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30 June 2008

18:52, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

... that as part of Operation Noble Eagle (service badge pictured), Canada provided air defense protection for the Super Bowl XL?
... that Marie Studholme, one of the popular postcard beauties of Edwardian musical comedy, was wooed by her wealthy second husband under an assumed name?
... that Norsk Transport has operated four railway ferries on Lake Tinnsjå in Norway?
... that in 1885, Bug Holliday became the first baseball player to make his Major League debut in post-season play?
... that American actress Kim Stanley was cast in the starring role of the 1964 British film Séance on a Wet Afternoon after Deborah Kerr and Simone Signoret turned down the part?
... that Rupprecht Gerngroß is considered the leader of the only successful putsch against Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany?
... that the Vadigo, a species of carangid fish, is believed to be expanding its range in the Mediterranean Sea?
... that William D. Washington became the first faculty member of the Virginia Military Institute to die during his tenure there?

12:51, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

... that education in Sierra Leone (pictured) had to recover from the destruction of 1,270 primary schools during the Sierra Leone Civil War?
... that 17th-century French lawyer Antoine Le Maistre gave up a promising career and established a Jansenist group of ascetics known as Les Solitaires, the Hermits?
... that the Halegannada, literally "old Kannada", is an ancient form of the Kannada language?
... that the Hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden" was both a title and attribute of Mary and a type of actual garden?
... that minor league baseball pitcher Kyle Pearson’s 17 losses with the Hickory Crawdads tied him for the all-time team lead?
... that the term Sindhology as a subject of knowledge about Sindh was first coined in 1964?
... that after moving to Los Angeles, California in 1912 as a widow with two daughters, Florence Casler became a pioneering woman real estate developer, constructing more than 60 buildings?
... that a Bird Flu pre-pandemic vaccine called Pandemrix is the first to be approved by the EU for the inoculation of populations in the early stages of a bird flu pandemic?

02:55, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the missionary and explorer David Livingstone named Cape Maclear, Malawi (pictured) after his friend, astronomer Thomas Maclear?
... that the musical group The Wiggles' first album was dedicated to their general operations manager Paul Field's infant daughter, whose death ultimately led to the formation of the group?
... that the town of Ollantaytambo, which dates back to the Inca Empire, has some of the oldest continuously occupied dwellings in South America?
... that one critic describes Christopher Smart's The Hilliad as the "loudest broadside" of the Paper War of 1752-1753, a literary dispute involving Henry Fielding, John Hill, and many others?
... that the 1.3-mile (2.1 km) avenue of trees leading to Marchmont House in Scotland was begun 24 years before the house itself was built, with the planting of 10,000 Dutch elms?
... that most of the illuminated manuscripts created by William de Brailes in Oxford in the 13th century are about the size of a modern paperback?

29 June 2008

18:11, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

... that pop singer Madonna (pictured) adopted a 13-month-old boy from Mchinji, Malawi in October 2006, causing international controversy?
... that Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque had been an Eastern Orthodox monastery until it was converted after the Fall of Constantinople?
... that the Iowa Blue breed of chicken is not actually blue according to poultry standards?
... that Karl Wahl, the leader of the Nazi Gau Schwaben, was the only Bavarian Gauleiter without a university degree?
... that tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome is a rare disease presenting as intractable diarrhea, facial abnormalities and woolly, brittle hair in infants with growth retardation in the womb?
... that in the 2000–01 National Basketball Association playoffs, Allen Iverson played an average of 46.2 minutes a game, leading the Eastern Conference?
... that lyric tenor Evan Gorga, who created the role of Rodolfo in the original production of Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème, reprised the role in several productions, then retired at the age of 34?
... that the design of the first-generation Ford Taurus was so ahead of its time that it was chosen to be used in the 1987 science fiction film RoboCop?

09:27, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Siamese method (example pictured) is a simple method for creating magic squares, which was brought to France in 1688 following Simon de la Loubère's embassy to Siam?
... that drag entertainer José Sarria was the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States, garnering some 6,000 votes in his 1961 campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
... that the Mississaugas of the Credit Mission sent Chief Peter Jones to England where he petitioned Queen Victoria directly for title deeds to their lands?
... that Maurice Durand designed the lighthouses at the Île d'Yeu and the Pointe du Grouin du Cou in France to replace earlier structures that had been destroyed during World War II?
... that Bruno Fonseca's paintings The War Murals, inspired by violence in Eastern Europe, have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since Picasso's great Guernica"?
... that British and American mountain men who met at Mountain Green, Utah in 1825 argued over rights to the land, which was actually Mexican territory?
... that the statue The Naked Truth, in Compton Hill Reservoir Park, was made of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity?

03:04, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

... that hwajeon (pictured) is a sweet Korean pancake or rice cake made of edible flower petals, glutinous rice flour, and sugar?
... that the dates of birth and death of the Ukrainian music theorist and composer Nikolay Diletsky remain unknown?
... that with an area of deep convection near the center, Hurricane Ivo reached peak intensity of 80 miles per hour (130 km/h) on September 20, 2007?
... that the 1971 Turkish coup d'état was carried out by a memorandum rather than direct intervention by the military?
... that Radio Londres, a Free French radio broadcast from London to Nazi occupied France, read Paul Verlaine's poem Chanson d'automne as a code to inform the resistance that Operation Overlord was about to take place?
... that the 1914 film In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans?
... that in On the Sphere and Cylinder, Archimedes expressed the volume contained in a sphere in terms of that of a cylinder?
... that Cardinal Uberto Crivelli was elected Pope Urban III in the papal election in 1185 within the few hours after the death of his predecessor Lucius III?

28 June 2008

20:02, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the tartan of Nova Scotia (pictured) was originally designed by Bessie Murray for an agricultural exhibition in 1953, but was so admired that it was later officially adopted by the province?
... that Polish resistance courier Maria Kotarba became an "Angel of Auschwitz" by smuggling food and medicine, caring and cooking for Jewish prisoners in hiding?
... that the Erie Railroad bought the Dodge-Greenleaf House in Otisville, New York for US$5 and sold it two years later for US$1?
... that the extensive use of social networking in the Philippines allowed the Cebu City police to identify two murder suspects by checking into their Friendster profiles?
... that New Mexico philanthropist Addie Peed Swearingen was a beautician for 28 years in Santa Fe before she and her husband made a fortune in petroleum and natural gas leases?
... that Nagpur Improvement Trust, a local civic government body of Nagpur, India established in 1936, is not an elected body and continues to work along side Nagpur Municipal Corporation?
... that the sailing-ship Lwów was the first ship under Polish banner to cross the equator?
... that television commercials for the furniture company Walter E. Smithe have included parodies of Star Wars and The Apprentice?

14:01, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

... that a local writers' group won a preservation award for renovating the Philipse Manor train station (pictured) in Sleepy Hollow, New York?
... that Indian scholar Śāntarakṣita is believed to have been instrumental in the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet?
... that American Revolutionary war officer Anthony Wayne's bones are buried at St. David's Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, while the rest of him is buried hundreds of miles away in Erie, Pennsylvania?
... that the Jordan River Foundation was founded by Queen Rania al-Abdullah of Jordan?
... that the birth of public radio broadcasting was a live concert from the Metropolitan Opera House with Enrico Caruso as one of the opera singers?
... that with the inception of the Gauliga Ostmark in 1938, clubs from outside of Vienna were for the first time permitted to take part in Austria's premier football division?
... that the birth rates of the Southern Woolly Lemur are affected by the degradation level of their habitat?
... that American children's literature author Howard Pease, who often set his stories on tramp freighters, himself shipped out when he needed new material?

07:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

... that 820 Naval Air Squadron (aircraft pictured) was involved in attacks on the German battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz during the Second World War?
... that Noah W. Cross, sheriff of Concordia Parish, Louisiana, from 1944–1973, was forced to resign upon a perjury conviction in U.S. District Court in Alexandria?
... that Franz Kafka started his Diaries 1914 with this entry: January 2. A lot of time well spent with Dr. Weiss?
... that Williamsport Bills minor leaguer Dave Bresnahan was thrown off the team for substituting a potato for a baseball?
... that Price Hill is one of the oldest outlying settlements of Cincinnati, Ohio?
... that Christopher Columbus's letter recounting his first voyage, the first written description of America, was so popular it went through nine printed editions?
... that in 1963, entertainment manager Bob Marcucci got a recording contract for John D'Andrea, leading D'Andrea to a regular spot on Shindig!?
... that in 2001, American screenwriter William Monahan pseudonymously wrote a comic serial narrative at New York Press titled Dining Late with Claude La Badarian?

27 June 2008

22:25, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the winter flooding of the Elpeus river was used as a defensive military device by Perseus of Macedon (pictured on coin)?
... that Norsk Hydro Rjukan, an industrial facility in Tinn, Norway, produced 30 million tonnes of fertilizer from its opening in 1911 to its closing in 1991?
... that philanthropist and civic leader Marion Jorgensen died at St. John's Health Center, the very place where she volunteered her time for many years?
... that China has helped Nigeria launch the NigComSat-1 satellite and pledged to invest USD 4 billion in oil and infrastructure development?
... that Percival Goodman, described as "the most prolific architect in Jewish history" by The Forward, was also an urban planning theorist who criticized Robert Moses' ideas for parkways in New York City?
... that Your Name is Justine, Luxembourg's submission for the 79th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, was rejected due to insufficient creative contributions from Luxembourg in the film?
... that Frank Leslie Walcott, the first Barbadian ambassador to the United Nations, was also an exceptional cricket umpire?

12:11, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum (pictured) is located in the world's first plant for mass production of heavy water?
... that the Dalecarlian runes was a runic script that was in use until the 20th century?
... that the British franchisee of Domino's Pizza's almost decade-long sponsorship of The Simpsons ended with a 2007 Ofcom ban on advertising junk food to children?
... that eight of the nine Priori of the Signoria were chosen from the guilds of Florence?
... that it took just over 20 years to finish developing the Lamona breed of chicken, but it was nearly extinct by the 1980s?
... that Ted Mack auditioned contestants for the Original Amateur Hour in the 400-seat theatre at Irvington, New York's village hall?
... that many localities on the coast of Great Britain developed their own type of fishing boat adapted to local fishing and sea conditions, and the nobbies are examples of this?
... that the largest herbarium in the world is housed by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris?

02:08, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

... that most of the stamps of Mexico (example pictured) from 1856 to 1883 have district overprints, which were added as an anti-theft device?
... that Confederate president Jefferson Davis had a young ward named Jim Limber‎?
... that during the Agra famine of 1837–38 in the North-Western Provinces of India, approximately 800,000 people died of starvation and an even larger number of livestock perished?
... that the volcano Piton de la Fournaise, a tourist attraction in Réunion, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world?
... that in 1883, former British diplomat Sir William Lane Booker became Consul-General of eleven US states?
... that the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord ended the 20-year conflict and insurgency in 1997 and allowed more than 50,000 displaced peoples to return home?
... that Strawhead is a 1982 play by American writer Norman Mailer about Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe that takes its title from Monroe's real-life code name?
... that Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù‎, founded in 1720, was the first modern opera theatre in Greece?
... that the New York-based mock metal / glam metal band Satanicide replaced their bassist when they became aware that he "secretly liked Billy Joel"?

26 June 2008

17:01, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Albert Pujols (pictured) received more votes than any other player in Major League Baseball's 2006 all-star fan ballot?
... that Samuel Gray was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on behalf of three different electoral districts?
... that the nationalist activities of India House in the early 1900s led Valentine Chirol to describe it as the "most dangerous organisation outside India"?
... that Ernest O. Thompson, a Texas businessman, politician, and petroleum expert, received a battlefield promotion during World War I for developing improved machine gun tactics?
... that there was a monument to British philanthropist John Howard in a hall of Russia's Kresty Prison?
... that having won three of the first five races, Anne Margrethe Hausken is currently leading this year's World Cup in orienteering?
... that the LSR Preserve in Grand Teton NP was a former dude ranch and Rockefeller family retreat, and the first LEED certified property in Wyoming?
... that businessperson and Norwegian Parliament member Peter Bøyesen has been described as a predecessor of the Liberal Party of Norway?
... that in Puerto Rico, a Piragua is a frozen treat made of shaved ice, covered with fruit-flavored syrup?

10:48, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Monkey Bay (pictured) on Lake Malawi is a tourist resort accessed through the road to Cape Maclear?
... that when 20,000 Mennonites immigrated to Mexico from Canada in 1922, they were given freedom from taxation for 100 years so long as they supplied cheese to northern Mexico?
... that Odo J. Struger is known as the "father of the programmable logic controller," an electronic device used in nearly every automated factory worldwide today?
... that the 104th Company of Syndicalists was a military unit created by the Union of Polish Syndicalists, which participated in the Warsaw Uprising?
... that Pakistani pop band Strings is the first South Asian band to endorse Gibson Guitars?
... that the book Goodnight Bush, a parody of Goodnight Moon satirizing the presidency of George W. Bush, was written by two former employees of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld?

03:26, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

... that cushion plants (example pictured), which grow extremely slowly, can live for up to 350 years?
... that all of Beekman Park in Amenia, New York, was once the site of a freshwater lake?
... that V.D. Savarkar wrote The Indian War of Independence, a nationalist history of the 1857 uprising, in response to British celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its suppression?
... that Edward Sagarin was titled "father of the homophile movement"?
... that U.S. Routes within Washington state currently make up about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) of the Washington highway system?
... that Tang Dynasty general Li Siye once bared his upper body and battered fleeing soldiers with his staff to stop a general panic?
... that five detached human feet have been discovered on British Columbian beaches since August 2007, with no confirmed explanation?
... that the 6th-century musician Yared introduced the concept of sacred music to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church services?
... that the owners of a Californian memorial park tried to buy St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean, England, dismantle it and rebuild it there, but built a replica instead when permission was refused?

25 June 2008

18:26, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the edible mushroom swamp yellow brittlegill (pictured) has a fruity smell?
... that Frank McEncroe, a boilermaker from rural Victoria, invented the Chiko Roll?
... that India established its diplomatic representation in Nigeria in 1958, two years before Nigeria's independence from British rule?
... that administering a strong solution of coffee through the rectum by means of a Murphy drip was alleged to have been a treatment for shock at the Battle of Midway?
... that Herman Farr, an African American clergyman from Shreveport, Louisiana, single-handedly desegregated the historic Strand Theatre during the heyday of the civil rights movement?
... that the Foguang Temple's East Hall is the third oldest wooden building in China, dating from 857 AD?
... that Ride the Lobster is an 800-kilometer long unicycle race around Nova Scotia?
... that Liverpool actor and guitarist Ozzie Yue used to flick pieces of paper at Paul McCartney in art class when they attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys?

10:18, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the tallest building in Baltimore, Maryland is the forty-story Legg Mason Building (pictured), which rises 529 feet (161 m) in height?
... that the Pakistan-based Institute of Sindhology is a research institution working on the history, culture, and literature of Sindh?
... that when Peter Perez Burdett went to Karlsruhe, leaving his wife and debts behind, he took his portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby?
... that improving Indo-South African relations have led to phenomenal growth in bilateral trade, rising from US$3 million in 1992-93 to US$4 billion in 2005-06 and targeting US$12 billion by 2010?
... that the Sir John Maynard who used Elize Hele's money to create The Maynard School for girls in 1658 is not the same Sir John Maynard—Henry Maynard's son—who attended Charles I's trial?
... that in his book In Defense of Anarchism, anarchist Robert Paul Wolff argues that the incompatibility of state authority and individual autonomy means that all states are morally illegitimate?
... that near the summit of Sir Lowry's Pass in South Africa, you can still see the ruts left by ox-wagons being dragged over the Hottentots-Holland mountains before the current pass was built?

04:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Budweiser Clydesdales (pictured) were first introduced to the public on April 7, 1933, to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition?
... that the Engkanto, a Philippine mythical creature, might be based on early encounters with European friars?
... that the South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry, New York, is the only known work of architect Julius Munckowitz, despite his later career with New York City's parks?
... that had the Endeavour Strait not prevented the Dutch from proceeding further southward, they might have found the eastern coast of Australia 150 years before James Cook did?
... that In All Languages is the first and only compilation album released by industrial metal band Godflesh?
... that Burkina Faso contains the most elephants in West Africa, with Deux Balés National Park containing 400?
... that Ferrante Pallavicino was the anonymous author of Il Divortio celeste (1643), a satire wherein Jesus Christ asks God for a divorce from his eternal bride, the Roman Catholic Church?
... that fans at the UEFA Euro 2008 reportedly prefer The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" to the official anthem, Enrique Iglesias' "Can You Hear Me"?

24 June 2008

21:55, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

... that a swimmer escaped a crocodile attack in Nkhata Bay, Malawi (pictured) by biting the crocodile on the nose?
... that M. P. T. Acharya is associated with Indian Nationalism and communism, as well as the anarchist movement?
... that an estimated 73 percent of what and how much all children eat is determined by nutritional gatekeepers?
... that Sir John Hussey, Chief Butler of England under King Henry VIII, was executed for treason?
... that in Norse mythology, the goddesses Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa defeated a Danish fleet by shooting arrows from their fingertips?
... that Bristol and South Wales Union Railway was actually two separate railway lines with a ferry crossing of the River Severn between?
... that Matsuura Takanobu was an early host and patron to the Jesuits, whom he hoped would influence an increase in trade between European traders and Japan?
... that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who played Conan the Barbarian in the 1982 film, proposed a law in 2007 for regulating the sales of violent video games such as Conan?
... that John Paul, Sr. and his son became the first father-son duo to win an IMSA Camel GT race, hours after the former was married on the track infield?

15:37, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the scaly hedgehog (pictured) is actually a species of brown mushroom found in spruce forests and used to dye wool in Norway?
... that Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez led the entire 2007 all-star game voting ballot with 1,404,001 votes?
... that average people use subpersonalities to allow them to cope with certain types of psychosocial situations?
... that India and Pakistan have expanded cross-border road and rail transport links, including across the disputed region of Kashmir?
... that Bette Midler's back-up trio The Harlettes once included the actress Katey Sagal, better known for her role as Peggy Bundy on the television series Married...with Children?
... that Scotland's Lothian, Borders & Angus Co-operative Society was founded in 1839, five years before the Rochdale Pioneers?
... that Gray Barker's 1956 book They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers introduced the concept of the Men in Black to UFO lore?
... that the historic floodplains of Oregon's Willamette Valley ecoregion rarely function today, due to dams in the Upper Willamette Basin?
... that all eleven stories in Australian Patrick White's The Burnt Ones have a real or metaphorical reference to burning?

09:36, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Archie J. Old Jr. completed the first round-the-world nonstop flight (route shown) by a jet-powered aircraft?
... that though Captain Edward Mallory was wounded by shot, saber, and bayonet, he and his men forced the enemy to retreat at the Skirmish at Waters Creek?
... that between 1861 and 1869, Wolfgang Wenzel Haffner was Norwegian Minister of the Navy and Postal Affairs on three non-consecutive occasions?
... that growing Indo-Singaporean relations include extensive military cooperation and diverse bilateral trade, which is expected to rise from USD 9–10 billion in 2006 to USD 50 billion by 2010?
... that April FitzLyon's biography of Mozart's librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte debunked his unreliable memoirs?
... that the Pythagorean theorem can be proven without words?
... that human rights activist Chiang Peng-chien was the first chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan?
... that the girls of St Mary's School, Calne, are divided into five Companies, each named after local bishops?
... that after his Major League Baseball career, Baseball Hall of Famer Dan Brouthers once led the Hudson River League in batting average at the age of 46?

02:30, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Pierre Lacau was the French Egyptologist and Director of Antiquities who oversaw the discovery of Tutankhamun (mask pictured) in the Valley of the Kings?
... that the Minkébé National Park in Gabon is believed by the WWF to have one of the largest forest elephant populations in Africa?
... that George E. Johnson, Sr., who was born in a Mississippi shack and dropped out of high school, founded the first Black-owned company ever traded on the American Stock Exchange?
... that most of the deaths that result from abdominal trauma are preventable?
... that Christopher Smart's The Hop-Garden is a long 18th century georgic poem that teaches how to farm hops in order to produce alcohol?
... that Haim Yosef Zadok was Israel's first secular Minister of Religious Affairs?
... that Richard Lenski's long-term evolution experiment with E. coli has been tracking genetic changes in bacteria for over 20 years?
... that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen described China as his country's "most trustworthy friend"?
... that an early record of the insult "I have forgotten more than you will ever know" attaches to Salathiel Lovell, a Recorder of London who became known as the "Obliviscor" (forgetter)?

23 June 2008

18:23, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Burgundian manuscript illuminator and painter Simon Marmion created many images of Heaven and Hell (detail pictured)?
... that the 2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion resulted in thirteen deaths and the first major shutdown of a US sugar refinery since Hurricane Katrina?
... that Indian film director Mohan Krishna Indraganti won eleven awards including the National Film Award and Nandi Award for his first directorial venture?
... that the Mormon practice of polygamy was first inspired in 1831 when Joseph Smith said Jesus wished his followers to marry Native Americans to make their descendants white?
... that residents of Changureh, Iran threw stones at the car of a government minister in anger following the 2002 Iran earthquake?
... that Murphy Bell, a civil rights attorney in Baton Rouge, represented the since imprisoned black radical H. Rap Brown on gun violation charges in 1972?
... that the medieval Battle of Sparrsätra is held to have deeply changed Swedish society?
... that Linda Finch is the first person to complete Amelia Earhart's unfinished final flight using the same aircraft type, a Lockheed L-10 Electra?

12:14, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

... that 100 North Tampa (pictured), which rises 42 floors and 579 feet (176 m) in height, is the tallest building in Tampa?
... that the murder of Celia Douty was the first murder in Australia to be solved using DNA profiling, after remaining unsolved for 18 years?
... that Frank W. Preston invented the furnace which made Corelle glassware possible and worked to establish Moraine State Park in Pennsylvania?
... that the collapse of more than 7,000 schools in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, while nearby buildings stood, has led to allegations of corruption involving contractors and government officials?
... that in 2003, Church of Scientology board member and Office of Special Affairs executive Kurt Weiland accompanied actor Tom Cruise in a private meeting with the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State?
... that the Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church, whose members still use horse-drawn carriages, was formed when another Mennonite church split after a 17-year dispute over the use of automobiles?
... that Fred Forman scored two goals in England's 13–2 win over Ireland in 1899—the highest-scoring match involving England in international football history?
... that several years after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published "The Village Blacksmith", a chestnut tree mentioned in the poem was made into a chair for the poet?

02:14, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the New Fighter Aircraft program selected the CF-18 Hornet (pictured) for the Canadian Forces Air Command when attempts to purchase Iran's fleet of F-14 Tomcats failed?
... that Rick Rhodes won six Emmy Awards for his work on Santa Barbara, Another World and The Guiding Light?
... that shukr is the Islamic virtue of gratitude?
... that of the major historic Snake River salmon stocks in the Blue Mountains ecoregion, the coho and sockeye are extinct, the chinook are threatened, and the summer steelhead are in decline?
... that American singer Elly Stone was Barbra Streisand’s understudy in the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale?
... that the Brigham Young University Museum of Art contains more than 170 images of Jesus, showing how his portrayal in Christian art has changed?
... that Dr. Maressa Orzack at Harvard Medical School stated that 40 percent of World of Warcraft players were addicted?
... that Dizzy Gillespie may have been inspired to write the jazz standard "Groovin' High" by a film serial he saw as a child?
... that Pakistani model Vaneeza Ahmad was one of the select few celebrities to carry the Olympic torch at the relay in Islamabad?

22 June 2008

18:29, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

... that when William Williams died collecting the fern Alpine Woodsia (pictured) in 1861, his body was found at the foot of the cliff where the species was first found in the 17th century?
... that Nguyen Van Linh, General Secretary of the Communist Party touted as the "Vietnamese Gorbachev" for reforming Vietnam's communist economy, later regretted many of the effects of his policies?
... that plants in some parts of the Klamath Mountains ecoregion in Southern Oregon and Northern California have evolved to grow in potentially toxic and nutrient-poor serpentine soils?
... that oudist Ali Sriti's first public performance was at age eleven, when he sang Ya chiraan waraa dajla yajri by Mohamed Abdel Wahab?
... that The New York Times said the 1944 Laurel and Hardy film The Big Noise "has as much humor in it as a six-foot hole in the ground"?
... that one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's first state visits was to Mongolia, aimed at rebuilding their bilateral relations in the post-Cold War era?
... that John Boylan, who won an acting award in the play On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco, eventually died of lung cancer?

12:27, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

... that invasive cheatgrass (pictured) has replaced native bunch grasses across much of the Northern Basin and Range ecoregion in the northwestern United States?
... that the Japanese visual novel Sakura Sakura allows the player to navigate in a profile side-view perspective similar to a two-dimensional platform game?
... that irrigation canals in the Treasure Valley and Magic Valley have dramatically transformed the Snake River Plain ecoregion in southern Idaho?
... that in 1984, during the internal conflict in Peru, members of the Peruvian Army massacred 123 men, women and children in the town of Putis?
... that zooming in from satellite view, one can see the outlines of Wilcox Octagon House and most of the 82 octagon houses listed on the U.S. National Register?
... that Norwegian politician Jacob Aall described Hans Eleonardus Møller, Sr. as "one of Norway's most active and skillful merchants"?
... that the Pumice Plateau in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills ecoregion of Southern Oregon is covered by a thick layer of volcanic ash from Mt. Mazama?
... that the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus runs across the Line of Control to connect the capitals of the Indian and Pakistani parts of the disputed region of Kashmir?
... that about ten percent of the value of gift cards is not redeemed?

06:26, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the buff and yellow mushrooms (fruiting bodies) of the fungus Boletus radicans (pictured) can reach 30 centimetres (12 in) in diameter?
... that C. W. Thornthwaite, an expert in the field of climatology, wrote his doctoral thesis in an unrelated topic in urban geography?
... that WayForward Technologies developed a video game remake of the 1951 Warner Bros cartoon Duck Amuck?
... that Khalid bin Barghash fought a 38-minute war with the British during his two-day rule as Sultan of Zanzibar?
... that Norwegian merchant and banker Simon Karenius Høegh was also mayor of both Brevig and later Porsgrund?
... that the public library system in Riverside County, California was the first in the US to turn over its entire operation to a private company?
... that when Test cricket twins Mark and Steve Waugh played together in their first ever match, they both scored ducks?
... that since normalizing Sino-Mongolian relations, bilateral trade has risen to US$1.13 billion and China has become the largest trading partner and foreign investor in Mongolia?
... that after George Lansbury lost the Bow and Bromley by-election, 1912, where he stood for re-election on a platform of women's suffrage, he declared "Never Resign!"?

00:25, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Dobbs Ferry post office (pictured) has an unusually high level of ornament compared to most Colonial Revival-style post offices in New York?
... that Norwegian philology professor Peter Olrog Schjøtt interrupted his academic career in 1888 in favor of a fifteen-month career in politics?
... that the Air Combat Group contingent of the RAAF was created when the Tactical Fighter Group and Strike Reconnaissance Group were merged?
... that Orange County Route 9 in New York is, by itself, longer than five of the county's state highways?
... that Otto Zobel described a method of using prototype filters that does not use the frequency domain to represent their transfer function?
... that the Canadian television series The John Allan Cameron Show featured different traditions of folk music from Celtic to blues?
... that India and Vietnam plan to sign a free trade agreement to bolster bilateral relations and further expand trade, which is expected to reach US$2 billion in 2008?
... that Hurricane Charley was the first storm that made landfall in South Carolina at hurricane intensity since Hurricane Hugo in 1989?
... that Hamburg's Rotherbaum quarter is the site of the Am Rothenbaum tennis stadium?

21 June 2008

17:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the orienteering map (example pictured), along with the compass, is the primary aid for an orienteering competitor to complete a course of control points?
... that, angry that he had been accused of treason, the Tang Dynasty general Pugu Huai'en submitted a complaint to the emperor sarcastically referring to his major contributions as crimes?
... that the oil and gas exploration company WAPET struck Australia's first flowing oil in 1953, and Western Australia's first commercial natural gas field in 1964?
... that American doctor George E. Moore discovered the link between chewing tobacco and mouth cancer?
... that the Spanish Leopard 2E is the most expensive Leopard 2 tank built to date?
... that Kieran Prendergast was the British Ambassador to Turkey before serving as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs?
... that spring soup is popular largely because it includes fresh ingredients not seen for a while by the consumer?
... that Francis Howard was an unpopular Crown Governor of Virginia in the 17th century despite brokering a peace treaty with Iroquois tribes?
... that extinguishment is one way to get out of a legal contract?

11:33, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

... that even though Benjamin Harrison held "front-porch" speeches at his house (pictured) during his presidential campaign in 1888, his home would not have a front porch until 1896?
... that the Orloff breed of chicken is named for a Russian count, but in fact originated in Persia?
... that during World War II, Ferdynand Arczyński produced hundreds of false IDs, work cards, service attestations, birth, and marriage certificates, distributed free to Jews hiding outside the Ghetto?
... that the Living Planet Index is one of the indices used in sustainability accounting?
... that Charlotte Badger, despite being from Great Britain, is widely considered the first Australian female pirate?
... that in Treasure Valley, on the borders of Oregon and Idaho, is the largest community of Basques outside of Europe?
... that as Speaker of the House of Commons, John Puckering was heavily involved in the decision to execute Mary, Queen of Scots?
... that, when completed, a relocated JCPenney at Ashland Town Center in Ashland, Kentucky will be the largest department store in Kentucky, and one of three prototypes in the U.S.?
... that the Dana Nature Reserve is the largest nature reserve in Jordan?

05:21, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the problem of harmful lunar or planetary dust adhering to spacesuits and being brought inside spacecraft by astronauts could be eliminated by the use of suitports (pictured), patented in 1996?
... that Vincenz Priessnitz established a hydrotherapy spa town in Jeseník (then Austrian Empire, now Czech Republic) where Nikolai Gogol was a guest twice?
... that the basalt underlying the Columbia Plateau ecoregion in Washington and Oregon can be up to 2 miles (3 km) thick?
... that the Flying Super Saturator was the world's first roller coaster allowing riders to dump payloads of water on other amusement park attendees?
... that Lloyd E. Lenard, a Shreveport businessman and author, was a leader in the fight to establish a two-party system in his native Louisiana?
... that although building India's first overseas military base in Tajikistan strengthened Indo-Tajik relations, bilateral trade remained low at USD 12.09 million in 2005?
... that 1801 California Street, a 709-foot (216 m) skyscraper in Denver, Colorado, was once home to the world's brightest signs on a high-rise building?
... that Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of Muppets creator Jim Henson?

20 June 2008

23:05, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Estherwood (pictured) is the only major châteauesque building in Westchester County, New York?
... that after paying £500 in 1623 for a pardon, John Nutt was arrested in England and convicted for piracy regardless?
... that the anti-communist Indonesian killings of 1965–66 resulted in more deaths than any other event in Indonesian history?
... that most of the Sitka spruce in the Coast Range ecoregion of Washington and Oregon has been logged and replaced with Douglas-fir plantations?
... that Ulrik Frederik Cappelen was County Governor of both Finnmark and Vestfold, and was elected to the Norwegian Parliament once from each district?
... that the Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust's income comes from a levy that is paid on every ticket that is purchased for public events at the Millennium Stadium in Wales?
... that one of the first recorded Japanese-Siamese contacts occurred in 1593?
... that Genevieve R. Cline was the first American woman to be appointed as a federal judge, despite objections based on her gender from many members of the Senate?
... that the Hindu Munnani is a Hindu nationalist organization based in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu?
... that Colt Wynn won his first bodybuilding tournament as a wheelchair athlete less than three years after breaking his back in an accident?

15:58, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Britain's King George IV specifically requested George Haden (pictured) to design and install the new heating system for Windsor Castle in 1826?
... that the Battle of Yellow House Canyon in 1876 marked the last battle between Texans and hostile Native Americans on the High Plains of Texas?
... that the Anif declaration, issued by the Bavarian King Ludwig III on 12 November 1918, ended the 738-year rule of the House of Wittelsbach over Bavaria?
... that jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding became one of the youngest faculty members in the history of Berklee College of Music almost immediately after her graduation?
... that the original East End Light was the first lighthouse erected in the Cayman Islands?
... that Rhipsime and her companions are venerated as the first Christian martyrs in Armenian history?
... that Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, part of Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, was bequeathed to the public by Andrew Johnson's daughter?
... that Jan Willems was present at Roatan in 1683 for one of the largest "Brethren of the Coast" pirate gatherings?
... that tracheobronchial injury was considered fatal until a survivor was reported in 1927?
... that the Pitchfork Ranch, established east of Lubbock, Texas in 1883, is one of the few modern ranches larger than it was at the time of its founding?

07:52, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Majorelle Garden (pictured), a tourist attraction in Morocco, was purchased by Pierre Bergé and the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in 1980?
... that the Nazi leader Theodor Habicht was briefly involved with the communists after World War I before joining the Nazi Party in 1926?
... that the Alvarado Terrace Historic District includes a church built in 1912 that was the LA home of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple before the group's 1977 mass suicide in Jonestown?
... that the stones at Nuits in Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York are so finely cut that a penknife cannot fit between them?
... that Sergeants Jose and Francisco Diaz were two brothers in the Puerto Rican Militia who helped defeat Sir Ralph Abercromby and defend Puerto Rico from a British invasion in 1797?
... that the real-life Hollywood Tower is often cited as the inspiration for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attractions at Disney themeparks in California, Florida, and France?
... that the president of Żegota, Julian Grobelny, was famous for saving Jewish children from the Holocaust by entering the Warsaw Ghetto from the Aryan side and walking out with them?
... that Daniel Chester French was never fully paid for his work on the Washington Irving Memorial in Irvington, New York?

00:46, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

... that when she was launched in 1956 MF Storegut (pictured) was the largest lake ferry in Northern Europe?
... that the list of bills sponsored by Barack Obama (131 items) includes measures for biofuels and synthetic fuels, veterans' health bills, divestiture from Iran, and tariff exemptions for herbicides?
... that in 1909 at the age of 17, New Zealand pianist Frank Hutchens became the youngest-ever subprofessor appointed to London's Royal Academy of Music?
... that the affair known in Israel as "the dirty trick" included the only successful vote of no confidence issued against an Israeli government to date?
... that Japanese Governor Murayama Tōan led a failed invasion of Taiwan in 1616?
... that the North West Shelf Venture liquefied natural gas project is Australia's largest resource development?
... that former Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress Henry Siegman served as a chaplain in the Korean War, where he was awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart?
... that the Canadian Ballet Festival is credited for Canadian dancers finding paid work in television?
... that despite facing a bankrupt family business and the loss of both parents at the age of fifteen, Norwegian Jørgen Wright Cappelen went on to found an enduring publishing company?
... that Strike, directed by Sergei Eisenstein and acted by the Proletcult Theatre, was intended to be one part of a seven-part series?

19 June 2008

16:47, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Australian White Ibis (pictured) has invaded Sydney and other urban centres of Australia's east coast since 1978, and is now commonly seen in parks and garbage dumps?
... that 894 of the 5,000 recorded aftershocks of the 1983 Coalinga, California earthquake had a magnitude of 2.5 or larger?
... that Anton Reinthaller, the first leader of the post-World War II Freedom Party of Austria, had been a Nazi politician and Undersecretary in Nazi Germany's Ministry of Food and Agriculture?
... that a Chicago championship basketball team from Wendell Phillips Academy High School was drafted to form the nucleus of the original Harlem Globetrotters?
... that the British government commissioned a report on the British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–1939, but its findings were so damaging that they were suppressed until 1945?
... that five thousand people went to Eugene V. Debs' home to attend his funeral sermon in 1926?
... that the Tagish Lake meteorite that impacted Canada on January 18, 2000 may be a broken off piece of the 773 Irmintraud asteroid that orbits between the planets Mars and Jupiter?
... that despite being set in New York, All Good Things has been filmed mostly in Connecticut, partly because of the state's "scenic and period locations"?

10:21, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Millersburg Ferry (pictured) in Pennsylvania is the last ferry on the Susquehanna River and the last authentic wooden double stern-wheeled paddle boat operating in the United States?
... that Jabal Amman is one of the seven original hills that Amman, Jordan was built on during the Neolithic period?
... that it was largely the zeal of Bishop Russell McVinney of Providence that reestablished the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Belgium in 1952?
... that after being auctioned at Christie's for over £100,000, the 16th-century Sapieha beaker was presented as a gift to Lithuania by the Ortiz brothers?
... that a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft crashed shortly after take-off at Bakers Creek, Queensland in 1943, killing 40 of the 41 service personnel on board and making it Australia's worst aviation disaster?
... that Muhammad al-Shaybani, a jurist of the Hanafi school of thought, was the student of Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf?
... that the Franconian derby between 1. FC Nuremberg and SpVgg Greuther Fürth is the most played football match in Germany with over 250 games between the two sides?
... that Australian artist Ben Shearer says blindness in his right eye that resulted from an injury while playing cricket was a reason he began to paint?

02:49, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

... that young Judy Garland was discovered, and Amelia Earhart made her last public appearance, at Ebell of Los Angeles (pictured)?
... that Opoku Ware II, King of the Ashanti people from 1970 to 1999, worked as a building inspector, a surveyor, a lawyer, and an ambassador prior to his enthronement?
... that the Palestinian village of al-Fasayil is the site of the ancient village of Phasaelis founded by Herod the Great in dedication to his brother Phasael?
... that the Indian politician Jamuna Nishad was dropped as cabinet minister after being named in the murder case of a police constable?
... that a memorial honoring U.S. soldiers who died in the deadliest air disaster in Australian history is located at the Embassy of Australia in Washington, D.C.?
... that Pete Young declined to sign with the Cincinnati Reds after being selected in the 1986 minor league baseball draft, but signed with the Montreal Expos three years later?
... that the Government of Bangladesh and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti promulgated the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997?
... that the first major work published by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, was a book of prose sketches inspired by Washington Irving?

18 June 2008

19:29, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the El Greco Apartments (pictured), once home to Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, were saved from demolition with fund-raising help from Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy?
... that because it is frequently accompanied by serious injuries, sternal fracture is associated with a mortality rate of 25–45%?
... that Jenny Wiley State Resort Park is named after a woman who escaped from Cherokees after her three-month-old child was killed by tomahawk?
... that the banknote exhibit at the Banknote Museum in Corfu, owned by Alpha Bank, is the first such collection in Greece to be put on public display?
... that Samuel Pepys's former clerk Paul Lorrain more than quadrupled his prison income by publishing dubious Confessions of the condemned at Newgate Prison?
... that less than an acre remains of the original 400-acre (160 ha) property of the Zachary Taylor House, built by Richard Taylor?
... that the East Roman general Comentiolus was briefly imprisoned for being insolent towards the khagan of the Avars?
... that the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, said to be the burial place of Ali, also gave the city of Mazari Sharif its name?

12:26, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

... that at the age of 74, Robert Sterling Yard (pictured) became a founding member and the first president of The Wilderness Society?
... that the total cultivable area of Seychelles is only about 400 hectares?
... that HMS Ontario, an 80-foot sloop of war recently discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario, is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship ever found in the Great Lakes?
... that before the 17th century, penetrating trauma was treated by pouring hot oil into wounds to cauterize damaged blood vessels?
... that the Mosque of the Cloak of the Prophet Mohammed, in Kandahar, has been described as the "heart of Afghanistan"?
... that the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti launched an armed struggle to achieve autonomy for the people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts?
... that Virginia City was the prototype for future urban/industrial boomtowns?
... that approximately 90 percent of the buildings were destroyed at Maumere, the hardest hit town of the 1992 Indonesia earthquake?
... that Australian fishermen often refer to the Western school whiting as "bastard whiting" because its presence in the catch reduces the presence of targeted species?

06:19, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Washington Irving's church, Christ Episcopal (pictured) in Tarrytown, New York, was one of the first in the U.S. built in the Gothic Revival style?
... that Ukranian president Viktor Yushchenko criticized the country's 2008 coal mine collapse as a failing of Ukraine's government policy?
... that problem sets are a common form of assignment in most university science courses?
... that a United States district court decision against the Omaha Horse Railway Company allowed cable car tracks to be installed in Omaha, Nebraska?
... that Alén Diviš painted illustrations for nineteenth-century Czech ballads after spending the Second World War in La Santé Prison and several internment camps?
... that the 1960–1961 NBC Western series Klondike featured James Coburn as con man Jeff Durain in the Alaskan gold rush town of Skagway?
... that André Devigny, a member of the French Resistance, escaped the allegedly escape-proof Fort Montluc Gestapo prison using a safety pin, a spoon, a rope, and a grappling hook?
... that an exploding cigar was at the heart of an alleged plot by the Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate Fidel Castro?

17 June 2008

22:52, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Chase Promenade (pictured) hosted a monthlong Museum of Modern Ice exhibit of abstract art on a 95 by 12 feet (29.0 by 3.7 m) wall of ice called Paintings Below Zero?
... that Kirori Singh Bainsla leads a protest movement that recently attempted to bring Delhi to a standstill?
... that actor George Takei's autobiography To the Stars was featured on display for a month at the Bill Clinton Presidential Library?
... that after three years of absence, the juniors' team of the Mapúa Institute of Technology, which is the winningest basketball team in the Philippine NCAA, will return in the 2008–09 season?
... that the Union Pacific Railroad made the Herndon House its headquarters 12 years after celebrating the launch of construction on the First Transcontinental Railroad there?
... that Fortified Area Silesia were Polish fortifications constructed along the interbellum border of Poland and Germany in the area of Upper Silesia?
... that Christian musician Francesca Battistelli said she knew she would spend her life performing after seeing the musical The Secret Garden on Broadway at the age of six?

14:10, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Jeita Grotto (statue pictured) in Lebanon has the world's longest stalactite, at 8.2 m (27 ft)?
... that the town of Morris, Connecticut is named in honor of coeducation pioneer Major James Morris, who served in the Continental Army with George Washington?
... that there are seven known subspecies of Keeltail needlefish, each being found in a specific region?
... that The Fourth Tower of Inverness is a radio drama that combines Americana and old-time radio with past life regression, Sufi wisdom, Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism?
... that with Cambodian-Vietnamese relations improving after the Cambodian-Vietnamese War, both nations set a target to increase bilateral trade to USD 2.3 billion by 2010?
... that the United States owns all of Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, except where Zachary Taylor and his family are actually buried?
... that of the eleven Japanese films accepted as nominees for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since its inception, none have won it?
... that Church of Scientology International official Leisa Goodman went on a six-month mission to investigate the treatment of Scientologists in Germany?

06:31, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Pakistani actress Veena Malik (pictured) has emerged as one of the leading women on Pakistani television with her abilities in improvisational mimicry?
... that the tourist industry in Seychelles was born with the completion of the Seychelles International Airport in 1971?
... that the first exhibition at the Boeing Galleries was a series of photographs taken from helicopters and hot air balloons?
... that Pope Benedict XVI received George W. Bush this month in a medieval tower where Pope John Paul II resided temporarily while his papal apartments were being remodeled?
... that for helping endow a professorship of botany at the University of Oxford, James Sherard was granted a doctorate in medicine by the university in 1731?
... that there were 18 lieutenant generals in the Confederate States Army?
... that the Prague pneumatic post system is the last remaining of its kind in the world?
... that the presidential campaign of Chuck Baldwin began only two weeks before the 2008 Constitution Party Convention yet still edged the campaign of political veteran Alan Keyes in the delegate count?

00:28, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

... that exhibits at the New York City Police Museum (pictured) include the machine gun used by Al Capone's gang in the 1928 murder of Frankie Yale?
... that Israel and China were cultivating military cooperation well before the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992?
... that Christopher Smart's The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was mocked for its dedication to a three-year-old child?
... that Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for contributions to ethnography?
... that Y1, a strain of tobacco containing twice as much nicotine, was developed by Brown & Williamson so they could make low-tar cigarettes without reducing the nicotine content?
... that most of the water in the 267 acre (1.08 km²) Lake Delton emptied out in two hours after heavy rains caused it to overflow its banks?
... that after agreeing to a prisoner exchange following the 1799 Siege of Mantua, the Austrians reneged by arresting soldiers of the Polish Second Legion as "deserters"?
... that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard composed the music for Space Jazz – a concept album companion to his science fiction novel Battlefield Earth?

16 June 2008

17:36, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

... that before Jean Miélot (pictured) created an illuminated manuscript for Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, he produced a "dummy" version, complete with pictures, decorations and text?
... that while some Esperanto profanity consists of informal neologisms, much of it is generated from the fundamental vocabulary?
... that Eugene C. Barker's 1925 work The Life of Stephen F. Austin has been described as the best single piece of scholarship on a Texas topic?
... that the Symmachi–Nicomachi diptych, intended to celebrate traditional Roman paganism, was incorporated into a Christian reliquary for almost 500 years?
... that Indian Agent James Givins worked with Mississauga leader Peter Jones to establish the Credit Mission, which became an example for the Reserve System in Canada?
... that Tarrytown's Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is the oldest continuously-used black church in Westchester County, New York?
... that Irish architect Thomas Duff designed St. Patrick's School in Belfast, believed to be the city's last surviving gothic building?
... that in his 1971 book Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Murray Bookchin anticipated the importance of cybernetic technology to the development of human potential over a decade before the origin of cyberpunk?

11:23, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the historic district in Warwick, New York (downtown pictured) reflects the village's development from a stop on a colonial road to an early 20th-century summer resort town?
... that Jørgen Aall, one of the founding fathers of the Norwegian Constitution in 1814, went out of business as a ship-owner only four years later?
... that two members of the country music group One Flew South met while starring in a production of the Broadway musical The Civil War?
... that the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture in Canada has received nearly $200 million of funding from the United States federal government?
... that British model Daisy Lowe began her modelling career at the age of two?
... that writer Neil Gaiman invented the fiction that Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream to ensure that humans never forgot Faerie?
... that the Golf Club Managers' Association represents over 65% of all golf courses in the United Kingdom?
... that in 1939 René Pleven stated "Politics do not interest me", only to join the Free French exile government in 1941 and thus launch a long political career?

04:33, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Mountain Gorillas (juvenile pictured) of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park are the prime tourist attraction in Uganda?
... that anthropologist John Buettner-Janusch sent a batch of poisoned candy to Judge Charles L. Brieant Jr. after he was convicted of running an illegal drug lab?
... that most historians believe stories about Dutch shipwreck survivors of the Concordia, settling at a desert oasis in Australia in 1708, were a hoax?
... that the fluted black elfin saddle is actually a mushroom that appears in woodlands and lawns in North America and Europe?
... that GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov won second place in by-elections to the State Duma, while imprisoned due to his suspected attempted murder of Russian politician Anatoly Chubais?
... that Taylorsville Lake State Park is the most heavily stocked lake in Kentucky?
... that when Tang Dynasty general Li Guangbi repeatedly disobeyed imperial directives, subordinate generals began to disobey Li Guangbi?
... that Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton Jail in Brampton, Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba"?

15 June 2008

21:24, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Harry Peckham (pictured), along with Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville, wrote the first cricket rules to include a leg before wicket clause?
... that the Timexpo Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut includes a forty-foot high replica of an Easter Island statue?
... that MP Sir Anthony Kershaw returned leaked documents about the sinking of the General Belgrano, resulting in the prosecution of Clive Ponting?
... that as part of Cuba-Venezuela relations, 50,000 Venezuelans went to Cuba for free eye treatment?
... that Erik Fankhouser is the first West Virginia native to become a professional bodybuilder?
... that Karakore was the epicenter of the most destructive earthquake of 20th-century Ethiopia, which destroyed one town and left 5,000 people homeless?
... that Minnie Lou Bradley, a Texas Panhandle rancher, was the first woman ever to head the American Angus Association?
... that the SS Carsbreck survived being torpedoed by Heinrich Liebe's U-38 in 1940, but was sunk by Reinhard Suhren's U-564 in 1941?
... that Canadian supermodel Yasmeen Ghauri was the daughter of an Islamic cleric who opposed his daughter's career?

13:59, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Red Bridge (pictured), one of the former Aar bridges in Berne, was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" because of frequent fatal accidents?
... that the Vermont Square, Lincoln Heights, and Cahuenga Branches are the only surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles?
... that Bob Beck led the effort to capture and breed the remaining wild Guam Rails, Micronesian Kingfishers and other endangered Guamanian native birds in captivity?
... that Christopher Smart's Hymns for the Amusement of Children were finished by the author while in debtors' prison and that he died before receiving notice that the work was a success?
... that Widtsoe, Utah was made a ghost town in 1936 by the federal Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program that bought out indebted landowners?
... that the Czech castle of Hauenštejn is private property of a descendant of the so-called "Father of the Nation" František Palacký?
... that the Church of Daniel's Band, based in Michigan, chose its name from the title of a sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon in London?
... that in 1926 Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk produced a firewood-powered snow melter?

07:20, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Java (pictured), first mentioned in print in 1835, is the second oldest breed of chicken in the United States?
... that the Persian walled city of Ray was a military objective so frequently that, starting in the late 12th century, its inhabitants gradually moved out to an undefended village nearby called Tehran?
... that Joseph Hugh Allen was a member of the so-called reform "Dirty 30" of the Texas House of Representatives who pushed for ethics legislation in light of the Sharpstown banking scandal?
... that one of the humanoid robots created by Japanese roboticist Tomotaka Takahashi was listed in Time’s Coolest Inventions in 2004?
... that the winners of the Twenty20 Champions League, a tournament between Twenty20 cricket champions from Australia, England, India and South Africa, will collect a prize estimated at £2.5 million?
... that Marcus J. Ranum suggested that the U.S. government register whitehouse.com long before it was registered by an adult entertainment site?

00:17, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

VA-46 Clansmen insignia

... that John McCain was a member of the VA-46 Clansmen (insignia pictured) when he was wounded during the 1967 USS Forrestal fire off the coast of Vietnam?
... that St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove, one of nine Coptic churches in the British Isles, has an iconostasis which is believed to be the tallest in the world?
... that since its establishment in 1986, the North American Waterfowl Management Plan has spent $4.5 billion to protect wetlands used by migratory birds in North America?
... that Arthur Hartley developed the Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation which is credited with safely landing 2,500 aircraft during World War Two?
... that McDonald's Cycle Center in Chicago, Illinois provides lockers, showers, a snack bar, bike repair, and bike rental to bicycle commuters?
... that after being shipwrecked on Malé Atoll in 1973, Tony Hussein Hinde pioneered surfing in the Maldives, which was previously unknown in the country?

14 June 2008

15:41, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

... that there are at least 296 historic places listed on the U.S. National Register in Chicago, including a German U-boat (pictured)?
... that the North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy was first arrested at age sixteen and sent to a penal colony at eighteen, as a member of the underground communist anti-colonial movement?
... that Walter Brennan starred in the 1964–1965 ABC sitcom The Tycoon as an eccentric chairman of the board of the fictitious Thunder Corporation?
... that the Espada Cemetery was the first formally sanctioned burial ground in Havana, Cuba?
... that Hall of fame coach Al Arbour coached the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League three different times?
... that Christopher Smart's Hymns and Spiritual Songs were composed in a mental asylum where the author was held for "religious mania"?
... that Madagascar's unique wildlife, such as the Red-bellied Lemur, is one of the country's main tourist attractions?
... that the Latham Confederate Monument of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was supposed to honor both Confederate and Union soldiers?

09:40, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Andreas Frederik Krieger (pictured) was one of the most vocal critics of the morganatic marriage between Frederick VII of Denmark and Louise Rasmussen?
... that the 7th District Police Station, on Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois, was used as the picture of the precinct house in the opening credits of Hill Street Blues?
... that Romanian businessman Gheorghe Ştefănescu was executed for selling large quantities of adulterated wine?
... that in addition to its bus services, Louisville's Transit Authority of River City operates diesel-powered, rubber-tired trolleys to service downtown hotel and shopping districts?
... that French architect Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe designed the structure that initially housed the Hermitage Museum and the palace where Grigory Rasputin was murdered?
... that Iran and Cuba have been seeking to strengthen their relationship in recent years?
... that the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky's commercial district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact that one could legally purchase alcohol there?

02:43, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the diet of the Crescent Honeyeater (pictured) changes from nectar and invertebrates to wholly insects during the breeding season?
... that Eleanor King was a principal dancer and choreographer in the early days of American modern dance?
... that the Yūshūkan, a Japanese military and war museum owned and operated by Yasukuni Shrine, has been at the center of an international controversy?
... that Ryan Fleck produced his short film Gowanus, Brooklyn as a sample feature to attract potential financiers to its extended feature film screenplay, Half Nelson?
... that the Hungarian Communist Party, despite losing badly in the 1945 election and doing just slightly better in 1947, held absolute power by 1949?
... that the statue of Daniel Webster that sits on top of the Daniel Webster Memorial in Washington, D.C. was a gift by the founder of the Washington Post?
... that instead of discarding runes in favour of the Latin alphabet, the Scandinavians developed the extended medieval runes?
... that Johan Santana led Major League Baseball in 2006 with an earned run average of 2.77?

13 June 2008

20:04, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Christopher Smart (pictured) spent five years in a mental asylum and wrote his most important works, Jubilate Agno and A Song to David, during this time?
... that the Roman-Parthian War of 58–63 over Armenia ended with a compromise that saw the Arsacid dynasty established on the Armenian throne?
... that Arthur Byron Coble's classic 1929 monograph Algebraic geometry and theta functions was still being published by the American Mathematical Society as late as 1982?
... that half of all Quebec's program spending for the Eastern Habitat Joint Venture is devoted to the nationally significant wetlands in the biosphere reserve and region of Lac Saint-Pierre?
... that Edward Cawston made his first-class cricket debut for Sussex whilst he was still at school?
... that the North Exelon Pavilions are the first structures in Chicago, Illinois to use building integrated photovoltaic cells?
... that as a poet, Antoni Edward Odyniec was a mediocre imitator of his friend, the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, but left colorful memoirs describing Mickiewicz's private life?

14:01, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Church of St. Catherine (pictured) in St. Petersburg was taken over by the Soviets, closed, ransacked and twice burned out, before being returned to the Catholic Church in 1992?
... that Sir Archibald Bodkin banned James Joyce's Ulysses for containing "a great deal of unmitigated filth and obscenity" even though he had read only a few pages?
... that Platte Mound M, maintained by students from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, is believed to be the largest letter "M" in the world?
... that ship-owner and Norwegian Parliament member Hans Eleonardus Møller has been described as the "father of Norwegian marine insurance"?
... that the Conscript Fathers were senators drafted for the ancient Roman Senate much like conscription is a military draft?
... that in a toll dispute between residents of Bandar Mahkota Cheras and the Cheras-Kajang Highway concessionaire, a barrier blocking a shunpike was repeatedly torn down and rebuilt?
... that Philip Cochran was the inspiration for the character "Flip Corkin" in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff?

07:49, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the core of the Medieval Bulgarian Army (pictured) was the heavy cavalry, which consisted of 12,000–30,000 heavily armed riders?
... that Odell McBrayer, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1974, proposed the televising of executions to deter violent crime?
... that Indo-Maldivian relations grew stronger after India responded to Maldives' request for help and thwarted a militant plot to overthrow the government in 1988?
... that Edward, Prince of Wales stayed at Perry Belmont's House in Washington D.C. at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson?
... that Indonesian journalist, S. K. Trimurti, who often used a pseudonym in her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities, later became the country's first minister of labor?
... that critical reception to Hogarth's Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo was so harsh the artist was forced to remove the painting from exhibition?

01:17, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the first coinage used in Brunei were Chinese coins (example pictured), which were referred to as the pitis?
... that the initials of John Hathorn and his wife carved into brick on their house in Warwick, New York show the influence of Germanic building traditions?
... that Marathi film Shwaas was India's official entry to the 2004 Oscars but faced financial problems to showcase and promote the film?
... that William Bragge donated his 1,500 volume Miguel de Cervantes collection to the Birmingham library in 1873, but many of the books were destroyed during a fire?
... that the record for the most named tropical storms to form in a month in East Pacific history since reliable records began dates back to 1968?
... that E.S. Richardson, a Louisiana educator for whom the E.S. Richardson Elementary School is named, ended his career as an administrator of the wartime Office of Price Administration?
... that the Bahá'í population in the United Arab Emirates is estimated to be the second-largest in the Middle East?
... that there are more than twenty runestones on the Isle of Man?
... that Hopkinsville, Kentucky's tribute to Confederate veterans was a public drinking fountain?

12 June 2008

18:18, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Delaware breed of chicken (chick pictured) was once the favorite broiler on U.S. East Coast farms, but is now critically endangered?
... that Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G. Madavan Nair declared at the Raman Science Centre, Nagpur that India would have astronauts in space by 2015?
... that Desdamona won the Minnesota Music Award for Best Spoken Word Artist every year from 2000 to 2006, except 2001 and 2002, when nobody won?
... that Mishmar David was the first kibbutz to be privatised?
... that No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons, a 2001 report by Human Rights Watch, blamed feigned ignorance by prison officials for the allegedly widespread prison rape in the United States?
... that Mieszko Bolesławowic could have become a king of Poland, if he had not been poisoned?
... that the Hillsboro Central light rail station had the only library located at a mass transit station in the western U.S. when it opened?
... that British folk rock singer Sandy Denny liked the string arrangements on her final album Rendezvous so much that she called them her "fur coat"?

12:03, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Grigori Rasputin

... that the Moika Palace, a museum about the murder of Grigori Rasputin (pictured) by Prince Felix Yusupov, was also the scene of the homicide?
... that of the 30 covered bridges that once stood in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, only Forksville, Hillsgrove, and Sonestown remain, all of which were built in 1850?
... that Indian actress Kamalinee Mukherjee's poem was selected for an international poetry contest in Washington, D.C. just before she began her acting career in the Telugu film industry?
... that Hurricane Huko had effects in all three North Pacific tropical cyclone basins?
... that Roy Agnew has been described as the most outstanding Australian composer of the early 20th century?
... that the American Fork Railroad stopped 4 miles (6.4 km) short of the Forest City, Utah smelter it was built to serve?
... that after the Mendiola massacre on January 22, 1987, the Filipino Government banned all public demonstrations on Mendiola Street in Manila?
... that Morris W. Turner, as a city council member and then the mayor of Lubbock, was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the West Texas city faced devastating tornadoes in May 1970?

06:01, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House (pictured) is known as the "Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a shark?
... that Cuba-Pakistan relations were strengthened due to Cuba's assistance after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake?
... that William Rankin is the only person to survive a parachuting descent through a thunderstorm cloud?
... that in Norse mythology, the Æsir-Vanir War between two tribes of gods resulted in the unification of the tribes?
... that Steven Spielberg originally cast Tony Award nominee Julyana Soelistyo as Pumpkin in the film Memoirs of a Geisha?
... that although both Hebrew and Arabic texts are written from right to left, the question mark is mirrored in Arabic (؟) but not in Hebrew punctuation?
... that U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?
... that Bruno Sacco, the Italian-born head of styling at Daimler-Benz between 1975 and 1999, considers his design of the 1991 Mercedes-Benz S-Class luxury car to be four inches (10 cm) too tall?

00:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the 5th-century Sassanian Emperor of Iran Yazdegerd I (pictured on coin) was given the epithets of Ramashtras ("the most quiet") as well as Al Khasha ("the harsh")?
... that Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block work, Storer House, was restored in the 1980s by Joel Silver, producer of the films Die Hard and The Matrix?
... that the 1992 Nicaragua earthquake was the first "tsunami earthquake" to be captured on modern broadband seismic networks?
... that Matthew Bruccoli, a scholar on F. Scott Fitzgerald, owned a collection of Fitzgerald memorabilia valued at US$2 million?
... that Roujin Z is a 1991 Japanese anime film about a computerized hospital bed with its own built-in atomic power reactor?
... that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad built a separate spur just for Western Kentucky University's Heating Plant?
... that Swiss illustrator Albert Lindegger was responsible for murals at the headquarters of the cantonal police and the crematorium in Berne?
... that in 1928, the Mayo Beach Light tower was removed from its site on Cape Cod and re-erected in California as the Point Montara Light?

11 June 2008

16:57, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the original hot dog on a stick to be served at Cozy Dog Drive-in (pictured) was called a Crusty Cur?
... that as a result of the 2008 Karnataka state assembly elections the Bharatiya Janata Party formed its first state government in southern India?
... that 14th-century explorer Ibn Battuta visited the Mali Empire during the reign of Mansa Suleyman?
... that Atlanta Braves pitcher Pete Smith threw three of his four career shutouts in 1988, the season after his rookie year?
... that prior to colonial times, written literature was virtually absent from Burkina Faso, with the country's first novel not published until 1962?
... that although allies during the Vietnam War, bilateral relations between China and Vietnam deteriorated due to disputes over the Gulf of Tonkin and Cambodia, resulting in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979?
... that Carlisle Floyd decided to adapt Olive Ann Burns' novel Cold Sassy Tree into an opera after his sister gave him a copy?

10:56, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Analatos Painter, Mesogeia Painter and Polyphemos Painter (work pictured) were early Greek vase painters of the Proto-Attic period, active between 700 and 650 BC?
... that the horses in the Minneapolis Police Department mounted patrol commute to Minneapolis from a nearby ranch?
... that the Horse Grenadier Guards were a unit of the British Household Cavalry until 1788, originally serving as mounted infantry to reinforce the Horse Guards Regiment?
... that Manabendra Narayan Larma was a major political leader of the Chakma people and other tribes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and founder of the Shanti Bahini militia?
... that writer Robert W. Peterson, whose seminal 1970 book Only the Ball was White called attention to the overlooked history of Negro league baseball, was also a prolific writer of magazine articles for the Boy Scouts of America?
... that the original owner of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, D.C. building died during the sinking of the RMS Titanic?
... that 13 separate churches served the German population of Louisville in the 19th century?

04:49, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the British Army changed its plans for operations in Greece during World War II on medical advice from Australian Brigadier Sir Neil Fairley (pictured)?
... that the Cathedral Church of the Prince of Peace, the episcopal see of the bishop of the Christ Catholic Church founded by Karl Pruter, is said to be the smallest cathedral in the world?
... that the 2006 visit by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to India was officially described as "heralding a new era in Indo-Saudi Arabian relations"?
... that the jazz album To the Stars by Chick Corea was inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction novel of the same name?
... that the third, fourth, and fifth highest mountain peaks in Africa are located in Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda?
... that the lifting of the Siege of Hull in 1643 was marked by an annual public holiday in Hull, England, until the Restoration?
... that employee uniforms at the Topaz Hotel in Washington, D.C. have been described as "punk Buddhist"?

10 June 2008

21:17, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the worst terrorist attack against tourists in Egypt was in November 1997, when gunmen killed 57 tourists and 4 Egyptians (location pictured)?
... that the Thomas T. Gaff House is the residence of the Colombian ambassador to the United States?
... that Dulcie Holland's Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, described as "one of the greatest treasures of Australian music", waited 47 years for its first public performance?
... that Ringeriksbanen railway would reduce rail travel from Oslo to Bergen, Norway by 60 km (37 mi)?
... that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's SF novel To the Stars was nominated for a 2001 "Retro" Hugo Award?
... that Saudi Arabia promised to supply 50,000 barrels of free oil per day to help Pakistan if economic sanctions were imposed after its 1998 nuclear tests?
... that Albert Tozier rang the bell at a church in Hillsboro, Oregon, on New Year's Eve for 64 straight years?

14:45, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Norwegian torpedo boat HNoMS Kjell (pictured) was known as "Terror of the smugglers" when she intercepted rum runners during Norway's prohibition?
... that in 1784, Abel Buell published the first map of the new United States created by an American?
... that India's USD 650–750 million aid for Afghanistan has bolstered bilateral relations and made it the largest regional provider of aid since overthrow of the Taliban?
... that Irish journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain was given one of the final Jacob's Awards in 1993 to commemorate her career with RTÉ Radio 1?
... that a bipartisan commission was established by law in 2003 with the mandate to study prison rape in the United States?
... that French singer Patricia Kaas' 1990 album Scène de vie was certified Diamond in France, Double-platinum in Switzerland and Platinum in Canada?
... that the only time a Confederate flag was displayed in Nevada during the American Civil War was over a saloon?

08:44, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Harris Theater (pictured) is the first new performing arts venue built in downtown Chicago, Illinois since 1929?
... that Down Among the Z Men (1952) is the only film starring all four original members of The Goons: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine?
... that Mel Krause lost his job as head coach of the University of Oregon's baseball team when the university cut its century-old baseball program in 1981?
... that Otto Soemarwoto’s work as director of the Institute of Ecology has been cited as a primary influence on the resettlement strategy during Indonesia's Saguling Dam project?
... that amateur footballer Lee Todd is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the quickest sending off in a match, playing for just two seconds?
... that Helen J. Frye was the first woman to serve on Oregon's sole federal district court?

02:44, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Eberswalde Hoard (pictured), a collection of 81 gold objects weighing 2.59 kilograms (5.7 lb), is an important find from the European Bronze Age?
... that the Dunbar Hotel was the heart of LA's jazz scene with visits by Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong?
... that when Hibernian F.C. applied to join the Scottish Football Association, the SFA told them that the SFA were catering for Scotsmen, not Irishmen?
... that in 1977, L. Ron Hubbard wrote a SF film screenplay called Revolt in the Stars which is very similar to his Xenu story from the Scientology space opera theology?
... that a German Empire was first proclaimed on 28 March 1849 with the so-called Paulskirchenverfassung, or Constitution of the German Empire?
... that Lawrence Wroth wrote the definitive book on the American colonial period printing trade while working as a librarian at Brown University?

9 June 2008

19:38, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Culver Randel manufactured pianos at his mill (pictured) in Florida, New York?
... that Hermann Neubacher was the leader of the Austrian branch of the German Nazi Party?
... that a 2007 accident on the Rampe de Laffrey killed 26 Polish pilgrims, but was not the worst ever seen along the road?
... that in optics and acoustics, the transfer-matrix method is used to analyze the propagation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves through a layered medium?
... that Indian actor Sikandar Kher was still in high school when he assisted director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in making the 2002 film Devdas?
... that compared to standard pistols, the pistols used in the ISSF 10 m Air Pistol event are allowed to be larger and have lower trigger pull weight?
... that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his debut novel This Side of Paradise in a successful attempt to convince Zelda Sayre to marry him?

13:37, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Uri-On (pictured), created by Michael Netzer in 1987, was the first Israeli superhero to be published in color?
... that the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars increased in size from 40,000 regular troops to over 250,000?
... that Western Kentucky University's Van Meter Hall is said to be haunted by the ghost of a worker who died due to seeing an airplane for the first time?
... that Mary's Point in New Brunswick, Canada has the world's highest density of Corophium volutator, a crustacean which is a food source of millions of Semipalmated Sandpipers?
... that Pakistan's ties with Turkey have been influenced by president Pervez Musharraf's admiration for Turkey's model of modernism and secularism?
... that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch encompassing the modern city of Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home in Los Angeles?

07:34, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

... that McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink (pictured) is both an ice skating rink and the largest alfresco dining venue in Chicago?
... that the German Reichsflotte Navy was founded on 14 June 1848, before the German Empire was proclaimed on 28 March 1849, and that it fought only in the Battle of Heligoland on 4 June against Denmark?
... that a bobsled from the 1932 Olympic Games, which had been missing for more than sixty years, was donated to the Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum in 2002?
... that the Guglers, mercenary knights invading Switzerland in 1375, were so named because of their headwear?
... that the Archdiocese of the Old Catholic Church of America has taken the official position that all Christians must support nuclear disarmament, even if it is unilateral?
... that Lorin Maazel was 75 years old when his first opera, 1984, had its world premiere in 2005?

01:33, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Pale-yellow Robin (pictured) uses the prickly Lawyer Vine as a nesting site and for nesting material?
... that the steel beams of Opaekaa Road Bridge, in Kapa'a, Hawaii were forged in 1890 in Motherwell, Scotland?
... that Mihail Moruzov, Romania's first modern espionage chief, was shot as part of the Jilava Massacre, while his successor Eugen Cristescu died in prison?
... that Indiana's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning?
... that renowned Holocaust scholar Robert Jan van Pelt says that the first Holocaust deniers were the Nazis themselves?
... that Pakistan established bilateral relations with Nepal in 1962-63 and agreed to provide free trade access and transport facilities to Nepal at the Chittagong Port?
... that the novel Final Blackout by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is seen as an early classic of the Golden Age of Science Fiction?
... that Walter Livsey kept wicket so well in his debut cricket match in 1913 that the opposing team only scored three runs from his mistakes?

8 June 2008

19:27, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

... that after being sentenced, beaten and left for dead for refusing to recite Muslim scriptures, Vaishnava convert Haridasa Thakur's (pictured) instant recovery convinced many he was a pir?
... that Bristol, Quebec, had Canada's first horse-drawn railroad and Quebec's first iron ore pelletizing plant?
... that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a majority of Israel's population support future enlargement of the European Union to incorporate Israel?
... that the 2001 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard II was filmed at an abandoned Civil War-era fort on an island in Boston Harbor?
... that a dendrochronological study suggests the Corlea Trackway, a kilometre-long corduroy road in County Longford, Ireland, was built around 148 BC?
... that Melomani, the first self-styled Polish jazz ensemble, was created in 1951 when jazz music was officially forbidden in Poland?
... that in 1885, Jimmy Forrest was the first professional footballer to appear for the England national football team?
... that Engine Co. No. 27 served a dual function as a movie location and an operating firehouse serving the Hollywood studios?

12:39, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Italian Wall Lizards (pictured) on a Croatian island developed significant behavioral and morphological changes over the course of 36 years, which has been described as "rapid evolution"?
... that Swiss voters rejected a proposal to hold popular votes on applications for citizenship in the June 2008 Swiss referendum?
... that French singer Patricia Kaas' 1997 album Dans ma chair was certified Platinum by the SNEP?
... that Frank T. Norman, a Louisiana Democrat, was among the first members of his party to lose a general election to a Republican opponent, as the two-party system began to sprout in the American South?
... that the 2008 Indian film Woodstock Villa marked the debut of veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher's son, Sikandar Kher?
... that oil and natural gas extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in Hay-Zama Lakes, an inland wetland in Alberta, Canada, and the province's only site for the re-introduction of Wood Bison?
... that Karin Pouw's statements about the book Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography prompted the niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige to publicly criticize the Church of Scientology online?

06:38, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Clinton Jencks (pictured), the petitioner in the case Jencks v. United States, starred in the 1954 film Salt of the Earth, which was loosely based on his story?
... that Lurie Garden is the focal nature component of what is perhaps the world's largest green roof?
... that Oskar Sosnowski, professor of architecture at Warsaw Tech, was wounded by Germans while trying to save archives containing details of Polish historic buildings?
... that in the 1996 football match between England and Scotland, Uri Geller claimed that he caused Scotland's Gary McAllister to miss a penalty by the power of his mind?
... that charcuterie, derived from the French words for flesh (chair) and cooked (cuit), is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products primarily sourced from pork?
... that Charles Leavitt researched the diamond industry thoroughly for the film Blood Diamond's screenplay, since he could potentially be sued by mining corporations?
... that the first known specimen of the Soringa whiting was caught by accident in 1982 during a taxonomic survey of ladyfish in the Indian Ocean?

7 June 2008

23:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

... that The Greencards (pictured) are a Texas bluegrass band known for their Americana sound, but are composed of two Australians and an Englishman?
... that Chadian president François Tombalbaye was the first international leader to officially recognize the Bokassa government after the 1965–1966 Central African Republic coup d’état?
... that bodybuilding champion Victor DelCampo was inspired to pump iron by the Incredible Hulk comic books?
... that a mediaeval ditch running along the centre of Gerechtigkeitsgasse, an ancient street in Berne, Switzerland can now be seen again following renovation work in 2005?
... that the constant k filter was invented by George Campbell but named by Otto Zobel, the inventor of the m-derived filter – both used in composite image filters?
... that the 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup saw a record eleven teams playing 32 matches in 25 different stadia?
... that the 1950s Canadian science-fiction television series Space Command featured William Shatner and James Doohan who later appeared on Star Trek?

17:48, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the flowers of the beach gardenia (pictured) are used to scent coconut oil in the Cook Islands, while the heated leaves are used for headaches in northern Australia?
... that the Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Tan was forced to commit suicide due to false accusations that he planned to kill his brother Li Chu, the later Emperor Daizong?
... that the Chantecler, the only breed of chicken native to Canada, was developed by a Trappist monk?
...that the 2001 documentary film Scottsboro: An American Tragedy retold the story of the Scottsboro Boys, one of the most controversial courtroom pursuits of racism in U.S. history?
... that in spite of their poor formal education, William Tinsley and his brother Edward founded the Victorian publishing firm Tinsley Brothers, which brought out Thomas Hardy's first novels?
... that when Yves Saint Laurent launched a perfume in 1977 named Opium, it led to accusations that he was condoning drug use?

11:45, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Vratislav Brabenec (pictured), a member of the Plastic People of the Universe, studied theology and was in a Czechoslovak prison for eight months because of his music?
... that the Dead Plane EP is one of five limited edition singles and EPs released on five different labels by No Age on the same day, March 26, 2007?
... that the University of Bristol's gowns are said to have been designed by its first Vice Chancellor in the colour of the rocks of the Avon Gorge after rain?
... that Australian composer Raymond Hanson, a teacher of music composition at the Sydney Conservatorium, was himself largely self-taught?
... that the 1944 German film Große Freiheit Nr. 7 was banned in Nazi Germany and only permitted by the Allies in late 1945?
... that Darryl Brinkley, the first Northern League baseball player to bat .400, lost his chance to play in the majors due to the September 11, 2001 attacks?

05:37, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

... that large sandstone boulders rest atop trees in Yellowwood State Forest (example pictured) and no one knows how they got there?
... that the 1990 Spanish film ¡Ay Carmela! takes its title from the favorite song of the Republican soldiers and of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War?
... that the recent Tropical Storm Arthur was the first Atlantic tropical storm that formed during the month of May since 1981?
... that Jane S. Richardson developed the ubiquitous ribbon diagram method of representing proteins?
... that Time Banking is an alternative economic system which uses units of time as currency?
... that improving Indo-Taiwanese relations have led to bilateral trade rising to USD 2.26 billion by 2005, even though India has not accorded diplomatic recognition to Taiwan?
... that the Berezan' Runestone is the only runestone discovered in Eastern Europe?
... that Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme Bonaparte successfully?

6 June 2008

22:14, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

... that, due to political pressure for quicker development, Alfred Pippard was unable to finish his report on the structural analysis of the R101 airship (pictured) before it crashed?
... that the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history was launched in Nazi Germany?
... that in 1979, Joseph C. Howard, Sr., whose mother was Sioux and father was African American, became the first African American named to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland?
... that there has been a windmill in Mountnessing since 1477?
... that a revolution in 1688 in the Kingdom of Siam (modernday Thailand) severed virtually all ties with the Western world for nearly two centuries?
... that rock climber Peter Harding developed the art of hanging from one hand jammed into a crack, while smoking a cigarette with the other?
... that Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX is a collection of nearly 1,000 ancient historical anecdotes written by Valerius Maximus?
... that Wrigley Square's Millennium Monument is a near replica of a monument destroyed in 1953 that stood in almost the exact same location in Chicago, Illinois?

15:59, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Pinnacle@Duxton (model pictured), at 50 floors, is set to be the tallest public housing in Singapore upon completion?
... that Captain Juan de Amezquita defended Puerto Rico from an invasion by the Dutch in 1625?
... that each chapter of the 2005 chick lit romantic comedy novel The Thing About Jane Spring begins with a quote from a Doris Day film?
... that Viking warrior Šimon is honoured in the cave monastery of Kiev?
... that the 1900 Carpenter Gothic Wadsworth Chapel has separate Catholic and Protestant chapels under one roof?
... that T. V. Sundaram Iyengar laid the foundation for the motor transport industry in South India, when he started a bus service in Madurai, Madras Presidency in 1912?
... that having reached peak windspeed on September 6, 1959, Hurricane Patsy is the earliest known Category 5 Pacific hurricane?
... that while serving in World War II, baseball player Eddie Kazak spent 18 months in hospitals recovering from a bayonet wound to his left arm and his right elbow being shattered by shrapnel?

09:56, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Art Deco Montecito Apartments (pictured) had been the home of Ronald Reagan, James Cagney, Montgomery Clift, and George C. Scott before becoming a senior citizens' housing project?
... that the Eimsbütteler TV, a German football club, failed to advance in the national championship finals in 1934 and 1935 despite beating the later champion, FC Schalke 04, in both years?
... that Pulau Merambong is located within the largest seagrass bed in Malaysia?
... that in 1795 John Billingsley advocated straightening sections of the rivers Brue, Axe and Parrett, to increase reclamation of the Somerset Levels?
... that Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?
... that Valium is the prescription most often dispensed by the Vatican Pharmacy?
... that in 1656, German violinist Thomas Baltzar helped premiere The Siege of Rhodes, thought to have been the first all-sung English opera?

03:56, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

... that four generations of Vikings can be traced on the Gällsta Runestones (example pictured)?
... that the Franklin County Courthouse incorporates the walls and columns left after Confederate forces burned the previous courthouse during the American Civil War?
... that sumo wrestler Keisuke Itai caused controversy by claiming that the outcomes of up to 80 percent of his matches were fixed?
... that Penedo, a small town in Brazil was colonized by immigrants from Finland?
... that although Portland, Oregon's 140-mile (225 km) long greenway system, the 40 Mile Loop, is far from complete, it has been described as "one of the most creative and resourceful greenway projects" in the U.S.?
... that Indian coracles, which probably existed since the prehistoric times, have recently been used for giving tourists rides on the Kaveri River?
... that fighter ace Hartmann Grasser, who is credited for shooting down 103 enemy aircraft during World War II, later worked as an adviser for the Syrian Air Force?
... that the Skyline Towers apartment building in Saint Paul, Minnesota is often referred to as a "ghetto in the sky"?

5 June 2008

19:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

... that a calf is said to haunt the Kramgasse (pictured), a main street in the Old City of Berne, Switzerland, where it had been flayed alive?
... that the Japanese visual novel 5 has been described by its development team as a "noisy northern province love comedy"?
... that Royal Navy seaman Harry Price recounted in a memoir how he once instigated a minor mutiny, only to end it when it reached "ugly proportions"?
... that India's "Look East" policy aims to establish extensive relations with Asian countries to project its influence as a counterweight to that of the People's Republic of China?
... that Australian composer and ABC broadcaster William G. James dedicated his Six Australian Bush Songs to Dame Nellie Melba?
... that the role of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease was discovered by genetic studies of a family from Contursi Terme in Italy, which had 61 members with Parkinson's?
... that Hardy Lake is Indiana's smallest reservoir at 741 acres of surface area?
... that, during the 1989 Revolution, Romanian actor Victor Rebengiuc appeared on television with a toilet paper roll, as a symbol of "wiping out" the communist regime's traces?

13:47, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the war veterans' memorial (pictured) in Suffern, New York, is built on land where George Washington and Rochambeau camped with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War?
... that a 1974 provincial Order-in-Council has prohibited hunting on the Grand Codroy Estuary, the "most important wetland" on the island of Newfoundland?
... that the Battle of Sena Gallica, fought in 551 AD, was the last major naval battle to take place in the Mediterranean Sea for more than a century?
... that Frank Gehry used a hollow design for the BP Pedestrian Bridge in order to reduce the load on underground parking garages that support the bridge?
... that UnrealIRCd is used on the largest number of IRC servers?
... that before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie selected it for a retreat from paparazzi, the Château Miraval, Correns-Var was already well-known as a Provençal vineyard?
... that China sought to strengthen Sino-Nepalese relations by supplying arms to the Nepalese monarchy against the country's Maoist insurgents?
... that Zac Efron and Claire Danes claim they saw a ghostlike figure while filming Me and Orson Welles at Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man?

07:44, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Hugh de Largie (pictured), who was banned from working as a miner in Newcastle for his union activities, later became an inaugural member of the Australian Senate?
... that stained glass from Judson Studios is found not only in churches, but also in Frank Lloyd Wright houses, the U.S. Capitol and the Tropicana Casino?
... that Mary Shelley's verse drama Midas is a commentary on both Ovid's Metamorphoses and Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale?
... that the sociology of the Internet is a newly emerging branch of sociology concerned with issues such as the digital divide, online social capital and the public sphere?
... that the Tang Dynasty eunuch Li Fuguo, whose assassin had cut off his head and one of his arms, was buried with a wooden head and a wooden arm?
... that between 1970 and 1984 the WE Seal of approval program aided in an estimated US$100,000 in restitution being made to collectors of comics and other memorabilia victimized by mail fraud?
... that deforestation in Staffordshire inspired contributions from Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward to a book of poetry about Needwood Forest by Francis Mundy?
... that a heckling comb is used when hand processing flax to comb out and clean the fibers?

01:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

... that one novelty of Hans Gieng's 1543 statue on the Fountain of Justice (pictured) in Berne was the portrayal of Lady Justice as blindfolded?
... that goalkeeper Bob Roberts was the first West Bromwich Albion player to win an international cap?
... that the meandering Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line took 77.2 miles (124 km) to connect Baltimore, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania although the two cities are only 45 miles (72 km) apart in a straight line?
... that Clarendon is known as the heartland of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in western Quebec, Canada, because its founder required that all settlers be Protestant?
... that the Tang Dynasty's Empress Zhang, during her husband Emperor Suzong's illness, used her blood to write Buddhist sutras in order to seek blessings for him?
... that the namesake of the Paxton Hotel in Downtown Omaha, William A. Paxton, was also instrumental in founding the Omaha Stockyards, the Omaha Driving Park and the South Omaha Land Company?

4 June 2008

18:55, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

... that although the blackmouth angler is known for its ugly appearance, it is used for making agujjim (pictured), a popular Korean dish?
... that Oregon's Devils Punch Bowl State Natural Area has a naturally eroded bowl carved in the rock by swirling ocean waves?
... that the Luxembourgian football club FV Stadt Düdelingen won the German Gauliga Mittelrhein in 1942 and went on to the German championship finals, losing 0–2 to FC Schalke 04?
... that the sinking of the Nantucket Lightship LV58 on December 10 1905 was the first time that an American ship transmitted a distress signal by radio?
... that the Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca in Romania was formed from two separate collections housed and operated independently in the same building for 50 years?
... that Thelma Keane was not only the inspiration for "Mommy" in The Family Circus, but also headed the negotiations in which her husband, cartoonist Bil Keane, regained full copyrights to the comic strip?

12:54, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the lobby of the Suffern, New York post office (pictured), features a relief depicting a semi-naked woman shooting a flaming arrow?
... that Juozas Urbšys was the last Foreign Minister of independent interwar Lithuania?
... that at 1,237-metre (4,060 ft) elevation, the highest point on the Norwegian railways is the Finse Tunnel?
... that Soviet test pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki set twenty aviation world records?
... that Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor contains a 367-acre (149 ha) land gift made in 1950 by Borax Consolidated, which was the first non-domestic donation to the Oregon Parks commission?
... that Vancouver's tallest completed building has been called "the crowning achievement" of the Ukraine-born businessman Peter Wall?
... that the veldamai were released from their duty to pay taxes to the state by the privileges of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania?
... that some claim World War II German fighter ace Walter Zellot was killed in September 1942 by friendly fire?

06:54, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the United States Class II 1804 Silver Dollar (pictured) is alleged to have been struck over a Swiss Shooting Thaler?
... that Japanese mangaka Ken Akamatsu received Kodansha's Freshman Manga Award for his debut manga Hito Natsu no Kids Game?
... that the Welshmen Edward Edwards, Griffith Griffith, Owen Owen, Richard Richards, Robert Roberts and Thomas Thomas (and his son Thomas Thomas) were all educated at Jesus College, Oxford?
... that the Denny Chimes features a Walk of Fame of former captains of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team at its base?
... that Gibraltarian pop rock band Taxi is made up of three of Melon Diesel's former members and write songs in Spanish only despite their being British?
... that after ten years as an outlaw in the American Southwest in the 1890s, Nathaniel "Texas Jack" Reed became an evangelist and sold copies of his memoir on life as a bandit?

00:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

... that early residents of Sydney called the Leaden Flycatcher (pictured) the "Frogbird" on account of its guttural call?
... that after the overthrow in the 9th century of the Sailendra dynasty in Java, its leader Balaputra became maharaja of Srivijaya?
... that in January 2006, British Paralympic sprinter John McFall's racing prosthesis was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?
... that in a 1998 bilateral agreement, China pledged to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bhutan even though they have never established diplomatic relations?
... that Angela James, once called the "Wayne Gretzky of women's ice hockey," was amongst the first three women inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame?
... that legend has it that anyone who spends a night at Tinkinswood on the evenings before May Day, St John's Day (23 June), or Midwinter Day would either die, go mad, or become a poet?

3 June 2008

18:22, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the parish church of St. Mary in Chepstow, Wales, was founded as a Benedictine priory in 1072 and retains its original Norman doorway (pictured)?
... that some Aleutian natives were still enslaved in Alaska as late as 1903?
... that Australian James Blair introduced laws to protect children by establishing a children's court, and by preventing unjust disinheritance in parents' wills, before he became chief justice of Queensland?
... that despite being the first official Atlantic hurricane season on record, the 1851 Atlantic hurricane season included a hurricane that is tied for the longest on record for the period prior to 1870?
... that the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, one of London's early underground "tube" railway lines, was built with finance raised by American Charles Yerkes?
... that the genus Melampitta is a taxonomic mystery, having been considered at one time either belonging to the pitta, babbler, logrunner, bird of paradise, or cinclosomatid families?

12:18, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the first coach of Lithuanian chess International Master Viktorija Čmilytė (pictured) was her father?
... that the Port Oneida Rural Historic District is the largest historic agricultural community fully protected by government ownership in the United States?
... that China has sought to cultivate strong ties with Burma by providing extensive aid and vetoing a UN resolution proposed in 2007 condemning Burma for human rights violations?
... that The Reenactment, a 1968 film by Romanian director Lucian Pintilie, was banned by the communist regime because it showed the authorities engaged in tormenting young delinquents?
... that with the Philippine Basketball Association's acceptance of Solar Sports' bid to cover the league, the games will be aired again to the network that originally aired the games in the inaugural 1975 season?
... that the Clarence Islands were discovered and charted as a group of three Arctic islands by James Clark Ross, then re-charted with fictional additions totaling nine islands by his uncle, John Ross?

06:18, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Verdeja (pictured) was an indigenous Spanish tank program to replace the T-26 and Panzer I?
... that Vuestar Technologies in Singapore claims to own patents for hyperlinking a visual image to webpages, and plans to bill virtually all websites for its use?
... that the lyrics of Naer Mataron, a black metal band from Greece, are influenced by Greek mythology?
... that James H. Howard was the only fighter pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor—the U.S. military's highest decoration—in the European Theater of Operations during World War II?
... that the Villa Medici del Trebbio was one of the first of the Medici villas outside Florence?
... that the One-armed bandit murder, the first gangland killing in North-East England, inspired the novel on which the film Get Carter was based?
... that the Missoula floods deposited a 40-ton rock atop a 250-foot tall hill at what is now the Erratic Rock State Natural Site in Oregon?

2 June 2008

23:06, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

... that one theory why the virginal (pictured) was so called is that the keyboard instrument was thought to sound like the voice of a young girl?
... that the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge in Washington was the first of its size to be financed entirely by sales of stock?
... that cholesterol embolism may result from common medical procedures such as coronary catheterization, and can cause kidney damage?
... that the church tower for the Fourth Universalist Society of New York is the "high-tech command center" for NBC's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
... that Leurospondylus ultimus was so named as it was originally thought to be the last occurrence of a plesiosaur?
... that the Huckleberry Trail takes its name from the former Virginia Anthracite & Coal Railroad, nicknamed the Huckleberry, on whose abandoned railbed this rail trail was constructed?
... that Miriam Ben-Porat was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel and the first woman to serve as Israel's State Comptroller?
... that Winston Churchill was an Honorary Colonel in the "Queer Objects On Horseback"—better known as the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars?

17:07, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Albrecht Dürer's pupil Hans Springinklee is best known for his woodcuts (example pictured)?
... that Tunisia's tourist industry is said to benefit from its Mediterranean location and its "tradition of low cost package holidays from Western Europe"?
... that W. Jasper Blackburn, a Republican newspaper publisher in Louisiana, was acquitted by a one-vote margin—and thus spared execution—of having printed counterfeit Confederate currency?
... that the 1974 film Lost in the Stars, set in apartheid-era South Africa, was actually shot in Oregon?
... that over fifty surrendered U-boats were gathered at HMS Ferret awaiting disposal in Operation Deadlight?
... that Howlin' Dave was credited with introducing Filipino rock music to Filipino radio listeners?
... that Oregon's Collier Memorial State Park has a logging museum with equipment dating back to 1880 including ox-drawn "high wheels", steam-powered "donkey engines", and antique saw mill machinery?
... that anaesthetic pioneer Joseph Thomas Clover anaesthetised Florence Nightingale, Napoleon III and the future king Edward VII during his career?

10:59, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the binomial name of the White-throated Treecreeper (pictured) translates as "brown and white trunk traveller"?
... that a movie set built for the 1961 Rat Pack film Sergeants 3 is often mistaken for the ghost town of Paria, Utah?
... that Tunisian writer, actor, and director of theatre Mohamed Driss paid tribute to the historian Ibn Khaldoun by writing an opera in his honor?
... that the Minden Press-Herald, a daily newspaper in Minden, Louisiana, was not established until 1966 though an earlier Minden Herald dates to 1849?
... that in Korean cuisine, dishes made by steaming vegetables stuffed with seasoned fillings are called Seon?
... that the Pike Place Fish Market is a Seattle, Washington fishmonger known for throwing fish to customers?
... that on December 12, 1996, India and Bangladesh signed a 30-year treaty resolving the long-standing dispute over the sharing of Ganges Waters?
... that the New Jersey Library Association, the oldest library organization in New Jersey, began in 1890 with 39 members and currently has over 1,600?

04:58, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the Portland Armory (pictured) in Portland, Oregon was the first building on the National Register of Historic Places to achieve a Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification?
... that Shih Chih-wei was the first player of the La New Bears to receive a monthly Most Valuable Player award in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan?
... that British TV presenter Dermot O'Leary once played as a punt returner for the Colchester Gladiators?
... that the SC Johnson & Son-produced film To Be Alive! was the first non-theatrical production to receive an award from the New York Film Critics Circle?
... that Lady Elsie Mackay, socialite, actress and interior designer, died in 1928 with WWI ace Walter G. R. Hinchcliffe, attempting to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic?
... that in its last completed season in 1943–44, out of twelve clubs in the Gauliga Pommern, five belonged to the German Luftwaffe (Air Force), one to the Kriegsmarine (Navy) and one to the Heer (Army)?
... that author Laura Vernon Hamner, informally known as "Miss Amarillo", lived over thirty years in an Amarillo, Texas hotel?

1 June 2008

22:52, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Hebrew publisher Hayyim Selig Slonimski (pictured) was awarded the Demidov prize of 2,500 rubles in 1844 by the Russian Academy of Sciences for the invention of a calculating machine?
... that the Nankin bantam breed of chicken is classified as critically endangered by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy?
... that the 17th-century Buu Phong Temple in Vietnam has exactly 100 hillside steps from the road up to its entrance?
... that Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of Governor Earl Kemp Long, who shared his interest in buttermilk, horse racing, and politicking?
... that Mevlüde Genç, a Turk living in Germany who had lost five of her family members to Neo-Nazi violence in the Solingen arson attack of 1993, went on to advocate tolerance between Turks and Germans?
... that Albert J. Hofstede was Minneapolis's first Catholic mayor?
... that Circle of Chalk, a Yuan Dynasty play, is still being performed in European versions set in 14th-century China, Soviet Georgia and East Germany?
... that Coirpre mac Néill is said to have been cursed by Saint Patrick so that none of his descendants would be High King of Ireland?

14:28, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the conical step pyramids (reconstruction pictured) and circular public architecture of ancient Mexico's Teuchitlan tradition were unique in Mesoamerica?
... that the Florida state comptroller refused to pay Lieutenant Governor Edmund C. Weeks his salary because he was not elected?
... that the 1966–68 Liga Leumit season was played over two years in an effort to rid Israeli football of corruption and violence, which included riots on the field?
... that Kari Blackburn, daughter of Irish educationist Robert Blackburn, taught in a primary school in Tanzania before joining the BBC?
... that the Soviet Union made its debut at the 1954 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Caracas and won 20 of the 30 gold medals?
... that Native American activist Jay Morago was the first Governor of the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona?
... that the burial of John Mildenhall at Agra in 1614 is the oldest recorded burial of an Englishman in India?
... that the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive was originally a route called the Sleeping Bear Dunes Park?
... that twin brothers David and Peter Jackson played together for seven clubs in English football?

08:27, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

... that the architects of the Florida Tropical House (pictured), located in Beverly Shores, Indiana designed the house with Florida residents in mind?
... that Penelope Boothby was painted by Henry Fuseli and sculpted by Thomas Banks, as well as being the subject of a book of poetry by her father Sir Brooke Boothby, Bt?
... that Doge Andrea Vendramin of the Republic of Venice has what is generally agreed to be "the most lavish funerary monument of Renaissance Venice" in the basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo?
... that The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, zydeco, soul and country influences?
... that India has developed close bilateral relations with Burma with the aim of countering China's growing influence and to elevate itself as a regional power?
... that Murray Jarvik and Jed Rose, who invented the nicotine patch, could not get approval to conduct their research on human subjects and performed the initial tests of the patch on themselves?
... that the canine teeth of male baboons—which can be up to four times as long as those of females—are an example of a sexual dimorphism?
... that Barbette, a female impersonator aerialist, served as inspiration to such artists as Jean Cocteau, Man Ray and Alfred Hitchcock?

02:26, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

... that Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her room at the Hollywood Studio Club (pictured)?
... that at least 37 people have died in the ongoing caste violence in Rajasthan, India?
... that French writer Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin was the last book read by Sigmund Freud before he committed suicide?
... that the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement would allow security officials at some international borders to randomly search travelers' MP3 players, laptops, and cell phones for copyright-infringing music files?
... that Vinh Trang Temple in southern Vietnam has been severely damaged by both French military action and extreme weather?
... that Bill Flemming called over 600 events as a broadcaster for the ABC Sports' Wide World of Sports during his career?
... that the 1994 French–Romanian film An Unforgettable Summer depicts the persecution of Bulgarians by Romanian Army personnel, in a metaphor of the Yugoslav wars?
... that the state of Indiana in 1972 set aside 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of Hoosier National Forest just for the purpose of reintroducing wild turkey to the Hoosier state?