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31 March 2014

16:00, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Jade Etherington (pictured) and Caroline Powell are the most successful female British Winter Paralympians of all time?
... that in 1839, a Chinese official flushed more than 1,000 tons of smuggled opium into the sea, causing the British to declare war?
... that soprano Hannelore Bode appeared in the Bayreuth centenary Jahrhundertring as both Sieglinde and Gutrune?
... that with its "New New York" episode, the focus of Glee shifts to New York City for the remainder of the show's fifth season?
... that Gerd Larsen made her final appearance with London's Royal Ballet on her 75th birthday, after a career there of over half a century?
... that the decree enforcing the 1954 transfer of Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR was only one paragraph long?

08:00, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the indie developers of Threes! (trailer pictured) iterated through puzzle themes such as sushi for a year before returning to their fundamental concept of pairing multiples of three?
... that June Lascelles was an Australian microbiologist who taught and researched into bacteria at Oxford and UCLA?
... that the Coca-Cola 500 was the final NASCAR Winston Cup Series race in Japan?
... that Flor de María Rodríguez and her husband revived over 20 Uruguayan folk dances from the colonial period, most of which had been completely forgotten?
... that the scheduled release of the Peanuts movie in 2015 would "commemorate the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas"?
... that Margaret Jackson was the first woman to be published in the Alpine Journal under her own name?

00:00, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

... that General Joseph Maurice Pambet (pictured) was relieved of command of the French 22nd Infantry Division in September 1914 owing to his "lack of impetus"?
... that Mr. Hooper was one of the first four human characters to appear on Sesame Street?
... that Paralympian silver medallist Mellissa Dunn now leads her own firm of lawyers?
... that the Church of St Nicholas and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Stowey, includes a wall painting of the Last Judgment by Henry Strachey?
... that Kitty Calhoun was the first woman to climb Makalu, the fifth-highest mountain in the world?
... that cricketer and Australian rules football pioneer Tom Wills stabbed himself to death with a pair of scissors?

30 March 2014

16:00, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the Bremen Cotton Exchange building has glass mosaics (example pictured) created by Puhl & Wagner?
... that a drifter asking, "There's the makers, the takers, and the fakers. Which will you be?" triggered George Herms to pursue life as an artist?
... that serial killer Dennis Nilsen attempted to murder a student he met at The Salisbury, London, and went on to murder another 14 young men?
... that soprano Norma Sharp performed Mozart's Countess at her debut at La Scala and the voice of the forest bird in Bayreuth?
... that the bootleg recording The Troggs Tapes revitalised The Troggs' career, and influenced This Is Spinal Tap?
... that Johnny Broderick, a New York City detective for 24 years, inspired the Broadway expression "to broderick", meaning "to knock out with one blow"?

08:00, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

... that between animal experiments, research physiologist Maria Carmela Lico (pictured) read novels by Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar?
... that the MBM scandal led to the creation of the Massachusetts Senate's Ethics Committee?
... that Catherine Clarke Fenselau was the first trained mass spectrometrist on the faculty of an American medical school?
... that FS Canis Majoris is a star surrounded by a compact shell of dust?
... that Bajo Stanišić, one of the commanders of the communist-led uprising in Montenegro, switched sides in 1942 to join the Chetniks?
... that the spiritual "Roll, Jordan, Roll" has been cited as the basis of blues?

29 March 2014

21:15, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

... that 18F (logo pictured), the new United States federal government digital services agency based on lean startup principles, was created in response to complications in Healthcare.gov's rollout?
... that artist Sam Peffer painted covers for the James Bond paperback book series, as well as posters for the films Prisoner of the Cannibal God, and Hussy starring Helen Mirren?
... that Hard Drive Productions, Inc. v. Does 1–1,495 was a case in which BitTorrent users could not legally retain their anonymity after charges of copyright infringement were brought against them?
... that members of the Ladies' Alpine Club toasted the Alpine Club at their annual dinner, despite not being permitted to join it?
... that late in life, Professor Nils Kock, developer of the Kock pouch, collaborated with Egyptian Professor Mohamed Ghoneim to further develop his techniques in Third World nations?
... that Rachel Mahon played the music of Star Wars in "five-inch stiletto heels and blue sequined spandex"?

09:00, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the first novel written on the West Coast of the United States may have been that by "Ruth Rover" (title page pictured)?
... that the coat of arms of Senegal was designed by a Parisian heraldist in 1965?
... that geologist Adolph Knopf frequently collaborated with his wife Eleanora Knopf, but when he worked at Yale University she had to work out of his office because Yale would not hire women?
... that Sue Nott was the first American woman to climb the Eiger's north face in winter?
... that the proposed USA Freedom Act, which would undo certain mass surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act, was introduced by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, author of the Patriot Act?
... that the Spanish hamlet of A Barca is being given away for free?

28 March 2014

20:45, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Paralympian Anna Turney (pictured) was inspired by the 2006 Winter Paralympics, and has competed in the two since?
... that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 allows federal courts to order certain state and local governments to have changes to their election laws preapproved by the United States federal government?
... that Swedish fashion model Filippa Lagerbäck has hosted the Italian version of Candid Camera on RAI?
... that the newspaper editor James C. Brown stated that the Mountain Grove Campground was "one of the most delightful resorts in Pennsylvania"?
... that Australia's first Playboy centerfold, Karen Pini, also hosted the weekly lotto draw for twelve years?
... that Criss Angel has been on primetime television more than any other magician, including his weekly series Criss Angel Mindfreak?

08:30, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

... that street photographer Martin Elkort (pictured) took his first professional photograph at age 10 and it made the front page of The Baltimore Sun?
... that the European fan worm has invaded Australia?
... that before she died of cancer, art curator Karin Higa was writing her doctoral dissertation entitled Little Tokyo, Los Angeles: Japanese American Art and Visual Culture, 1919–1941?
... that the upper Oak Creek descent ruts of the Woodbury cutoff are remnants of the Ox Bow Trail of the California Road and were created in 1847–1860?
... that opera singer Paul Hansen was also a copper-engraver and silent film star?
... that Herman Melville's Captain Ahab was the model for J. M. Barrie's Captain Hook?

27 March 2014

20:15, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the Jacob M. Nachtigall-designed St. Leonard Catholic Church (pictured) in Madison, Nebraska, contains a bone relic of its namesake?
... that the Canada–South Korea Free Trade Agreement will eliminate 98% of all import tariffs between the two countries?
... that Ross McEwan, CEO of RBS Group, once the world's largest bank, twice failed an accountancy exam?
... that Turkish women's national ice hockey player Gizem Öztaşdelen is a member of her father's club Milenyum Paten SK?
... that Verizon v. FCC (2014) was reported to be the death of network neutrality, having vacated two of the FCC Open Internet Order 2010's three regulations?
... that scientists reported that the moss species Chorisodontium aciphyllum can survive for more than 1,500 years frozen?

08:00, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Caroline von Briest (pictured) offers in narrative poems "insight into matters of the human, particularly the feminine, heart"?
... that William Henry Collins was simultaneously Director of the Geological Survey of Canada and President of the Geological Society of America?
... that in 2011, Australia's National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research was re-named as the Kirby Institute in honour of former Justice of the High Court Michael Kirby?
... that Hamburg Ballet's principal Hélène Bouchet wore a gypsy dress when she danced in Mougins, with her sister on violin?
... that Govaert Flinck's painting A Young Archer was for many years thought to have been painted by Rembrandt?
... that Kirsty Martin was the first Australian to win the Prix Benois de la Danse?

26 March 2014

19:45, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Milan Baroš (pictured) was the top scorer at UEFA Euro 2004?
... that the Foldscope, a microscope made out of cardstock that costs under US$1, was designed to help detect 12 disease-causing organisms?
... that Asare Akuffo is the lead advocate of all Ghanaian businesses because of the Private Enterprise Foundation?
... that after the U.S. Supreme Court declared school segregation unlawful, a segregated school in Tennessee received new kitchen equipment for use in classes that trained black girls to work as servants?
... that Dominique Khalfouni, once a star (étoile) of the Paris Opera Ballet, regretted her decision to leave the company she still loves deeply?

07:30, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

... that flamboyant ballerina Sofia Golovkina (pictured) was the director of the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet School for 41 years, eventually becoming its rector?
... that Israeli-American artist Dorit Cypis moved to Minneapolis because she "wasn't interested in and [was] disoriented" by the consumerism she experienced in Los Angeles?
... that Ricky Martin's 1999 eponymous studio album sold over 22 million copies worldwide?
... that German POWs, held in Camp Aliceville during World War II, could take courses taught by University of Alabama faculty and receive credit recognized by the Nazi Reich Ministry of Education?
... that American Paralympian Stephanie Jallen hops?
... that soprano Nadine Secunde was praised for "formidable acting skills" in the title role of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk?

25 March 2014

19:15, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Per Teodor Cleve (pictured) discovered holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from cleveite?
... that mountaineers Anna and Ellen Pigeon made their most famous traverse in the Swiss Alps by mistake?
... that Kiesza gave away 4,500 CDs to Canadian troops serving in Afghanistan?
... that when invited to lunch at the Bank of England, the economist Adam Ridley arrived by motorcycle?
... that the starfish Trophodiscus almus is unusual in brooding its young on its upper surface?
... that Spanish ballet dancer Lucia Lacarra stated, "I love to do bad stuff! I don't want to get typecast in goody roles"?

07:00, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Jan van Beers (caricatured) was largely unknown until the scandal of being accused of painting over a photograph brought him worldwide fame?
... that the group Pareiasauromorpha includes parareptiles that lived from 271 to 252 million years ago?
... that DJ Cassidy's forthcoming album aims to "bring back the greatest and most universal dance music of all time"?
... that reported cases of rape in Belgium increased by 20% in just two years, from 2009 to 2011?
... that Ben Sneesby survived childhood cancer and went on to compete at the Paralympics for Great Britain?
... that when tulips reached Antwerp in 1562, they were mistaken for vegetables?

24 March 2014

16:55, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the Pine Tavern (pictured) was founded in 1936 and is now the oldest restaurant in the city of Bend, Oregon?
... that John "Tacks" Neuer is the only person to pitch a shutout in both his Major League Baseball debut and his final game?
... that Otaniemi Chapel was destroyed by arson in 1976 but rebuilt to its original form two years later?
... that aged 15 and never having seen a live opera, Alessandra Marianelli placed second in the Cascinalirica singing competition and made her professional opera debut the following year?
... that RPCS3 is a video game console emulator that can allow certain PlayStation 3 games to be played on a computer?
... that the stubby squid uses a jet of water and its arms to bury itself?

04:30, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

... that teenager Rywka Lipszyc's diary of her life in the Łódź Ghetto (pictured) during the Holocaust in Poland was published 70 years after it was written?
... that the Neon Jungle song "Trouble" has been described as the "in-your-face feistiness of the Spice Girls with the turbo-charged EDM pop of Icona Pop"?
... that Adeyinka Gladys Falusi of Nigeria is a L'Oréal-UNESCO laureate for her molecular genetics research into hereditary blood disorders such as sickle-cell disease and alpha-thalassemia?
... that the Church of St Peter and St Paul in Wincanton includes a memorial to Nathaniel Ireson which he sculpted himself?
... that Mary Birdsall bought the newspaper that popularized bloomers?
... that a jet from one of the component stars of Z Canis Majoris is over 11 light-years long?

23 March 2014

18:55, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Charlotte von Kalb (pictured) was generally judged unfavourably by women but she "fascinated nearly all the men she ever knew"?
... that development of The Oval was objected to because of fears that The Oval Gasholders might explode?
... that Kenneth Fleenor, who spent over five years as a POW after his F-4 was shot down over North Vietnam, had helped the U. S. Air Force integrate the F-4 into its inventory?
... that in an editorial in Kudi Arasu, Periyar criticised Mahatma Gandhi for Bhagat Singh's death?
... that the reverse jewel squid has bright eyes and an indigestible beak?
... that there are four blue stragglers in Caroline's Cluster?

10:50, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Mt. Zion CME Church (pictured) in Union City, Tennessee, has an unusual hipped ceiling?
... that Hilda Rix Nicholas painted Desolation when her husband was shot dead 38 days after they were married?
... that for his work on The Drew Carey Show episode "Drew's in a Coma", editor John Fuller earned a Creative Arts Emmy Award nomination?
... that Joo-won Kim and Ji-Young Kim, once rival ballerinas from the Korean National Ballet, are collaborating on a piece which incorporates tango, flamenco, ballet and contemporary dance?
... that an amorous male box jellyfish Copula sivickisi courts his selected mate and passes her a bundle of sperm?
... that Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski demanded that George H. Taylor, head of the Oregon Climate Service, stop representing himself as the "Oregon State Climatologist"?

00:25, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

... that a new dinosaur (pictured) discovered in North and South Dakota has been nicknamed the "chicken from hell"?
... that in her seventies, María Nieves was dancing the tango in the West End in 2010?
... that if you killed your parents in ancient Rome, you might be sewn into a leather sack with a monkey, a rooster, a dog and a snake?
... that on March 5, the Israeli Navy boarded the Klos C cargo ship and found a hidden stash of weapons, which the Israelis accused Iran of shipping to militants in the Gaza Strip?
... that Mary Lura Sherrill is one of three women from the same research group who have independently won the Garvan Medal for women in chemistry?
... that the premise of The Bells of Saint John was "to get kids frightened of Wi-Fi"?

22 March 2014

16:40, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

... that after the son of novelist Ida Boy-Ed (pictured) was killed early in World War One, she wrote, "A mother is only dust on the road to victory"?
... that Galak-Z: The Dimensional's art style draws from anime influences, including Ichiro Itano's signature Macross series "Itano Circus" missile fusillade?
... that Irénée Berge composed the opera Corsica and silent film music?
... that Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu, nicknamed the "Screwdriver Killer", is the serial killer with the highest known victim count in Turkey?
... that the musical From Here to Eternity is based on the uncensored version of James Jones's 1951 novel?
... that Hemant Mehta, the "Friendly Atheist" who sold his soul on eBay, raised money to clean up a vandalized church?

08:55, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

... that forest cobras (pictured) can grow up to 2.7 metres (8.9 feet) and kill in 20 minutes?
... that Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue in the Portland metropolitan area is the second largest fire department in Oregon?
... that Adena Springs, a race horse breeding operation owned by Frank Stronach, won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder seven times?
... that Cason Crane was the first openly gay man to climb the Seven Summits?
... that Sony and Panasonic's new optical disc format, Archival Disc, is planned to eventually be able to store one terabyte of data?
... that chemist Pauline Gracia Beery Mack was the first woman to win the Silver Snoopy award?

01:10, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Mary Ellen Best (self-portrait pictured) painted scenes of domestic Victorian life, contrary to the common paintings of her day?
... that the only United Nations cemetery in the world is in Busan, South Korea?
... that gastroenterologist Clare O'Leary, the first Irish woman to climb Mount Everest, had to cancel her first attempt due to a case of gastroenteritis?
... that Scott Wagner won a special election to the Pennsylvania State Senate as a write-in candidate?
... that Wolf Point South Tower is a 950-foot (289.6 m) mixed use building under construction on historic property next to the Chicago River that is owned by the Kennedy family?
... that the Milwaukee Brewers rescued a stray dog in Phoenix, Arizona, and named him Hank, after Hank Aaron?

21 March 2014

17:25, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Kathryn Hach-Darrow (pictured) flew her small plane over 7,000 hours, promoting water purification equipment?
... that the 2008 TNA World X Cup Tournament concluded at TNA's Victory Road pay-per-view event?
... that Julie Makani won the Royal Society Pfizer Award for her research into sickle cell disease in Tanzania?
... that according to a U.S. Federal court opinion, Kodak Imaging Network was not liable for copyright infringement, as it relied on an automated photofinishing process?
... that the founding conference of the All People's Party in Assam unanimously elected the Muslim League leader Muhammed Saadulah as the chairman of their party?
... that Akhmad Bassah was best known by his adopted daughter's name?

09:40, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East (pictured) in Warsaw commemorates victims of the Soviet invasion of Poland during World War II and subsequent repressions?
... that Czech poet Antonín Sova gained national fame for answering Theodor Mommsen's letter in verse, calling the German historian a "covetous dotard" and "arrogant spokesman of slavery"?
... that Megadeth was temporarily disbanded in 2002 because of frontman Dave Mustaine's arm injury?
... that Margit Oelsner-Baumatz was the first female rabbi ordained in Argentina?
... that the Szombierki Heat Power Station is considered to be one of the "Seven Architectural Wonders of the Silesian Voivodeship"?
... that St. Marks Presbyterian Church in Rogersville, Tennessee, was built in 1912 with separate entrances for men and women?

20 March 2014

20:35, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (synagogue pictured), created only 38 days after the invasion of Poland in World War II, was the first Jewish ghetto in occupied Europe?
... that the furry sea cucumber can speed along at nearly two metres a minute (6 ft/min)?
... that Beryl Platt helped design and test three WWII fighter planes: the Hurricane, the Typhoon, and the Tempest V?
... that 29 inmates escaped from Metris Prison in Istanbul through a self-built tunnel while the prison was still under military administration?
... that during races, Ryan Reed would monitor his blood sugar levels?
... that Flotilla's development was influenced by cats and board games?

10:00, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

... that in her quest to find a cure for leprosy, nurse Kate Marsden (pictured) travelled some 11,000 miles (18,000 km) across Russia?
... that the creator of Flappy Bird received death threats after pulling it?
... that Canadian novelist Marsha Canham became inspired to write Through a Dark Mist after experiencing a recurring dream of two men disguised as monks rescuing a damsel in distress?
... that in Craigslist v. 3Taps, Craigslist sued PadMapper for screen scraping Craigslist listings?
... that Liu Shiduan used secret kung-fu techniques to make himself invulnerable and was executed for an anti-Christian incident in which he didn't take part?
... that the orangeback squid can fly?

00:00, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Henry McArdle, who painted Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto (detail pictured), was once a cartographer for Robert E. Lee?
... that Australornis is the first early Paleocene bird fossil discovered from New Zealand that is not a penguin?
... that Hilda Vaughan's novella A Thing of Nought was such a commercial success that it went out of print within four days of publication?
... that Professor Karimat El-Sayed learnt how to balance her scientific ambitions and her family life from Kathleen Lonsdale?
... that the Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizábal led to the abandonment of the Monastery of San Isidro de Loriana, a Spanish Bien de Interés Cultural?
... that 28-time Danish tennis champion and Olympian Einer Ulrich was the grandfather of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich?

19 March 2014

16:00, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the female orchid bee Eulaema meriana (pictured) visits the male at his lek?
... that in 1848 Gustav, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg responded to a petition put forth by his people and emancipated Homberg's Jewish population?
... that Hugh Wheeler's Big Fish, Little Fish (1961) was one of the first Broadway plays to explore the theme of homosexuality in a sensitive and honest way?
... that Madame Tussauds displayed models of the four people accused of the murder of Harriet Staunton in 1877?
... that the Gotham City seen in Batman: Arkham City was redesigned for Batman: Arkham Knight, to allow space for the Batmobile, drivable for the first time in the Arkham series?
... that Mac Creiche, an early Irish saint, may have originally been a pagan hero?

08:00, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the main producer of the Menacer light gun (pictured) was laughed at when he proposed that Sega support the peripheral past its original release?
... that pathologist Frieda Robscheit-Robbins did not share her male research partner's 1934 Nobel Prize, but he shared the prize money with her?
... that welding by James Shaw's company in Whitemore, Tasmania used to disrupt local radio reception?
... that for Glee's 100th episode, the public voted to select which songs previously featured on the show would be performed in new cover versions?
... that when Danielle Fisher finished climbing the Seven Summits at the age of 20 years, she became the youngest American to do so at the time?
... that twenty colonies of West Indian drywood termite were found living in a single door?

00:00, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

... that baseball prospect Javier Báez (pictured) and his brothers got tattoos of the Major League Baseball logo?
... that the Macedonian folk instrument kemane is usually used to accompany traditional epic poetry and rarely used as a solo instrument?
... that Air Commodore Chris Luck, the current Commandant of RAF College Cranwell, was the first non-American to attend the USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies?
... that the multimedia project I, Too, Am Harvard seeks to express the personal experiences of black students at Harvard?
... that Mary Wigman said that Dore Hoyer was "Europe's last great modern dancer"?
... that al-Malayin was the first Egyptian communist newspaper that dedicated space for sports and culture?

18 March 2014

16:00, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Tatjana Gsovsky (pictured), ballet mistress at opera houses in East Berlin, Buenos Aires and West Berlin, first choreographed ballets by Henze and Nono?
... that the Odeon, Kingstanding, has been described as "one of the best surviving examples of Odeon cinemas in Britain"?
... that the international success of Colombian singer songwriter Shakira's English-language debut album Laundry Service led to a critic deeming her the "biggest female crossover artist since Jennifer Lopez"?
... that political editor Marie Simonsen has voiced concern that many women may avoid public debate because they are more likely to experience grave cyberbullying than men are?
... that, in a unanimous decision in 1979, the U.S. Supreme Court held that complaints by a teacher that her principal described as "petty and unreasonable demands" were protected free speech?
... that Dan Burros, head of security for the neo-Nazi National Renaissance Party, committed suicide in 1965 just hours after The New York Times revealed that he was Jewish?

08:00, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the Saddle Ridge Hoard (pictured) of Gold Country in California is believed to be the biggest hoard of gold coins ever unearthed in the United States?
... that Nikki Bart and her mother Cheryl were the first mother-daughter team to summit Mount Everest?
... that the song "Run, Nigger, Run", used in the film 12 Years a Slave as a taunt, was originally used to encourage slaves to escape?
... that Parasakthi, directed by Krishnan-Panju, influenced the emergence of the regional party, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, as a political force in Tamil Nadu?
... that Mayor of Calgary Silas Alexander Ramsay was a member of the Calgary Rifle Club?
... that the Wan King Path was listed as one of the 100 rudest place names in the world?

00:00, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the five chromolithographs in The Flask, Hampstead (pictured), a London pub, were produced by the appropriately-named artist Jan van Beers?
... that Helen M. Roberts mentored Barack Obama, Sr., and helped his family in Kenya with finances while he was a student at the University of Hawaii?
... that the completion of the armoured cruiser HMS Euryalus was severely delayed by multiple accidents including a fire, slipping off her blocks in drydock, and colliding with another vessel?
... that Joseph Patrick was the fifth member of his family to be inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame?
... that a study by two UCLA sociologists found that the 1990 film Come See the Paradise was the most blatant Oscar bait released since 1985?
... that Samuel Johnson boasted that he once knocked publisher Thomas Osborne to the ground with a heavy folio?

17 March 2014

16:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the Old Lone Star Brewery (pictured) has been compared to something Ludwig II of Bavaria might have built "if he had been a St. Louis beer brewer"?
... that in the beat 'em up video game Charlie Murder, players fight ninjas, giant rats, yetis, and sharks with dynamite strapped to their heads?
... that soprano Lucy Crowe, performing Janáček's Cunning Little Vixen at the Glyndebourne Festival, was described as "a powerhouse of foxy ingenuity"?
... that when the poodle Afterglow Maverick Sabre won Crufts in 2014, he was competing against an American Cocker Spaniel from the same kennel?
... that The Lily newspaper was "published by a committee of ladies" in 1849?
... that Mobhí Clárainech, whose surname means "flat faced" in Irish, was born without eyes or a nose?

08:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Mia May starred in her husband's silent film in eight episodes The Mistress of the World (pictured)?
... that during World War II, Colonel Elmer E. Kirkpatrick worked on the Alaska Highway, the Canol project, and the Manhattan Project?
... that the Australian jumper ant Myrmecia nigrocincta is an accomplished jumper with leaps ranging from 3 to 4 inches (76 to 102 mm)?
... that Walt Disney died during the production of his last film, The Jungle Book?
... that Akiko Kobayashi got the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for creating a material that is both organic and metallic?
... that both the all-time youngest and oldest Olympic competitors from El Salvador competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City?

00:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

... that some English-speaking Canadians were "inclined to mutilate" the French versions of the 1935 Series of banknotes of the Canadian dollar (English version pictured)?
... that when Jess Roskelley reached the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 20, he became the youngest American to do so?
... that one Bulgarian historian believed that Skanderbeg was a sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Nicopolis?
... that Olga Smirnova spent just one day in the Bolshoi's corps de ballet before being given solos?
... that a 1963 bus crash in California's Salinas Valley, which claimed the lives of 32 Mexican farmworkers, highlighted unsafe conditions and helped to spur the end of a 20-year-old guest worker program?
... that a fellow academic described the historian Richard Cobb as "a Parisian street urchin"?

16 March 2014

16:00, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the canvas of Skarga's Sermon (detail pictured), a painting by Jan Matejko, covers more than 8 square metres (86 sq ft)?
... that Anjuli Shukla was the first woman to be awarded the National Film Award for Best Cinematography?
... that "Guardian" is the base substrate for polymer banknotes printed by many central banks?
... that Szlama Ber Winer escaped the work commando at Chełmno extermination camp and managed to write a report about his experience soon before death with family in the gas chambers of Bełżec?
... that "Drive" by Miley Cyrus was noted by a reviewer for its "wobbling beat"?
... that Paula Hinton danced in a ballet about a love triangle, based on the real-life triangle involving the same three dancers?

08:00, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

... that EPA climate policy expert John C. Beale (pictured) pretended to be a CIA agent for more than ten years?
... that Kalidas (1931) was the first ever sound film to be made in South India?
... that the Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey episode "Standing Up in the Milky Way" was opened with a brief introduction by the President of the United States Barack Obama?
... that the LG G Flex has a special camera mode for taking selfies?
... that Lydia Bradey was the first woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest without using bottled oxygen?
... that Dysoxylum parasiticum was named in the mistaken belief that it was parasitic?

00:00, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

... that a chain boat (example pictured) was a European river craft in the late 19th century that used a chain on the riverbed to haul itself and a string of barges?
... that Ken Block, who founded the Moderate Party of Rhode Island and was its nominee for Governor of Rhode Island in 2010, is running in the 2014 election as a Republican?
... that literature theoretician Paulina Lebl-Albala was co-founder and president of the Yugoslav Association of University-Educated Women?
... that the book Tell The Wolves I'm Home follows the life of a girl whose uncle died of AIDS in the 1980s?
... that Gloria Mestre was the Prima ballerina assoluta at the San Carlo Opera House in Naples?
... that Jerusalem's Zion Square has been described as "always crowded, always crazy"?

15 March 2014

16:00, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

... that whenever a cricket ball hit the St Lawrence Lime (pictured) in first-class matches, it scored four runs?
... that Marte Wexelsen Goksøyr, who has Down's syndrome, wore a T-shirt saying "Endangered" in the Parliament of Norway to protest against Norwegian mothers being offered early ultrasonography?
... that four of the midshipmen aboard HMS Good Hope became the first casualties of the Royal Canadian Navy when she sank in the Battle of Coronel?
... that The Scotsman called Jocelyn Hay, founder of the Voice of the Listener & Viewer, "possibly the best lobbyist in the whole UK"?
... that "The Quality of Mercy" speech in which Portia begs Shylock for mercy in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is regarded as an exemplary speech by some and dark humor by others?
... that 2014 Winter Paralympics skier Mick Brennan was placed 10th in the Super G, but withdrew from the downhill race, calling the course "scary"?

08:00, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Boston's Museum of Fine Arts sold eight works to fund the purchase of Man at His Bath (pictured), reportedly because of donor reluctance to pay for "a painting showing some random guy's naked butt"?
... that Antonina Roxa was one of the first Falkland Islanders, a skilled gaucho and midwife who became a landowner in Stanley in the Falkland Islands?
... that Penelope Spencer created dances and choruses for the Glastonbury Festival in 1921?
... that The Drew Carey Show episode "The High Road to China" marked the first time an American sitcom had been filmed in China?
... that Apurba Kishore Bir won the National Film Award for Best Cinematography for his debut film 27 Down that he shot mainly with a hand-held camera?
... that the four member stars of the QZ Carinae star system are (combined) 94 times as massive as our Sun?

00:00, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Ocepeia (pictured), a 60-million-year-old afrotherian mammal, is named after a Moroccan mining company?
... that Charity Bick was the youngest ever recipient of the George Medal?
... that the musical repertoire of the Macedonian folk instrument Šupelka consists mainly of imitating the sounds of other instruments used in Macedonian traditional music?
... that Mahmona Khan was one of two Norwegian representatives at the first Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship?
... that Armenian-American professor Levon Marashlian once stated that "those who today deny the Armenian Genocide are resorting to academically unsound revisionism"?
... that there are different designs of snow shovels for shovelling and pushing different types of snow?

14 March 2014

16:05, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Tilkka (pictured) is a former military hospital in Helsinki that now hosts a nursing home?
... that U. Penn. denied Ezra Pound's PhD twice: once for wasting time and again 12 years later when he tried to use The Spirit of Romance, a collection of literary criticism, as his dissertation?
... that more than 90 species of birds breed within the watershed of Briar Creek?
... that in 1942, S.K. Limaye was expelled from the Communist Party of India for having refused to support the British war effort?
... that the oak tree under which Goethe allegedly wrote Faust's Walpurgis Night scene stood inside Buchenwald concentration camp and was sketched by French Volontaires de la Liberté member and camp inmate Léon Delarbre?
... that Tobias Arlt and Tobias Wendl, who won four Olympic golds between them, are nicknamed "The Two Tobis"?

08:20, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

... that anthropologist Gerd Koch returned from the Santa Cruz Islands with the last surviving complete Tepukei sailboat (pictured)?
... that Dick Magruder was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives at the age of 23 and came within one vote of being elected speaker before he was killed in a farm accident at the age of 31?
... that Typhoon Thad was the worst storm to strike Japan in two years?
... that Fred VanVleet was the only basketball player in the national class of 2012 Rivals.com top 150 to attend a Missouri Valley Conference school?
... that the documentary film Artifact chronicles the $30-million lawsuit filed by record label EMI against American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars?
... that Simone Osborne, "one of Canada's most sought-after sopranos", busked on Toronto's streets to afford singing lessons?

00:35, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

... that St. Paul's Episcopal Church (pictured) was described as Georgian on the outside, but "much more Gothic and much more Victorian" on the inside?
... that Jarmila Jeřábková's school of dance in Prague taught the theories of Isadora Duncan?
... that England's Fred Trueman has the third-highest number of five-wicket hauls against the West Indies?
... that the Duchess of Devonshire, who in 1909 founded the Derbyshire branch of the Red Cross, later served as Viceregal consort of Canada from 1916 to 1921?
... that following the passage of the 1815 North Carolina hurricane, a Savannah, Georgia, newspaper editor composed a poem lamenting its impact?
... that actor S Waldy ran away from home to join the theatre even though his parents were actors?

13 March 2014

16:50, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Leila Schneps (pictured), mathematician, researcher, and author of Math on Trial also writes mathematically-themed murder mysteries under the pen-name Catherine Shaw?
... that the time of Swedish rule in Estonia is sometimes referred to as the "good old Swedish times" in Estonia?
... that the Women's Premiership currently comprises Bristol Ladies, Darlington Mowden Park Sharks, Lichfield Ladies, Richmond Women, Saracens Women, Wasps Ladies, Worcester Ladies and Aylesford Bulls Ladies, after having defeated Thurrock T-Birds in a playoff?
... that Général de Brigade Henri Vanwaetermeulen began his career in the French Army as a private soldier?
... that a two-and-a-half-hour film of Anachronox's cut scenes won the 2002 Machinima Film Festival for Best Picture?
... that, after losing a child, journalist and author Mrs. C. S. Peel abandoned writing to sell hats, but started up again after ill health forced her to close her shop?

09:05, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the white mushroom Humidicutis mavis (pictured) has been recorded from New Zealand, Australia and Borneo?
... that San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim plays bass guitar, and her favorite song is by the Wu-Tang Clan?
... that Typhoon Andy left nearly a quarter of Taiwan's residents without power?
... that Kevin Lau was violently assaulted just one week after Hong Kong journalists rallied for press freedom and against his removal as editor of the Ming Pao?
... that when the Kamgar Kisan Paksha was split on the issue of its relationship to the Communist Party of India, its two elected representatives led opposite factions?
... that the second fastest Blackwall Frigate that carried wool back from Australia was the Parramatta?

01:20, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the mystery of who came up with the idea behind Urania's Mirror (extract pictured) took over a hundred and seventy years to solve?
... that Swan Lake was shown live in 100 French cinemas, with Steffi Scherzer, a dancer of the Berlin State Opera for 28 years, in the double role of Odette/Odile?
... that Rome & Jewel is a hip-hop musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set in Los Angeles?
... that when George Bright was acquitted and freed in 1959 after his second trial for the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing, his lawyer was jailed by the judge for contempt of court?
... that Rhodes Scholar candidate Dave Butler played college basketball and was named to the Pacific-12 Conference Hall of Honor?
... that the fossil ant Aphaenogaster donisthorpei was once part of the Samuel Hubbard Scudder insect collection?

12 March 2014

17:35, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Laura Knight's Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring (detail pictured) was compared to Rosie the Riveter and brought its subject instant fame?
... that during the 1806 Great Coastal hurricane, an estimated 36 inches (91 cm) of rain fell on Edgartown, Massachusetts?
... that Rajani Pandit, regarded as Maharashtra's first female private detective, reportedly worked undercover as domestic help for six months while solving a case?
... that British broadcasters prevented television listings website TVGuide.co.uk from deep linking to their video content?
... that Marie Meurdrac's 1656 book on Useful and Easy Chemistry, for the Benefit of Ladies had ten editions in three languages?
... that the Una-class submarines were midgets?

09:50, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the wits of the Kit-Kat Club would sup their summer ale at the Upper Flask (pictured)?
... that Millie Knight, the youngest ever British Paralympic athlete, was the flagbearer at the 2014 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony?
... that the government of China has installed over 20 million surveillance cameras across the nation?
... that Senegalese communist leader Seydou Cissokho died in Moscow while visiting the 1986 congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
... that a space-grade version of the NEC V70 microprocessor was in the main computer module of the Japanese H-IIA launch vehicles?
... that Prince of Wales F.C. was one of the first civilian football clubs in Gibraltar?

02:05, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Elly Yunara (pictured) went from film star to housewife after her marriage to Djamaluddin Malik, only to become a producer after his death?
... that the Deery Inn avoided destruction in the American Civil War because its proprietor used bribery to secure its protection?
... that owing to Robbie Robertson, "Take Your Partner by the Hand" is the only song on Turn the Dark Off with coherent vocals?
... that Edith Humphrey is thought to be the first British woman to obtain a doctorate in chemistry, in 1901?
... that Iron Man 3 grossed over $1 billion?
... that Henriette Schønberg Erken's Big Cookbook sold more than 200,000 copies, and her Small Cookbook sold about 100,000 copies?

11 March 2014

18:20, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

... that in addition to inventing and patenting the first ballpoint pen, John J. Loud (pictured) also held a patent for a firecracker cannon?
... that the riches from the capture of the Madre de Deus at the Battle of Flores were nearly half the wealth of England's treasury?
... that screenwriter Olivia Hetreed gained access to Tracy Chevalier's novel Girl with a Pearl Earring shortly before its publication because they shared the same agent?
... that visitors can walk through Trentham Monkey Forest in Staffordshire without any barriers between them and the 140 Barbary macaques that live there?
... that the 2003 period drama Girl with a Pearl Earring was originally meant to feature Kate Hudson before she was replaced with Scarlett Johansson?
... that in reviewing Jane Ridley's biography of "Bertie", A. N. Wilson wrote that "royal biography will never be the same again"?

10:35, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Megan Rapinoe (pictured) is the first soccer player, male or female, to score a rare Goal Olimpico at the Olympic Games?
... that before it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, Edith Marion Patch's house nearly went up in flames?
... that the black hole inside RX J1131 was the first black hole to have its spin directly measured?
... that the musical Made in Dagenham is based on the true story of the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968?
... that P-9 Project was the codename for the Manhattan Project's effort to produce heavy water for nuclear reactors?
... that car-owning Mrs Edward Kennard wrote The Motor Maniac, which was said to be exasperating for readers who did not own an automobile?

01:55, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the Kettle Creek (pictured) watershed contains eight percent of the Class A Wild Trout Streams in Pennsylvania?
... that Karin Rehnqvist composed Puksånger & lockrop for singers Susanne Rosenberg and Lena Willemark, in which a section of kulning (cattle calling) "represents a rebellion"?
... that Miguel Delibes was once the director of El Norte de Castilla?
... that Paralympian James Whitley has been skiing since he was four years old?
... that Barack Obama addressed the German public, seeking to mend relations described as "worse than ... the low-point in 2003 during the Iraq War" due to mass surveillance charges?
... that Bexhill Museum refused to accept a portrait of its principal founder after she died?

10 March 2014

18:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

... that geneticist Adam Rutherford (pictured), host of the BBC Radio 4 program Inside Science, is the author of a book that can be read from either end?
... that Northern Irish ex-MP Bernadette Devlin and Peruvian MP Hugo Blanco took part in the 1980 election campaign of the Catalan Unity for Socialism?
... that Maria Komissarova was the first-ever woman to win a World Cup medal for Russia in the ski cross?
... that the Huxley Hoard, discovered near Huxley, Cheshire in 2004 and now on display at the Museum of Liverpool, consists of 21 flattened silver bracelets and one silver ingot?
... that Angela Stent is on the advisory committee of Women in International Security, an organization dedicated to promoting women's careers in the field of national security?
... that the golf course in Gura, Eritrea allowed players to lift their golf balls from bomb craters and trenches without penalty?
10:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

... that a Chinese set of glazed pottery figures (example pictured) from c. 1000 has been called "one of the most important groups of ceramic sculpture in the world"?
... that Vancouver mayor Alexander Bethune was a founder and member of the local Asiatic Exclusion League?
... that Tan Tjoei Hock held four roles in the production of the pirate film Singa Laoet?
... that María Ruanova was the first Argentine international ballet dancer who learnt to dance in Argentina?
... that Vivian Wing-Wah Yam was the youngest member to be elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences?
... that the wasp Eumenes fraternus is a skilled potter?

02:05, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the Queen Elizabeth Way (pictured in 1940) featured the longest stretch of continuously illuminated roadway in the world prior to World War II?
... that during their Welcome to the Universe Tour, Thirty Seconds to Mars developed strategies that minimized fuel consumption of all touring vehicles?
... that infectious disease specialist Mark Crislip has won three Podcast Awards for his show QuackCast?
... that the Nokia Lumia 505 was originally a Telcel exclusive device in Mexico before being released in Colombia, Chile, and Peru on Claro Americas?
... that Mendel Peterson was known as the father of underwater archeology and has an island in the Antarctic named after him?
... that the Invictus Games, named after the poem by William Ernest Henley, are a Paralympic-style multi-sports event for wounded service personnel?

9 March 2014

18:20, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

... that pumps (pictured) were brought from the Netherlands to help remove flood water during the winter flooding of 2013–14 on the Somerset Levels in South West England?
... that J. S. Wood published The Fate of Fenella, a novel by twenty-four writers without any collaboration?
... that Alfred Dörffel edited several volumes of the first complete edition of the Works of Johann Sebastian Bach by the Bach Gesellschaft, beginning with cantatas in 1878 and ending in 1898?
... that at least 128 athletes have participated in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games?
... that gold medal-winning sit-skier Marit Ruth has devised a Segway-based vehicle that can be used by people without legs?
... that screenwriter Chris Galletta sold his first screenplay before graduating from film school?
10:30, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Eleonora de Cisneros (pictured), an American opera singer, promoted the sale of Liberty bonds more than any other person during World War I?
... that Agnes Abuom is the first woman and the first African to be moderator of the World Council of Churches Central Committee?
... that Trish Halpin won Editor of the Year awards three times?
... that long after suffering serial forced displacement as a child in Johannesburg, Emma Mashinini became a Commissioner for Restitution of Land Rights?
... that Nalini Anantharaman won a Mathematical Physics prize for her work on quantum chaos, Schrödinger equations and quantum unique ergodicity?
... that Romantic period writer Sophie Tieck was overshadowed by her brother?
00:40, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

... that a painting by Lucy Madox Brown (pictured as a child) was described by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as a "perfect picture"?
... that Cordelia E. Cook, the first woman to receive the Bronze Star Medal, was also awarded the Purple Heart?
... that before entering into films, Sharada Ramanathan was working as a cultural activist?
... that in 2001, Ewa Ziarek wrote the book An Ethics of Dissensus?
... that runner Marie Dollinger represented Germany in three Olympic Games, broke Olympic records and set a world record, but never won an Olympic medal?
... that Australian artist Dorrit Black was influenced by the Modernist and Cubist art movements because of her studies in London and Paris?
... that Soerip went from "Miss" to "Grandmother" in between films?

8 March 2014

16:00, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

... that both expressionist dancer Clotilde von Derp and her husband (pictured) were known for their transvestite costumes?
... that Helen Fraser was the first woman to be adopted as an official party candidate for parliament from Scotland?
... that many prominent people, including Albert Einstein, attended meetings at Berta Fanta's salon?
... that Shirley Chater was a nurse and university president before becoming U.S. Commissioner of Social Security?
... that screenwriter Mary Agnes Donoghue was fired from the 1988 film Beaches by the director Garry Marshall and rehired after less than a month?
... that in England, women found guilty of high treason, petty treason and heresy, were burnt at the stake, sometimes alive?

08:00, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Chen Yumei (pictured) retired from acting soon after being crowned the "Movie Queen"?
... that cell biologist Rachael Dunlop and her colleagues discovered how an amino acid produced by blue-green algae might trigger the onset of ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)?
... that Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850–1936), painter of the The First Thanksgiving, was a "New Woman" painter and considered "one of America's best artists"?
... that after the last Paralympics, Oleksandra Kononova became the Ukrainian sports personality of the year?
... that Birgit Keil, prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet under John Cranko, inspired international choreographers such as Kenneth MacMillan, John Neumeier and Heinz Spoerli?
... that Spanish artist Glòria Muñoz uses the chapel of an abandoned convent as her studio?

00:00, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

... that just before being murdered, Karekin Khajag (pictured) wrote in his last letter to his wife, "I have great hope that we will see each other once again"?
... that Aaron Burr was caught in the 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane while hiding from federal officials?
... that the "Four jewels of Cuban ballet" included Aurora Bosch and Mirta Plá?
... that HMS Vindictive served as four different types of ship?
... that Alfreda Markowska, a Polska Roma, was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta for saving Jewish and Roma children from death in the Holocaust and the Porajmos during World War II?
... that student tradition at Rutgers University says that a bronze statue of William the Silent will whistle if a virgin happens to pass by?

7 March 2014

16:00, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Shukri al-Quwatli (pictured), the first president of independent Syria, attempted to commit suicide in an Ottoman jail to prevent himself from revealing the names of his colleagues under torture?
... that on Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf, Berlin celebrities are buried in forest landscape, including chancellor Willy Brandt and ballet dancer Tatjana Gsovsky?
... that the National Commission for Civic Education, in collaboration with the GILLBT, has translated the Constitution of Ghana into 30 Ghanaian languages?
... that the episode "Fly Away" from the television series The Following received the series' lowest ratings ever?
... that the Garrick Theatre fire killed eight young girls in 1916?
... that former Macedonian ambassador Ljubica Acevska's male aide was so often assumed to be the ambassador, she said, "I should wear a sash like Miss America saying, 'I'm the Ambassador'"?

08:00, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the Church of St Peter (pictured) at Williton was given to the church at Watchet after Reginald Fitzurse murdered Thomas Becket?
... that Emery Emery contributed to The Atheist's Guide to Christmas and edited the documentary The Aristocrats?
... that proneural genes are partially responsible for differentiation of ectodermal cells into neural or epidermal cells during embryonic development?
... that John Medley, the first Bishop of Fredericton, was the first Tractarian bishop in the Church of England?
... that after the February 2014 suicide bombing of a tourist bus in Taba, Ansar Bait al-Maqdis threatened to attack tourists who did not leave Egypt within four days?
... that Arnau Cadell, sculptor of the Monastery of Sant Cugat, was the first Catalan artist to be known by both first and last name?

00:00, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Huntington Junior College occupies a former Carnegie library building (pictured) and offers the only judicial reporting educational program in West Virginia?
... that Admiral Yuriy Ilyin served as the Ukrainian Chief of the General Staff for only ten days before being dismissed by interim President Alexander Turchynov?
... that in 2012, the Netherlands became the first European country to implement a net neutrality law?
... that Loipa Araújo, the "Cuban muse of Marseille", was a ballerina?
... that Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos went missing months apart after being arrested by the same police officer but never made it to jail?
... that the 1878 FA Cup Final did have a Bastard in the black?

6 March 2014

16:00, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

... that before Dewey Decimal Classification (inventor pictured), books in most U.S. libraries were arranged by height and order of acquisition?
... that Lou is the 229th most common surname in China, while Lou is the 269th?
... that in the video game Blood Knights, players can transfer blood between the two playable characters, healing one at the expense of the other?
... that Pseudophilautus hypomelas, a small shrub frog not seen for more than 130 years and believed to be extinct, was rediscovered in the Peak Wilderness of Sri Lanka?
... that Lyon Opera Ballet ballerina Susana Agüero returned to Buenos Aires when she had eyesight problems?
... that the story of "Last Gasp", the fourth episode of British dark comedy series Inside No. 9, was inspired by a collection of apparently empty jars?

08:00, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Rani Mukerji (pictured) is the only Bollywood actress to win both the Filmfare Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in the same year?
... that the opossum shrimp Neomysis integer inhabits both low salinity estuaries and high salinity pools on the foreshore?
... that Hanpu, who came from the Korean peninsula, married a Jurchen woman, and that their descendants, the emperors of the Jin dynasty, conquered all of north China in the 1120s?
... that Muneer Awad successfully sued the state of Oklahoma to prevent it from forbidding state judges to decide cases using Islamic law?
... that the first football match in the Philippines was held in 1907?
... that during the American Civil War, Henry du Pont had future U.S. Senator Thomas F. Bayard placed under arrest on suspicion of pro-Confederate activities?

00:00, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Mexico's two main crude oil export ports closed in preparation for Hurricane Nate (pictured)?
... that Debbi reached the top of the Czech charts with her debut album?
... that former Florida Speaker of the House H. Lee Moffitt helped found a comprehensive cancer treatment center in Florida, named in his honor?
... that when HMS Cressy was sunk, 560 men were killed?
... that Argentine tango dancer Carmencita Calderón performed the milonga at her 100th birthday celebration?
... that by 2004, counterfeit $20 banknotes of the Birds of Canada series represented nearly 65% of all counterfeit currency in Canada?

5 March 2014

16:00, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the Italian improv performer Teresa Bandettini was given her portrait (pictured) by Angelica Kauffman in 1794?
... that support for the free association movement in Puerto Rico expanded by a hundredfold in 14 years?
... that Beatrix Miller, the editor of British Vogue from 1964 to 1985, had previously worked for MI6?
... that only one pilot from the Czechoslovak Air Force has ever shot down an enemy plane?
... that the inclusion of Basil D'Oliveira in the England cricket team caused the cancellation of its 1968–69 tour of South Africa?
... that the Church of the Madonna dell'Archetto may be the smallest church in Rome?

08:00, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

... that a survey of rural African-American churches in Tennessee found Hackney Chapel (pictured) to be "one of the oldest and least altered"?
... that ballerina Josefina Méndez made her debut performance with the Cuban National Ballet in 1955 in Swan Lake in the role of a man?
... that a white oak tree with a trunk circumference of over 26 feet (7.9 m) grew near Wolf Run until it was cut down in 1852?
... that Jennie Patrick, a woman who was told she did not belong at Berkeley in the 1970s, received the Outstanding Women in Science and Engineering Award in 1980?
... that Gibraltar is not allowed to play Spain at the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifiers due to political reasons?
... that there were actually 40 variants of the "One Ring" designed by Jens Hoyer Hansen for use in shooting The Lord of the Rings films?

00:00, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

... that if not for a tank accident in Cyprus, the Lombardi Grand Prix (pictured) would have probably lasted longer?
... that Canadian mining companies sued author Alain Deneault over his book about Canadian mining activities in Africa?
... that The Saguache Crescent might be the last newspaper in the world to use linotype?
... that two-time Olympic gold medalist Carli Lloyd is the only player to score the game-winning goal in two consecutive Olympic gold medal soccer matches?
... that the first live episode of the American sitcom The Drew Carey Show was performed three times, once for each of three different time zones?
... that in reply to The Woman Who Did, a novel about a New Woman, Mrs. Lovett Cameron wrote The Man Who Didn't?

4 March 2014

16:00, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Rosina Galli (pictured) was the prima ballerina at La Scala Theatre Ballet before she became the première danseuse at the Metropolitan Opera?
... that the 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza is the only monument outside of the United States which lists the names of the nearly 3,000 victims of the September 11 attacks?
... that London Irish Wild Geese were founded after London Irish left The Avenue to move to Reading?
... that journalist Sarkis Minassian was arrested, imprisoned, and eventually murdered during the Armenian Genocide?
... that the Norwegian minesweeper HNoMS Thorodd was best known for her mascot, a St. Bernard called Bamse?
... that James Cahill believed that a famous painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was fake, but the museum insists it is authentic?

08:00, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Siberian Baroque (example pictured) may feature exotic decors, such as cornices, stupas, and dharmacakras?
... that artist Edith R. Wyle, grandmother of actor Noah Wyle, founded the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles?
... that Njoo Cheong Seng's Pantjawarna has been called the first musical in Indonesia?
... that Chinese journalist Yang Gang committed suicide after being forced to persecute her colleagues, but the details are disputed?
... that "We Dem Boyz" by American rapper Wiz Khalifa was the first song to be premiered by the music identifying app Shazam?
... that college baseball player Ben Wetzler was suspended by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for "something that reportedly happens all the time"?

00:00, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

... that baseball pitcher Cole Hamels (pictured) was named both the National League Championship MVP and World Series MVP in 2008?
... that fragments of veil patches of the mushroom Amanita ananiceps can litter the ground around it?
... that German professor Erich Maschke led the committee that investigated the killing of German prisoners-of-war in World War II?
... that Princeton University's Center of International Studies was formed in 1951 when six scholars came from Yale University all at once?
... that Barbara Brandon-Croft was the first African-American female cartoonist to get a national syndication, for Where I'm Coming From?
... that although Atopodentatus had a fearsome set of teeth, it was a filter feeder and not a predator?

3 March 2014

16:00, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

... that HMS Implacable (pictured from above) was the base of Seafires, Hornets, and Fireflies?
... that one reason South African judge Dunstan Mlambo permitted live broadcasting of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial was to educate the public about criminal proceedings?
... that Ultra Rare Trax was the first significant bootleg set of The Beatles to appear on compact disc?
... that Prospect Group's purchase of Illinois Central Railroad in 1989 was part of a plan devised by Edward L. Moyers to return the railroad to profitability?
... that the Armatix iP1 pistol cannot be accessed or function without the iW1 Active RFID wrist watch?
... that in 2008, the Romanian ballet mistress Mijaela Tesleoanu was one of only two non-Cubans on the payroll of the Cuban National Ballet?

08:00, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Robert F. Christy used knowledge gained designing atomic bombs to explain Cepheid variable stars (RS Puppis pictured)?
... that, in the cases of Klayman v. Obama and ACLU v. Clapper, US district courts issued conflicting rulings on the constitutionality of bulk data collection by the US government?
... that R.S. Owens & Company produces the trophies for the Academy Awards, a job which C.W. Shumway & Sons did from 1928 to 1982?
... that the ant Aphaenogaster avita was described from a fossil found in 1969?
... that Lonnie Warwick worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona prior to signing a free agent contract with the Minnesota Vikings?
... that the owner of the newspaper De Indische Courant escaped a stranglehold from a scourge by buying a radio?

00:00, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Countess of Munster (pictured), a granddaughter of King William IV, published a collection of ghost stories in 1896?
... that the deep sea worm Osedax japonicus relies on the skeleton of a dead whale for sustenance?
... that although physicist Ernest Wollan pioneered neutron diffraction, he did not share in the Nobel Prize that was awarded for the technology?
... that the musical The Last Ship was partially inspired by musician Sting's childhood experiences?
... that the 1985 BBC Micro video game Castle Quest used a smooth hardware side-scrolling technique termed "Scrollerama"?
... that LeRoy Prinz, who staged dances in dozens of Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s, was more an "idea man" than a choreographer, using simple steps and dance routines?

2 March 2014

16:00, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the Church of the Holy Trinity in Newton St Loe has a clock (pictured) with only one hand?
... that the union of the Italian Sacarello and Bignone families in Gibraltar became known as the "Marriage of Two Mountains"?
... that Sunderland's semi-final penalty shootout win against Manchester United in order to reach the 2014 Football League Cup Final had no English players scoring any of the penalties?
... that Enid Blyton's books were banned by the BBC for being "second-rate" and without merit?
... that the music video for Bed Peace by American singer Jhené Aiko pays homage to John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In for Peace protest?
... that Aasa Helgesen was elected the first female mayor in Norway after an election where she didn't know she was on the ballot?

07:45, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Baby Doll Jacobson (pictured) received his nickname after hitting a home run while a band played "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" on opening day of the 1912 season?
... that the inscriptions discovered in Mangulam are the earliest Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions?
... that the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board report on mass surveillance recommended against a proposal to mandate data retention by U.S. phone companies?
... that in her song "Glory and Gore", Lorde compares celebrity culture to gladiatorial combat?
... that the founder of Pensole Footwear Design Academy worked for Nike, but has offered classes in partnership with Adidas?
... that the Dutch East India Company attempted to eliminate the njai by importing orphaned girls from the Netherlands?

1 March 2014

23:30, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

... that the Glorious Revolution put William and Mary (pictured) on the Scottish throne and led to the dominance of Presbyterians in the Church of Scotland?
... that Liberia's first agricultural and vocational school is named after American educator Booker T. Washington?
... that Thokozile Masipa, the presiding judge assigned to the Oscar Pistorius murder trial, worked as a crime reporter for The Sowetan newspaper before her law career?
... that Toy Story 3 was listed in Time's 25 All-Time Best Animated Films?
... that Edwin St Hill was called the "Maurice Tate of the West Indies"?
... that Marta Dusseldorp visited the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery to prepare for her role as Senior Crown Prosecutor Janet King?

15:15, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Frédéric Chopin (pictured) left his homeland of Poland in 1830 and never returned?
... that the Hare and Billet pub was mistakenly accused in the House of Commons of serving a "blatant copy" of Lea & Perrins Worcester sauce?
... that a major character in "Who Ya Gonna Call?", an episode of the comedy-drama TV series Psych, is a man who is unknowingly also a woman and a violent murderer?
... that the Hertha Feist dance school was moved by the Nazis to smaller premises?
... that Kendallina, a genus of trilobite, lived in North America during the Upper Cambrian?
... that Sutton High Street is the site of the pub where the Rolling Stones were spotted by a music promoter in 1963?

07:00, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

... that Clara Breed (pictured), a San Diego librarian, is known for the "Dear Miss Breed" letters she exchanged with Japanese American children held in internment camps during World War II?
... that the forest shrew can be used as a monitor of environmental contamination?
... that in 1899, Frederick Buscombe commissioned the Buscombe Building in Gastown, Vancouver?
... that Kansas House Bill 2453 would allow service providers in Kansas to refuse service to same-sex couples under the purview of religious liberty?
... that during the 2011–12 OHL season, Mike Halmo received a 10-game suspension for a hit on Nail Yakupov?
... that an experimental musical instrument based on Savart's wheel is said to make "the most obtrusive, obnoxious and irritating sound ever known"?