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28 May 2013
- ... that a now nonexistent sixteenth-century crucifix inscription in Roholte Church (pictured) is considered to have been one of the oldest of its kind?
- ... that Carlos Rojas Pavez, along with José Arraño Acevedo and Miguel Larravide Blanco, founded Periódico Pichilemu in 1944, but only managed to publish nine editions?
- ... that in the wildlife of Haiti, the endemic national bird of the country, the Hispaniolan Trogon (Priotelus roseigaster) is near threatened according to the IUCN Red List?
- ... that prominent Tucson physician John Handy, the first Chancellor of the University of Arizona, threatened to kill his abused wife's attorney, but was shot and killed when he assaulted Francis Heney?
- ... that the Japanese Constitution Popularisation Society published 20,000,000 copies of New Constitution – Bright Life, and sent them to every household in Japan?
- ... that Benjamin Odeje was the first black footballer to represent England at any level?
- ... that freshly minted "cybernat" Stuart Campbell is a well-known figure in the Scottish Independence debate and has been described as "videogames journalism's answer to Al Qaeda"?
27 May 2013
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25 May 2013
- ... that the Hindu god Krishna is described as having eight chief queens (pictured with Krishna) – Rukmini, Satyabhama, Jambavati, Kalindi, Mitravinda, Nagnajiti, Bhadra and Lakshmana – and 16,000 other wives headed by Rohini?
- ... that Boundary Channel off the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. was dredged and widened to provide fill material to raise the ground by more than 8 feet (2.4 m) when The Pentagon was constructed?
- ... that Bachata #1's, Vol. 2 was the tenth best-selling Tropical Album of both 2008 and 2009?
- ... that Lin Tie studied at the University of Paris and the Communist University of the Toilers of the East?
- ... that actor N. Viswanathan started his career as an English professor at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta?
- ... that the desert shrimp can colonise new areas even when dead?
24 May 2013
23 May 2013
22 May 2013
21 May 2013
- ... that poetess Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (pictured) ended her text for Bach's cantata Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68, for Pentecost Monday with a quotation from the Gospel?
- ... that Tony's Cronies included Tony Blair's former boss, school friend and office manager, who some viewed as appointed to official positions because of their personal friendships with Blair?
- ... that a baseball field and building named after Joe Tinker in Orlando, Florida, are on the United States National Register of Historic Places?
- ... that for the 1956 wedding anniversary of Johnny Jordaan, the king of the Jordaanlied, 30,000 people showed up?
- ... that although most sources say that Stefano Pendinelli was martyred by Turks as the archbishop of Otranto, at least one source suggests that he died of fright?
- ... that Andrei Krauchanka's pole snapped during the 2010 European decathlon, but he still won a medal after rival Darius Draudvila lent him his pole?
20 May 2013
19 May 2013
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17 May 2013
- ... that Ivan Mackerle hunted the Mongolian death worm (pictured), the Loch Ness monster, the Tasmanian tiger, and the elephant bird?
- ... that after the 1975 end of the Laotian Civil War, the lyrics to the national anthem of Laos, "Pheng Xat Lao", were changed but the music remained the same?
- ... that the Thermal work limit has led to a substantial decrease in incidences of heat illness in the Australian mining industry?
- ... that before Zhou Benshun was recently appointed party chief of Hebei province, he worked under Zhou Yongkang, China's former security czar?
- ... that Vaanam Vasappadum (2004), directed by P. C. Sreeram was India's first high-definition digital motion picture?
- ... that Australian Sam Fullbrook was known as the "last of the bushman painters" (rural artists), yet his works were sophisticated, widely shown and collected internationally?
- ... that, although Ernest Hemingway wrote many words, he probably didn't write "For sale: baby shoes, never worn"?
16 May 2013
15 May 2013
- ... that the Vatican Historical Museum contains a collection of decorated carriages (pictured), saddles, sedans, wagons and the first cars used by the popes?
- ... that public health activist Gabriela Laperrière de Coni was the first woman to serve on the executive committee of the Argentine Socialist Party?
- ... that the "Big Hill" necessitated the construction of Mount Stephen House in Field, British Columbia?
- ... that in the music video for "Confe$$ions" by Lecrae, a wolf symbolizes the greed of a millionaire for money?
- ... that Los Angeles band The Dream Syndicate retired in 1984, released Out of the Grey in 1986, retired again, then released Ghost Stories in 1988, then retired again until 2012?
- ... that between 1904 and 1906, the Strelitz Buildings in Fremantle, Western Australia, housed an office for Herbert Hoover?
- ... that the reality television poetry competition Prince of Poets is more popular than football in countries of the Arab world, where it airs?
14 May 2013
Model of the treasure ship on display at the Ibn Battuta Mall
13 May 2013
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10 May 2013
- ... that van Gogh used his Sorrow (pictured) to "express something of life's struggle"?
- ... that the final version of the 33-metre-high (108 ft) Temple 33 at the ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala was completely destroyed by archaeologists in 1965?
- ... that in the Glee episode "Wonder-ful", Katey Sagal appears as the mother of Kevin McHale's character Artie Abrams, months after McHale had suggested her for the role at a Comic-Con panel?
- ... that Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, who was able to play Bach's Das Wohltemperierte Clavier from memory as a teenager, studied composition with Bach's sons and the violin in Italy?
- ... that Cuthbert Christy was senior medical officer to the second battalion, West African Field Force in Northern Nigeria from 1898 to 1902?
- ... that "Buenos Amigos" was a career-launching song for American singer Selena, who recorded it as a duet with Alvaro Torres in 1991?
- ... that in 1941 the manager of Yeeda Station fatally shot himself by accident only to be replaced by a man who was arrested for cattle stealing?
9 May 2013
- ... that Gasherbrum II (pictured) is the 13th-highest mountain on Earth?
- ... that Horacio Cartes, president-elect of Paraguay, has been president of the Libertad football club since 2001?
- ... that Bach's first cantata for the feast of the Ascension, Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, BWV 37, omits the topic of the Ascension and derives from the quoted Gospel (Mark 16:16) Lutheran thoughts?
- ... that the union of Hungary and Poland fell apart due to the regent Elizabeth of Bosnia's reluctance to give up her grip on power by moving from Buda to Kraków, where she had no supporters?
- ... that the bowl of a font in Braaby Church has relief decorations of the magi, an angel holding back a hunter, and Satan in the form of an ape?
- ... that during a long career in the Royal Navy, Admiral Stephen Lushington received honours from Britain, France, Greece and the Ottoman Empire?
- ... that the Corporation of Derby used to pay two pounds of wax, annually, to the monks of St. James Priory, for the right to cross St. James Bridge?
- ... that Lu Xun (pictured), a Chinese politician and general known for upholding Confucian ethics, once ordered an attack which led to the deaths and capture of over 1,000 civilians?
- ... that though the Sulu Bleeding-heart has not been definitively seen since 1891, there is still hope that it is not extinct?
- ... that The Searchers, listed in a recent survey as the seventh greatest film ever made, was edited by Jack Murray, along with fourteen other films directed by John Ford?
- ... that Saradha Group financial scandal is possibly the biggest ponzi collapse in India?
- ... that Sharon Kinne remains wanted for a crime for which she was tried three times in the 1960s?
- ... that the president of the UNGA, Vuk Jeremić, believes that the boycott of the thematic debate on the role of international criminal justice in reconciliation was not successful?
- ... that John Christian Reid, a future three-term Mayor of Newcastle, Australia, was appointed the French consular agent there despite his poor grasp of the language?
- ... that one of about 1,000 English poetry miscellanies (pictured) of the 18th century included "the Lucubrations of the Polite Part of the World, written upon walls, in Bog-Houses"?
- ... that Italian interior designer Stefania Follini spent 130 days of isolation in a cave?
- ... that Bangladesh Games, the national multi-sport event of Bangladesh, was previously known as Bangladesh Olympic Championships?
- ... that Vilde Frang played the Carmen Fantasy by Pablo de Sarasate, with Mariss Jansons conducting the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, at age 13?
- ... that forensic developmental psychology focuses on the reliability, credibility, and accuracy of children's testimonies in the courtroom?
- ... that screenwriter Sally Wainwright was inspired by her mother's second marriage when writing Last Tango in Halifax, a story of romance between two widowed septuagenarians?
- ... that tangled honeypots can be found in kwongan?
8 May 2013
7 May 2013
- ... that Merlot blanc is the offspring of the Bordeaux wine grape Merlot (pictured) and the Cognac grape Folle blanche?
- ... that attendees of the annual International Conference on Hollywoodism, held by the government of Iran in Tehran, include a former U.S. senator and presidential candidate?
- ... that PR executive Rembrandt Flores has produced parties for Justin Bieber, Usher, and Kim Kardashian as well as coordinated events for The Grammys, The Sundance Film Festival and The Oscars?
- ... that one of the skyscrapers proposed for the Yongsan Dreamhub in Korea caused controversy over its design reminiscent of the 9/11 events?
- ... that the filly Seabreeze, the runner-up in the 1888 1,000 Guineas Stakes, set new race records when she won the Epsom Oaks and then the St. Leger Stakes later that year?
- ... that pioneering Jamaican producer Ken Khouri set up a studio on the island, worked with Lord Flea, Prince Buster and Coxsone Dodd, but felt that he had been forgotten?
- ... that the Inclosure Act 1773 eventually stopped traffic flowing along the Shit Brook?
6 May 2013
5 May 2013
- ... that waveguide filters (example pictured) used in multiplexers originally needed decoupling resonators for each input, but these were found to be unnecessary by E. J. Curly when he accidentally mistuned a diplexer?
- ... that Halvor J. Sandsdalen's poem about the Telemark cattle has been displayed on a stone erected at the cattle show place in Seljord?
- ... that Red Bank Plantation House, a former plantation house in Jacksonville, Florida, is now a private home in the residential neighborhood that grew around it?
- ... that Lower Elwha Klallam elder Adeline Smith, who created the Klallam alphabet, contributed 12,000 words to the first Klallam language dictionary?
- ... that during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Yanuh-Jat was the only Druze town in the Galilee to combat Israeli forces?
- ... that Goodnight Mister Tom, which is an adaptation of the children's novel of the same name, won the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment at the 2013 Olivier Awards?
- ... that Jean Segura stole first base?
4 May 2013
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2 May 2013
1 May 2013
- ... that Danish Vikings sacked Paris in 845 (pictured), and did not leave until being paid a ransom of 7,000 pounds (3,200 kg) of gold and silver?
- ... that Mount Ollivier, named after Arthur Ollivier, was proposed to be renamed in honour of New Zealand's great mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary?
- ... that the name of the Omaha Hotel created the impression that it was affiliated with the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway?
- ... that James Leal Greenleaf was a civil engineer who also landscaped the Lincoln Memorial?
- ... that Eliel Saarinen's Tribune Tower design for the Chicago Tribune earned him $20,000 but was never built?
- ... that Liu-Wang Liming, a Chinese feminist, was imprisoned after being accused of being a spy of the CIA in 1966?
- ... that a commercial for the anime Free! led fans to create various fan works expanding upon the nameless characters from the ad?