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30 November 2012

16:00, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

... that during a 1780s rebellion involving the holy city of Varanasi, Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of India, took shelter in the Chunar Fort (pictured)?
... that Palestinian rapper Shadia Mansour, the "first lady of Arabic Hip Hop", was born in London to Christian parents?
... that Agatha Christie, in her novel Ordeal by Innocence, used the location of Royal Castle Hotel as inspiration for characterizing the Royal George in the novel?
... that the Children's Memorial Health Institute was founded as a monument to the heroism and martyrdom of children during World War II?
... that the buffet for Matthijs Langhedul's organ in Sainte Walburga, Veurne, is one of the oldest in Flanders?
... that in 2008, Heinz Baked Beans became "Heinz Beanz" because the company thought the original name "a bit of a mouthful"?

08:00, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Harry Rockafeller (pictured), who played for the Rutgers football team from 1912 to 1915, was still athletic director in 1961?
... that inmates at Oregon State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison, once operated the world's largest flax scutching plant?
... that the followers of the rebel al-Harith ibn Surayj tried to persuade their opponents to join them through moral and religious arguments even during battles?
... that the scenario writer for 07th Expansion's visual novel series Rose Guns Days is also one of four character designers for the series?
... that the locomotive depot near West Auckland railway station was the only one to be both closed completely and later reopened by the London and North Eastern Railway?
... that 13-time Irish tennis champion and world pro doubles champion George Lyttleton-Rogers was also an amateur boxer and cancelled a sparring bout with Don McCorkindale so as to retain his amateur status?

00:00, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the porticoes of the Great Colonnade at Apamea (pictured) were paved with mosaics along the full 2-kilometre (1.2 mi) stretch of the avenue?
... that the Legislative Sejm of 1919–21 was the first national parliament of Poland since 1793?
... that the chalky buttercup and the buttercup lucine resemble each other but can be told apart by their scars?
... that Helen Dyer discovered why chemotherapies with heavy metals are toxic?
... that in 1962, television director John Hefin graffitied a rock in support of a local politician?
... that William V. B. Van Dyck coached football at Rutgers, worked on a project to light the Strait of Magellan and participated in the first chess game played by "wireless"?

29 November 2012

16:00, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the museum within Ramnagar Fort (pictured) was at one time a Durbar Hall?
... that in his documentary film al-Manam, Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas interviews Palestinian refugees in Lebanon about their dreams?
... that the first serekh of king Double Falcon was discovered by a peasant planting a palm grove?
... that Ohio's Old Perry County Courthouse, built in 1829, is the oldest building in the former Northwest Territory continually used as a government building?
... that John Emory Powers was the world's first full-time copywriter?
... that Michael Clarke is the only player to score four double centuries during a calendar year, and the third to achieve two double centuries in a series twice?

08:00, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

... that fins are used on artefacts and by aquatic animals such as killer whales (pictured) to generate thrust, to control motion, or to regulate temperature?
... that the Chonga has become a Miami icon, influencing fashion in South Florida and beyond?
... that a generic version of Viagra was launched the same day as the Supreme Court of Canada decided Teva Canada Ltd. v. Pfizer Canada Inc.?
... that Live's discography includes an album that went eight times platinum in the United States?
... that before he was elected to the United States House of Representatives, Andy Barr worked for Mitch McConnell, Jim Talent, and Ernie Fletcher?
... that the unfinished Ocean Tower was the tallest reinforced concrete structure to be imploded?

00:00, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Thomas Jefferson asked Kentucky's John Breckinridge (pictured) to claim credit for writing the Kentucky Resolutions, and Jefferson's authorship was not discovered until after Breckinridge's death?
... that Princess Amelia's Battery, Princess Anne's Battery and Princess Caroline's Battery in Gibraltar were named after Amelia, Anne and Caroline, the daughters of King George II?
... that North Preston's Finest is a gang of pimps based just northeast of Metropolitan Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada?
... that the Syrian village of al-Ziyarah has been identified as the ancient Aramaean town of "Ziara"?
... that the Potomac, Fredericksburg and Piedmont Railroad cost less than US$1 million to build?
... that Richard Rennison, the "anvil priest" from Gretna Green, took his 240-pound (110 kg) anvil with him on holiday to London?

28 November 2012

16:00, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

... that about 100,000 people visit Varanasi today (pictured) to see the city and the Ganges lit with lamps?
... that Philadelphia Athletics shortstop Charlie Engle did not get to bat in his 1925 debut against the New York Yankees, his only game in the season?
... that role ethics is an ethical theory based on family roles?
... that will.i.am and Britney Spears's 2012 single "Scream & Shout" contains a sample of the opening line of Spears' 2007 single "Gimme More": "It's Britney, bitch"?
... that when she is inaugurated as Secretary of State of Washington in January, Kim Wyman will be the only Republican elected to statewide office on the West Coast of the United States?
... that the Knifefish robot is intended to replace the U.S. Navy's trained minesweeping dolphins?

08:00, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

... that in 1986 the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (pictured) in Albany, New York, hosted a historic Palm Sunday reconciliation service between Christians and Jews?
... that Leo Righetti cost himself an opportunity to play in Major League Baseball when he launched a chair at a team official?
... that Kappa Andromedae b, despite being only 12.8 Jupiter masses and located about 170 light years away, has been directly imaged by astronomers?
... that according to Dan Martin for NME, the lyrical content of "Stay", a song performed by Rihanna, "puts a vulnerable spin" on her relationship with Chris Brown?
... that on Election Day 2012 Christian Mitchell was elected to serve as the youngest member of the Illinois General Assembly?
... that The Making of a Teacher quotes spiritual teacher Eknath Easwaran as saying: "I never knew anyone in India who tried to become a spiritual teacher ... It's not a job you apply for – it finds you"?

00:00, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the John Harvard statue (pictured) at Harvard University is not of John Harvard?
... that Charles Arundell has been claimed as the author of Leicester's Commonwealth, an anonymous work of propaganda which attacked Queen Elizabeth's favourite the Earl of Leicester?
... that the Ferlo Desert occupies one-third of Senegal's total area?
... that the video for the Alicia Keys track "Not Even the King" features visual references to the art of Basquiat?
... that Larry Clark's 2012 film Marfa Girl was filmed in the same small Texas town as James Dean's last film?
... that tennis champion Rodrigo de Castro Pereira, a scion of the Portuguese royal family, worked as a laborer in a U.S. ironworks?

27 November 2012

16:00, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the crab Ocypode cursor (pictured) can be found along the coasts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and eastern Mediterranean Sea, but not in between?
... that Egyptologist Willem Pleyte was the father of Cornelis Pleyte, curator of the Ethnographic Museum Artis?
... that the early 20th-century fashion house Babani imported Japanese undergarments for Western women to wear as fashionable peignoirs?
... that Bab al-Faraj is the only surviving city wall gate in Damascus that was added after the Muslim conquest?
... that Indian communist politician Satyanarayan Singh led a campaign of annihilation of class enemies in rural Bihar in the late 1960s?
... that reading Spectropia will cause the reader to see spectres floating on the wall?

08:00, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Robert Roswell Brown (pictured) was a head football coach at six colleges, including Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Tulane, and New Mexico State?
... that the North Atlantic breakup resulted in the separation of Eurasia from North America, forming the North Atlantic Ocean?
... that although Colonel Harold Van Heuvelen composed his Symphony No. 1 during World War II, it was only premiered in 2012?
... that because of Theophilus Wilson, the laws of cricket changed?
... that Pitbull's song "Don't Stop the Party", from his seventh studio album Global Warming, was originally entitled "Funky Vodka"?
... that one can reportedly see 8 mm (0.31 in) high Roman characters by the light of a 100 cm² (16 in²) piece of the bioluminescent tsukiyotake?

00:00, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the three sections of the Great Colonnade at Palmyra in Syria were connected by a tetrapylon (pictured) and a monumental arch?
... that some Omphalotus mushrooms glow in the dark?
... that Ohio's Meigs County Courthouse has at-grade entrances on all three floors?
... that Alicia Keys co-wrote her single "Brand New Me" with Scottish recording artist and writer Emeli Sandé?
... that international emergency medicine is concerned with the development of relevant skills in countries lacking mature emergency medicine services?
... that Cal Young, the first head coach of the Oregon Ducks football team, was born in a log cabin?

26 November 2012

16:00, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the immediate inspiration for the founding of Society of Polish Artists "Sztuka" (logo pictured) came from the ground-breaking fin-de-siècle art exhibit at Sukiennice?
... that the 9.2 inch naval gun at O'Hara's Battery, Gibraltar, was capable of firing shells from Europe to Africa?
... that a publicity campaign for The Boogie Man Will Get You had to be abandoned because film critics preferred the antagonists in Disney films?
... that W. G. Grace captained Gloucestershire County Cricket Club for 29 years?
... that with the appointment of Muhammad ibn Ra'iq in 936, the holder of the office of amir al-umara became the virtual regent of the Abbasid Caliphate?
... that double leg amputee Marty Mayberry worked with a prosthetist to develop new legs that help improve his skiing following the 2006 Winter Paralympics?

08:00, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan, is home to Enryaku-ji (pictured), a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
... that Damien Thomlinson, an Australian commando who lost both legs in Afghanistan in 2009, is a rally car navigator, swimmer and para-snowboarder?
... that although he spent a total of less than six years in the position, Nawaz Sharif served longer as Prime Minister of Pakistan than anyone else?
... that Happy Wars is Xbox Live Arcade's first free-to-play game?
... that Bill Ponsford scored a quadruple century in just his third first-class cricket match?
... that during the production of Women Are Better Diplomats, the film's director and lead actress married each other?

00:00, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Formula One World Drivers' Champions have come from Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany (reigning champion Sebastian Vettel pictured), Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States?
... that staff from Company magazine devised an internship storyline for the soap opera Hollyoaks after watching Esther Bloom discuss fashion on-screen?
... that many orange elephant ear sponges are busy on an afternoon in late July shortly before the new moon?
... that netball in Malawi is the most popular women's sport in the country?
... that Agustín Alberdi, Jason Archer and Paul Beck, Luis Miguel Leal, Israel Lugo, Jorge "Fish" Rodríguez and Alejandro Santiago Ciena earned the Latin Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video by directing artists such as three-time winners Calle 13?
... that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez would have voted for U.S. President Barack Obama if he could?

25 November 2012

16:00, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

... that while performing as "Australia's Champion Lady Swimmer and Diver", Beatrice Kerr (pictured) saved two Blackpool boys from drowning?
... that according to Serbian epic poetry, Djemo the Mountaineer was the brother of Musa the Highwayman?
... that two arias in Bach's "magnificently theatrical and terse" cantata Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende, BWV 90, "paint a dismal picture"?
... that the 2012 Guia Race of Macau was the last car race in which Chevrolet participated as a works team in the WTCC?
... that Lt-Col Sir Marshal Clarke lost an arm to a tiger while serving with the Royal Artillery in India?
... that Sandy Island, although presented in some maps, does not actually exist?

08:00, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Gedser Odde (pictured) on the island of Falster is Denmark's southernmost point?
... that Richard Ford's critically acclaimed novel Canada took him twenty years to write?
... that Kodak Fortress was destroyed within weeks of its completion in 1635 during the Cossack Sulima Uprising?
... that American-born 2012–13 Canberra Capitals player Valerie Ogoke played against an Australian basketball team in Australia as a member of the 2005 Loyola Marymount University basketball team?
... that Cyclone Yali killed one person in New Zealand?
... that U.S. Representative-elect Markwayne Mullin took over his father's plumbing business when he was 20 years old?

00:00, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Gibraltar 2 skull (pictured), found in 1926, is that of a four-year-old Neanderthal girl dubbed the Devil's Tower Child?
... that upon the death of the Abbasid caliph al-Radi, his chief advisor and general Bajkam looted jewels and slave women from the caliphal palace?
... that female specimens of the Hyperolius ocellatus are larger than the males?
... that the Delhi Bridge is open to traffic even though it was destroyed by a tornado, whereas the Bell Road Bridge was hit by a drunk driver and is sitting on an overgrown river bank?
... that Leonora Bilger was the 1953 recipient of the American Chemical Society's Garvan–Olin Medal?
... that no electricity has been generated by the barge-mounted electric power generating station that was delivered to Ghana in 2002?

24 November 2012

16:00, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the brain coral Ctenella chagius (pictured) lives far from the rest of its family?
... that Chapal Bhaduri is, as of today, the last living female impersonator in Bengali folk theatre?
... that Cornwall Terrace was one of the earliest buildings constructed in Regent's Park?
... that Cyril Sewell was the leading run-scorer during a South African cricket tour of England at the age of just 19?
... that the Roman Harbaqa Dam in the Syrian Desert was reused by the Umayyads in the eighth century to supply water to the nearby palace of Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi?
... that the timing of mountain building can alter the shape and thickness of alluvial fans?

08:00, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

... that cricket umpire George Hele wrote he had "never seen more vicious bowling" than the "bodyline" tactics used during England's 1932–33 tour of Australia in which he officiated with George Borwick (caricatured together)?
... that Albert Berg, the first Purdue football coach, was a deaf-mute whose coaching reportedly "consisted of excited sign language and some rather bizarre sounds from his throat"?
... that Argentine-Korean actor Chang Kim Sung made a parody of "Gangnam Style" in the TV series Graduados?
... that the charity album God Bless America, released after the September 11 attacks, reached number one on the Billboard album chart as part of a wave of patriotic and inspirational releases?
... that excessive nutrients from volcanoes caused the loss of oxygen in the Western Interior Seaway which linked the Caribbean to the Arctic?
... that Hollywood make-up artist Perc Westmore developed a prosthetic hand out of latex, which was reportedly adapted for use by the medical industry?

00:00, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Dutch singer and actress Hetty Blok (pictured), best known as nurse Klivia on the TV show Ja zuster, nee zuster (1966–68), sang the theme song on television again in 2010, at age 90?
... that Glenn Robinson III, the son of 1994 NBA first overall draft pick Glenn Robinson, was born three months premature?
... that Patrick Guerrand-Hermès created the Aïn Kassimou in the style of a 19th-century Moroccan house for his passion for the arts and culture of Morocco where he lived for 50 years?
... that Moorish Gibraltar was known as the City of Victory and lasted for over 725 years, far longer than Spanish or British Gibraltar?
... that Ida Barney was given the 1953 Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy for measuring the positions of over 150,000 stars?
... that half-pipe skiing was added as a new event for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia?

23 November 2012

16:00, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the inclusion of Franz Marc's Expressionist oil painting The Tower of Blue Horses (pictured) in the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich in 1937 instigated protests from German war veterans?
... that the yellow calcareous sponge may be overgrown by other organisms?
... that a 1540 bottle of wine from Würzburger Stein may have been the oldest wine ever tasted and that an unopened bottle of the wine still exists?
... that the Motswana ANC activist Fish Keitseng helped anti-Apartheid leaders including Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki to move through Bechuanaland?
... that the Tangut translation of the Chinese military text The General's Garden predates the earliest surviving Chinese edition by 200 years?
... that Henryk Chmielewski was the first comic book author to be awarded with the Medal for Merit to Culture, Gold Class, the highest Polish order given for artistic deeds?

08:00, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Roman Camp of Diocletian at Palmyra in Syria (pictured) served as the military headquarters for the Legio I Illyricorum?
... that the Spencer Township Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio, was originally both a government building and an Odd Fellows hall?
... that Ruthenian nobility became increasingly polonized with time?
... that the use of nature in Asrul Sani's 1972 film The Misfit has been compared to works by Japanese directors?
... that Adaptive Coloration in Animals was said to be the only zoology book ever to be packed in a soldier's kitbag?

00:00, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

... that in 1655, Alfonso Litta (pictured)—the archbishop of Milan—organised a militia of 900 armed clerics?
... that Bolton Street Memorial Park, Wellington, New Zealand's oldest cemetery, was bisected by a motorway in the 1960s/70s?
... that bivalve molluscs and brittle stars are often found in beds of Japanese sea lilies?
... that actress Andrea Pietra suggested the inclusion of Paola Barrientos in the cast of Graduados?
... that Sedgwick House in Cumbria was built for the owner of a gunpowder factory?
... that Vito Pascucci became friends with Glenn Miller after repairing a smashed trumpet with only a broomstick?

22 November 2012

16:00, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

... that both maze coral (pictured) and rose coral have a form that is unattached to the seabed and that rose coral can right itself if it gets overturned?
... that two years after Madeleine Taylor's decision to focus more on basketball than netball, she played in the WNBL on the Australian Institute of Sport team?
... that the Canon EOS-1D C has no flash?
... that on Wings' songs "Cook of the House" and "Love in Song," ex-Beatle Paul McCartney plays the same double bass that Bill Black played on Elvis Presley hits such as "Heartbreak Hotel"?
... that Irish algologist Anne Elizabeth Ball has two species of seaweed named for her?
... that They Met in Argentina was described in one review as "an American musical at its worst"?

08:00, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

... that veneration of the Amla tree (pictured), in particular on Amalaka Ekadashi, is due to the belief that the god Vishnu resides in and near the tree?
... that Carol Lee Flinders, coauthor of the "renowned countercultural cookbook" Laurel's Kitchen, has also written books on spirituality, mysticism, and feminism?
... that B4 is a classification for people with visual impairments and is used in sports including sailing, bowls, swimming and cycling?
... that one of the largest shoe companies in Germany, Klauser Schuhe, sponsored the painting of the Lego Bridge in the style of Lego bricks?
... that the Carpet Chameleon can change colour according to its need to warm up or its mood?
... that as Hungarian tennis champion Jenő Zsigmondy's health faded he had to give up tennis and subsequently took up golf?

00:00, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the 1884 FA Cup Final saw Blackburn Rovers (pictured) play Queen's Park from Scotland?
... that a landscape architect was a major proponent of the preservation of the area that is now known as the Gibraltar Rock State Natural Area?
... that the board of directors for Hillsboro, Oregon-based Eid Passport has included Thomas H. Collins, Merrill McPeak, and Tom Ridge?
... that with Guatemala's Decree 900, President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán ordered the expropriation of uncultivated farmland—including 1,700 acres (690 ha) of his own estate?
... that Kulindroplax is the first known mollusk showing an unambiguous combination of exterior shells and a worm-like body?
... that professional baseball player Slade Heathcott lived in his truck during his senior year of high school?

21 November 2012

16:00, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Mattheus Marinus Schepman's (pictured) most significant work is "The Prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition", a publication of 494 pages encompassing 212 genera and 1,467 species of snails and slugs?
... that netball in Wales had a national governing organisation by 1945, and between 1949 and 1976 the national team lost 28 times to England while not winning a single match?
... that the Russians are developing an airborne anti-satellite weapon called Sokol Eshelon?
... that the Trioceros laterispinis can only be found in one mountain range in the Eastern Arc Mountains?
... that al-Muwaffaq was the effective ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate for twenty-one years, sidelining his brother, the Caliph al-Mu'tamid?
... that in 1999 the diamond industry in Armenia provided about one third of the country's exports?

08:00, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the green rose (pictured) is the result of phyllody, an abnormal plant condition where the floral parts develop into leaves?
... that Alfred Ransom was twice Acting Prime Minister of New Zealand?
... that Hindus fast without food or water on Nirjala Ekadashi in the hot Indian summer to propitiate the god Vishnu?
... that Hawaiian King Kalākaua appointed Samuel Kipi to serve as Royal Governor of the Island of Hawaiʻi in 1874?
... that Sjumandjaja's 1983 film Budak Nafsu (Slave to Passion) was called "little more than a sex exploitation vehicle" yet was nominated for a Citra Award for Best Film?
... that when Phil Cronan moved to play for St Kilda, a requested Supreme Court injunction to prevent his transfer was rejected by the judge who said that football wasn't sufficiently important?

00:00, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Maya Angelou (pictured), who recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Clinton's 1993 inauguration, was the first poet to read an inaugural poem since Robert Frost at Kennedy's in 1961?
... that Brookesia ambreensis, B. bekolosy, B. bonsi, B. brygooi, B. confidens, B. exarmata, B. griveaudi, B. lambertoni, B. lineata, B. lolontany, B. nasus, B. therezieni, B. thieli and B. valerieae are all species of chameleon endemic to Madagascar?
... that someone named Cam Newton left the NFL in 2007 after just two seasons?
... that in 1946, orientalist Mikhail Evgenievich Masson organized the South Turkmenistan Complex Archaeological Expedition?
... that Michael Jackson signed vocal group Men of Vizion to his record label, MJJ Music, in 1993, and released their debut studio album, Personal, three years later?
... that Marrakesh was founded because homesick Saharan warriors did not like living in cities?

20 November 2012

16:00, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

... that women who wear the saree (typical wearing style pictured) are more vulnerable to skin cancer around the waistline?
... that Praia da Bordeira, near Carrapateira, Portugal, has been cited as one of the best beaches in the Algarve?
... that 30 Euston Square, London, has been refurbished to be the headquarters of the Royal College of General Practitioners?
... that Russian satellite Luch 5B will relay data from the International Space Station?
... that the 2009 British horror film Salvage was filmed on the set formerly used by the soap opera Brookside?
... that the Hamdanid emir of Mosul, Abu Taghlib, was attacked by the Buyid 'Izz al-Dawla, but later allied himself with him against the latter's cousin 'Adud al-Dawla?

08:00, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Calostoma cinnabarinum (pictured) is a mushroom that resembles tomatoes or amphibian eggs?
... that former basketball player Brian Ehlers is now a police officer?
... that Russian is the most widely spoken foreign language in Armenia?
... that two students from Gibraltar High School's Future Farmers of America drowned while taking part in an annual camping trip in 1941?
... that in College Network, Inc. v. Moore Educational Publishers, Inc., the purchase of trademarked keywords of competitors to display its own advertisement was not counted as trademark infringement?
... that Maurice Hurley was credited for writing the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Hide and Q" under a pseudonym in protest against Gene Roddenberry's numerous rewrites?

00:00, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Little Raven (pictured), a principal chief of the Southern Arapaho Indians, learned to smoke cigars and eat meat with utensils while he lived in Denver with white people?
... that an artillery blockhouse was built in 1481 to protect Dartmouth Harbour?
... that Allan Singleton-Wood hosted the first radio performance in Wales of Dusty Springfield's early band, The Springfields?
... that Tom Hedden's work is featured in both the NFL and NASCAR halls of fame?
... that despite being found over an area of 10,000 square kilometres (3,900 sq mi), Petter's Chameleon is a Vulnerable species?
... that former American Idol contestant Diana DeGarmo co-wrote a song entitled "Good Goodbye", which she performed as her character Angelina Veneziano on The Young and the Restless?

19 November 2012

16:00, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Eastbourne's listed buildings include a bus shelter, several gazebos (one pictured), three Martello towers and a fort which is "rather a curiosity"?
... that Lluís Coll scored one goal and set up another as FC Barcelona won the 1960 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final?
... that the Belalanda Chameleon is one of only five Critically Endangered reptiles?
... that Placebo's discography includes four studio albums that topped the chart in France?
... that the Roman Theatre at Palmyra in Syria was left unfinished with only the ima cavea?
... that the second Dushinsky Rebbe had to pay a huge sum of money in order to be buried next to his father, the first Dushinsky Rebbe, in the nearly empty Shaare Zedek Cemetery of Jerusalem?

08:00, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the finds of the four expeditions, packed and carted to Germany initially, were murals, other artifacts (pictured a fresco of Buddhist Monks) and about 40,000 pieces of texts?
... that in 1903, David Prescott Barrows as general superintendent of education for the Philippine Islands, was instrumental in a total reorganization of the educational system?
... that the South Tibetan Detachment inserted the Greater Himalayan Crystalline complex between the Lesser Himalayan Sequence and the Tethyan Himalayan Sequence?
... that 3 Doors Down's discography includes five singles that topped the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart?
... that the freshwater snail Filopaludina martensi is a part of the cuisine of Thailand?
... that members of the relief effort Occupy Sandy created a wedding registry that has raised more than $100,000 in supplies for the victims of Hurricane Sandy?

00:00, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

... that during the tumultuous Year of Africa, seventeen countries gained independence, South Africans began armed resistance to apartheid, and Patrice Lumumba (pictured) gained and lost his freedom?
... that the song "Te Regalo Amores" by R.K.M & Ken-Y reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Latin Rhythm Airplay and Latin Tropical Airplay charts?
... that Patrick Guerrand-Hermès was president of the Federation of International Polo and was chiefly responsible for organizing the 2004 World Polo Championship?
... that Bach used a trio of oboes for a Totentanz in his chorale cantata Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig, BWV 26 (Ah how fleeting, ah how futile)?
... that the Chaim Potok novel The Book of Lights is based on Potok's exposure to non-Jewish religions as a military chaplain in Korea and Japan?
... that the Transantarctic Mountains are one of the longest ranges formed by continental rifting?

18 November 2012

16:05, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Rhododendron spinuliferum (pictured) has been used to treat asthma and phlegm in Chinese traditional medicine?
... that an actor who played a dead body in the Dutch television series Q & Q was later found in the same position after being murdered in his apartment?
... that the Museum of Asian Art houses some 20,000 Asian artifacts, making it one of the largest museums of ancient Asian art in the world?
... that Henri Akoka escaped a prison camp by jumping onto a moving train with his clarinet under his arm?
... that, in May 1965, Josiah Gondo became Rhodesia's first black Leader of the Opposition?
... that the Villa dei Misteri project is recreating the wines of Pompeii by replanting vineyards destroyed by the Vesuvius eruption with ancient grape varieties?

08:20, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

... that cricketer Kevin Pietersen (pictured) joined the Delhi Daredevils in 2012?
... that in Microsoft v. AT&T, copying and installing software abroad onto foreign-manufactured computers were not considered as patent infringement under U.S. Patent Law?
... that 2016: Obama's America, the fourth-highest-grossing U.S. documentary of the past 30 years, was initially released in only one theater?
... that repairs made to the Black Swan dredge in the 1880s included replacing the steel bottom with Jarrah?
... that 311's discography includes two singles that topped the Alternative Songs chart?
... that after 25 years of aging in real time, John Constantine is getting younger?

00:35, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

... that after it was retired in 1945, Virginia and Truckee Railway Motor Car 22 (pictured) was a diner and office space until 1995?
... that the chimney of Cape Cornwall Mine has a plaque in the shape of a Heinz Baked Beanz label set into its base?
... that the Barack Obama re-election campaign compared the film Dishonorable Disclosures to the "Swift Boat" attacks against John Kerry in 2004?
... that the Xiong'er Volcanic Belt formed part of the earliest known supercontinent Columbia?
... that ITM Power are developing technology to make the Isle of Wight carbon neutral?
... that to watch an early screening of "The Gathering", attendees of the Star Wars Celebration VI had to bring their kids with them?

17 November 2012

16:50, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

... that samples of moon rock and lunar dust soil from the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 missions, mounted on wooden plaque displays especially for Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Honduras, Ireland, Malta, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Romania, Spain, and Sweden, plus the states of Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii (pictured), Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and West Virginia, were later reported missing by many of the recipients?
... that British architect H. T. Cadbury-Brown served with the Royal Artillery in World War II but made it all the way from Normandy to Germany without firing a shot?
... that by the 1960s female leaders of women's football in Africa began to emerge?
... that Steve Pestka resigned his judgeship to run the real estate business his father developed after surviving the Holocaust?
... that pineapple coral growing in the Florida Keys was nearly wiped out by white plague in 1995 and has not fully recovered since?
... that Fred Humphreys attempted to photograph every species of Banksia, but died before the resulting book was published?

08:00, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Stetind (pictured) was first ascended in 1910 by Bryn, Rubenson and Schjelderup?
... that the Disposition Matrix creates a blueprint for tracking, capturing, rendering or killing suspected terrorists?
... that the design of the Russian first-rate ship of the line Imperator Nikolai I was based on that of the British steam-powered ship of the line HMS Duke of Wellington?
... that the Michigan Wolverines field hockey team's 2001 NCAA championship was the first national title for any women's sports team at the University of Michigan?
... that the Eurythmics have released eight studio albums between 1981 and 1999 and sold over 75 million records?
... that Welsh international footballer David Powell began his career employed as groundsman by Wrexham F.C.?

00:00, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

... that baroness Maria Bal (Angel of Death, pictured) served as the live model for a series of symbolic portraits of women as well as nude studies and mythological beings by Jacek Malczewski?
... that virtually all Italian-speakers in Albania have learnt the language by watching Italian television and not through reading textbooks?
... that the Oluf Høst Museum dedicated to the Bornholm painter Oluf Høst, is located in his large house known as Norresân?
... that the British racehorse Camarine's career was compared to that of Eclipse and she also won a trophy made of his tail hairs?
... that Russian general Valery Gerasimov was appointed Chief of Defence Staff following the firing of Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov?
... that the release of Still Jennifer Lopez, the second fragrance to be endorsed by Jennifer Lopez, was not anticipated due to the negative publicity generated from her film Gigli?

16 November 2012

16:00, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Crested Chameleon (pictured) can be found over 1,000,000 square kilometres (390,000 sq mi) in Africa?
... that the current EastEnders executive producer Lorraine Newman is the first executive producer to have occupied every editorial role on the show?
... that the 16th-century King's Chapel was the first church built in Gibraltar after the city was conquered by Spain?
... that Welsh international footballer Joe Davies was suspended by Sheffield United for "lodging in a public house"?
... that panyarring is the practice of involuntarily seizing people and selling them into slavery to recoup losses or gain repayment of debts?
... that current president of the Institution of Civil Engineers Barry Clarke spent two years working as a volunteer in Montserrat?

08:00, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Diego de Guevara (pictured) is said to have thrown himself over the dead body of his master Charles the Bold to protect it on the battlefield?
... that Boaz Mahune, who graduated from Lahainaluna, wrote the Declaration of Rights of 1839, the preamble to the first constitution of Hawaii?
... that Usmar Ismail made his directorial debut with Tjitra while still part of the Indonesian Army?
... that Boston's discography includes an album that sold over 17 million copies?
... that the Jaffe reaction is still widely employed as the method of choice for creatinine testing, despite not being specific to creatinine?
... that Academy Award for Makeup winner Michael Westmore created kits for the CIA to enable agents to change their identities?

00:00, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Nazario Benavídez (pictured), for many years governor of San Juan Province, Argentina, was later imprisoned and murdered?
... that the first Rally car was powered by a Harley-Davidson engine?
... that William Calvin Chase took over the Washington Bee in 1882 and turned it into "one of the most influential African American newspapers in the country"?
... that the Norwegian-British crew of MTB 345 were tortured and executed as a result of Adolf Hitler's Commando Order?
... that the collections of amateur natural historian Mary Elizabeth Barber may have influenced Charles Darwin's deliberations on the role of moths in orchid pollination?
... that the concentric circles on the lid of a Zenbook are designed to look like ripples in water?

15 November 2012

16:05, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Irish Red and White Setter (pictured) was saved from extinction in the late 1800s by a small number of breeders?
... that according to Serbian legend, Marko Kraljević alone defeated General Vuča and his thousand horsemen?
... the sucrose gap, first developed by Robert Stämpfli in 1954, is used to measure the effects of drugs on the activity of nerve and muscle membranes?
... that Philip and Son was Dartmouth's last industrial shipyard?
... that Mehmet Gürs, a Turkish chef of Scandinavian descent, called his Istanbul restaurant Mikla, which is derived from Miklagard, the Viking name of the city in the 10th century?
... that British astronomer Isis Pogson was probably named after a river, and an asteroid was probably named after her?

08:20, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist Yumiko Hotta (pictured) has won the WWWA World Championship three times?
... that The Black Crowes' discography includes six singles that topped the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart?
... that the Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Collections for Kohl's were originally marketed as "the first celebrity couple to simultaneously design collections for one retailer"?
... that former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said that the Non-constituency Member of Parliament scheme should be introduced to show younger voters how destructive an opposition can be?
... that Judith Donath has explored the use of artificial emotions in avatars and their potential use in online advertising?
... that the mole crab Emerita rathbunae is a proficient surfer?

00:00, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Maya city of Balamku in Mexico features an almost intact 16.8-metre (55 ft) long decorated frieze (pictured) first uncovered by looters?
... that as requested in his will, the grave of Turkish folk singer Neşet Ertaş was placed at the foot of his father's?
... that company rule in Rhodesia was chartered in 1889 by Queen Victoria?
... that Swedish doubles amateur champions Harry Ramberg and Curt Östberg defeated two professional tennis duos in a 1932 match, including the American team of Bill Tilden and Bruce Barnes?
... that Everclear's discography includes a song that peaked at number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart?
... that David Curson was elected to serve in the United States House of Representatives for six weeks?

14 November 2012

16:00, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Claire Taylor (pictured) was the first woman to be named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year?
... that in 1924, Estonia's Tallinn Power Plant became the world's first power plant to use oil shale as the primary fuel to generate electricity?
... that Jean-Baptiste Lynch fled to England during the Hundred Days, but returned during the Bourbon Restoration and became a Peer of France?
... that St Giles' Church, Barrow, is one of the earliest surviving churches in Shropshire, and contains the county's only Saxon chancel?
... that the endangered Decary's Leaf Chameleon can be found over an area of 1,300 square kilometres (500 sq mi)?
... that the mysterious Glasgow effect refers to the low life expectancy of Glaswegians, which epidemiologists say deprivation alone does not explain?

08:00, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

... that 28 U.S. states have asked the Supreme Court to allow police dogs (example pictured) to sniff at the front door of any house – without a search warrant or probable cause – despite assertions of unreliability?
... that Sjumandjaja considered quitting directing after his debut in Lewat Tengah Malam but went on to direct more than a dozen films?
... that the extraction of rosewood is the major threat to the Naturelle Leaf Chameleon?
... that congressman-elect Eric Swalwell served on the city council of College Park, Maryland, while a student at the University of Maryland, College Park?
... that "The Role You Were Born to Play" was part of Blake Jenner's prize for winning The Glee Project?
... that chickens are fed with tiny rocks?

00:00, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

... that new Miami Marlins manager Mike Redmond (pictured) took batting practice wearing only batting gloves, socks, and shoes when his team fell into a slump in 2003?
... that the release of Ricardo Arjona's Simplemente Lo Mejor led to speculation that Sony Music and Warner Music were in a fight to win his fanbase and sales?
... that the United States Supreme Court case Wilkie v. Robbins involved a land dispute over a dude ranch resort?
... that Danielle Harold was the second person to act out a birth in a live episode of a soap opera, in EastEnders' 4466th episode?
... that turtle grass is a marine flowering plant with seed that is viviparous?
... that Arthur Talmage Abernethy was named as the first North Carolina Poet Laureate in 1948 even though he never published a book of poetry?

13 November 2012

16:00, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Bach composed his motet for double choir Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226 (autograph pictured), for the funeral of Johann Heinrich Ernesti at the Paulinerkirche?
... that by the end of the Ninth Siege of Gibraltar the defending soldiers had resorted to eating leather from their garments and plants growing on the garrison walls?
... that the seventh-century Jain cave-temple, in the abode of great saints, includes images painted in fresco-secco technique?
... that Russian is spoken in Israel by about 20% of the total population?
... that the original Fremantle Traffic Bridge was built between 1863 and 1867 using convict labour?
... that after Alexander Nadj had played 13 minutes for Lillestrøm SK, the head coach Henning Berg decided to use the youth goalkeeper instead?

08:00, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Australian bushranger Ned Kelly (pictured), author of the 8000-word Jerilderie Letter, was the only Australian bushranger known to have attempted to justify his actions in writing?
... that Queen Tehauroa outlawed the sale of land and declared that Protestantism was the only authorized religion in the Polynesian Kingdom of Raiatea?
... that Adam Markovitz of Entertainment Weekly called Maroon 5's 2012 single "Daylight" "a Coldplay-ish song"?
... that Mark Takano is set to be the first non-White openly gay member of the United States House of Representatives?
... that the Plated Leaf Chameleon is sometimes kept as a pet?
... that Patrick White's The Hanging Garden was published posthumously, despite him leaving orders to have it burned?

00:00, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

... that colour vision with resolution and clarity are the most prominent features of eagles' eyes (pictured), and hence the epithet given to sharp-sighted people is "eagle-eyed”?
... that in 1917, George Westmore set up the first make-up department for a film studio?
... that Akon met, signed and helped launch Lady Gaga's career after the two co-wrote "Hypnotico", a song that was later recorded by Jennifer Lopez?
... that footballer Steve Redmond became Manchester City's youngest ever captain when appointed to the role in 1988?
... that before directing the award-winning film Keep the Lights On, Ira Sachs shot and directed The Delta in his hometown?
... that Red Onion State Prison helped to triple the Black population of Wise County, Virginia?

12 November 2012

16:00, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

... that according to an Islamic tradition regarded as fabricated, Ya`fūr was a talking donkey owned by the Prophet Muhammad that was descended from Jesus's donkey (pictured)?
... that Robin Eriksson played football in Allsvenskan after he was warned by doctors that he might not be able to walk again?
... that some of the breakdowns in the 2011 Singapore MRT disruptions were the worst in its operator SMRT's 24-year history?
... that geologist Sydney Mary Thompson discovered a glacial erratic that redefined the westernmost extent of the Irish Sea Glacier?
... that Shoaib Akhtar took 16 five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket?
... that art can make people angry?

08:00, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Shakespeare Garden (pictured) in Evanston, Illinois, was the first Shakespeare garden constructed in the United States?
... that parts of Russia lie on the same tectonic plate as Japan?
... that the live telethon Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together, broadcast November 2 on NBCUniversal channels, featured performers and speakers who were from areas suffering after the storm?
... that 2010 Olympic snowboarder Stephanie Hickey studied theater arts and worked for the Seven Network as a Victorian snow reporter?
... that to enhance their performances, a "prescored" soundtrack of violent noises and voices was played during the filming of the 1963 film The Haunting to give the actors something to which to react?
... that Bob Montgomery was the last Major League Baseball player to bat without wearing a batting helmet?

00:00, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Gibraltar Cross of Sacrifice (pictured) commemorates the sailors, soldiers and airmen of the Commonwealth of Nations who died in the two World Wars?
... that Loring AFB alert crews would scramble from a mole hole, run to awaiting jets on a christmas tree (both within the alert area), and perform an elephant walk and a MITO, all within fifteen minutes?
... that the Solluba are considered remnants of pre-Semitic peoples that once dominated Arabia?
... that Colonel John Bevan's contribution to military deception planning during World War II was kept secret until the 1970s?
... that architect Robert Venturi's first major work, Guild House, was commissioned by a Quaker organization to house low-income elderly tenants?
... that Peter Stuart, who formed the band Dog's Eye View, toured with Paula Cole by following her tour bus in his rental car?

11 November 2012

16:00, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Operation Bertram deceived Rommel about the timing and location of the El Alamein attack, using camouflage (pictured) and dummies?
... that in Bach's chorale cantata Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott, BWV 139, the part of a second obbligato instrument for a tenor aria is missing?
... that Colonel Abd al-Wahab al-Shawaf led a short-lived rebellion from the city of Mosul in a bid to overthrow Iraqi president Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959?
... that in 1997 the Belgian socialist daily Le Peuple, founded in 1885, was acquired by the Rossel media group?
... that the village of Borzęcin was first mentioned in historical documents by the Polish chronicler Jan Długosz in his Liber beneficiorum?
... that write-only memory, devised as an insider joke, does have real uses and may even increase the power of a quantum computer?

08:00, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Cranmer Court (pictured), Samuel Farr's most famous design and a New Zealand Historic Places Trust Category I heritage building, has recently been demolished?
... that professional baseball player Josh Sullivan walked on to Auburn University's college football team, backing up Jason Campbell at quarterback?
... that in the 1980 case Ong Ah Chuan v. Public Prosecutor, the Privy Council held that fundamental liberties in the Singapore Constitution should be given a "generous interpretation"?
... that congresswoman-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham served as director of New Mexico's Agency on Aging under three different governors?
... that Michelle Rzepecki, a member of the 2011–12 Australia women's national goalball team, scored an own goal in the team's final London Paralympics game against Sweden?
... that ratings for season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation showed that it was the highest rated syndicated series on television, but a reviewer later said it was "cheesy" and "bad"?

00:00, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Paul Kelpe was criticized for painting murals which were too abstract, but an abstract arts group asked him to resign because his work (example pictured) wasn't abstract enough?
... that during the partitions of Poland, on the lands of the Austrian partition, the Polish parliamentary tradition was continued first by the Sejm of the Estates and later, by the Sejm of the Land?
... that Rabbi Herbert Tarr, author of The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen, left the pulpit to write novels because he believed that "religion is basically out of touch with people"?
... that the US 31–Pentwater River Bridge could not have been built prior to the 1930s because manufacturing techniques could produce a span no longer than 45 feet (14 m)?
... that former South African Ambassador to Israel Fumanekile Gqiba named his daughter "Israela" in honor of her birth-place?
... that Obie is a dachshund who weighed as much as 77 pounds (35 kilograms)?

10 November 2012

16:00, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Almindingen, Dueodde, Hammeren, Jons Kapel, Paradisbakkerne, and Rytterknægten, as well as Denmark's tallest lighthouse (pictured), are on Bornholm island?
... that chef Mikael Jonsson won a Michelin star at the first restaurant he ever worked in, the year after he founded it?
... that the superzoom bridge camera Pentax X-5 automates the creation of time-lapse video?
... that after joining Vålerenga from the Norwegian Second Division team Skeid, Dawda Leigh immediately became a regular in Vålerenga's starting line-up in Tippeligaen?
... that phycologist Mary Parke first described the oyster larvae food Isochrysis galbana?
... that openness correlates with liking jazz and that extraversion correlates with liking pop?

08:00, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

... that San Francisco Conservatory of Music faculty member Indre Viskontas (pictured) has performed research into the neurological basis of memory, reasoning, and self-identity?
... that two Toyota 92C-Vs were the only cars in their class (Group C2) to start at the 1992 24 Hours of Le Mans?
... that most Russian-speakers in the United States are Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union?
... that Shelli Yoder, a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, was Miss Indiana in 1992?
... that the Smithsonian Gardens' orchid collection contains over 8,000 plants representing 256 genera?
... that one reason to become a vegetarian is that "eating a lamb does not make a man lamb-like in his character any more than eating a missionary converts a savage into a Christian"?

00:00, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the loss of the full-rigged ship Ellen Southard (ship's wreckage pictured) off Liverpool in 1875 led to a change in U.S. law permitting the awarding of Lifesaving Medals to non-Americans?
... that Occupy Harvard provoked administrators to lock down Harvard Yard for six weeks in 2011?
... that Dan Kildee's efforts to revitalize Flint, Michigan, by demolishing abandoned buildings are being adopted in other cities, including Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh?
... that whilst the Yiddish newspaper Di Tsayt was published in Saint Petersburg, its editorial team was based in Vienna?
... that the name of the Tinner's Arms pub in Zennor, Cornwall, is derived from the tinners (tin miners), a historic industry in the region?
... that baseball's Salem Senators once tried to use a convicted murderer incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary in a game?

9 November 2012

16:00, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Venetian Towers (pictured) in Barcelona are modelled on the Campanile of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice?
... that at over 400 years old, a Žametovka vine growing in Maribor, Slovenia, is believed to be the world's oldest grapevine still producing fruit?
... that Izena Island was the birthplace of Shō En (1415–76), the first king of the second Shō Shi Dynasty of the Ryūkyū Kingdom?
... that the 1974 Indonesian film Atheis reused a sequence from the 1925 Russian film Battleship Potemkin?
... that some hamsters hide their young in their cheek pouches to carry them when they fear danger?
... that Brann's goalkeeper Håkon Opdal scored the goal that eliminated Bodø/Glimt from the 2004 Norwegian Football Cup?

08:00, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Hallway Series is named after the 70 feet (21 m) separating the locker rooms of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers in Staples Center (pictured)?
... that the Wongs' Indonesia Malaise, targeted at native Indonesians, was paired with a film meant for Dutchmen?
... that Luke Messer served as John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign co-chair in Indiana?
... that the Roman Theatre at Apamea in Syria is one of the largest surviving theatres of the Roman world?
... that Neil Young's 2012 autobiography Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream reveals the musician's love for model trains?
... that while rescuers freeing people trapped in grain run the risk of heat illness, the victim may suffer from hypothermia due to moisture in the grain?

00:00, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the book Wine Grapes details the history of 1,368 varieties including Zinfandel's (pictured) origins as a Croatian grape known as Tribidrag?
... that Val Demings became the first female Chief of Police for the Orlando Police Department?
... that the fossil bee Anthophorula persephone is named for a Greek goddess?
... that a television pilot of Melissa de la Cruz's Witches of East End is being made starring Julia Ormond and Jenna Dewan?
... that Kettering Town goalkeeper Scott Endersby is credited with being the youngest footballer to play in the FA Cup proper at the age of 15 in 1977?
... that Hertha Ayrton's 1902 candidature to be the first woman elected Fellow of the Royal Society was turned down on the basis that as a married woman she had no standing in law?

8 November 2012

16:00, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Charles V Wall (pictured) was built by Spain to keep the Barbary pirates out of Gibraltar, but ended up being used by the British to keep the Spanish out?
... that Erich Barke, professor of microelectronic systems and since 2005 president of the University of Hannover, was elected as president for a second term?
... that Steinitz' prawn goby shares a burrow excavated by a shrimp?
... that aquatic botanist Marietta Pallis studied the floating reed systems of the Danube Delta?
... that in 2011, a major fire occurred in the attic of the Haus Cumberland in Charlottenburg, Berlin, causing the left side of the roof to collapse?
... that Bai Anqi, a Chinese swimmer, is nicknamed "White Angel"?

08:00, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Pyramid Mound (pictured) in the U.S. state of Indiana really isn't a mound?
... that Australian para-alpine skier Mark Soyer twice survived childhood leukemia only to sever his spinal cord while riding his motorbike on his parents' farm at the age of 26?
... that although the 1931 adaptation of Kwee Tek Hoay's Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang kept the Chinese characters, the 1975 one did not?
... that software functions that are "locked" and disabled still infringe on patent protection laws?
... that Singaporean sprinter C Kunalan's feat of 10.38 seconds in the 1968 Summer Olympic Games 100 metres was a national record for 33 years?
... that an alcoholic Texas man, who had difficulty ingesting alcohol due to a painful throat ailment, died in 2004 after receiving an alcohol enema of two large bottles of sherry from his wife?

00:00, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Abruzzo wine Trebbiano d'Abruzzo was praised by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes (pictured) in his Novelas ejemplares for its high quality?
... that Cynthia McKinney, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton tried to release sealed FBI files on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
... that Polish minority politician in Czechoslovakia, Augustyn Łukosz, was a deputy in the autonomous Silesian Parliament in Poland before his death at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp?
... that a near-Earth asteroid was discovered on the night of 15 to 16 November 2011 by Morocco's Cadi Ayyad University using a MOSS telescope?
... that Russia has the largest number of brown bears, believed to exceed 100,000, while estimates in the U.S. are around 33,000, Canada 25,000, and Europe (excluding Russia) 14,000?
... that Idaho politician Marvin Richardson had his name legally changed to Pro-Life?

7 November 2012

16:00, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

... that King George III placed the "deeply-deplored" Princess Charlotte of Wales under the superintendence of the pious Martha Elgin (pictured)?
... that Ibrahim Hananu, the leader of the 1919 Syrian Revolt, was born in the northern Syrian town of Kafr Takharim?
... that in the 1994 case Chan Hiang Leng Colin v. Public Prosecutor the Singapore High Court held that a ban on Jehovah's Witnesses and their publications did not violate their freedom of religion?
... that the Orthodox metropolitan bishops Gregory and Ambrosios were executed by the Turkish Army in 1922, at the end of the Greco-Turkish War?
... that in the BBC series Masters of Money, Stephanie Flanders speculates as to how John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Karl Marx would have responded to the current economic crisis?
... that German novelist, playwright and poet Thaddäus Troll also wrote a sex education book in Swabian dialect?

08:00, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the former trolley barn (pictured) in Yonkers, New York, is the only remnant of the city's trolley system and the only such structure remaining in Westchester County?
... that the 1847 Shiraz plantings at Turkey Flat in the Barossa Valley are considered to be among the oldest grapevines still in commercial use?
... that Warsaw-born Canadian skier Karolina Wisniewska was the first Canadian to win four para-alpine medals at a single Paralympic Games?
... that the 11th-century Japanese fictional work Shinsarugakuki provides insights into Chinese trade, comic sketches, lion dances, puppets, rice-planting songs, and solo sumo wrestling?
... that John Wosky designed a number of historic structures at Yosemite National Park, including Crane Flat Fire Lookout and the Generals' Highway Stone Bridges?
... that during the Battle of Santo Tomas on May 4, 1899, Philippine general Antonio Luna was wounded by American fire but was saved by gold coins and Colonel Alejandro Avecilla?

00:00, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

... that a matrix mixer (example pictured) may be used during a concert to stream a different blend of sound to distant audiences?
... that David Gwilym Morris Roberts helped design Baghdad's first sewage treatment system?
... that the French author of the World War II anti-war slogan Why Die for Danzig?, Marcel Déat, later became a Nazi collaborator?
... that the National Association of Manufacturers distributed its TV show Industry on Parade to local stations, schools, and community groups across America—for free?
... that netball in Kenya had a governing body called the Kenya Inter-racial Netball and Rounders Association, which only became the Kenya Netball Association in 1966?
... that Libor Michálek is the first Pirate Party candidate to hold office in a national legislature?

6 November 2012

16:00, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Catherine and Charles Dickens were married in London in 1836 at St Luke's Church, Chelsea (pictured), 12 years after it was finished?
... that the second-millennium-BC stele of Baal with Thunderbolt shows the king of Ugarit receiving divine protection from the Semitic god of storm Baʿal?
... that the Holmes County Courthouse in Millersburg, Ohio, has an area for horse-and-buggy parking for the county's heavy Amish population?
... that during the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925, al-Qurayya served as the chief meeting place for the sheikhs of local rebel clans?
... that the Norwegian footballer Stefan Johansen scored a goal from a free kick that was identical to a goal he scored 11 days earlier?
... that the William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History exhibits an internally spiked ring meant to slip over a sleeping man's penis shaft, so as to prevent nocturnal emission?

08:00, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Geneva in Switzerland (pictured) was devastated by a tsunami despite being 275 km (171 mi) from the sea, and may still be at risk?
... that the Fuerte de Isla Verde was one of the few Spanish military installations in the Bay of Gibraltar not destroyed by the British in 1810?
... that doctors believed New Zealand para-alpine skier Peter Williams would live only a few days and told his mother not to bother to feed him?
... that the score Elliot Goldenthal composed for the 2002 film Frida earned him five accolades, including an Academy Award?
... that the winning run for Harvard over Yale in the 1902 baseball series was scored in front of 9,000 fans by William Clarence Matthews, the only African-American player in the game?
... that Edmon Marukyan, the only non-partisan member of the Armenian parliament, has a Master of Laws degree from the University of Minnesota Law School?

00:00, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Margaret Thatcher allowed herself to be photographed driving a Naylor TF 1700 (pictured) sports car as part of an effort to boost small British manufacturers?
... that the USS Ling, a World War II submarine, is trapped in silt just upstream of the Court Street Bridge?
... that British mathematician Margaret Meyer was the first woman to be elected to the Royal Astronomical Society?
... that the McDonald's Gospelfest, held annually in Newark, New Jersey, has been described as "the largest collection of gospel talent ever assembled"?
... that over fifty organizations helped director Stanley Kubrick to imagine the technologies in 2001: A Space Odyssey?
... that Quadzilla can leap fourteen people in a single bound?

5 November 2012

16:00, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Genoese military engineer Giovan Giacomo Paleari Fratino designed and built the world's first Martello tower (pictured)?
... that even after Tunisia was conquered by Arab Muslims in the eighth century, local wine production continued, albeit reduced?
... that 2010 Olympic aerialist skier Bree Munro was in the running to go to the 2006 Winter Olympics but Jacqui Cooper was chosen ahead of her on the Australian team?
... that Mino Guerrini's direction of Omicidio per appuntamento has been compared to that of Mario Bava?
... that Austin Friars was the only friary in London to have its own prison, but became the focus of a scandal when an imprisoned friar died there in 1525?
... that at Sheikh Badr Cemetery in central Jerusalem, bodies were placed in caskets and left above-ground?

08:00, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Bernabé Aráoz (pictured), the first and only President of the Republic of Tucumán, was executed by firing squad?
... that a participant of The Tuesday Club was fined by Hong Kong and Arsenal for throwing prawn crackers at a taxi?
... that in "Ice Cream" by Hyuna, Psy makes a cameo appearance and starts the music video eating ice cream cones?
... that David Segal writes a weekly column in The New York Times about customer services woes?
... that Tangutology developed as an academic discipline after the Russian explorer Pyotr Kozlov discovered a hoard of Tangut documents at the lost city of Khara-Khoto in 1908?
... that one can be sued for encouraging others to cybersquat on a trademarked domain name?

00:00, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

... that in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations (pictured), names of the Holocaust rescuers are engraved on Walls of Honor according to country?
... that Hillsboro, Oregon, native Colt Lyerla played running back and linebacker in high school, but now plays at the tight end position for the Oregon Ducks football team?
... that Bach created a "musical sleep scene ... that could have graced any opera of the time" in his chorale cantata Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115?
... that biochemist Rosalind Pitt-Rivers co-discovered the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine in 1952?
... that Ottoman sultan Selim I ordered construction of a tower in Ghabaghib, a stop on the hajj route from Damascus?
... that although Wellek and Warren's Theory of Literature was imprinted with three copyright dates, none were the year it was published?

4 November 2012

16:00, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

... that painter Franciszek Ksawery Lampi specialized in Romantic depictions of attractive women (example pictured)?
... that a fire broke out in Southwold lighthouse just six days after it opened in 1890?
... that May Byron wrote a series of biographies of which critics could not decide whether they were first-hand experiences or fiction based on research?
... that 1968's La morte ha fatto l'uovo has been compared to the works of Michelangelo Antonioni, David Lynch and Luis Buñuel?
... that 1933 Japanese Wimbledon doubles finalist Jiro Sato couldn't take the pressure put on him by his country and its Tennis Federation, and committed suicide en route to a 1934 Davis Cup match?
... that sightings of the Ghost Ship of Northumberland Strait are most common between September and November?

08:00, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the ancient Roman city of Volubilis (Basilica pictured) in Morocco was excavated by thousands of German prisoners of war during World War I?
... that Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Isaac, and Hurricane Sandy have all been claimed to be divine retribution by one or more religious leaders?
... that the strategic significance of Bassein diminished after the defeat of the Marathas by the British in 1818?
... that Cecilia McIntosh has competed in Australian rules football and weightlifting at the national level, and athletics and bobsleigh at the international level?
... that Interstate 75 is the only highway on both of Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas?
... that Ba Zaw, the Burmese watercolor painter, was afraid of the colors green and violet, but passionate about orange and red?

00:00, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the 14th-century Cloud Platform at Juyongguan (pictured) in Beijing is inscribed with Buddhist texts in six different scripts: Lanydza, Tibetan, 'Phags-pa, Old Uyghur, Tangut and Chinese?
... that Symbolist painter Jacek Malczewski drew his inspiration from exotic and biblical sources, but inadvertently translated them back into Polish folklore in his own art?
... that Mitchell Gourley made his Australian national para-alpine team début in 2006 as a fifteen-year-old?
... that the Royal Gibraltar Yacht Club was one of the first yacht clubs to be founded outside of Britain?
... that Connie B. Gay is credited with coining the term "country music" which had until then been called "hillbilly music"?
... that it was once a common practice to conceal shoes in the structure of a building to ward off evil spirits, or to ensure the fertility of its female occupants?

3 November 2012

16:00, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Robert Gill spent 15 years in India copying (example pictured) the painted murals of the Ajanta Caves, but most of his work was destroyed in two fires in London?
... that the 2004 Women's Manifesto for Ghana demands 50% female control over the Ghanaian legislature by 2012?
... that two times British Hard Court tennis champion Kho Sin-Kie raised money for the Malaya Patriotic Fund in WWII?
... that the programme King George and Queen Mary explains that the arranged marriage between George V and Mary of Teck occurred because Prince Albert Victor, Mary's original fiancé, died from influenza?
... that Brookside's producer Paul Marquess received letters complaining that Lance Powell, a character featured in the soap opera, was a "betrayal of all gay men"?
... that a horse, an execution, alcohol, and lots of dancing are part of a celebration designated as Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Czech Republic?

08:00, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the West Indian sea egg (pictured) decorates itself with bits of seagrass and fragments of shell held on by its tube feet?
... that basketball player Paul Miller was not selected in the 2006 NBA Draft even though he had been named Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year earlier that year?
... that Ricardo Arjona released a compilation album under the same name as Alejandro Fernández, Rocío Dúrcal and Sin Bandera did?
... that Katya Crema was one of two Australian women to compete at the Olympic debut for women's Ski cross?
... that the action in the play James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire takes place immediately before a real meeting between author James Baldwin and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy?
... that artist Fred Andrews made thirty thousand roof tiles for his house himself?

00:00, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Graham Waterhouse (pictured) composed Rhapsodie Macabre for piano and string quartet as an homage to Franz Liszt and played the cello part in Munich and London?
... that pharmacologist Edith Bülbring's work on catecholamines and smooth muscle led to her election as a Fellow of the Royal Society?
... that the detection dog Theo was awarded the Dickin Medal in 2012, described as the animals' Victoria Cross?
... that the extinct Syndesus ambericus is the only stag beetle known from the Caribbean?
... that by promoting Bill Geivett, the Colorado Rockies broke with baseball tradition?
... that crofelemer, a substance found in dragon's blood, is being studied for the treatment of diarrhoea?

2 November 2012

16:00, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

... that as per Hindu beliefs, people who have sex with animals are tortured in Hell after death (pictured)?
... that Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have co-written the last five James Bond movies as well as the Bond spoof Johnny English?
... that the Andrés Bello Catholic University is the oldest of all private universities in Venezuela?
... that in the 1946 Wimbledon Championships Polish tennis champion Ignacy Tłoczyński was declared stateless by the People's Republic of Poland because of his Allied affiliations in World War II?
... that during Operation Fluid Drive, one family abandoned their Lebanon-evacuation efforts when told their dog would need to stay behind?
... that a whole new shipbuilding facility had to be created to build the 90-metre (300 ft) luxury yacht Nero?

08:00, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

... that Honiara (pictured), capital of the Solomon Islands, contains a College of Higher Education, an international school and a branch of the University of the South Pacific?
... that the millisecond pulsar PSR J1311–3430 has the shortest known orbital period among pulsars in binary systems, but that it may eventually vaporize its companion?
... that James Francis Carney was the first Archbishop of Vancouver born in the city?
... that the titan acorn barnacle is extending its range in the eastern United States but suffered a setback in the cold winter of 2009–10?
... that an electrical engineer and interim president of Georgia Tech, Henry C. Bourne, Jr., funded an academic chair in poetry?
... that the Hillsboro, Oregon, based Hops minor league baseball team is the first professional sports team to be named after the beer ingredient?

00:00, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

... that over 15,000 miracles have been attributed to the newly canonized Saint Anna Schäffer (pictured) since 1929?
... that Little Birds is loosely based on the life of director and former Friends Stand United founder Elgin James?
... that Yadira Silva, who twice represented Mexico in the Olympic Games, was born in Cuba?
... that Spain attempted to silence Princess Royal's Battery during the 1727 siege by excavating a mine below it, to be loaded with explosives?
... that anthropologist Beatrice Blackwood ran Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum from 1938 until 1959?
... that the earliest known variant of "The dog ate my homework" as an excuse dates to 1905?

1 November 2012

16:00, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Nativity of St. John the Baptist Church (pictured) in Piatra Neamț, Romania, built in 1497–98, was a court church of Stephen III of Moldavia?
... that in 2009, when Fatima-Zahra Mansouri was elected mayor of Marrakech, she became only the second woman in Morocco's history to be elected mayor of a Moroccan city?
... that Yang Kyoungjong was a Korean soldier who was drafted into the Japanese, Soviet and German armies, and captured by US soldiers in Normandy on D-Day?
... that some conflicts may be beneficial?
... that Ida Freund was the first female university chemistry lecturer in the United Kingdom?
... that Ezra Pound believed that no man is equipped for modern thinking until he has understood the "Parable of the sunfish"?

08:00, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

... that the Door to Hell (pictured) has been blazing since 1971?
... that the ban on mailing Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit within the United States was repealed upon a request from the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt?
... that an 1865 strike in Marquette, Michigan, was broken up by sailors operating an armored train?
... that the body wall of the small spine sea star is composed of a latticework of collagen fibres and calcareous plates that give it both flexibility and rigidity?
... that The Bullet Vanishes is the eighth highest grossing Chinese film of 2012?
... that Beatrice Hicks, the founding president of the Society of Women Engineers, created a device that made the moon landings possible?

00:00, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

... that over 100 sites in the San Francisco Bay Area (Winchester Mystery House pictured) are reported to be haunted?
... that Colonel Roosevelt missed a trip through hell while on a trip to Africa?
... that the extinct termite bug Termitaradus dominicanus is divided into fourteen brown lobes?
... that the launch of Intelsat 23 was the first of a Proton-M rocket since the failed launch of Ekspress MD2 and Telkom-3?
... that Yaxha, the third largest Maya ruin in Guatemala, is one of very few Maya cities to have built a twin pyramid complex, an architectural arrangement characteristic of Tikal?
... that even though The ScareHouse's Creepo the Clown hates early Christmas decorations he wears a Santa hat?