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28 February 2007
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27 February 2007
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26 February 2007
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- ...that in constructing the Via della Conciliazione (pictured), Benito Mussolini ordered the demolition of an entire Roman neighborhood, and the forcible eviction of its residents to settlements outside the city?
- ...that the Evangelist portraits of early medieval Gospel Books used compositions taken from the pagan author portraits of the Late Classical period?
- ...that in Tampa, Florida in 1998, Hank Earl Carr successfully unlocked his handcuffs, disarmed a detective, and killed three law enforcement personnel before killing himself?
- ...that Artin Penik, a Turkish-Armenian, set himself on fire in protest of the attacks against Turks by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)?
- ...that Bernard de Marigny, a New Orleans playboy and politician, introduced the dice game craps to the United States in the early 1800s?
- ...that the common idiom behind the eight ball is derived from the pocket billiards game of kelly pool?
25 February 2007
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- ...that the King Jagiello Monument (pictured) in Central Park, New York, was forced to remain in the United States after the Nazi invasion of Poland made its return from the 1939 New York World's Fair impossible?
- ...that Anne-Marie Javouhey, the founder and abbess of a new religious order, was one of the first women to establish missions in Africa?
- ...that the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope, an annual and televised footrace held at Mount Cameroon, was first held in 1995?
- ...that hundreds of historic tobacco barns in Maryland were rendered obsolete after many farmers took advantage of a 2001 state program offering to buy out tobacco farmers?
- ...that Henry le Chen was put in control of a sheriffdom by King Edward I, despite being a senior royal councillor during the reign of King John, whom Edward deposed?
- ...that Martha, the mother of Simeon Stylites, is said to have only consented to marriage after John the Baptist appeared to her telling her to do so?
24 February 2007
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23 February 2007
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22 February 2007
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21 February 2007
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Charles Irving Thornton Tombstone
20 February 2007
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19 February 2007
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18 February 2007
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- ...that a fluidized bed reactor (pictured) can be used in the creation of fuel, rubber, vinyl chloride, polyethylene, and styrenes?
- ...that Wye Valley Brewery’s Dorothy Goodbody line of beers were all originally supposed to feature Herefordshire-grown hops, but the best-known beer in that line contains hops grown in Ireland?
- ...that in Islamic law, a mukataba is a contract of manumission according to which the slave buys his freedom from his master?
- ...that Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, was rescued by UNICEF and has written about his ordeal and rehabilitation in his new book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier?
- ...that Beverley Baxter raised circulation of the Daily Express from under one million to over two million during his four years as editor?
- ...that ice-minus bacteria, a variant of genus Pseudomonas, are useful in agriculture, because they can prevent the formation of ice on crops?
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- ...that American college basketball player Javaris Crittenton (pictured) is projected by major media outlets such as ESPN to be a potential first round draft pick in the 2007 NBA Draft?
- ...that a planning application for a 42-storey building in the recent New England Quarter development in Brighton, England, was rejected on twenty separate counts, including the negative effect it would have on the local microclimate?
- ...that Dallas Theological Seminary, a center of dispensational Christian theology and alma mater for people including Chuck Swindoll and Hal Lindsey, has been in operation since 1924?
- ...that the Mifflin Street Block Party, which attracted around 20,000 participants in 2005, began as a street dance in protest against the Vietnam War?
- ...that archaeologists at the El Manatí Olmec site have not only found the earliest rubber balls yet discovered and the earliest wooden artifacts in Mexico, but also the skeletons, femurs, and crania of human infants?
17 February 2007
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16 February 2007
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15 February 2007
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14 February 2007
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13 February 2007
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12 February 2007
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11 February 2007
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The Palanok Castle in Mukacheve, constructed in the 14th century.
- ...that the Palanok Castle (pictured) in Mukacheve, Ukraine, was used as an all-European political prison after the fall of the French Bastille, and as a shelter for the Crown of St. Stephen, protecting it from Napoleon I's troops?
- ...that Corona Schröter, an 18th century German singer, composed musical settings for several works by Friedrich Schiller, as well as two dramas, hundreds of arias and duets, and an autobiography given to Johann Wolfgang Goethe, but that all of these works are now lost?
- ...that Australian-born American actor Marc McDermott joined an acting troupe to support his mother and sister after his father's death?
- ...that current Journal of Food Science scientific editor Daryl B. Lund was a college roommate of future Governor of Wisconsin and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson?
10 February 2007
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9 February 2007
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8 February 2007
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7 February 2007
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6 February 2007
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5 February 2007
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- ...that endangered arthropods (example pictured) are becoming extinct in such large numbers that many are not catalogued?
- ...that free-diver Herbert Nitsch can hold his breath for over nine minutes?
- ...that the Norte Chico civilization is the oldest known civilization in the Americas?
- ...that the fictional planet Zenn-La, homeworld of the Silver Surfer, has been destroyed at least three times?
- ...that the Kaleva, a Finnish passenger plane carrying diplomatic post, was shot down by Soviet bombers in an act of aggression?
- ...that even though the Mooney aircraft company bears Albert Mooney's name, upon his death he held no ownership in the company?
- ...that in 2003-2004, ANA had to pay almost ¥100 m for flying too many passengers to Noto Airport?
- ...that the tyranny and the perceived dread of Gobindram Mitter, a British deputy in Calcutta, earned him a place in a Bengali rhyme?
- ...that the Duchy of Veragua, granted to the grandson of Christopher Columbus, is a perfect square of land 25 leagues to a side?
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- ...that the Berlin Stadtbahn (pictured) is built mostly as an elevated railway line with viaducts totalling eight kilometres of length, including 731 masonry viaduct arches?
- ...that the Polish cochineal gave its name to the color red and the month of June in many Slavic languages?
- ...that John Perlman, one of South Africa's most popular radio presenters, resigned after blowing the whistle on political censorship at the South African Broadcasting Corporation?
- ...that the 1916 Lorado Taft work, The Soldiers' Monument, constructed for $21,000, is now worth over $1,000,000?
- ...that Disco D specialized in hip hop music and was a 2005 pioneer in composing original ring tone works for cell phones?
- ...that Lauren Nelson, newly crowned Miss America 2007, is the second consecutive winner from Oklahoma?
- ...that Jacob Nolde was so inspired by a pine tree on his land in the early 1900s that he planted 500,000 more in what is now Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania?
- ...that the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran not only proclaim the gospel in the pulpit but also on stage in songs and dances?
4 February 2007
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- ...that as a teenager, Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov (pictured) was convicted of stealing mail and sentenced to three months in a monastery?
- ...that the Swedish spelman Anders Ljungqvist, according to rumors, had a contract with the Nix, signed in blood on human bones from the local churchyard?
- ...that ball culture, as seen in Paris is Burning, has drag houses that compete for 12' tall trophies and prizes of $1000 or more?
- ...that one person was killed and another injured when they entered a tiger's cage in Alipore Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, and tried to put a floral garland round his neck?
- ...in 1293, the Bartian tribe of Prussia asked Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytenis for protection against the Teutonic Knights?
- ...that according to Germanic legends, the cruel king Níðuðr captured the divine smith Weyland and had him hamstrung to prevent escape?
- ...that Egyptian actor Omar Sharif's first film role was in the 1954 film Sira` Fi al-Wadi?
3 February 2007
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2 February 2007
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1 February 2007
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