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30 June 2021

00:00, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Coxiella burnetii, which causes Q fever

... that Paul Fiset's research led to the development of the first successful vaccine against Q fever (bacteria pictured)?
... that Gilles Lupien used the C$75,000 signing bonus from his first Montreal Canadiens contract to buy shares in a lumber company, enabling him to obtain quality lumber to construct his first home?
... that by being the first travesti to become a national celebrity, entertainer Cris Miró increased the visibility of the transgender community in Argentine society during the 1990s?
... that transit service on part of MBTA bus route 86 dates back to 1858?
... that Nell Walden was the first abstract artist in Swedish history?
... that Thomas Rhett's "What's Your Country Song" contains lyrical references to 16 other country songs?
... that Morecambe secured promotion to the third tier of English football for the first time in their history when they won the 2021 EFL League Two play-off Final?
... that there are few tall buildings on Long Island because residents do not want it to become "Queensified", referring to the neighboring New York City borough?

29 June 2021

00:00, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Carolyn Huntoon

... that Carolyn Huntoon (pictured) was the first woman to serve as the director of the Johnson Space Center?
... that the largest dictionary of the Polish language is 50 volumes long?
... that Hikaru Natsumi contributed to adult comic magazines while still in high school?
... that Major Byers wrote "The Song of Iowa" after being inspired by hearing Confederate soldiers playing "Maryland, My Maryland" outside his prison cell and used the same tune?
... that Elena Urrutia helped launch the Mexican feminist magazine Fem?
... that a major Asian collection was donated to the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History by Jewish benefactor Albert Bender while the museum was headed by Adolf Mahr, head of the Dublin Nazi chapter?
... that Thomas Laubach, who wrote more than 250 Christian pop songs, is the same person as Thomas Weißer, a professor of ethics at the University of Bamberg?
... that the penis of the statue of Heracles in Arcachon, France, was twice reduced in size following complaints from local ladies?

28 June 2021

00:00, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Campaign button from Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign

... that the slogan of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, "Make America Great Again", was also used by Ronald Reagan in his 1980 presidential campaign (campaign button pictured)?
... that at the suggestion of writer and translator Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg, Mother's Day was celebrated for the first time in Sweden in 1919?
... that some men purposely have sex in order to become infected with HIV?
... that Henriette Spitzeder and her husband Josef Spitzeder appeared on stage as Mozart's Figaro and his bride Susanna?
... that the Suffrage Torch was a symbol of illumination during the Suffragist campaigns in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the summer of 1915 and the idea of Harriot Stanton Blatch?
... that Major-General Freddie de Guingand was invested with his knighthood in the field by King George VI?
... that two business partners' townhouses at 10 and 12 West 56th Street were described as being "paired in an uneasy dance, one doing the cancan, the other a minuet"?
... that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler had to have fingernail surgery in 2020 due to an injury sustained from putting on a pair of jeans?

27 June 2021

00:00, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Marie André Cantillon

... that Marie André Cantillon (pictured) was awarded 10,000 francs in Napoleon's will for a failed assassination attempt on the Duke of Wellington?
... that Veronica jovellanoides was given the nickname "Bamboozle" after botanists spent 80 hours trying to find it again following its discovery?
... that Rosa Ponselle blamed Metropolitan Opera star Giovanni Martinelli's poor singing on his love affair with French soprano and actress Colette D'Arville?
... that the Vickers Red Hebe air-to-air missile was dismissed by the British Air Ministry's own Operational Requirements branch as "still in the piston era" compared to the US Sparrow?
... that Carla Van Zon ran two arts festivals in New Zealand?
... that, at the time of its dedication, the Ulysses S. Grant Monument in Chicago was the largest statue ever cast in bronze in the United States?
... that Margot Heumann is the first woman known to have survived the Nazi concentration camps despite being both Jewish and queer?
... that the 1987 FA Charity Shield was played one week early to allow Diego Maradona, Gary Lineker, Michel Platini and Josimar to play alongside one another at Wembley Stadium?

26 June 2021

00:00, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Bush Tower

... that the Bush Tower (pictured), near New York City's Times Square, was an attempt at a trade center before the World Trade Center itself?
... that Stina Quint was the founder and editor of Kamratposten, one of the earliest children's magazines in Sweden?
... that an 18th-century carillon-music manuscript by Joannes de Gruytters was discovered at a book auction?
... that comic book creator Brandon Dayton chose medieval Russia as the setting for his minicomic Green Monk after watching Andrei Tarkovsky's film Andrei Rublev?
... that How Doth the Little Crocodile by Leonora Carrington was based on Lewis Carroll's poem of the same name?
... that Edith Kanakaʻole's acceptance speech for a 1978 Na Hoku Hanohano Award was given entirely in the Hawaiian language?
... that the causes of the Armenian genocide are considered to include both long-term structural problems of the Ottoman Empire and wartime radicalization?
... that the piano businessman Edwin Bechstein received a Nazi state funeral, and his wife Helene taught Hitler table manners?

25 June 2021

00:00, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Françoise Hardy

... that French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy (pictured) was admired by musicians such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan during the 1960s?
... that after he escaped from the high-security İmralı prison, Billy Hayes wrote a book about the escape that was later adapted into a film?
... that the theories of Swiss geographer Samuel Engel about an ice-free region near the North Pole led to a British expedition towards the North Pole in 1773?
... that despite going behind in less than one minute courtesy of an own goal, Blackpool secured a record sixth post-season final when they won the 2021 EFL League One play-off Final?
... that Three Notch Road, covering 233 miles (375 km) between Pensacola, Florida, and Fort Mitchell, Alabama, cost $1,130 to build?
... that Genoa honored Stefanina Moro, a teenage courier in the Italian resistance who was killed by Nazis, by naming a street after her?
... that Northampton Town manager Ian Atkins declared that the "whole town has gone barmy" after his side won the 1997 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
... that despite Beverly White's earlier opposition to abortion, she represented Planned Parenthood at the World Conference on Women, 1995?

24 June 2021

00:00, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Male hooded visorbearer

... that the hooded visorbearer (example pictured) builds its nest out of cactus spines?
... that Russian generals proposed to invade India in 1854 and in 1855 to divert British forces from the Crimean War?
... that Addo Bonetti lost renomination in a Democratic primary by one vote, but the election was later invalidated?
... that the illustrated erotic novel Su'e pian, published during the late Ming dynasty, describes "Stopping the Horse to Pull the Saddle", "Flowers Longing for Butterflies", and "The Union of Yin and Yang"?
... that pianist and composer Grace Welsh turned down becoming president of the American Conservatory of Music due to thinking that it would get in the way of her teaching music?
... that the new bishop of Kotor in Montenegro, Ivan Štironja, speaks Swahili and served as a missionary in Tanzania?
... that in the musical Fermat's Last Tango, mathematicians Euclid and Newton are played by women?
... that in China, Buddha-like parents, the polar opposite of tiger parents, do not envision their offspring accomplishing much in life?

23 June 2021

00:00, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

Esplanade Mansions

... that Esplanade Mansions (pictured) is the only building in Kolkata in the Art Nouveau architectural style?
... that John Quincy Adams was the only American president to be elected as a member of House of Representatives after leaving the presidency?
... that the Toba people use poultices made from the manure of the black-legged seriema to treat boils and abscesses?
... that China expert Sasaki Tōichi was chastised for referring to Sun Yat-sen with the honorific sensei?
... that in 1981 the Conservative Party leadership feared that 25 of its members of parliament would vote against Margaret Thatcher's economic policies and cause a split in the party?
... that in 1929, Lisl Goldarbeiter became the first Austrian to win the Miss Universe title?
... that Malcolm Gladwell's The Bomber Mafia, about the Bomber Mafia of World War II, concludes that "LeMay won the battle. [...] Hansell won the war" with regard to high-precision aerial bombing?
... that Sae Eun Park is the first Asian étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet, and one of the few foreigners to hold the title?

22 June 2021

00:00, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Poster for Run, Little Chillun

... that Sydney Morton's grandfather appeared in Run, Little Chillun (poster pictured), but the musical theatre bug skipped a generation?
... that Australotitan is the largest dinosaur discovered in Australia?
... that the Superior Auditor of the Federation of Mexico observed damage to an overpass between Tezonco and Olivos stations on the Mexico City Metro prior to its collapse in May 2021?
... that the Irish government had budgeted €61 million to clean up the former site of the Irish Steel plant, twenty years after selling it for £1?
... that Cal Anderson was the first openly gay member of the Washington State Legislature?
... that the booklouse Liposcelis bostrychophila can be detrimental to the mass rearing of mosquitoes?
... that the Bitcoin Law would make El Salvador the first country to recognize bitcoin as legal tender?
... that the dancing school at 165 West 57th Street in New York City was described as instructor Louis Harvy Chalif's "greatest highlight and dream"?

21 June 2021

00:00, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Sculpture of Indrani

... that Indrani (sculpture pictured), the queen of Hindu devas (gods), is a daughter of a demonic figure?
... that although the April 1923 Kamchatka earthquake had a surface-wave magnitude of 6.8 to 7.3, its tsunami was larger than that of the magnitude-8.4 earthquake in February in the same region?
... that while Filiberto Avogadro di Collobiano was initially mistrusted by King Charles Albert, he was eventually appointed by the king to his royal court?
... that three Aldershot players were involved in a road traffic accident after winning the 1987 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final?
... that George Balanchine's ballet Kammermusik No. 2 was referred as "Kammer-computer" by ballerina Karin von Aroldingen because it is "speedy"?
... that the biography of Karin Boye, written by Swedish literary critic Margit Abenius, was criticised for the conservative analysis of Boye's homosexuality?
... that the Theater am Aegi, which opened in Hanover in 1953 as "Germany's most modern theatre" and served mostly as a cinema, is now a venue for a wide range of performances?
... that Rod Bonella, who won a Commonwealth Games marathon medal, was also a horse trainer?

20 June 2021

00:00, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Current chancery of the Philippine embassy in Berlin

... that the Philippine embassy in Berlin (pictured) was once purportedly located above a supermarket, with frankfurters visible from the windows?
... that up to fifty starfish shrimps have been found living on a single host?
... that former Basketball Bundesliga player Dennis Tinnon worked at a slaughterhouse before he was recruited to play college basketball?
... that the Honolulu Star-Bulletin described Thelma Akana Harrison as "volatile", "brilliant", and "vivacious"?
... that the former James Bridge Copper Works has been described as the "most contaminated site in Europe"?
... that Catherine Sourbut Groves, who experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall as a student, became an archdeacon in the Church of England via Zoom?
... that Frederick Ashton's ballet Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan took inspiration from a performance by Duncan that he saw when he was 17?
... that, according to Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, the Thebaid "cannot be said to be about anything"?

19 June 2021

12:00, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Margaret Thatcher

... that the 1976 "Britain Awake" speech by Margaret Thatcher (pictured) led to her being nicknamed the "Iron Lady" by a Soviet newspaper?
... that after Nurhajizah Marpaung unsuccessfully defended Butar Butar against human rights violations, she became the first woman to serve as vice governor of North Sumatra?
... that Helene P. Foley's Sather Lecture on the reception of Greek theatre in the United States was described as "something of a milestone" in bringing the subject closer to the mainstream?
... that Iskaq Tjokrohadisurjo decided against working for the Dutch colonial government because he was treated well in the Netherlands?
... that TRW Vidar was a technological pioneer in a business that its parent company soon decided to leave?
... that the first translation of the Quran into the Gojri language was authored by Mufti Faizul Waheed?
... that an improperly dismantled orphan radiation source injured three lumberjacks and killed one of them in the Lia radiological accident?
... that German-Chilean research psychologist Susana Bloch created a technique actors have been using to access their basic emotions?

00:00, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Hall of mirrors at Amna Suraka

... that Amna Suraka, "the world's most depressing museum", includes a hall of broken mirrors (pictured) with a shard for each victim of the Anfal genocide?
... that in a 1922 letter to the editor, Flora Kaai Hayes defended the morality of hula compared to the "bosom to bosom, thigh to thigh dances" seen on steamships and roof gardens at the time?
... that Shin Hae-chul, who previously made hard rock and heavy metal albums, was inspired by big band music when he made The Songs for the One?
... that despite ducking and avoiding being hit in the head by a baseball, Joe Beckwith suffered double vision that required two surgeries to correct?
... that until its demolition in 2014, The Jungle in San Jose, California, was often considered to be one of the largest homeless encampments in the United States?
... that according to one source, The Embroidered Couch is "most likely China's earliest vernacular pornographic novel"?
... that in Hindu mythology, the creator deity Daksha married Asikni, after realising that copulation was necessary for procreation?
... that some members of the formerly all-male University Club of New York voted to reject women from membership to protest a New York City law that would have required it?

18 June 2021

12:00, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Tomlinson Hall

... that Indianapolis's Tomlinson Hall (pictured) was destroyed by fire on January 30, 1958, allegedly after a pigeon dropped a lit cigarette on the roof of the building?
... that Ladakh has several festivals throughout the year, including Hemis Tsechu and Losar?
... that Kanye West performs a bare acoustic gospel rendition of "Street Lights" with the Sunday Service Choir in the film Jesus Is King?
... that German swimmer Lisa Höpink won two medals at the 2019 Summer Universiade and qualified for two events at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
... that Roy DeCarava's photos of Black Harlem life later included in The Sweet Flypaper of Life were rejected by at least two major publishers before Langston Hughes wrote the book's accompanying text?
... that the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers were "not really wanted" by the Royal Navy and were disbanded less than 20 years after their 1873 founding?
... that "Segne du, Maria", requesting Mary to bless her child in life and death, was written by Cordula Wöhler in 1870 and finally included in the common Gotteslob hymnal in 2013?
... that Iowa Hawkeye Leo Jensvold played starting quarterback alongside his twin brother in 1930?

00:00, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

17th-century painting of Kripa

... that in Hindu mythology, Kripa (pictured) was born from a clump of weeds after his father ejaculated on it?
... that Argentine trans woman Mariela Muñoz raised 23 children and worked as a tarot reader to support them?
... that Kanye West's track "Say You Will" was recorded in 15 minutes?
... that Pauline monk László Báthory spent twenty years living in a cave in Budapest so he could focus on translating the Bible?
... that Mahanati is the highest-grossing South Indian film to feature a woman as its primary character?
... that San Francisco Police officer and future barnstormer Ivan R. Gates was the first to transport a prisoner by air, on November 1, 1919?
... that the North Shore School District, home to Kate McKinnon's alma mater, benefited from taxing the Glenwood Generating Station, with one official saying "we endure the smoke, let's have the gravy"?
... that Toma Kamijo ranked first in a survey asking people which anime or game character they would name their potential son after?

17 June 2021

12:00, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Annie Åkerhielm

... that Swedish writer Annie Åkerhielm (pictured) was an active campaigner against women's suffrage and democracy?
... that open ocean convection, the mixing of deep and surface waters, plays a crucial role in the global climate?
... that William Forsythe's ballet Blake Works I is set to seven songs from James Blake's album The Colour in Anything?
... that rhythmic gymnast Márcia Lopes is the first Cape Verdean athlete to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics?
... that a two-kilometer-long (1.2 mi) section of the Kawasaki Route cost 2.9 trillion yen to complete?
... that despite smoking in football formerly being popular, it has since been banned from the touchline by UEFA?
... that Jim Clendenen went into winemaking instead of law school after staying in Bordeaux, Champagne, and Burgundy for six months?
... that the parasitic fly Hippobosca longipennis has been found inside dog corpses from ancient Greece and on an ancient Egyptian mummified dog?

00:00, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Priest-King, circa 2000–1900 BCE

... that Indira Gandhi made Zulfikar Ali Bhutto choose between the sculptures Dancing Girl and Priest-King (pictured) to be returned to Pakistan in 1972?
... that actor Arthur Blake was famous for his female impersonations of Bette Davis, Carmen Miranda, and Eleanor Roosevelt?
... that Mennonites and Lutherans both think Canada should recognize the Stoney Knoll First Nation?
... that boxer Nadine Apetz is undertaking a doctorate studying deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease in old age?
... that Oophaa is a composition by Iannis Xenakis for a harpsichordist and a percussionist playing seven ceramic flower pots and seven skin instruments?
... that Christian radio station KIXL near Austin, Texas, pulled an anti-pornography program off-air in mid-transmission because of its graphic descriptions of gay sex?
... that according to one source, the Chinese femme fatale Xia Ji married seven times?
... that Bucket of Blood Street and the Bucket of Blood Saloon are located in a town that had a reputation as "too tough for women and churches"?

16 June 2021

12:00, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Alte Handelsbörse

... that the Alte Handelsbörse (pictured), now an event venue in Leipzig, began as the trade-fair city's first bourse?
... that early in his racing career, Kyle Tilley worked as a delivery driver, mechanic, and sales assistant to fund his Formula Ford team?
... that 27 Afghan peace activists of the People's Peace Movement were kidnapped and later freed by the Taliban in late December 2019?
... that a jury awarded $225,000 to the prospective owners of Florida radio station WODX because of poor record-keeping and breaches of their lease agreement?
... that in 1905, Mae Eleanor Frey became the first woman to be ordained in the American Baptist Churches USA?
... that critics have compared Marina's "Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land" to Britney Spears's "Womanizer", with one describing it as "an electro-glam-pop stomper"?
... that after hairdresser Mr. Kenneth's salon in a converted New York City house burned down, he lamented that "nothing like it will ever exist again"?
... that late arrivals at American colonial-era inns might find that the only drink on offer was Whistle Belly Vengeance, a mixture of sour beer, molasses and bread crusts?

00:00, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Edwards Davis

... that before a career in stage and film, Edwards Davis (pictured) was an ordained minister known for dancing in his pulpit?
... that the developers of WarioWare Gold had to carefully select which 300 of the 1100 minigames across the entire series to include in the game?
... that according to hacker Tillie Kottmann, most of her data breaches did not require much technical skill?
... that banker Henry Seligman's house at 30 West 56th Street had a reception room with green marble furniture and a library with a Gothic-style wastebasket?
... that HMS Sherwood is located more than 50 miles (80 km) from the sea?
... that Tanja Tetzlaff recorded Einojuhani Rautavaara's cello sonatas from the 20th century and Wolfgang Rihm's cello concerto, premiered in 2008, on a cello built in 1776?
... that in 1630, fewer than three percent of candidates were awarded the rank of juren, the second-highest civil rank in imperial China?
... that Elon Musk lost $16.3 billion in a single day, the largest in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index?

15 June 2021

12:00, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

American kestrel being treated at the Wild Bird Fund

... that the Wild Bird Fund is New York City's first and only wildlife hospital (example treatment pictured)?
... that four Russian billionaires – Roman Abramovich, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and Shalva Chigirinsky – and the oil firm Rosneft are suing HarperCollins over Putin's People by Catherine Belton?
... that architect Paul Rudolph's residence at 23 Beekman Place has a penthouse terrace overhanging the nearby street, which even Rudolph was afraid to use?
... that the government radio station in Mandatory Palestine had an Arab Hour in the late 1930s hosting Palestinian writers like Stephan Hanna Stephan?
... that interest rates on repos, which are short-term loans between financial institutions, experienced a sudden and unexpected spike on September 17, 2019?
... that William Bains-Jordan led the committee that designed the Hawaii State Capitol?
... that the Theater Trier runs a series including the premiere of Zemlinsky's Sarema, the German premiere of The Voyage by Philip Glass, and the revival of Koanga by Frederick Delius?
... that Eve Pitts, one of the Church of England's "fiercest critics", is also their first black woman vicar?

00:00, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Gallagh Man

... that the Irish bog body Gallagh Man (pictured) preserves the remains of an Iron Age man who was around 25 years old, dark haired, and was either strangled during a ritual killing or executed as a criminal?
... that Greg Cooper based the character of suffragist Kate Sheppard in punk-rock musical That Bloody Woman on Bette Midler in concert in Cleveland?
... that although Margaret Thatcher announced to the House of Commons on 14 June 1982 that Argentine troops were flying "white flags over Port Stanley", they were probably just laundry on a washing line?
... that baseball player Eric Filia worked as a butler at the Playboy Mansion while he was suspended by the University of California, Los Angeles?
... that the Rockefeller Apartments, with its glass-enclosed cylindrical "bows", allowed 15 percent more air and natural light than other apartments of the time?
... that one in a thousand women have three X chromosomes, but fewer than 10 percent of them know it?
... that Donato Palumbo's leadership of Euratom's fusion-power organization led to him being known as the "founding father of the European fusion program"?
... that in the Chinese erotic novella Chipozi zhuan, a woman has sex with her cousin, her brothers-in-law, her father-in-law, and two Buddhist monks?

14 June 2021

12:00, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Artist's rendering of IDCSP satellites being deployed

... that photographs of South Vietnam transmitted to the United States by the Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program (artist's rendering pictured) made possible near-real-time battlefield analysis during the Vietnam War?
... that Amy Vilela became an advocate for single-payer healthcare after her daughter died after being turned away from a hospital for lacking health insurance?
... that some moʻolelo took multiple days to tell in full, and were sometimes told in the form of hula?
... that the Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs said that it will not arrest communist leader Jose Maria Sison if he visits the Philippine embassy in The Hague?
... that when Yūka Nishio joined the violin rock band Morfonica as bassist, she had no experience with the bass guitar?
... that Barack Obama was once gifted a baseball glove belonging to Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Matt Moore?
... that when Honor McKellar studied voice in England, Ralph Vaughan Williams called her "the girl who does things with the words"?
... that Ita Ekpenyon coached American actor Paul Robeson in speaking the Efik language for the 1937 film King Solomon's Mines?

00:00, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Los Campitos Reservoir

... that the Los Campitos Reservoir (pictured) in Tenerife has never held water?
... that James Fulton Zimmerman was the first historian to examine U.S. State Department records on the controversial impressment that occurred just before the War of 1812 was declared?
... that Cuilin Zhang leads a study of about 4,000 women who had diabetes in pregnancy to identify factors in the progression from gestational diabetes to type 2 diabetes?
... that Don Mullally, a DJ at Vermont radio station WSTJ between 1952 and 2016, was still playing vinyl records when he retired just two weeks before his death?
... that the late-Ming-dynasty erotic novel Zhulin yeshi was written by "Man of the Crazy Way"?
... that Ira H. Owen was one of the first steel-hulled lake freighters?
... that Headroom was a bar that operated only during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that the bite of the pygmy copperhead is potentially fatal if untreated?

13 June 2021

12:00, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Mary Custis Lee

... that Mary Custis Lee (pictured), a daughter of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, refused to sit in the "whites-only" section of a streetcar?
... that musical comedian Bo Burnham wrote, directed, filmed, starred in and edited Inside by himself, during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that Langshi is one of the oldest erotic novels published in China?
... that while France abolished slavery in 1794, Napoleon reinstated it in 1802?
... that Zealand received more than 5,000 lightning strikes in three hours during the 2011 cloudburst in Denmark?
... that Turkey built a courtroom on the island of İmralı for the 1999 trial of Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party?
... that the seven-year-old son of the first owner of Maryland radio station WPTX was sometimes allowed to spin big band records on the air?
... that 14th-century hierocrats thought that the pope was the rightful sovereign of the entire world?

00:00, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

111 West 57th Street

... that a Steinway piano showroom at 111 West 57th Street (pictured) in New York City was expanded by 2,850 percent to become one of the tallest buildings in the United States?
... that Karl-Günther von Hase, who served as a German government spokesman under three chancellors, became director of the broadcaster ZDF in 1977?
... that Cambodian leader Hun Sen released four imprisoned dissidents as a "gift" to the United States upon the opening of its new embassy in Phnom Penh?
... that Ingrid Wallberg was the first female architect in Sweden with her own firm?
... that the manager of WVSS at the University of Wisconsin–Stout spent about $6,000 of his own money to buy more than 500 classical music CDs to program the station?
... that Casa Anchieta in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, was the childhood home of Brazilian missionary Joseph of Anchieta?
... that John Barefoot's catalogue of British Commonwealth revenue stamps grew from 142 to more than 500 pages between its first and tenth editions as new stamps were discovered?
... that pre-Socratic philosophy included some of the earliest attempts to explain the cosmos as an ordered system without reference to the gods?

12 June 2021

12:00, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Print made with the Bodleian Plate

... that the Bodleian Plate is among the earliest depictions of the College of William & Mary's campus, including the President's House?
... that the Romani people in Poland were persecuted alongside the Jews in the Holocaust?
... that actress Rebecca Dayan developed a love for acting while being raised in a hotel?
... that an artwork featured at Singapore's Marina South Pier MRT station was commissioned for the country's 50th year of independence?
... that Asfaw Yemiru's school educated over 120,000 Ethiopian students?
... that the 51st Defense Battalion, formed during World War II, was the first African-American unit in the United States Marine Corps?
... that Kaʻelepulu Pond, formerly a 200-to-400-acre (81 to 162 ha) Hawaiian fish pond, is now about 95 acres (38 ha) and polluted after having been partially filled in for a housing development?
... that Brazil has extended its FM broadcasting band to allow more AM radio stations to migrate to FM?

00:00, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Fanny Howie

... that New Zealand singer Fanny Howie (pictured) composed the song "Hine E Hine", which aired on New Zealand television every night from 1981 to 1994?
... that between 1979 and 1994 the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati were a full day ahead of the country's eastern Phoenix and Line Islands?
... that despite not identifying as Jewish, Michael George Levy was denied a Military Cross due to his commanding officer's antisemitic views?
... that Japanese manga artist Riyoko Ikeda was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government for her manga series The Rose of Versailles?
... that Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married at Saint John's Methodist Episcopal Church after eloping in 1939?
... that in his debut first-class cricket season, Jack Carson took the most wickets of any Sussex player in the 2020 Bob Willis Trophy?
... that radio station WDOV missed its own sign-on date because a boiler failure cut power to the entire city of Dover, Delaware?
... that John Coster-Mullen discovered that the Little Boy was actually a girl?

11 June 2021

12:00, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Rummer with engraving attributed to Maria Tesselschade Visscher

... that some of the most celebrated Dutch Golden Age artists who worked in glass engraving (example pictured) were women?
... that French West African poet David Diop was among 63 people killed when Air France Flight 343 crashed in 1960?
... that the post office for Wises Landing, Kentucky, was established in June 1878 but did not receive a postmaster until January 1879?
... that Robert Ward was the longest-serving caucus leader in the history of the Connecticut General Assembly?
... that Brentford were promoted via the English Football League play-offs for the first time in ten attempts when they won the 2021 EFL Championship play-off Final?
... that in April 2021, the body of the founder of the new religious movement Love Has Won was found mummified and wrapped in Christmas lights?
... that Thomas Flatley compared closing WNHT television in Concord, New Hampshire, to putting down his dog?
... that it is compulsory for educational providers of international students to register with CRICOS in Australia?

00:00, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Interior of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

... that the Jubilate by Benjamin Britten was written in 1961 for St George's Chapel (pictured) at the request of the Duke of Edinburgh, and performed there for some of his birthdays and his funeral?
... that Brown Lake is of cultural and spiritual significance to the Quandamooka people?
... that after the 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed, South African artistic gymnast Caitlin Rooskrantz livestreamed the routine she was going to perform?
... that the houses at 5, 7, 11, 13 and 15 West 54th Street form the only remaining "real strip of mansions" in Midtown Manhattan?
... that WMEB-FM had to move its transmitter because its signal was interfering with equipment in physics laboratories at the University of Maine?
... that Presbyterian football head coach Kevin Kelley won nine state championships as a high school coach by rarely punting and almost always attempting fourth down conversions?
... that Macclesfield F.C. was founded as a phoenix club after their stadium was purchased from a property website?
... that Barrackpore Trunk Road, the oldest metalled road in India, was built in 1775 to connect the first British cantonment in India with Calcutta, then the country's capital?

10 June 2021

12:00, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Polymastia boletiformis

... that although the two sponges look similar, sediment rarely settles on the surface of Polymastia boletiformis (example pictured), whereas Polymastia penicillus often appears dirty?
... that after police beat, choked, pepper-sprayed, and dragged Ronald Greene face down while shackled, saying "that shit hurts, doesn't it?", a trooper was initially reprimanded for violating courtesy rules?
... that Kai Cheng Thom wrote Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars not as a memoir to educate cisgender people about transgender issues, but as the book she had wanted to read as a teenager?
... that a recent Jersey court case found that the usage of an ancient Norman Clameur de Haro, which includes a recitation of the Lord's Prayer in French to legally apply an injunction, was used incorrectly?
... that Massachusetts radio station WAAF pulled off an "unprecedented radio concert promotion coup" by organizing a concert by the Rolling Stones for 300 locals?
... that the rock band Blur were the wedding band for the reception of journalists Jane Suiter and Leo Finlay in Dublin in 1990?
... that the 2019 establishment of No. 13 Air Experience Flight RAF marked the return of cadet powered-flight experiences to Northern Ireland after more than 22 years?
... that you can't be .sexy in private?

00:00, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

The Law Is Too Slow, 1925 lithograph by George Bellows

... that the 1935 New York anti-lynching exhibitions included Death (modeled after the lynching of George Hughes), Necklace (by Aaron Goodelman), This Is Her First Lynching, and The Law Is Too Slow (pictured), and were intended to support anti-lynching legislation, while earlier similar proposed legislation was supported by the NAACP using the lynching of Henry Lowry?
... that Raimund Hoghe, who was awarded the German Dance Prize in 2020, made a self-portrait documentary film Der Buckel (The Hunchback)?
... that the 66-room C. Ledyard Blair House on New York City's Fifth Avenue was sold and demolished barely a decade after its completion?
... that South Korean boy band Shinee's song "View" (2015) is regarded as K-pop's first foray into deep house?
... that saxophonist Jerry Jumonville was usually part of any band featured in the 1970s television series Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley?
... that the consumption of poppy seeds, known as the "poppy seed defence", is a recognised medical defence for failing a drug test?
... that the spiny bamboo is one of the main sources of bamboo pulp for paper-making?
... that the Line 3 oil spill was the largest inland oil spill in United States history?

9 June 2021

12:00, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Portrait of Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc

... that the Portrait of Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (pictured) was exhibited at the Salon in 1834 without its pendant?
... that radio station WADK debuted its first talk show after a local businessman told the owner that "the great pastime of Rhode Island ... is talking politics"?
... that the Wilder Brigade Monument, which honors the Lightning Brigade, was damaged by a lightning strike?
... that the two elliptical roofs of Singapore's Expo MRT station reflect sunlight into the station while cooling it?
... that Kate Nicholl is the first lord mayor of Belfast in recent times not to be born in the United Kingdom or Ireland?
... that Peter Swan became only the third Englishman to be sent off at Wembley Stadium when he was dismissed in the 1993 Second Division play-off final?
... that as part of the type certification process, aircraft manufacturers routinely fire dead chickens at windshields with a chicken gun in order to simulate bird strikes?
... that "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues", a humorous account of a real-life event in which more than 20 people were injured on a boat trip, was one of Bob Dylan's first popular songs?

01:30, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Charles Nolte as Billy Budd

... that Robert Chapman and Louis O. Coxe's play Billy Budd (title role pictured), adapted from a novella by Herman Melville, won the Donaldson Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play in 1951?
... that on June 8, 1826, rioters destroyed William Lyon Mackenzie's printing press in the Types Riot?
... that Anisomeles malabarica plants are defended from unwanted foragers by carpenter bees?
... that geographer Hildegard Binder Johnson fled Third Reich Germany after the Nazi Party destroyed her scientific paper criticizing the development of European colonies in Africa?
... that the Sherwood Studio Building was characterized in 1892 as New York City's "uptown headquarters of Art", with many of its tenants having studied art together?
... that one airline has flown more than 5,600 preighter flights, carrying cargo in place of passengers?
... that Sonny Bloch invested $500,000 in improvements to Connecticut radio station WCNX, only to be unable to complete the purchase after he was arrested on federal fraud charges?
... that Kühkopf-Knoblochsaue is a large Naturschutzgebiet in Hesse, Germany, protecting the ecology of the floodplains where the Rhine formerly meandered?

8 June 2021

12:00, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Sharon Choi

... that Sharon Choi (pictured), the Korean–English interpreter for film director Bong Joon-ho, is herself a director?
... that the termite Macrotermes michaelseni is considered to be an ecosystem engineer in the Okavango Delta in Botswana?
... that the only way for litigants in California to appeal most pre-trial rulings before a final judgment – and the only way to appeal some rulings at all – is by suing the court that issued the order for a writ of mandate?
... that Royal Ballet dancer Fumi Kaneko danced Princess Aurora in a cinema relay of The Sleeping Beauty, even though she was supposed to portray the Lilac Fairy?
... that Ester Wajcblum and other Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz smuggled gunpowder out of a munitions plant and successfully destroyed a crematorium at Birkenau during the Sonderkommando revolt?
... that when the European Super League was proposed, UEFA threatened to ban any footballers who took part from playing international football?
... that the 1928 Austin city plan recommended segregating the city's African American residents to East Austin?
... that avant-garde artist Hu Zhiying's master's degree was denied after his thesis was labeled as "not in line with Marxist principles"?

00:00, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Altarpiece by Gerda Höglund

... that Swedish artist Gerda Höglund painted her first altarpiece in South Africa before creating a similar work (pictured) in Sweden?
... that Frank Lloyd Wright's 1905 plan for a Wisconsin Badgers Crew boathouse was shelved but the design was used in 2007 for the West Side Rowing Club in Buffalo, New York?
... that the cast of Canadian teen drama Degrassi Junior High were named UNICEF goodwill ambassadors of Canada?
... that Tishaura Jones, the new mayor of St. Louis, once started a GoFundMe fundraiser to take down a Confederate monument?
... that tourists on holiday trips arranged by the Finland travel agency Keihäsmatkat were encouraged to drink alcoholic beverages, partly to avoid culture shock?
... that Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist S. G. Neginhal to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi?
... that Tom Jones's 2021 album Surrounded by Time marked the first time in his career that he recorded music in his home country of Wales?
... that Walter Gladwin was the first black New York state assemblyman from the Bronx?

7 June 2021

12:00, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Flame-colored tanager

... that the red-headed, rose-throated and flame-colored tanagers (pictured) are not tanagers but cardinals?
... that Ronald Graham, a star in the original Broadway casts of musicals by Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and Arthur Schwartz, began his career in radio after winning a national singing contest in 1931?
... that the Dolmen de Soto is one of about 1,650 neolithic burial sites in Andalusia, and assumed to have been built between 4,500 and 5,000 years ago?
... that jelly rolls are sensitive to interest rates?
... that the proverb "speech is silver, silence is golden" has been attributed to "wise men of old", and traced to Arabic texts more than a millennium old?
... that early in her career, Maria Calegari danced principal roles in every ballet performed one weekend by the New York City Ballet?
... that the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora, passed in 1964, established the first international rules for wildlife conservation in Antarctica?
... that Fontainea venosa is a vulnerable rare plant in Australia?

00:00, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Self-portrait of Kendall

... that after buying a view camera in the 1880s, Marie Hartig Kendall (pictured) took over 30,000 photographs?
... that the four-year history of radio station WUCI-FM included the revelation of the founder as a convicted felon and a station staffer threatening another with a revolver?
... that despite being sick and ordered to return to the rear, Hughie Miller fought on the front lines in the Battle of Belleau Wood and single-handedly captured two German soldiers?
... that Lord Byron lay in state for two days at a house in Great George Street, Westminster?
... that due to COVID-19 lockdowns in India, the science-fiction short film 55 km/sec was directed remotely, and the lead actors Mrinal Dutt and Richa Chadda filmed themselves through their own devices?
... that in translating the short story "Xianü" by Pu Songling, Herbert Giles omitted the protagonist's homosexual relationship with a fox spirit?
... that the sculptor and schoolteacher Arvīds Brastiņš led a group of Latvian pagans in the post-war United States?
... that Hercules hosted a live-streamed talk show during the COVID-19 pandemic?

6 June 2021

12:00, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Schools at War poster

... that the American Schools at War program (promotional poster pictured) raised over $2 billion (over $28 billion today) to help pay for World War II?
... that Western media treated Egyptian activist Gihan Ibrahim as a face of the Egyptian revolution of 2011, but rarely mentioned her revolutionary-socialist political views?
... the Tala tank is the largest overhead water reservoir in the world?
... that William Henry Ellis spearheaded a plan to colonize Black Americans in Mexico in the late 19th century?
... that "Wo Menschen sich vergessen" was the first song in the opening service of the 2021 Ecumenical Church Assembly in Frankfurt, held as an open-air livestream?
... that the presidential transition of John F. Kennedy saw Kennedy, the youngest individual elected president, prepare to assume power from Dwight D. Eisenhower, at the time the oldest individual to have served as president?
... that ancient Egyptians carried boats in pieces across the Eastern Desert, reassembling them when they reached the Red Sea to embark on trading expeditions?
... that the Supreme People's Procuratorate, China's highest agency for investigation and prosecution, was abolished for three years during the Cultural Revolution?

00:00, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Shrine of St. Paulina

... that the Shrine of St. Paulina (pictured) is dedicated to the first female saint from Brazil?
... that Robin Ransom, the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Missouri, said that she was "really happy I didn't like law school"?
... that the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Samoa was founded by two American Mormon missionaries?
... that Sungai Selan hosted the first Catholic mission under the Dutch East Indies outside of Java?
... that Charles Irving's apparatus for the distillation of seawater was used during James Cook's 1772–1775 voyage round the world?
... that developer William Earl Dodge Stokes commissioned a five-story mansion in New York City that he never resided in?
... that the rugby league teams of the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force play in the Challenge Cup with Great Britain Police?
... that Kathleen Rubins has voted while in space—twice?

5 June 2021

12:00, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Flag of FR Yugoslavia

... that the Flag of FR Yugoslavia (pictured) was the last national flag in Europe to have a red star removed from it?
... that Izkia Siches, who was re-elected as president of the Chilean Medical College in 2020, has ruled out running for President of Chile in 2021?
... that the wooden houses at 312 and 314 East 53rd Street were completed just as fire codes in New York City prevented the construction of further wooden structures nearby?
... that British sailor Eilidh McIntyre, who has qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, is the daughter of a former Olympic gold medallist?
... that one of the founders of the Santa Cruz Operation later said that they had "every type of relationship with Microsoft you can imagine"?
... that the paintings and letters sent home by "Inkerman hero" Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Tippinge helped document the Crimean War?
... that 2 Cheap Cars withdrew a television advertisement in New Zealand because children were copying the main character's catchphrase, "Ah so", which they sometimes pronounced "asshole"?

00:00, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

St. George's Basilica

... that the two Romanesque towers of St. George's Basilica (pictured) in Prague are nicknamed "Adam" and "Eve"?
... that Gretchen Campbell's research on Bose–Einstein condensates may provide insight into the expansion of the early universe?
... that Richard Hatherill survived a mutiny and a shipwreck, only to die from an illness at the age of 35?
... that West Virginia radio station WHIS made the first broadcast of a murder trial in the United States—and was broadcasting when the first on-air death occurred?
... that the emperor shrimp likes to hitch a ride on a sea cucumber or a large mollusc?
... that when The Saint Paul Hotel was built in 1908–1910, a rathskeller was carved into the sandstone beneath the building?
... that soprano Estelle Liebling, the voice teacher of Beverly Sills and Meryl Streep, performed in more than 1600 concerts with John Philip Sousa and his band?
... that Frederick Manfred ate insects and mice as research for his 1954 novel about mountain man Hugh Glass, titled Lord Grizzly?

4 June 2021

12:00, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Portrait of Dante by Botticelli

... that the bones of Dante (pictured) were to be taken to Mussolini's intended last stand against the Allies at the Valtellina Redoubt?
... that 110 taxa are classed as being extinct on the Japanese Red List, including the Hokkaido wolf?
... that the last five minutes of a 1977 game between Coventry City and Bristol City were played with neither team attempting to score?
... that Sindee Simon studied ancient amber to show that glass does not flow?
... that concert pianist, composer, and opera librettist Leonard Liebling was the editor-in-chief of the Musical Courier from 1911 to 1945?
... that the principal of Big Tree Elementary read a book from a hot-air balloon to honor her students for having collectively read more than 2.5 million minutes in 2006?
... that Kartini Hermanus, the first female general in the Indonesian Army, outranked her husband after being promoted in 2000?
... that landslides caused by Tropical Storm Talas delayed a realignment project on Japan National Route 424?

00:00, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

HMS Racehorse and HMS Carcass stuck in ice

... that the ships of the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole (pictured) got stuck in ice north of Svalbard?
... that when the sheriff in Helena, Arkansas, was asked to arrest Owen Flemming, an African-American man accused of killing a white overseer on June 8, 1927, he allegedly said "I'm busy. Just go ahead and lynch him"?
... that after being denied admission to Memphis State University because of her race, Miriam DeCosta-Willis went on to become the university's first African-American professor?
... that Acer spitzi is one of seven fossil maples first found in the Klondike Mountain Formation?
... that the Star Wars Rebels episode "Twin Suns" took inspiration from the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai?
... that Robert J. Ulrich was asked to cast Glee because of his musical background?
... that a former DJ at radio station WKOP in Binghamton, New York, was convicted of arson for setting fire to the studios?
... that the former Ontario Highway 29 was split in half for nine years, from 1927 to 1936?

3 June 2021

12:00, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Astrolabe in the Khalili Collection

... that the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art includes an exceptionally large 17th-century astrolabe (pictured) commissioned by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan?
... that students participating in the 1968–69 Japanese university protests were known for ruthlessly interrogating and verbally abusing professors, sometimes for days on end?
... that in Hall v. Decuir, the Supreme Court of the United States "all but endorsed segregation"?
... that Herman Schiller and Marshall Meyer cofounded the Movimiento Judío por los Derechos Humanos, a Jewish human-rights organization in Argentina that denounced the National Reorganization Process?
... that ballerina Margaret Tracey performed for Bill and Hillary Clinton when Maria Tallchief received a Kennedy Center Honor?
... that the brown seaweed Acinetospora crinita forms a more-or-less complete covering of filamentous algae over the rock, detritus, living animals and sea grasses on the seabed where it occurs?
... that Canadian cyclist Bernie Willock, who missed out on competing at the Olympics due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, later owned furniture stores?
... that Mirror, a Hong Kong Cantopop music group which does not want to go for a "K-pop feel", performed Korean pop songs at a concert?

00:00, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Jim Hayes

... that the UT Arlington Mavericks men's wheelchair basketball team was coached by Jim Hayes (pictured) from 1976 to 2008?
... that labor activist Mother Blizzard once led a group of women to tear up train tracks to prevent an attack on striking miners?
... that botanist and "great Yorkshire character" John Farrah reprimanded greedy plant collectors in such a way that they would "remember it to the end of their days"?
... that the orange flatworm Yungia aurantiaca can regrow its whole body from a small fragment of tissue?
... that the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western once stockpiled 15,000 train cars of coal at Gravel Place, Pennsylvania, to be able to operate through a miners' strike?
... that Jimbōchō Book Town is home to roughly a third of Japan's used bookstores?
... that the 18th-century Great Pagoda in London is considered the most important surviving example of Chinoiserie: Chinese-inspired design in Europe?
... that Fannie R. Buchanan received a citation and medal from the USDA "for outstanding contributions to rural culture"?

2 June 2021

12:00, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Eye of Horus symbol

... that in Egyptian mythology, the god Horus offered his own eye (symbol pictured) to be eaten by his father Osiris?
... that Cuddles Marshall, the "handsomest twirler" on the New York Yankees, turned down a movie contract from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer?
... that a man who threatened to blow up Alaska radio station KIAK unless he was put on the air was startled to find the station completely automated?
... that Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi swam seven miles (11 km) with her child strapped to her back, from Kapiti Island to the New Zealand mainland, to raise the alarm about an impending invasion?
... that hundreds of spectators gathered at a nearby church and club to watch 689 Fifth Avenue catch on fire?
... that although ballerina Cynthia Harvey spent most of her career with the American Ballet Theatre, she was also the first American principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London?
... that Thurston Clarke felt that Harold Wilson should find it a "chilling thought" that The Chariot of Israel would be "cluttering library shelves" for years to come?
... that Kenneth Robinson, the second of three Robinsons to present Points of View between Robert Robinson and Anne Robinson, was fired from that programme for the frivolous way he described bananas?

00:00, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Meredith Clark

... that Meredith Clark (pictured) is "the go-to person about Black Twitter", according to NPR?
... that SC East Bengal became the first club in Indian football to activate the force majeure clause in their 2020–21 season?
... that American politician Alexander Warner held elected political offices in three different states?
... that after Haier bought the Greenwich Savings Bank Building, it turned the large banking hall into a showroom for refrigerators and air conditioners?
... that Finnish politician Kaarina Suonio answered the world's first GSM phone call?
... that around a fifth of all Filipinos served by the Philippine consulate in Barcelona protested its closure on Facebook?
... that British deputy prime minister John Prescott was nicknamed "Two Jabs" after punching a protestor in 2001?
... that the village of Pstrąże is known as the "Polish Chernobyl" due to its reputation as a ghost town and a former storage site for nuclear weapons?

1 June 2021

12:00, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Deportation of Jews from Ioannina

... that more than 80 percent of Greek Jews were killed during the Holocaust in Greece (pictured)?
... that, at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Jamie Arthur became the first Welsh boxer to win a gold medal for more than 40 years?
... that critics compared John Lennon's first book, In His Own Write, to the writings of James Joyce, even though Lennon had never read him?
... that Harry Harper refused to play baseball on Sundays?
... that Moto Hagio wrote her 1992 manga Iguana Girl as a semi-autobiographical story that reflects her strained relationship with her mother?
... that the state of Illinois erected both the Illinois Memorial and the Illinois Monument on American Civil War battlefields in the early 1900s?
... that soprano Joyce Mathis won the Marian Anderson Award in 1967 and the Young Concert Artists singing competition in 1968?
... that the Victorian Carham Hall in Northumberland was saved from demolition this year when its listed-building status was reinstated?

00:00, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Kid Canfield

... that Kid Canfield (pictured) is the first known person to die live on radio?
... that J. L. Granatstein's 1998 book Who Killed Canadian History? has been described as the pinnacle of Canada's "history wars"?
... that the "pits" in trachoma are named for Herbert Herbert?
... that some Polish military cooperatives, formed to provide supplies to service personnel at low prices, issued their own coins?
... that the Bishop of Bath and Wells said that "there is not a more dangerous woman in the West" than Mary Speke?
... that Masayoshi Soken composed the music for Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker while battling cancer?
... that Finnish politician Maija Rask earned a PhD at the age of 61 after a career as a nurse, teacher, member of Parliament, and minister of education?
... that the Museum of French Art once exhibited Napoleon's penis?