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31 December 2007
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- ...that blackfin scad (pictured) is a popular food fish in Cambodia and Thailand, where it is served fried, steamed or baked?
- ...that William Stewart Simkins, later professor emeritus at the University of Texas School of Law, may have fired the first shot of the US Civil War?
- ...that the day Wu Zetian, China's only female Emperor, was overthrown in 705 CE, Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong were killed and their heads were hung at an entrance to the capital?
- ...that the 5th-century baptistery of the Cathedral of Saint-Léonce, one of France's oldest Christian structures, was concealed after reconstructions in the 13th century and re-discovered in 1925?
- ...that the Hurricane Creek mine disaster, which killed 38 men in 1970, occurred exactly a year after passage of the first federal legislation regulating mine safety?
- ...that besides Bartter syndrome, endocrinologist Frederic Bartter also identified the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone?
- ...that Azizul Huque gave up his Knighthood after the Calcutta Riots in 1946?
- ...that Laurent de Premierfait was the first French translator of Giovanni Boccaccio's material, which was done only for personal financial gain?
- ...that Pratap Singh was the last ruler of Thanjavur to be officially referred to by the English East India Company as "His Majesty"?
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30 December 2007
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29 December 2007
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- ...that studies of the inshore marine fish small-scale whiting (Sillago parvisquamis, pictured) suggest the female starts life smaller than the male, but grows faster and is larger than the male within two years?
- ...that footballer Roy Cheetham was the first Manchester City player to be used as a substitute?
- ...that Jimmie Lewallen turned down an offer to buy into NASCAR because "it would never amount to anything"?
- ...that the town of Orlová in the Czech Republic was named for the eagle that, legend has it, caused the premature birth of Kazimierz, son of Duke Mieszko and his wife, Ludmiła, on the spot where the town was founded?
- ...that the ANAK Society, Georgia Tech's oldest secret society, claims to have covertly protected the university's first African American students during Georgia Tech's racial integration in the 1960s?
- ...that despite his never having been emperor, Li Chengqi was posthumously honoured as such by the Tang Chinese Emperor Xuanzong?
- ...that during his U.S. Air Force career, Colorado state representative Kent Lambert oversaw military support for the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster investigation at Air Force Space Command?
- ...that signs of spring trending to earlier arrivals are evidence of season creep?
- 05:25, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
28 December 2007
- 23:27, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that Josiah Parsons Cooke (pictured) had little formal education in chemistry, and instead spent eight months in Europe for advanced studies in the subject after he became Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at Harvard in 1850?
- ...that Psalms 134 and 135 are usually chanted during the Polyeleos, a festive portion of the Matins or All-night vigil services in some Eastern Christian Churches, but Psalm 44 is chanted instead on feasts of the Theotokos in Greece?
- ...that John Cort, founder of Broadway's Cort Theatre, first made his name by booking variety entertainment in the bawdy box houses of Seattle, Washington, USA?
- ...that irritable hip is the most common cause of limp and sudden pain in and around the hip in children aged three to ten?
- ...that the Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. not only houses the headquarters of the United States Department of Commerce, but is also the site of the Population Clock, National Aquarium, and White House Visitor Center?
- 15:49, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
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27 December 2007
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- ...that Carlo Orelli (pictured) was the last surviving Italian veteran to see service on Italy's entry into World War I?
- ...that when St Hilary's Church in Wallasey, England burnt down in 1857, a new church was built separately, leaving the tower of the old medieval church as a free-standing edifice?
- ...that in the cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies, coffee became the alternative to tea after the enactment of the Tea Act of 1773?
- ...that netball in New Zealand is the most popular women's sport in the country, led by its high-profile national team, the Silver Ferns?
- ...that Marine Attack Squadron 233 was the only squadron of the U.S. Marine Corps to have three commanders killed during the course of World War II?
- ...that Svinøy island of Norway is so exposed to the wind and high seas that supply boats to the island's lighthouse could not dock but had to be lifted up by a crane?
- ...that English botanist John Ralfs amassed a collection 3,137 microscopic slides, which he left in his will to the British Museum?
- ...that the Battle of Chudniv in 1660 was the largest Polish victory over the Russians until the Battle of Warsaw in 1920?
- ...that many churchgoers in the 1920s believed that Ronald Reagan's mother, Nelle Wilson Reagan, had the gift to heal due to her strong belief in the power of prayer?
26 December 2007
- 19:07, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that Irish playwright George Farquhar (pictured) originally planned on an acting career, but gave it up after accidentally wounding a fellow actor severely on stage with a sword?
- ...that the four years between the two no ball decisions for throwing by cricketer Harold Cotton is the longest span during which a player was no-balled in major cricket in Australia?
- ...that as well as serving as the assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, Kent R. Hill has also published books and served as the president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy?
- ...that John Warren Davis, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, was indicted for receiving a bribe from film producer William Fox?
- ...that German-American football center Adolph F. "Germany" Schulz is credited for developing the "roving center" technique, which became the basis for the linebacker position?
- ...that according to literary critics, The Queen and Concubine, a 17th-century tragicomic stage play written by Richard Brome, is a critique of royal tyranny and courtly sycophancy in England at the time?
- ...that during the Spanish Civil War Solidaridad Obrera, published by an anarchist labor union, was Spain's highest-circulation newspaper?
- ...that the Brooklyn Hospital Center is the oldest hospital of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City?
- 11:58, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that the former Grand Opera House (pictured) in Seattle, Washington, USA is now a car park?
- ...that the Abbey of Condat, founded in the 420s in the Jura Mountains by Romanus and Lupicinus, predated even Montecassino as one of the earliest monasteries in the West?
- ...that, after failing to hail a cab on New Year's Eve in Denver, state representative Jerry Frangas sponsored legislation to deregulate Colorado's taxicab industry?
- ...that although Louisiana per Perry v. Louisiana forbids the forced medication of a death row inmate to make him competent for execution, some states allow it?
- ...that the well known white wine region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia also makes red wine from grapes like Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pignolo?
- ...that indigenous Australian cricketer Jack Marsh was called for illegally throwing instead of bowling an Australian record seventeen times in one innings?
- ...that in the 17th century, south-London prostitutes, nicknamed 'Winchester Geese' after the Bishop whose land they worked on, were buried in a special, unconsecrated graveyard called Cross Bones?
- ...that people with patent foramen ovale, an atrial septal defect, are more likely to suffer from migraine headaches?
- 01:32, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
25 December 2007
- 18:59, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- 12:56, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that Philippine Christmas lanterns, called Parols (pictured), are also used in Christmas celebrations in Austria, Canada and California?
- ...that to clear a jammed gun on the armored cruiser USS Brooklyn, Medal of Honor recipient Harry L. MacNeal crawled along its barrel during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba?
- ...that wine made from the Italian grape Schioppettino was served at weddings in 1282 and the grape is still being grown today?
- ...that development of the 2008 film Dragonball began in 2002, when 20th Century Fox acquired the rights?
- ...that in the 1971 film Lawman, American actor Robert Ryan played the role of the sheriff under the name Cotton Ryan?
- ...that Franz Kafka's 1917 "Jackals and Arabs" has been read as variously a Zionist critique of Western Jewry, a European critique of Jewish-Arab relations, and a paean to Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality?
- ...that in 1971, the Indian Claims Commission ordered US$74,856.50 to be paid to the Lower Skagit tribe to pay for land lost as a result of the Point Elliott Treaty?
- ...that Frank Pitcher was the only cricketer in Australia history to be no balled for throwing in his debut match?
- 05:06, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that St. Thomas' Church, Mellor (pictured) contains the oldest wooden pulpit in England, and possibly in the world?
- ...that, with Christine Scanlan's appointment to the Colorado House of Representatives, the state house's Democratic caucus became majority-female?
- ...that the Zoological Garden of Hamburg built the world's largest primate house in 1915, only to see most of the monkeys starve to death during World War I and the zoo go bankrupt in 1920?
- ...that when the Duke of Austria, Leopold III, established reign over the Italian city of Trieste one of his stipulations was that the city supply him each year with 100 urns of the region's best Ribolla wine?
- ...that before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jackson v. Indiana, an incompetent criminal defendant could be involuntarily confined indefinitely (as if given a life sentence) without a trial or a conviction?
- ...that Ron DeGregorio was elected in 2003 as the fourth president of USA Hockey since 1937?
- ...that Viktor Pynzenyk, Ukraine's Minister of Finance, is also a professor of economics at Lviv University?
24 December 2007
- 22:51, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that the world's most extensive deposits of eolianite (example pictured), rocks formed by the lithification of sediments deposited by wind, are located on the southern and western coasts of Australia?
- ...that the British shipping company Ellerman Lines lost 60 out of its 105-strong fleet of merchant vessels during the Second World War?
- ...that cricketer Barry Fisher had a metal pin surgically inserted into his shoulder to prevent injury while bowling, although he still suffered from persistent shoulder problems?
- ...that Soma Cruz, the protagonist of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, the third installment of the Castlevania video game series on the Game Boy Advance, is the reincarnation of the series' premier villain, Dracula?
- ...that the SAPPHIRE information network helped prevent epidemics in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, using Semantic Web technologies?
- ...that after serving as a border guard, Saint Claudius of Besançon became, successively, a priest, monk, abbot, bishop, and then an abbot again, in the 7th century?
- ...that there is currently significant controversy on college and university rankings like those used for business school rankings because some of the methodologies are deemed misleading?
- 16:54, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that the Tierpark Hagenbeck zoo of Hamburg, Germany (pictured) was the first to use moats instead of cages to separate the animals from the public?
- ...that Luv Ya Blue was the term given to a 1970s movement by fans of the Houston Oilers that featured fight songs, pom-pons and other gimmicks more reminiscent of college football than the NFL?
- ...that Hector Munro Macdonald graduated as fourth Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1889?
- ...that "Clash of the Choirs" was a quick reality talent contest miniseries between celebrity-led amateur choirs that was criticized for a lack of tension and actual judges?
- ...that, upon exhumation, the 10th century saint Rasso was found to be 2 meters (6' 6") tall, although, given that his grave was 2 and a half meters, he had earlier been thought to be even taller?
- ...that Frank Parr, an English chess player, won the Hastings Premier during his first and only appearance at the tournament in 1939/1940?
- ...that Christopher Erhardt was a product planner for companies such as Teledyne, and is now working on a doctoral dissertation on video game players' demographic considerations?
- ...that the Zionist leader Leo Motzkin organized the Jewish delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and led agitations against the Nazi Party?
- 10:44, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Zinfandel grapes on the vine!
- ...that Zinfandel (pictured) was grown for table grapes in Boston long before it made wine in California?
- ...that Stanley Green, the "Protein Man", walked up and down Oxford Street in London every day for 25 years, sometimes in green overalls to protect himself from spit, warning passers-by about the dangers of too much protein — and sitting?
- ...that The Enchanter is the last work of fiction written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian but was first published in English after his death?
- ...that the writer and diplomat Maurice Francis Egan introduced President Theodore Roosevelt to William Butler Yeats at a White House lunch?
- ...that the Little War was the smallest and least successful of the three conflicts in the Cuban War of Independence?
- ...that Clifford Last, a son of the author of the Housewife, 49 diaries, migrated from Britain to Australia after the war and became a noted abstract sculptor?
- ...that Glenn Vaad was elected to seats on his local town board, school board, sanitation board, and county commission before winning election to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006?
- 03:18, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that stitch markers (pictured) are mnemonic devices that demonstrate the underlying mathematical basis of crochet?
- ...that after sinking the SS City of Cairo, Kapitän zur See Karl-Friedrich Merten gave the survivors directions to the nearest land, and parted with the words "Goodnight, and sorry for sinking you"?
- ...that Cornelius Shea, the founding president of the Teamsters, spent more than five years in Sing Sing prison for slashing and stabbing his mistress 27 times?
- ...that when the old All Saints Church, Marple was replaced by a new church 30 metres away in 1880, the tower from the old church was retained and is now used as a free-standing bell-tower?
- ...that as Oregon State University athletic director, Percy Locey agreed to play the 1942 Rose Bowl at the opposing team's home field due to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
- ...that Ron Halcombe was the first player to be called for throwing in major Australian cricket by three different umpires?
- ...that the pun riddle “What do you call a spicy missile? A hot shot!” was generated by computer as part of computational humor research?
- ...that Libya was the first country to purchase the Palmaria, an Italian-made self-propelled 155mm howitzer, ordering 210 units in 1982?
23 December 2007
- 21:03, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that the man intensely reading in the oil portrait The Bookworm (pictured) represents the inward looking attitudes that affected Europe during the time of its creation?
- ...Robert Hett Chapman was the second president of the The University of North Carolina and instituted the first Bible study classes at the university?
- ...that the Creusot steam hammer, with its massive 100 ton hammer and 750 ton anvil, was the world's largest steam hammer on its completion in 1877 and is the largest surviving steam hammer today?
- ...that Mount Urpín is home to 35 endangered animal species, despite its proximity to downtown Banská Bystrica?
- ...that theatre director David Warren landed a directing role on Desperate Housewives after giving the show's creator, Marc Cherry, his first acting job twenty years prior?
- ...that HMCS Esquimalt was the last Royal Canadian Navy warship lost to enemy action in World War II?
- ...that Jack Blott, an All-American football center for the Michigan Wolverines, had a Major League Baseball career with the Cincinnati Reds lasting only two games?
- ...that, as of December 2007, more than half of registered players of rugby union in Belgium are teenagers and pre-teens?
- ...that recreational parachutist Jacques-André Istel wrote a children's book claiming that the center of the world is located in Felicity, California, a town he founded?
- 13:42, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that Clinton Thomas Dent made eighteen failed attempts to climb the Aiguille du Dru (pictured) before making the first ascent in September 1878?
- ...that Nationalism and Culture, the magnum opus of German anarchist Rudolf Rocker, was lauded by three Nobel Prize laureates?
- ...that the energy elasticity of India in 2005 was 0.80?
- ...that the first act of Paul John Hallinan as Archbishop of Atlanta, an office he assumed in 1962, was to order the desegregation of all Catholic schools and institutions in the Archdiocese of Atlanta?
- ...that the L class destroyer HMS Legion rescued 1,560 crew members of the torpedoed aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal?
- ...that cricketer Ian Meckiff was chaired off the ground by angry spectators as a hero after he was sanctioned for illegal bowling?
- ...that two of the four judges depicted in The Bench, a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth, were half asleep in court?
- ...that the Army Cyclist Corps, which operated the bicycle infantry of the British Army, only existed for four years?
- ...that after placing fifth in the original Judgment of Paris wine tasting, the 1971 Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon made by Paul Draper of Ridge Vineyards won the 2006 rematch?
- ...that Kurt Vonnegut's short story 2BR02B is mentioned in his later book God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, where it is attributed to Vonnegut's fictional alter ego Kilgore Trout?
- 07:40, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that Enriqueta Favez (pictured), a Swiss woman, studied medicine and served as an army surgeon in the Napoleonic Wars disguised as a man, went to Cuba in the 1820s and married a local woman?
- ...that the 1957 accident on the Saint-Paul ramps claimed twenty-seven lives, making it among Réunion's deadliest road accidents?
- ...that No. 112 Squadron RAF was the first unit from any air force to use the "Shark Mouth" logo on P-40 fighter planes?
- ...that pole splitting is a frequency compensation technique that can be used to improve the step response of an electronic amplifier?
- ...that "Majulah Singapura", the national anthem of Singapore, was originally a theme song for events held by Singapore's City Council during colonial times?
- ...that the Invasion of Minorca, 1781, by Spanish and French forces succeeded, after more than five months, because the British defenders had no fresh vegetables?
- ...that the conventional name of the Darius Painter, an Apulian red-figure vase painter, is derived from his name vase, which carries the depiction of Darius the Great of Persia?
- ...that the community of West Union, Oregon, has the oldest Baptist church west of the Rocky Mountains?
- ...that actor Ben Kingsley has been cast in the lead role of the upcoming film reportedly inspired by the life of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Guru of Sex?
- 00:14, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
22 December 2007
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21 December 2007
- 22:56, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that harps (pictured) are national musical instruments in Ireland, Wales and Paraguay?
- ...that Robert Adley became on December 10, 2007, the newest Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, just fifty-six days after he was easily reelected as a Democrat in the October 20 jungle primary?
- ...that William Ohnesorge, Party member of the Third Reich, heavily participated in research toward a German atomic bomb while acting as President of the Reichspost, the German postal service?
- ...that St Mary's Church in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, a Grade I listed building, was built in the 16th century and houses a stone cross dating to the 11th century?
- ...that Hallie Ford made the largest donation in the history of Willamette University in 2006, and the largest donation ever to a cultural group in Oregon in 2007?
- ...that glacial periods, commonly referred to as ice ages, are actually cold intervals within an ice age?
- ...that Ann C. Noble, inventor of the "Aroma Wheel", was the first woman hired as a faculty member of the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology?
- 14:14, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that in 1289, when the Mamluks led by Qalawun captured Tripoli (depicted in artwork) in present-day Lebanon from the Franks, they ended 180 years of uninterrupted Christian rule, the longest of any of the major Frankish conquests in the Levant?
- ...that Rudyard Kipling wrote a short story about a group of World War I soldiers who were committed Janeites, that is, fans of Jane Austen novels?
- ...that three of the four batters faced by Mike Palagyi in his one Major League game were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
- ...that Champagne has been featured prominently in popular culture from James Bond to hip hop?
- ...that Keeley Hawes voices the character of Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Underworld, the eighth video game in the Tomb Raider series, as she did in Anniversary and Legend?
- ...that the town of Rogersville, Tennessee was founded in 1789 by Irish-born pioneer Joseph Rogers and his father-in-law Thomas Amis?
- ...that the highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. state of Georgia is 112 °F (44 °C), while the lowest ever recorded is -17 °F (-27 °C)?
- ...that one of the birth places of punk in the 1970s was a clothing store in Chelsea, London called Acme Attractions?
- 06:04, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
20 December 2007
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19 December 2007
- 22:17, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that artist John LeKay exhibited crystal skulls (pictured) made from paradichlorobenzene, which is usually employed as a toilet deodoriser?
- ...that Google's Knol project is widely seen as an attempt to compete with Wikipedia?
- ...that Jeanne Labuda, a Democratic member of the Colorado House of Representatives elected in 2006, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia?
- ...that Colombia and India established diplomatic relations on January 19, 1959?
- ...that, though records from the era are sketchy, press accounts reported that All-American football player Frank Steketee once kicked a 100-yard punt?
- ...that after selecting the wine to make their Grand vin many Bordeaux estates like Château Margaux will use the remaining cuvee to make a second wine?
- ...that the historian and geographer Robin Donkin served in Egypt and Jordan as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery?
- ...that the liwan, a long narrow-fronted hall or vaulted portal often open to the outside, has been a feature of Levantine homes for more than 2,000 years?
- ...that a Belgian, Robert Goffin, was the first person to write a serious book on the indigenous American art-form, jazz?
- 14:13, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that seeds of redtop (Agrostis gigantea, pictured) are long-lived and display a high germination rate even after years of storage in an uncontrolled environment?
- ...that All-American footballer Merv Pregulman, the Green Bay Packers' first pick in the 1944 NFL Draft, nearly died in a kamikaze attack on his ship before ever playing a pro football game?
- ...that artifacts discovered at Mound Bottom, Tennessee show that the site was part of a vast Native American trading network extending to the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Appalachian Mountains during the Mississippian era?
- ...that Joseph Finegan, an attorney, politician, and railroad builder, was the commander of Confederate forces at the Battle of Olustee, fought in 1864 during the American Civil War?
- ...that meetings of the Committee of Public Safety, the de facto executive government during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, were convened at the Pavillon de Flore in Paris' Palais du Louvre?
- ...that during her first year in the Colorado General Assembly, Democratic legislator Claire Levy sponsored three successful bills regarding energy efficiency standards?
- 05:58, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
18 December 2007
- 21:56, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that Bill Klem (pictured), a major league baseball umpire who retired in 1941, holds umpiring records for most games officiated, most World Series officiated and most appearances as the home plate umpire?
- ...that in Hindu mythology, after Lakshmindara, son of Chand Sadagar, died of snakebite on his wedding night, his bride Behula accompanied his corpse on a raft floating in a river?
- ...that the title of psychiatrist Hervey M. Cleckley's book The Mask of Sanity refers to the mask of sincerity, generosity, and trustworthiness the psychopath wears to disguise his inability to feel emotion for others?
- ...that the fleet of the Royal Naval Patrol Service, also known as "Harry Tate's Navy" or "Churchill's Pirates", consisted of hundreds of requisitioned trawlers, whalers, drifters, paddle steamers, yachts, tugs and the like?
- ...that dealkalizing glass enhances its resistance to corrosion?
- ...that in return for reinforcements against the Lombards, Cunimund offered Emperor Justin II the city of Sirmium on two separate occasions?
- 13:17, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that The Love of Siam director Chukiat Sakweerakul (pictured) intentionally sought to downplay the 2007 Thai film's gay love story in marketing materials, in hopes of the film reaching a broader audience?
- ...that the New Orleans Saints first-round draft picks have included Reggie Bush and Archie Manning?
- ...that Romanian princess Catherine Caradja was nicknamed the "Angel of Ploieşti" for her humanitarian deeds by American and British airmen who were taken prisoner during the bombing of Romania in World War II?
- ...that Ernst Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué, a Prussian general and confidant of Frederick the Great, was wounded thrice in the Battle of Landeshut, fought in 1760 during the Seven Years' War?
- ...that "bunchers" are criminals involved in kidnapping pets from residences, trapping stray animals illegally, and selling them to laboratories for animal testing purposes?
- ...that John Rogers, who helped to prepare a version of the Hebrew Bible, also helped to introduce the man engine, an important reform in Cornish mining?
- ...that there was once an estuarine valley with a rich abundance of New Zealand flounders near Waipatiki, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, but it became a stream system after an earthquake in 1931?
- 06:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that according to Hindu mythology, the Tandava, a vigorous dance by Hindu god Shiva (pictured), is the source of the cycle of creation, preservation and dissolution of the universe?
- ...that The Australian Golf Club, arguably the oldest in Australia, held its 17th Australian Open between the 13th–16th December 2007, after holding the inaugural edition in 1904?
- ...that department store chain Sakowitz was purchased by shopping mall developing firm L. J. Hooker in 1988, so that a location could be opened at Cincinnati's Forest Fair Mall?
- ...that Judeopolonia was a proposed buffer state between the Russian and German Empires with a projected population of 30 million Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Latvians, and Baltic Germans?
- ...that Generalissimo Francisco Franco lifted the exile of Francisco Vidal y Barraquer, a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, only after reaching a concordat with the Vatican?
- ...that The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco, a 1959 album by jazz band The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, reached the bestseller charts with 50,000 copies sold by May 1960?
17 December 2007
- 23:21, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that following his capture after the Battle of Badajoz in 1812, Major General Armand Philippon (pictured) was paroled to stay in the Shropshire town of Oswestry?
- ...that the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben across Ontario from Montreal to Lake Nipissing, a depression formed by ancient faults, is a failed arm of the ancestor of the Atlantic Ocean?
- ...that Snyder Middleswarth Natural Area lost its status as a Pennsylvania state park in the 1990s despite being a National Natural Landmark and Snyder County's only state park?
- ...that discards are the portion of a catch of fish which is not retained on board during commercial fishing operations and is returned, often dead or dying, to the sea?
- ...that though only one melody for every ten songs has been preserved among the work of the troubadours, a remarkable three-quarters of Berenguier de Palazol's surviving poems have melodies?
- ...that the U.S. Defense Department issued archaeology awareness playing cards to educate soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan on the importance of respecting ancient monuments?
- ...that the twelve episodes of the Tsukihime, Lunar Legend anime were developed by the Tsukihime Production Committee, which included companies such as Geneon Entertainment, Movic, Tokyo Broadcasting System, and J.C. Staff?
- 14:54, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
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16 December 2007
- 23:39, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that the Berlin Foundry Cup (pictured), an ancient Greek drinking cup by the Foundry Painter, depicts the operations of a bronze sculpture workshop?
- ...that Qaqun, a Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, had been continuously inhabited by Arabs since as early as the Mamluk period?
- ...that at the time, the 1947 Sydney hailstorm, which hospitalised at least 350 people, was the most severe storm to strike the city since records began in 1792?
- ...that retired Major General Charles D. Metcalf is the current Director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, the world’s oldest and largest military aviation museum?
- ...that Luo Binwang wrote a sharply worded accusation against Empress Wu Zetian, China's only female emperor, that impressed her so much that after his death she collected his writings and published them?
- ...that after the fall of Napoleon in France, some 200 Bonapartists fled to the United States and attempted to establish an agricultural settlement to grow wine grapes and olive trees in the Alabama wilderness?
- 17:40, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
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15 December 2007
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- ...that the 25,000-year-old Venus of Brassempouy (pictured) is one of the oldest known realistic depictions of a human face?
- ...that buildings in Kuala Lumpur have Mughal, Tudor, Neo-Gothic or Spanish architectural styles modified to use local resources and for the climate of Malaysia?
- ...that Muhtar Kent, named to assume the post of CEO of the Coca-Cola Company on July 1, 2008, is the son of a Turkish diplomat, who risked his life to save Jews in France during the Holocaust?
- ...that Chris Harris was the first basketballer from England to play in the NBA?
- ...that John Pitre's 1965 visionary art painting, A New Dawn, which was valued at $1.7 million in 1997, was offered in trade for a £1 million house in London in 2004?
- ...that Chase Austin was the first African American racecar driver to race in the NASCAR Busch Series?
- ...that "I Am Your Gummy Bear", a silly novelty song whose video features a "jolly and jiggly" lime green cartoon gummi bear and a 30-second video clip in eight languages, is an internet meme?
- ...that Princess Stéphanie of Monaco’s song "Ouragan" was a number one hit in France?
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14 December 2007
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- ...that the National Library of Singapore (pictured), the Seattle Central Library, and Minneapolis Central Library are examples of green libraries, using environmentally conscious designs?
- ...that Julian Rotter developed the locus of control theory, which has been widely used in the psychology of personality?
- ...that in chemical kinetics, Lindemann mechanisms have been used to model gas phase decomposition reactions?
- ...that Lawrence Turner, who presented a Parliamentary petition calling for W. S. Gilbert's copyright on the libretti of Gilbert and Sullivan operas to be extended indefinitely, was the grandson of comic actor George Grossmith who starred in them?
- ...that hatchlings of the Cape Fear Shiner, a critically endangered minnow endemic to central North Carolina, feed off of their egg yolk for five days after they hatch?
- ...even though the United States Housing Act of 1949 called for building more housing, some projects saw more housing units destroyed than built?
- ...that the Polish rock band Czerwone Gitary reached the heights of its popularity in the 1960s, and was known as the Polish Beatles?
13 December 2007
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- ...that early-20th-century regrading in Seattle (pictured) was probably the largest alteration of urban terrain up to that time?
- ...that kings of the House of Alpin ruled Pictland and the kingdom of Alba, in modern Scotland, beginning with Cináed mac Ailpín in the 840s and ending with the death of Máel Coluim mac Cináeda in 1034?
- ...that shortly after Captain William Day received the first gun salute to an American fighting vessel in a European port, at Brest, France, in July 1777, he sailed home and effectively vanished from history?
- ...that Vietnamese winemakers are trying to cultivate grapes such as Cabernet Sauvignon on land that till recently was still covered with landmines from the Vietnam War?
- ...that in 1607, Spanish priest and professor of music at the University of Salamanca Sebastián de Vivanco published 18 versions of the Song of Mary in the same book?
- ...that ice hockey player Fred Higginbotham died of a spinal cord injury sustained during an accident when riding a pony?
- ...that the European Parliament is currently housed in Espace Léopold in Brussels, Belgium?
- ...that in polymer chemistry, the value of the kinetic chain length of a polymer can describe the polymer's chain mobility, glass transition temperature, and elastic modulus?
- ...that Ryan Holle is serving a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole for letting his roommate borrow his car that was then used in a crime?
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12 December 2007
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- ...that systematic mapping of the Michelangelo quadrangle on Mercury has revealed the presence of four nearly obliterated multi-ring impact basins, possibly the oldest features in the mapped areas of the planet?
- ...that a team of Canadians assembled to play for the new Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team in England were sent home without playing a game due to the outbreak of World War II?
- ...that crystals of Paulingite, a rare zeolite mineral found in vesicles in the basaltic rocks from the Columbia River, form a perfect clear rhombic dodecahedron?
- ...that scarps, ridges, and troughs, such as the 650 km (400 mi) long and 2 km (1.2 mi) high Discovery Rupes cutting through the Rameau crater, are common features in the Discovery quadrangle on the planet Mercury?
- ...that in 1578 the 3rd Dalai Lama converted the Mongol leader Altan Khan, who persuaded Mongols to convert, built Mongolia's first monastery, and within 50 years most Mongols were Buddhist?
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11 December 2007
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10 December 2007
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9 December 2007
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- ...that Singletary Lake (pictured), a Carolina Bay in Bladen County, North Carolina, has been protected since the 1800s, but the land around it only became Singletary Lake State Park in 1939?
- ...that the spread of Christianity in Asia is believed to have reached China during the Tang Dynasty, where it was known as the Luminous Religion?
- ...that Clarence Williams had 646 rushing yards and 102 receiving yards without scoring a touchdown during the 1998 NCAA college football season?
- ...that the most recent of the six different methods of total synthesis of the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel, a drug originally derived from the rare Pacific Yew, was developed at the Tokyo University of Science in 1999?
- ...that one egg laid in a clutch of two by the White-breasted Robin of Western Australia is much paler than the other?
- ...that the first major anti-nuclear demonstrations in Germany took place in 1975 in opposition to the construction of a proposed nuclear power station in Wyhl?
- ...that Dave Murray, a Canadian alpine skier and member of the Crazy Canucks, was ranked third in the world in downhill skiing in 1979?
- ...that the dominant feature in the Shakespeare quadrangle is the 1300-km wide Caloris Planitia, the largest and best preserved impact basin on Mercury observed by the spacecraft Mariner 10?
- ...that surface plasmons are the basis of a spectrography technique known as surface plasmon resonance?
- ...that St Barnabas Church, one of the few Grade II*-listed churches in the city of Brighton and Hove, was dismissed by its architect John Loughborough Pearson as "one of my cheap editions"?
- 15:08, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that a design for the Hoyt Library (pictured) in Saginaw, Michigan, which was rejected as too monumental, wasteful of space, and not functional as a library, was used to build the Public Library of New Orleans, Louisiana?
- ...that the Tolstoj crater, a 400-km (240 mile) wide impact crater on the planet Mercury has an extensive, and remarkably well-preserved, radially-lineated ejecta blanket?
- ...that Eduardo Serra Rexach is the only person to have held public office with all three governing parties of democratic Spain?
- ...that Aloysius C. Galvin, a former president of the University of Scranton, served aboard a U.S. Navy submarine chaser in the Aleutian Islands during World War II?
- ...that ornithologist Charles Foster Batchelder's last words to one of his friends were "Glad to have known you"?
- ...that Operation Resurrection was the planned take-over of Paris in May 1958 by French Army paratroopers and armored units to overthrow the French government and facilitate the return of Charles de Gaulle to power?
- ...that Russell Walter Fox, a former chief judge of the Australian Capital Territory, wrote what is considered in Australia as the most extensive environmental report on uranium mining?
- ...that Edward Barrett played rugby union for England, and cricket for the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States?
- ...that each time Eric Kattus caught more than three receptions in a game during his Michigan Wolverines football career, at least one of them was a touchdown?
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8 December 2007
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- ...that Jane Austen's (pictured) novels increased dramatically in popularity after the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1870?
- ...that due to both lengthening seasons and freshmen eligibility, college football statistical leaders such as Michigan Wolverines football receiving or passing leaders are controversial?
- ...that the Stourbridge fair, first held in 1211 in Cambridge, England, was once the largest fair in Europe?
- ...that the dinosaur fossil Dakota is so well-preserved it has caused researchers to revise their estimates of the appearance, size, and speed of a whole group of dinosaurs known as hadrosaurs?
- ...that the north pole of the planet Mercury is located in the Borealis quadrangle?
- ...that of 36 merchant vessels that set out in June 1942 as part of Britain's disastrous Convoy PQ-17, 27 never returned including SS Pan Kraft?
- ...that Red Kellett, former President and General Manager of the Baltimore Colts, was never a professional football player, but an infielder for the Boston Red Sox baseball club in his playing days?
7 December 2007
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- ...that The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (pictured) is actually composed of 110 letters between Gilbert White, and Thomas Pennant or Daines Barrington?
- ...that college football coach Bo Schembechler died the day after attending the funeral of his 1971 quarterback Tom Slade and urging the football team to be "as good a Michigan man as Slade"?
- ...that Out of the Blue, a BBC Television series, is set in Manly, near Sydney, Australia?
- ...that Elm Coulee Oil Field, Montana, is the highest-producing onshore field found in the Continental United States in the past 56 years?
- ...that the cloven hoof is a characteristic of mountain goats, certain kosher foods and in some traditions, the Devil?
- ...that anarchism once was the strongest current in the Cuban labor movement?
- ...that alkaptonuria, a rare inborn error of metabolism, is over five times more common in Slovakia than in the rest of the world?
- 16:58, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that Bronze Age golden hats, including those of Berlin (pictured), Schifferstadt and Ezelsdorf, are tall gold head-dresses from circa 1,000 to 800 BC that also served as calendars?
- ...that actress Evelyn Venable, the voice of the Blue Fairy in the animated film Pinocchio, was the original model for the Columbia Pictures logo?
- ...that Dennis Freeman, as the mayor of tiny Logansport, Louisiana, worked for 16 years to keep the construction of a new bridge over the Sabine River to connect Louisiana and Texas as a high construction priority?
- ...that The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer, a book that analyzes the The Simpsons using philosophical concepts, is the main textbook in some university philosophy courses?
- ...that Jean Pouliot founded both major private TV networks in Quebec, TQS and TVA?
- ...that Are You There? was widely promoted because of its score by Ruggero Leoncavallo (best known for his opera Pagliacci), but the first-night audience were incensed when it turned out to have very little music?
- ...that according to Greek mythology, Adonis was slain by a boar at the foot of the waterfall in Apheca in modern-day Lebanon?
- ...that indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East traditionally worshiped the Raven deity Kutkh as a key figure in creation, as a fertile ancestor of mankind, as a mighty shaman and as a trickster?
- 09:50, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
- ...that the Environmental Theory by Florence Nightingale (pictured) emphasized how a patient's environment affects his recovery?
- ...that actor Michael Sellers, son of British actor Peter Sellers, died of the same cause (heart attack) and date, albeit twenty-six years later, as his father?
- ...that the original designation for Route 574 in Erie County, New York and its eastern terminus were removed four years apart?
- ...that Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Nellie Quander belonged to one of America's longest and oldest free slave dynasties?
- ...that Medal of Honor recipient Captain Julien Gaujot became so jealous when his brother was given the Medal of Honor that he vowed that he would get one too?
- ...that the history of Nairobi includes the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing that killed 213 and wounded 5,000?
- ...that Graham Perrett, the Australian House of Representatives member for Moreton, was accused of calling his rival, Gary Hardgrave, "racist" during the 2007 election campaign?
- ...that the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908?
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6 December 2007
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- ...that the U.S. Coast Guard's Owasco class cutters Owasco, Winnebago (pictured) and Sebago were armed for World War II service but did not see combat until the Vietnam War?
- ...that Emperor Nicholas II of Russia was billed 3,250 rubles for Rosebud, the first Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Alexandra Fyodorovna?
- ...that eradication of infectious diseases can come about through vaccination, quarantine, and even just human behavioral changes, depending on the disease?
- ...that a fossil specimen of Pelagosaurus was found with the remains of a Leptolepis in its stomach?
- ...that Heroes actor David Anders won a Back Stage West Garland Award along with the ensemble cast of The Diary of Anne Frank, for their 2001 production?
- ...that Alpha Kappa Alpha founder, Marie Woolfolk Taylor was one of two African-Americans who assisted the Red Cross during the Great Atlanta Fire?
- ...that the Swedish military unit Kustjägarna has been working in Kosovo and Bosnia under the UN flag?
- ... the Safety Promotion Center, established by Japan Airlines after the worst ever single aircraft accident, displays victims' farewell letters and wreckage to educate employees about safety?
- ...that the arrival of Prussian troops led by Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq prevented a Russian defeat in the 1807 Battle of Eylau?
5 December 2007
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4 December 2007
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- ...that the Accession Day tilts were jousts held at the court of Queen Elizabeth I in which her courtiers appeared in elaborate allegorical disguises (pictured)?
- ...that Emperor Alexander III of Russia was billed 4,750 rubles for the Renaissance egg, the final Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Maria Feodorovna?
- ...that herpetologist Doris M. Cochran, the Smithsonian Institution's first female curator, died four days after her retirement?
- ...that the book The Psychology of The Simpsons uses this TV series to analyze topics in psychology including clinical psychology, cognition and Pavlovian conditioning?
- ...that Elk Knob State Park, a state park in Watauga County, North Carolina, was established due to a grassroots movement to protect Elk Knob from housing development?
- ...that the spintronic manipulation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond crystals may facilitate the creation and functioning of quantum computers?
- ...that Kazimierz Pużak, once considered for president of Poland, was one of the leaders of the Polish Secret State arrested by Soviets and sentenced in the Trial of the Sixteen?
- ...that after their names became known, the first group known as the Four Crowned Martyrs was venerated with the second group of the same name?
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3 December 2007
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- ...that both the first black woman in Colorado and the "founding father" of the state's Korean American community are buried in Denver's Riverside Cemetery (chapel pictured)?
- ...that it is unclear whether Gungsrong Gungtsen ever ruled Tibet, although he was the only known son of the first Tibetan emperor, Songtsän Gampo?
- ...that Washington Senators outfielder Elmer Gedeon, who pulled a crew member from a burning wreck, died while piloting a B-26 bomber over France?
- ...that a possible local subsidence forced the Jalangi River, in West Bengal, to flow in a south westerly direction, reverting the earlier trend of rivers in the region flowing in a south easterly direction?
- ...that the 1751 revolt of Pima Indians in the Spanish colonial province of Sonora (in modern-day Arizona) was directly preceded by a revolt of Seri Indians?
- ...that some bacteria and parasitic protozoa escape extreme conditions like desiccation and unavailability of food by forming microbial cysts?
- ...that 12% of the world's gold supply, 78% of the world's platinum, and over 15.8 million karats of diamonds come from mining in South Africa?
- ...that Knut Arild Hareide became Norwegian Minister of the Environment in 2004 at the age of thirty-one, only to step down from national politics three years later?
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- ...that archaeologist Natalia Polosmak has been banned from her best known excavation, the Ice Maiden (pictured), because of ethnic politics?
- ...that Tom Wolfe's 1975 book The Painted Word, which criticized modern and conceptual art, was so reviled by the art establishment that multiple reviewers compared the book to watching pornography?
- ...that the United States Customs and Border Patrol may search all travelers' possessions, including in some cases, personal files on their laptops, without a warrant or even suspicion under the border search exception?
- ...that the ancient people known as the Oeselians, who lived on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, carried out raids against the Scandinavian Vikings?
- ...that K. Chidananda Gowda, the former Vice-chancellor of the Kuvempu University in India, is the son-in-law of the Kannada playwright Kuvempu, the university's namesake?
- ...that Hurricane Karen in September 2007 was only classified as a hurricane two months after the storm dissipated?
- ...that the rebel Uganda People's Army formed in 1987 in response to massive cattle raiding carried out by the Karamojong of eastern Uganda?
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2 December 2007
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- ...that soldiers of the Red Army Oleksiy Berest, Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria of the 150th Rifle Division raised the flag of the Soviet Union over the Reichstag for the well-known photograph (pictured)?
- ...that the Lincoln Snacks Company, a manufacturer of caramelized popcorn, was founded, in part, by a subsidiary of Sandoz Laboratories, the company that invented LSD?
- ...that the Indian novelist M. K. Indira started writing novels only after the age of forty-five?
- ...that American football guard Dean Dingman was only the third true freshman to start on the Michigan Wolverines football offensive line?
- ...that the Catalan lords Arnau Mir de Tost and his son-in-law Raymond IV of Pallars Jussà shared a scribe, Vidal, who helped introduce the use of written "conventions" for the feudal restructuring of western Catalonia?
- ...that in the 1850s the American architect Gamaliel King and his partner John Kellum erected in New York some of the first fully cast iron-fronted buildings in the world?
- ...that David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister during World War I, later said "It would be hard to point to anyone who did more to win the war than Kenneth Bingham Quinan"?
- ...that the first lieutenant Adolf Opálka, together with six fellow combatants, resisted 800 enemy soldiers for more than seven hours in the Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodious in Prague on 28 June 1942?
1 December 2007
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