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31 October 2010

18:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

... that a Halloween hermit crab (pictured) may trick a snail into becoming a treat?
... that Ben Cooper, Inc., the "Halston of Halloween", said it sold a scary 4 million Halloween costumes in the United States in 1990?
... that Margaret Jones was the first person in Boston to be executed for witchcraft in a New England witch hunt that lasted between 1648 and 1663?
... that ghosts at Preston Manor, reputedly one of Britain's most haunted houses, have included a grey lady, an excommunicated nun, a floating hand and one driving a toy tractor?
... that a disc jockey at WTCM-FM created a song about the Michigan Dogman, which has been sighted in northwestern Michigan, as an April Fools' Day joke?
... that the bone skipper came back from the dead after 160 years to feed on rotting bones?
... that critics praised a scene in the horror film Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp where a student is attacked by a motorbike outfitted with revolving blades?
... that the "Devils Brigade" was conceived to tell of 19 men who went halfway to hell?

12:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Paracas textiles found wrapped around 2,200 year old mummies (distorted skull shown) show a winged shaman carrying a severed head by its hair?
... that the Beginning of the End could not begin until 200 grasshoppers had been sexed?
... that bonfire toffee is brittle, dark toffee associated with Halloween and Bonfire Night in the United Kingdom?
... that the Ipswich Witchcraft Trial has been called the "Second Salem Witch Trial", and was the last witch trial held in the United States?
... that a slime mold eats the decaying remains of the Devil's tongue barrel?
... that, according to legend, a wooded area in Hellam Township, Pennsylvania, is home to seven gates that lead directly to hell?

06:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

... that a person can create more of a Devil's Backbone (pictured) by cutting it off above a joint and burying it?
... that Podostroma cornu-damae can shrink your brain, make your skin fall off, cause you to speak and move abnormally and kill you?
... that Johnny Cash cast Watergate scandal prosecutor James F. Neal to play a lawyer in the 1983 made-for-television movie Murder in Coweta County?
... that in various regions in India, a haunting bhoot can be thwarted using water, steel or iron objects, or the scent of burnt turmeric?
... that Irish psychic Sandra Ramdhanie, who specialises in exorcisms, was born on Halloween night?
... that an 18th-century soldier, court-martialed for sleeping at his post, swore that he heard the clock of St Paul's Cathedral strike 13 times – and other witnesses corroborated it, saving his life?
... that Ann Hibbins was convicted and hanged for being a witch in Boston, Massachusetts in 1656, 36 years prior to the beginning of the Salem Witch Trials?

00:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the plafond in the Bishops' Palace in Kielce (pictured) depicts its founder's victory over the Polish Brethren Protestant church, which taught the equality and brotherhood of all people?
... that in the requiem mass for John F. Kennedy, Mac Morgan performed the bass solo of Mozart's Requiem?
... that Fohoren was one of the traditional kingdoms of Timor which were ruled by a Liurai?
... that Steven Girvin's group has successfully implemented quantum algorithms on a two-qubit quantum processor?
... that St Peter's Church, Northampton is considered by the Churches Conservation Trust to be "the most outstanding Norman church in the county" of Northamptonshire?
... that Lord William VI of Montpellier (1121–49) looked out for the interests of the merchants of his town, since his revenues depended on theirs?
... that two Critically Endangered palms in Madagascar, Dypsis brevicaulis and Dypsis humilis, have fewer than 60 known specimens in the wild combined?
... that Harold Martin won election to the New Jersey General Assembly in the 39th District running in support of the creation of a state income tax?
... that in a best-dressed list published in 1958 by the New York Dress Institute, Consuelo Crespi was ranked third, behind the Duchess of Windsor but ahead of Queen Elizabeth II?

30 October 2010

18:00, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

... that soprano Marie Sasse (pictured) created the role of Elisabeth de Valois in the world premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos?
... that Grace Cossington Smith's The Bridge in Curve was rejected from the 1930 Society of Artists exhibition, but is now described as one of Australia's most significant modernist paintings?
... that Indian badminton player P. V. Sindhu reported on time at the coaching camps despite travelling 56 kilometres (35 mi) on a daily basis?
... that of seven entries in a 1935 Bureau of Air Commerce competition to build a roadable aircraft from a Pitcairn autogiro, only the Autogiro Company of America AC-35 met all requirements?
... that the 2010–11 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team lost their "emotional leader" in Denis Clemente?
... that Harold Greenwood, acquitted in 1920 of the murder of his wife, is a rare example of a lawyer charged with murder?
... that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Wormsley, Herefordshire, are the chest tombs of writer Richard Payne Knight and his brother Thomas, an expert on apple trees?
... that the United States federal case Rescuecom Corp. v. Google Inc. held that recommending trademarks for keyword advertising was commercial use?
... that Chinese warlord Li Jinglin (1885–1931), nicknamed "China's First Sword", was a renowned swordsman and baguazhang martial artist?

12:00, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1847, a north transept was added to St Andrew's Church, Cranford, Northamptonshire (pictured) to form a family pew for the Robinsons of nearby Cranford Hall?
... that Czech architect Ladislav Žák found design inspiration from ocean liners and airplanes?
... that on 4 April 1866, Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg and her brother Nicholas were accompanying their uncle, Emperor Alexander II of Russia, when someone tried to assassinate him?
... that the Oregon Maneuver involved over 100,000 United States Army troops?
... that American Piedmont blues singer Irene Scruggs worked alongside Clarence Williams, Joe "King" Oliver, Lonnie Johnson, and Little Brother Montgomery, but today remains largely forgotten?
... that in 2008, Indian boxer Nanao Singh Thokchom won a gold medal at the inaugural Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico?
... that scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute have created a bacterium with a synthesized genome?
... that the Acheron class torpedo boat and the Avernus were sold separately after they were joined together to become part of the Commonwealth Naval Forces?
... that the Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster has included Allens, Bateses, Covingtons, Delahantys, Ennises, Fultzes, Greens, Hamiltons, Jacksons, Kennedys, Lees, Morgans, Nicholsons, Powells, Robertses, Schmidts, Thompsons, Vukoviches, Watts, and Youngs, but never a player whose surname begins with X?

06:00, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

... that ophanin, piscivorin, ablomin, latisemin and triflin, found in the venom of the King Cobra (pictured), the water moccasin, the Mamushi snake, the Erabu sea snake and the Habu snake, respectively, are all cysteine-rich secretory proteins that can reduce muscle contractions?
... that John E. Bush was sent on a mission to form a Polynesian empire with only one ship manned by a boy's band?
... that five High Sheriffs of Kent lived at Oxon Hoath, a former manor house at West Peckham?
... that when Einar Johannessen was suspended from NRK television because of payments in his secondary job, the decision was overturned by the Ministry of Culture?
... that the Federalists of New England did not support the War of 1812, so Captain Oliver Filley of Connecticut, who built the Oliver Filley House, commanded 40 militiamen under state control?
... that Giovanni Francisco Vigani became the first professor of chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1703?
... that Viacom sued YouTube, seeking damages of US$1 billion?
... that eleven-year National Football League veteran defensive back Maurice Douglass was once a professional stripper?

00:00, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

... that most of the memorials in St Cuthbert's Church, Holme Lacy, Herefordshire, (example pictured) are to the Scudamore family, which owned the church land until 1909–10?
... that Commissioner of Guam José Sisto was arrested for misappropriation of government funds and exiled to Manila in 1899?
... that in Lamparello v. Falwell, Jerry Falwell lost one of the earliest cases of trademark infringement based on cybersquatting?
... that Democratic Party leaders convinced Frank Herbert to run as a write-in against white supremacist John Kucek, saying "the first thing we had to do was convince people not to vote for the Nazi"?
... that the book Targeted Killing in International Law argues support in the Western world for targeted killing increased following the September 11 attacks?
... that Rodrigo Rivera Salazar, Colombia's new Minister of Defence started working in politics when he was only 20 years old as a Councilman in his native Pereira?
... that Magic Johnson, the first overall pick in the 1979 NBA Draft, won the NBA championship and the Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his first season in the league?
... that Joseph Mitchell Parsons was the first prisoner to die in an execution chamber at Utah State Prison designed to accommodate both firing squads and lethal injections?
... that cheeses made from thermized milk are not considered raw-milk cheeses in Europe, but are still subject to FDA restrictions on raw-milk cheeses in the U.S.?

29 October 2010

18:00, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

... that most actinides glow because of their radioactivity (example pictured)?
... that Louis F. Bantle saw U.S. Tobacco's income rise tenfold to US$1 billion led by sales of smokeless tobacco, telling managers, "We must sell the use of tobacco in the mouth and appeal to young people"?
... that i, a British newspaper launched on 26 October 2010, contains several "matrixes" – small paragraphs of news which are expanded upon in full articles inside the paper?
... that 1366 Technologies has created a technique to cast silicon wafers from the melt rather than sawing them from an ingot?
... that Wesley Bennett scored 21 points to lead Westminster College to a 37–33 victory over St. John's University in the opening game of the first college doubleheader played at Madison Square Garden?
... that Billy Squier's number-one mainstream rock hit "Everybody Wants You" has been performed by Damone, The Unband, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, and players of Guitar Hero 5?
... that the prevalence of diabetes is the prime drive in the development of biosensors such as fluorescent glucose biosensors?
... that the Tennis Palace venue which hosted some of the 1952 Summer Olympics basketball games was later converted into an art museum?
... that Nigerian boxer Franklin Egobi fought for the Latvian heavyweight title in October 2008?

12:00, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1955, a United Airlines Douglas DC-6 (similar example pictured) crashed only days after a device that could have prevented it was installed on a sister aircraft?
... that Louis Keppel Hamilton took a 12-pounder gun from HMS Challenger 640 miles along the Niger and Benue rivers, then 60 miles overland, to assist the taking of Garoua from the Germans?
... that Barnum's Kaleidoscape was the first Ringling show to be held under a tent since 1956 and also its first one-ring presentation in more than a century?
... that in his short time with British McEvoy Motorcycles, racer George Patchett set nine world records?
... that in "one of the most spectacular homicide trials ever", a jury acquitted Melvin Lane Powers and his aunt – and lover – Candy Mossler for the murder of her husband?
... that Kutmichevitsa, a region of the First Bulgarian Empire now mostly in Albania, was home to one of the two most important cultural centres of 9th-century Bulgaria?
... that Yoram Ben-Zeev, the current Israeli ambassador to Germany, was born on 20 July 1944 – the day of the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler?
... that Anonymous hackers redirected GeneSimmons.com to ThePirateBay.org during Operation Payback?
... that Nicholas II of Russia reportedly gave Princess Anna of Montenegro one million rubles as a dowry?

06:00, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the venom of a Manchurian scorpion (pictured) contains an anti-epilepsy peptide?
... that Howard Russell Butler, who persuaded Andrew Carnegie to build Princeton's rowing lake, was later employed to paint a solar eclipse in 1918?
... that Michelle Williams was the only actress whom the producers met during casting for the role of Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming film My Week with Marilyn?
... that "I Hear You, I See You", the second season premiere of the comedy-drama series Parenthood, marked the first of several appearances by William Baldwin?
... that the capitals of the Norman chancel arch of St John the Baptist's Church, Wakerley, Northamptonshire, are said to be "some of the finest in England"?
... that despite her French title and ancestry, Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg was born and raised in Russia, and was entitled to the rank Imperial Highness?
... that Adobe Systems, Inc. has successfully sued for the copyright infringement of a computer font, even though typefaces are not protected under U.S. copyright law?
... that Bo Shepard and Norman Shepard are the only siblings ever to have both coached North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball?
... that the only known location of Isoetes eludens, a recently discovered aquatic plant, is a single 2 m (6.6 ft) wide and 15 cm (5.9 in) deep seasonal rock pool?

00:00, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Jacob P. Perry House (pictured) in Pearl River, New York, is one of the few post-Revolutionary Dutch Colonial houses in Rockland County built in a prewar style?
... that undefeated MMA fighter Dragan "Gagi" Tešanović makes his North American debut tonight at the Bellator 34 event?
... that Ardelve has a notable population of Grebes?
... that Orgy's cover of "Blue Monday" was said to help guide a cyberpunk revival?
... that the current Brutalist synagogue building of Temple Israel of the City of New York was completed in 1967?
... that Count Rudolf of Geneva performed the act of homage to his overlord, Peter II, Count of Savoy, in an orchard outside of a castle in 1263?
... that American electric bluesman Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis remained a regular performer on Chicago's Maxwell Street for over 40 years?
... that the underground Elisenberg railway station at Elisenberg, Oslo, was only partially finished and never taken into use?
... that boxer Jacob Hyer has been called "The Father of the American Ring" although he broke his arm in his only match, in 1816?

28 October 2010

18:00, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the idea for making art like the Tree of Life (pictured) from AK-47s and other old guns came from Bishop Dinis Sengulane of Mozambique?
... that Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe are among the people who have been suggested as the true author of the William Shakespeare plays?
... that Starr's corollary to the Shapley–Folkman lemma was proved by an undergraduate student of Kenneth Arrow?
... that the traditional form of government in Tibet from 1642 to 1951 was the Cho-sid-nyi?
... that Parry O'Brien won the gold medal in the men's shot put at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki as part of a four-year long streak in which he won 116 consecutive meets and set 17 world records?
... that Calgary's new mayor Naheed Nenshi used social media extensively in his surprise win in the 2010 municipal election, which made him the first Muslim mayor of a major Canadian city?
... that Sir Arthur Bignold, MP for Wick Burghs, was the proprietor of the Achanalt Inn?
... that historian Brison D. Gooch, who researched the Crimean War, concludes that Great Britain and France practically ignored their ally, the Ottoman Empire, in the two-year fight against Russia?
... that World War II search and rescue dog Crumstone Irma barked differently depending on whether those buried by rubble were dead or alive?

12:00, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

... that St Peter's Church in Deene, Northamptonshire (pictured) contains a monument to the 7th Earl of Cardigan, who led the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854?
... that Scientology spokesperson Jessica Feshbach's father incorporated Dianetics philosophy into his firm's stock market investing?
... that a hydro dam was built by a state agency within the borders of the Munzur Valley National Park in Turkey, violating the existing laws for its protection?
... that Kim Williams was the longest-running guest commentator on National Public Radio, appearing on the show All Things Considered for over ten and a half years?
... that the Malta Test Station was the site of the first large test stand for static rocket engine tests in the United States?
... that Stanley Gordon Orr was the highest-scoring fighter ace of the Royal Navy during the Second World War?
... that the medieval Ca na Catanach, a drovers' road in Sutherland, begins at Dorrery Lodge and ends north of Achentoul?
... that under head coach Joe Lombardi, the IUP Crimson Hawks men's basketball team advanced to the 2010 basketball championship just two years after being placed on NCAA probation?
... that the name of Bjørnsletta Station of the Oslo Metro is ultimately derived from a bear sighting in 1852?

06:00, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1967 the BSA A65 Star (pictured) helped BSA win a Queens Award to Industry and by 1969 BSA were responsible for 80% of the British motorcycles exported?
... that the term "hatchet man" originated from the weapon of choice used in killings on Chinatown's Doyers Street, known as the "Bloody Angle" for its frequent gang murders in the early 20th century?
... that Paul Erdős challenged Jon Folkman to solve mathematical problems immediately after Folkman's surgery for brain cancer?
... that Chinese military texts have influenced strategists ranging from members of the Communist Party of China to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld?
... that University of Kentucky running back Derrick Locke set the Oklahoma high-school record in the long jump?
... that Canadian artist Henry Sandham won an award at the 1878 Exposition Universelle for a composite photograph consisting of 300 separate pictures?
... that the Sikorsky S-97 scout helicopter is intended to be able to fly with one, two, or no pilots?
... that Ethiopian long-distance runner Getu Feleke set a new course record when he won the 2010 Amsterdam Marathon earlier this month?
... that the most northerly outpost of Harrods is located in a former tourist information office in the Scottish Highlands between Achany Forest and Shin Falls?

00:00, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the interior of the 10th-century Round Church (pictured) in the medieval Bulgarian capital of Preslav features medieval inscriptions in three alphabets and two languages?
... that the official proclamation of the abolition of slavery by the French government in 1794 was delivered to the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) by the corvette Esperance?
... that the body of Cardinal Gonzalo García Gudiel, returning from Rome to his native Toledo, was reportedly greeted in the streets by a delighted crowd of Christians, Jews and Muslims?
... that in State of Alabama v. State of Georgia in 1860, the U.S. Supreme Court defined what a river bed was?
... that all five venues of the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz were reused as venues when the Winter Olympics returned to the city twenty years later?
... that a local resident donated land for and paid part of the construction cost of the Le Roy, New York, post office?
... that during two years in the early 1950s American Jim Fuchs won 88 consecutive meets and set four world records in the shot put?
... that the extinct crab Metacarcinus starri from Washington state is related to the graceful rock crab?
... that physician Sir James Clark is said to have contributed to the agonising death of poet John Keats by putting him on a starvation diet consisting of a single anchovy and a piece of bread a day?

27 October 2010

18:00, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the venom of the South African spitting scorpion (pictured) contains the neurotoxins birtoxin and bestoxin?
... that the Awaaz Foundation has successfully petitioned both local and state governments in India to impose stricter noise pollution laws?
... that American electric blues harmonicist Johnny Dyer, on his Rolling Fork Revisited album, did reworkings of songs by another Rolling Fork native, Muddy Waters?
... that Johan Falkberget's satirical story Bør Børson was a feuilleton in the newspaper Nidaros before being released as a book?
... that the incumbent Mayor of Invercargill, Tim Shadbolt, is currently the longest serving mayor in New Zealand?
... that cars were brought into the Empire Stadium venue to illuminate the last two decathlon events at the 1948 Summer Olympics?
... that Mary Malcolm, one of the BBC’s first female announcers, was a granddaughter of Victorian actress Lily Langtry, mistress of King Edward VII of England?
... that sales at Sprinkles Cupcakes increased 50% after the store was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show?
... that New Hampshire-born Charles Coffin Harris, who served as cabinet minister and judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii, also had a business selling fern hair?

12:00, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the idea that Lancaut, on the border between England and Wales, may be the site of a medieval leper colony is supported by the unusual number of medicinal herbs found in the churchyard (pictured)?
... that Walter Winchell described the 1942 British film Thunder Rock as "a glowing fantasy that lights up the dark corners of many current issues"?
... that the Innu and Naskapi of the Lac-John Reserve in northern Quebec, Canada, initially lived in poverty without sanitation, electricity, schools, or a medical facility?
... that Amane Gobena is the first Ethiopian runner to win the Osaka Marathon?
... that the fairy shrimp Branchinecta gaini is the largest freshwater invertebrate in Antarctica?
... that many former Nazi rocket scientists were employed in Egypt's rocket program in the 1960s, and were targeted by Israel in Operation Damocles, a campaign of letter bombs, assassinations and abductions?
... that American guitarist Frankie Lee Sims is regarded as "one of the great names in post-war Texas country blues"?
... that William Coleman, the first editor of the New York Post, killed an adversary in a duel in 1804?
... that one academic commentator described Dr. Bonham's Case simply as an "abortion"?

06:00, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

... that a fall in bus passenger numbers in Hampshire between 1999 and 2001 was partly attributed to the collapse of the Tillingbourne Bus Company (bus pictured)?
... that the Virginia Street Bridge in Reno, Nevada, is also known as the "Bridge of Sighs", as legend has it that new divorcees would toss their wedding rings from the bridge into the Truckee River?
... that the Marivagia stellata, a new genus and species of jellyfish, was identified in the summer of 2010?
... that the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England, is all that remains of the medieval Tarrant Abbey?
... that the Battle of Macau of 1622 was the only battle on Chinese soil to be fought between two European powers?
... that The New York Times provided plans for constructing the wet-folding origami sculpture of a rat created by Eric Joisel, but warned readers that "no lay person should even contemplate the hedgehog"?
... that, together with the Moisie River, the Natashquan River is one of the most renowned salmon rivers on the North Shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence?
... that 100,000 victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were buried at the port town of Lafiteau?
... that the Useless Parliament withdrew from London to Oxford because of bubonic plague?

00:00, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Earth's shadow (pictured) can be observed during twilight hours?
... that the Regency of Algiers was founded around 1525 when Barbarossa recaptured the city?
... that English cricketer Herbie Hewett walked off the field before play began when captaining an England XI, after receiving insults from the crowd?
... that the mycelium of the mushroom Mycena maculata glows?
... that when the West German Senate of Berlin and the East Berlin Magistrat first met as a joint body during German reunification in 1990, it was dubbed the MagiSenat?
... that the specific name of the chaenopsid blenny Protemblemaria perla refers to both its place of discovery and to the white bands on its body?
... that in 1960 Odd Grythe hosted the first show after the official opening of Norwegian television, Startskuddet går?
... that prototypes of the CityCar, the ultra-small urban electric car designed by MIT Media Lab, are being built in Spain to be field tested by mid 2011 in Boston, Singapore, Taiwan and Florence?
... that the longhead catshark is the only known cartilaginous fish that normally has both male and female reproductive systems?

26 October 2010

18:00, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Max Dupain's 1937 photograph Sunbaker (pictured) was described as "perhaps the most famous and admired photograph in Australia"?
... that American historian R.J.Q. Adams details the conflicting views of Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill in his work British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935–1939?
... that the Bay of Kiel was the venue for sailing events at both the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics?
... that in Constantinople, Mehmed II ordered a group of Albanian officers captured in the Battle of Vaikal to be tortured and their bodies thrown to the dogs?
... that the Sisquoc Formation in Southern California supports the largest diatomite mining operation in the world?
... that Hebraic studies specialist Harris Lenowitz has translated the works of 18th-century Jewish Messiah claimant Jacob Frank from Polish into English?
... that Lindy, Nebraska, was named for Lucky Lindy?
... that the charity Elizabeth Finn Care was established in 1897 as the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association?
... that the strongest aspect of the Canaanite army – its chariots – proved to be its weakness during the biblical battle of Mount Tabor?

12:00, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

... that cricketer Bernard Bosanquet (pictured) invented the googly after playing a table top game using a tennis ball?
... that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Poole v. Fleeger that the states of Kentucky and Tennessee had properly entered into an agreement establishing a mutual border between the two states?
... that Irene Kosgei, despite injuring her knee at a drinks station early in the women's marathon at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, edged compatriot Irene Mogaka to become the first Kenyan woman to win a Commonwealth marathon title?
... that Turkey–Morocco relations started as early as the 16th century, with the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Northern Africa?
... that Kenneth R. Mladenka was among those political scientists in the 1980s who pushed successfully for inclusion into the discipline of urban case studies and quantitative analysis?
... that the Hamburg Historic District was settled by Germans, mostly from Schleswig-Holstein?
... that ghost hunter Andrew Green claimed to have only ever seen one ghost, that of a fox terrier, in his 60 years of research; and he wasn't even sure about that?
... that the Três Marias Dam's power plant is named after Bernard Mascarenhas, who built Marmelos Zero, South America's first major hydroelectric power plant?
... that Eleanor Gates, who wrote seven Broadway plays, had to leave her second husband when they found out they were not married?

06:00, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Khandita (illustrated) is an enraged heroine in Indian arts, whose lover cheats on her and spends the night with another woman?
... that Jocotenango, Guatemala, has a coffee museum, and coffee grown in Alotenango, also located in Sacatepéquez Department, received an international award?
... that Jayma Mays will perform her audition song, "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me", for the Rocky Horror tribute episode of Glee and its accompanying extended play?
... that in Virginia v. West Virginia in 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States ordered the state of West Virginia to pay one-third of the state of Virginia's pre-Civil War debt?
... that the 1945 Japan–Washington flight made by three American air generals in three Boeing B-29 Superfortresses was the first nonstop flight from Japan to the United States?
... that extracts of the red volva Amanita can cause high blood sugar in mice?
... that the Duncan family, of Duncan glass fame, built a 17 room Queen Anne mansion that was later donated to Washington & Jefferson College and is now used as the college's President’s House?
... that a railway station once served Aberchalder but the line closed in 1935?
... that relatives of Nava Applebaum, who traveled to Jerusalem for her wedding, attended her funeral instead?

00:00, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Etruscan shrew (pictured on a human thumb) is the smallest known mammal by weight?
... that although he began playing basketball only after high school, Notre Dame forward John Moir broke every single school scoring record set by three-time All American Moose Krause in the 1930s?
... that Kenneth Nichols initiated the Atomic Energy Commission hearing in 1954 that resulted in atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer being stripped of his security clearance?
... that the extinct paddlefish Paleopsephurus was first described from the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation?
... that the last remains of Tonbridge Priory were demolished in 1842 to make way for the building of Tonbridge railway station?
... that 2006 National Capital Marathon winner Amos Tirop Matui was disqualified and received financial compensation due to a misplaced barrier on the course?
... that in the 1930s, Domaine Armand Rousseau was one of the first producers to bottle its own wine in Burgundy?
... that "Make It Easy", a Yes song recorded in 1981, went unreleased for ten years but became a mainstream rock hit in 1991 and was retroactively added to their 1983 album 90125?
... that during the 1658 Siege of Badajoz between Portugal and Spain, Spanish forces at the garrison of Badajoz were either dressed in rags or nude?

25 October 2010

18:00, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

... that even though it was disbanded three times, the Australian 30th Battalion (pictured) fought in the First and Second World Wars?
... that according to a popular myth, the Chinese philosopher Confucius once asked the elderly recluse Rong Qiqi how a man so poor and frail as he could be happy?
... that American football running back Keith Elias graduated from Princeton University with 21 Princeton Tigers records and 4 National Collegiate Athletic Association I-AA records?
... that after battling over who could use the name "Yes", the musicians involved reconciled and released "Lift Me Up", a number-one mainstream rock song about homelessness?
... that the mushroom Clitopilus byssisedoides, formally described as new to science in 2010, was discovered growing in a German hothouse?
... that Manila's Jai Alai Building, a building designed by Welton Becket, was demolished in 2000 to give way to a building that was never erected?
... that the Al Wahda Dam is the largest dam in Morocco and was described as "the second most important dam in Africa after the High Aswan dam"?
... that Indian badminton player Gurusai Datt took to the sport after watching 2001 All England Champion Pullela Gopichand play at a local stadium?
... that jazz photographer Chuck Stewart tried to capture his subjects in flattering poses, saying "I didn't want them picking their nose or scratching their behind"?

12:00, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Icebreaker Krasin

... that the icebreaker Lenin became trapped in the ice of the Laptev Sea in 1937 and was rescued in 1938 by another icebreaker (pictured)?
... that the American electric blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, Rusty Zinn, also recently worked with Sly Dunbar and Boris Gardiner?
... that in mid-1863, the Eighteen Mile House near Harrison, Ohio, was attacked by Morgan's Raiders?
... that the 2001 Boshears Skyfest was canceled because of the September 11 terrorist attacks?
... that Jean Charles Faget, a New Orleans physician, discovered the Faget sign—an important early diagnostic warning sign of yellow fever?
... that To‘rtko‘l, the former capital of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, was destroyed overnight in 1942 by the Amu Darya river?
... that Leroy Wright was the first repeat winner of the NCAA Division I men's basketball rebounds title, achieving the feat in 1959 and 1960?
... that the Church of St Michael in the Dartmoor town of Princetown is the only church in England to have been built by prisoners of war?
... that the Poor Knights Lily resembles a giant toothbrush?

06:00, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

... that live coverage of Jökulsárlón (pictured) in Iceland on the American TV program Good Morning America in 2006 was viewed by an estimated 4 million people?
... that historian Chester Dunning spent 12 years researching and writing his nearly 700-page volume, Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty?
... that ranked Indian badminton players Saina Nehwal, Parupalli Kashyap, and Gurusai Datt all train at Hyderabad's Gopichand Badminton Academy?
... that American Detroit and electric blues guitarist Willie D. Warren was once described as "one of the Midwest's true blues treasures"?
... that the 1933 film She Had to Say Yes was one of a series of movies that drew inspiration from the "real-life compromises working girls made to get and retain employment" during the Great Depression?
... that Hasan Pasha was the son of Barbarossa, and was three times ruler of the Algiers Regency?
... that the George B. Cox House in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the home of the city's political boss?
... that Australian runner Michael Shelley lost his scholarship funding and suffered a broken leg in 2009, but went on to win a silver medal in the marathon at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
... that the modern given name Randal is ultimately derived from a medieval personal name composed of the Germanic elements meaning "shield" (or "rim") and "wolf"?

00:00, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the extinct stingray Heliobatis (pictured) has been found with up to three stings on its tail?
... that Oneida I, by allowing aboriginal title claimants into federal court, "overturned one hundred forty-three years of American law"?
... that geneticist Piotr Słonimski joined with colleagues to organize support for scientists repressed during 1982–1983, the time of martial law in Poland?
... that Taylor Swift's song "Speak Now" was inspired by one of Swift's friends, whose high school sweetheart married another person?
... that Riessersee was the host venue for the 1936 Winter Olympics for speed skating and some ice hockey matches, while the bobsleigh was located just south of the lake?
... that during World War II, the 201 Schutzmannschaft Battalion was engaged in anti-partisan operations in Belarus?
... that Petter Nome was relieved of his job as television host after protesting the prospect of an Iraq War?
... that three ancient Maya stone heads, including one of an armadillo, were uncovered at Chojolom in the Guatemalan Highlands after a period of heavy rain?
... that scientists have suggested that more penes needed to be studied to assess the affinities of Van Gelder's bat with other Antrozoini?

24 October 2010

18:00, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Samuel Hannaford designed the Winton Place Methodist Episcopal Church (pictured), where his funeral was eventually held?
... that when St. Louis city officials blocked the expansion of the company that would become known as Burroughs Corporation, Alvan Macauley packed the entire factory into boxcars and sent it overnight to Detroit?
... that around 2,000 members of the media from around the world traveled to the site of the rescue of the Chilean miners?
... that University of Kentucky All-American Forest Sale served for five terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives before bowing out of politics?
... that the Étang Saumâtre in Haiti is a landlocked lake fed by springs emanating from calcareous rocks, with western part saline and eastern part with fresh water?
... that Pedro Borrell, the Dominican architect of the National Aquarium, is designing a million square meter coastal reclamation project for the Caribbean Sea?
... that Bach assigned two opposing voices to one singer in his cantata Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben, BWV 109, for the 21st Sunday after Trinity?
... that Perlman syndrome is a very rare overgrowth disorder with an estimated incidence of less than one in 1,000,000 and fewer than 30 reported cases in world literature?
... that non-vocal sounds made by the Hakawai have been described as like a cable chain being lowered into a boat?

12:00, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

... that construction of the Phrontisterion of Trapezous (pictured), a former Greek school in Trabzon, Turkey, has been described as the most impressive surviving Pontic Greek monument of the city?
... that American historian Terry H. Anderson co-authored with Charles R. Bond, Jr. the first published diary of the exploits of a pilot assigned to General Claire Chennault's World War II Flying Tigers?
... that the Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross diocesan community in Wisconsin was founded in 1868 to teach and provide medical care to the Belgian residents?
... that Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey discusses both issues of the fair treatment of governesses and the ethical claim of animals to human protection?
... that the father, mother, and father-in-law of Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Commander of the Special Forces Group in the Uganda People's Defence Force, are all members of the Cabinet of Uganda?
... that the passing of the Food Quality Protection Act marked the first time the Environmental Protection Agency was asked to directly address the risks that pesticides posed for infants and children?
... that the German battleship SMS Grosser Kurfürst was involved in a series of accidents during her service career, including collisions and several groundings?
... that James Turrell's art installations Stuck Red and Stuck Blue create an optical illusion which seems to collapse the room they occupy into a single plane?
... that the British Alpine Hannibal Expedition managed to march the 2.6 t elephant Jumbo over the Alps, but could not make her accept the name Hannibella?

06:00, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Grafton (pictured) and West Virginia National Cemeteries are the only two national cemeteries in West Virginia, and both are located in the small city of Grafton?
... that British peer Ted Hill lived in a terraced house in Wivenhoe?
... that Alexis Rockman's mural Manifest Destiny, commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum in 2002, depicts Brooklyn in the year 5004 after a catastrophic rise in sea level?
... that the Naskapi ceded any rights or interests to the Matimekosh Reserve in northern Quebec, Canada, as a prerequisite to the formation of their own reserve?
... that in 1970, Texas historian Robert A. Calvert co-authored The Dallas Cowboys and the NFL, an inside study of the financing and organization of the popular football team?
... that in 1833, the opium clipper Sylph set the unbroken record of sailing from Calcutta to Macao in 17 days, 17 hours?
... that the Araçuaí River valley in Brazil is famous for the settlements established during the gold rush in the early 18th century in the region of Minas Novas?
... that the incomplete structural test airframe of the Avro 720 is often claimed to be the prototype of the cancelled interceptor?
... that Mark Twain denounced his former secretary as "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded & salacious slut pining for seduction"?

00:00, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

... that in May 1944, Sea Hurricanes from the escort carrier HMS Nairana (pictured) destroyed 10 percent of Germany's Junkers Ju 290 aircraft?
... that Dennis Mackrel, the last jazz drummer to be personally hired by Count Basie, is the new director of the Count Basie Orchestra?
... that the Saxony Apartment Building in Cincinnati, Ohio, features two facades?
... that BPP University College of Professional Studies is the United Kingdom's first for-profit institution of higher education?
... that Herman G. Felhoelter was the first US Army chaplain to win a valor award in the Korean War for his actions at the Chaplain-Medic massacre?
... that English vocalist Sarah Brightman had to beg Italian composer Ennio Morricone to let her add lyrics to his movie theme, "Gabriel's Oboe", to create her own song, "Nella Fantasia"?
... that the Fort des Ayvelles was the scene of German executions of French civilians in both World War I and World War II?
... that in the Expedition of Mostaganem in 1558, Spain failed to capture the Ottoman-held city of Mostaganem, and lost thousands of men?
... that Herb Wiedoeft, Ad and Gay all played Cinderella, and that their brother Rudy and their sister Erica were both players too?

23 October 2010

18:00, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Edward Hasted dismissed the existence of Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst (pictured) of Biddenden, Kent as "vulgar tradition"?
... that the Umayyad general Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik, who led the second Arab siege of Constantinople, was also ascribed the construction of the city's first mosque in popular legend?
... that the Nairana class escort carriers of the Royal Navy were constructed in three different countries?
... that arranger and conductor Peter Matz won a Grammy and an Emmy Award for his work with Barbra Streisand?
... that after the 1880 general election in the United Kingdom, the election of Macclesfield MP David Chadwick was declared void, and his agent convicted of bribery?
... that EastCare is the critical care mobile air and ground transport of Pitt County Memorial Hospital?
... that Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis' plans to construct a luxury hotel in view of Neuschwanstein Castle caused an uproar from local Bavarian farmers, who believed it would ruin the rural landscape?
... that Antiguan professional basketball player Kurt Looby did not play high school basketball?
... that the 2010 album Genuine Negro Jig, by an African American string band called the Carolina Chocolate Drops, reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard Bluegrass chart?

12:00, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the name of the Pyana River (pictured) reflects the drunkenness of the Russian Army during the associated battle in 1377?
... that Texas Tech professor emeritus Alwyn Barr, who is white, wrote Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995, and the introduction for Black Cowboys of Texas?
... that the Greek television series To Nisi, based on the best-selling novel The Island by Victoria Hislop, is one of the most expensive Greek television productions ever made?
... that a U.S. appeals court declared the federal government was obliged to bring a lawsuit against the state of Maine, claiming 60% of the state's land on behalf of the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot?
... that in the 1970s, Sunn Classic Pictures specialized in four wall distribution, a practice in which distributors show their films in rented theaters and keep all of the box office revenue?
... that Evangelical mysticism, a branch of Christianity, dates back to the 18th-century works by John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church?
... that after the Ottoman invasion of the Balearic islands in 1558, over 3,000 inhabitants were taken as slaves?
... that country music songwriter Bill Rice has 73 awards from ASCAP, more than any other songwriter?
... that, as part of the agreement to end the deadly Tarakan riot in 2010, the communities involved agreed to jointly hold an Idul Fitri celebration?

06:00, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the largest lake of Algeria (pictured) dries up in summer and is replenished in winter by the Djedi River?
... that the American boogie-woogie pianist and singer, Mose Vinson, recorded two versions of "Forty-Four", one retitled "Worry You Off My Mind", and the other as "My Love Has Gone"?
... that the only airstrikes carried out by India in its own civilian territory happened during the March 1966 Mizo National Front uprising?
... that in the 1945 general election, Harold Roberts was one of only three Conservative MPs elected in the English city of Birmingham?
... that the 1932 Pre-Code film Laughter in Hell drew praise for its open depiction of the lynching of African Americans?
... that Texas A&M historian Walter L. Buenger wrote articles on Texas entrepreneurs H. L. Hunt and Jesse H. Jones?
... that the blind and oval electric rays can barely swim, instead "walking" along the sea floor?
... that English former professional footballer Jimmy Fletcher became a successful breeder of racing greyhounds and once led a consortium which won £200,000 on a single race?
... that when sailors on board Almirante Latorre mutinied, one of their demands was for more sugar?

00:00, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the battlecruisers of Japan (Haruna pictured) were destroyed by scrapping, air attack, surface engagements, a submarine, and an earthquake?
... that Anita Martinez was the first Mexican American woman to serve on the city council of Dallas, Texas?
... that approximately 8% of commuters in Portland, Oregon, bike to work, the highest proportion of any major United States city?
... that Reginald Laurence Scoones was the last British military commander in the Sudan Defence Force?
... that an elaborate, three-storey tomb memorializing Sir George Shirley inside the Church of St Mary and St Hardulph at Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire, was constructed 20 years before his death?
... that the Cold War led nations to subsidise foreign exchange programs to encourage student migration from developing countries?
... that in State of Missouri v. State of Iowa in 1849, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a border dispute between two states that had caused the "Honey War" of 1839?
... that Ed Beisser won three consecutive AAU basketball national championships from 1946 to 1948 and was selected as an alternate for the United States men's national basketball team?
... that Internet service provider Fasthosts, sold for £61.5 million in 2006, was founded by a 17-year-old for a school project?

22 October 2010

18:00, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the pattern of cracks (example pictured) in a painting can be used to detect forged art?
... that completion of the Croatian A4 motorway on October 22, 2008 marked completion of the Budapest–Zagreb–Rijeka motorway route?
... that puppeteer Van Snowden, who performed the puppetry for the H.R. Pufnstuf and Crypt Keeper characters, also developed the facial movements for Furby toys?
... that running back Gerald White played football for Bo Schembechler at Michigan, Tom Landry at Dallas and Don Shula at Miami?
... that tens of thousands of victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were buried in multiple mass graves near Titanyen?
... that, during the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government drew up plans for mass arrests of communists and crypto-communists?
... that Beles Hydroelectric Power Plant will be the largest power plant in Ethiopia when fully operational, but has been accused of aiming "to provoke Egypt’s anger"?
... that the Rose Bowl was used as a velodrome as one of the venues of the 1932 Summer Olympics?
... that Louis Henkin slept on the couch of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter on Friday nights so he could attend the justices' weekly Saturday conference without violating the Jewish Sabbath?

12:00, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Elizabeth Knollys (pictured) served as Maid of Honour to Elizabeth I of England?
... that Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Halberstam's book The Breaks of the Game was listed as one of the best sports books ever written by Sports Illustrated?
... that Ethiopian long-distance runner Atsede Habtamu set a new course record at the Eindhoven Marathon with her first marathon victory earlier this month?
... that the release of Future X-Cops was delayed, as time was needed to enhance the quality of the film's special effects?
... that after winning his last fight via 10-second knockout due to head kick, English welterweight Mark Scanlon was signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship?
... that Shamkir reservoir is the second largest reservoir in the Caucasus?
... that American soprano Lauren Flanigan premiered the title role of Hugo Weisgall's opera Esther at the New York City Opera in 1993?
... that a 13-year-old girl discovered Grotte du Vallonnet, a cave in the Alpes-Maritimes of France that contained stone tools dated to 1 million to 1.05 million years BC?
... that a 1967 appeal by Felix Ziegel on Soviet television led to citizens submitting a barrage of supposed unidentified flying object sightings?

06:00, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the gills of Inocybe praetervisa (pictured) change from whitish to clay brown as the mushrooms mature?
... that Jameel Sayhood was shot down by Cesar Rodriguez mere minutes after achieving one of the few Iraqi aerial victories of the Gulf War?
... that the term educology, referring to the fund of knowledge about the educational process, has been in use since the 1950s?
... that Robert Tishman co-founded Tishman Speyer in 1978 with his son-in-law Jerry Speyer, a firm that is one of the largest owners and builders of office buildings in the United States?
... that Chesham tube station on the Chesham branch is both the northernmost and westernmost point of the London Underground?
... that IOC member Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen had five caps in football, two in bandy and an Olympic silver medal in sailing?
... that even though it was released in 1932, the Pre-Code film The Devil is Driving deals openly with sex and violence?
... that the British Conservative Party Member of Parliament Sir Cooper Rawson was a chairman of Durex Ltd?
... that Codex Floriacensis, an Old Latin manuscript of the New Testament, begins from the Book of Revelation?

00:00, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

... that mezzo-soprano Débria Brown (pictured) created the role of Tituba in the world premiere of Robert Ward's Pulitzer-winning opera, The Crucible, at the New York City Opera in 1961?
... that in 1995, Canada's lower Kazan River area, an important caribou crossing as well as the ancestral home of Harvaqtuurmiut, was designated the Fall Caribou Crossing National Historic Site?
... that despite suffering from asthma, Indian badminton player Parupalli Kashyap continues to play the sport?
... that Silvio D'Amico, first editor of the Encyclopedia of Performing Arts, gave his name to the state-funded Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico?
... that Rusty Mike Radio broadcasts over the internet to the two hundred and fifty thousand Anglos in Israel?
... that Robert L. Rutherford was the vice commander of the United States Air Force's Military Airlift Command and commander of both the Air Mobility Command and United States Transportation Command?
... that Yvor Winters titled the third volume in his three-volume collection of literary criticism, examining the work of prominent writers associated with Modernist poetry, The Anatomy of Nonsense?
... that The Waybacks, a four-piece band from San Francisco Bay, played covers from The Beatles' album Abbey Road at the 2010 MerleFest?
... that upon the release of the 1934 Pre-Code film Hitler's Reign of Terror, Film Daily scoffed at the film's prediction that Hitler's Germany was a future threat to world peace?

21 October 2010

18:00, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Ramón de Bonifaz (illustrated) broke the river defenses of Seville, leading to the city's capture from the Moors?
... that Saint Mary's College Gaels men's basketball coach Randy Bennett turned around a team that was 2–27 in 2001 to 28–6 in 2010?
... that Jovan Ćirilov has been the artistic director and selector of BITEF festival for 43 years, the longest term in the history of international theatre festivals?
... that the original publishers of The Lord of the Rings also released the Slavic mythology-based short story collection Croatian Tales of Long Ago by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić 30 years earlier?
... that Texas A&M women's studies professor and historian Sara Alpern wrote the definitive biography of Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation from 1933 to 1955?
... that the 1974 Oneida I decision, holding that U.S. federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to hear aboriginal title disputes, "spawned a vast number of Indian land claims"?
... that a horse was added to the buttock of the central figure of The Street Enters the House as a nod to the artist's earlier work?
... that Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo paid US$1 million to build and furnish the four-story Rhinelander Mansion at Madison Avenue and 72nd Street in Manhattan, but never lived in it?
... that Virginia Governor William E. Cameron was lampooned in a comic opera after he personally led a failed expedition against illegal dredgers in the Oyster Wars?

12:00, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Archbishop of Adelaide John O'Reilly (pictured) removed an "l" from his last name to save time and effort when signing documents?
... that the directors of ForceSelect, a charitable foundation aimed at supporting military service leavers, include General Sir Mike Jackson and bestselling author Andy McNab?
... that, in 2004, Shikha Tandon became the first female Indian swimmer to qualify for two separate events at a single Olympics?
... that the San José Mine in Atacama Region, Chile, began to be exploited in 1889?
... that French priest Jean-Claude Faveyrial wrote the first recorded history of Albania?
... that The Hangover 2, the upcoming sequel to the 2009 comedy film, is set to take place in Thailand?
... that the British Conservative Party politician Francis Lucas married the daughter of a Viscount of Portugal?
... that nearly one-quarter of the Vrata Tunnel on the Croatian A6 motorway is actually a bridge built over an underground cavern?
... that Matthew Werkmeister almost missed out on his audition for Neighbours because his father refused to drive the five hours it took to get there?

06:00, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the tainted wine from an antimonial cup (examples pictured) was used to make oneself vomit?
... that Wobogo's given name was Boukary Koutou, and that he lived in perpetual fear of assassination, according to Dr. Crozat?
... that after her sister was sunk in late 1917 while anchored right next to her, Budapest took on her role of being a floating barracks?
... that San Beda College had a 28-year men's basketball championship drought until they won in the Philippine NCAA's 82nd season?
... that "Smoke and Mirrors", the season-two finale of the BAFTA Award-winning TV series Spooks, was watched by over a third of the British television audience?
... that after Joe C. Carr enlisted during World War II, his wife took on his role as Tennessee Secretary of State, becoming the first female constitutional officer in the state?
... that the Croatian A6 motorway crosses the Bajer Bridge, which spans Lake Bajer, and the Kamačnik Bridge, which spans a canyon that is protected landscape?
... that the Atlantic Wind Connection is a planned "superhighway for clean energy" to serve 1.9 million Mid-Atlantic households with power from wind farms to be built 20 miles (32 km) offshore?
... that Colonia San Rafael in Mexico City is known for old mansions, theaters, and prostitution?

00:00, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Danish folk high school Rødkilde Højskole (pictured) owes its existence to the dowry of a Norwegian bride who did not live to see it open?
... that Entrepreneur magazine dubbed Michael Sedge "the wizard of marketing"?
... that, despite being ejected from the "boot camp" stage of the Popstars talent show, Warren Stacey was signed by an American record label and went on to support Destiny's Child in concert?
... that Elina Ringa, who was the Latvian national pole vault champion on ten occasions, has also published a book about Microsoft Office?
... that the Church of St Edmund in Rochdale is unique among English churches for its overt Masonic symbolism?
... that entertainment news journalist Roger Friedman was one of the producers of D. A. Pennebaker's documentary film about Memphis soul musicians, Only the Strong Survive?
... that Alaska Ballot Measure 2 (1998), the state constitutional amendment restricting same-sex marriages, passed through the Twentieth Alaska Legislature with a vote of 42 yeas to 18 nays?
... that as a result of the approaching Soviet Red Army, Baroness Elisabeth of Wangenheim-Winterstein and her family were forced to flee eastern Germany, leaving most of their possessions behind?
... that in addition to being made an officer of the Order of Canada, Myer Horowitz has received eight honorary doctorate degrees from various universities?

20 October 2010

18:00, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Monument to gambusia affinis in Sochi

... that the role of mosquitofish in the history of Sochi was acknowledged by a monument (pictured)?
... that the 20 days between Dallas Braden's perfect game and Roy Halladay's was the shortest span between two perfect games since 1880?
... that the deck of Severinske Drage Viaduct, a part of the Croatian A6 motorway, is at a constant grade at one part of the viaduct, while vertically curved at the other?
... that during the Spanish–American War the Spanish gunboat Elcano captured the American bark Saranac, which was carrying 1,640 tons of coal from Newcastle, NSW, for Admiral Dewey's fleet?
... that the Liberty Green Historic District in Clinton, Connecticut, contains a time capsule that should be opened on 4 July 2976?
... that Italian operatic tenor Lodovico Graziani was described as lacking "dramatic gifts"?
... that the memorial in the churchyard of St. Mary's Church, Hadlow to the 30 hop-pickers who drowned in the River Medway on 20 October 1859 is Grade II listed?
... that Norman O. Houston co-founded what was, in 1945, the largest business west of the Mississippi owned by an African American?
... that during the Second World War the Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Vindex still used the Fairey Swordfish biplane?

12:00, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Flag of Macha (pictured) is considered to be the first physical flag of Argentina?
... that Universal Pictures sold its 1946 horror B movie The Brute Man to another distributor to avoid accusations of having exploited star Rondo Hatton, who died of acromegaly before the film's release?
... that Filipino basketball player Gabby Espinas lost the Most Valuable Player race during the 2005 NCAA season to a former volleyball star?
... that the British Conservative Party politician Pierse Loftus was a part-owner of Adnams Brewery?
... that after Long Island University chancellor R. Gordon Hoxie forced provost William Birenbaum to resign, 1,500 students protested, chanting "We want Bill" and demanding Birenbaum's reinstatement?
... that the Blue Monkey microbrewery produces award-winning beers including Ape Ale, Guerrilla Porter, and 99 Red Baboons?
... that the 1993 Bayburt Üzengili avalanche in north-eastern Turkey killed 59 people and 650 livestock, and caused the relocation of the village to a safe zone?
... that Kenyan athlete Paul Malakwen Kosgei became the World Half Marathon Champion in 2002 despite having never competed in a half marathon before?
... that Jehiel Elyachar would not sell a tenement he owned to make way for 1 Lincoln Plaza, so the five-story building "sticks out like a sore thumb, or a finger—which is probably what [he] had in mind"?

06:00, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Resolute Desk (pictured) is one of only five desks ever used in the Oval Office?
... that Urraca the Asturian, born in 1132 as an illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile, became queen in a neighboring kingdom in 1144?
... that 2.5-inch-long "nano-drones" now being developed for targeted killing will, like little killer bees, be able to follow their target, even entering a room through an open window?
... that Joan Henry's Look on Tempests was the first play dealing explicitly with the subject of homosexuality to be approved for performance by the Lord Chamberlain?
... that the Lugenda River of Mozambique in the Yao language means simply "a large river"?
... that the successful 1895 election campaign of British Conservative MP Alfred Lafone in Bermondsey was assisted by the loan of carriages from two Dukes?
... that the World War II search and rescue dog Jet of Iada was awarded both the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor and the Dickin Medal?
... that the chief of the Chilean Army's meteorological office predicted the 1906 Valparaíso earthquake ten days in advance?
... that when rugby union international player David Marques arrived with the British Lions in Australia, he stepped off the plane dressed as a city gent, complete with bowler hat and umbrella?

00:00, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

... that St Cosmas and St Damian's Church, Stretford, Herefordshire, (pictured) is dedicated to the patron saints of physicians and surgeons?
... that the parallel structures of Croatia's Hreljin Viaduct were built using different construction methods, since the original one proved cumbersome?
... that Clyde Lucas and His California Dons recorded background music for some of the early talkies?
... that producers for the sixth season of The West Wing originally cast Marley Shelton as Deputy Press Secretary Annabeth Schott?
... that William Rule published the first comprehensive history of the American city of Knoxville?
... that the Messalo River flooded its banks in March 2000 during the 2000 Mozambique flood?
... that the first captain of Derbyshire County Cricket Club fled the United Kingdom after the club's captain in 1890 discovered embezzlement of £1000 from the club's coffers?
... that before a population crash due to overfishing, the annual catch of Bering Sea Tanner crab was as much as 332,000,000 pounds (151,000,000 kg)?
... that influential American wine critic Robert Parker is satirised in the French bande dessinée comic book Robert Parker Les sept pêchés capiteux (Robert Parker: The Seven Heady Sins)?

19 October 2010

18:00, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Cologne's Museum für Angewandte Kunst (pictured) houses over 100,000 pieces of applied art?
... that Parfait-Louis Monteil made an epic land journey between 1890 and 1892 from Senegal in West Africa to Lake Chad and across the Sahara to Tripoli?
... that in the 1622 Siege of Montpellier, Huguenot troops were able to repel the Catholic troops of Louis XIII repeatedly, until the encounter had to end in negotiations?
... that during the 2002 season, Ateneo de Manila University prevented a 14–0 sweep of De La Salle University-Manila en route to their first men's college basketball championship since 1988?
... that The Hollies had seven number-one singles on Wonderful Radio London's Fab 40 chart, six of which failed to top the UK Singles Chart in the 1960s?
... that the 1975 Indian film Jai Santoshi Maa propelled the then little-known "new" goddess Santoshi Mata to the pan-Indian Hindu pantheon?
... that the worst coal mining disaster in Tyldesley occurred at Yew Tree Colliery, which became part of the Tyldesley Coal Company in 1870?
... that the SWAT team was called in to restrain unruly fans during the 2003 UAAP semifinals?
... that the deck of the Zečeve Drage Viaduct follows both a horizontal and a vertical curve?

12:00, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

A bespectacled Chinese man smiling.

... that China labeled the decision to award the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo (pictured) as a "blasphemy"?
... that Rich Iott, a first-time candidate in the 2010 House of Representatives elections in Ohio, came to media prominence due to his past participation in a World War II reenactment group?
... that Al-Musta'in was the only Cairo-based Abbasid caliph to hold both political and spiritual power?
... that the 1629 Siege of Privas was one of the last events of the French Huguenot rebellions, and that it ended in the total plunder and destruction of the city of Privas by the troops of Louis XIII?
... that Suiyo Seamount, a seamount near Japan, was thought to be extinct until a hydrothermal event in 1991 was brought to light?
... that Harry Thorneycroft was the first British Labour candidate to receive a letter of support from Winston Churchill and other leaders of the coalition government?
... that in a gesture of appreciation for his service in the Spanish Civil War, International Brigades veteran Sam Lesser was offered honorary Spanish citizenship in 1996?
... that the Swedish river monitor HMS Sköld had a combined hand and steam propulsion system designed by John Ericsson?
... that Seattle Community Access Network carried a TV show that ran uncensored pornography?

06:00, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

... that demolition of Manchester Courts (pictured), a Category I heritage building damaged in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, starts today?
... that Ching Chong Song topped a poll in The Village Voice as the "Worst Band Name in New York"?
... that English football captain Bobby Moore was accused of stealing a bracelet in Bogotá, Colombia, during the run-up to the 1970 FIFA World Cup?
... that the dumping of slag into Kilbirnie Loch by the local ironworks unearthed a set of logboats and a crannóg?
... that, despite the stock market crash of 1929, construction of the Washington Athletic Club in Seattle went ahead with a groundbreaking ceremony held in December of 1929?
... that the English artist Henry Clarence Whaite was one of the central figures in the formation of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Wales' first art academy?
... that Roy Roundtree was the leading receiver for the 2009 Michigan Wolverines football team even though he only started four games?
... that, according to the Dallas Morning News, William Madison McDonald was "probably Texas' first black millionaire"?

00:00, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Mexican state of Puebla is home to chiles en nogada, mole poblano and the China Poblana (pictured)?
... that Marshall Flaum, who won two Emmys for The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, earned an Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature for Let My People Go: The Story of Israel in 1965?
... that modern tribes in the area of the village of Negomano on the Mozambique–Tanzania border can be traced to the southern shores of Lake Malawi, and that their ancestors moved to escape severe drought?
... that King's Carpenter John Abel also designed a wooden tank called the Sow?
... that the Constitution of Bhutan is based on Buddhist philosophy, International Conventions on Human Rights, public opinion, and existing laws, authorities, and precedents?
... that Chris Deschene is the first Native American to run for Secretary of State in Arizona?
... that the Patron of the Auto-Cycle Union which oversees the British Motocross Championship is HRH the Duke of Edinburgh?
... that in 1854, Michel Maxwell Philip, the illicit son of a white planter and a slave, wrote Emmanuel Appadocca, the first Trinidadian novel?
... that the demolition of Mount Carmel High School, a historic landmark in Los Angeles, was filmed for the movie Rock 'n' Roll High School?

18 October 2010

18:00, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

... that according to a legend, the Heishi rock (pictured) represents the God of the Sea of Japan?
... that despite being the largest church in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, St Mary's was declared redundant in 1987?
... that, during Sulla's civil wars, Romans were killed if the consul Gaius Marius did not nod to them in response to a conversation?
... that Lom prisoner of war camp, operated by the 2nd Division during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign, held both German PoWs and Norwegians suspected of collaborationism?
... that soul singer and songwriter Brenda Lee Eager has written and performed in a musical theatre show based on her own life story?
... that rock blasting during excavation of the second Veliki Gložac Tunnel tube required the original tunnel tube to be closed to traffic more than 220 times?
... that the Italian tanker Gianna M was captured by the British Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Hilary in 1941?
... that Sakis Rouvas became the first Greek artist to have his own fashion label with the launch of the Sakis Rouvas Collection in October 2010?
... that thawing ice forced four of the ice hockey matches at the 1932 Winter Olympics to move from an outdoor venue to an indoor one?

12:00, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Koserow church (pictured) is reportedly the oldest church on Usedom's Baltic Sea coast?
... that one of the Google driverless cars was able to drive itself down the narrow hairpin turns of San Francisco's Lombard Street?
... that the Swedish monitor Folke was designed opposite of her sister ships, with a gun turret at the stern, so that she could protect them during a retreat?
... that thawing of the ice rink venue during the 1928 Winter Olympics led to the cancellation of the 10,000 m speed skating event?
... that the Byzantine general Manuel the Armenian achieved the highest Byzantine military ranks, defected to the Abbasids, escaped back, and saved emperor Theophilos from captivity?
... that Mexican singer Luis Miguel received a Grammy Award and a Platinum certification for his album Segundo Romance in the United States?
... that Hyderabad-born Asher Noria is the only shooter in the world to win the double trap event of the International Shooting Junior World Cup for two consecutive years?
... that architectural historians have described the Norman chancel arch of St James' Church, Stirchley, Shropshire, as "quite incongruously ornate"?
... that Mrs. Thomasina Tittlemouse was depicted on a 1955 Huntley & Palmer biscuit tin?

06:00, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

... that after the Paris Exposition of 1867, the London Times referred to the works of Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon (self-portrait pictured) as "the finest photographic portraits in the world"?
... that Oatka Creek disappears from an area north of Le Roy, New York, during the summer months?
... that Tenczyn Castle was captured and pillaged because of a rumor that the Polish Crown Jewels were hidden in its walls?
... that St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham contains wall paintings dating from the 13th to the 19th centuries, painted on top of each other up to seven layers thick?
... that Sofie is the first surgical robot to return tactile information back to the operating surgeon?
... that Dinesh Dhamija went from selling tickets in a London tube station kiosk to a net worth of over £100m?
... that Podvugleš Tunnel is separated from neighboring Javorova Kosa Tunnel by a 30-metre (98 ft) section of the Croatian A6 motorway?
... that Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine won an Ig Nobel Prize for research on treating hiccups with digital rectal massage?

00:00, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

ZETA fusion power machine at Harwell

... that in May 1958, eight months after John Cockroft had announced with great fanfare that the British-designed ZETA device (pictured) had achieved nuclear fusion, he was forced to retract this claim?
... that Adam of Kilconquhar, first husband of Robert the Bruce's mother Marjory of Carrick, died on crusade at Acre in 1271?
... that Philipsburg Manor, one of the four main manors of the Province of New York, was dissolved in 1779 because its owner was a loyalist?
... that the Top Pops chart, which ran for less than three years, had 15 number-one singles that failed to top the official UK Singles Chart?
... that the al-'Awasim was the fortified frontier zone established by the Ummayad and Abbasid caliphates along their border with the Byzantine Empire?
... that the tower of St Bartholomew's Church, Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, is detached from the body of the church, standing about 10 metres (33 ft) to its east?
... that the BSA B50 SS motorcycle proved its credentials by winning the 500 cc class in the Thruxton 500 and the Barcelona 24-hour endurance race?
... that the New Academy, an 18th-century higher learning institute and center of Greek culture, in Moscopole, Albania, was nicknamed "the worthiest jewel of the city"?
... that fetuses of the endangered Giant Panda have been artificially grown in the womb of a cat?

17 October 2010

18:00, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the 2010 sockeye salmon run on the Adams River (pictured) in British Columbia, Canada, is expected to be the largest since 1913, with an estimated 9 million fish returning to the river to spawn?
... that plans to restore the derelict Leah's Yard in Sheffield, England, have been put on hold because of government budget cuts?
... that Ekgmowechashala was the only North American genus of primate during the Late Oligocene?
... that Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey won the NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament champions in both 1996 and 1998, but the 1996–97 team had the best record?
... that Figaro was brought back in 2008 for the Australian and northern sawtail catsharks?
... that the New Jersey Historical Commission established the Mildred Barry Garvin Prize to recognize educators in the state for outstanding teaching of African-American history?
... that, earlier this month, Leon Baptiste won England's first gold medal for sprinting at the Commonwealth Games in over a decade?
... that the first battle of the Crimean War led to an increased usage of the name Alma?

12:00, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

... that in addition to its rich wildlife, Lore Lindu National Park (pictured) on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi contains megaliths dating from before 1300 AD?
... that Robert Lee Bobbitt, a prominent Texas politician of the 1920s and 1930s, was a presidential elector in 1944 for the Roosevelt-Truman ticket?
... that a series of novels based on the tale of Sleeping Beauty was removed from the Columbus Metropolitan Library in 1996?
... that the Double-O Ranch Historic District in Harney County, Oregon, was once owned by cattle baron Bill Hanley and is now part of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?
... that Gin Pit was the first colliery belonging to Astley and Tyldesley Collieries, and its name suggests it had horse-driven winding gear and was on the site of even older coal workings?
... that Maurice Neligan was described as "the first superstar of Irish medicine"?
... that many newspapers refused to publicize the 1932 Pre-Code film Merrily We Go to Hell because of its racy title?
... that the last two known individuals of the South Island Snipe died on 1 September 1964, two days after they were captured?
... that William W. Norton wrote scripts for films starring John Wayne and Burt Reynolds, but when asked by a nurse if she would know any of his films, he replied, "I don't think your IQ is low enough"?

06:00, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Sack of Amorium (pictured) in 838 by the Abbasids discredited Byzantine Iconoclasm and led to the restoration of the veneration of icons?
... that Papua New Guinean Anglican archbishop Sir George Ambo was "the first South Pacific native to be made a bishop", in 1960?
... that Robert Levin reconstructed for the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage missing parts of Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe, BWV 162?
... that the 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m²) wave pool at Hyderabad's Jalavihar, which is the largest in India, can accommodate about 1,000 people at a time?
... that, during the 2010 Winter Olympics, Stephen Colbert visited Pride House Vancouver, which is located in the LGBT community centre Qmunity?
... that English photographer Greg Williams used a high-resolution video camera to create a photograph of Megan Fox for the cover of Esquire magazine?
... that Lake Sausacocha in Peru is one of the rare Andean lakes with acidic waters?
... that professional wrestler and Maori Anglican Church member Ike Robin was once said to be "so absorbed in his preaching that he failed to notice that the congregation comprised only his dog"?
... that during the 16th century, St Peter and St Paul's Church, Preston Deanery, Northamptonshire, was used as a dog kennel and a pigeon house?

00:00, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Jauja, located near Laguna de Paca (pictured), was the capital of Peru before the founding of Lima?
... that French comedy actor Louis de Funès made his film debut at the age of 31 with a 40-second appearance in The Temptation of Barbizon?
... that the 2010–11 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team is coming off its first year with a postseason victory since the 1998–99 team won two games in the 1999 National Invitation Tournament?
... that native Pennsylvanian Alexander Fulton named the Louisiana city that he founded, Alexandria, after himself?
... that the generation of Husák's Children was named after a communist president of Czechoslovakia?
... that Philadelphia School of Circus Arts teaches static trapeze, corde lisse, lyra, unicycling, tightwire, and Chinese acrobatics?
... that Prince Abbas Hilmi, a great-grandson of both the last Ottoman sultan and the last Ottoman caliph, was the first foreign member of the London Stock Exchange?
... that the Grandview Apostolic Church was the second-oldest church in Brown County, Indiana, until it was burned last July?
... that physician Charles de Lorme (1584–1678) prescribed an eye cosmetic concoction to French kings Henry IV and Louis XIII as a medicine?

16 October 2010

18:00, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Javorova Kosa Tunnel (pictured) caved in during construction, requiring removal of 400 cubic metres (14,000 cubic feet) of rock and soil before the work could resume?
... that the anonymous 6th-century treatise About the Mystery of the Letters interpreted the three Greek numeral signs Digamma (6), Koppa (90) and Sampi (900) as mystical symbols of the Holy Trinity?
... that James Kennedy Patterson, the first president of the University of Kentucky, once secured a personal loan to help the institution meet its financial obligations?
... that the deciding game of the 2004 UAAP men's college basketball finals was played a day before the 29th anniversary of the Thrilla in Manila at the same venue?
... that baritone Georges Baklanoff created the title role in Sergei Rachmaninoff's The Miserly Knight at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow in 1906?
... that St Martin's Church, Preston Gubbals, Shropshire, has been the chancel of a medieval church, the south aisle of a 19th century church, and is now a free-standing structure?
... that when a diabetic passenger needed an emergency stop on a JetBlue flight, David Barger, now the company's CEO, personally apologized to every customer for the delay?
... that after recovering from polio as a 12-year old, Leo Byrd went on to win a gold medal with the United States men's basketball team at the 1959 Pan American Games?
... that the father Snares Snipe looks after the first chick to leave the nest, while the mother takes care of the second?

12:00, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

... that a bronze statue of Ludwig van Beethoven (pictured) was unveiled in 1845 to coincide with his 75th birthday?
... that in 1997, Marko Račič became the only Slovenian to receive the Gold Badge of the European Athletic Association?
... that cloud gaming developments allow players to access their saved games at multiple locations, using the same game data on platforms ranging from desktop computers to tablet devices?
... that, after Bobby Godsell had resigned as Chairman of South African company Eskom in 2009, he was accused of racism but defended by both the Mineworkers Union and the ANC?
... that the 2009–10 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team earned the first postseason college basketball victory for Princeton since the 1999 National Invitation Tournament?
... that the Early Cretaceous crocodilian relative Susisuchus was one of the first mesoeucrocodylians to have a segmented shield of bony osteoderms over its back, which allowed for greater flexibility while swimming?
... that Tuhobić Tunnel is the longest tunnel on the Croatian A6 motorway route?
... that Super Heavyweight Sean McCorkle has been nicknamed "The Hater", "The Big Angry", "Big Hungry" and "The Alpha Male", and claims he changes his nickname "to keep it interesting"?

06:00, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Military Engineering-Technical University (pictured) in Saint Petersburg was the alma mater of author Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
... that Edentulina moreleti is the only known herbivorous streptaxid?
... that Edward Elgar may have played on the organ of the now-redundant Pendock Church?
... that Kenneth North was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War for almost six years?
... that in 1934, the British industrialist and philanthropist Sir John Jarvis established the Surrey Fund to raise money for the depressed town of Jarrow?
... that Creation Records, Superdry and Viz magazine were all started with funding from the Enterprise Allowance Scheme?
... that as a Federal Reserve System governor, Sherman J. Maisel served on a White House task force that suggested that Ginnie Mae and Fannie Mae play a greater role in funding mortgages for homebuyers?
... that at the end of the first game of the 2005 UAAP men's basketball finals, a De La Salle University-Manila assistant team manager ran onto the court and hit opposing player Arwind Santos in the back of the head?

00:00, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Hyalella azteca (pictured) is the most abundant amphipod in North American lakes?
... that English courtier Isabella Markham, the love object and muse of poet John Harington, was the daughter of his former jailer?
... that shots fired by Johnny Edgecombe into the door of the flat where his girlfriend was visiting led to disclosure of the Profumo Affair, a scandal which brought down UK War Secretary John Profumo?
... that the 1994 College Baseball All-America Team included four future Major League Baseball All-Stars: Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Varitek, Danny Graves and Mike Hampton?
... that from the widow's walk of the Samuel May Williams House people could watch horse races at the nearby race track?
... that the British businessman and Member of Parliament Sir Edgar Horne owned most of the village of Shackleford in Surrey?
... that the fairy shrimp Branchinecta brushi lives at 5,930 m (19,460 ft) in the Chilean Andes, higher than any other crustacean in the world?
... that from the late 1860s, Danish photographer Kristen Feilberg captured many of the earliest images of the landscapes and peoples of Borneo, Sumatra and Singapore?
... that a Washington, DC, legend states that a Demon Cat lives in the basement crypts at Capitol Hill?

15 October 2010

18:00, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the wood frame and clapboard in the apexes of the gambrel roof on the Michael Salyer Stone House (pictured) in Orangetown, New York, may reflect Huguenot building traditions?
... that according to studies published by The Alliance for Safe Children, in Bangladesh every day an estimated 46 children die from drowning?
... that the parasitic mushroom Pholiota squarrosa may smell like garlic, lemon, radish, onion, or skunk?
... that Lake Amaramba is a shallow lake in Mozambique near the border with Malawi, located in the Nyasa plateau?
... that Herb Wilkinson, a devout Mormon, quit his professional basketball job with the Minneapolis Lakers because they made him play on Sundays?
... that Texas Republican politician Jack Cox lost important races to two better-known candidates, John Connally and George Herbert Walker Bush?
... that the Early Cretaceous crocodilian relative Susisuchus was one of the first mesoeucrocodylians to have a segmented shield of bony osteoderms over its back, which allowed for greater flexibility while swimming?
... that Jim Tuck named his pioneering fusion power system the Perhapsatron, reflecting his skepticism that it would actually work?

12:00, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the French ironclad Richelieu (pictured), cast loose by her tugboat during a storm in the Bay of Biscay while being towed to the ship breakers in 1911, survived the storm and was recovered near the Scilly Isles?
... that the animal characters in ABC's 1986 primetime special, The Kingdom Chums: Little David's Adventure, were based on biblical figures?
... that British Cheney Racing hand-built motorcycles can take over 400 hours to complete?
... that the Emancipation Proclamation was ceremoniously read on the 140th anniversary of its signing under the oak tree where Mary Smith Peake taught children of former slaves in 1861?
... that Ch. Rocky Top's Sundance Kid is the most successful Colored Bull Terrier show dog of all time?
... that Nevada politician Sharron Angle serves as a legislative chairwoman for the National Foundation for Women Legislators?
... that in a 1988 administrative law judgment, the High Court of Singapore held that an alien allowed to enter the country for a fixed period has no legitimate expectation of staying a day longer?
... that though his work usually appeared to have been painted very quickly, Stephen Pace often made subtle fixes to his art, saying of himself, "You might call me a fake Zen painter"?

06:00, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

... that opera singers Marguerite Bériza (pictured) and Orville Harrold appeared in 1917 at the Ravinia Festival in both Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Massenet's Manon?
... that Ralph A. Loveys left an Assembly seat from the 26th Legislative District to chair the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, but quit after Governor James Florio would not support his toll increase plan?
... that the mushrooms Mycena clariviolacea, M. fonticola, M. fuscoaurantiaca, M. intersecta, M. lanuginosa, M. multiplicata, M. mustea, and M. nidificata, newly described in 2007, are only known from Kanagawa, Japan?
... that the Gwich'yaa, easternmost of the Gwich’in groups in Alaska, derive income from trapping and from selling handicrafts?
... that Bailey's Hotel, founded by British politician James Bailey, attracted many wealthy and foreign guests – including Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor, who lived out his last days in the hotel in 1895?
... that five players from the 1969–70 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team were selected in the NBA Draft?
... that Bird class patrol vessels were so unsuccessful that they were never used in their designed role?
... that the Kebbi Emirate in Nigeria is one of the "seven bastard kingdoms" whose rulers trace their lineage back to a Hausa king's concubine?

00:00, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the type species of the fungal genus Boletellus is the pineapple bolete (pictured)?
... that there is a 9 ft bronze statue of the founder of the American SPCA, Henry Bergh, petting an injured dog, standing in Milwaukee since 1891?
... that St Nicholas of Myra's Church, Ozleworth, has one of the only two hexagonal towers in Gloucestershire?
... that folk singers Kathy & Carol released their second album 45 years after their debut?
... that to honour Jaguar Cars' 75th anniversary, the carmaker developed the Jaguar C-X75, a plug-in hybrid two-seat concept car which debuted at the 2010 Paris Motor Show?
... that Brian Rose was Somerset County Cricket Club's most successful captain, leading the side to five one-day trophies in as many years?
... that, in pre-independence Swaziland, French was taught in the colony's three White-only high schools?
... that at the helm of United Artists, Andy Albeck oversaw production of Raging Bull, a film considered one of the greatest ever, and Heaven's Gate, the biggest box office bomb at the time?

14 October 2010

18:00, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the only exit from a Tett turret (pictured) could expose a soldier trying to leave the fortification to direct fire from the enemy?
... that Len Garrison's writings about black British identity and history led to formation of the Black Cultural Archives, and plans for the first UK national Black heritage centre in 2011?
... that trumpeter Gracie Cole was the first woman to compete for the Alexander Owen memorial scholarship in 1942—and won by an unprecedented 21-point margin?
... that when Helmut de Boor taught at the University of Bern, his neighbours objected to his many young German visitors, but also to his red and orange car paid for by the German embassy?
... that Jack Parkinson passed up a Major League Baseball contract with the Cincinnati Reds to play for Adolph Rupp and the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team?
... that The CW Television Network plans to develop an adaption of the hit German sitcom Danni Lowinski, marking the first time a German TV series is adapted for American audiences?
... that the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center was created in July 2008 to protect American consumers from potentially harmful trade goods?
... that one of the 15 bridges in Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia, is the Bridge of Love, enclosed by love padlocks?

12:00, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

... that a tributary of the Chusovaya River (pictured) naturally dives underground for about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi)?
... that John Douglas conducted more than 50 opera productions at Temple University?
... that the southernmost section of the Wellington Fault in North Island, New Zealand, has moved at a rate of 6.0–7.6 mm (0.24–0.30 in) per year for the last 140,000 years, shown by the offset of dated river terraces?
... that after crashing in the North Sea in February 1916, the crew of the Zeppelin L.19 died because the crew of a British fishing boat refused to rescue them?
... that, while serving in the Solomon Islands during World War II, Austin Volk discovered a river which he named "Brown Bear River" in honor of his alma mater, Brown University?
... that Walk in My Shoes by Arthur Holch, aired by ABC in 1961, "to a degree never before achieved in TV documentary" depicted life "in the Negro's world and sharing the frustration that is his lot"?
... that the Hero's Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal are currently the highest and second-highest military decoration in the People's Republic of China?
... that letters from the 17th-century Catholic monk Ansaldo Cebà to a married Jewish woman, Sara Copia Sullam, included elements of sexual innuendo and physical allusions?

06:00, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Ljubljana Central Market, view from the Dragon Bridge, on a foggy autumn morning

... that the Central Market (pictured) in Ljubljana was designed by the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik?
... that despite using clean coal, Prairie State Energy Campus, due to go online in August 2011, may become the largest source of carbon dioxide built in the United States in a quarter-century?
... that St Wilfrid's Church and its rectory in Ribchester, Lancashire, were constructed in the 13th century of sandstone rubble?
... that in his final season as Princeton Tigers men's basketball head coach, John Thompson III led the 2003–04 team to the 2004 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament?
... that the world's littlest skyscraper, located in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, is only 40 ft (12 m) tall, with exterior dimensions of 18 ft (5.5 m) by 10 ft (3.0 m)?
... that a "temporary" regent of Nigeria's Idoani Confederacy ended up ruling the state for over 14 years, as the chiefs couldn't agree on the succession?
... that in 1883, after Robert Russ was persuaded to donate 600 acres (240 ha) of land for a new townsite in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, the town was called Russ Town—today the city of Ruston and the parish seat?
... that a student-run high school station is the only oldies radio station in the market of Knoxville, Tennessee?

00:00, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Alan Pastrana (pictured) played as a linebacker in his first season at Maryland, but was switched to quarterback and set the Atlantic Coast Conference record for passing touchdowns in 1966?
... that the Dutch Ter Apel Monastery, founded by the Croziers, used to make money by selling loam, dug from land owned by the neighboring hamlet of Weerdinge, to the hamlet of Roswinkel?
... that Albanian Grand Vizier Davud Pasha built the largest public baths in the Balkans?
... that the Ka'Kabish archaeological site in Belize has revealed evidence of a Mayan city?
... that Stevie Wonder said that "professionally, I could not talk about my life without there being a chapter on how Dick Griffey, as a promoter, helped to build my career"?
... that Redline, Madhouse's latest anime movie, took seven years and 100,000 hand-made drawings to be produced?
... that portable palisades carried by Texians at the Battle of Velasco were completely ineffective against Mexican gunfire?
... that soprano Dolores Wilson lamented that "the Italian I'd learned by studying operas enabled me to talk intelligently only about poisons and suicide and tragic love affairs"?

13 October 2010

18:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

... that in Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker asks why the number of Americans disabled by mental illness nearly doubled since 1987 (chart pictured)?
... that a deadly anti-Semitic riot involving approximately 10,000 people erupted in Warsaw in 1922 in response to a planned concert of Yiddish song by soprano Isa Kremer? (See discussions regarding this hook at Talk:Isa Kremer and at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland/Archive 7#Did you know? 18:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC), as well as at WT:DYK#Printing corrections and apologies.)
... that Holly Madison's personal assistant Angel Porrino will replace her in the lead role of the Las Vegas production Peepshow for nine weeks in 2011?
... that by taking the 1998–99 and 1999–2000 Princeton Tigers basketball teams to the National Invitational Tournament, coach Bill Carmody achieved the Ivy League record for career winning percentage?
... that in 1418 Margery Kempe was tried for Lollardy in All Saints Church, Leicester?
... that the Supreme Court of Bangladesh declared the 1982 military coup led by General Hussain Muhammad Ershad to be illegal?
... that in 1860 schoolteacher Thomas Hopley was found guilty of manslaughter for the beating to death of a student described as "stolid and stupid"?
... that a human skull was found from the Ratcliff Site "perforated with seven holes, and had evidently been held as a trophy, the holes being the score of enemies slaughtered in battle by the wearer"?

12:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

... that before her death in 2007, Nevenka Urbanova (pictured) was the oldest living Serbian actor?
... that the Lombardy Apartment Building has been named one of the Cincinnati region's best examples of late 19th century urban Victorian architecture?
... that the Superintendent of the Otago Province, John Hyde Harris, would have played an even more important role in New Zealand politics but for his difficult financial situation?
... that jazz musician Phil Moore arranged and worked on the scores of over 30 films?
... that the 1979–80 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team of the Ivy League played seven games against participants in the 1980 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, although they did not play in the tournament themselves?
... that the character Cad Bane in Star Wars: The Clone Wars was inspired after George Lucas suggested that the bounty hunter in the series should go Western?
... that even though it was outside the city at the time, the medieval Church of St George in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, was Kyustendil's cathedral until 1816?
... that Bill Andriette was 15 years old when he joined the pedophile organization North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)?

06:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the land around the St. Johns River Light (pictured) in Jacksonville, Florida, has been raised 7 feet (2.1 m), burying the door and making the tower accessible only through a window 8 feet (2.4 m) off the ground?
... that Bryant Fleming's 1927 renovations to the Keeney House in Le Roy, New York, made it a more purely Federal-style building?
... that the first Orthodox Christian service ever held in Canada was conducted by the Russian Church and took place in 1897 in the tiny hamlet of Wostok, Alberta?
... that with his appointment to the Los Angeles Superior Court in 1979, Stephen Lachs was the first openly gay judge appointed in the United States?
... that one of the venues of the 1904 Summer Olympics was Forest Park, the site of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition?
... that Kalaallit Jørgen Brønlund was a member of the 1902–1903 Danish Literary Greenland Expedition, along with Knud Rasmussen, Harald Moltke, and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen?
... that John Thompson III led the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team to postseason tournaments in his first two seasons as head coach in 2000–01 and 2001–02?
... that Archaeomarasmius, Aureofungus, Coprinites, Palaeoagaracites, and Protomycena are the only five genera of agaric mushrooms known from the fossil record?
... that Sean Morton claims that, while in India, Nepalese monks taught him the secret of time travel?

00:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

... that in All Saints Church, Kedleston, Derbyshire, (pictured) are 35 monuments to the Curzon family of Kedleston Hall?
... that Alms and Doepke was once the leading dry goods company in the region of Cincinnati, Ohio?
... that Minds and Machines is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science?
... that coach Pete Carril led the 1995–96 Princeton Tigers to an upset in the 1996 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and successor Bill Carmody led the 1996–97 and 1997–98 teams back to the Tournament?
... that the hamlet of Trefasser, Pembrokeshire, is said to be named either after Asser, a friend and biographer of Alfred the Great, or Asser's nephew, Asser Meneventsis, a Benedictine monk?
... that the Girl Scout National Center West outside Ten Sleep, Wyoming, was one of the largest encampments in the world, covering 14,600–15,400 acres of rugged wilderness?
... that Charles Joseph Faulkner and Peter Paul Marshall were founder-shareholders in the decorative arts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. along with Pre-Raphaelite artist William Morris?
... that the Spanish warship that fought in the Action of 13 June 1898 would later serve in the Venezuelan Navy?

12 October 2010

18:00, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Kurobe Dam (pictured) is the tallest dam in Japan and its construction claimed the lives of 171 people?
... that the centrepiece of the Messner Mountain Museum, established by Italian mountaineer, Reinhold Messner, is at Sigmundskron Castle near Bolzano, and focuses on man's encounter with the mountains?
... that Hyderabad-based Snow World was India's first and the world's biggest snow themed park at the time of its opening in 2004?
... that the 1987–88 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team holds the national record for single-season three point field goal percentage and individuals on that team hold the career and single-season Ivy League records?
... that Sava River Bridge carrying the A3 motorway was the largest prefabricated girder bridge, in terms of plan area, in Croatia when completed in 1981?
... that the controversial Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila started out as a music workshop at a local university?
... that the Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov was the flagship of Admiral Rozhestvensky at the Battle of Tsushima?
... that despite its general accuracy, Carnegie Mellon's Never-Ending Language Learning semantic learning tool came to the conclusion that Internet cookies were a kind of baked good?

12:00, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Nansen was the ship's cat on board Belgica (pictured) during the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99?
... that the surviving buildings of the medieval Blackfriars, Bristol have housed a register office, a theatre company and a restaurant in recent years?
... that Barton Kay Kirkham was the last prisoner to be hanged by the state of Utah?
... that the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas was founded by members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad in 1993 to oversee the construction of a Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya?
... that the 1986–87 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team led the nation in field goal percentage?
... that in 2004, President of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam inaugurated a dedicated stem cell research center at Hyderabad's L. V. Prasad Eye Institute?
... that four of the seven venues used for the 1896 Summer Olympics were reused for the 2004 Summer Olympics?
... that a spontaneous strike in Oslo in 1941, due to lack of milk, led to martial law, court-martial, executions, and mass arrests?

06:00, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

... that six Pre-Raphaelite artists designed the set of stained glass panels (pictured) illustrating scenes from the story of Sir Tristram and la Belle Isoude as told in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur?
... that the Tokuyama Dam is the largest dam by volume in Japan and also creates the country's largest reservoir by volume?
... that Fleet Air Arm squadrons on the Attacker class escort carriers sank six U-Boats during the Second World War?
... that the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team earned four consecutive invitations to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, where the 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91 and 1991–92 teams lost by a combined total of 15 points?
... that Kremlin adviser Georgy Arbatov acknowledged that the Soviet Union had lost the Cold War, but insisted that the United States had suffered too by losing "The Enemy"?
... that during the rule of the Qutb Shahi dynasty (ca. 1518–1687), water from Hyderabad's Durgam Cheruvu lake was supplied to the residents of Golconda Fort?
... that during the 18th century, St Gregory's Church, Fledborough, Nottinghamshire, was regarded as "the Gretna Green of the Midlands"?
... that High Court Justice Thomas Dickson Archibald was one of 19 children?
... that while Comstock Lode mining millionaire Sandy Bowers claimed he had money to throw at birds, Samuel Clemens described Bowers as "miraculously ignorant"?

00:00, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

A brightly coloured plate which shows a worker stamping on the word "Capital" – in Russian

... that a porcelain plate (pictured) by Mikhail Adamovich features a Russian worker stamping on the forces of "Kapital"?
... that Louis-Guillaume Perreaux was a French inventor and engineer who submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869?
... that, in Lesotho, English replaces Sotho as the medium of instruction after the fourth year of primary school?
... that Mark Friedman, founder of the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute, described his year as a high school mathematics teacher in Warminster, Pennsylvania, as the hardest job he ever did?
... that the Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive broke the siege of Leningrad?
... that Piper George Findlater of the Gordon Highlanders won the Victoria Cross for playing the bagpipes whilst wounded and under fire, in the British attack on the Dargai Heights in 1897?
... that in 1958, Texas Republican U.S. Senate nominee Roy Whittenburg proposed the direct election of United States Supreme Court justices?
... that the 1980–81, 1982–83, and 1983–84 Princeton Tigers men's basketball teams all went to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament?
... that Encosta De Lago's service fee rose to AUD$302,500 in the 2008 season, during which he served 227 mares who produced 166 live foals?

11 October 2010

18:00, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

... that when Elisha Winfield Green (pictured), an elderly African American Baptist leader, won a case for assault by a white minister in 1883, the effect was to increase pressure for segregation?
... that in the week that "When It Rains, It Pours" originally aired, 30 Rock was the only Thursday program whose ratings did not fall from its season premiere?
... that Wheatland, the former home of the 15th US President, James Buchanan, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966?
... that Rear Admiral Nora W. Tyson became the first woman to command a United States Navy aircraft carrier task group when she was chosen to command Carrier Strike Group Two?
... that the Desert Mothers were Christian ascetics and hermits who lived in the desert of Egypt during the 4th and 5th centuries?
... that the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike in the United Kingdom led to the first UK legislation aimed at ending pay discrimination between men and women?
... that the British ironclad HMS Neptune was deemed "a white elephant, being a thoroughly bad ship in most respects—unlucky, full of inherent faults and small vices, and at times a danger to her own consorts"?
... that John Albert Taylor chose to be executed by firing squad to embarrass the state of Utah?
... that due to his intense fear of flying, Bill Green was never able to play for the NBA's Boston Celtics?

12:00, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Benson raft (pictured) was a huge sea-going log raft designed to transport millions of board-feet of timber at a time through the open ocean?
... that the apex organisation of Hindu saints, the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, has welcomed the 2010 Ayodhya verdict, saying it will prevent further political exploitation of the Ram Janmabhumi Temple issue?
... that in the 1970s Pete Carril led two Princeton Tigers men's basketball teams to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament – the 1975–76 and 1976–77 teams?
... that Élie Barnavi, an Israeli historian and a former Israeli ambassador to France, has called for an independent inquiry into the controversial Muhammad al-Durrah incident?
... that Washington, D.C.'s Capital Bikeshare is expected to become the largest bicycle sharing system in the U.S. when fully deployed, offering 1,100 bicycles and 110 stations?
... that while St Bartholomew's Church, Furtho was being used for storage of the archives of the Northampton Record Society during the Second World War, all of its windows were destroyed by a bomb?
... that the dog Old Jock, born 1859, is considered to be one of the founding sires of the modern Fox Terrier?
... that Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Morgan Trent was a sprinter for the Michigan track team and set indoor state track records in the 60-yard dash and 200-meter run?
... that Prince Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi of Venosa, owner of Italian wine estate Fiorano, considered the white mold that covered his cellars beneficial to his wines?

06:00, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the summer truffle (pictured) and the burgundy truffle are varieties of one species of truffle, Tuber aestivum, which is found across Europe?
... that, due to a compromise between the National Basketball Association and its player union, players banned "permanently" for substance abuse are allowed to be reinstated after two years?
... that St Mary's Church in Wilton, Wiltshire, was restored by Robert Bingham, the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, whose ancestor Robert de Bingham was consecrated there in 1229?
... that Prenkë Jakova wrote Mrika, the first Albanian opera, which premiered in 1958?
... that the extinct Protosialis casca is one of only two known alderflies from the West Indies?
... that the Fifth Dalai Lama was installed as supreme ruler of Tibet in the 17th century at Shigatse Dzong by Mongol ruler Güshi Khan?
... that Lucius Copeland invented one of the first motorcycles, the steam-powered, penny-farthing "Star", and also the first successfully mass-produced three-wheeled car, the "Phaeton steamer"?
... that chemical analysis of remains from Herod the Great's Royal Stoa supports Josephus' account of the Roman destruction of the Temple Mount in a great conflagration?
... that California State University announced that students who use NoteUtopia, a website founded by a CSU alumnus and dedicated to the buying and selling of academic material, are at risk of expulsion?

00:00, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Edward Salyer House (pictured), one of the few remaining wood frame Dutch Colonial houses in Rockland County, New York, is believed to be the oldest house in Pearl River?
... that in the comedic documentary The Standard of Perfection: Show Cats some show cat owners treat their cats better than family?
... that the North Korean 766th Independent Infantry Regiment lost half its men during the Battle of P'ohang-dong in 1950?
... that although the 1971–72 and 1974–75 Princeton Tigers men's basketball teams did not win the Ivy League, they both played in the postseason in the National Invitation Tournament, and were champions in 1975?
... that the rock garden in Indira Park, Hyderabad, India, is an award-winning design of 2001 by the then commissioner of customs and excise duty?
... that four-time NFL All-Pro safety Rick Volk spent two days in an intensive-care unit after a helmet-to-helmet collision with Jets fullback Matt Snell in Super Bowl III?
... that Katrin Zytomierska is one of the most-read bloggers in Sweden?
... that the Taft Homes of Peoria, Illinois, were originally built in 1952 as a temporary means of shelter for veterans returning from the Korean War?
... that Kermit the Frog asked Sesame Street adviser Gerald S. Lesser "when you get back to Harvard, how are you going to explain that you spent all day in New York talking to a frog"?

10 October 2010

18:00, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Jean-Marc Boivin made the first paraglider descent of Mount Everest (pictured)?
... that in Bach's cantata for the 19th Sunday after Trinity, Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlösen, BWV 48, a trumpet plays a chorale in canon with two oboes?
... that HMS Avenger was the only aircraft carrier to take part in Convoy PQ 18, one of the Arctic convoys of World War II?
... that Princeton Tigers men's basketball won or shared the Ivy League regular season championship in both of Pete Carril's first two years as head coach in 1968 and 1969?
... that Edward Thorndike and company counted 18,000,000 words by hand to create the first English language words frequency list of its size?
... that the town of Lice, Turkey, was rebuilt 2 km (1.2 mi) south of its original location after the earthquake in 1975, with houses, shops, a school, a bakery and a mosque completed only 54 days later?
... that Mekia Cox can be seen dancing with Michael Jackson to the song "The Way You Make Me Feel" in This Is It?
... that Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, who renounced his claim to the duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1909, later claimed he had been forced to by being locked up in an insane asylum?
... that despite breaking his left wrist, gymnast Sam Oldham managed to complete his floor routine to lead Great Britain to junior team gold at the 2008 European Championships?

12:00, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

... that according to legend, a group of Circassians attempting to destroy the roof of the medieval Church of St Nicholas (pictured) in Sapareva Banya, Bulgaria, fled in horror when one of them fell to his death?
... that the bracketed sic, while sometimes used to insinuate ignorance of a source, may also reflect upon the user's own ignorance of American and British English spelling differences?
... that during his five seasons as head coach of Princeton Tigers men's basketball, Butch van Breda Kolff, who retired with the highest all-time career Ivy League winning percentage, led the team to four Ivy League championships: 1963, 1964, 1965, and 1967?
... that the 18th-century "Frenchman's Garden" in Maisland, New Jersey, was responsible for the spread of the non-native Lombardy poplar throughout the United States?
... that the British central battery ironclad HMS Audacious grounded twice while she was transiting through the Suez Canal despite the presence of escorting tugs?
... that discards from commercial fishing ships are a major food source for black dogfish in the northwestern Atlantic?
... that Andre Weathers returned interceptions for game-winning touchdowns against Ohio State in Michigan's 1997 national championship season and in his first NFL game in 1999?
... that NATO nations periodically deploy fighter aircraft to Iceland under the Icelandic Air Policing mission as the country does not have an air force?
... that the Penicillium fungus in blue cheese is parasexual?

06:00, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the village of Codiponte in Tuscany, Italy, has a 17th-century campanile and a pieve (pictured) dating to the 12th century or earlier?
... that Mike Martin won consecutive high school state championships in both wrestling and shot put and has been called "the Most Valuable Player Not Named Denard" on the 2010 Michigan football team?
... that Sir Ronald Ross won the Nobel Prize mainly due to his experiments on malaria at the then Begumpet military hospital in Hyderabad?
... that in a 2010 game against Notre Dame, Stanford football player Owen Marecic scored touchdowns on offense and defense—and did so within 13 game seconds?
... that the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 reduces, but does not eliminate, the disparity in criminal penalties for crack versus powder cocaine in the United States?
... that Sir Anand Satyanand, the first Governor-General of New Zealand of Indian descent, attended the 2010 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Delhi, India?
... that the Holy Cross Church in Burley, Rutland, contains a memorial to Lady Charlotte Finch, governess to the children of George III?
... that Ysrael Seinuk came to the United States with little more than "my slide rule and my diploma from the University of Havana" and became known as "Mr. New York"?
... that after playing basketball for the Chicago Stags, Gene Rock joined the Los Angeles Police Department and was eventually promoted to captain?

00:00, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

... that between being replaced by a new church in 1877 and being restored over a century later, Old St Bartholomew's Church, Lower Sapey, Worcestershire (pictured) was used as a farm building?
... that James St. Clair Morton was the only general during the American Civil War to voluntarily reduce his rank?
... that the explosive charge in some Canadian pipe mines would soon deteriorate into a porridge-like mush?
... that despite receiving a budget allocation in 2003, the public sports stadium in Gibeon, Namibia hadn't been repaired as of December 2007?
... that stockbroker Fulham Davies managed to keep open the Merrill Lynch office in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the Great Depression?
... that the Spartan-V sports car has no headlights, indicators or other features required by law in most countries, so it cannot be used on public roads?
... that Bill Henry was listed as Rice University's all-time greatest men's basketball player in the 2009 book ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game?
... that snooker player Stephen Maguire won his first ranking tournament at the 2004 European Open in Malta?
... that Rudolf Katz became a League of Nations envoy in Nanjing after he escaped from Nazi Germany?

9 October 2010

18:00, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

... that molecular phylogenetics suggests that Pthirus gorillae (pictured) jumped from gorillas to early humans about 3.3 million years ago and speciated into the present day pubic louse?
... that Castle of Park, near Glenluce, Scotland, has "commodious closets"?
... that in 2005 the Pearl River, New York, post office was officially renamed in memory of a local Marine whose remains were returned from Vietnam that year?
... that Capricorn Silvereyes are not only socially, but also genetically, monogamous?
... that the salt-shaker earthstar is distinguished from other earthstar fungi by the presence of numerous holes on top of its spore sac?
... that St Michael's Church, Michaelchurch, Herefordshire, is notable for its 13th-century wall paintings and the presence of a reconstructed Roman altar?
... that KaBOOM! founder Darell Hammond was raised in a group home with his seven siblings?
... that Spring Canyon, Utah, the largest coal mining town in Carbon County, Utah, was abandoned in 1969 and nothing remains of the town except a railroad trestle?
... that Don Doll, the only player in NFL history to register 10 or more interceptions in 3 separate seasons, changed his surname to "Doll" after being discharged from the Marines?

12:00, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the spire of St Nicholas' Church, Gloucester (pictured) suffered a direct hit by cannon fire in the Siege of Gloucester in 1643, and had to be reduced in size in 1783?
... that Sverre Iversen, Norway's first director of the Director of Labour, took voice classes in order to work himself up from being a mason?
... that even though Wesleyan missionaries described the fortified settlement of ǁKhauxaǃnas in the 1840s its ruins have only been rediscovered in 1986?
... that architect Togo Murano designed the first class lounge and dining room for the luxury liner Argentina Maru that was sunk in World War II after being converted into an aircraft carrier?
... that Princeton coach Franklin Cappon led the 1958–59 and 1959–60 teams to the Ivy League basketball championships, but a heart attack caused him to give up control of the champion 1960–61 team?
... that Tore Holden was chosen as host of the Norwegian version of the Swedish game show BingoLotto without prior TV host experience?
... that the commune of Hiesville has three memorials related to the invasion of Normandy during World War II in the area as it was where the gliders of the 101st Airborne Division landed?
... that Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck were called "one of the driving forces in North American horticulture", while their gardens in Vermont were said to represent "American gardening at its best"?
... that the recently described extinct penguin Inkayacu from the Eocene of Peru is postulated to have had gray and reddish brown feathers, unlike the black and white feathers of living penguins?

06:00, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

... that gastric antral vascular ectasia (pictured) is also called "watermelon stomach" because the streaky long red areas that are present in the stomach may resemble the markings on watermelon?
... that James Stovall created Nativity: A Life Story as an African American-themed annual musical Nativity play intended to rival the Radio City Christmas Spectacular?
... that the Place d'Armes in Luxembourg City originally served as a parade ground for the troops defending the city?
... that tour guide/social activist Carlos Celdran was arrested for protesting Catholic Church interference in Philippine politics after he held a protest action that disrupted a mass in Manila Cathedral?
... that Inez Haynes Gillmore's 1914 science fiction novel Angel Island has been called a "classic of early feminist literature"?
... that Steve Munisteri, the chairman of the Texas Republican Party, met his former wife on a bus trip from Austin to Kansas City to attend the 1976 Republican National Convention?
... that the St. James Theatre, Auckland underwent renovations in preparation for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II, who attended a film premiere there in 1953?
... that Irish barrister and philatelist William Russell Lane-Joynt was a four-time Revolver Champion of Ireland and won a silver medal for Great Britain in shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
... that during motor-paced racing, cyclists can reach a speed of 100 km/h (62 mph)?

00:00, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Plymouth Congregational Church of Lawrence, Kansas (pictured), the first church to be established in Kansas Territory, lost members to the Lawrence Massacre of 1863?
... that the anime film xxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream was released on DVD and Blu-ray alongside the film Tsubasa The Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom?
... that a poll once found that 99 percent of Somalis in the United Kingdom listen to the BBC Somali Service?
... that the pygmy locust lobster is too small for fishing?
... that one of the six buildings in the Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District is the oldest extant house in Genesee County, New York?
... that the late Singaporean Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Balaji Sadasivan became a neurosurgeon after seeing the effects of Minamata disease in Minamata, Japan, as a medical student?
... that the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies gives the annual Una Padel Award in memory of its former director?
... that in Holy Trinity Church, Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire, is a memorial to the poet Thomas Randolph who died while visiting Blatherwyke Hall?
... that Gay Street is the setting for events described in literary works by James Agee, Cormac McCarthy, Mark Twain, and George Washington Harris?

8 October 2010

18:00, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Mässmogge (pictured), Swiss candies sold in Basel at the autumn fair, are filled with ground hazelnuts?
... that 19th-century Boston artist Frank Hill Smith lived in the Sunflower House, a cheery yellow and red edifice adorned with a huge sunflower and a winged lion?
... that former Scientology official Mike Rinder was called a "whistleblower" for his appearance on the BBC Panorama documentary, The Secrets of Scientology?
... that Peter Endrulat never played in the Fußball-Bundesliga again after conceding 12 goals for Borussia Mönchengladbach's record 12–0 league victory over Borussia Dortmund?
... that The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (1795), by William Blake, represents the Feminine Will upon a patriarchal Christianity?
... that the poisonous mushroom Inocybe cookei smells faintly of honey?
... that Nicholas Benson is a third-generation stone carver and a 2010 MacArthur Fellow?
... that, rather than paying property taxes on land it had clear-cut, the Jackson Lumber Company donated the land that is now Geneva State Forest to Alabama?
... that the Throne of Weapons which has been exhibited in British schools is made from AK-47s?

12:00, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the font (pictured) in St Andrew's Church, Wroxeter, was constructed from the base of a former Roman column?
... that George Ballis, whose photographs documented the efforts of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers, learned his craft from a class he took with Great Depression photojournalist Dorothea Lange?
... that the designers of Cabbage Patch Kids created Selchow and Righter's Scrabble People, the title characters of 1985's syndicated cartoon special A Pumpkin Full of Nonsense?
... that Gus Bevona resigned from local SEIU 32BJ in 1999, in the face of criticism for annual pay of US$531,529 in 1997, more than 17 times the salary of the janitors and building workers he represented?
... that Operation Trident was set up by the Metropolitan Police to investigate gun crime in London's black community?
... that it was assumed Prince Heinrich XXXII Reuss of Köstritz would succeed Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, as his mother and cousin were expected to give up their claims to the throne?
... that the British ironclad HMS Enterprise had a wooden hull and iron upperworks which made her the first ship of composite construction in the Royal Navy?
... that residents of Colonia Peralvillo in Mexico City burned in effigy the three presidential candidates of the Mexican general election, 2000 after staging a mock trial?
... that in addition to delivering 6,000 babies, obstetrician William Harrison performed 20,000 abortions, eventually becoming the only physician in Northwest Arkansas to perform the procedure?

06:00, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Colonia Morelos in Mexico City is home to a 25-street tianguis market and two public sites to worship Santa Muerte (pictured)?
... that research by Dorothy M. Horstmann and Robert W. McCollum at Yale University showed that the poliovirus reached the brain by way of the blood, leading to the development of the polio vaccine in the early 1950s?
... that the Ryan Premises, a national historic site in Newfoundland and Labrador, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II to mark the 500th anniversary of John Cabot's landing in Bonavista?
... that Nazi and neo-Nazi sympathizer Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld translated numerous works into German, including Paul Rassinier's Holocaust-denying work The Drama of European Jews?
... that the Kiruna Mine located in Kiruna, Sweden, is the largest and most modern underground iron ore mine in the world?
... that out of a total of eight training venues for rugby sevens at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, seven are colleges of Delhi University?
... that when cut or injured, the poisonous mushroom Lactarius vinaceorufescens will ooze a white latex that rapidly turns sulfur-yellow?
... that Elizabeth Turk was a Washington, D.C., lobbyist before she became a sculptor and was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow?
... that the captain of the Swedish river monitor HMS Garmer had to steer the ship as well as aim and fire her gun?

00:00, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the medieval Church of Saints Peter and Paul (pictured) in Nikopol, north-central Bulgaria, belonged to a now-ruined monastery complex?
... that Larry Bird's hometown team, the Indiana Pacers, did not draft him in the 1978 NBA Draft because they could not convince him to leave college early?
... that chef Josh Capon was able to cook a three-course fish dinner for four on The Early Show Saturday Edition's "Chefs on a Shoestring" challenge while spending less than $10 per person?
... that for centuries, the Roman marble Torlonia Vase was the largest in diameter of known antique vases?
... that 19th-century Albanian rilindas Zef Jubani argued that the Albanian language should have a unique alphabet since it was a unique language?
... that HMS Minotaur and her sisters were called "the dullest performers under canvas of the whole masted fleet of their day, and no ships ever carried so much dress to so little purpose"?
... that Whitefriars, a Carmelite foundation in Bristol, England, was described by 16th-century antiquary John Leland as "the fairest friary in England"?
... that epidemiologist Joseph L. Melnick found that polio chiefly spread through fecal contamination, usually by soiled hands, and that the poliovirus could survive for extended periods in sewage?
... that French artist Eugène Delacroix is said to have used his own pet cat as a model to paint the tigers of A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother (1830)?

7 October 2010

18:00, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

... that individual cigarettes in Red Cross parcels (pictured) in the Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp were valued at precisely 27 cents each?
... that the 2009 French comedy Neuilly sa mère ! revisits themes of social inequality that were explored in the 1988 French comedy Life is a Long Quiet River?
... that the Russian battleship Sevastopol was the only battleship not salvaged by the Japanese at Port Arthur, following destruction of the Russian Fleet?
... that Mexican cuisine chef Sue Torres' restaurant Sueños was listed in Vogue magazine as "Taster's choice" by critic Jeffrey Steingarten, describing it as "one of the lasting 4 monuments" of 2003?
... that at the time of his death in 1995, former Gunsmoke director Robert Totten was scheduled to direct a television series based on Lonesome Dove?
... that before joining the Ivy League, Princeton Tigers men's basketball won six Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League college basketball conference championships: 1922, 1925, 1932, 1950, 1952, 1955?
... that the two claiming Melkite Patriarchs, Ignatius III Atiyah and Cyril IV Dabbas, were both consecrated on the same day, April 24, 1619, but in different places?
... that the Bhutan-Thailand Friendship Park was launched in 2009 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Bhutan and Thailand?
... that Bubble Wrap, which was originally designed to be wallpaper, was invented when two men sealed shower curtains together?

12:00, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

... that a flame fougasse (pictured) can shoot a jet of flame 10 feet (3.0 m) wide and 30 yards (27 m) long?
... that the Yamaha XV1900 is the largest Yamaha V-twin motorcycle in production?
... that a Village Defence Party is organised on the basis of one platoon of men and one platoon of women for each village in Bangladesh?
... that the first use of bronze doors on an Italian building is attributed to the Amalfi Cathedral, and they came from Constantinople?
... that Dutch dressage rider Edward Gal and his horse have been called "rock stars in the horse world" after setting multiple world records in top competition?
... that Deam Lake State Recreation Area is named for Charles C. Deam, who was the first state forester of Indiana and discovered 25 new plant species?
... that after BingoLotto in Norway was launched in 1993 and cancelled in 1994, an attempted revival in 1996 was stalled and stopped by the government in 1998 after being a part of the election campaign in 1997?
... that Grainsby Halt railway station served a Victorian hall in Lincolnshire which was later said to be haunted?
... that Jimi Heselden, owner of the company that makes the Segway personal transport system, died after a Segway he was riding fell off a cliff?

06:00, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Wandsworth Shield (pictured) has a repoussé design of two large birds with outstretched wings and trailing tail feathers, and is considered to be a masterpiece of British Celtic art?
... that "Jack" Jackson, who was called "the last slave in New Jersey", died and was buried at the Abel I. Smith Burial Ground in 1875?
... that while mainly charged with maintaining law and order, Bangladesh Ansars are also assigned to help in schemes promoting local development?
... that the Great Flood of 1862 inundated or swept away towns, mills, dams, flumes, houses, fences, and domestic animals in Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona?
... that the people of the Pakuashipi settlement in Quebec, Canada, are considered the most traditional and conservative Innu band, both in terms of culture and language?
... that Montana Territorial Governor Benjamin F. White founded the city of Dillon?
... that in 2008, part of Carlton Hill—originally one of Brighton's poorest slums—became one of 34 conservation areas in the city?
... that Irving J. Moore directed the 1980 episode "Who shot J.R.?" of the CBS soap opera Dallas?
... that the Chesterfield Island, butterfly, and New Caledonian stingarees are all found off the Chesterfield Islands, the first two nowhere else?

00:00, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the apricot jelly fungus (pictured) can be used raw in salads, pickled, candied, or fermented to produce wine?
... that in 1538, Richard Ingworth reported that the warden of Greyfriars, Bristol was "stiff", continuing, "yet for all his great port, I think him 20 marks in debt, and not able to pay it"?
... that Bob Mann, the first black player for Detroit and Green Bay, claimed he was "railroaded" out of football when he objected to a pay cut after leading the NFL in receiving yards?
... that shortly after its inauguration, part of the Gilgel Gibe II Power Station's 26 km (16 mi) tunnel, which was "considered one of the most difficult tunnel projects ever undertaken", collapsed?
... that Italian Iron Chef Mario Batali claimed that American chef Jody Williams was one of his favorite cooks in the world?
... that in 2009, the Seattle Mariners drafted Dustin Ackley, Kyle Seager, and Brian Moran, who were all teammates on the North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team?
... that Babatunde Jose has been described as the "grandfather of Nigerian journalism"?
... that one critic called Scribe's second album Rhyme Book an "attempt to be considered the Aotearoa version of Kanye West"?
... that silent shorts featuring Fred Evans as "Pimple" rivalled those of Charlie Chaplin for popularity and have been described as "proto-Pythonesque"?

6 October 2010

18:00, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

... that William Blake's 1795 painting Pity (pictured) reflects a time when Shakespeare's Macbeth had a revival, being performed nine times in English theatres?
... that Marilyn McAdams Sibley wrote histories of both the Port of Houston and The Methodist Hospital of Houston, Texas?
... that the geography of New York includes the Adirondack Park, the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States?
... that the 2003 Twenty20 Cup included the first-ever Twenty20 cricket match, played between the Hampshire Hawks and the Sussex Sharks?
... that Barbara Scherler of the Deutsche Oper Berlin recorded Bach's Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72 with Fritz Werner's Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn?
... that the TLC reality television series Sister Wives follows a polygamist family of four wives and 16 children living in Lehi, Utah?
... that Samuel Bowman was selected to be a bishop in the Episcopal Church three times, but did not take office until his third selection in 1858?
... that the Aurora mine, located in Beaufort County, North Carolina, is the largest integrated phosphate mining and chemical plant in the world?
... that Sharon Cherop fell over at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon but got back up and ran the fastest marathon ever by a woman in Canada?

12:00, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

... that bonnets may be orange (pictured), clustered, scarlet, frosty, mealy, ivory, nitrous, grooved, snapping, milking, bleeding, or bulbous?
... that the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, which is the Ivy League's predecessor, was founded by Basketball Hall of Famer Ralph Morgan?
... that the expiration date of a drug required for lethal injection was a factor in delaying the execution of Albert Greenwood Brown until 2011?
... that a mural in the Spring Valley, New York, post office, called Waiting for the Mail, shows how mail can reach even the most isolated person?
... that marathon events have been held at the Paralympic Games since 1984?
... that during World War II, Kalaymyo was an important regroup point for the British during their retreat from Burma in 1942?
... that three months after being rushed from a game to the hospital with a brain aneurysm, Swedish ice hockey forward William Wallén was back on the ice, playing for the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors?
... that Ralph T. Coe, described as "enormously significant in the growth of appreciation of Native American art in the 20th century", began his collection after seeing a totem pole in a Manhattan shop?
... that the British ironclad HMS Valiant had to wait nearly five years after she was launched to receive her rifled muzzle-loading guns?

06:00, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Okmulgee State Park (pictured) in Oklahoma is one of only a few places in the world where the fossil coral Gymnophyllum wardi is found?
... that an amicus brief to the courts in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association argues that Super Mario Bros. is a violent video game?
... that the Elias Abel House is the best-preserved historic I-house in Bloomington, Indiana?
... that Turkish Army's Güvercinlik Air Base was the first civil airport of Ankara that served as such from 1933 until 1955?
... that Beatrix Potter registered The Game of Peter Rabbit at Stationers' Hall before the game board or the rules had been perfected?
... that the Miraj township of Wanlesswadi is named for William James Wanless, who founded the first missionary medical school in India?
... that Scotsman Walter Forrester, future bishop of Brechin, was rector of the University of Paris between October and December 1395?
... that "You Are the Girl" was The Cars' only Top 40 hit after they regrouped from a three-year hiatus in 1987?
... that Miriam Shapira-Luria, known for her beauty, taught Talmud to elite young men from behind a curtain so that they would not get distracted by her appearance?

00:00, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1516–1517 (map pictured) gave the Ottoman Empire control of Syria, Egypt and most of the Arabian Peninsula?
... that George E. Hearn was the first licensed industrial psychologist in his native Louisiana?
... that The Cosmic Landscape by Leonard Susskind is mainly about "the scientific explanations of the apparent miracles of physics and cosmology and its philosophical implications"?
... that attorney Jack Kershaw sculpted a monument to Confederate Army general and KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1998, arguing that "somebody needs to say a good word for slavery"?
... that after assaulting bishop of Brechin John de Crannach in his own cathedral, in 1435 the archdeacon of Brechin was excommunicated?
... that the German SMS Kronprinz was the only König-class battleship to escape damage at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916?
... that England was invaded by the French in 1216?
... that sexologist James M. Cantor found that male pedophiles have significantly less white matter in their brains than do control subjects?
... that though the Spanish naval gunboat Ligera fired 10 shots and the American naval gunboat Foote fired 70 in the Action of 25 April 1898, Foote was heavily damaged but Ligera was hit only once?

5 October 2010

18:00, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Alexander Classical School (pictured) building in Alexander, New York, is the only cobblestone building in North America used as a town hall?
... that Iranian caricaturist and satirist Javad has created a scientific/philosophical cartoon on the theory of relativity entitled 4D Humor?
... that Jo Andrews, former political correspondent for ITN, was the first woman to join press conferences held by the Labour Party during the run-up to the United Kingdom general election of 2001?
... that the married couple who founded the Windsor Mountain School in Massachusetts had previously established a school in Germany?
... that all three singles from Scribe's debut album, The Crusader, including "Dreaming"/"So Nice", were double A-sides?
... that according to Elizabeth Gaskell, Maria Brontë was the inspiration for the character of Helen Burns in Jane Eyre?
... that the National D-Day Museum honored Beth Courtney, president of Louisiana Public Broadcasting, for co-hosting a three-hour, live tribute to World War II veterans from Louisiana?
... that tenor Werner Güra recorded with Harnoncourt and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor at the Musikverein, Bach's cantata Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29?
... that the chicken wire statue who once rode behind the Cardiff Kook was retired to a ranch with poinsettias?

12:00, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

... that people making speeches at Speakers' Corner in Singapore (pictured) must use one of Singapore's four official languages – English, Malay, Mandarin or Tamil – or a related dialect?
... that the Bulqizë, Kalimashi 1, Kalimashi 3, Krasta, Përroi Batrës, Qaf-Buall, Vlahna and Zogaj mines are the only mines in Albania to have reserves of over 1 million tonnes of chromium ore?
... that a granddaughter of German businessman Paul Isenberg was the first manager of the Kauaʻi Museum?
... that in the season premiere episode of the fifth season of the television comedy series 30 Rock, the Jack Donaghy character makes reference to the Fabian strategy?
... that during his time on Purdue University's baseball team, pitcher Matt Bischoff broke the school's single-season and career strikeout records?
... that piers of the 1,378-metre (4,521 ft) Mirna Bridge on the Croatian A9 motorway were designed to support a concave deck in order to reduce weight of the bridge?
... that Bernard Carvalho, the current Mayor of Kauai, was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in 1984 after attending the University of Hawaii on a full football scholarship?
... that Hawaiian sugar plantation owner Albert Spencer Wilcox was the son of Abner Wilcox, a New England missionary teacher to Hawaii?
... that during the Crimean War, Captains Arthur Cumming and Astley Cooper Key took control of the town of Libau with just 110 men, without firing a shot?

06:00, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Catholic judge John Callan (pictured) considered resigning after Pope Pius XII talked about judges' duties with respect to divorce cases?
... that when first described, the extinct bird Cruschedula was thought to be a "dry-land" penguin?
... that Michigan's All-American 60-minute man Tom Johnson was the second African-American player for the Green Bay Packers?
... that for the 1999 reissue of The Cars' 1978 debut album, no usable demo of their single "Good Times Roll" could be found?
... that Ruck machine gun posts were built from prefabricated sections, paving slabs, sandbags and rammed earth?
... that Dubois' seasnake is one of at least seventeen sea snake species living in the Coral Sea, and has the world's most toxic sea snake venom?
... that 19th-century publicist Anastas Byku held that the Albanians were descendants of the Pelasgians and the Illyrians?
... that within four months footballer Barry Endean went from playing for an amateur team in a public park to lining up against Manchester United at Old Trafford?
... that the wax flowers of eastern Australia are members of the citrus family, while those from the west are of the myrtle family?

00:00, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the archaic Greek letter Sampi (pictured) has also been called san, enacosin, angma, sincope, charaktir, or even parakyisma, which literally means "spurious pregnancy"?
... that eccentric tycoon Ian Stuart Millar's seafront home in Hove, England, was built of specially commissioned handmade bricks—the leftovers of which were reputedly buried elsewhere in Hove?
... that following the London premiere of Fabio Campana's opera Esmeralda in 1870, The Saturday Review pronounced it "irredeemably bad"?
... that Larry Taylor returned a punt for a touchdown in each of the Connecticut Huskies football team's first two bowl games: the 2004 Motor City Bowl and the 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl?
... that Maui's present mayor, Charmaine Tavares, is the daughter of the island's longest-serving mayor, Hannibal Tavares?
... that the Jagiellonian tapestries became state property of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by the testament of King Sigismund II Augustus?
... that a veal and ham pie is a critical plot element in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan?
... that Vinnie Doyle, one of the longest-serving editors in the newspaper business in Ireland, was editor of the Irish Independent for 24 years?
... that excavations at Alba Cathedral uncovered an ancient baptistery redesigned as a burial place?

4 October 2010

18:00, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the British Museum's oldest African-American object is the Akan Drum (pictured) that was used to "dance the slaves"?
... that the Pied Crested Cuckoo, which is considered as a harbinger of the monsoon season due to the timing of its arrival, is frequently spotted at Hyderabad's Sanjeevaiah Park?
... that Maria Esperanza de Bianchini, a Venezuelan Servant of God, was reportedly witnessed levitating during mass and engaging in bilocation?
... that after Julius Caesar's civil war military campaign, he planned to distribute land to about 15,000 of his veterans?
... that professional baseball player Erasmo Ramírez was named the pitcher of the year for the Seattle Mariners minor league organization in 2009?
... that the majority of the inhabitants of Saint-Augustin in Quebec, Canada, are Métis – descendants of Inuit and Europeans?
... that although the competition for designing Old Christ Church, Waterloo, Merseyside, was won by a different firm of architects, Paley, Austin and Paley were commissioned to build it?
... that Bhutan was one of the first countries in the world to recognize the independence of Bangladesh in 1971?
... that St Mary's Church, Elsing has, according to Nikolaus Pevsner, "the most sumptuous of all English church brasses"?
... that Oregon cattle baron Bill Hanley died in 1935 after attending Bill Hanley Day at the Pendleton Round-Up?

12:00, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the most valuable biosphere reserve in Poland's Puszcza Piska Forest is home to the Mute Swan (pictured), which arrives in numbers reaching up to 2,000 birds in time of moult?
... that an anti-abortion movement commercial, featuring a depiction of President Barack Obama, was CatholicVote.org's first advertisement and recorded over 700,000 hits?
... that Noosa National Park in Australia receives more than 1 million visitors a year?
... that Robert Twycross was a pioneer of the hospice movement during the 1970s?
... that Benwick's High Street in Cambridgeshire is built on a rodham—another way of spelling roddon, an East Anglia term for an old watercourse?
... that coffee production in Papua New Guinea slumped by 23 percent in 2000?
... that the spider Tetragnatha extensa can walk on water, where it can move faster than it can on land?
... that black South African footballer Darius Dhlomo went missing on his debut for Dutch club Heracles Almelo because he was unaware that blacks and whites were allowed in the same changing room?

06:00, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

... that NGC 3109 (pictured) might be the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group?
... that the Former Residence of Soong Ching-ling was once used by Zaifeng, the father of Puyi, the last emperor of China?
... that in the 1966 movie Hold On!, the children of American astronauts choose to name a NASA space capsule after the British band Herman's Hermits?
... that writer and broadcaster Clive James made a guest appearance in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as a postman?
... that girl group Sophia Fresh's debut single, "What It Is", impressed Rihanna so much that she said she wished the song was hers?
... that the Kirklees Priory in West Yorkshire is the supposed site of Robin Hood's grave?
... that bass-baritone Stephen Varcoe recorded Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir, including Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140?
... that The Battle of Waterloo, made in five days in 1913 at a cost of £1,800 by British and Colonial Films, has been called "the first British epic film"?
... that U.S. Army officer Dan Tyler Moore, an aide to and sparring partner of Theodore Roosevelt, struck the President in the eye, causing him to lose sight in that eye?

00:00, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Gros-Mécatina (pictured) on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in Quebec, Canada, has excellent crab, lobster, and scallop fishing grounds?
... that Bach scored a sopranino recorder to illustrate the morning star in the opening chorus of his cantata Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96?
... that Jim Cardwell gave up his engineering business to become full-time secretary for Melbourne Football Club, a post he held for 25 years?
... that Wat Pasantidhamma was the first Thai Buddhist temple in the Tidewater (southeastern) region of Virginia?
... that a fortune made as a merchant in Gothenburg enabled Thomas Erskine (later 9th Earl of Kellie) to buy back Cambo House, a property forfeited because of his family's Jacobite sympathies?
... that U2 wrote the song "Mothers of the Disappeared" about the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, whose children disappeared during the Dirty War?
... that James Eccles made the first ascent of the second-highest summit in the Alps ninety years after the first ascent of the highest?
... that the four statues of saints on the tower of St Andrew's Church, East Heslerton were originally intended for Bristol Cathedral, but were rejected because the dean said they were papist?
... that at age 25, Julius Caesar was captured by pirates, but after being ransomed, chased them, captured them, and had them crucified?

3 October 2010

18:00, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the World Golf Village (pictured) is a golf resort near St. Augustine, Florida, created to showcase the World Golf Hall of Fame?
... that in the documentary television series about South American serial killers, Instinto Asesino (Killer Instinct), the death toll of the six criminals exceeds one hundred victims, mostly women and children?
... that eight gymnasts from the Norwegian club Bergens TF won medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics as part of the rare Men's team, free system event?
... that the NASDA satellite ADEOS I malfunctioned less than a year in orbit – a fate repeated by its successor six years later?
... that Commanding General Kristian Laake warned that war might reach Norway in a sudden manner, but when the invasion actually came, he was removed from his command for being too passive?
... that the Windhoek Show was first held in 1899, when South-West Africa was still a colony of Imperial Germany?
... that the suggestion of repressed sexuality in Thomas Eakins' Portrait of Maud Cook has been seen as both intriguing and disturbing?
... that during the Newfoundland expedition of 1796, French and Spanish forces destroyed over 100 merchant vessels?
... that Grove Church Cemetery has been called "a cemetery for the living"?

12:00, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the nave of the Church of All Souls, Bolton, Greater Manchester, (pictured) was built without pillars to give the congregation an excellent view and to enable them to hear the sermon clearly?
... that the "Parasol Protectorate" steampunk books Soulless, Changeless, and Blameless by Gail Carriger will be adapted as graphic novels by Yen Press?
... that Clarence River Light, a lighthouse in Yamba, New South Wales, Australia, was built in 1955, replacing a previous lighthouse built in 1880?
... that Marty Amsler was the first University of Evansville graduate to be drafted into the National Football League?
... that mezzo-soprano Petra Noskaiová recorded alto parts with La Petite Bande in Bach cantatas such as Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12?
... that historian David Bushnell introduced the study of the history of Colombia in American academic circles?
... that the Battle of Nui Le was the last major battle fought by the Australian army during the Vietnam War?
... that George Munroe is a retired American professional basketball player, Navy veteran, Rhodes scholar, lawyer, and former CEO of Phelps Dodge Corporation?
... that British architect Charles Fitzroy Doll's design for the dining room for the Hotel Russell in London was also later used on the RMS Titanic?

06:00, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the American Honda Motor Company (headquarters pictured) was Honda's first U.S. subsidiary and the first Japanese automaker to build cars in the U.S.?
... that Richard Cantillon's treatise, Essai, was considered by economist William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy"?
... that one of the best-preserved Viking settlements in Europe, Linn Duachaill, was founded at the same time as Dublin, in the 840s, and was unearthed and identified in September 2010?
... that when Father Scott Pilarz became President of the University of Scranton he brought Georgetown University's mascot, Jack the Bulldog, with him?
... that according to a local legend, the medieval Church of St Demetrius in Patalenitsa, Bulgaria, was rediscovered thanks to a thunderbolt striking a cherry tree?
... that actor and musician Chord Overstreet was named after the musical term of the same name?
... that the word "constable" derives from the Byzantine office of comes stabuli or Count of the Stable, responsible for the horses and pack animals intended for use by the army and the imperial court?
... that professional baseball player Ji-Man Choi won the Arizona League Most Valuable Player Award after the 2010 season?
... that Oprah Winfrey completed the America's Finest City Half Marathon in 1993, running under a pseudonym and accompanied by a bodyguard, a trainer, and a video crew?

00:00, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

... that the Inca sites of Machu Picchu (pictured) and Cusco became the first World Heritage Sites of Peru in 1983?
... that Ned Sutton was the Melbourne Football Club's inaugural captain in the Victorian Football League in 1897?
... that Brooke Fraser described her third album, Flags, as "a graduation"?
... that contralto Hildegard Laurich performed in Bach's cantata for Ratswahl (inauguration of the Leipzig town council) Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille, BWV 120?
... that because of its height, the Gaza Baptist Church was commandeered by both Fatah and Hamas troops as an observation post during the Fatah–Hamas conflict?
... that according to local legend Dead Timber State Recreation Area in Nebraska is named for the "dead timbers" that were left over after a wildfire?
... that President Obama called the Paycheck Fairness Act "a common-sense bill" that would help end persistent male–female income disparity in which American women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn?
... that Nagesh Kukunoor's 3 Deewarein was filmed at the then defunct and now demolished Musheerabad Jail in Hyderabad, India?
... that Leona Helmsley hired Joyce Beber to promote her hotels and fired her four times, including once after Helmsley was convicted for income tax evasion and blamed Beber for having raised her profile?

2 October 2010

18:00, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

... that consumption of the poisonous mushroom Inocybe maculata (pictured) could lead to death by respiratory failure?
... that the only Christian bookstore in Gaza closed after its owner was beaten and murdered by armed extremists?
... that the Nazis claimed the successful Blitzkrieg against France in 1940 saved the Soviet Union from an allied strategic bombing campaign called Operation Pike?
... that The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman was the first Chinese film to premiere at Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival?
... that Australian Murray Sayle, known for his "rat-like cunning", was a war correspondent in Vietnam, tracked Che Guevara through the Bolivian jungle, climbed Mt. Everest and sailed solo across the Atlantic?
... that HIP Petrohemija is the largest petrochemical company in Serbia?
... that the British ironclad HMS Hector was assigned as Queen Victoria's guard ship nearly every summer between 1868 and 1886 when she was in residence at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight?
... that Canadian charity Actua, which delivers educational programs to young people, received the 2009 Ontario Trillium Foundation Minister's Award?
... that virologist John R. Paul blamed better hygiene for polio's spread in the 20th century, saying early exposure to poliovirus would have given immunity?

12:00, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Hornby Lighthouse (pictured), on South Head, New South Wales, Australia, was known as the "Lower Light", to distinguish it from Macquarie Lighthouse, the "Upper Light"?
... that Clarence Seamans was the president of the largest typewriter manufacturer in the world?
... that Kenneth Strong was Britain's first Director General of Intelligence?
... that the Church of St Pothinus in Lyon holds a 17th century painting depicting St Paul in front of the Areopagus that was previously kept at the Notre Dame de Paris?
... that sound engineer and record producer Paul De Villiers has worked with Yes, Marc Jordan, King Crimson and Mr. Mister, whose number-one hits "Kyrie" and "Broken Wings" he co-produced?
... that in the mid-1970s, the Star Trek Concordance and The Making of Star Trek were the only references used by writers of the Star Trek: Phase II television show?
... that Fathi Osman's 1997 book Concepts of the Quran: A Topical Reading, in which he explained concepts in Islam for non-Muslims, was nearly 1,000 pages long?
... that the SweeTango is a new variety of apple, not a romantic dance?
... that in the extremely rare 1983 video game Mangia, the player controls a boy whose mother attempts to feed him so much pasta that his stomach will explode?

06:00, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1850 the area outside London's Westminster Abbey was a notorious slum called Devil's Acre (pictured)?
... that Texas State Rep. Byron Cook is a leading supporter of maintaining the scenic Texas State Railroad from Rusk to Palestine?
... that there are several alternative explanations of Frédéric Chopin's illness?
... that the six movements of a Missa of Bach, a short mass consisting of Kyrie and Gloria, are parodies of his cantata music?
... that Brett Beavers was the bandleader and bass player for both Martina McBride and Lee Ann Womack?
... that the Miss Albany Diner, an Albany, New York, architectural landmark, was used as a set for the 1987 film Ironweed?
... that there is a border dispute between Canada and the United States over a part of the Beaufort Sea?
... that the parish churches of Ormskirk, Purton and Wanborough are the only churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire?
... that Padilla, Bolivia, is named in honor of Manuel Ascencio Padilla who was referred to as "a hero with the soul of a child and the heart of a lion"?

00:00, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

... that while Red-and-yellow Barbets (male pictured) are tame in areas where they are not persecuted, they are hunted by the Maasai for their feathers?
... that as CEO of Stanley Works, Donald W. Davis helped bring the do it yourself home improvement trend to the U.S. and coined the company slogan "Stanley helps you do things right"?
... that the Anina mine supplied Crivina Power Station with oil shale?
... that American history researcher Ann Dexter Gordon leads a project at Rutgers University which has cataloged more than 14,000 papers related to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
... that the British ironclad HMS Defence damaged her propeller and rudder when she was nearly blown ashore during a gale off Pantelleria in March 1872?
... that when someone called to complain about a dead animal in front of a residence, Laredo City Councilman Joe A. Guerra grabbed a shovel and went to take care of the problem himself?
... that once completed, the Fântânele-Cogealac Wind Farm will be the largest onshore wind farm in Europe?
... that the band OK Go's music video for "White Knuckles" is a one-shot take of the band interacting with twelve trained dogs and a goat?
... that the Sun and Pluto are only 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) apart on the Somerset Space Walk?

1 October 2010

18:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

... that 70 years ago on October 1, 1940, little "Whitey" Bernard was photographed running after his father (pictured) who was marching to war?
... that during the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1485–1491, the Ottomans prevailed at sea, but the Mamluks consistently resisted them on land?
... that Gene Swick was the first college quarterback to amass more than 8,000 career yards, but was cut by the Cleveland Browns during camp and never played professional football?
... that in 2010, the Swiss based Alpiq became the largest open market electricity trader in Romania?
... that Paul S. Martin and Paul Sidney Martin both worked as anthropologists at the University of Arizona in the early 1970s?
... that Arthur's Quest: Battle for the Kingdom was nominated for GameSpot's Worst PC Game of 2002 award?
... that the Çubuk-1 Dam was the first concrete dam constructed in Turkey and is recognized as one of the country's top 50 engineering feats?
... that oral historian Alessandro Portelli has compared the stories of industrial workers in his hometown of Terni, Italy, with those of coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky?
... that Mecklenburg's Garden in Cincinnati used a ship model to inform patrons whether alcohol could be sold safely during Prohibition in the United States?

12:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

... that Portland, Maine's Eastern Promenade (pictured) is home to a narrow gauge railroad museum, the mast of the WWII-era USS Portland heavy cruiser, and a mass grave of US prisoners of war from the War of 1812?
... that percussionist Ollie E. Brown has produced or performed on over 100 singles and albums, including Ray Parker, Jr.'s Ghostbusters, Michael Jackson's Bad, and the theme from Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo?
... that a Pawnee creation account centered on Pahuk, a bluff overlooking the Platte River in Nebraska?
... that former Texas State Senator David Sibley lost the 2000 Senate vote for lieutenant governor by a single ballot?
... that Cape Parry's Thick-billed Murre colony, located in Northwest Territories, Canada, is more isolated than any other murre colony in the world?
... that the true source of New York's official nickname, The Empire State, is not known?
... that Monte Robbins holds the Michigan Wolverines football records for longest punt at 82 yards and the highest career average for a punter?
... that Lucernaria janetae has eight lance-shaped gonads?
... that as an attorney, William Coblentz represented Patty Hearst, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, and once called Ronald Reagan "a menopausal Cary Grant"?

06:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

... that severe floods (pictured), among the worst in the country's history, affected Slovenia two weeks ago?
... that the Adelaide leak could have landed the Australian economy in hot water?
... that radar detector millionaire Dodge Morgan at age 54 sailed solo around the globe without stops in 150 days, shattering the prior record of 292 days?
... that gravediggers working within the ruins of northern Albania's Shirgj Monastery would often encounter mosaics from the old church?
... that despite being eliminated from The Ultimate Fighter just weeks prior, Pablo Garza was signed by World Extreme Cagefighting to appear tonight at WEC 51?
... that in Thomas Eakins' Self-portrait, the contrast between his formal attire and his unkempt grooming alludes to a rebellious nature restrained by cultural mores?
... that an early use of pascalization in the United States was the treatment of guacamole, extending its shelf life tenfold?
... that the work of "animation God" Bill Littlejohn includes Tom and Jerry, A Charlie Brown Christmas and an Oscar-winning short with Dizzy Gillespie debating the possibility of nuclear war?
... that after the Nazi invasion of Norway, former naval officer Olaf Kullmann bicycled around Norway to agitate for pacifism?

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... that 19th-century painter Robert Jenkins Onderdonk (example painting pictured), born in Maryland into a Dutch American family, became known as the "Dean of Texas's Artists"?
... that tensile testing is a fundamental materials science test used to find a material's ultimate tensile strength and maximum elongation before fracture?
... that the 2007–08 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team included Ekpe Udoh who led both the Big Ten Conference and Big 12 Conference in blocked shots?
... that the remains of the San Juan de Silicia, a Spanish Armada ship which sank off the coast of Scotland, were mistaken for those of a treasure ship and destroyed by countless searches for gold?
... that, hoping to cut off the Dalmatian coast from Croatia, Yugoslav and Serbian forces attacked the city of Šibenik for six days in 1991?
... that the album Amar la Trama by Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler was recorded in just four days?
... that a practice in Afghanistan, where a daughter in a family without sons is dressed in male clothing and acts as a boy, allowing her to do things she could not do as a girl, is called bacha posh?
... that the seventh season of The West Wing featured a live television episode that was broadcast twice for the East and West Coasts of the United States?
... that the Canadian Air-Sea Transportable Brigade Group, formed to rapidly reinforce Norway in wartime, disbanded after it took two years of planning and 21 days to cross the Atlantic?