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30 September 2008

20:52, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

... that in August 2007, millionaire businessman Anwar Rashid and his family left Clifton Hall (pictured), their £3.6M home in Nottingham, because they thought it was haunted?
... that John Montague of the Seattle Mariners earned the first save in team history, pitching two scoreless innings to preserve a 5–1 win against the California Angels on April 9, 1977?
... that the 2006 film Strawberry Fields is a documentary about Palestinian farmers in Gaza facing hardships caused by the Israel–Hamas military conflict?
... that New York State Route 146B was decommissioned after as little as 17 years after its initial designation?
... that in 1715, Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov, the largest Russian landowner after the tsar, owned territories larger than modern Bulgaria or Iceland?
... that a tower of 2,000 wooden Schlitz beer pallets, described as "a rotting vestige of one man's egotism" that festers "like a sore on the community's body", is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument?
... that the 15th-century figure Sir John Juyn served simultaneously as Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, only relinquishing the positions when he was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench?

14:37, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

... that, at 248.1 metres (814 ft), Midtown Tower (pictured) is the tallest building in Tokyo, Japan?
... that William Fox was awarded a scholarship to drama school, but only on the condition that he passed the money on to another student?
... that the Portuguese village Cacela Velha was once the site of the Medina of Qast’alla Daraj, an Islamic town dating back to the 10th century?
... that Sir Francis Gawdy, his father and his two older half-brothers were all baptised Thomas Gawdy, although Francis had his name changed at his confirmation?
... that oysters deposit pseudofeces in such amounts that they can clean up an entire estuary?
... that Marguerite Wilson is celebrated in the Golden Book of Cycling for holding all 16 British road records?
... that vaporized hydrogen peroxide was used to disinfect buildings contaminated in the 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S.?
... that the Angel Island Chuckwalla, an Iguanidae species, was considered such an important food item to the Seri people that they translocated the species to islands within the Sea of Cortés?

08:19, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

... that during testing, M247 Sergeant York (pictured) locked onto an exhaust fan, shot into the ground instead of its target, and threatened to fire on the high-ranking review panel in nearby stands?
... that International Gothic art is so called because very similar styles existed in centres as far apart as France, Bohemia, Italy and Burgundy?
... that English footballer Fred Geary scored the first goal at the opening of Everton's new Goodison Park stadium in August 1892?
... that the Korean traditional winter hat nambawi can be luxuriously adorned with gold leaf decoration for women?
... that Mike Berniker produced Barbra Streisand's first three albums, which were described by The New York Times as "among the most expressively uninhibited" of her career?
... that despite its leaders being deported to remote parts of the country, the Gabonese opposition garnered 46% of the vote in a 1964 legislative election?
... that Greenbank Gardens near Glasgow, Scotland were built by Robert Allason, a slave trader?

01:59, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

... that after Chief Justice of the King's Bench Robert Tresilian was executed for treason in 1388 (pictured), his wife married a pirate?
... that Rage Software were forced to use fictitious footballer names on the PC game Microsoft International Soccer 2000 because they did not acquire a license from FIFA?
... that the Dome of the Prophet was built by the Ottomans on the spot where some believe Islamic prophet Muhammad prayed on the night of Isra and Mi'raj?
... that George Washington called Dismal Swamp a "glorious paradise" and now part of it is a North Carolina state park?
... that the Sołtan argument as outlined in 1982 suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy was once a quasar?
... that New York State Route 194 was the only state highway in Lewis County removed because of the 1980 state maintenance swaps?
... that two sculptors from Vest-Telemark, Dyre Vaa and Anne Grimdalen, both contributed to the decoration of Oslo City Hall?
... that the name of Cabonga Reservoir in central Quebec is derived from the Algonquin kakibonga, meaning "completely blocked by sand"?
... that the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Constanţa, Romania, which twice served as a parish church and twice as a cathedral, was made a monastery as well in 2001?

29 September 2008

18:41, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

... that from 1996 to 2001, racers driving the Riley & Scott Mk III (pictured) sports prototype won a total of eight Drivers Championships in four different sports car racing series?
... that the cause of the Svenskehuset Tragedy, where 17 men died on Svalbard in the winter of 1872–73, was until recently a mystery?
... that Richard Wesley first won critical acclaim for his 1971 play Black Terror and financial success for his screenplays for the Cosby/Poitier vehicles Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again?
... that a jobawi is a Korean traditional winter cap with ear-flaps which was worn by women during the late Joseon Dynasty?
... that George Odgers was the last living member of the 14 historians who wrote the official history of Australia's involvement in World War II, Australia in the War of 1939–1945?
... that the C. Burton Hotel may be the only Greek Revival building in Sullivan County, New York, with a recessed porch and columns?
... that during the Siege of Paris, French inventor and photographer René Dagron used carrier pigeons carrying microfilms to send messages across German lines?
... that "Where do you want to go today?", launched in November 1994, was the title of Microsoft's first global image advertising campaign?

12:39, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Reverend Edmund Nelson's most famous son, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (pictured), was born 250 years ago today?
... that the 17th-century gardeners of the Izmaylovo Estate managed to grow figs, coconuts and melons but failed to breed silk worms?
... that after filing to run for a seat on the Oregon Supreme Court, judge Jason Lee had two cases decided against his interests in the same court before withdrawing?
... that during the 2008–2009 television season, the actress Shenae Grimes has starring roles in both the eighth season of Degrassi: The Next Generation, and the first season of 90210?
... that Cameroonian politician Louis-Paul Aujoulat's thesis was named best in his faculty at the Catholic University?
... that in the Toronto Blue Jays seasons, they have had seven different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day?
... that during the murder trial of Dr Thomas Lodwig, he claimed that he had used the poison potassium chloride to enhance the effect of painkillers rather than to kill his patient?

06:38, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Chicago Cubs have a tradition of raising a Cubs Win flag (pictured) on the flagpole atop the scoreboard at Wrigley Field after every Cubs home victory?
... that British swimmer Heather Frederiksen won four medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics after being told by doctors that she would never be able to swim again?
... that the Lord Peter Wimsey novel Thrones, Dominations was started by Dorothy L. Sayers in 1936 and completed by Jill Paton Walsh over 60 years later?
... that the Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton, a chartered middle school that requires students to learn three years of Latin and to study Literary classics, has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School?
... that strong waves from Hurricane Bonnie in 1998 washed thousands of tires, part of an artificial reef, ashore in North Carolina?
... that the Texel Disaster of 1940 resulted in severe damage to HMS Express and the sinking of two other ships who went to her aid?

00:22, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the 108.1-kilometre (67.2 mi) Canal de l'Ourcq (pictured) provides over half of the 380,000 cubic metres (500,000 cu yd) of water used daily by the city of Paris for cleaning public works?
... that Latvian basketball player Ieva Tāre suffered a serious arm injury during the qualification for 2008 Summer Olympics, but recovered in time for the actual Olympics?
... that Label Fandango was created by Andy Macleod and Simon Williams, the man behind debut singles from Coldplay and Keane?
... that George Ashley Campbell decided to use loading coils for improving telephone line quality only after he realized that the manholes were the right distance apart to allow this cheaper solution?
... that the Schlesinger Doctrine of 1974 re-introduced the idea of flexible response to U.S. nuclear warfighting policy?
... that San Giorgio a Cremano is so named because the residents called on their patron saint Saint George for protection from the fiery eruptions of Mount Vesuvius?
... that unlike most other Jewish communities in the Catskills, the congregants of Ulster Heights Synagogue were farmers rather than resort operators?
... that The Mock Tempest was a 1674 parody of Dryden and Davenant's adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest?

28 September 2008

17:51, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

... that "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" became a famous description for Singapore (pictured) following the 1993 publication of William Gibson's article of the same name?
... that James W. Cannon co-wrote a paper suggesting that the "negatively curved" nature of microscopic growth patterns of bio-organisms is responsible for the highly folded structure of the brain tissue?
... that the current National Palace of Mexico, despite having been destroyed and rebuilt several times, still contains building blocks from the original palace of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II?
... that Sydney Deane, who narrowly missed representing Australia in cricket, was the first Australian to appear in a Hollywood film?
... that SS Empire Simba, a British cargo ship, was severely damaged in port by a land mine dropped by a German bomber during the World War II?
... that the Menlo Avenue Historic District in Los Angeles reflects the transition to American Craftsman style architecture?
... that flatwater canoer Vladas Česiūnas was forcibly returned by the KGB to the Soviet Union out of fear that he would publish a book on doping in the Soviet Union prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics?
... that Schools Plus, an education policy proposed by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, was boycotted by 15 schools?
... that Louis Timothee was the first public librarian in the United States?

11:39, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Elena Paparizou (pictured), the second choice to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, ended up winning the contest with "My Number One"?
... that Hall of Famers Don Drysdale and Don Sutton each made seven Opening Day starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958?
... that former Thai Minister of Education M.L. Pin Malakul created a slide rule for calculating the day of week of any given date despite being required to study Sanskrit rather than mathematics?
... that the Swaminarayan Temple in the London suburb of Willesden is in a converted church?
... that Hyman Golden was co-founder and chairman of Snapple, which got its name from one of its early products, a carbonated apple juice that had a "snapply apple taste"?
... that the 1991 Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy has been called a major political accomplishment of the post-Cold War era?
... that Sir Michael Sachs was the first English solicitor to become a High Court judge, appointed in 1993?
... that Bob Brenly led his team to the 2001 World Series and won in his first season as the Arizona Diamondbacks manager?

05:44, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the ancient Egyptian temples of Dakka (pictured), Maharraqa, Wadi es-Sebua, Amada, and Derr were all dismantled in the 1960s and rebuilt elsewhere, to avoid the rising waters of Lake Nasser created by the Aswan Dam?
... that Bill Laxton was the winning pitcher in the first game ever won by the Seattle Mariners, a come-from-behind, 7–6 win over the California Angels?
... that six hours after it had been forecast to become a tropical storm, Hurricane Joyce unexpectedly dissipated?
... that Tang Dynasty general Zhu Ci, angry that he was removed from command due to his brother Zhu Tao's rebellion, later tried to become emperor of his own state of Qin?
... that the members of the Canadian alternative dance band Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker met while stocking the beer fridge at a golf course?
... that Theresa Elmendorf was the first woman president of the American Library Association?
... that Baghdad was under siege for more than a year during a civil war in the 9th century between Al-Amin and his brother Al-Ma'mun for the Abbasid Caliphate?
... that architect Andrew Rebori once referred to modern buildings as "steel and glass upside-down cakes"?

27 September 2008

23:44, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Jabba The Hutt puppeteer Toby Philpott (pictured) began his career as a homeless juggler in the streets of London?
... that Tropical Storm Gilma was, in terms of wind speed, the weakest named storm of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season?
... that two weeks before the 1964 bombings of the United States Embassy in Libreville, Gabon, the country had undergone an abortive coup d'etat which overthrew its president, Leon M'ba?
... that Farhad Reza, along with 12 other Bangladeshi cricketers, was banned from playing for 10 years after joining the Dhaka Warriors team in the unauthorised Indian Cricket League?
... that the papal election in 1159 that followed the death of Pope Adrian IV resulted in a papal schism, which lasted until 1178?
... that Michael P.C. Carns, who was the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1991–94, received numerous military awards and decorations such as the Silver Star?
... that the Instructions of Shuruppak, first attested in a tablet from Abu Salabikh, has been called "the most significant piece of wisdom literature in Sumerian"?
... that J. Clarence Karcher invented the reflection seismograph and founded Geophysical Service Incorporated, which became Texas Instruments?

17:41, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Philip Goldberg (pictured), former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, was the eighth chief of mission in U.S. diplomatic history declared persona non grata and expelled from a country where he was serving?
... that Mario Lemieux became the only rookie in National Hockey League all-star history to win game MVP honours at the 1985 All-Star Game?
... that the damaged and demasted brig Polly drifted over six months and more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) across the Atlantic with its surviving crew?
... that the Lombard duke Euin had to twice defend the Duchy of Trent from the Franks, in 584 by battle and in 591 by diplomacy?
... that Vihar Lake, the largest in Mumbai, was created in 1860?
... that socialite Hazel Crane's posthumous memoirs revealed her secret criminal career, including smuggling emeralds out of South Africa in her beehive hairdo and her baby's nappy?
... that reforms enacted by Eleftherios Venizelos, after the 1909 Goudi coup helped bring him to power, largely forestalled the development of strong socialist and agrarian movements then seen elsewhere in the Balkans?
... that Diocesan School for Girls students can download whiteboard notes to their laptops?

11:41, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

That Mysterious Rag

... that T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" parodies the lyrics of the Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder song "That Mysterious Rag" (song to the right)?
... that Britain's Heather Fell, the 2008 Olympic silver medallist in modern pentathlon, had to work three part-time jobs in order to fund her training?
... that Fateh Sagar Lake was re-created in 1888 by re-constructing an earlier earth dam which got washed away?
... that Helga Vlahović was picked, along with Oliver Mlakar, to host the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest in Zagreb following Yugoslavia's win at the 1989 contest?
... that The City Sun, a black-owned newspaper, told David Dinkins, New York City's first African American mayor, that he was "beginning to look like a wimp"?
... that according to recent research, the shadow trevally is one of the first fish to move in after a ship is scuttled?
... that Myna Potts, an historical preservationist from West Texas, converted her father's former general store into a museum dedicated to rural people of the recent past?

05:40, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the young Lord Byron (1813 portrait pictured) shared his mother's violent temper and, during one fit of anger, bit into a saucer?
... that the Cadillac Gage Peacekeeper II armoured vehicle has a 0.5-inch (13 mm) thick armour that can provide protection against 7.62mm armour piercing ammunition?
... that new Manchester City F.C. chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak was also the man who negotiated the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix's inclusion in the 2009 Formula One season?
... that North University Park in Los Angeles contains many well-preserved Victorian houses and was the birthplace of U.S. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson?
... that when a mutiny broke out in the absence of Tang Dynasty general Cui Ning, his concubine Lady Ren suppressed it with soldiers she had hired herself?
... that the coastal trevally is frequently known under an incorrect Latin name because of a typo in the first volume to describe it?
... that as well as being an Olympic competitor and World Championship bronze medallist in the multi-discipline sport of modern pentathlon, Katy Livingston also played netball at county level?

26 September 2008

22:31, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

... that a simple kite defeated cannons, steamers, and rockets in the bid to lay a line for the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge (ad pictured)?
... that in Norse mythology, Hjúki and Bil have been theorized as personifying the waxing and waning moon and, due to similarities, as connected to the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill"?
... that Al Jackson and Roger Craig share the worst winning percentage of the Opening Day starting pitchers for the New York Mets with a record of 0–2?
... that Arthur Raikes was a British army officer but received honours from Zanzibar, Austria and Portugal?
... that the ceiling of the burial chamber in the Pyramid of Merenre has an astrological theme?
... that in the fictional 1977 novel The Sword of Shannara, Shea Ohmsford is the only descendant of Jerle Shannara left in the Four Lands, and therefore the only one left who can use the Sword of Shannara?
... that people with classical auditory agnosia cannot associate a sound (such as a motor running) with its meaning or concept (such as a car)?
... that the largest surviving painting by 15th-century Gothic artist Master Francke is an altarpiece dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury?

16:23, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Huletts Landing, New York (pictured) is one of three settlements near Lake George whose place names derive from members of General James Wadsworth's American Revolutionary War brigade?
... that British canoeist David Florence failed with an application to join the European Space Agency's astronaut training program before winning a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
... that "All the Way" by Eddie Vedder is a song about the Chicago Cubs written at the request of Ernie Banks?
... that the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai was destroyed by Yakut Khan in 1690?
... that photojournalist Stanley Greene's image of a tutu-clad girl with a champagne bottle became a symbol of the fall of the Berlin Wall?
... that when Britain took the dispute over the sovereignty of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands to the International Court of Justice in 1955, Argentina declined to cooperate?
... that the six home runs hit in the 1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game were all hit by future Hall of Famers, including a 520-foot (160 m) shot by Reggie Jackson?
... that when Haydn Tanner and Willie Davies orchestrated Swansea rugby club's defeat of the touring All Blacks they were both still schoolboys?

10:22, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the venom of the Beaded Lizard (pictured) has been found to contain several enzymes useful in the manufacturing of drugs to treat diabetes?
... that the 2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash caused the Columbia Metropolitan Airport to be closed for a day because the other runway at the airport was also unusable since it was undergoing resurfacing?
... that small modelli of works of art were produced for patrons to approve?
... that British swimmer Matt Walker has won eight silver and bronze Paralympic medals in individual events, but all three of his gold medals have come in the 4×100 m freestyle relay?
... that "Go, Cubs, Go" was the most popular folk music digital download on iTunes in the first week of October 2007?
... that Pandorea "Golden Showers" is a yellow-flowering variety of the Australian native plant the Wonga Wonga Vine?
... that in the final game of the 1926–27 Boston Bruins season, Billy Coutu's attack on a referee caused him to be the first player banned from the National Hockey League for life?
... that the works of German artist Erich Buchholz were labeled "degenerate" by the Nazis, and only after the end of WWII his work became appreciated?

03:28, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Hurricane Michelle (pictured), a storm which took place in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, caused numerous deaths and large-scale damage in Jamaica, Cuba, Honduras, and Nicaragua?
... that Tang Dynasty general Duan Xiushi died after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Zhu Ci, who was planning to dethrone Emperor Dezong of Tang?
... that the Pakistan Cricket Board accused Cricket Australia of double-standards when the latter expressed its willingness to tour India even while cancelling its tour to Pakistan earlier this year?
... that Ageratina adenophora, a plant native to Mexico which has invaded Australia, India and the United States, causes respiratory failure called "blowing disease" in horses?
... that before her election to the New York State Senate, Carol Berman led the ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent the Concorde from landing at Kennedy Airport in New York City?
... that Azúcar Moreno's song "Bandido" caused a stir at the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest when one of the backing tracks malfunctioned, causing the singers to storm off stage?
... that Jack Hillman was responsible for the earliest recorded case of match fixing in football?

25 September 2008

21:24, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

... that American cargo ship MS West Grama (pictured), while in the service of the U.S. Navy in 1919, was the first American-flagged ship to enter Bulgarian waters?
... that Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke drowned when his boat capsized returning to shore?
... that there were several allegations of cheating during the 1994 Formula One season?
... that Erich Walter Sternberg was the first of a wave of professional musicians to flee Germany for Palestine prior to World War II?
... that Udo Zimmermann's opera, Die weisse Rose tells the story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, a brother and sister who were guillotined by the Nazis for leading a non-violent resistance group?
... that Half Japanese's Greatest Hits was included in Blender's top 100 indie rock albums?
... that the Idangai or left-hand is the name of a faction of six castes which existed in Tamil society in ancient times?
... that Orson Welles' 1968 film The Immortal Story played in the U.S. as a double feature with Luis Buñuel's Simon of the Desert?
... that the first library catalog was the Pinakes developed by the first bibiliographer Callimachus of Cyrene at the Library of Alexandria?
... that in 1998, Henry Kissinger introduced Lynn Forester to her future husband, Evelyn Robert de Rothschild?

13:34, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

... that to avoid worrying about sound quality for too long, producer Rob Swire of Pendulum (pictured) drafted the demos for the album In Silico using Commodore 64 and Nintendo emulators?
... that multiple book reviews have referred to Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People as the definitive book on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple?
... that victory in the 1904 FA Cup Final gave Manchester City F.C. their first major honour?
... that architect Alfred Rosenheim doubted whether modern architecture could strictly be regarded as architecture?
... that the producers of 2008 Hindi espionage thriller film Mukhbiir offered a money back guarantee for those who did not like the film, but prepared the refund for only 5,000 viewers?
... that Sir Thomas Jones was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas as a reward for his severity in sentencing, and then removed three years later for not being severe enough?
... that Partenope was the first opera written by an American-born composer?
... that Chilean Canadian writer Carmen Rodriguez publishes much of her work in both English and Spanish, and that she herself is responsible for their translation?

08:02, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Children of the Warsaw Ghetto

... that Jerzy and Eugenia Latoszyński have been named Righteous Among the Nations for harboring one of many Jewish children of the Warsaw Ghetto (pictured) during the Nazi occupation of Poland?
... that one of the short stories in Sandra Cisneros' collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories relates to the myth of La Llorona, who haunts the real Woman Hollering Creek in Texas?
... that in 1906, Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer built the Hill of Tarvit mansion house on an Iron Age site?
... that as captain of the cruiser Pittsburgh, future four-star admiral John E. Gingrich managed to sail his ship 900 miles (1,400 km) to safety after a typhoon tore off its bow?
... that Barley Yards Brewing Company is the first brewery in the United States to brew a Riesling ale?
... that Prussian noble Christian Ludwig von Kalckstein was kidnapped by the order of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, and later tried and executed for treason?
... that jökulhlaups, glacial bursts, from Oregon's White River Glacier on Mount Hood have washed out a highway six times since 1926?

01:59, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the thermal imaging camera (pictured) has been called the best advance in firefighting equipment in the last 25 years, and the most expensive?
... that the parish church at Penterry stands isolated in a field near Chepstow in Wales, with a nearby plague pit thought to hold the remains of many villagers who perished in the Black Death?
... that New York State Assembly member David Koon has pushed for full funding for E911, a system of automatically locating 9-1-1 callers, after his daughter was abducted and brutally murdered in 1993?
... that the Kamikaze class destroyer Shiratae was one of the few ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy to have been lost in combat during the Battle of Tsingtao?
... that four months after the one-time-only U.S. airing of the 1991 Disney television pilot Acting Sheriff, Disney sold bonds that promised to pay up to a 20 percent return if Acting Sheriff were syndicated?
... that after examining 2,500 witness statements and approximately 270,000 pages of evidence, The Shipman Inquiry concluded that doctor Harold Shipman had murdered 250 of his patients?
... that agribusiness executive Daron Joffe used to teach horticulture and farming to incarcerated teenagers in the San Francisco area?

24 September 2008

18:19, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1817, the previously banned coat of arms of Paris (pictured) was restored to its traditional form?
... that Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch, responsible for identifying remains of 9/11 attack victims, was injured while setting up a temporary morgue when the North Tower collapsed?
... that the lattice phase equaliser was invented by Otto Zobel, better known for his work on constant-resistance networks to equalise amplitude?
... that the 1935 short subject Alibi Bye Bye was the last film appearance of the comedy team of Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough?
... that systems scientist Béla H. Bánáthy conceived of a conference where all attendees present papers, and the conference itself is an in-depth, extended conversation between all participants?
... that the 1993 Independence Bowl was the first game in which a blocked field goal was returned for a touchdown by a Virginia Tech football player?
... that 13th-century Armenian historian and scholar Vardan Areveltsi was a religious adviser to Doquz Khatun, the wife of Ilkhanate Mongol leader Hulagu Khan?
... that rock band The Waxwings took their name from a poem in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire?

11:17, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

... that A Victim of the Mormons (ad pictured) is a 1911 Danish silent film that initiated a decade of anti-Mormon films in the United States?
... that the spectators killed in Alex Fiorio's crash at the 1989 Monte Carlo Rally were fellow rally drivers Lars-Erik Torph and his co-driver?
... that Biomedical Tissue Services was shut down after investigators discovered that it had harvested remains from 1,000 corpses without consent, including those of Alistair Cooke?
... that Charles Beattie became a British Member of Parliament despite never winning an election, and lost his seat despite never being voted out?
... that Holler House is a century-old tavern that has the oldest bowling alley in America?
... that survivors of the Loch Sloy disaster who made it ashore to Kangaroo Island, were eventually found with the remains of two dead penguins tied around their neck?
... that, since 2002, the Community design has provided Europe-wide protection for designs more simply and cheaply than the previous country-by-country approach?
... that whitewater kayaker Douglas C. Gordon died while attempting the first descent of the Tsangpo River in Tibet?

05:09, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Porsche PFM 3200 (pictured) was a version of the Porsche 911's air-cooled engine built for the general aviation market?
... that Henry Taylor Parker, a critic nicknamed "Hard-to-Please", was "Boston's oracle on theatre and music" for 29 years?
... that Bibliotheca universalis was the first modern bibliography of importance done by the "father of bibliography", Conrad Gesner?
... that in the Florida Marlins' 16 seasons, they have had six different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day?
... that Louis Réard, who invented the bikini, chose nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to model the first modern-day bikini in July 1946 at Piscine Molitor in Paris?
... that despite a US$900,000 budget, finances on the 1993 film Amongst Friends were so tight that the contents of a bag of Doritos opened in the film were replaced by yellow cardboard triangles?
... that the via ferrata Ivano Dibona in the Cristallo in the Dolomites is a restored historical route which was used during World War I?
... that Herbert Mayfield, one of the Mayfield Brothers, a bluegrass band, earned his living as a welder for cattle feedlots in West Texas?

23 September 2008

19:56, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Irving Berlin composed the song "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" (cover pictured) more than 30 years before Judy Garland performed it for the 1948 film Easter Parade?
... that Luxembourger mathematician Joseph Neuberg founded the journal Nouvelle correspondance mathématique in honour of the earlier journal Correspondance mathématique et physique?
... that in 1914, the Cumberland Market Group of neo-realism painters founded in London's Cumberland Market held only one exhibition, but was never formally dissolved?
... that U.S. bodybuilding champion Brandon Curry was first interested in weight training when he received a pair of Hulk Hogan-branded dumbbells for his sixth birthday?
... that St Andrew's Church, Brunswick Town, Hove, designed by Sir Charles Barry, was the first Italianate-style church in England?
... that the 1999 book A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award?
... that Curtis Woodhouse was a professional boxer while still playing professional football for Rushden & Diamonds?

13:55, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

... that a jokduri (pictured) is a type of Korean traditional coronet worn by women for special occasions such as weddings?
... that United Copper survived a lengthy battle with Standard Oil-controlled Amalgamated Copper, backed by the wealth of John D. Rockefeller, only to collapse in the Panic of 1907?
... that Edith Atkins who broke numerous British cycling records died aged 79 pushing her bike across a zebra crossing?
... that some believe the pictographs in Burro Flats Painted Cave were drawn by Native American maidens who slept in the cave as part of a puberty ritual?
... that The Dave Clark Five sang London Bridge is Falling Down on Lucille Ball's 1966 TV special Lucy in London?
... that Singaporean equestrienne Laurentia Tan won Singapore's first-ever Paralympic medals, two bronzes in dressage, at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?
... that Columbia Aircraft successfully converted the famed Lancair IV to a fixed-gear general aviation aircraft, but was purchased by Cessna in 2007 after stiff competition from the Cirrus SR22?

07:53, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the old and new One Fathom Bank Lighthouses in Malaysia (pictured) are situated an estimated 500 metres (1,600 ft) apart from each other?
... that Philip Marc, King John's sheriff in Nottinghamshire, should have had his bailiwick removed under the terms of the Magna Carta?
... that Orson Welles shot the footage for his unfinished film The Dreamers in his Hollywood home?
... that athlete So Wa Wai was only able to compete at the 2008 Paralympic Games after being given a job by Cantopop star and actor Andy Lau that allowed him time to train?
... that the first mail chute was installed in the Elwood Building in Rochester, New York in 1884?
... that Operation Mole Cricket 19 was the first time a Western air force successfully destroyed a Soviet-built SAM network?
... that historian Maurice Isserman, known for books on the Communist Party USA and the New Left, has refocused on the history of mountaineering in the Himalayas?

01:50, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Corpus Clock (pictured), a large sculptural clock at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge featuring the world's largest grasshopper escapement, is entirely accurate only once every five minutes?
... that African-American mezzo-soprano Muriel Smith turned down a part in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, saying "it doesn't do the right thing for my people"?
... that the first airplane flight in Norwegian history was performed by Carl Cederström at Etterstad in Oslo in 1910?
... that American cargo ship MS West Honaker was the first diesel-powered ship to circumnavigate the globe?
... that Paralympic gold medalist swimmers Sascha Kindred and Nyree Lewis are nicknamed the "golden couple" of disability swimming?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court's Prima Paint decision created the separability principle, requiring that most issues in contracts with arbitration clauses be decided by the arbitrator?
... that Kamio Mitsuomi, an Imperial Japanese Army general, was in command of Allied ground forces at the Battle of Tsingtao in WWI?
... that the 18th-century James "Squire" Patton House in New Windsor, New York, is now a training facility for the city of Newburgh police K-9 unit?
... that the Smallville version of fictional character Lex Luthor was written to be likeable and vulnerable instead of comedic?

22 September 2008

19:43, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

... that an ayam (pictured) is a Korean traditional winter cap mostly worn by women in the Joseon period?
... that at the time of its sinking in the 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War, HHS Glasgow was the only ship in the navy of Zanzibar?
... that a Saturday Night Live sketch, featuring Amy Poehler and Tina Fey as Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin respectively, was dismissed by Palin's spokeswoman as "sexist"?
... that goalkeeper Peter Litchfield donated the man of the match award from his Football League debut to motor neurone disease in memory of former teammate Mel Holden?
... that the 2001 film Sia, le rêve du python was inspired by a 7th-century myth of the Wagadu people of Western Africa?
... that New Zealand telecommunications entrepreneur Annette Presley once claimed that she would work as the CEO of Telecom New Zealand for NZ$1?
... that the Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center hosts a biennial competition for artists living or working in Connecticut?
... that the British failure to break through Ottoman lines in the Battle of Wadi during WWI, led to Charles Townshend's disastrous surrender following the Siege of Kut?

10:52, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Gesner's fossil illustration, 1551

... that Conrad Gessner's 1551 book Historiae animalium is the first use of fossil illustrations (pictured)?
... that the Oregon Civic Justice Center at the Willamette Law School was dedicated exactly 96 years after the building was first opened as a Carnegie library?
... that Kitigan Zibi, a First Nations Reserve in the Outaouais region of Quebec, is the largest Algonquin Nation in Canada, in both area and population?
... that the Commercial & Financial Chronicle was modeled after The Economist to be the first weekly national business newspaper in the United States?
... that Brazilian footballer Bobô won the 1988 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A before playing three games for the Brazil national team in 1989?
... that the 1994 film Walls of Sand was the first contemporary feature film to be webcast on the Internet?
... that Darryl Kile is the only Colorado Rockies starting pitcher to win twice on Opening Day?
... that Trawsgoed Crosswood Estate, owned by the Vaughn family since the year 1200, was home to the second largest lead mine in Britain?
... that when Kristin Kreuk was cast as Lana Lang in the television series Smallville, she had no idea who her character was in Superman lore?

04:50, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

... that heritage turkeys (pictured) are the only domestic turkeys able to reproduce without artificial insemination?
... that in 2005, Abdullah Wardak, a former Mujahideen commander from Afghanistan, received the "key to the city" of Evansville, Indiana?
... that a recent live performance of "The Robots" by Kraftwerk was disrupted by a curtain that refused to close?
... that Lieutenant-General Robert Richardson commanded units of the British Army on three separate occasions during the Troubles?
... that the origin of Chicano literature, the literature of Mexican-Americans in the U.S., has been traced back as far as 1542 and the chronicle of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca?
... that Tang Dynasty general Li Baozhen, in search of immortality, consumed over 20,000 pills made by an alchemist, which eventually killed him?
... that the Cambridgeshire Cats American football team were briefly known as the "Cambridge Crunchers" following a sponsorship deal with a Seattle-based apple export company?
... that men were forbidden to enter the Palestinian village of Ijnisinya by Helena of Constantinople to ensure that she and her maids could swim in its lake with total freedom?
... that John G. Jackson became a contributor to influential black nationalist journal Negro World while still in high school?

21 September 2008

22:48, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

... that St. Michael the Archangel Church (pictured) in Kaunas, Lithuania was a military church, built for the Kaunas Fortress garrison?
... that screenwriter Gustin Nash was inspired to write the teen film Charlie Bartlett by a group of teenagers that he spent time with while working at a mall in Burbank, California?
... that the 2008 Congo football riots were sparked by accusations of witchcraft?
... that Maxime de la Falaise, called "the only truly chic Englishwoman" by Cecil Beaton, said that "no straight man was attractive" in the 1970s' fashion industry?
... that Controlled Demolition, Inc. was recognized with world records for its 1998 demolitions of a 1,200-foot (370 m) radio tower, the tallest structure, and a 33-floor department store, the tallest building?
... that Negro league baseball pitcher Dave Brown disappeared in 1925 after murdering a man in a bar fight, but was rumored to have secretly resumed pitching under the alias "Lefty Wilson"?
... that the Valluvars are the hereditary priests of the Pallars and Paraiyars of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu?
... that Richard Mohun was the only white survivor of a three-year expedition to lay a telegraph line from Lake Tanganyika to the River Nile?
... that a Japanese sea spirit named shōjō with red hair and a fondness for sake is featured in Noh and Kabuki plays?

13:27, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

... that when the King of Scotland told King Magnus of Norway he could have any land he could circumnavigate, Magnus had a longship (reconstruction pictured) dragged across an isthmus to East Loch Tarbert, Argyll and claimed Kintyre?
... that the complete, power operated, low recoil force gun turret of the Stingray light tank is used on the LAV-600 light armoured vehicle?
... that Tang Dynasty general An Baoyu received permission to use the imperial surname Li because he did not want to share a surname with the rebel An Lushan?
... that audiences of the 1658 theatrical presentation The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru were entertained by acrobats and trained apes between the scenes?
... that architect Elmer Grey recalled that "my health broke down completely" after he finished a major commission on a Christian Science church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
... that Songpa sandaenori is a type of Korean mask play originated in the neighborhoods of Songpa-dong of Seoul, Korea?
... that Australian politician Mick Clough defeated a sitting member of parliament at three different elections?
... that Bridgeport Village, a shopping center in Washington County, Oregon, was built on the site of a former rock quarry?

07:25, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the traditional dress of Hui'an maidens (statue pictured) has been jokingly referred to as "feudal heads, thrifty jackets, democratic bellies, and wasteful trousers"?
... that despite printing only 1500 copies per issue, the journal Scrutiny helped F. R. Leavis become an influential literary critic?
... that in 1975, his only full season, Stan Perzanowski's earned run average was the lowest on the Texas Rangers?
... that Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers is the first dated book printed in England?
... that Charles Ancliffe's waltz Nights of Gladness became famous enough that BBC named a whole series of programmes after it?
... that Rudy Robbins' since disbanded "The Spirit of Texas" was named in 1991 by the Texas State Senate as the "official Cowboy Band for Texas"?
... that the town of Kalisz was almost completely destroyed during WWI by German forces pursuing the Schrecklichkeit policy?
... that the United Nations Human Rights Committee found that Cameroonian investigative journalist Philip Njaru has faced repeated police brutality since 1997?
... that Sir Edgar Speyer funded the Promenade Concerts from 1902 to 1914, but he was accused of trading with the enemy during the First World War and lost his British citizenship?

01:24, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

... that dancheong (example pictured) refers to Korean traditional decorative coloring on wooden buildings and artifacts for style?
... that in February 1943, German General Hubert Lanz plotted to arrest Hitler during a visit to his headquarters?
... that the yellowfin whiting is so popular for recreational fishing that recreational catches have represented nearly a third of the catch in its Southern Australian range?
... that never having previously taken five wickets in a match, Nikita Miller managed the feat twice in the 2007–08 Carib Beer Cup final?
... that Bellifortis is the first illustrated manual of military techology?
... that the Kress Drachenflieger of 1901 was the first heavier-than-air machine to use an internal combustion engine in an attempt to fly?
... that Irish broadcaster John Creedon is set to learn a musical instrument alongside Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons?
... that New York State Route 30 is the longest of only five state highways in Hamilton County, New York?

20 September 2008

19:18, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the colorfully-painted common room of the Jazz Age Naniboujou Club Lodge (pictured) has been called "a psychedelic marriage of Art Deco and traditional Cree Indian patterns"?
... that Senegalese filmmaker Ben Diogaye Beye's first feature film was critical of polygamy?
... that starting in 2009, certain biotech corn hybrid seeds will be covered by the risk management program of the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation?
... that although William Hogarth painted his March of the Guards to Finchley as a gift for George II, the King took great offence at the artwork and refused to keep it?
... that the three major peaks of the Tofane were first reached in 1863, 1864 and 1865 by Austrian mountaineer Paul Grohmann?
... that Lydia Thompson and her troupe of "British Blondes" introduced burlesque to America in 1868?

13:01, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

... that prima ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya (pictured) first performed at the Bolshoi Theater at the age of ten?
... that crime in Singapore includes mobile phone snatching which have in the past been the main target for robbers and snatch thieves?
... that the 1898 Carpenter Gothic Bardsdale Methodist Episcopal Church in California underwent extensive renovations after a portion of the ceiling fell on a parishioner during a 1982 service?
... that French photographer Robert Demachy took hundreds of photographs and wrote more than a thousand articles on photography, but suddenly gave up the subject without any explanation?
... that due to the important archaeological findings near the Bulgarian village of Durankulak, the area has been dubbed the "Bulgarian Troy"?
... that Smokey Mayfield, a ranch supervisor in the Texas Panhandle, once played the fiddle as a warmup act for country performer Tennessee Ernie Ford?

07:24, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

... that a failure to correct an aircraft flaw revealed by the "Windsor Incident" with American Airlines Flight 96 (pictured) caused the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981 two years later?
... that Philip Zec enraged both Hitler and Churchill with his wartime cartoons and nearly had the Daily Mirror shut down?
... that in 1935, the Supreme Muslim Council built the an-Nasr Mosque in the Palestinian city of Nablus after an earthquake in 1927 completely destroyed the previous structure on the site?
... that the Vegas Vampire was a television horror host who stuck pins in voodoo dolls of famous politicians and celebrities?
... that free croquet equipment and music on a Sunday afternoon are provided at the Larmer Tree Gardens in Wiltshire, England?
... that the biography Vita Karoli Magni on the life of Charlemagne is the first of a medieval European king?
... that British justice Thomas Reeve was knighted at the same time he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas?

00:30, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

... that New Zealand band The Trons (pictured) has no human members?
... that Johnny Anders, mayor of Stamford in West Texas, built from spare automobile parts a 22-foot dinosaur model displayed in Stamford's city park?
... that English director and actor Steven Berkoff featured in a two-minute film inviting the viewer to Watch Your Own Heart Attack?
... that at one point, the powerful Tang Dynasty eunuch Yu Chao'en was believed to be responsible for instigating the grave robbing of the general Guo Ziyi's father?
... that It's About Time, singer Christina Milian's second studio album, served as her debut album in the U.S. due to the September 11 attacks?
... that AVIS, the association of Italian blood donors founded in 1927, was asked to include an F for fascist in its acronym by Mussolini?
... that after Charles W. Morse started scandals that toppled a New York City mayor and sparked the Panic of 1907, he faked illness by eating prison soap to convince President Taft to commute his sentence?
... that the main tourist attraction in Namaqua National Park in South Africa is the abundant spring bloom of brightly coloured wildflowers?

19 September 2008

14:45, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Ananda Ranga Pillai (pictured), famous for his diaries which portray life in 18th-century India, was a dubash in the service of the French East India Company?
... that row houses built in the 1840s for workers at a textile mill on Olmstead Street in Cohoes, New York, are today used as federally subsidized affordable housing?
... that in Norse mythology, Sumarr and Vetr are the personified seasons of summer and winter?
... that former Louisiana GOP committeewoman Virginia deGravelles became in 1941 one of the first two whites to register Republican in Lafayette, now a Republican stronghold?
... that Stephen's Tower in Baia Mare, Romania has had four fires in its history, three caused by lightning?
... that the science fiction novel The Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg, which featured a naked time traveler from the future, was a nominee for the 1969 Nebula Award?
... that Sir George Treby was rejected as a possible Speaker of the House of Commons of England because his eyesight was so bad he could not distinguish between different Members of Parliament?
... that the former General Foods Corporate Headquarters in Rye Brook, New York, have been described as an "Aztec Temple"?

05:55, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Frederick Roehrig's Castle Green (pictured) in Pasadena, California, was called "a fantastic folly created from the imagination of a Victorian architect with a penchant for Arabesque opulence"?
... that the Canadian-based fast food company Extreme Pita began to expand to include stores in the United States in 2003, beginning with Arizona?
... that Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Davidson used his civilian experience as a civil engineer to improve his battalion's trenches during the First World War?
... that the chart run for George Jones' first chart single "Why Baby Why" was interrupted when Red Sovine and Webb Pierce released a duet cover of the same song?
... that Polish mountaineer Tadeusz Piotrowski, one of the finest winter mountaineers of the 1970s and '80s, died during descent from K2, after completing the first and only ascent by the "South Face"?
... that a Japanese submarine shelled the Ellwood Oil Field during World War II, the first direct attack by an enemy power on the mainland United States since the War of 1812?
... that baseball player Randy Johnson has pitched six times on Opening Day for the Arizona Diamondbacks, three more times than any other pitcher in Diamondbacks' history?

18 September 2008

23:52, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

A house blown up during Operation Asuta

... that the Palestinian–Jordanian alliance forged at the Battle of Karameh (house blown up during the battle pictured) is considered by observers to have led to Black September in Jordan?
... that Charlotte Glennie became the first New Zealand journalist to officially film in North Korea?
... that the 50-foot (15 m)-tall neon sign of the First National Bank Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota can be seen from 75 miles (120 km) away on a clear night?
... that the Osvald Group, led by Asbjørn Sunde, was the dominating sabotage organisation in Norway from 1941 to 1944?
... that the Dresden Codex is the earliest known book written in the Americas?
... that U.S. Navy gunners aboard SS West Cheswald during World War II were awarded a battle star after the ship was deliberately sunk during the Invasion of Normandy?
... that China's Sanlu Group refused to recall contaminated infant formula until Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand intervened?
... that, in his only full Major League Baseball season, Eddie Yuhas led the National League in 1952 with a win-loss percentage of .857?

18:01, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Victorian English operetta star Emily Soldene (pictured) later became a celebrated gossip columnist?
... that Taiwan's Guo Huaiyi Rebellion of 1652 was partially motivated by the falling price of venison?
... that the 2006 death of NYPD Detective James Zadroga was the first attributed to exposure to toxic dust at the World Trade Center site, though the circumstances of his death are disputed?
... that at one time, Toronto's Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion was the largest outdoor swimming pool in the world?
... that in 2004, Expedition Global Eagle was the first attempt in history to circumnavigate the globe using an autogyro?
... that Mohammad Usman Rana, a Norwegian Pakistani student, is one of the prolific Muslim debaters in the Norwegian public sphere?
... that when a train derailed in Painesville, Ohio, the area was evacuated for fear a liquefied petroleum gas tank might explode?
... that the resentment generated during the Drifts Crisis indirectly sparked the Second Boer War?
... that the Portland, Oregon theater company Portland Center Stage was started as a branch of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival?

12:00, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

... that St. Volodymyr's Cathedral (pictured) was the first neo-byzantine design approved for construction in the Russian Empire in 1852?
... that the 2000 PC game Crimson Skies is set in an alternate history of the 1930s in which the United States has fractured into a number of smaller, independent nation-states?
... that the 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) Canal Saint-Denis, finished in 1821, was built to provide a water route through Paris, other than the Seine?
... that the Oregon Nursery Company founded the town of Orenco, Oregon in 1908 to house its Hungarian immigrant workers?
... that politicians have proposed replacing the red lion on the Flag of Tasmania with a thylacine or cape Barren Goose?
... that Historic Washington State Park near Hope includes the Block-Catts House, the oldest still-standing two-story residence in Arkansas?
... that after manual typewriter expert Martin Tytell accidentally inverted a key on a Burmese language typewriter he built, it became the standard even in Burma?
... that after 175 years in operation the Red Brick School, one of the oldest single room school houses in the U.S., closed in 2008?

05:10, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Nonsuch House (pictured) is the earliest documented prefabricated building?
... that molecular farming is a type of genetic modification involving the use of plants, and potentially also animals, as the means to produce compounds of therapeutic value?
... that Tang Dynasty eunuch Cheng Yuanzhen, after his fall from power, entered the capital Chang'an disguised as a woman to plot his return to power?
... that the French one-act opera Le trompeur trompé had its première given as 14 Thermidor an VIII, since the French Republican Calendar was still in use?
... that Buddy Fletcher′s first experience with risk-reward tradeoff came from developing a strategy to bet on dog racing?
... that Vrav, a village in the northwest of Bulgaria, is inhabited by "wet Vlachs"?
... that despite having excruciating pain in her back and knees because of the disease achondroplasia, Miranda Uhl went on to win a gold medal in the individual medley at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?

17 September 2008

23:08, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Camarillo Ranch House (pictured), headquarters for "the largest bean ranch in the world", was renowned for its Arabian stallions that led the Rose Parade?
... that Twin-T topology can be used as a substitute for bridge topology in many electronic circuits when grounding is an issue?
... that HMS Vidal, the ship sent to annexe Rockall, was named after Alexander Vidal, the first man to properly survey the islet?
... that Alex Garcia, driver of No. 98 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, is the first Venezuelan to race in NASCAR?
... that the 2008 Indian film Ru Ba Ru is the cinematic adaptation of the Hollywood film If Only?
... that a splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams to float logs downstream to sawmills?
... that Svetozar Delić was a mayor of Zagreb, Croatia for three days, but it took three more days to remove him from the city hall?
... that singer Eva Tanguay was reportedly booed off the stage in her first appearance at Cohoes Music Hall in New York?
... that geophysicist Geoffrey Ballard, acknowledged as the father of the fuel cell industry, was named a "Hero for the Planet" by Time in 1999?

15:05, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

... that early claims by European mountaineers to have set world altitude records in the Himalayas have been disproven by the discovery of Inca artefacts on the summit of Llullaillaco (pictured)?
... that the International High School in Paterson, New Jersey, was built with triple-pane windows to keep out noise from Interstate 80, located just 20 feet (6 m) from the school building?
... that Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Chenghong carried the title of emperor for 12 days after invading Tufan forces captured the capital Chang'an and declared him emperor?
... that startup airline Miwok Airways has been described as competing not with other carriers but the roads of Southern California?
... that one of the characters from the Hindi film Summer 2007 was inspired by Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner?
... that cargo ship SS West Nohno was the first American merchant vessel to be armed for service in the Atlantic during World War II?
... that the expensive and ornate Royal Aquarium, which opened in London in 1876 to present art exhibits and classical music, soon turned to circus acts and music hall instead?

09:04, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Guru Maharaj Ji's followers predicted that extraterrestrials would attend the Millennium '73 in the Astrodome (pictured) and that the festival's failure was a major setback for the Divine Light Mission?
... that American soap magnate Benjamin T. Babbitt held over 100 patents?
... that political opportunity theory explains the rise and decline of social movements by their dependence on outside, political factors?
... that George Halpin's Bull Wall and Bull Island, engineering works at the mouth of the River Liffey, enabled deep-draught ships to use the port of Dublin, Ireland for the first time?
... that museum examples of sprang were misidentified as lace or knitting until archaeological discoveries brought public attention to the overlooked needlework technique?
... that Paul "Bear" Bryant won his final game as a head coach in the 1982 Liberty Bowl, his 323rd victory?
... that after the death of Consort Dugu, the favorite concubine of Emperor Daizong of Tang, the emperor was so saddened that he kept her casket in the palace and did not bury her until almost three years later?

03:03, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

... that among the many historic buildings in downtown Cohoes, New York (Ontario Street pictured), is the first textile mill in the United States that manufactured hosiery and other knitwear?
... that a logocracy is government through words?
... that the Portland, Oregon magazine Portland Monthly was founded in 2003 and by 2006 was the seventh-largest city magazine in the United States?
... that from its creation in 1963 to its closure in about 2000, the Scottish Tartans Society recorded and documented about 2,700 different designs of tartan?
... that besides hosting the canoeing and rowing events for the 1964 Summer Olympics, Lake Sagami is also a popular recreational fishing area for black bass?
... that though the 2004 miniseries Category 6: Day of Destruction earned CBS the highest ratings of any show during the November sweeps week, it was generally panned by critics?
... that artist Derek Davis met his wife at a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients?

16 September 2008

20:45, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the only current British medal to retain the head of Queen Victoria on its obverse is the Service Medal of the Order of St John (pictured)?
... that Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon was attacked by neo-Nazi members of the Volksfront in 1994 and 2002?
... that the winning players in cricket's Stanford Super Series take home one million dollars each, while the losing players walk away with nothing?
... that Slipknot has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and won their first for Best Metal Performance with "Before I Forget" in 2006?
... that George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick was baptized at St. Mary's, Warwick, with King George I standing as his sponsor?
... that the seven-mile-long Ventura Mission Aqueduct, built between 1780 and 1815, has been called "an engineering marvel"?
... that the phrase "lipstick on a pig" may have its origins in the 18th-century expression "A hog in armour is still but a hog"?
... that the Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt, completed in 1913, was equipped with a centralised vacuum cleaning system?

13:08, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the deceiver mushroom Laccaria laccata (pictured), initially described by the Tyrolian naturalist Scopoli, is a traditional food of the Zapotec of Oaxaca?
... that Whitney Darrow, Jr. had over 1,500 of his cartoons published in The New Yorker during a career with the magazine that lasted almost 50 years?
... that underwater visibility can reach 80 metres (260 ft) in the limestone sinkholes of Australia's Ewens Ponds?
... that Sudanese journalist Mahjoub Mohamed Salih was awarded the 2005 Golden Pen of Freedom, despite being from "one of the most restrictive media environments on the African continent"?
... that the 1756 Fleming Castle is the oldest house in Flemington, New Jersey, but longstanding traditions that it housed a tavern visited by George Washington have been disproven?
... that Egan-Sud, Quebec, a community of 508 people, is home to the largest ice rink in its regional county municipality?
... that Sir John Stonor was one of only two Chief Justices of the Common Pleas to be appointed on three separate occasions?
... that the earliest fault-tolerant computer was built by Antonín Svoboda in 1951?

07:52, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

... that despite the long-established use of mathematical diagrams (Voronoi diagram pictured), going back to the Ancient Greeks, the scientific study of them has only recently begun?
... that the 1828 Hunterdon County Courthouse was the site of the "Trial of the Century" of Bruno Hauptmann for his role in the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder?
... that there were at least five attempts by imposters to pretend to be Empress Dowager Shen, who disappeared during the Anshi Rebellion?
... that the Religion Newswriters Association awards scholarships for full-time journalists who wish to take college courses on religion?
... that London's Novelty Theatre, built in 1882, changed its name at least five times in its first dozen years of operation?
... that American swimmer Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead received three gold medals and two silver medals at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships, when she was only 14 years old?
... that 1944 was called the "year of ten victories" by the Soviet Union for ten battles the Red Army won during that year?
... that the Indian horror film 1920 was filmed at a Yorkshire mansion that was rumored to be haunted by the spirit of a carpenter?

01:41, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

... that although the Byzantine megas doux Alexios Apokaukos (pictured) owed his rise to the patronage of John VI Kantakouzenos, he instigated the Civil War of 1341–1347 against him?
... that a deductive fallacy is an argument that has true premises, but may still have a false conclusion?
... that Iyothee Thass was a Dalit Buddhist leader from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu after whom a hospital was named?
... that McDynamo won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Grand National Steeplechase in five consecutive years, with the fifth win coming as a 10-year-old, the oldest horse running that day?
... that in 2001, the French government announced the appointment of Henri Loyrette as the new director of the Louvre Museum?
... that the island of Hsiao Liuchiu off Taiwan was the scene of a massacre of 300 native inhabitants by Dutch soldiers and allied Formosan warriors in 1636?
... that Claude Kirkpatrick, Louisiana public works director in the 1960s, joined with state officials in Texas to establish Toledo Bend Reservoir on the common Sabine River border?
... that in the Germanic pagan Merseburg Incantation, Sinthgunt and the personified sun, Sunna, are sisters using charms to heal a wounded horse?
... that screenwriter Dorothy Ann Purser was nominated for seven awards and won two, including a Daytime Emmy?

15 September 2008

18:54, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

... that there are nearly 100 Registered Historic Places in Pasadena, California, including a 25-foot Space Simulator and the JPL Space Flight Operations Facility (pictured)?
... that crime in the Maldives includes drug trafficking, which according to the UNODC is a side effect of the nation's increased exposure to the outside world?
... that placekicker Kevin Kelly is the all-time leading scorer for the Penn State Nittany Lions?
... that the World War I diaries Tommy's War only came to be published after an appearance on the TV programme Antiques Roadshow?
... that following a 17-year campaign, Vijayabahu I successfully reunited Sri Lanka in 1070, for the first time in more than a century?
... that the Mount Edziza volcanic complex in northern British Columbia, Canada was a source of obsidian for Tahltan people and its lava plateau has been an important cultural resource?
... that the Fall Creek Massacre led to the first white man receiving capital punishment for the killing of a Native American?
... that the hair salon chain First Choice Haircutters helped launch the career of soap opera star Jacqueline MacInnes Wood?

12:48, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Swallow-tailed Gull (pictured) of the Galápagos Islands is the only fully nocturnal gull?
... that Patrol Squadron Eight (VP-8) became the first operational P-3 Orion squadron in the United States Navy during October 1962?
... that medieval donor portraits often showed the donor of a religious image at a completely different scale to the main figures?
... that English-born architect John C. Austin designed several landmark buildings in Southern California, including the Griffith Observatory?
... that according to Interpol data, the rate of rape in Qatar decreased by 67.1% between 1995 and 1999, while the rate of robbery increased by 100%?
... that Isis Tsunami is the first transwoman to be amongst the 14 finalists on the fashion model reality series America's Next Top Model?
... that the Kłodzko Fortress in present-day southwestern Poland took the Austrians and the Prussians 200 years to build?
... that only three out of 32 football matches in the Third Round of the FA Cup 1962-63 were played on their scheduled day because of the Big Freeze of 1963?

06:36, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

... that macromolecular crowding (pictured) can make molecules in cells behave in radically different ways than in test-tube enzyme assays?
... that Liberian Supreme Court Chief Justice Johnnie Lewis was rescued from an angry mob after a car he was in hit and killed a pedestrian?
... that the Tampa Bay Storm has appeared in the AFL playoffs 19 of their 22 years?
... that in 1862, Phan Thanh Gian said that France's "wealth and strength are beyond description"?
... that two trains returning from the 1851 Chester races lost adhesion in Sutton Tunnel, and a third crashed into them, killing nine and injuring up to 40 people?
... that Charlotte Guillard was the first European woman printer of history?
... that the WWF Championship match at WrestleMania IX was between Bret Hart and Yokozuna, but Hulk Hogan won the title?
... that the 1968 triple trawler tragedy caused the deaths of all but one member of the crews of three fishing vessels from Kingston upon Hull?
... that Charlie Nothing created the dingulator?

00:34, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

The Sultan's Elephant

... that the arts company Artichoke produced The Sultan's Elephant (pictured), the biggest piece of free theatre ever staged in London?
... that in his book The War Within: A Secret White House History (2006-2008), author Bob Woodward alleged that a secret killing program was used by American forces in Iraq?
... that the Manchester and Bolton Railway was originally proposed as a replacement for the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal but was eventually built alongside it instead?
... that linguist Asim Peco is an expert in the language of eastern Herzegovina?
... that prior to statehood, negotiations with Indians in Indiana included 13 separate treaties purchasing 2,500,000 acres for white settlement?
... that Sumerian Farmer's Almanac is the first farmer's almanac on record?
... that the Nazi operation Gross Aktion resulted in the destruction of the Jewish population of Warsaw?
... that investor and philanthropist Ray Chambers helped bring the New Jersey Devils to Newark, New Jersey and was named as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Malaria?

14 September 2008

16:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Austrian Baroque painter Paul Troger was known for his frescoes in Austrian abbeys (example pictured)?
... that the Glacial Gardens of Interstate Park in Minnesota and Wisconsin contain the greatest concentration of glacial potholes in the world?
... that Philippe Suchard was not only the creator of Milka chocolates, but also had an influence on the discovery of a La Tène settlement dating back to 450 BC? NOTA BENE: Milka was created after the death of Philippe Suchard
... that the Mobile Tigers, a Negro League baseball team, paid pitcher Satchel Paige "$1 when the gate was good and a keg of lemonade when it wasn't"?
... that Quebec nationalist Walter-Patrice O'Leary was the younger brother of CBC correspondent Émile-Dostaler O'Leary?
... that the odour of the poisonous mushroom Inocybe geophylla has been likened to semen?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Diwu Qi ordered the minting of coins valued significantly higher than ordinary coins and was blamed for the subsequent rise in food prices?
... that We Need Each Other was the first Sanctus Real album to feature guest musicians?

10:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

... that cosmologists C. B. Collins and Stephen Hawking proposed an infinite number of universes to explain the Flatness problem in the curvature of spacetime (three possibilities pictured)?
... that the 1961 German film The Miracle of Father Malachia was finished only seven hours before its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival?
... that Louisiana piano player Allen "Puddler" Harris, whose career spanned five decades, was inducted into the Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame?
... that a new Louvre museum is scheduled to be completed by 2012 in Abu Dhabi, UAE?
... that City of Peking and City of Tokio were the largest ships ever built in the United States upon their completion in 1875?
... that actress Marion Terry, a younger sister of Dame Ellen Terry, appeared in over 125 chief roles?
... that Bridge Island Meadows is an inaccessible nature reserve on the floodplains of the Charles River in Massachusetts?

03:49, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Tachikawa Airfield (aerial photo pictured) was the military base in Tokyo from which the 1937 original Kamikaze plane to London took off?
... that composer Tom Scott also had a career as a folk singer known as "The American Troubador"?
... that the Palestinians consider the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel Mukaber as the site of their future capital?
... that the mouth of the disgraced Tang Dynasty chancellor Yuan Zai was stuffed with socks by the executioner when he was executed for corruption?
... that by the time the Wye Valley Railway opened in 1876, a Welsh wireworks it was intended to serve had already closed down?
... that Russian doctor and serial killer Maxim Petrov was caught because he took the names of his twelve victims all from the same list of patients, enabling police to predict whom he would kill next?
... that The Owl Service, a 1969 TV adaptation of the novel, was the first fully-scripted colour production by Granada Television?

13 September 2008

21:49, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the newly discovered Baby Boom Galaxy (pictured) is seen producing stars at a rate of up to 4,000 per year, compared to our own Milky Way galaxy that produces an average of just 10 stars per year?
... that in his memoirs of the Battle of Waterloo, William Leeke claimed that the 52nd Light Infantry singlehandedly defeated 10,000 of Napoleon's Imperial Guard?
... that Congress Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania served as the capitol building of the United States from 1790 to 1800?
... that Daniel Dobbins was in charge of the building of the ships that Oliver Hazard Perry commanded in the Battle of Lake Erie?
... that screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg originally aspired to be a dancer, and ended up writing the 2006 dance film Step Up?
... that J. D. Chakravarthy's Telugu film Homam drew inspiration from Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning film The Departed?
... that Charlie Grant nearly broke baseball's color barrier decades before Jackie Robinson when John McGraw disguised him as a Native American named "Charlie Tokohama"?

14:28, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Bulgarian modernist painter Ivan Milev (pictured) is depicted on the five Bulgarian leva banknote?
... that Chicago's defunct 58th station must be kept in operable condition because federal funds were used in its renovation?
... that German-Swedish driver Freddy Kottulinsky, who won the 1980 Dakar Rally, was hired only a few days before the start?
... that the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, California originally opened in 1907 as a Carnegie library?
... that Armenian merchant Coja Petrus Uscan built the first ever bridge across the Adyar River in Madras?
... that the readership of the new Dow Jones & Company magazine, WSJ., has average household assets of US$2.9 million?
... that after Edwin E. Moise retired from mathematics research he became a literary critic of 19th-century English poetry?
... that cardanol, a substance obtained from a byproduct of cashew nut processing, is used to make vehicle brakes and coatings for concrete floors?

08:29, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Air Group Six (pictured) was the U.S. Navy's only carrier-based air group to carry out three complete tours of duty during World War II?
... that the main candidate to replace Pope Callistus III died two days before the beginning of the papal conclave, 1458?
... that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall, a school in Derbyshire, played soccer for England?
... that Tang Dynasty judge Pei Zunqing spared a group of soldiers accused of treason by pointing out they had neither money nor talent to carry out a rebellion?
... that the Coast Range Arc is the largest continental volcanic arc fossil in the world and the largest granite projection in North America?
... that though small in size, the underground drug market in Bahrain is growing?
... that Richard Lawson, a British Army officer, was nicknamed "Dick the Lionheart" for his work in the United Nations peacekeeping force during the Congo Crisis?
... that Stephen Fry's Podgrams are one of the top five most downloaded podcasts from iTunes?

03:10, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

... that a hose strap (pictured), a piece of firefighting equipment, has a variety of uses including carrying un-charged firehose, opening and closing doors, and dragging the injured?
... that Cyclone Graham dropped 163 millimetres (6.4 in) of rain at Telfer, Australia in one night, over half the community's annual average?
... that musicians have recorded in the Widow Jane Mine at the Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District in Rosendale, New York because of the acoustics?
... that according to legend, the eponymous ancestor of Clan McCorquodale was awarded lands for recovering the decapitated head of Alpin, father of Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Scots?
... that in Personnel Administrator MA v. Feeney, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that giving preference to veterans in hiring decisions did not unconstitutionally discriminate against women?
... that out of all the Norwegian TV guest appearances during the first half of 2007, Linn Skåber had the most?
... that memiljeon is a type of Korean pancake, made with buckwheat flour and vegetables?
... that as special counsel investigating loans made to Jimmy Carter, Paul Curran became the first lawyer to question a sitting U.S. President under oath in an investigation of that president?

12 September 2008

20:26, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

... that landscape painter George Arnald's most successful painting (pictured) was his only known work of maritime art?
... that Washington State Route 339 is actually a ferry route?
... that British cyclist Simon Richardson won two gold medals and one silver at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing?
... that the National Cartoon Museum wandered between four homes before its acquisition by Ohio State University?
... that Charles II of England attended the 1667 premiere of the tragicomedy The Maiden Queen?
... that accountant Jack Liebowitz was not only joint owner of All-American Publications that created Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, but his companies also distributed Mad and Playboy?
... that roughly 300 fish species, three of which are not named, swim in the rivers of Cameroon's Boumba Bek National Park?
... that the science-based panel game The What in the World? Quiz guest stars appearances from The Naked Scientists?
... that Steve Foley was the replacement drummer for The Replacements when Chris Mars left the band in 1990?

14:25, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

... that All Saints' Chapel (pictured), now a public library in Rosendale, New York, is faced in locally-produced Rosendale cement?
... that the Wawer massacre around Christmas 1939 in occupied Poland is considered one of the first large massacres of Polish civilians by Nazi Germany?
... that John C. Ostlund, a Wyoming state senator and 1978 gubernatorial nominee, lost his eyesight to diabetes and penned his autobiography to benefit the training of seeing-eye dogs?
... that the Dublin Virginal Manuscript represents an important step in the development of secular English keyboard music?
... that Singaporean Paralympian Theresa Goh, who is paraplegic, won six gold medals in swimming at the 2003 ISMWSF World Wheelchair Games in 2003?
... that comics artist Ham Fisher worked as a salesman for the McNaught Syndicate before they started distributing his comic strip Joe Palooka?
... that Beecher's Handmade Cheese is an artisan cheese maker in Seattle, Washington that is known for mixing combinations of cheese cultures?
... that actresses Jane Fonda and Liv Ullman were involved in a campaign for the release of refusenik Ida Nudel from exile?

07:12, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the city of Chuncheon, Korea is famous for dak galbi (pictured), which is made by stir-frying marinated chicken, vegetables, and rice cake in chili pepper paste?
... that among the effects of Tropical Storm Allison in Texas was severe damage to the Baylor College of Medicine, including the loss of 60,000 tumor samples?
... that Ralph Sandwich served as the justice at the 1305 trial of William Wallace?
... that there are more than 1,200 historical markers in Ohio?
... that Parithimar Kalaignar is best remembered for his sustained efforts to establish Tamil as a classical language?
... that the 2005 book Baseball Before We Knew It brought new evidence of the origins of baseball into play?
... that King Rother is the earliest known Spielmannsdichtung heroic epic of wandering minstrels?
... that poet David Wagoner's novel The Escape Artist was made into a film by executive producer Francis Ford Coppola?

01:08, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

... that architect Albert C. Martin successfully defended his design of the 28-story Los Angeles City Hall (pictured) against those who argued the city government could fit into the first four floors?
... that the Arafura Swamp in Australia, the filming location for Ten Canoes, is an important breeding site for crocodiles?
... that "Woolwick" was a fictional name for Kent, Ohio in the writing of Lucien Price?
... that the Marsala Ship is the first warship known from archeological evidence?
... that Greg Urwin was the first Australian and first non-Pacific Islander to become Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum?
... that MV Westward was modeled after a salmon cannery tender?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Kui had once referred to future chancellor Yuan Zai as the son of a water deer or a rodent, drawing Yuan's eventual retaliation?
... that "Spirit in the Night" was the first of three songs from Bruce Springsteen's debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. that was covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band?

11 September 2008

19:25, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department (jacket pictured), which responded to the Flight 93 crash during the September 11 attacks, received a memorial made of steel from the World Trade Center?
... that Giovanni Soro was likely the Western world's first great cryptanalyst?
... that the marriage of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson took place at Château de Candé?
... that although Kim Oler and Alison Hubbard's musical tracks for Little Women won the Richard Rodgers Award in 1998, those tracks did not make it to Broadway?
... that the Statesman Journal is the second oldest newspaper in Oregon?
... that in Norse mythology, Valhalla is an enormous hall located in Asgard where those that die in combat go upon death?
... that adults in septic shock who have low blood pressure despite adequate resuscitation can be treated with hydrocortisone if critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency is suspected?
... that Mike Francesa of Mike'd Up, who co-hosted his last sports radio program, said he wouldn't have a co-host on this one?

13:22, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Andong jjimdak (pictured) is a Korean steamed dish originated in the city of Andong?
... that Allied aircraft, including the one that located the Bismarck, were permitted to fly across neutral Irish territory using the Donegal Corridor?
... that author-illustrator Polly Dunbar has been selected by The Times as one of the ten best new picture book illustrators of 2008?
... that although Mackerel scad are found from Nova Scotia to Rio de Janeiro, they do not seem common in the Gulf of Mexico?
... that after the Battle of Chmielnik, a major victory for the Mongols during their invasion of Poland, inhabitants of Kraków abandoned their city?
... that the Power Memorial Academy basketball team, led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1964, was named "The #1 High School Team of The Century" by National Sports Writers?
... that, because Li Xian would not flatter him, the Tang Dynasty chancellor Yang Guozhong blamed torrential rains near the capital Chang'an on divine displeasure with Li Xian?

07:29, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the construction of the Untertorbrücke (pictured), the first bridge in Berne, Switzerland, triggered a war?
... that Roy Staiger played for both New York Major League Baseball teams, the Mets and Yankees, but for no other Major League teams?
... that the child duo known as the Aquatots planned to swim the English Channel in 1951 but were forbidden from attempting by both the British and French governments?
... that the village of Anasartha, located in Western Syria and today known as Khanasser, derived its water supply until 1975 from a 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) long Byzantine-era qanat?
... that the Far Hills Races has hosted the Breeders' Cup Grade 1 Steeplechase, which has been called "steeplechasing's richest race"?
... that Welsh comedienne Gladys Morgan was renowned for her toothless, ear-splitting, infectious laugh?

01:25, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

... that gejang (pictured) is a variety of jeotgal, fermented seafood in Korean cuisine, which is made by marinating fresh raw crabs in soy sauce?
... that on January 13, 1964, a B-52 bomber containing two 24-megaton nuclear weapons crashed on Savage Mountain in Garrett County, Maryland?
... that Mohan Krishna Indraganti's 2008 Telugu film Ashta Chamma was inspired by Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest?
... that Admiral Sir Francis Geary was a noted bellringer at St Bride's Church, London?
... that the Jewish community dates its presence in Eišiškės, Lithuania, back to the year 1097 or 1171?
... that Daily Mail journalist Rodney Hallworth was questioned during the 1956 police investigation of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams for leaking information to two MPs?
... that the Footprints of Eve are the oldest known footprints of an anatomically modern human?
... that Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure featured Rory McGrath and Paddy McGuinness in "strange but quintessentially British sporting events", such as cheese rolling and bog snorkelling?
... that Norwegian evangelical preacher Aril Edvardsen performed in a country music band in his youth?

10 September 2008

16:15, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Abell 39

... that the planetary nebula Abell 39 (pictured) is unusually spherical, yet its central star is offset from the center?
... that the beoseon are socks worn with hanbok, Korean traditional clothing?
... that between 1221 and 1244, Robert of Lexinton served as a justice on Eyre on 64 occasions, acting as senior justice for 31?
... that Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo is the first military/civilian hospital in the United States?
... that Captain Benjamin Hallowell gave his friend Lord Nelson a coffin made from the French flagship destroyed at the Battle of the Nile?
... that the 2007 film The Pool was directed by Milwaukee-based Chris Smith in Hindi, a language alien to him?
... that cricketer Major Leo Bennett was meant to have been made captain of Surrey in 1946, but a different Major Bennett was offered the position by mistake?
... that the molybdenum mines in Knaben, Norway, were the target of a massive B-17 bombing raid in 1943?
... that Brooke Miller, a racing cyclist and the US national criterium and road race champion, has a Ph.D in evolutionary biology?
... that Timothy Creasey, a British Army officer, was commander of the Sultan of Oman's Forces for three years before serving in Northern Ireland?

10:21, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

... that a Mantled Howler's (pictured) calls can be heard for several kilometers?
... that Archibald Russell was Bristol Aeroplane Company's Chief Designer during his 44-year career?
...that Lonar Lake was created by the only hypervelocity meteoritic impact crater on basalt rock?
... that the critical editions of the Classics produced by Giovanni Andrea Bussi between 1468 and 1472 were criticised at the time for inaccuracy?
... that the Gloster Grouse biplane, developed in 1922, never saw active service in the Royal Air Force?
... that James Lingan, officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, was beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore, Maryland for defending the freedom of the press?
... that Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed was the largest science fiction bookshop and comic store in Europe during the 1970s?
... that Samuel Johnson's London, his first major work, contains the beginnings of his views on literature, politics and ethics?
... that the Delta Music Museum in Ferriday, Louisiana, honors 16 musicians of the Mississippi delta?
... that Afro-Brazilian Culture is prominent in regions like Bahia, Brazil, where over 80 percent of people are of African descent?
... that Daniel Kievsky was the first Russian travel-writer?

04:30, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

... that prehistoric Orkney has provided so many ancient ruins (pictured) that one of the islands in the archipelago has been described as "the Egypt of the North"?
... that in 1902, Isabel Gonzalez, a single Puerto Rican mother, challenged the United States government and helped pave the way for all Puerto Ricans to be recognized as U.S. citizens?
... that Hindu deity Chinnamasta and Buddhist deity Vajrayogini are often depicted as drinking blood from the kapala?
... that Czech poet František Gellner disappeared in Galicia with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and was never found?
... that the 110-foot (34 m) fresco The Age of Reptiles is the largest painting on the subject of natural history in the world?
... that Lü Yin grew up in poverty and would not have been able to become a Tang chancellor without the financial support from his father-in-law?
... that Julius Caesar is believed to have taken a nap under the Caesarsboom yew in West Flanders?
... that Erkki Nghimtina, Minister of Mines and Energy of Namibia, was only reprimanded for firing a gun shot near a relative after the teenager joined the opposition Rally for Democracy and Progress?

9 September 2008

20:29, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

... that although the mushroom Russula delica (pictured) is technically edible, its smell of fish or bugs and acrid taste make it fairly poor fare?
... that in 1998, English writer Joyce Dunbar cycled across Cuba to raise funds for the National Deaf Children's Society, on behalf of a people with hearing impairment?
... that the Croatian eurodance group Colonia won the first annual Eurodance contest in 2001 with its song "Za tvoje snene oči"?
... that the replica of a Hadrosaurus unearthed in New Jersey in 1858 was displayed at the New Jersey State Museum for decades with an incorrect skull?
... that the 2008 Kerry bogslide was described as "one of the most frightening and overwhelming events ever witnessed"?
... that La púrpura de la rosa is the first known opera to be written in and performed in the Americas?
... that The Bostonian Society was formed in 1881 to prevent the Old State House, site of the Boston Massacre, from being moved to Chicago?

14:04, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

... that carved Romanesque stone heads (pictured) were added to the walls of Temple Cronan in Ireland as decoration during renovation in the 12th century?
... that CBC correspondent Émile-Dostaler O'Leary founded the International Francophone Press Union?
... that the Voith Corporate Group claims that its own Voith Maxima 40CC locomotive is the world's most powerful diesel-hydraulic locomotive?
... that Peel Park in England was the first of three public parks to be opened for the people of Manchester and Salford in 1846?
... that Hawaiian cultural advocate Bob Worthington served as the honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States?
... that in the 1890s, Moloundou, Cameroon was considered "one of the richest rubber areas of Africa"?
... that the Seimas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was officially abolished by the Union of Lublin in 1569?
... that the monkey "Marcel" on the TV sitcom Friends was a White-headed Capuchin?

07:20, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

100x100px|The Masked Rider mascot

... that the Masked Rider mascot (statue pictured), one of the Texas Tech University traditions, was the first mascot in major college sports featuring a live horse?
... that Norwegian television presenter Dan Børge Akerø started his career as a research fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo?
... that the 12th-century St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean is one of only two extant churches in England with that dedication?
... that despite having immigrated from Poland, Dahn Ben-Amotz was often considered the epitome of the concept of the Israeli native "Sabra"?
... that incidents of violent crime against foreign citizens are rare in Kuwait?
... that American writer and former Montague Bookmill proprietor David Lovelace published a 2008 memoir titled Scattershot: My Bipolar Family, about his family's battles with bipolar disorder?
... that Bronco Lane presented his severed toes to the National Army Museum?

01:22, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard (pictured), Minister of State for the Republic of the Congo, is also an acknowledged poet?
... that Tang Dynasty official Miao Jinqing was demoted after he ranked a colleague's son, Zhang Shi, first in the imperial examinations despite Zhang's lack of knowledge?
... that The Portraitist is a 2005 Polish television documentary film about the life and work of Wilhelm Brasse, the famous "photographer of Auschwitz"?
... that Archibald Russell was Bristol Aeroplane Company's Chief Designer for 25 years of his 44-year career?
... that the massacre of the Acqui Division provided the historical context for the novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which later became a Hollywood film?
... that Hungarian fencer Pal Szekeres is the only person ever to have won medals at both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games?
... that Sylvester O'Halloran suggested in a 1793 book on external injuries to the head that Irish fights were often caused by drinking too much whiskey?

8 September 2008

19:27, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the German Renaissance Little Masters specialized in very small engravings (example pictured), often treated erotically?
... that Commodore Nutt grew only 37 inches (94 cm) tall?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Lin was removed from office due to the political machinations of the Emperor's wife and the eunuch Li Fuguo?
... that Gibraltar's St. Michael's Cave, prepared as an emergency hospital during World War II, at present contains an auditorium and receives almost a million visitors a year?
... that Casey Nicholaw received three Tony Award nominations for his first two shows on Broadway as a choreographer and director: The Drowsy Chaperone (2006) and Monty Python's Spamalot (2005)?
... that composer William Turner was kicked out of the Chapel Royal choir when his voice broke?
... that Simon of Pattishall, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas between 1190 and 1217, had two sons, both of whom became royal administrators themselves?
... that two-thirds of pioneers arriving in Indiana from Louisville] used the Buffalo Trace to settle the state?

13:20, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

... that La Princesse (pictured), a giant mechanical spider, roamed the streets of Liverpool, England as part of the 2008 European City of Culture celebrations?
... that there are stories of Metacomet, sachem of the Wampanoag Indians, meeting with allies near Bear's Den Falls to plan attacks on Massachusetts towns during King Philip's War?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Wang Yu was credited with incorporating the custom of burning joss paper into imperial worship ceremonies?
... that the 2008 Indian film Tahaan was the first to be filmed in the strife-torn region of Kashmir after a gap of 18 years?
... that Alliance for Open Society International, operator of drug rehabilitation programs for heroin addicts in Central Asia, sued the U.S. Government over the anti-prostitution pledge?
... that Australia's second largest gold mine is located in Telfer, Western Australia?
... that Gilbert of Preston, despite serving as a royal justice since 1240, was not given a regular salary until 1253?
... that the 1964 Liberty Bowl was played in the Atlantic City Convention Hall, making it the first indoor game telecast nationwide in the U.S.?

07:18, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Gothic Collegiate church in Wislica, Poland (pictured), was built in 1350 on foundations of two earlier Romanesque churches?
... that when one of the rare recordings of "Stormy Weather" by The Five Sharps, a 78 rpm record, was broken, the blame was placed on a pet raccoon that supposedly sat on it?
... that the new antiretroviral drug apricitabine was invented at a Canadian drug manufacturer, which was bought by the British company Shire plc, who sold the drug's development rights to an Australian company?
... that Dick Woodson was the first baseball player to invoke the free agency clause?
... that Dante Alighieri shared a five-part poetic correspondence, called the duol d'amore, with Dante da Maiano?
... that creationist museums present a young Earth creationist view that Earth and life were created c. 6,000 years ago in six days?
... that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zhang Gao, prior to his civil service career, would attend feasts held by officials just for the purpose of getting drunk?
... that the North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was the defendant in the first environmental lawsuit in US legal history?

00:14, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the vulnerable Queensland shrub Grevillea venusta (pictured) is an easily-grown garden plant and parent of cultivars G. 'Fire Sprite' and G. 'Orange Marmalade'?
... that despite total defeat of the Polish forces in the Mongol invasion of Poland, the Mongols did not occupy the country?
... that Google Chrome, a new web browser developed by Google, was launched with a comic by Scott McCloud?
... that the episodes of the BBC 7 sitcom Knocker have titles such as "Privinvasionacy", "Obselejectivitysence" and "Confidentialitydence"?
... that Russian philologist Mikhail Gasparov was also a poet, but only one of his poems was published during his lifetime?
... that worldwide resistance to the antibiotic mecillinam is remarkably low, even though it has been widely used as a treatment for urinary tract infections since the 1970s?

7 September 2008

15:42, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Adamson House, called the "Taj Mahal of Tile", has an elaborately tiled dog bath (pictured)?
... that the French ship Le Foudroyant was captured in 1758 and fought against the French Navy as HMS Foudroyant?
... that Hong Kong has the second highest life expectancy in the world?
... that in Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna, the U.S. Supreme Court held that challenges to the legality of a contract must be heard by an arbitrator if the contract has an arbitration clause?
... that the name of Lithuania was mentioned for the first time in the Annals of Quedlinburg?
... that the Detroit Tigers gave the Williamsport Tigers not only their name, but also grandstand seats taken from Briggs Field in Detroit for their minor league baseball stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania?

09:39, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the village of Rezovo (pictured) on the Bulgarian Black Sea is the most southeastern point of the European Union mainland?
... that Ossie Brown, a criminal defense lawyer and former district attorney in Baton Rouge, composed his high school alma mater?
... that Dwyer's Snake is only weakly venomous and coils into a ball when threatened?
... that Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, an architect from Shrewsbury, England, designed the first iron bridge in the world?
... that Rich Schroeppel, the inventor of the Hasty Pudding cipher, offers a bottle of Dom Pérignon for research on the cipher?
... that Prince Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1958, though his actual investiture did not take place until 1 July 1969?
... that Les Whitt, director of the Zoological Park in Alexandria, Louisiana, won the Dunbar Civil Service Award for his innovation and success in expanding the zoo?
... that a parade honoring Jack Benny was held at the Azusa Civic Center, commemorating his running gag in which a conductor called out, "Train leaving now for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga"?

02:02, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the city hall Hamburg Rathaus (pictured), constructed from 1886 to 1897, has 647 rooms, six rooms more than Buckingham Palace, and still functions as the seat of the government of Hamburg?
... that Martin of Pattishall, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, had served as clerk to the previous Chief Justice, and that Pattishall's clerk in turn rose to this position?
... that the National Council of Women of Canada helped create the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Children's Aid Society, and played a vital role in declaring that women were persons?
... that, according to legend, each of the 66 men who laid the tile of the South Dakota State Capitol placed a blue stone in the floor as a personal signature?
... that the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia in Monrovia is the only law school in the nation of Liberia?
... that after Yuri Titov had received nine Olympic medals in artistic gymnastics from three Olympics, he served 20 years as president of the International Gymnastics Federation?
... that the 2008 drama Whistleblower focused on the irregular number of caesarian hysterectomies carried out by Dr Michael Neary in an Irish hospital?

6 September 2008

17:34, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Elizabethan soldier and MP Sir Edward Hoby (pictured) of Queenborough Castle published Protestant theological works, one under the pseudonym "Nick-Groome of the Hobie-Stable Reginoburgi"?
... that in 1929, the American cargo ship SS West Alsek became the first steamship powered solely by pulverized coal-fired boilers to cross the Atlantic Ocean?
... that France-Burma relations started as early as the 18th century?
... that Henry Clay Fry was the first to imitate cut glass from pressed blanks?
... that the Pomona City Stables, which housed 22 horses upon its completion in 1909, is reported to be one of the oldest municipal buildings still extant in California?
... that medievalist Aron Gurevich was the first in Soviet Union to defend a doctoral thesis on Viking history?
... that visitors to the Old Talbott Tavern in Bardstown, Kentucky's historic district included King Louis-Philippe of France and Queen Marie of Romania?

11:10, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Frederick Hollyer (pictured) was an English photographer known for his platinotypes of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and for portraits of literary and artistic figures?
... that I. M. Pei's IBM Somers Office Complex has been described as a "futuristic fortress" as a result of its unique modernist architecture?
... that in 2002, theft was the most common crime in Saudi Arabia, accounting for 47% of the nation's crime?
... that Charles William Bardeen, who took positions of national leadership in the National Education Association, was the grandfather of two-time Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen?
... that, to mark the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's death, RTÉ and the History Channel created the multipart documentary Cromwell in Ireland?
... that the Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914 was a major labor strike action affecting all copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan?
... that in 1482, Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja proposed a new musical temperament that achieved more consonant thirds and sixths?

04:00, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Hunterian Psalter, of about 1170, is the oldest English illuminated manuscript to have miniatures with backgrounds of incised gold leaf (pictured)?
... that Charles deGravelles and his wife, Virginia, of Lafayette, Louisiana, were in 1968 the only married couple in history to serve together on the Republican National Committee?
... that in the 1980s, over 35,000 Vietnamese people worked in Bulgaria?
... that Vernon Erskine-Crum was appointed General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1971, during the Troubles, but was relieved within a month after suffering a heart attack?
... that the two attacks on Nauru Island during December 1940 were the greatest success achieved by German auxiliary cruisers in the Pacific Ocean during World War II?
... that Marie Ficarra is the first Coalition party woman to have been both a member of the upper and lower houses of the New South Wales Parliament?
... that although not a member of Nasjonal Samling, Kjeld Stub Irgens was asked by Vidkun Quisling in 1940 to persuade Haakon VII of Norway to abdicate and name Quisling Prime Minister?
... that the larger and more distinctively coloured female Black-breasted Buttonquail mates with multiple male quails, who in turn incubate the eggs?

5 September 2008

21:59, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

... that in Tatton Hall, Cheshire (pictured), are ten full-length portraits of the Cheshire gentlemen who met in 1715 and decided to support King George I rather than James Stuart in the first Jacobite rebellion?
... that opera singer Nell Rankin used her pet jaguar, King Tut, as a negotiating tool at the Metropolitan Opera?
... that the Angle, Pembrokeshire lifeboat received silver medals in 1878 rescuing the crew of the whisky laden Loch Shiel sinking off Thorn Island?
... that the Peshekee River Bridge was the first trunk line bridge designed by the Michigan State Highway Department?
... that the title of the 1999 film One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich is a play on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
... that the longest debate in the Australian Senate was over laws to change the Wik decision?
... that William A. Eddy, president of Hobart College and William Smith College (1936–42), was a recipient of the Navy Cross in World War I and instrumental in the creation of the CIA in the late 1940s?

15:25, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Achenseebahn (pictured) in Austria is the oldest steam-operated rack railway in Europe?
... that General Sir Harry Tuzo ordered Operation Motorman to take back control of Irish Republican controlled areas of Northern Ireland?
... that Evan Royster was the Penn State Nittany Lions starting running back for the team that let head coach Joe Paterno tie the record for all-time NCAA Division I victories?
... that the Phillips Mansion, described as having been built in the "Classic Haunted Mansion" style, was the home of the richest man in Los Angeles County from 1875 to 1900?
... that the Lester Apartments in Seattle, originally intended to be the world's largest brothel, were destroyed when a B-50 Superfortress crashed into it in 1951?
... that both Christians and Muslims ritually sacrifice lambs during the Feast of Saint George in the Palestinian town of al-Khader near Bethlehem?
... that Stanmer Churchyard contains a rare vertical donkey-wheel, an ancient mechanism for drawing water from the ground?
... that U.S. Route 41 in Michigan including the Portage Lake Lift Bridge was the state's first Michigan Heritage Route in 1995?
... that the Central Branch designated by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 had a hanging end at Waterville, Kansas when the Eastern Division was rerouted to serve Denver?

09:25, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Clarence Saunders developed the first self-service grocery store (pictured) concept into the first fully-automated grocery store concept?
... that the 2008 Hindi comedy film C Kkompany marks the directorial debut of scriptwriter Sachin Yardi?
... that Jerry Shea was the first player to achieve all four rugby scoring methods—try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal—in a single international match?
... that in the 1996 case Smiley v. Citibank, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a regulation of the Comptroller of Currency declaring that late fees and other credit card penalties are interest payments?
... that Cyril Tenison White, who authored a 42-part series on weeds, was awarded the Mueller Medal for his important contributions to Australian botanical science?
... that horseshoeing was among the courses taught at the Masonic University?

03:57, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the resignation of Filipino national police chief Hermogenes E. Ebdane, Jr. (pictured) was one of the demands of the Oakwood mutiny?
... that Frederick Mann was the first Australian-born Chief Justice of Victoria?
... that the International Francophone Press Union, the world's oldest Francophone organisation, has more than 3,000 members in 110 countries?
... that Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Wasilla High School?
... that Production I.G staff was responsible for creating the PlayStation 2 game Surveillance Kanshisha, despite being developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment?
... that Norwegian comedian Per Inge Torkelsen caused an international stir when as a 15-year old he placed several ancient Chinese coins in a local excavation field?
... that swimmer Trischa Zorn of the United States is the most successful Paralympian with more than 40 gold medals reported?
... that the Harris Theater opened to serve small performance groups such as the Luna Negra Dance Theater?

4 September 2008

21:19, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

... that, in a video released by the Millennium Wrestling Federation, the Iron Sheik (pictured) challenged Seinfeld character Kramer to a match?
... that French ethnographer Henri Lhote believed that prehistoric rock art in the Sahara Desert was evidence of ancient astronauts?
... that while chartered to the United States Army during World War I, SS Kentuckian's Naval Armed Guard gun crew destroyed a running German torpedo headed for another ship?
... that the Aegean pottery known as Minyan ware was also referred to as "Orchomenos Ware" by contemporaries of Heinrich Schliemann?
... that the Mount Rennie rape case in the 1880s in Sydney, Australia was likened by one newspaper to the British oppression of the Irish?
... that Franciscan friar Matfre Ermengau (d. 1322) was also a troubadour, encyclopaedist, and master of laws?

15:29, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

... that in the U.S. State of Florida, Hurricane Noel caused 4 million dollars' worth of beach erosion (example pictured), including washing away most of a 20 feet (6 m) sand dune?
... that the only salut à refrains composed by a named trouvère was by Philippe de Rémi (died 1265)?
... that Fred L. Schiele, who managed Edwin Edwards' Concordia Parish gubernatorial campaign in 1971–1972, was appointed by Edwards in 1973 as the parish sheriff to succeed the scandal-plagued Noah W. Cross?
... that historian Willard Hughes Rollings published a study of the Osage Nation entitled Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion?
... that professional wrestler Antonio Pugliese was a fan of opera music and would sing opera before his matches?
... that despite jointly murdering at least 1,000 inmates at Auschwitz, former SS-Unterscharführer Oswald Kaduk earned the nickname "Papa Kaduk" among patients at the hospital he worked at after the war?

09:33, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the 33-room San Dimas Hotel (pictured) built in 1887 never had a paying guest due to a land boom that never occurred?
... that the Drummond Nature Reserve named after botanist James Drummond has 439 species of vascular plants?
... that after winning a 2004 Olympic bronze medal, Cuban hammer thrower Yunaika Crawford was not in the top ten at the 2005 World Championships?
... that Fitchburg State College researchers in Lancaster, Massachusetts used artificial lights to mimic the bioluminescence of fireflies on Dexter Drumlin?
... that, besides books, in 1950 the Seattle Public Library had over 27,000 pictures and 3,500 phonograph records in its circulating collection?
... that Alaska's First Gentleman Todd Palin won the world's longest snowmobile race four times?
... that it is accepted that Samuel Johnson had Tourette syndrome, after a 1967 diagnosis, a condition unknown during Johnson's lifetime?
... that a 20-day study reported by BirdLife International discovered 265 species of birds in Nki National Park?
... that Liberia College in the country of Liberia was authorized by the legislature in 1851, but did not start classes until 1863?

00:41, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

... that about 70 Jewish fighters held off an assault by an entire Syrian infantry brigade and several armored battalions as part of the Battles of the Kinarot Valley (see map) on May 20, 1948?
... that tennis player Julie Coin, ranked 188th, defeated the #1 woman player Ana Ivanović in the second round of the 2008 US Open?
... that the Palomares Adobe, Casa Alvarado and Casa Primera, built between 1837 and 1855, provided a stagecoach stop, chapel, school and early homes for the 22,000-acre Rancho San Jose in Los Angeles County?
... that despite being the fifth fastest European of all time in the 100 metres, Ronald Pognon failed to reach the semifinals in his event at the 2008 Olympic Games?
... that Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville, Oregon, is the only hospital in the county seat of Yamhill County?
... that a riot erupted at the opening night of Adelia, an opera by Gaetano Donizetti, because an unscrupulous promoter sold too many tickets?
... that the first tour of the touring company of Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater Company included a four-week run at the Apollo Theater?

3 September 2008

18:44, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Geoffroy's Spider Monkey (pictured) has a prehensile tail that can support its entire body weight?
... that despite the Vickers V-1000 jet airliner's being canceled, it was so admired that the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 were re-designed to compare with its six-abreast seating?
... that the conspirators for the 1810 Argentine Independence movement's May Revolution had their secret gatherings at Hipólito Vieytes′s soap factory in Buenos Aires?
... that the only surviving salut d'amor by a woman (Azalais d'Altier) was addressed to a woman, probably Clara d'Anduza?
... that architect Ivan Rerberg despised the title of architect, and preferred to sign his work "Engineer Rerberg"?
... that the periodical Owl and Weasel played a key role in the development of the roleplaying and wargaming hobby industries in the UK?
... that the cancellation of the Skybolt missile in 1962 led to a major crisis in US-UK relations, which was solved by personal meetings and the signing of what is today known as the Nassau agreement?

11:59, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh, what a charming thing's a battle!

... that the 1770 burletta The Recruiting Serjeant has a sergeant cheerily describing the sight of "heads, and limbs, and bullets flying" during battle (song, right) to a potential army recruit?
... that Mandume Ya Ndemufayo was the last king of the Kwanyama people of Angola and Namibia?
... that the Abergil Crime Family is facing charges of money laundering, murder and drug trafficking, both in Israel and the United States?
... that Lucian Freud described the Titian paintings Diana and Acteon and Diana and Callisto as "simply the most beautiful pictures in the world"?
... that Major League Baseball pitcher Frank Barnes scored three runs despite only having one hit in ten career at bats and having no walks, no hit by pitches and one caught stealing?
... that the state of Yan ended when its general Li Huaixian turned against its emperor Shi Chaoyi and forced him to commit suicide?
... that Paulo Zucula headed the National Disasters Management Institute before he replaced Antonio Munguambe as Mozambique's Minister of Transport and Communication in March 2008?
... that Philadelphia Phillies prospect Andrew Carpenter pitched a perfect game against the Fort Myers Miracle in 2007?

06:01, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

... that 19th-century American actor and playwright Steele MacKaye (pictured) invented a variety of theatrical devices, including folding theatre seats?
... that the book Help at Any Cost triggered hearings by the United States House Committee on Education and Labor into behavior modification techniques used by the tough love teen industry?
... that while she was working in the billing department of a clinical laboratory firm, Lexie Fyfe became a professional wrestler at the invitation of a co-worker?
... that 16th-century noblewoman Marguerite de La Rocque was marooned on an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence by her relative, the privateer de Roberval, as punishment for an affair?
... that Charles Van Riper, a severe stutterer, was a pioneer in the development of speech pathology?
... that Mexican soprano Ángela Peralta once sang Donizetti's opera Maria di Rohan in a theatre improvised from a disused sand pit in La Paz, Baja California?

2 September 2008

22:23, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1908, swimmer Henry Taylor (pictured) became the only Briton to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games until Chris Hoy equalled his mark in 2008?
... that Czesława Kwoka, a Polish Catholic child victim of the Holocaust, was the subject of a 2007 award-winning mixed-media presentation?
... that Rob Johnson was one of four of The Star-Ledger's top 10 prep soccer players of the 1990s to play pro for the hometown MetroStars / Red Bulls?
... that Springfield Park was created in 1905 from the grounds of three London houses, one of which is now a cafe?
... that the forking lemma is a lemma in cryptography first used to prove the security of a digital signature scheme in the random oracle model?
... that the village of Strezimirovci has been bisected by the Serbian–Bulgarian border since 1919?
... that Charles Pearson was Mentioned in Despatches 10 times for actions during the Anglo-Zulu War?
... that the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Temptation near Jericho was built around a cave said to be where Jesus spent forty days and nights fasting and meditating while being tempted by Satan?

16:41, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

... that of the ninety historic Synagogues of Kraków, Poland active before World War II, only the Remuh Synagogue (pictured) still serves as a Jewish house of prayer?
... that blacklisted U.S. film director John Berry worked without screen credit on the 1951 Laurel and Hardy film Atoll K?
... that coach builder Jim Frecklington had to mortgage his house to pay for the estimated £620,000 building costs of the State Coach Britannia?
... that Selmo Cikotić was recently appointed Defence Minister for Bosnia and Herzegovina?
... that Florida's City College paid US$11.2 million to acquire its current Fort Lauderdale campus?
... that after six terms in the Norwegian Parliament, Olav Akselsen will take over as director of the Norwegian Maritime Directorate from October 2009?
... that the town of Bezdonys was the site of one of the most daring and successful train robberies in history?
... that although fortuneteller Madam Marie was "finally busted" in Bruce Springsteen's "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)", she was never arrested in real life?

10:51, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Andrew Carnegie (pictured) founded the Simplified Spelling Board in 1906, with the aim of making English the world language by addressing its difficult spelling?
... that Charles Ndaxu Namoloh, now a member of the National Assembly of Namibia, used the nom de guerre of "Ho Chi Minh" during the Namibian War of Independence?
... that the Mangrove monitor possesses salt-excreting nasal glands, which enabled them to reach new islands and aided in its dispersal across thousands of miles throughout the South Pacific?
... that when 15-year-old Jordon Mutch was first selected to play for Birmingham City F.C., he had to be withdrawn only hours before the match because of child protection regulations?
... that Rob Stewart made the 2007 documentary film Sharkwater after learning that longline fishing in the Galapagos Islands was killing the sharks?
... that newspaper publisher Katherine Graham's difficulties with her company's ownership of the Trenton Times led her to call it her "Vietnam"?
... that Hall of Fame bowler Patty Costello did not begin bowling until she was sixteen?

01:57, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

... that two future kings stood sponsor at the christening of the daughter of Admiral Lord Keith and "Queeney" Thrale (pictured), herself a child prodigy and friend of Dr Johnson?
... that the Focometer was created in order to provide rural or economically disadvantaged populations the ability to measure spherical refractive errors?
... that the Rose Museum's collection includes the trowel that was used to lay the cornerstone of Carnegie Hall?
... that Yang Jia, a Chinese man sentenced to death for murdering six policemen, is being hailed as a hero on Chinese internet forums?
... that Malcolm Fraser, a severe stutterer from an early age, founded the Stuttering Foundation of America and gave it most of its US$10 million endowment?
... that The17, a choir founded by former pop star Bill Drummond, never records its music, or performs for audiences?
... that Lonnie Wright played football for two seasons for the Denver Broncos and switched to playing basketball for the Denver Rockets just weeks after the 1967 football season ended?

1 September 2008

18:56, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the largest sheet of mica (example pictured) ever mined in the world came from Denholm, Quebec, Canada?
... that California Gold Rush-era bandit and highwayman Jack Powers, after being run out of several cities by vigilantes, was murdered in Mexico and his body fed to hogs?
... that the architect of Communal House of the Textile Institute in Moscow, a student dormitory completed in 1931, proposed centralized sedation of students at night?
... that members of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance faced surveillance, interrogation, and harassment by the FBI?
... that major crimes in the United Arab Emirates include trafficking of young boys who are used as camel jockeys?
... that the first passenger elevator in an American hotel was installed in the Fifth Avenue Hotel facing Madison Square, New York City in 1859?
... that although some believe that there is no cure for stuttering, others say that it can be eliminated with stuttering therapy at early age?
... that the "K. Bridge" mentioned in the opening scene of Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment is the Kokushkin Bridge in Saint Petersburg?
... that Alice Arden and her son Russ Hodge are the only mother–son Olympians in American history?

12:56, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Sunset Tower (pictured) in West Hollywood, California was home to gangster Bugsy Siegel, who was asked to leave after being charged with running a bookmaking operation there?
... that a play by Tekle Hawariat Tekle Mariyam using animal characters to criticize the Ethiopian court prompted Empress Zewditu to ban all theatre in the country?
... that according to People v. Beardsley, it is not against the U.S. law for a man to not help his drinking partner, a woman who is not his wife, when she is dying of an overdose?
... that the first woman to be executed in Western Australia murdered John Hurford?
... that the Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site contained over 55,000 artifacts from a Makah village inundated by a mudslide?
... that American lexicographer Robert L. Chapman added ecosystem and yuppie to Roget's Thesaurus?
... that the slimy spike-cap mushroom Gomphidius glutinosus is edible and useful for soups and stews once the layer of slime is removed?
... that the only season that Eldridge Recasner ranked in the top ten in the NBA for three point shot field goal percentage was not his best season?
... that when the Disley Tunnel was constructed, the navvies used 24 simultaneous working faces?

07:47, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the edible mushroom Russula xerampelina (pictured) has a taste and smell reminiscent of shellfish or crab?
... that biochemist Harvey Itano, who worked with Linus Pauling to determine the molecular basis of sickle cell disease, was the first Japanese American admitted to the National Academy of Sciences?
... that in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali in northern Pakistan, the Bakhshali manuscript, the oldest surviving example of Indian mathematics, was discovered written on birch bark?
... that American cargo ship SS Iowan rammed and sank two ships, one on each coast of the United States?
... that Jōmon Sugi, located on the island of Yakushima, is the oldest specimen of Cryptomeria japonica and the largest conifer in Japan?
... that Sir Ian Freeland was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland when the British Army was drawn into the beginning of the Troubles?
... that Harold Lloyd's Estate, called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created," included a golf course and a 900-foot canoe stream?
... that Georg Prahl Harbitz, a priest by education, served as President of the Norwegian Parliament for ten terms?

01:30, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Ludwig I of Bavaria was inspired to commission the Court Church of All Saints (pictured) in the Munich Residence after attending Christmas mass at the Palatine Chapel in Palermo?
... that soprano Adele Addison stepped into the role of Bess in the 1969 film version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess as a last-minute replacement of a singer who sounded too shrill?
... that Matsukata Kojiro, president of Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, implemented Japan's first eight-hour work day in 1919, after a strike by 30,000 workers threatened to bring down the government?
... that thousands of Flat Daddies, life-size photo cutouts of American soldiers deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan, have been created to help families cope with their deployment?
... that until his appointment as Demonstrator in Practical Anatomy at Queen's College, Birmingham, Balthazar Foster had given up hopes of a medical career, and had even applied for a naval commission?
... that Dick Jones, a Wyoming Republican state legislator and gubernatorial nominee, also operated a trucking company which at its peak served thirty-eight states?
... that Cooleemee, a plantation house in North Carolina, was built from approximately 300,000 bricks made on site?
... that former Mayor of Auckland Colin Kay was also twice the New Zealand triple jump champion?