traditional toy in Vietnam which is often sold on the occasion of Tết, is edible because it is made from rice powder?
... that by the age of 22, Jean-Pierre Warner was an acting Major in the British Army?
... that when the Super Ball was first introduced in 1965, US presidential adviser McGeorge Bundy had five dozen shipped to the White House for the amusement of the staff?

06:00, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Sultanate of Banten (capital city pictured) was once a great trading center in Southeast Asia, but was later overshadowed by Batavia and finally annexed by the Dutch East Indies in 1813?
... that E Street Band member Clarence Clemons co-starred with Rick Springfield in the original 1990 pilot for ABC's Human Target TV series?
... that in the stuffing of bánh chưng for vegetarians and Buddhists, pork is replaced by molasses or brown sugar?
... that the American journalist George Wilkes (d. 1885) was one of the men who introduced parimutuel betting into the United States?
... that in one year during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the coal mine at Midlandvale, Alberta, operated for only 52 days?
... that Gustavo de Greiff, Colombia's first Attorney General responsible for prosecuting drug lords, advocated for drug decriminalization during the height of the United States's War on Drugs in Colombia?
... that according to a medieval source, Ingemund was supposed to have been declared king in the Hebrides, but his raping and pillaging enraged the locals, and he was slain on Lewis in 1097?
... that the failed Deseret Manufacturing Company, created in Utah in the 1850s by Mormons to process sugar beets into sugar, was nicknamed the "Damn Miserable Company"?

00:00, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

... that vine training systems (example pictured) help shape the canopy to allow adequate sunshine and air circulation so wine grapes can ripen and be less likely to develop grape diseases?
... that Pablo González, the Carranzistan chief responsible for Emiliano Zapata's murder, was also known as "the general who never won a victory" during the entire Mexican Revolution?
... that according to the Michigan Department of Transportation, the first highway centerline in the US was painted on the first designation of M-15 in 1917?
... that Cincinnati, Ohio, architect Rudolph Tietig designed a Jewish country club and two synagogues, including Temple K.K. Bene Israel for one of the oldest congregations west of the Allegheny Mountains?
... that the beetle Typhaea stercorea has been found in grain storages dating all the way back to the Iron Age?
... that two school board members of the Sheridan School District faced a recall in 1985 after religious leaders objected to them living together as an unmarried couple?
... that in 1946, the first modern bikini was introduced at Piscine Molitor by Louis Réard, and modeled there by dancer Micheline Bernardini?
... that Howard Burnham, an American mining engineer, worked for France as a spy operating behind enemy lines, and used his wooden leg to secretly transport equipment?

13 February 2010

18:00, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the 1,200–1,500 Chinkara (pictured), the key species in the Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary, Kutch, India, are also its most frequently observed animal?
... that the English antiquarian John Joscelyn (d. 1603) wrote a history of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge that was not published until 1880, over 200 years after his death?
... that the people of Stipp, Oregon, renamed their town Macleay for Portland merchant and banker Donald Macleay after he donated money for a school?
... that the name-bearing type determines the application of specific and other names in zoological nomenclature?
... that British producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins' first job in television was devising means of killing victims in the crime drama series Midsomer Murders?
... that St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Padua, Ohio, is distinguished by its pilasters?
... that the Ionian volcano Tawhaki Patera and the nearby valley Tawhaki Vallis are both named after the Māori lightning deity, Tāwhaki?
... that Nini Haslund Gleditsch participated in the flight of the Norwegian National Treasury in 1940?

12:00, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Lamaling Monastery (pictured) in Tibet, rebuilt in 1989, is one of the largest and most important monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism in Nyingchi County?
... that Asbjørn Bryhn and Gunnar Haarstad were both long-term leaders of the Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency?
... that in his film Close, Closed, Closure, Israeli director Ram Loevy describes the Gaza Strip as "a prison with one million inmates"?
... that in a sign of a warming friendship between Vladimir Putin and Prince Albert II, a three-bedroom dacha was built by the Russians at Albert's Monte Carlo estate in 2008?
... that according to some scholars, Christ's agony at Gethsemane was added to the New Testament to counter docetism?
... that the alférez Ponce de Minerva (died 1175), from southern France, served three Spanish kings on twelve military campaigns?
... that the fossil horse Scaphohippus became extinct when tectonic barriers between the Great Plains and Great Basin of North America disappeared about 13 million years ago?
... that Julius Hougen co-chaired the first large-scale charity fund-rasing campaigns in Norwegian radio?
... that Tacubaya, Mexico City, is the home to both the Mexican presidential residence and "The Lost City"?

06:00, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the frangipani (or plumeria), which is used to make leis (pictured) in Hawaii, is native to Central and northern South America?
... that San Diego artist Salvador Torres led the movement to paint murals on the support columns of a freeway in Chicano Park?
... that the first successful sugar beet factory opening in Utah, built by the Mormon-owned Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, was celebrated by looting, bonfires, and free barrels of beer?
... that Eva Nansen, Elisabeth Welhaven and Maren Sars contributed with music and storytelling in what was described as the "first salon" of Norway's capital?
... that the Byzantine general Constantine Diogenes, who was implicated in a conspiracy against Emperor Romanos III, committed suicide rather than revealing the names of his co-conspirators?
... that American professional wrestler Frankie Arion won the NECW Television Championship two months after legitimately breaking his ankle and fibula?
... that United States Air Force Major General Caleb V. Haynes was the grandson of Chang Bunker, one of the original "Siamese Twins"?
... that buildings with Grade II* listed status in Brighton and Hove, England, include the Royal Albion Hotel, wrecked in 1998 by a fire that started in a pan of sausages?

00:00, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Ernest F. Coe was the primary force behind the creation of Everglades National Park, but at the dedication of it (pictured) he considered his efforts a failure?
... that the book Scientology edited by James R. Lewis includes contributions from J. Gordon Melton, Anson Shupe, and Susan J. Palmer?
... that Littleberry Mosby Jr, captain and brigadier general during the Revolution and War of 1812, disinherited his son, Littleberry Mosby III, for leaving Virginia?
... that as a child, Norwegian singer-songwriter Ingrid Olava taught herself to play "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music on her neighbor's piano?
... that the founding of the Independent Labour Party's Guild of Youth in Britain provoked the Labour Party to found a youth wing of its own?
... that both the arrests of General Christian de Castries in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and of President Duong Van Minh ending the Ho Chi Minh Campaign were by units commanded by General Lê Trọng Tấn?
... that Ralph Creffeild was knighted by Queen Anne in 1713, having presented her with thanks from the town of Colchester for the peace of Utrecht earlier that year?
... that Lenny Kravitz wrote the recently leaked Michael Jackson song "Another Day"?
... that the only damage suffered by the dome of the Hagia Sophia in the 1509 Istanbul earthquake was plaster covering up Byzantine mosaics fell off, revealing Christian images?

12 February 2010

18:00, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the island of Dominica has two endemic lizards, the Dominican Ground Lizard and the Dominican Anole (pictured)?
... that René Boileau was given the pseudonym Rainy Drinkwater and promoted as being the first Native American in the National Hockey League by the New York Americans despite having no native blood?
... that on July 30, 1970, Israeli and Soviet fighter pilots battled in the skies over Egypt in an engagement codenamed Rimon 20?
... that Norwegian architect Hjalmar Welhaven's collection of old skis was the basis for the world's oldest ski museum in 1923 when it opened in Oslo?
... that Black Bike Week is the largest African American motorcycle rally in the US?
... that the Ionian volcano Tupan Patera, whose activity was first detected by Galileo in 1996, was named after the thunder god of the Tupí-Guaraní indigenous peoples in Brazil?
... that the "extremely productive carcinologist" American Raymond B. Manning amassed the world's largest collection of mantis shrimp?
... that in 1985, the Austrian wine industry was hit by a scandal involving a few wineries illegally adulterating wines with the mildly toxic substance diethylene glycol to make them taste sweeter?
... that we know the exact birth time of the 5th-century poet Pamprepius thanks to a horoscope calculated by the Egyptian astrologer Rhetorius?
... that the 101 Dalmatians Musical has several performers working on 15" stilts to simulate a canine perspective, and uses 15 real Dalmatian dogs for several scenes?

12:00, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

... that according to Hindu mythology, goddess Savitri cursed her husband, the creator-god Brahma, only to be worshipped at Brahma temple (pictured)?
... that the unit trust was devised by the British Olympic rower Ian Fairbairn, son of rower Steve Fairbairn?
... that Polhøgda, the home of Eva and Fridtjof Nansen, was an important location for social life of Norwegian intellectuals around 1900?
... that during the Mandi Shivaratri Fair held in Mandi, India, Hindu religiosity is the theme that establishes synthesis of the worship by Vishnu and Shiva cults?
... that despite not registering as a political party, the pro-independence Sąjūdis movement won a clear majority in the Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1990?
... that publisher Richard Bentley hired Charles Dickens to edit his periodical, Bentley's Miscellany?
... that the Western Australian carnivorous plant Drosera derbyensis was first found by Allen Lowrie near the Boab Prison Tree just outside of Derby?
... that Shahidan Kassim and his brother Ismail have both held same seat for Arau in the Parliament of Malaysia?
... that Hurricane Inga in September and October 1969 is the third longest-lived Atlantic hurricane on record, having lasted 25 days?
... that Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah performed the Hajj 70 times in his life?

06:00, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Huáng bǎi (pictured), one of the fifty fundamental herbs of traditional Chinese medicine, contains the anti-inflammatory alkaloid berberine?
... that 2,273 passengers booked travel from Templecombe railway station, England in 1982, despite it being closed from 1966 to 1983?
... that the Ionian volcano Masubi was first detected by the spacecraft Voyager 1 in 1979 and named after Homusubi, the Japanese deity of fire?
... that the early 13th century romance Guillaume de Dole is the first extant French literary work combining narrative and lyric, a form which by the end of the century had become canonical?
... that when Nazis usurped and reorganized Norwegian broadcasting in 1940, Eyvind Mehle was considered as the successor of the deposed director Olav Midttun, despite being subordinate to Wilhelm F. K. Christie?
... that some Native Americans traveled up to 1,500 miles (2,400 km), from as far away as the Mississippi River, to participate in the 1757 Siege of Fort William Henry near Lake George, New York?
... that the depictions of fish on the medieval statue of St Christopher in Norton Priory, Cheshire, England, are so realistic that five different species can be identified?
... that in 1984 Chet Upham, former chairman of the Texas Republican Party, introduced the first artificial snow in Colorado at his Loveland Ski Area near the Continental Divide?

00:00, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the blind shark (pictured) and the bluegrey carpetshark close their eyes when taken out of the water?
... that Lowell State College was the last state normal school established by the Massachusetts State Board of Education?
... that when R. Shamasastry discovered the Arthashastra, it altered the perception of ancient India and the view that Indians learned administration from the Greeks?
... that the Hollenden Hotel, established in 1885 and demolished in 1962, provided accommodations for the five U.S. Presidents following Grover Cleveland when they visited Cleveland, Ohio?
... that Norway's first tank was a Landsverk L-120 with an improvised turret and makeshift armour?
... that in "The Baby Sitter" of ABC's The Rifleman, Phyllis Avery plays a dance hall girl who asks Lucas McCain to hide her daughter from a bigoted grandfather?
... that the decline of the gopher tortoise poses a threat to the Florida mouse, which forms the only mammal genus that occurs only in Florida?
... that the revelations of 14th-century Christian mystic Agnes Blannbekin, which included visions of the foreskin of Jesus, were considered too obscene for print until the 20th century?

11 February 2010

18:00, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Europa regina (pictured) wears a hoop crown?
... that French protests caused the Russians to award the contract for the Gangut-class battleship to a Russian firm rather than the German winner of the 1908 international design contest?
... that Kim Spalding played Doc Holliday in an enactment of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in a 1954 episode of the syndicated TV series Stories of the Century?
... that the carnivorous plant Drosera meristocaulis is endemic to Pico da Neblina in South America, 17,000 km (11,000 mi) to the west of its most closely related species?
... that Danny Goodwin, a first-round draft pick of the California Angels, is the only player to be selected first in the draft on two separate occasions?
... that Anglo-Turkish piracy in the 17th century led to the enslavement of Catholic captives in North Africa, who could sometimes be liberated through a ransom?
... that blues scholars seem undecided if the American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter Ramblin' Thomas's nickname referred to his style of playing, or itinerant nature?
... that male Arabian carpetsharks competing for a mate have been known to bite the claspers of their rivals?

12:00, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

... that when the giant flightless birds called moa (pictured) were overexploited to the point of extinction, the giant Haast's Eagle that preyed on them also became extinct?
... that Australian rules footballer Joe Misiti was inducted into the VFL/AFL Italian Team of the Century in 2007?
... that Bijjala II of the Kalachuri, a feudatory, eliminated Tailapa III and his family of the Chalukya Kingdom and ruled from Kalyana, now the Basavakalyana Fort, for five years?
... that Tony Blair said that it was a mistake to say on Fern Britton Meets... that he would have still wanted to join the 2003 Iraq invasion if there were no weapons of mass destruction?
... that archivist and cricketer Tommy Finlayson, one of the Gibraltarian civilian evacuees during World War II, later wrote a book about this period of the history of Gibraltar?
... that the War of Internet Addiction is a video made by World of Warcraft players to protest internet censorship in the People's Republic of China?
... that Pádraig MacKernan, who served as Ireland's Ambassador to both France and the United States, had a public falling out with Minister for Foreign Affairs David Andrews in 1998?
... that the sports hall of Europe's largest prison complex in Istanbul was converted into a courtroom because the existing one was not big enough to accommodate the hearings of the Ergenekon trial?

06:00, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Mam Maya capital city of Zaculeu (fragment pictured) fell to Spanish conquistador Gonzalo de Alvarado y Chávez after a siege that lasted several months?
... that Lowes Cato Dickinson, portrait painter and Christian socialist, painted Gladstone's cabinet at 10 Downing Street in 1868?
... that along with Ithonidae, Polystoechotidae are regarded as the most primitive living members of the insect order Neuroptera?
... that a Seattle Times journalist described Michael Jackson's "Tabloid Junkie" as "a disingenuous attack on sensational news stories about him", most of which the singer "planted"?
... that the 1707 Hōei earthquake was the largest in Japanese history, triggering a devastating tsunami and causing at least 5,000 casualties in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū?
... that in 1865, William Carpenter Bompas protected his party of ox-carts from attacks by purportedly hostile Sioux by flying the Flag of England?
... that a double rotation in four dimensions has exactly two planes of rotation?
... that the Shady Lady Ranch, a licensed brothel in Nevada, just hired the state's first legal male prostitute?

00:00, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the South Georgia Pintail (pictured), a small duck, scavenges at seal carcasses?
... that upon his accession as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, John Tuigg found that the Panic of 1873 had left the diocese's property and finances in disarray?
... that Old French literary genre of the chanson de toile consisted of songs supposedly sung by women weaving, songs about women in love who often sew as they relate their stories?
... that Otilio Montaño, a Zapatista General, formally introduced Emiliano Zapata to Pancho Villa, but later was accused of rebelling against Zapata and executed while maintaining his innocence?
... that architect Frode Rinnan designed sports venues such as the Holmenkollen ski jump and Bislett Stadion, both of which were torn down in the 2000s?
... that volcanoes of the Milbanke Sound Group in British Columbia, Canada, remain mysterious because little is known about them and their origins are not well defined?
... that R&B singer Margie Day, who had a hit record with "Little Red Rooster" in 1951 and also recorded "Take Out Your False Teeth Daddy", established a children's art project in Norfolk, Virginia?
... that Thai government and army officials have insisted on the effectiveness of the GT200 "remote substance detector", despite the BBC having found it to consist of an empty plastic case?

10 February 2010

18:00, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

... that theater producer William May was inspired to create Walking with Dinosaurs – The Live Experience (pictured) after watching cranes constructing the Southern Cross railway station in Melbourne?
... that the Lowell Technological Institute in Massachusetts almost went bankrupt during both World Wars due to the increased demand for soldiers and textiles?
... that the Arab inhabitants of the Palestinian village of Hawsha, which was depopulated in 1948, kept a shrine named for the prophet Joshua?
... that Sweden established official diplomatic relations with Guinea-Bissau before Guinea-Bissau formally gained independence from Portugal in 1974?
... that Klaus Sunnanå, Kristian Gleditsch and Karl Evang were among the former Mot Dag members who became involved in the first Norwegian development aid project?
... that a major flood in the Tigris in 1936 caused the building site of the Kut Barrage in Iraq to be flooded entirely so that construction had to be temporarily halted?
... that Wayne Morse won the Democratic primary in an attempt to reclaim his Senate seat in the 1974 Oregon United States Senate election but died prior to the general election?
... that British billionaire Lawrence Graff purchased the Wittelsbach Diamond for approximately US$24.3 million and then recut it removing 4 carats?

12:00, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the 1900 Mutoscope film Sherlock Holmes Baffled (pictured) was the first film appearance of Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes?
... that Anne Jordan-Reynolds and her daughter Stephanie, founders of the non-profit HIP Haiti, escaped disaster at the Hotel Montana during the 2010 earthquake because of a glitch in their plans?
... that the discovery of the Telfer Mine in Western Australia, officially attributed to Newmont Mining, has been claimed by French prospector Jean-Paul Turcaud?
... that the shrew Crocidura phanluongi, formally described on January 27, is the seventh new species of Crocidura to be described from Vietnam in as many years?
... that Alasdair Crotach MacLeod is said to have prayed for six hours prior to ordering the massacre of almost the entire population of the Hebridean island of Eigg?
... that the Cape Verdean poet Onésimo Silveira was the representative of African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde in Sweden in the early 1970s?
... that in 1686, at the Tōshiya archery contest in Kyoto, Japan, Wasa Daihachiro successfully fired a record 13,053 arrows in 24 hours, averaging nine arrows a minute and hitting the target 8,133 times?
... that World Chocolate Wonderland, the first chocolate theme park in China, showcases the world's biggest chocolate model of the Great Wall of China?

06:00, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the names of French generals Raymond-Gaspard de Bonardi de Saint-Sulpice, Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière, Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova, and Frédéric Henri Walther are inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe (pictured) in Paris?
... that the president of Coca-Cola Co. believed that a new-age label would doom Tab Clear, the company's clear cola answer to Crystal Pepsi?
... that under interrogation, Ahmad al-Naggar stated that Egyptian Islamic Jihad had raised funds by "renovating old houses in London"?
... that it is believed that the ghost town of Conquerville, Alberta, began its decline when the local high school closed?
... that the Arab-born eunuch slave Samonas rose to become the parakoimomenos of Byzantine emperor Leo the Wise, and was even made godfather to his son, Constantine VII?
... that the Rubin test was once considered by many specialists "the twentieth century's most important contribution to the clinical study of female infertility"?
... that even though the Bradford Durfee Textile School was chartered in 1895 and incorporated in 1899, it opened in 1904?
... that Gregory Slay, founding member and drummer for Remy Zero, also co-wrote the Emmy-nominated theme song for the television drama Nip/Tuck?
... that the Ham font was believed to cure sick infants and young children who were close to death?

00:00, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the 600-year-old Westgate in Canterbury, Kent, is the largest surviving city gate in England, with double-decker buses still squeezing through it (process pictured)?
... that a son of the first settlers of Mountaindale, Oregon, later was mayor of East Portland?
... that according to A Bright Red Scream, millions of Americans regularly use razors, knives or broken glass to intentionally injure themselves?
... that Mick Higgins from New York played in the Cavan Gaelic football team which won the final of the 1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship at the Polo Grounds in New York?
... that during World War II the Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company made the "Galloping Gertie", a railroad motor car with a large target above it used for gunnery practice?
... that the Brazilian rodent Calomys cerqueirai was named only in 2010?
... that the New Bedford Institute of Technology's original mission was to refine the skills of the textile mill workers in the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts?
... that The North Face is suing The South Butt for trademark infringement?

9 February 2010

18:00, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

... that between 1930 and 1933, the Russian battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna (pictured) carried a Heinkel aircraft catapult?
... that unlike some other songs Bob Dylan wrote about failed relationships, in "I Threw It All Away" he takes responsibility for the failure?
... that cognitive passwords are used as an alternative authentication system and are comprised of fact and opinion based questions?
... that although heavily outnumbered, two UN battalions—one Australian and one Canadian—halted an entire Chinese division at the Battle of Kapyong (22–25 April 1951) during the Korean War?
... that Swedish actress Meg Westergren, the daughter of Håkan Westergren and Inga Tidblad, had originally planned to become a fashion designer?
... that in Georgetown, Alberta, during the 1910s, coal miners were paid only $3 a day and indoor toilets were considered a luxury?
... that in 1963 Hughie Lee-Smith, who later painted the official portrait of New York City Mayor David Dinkins, became only the second African-American artist to be elected a National Academician?
... that the "Love Chu Chu!" part of the name of the visual novel Chaos;Head Love Chu Chu! was narrowed down from about one hundred different candidates?
... that anyone who sees the Dancing Hare is said to have good fortune for the rest of their days?

12:00, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the World War II bombing of Canterbury on 1 June 1942 revealed a mosaic pavement (pictured) which is now a scheduled monument, sheltered by the Roman Museum?
... that The Land of Green Plums by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller, depicting life in a totalitarian state, became a favorite of Iranian activist Mohammad-Ali Abtahi soon after he was released from jail?
... that during the German invasion of Norway, Minister of Justice Terje Wold told Police Chief of Oslo Kristian Welhaven to arrest fascist leader Vidkun Quisling if he got the opportunity?
... that Cystoderma carcharias is considered an inedible fungus because of an unpleasant odor attributable to the presence of geosmin?
... that the career of pianist Lincoln Mayorga has ranged from hit rock and roll instrumentals to Gershwin recitals in Moscow, by way of Lumpy Gravy and Pete's Dragon?
... that tympanosclerosis is a disease caused by the calcification of tissues in the middle ear, sometimes resulting in hearing loss?
... that the town of Lille, Alberta, was named as such because its coal mine's financial backers resided in Lille, France?
... that Warrington Colescott created the etching Christmas with Ziggy (1964), a social satire of businessmen entertaining their mistresses at a posh London restaurant?
... that GameDaily named Uncharted character Elena Fisher the 49th hottest video game babe of all time?

06:00, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the eastern harvest mouse (pictured) usually lives for less than a year in the wild?
... that Perth-born Northern Territory Chief Minister Marshall Perron jokingly blamed Japan for denying him his birthright as a Territorian, as his family fled Darwin shortly before it was bombed?
... that about one out of five babies born from an abdominal pregnancy has a birth defect?
... that the actor Read Morgan of NBC's western television series The Deputy played basketball from 1950 to 1952 for the Kentucky Wildcats?
... that Project Stormfury attempted to artificially weaken 1969's Hurricane Debbie?
... that the role-playing video game series Xenosaga, the spiritual successor to the Xenogears video game, initially used the same composer, Yasunori Mitsuda, to write the music of the series?
... that Arthur Sweatman was elected bishop of the Diocese of Toronto in 1879 as a compromise candidate after five days of balloting?
... that the Gbedu drum is traditionally used on state occasions or during ceremones of Ogboni, the ancient Yoruba secret society?
... that upon hearing Robert Ambrose's work One Sweetly Solemn Thought, a gambler reportedly laid down his cards and immediately became a reformed Christian?

00:00, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

... that after the Soviet battleship Marat (pictured) was sunk during World War II by German Stukas, it was raised and used as a floating artillery battery?
... that Paul Chaffey voted Labour in 1997, the same year that he served as a Parliament of Norway representative for the Socialist Left Party?
... that the Leo IV dwarf galaxy is one of the smallest satellites of the Milky Way?
... that The Art of Negative Thinking is an award-winning Norwegian film about a paraplegic who rebels against the interventions of his support group and its lead social worker?
... that Scotland international football defender Alex McLintock played as a goalkeeper during his time at Burnley?
... that the wounding in the Siege of Sarajevo of five-year-old Irma Hadzimuratovic, whose suffering garnered worldwide attention, prompted the Operation Irma medical evacuation?
... that Alabama is the first state in the United States to create its own legislatively enacted cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security?
... that the genus Platythelphusa represents the only evolutionary radiation of crabs to have occurred in a freshwater lake?

8 February 2010

18:00, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Captain George F. Bond (pictured) was known as the "father of saturation diving"?
... that the magnitude 6.8 1981 Dawu earthquake in China killed or injured more than 450 people?
... that the American blues pianist Buster Pickens was shot dead following an argument in a bar?
... that the Italian attack against Greece was stopped in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas, a few kilometers inside the Greek border, during the first days of the Greco-Italian War?
... that former baseball pitcher Butch Wensloff served in the United States Army during World War II?
... that the High Court of the Free City of Danzig examined 988 witnesses to evince 40 cases of electoral fraud in the 1935 Volkstag elections?
... that the May 2004 collapse of Royal Tongan Airlines left the islands of Tonga without air service?
... that according to legend, the MacLeods were on the verge of being defeated at the Battle of Glendale by the MacDonalds, but their magical Fairy Flag was then unfurled, inspiring them to a hard-fought victory?
... that a collector said that the mushroom Suillus tomentosus tastes and smells like Tootsie Rolls when dried?

12:00, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the cookiecutter shark (pictured) may use the absence of bioluminescence to attract prey?
... that Cecilie Thoresen Krog was Norway's first female university student?
... that the Alchi Monastery in Ladakh was built, according to local tradition, by the translator Rinchen Zangpo (c. 1000 AD), although inscriptions ascribe it to an 11th-century Tibetan noble?
... that the word pyxidata in the mushroom name Clavaria pyxidata comes from the Greek word pyxis meaning "small box"?
... that the late 6th century AD gold Liudhard medalet is the oldest surviving example of Anglo-Saxon coinage?
... that the clause of the Magna Carta prohibiting sentences of exile, except as the result of a lawful trial, refers particularly to the case of Robert Fitzwalter?
... that Broadfield House in Crawley, West Sussex, has at various times housed a country club, a radio station and Crawley's New Town Development Corporation?
... that Patrick Collison went on to become a millionaire after winning the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen?

06:00, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Oscar Wilde praised the location of a resort hotel at the foot, rather than the summit, of the Catskills' Mount Tremper (pictured) because it provided better views?
... that 1989's Typhoon Angela was the longest-tracked storm by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center of the 1989 Pacific typhoon season?
... that in 1715, the Hudson's Bay Company enlisted the aid of a Chipewyan woman, Thanadelthur, to broker a peace deal between the Chipewyan and the Cree?
... that over the past four years, the Winnipesaukee Playhouse has won more New Hampshire Theater Awards than any other theater?
... that the second Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, William Bennett Bond, was one of the shortest-serving Primates in the church's history?
... that with the introduction of the ROH World Television Championship in the Ring of Honor wrestling promotion, the television type championship returned to national exposure?
... that the Mexican land grant Rancho Little Temecula in California was one of the few granted to an indigenous American, though the court's decision came after the death of the applicant?
... that when the barque Pisagua collided with the steamship Oceana, it was the steamship that sank?

00:00, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the turrets from the lead ship of the Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleships (remains pictured) were salvaged after she sank and used for defending Sevastopol during World War II?
... that Fitznells Manor, the last surviving manor house in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, UK, and a Grade 2 listed building, is now used by a medical practice?
... that the Hungarian diplomatic passport is the only travel document in the world granting visa-free access to all member states of the G8+5?
... that subsidiaries of the aviation security firm ICTS International oversaw security for United Airlines at Logan International Airport on 9/11 and for Northwest Airlines Flight 253?
... that Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers won an American League pennant in 1982 before moving to the National League in 1998?
... that the fifth Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Clarendon Lamb Worrell, turned down an earlier offer to become Bishop of Bermuda?
... that the mushroom Amanita strobiliformis has been said to smell like bleaching powder?
... that indigenous rights activist Stephen Corry thought that British civilization and development was the best, until he made a trip to Nepal at age 18 and met the local people?

7 February 2010

18:00, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the kumbum (pictured) of Palcho Monastery in Gyantse is the largest such structure in Tibet?
... that air ace John S. Loisel spent more time in combat than any other American pilot in World War II and also served in the Korean War?
... that the last German Type UE II submarine, SM U-126 was commissioned on October 3, 1918, just a little over a month before the armistice at Compiègne?
... that the winner of the National League pennant in Major League Baseball has gone on to win the World Series 43 times?
... that Canadian astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi was one of the first to observe the cosmic recycling of pulsars?
... that interstitial pregnancies cause a seven times higher mortality than ectopic pregnancies in general?
... that The Other Hand by Chris Cleave was the only literary fiction novel on the 2009 British bestseller list without a Richard & Judy Book Club recommendation, a literary award or a film adaptation?
... that a 1950s Annalee Doll was sold at auction for a record $6,000 in 1992?
... that Seward's Success, Alaska, was a proposed city enclosed by a dome, which would have had a constant controlled temperature of 68 °F (20 °C)?

12:00, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Hindu goddess Varahi (statue pictured) is worshipped only in the night according to secretive Vamamarga Tantric practices?
... that Parliament of Norway member Christian Stray owned the newspaper Agderposten?
... that crime statistics in the United Kingdom show that 114 people in Scotland were victims of homicide from 2007 to 2008?
... that the journalist and theatre historian abbé Antoine de Léris collaborated with abbé Laugier in the first French review of music, Sentiment d'un harmonophile, 1756?
... that Misshitsu no Sacrifice lets players investigate scenes and use items, unlike other visual novels that are primarily driven by text and graphics?
... that the plant Campanula isophylla is able to tolerate frost on the mountains of northern Italy, but not when grown in a pot?
... that Aksel Zachariassen, a Norwegian revolutionary and later editor of Kongsvinger Arbeiderblad (1932–1941), was deported from the United Kingdom after a visit there in 1919?
... that the parish church of Up Hatherley, England, was built because an elderly widow found it difficult to travel to a neighbouring village to worship?

06:00, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Graham Court (pictured), called a signal achievement in NY apartment design and Harlem's equivalent to the Dakota, was the setting for a crack factory in the movie New Jack City?
... that the Mexican land grant, Rancho New Helvetia, was given to German-Swiss immigrant John Sutter to serve as a buffer between Californio lands and "marauding bands of hunters and trappers"?
... that despite only playing college football for two and a half seasons with the Northwestern Wildcats, Zak Kustok holds numerous rushing and passing records?
... that "Leslie's House", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, features references to Wikipedia, Nirvana, Montell Jordan and the Iran–Contra affair?
... that Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well is a book by economists Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal that advocates free market environmentalism?
... that Alexander Aitchison was Hamilton, Ontario's first full-time fire chief, appointed in 1879?
... that Swizz Beatz and Bono began writing "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)", a charity single for Haiti earthquake relief, over the telephone?
... that in 2001, the South Carolina Governor's Mansion stopped employing inmates as butlers and maids after guards allegedly allowed the inmates to have sex in the mansion?

00:00, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1915, during the Mexican Revolution, Woodrow Wilson allowed Carranza's troops to be moved over US territory, contributing to Pancho Villa's (pictured) defeat at the Second Battle of Agua Prieta?
... that former Burnley chairman Bob Lord described coach Billy Dougall, who worked for the football club for 23 years, as the finest servant a club could have?
... that St Michael and All Angels Church in Blantyre, Malawi, was constructed of brick in the late 1800s by local builders, led by a cleric who had no formal architectural training?
... that early in his short acting career Tod Griffin played George Washington and Patrick Henry on NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology series?
... that the Coniston Railway, which closed in 1962 owned two steam yachts on Coniston Water in Cumbria, England, one of which, SY Gondola, continues to run on the lake today?
... that the kitchen wing of the Lace House in Canaan, New York, deteriorated so badly during a probate fight over the house that it had to be demolished and rebuilt?
... that the Alvensleben Convention allowed Russian troops to cross the Prussian border in pursuit of Polish revolutionaries of the 1863 January Uprising?
... that Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer stole books to expand the Royal Danish Library, where he was chief librarian?

6 February 2010

18:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Battle of Cuautla between the Zapatistas (pictured) and troops of Porfirio Diaz, has been described as "six of the most terrible days of battle" in the Mexican Revolution?
... that artist and hotelier Emile Brunel's studio in Boiceville, New York, is an imitation of a European farmhouse, an unusual style in the Catskills?
... that according to The Sportsman's Repository, the English Water Spaniel is the best dog for hunting waterfowl?
... that Hindi, Bengali, and Portuguese have all recently been proposed as official languages of the United Nations?
... that the Sex Machines Museum, opened in 2002 in Prague, has a collection of approximately 200 sex devices?
... that animals at Qalqilya Zoo in the West Bank, including a giraffe and three zebras, were casualties of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
... that Jane Leeves, who starred as Daphne Moon in the sitcom Frasier, appeared as a therapist in the Desperate Housewives episode "How About a Friendly Shrink?"
... that the renovation of the The Devonshire Dome in 1881 by Robert Rippon Duke created the world's largest unsupported dome, with a diameter of 44.2 metres (145 ft), and is still the largest in the UK today?

12:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Diskit Monastery (pictured) is the oldest and largest Buddhist monastery in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh, northern India?
... that Garry Foulds is one of only five footballers to play 300 VFL/AFL matches for the Essendon Football Club?
... that Ron Feller, a PIAT operator in the Israel Defense Forces, received the Hero of Israel citation for his actions in Operation Death to the Invader on July 18, 1948?
... that Alexander Wetmore assessed the extinct Eonessa anaticula as being an ancient type of duck, possibly due to its fossil's resemblance to the modern Oxyura jamaicensis?
... that 2006's Cyclone Vaianu destroyed an estimated 70% of Tonga's banana crop, and caused power outages that took up to a week to fully restore?
... that jazz pianist and vocalist Dena DeRose only considered singing professionally after carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis forced her to give up playing the piano?
... that, until it was destroyed during Wilson's Raid, the Brierfield Furnace was used to produce iron for the Confederacy's Brooke cannon?
... that the crew of the Russian battleship Gangut staged a minor mutiny in 1915 when the executive officer refused to feed the crew the traditional meal of meat and macaroni?

06:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

... that when the Russet Sparrow (pictured) and the House Sparrow breed in the same hill station, the House Sparrow prefers bazaars and the Russet Sparrow "more up market" houses?
... that in 1994, while baseball pitcher Kevin King was a member of the Seattle Mariners, he registered a loss on Opening Day against the Cleveland Indians?
... that mastitis is the most costly and most common disease in dairy cattle in the United States?
... that Chitinamit in Guatemala was the first capital of the highland K'iche' Maya?
... that Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon transported their zenith telescope on a featherbed 31 miles from Philadelphia to Star Gazers' Stone to begin surveying the Mason-Dixon line?
... that although 1989's Typhoon Dan was relatively weak, the storm left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in the Philippines?
... that the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 1 Wing was often referred to as the 'Churchill Wing' because of Winston Churchill's key role in its formation?
... that The Simpsons episode "Boy Meets Curl" will see Homer and Marge Simpson compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in mixed-doubles curling, an event that is not part of the Olympic programme?

00:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

... that some coral reef fish, like the lionfish (pictured), have venomous spines in their fins?
... that 18th-century painter Szymon Czechowicz established a school of painting and thereby greatly influenced Polish art?
... that many of Bo Schembechler's assistant coaches at Michigan, including Milan Vooletich, Jerry Hanlon, Tirrel Burton, and Dick Hunter, had previously coached at Miami of Ohio, the "Cradle of Coaches"?
... that the name of the koala derives from the word gula in Dharuk and other Yuin-Kuric languages?
... that Lorenz Schwietz, who as Royal Prussian executioner beheaded at least 120 people, shot himself dead?
... that Rashida Jones, the actress who plays Ann Perkins in the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, was cast before the producers had determined what the show would be about?
... that Carrie Jones is a multi-award-winning American author of young-adult fiction?
... that Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago contains a columbarium specifically intended to hold the ashes of Chicago Cubs fans?
... that the 1904 painting by Pablo Picasso, The Actor, estimated to be worth over $100 million, was torn when a woman stumbled and fell into it?

5 February 2010

18:00, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the building which today houses the Consulate-General of Russia in New York City (pictured) was bought in 1946 by noted eye surgeon Ramon Castroviejo, who sold it to the Soviets in 1975?
... that Karl Johanssen, foreign news editor in Arbeiderbladet and one of Norway's first radio personalities, was denounced on the front page of Pravda?
... that the illuminated Minuscule 569 was bought in Bulgaria in 1757, became a part of the Załuski Library, and was dispatched to Saint Petersburg in 1794?
... that American singer-songwriter Patty Griffin listened to Christian songs by Bob Dylan before writing for her gospel album Downtown Church?
... that the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition in 1857 attracted over 1.3 million visitors, about four times the population of the city at that time?
... that Edvard Welle-Strand, father of the anti-Nazi resistance fighter Erling Welle-Strand, was an anti-Semitic writer especially active in the 1910s and 1920s?
... that Potlatch River, Idaho, was named Colter's Creek by the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805?
... that the Remington 887, which has many of the inner workings of the famous Remington 870, uses a unique polymer-based finish which makes it virtually impervious to corrosion and inclement weather?
... that Dwight Baldwin, a 19th-century missionary to Hawaii, is credited with saving hundreds of lives as a physician despite having only an honorary degree in medicine?

12:00, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Yue ware (example pictured) was an early type of Chinese ceramics that was exported as far as the Middle-East and East Africa from the 8th to the 11th century?
... that Australian singer-songwriter Tamas Wells produced his second and third albums while working in Rangoon, Burma, on a community health HIV/AIDS education project?
... that Pitzer equations are important for the understanding of the behaviour of ions dissolved in natural waters such as rivers, lakes and sea-water?
... that Rafael de Izquierdo was the Governor-General of the Philippines during the 1872 Cavite mutiny which led to the execution of the martyrs Gomburza?
... that though Coast Veddas use a Sri Lankan Tamil dialect on a daily routine, they use Vedda language during Spirit possession rites?
... that after then Malaysian Foreign Minister Ghazali Shafie survived a plane crash in 1982, his death was incorrectly reported in The New York Times?
... that the plaque at the entrance of Seagate Castle says that Mary Queen of Scots stayed at the castle after the Battle of Langside in 1568?
... that less than two years after Fernando de Rosa was convicted of attempting to assassinate Umberto II, Umberto asked that he be pardoned?
... that after launching from Spain in 1789, the corvettes Descubierta and Atrevida visited Montevideo, Monterey, Macao, Nootka Sound, Dusky Sound and Doubtful Sound, on a four-year trip?

06:00, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Pinguicula elizabethiae and P. orchidioides (pictured), two rosette-forming herbs found in Mexico, eat insects?
... that the American blues singer and pianist Maggie Jones, who recorded 38 songs between 1923 and 1926, was billed as "The Texan Nightingale"?
... that the crux gemmata or "jeweled cross" was used to represent the New Jerusalem and the Tree of Life in Early Christian and Medieval art?
... that Nick Offerman, who plays Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, has received significant praise and been called the show's "secret weapon"?
... that on August 24, 2009, an algae bloom hit Wickiup Reservoir, dubbed as Oregon's best fishing for brown trout?
... that George Levendis has held marketing and management positions at record labels on three different continents?
... that at one time the OVW Heavyweight Championship was vacated due to the then-champion having a malignant brain tumor?
... that Eiríkr Magnússon fell out with scholar Guðbrandur Vigfússon over the need for famine relief in their native Iceland and how to translate the Bible?
... that a large concentration of Hagerman Horses, Idaho's state fossil, can be found at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument?
... that Elsa Barker was an American novelist and poet who published three volumes of messages from a dead man?

00:00, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Russian battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya

... that the Soviets scuttled the battleship Svobodnaya Rossiia (pictured) on 19 June 1918 in Novorossiysk harbor rather than turn her over to the Germans as required by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
... that along with top rated Taylor Hall, Vladimir Tarasenko, Brett Connolly and Kirill Kabanov are among the highest ranked prospects for the 2010 National Hockey League Entry Draft?
... that the pioneer wagon route known as the Applegate Trail, opened in 1846 by Jesse Applegate, crossed the southern end of the Goose Lake Valley on the way to southern Oregon?
... that actor Paul Schneider initially felt insecure about playing Mark Brendanawicz on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation because he was unsure about the motivations of the character?
... that although the Hollytrees Museum was sold to the corporation of Colchester, England in 1922, the cost was met entirely by the private funds of Viscount Cowdray and his wife?
... that Chloe Frazer of the Uncharted franchise has been cited as an example of a video game character who accurately portrays the desires and frustrations of human sexuality?
... that prior to the construction of the first Florida Governor's Mansion, governors of the state generally lived in boarding houses or hotels?
... that Joan Tompkins in The Christine Jorgensen Story played the Danish aunt who gave the world's first transsexual, George Jorgensen, his new name, Christine?

4 February 2010

18:00, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Chinese influences on Islamic pottery (example pictured) date back to the 8th century?
... that at the 1815 Kandyan Convention which handed over Ceylon to Britain, Wariyapola Sri Sumangala took down the Union Jack and raised the flag of the Sinhalese kings?
... that the BBC drama The Last Days of Lehman Brothers was filmed in an office vacated by Lehman Brothers and that some of their furniture was used to dress the set?
... that One Main Place in Portland, Oregon, was reportedly sold in 2010 for US$12 million less than it was purchased for in 2006?
... that the famous anime director Hayao Miyazaki produced a television commercial inspired by the work of gag manga artist Shigeru Sugiura?
... that the Buddhist monk S. Mahinda was born in Sikkim, identified himself as a Tibetan, and took part in the independence movement of Sri Lanka?
... that Aziz Ansari's performance as Tom Haverford was considered one of the strongest elements of the first season of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation?
... that although Vietnamese chancellor Lê Văn Thịnh was charged with high treason by Emperor Lý Nhân Tông, today he is still worshipped by the people in his homeland of Bắc Ninh?
... that Michael Jackson's hit song "Thriller", co-produced by him and Quincy Jones, was originally titled "Starlight"?

12:00, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

... that all the images in Gal Vihara (seated image pictured) of Polonnaruwa have been carved on a single, large granite rock face?
... that the moray eel Gymnothorax pictus is able to hunt on land?
... that the libretto for Rameau's first opera, Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), was provided by the seasoned playwright and librettist abbé Pellegrin?
... that Warne-Muralidaran Trophy is named after the two leading wicket takers of Test cricket, Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne?
... that the Lyme Caxton Missal, on display in Lyme Park, Cheshire, is the only near-complete existing copy of the earliest known edition of a missal according to the Sarum Rite?
... that Arthur V. Dias, a Sri Lankan independence activist, pioneered a jackfruit propagation campaign by freely distributing seedlings and plants?
... that despite criticism of the strange scale of his 1859 Ovid among the Scythians, even among his admirers Baudelaire and Gautier, Delacroix painted a second version in 1862?
... that the Battle of Be'erot Yitzhak was the last time that Egypt attacked an Israeli village in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and one of the war's last Egyptian offensive initiatives?
... that mole snakes can inflict serious bite wounds, but nonetheless are said to make good pets?

06:00, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

... that images of the infant Jesus in Mexico (pictured) can be dressed as Aztecs, football players, and even drug traffickers?
... that the Hello Girls, female switchboard operators in World War I, were part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps?
... that the estuary stingray is persecuted due to its supposedly voracious appetite for farmed shellfish, which has contributed to its decline?
... that four days after its building was moved to a new site and rededicated, St. Peter's Church in Spencertown, New York, changed its denomination from Congregationalism to Presbyterianism?
... that the Waikato River Trails was the project where Prime Minister John Key officially opened the construction of the New Zealand Cycle Trail?
... that a poster based on the picture book Let My Babies Go! A Passover Story was put on display at the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2007?
... that the Montreal Stars, a professional women's hockey team in Canada, will be represented by three members at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
... that the toy company Mattel lent the Will & Grace producers a $60,000 Cher doll prototype for the episode "Gypsies, Tramps and Weed"?
... that Lynn Bayonas worked for The Australian Ballet before making her break into television writing?
... that ancient Roman brides sat in the lap of Mutunus Tutunus before marriage?

00:00, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the Palace of the Marqués del Apartado (pictured) has an underground system pumping water to keep it from sinking?
... that the phrase "doing a Leeds" has become synonymous in English football with the pitfalls of financial mismanagement of football clubs, after the demise of Premier League team Leeds United?
... that during the Susa weddings in 324 BCE, Alexander the Great married both Parysatis II and her second cousin's daughter, Stateira II?
... that an American judge was appointed to the Permanent Court of International Justice when it was formed, despite the United States not being a signatory to the Court protocol?
... that the John Singer Sargent painting The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit will in 2010 for the first time be exhibited alongside the painting that inspired it, Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez?
... that Edna St. Vincent Millay's kitchen at Steepletop, her home in Austerlitz, New York, was the subject of a Ladies' Home Journal article in 1948?
... that Lemony Snicket, author of the bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events, is releasing a new series in 2012 that will involve elements of his previous series, including the Great Unknown?
... that the song "Fake Empire" by The National was used at the 2008 Democratic National Convention and in a video for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, which the band actively supported?

3 February 2010

18:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the lower-ground floor of the Museum of Arts and Traditions of Sevilla (pictured) in Spain, was originally an aeration chamber?
... that Tom Smith was one of five Preston North End players to play for Scotland when they won 1–0 against England at Wembley in the 1938 British Home Championship?
... that the iPhone social platform OpenFeint had over ten million users in less than a year since it first launched?
... that after William Dubh MacLeod was killed in 1480 at the Battle of Bloody Bay, he was the last MacLeod chief to be buried on the isle of Iona?
... that Ringsjön is the second largest lake in Skåne County, Sweden, with an area of 41 square kilometres (10,000 acres)?
... that human sacrifices to the K'iche' Maya patron deity Tohil had their severed heads placed on a rack in front of the temple?
... that actress Aubrey Plaza conceived the idea of April Ludgate, her character on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, having a "gay boyfriend" who also simultaneously dates another boy?
... that the extensive mangrove destruction in Malaysia and Indonesia is a major threat to the endangered roughnose stingray?
... that Tony Nader, a neurologist from Lebanon, was awarded his weight in gold and crowned First Sovereign Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi?

12:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the rare bowmouth guitarfish (pictured) has been called "the panda of the aquatic world"?
... that James R. Graham was a member of the team which discovered Fomalhaut b, the first exoplanet directly imaged in visible light?
... that the Essex Street Station in New Jersey, was once the terminus and headquarters of the Hackensack and New York Railroad?
... that Peter Stevens, the only known German-Jewish RAF bomber pilot in WWII, enlisted using a stolen identity and later won a Military Cross for his attempts to escape from POW camps?
... that the indie role-playing video game The Spirit Engine 2 not only has a linear narrative, but also takes place entirely in two dimensions?
... that Bob Welch, a first-round draft pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers, was a part of the Dodgers' 1981 World Series win and later, the Oakland Athletics who lost to the Dodgers in the 1988 series?
... that the U.S. military base Camp Kearny, predecessor of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, once housed a mooring mast for the Navy's helium dirigibles?
... that former U.S. judge Samuel Zoll once ordered a family to eat dinners together for 30 days, sending a parole officer for verification?

06:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Temple V (pictured) of the Classic Period Maya archaeological site of Tikal, in Guatemala, was the first pyramid discovered at the site?
... that the American Security and Trust Company Building used to appear on the U.S. $10 bill?
... that the Royal Navy sloop HMS Beagle captured three French privateers during her ten years of service?
... that Glen P. Robinson, founder of Scientific Atlanta, now a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, was a ham radio enthusiast at age 14?
... that Pluma porgies are the most common member of the genus Calamus in the Antilles, where they are often used for food?
... that David M. Malone, a Canadian diplomat and specialist on international affairs, has worked extensively on relations with Haiti and used to stay at the Hotel Montana, destroyed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake?
... that the Barbours Cut Terminal, part of the Port of Houston, was the first seaport in the United States to implement the international ISO 14001 environmental standards?
... that English mycologist and plant pathologist R.W.G. Dennis has 40 fungal species named after him?
... that Andy Dwyer, a character in the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, was only to appear in the first season, but was made a regular cast member because the producers liked actor Chris Pratt?

00:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Montague Druitt (pictured) was a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders?
... that Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches, an admiral in the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War, was briefly imprisoned during the War in the Vendée?
... that George Mans, captain of the 1961 Michigan football team, later served in the Michigan House of Representatives and as an assistant coach under Bo Schembechler?
... that Norwegian journalist and anti-fascist Gerda Grepp was the first female reporter from Scandinavia to cover the Spanish Civil War as a war correspondent?
... that Seattle Sounders FC won the 2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, becoming only the second Major League Soccer expansion team to do so in their inaugural season?
... that oarsman and 1932 Olympic Champion Rowland George was awarded the Order of the British Empire and the Distinguished Service Order for his service during World War II?
... that major urinary proteins are pheromones that promote aggression between rival male mice?
... that the Frank Chacksfield recording "Après Ski" was featured in the 2006 video game Saint's Row for the Xbox 360?

2 February 2010

18:00, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

... that the genre of Hispanic creative arts known as costumbrismo (example pictured) was influenced by Englishmen Joseph Addison and Richard Steele and Frenchmen Jouy and Louis-Sébastien Mercier?
... that Lord Loch was a World War I British General who went to the dogs?
... that premature oxidation is a flaw that occurs when usually ageworthy wines, such as white Burgundy, are found to be prematurely oxidised and undrinkable for reasons not yet fully understood?
... that the builder of the Rispenserpoldermolen, Easterein, the Netherlands, was described as a better millwright than a poet?
... that both the Comte de Paris and the Prince of Wales enjoyed the services of the Digital Billiard Wonder?
... that the ant Pseudomyrmex ferruginea kills insects such as crickets and stings the heads of animals such as goats, attacking any approaching creatures attracted to the leaves of the Bullhorn Acacia?
... that at the age of 13, English cricketer Joe Root is the youngest person to have been awarded a scholarship to the Yorkshire County Cricket Club academy?
... that the 2010 Newbery Winner Rebecca Stead only started writing children's books after her young son broke her laptop, destroying all of her 'serious writing'?

12:00, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Buddhism in Himachal Pradesh, where the Dalai Lama (pictured) established his capital in exile in 1960, was cultivated by Guru Rinpoche in the 8th century?
... that Edward J. Miers was paid 60 guineas for his monograph on the crabs of the Challenger expedition?
... that the Government of Moscow owns 25% of the Moscow Monorail Transit System, for a monetary value of about $3,379,000?
... that Charles Gray Round served as Recorder for the town of Colchester for nearly 30 years?
... that the city of Hobart in Australia had the first fully electrified tram network in the Southern Hemisphere, and the entire fleet was double-decker?
... that Indian singer Master Saleem released his first album when he was 10 years old?
... that the National Animal Welfare Trust runs a centre at Trindledown Farm, which is the UK's only sanctuary for elderly pets?
... that after being given the honor of performing the royal burial of Kamehameha I according to the Hawaiian religion in 1819, Hoapili became a patron of Christian missionaries?
... that in 1920, Prince Joachim of Prussia was ordered under arrest by German Minister of Defence Gustav Noske for fighting with French military officers?

06:00, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

... that one burrow of the eastern chipmunk (pictured) was found to contain 390 acorns?
... that baseball player Ben Paschal hit .360 as Babe Ruth's replacement while Ruth missed the first 40 games of the 1925 season with a stomach ailment?
... that most wine regions can be categorized by climate as Mediterranean (such as Tuscany), maritime (Bordeaux) or continental (Columbia Valley)?
... that the donkey that inspired the novel and film Brighty of the Grand Canyon is memorialized at Grand Canyon National Park by a statue and an historic landmark?
... that between 1917 and 1928, Boston's Park Drive had to be redesigned to accommodate an increase in ownership of automobiles in the neighborhood?
... that American country blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Son Bonds was accidentally shot to death in August 1947 by his short-sighted neighbor?
... that NYCHA developments on the Lower East Side include Alfred E. Smith Houses, Baruch Houses, Gompers Houses, Hernandez Houses, LaGuardia Houses, Rutgers Houses, and Vladeck Houses?
... that Felipe Neri, a deaf Zapatista general, constructed explosives out of salmon cans and earned the nickname mochaorejas (clipper of ears) by cutting off ears of his prisoners and deserters?

00:00, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

... that all of early 14th-century Europe was consecrated under the protection of Our Lady of Europe (statue pictured) in Gibraltar where devotion has continued for over 700 years?
... that Connie Mack leads all managers in Major League Baseball with 3,731 wins and 3,948 losses?
... that within two years of her launching, HMS Wolverine was involved in two friendly fire incidents, one with a frigate and one with a slaver?
... that architect Solomon Andrew Layton designed 22 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma, a state record?
... that the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's first commission in the city of Venice was an improved design for the façade of San Pietro di Castello?
... that the FX network aired a preview of the Archer episode "Mole Hunt" on September 17, 2009, without any prior promotion or announcement?
... that bluegrass player and mandolin virtuoso David Harvey is Gibson's master luthier, responsible for all their mandolins, banjos, and dobros?
... that there are counties in Florida named for leaders of both sides of the Second Seminole War?
... that in 1920–21, Burnley were crowned champions of English football for the first time?
... that the tower of the Manistique Pumping Station is octagonal on the exterior but has 16 sides inside?

1 February 2010

18:00, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

... that of James Whistler's paintings Symphony in White, No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, only the last (pictured) carried that name originally?
... that Bernardo the Japanese, a disciple of Saint Francis Xavier, is the first Japanese person known to have set foot in Europe?
... that gold parting refers to the separation of gold and silver?
... that the church of Monkton Deverill was dedicated to King and Saint Alfred the Great?
... that in the 1930s the Indian girl Shanti Devi related details of an alleged former life, and a commission set up by Gandhi deemed her claims to be accurate?
... that the colourful past of Australian former student police officer Kim Hollingsworth will be featured in the 2010 miniseries Underbelly: The Golden Mile?
... that the fungus Hypomyces tremellicola is a parasite that deforms the cap of the mushroom Crepidotus mollis?
... that there are large stone markers and cairns at the summit of each of the Tektek Mountains in southeastern Turkey?
... that in Harriton v Stephens, the High Court of Australia rejected a claim for damages brought by a disabled woman for her "wrongful life"?
... that during the Lý Dynasty, Tô Hiến Thành was the only person outside the royal family who was titled Prince (Vương)?
... that a male ghost reputedly haunts the ladies' toilet at the Brewery Shades in Crawley, West Sussex?

12:00, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Ngo Dinh Nhu (pictured right), a Hitler admirer, younger brother and chief adviser to President Diem of South Vietnam, tried to assassinate Sihanouk of Cambodia and publicly vowed to kill his father-in-law?
... that although only a 11⁄2 mile (2.41 km) long section of the Cranbrook and Tenterden Light Railway was ever built, it is still in use today as part of the Kent and East Sussex Railway?
... that prior to his death, Jack Barnes was the oldest former Football League player?
... that the Russian dreadnought Imperatritsa Mariya capsized and sank while at anchor in Sevastopol in 1916 after one of her powder magazines caught fire and exploded?
... that the first sub-four-minute mile in athletics was achieved at the Roger Bannister running track, then known as the Iffley Road Track?
... that in 1130 the Emperor Lý Thần Tông ordered that all daughters of court mandarins of the Lý Dynasty must not wed so that he could select them as concubines?
... that the World Heritage Site Gusuku and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu represents more than 500 years of Ryukyu history?
... that according to a stele found in the late 1930s, Đỗ Anh Vũ was a devoted Lý Dynasty official of noble character, in contrast to the traditional account in the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư?
... that Amador Salazar, a signatory of the Plan of Ayala and cousin of Zapata, was killed by a stray bullet and was buried in a pyramid shaped mausoleum in Tlaltizapán, dressed as a charro?

06:00, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

... that Porfirio Diaz (pictured) believed he could defend northern Mexico against Pancho Villa and Pascual Orozco, but Zapata's rebellion in Morelos convinced him to agree to the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez and resign?
... that The Candle Problem, a cognitive test, was given to students of Stanford University and M.B.A. students at the Kellogg School of Management?
... that despite threatening the western coast of Florida, USA, 1950's Hurricane Love weakened prior to landfall and moved ashore with little fanfare?
... that the short film Second Effort, starring former American football coach Vince Lombardi, has been called the best-selling training film of all time?
... that the only Rod Serling short story in the 2009 Twilight Zone anthology was called the least Twilight Zone-like story in the collection?
... that department store mogul Roddy Burdine built Miami's first skyscraper?
... that the Winthrop, the last ship of the Massachusetts State Navy, was sold in 1783, not long before the American Revolutionary War ended?
... that photographs of test prototype cars, pioneered by Hans G. Lehmann, have led car manufacturers to take lengths to disguise their cars during a test session?
... that Ruth Humbel, member of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, has won three bronze medals at the World Orienteering Championships?
... that after running ashore in a storm, the German submarine SM U-118 became a popular beachside tourist site?

00:00, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

... that all that remains of the type specimen of the Mediterranean slipper lobster is a 16th-century watercolour (pictured)?
... that according to tradition, the horn that 14th-century clan chief Malcolm MacLeod supposedly broke off from a raging bull now exists as a drinking horn and heirloom of the chiefs of Clan MacLeod?
... that the Museo Picasso Málaga is located in the 16th century Buenavista Palace?
... that Ludvig Daa, who lost a potential professorship to Peter Andreas Munch in 1837, later denounced Munch's theory on immigration to Norway?
... that the Emerald Warriors are Ireland's first primarily gay rugby team?
... that the actors Peter Helm and his sister Anne inherited a large estate from their banker-grandfather in the same month that Peter made his TV debut on CBS's Pete and Gladys?
... that the devadasi (temple courtesan) system was outlawed in the Madras Presidency partly due to the efforts of Moovalur Ramamirtham, a former devadasi herself?
... that professional wrestler Mascarita Dorada was the first Mini-Estrella to have a regular size wrestler, Mascara Dorada, named after him and not vice-versa?