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30 April 2010

16:00, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

... that two of Karnataka's architectural monuments, Pattadakal (pictured) and Hampi, are UNESCO World Heritage sites?
... that in Cambridge Water Co Ltd v Eastern Counties Leather plc, Lord Goff suggested that Rylands v Fletcher was not an independent tort, but instead part of nuisance?
... that Master Joseph Thomas played a leadership role in two single ship actions, the first in 1803 in the hired cutter Princess Augusta and the second in 1810 in the hired cutter Queen Charlotte?
... that Tier rang gewaltig mit Tier ("Beast Strove Mightily with Beast") by Anton Schnack has been described as the best single collection produced by a German war poet of the First World War?
... that Fily Dabo Sissoko, who was briefly the French Under Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce, died in jail in Mali?
... that Musa Demi was part of the group that opened the first Albanian-language school of Filiates?
... that Canada won the first Paralympic gold medal in wheelchair curling at the 2006 Games?
... that three-time ARCA champion Tim Steele was the series' first driver to earn over $1 million in his career?

08:00, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Flying Officer Les Clisby (pictured), Australia's first fighter ace of World War II, once landed beside a German bomber he had forced down and captured the crew at gunpoint?
... that Arizona SB1070, the state's new immigration enforcement law, has attracted national attention as the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in decades within the United States?
... that the miners' union leader Óscar Salas Moya was a candidate for vice-president of Bolivia in 1985?
... that Macy's opened its first closeout store at Wheatfield, New York's Summit Park Mall in 1992?
... that earlier this season, Katey Stone of the Harvard Crimson became the winningest coach in the history of NCAA Division I women's ice hockey?
... that in 2007 French actress and comedienne Mimie Mathy was selected the fifth most popular French celebrity by the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche?
... that cricketer Julie Hunter saw Australia to victory from the last ball of the match in her first ODI innings?
... that in 2000–04, excavations in Uppåkra, Scania, revealed that a heathen hof was located there for several hundred years?

00:00, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Liberation of Saint Peter (pictured) has been described as a recapitulation of the resurrection of Jesus?
... that Tom Killin, a Paralympic silver medalist in wheelchair fencing in 1980, also won a silver medal in wheelchair curling for Great Britain at the 2006 Winter Paralympics?
... that Grant Park Symphony Orchestra began a tradition of Independence Day Eve concerts in Grant Park accompanied by fireworks when the Petrillo Music Shell was relocated in 1978?
... that Lectionary 216 was used by Swainson, English theologian, for his treatise on the Greek Liturgies?
... that a British soldier is commemorated in the West Haven Green Historic District for his actions during the British invasion of West Haven, Connecticut, in the American Revolutionary War?
... that the Rustock botnet was capable of sending 30 billion spam messages every day, utilizing around 150,000 computers infected with a trojan horse?
... that Chris Cameron won the individual all-around title and led the Michigan Wolverines to the team title at the 2010 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship?
... that intense heat from WWII bombing interfered with a ceramic dating assay?

29 April 2010

16:00, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the demon Kabandha (pictured), from the Hindu epic Ramayana, is described to be as big as a mountain, headless, and with arms eight miles long?
... that quarterback Walter Kennedy's amateur status became a national media story in 1898 after his mother said he was receiving $500 a year to play football at the University of Chicago?
... that the Church of the Acheiropoietos, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Thessaloniki, was the first Christian church to be converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of the Greek city in 1430?
... that Erin Osborne led the wicket-taking in her maiden Women's National Cricket League season?
... that in F. Sionil José's novel Sherds, the pottery clay used by the aesthete symbolizes the oppression of villagers?
... that psychologist and physiologist Henri-Étienne Beaunis published novels under the pseudonym "Paul Abaur"?
... that the 1958 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game to pass without an extra-base hit?
... that Eighty Mile Beach in Western Australia is 140 miles (230 km) long?

08:00, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

... that schools of copper sharks (pictured) follow the sardine run off South Africa every winter?
... that professional wrestling promoter Eddie Quinn is credited with making wrestling more popular in Quebec than any other sport except hockey?
... that social reformer Isabella Ford was the first woman to speak at a conference of the Labour Representation Committee (which went on to form the British Labour Party)?
... that in addition to being the captain of the 1904 University of Chicago football team, Fred Speik was a member of Chicago's water polo and track and field teams?
... that the Late Triassic archosauromorph Uatchitodon is the earliest known venomous reptile?
... that cricketer Shelley Nitschke started her career for Australia as a specialist bowler but went on to score a One Day International century as an opener?
... that a Native American mound in Newtown, Ohio, was spared destruction because of its location in a cemetery?
... that despite being supported by tanks, Italian troops were completely routed during the Battle of Gjorm by Albanian Resistance units?

00:00, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the term mountain devil refers both to Lambertia formosa (pictured) with its devil-head fruits, as well as the lizard Moloch horridus?
... that former State Senator O.H. "Ike" Harris was honored in 2009 by the horse racing industry for his work in legalizing parimutuel betting in Texas?
... that the Armley asbestos disaster involved the contamination of about 1,000 houses in West Yorkshire, England, with asbestos dust?
... that Yurii Lomonosov constructed the first operationally successful mainline diesel locomotive?
... that for the second season of Survive This, a Canadian reality TV show, participants were selected for the show based on their strong personalities and required to take a three-day survival course?
... that the Buffalo Braves first made the NBA playoffs during their 1973–74 season?
... that during the construction of Lake Seminole in 1948, archaeologists discovered the site of San Carlos de los Chacatos, a Spanish mission that Colonel James Moore had sacked during Queen Anne's War?
... that Nicolay Nicolaysen Sontum supplemented his career as an engineer and contractor with speculating in waterfalls?

28 April 2010

16:00, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

... that South Beacon Mountain, the highest point in the Fishkill Creek (pictured) drainage basin, is located just above its estuary?
... that U-450 went on three war patrols, but did not sink any ships?
... that author and social worker Ella Mae Johnson attended the inauguration of Barack Obama at the age of 105?
... that the Popular Independent Movement of Luxembourg was a single-issue political party that represented former Wehrmacht conscripts?
... that Alex Blackwell captained the Australian women's cricket team to eight consecutive ODI wins over New Zealand?
... that Eastern Bank is the largest independent, mutually owned bank in New England, and the largest community bank in Massachusetts?
... that Montage of a Dream Deferred was described by its author, Langston Hughes, as a cross between a jam session and a popular song?
... that Westcott railway station was a part of the London Underground, despite being more than 40 miles from central London?

08:00, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Rachael Haynes (pictured) narrowly missed a century on her Test cricket debut for Australia, scoring only 98?
... that fashion designer Elspeth Gibson's clients have included Madonna, Cate Blanchett and Queen Rania of Jordan?
... that in 1844, Carl Claus discovered ruthenium and named it after the olden Russia?
... that Debra Lehrmann won the Republican nomination for the Texas Supreme Court in the only contested statewide race on the April 13, 2010, runoff ballot?
... that the Kii and Number 13 class battleships were to be part of Japan's eight-eight fleet?
... that Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer founded an institute to explore solar energy, today known as the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics?
... that writer John Irving and the main character in his novel Last Night in Twisted River were "Kennedy fathers"?
... that Chesterfield centre-forward Walter Ponting was deprived of an apparently certain goal when the ball deflated and failed to cross the line?

00:00, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Verdi is said to have referred to the Salle Ventadour (pictured) as his favorite opera house in Paris?
... that Connie Yori, the current Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball head coach, is the inaugural winner of the Kay Yow Award?
... that quadricyclane was proposed as a substance to store solar energy?
... that in the early 1900s, logging in Texas' forests was so successful that the state had become the third leading lumber producer in the U.S.?
... that the Caprivi treason trial is the largest and longest trial in Namibian history?
... that the album LifeTimes composed by the daughter of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard includes contributions from Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke?
... that the semaphore crab is the most abundant crab species in mangroves on Australia's east coast?
... that English footballer Brian Punter did not receive his 1953 FA Youth Cup runners-up medal until some 56 years later?

27 April 2010

16:00, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Hangleton Manor (pictured), the oldest secular building in Hove, England, has a cursed dovecote reputedly haunted by ghost pigeons?
... that Sarah Andrews is Australia's ninth-leading wicket-taker in Women's One Day International cricket?
... that Burgess Hill, Hadlow Down, Hastings, Newick, Pell Green, Rye, Shover's Green and Southover in Sussex each have a Grade II-listed former Baptist chapel which has been converted to residential use?
... that over half the population of the rare wildflower Banksia scabrella are found on road verges?
... that Cameronia was the first British ship to arrive at New York after the start of the Second World War?
... that Inger Alver Gløersen, born in 1892, made her literary début in 1954?
... that following the establishment of the Bhutan Olympic Committee in 1983, Bhutan participated for the first time in the 1984 Summer Olympics but only with six archers?
... that Silly Bandz, popular silicone bracelets that spring into a shape when taken off, have been banned in classrooms for being too distracting?

08:00, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

... that cricketer Rene Farrell (pictured) made her debut for Australia after only five matches for her state?
... that D'Jamin Bartlett won the 1974 Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Performer?
... that the only non-industrial private railways of Norway never to be nationalized were the Holmestrand–Vittingfoss, Lier, Lillesand–Flaksvand, Nesttun–Os and Tønsberg–Eidsfoss lines?
... that from his studies of the ionosphere during World War II, Walter Dieminger forecasted optimal shortwave communication for the military and police?
... that the suicide weapon in J.D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" was an Ortgies 7.65 mm Semi-Automatic Pistol?
... that Stevie Brown led the 2007 Michigan Wolverines football team's special teams with 11 tackles?
... that the satirical video Gap Yah, describing the experiences of fictional rah Orlando during his gap year, became a viral hit with around 50,000 unique views a day?
... that Empire Cloud was torpedoed on both her maiden and final voyages?

00:00, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1908, German apothecary Julius Neubronner (pictured) received a patent for his pigeon photographer method of aerial photography?
... that the Ravi River was known as Paruṣṇī or Irāvatī to Indians in the Vedic period and as Hydraotes to the Ancient Greeks?
... that Army All-American Henry Torney, who later became a millionaire, was arrested at a 1910 Shirtwaist Strikers protest that led the New York Mayor to rebuke the "police dictators"?
... that the Archimedes screw in De Groene Molen, Joure, is now driven by a 6 horsepower (4.5 kW) Lister diesel engine?
... that Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat warned actor Matt Smith not to visit fan forums such as Gallifrey Base?
... that Nexhip Draga, a former Ottoman kaymakam, played an important role in the Albanian uprising of 1912?
... that Tara Bethan, finalist in the BBC One TV show I'd Do Anything, was the daughter of "El Bandito"?
... that a geological fault and coal mining caused the spire of St Catharine's Church, Scholes to lean and twist?

26 April 2010

16:00, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

... that RAAF fighter pilot Brian Eaton (pictured) was shot down three times in ten days in 1943, but went on to become his squadron's commanding officer and eventually retire as an Air Vice Marshal?
... that the Tutt Brothers were early 20th century American vaudeville producers who created over 40 revues for black audiences?
... that the Palestinian village of Sheikh Bureik was named for a local Muslim saint to whose shrine women seeking remedies for infertility would bring presents?
... that in a 16-year career, English footballer Bob Hutchinson played for 14 different clubs?
... that start-up conservative cable TV network RightNetwork features Frasier star Kelsey Grammer and new-media star Andrew Breitbart, and is being funded by Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider?
... that Edvard Munch lived at both Olaf Ryes plass and Schous plass, two neighboring squares in Oslo, during the 1880s?
... that the Star and Garter Hotel in Richmond was the venue for a dinner hosted by Charles Dickens in 1850 to celebrate the publication of his novel David Copperfield?
... that members of the Women's Timber Corps were known as Lumber Jills?

08:00, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Early Permian microsaur Rhynchonkos (pictured) shares many similarities with Eocaecilia, and may be an ancestor of caecilians?
... that George Will acquired 11 press passes that offered special locker-room privileges in Major League Baseball stadiums while doing research for his book, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball?
... that when the Ålgård Line opened in 1924, it was the last state-owned railway in Norway to be built with narrow gauge?
... that St Martin's Church, Brampton, was the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb?
... that Daniel Trenton was head coach for the Australian Olympic taekwondo team in 2008?
... that in 2007 California Assemblyman Joel Anderson authored legislation requiring state pension funds to divest from investing in companies that do business with Iran?
... that J. Denis Summers-Smith became an expert on sparrows by travelling as an expert in tribology?
... that Fig Trees, an operatic documentary about AIDS activism, is narrated by a singing albino squirrel?

00:00, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

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... that most of the recent volcanism in New Zealand has been along the line of the Taupo Volcanic Zone and the Kermadec island arc (southern arc pictured)?
... that Cuban tobacco grower Alejandro Robaina was dubbed the "Godfather of Cuban tobacco"?
... that the Soviets organised a campaign against the pro-Allied sympathies of the Baltic governments before their annexation in 1940?
... that by 1941, American zoologist Edward Alphonso Goldman had described more new mammals than any other living scientist?
... that Maltese-born Anthony Perici, a veteran of the British Royal Navy, served as the first full-time mayor of Twinsburg, Ohio?
... that the Iceberg Theory refers to Ernest Hemingway's distinctive writing style?
... that British filmmaker Tim Sullivan began his career in television after chauffeuring Anthony Andrews to the set of Brideshead Revisited?
... that the city of Clearwater, Florida, painted two white lines across Watterson Avenue to block Lisa McPherson Trust protesters from disrupting the operations of the Church of Scientology?

25 April 2010

16:00, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

... that naturalist John Burroughs (pictured) began the nature fakers controversy in 1903 after publishing an essay titled "Real and Sham Natural History" which lambasted popular nature writers of the day?
... that the British Inspiration Awards are aiming to boost recognition for the creative industries of the United Kingdom, a sector generating an estimated £100 billion a year for the British economy?
... that Walter Woon, former Attorney-General of Singapore, was the first Member of Parliament since Singapore's independence to have a private member's bill become a public law?
... that the Islamist group Revolution Muslim posted a warning about possible consequences on their website against South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for their portrayal of Muhammad in the episode "200"?
... that Nick Burd's debut novel The Vast Fields of Ordinary was a New York Times "notable book" for 2009 and won the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category?
... that the Texas State Senator Grady Hazlewood authored his state's farm-to-market road program, which paved rural dirt roads in asphalt?
... that in 1901, The Juridical Review reported that the female inmates in Irish prisons most favored the books of Scottish writer Annie Shepherd Swan?
... that Darrell Floyd's day job paid more than the NBA basketball team the Saint Louis Hawks were offering?

08:00, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1931, 15 Broad Street (pictured) in New York City was one of the 20 largest office buildings in the world?
... that the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 1939, six weeks after the dedication of the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame?
... that in some areas of Brandenburg-Prussia, only 10% of the population survived the Thirty Years' War?
... that the fungus family Tremellaceae includes both commercially cultivated edible species as well as yeast-like human pathogens?
... that Lubbock accountant Charles Perry unseated Delwin Jones, the oldest member of the Texas House of Representatives, in the Republican runoff held on April 13, 2010?
... that Tlacolula de Matamoros is home to one of the oldest, largest and busiest weekly outdoor markets in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico?
... that the two towers on Old Main at Washington & Jefferson College symbolize the union of Jefferson College with Washington College?
... that Halfdan Bryn was one of the first to take interest in the physical anthropology of Sami people?
... that the British No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando unit included soldiers from different countries including Germany?

00:00, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Manimahesh Lake, situated close to the Manimahesh Kailash Peak (pictured) in the Himalayas, has religious significance next to that of Lake Manasarovar in Tibet?
... that "Big John" Macklin coached the Michigan State Spartans football program to its first wins over Ohio State and Michigan and also coached the school's basketball, baseball and track teams?
... that the Haiti economic reforms of 1996 were designed to restore the economy of Haiti after the economic shocks of early 1990s?
... that Nora Okja Keller wrote the novel Comfort Woman, about Koreans used as sex slaves by the Japanese army in World War II, after she heard a lecture by a former victim?
... that two teenagers built booby traps inspired by Rambo at a park in the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District in Oregon?
... that Edvard Munch was invited to Berlin by fellow Norwegian Adelsteen Normann who also painted?
... that distant objects that are observed from the same place may appear to look elevated, lowered, stretched, or shortened depending on atmospheric refraction?
... that a brawl broke out in 2009 between residents of San Antonino Castillo Velasco and Ocotlán de Morelos over a highway sign?

24 April 2010

16:00, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster (pictured) is reputed to have thrown either a Bible or a Prayer Book at the head of King George IV?
... that cricketer Lauren Ebsary had never played a formal match before representing South Australia at youth level?
... that when a crowd removed their hats before hearing George Washington speak at the Storm-Adriance-Brinckerhoff House in East Fishkill, New York, he told them to put them back on since he was just an ordinary man?
... that Tommy Cheetham had a trial for the England national football team while playing in the Third Division in his first season as a professional?
... that during the Vietnam War, the top half of Black Virgin Mountain was held by American forces while the bottom was controlled by the Vietcong?
... that the pre-teen girls' running-and-wellness program Girls on the Run has its roots in its founder's climb out of alcoholism?
... that medieval Bulgarian military leader Ivan the Russian defended Plovdiv in a four-month Byzantine siege only for the citizens to let the Byzantines in while he was away?
... that since changing the mascot from the Huron to the Eagle in 1991, the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team has won less than 28% of their games?

08:00, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the sinking of the Japanese super-dreadnought Tosa (pictured) influenced the design of the Yamato class?
... that baseball outfielder Domonic Brown, nicknamed the "Total Package" by Ryan Howard, originally intended to play wide receiver for the Miami Hurricanes football team?
... that Wicked Summer is a planned spinoff of the popular reality series Jersey Shore?
... that rival Vikings in Ireland were called Dubgaill and Finngaill, which could be translated as black and white foreigners?
... that in the 1820s, several books on geography were written in collaboration by William Channing Woodbridge and Emma Willard, but the latter had to publicly assure readers that they were entirely written by Woodbridge so they would be taken seriously?
... that theologian Pender Hodge Cudlip cowrote an article for the Helston Grammar School Magazine while still a teenager at Oxford?
... that Tony Dunkin is the only NCAA Division I four-time conference player of the year for men's basketball?
... that Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba, the world's first pizzeria, lines its oven with lava rocks from Mount Vesuvius?

00:00, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the hulk of LST-480 (pictured) is the only remaining evidence of the West Loch Disaster, the second tragedy to befall Pearl Harbor during World War II?
... that the New Zealand Members of Parliament John Thomas Peacock, Francis James Garrick, John Evans Brown and Henry Richard Webb were brothers-in-law?
... that neither the owner of the Minuscule 671 nor its location are officially known?
... that the Little Golden Books illustrator Corinne Malvern was a former child actress who once played Madama Butterfly's son in front of the Japanese Ambassador to the US?
... that upon the death of the Hare Krishna founder in 1977, eleven prominent leaders were left to become initiating gurus under the ISKCON Guru System?
... that Otto Thott possessed one of the largest private libraries of the 18th century in Denmark?
... that Banwell Castle served as the headquarters for a squadron of the Balloon Command of the Royal Air Force during World War II?
... that Big Ten MVP Willis Glassgow was called the "Dancing Master" for his shiftiness on the gridiron and because he managed the most popular ballroom in Iowa City?

23 April 2010

16:00, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the village of Walworth, County Durham, England, contains a 400-year-old castle (pictured)?
... that Saw II, the video game sequel to Saw: The Video Game, will include the ability for the player to kill enemies using the environment?
... that Native American jewelry includes beadwork on herbal bag necklaces, believed to increase the healing power of Medicine Men?
... that the Scottish post-prog and electronica band North Atlantic Oscillation joined a list of artists that includes The Flamingos, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald by covering the 1934 song "I Only Have Eyes for You" and releasing it on their 2009 debut EP?
... that Ryan Newman won the 2010 Subway Fresh Fit 600 after making a pass with only two laps to go?
... that in 1931 three people were killed in Estevan, Canada, when police opened fire on a Mine Workers' Union of Canada rally?
... that the ordination of St Cellach 23 September 1105 put an end to a 140-year period when the supreme head of the Irish Church had been a layman?
... that at the Extreme 19th, the world's highest and longest par 3 golf hole, a tee shot takes almost 30 seconds to land?

08:00, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

... that 2009 International Bowl MVP Donald Brown (pictured) was the first Connecticut Huskies football player to be picked in the first round of the NFL Draft?
... that there are more than 3036 differences between Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus just in the text of the four Gospels?
... that the wife and husband Alette and Kristian Schreiner conducted medical research together, although Alette did not hold an academic position?
... that the Buddhist minister of the Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission was arrested during World War II and sent to a Japanese American internment camp?
... that Colorado State Highway 263 lies entirely within the city limits of Greeley, Colorado?
... that after retiring from politics, Oregon U. S. Senate candidate Rick Bauman organized bicycle tours, including Cycle Vietnam, the first-ever American-led bicycle tour of Vietnam?
... that in recommending their products, Amazon.com originally used the technology behind MovieLens, a website that suggested films to its users based on their preferences?
... that, despite having a prior award nomination for film writing, it was once said of Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod that their "resume reads like a catalogue of the past decade's most irritating films"?

00:00, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

... that roughly a million people participate each year in the Romería de El Rocío, a pilgrimage to the Hermitage of El Rocío, in honor of the Virgin of El Rocío (pictured)?
... that a poem written for the christening of historian Colm Kiernan was also read to mark the birth and death of John F. Kennedy, Jr.?
... that the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the successor to the Knights Hospitaller, has issued its own postage stamps since 1966?
... that J.W.F. Bennett, captain of the undefeated 1898 Michigan football team, later supervised the construction of the Algonquin, Ritz and Waldorf Hotels?
... that "Hello Goodbye" is the final episode of the comedy-drama series Ugly Betty?
... that although English author Mackenzie Bell was trained in law at Cambridge University, he chose to study abroad and lived in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and Madeira?
... that Joan Horan won the first two gold medals for Ireland at the Paralympics?
... that actress and former sex symbol Morgan Fairchild took the role of a drug addict in the film Street of Dreams because she wanted to play "somebody who looks like hell"?

22 April 2010

18:00, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

... that until 2001, the Ohio River shrimp (pictured) had not been seen in the Ohio River for 50 years?
... that the Melingoi were a Slavic group that settled in southern Greece during the great invasions of the 7th century, and remained an autonomous community at least until the 14th century?
... that former Texas State Senator Max Sherman sold Bibles door-to-door in the mid-1950s to pay expenses toward attending Baylor University?
... that Annie Hall Cudlip, one of the most prolific writers of romantic fiction in the Victorian era, wrote over 100 novels and short stories from 1862 to 1900?
... that the Saxon origin of the name of Walworth Gate in County Durham, England, refers to Welsh-speaking Britons who once lived there?
... that Mary Ruthsdotter of the National Women's History Project played an influential role obtaining resolutions from the U.S. Congress designating March as Women's History Month?
... that a monument at Mendeleyevskaya station in the Moscow Metro marks the location where stray dog Malchik was stabbed to death by a railway commuter?
... that the Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand fought in World War I, a war started by the assassination of her namesake?

12:00, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the 60 million years old Carmelo Formation (pictured) is made out of thousands of layers of volcanic pebbles, sandstone and mudstone with fossils?
... that the popularity of alebrijes from San Martín Tilcajete, Mexico, and other towns have led to the overexploitation of the trees from which they are carved?
... that the Wyoming aviation pioneer Ralph S. Johnson flew until he was 82, when he sold his general aviation business in Cheyenne and retired to Arizona?
... that just £1500 of funding was available for the athletes of Great Britain at the 2002 Winter Paralympics?
... that Emil Schreiner, whose 1871 Latin grammar book out-competed that of Johan Peter Weisse, later moved to appoint Weisse as a professor?
... that the first local bus service operated by BakerBus linked major pottery factories in Stoke-on-Trent?
... that with the University of Washington Huskies, former New Orleans Saints running back Toussaint Tyler beat the Michigan Wolverines in the Rose Bowl as a freshman but lost to them as a senior?
... that Pelobates cultripes, the "Western Spadefoot Toad", produce spawn up to one metre long which can consist of 7000 eggs?

06:00, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

... that American politician Dean Alfange (pictured) held either appointments or nominations from four different political parties: the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the American Labor Party, and the Liberal Party of New York?
... that Motobdella montezuma is the only leech to hunt in open water?
... that footballer Arthur Wolstenholme was the first player to score four goals in a Third Division North match?
... that the Albanian poet Haxhi Shekreti composed the epic Alipashiad in Greek, considering it a more prestigious language in which to praise his master, Ali Pasha of Ioannina?
... that the 63 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cheshire, England, include diverse wetlands, such as mosses, swamps, fens, meres, ponds and rare examples of inland salt marsh?
... that only three of Ireland's Greatest forty people are women?
... that the Maritime Fur Trade helped New England transform from an agrarian to an industrial society?
... that 6th-century poet Talhaearn Tad Awen has left no surviving verse, yet may have been remembered as the father of Welsh poetry, whose work used to be rewarded with 100 cows in a bath-tub every Saturday?

00:00, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Mexican craft of alebrijes (pictured) is attributed to Pedro Linares, who supposedly dreamed the creatures and the name while sick with a fever?
... that Edward Preston Young designed the logo for Penguin Books?
... that Inventing the AIDS Virus, written by molecular biologist Peter Duesberg, argues that AIDS is not infectious and that HIV is an unrelated passenger virus?
... that in his short story "The Day the Dancers Came", Bienvenido N. Santos "memorialized the tenderness, nostalgia" and "bittersweet tale" of Filipino manongs living in the United States?
... that The People's Parliament was a Channel 4 programme in which a random sample of citizens sat in a mockup of the House of Commons, debated and voted as a deliberative democracy?
... that the 1969 debut album Sweet Thursday by the group of that name was quickly undermined by the bankruptcy of Tetragrammaton Records?
... that Baptist clergyman W. Winfred Moore was first director of the Baylor University Center of Ministry Effectiveness, designed to prevent burnout among pastors?
... that a new species of leech was named Tyrannobdella rex because of its disproportionally large teeth?

21 April 2010

18:00, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

... that St. Mary's Church (pictured) in Chesham, England, incorporates a Bronze Age stone circle in its foundations?
... that in the South Park episode "You Have 0 Friends", Stan Marsh gets literally sucked into the social-networking site Facebook, which resembles the virtual world in the science-fiction film Tron?
... that Olaf Devik and Ole Andreas Krogness were instrumental in establishing a weather forecast for Northern Norway?
... that Mandora Marsh contains the most inland occurrence of mangroves in Australia?
... that Jack Agnew, a PFC member of the Filthy Thirteen World War II parachute regiment, loosely inspired the novel and film The Dirty Dozen?
... that the Edinburgh Advertiser was the first to print Robert Burns' poem, On the Commemoration of Rodney's Victory?
... that Charron Island, near Montreal, has been known historically under at least four different names?
... that some athletes at the Winter Paralympic Games have broken their bones in order to gain a competitive advantage?

12:00, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the introduction of the small Asian mongoose to Jamaica may have led to the extinction of the rice rat Oryzomys antillarum (skull pictured)?
... that Australian power pop band Icecream Hands takes their name from lyrics in a Robyn Hitchcock song?
... that Drita in 1883 was the first magazine in the Albanian language?
... that in the South Park episode "Medicinal Fried Chicken" Eric Cartman gets involved with an underground KFC chicken ring that mirrors the cocaine organization of Tony Montana in the film Scarface?
... that in September 1969, the Little River in northwest Florida rose 21 feet (6.4 m) in 24 hours due to rainfall from a tropical disturbance?
... that the 2010 public information film Embrace Life, originally made for just the Sussex area of the UK, has been "praised by people around the world for its beauty"?
... that a study of schools in German states by Norwegian Frederik Moltke Bugge was awarded with a gold medal from Frederick Augustus II of Saxony?
... that the Griffin, the new athletics mascot for the College of William and Mary, beat out a king and queen, a phoenix, a pug, and a wren for the position?

06:00, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

... that nucleic acid design is used in DNA nanotechnology and DNA computing to create structures out of DNA, such as nanomachines, polyhedra (example pictured), and nanoscale origami?
... that the Battle of Soltau was the climax of the Hildesheim Stift Feud, which lasted from 1519 to 1523?
... that Tommy Amaker led the 2009–10 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team and its star Jeremy Lin to the most successful season in school history?
... that the flute arrangement of the trio composition Gestural Variations was premiered in Munich by the composer, Graham Waterhouse, and two other composers?
... that controversies related to the human experimentation in the United States led to the introduction of the institutional review boards?
... that Jerry Wray of Shreveport, Louisiana, moved away from painting landscapes to emphasis on the abstract with Christian themes?
... that Codex Marchalianus manuscript of Septuaginta has the same order of books as Codex Vaticanus?
... that "womb veil" was the most common term for barrier contraception used by women in 19th-century America?

00:00, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Doggles (pictured), a type of sunglasses for dogs, have been sent out to working military dogs in Iraq?
... that "Pa" Henninger, captain of the 1895 Michigan football team that outscored its opponents 266 to 14, was twice named to all-time All-Michigan teams?
... that the browser game Corpse Craft: Incident at Weardd Academy features school children battling each other with zombies?
... that toxicologist Gabriel L. Plaa spent much of his career searching for a way to assess human hepatotoxicity of drugs from animal tests?
... that a significant Fort Ancient archaeological site is located on a sod farm in southwestern Ohio?
... that Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard, noted for his large-format photographs, invented a technique to expose his works directly onto the canvas?
... that William Wordsworth was the model for Robert Browning's poem, The Lost Leader?
... that the crew of Northwest Airlines Flight 5 didn't know an engine had fallen off at 35,000 feet and carried on flying for nearly 50 minutes?

20 April 2010

18:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Louis Didier Jousselin built a 3 km long bridge (pictured) in less than 3 months whilst the French occupied Hamburg?
... that during the Cold War, a USAF T-39 plane was shot down over Erfurt, Germany?
... that the mathematician W. T. Tutte refused to admit that Blanche Descartes was a collective pseudonym?
... that Dunedin's Fortune Theatre once performed a play about William Larnach's family in the ballroom of Larnach Castle?
... that Air Marshal Sir Michael Giddings, an RAF officer who flew Spitfires during World War II, chaired the infamous inquiry concerning the Archway Road A1 extension that would have demolished almost 200 homes?
... that Euthalian Apparatus was designed to help the mediaeval Bible reader?
... that Crucifix was an undefeated British-bred Thoroughbred racemare, as well as being the dam of three sires?
... that Leonor Rivera was the greatest influence in preventing Filipino national hero José Rizal from falling in love with other women while traveling outside the Philippines?

12:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Manaslu (pictured) is the eighth highest mountain in the world, located in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, in the west-central part of Nepal?
... that Ludvig Vibe left his position as professor of Greek to become principal of a secondary school?
... that UA 8699, a broken molar from the Cretaceous of Madagascar, may be a fragment of the only Mesozoic marsupial from the southern continents?
... that Qamil Çami, a poet of the Albanian National Revival, was one the rilindas who opened the first Albanian-language school in Filiates?
... that Japanese pop group AAA's new single "Aitai Riyū/Dream After Dream (Yume Kara Sameta Yume)" was composed by Tetsuya Komuro, this being his first work for two years?
... that tax law specialist Øystein Thommessen became Norwegian delegate to the UNICO conference in 1945 and the Paris Peace Conference of 1946?
... that U-42 was the fifth German U-boat sunk in World War II?
... that Tonight with Craig Doyle is pre-recorded because the presenter was doing other presenting work?

06:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

... that in Canadian women's ice hockey history, the Fernie Swastikas (pictured) were the 1923 champions of the Banff Winter Carnival?
... that Risley C. Triche, originally a segregationist member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, testified years later to past racism in his state's public assistance programs?
... that the active biological dispersal of land snail Xerocrassa geyeri is about 3 meters during one year?
... that the popularity of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, at the turn of the 20th century, rivaled that of Handel's Messiah and Mendelssohn's Elijah?
... that the website Wikileaks released a video in April 2010 in which photojournalist Namir Noor-Eldeen and eleven others were killed during an airstrike by American helicopters in Baghdad?
... that the show group Dizzie Tunes won the Bronze Rose at the Festival Rose d'Or in Montreux in 1973 with Sim Sala Bim?
... that East Chicago native Art Murakowski survived a kamikaze attack during the Battle of Okinawa and was named the most valuable football player in the Big Ten Conference in 1948?
... that MiKandi is the world's first mobile porn app store?

00:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Roger Sherman (pictured in 1890) was accused of offering a football player $600 to play for Michigan and later served as president of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar Associations?
... that Mockado is a woollen pile fabric made in imitation of silk velvet?
... that essayist William Francis Barry had his writings about the medieval papacy censored by his superiors?
... that Ewelme Cottage was used in the production for the 1993 Oscar-winning film The Piano?
... that the Dewoitine HD.730, in order to avoid Axis prohibitions on the development of military aircraft, was described as a commercial liaison type despite having folding wings?
... that Ha-Yom, founded in 1886, was the first daily newspaper in Hebrew?
... that Arnold Frutkin was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal by Thomas O. Paine?
... that in the Brander–Spencer economic model, it is possible for a national government to increase a country's welfare through export subsidies but the policy is of the beggar thy neighbor type?

19 April 2010

18:00, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Saint Jean Eudes (pictured) was called the "father, teacher, and first apostle" of devotions to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary by two popes?
... that after the Avondale Mine Disaster, legislation was passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly that made Pennsylvania the first U.S. state to have laws regarding mine safety?
... that while the Crusaders were besieging Nicaea, the Byzantine general Manuel Boutoumites persuaded the Turks to surrender to him instead by playing on their fears of a massacre by the Crusaders?
... that Babu Hardas started the practice of exchanging the greeting Jai Bhim among the Dalits in India?
... that H. Brett Melendy was the first chairman of the history department of San José State University, California?
... that Ricotta's visual novel, Walkure Romanze, was originally designed with five heroines but the number was later cut down to four?
... that producers hope to use Good Luck Charlie "to debunk the myth that Disney never has the mom in the picture"?
... that city employees may attend Rodent Control Academy to learn how to deal with the problem of rats in New York City?

12:00, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Braer Storm of January 1993 (pictured) is the extratropical cyclone with the lowest central pressure ever known to have existed in the northern Atlantic Ocean?
... that Charles John Wingfield served as Chief Commissioner of Oude?
... that Nelson F.C. won the Football League Third Division North in the 1922–23 season?
... that Austin Coates's Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr is the second biography of Filipino national hero José Rizal authored by a non-Filipino?
... that the Heritage of the March series was comprised of 185 vinyl albums featuring marches and galops?
... that Frederick Edward Hulme, the only son of landscape artist Frederick William Hulme, painted flowers?
... that, according to legend, Osogovo Monastery was spared from destruction by the Ottomans after they were overcome by its spiritual force?
... that the apicomplexan parasite Isospora hammondi has egg- and sausage-shaped structures?

06:00, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

... that when the stone Clemuel Ricketts Mansion (pictured) was built in 1852 on the shores of Lake Ganoga in Pennsylvania, it was so remote it was nicknamed "Ricketts Folly"?
... that Bandula Warnapura captained the Sri Lanka national cricket team on their first Test match, faced the first delivery and scored the first run?
... that the Texas Republican politician Kenn George was involved in the formulation of President Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative?
... that the name of the palm genus Chelyocarpus, which means "turtle carapace fruit", refers to the cracked surface of its fruit?
... that Australian dance music duo Pnau's debut album Sambanova (1999), which was recalled from stores because of uncleared samples, won an ARIA Award for 'Best Dance Release' in 2000?
... that managing editor Andre Laguerre devised the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue as a way to boost magazine sales during the winter months?
... that Czechoslovak communist censors banned the publication of the comic album Muriel a andělé?
... that the cover artwork of Danielson: A Family Movie depicts band leader Daniel Smith in a tree costume with fruits that symbolize the Fruit of the Holy Spirit?

00:00, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Tropenmuseum shared thousands of images (example pictured) from Indonesia with the world?
... that architect Cecil Alexander designed a controversial Georgia state flag that served from 2001 to 2003?
... that Israeli soldiers stopped their vehicles to kiss the ground after winning the Battle of 'Auja and crossing the border into the Sinai Peninsula?
... that Nicola Kraus is said to have modeled Mrs. X in The Nanny Diaries on several women who lived at 1000 Park Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side?
... that the best known work of lecturer James Bass Mullinger is History of the University of Cambridge Down to the Decline of the Platonists, which took three decades to complete?
... that Larry Dell Alexander is best known for his Clinton Family Portrait oil painting, which he gave to U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1995?
... that the Song of Armouris, is among the oldest surviving examples of Byzantine heroic poetry?
... that St. Jean Baptiste Catholic Church was started in a rented hall above a stable on Manhattan's Upper East Side?

18 April 2010

18:00, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

... that New York's Olana State Historic Site (pictured) was named "Olana" by artist Frederic Edwin Church after he read about Olana, an ancient treasury in Artaxata, Armenia, overlooking the Araxes River?
... that European land slugs Deroceras juranum and Deroceras rodnae are both named after mountains?
... that Antonio Barluzzi, a Franciscan monk, became known as the Architect of the Holy Land due to the number of important churches he designed?
... that the Piber Federal Stud breeds Lipizzan horses and is the primary source of the stallions used by the Spanish Riding School?
... that Anne Holtsmark translated well-known works such as Heimskringla and the Prose Edda from Norse to Norwegian?
... that Bahu Fort in Jammu, India, originally built by Raja Bahulochan some 3,000 years ago, was refurbished by the Dogra rulers in the 19th century?
... that William Henry Oliphant Smeaton's The Life and Works of William Shakespeare was so popular that it was even reprinted several times?
... that A.F.C. Aldermaston, a non-league football club from Berkshire, has been dubbed the "worst English football team in history" after losing 40 consecutive matches?

12:00, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

... that a field study found that koalas prefer the blue-leaved stringybark (pictured) but only when it grows on shale-based soils?
... that suitable age and discretion is a U.S. legal definition of maturity?
... that Zhuang Xiaoyan won China's first Olympic gold medal in judo in 1992?
... that Petersburg Codex Syriac 1 is one of the two extant ancient Syriac manuscripts of the Eusebian Ecclesiastical History?
... that the biological father of Infanta María de la Paz of Spain was not the King of Spain, but one of the Queen’s lovers?
... that, originally a fortified church, St John's Church, Newton Arlosh lay in ruins after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century, until it was restored and extended in 1844?
... that Georg Christoph Biller is the Thomaskantor, the conductor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig, the 16th successor of Johann Sebastian Bach in this position?
... that the New Zealand endemic amphipod Paraleptamphopus caeruleus lives in "bog-water on top of Swampy Hill"?

06:07, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

... that when Canadian nun and midwife Rosalie Cadron-Jetté (pictured) founded the Hospice de Sainte-Pélagie in Montreal in 1845, it operated out of the attic of a house leased by her son?
... that the B.B. Kirkland Seed and Distributing Company building was built over a natural spring which still flows in its basement?
... that Phebe Sudlow was the first female superintendent of a public school in the United States and the first female professor at the University of Iowa, despite having no formal college degree?
... that Tropical Storm Anita is the first South Atlantic tropical cyclone to be officially named?
... that the 13th–14th century Byzantine romance, Belthandros and Chrysantza, is considered by some critics to be superior in imaginative power to the Niebelungenlied?
... that Stahl Hennigsdorf Rugby won 27 East German national rugby union championships from 1952 to 1990?
... that the Ganges stingray may be the same species as the giant freshwater stingray, but this cannot be investigated as all known specimens of it have been lost?
... that the Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive 7002 was credited for setting a land speed record despite not actually being the engine that set it?

00:00, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Amar Mahal Palace (pictured) in Jammu, India, built by a French architect on the lines of a chateau for Raja Amar Singh, is now run as a museum by the Hari-Tara charitable trust?
... that Nicholas J. Corea was once a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps before achieving success as writer, director, and producer of the television series The Incredible Hulk in 1978–1981?
... that the Spanish bibliographer W.E. Retana, author of Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal, is described as the foremost non-Filipino filipinologist?
... that after a career with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, baritone Jeffrey Skitch became Principal of Elmhurst Ballet School?
... that Indiana halfback Chuck Bennett built his physique working in coal mines and was selected as the MVP of the Big Ten Conference despite playing for the ninth place team?
... that Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago, features no roads between settlements?
... that the name partner of Orange County corporate law firm Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, Fritz Stradling, didn't join the firm until after it was founded?
... that the specific name of Tambachia trogallas, the type species of the trematopid temnospondyl Tambachia, refers to the Thuringian bratwurst that was frequently eaten by the describers of the species?

17 April 2010

18:00, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

... that most of the buildings on East 73rd Street (168–174 E. 73rd, pictured) between Lexington and Third avenues on Manhattan's Upper East Side were originally carriage houses for the area's wealthy residents?
... that the song "No Me Doy Por Vencido" by Luis Fonsi was the first single to rank for two years in a row in the Billboard Top Latin Songs Year-End Chart?
... that the Grosse Pointe Presbyterian church was renamed the Grosse Pointe Memorial Church in 1925 after John and Truman Newberry paid for a new sanctuary in honor of their parents?
... that Ecuadorian archaeologist Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño believed that the Manteño civilization operated as a trading ring, like the Hanseatic League?
... that the former captain of U-43 , Wolfgang Lüth, went on to become one of the most successful U-boat commanders in World War II?
... that Jonaki, the Assamese magazine published in the late nineteenth century, did not have an editorial?
... that the hamlet of Archdeacon Newton in Durham, England, contains the site of a lost settlement?
... that Hilton Head White-Tailed deer are culled to prevent accidents despite being listed as a species of concern by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service?

12:00, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the mud snail, great raft spider and Enochrus isotae water scavenger beetle, all rare in the UK, have been found in the ponds of Sound Heath (pictured) in Cheshire?
... that the 14th name on one side of the Eiffel Tower is the engineer Charles Combes?
... that the collection of 82 stone stelae in the Temple of Literature is the second entry of Vietnam in the list of UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme?
... that Johan Støren, who was fired as a Church of Norway Bishop by Quisling's Nazi regime of WWII, was first cousin once removed of a high-ranking Nazi civil servant?
... that Juan Luna’s Chula series is a succession of portrait paintings depicting the working class “street women” of Madrid, Spain?
... that philosopher John Alexander Stewart was appointed White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University in 1897?
... that FrameGang was recommended to users of Netscape Navigator 3 Gold Edition for html frame development because it did not support frames, even though the Netscape Navigator 3 browser did?
... that Finnish communists founded the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada in 1924?

06:00, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

... that The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (pictured) was the first painting to demonstrate, based on systematic photographic analysis, how horses move?
... that Eben Sadie, the winemaker of South African wine producer The Sadie Family, was previously a surfer?
... that Ocotlán de Morelos was the subject of much of Rodolfo Morales's artistic work?
... that nearly a century after its discovery, the Peruvian rodent Eremoryzomys remains so poorly known that its conservation status cannot be assessed?
... that Radney Foster's "I'm In" has also been recorded by The Kinleys (whose version Foster produced) and Keith Urban?
... that the Italian socialist leader Dino Rondani represented Argentina in the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International?
... that Memories Off: Yubikiri no Kioku will be illustrated by Shizuki Morii, a new artist who has not worked on any previous Memories Off games?
... that Bermuda broadcasting and shipping magnate Fernance Perry, MBE, started his business career as a Piggly-Wiggly grocer?

00:00, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Michigan's 1892/1893 captain George Dygert (pictured) played professional football for a Butte, Montana, team sponsored by mine owners that defeated teams from Denver and San Francisco?
... that the candid treatment of "problematic sexuality" in Lars Berg's two first novels initiated a spirited debate in Norway in the 1930s?
... that Holocaust survivor Otto Eisler designed the only remaining synagogue in Brno?
... that Finn Støren has been called "Vidkun Quisling's informal Minister of Foreign Affairs"?
... that the Malankara Rite, a local Indian variant of the West Syrian Rite, contains some elements archaic in the wider West Syrian tradition, such as use of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in Lent?
... that Evile's 2007 debut album Enter the Grave was produced by Flemming Rasmussen, who produced three Metallica albums?
... that the Memorial Chorten in Thimphu, Bhutan, was built in 1974 to honor the King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck who had died two years previously?
... that baritone Wolfgang Schöne premiered the role of the tomcat "Tom, Minette's lover" in the opera Die englische Katze of Hans Werner Henze at the Schwetzingen Festival?

16 April 2010

18:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Judge C. R. Magney State Park in Minnesota contains the Devil's Kettle (pictured), a waterfall in which half of the Brule River disappears into a glacial kettle?
... that Frank Willan rowed for Oxford in its winning Boat Race crews in four successive years, in 1866, 1867, 1868 and 1869?
... that traditionally, Korean families pickle cabbage and store it in underground pots during the winter?
... that in 1892, the miller of De Hoop, Holwerd, left an estate worth ƒ32,567.92?
... that the Battle of Bapheus in 1302 was the first major Ottoman victory, and led to their gradual conquest of Byzantine-controlled Bithynia?
... that following the firing of Arne Fjellbu as dean of Nidaros Cathedral, all bishops in the Church of Norway stepped down in protest?
... that salt can be extracted from the burned trunks of the Amazonian palm Itaya amicorum?
... that in 1942, following the printing of the poem "Vi vil oss et land", an arrest order was issued on poet Per Sivle (1857–1904)?

12:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

... that although the red flowerheads of the Monga waratah (pictured) are less showy than the famous New South Wales waratah, they are more numerous?
... that Richard Peabody was the first authority to proclaim that there was no cure for alcoholism, and his best-selling book, The Common Sense of Drinking, was a major influence on A.A. founder Bill W.?
... that Sotsialisticheskii vestnik, the organ of the exiled Russian Menshevik Party, was published from New York until 1965?
... that Adalbert Kraus performed the tenor part in Bach's Easter Oratorio Kommt, eilet und laufet (Come, hasten and run)?
... that Courier du Bas-Rhin, one of the leading European papers of the late 18th century Enlightenment period, and the main rivals of the Gazette de Leyde, was significantly controlled by the Prussian government?
... that later businessman and politician Hakon Lunde survived the sinking of the destroyer HNoMS Svenner on D-Day?
... that the FC St. Pauli rugby department was formed in 1933 when the club's complete 6th XI switched codes from football to rugby union?
... that Benjamin Robbins Curtis was the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice to have a law degree?

06:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Michigan quarterback James Baird supervised the construction of the Flatiron Building (video right), the Lincoln Memorial, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
... that each episode of the early 1960s Canadian game show A Kin to Win cost $2500 to produce?
... that author H.B. Marriott Watson spent much of his childhood in Christchurch, New Zealand, later using it as a setting for many of his novels?
... that BanLec, a jacalin-related lectin isolated from the fruit of bananas, can induce a strong IgG4 antibody response and may be an important antigen involved in banana allergies?
... that in the Battle of Bir Lahfan on December 29, 1948, Israel captured an Egyptian battalion commander, the most senior Egyptian officer captured in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
... that from 1965 to 1999, Aubrey W. Young established a series of drug and alcohol treatment programs through the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals?
... that the schooner Larinda was built over a period of twenty-six years in the owner's backyard?
... that Christian Tobias Damm called for the letter h to be dropped from German orthography?

00:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Michigan's James Duffy (pictured) played seven years of college football and set a world record by drop kicking a football 168 feet, 7-1/2 inches?
... that the documentary film Most Valuable Players was inspired when the producer accidentally found YouTube clips of The Freddy Awards, which honor high school musical theatre in the Lehigh Valley?
... that Beaux-Arts, Mediterranean Revival, and Hawaiian architectural styles can be seen in the Wailuku Civic Center Historic District?
... that it has been written of Floating Down to Camelot that "the ludic seems to eradicate the satiric"?
... that Leopoldo Benites, the President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1973, had served eight months in a jail in Ecuador?
... that a fire set to destroy buildings infected by bubonic plague in 1900 destroyed most of the Chinatown of Honolulu?
... that Sławomir Skrzypek, the Polish banker who died in the Tu-154 crash, had recently come into open conflict with the Council of Ministers of Poland?
... that the PlayStation video game Muppet Monster Adventure featured an 'intuitive swimming system' that NGC Magazine compared favourably to the one in Super Mario 64?

15 April 2010

18:00, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Wat Phra Kaew, a Buddhist temple (temple complex pictured) in Bangkok, Thailand, has an idol of Emerald Buddha with a legend linked to India, five centuries after Buddha attained Nirvana?
... that all eight of the ships that were sunk by U-44 in her entire career were sunk during her first war patrol?
... that Alice Dudeney was called one of the most powerful writers of fiction among modern English women by Putnam Magazine?
... that pebbled butterflyfish are aggressively territorial and will form pairs to protect their feeding area?
... that the Byzantine general Saborios began a revolt against Constans II, but was killed by his horse?
... that Frank Barrie portrayed Noël Coward in the original London production of Lunch with Marlene?
... that in 2009, the Race Across America was won by Team Type 1 with a team of diabetic cyclists?
... that the barn at the McClelland Homestead near Bessemer, Pennsylvania, sits atop a spring?

12:00, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

... that a rare example of an intact malt kiln (pictured) survives in Sound, Cheshire, England?
... that following its 1994 national convention, the Progress Party of Norway lost its deputy leader and the four MPs Christiansen, Hillgaar, Wetterstad and Bråthen?
... that the range of the Australian blenny may expand southwards due to increased temperatures and climate change?
... that mezzo-soprano Claudia Eder sang the parts of the Muse and Nicklausse in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann on a recording with Plácido Domingo as Hoffmann?
... that English footballer Reg Attwell was selected to represent the Football League in 1949?
... that this year's Ice-Out occurred on Lake Winnipesaukee four days earlier than the 124 year old record?
... that the 1997 Budapest wedding of Duchess Eilika of Oldenburg to Archduke Georg of Austria was broadcast live on Hungarian television?
... that Pindan woodland in Western Australia was described by scientist and explorer Knut Dahl as a “crippled forest”?

06:00, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site (pictured) includes the locations of Washington, D.C.'s first street light, train station, sewage pipe, and Chinatown?
... that the fluke Lyperosomum intermedium infects the marsh rice rat, although its relatives mostly infect birds?
... that the Rudolf-Kalweit-Stadion in Hanover is home to three different kinds of football, hosting the Hannover Spartans, Arminia Hannover and the German rugby union team?
... that after he was re-elected in Oregon's 1992 U.S. Senate election, Bob Packwood endorsed his defeated rival Les AuCoin for U.S. Secretary of the Interior?
... that the Hollandsche Spectator, inspired by the British Spectator, was one of the most important developments in Dutch literature during the Enlightenment period?
... that the Birmingham Americans won the only World Bowl ever held by the upstart World Football League?
... that the mausoleum of Saladin was rebuilt in 1898 under the patronage of German Emperor Wilhelm II after he visited Damascus and found the tomb in a state of disrepair?
... that the Page brothers who were over 7 ft tall and toured in a circus as the Newbourne Giants are buried in the village of Newbourne in Suffolk, England?

00:00, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

... that during the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916, SMS Deutschland (pictured) took part in the last engagement between capital ships in World War I?
... that Thomas Carlyle agreed to pose for James McNeill Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle after viewing Whistler's Mother?
... that the Tutelo language, once spoken by Virginia Indians, was recorded by scholars in the late 19th century, who found speakers on a reserve in Ontario?
... that Austrian socialist leader Robert Danneberg, one of the architects of 'Red Vienna', was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942?
... that fossil evidence suggests that the palm tribe Cryosophileae evolved in the northern hemisphere and that its presence in South America reflects later migration southward?
... that Walter Herries Pollock, editor of the Saturday Review, was close friends with a number of writers including Robert Lewis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde?
... that Initiative 1068 was filed in January 2010 by Seattle activists hoping to remove criminal penalties from the adult use, possession and cultivation of marijuana in Washington?
... that to help reverse declining sales, the Friedrichstadt Palast began adding Madonna and Kylie Minogue to the show playlist?

14 April 2010

18:00, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

... that horticulturalist Ellen Willmott had more than 60 plants named after her or her home, Warley Place, including Rosa willmottiae (pictured)?
... that the beaches of Roebuck Bay exhibit the fossil footprints of dinosaurs?
... that Fred Whishaw was the first to translate the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky into the English language?
... that the saw mill De Rat was moved from Zaanstreek, Noord Holland, to IJlst, Friesland, in 1828?
... that Hidalgo's winning silver medal for his painting Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho at the 1884 Madrid Exposition was hailed as a sign that Filipinos can participate in European culture?
... that the Col. James Graham House was one of the first permanent homes in Summers County, West Virginia?
... that the Seventh-day Adventist Church campaigned for the separation of church and state under the Australian Constitution, which is now reflected in Section 116?
... that Anders Beer has been credited with founding the tanning industry in Norway?

11:50, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

... that England cricket team's decision to rest captain Andrew Strauss and select South African-born Craig Kieswetter (pictured) caused controversy during their 2009–10 tour of Bangladesh?
... that J. M. W. Turner's Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino is scheduled to go on sale in the open market for only the second time in the 171 years since it was painted?
... that Dos Abend Blatt was first Yiddish-language socialist newspaper in New York?
... that Justus van Effen has been recognized as one of the most important Dutch language writers of the eighteenth century and an influential figure of the Dutch Enlightenment?
... that violinist Hugh Maguire, leader of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1956, is on the coaching staff of the Leiston Abbey music school?
... that the "Bottoms" of Milford, Ohio, contain a Woodland period archaeological site?
... that Sviatoslav of Kiev was invited by the Byzantine Empire to attack Bulgaria in order to force them to make concessions, but ended up conquering the country?
... that the Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt drag racing car had a metal tag attached to the inside of the glovebox door warning that the fit and finish were not up to company standards?

05:40, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

... that gasteroid fungi (example pictured) release their spores passively?
... that Hungarian-born Commando George Lane was spared execution after taking tea with Rommel?
... that Colorado State Highway 57 is not marked throughout its length?
... that the Journal of Pathology, founded in 1892, has been the official journal of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland since 1906?
... that the Dutch Republic successfully intervened in the Second Northern War, forcing the Swedish Empire to accept the Treaty of Elbing?
... that the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act proposes that two percent of proceeds from the sale of cannabis promote industrial hemp biodiesel, fiber, protein and oil?
... that in 1914, English footballer Tom Bamford played in the only Burnley team to win the FA Cup to date?
... that owners of the East 80th Street Houses on Manhattan's Upper East Side have ranged from Clarence Dillon and Vincent Astor to Iraq?

13 April 2010

23:30, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

... that marine art (example pictured) features in America's Most Wanted Painting and in its variants for several other countries?
... that Blessed Denis of the Nativity was a famous cartographer before he joined the Discalced Carmelites and became a priest?
... that the Study club fire of 1929 in Detroit, Michigan, killed 22 and injured 50 people?
... that Finn Thrana, Nazi "führer" in the county of Oppland during World War II, was a lawyer working with cases in the Supreme Court of Norway from 1966?
... that Montana's Shonkin Sag was created when glaciers blocked the Missouri River, forcing it to cut a new channel at right angles to the existing drainage valleys?
... that Maria Fortunata Viti, a Benedictine nun beatified by Pope Paul VI in 1967, remained illiterate her entire life?
... that the Ebla tablets, found in ancient Ebla, Syria, and dating back to 2500 BC, reveal that the city produced a range of beers, including one that appears to be named "Ebla"?
... that footballer Arthur Bate scored a hat-trick on his league debut for Nelson, yet finished on the losing team in the match?

17:20, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the opening angle of hollow carbon nanocones (pictured) is not arbitrary, but has a few preferential values?
... that the New York Society Library, the oldest cultural institution in New York City, also effectively served as the first Library of Congress?
... that Philippe Pastour de Costebelle, the French governor of Plaisance, Newfoundland, ordered the destruction of St. John's after its capture by French forces in 1709?
... that the call of the Grey Currawong gives rise to its vernacular name of 'Clinking Currawong' in Tasmania, and 'Squeaker' in Western Australia?
... that the Maya archaeological site of Tamarindito was relatively unscathed by looters during the Guatemalan Civil War due to the presence of guerrilla fighters?
... that Teme Sejko, rear-admiral of the Albanian navy, was executed in 1961 for being the leader of a pro-Soviet group aiming to overthrow the regime of Enver Hoxha?
... that Bob Tallman of Weatherford, Texas, has been called "the greatest rodeo announcer that ever lived"?
... that Low Walworth, County Durham, England, once contained a gin gang?

11:10, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Dutch marine artist Jan van de Cappelle (1654 work pictured) is the only person known to have had his portrait painted by both Rembrandt and Frans Hals, but both paintings are now untraced?
... that the Gaelic Journal, first published in 1882, was described as being "the first journal devoted to the living Irish language"?
... that Claude Phillips was the first keeper of the Wallace Collection, writing its first catalogue, and held that post from 1900 until his retirement in 1911 whereupon he was knighted for his service?
... that the Jewish Documentation Center has been responsible for uncovering more than 1000 Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann?
... that HanWay Films was originally founded by British film producer Jeremy Thomas as an adjunct of his Recorded Picture Company?
... that two commanding officers of No. 219 Squadron RAF went on to become the Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force, whilst a third became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Pakistani Air Force?
... that stamps of the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force were available in Syria between September 23, 1918 (1918-09-23) and February 23, 1922 (1922-02-23)?
... that Tom Sidwell once got lost on the London Underground, missed the start of that day's cricket match, and was given out?

05:00, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Ysleta Mission (pictured) is the oldest parish in the state of Texas, and is built on the oldest continuously cultivated plot of land in the United States?
... that author Mike Long has written speeches for national U.S. politicians, including President George W. Bush?
... that the 400-year-old Dhodar Ali in Assam is so called because some dhods ("lazy people" in Assamese) were assigned by the Ahom king to build it?
... that Karl Heinz Schneider, who used to organize battalions in the Hitler Youth, later moved to Israel, converted to Judaism and took the name of Abraham Reuel?
... that Hurricane Madeline caused major damage to Mexico in 1976?
... that even though he was a Filipino painter, Juan Luna's The Battle of Lepanto was commissioned by the Spanish Senate?
... that Fort Jefferson, built as a supply depot, endured a three-year siege during the Northwest Indian War?
... that the Bahamian Pygmy Boa Constrictor can voluntarily bleed from its eyes, mouth and nostrils?

12 April 2010

22:50, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the type species of fungal genus Clavaria (pictured) is commonly known as "fairy fingers"?
... that the Google Guys, composed of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are among the richest people in the world with a net worth of US$17.5 billion each?
... that the god Vishnu's avatar Yajna is an embodiment of the fire sacrifice?
... that Anura Tennekoon captained the Sri Lanka national cricket team during the inaugural Cricket World Cup of 1975?
... that Archangel Gospel, the fourth oldest Eastern Slavic manuscript, was brought by a peasant from Arkhangelsk to Moscow in 1876?
... that the abuse and murder of 3-year old Neveah Gallegos led to several changes in the Denver, Colorado Department of Human Services?
... that where it passes Merrybent, Durham, England, the A1 road runs on the old track bed of the Merrybent railway?
... that the composer Anton Rubinstein conducted his own opera The Merchant Kalashnikov so badly that the performance had to be stopped?

16:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the endangered Mount Graham Red Squirrel (pictured) was believed to be extinct in the 1950s until it was rediscovered in the 1970s?
... that the New Zealand member of parliament William Montgomery worked on the extension of the Little River railway to Akaroa?
... that La barca de Aqueronte is the most awarded work of art created by Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo?
... that the leader of the Ibsen quotes art project in Oslo wanted it to become a "tourist attraction on par with Fram and Holmenkollen"?
... that the fossil rodent Megapedetes, related to the living springhare, occurred from Greece to Namibia?
... that the Texas industrialist Jack Crichton was involved in the mining of gold, silver, nickel, copper, and zinc as well as the production of oil and natural gas?
... that the female devata reliefs of the temple of Thommanon in Cambodia grip flowers very distinctively, using their ring and middle fingers whilst extending their index and small fingers?
... that artist David Herbert exhibited a 96" replica of a VHS videocassette—normally 7½" in length?

10:30, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Commando Memorial (pictured) erected in the remote Scottish Highlands is dedicated to the original World War II British Commandos, who were trained at nearby Achnacarry Castle?
... that the Clan Line ship Clan Matheson assisted in the eradication of the Coconut Moth from Fiji?
... that the Israeli-invented Wonder Pot bakes cakes, casseroles and roasts on the stovetop rather than in the oven?
... that Channel 4 billed its Comedy Gala, held at the O2 Arena in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital, as "the biggest live stand up show in UK history"?
... that the Dutch marine artist Hendrick Dubbels opened a shop selling "caps, bonnets and stockings", but went bankrupt in 1665?
... that Thomas Herbert of the Royal Navy was involved in over 20 engagements and wounded three times in the War of 1812 against the United States?
... that of the 34 amphibians that became extinct in last 500 years, 19 were from Sri Lanka?
... that not all complex questions are informal fallacies?

04:20, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the French architecture of St. Louis' Catholic Church (pictured) in North Star, Ohio, is unique in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches?
... that former Texas legislator and motivational speaker Rick Green produced the 1994 video The Legacy of President Ronald Reagan: The Truth About the Eighties?
... that three animal species that do not need oxygen were discovered in the hypersaline anoxic l'Atalante basin at the bottom of the Mediterranean?
... that Koto Hoxhi, who secretly taught students in Qestorat in Albanian, died in jail rather than reveal the name of his friends?
... that the new Chair of Gaelic at the University of Glasgow is the first established chair in Gaelic at a Scottish university?
... that baseball player Lyman Linde was part of the Beaver Dam High School basketball team when they were Wisconsin state champions in 1937?
... that "Have Ya Got Any Gum, Chum?", a 1944 novelty jazz song written by Murray Kane and performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, was inspired by a phrase used by British children towards American soldiers during World War II?
... that the Lost Man Booker Prize shortlist includes four dead people, one of whom would be "spinning in his grave" if his book won, and two living people, one of whom couldn't remember her own book's plot?

11 April 2010

22:10, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the sight of the "gravity defying" Kyaiktiyo Pagoda (pictured) or Golden Rock, in the Mon State of Myanmar, has been described as "enough to inspire a religious conversion"?
... that in gratitude for being introduced to her future husband Roland Bonaparte, Marie Blanc reportedly gifted his sister Jeanne Bonaparte one million francs?
... that the German submarine U-255 was one of the most successful U-boats to operate in the Arctic Ocean in World War II?
... that Laura Berg is the most decorated athlete in softball at the Summer Olympics, with three gold medals and one silver?
... that the land snail Amphibulima browni was not collected during the entire 20th century?
... that actor Jim O'Heir, who plays Jerry on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, once played the janitor of a genetics laboratory who held puppet shows with the failed experiments?
... that the Communist Party of Andalusia won 57.4% of the votes in the 1983 municipal election in Córdoba, Spain?
... that blind electrical engineer Jonathan Nash Hearder, when called to advise upon the Atlantic Cable in 1858, tested it by inserting his tongue into the 2000-mile-long circuit?

16:00, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the pancakes called galettes (pictured) originated in Upper Brittany and crêpes in Lower Brittany?
... that Australian record producer, Richard Pleasance, who was a founding member of 1980s band Boom Crash Opera, also composed the score for the 2006 feature film Kenny?
... that after being boycotted from international cricket for over two decades, South Africa women achieved a 3–0 series whitewash against Ireland women on their return?
... that Bouthaina Shaaban, a former Minister of Expatriates of Syria, has been described as the Syrian "regime's face to the outside world"?
... that the stems of the neotropical palm genus Cryosophila are covered with spines that are actually modified roots?
... that Margaret Ballinger, an M.P. for native South Africans, was hailed as the "Queen of the Blacks" in 1944?
... that slave-built Federal style Wilkinson-Martin House, in Pulaski, Tennessee, stayed in one family for 130 years?
... that John Wesley preached in the kitchen of Gates Farm in Cholmondeston, Cheshire, England?

09:50, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

... that when Sir Thomas Grosvenor (pictured) became baronet, he was aged eight, and when he married at the age of 21, his wife was aged 12?
... that the graveldiver fish may burrow to depths of 7.6 metres (25 ft) or more in a substrate such as sand, gravel, or broken shell?
... that the Exchequer of Pleas was dissolved after its chief judge died?
... that Heinz Hennig founded the Knabenchor Hannover in 1950 and conducted the boys' choir until 2001?
... that one of the English leaders in the successful defense of the 1705 Siege of St. John's, Newfoundland, was a mason?
... that historian and museum director Arnfinn Moland has also contributed to films, writing a book on Max Manus together with screenwriter Thomas Nordseth-Tiller?
... that the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt in southwestern British Columbia is the site of Canada's largest recorded Holocene explosive eruption 2,350 years ago at the Mount Meager massif?
... that opposing admirals Adam Duncan and Jan de Winter played a game of whist in the aftermath of the Battle of Camperdown?

03:40, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

... that team MVP Gerald Ford (pictured) recalled that Michigan's 1934 "Punt, Pass and Prayer" offense lost punter John Regeczi and passer "Hard Luck Bill" Renner and "all we had left was the prayer"?
... that the 1995 fire in Baku Metro became the world's deadliest subway accident?
... that the goliath conch, Eustrombus goliath, is the largest of the true conchs?
...that Darell Hammond co-founded KaBOOM!, an American non-profit organization that builds playgrounds for children?
... that the Hirtz compass, a medical device invented in 1907 that was used to locate bullets and shrapnel in patients, usually gave results precise within 1–2 millimeters?
... that the music documentary MC5: A True Testimonial includes U.S. government surveillance footage of an MC5 performance?
... that although considered as the ideal woman in Philippine society, María Clara is also criticized as the "greatest misfortune that has befallen the Filipina in the last 100 years"?
... that the Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive 520 had its boiler explode and pulled a "railfan special", before it was preserved in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania?

10 April 2010

21:30, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

... that in choosing between the names Portland and Boston, Francis Pettygrove (pictured) and Asa Lovejoy, the founders of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, settled the question by a coin toss?
... that Juan Luna's Tampuhan painting depicts a Filipino man and a Filipino woman sulking after a lovers' argument?
... that the Pondicherry shark was last seen in 1979?
... that Sarah Beth Barnette, a senior at Lexington Christian Academy, is the first player from Lexington to win Kentucky's "Miss Basketball" award?
... that there was once a gallows in Low Coniscliffe, Durham, England?
... that in 2006, Birkelunden underwent the first "conservation of a cultural environment in a city" in Norway?
... that the Pavlos Vrellis Greek History Museum is the best known wax museum in Greece?
... that Regency mansion Poole Hall in Cheshire, England, once housed an eclectic collection including teasmaids, mannequins, toy robots, a pinball machine and Keith Richards' Bentley?

15:20, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Richard II (pictured) of England agreed to extend the 1389 Truce of Leulinghem with France after the English Parliament failed to ratify a permanent peace treaty?
... that Gazette d'Amsterdam was one of the most important European newspapers of the Enlightenment period?
... that tenor Kurt Equiluz was the Evangelist in the first recording of Bach's St John Passion on period instruments with the Concentus Musicus Wien, Vienna?
... that the primary leaf veins for the extinct plant Trochodendron nastae are palmate rather then being pinnate like those in the living Trochodendron aralioides?
... that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation, also created the Maharishi Group, a $700 million non-profit conglomerate in India?
... that Juan Luna's The Parisian Life painting portrays three Filipino gentlemen and heroes glancing inquisitively at a woman while inside a café in Paris, France?
... that the rice rat Oryzomys couesi is infected by two different hantaviruses?
... that reality television star Kim Kardashian was brutally murdered in the South Park episode "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs", but she found it very funny?

09:10, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

...that the Buddha Dhatu Jadi (pictured), also known as Bandarban Golden Temple, is the largest Theravada Buddhist Temple in Bandarban, with the second largest Buddha statue in Bangladesh?
... that during his basketball career, John Hummer played for four head coaches who have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame?
... that the Central American palm, Schippia concolor, exhibits the unusual germination strategy of transferring all resources from the seed to the seedling before any shoot growth occurs?
... that Juan Luna's La Bulaqueña painting is a serene portrait of a Filipino woman from Bulacan wearing a Maria Clara gown?
... that despite inheriting the vast Parker Ranch as a child, Richard Smart became an actor and singer in musical theater on Broadway?
... that the East Texas Historical Association was founded in 1927, disbanded during the Great Depression, and reborn in 1962?
... that the turreted Johan Poulsen House in Portland, Oregon's Brooklyn neighborhood was built in 1891 and owned by a lumber magnate and a "doughnut king"?
... that the Breton writer Pêr-Jakez Helias asserted "my heritage lies on my tongue, it shall never be yours"?

03:00, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the capilla abierta (pictured) is considered one of the most distinct Mexican construction forms?
... that in 1876 Llewelyn Kenrick, founder of the Football Association of Wales, organised and played in Wales' first international match?
... that the AZ-1 Marvelette was an experimental aircraft built by Mississippi State University to test a boundary layer control system?
... that Andreas Karasiak recorded Bach's St Matthew Passion, scored for double chorus, with two boys choirs, Knabenchor Hannover and Thomanerchor?
... that a recent cyber attack targeted opponents of bauxite mining in Vietnam?
... that Spencer Haywood was included in the 1971 NBA Draft even though he already played in the NBA before the draft?
... that people's veto is a type of a referendum that allows citizens to repeal an existing law?
... that private military companies operating in Iraq use the Mamba armoured personnel carrier because it appears "less aggressive"?

9 April 2010

20:50, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Spanish URO VAMTAC (pictured) is similar to the American HMMWV, since both were developed to meet similar requirements?
... that there were no women among the 172 deputies elected to the Parliament of Syria in the 1961 parliamentary elections?
... that James E. Boyd started nuclear research at the Georgia Institute of Technology while leading the Georgia Tech Research Institute?
... that the Anglo-Danish carved stones in St Mungo's Church, Dearham include a wheel-head cross, the Adam Stone, and the Kenneth Cross?
... that, after earning distinction in World War I battles, Romanian writer Felix Aderca sparked controversy with pacifist and socialist novels which discuss his countrymen's wartime crimes?
... that Colorado State Highway 257 has two interchanges only 0.3 miles apart?
... that JB's Dudley, which claims to be the UK's longest-running live music venue, began life as a disco night at Dudley Town F.C.'s social club?
... that the nematode Skrjabinoclava kinsellai is characterized by the presence of shoe-like and nipple-like structures?

14:40, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Punakha Dzong (pictured) is the second largest and second oldest Dzong in Bhutan, constructed by Zhabdrung (Shabdrung) Ngawang Namgyal in 1637–38?
... that Edward Cephas John Stevens initiated the land transfer that gave Christchurch, New Zealand, the park on which AMI Stadium now stands?
... that the anti-war poster And babies shows half-naked women and babies killed at My Lai during the Vietnam War?
... that former Spanish sailor Don Francisco de Paula Marín (1774–1837) introduced many crops such as pineapple to Hawaii?
... that the People's Party of Syria was established in 1948 as the main opposition party to the National Party?
... that the BBC reduced actor Alan Davies' fee for the Jonathan Creek episode "The Judas Tree" by 25 percent?
... that since 1948 Israel has only lost 18 planes in air to air combat?
... that Blessed Daniel Brottier, when asked by his mother what he wanted to be when he grew up, responded, "I will be the Pope"?

08:30, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

... that SMS Zähringen, one of the five Wittelsbach-class battleships (pictured), was rebuilt after World War I as a radio-controlled target ship and destroyed by British Royal Air Force bombers during World War II?
... that Laiko Vima was the only newspaper printed in Greek in the Socialist People's Republic of Albania?
... that Jama Williamson, who plays the attractive surgeon ex-wife of Tom Haverford in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, also provided voices for the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas?
... that the co-pilot of the lead C-47 at the Mitla Pass parachute drop, which launched the 1956 Suez War, was a woman, Yael Rom?
... that the Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer, better known as the Alles Machines, pioneered additive synthesis and served as the basis for several commercial instruments in the early 1980s?
... that in October 2005, Craig Cobb told visitors to the U.S. Capitol Rotunda that he was there to celebrate the death of Rosa Parks?
... that the first imperial examination in the history of Vietnam was organized in 1072 during the reign of Lý Nhân Tông?
... that the United States Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Ballin (1892) was based in part on the assumption that the Journal of the House of Representatives is always accurate?

02:30, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Thomas Stewart, who designed the internationally recognized Woodhead Dam (pictured), was called "the father of consulting engineering in South Africa"?
... that the captured Yugoslav seaplane tender Zmaj was used for shipboard trials of the Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri (Hummingbird) helicopter by the Kriegsmarine in 1942–43?
... that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is one of the key figures behind data.gov.uk, a UK Government project to open up almost all data acquired for official purposes for free re-use?
... that Chantilly porcelain, a "soft-paste porcelain" made from c.1730 is not a true porcelain because it lacks "china clay", kaolin?
... that footballer Sid Storey, who played for York City from 1947 to 1956, drove the open top bus that paraded the York team after winning the 1983–84 Fourth Division championship?
... that the word game Trickster, a spin-off of Scrabble, includes changes to the original game such as allowing players to form proper nouns with their letters and stealing another player's tiles?
... that although Aniceto Ortega had a distinguished career as a physician and surgeon in Mexico, he is also remembered today for his 1871 opera Guatimotzin?
... that in the 1818 English case of Ashford v Thornton, the defendant demanded and was granted a right to trial by battle?

8 April 2010

20:30, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

... that SMS Schleswig-Holstein, one of the five Deutschland-class battleships (pictured), fired the first shots of World War II during the Battle of Westerplatte?
... that three of the five highest NBA career point totals by Ivy League players were by Princeton Tigers men's basketball players?
... that the red flowers of the four related genera Oreocallis, Embothrium, Telopea and Alloxylon from South America and Australia have been around for over 60 million years?
... that Jethro Rothe-Kushel directed Alex Band's first music video at the age of 10 and went on to produce ten movies by the age of 28?
... that sandstone blocks used in the construction of St John's Church, Crosscanonby, Cumbria, England, might originate from a former Roman building?
... that Bidal Aguero, a civil rights activist in Lubbock, published El Editor, the oldest-running Hispanic newspaper in Texas?
... that their loss in Watson v British Boxing Board of Control forced the British Boxing Board of Control to move to Wales?
... that an Australian couple bought the town of Wauconda, Washington, in an online auction for $370,601?

12:00, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Manas River (pictured), a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, is the largest river system in Bhutan?
... that American economist Adam Posen advises both the Bank of England and the United States Congressional Budget Office?
... that the coat of arms of Kola, a town in Russia, depicts a whale because whaling was the occupation of many town residents?
... that The Blood Compact painting, currently displayed at the top of the grand staircase of the Malacañang Palace, was one of the last paintings created by Filipino artist Juan Luna?
... that during the 2008–10 campaign, two friendly games between the German rugby union team and a selection of the British Forces Germany had to be cancelled because of bad weather?
... that both Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve and Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve are larger than any of Svalbard's seven national parks?
... that James Moore, hero of the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, was one of only five generals from North Carolina to serve in the Continental Army?
... that the listed buildings in Poole, Cheshire, England, include a pinfold or cattle pound?

06:00, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the eight foot stone atrium cross of the former monastery of Acolman, Mexico (pictured), is an expression of "tequiqui" or Christian art executed by Indian craftsmen?
... that civil aviation pioneer Lester Brain declined a knighthood in the 1960s, but accepted appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1979?
... that though clavarioid fungi were originally thought to comprise a single genus, they are now classified in multiple orders and families?
... that the real estate developer Buddy Tudor won awards for the historic preservation of the landmark Bentley Hotel in Alexandria, Louisiana?
... that although the South African RG-35 mine resistant ambush protected vehicle is powered by a diesel engine, it can also accommodate hybrid electric drive?
... that Alex Silvagni's debut performances in the Australian Football League as a 22-year-old rookie is part of a shift in the recruiting philosophy to also recruit older players, not just 18-year-olds?
... that in rice rats living in the water, the tufts of hair at the base of the claws are reduced?
... that in the mid-1990s, Alf Tande-Petersen presented the third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth most viewed television program episodes in Norway?

00:00, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

... that despite being named for its distribution in the western hemisphere, the fungus Sarcoscypha occidentalis (pictured) is also found in Asia?
... that Wood's Monument at West Point was used as a navigational aide for ships passing down the Hudson River?
... that Colonel Lorenzo Latorre resigned as President of Uruguay in 1880, declaring the country "ungovernable"?
... that Atari showed off its AMY additive synthesis sound chip in a special version of the 65XE computer, but never released it and focused on the Atari ST instead?
... that throughout his career, Pennsylvania Education Secretary Gerald Zahorchak has also been an elementary teacher, principal, high school football coach, superintendent, deputy mayor and city council member?
... that the Bronze Age gold Casco de Leiro was a fisherman's chance find on a beach in Galicia, Spain?
... that swimmer Janine Pietsch won two gold medals at the 2006 World Championships, each by 0.25 seconds?
... that the timeline of Tanzanian history includes the shortest war in history and the first discovery of a new monkey genus since 1923?

7 April 2010

18:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Duke of Wellington pub (pictured) at High Coniscliffe, Durham, England, used to display Napoleon on its sign instead of Wellington?
... that Gossia acmenoides (scrub ironwood) is named in honour of ex-Queensland Premier Wayne Goss?
... that Royal Navy officer Bedford Pim was the first man to travel from a ship on the eastern side of the Northwest Passage to one on the western side?
... that Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse went undefeated in Ivy League competition for seven consecutive seasons?
... that the worship of Princess Lieu Hanh was suppressed by the Vietnamese government because of possible Taoist influence?
... that Kolsky Uyezd was established on the Kola Peninsula by the Tsardom of Russia as a result of the territorial claims from Denmark–Norway?
... that the German submarine U-246 went missing on 7 March 1945 in the Irish Sea?
... that in Gillingham Borough Council v Medway (Chatham) Dock Co Ltd, the trial judge rejected the defendant's arguments, but still held that they were not liable?

12:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

... that among the ships fighting at Trafalgar (pictured) were the British HMS Neptune, the French Neptune and the Spanish Neptuno?
... that the ideas of Hermann Baumgarten not only influenced the political outlook of social theorist Max Weber, but also helped accelerate the unification of Germany in 1871?
... that American Lester Reiff was the top jockey in Britain in 1900 but lost his licence after allegedly throwing a race?
... that the Norwegian cities of Oslo and Bergen are governed through a parliamentary system?
... that the New South Wales Waratah lost out to the Golden Wattle to become Australia's floral emblem in 1912?
... that from his freshman year at Oak Park High School through his junior year at the University of Michigan, Herb Steger never lost a game of football?
... that the seventeenth government of Israel was dissolved by Yitzhak Rabin following a breach of the Sabbath?
... that the Stevenson Memorial, painted by Abbott Thayer to honor Robert Louis Stevenson, was painted, in part, with a broom?

06:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

... that lemurs (pictured) are primates that evolved and diversified on the island of Madagascar after arriving there at least 56 million years ago on a raft of vegetation?
... that although a quiet town now, Cuilapan de Guerrero, Mexico, was a major pre-Hispanic city and the site of a major Dominican monastery?
... that voting for the mascot of the 2010 World Lacrosse Championship was done through the tournament's page on Facebook?
... that a golden handshake report by New Zealand journalist Duncan Garner cost an MP his Cabinet position?
... that the Bhutan Textile Museum in Thimphu was supported technically by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts?
... that among victims of the 1994 Baku Metro bombings was jazzman Rafig Babayev?
... that the Guardians of the Free Republics sent out letters to all 50 US state governors demanding that they leave office within three days or be removed?
... that the North Sea patrols of the battlecruiser HMAS Australia during World War I were so monotonous that one sailor was driven insane?

00:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

... that one possible explanation of the origin of the Flying Dutchman legend is a Fata Morgana (illustrated)?
... that Bach marked to repeat the opening chorus of cantata Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172 after the final chorale?
... that the numerosity adaptation effect demonstrates that we not only have a direct and automatic visual sense of the reddishness of half a dozen ripe cherries, but also of their quantity?
... that the Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi was offered professorship for his painting Christ in the Desert, but rejected it?
... that King William IV credited Captain Humphrey Fleming Senhouse as "one of the cleverest fellows of the navy"?
... that Cherokee humorist Will Rogers was named for William Penn Adair, a Cherokee statesman who advocated for the rights of Texas Cherokees?
... that the belted cardinalfish carries its developing eggs in its mouth?
... that Sri Lankan lawyer and media personality Ran Banda Seneviratne was banned from talk shows after comparing a newly nominated President's Counsel to a donkey on State television?

6 April 2010

18:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

... that mottled skate (pictured) is commonly served at weddings in South Korea?
... that some historians have considered Alwyn MacArchill to have been an ancestor of the Earls of Lennox in the male-line, while others have suggested he was only an ancestor in the female-line?
... that frost flowers are ice crystals commonly found growing on young sea ice and thin lake ice in cold, calm condition?
... that 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., was the last private building to be renovated under the 1974 Pennsylvania Avenue redevelopment plan?
... that the FAMAS-awarded 1965 film Blessings of the Land is about a Filipino deaf-mute son who rose above his handicap?
... that in 1930 Albanian feminist Urani Rumbo was accused by the authorities of encouraging girl students to perform in theater plays?
... that biosocial criminology predicts that left handed individuals are more likely to engage in criminal behavior than right handed ones?
... that Árni Magnússon, who assembled the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, would do whatever it took to acquire an Icelandic book or manuscript?

12:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Maimonides Synagogue in Cairo is named for the famous Jewish philosopher, rabbi and physician Maimonides (pictured)?
... that, in the role of Southern belle "Geneva Lee Browne", Paige Miles performed in a school rendition of The 1940's Radio Hour, a World War II musical about a radio station in New York?
... that Indre Wijdefjorden National Park contains the only High Arctic steppe vegetation in Europe?
... that Sin has been described as the most controversial and most bohemian among F. Sionil José’s novels because it created an “artifice of sexual tension”?
... that the planned St. Johns-Indian River Barge Canal would have covered 35.2 miles (56.6 km) and linked the St. Johns River with the Intracoastal Waterway?
... that communist activist Franz Jacob organized one of the largest resistance groups in Germany during World War II?
... that univariate analysis is the simplest form of quantitative (statistical) analysis?
... that there are a number of ghost stations along the Paris Métro, including two with no above-ground entrances?

06:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

... that American money was diverted from an airport to build the Patuxai monument (pictured) in Vientiane, Laos?
... that 6' 10" Mason Plumlee plays basketball for the NCAA finalist Duke Blue Devils alongside his 6' 10" brother Miles, and their younger 7' 0" brother Marshall plays in high school?
... that at the First Battle of Rellano, Pascual Orozco used the tactic of the máquina loca, a locomotive filled with dynamite, to defeat federal troops, but a similar trick failed him at the Second Battle of Rellano?
... that in less than eight years, Michael Burry's hedge fund company returned 489.34% to investors, while the Standard and Poor 500 realized just over 2% over the same period?
... that Daughters of the American Revolution co-founder Ellen Hardin Walworth studied law in order to overturn the murder conviction of her son?
... that the FV103 Spartan armoured personnel carrier has been used by British Armed Forces to transport small air defence, reconnaissance and fire controller teams?
... that at the age of sixteen, Aaron Kelly succeeded in being a top ten finalist in the ninth season of American Idol?
... that Electric Picnic 2010 is expected to feature Leftfield, Roxy Music, Public Image Ltd. and a rap duo who perform wearing plastic bags to cover their heads?

00:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Butler men's basketball head coach Brad Stevens (pictured) has won 89 games in his first three years, exceeding the previous NCAA record by 8 games?
... that Dominica has one of the richest land gastropod fauna in the Lesser Antilles?
... that Bruce Lyttelton Richmond was the longest-serving editor of the Times Literary Supplement, for 35 years from 1902 to 1937?
... that Thomas Gray tried to prevent the publication of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and asked that his name be removed from the published version, but it is now considered "the best-known and best-loved poem in English"?
... that the specific name of the newly described fungus Suillus quiescens refers to the ability of its spores to lay dormant in the soil until pine roots are encountered?
... that automobile designer Peter Schreyer has designed car grilles to look like tiger noses?
... that a monument for ten Israeli soldiers killed after the 1948 Battle of Bir 'Asluj was erected from the rubble of the booby-trapped police station in which they were killed?
... that James Harrison, sometimes called the "man with the golden arm", is credited with saving the lives of two million babies?

5 April 2010

18:00, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

... that female White-starred Robins (pictured) in Malawi migrate away from their breeding grounds while the males remain in their territories?
... that Kawkab America was the first Arabic-language newspaper published in North America?
... that Kirsten Huser Leschbrandt, a former Norwegian MP and current board member of the S-E Norway Regional Health Authority, is a breast cancer survivor?
... that The Old Wellington Inn in Manchester has been in three different locations in its 458-year history?
... that Dr. Lillian H. South is credited with eliminating several contagious diseases from Kentucky, including hookworm?
... that in English law, trespass to land is both a tort and, in certain circumstances, a crime?
... that after pitcher Don Black suffered a cerebral hemorrhage during a baseball game, the Cleveland Indians played a benefit game and raised $40,000 for him?
... that some beetles of the genus Zopherus are used as living brooches?

12:00, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Hooker Emerald (pictured) was used for a belt buckle by an Ottoman Sultan?
... that the German submarine U-39 was the first U-boat sunk in World War II?
... that the Austrian Attack was used against Bobby Fischer when he played the Pirc Defence for the first time in his chess career?
... that Albanian artist David Selenicasi painted parts of the monastery of the Great Lavra, the first monastery built on Mount Athos?
... that the South American rodent Akodon caenosus may weigh as little as 10.5 g (0.37 oz)?
... that Bag & Baggage Productions staged the first professional, outdoor showing of a Shakespeare play in Hillsboro, Oregon?
... that I Made a Game with Zombies in It! was the most popular Xbox Live Indie Game of 2009?
... that at 44 tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway's first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?

06:00, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

... that lemurs (pictured) exhibit female social dominance?
... that the steam locomotive Olomana was considered by Walt Disney to have been the closest thing to a "Mickey Mouse engine"?
... that even though the Occoquan Reservoir in northern Virginia provides an output of 17 million gallons a day to 1.2 million people, it is listed on Virginia's Dirty Water List?
... that Race Foster and Marty Smith, co-founders of pet supply company Drs. Foster & Smith, hosted the Animal Planet TV show Faithful Friends for two years?
... that a double-barreled question asks about more than one thing, but allows only one answer?
... that Muhammad Naguib, who later became the president of Egypt, was severely wounded in the Battle of Hill 86 of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
... that John Erskine Clarke produced the first Anglican Parish Magazine at Derby in 1859?
... that although RFA Crenella was torpedoed by U-101 in 1917, the ship served until 1952?

00:00, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the Kaiser Friedrich III-class battleships (SMS Kaiser Barbarossa pictured) introduced the standard configuration for pre-dreadnought battleships in the German Kaiserliche Marine?
... that Dr. Fred Conklin received the Legion of Merit for setting up a mobile hospital in New Caledonia and later presented a medal to John F. Kennedy for heroism on the PT 109?
... that the 1992 low-budget independent comedy film Meet the Parents was the inspiration for the 2000 blockbuster of the same name starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro?
... that tree surgeon Gaylord Silly has represented the Seychelles twice at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships?
... that the Svalbard Act established the economy of Svalbard as a free zone?
... that Edward Nicolls proposed that oak trees be grown in Sierra Leone for the Royal Navy?
... that in the churchyard of St Kentigern's Church, Caldbeck, are the graves of John Peel, the subject of D'ye ken John Peel?, and Mary Harrison, the Buttermere Beauty?
... that Canadian Senator Leverett George DeVeber once sang at a concert after the intended headliner failed to show up?

4 April 2010

18:00, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

... that a seam (pictured) along the eastern wall of the Temple Mount may be a clue to the location of the Acra, a Seleucid citadel in ancient Jerusalem?
... that President Theodore Roosevelt publicly recommended Eliza Calvert Hall's book Aunt Jane of Kentucky?
... that the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique steamship Ariège was the first ship to enter the port of Safi, Morocco?
... that Oluf Reed-Olsen's blowing up of a bridge at Lysaker during World War II contributed to the surfacing of the Norwegian Administrative Council?
... that 1980's Hurricane Karl evolved at the center of another, larger storm that occupied much of the North Atlantic, and set multiple records for its unusual location and date?
... that U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs wrote or recorded at least 238 songs during his career?
... that the Museum of Cretan Ethnology was built to the specification of Georges Henri Rivière, creator of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris?
... that the opossum genus Cryptonanus received its name because it was hidden in synonymy for so long?

12:00, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Gordonstoun School (pictured) is a Scottish boarding school famed for educating three generations of the British Royal Family, including the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles?
... that actress Amy Brandon Thomas was the daughter of famous playwright Brandon Thomas?
... that Tearoom Trade, a study by sociologist Laud Humphreys of homosexual acts taking place in public toilets, caused a major debate on ethics in observation?
... that the Seven Network program Today Tonight described Aaron Saxton's revelations about the Church of Scientology as "stunning" and "shocking"?
... that Darlington F.C. lost in both the second and the third rounds of the FA Cup in the 1999–2000 season?
... that Hammam Yalbugha, a public bath in Aleppo, Syria, was built in 1491 by the Emir of Aleppo, Yalbugha al-Naseri?
... that as Emmerdale's Aaron Livesy, Danny Miller was involved in a gay storyline with his real-life flatmate Adam Thomas?
... that according to Conor Gearty, private and public nuisance in English law "have little in common except the accident of sharing the same name"?

06:00, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the pipits (species pictured) are a genus, Anthus, of songbirds that evolved in East Asia during the Miocene before spreading around the world?
... that the Australian Army's first regular infantry unit, the Darwin Mobile Force, was raised as a unit of the Royal Australian Artillery?
... that Linda Mvusi, an architect who shared in an award for her work on the Apartheid Museum, won a best actress prize at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival?
... that the Cello web browser, released in 1993, was the first web browser for the Microsoft Windows operating system?
... that Len Lawson created several popular Australian comic book characters, including the "Lone Avenger" and the "Hooded Rider"?
... that the unifying principle of equilibrium chemistry is that the free energy of a system at equilibrium is the minimum possible?
... that Dave Winfield was drafted in 1973 as a pitcher by the San Diego Padres, but was elected to the Hall of Fame as an outfielder?
... that interest in several primaries for the 1980 United States Senate election in Oregon was diminished partly due to the eruption of Mount St. Helens?

00:00, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

... that a hole was made in 1997 in the belly of the Mahamuni Buddha statue (pictured) at the Mahamuni Buddha Temple in Mandalay, Myanmar, aiming to steal embedded jewels thought to be inside?
... that German World War II night fighter pilot Herbert Lütje shot down a B-17 Flying Fortress during a daytime combat mission?
... that rock band Stoneground featured seven lead singers on their 1971 debut album?
... that Helga Testorf, model for more than 240 works by Andrew Wyeth, has been called "the last person to be made famous by a painting"?
... that Orchard Park has the first disc golf course in a Hillsboro, Oregon, park?
... that Air Chief Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty gained both a mention in dispatches and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his operational flying in Iraq in the early 1920s?
... that the location of the 8th century Battle of Hehil is unknown?
... that Garth Stein, author of the bestselling book The Art of Racing in the Rain, had himself been a race car driver until he crashed while racing in the rain?

3 April 2010

18:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

... that a 19th-century vicar of St Mary's Church (pictured) in Slaugham, West Sussex, resolved a dispute about pews by paying some boys to enter the church and to burn them?
... that Captain Richard Ashby, the brother of Confederate General Turner Ashby, was mortally wounded in battle and died in the ballroom at Washington Bottom Farm?
... that despite criticism, some high schools in the United States still hold separate segregated proms for black and white students?
... that steamboat and railway investor Jacob Kamm started out as a printer's devil and died after being hit by a bicyclist?
... that F. Sionil José's Viajero (The Wanderer) is a novel about a Filipino boy adopted by an African-American soldier?
... that Broadway performer Idina Menzel's casting in the Glee episode "Hello" followed a fan campaign based on her resemblance to series star Lea Michele?
... that the Cheddar Yeo forms the largest underground river system in Britain?
... that after being killed in Chechnya, lieutenant colonel Dmitry Medvedev was posthumously honoured by Vladimir Putin as a Hero of the Russian Federation?

12:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Bupaya Pagoda (pictured), in Bagan in Myanmar was named for its gourd-shaped dome?
... that the title character of the comedy-drama series Ugly Betty finally has her braces removed in the season four episode "Million Dollar Smile"?
... that the champagne producer Jacques Selosse uses a solera system for two of its wines, the same process used in sherry?
... that the English Parliament of 1388 was known as the Merciless Parliament for ordering the execution of many of the advisers and supporters of Richard II?
... that country music singer Darrell Clanton's single "I Forgot That I Don't Live Here Anymore" was boycotted by Mothers Against Drunk Driving?
... that the goal of the New Economic Model is to more than double per capita income in Malaysia by 2020?
... that the South African RG Outrider mine protected vehicle makes extensive use of commercial off-the-shelf parts to reduce crew training and logistics problems?
... that in the film Kommandør Treholt & ninjatroppen, real-life convicted spy Arne Treholt is presented as the leader of a band of ninjas who saved Norway during the Cold War?

06:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

... that after USAC Stock Car champion Norm Nelson (car pictured) won his only NASCAR race at Las Vegas Park Speedway's only NASCAR race, the land was used for the Las Vegas Hilton?
... that according to a 2007 Australian national survey covering cannabis use in Australia, one-third of the population aged 14 years or older have tried the drug at least once?
... that Increase Mather, the early American Puritan preacher, ordered a copy of The London Jilt, a pornographic prose tale about a prostitute?
... that an aqueduct of the abandoned Wiconisco Canal in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania is still used as a highway bridge?
... that Leah Poulton scored an ODI century in her third match for Australia women's cricket team?
... that Madonna licensed her entire music catalogue to the television series Glee, resulting in the tribute episode "The Power of Madonna"?
... that the novels Tree, The Pretenders, and Mass are parts of F. Sionil José’s series The Rosales Saga?
... that Arthur Schmidt told Red Army officers after the Battle of Stalingrad that "a German Field Marshal does not commit suicide with a pair of scissors"?

00:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

... that SMS Brandenburg (pictured), launched on 21 September 1891, was the first pre-dreadnought battleship built for the German Imperial Navy?
... that Kenny Chesney was scheduled to film a music video for his song "The Tin Man" at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?
... that Belmont Castle, an 18th century neo-Gothic mansion near Grays in the English county of Essex, was demolished in 1943 to make way for a chalk quarry?
... that the North Atlantic Current moderates the climate of Svalbard, giving it up to 20 °C (36 °F) higher winter temperatures than those at similar latitudes in Russia and Canada?
... that Richard Packer's name is written on parchment stored in a glass cylinder underneath the corner stone in the foundation of the church of St Michael's Church School?
... that over a million people were expected to visit Teotihuacán for the annual spring equinox celebrations in 2010?
... that Elvis Presley had watches by Mathey-Tissot customized to give their wearers privileged access to his concerts?
... that in Albanian mythology, when people go for a walk and step on a shtojzovalle they may get devoured by it?

2 April 2010

18:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

... that genus Inimicus includes highly venomous benthic stonefishes, such as Inimicus filamentosus (pictured), which use their pectoral fins as legs to walk on the seabed?
... that actor, director, and film critic Pål Bang-Hansen is the only Norwegian to have interviewed John Lennon?
... that one of the frescoes found at the royal palace in Mari, Syria, depicts in the center the "investiture of Zimrilim" by a warrior-goddess, most probably Ishtar?
... that the United States has 58 National Parks in 29 states and territories, the first of which was Yellowstone National Park, created in 1872?
... that Michele Amatore, who was a Sudanese slave, became a captain in the Bersaglieri regiment and was decorated for his work in Sicily?
... that a landmark court ruling has allowed Limerick pubs to sell alcohol today for the first time on Good Friday?
... that Dope Stars Inc.'s debut album was originally titled New Breed of Digital Fuckers before they changed the title to Neuromance a few months before release?
... that when Scotsman Alistair Urquhart was a Japanese prisoner of war, he survived the building of the infamous Death Railway, the sinking of a Japanese hell ship, and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki?

12:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the GCV Infantry Fighting Vehicle (pictured) will be a networked tactical fighting vehicle with non-lethal weapons and the ability to export electricity?
... that the author of the book on Scientology, The Road to Total Freedom, was investigated by an undercover agent for the Church of Scientology?
... that Major Matthew Connolly was an expert on molluscs and the father of writer and critic Cyril Connolly?
... that Hindu god Vishnu was cursed to take countless avatars because he committed the sin of woman-slaughter?
... that Lauren Burns won Australia's first Olympic gold medal in taekwondo?
... that binding selectivity is of major importance in biochemistry and in chemical separation processes?
... that Max van Egmond recorded the bass arias of Bach's St Matthew Passion with Claudio Abbado and the words of Jesus with Gustav Leonhardt?
... that the government of North Korea operates an overseas chain of restaurants from which staff occasionally attempt to escape?

06:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the church (pictured) in the Doly district of Karviná, Czech Republic, still holds Masses, despite leaning 6.8° due to extensive coal undermining?
... that State of War is the debut novel written in 1988 by award-winning Filipino author Ninotchka Rosca?
... that when Walter Lappert started an ice cream company in 1983 at age 61 he sold out his first batch of 17,000 liters in just two weeks?
... that the words of the 1974 song "Take Me to the River", written by Al Green, were described by musician David Byrne as combining "teenage lust with baptism – a potent blend"?
... that the Fox Island Electric Cooperative operates the largest community wind energy facility on the East Coast of the United States?
... that it is unknown what Rhynchactis anglerfish eat or how they feed, as they have no "fishing lure" and barely any teeth?
... that Major League Baseball pitcher Jocko Thompson served in the United States military during World War II, where his platoon captured a bridge that was named after him 60 years later?
... that the subject of Wheeler v Saunders Ltd was a pair of smelly pig houses?

00:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

... that researchers have identified the pictured life form which no longer lives on this planet?
... that The Queen was captured by the Germans in 1916?
... that a rain of blood in Germany foreshadowed the coming of the Black Death?
... that James Brown flew an F-22 Raptor and survived a fuel leak while traveling at almost the speed of sound?
... that despite dying in battle and being beheaded, Máel Brigte of Moray still managed to kill his opponent Sigurd the Mighty, a 10th-century Earl of Orkney, as he rode home afterwards?
... that the Duke of Edinburgh won a recorded 95% of the vote in a Greek head of state election, but was never appointed?
... that Martin Van Buren was over twenty feet wide?
... that residents of Castleford, England, were incensed when their council tried to eliminate Tickle Cock?
... that the citizens of Picoazá, Ecuador, elected foot powder as their mayor?

1 April 2010

18:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley, Yorkshire, boasts a wife-soothing cradle (pictured)?
... that Bertie Ahern speaks Bertiespeak?
... that humpbacked elves are rarely seen because their bodies are microscopic?
... that Lindbergh raced an airplane from Washington to New York in under three hours, without ever leaving the ground?
... that Robert Louis Stevenson took a pew from South Leith Parish Church?
... that Elvis is still alive and teaching soccer at Neil McNeil Catholic Secondary School?
... that the first Territorial Governor of Montana, Sidney Edgerton, fought as a Squirrel Hunter during the American Civil War?
... that T. rex survives underground in Kenya?
... that two Irish singers described as "tone deaf", and as "not very good" by British prime minister Gordon Brown, have been recently cited as more popular than The Beatles?

12:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

... that the materials used in the production of a Škoda Fabia car (pictured) in 2007 included margarine and orange sugar paste?
... that Tom Cruse was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantly charging hostile Indians?
... that the cod Yorkshire dialect, one on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle, in Monty Python's "Trouble at Mill" sketch actually means something?
... that Guinness Black Lager is a new black lager which is being test marketed in Malaysia by Diageo for sale in the west under its Guinness brand name?
... that the yellow morel was once a Phallus?
... that Leonid Malashkin was the true composer of Kodály's "Buttocks-Pressing Song"?
... that in October 1968, Dumbo was arrested in Las Palmas, Spain?
... that Wikipedia covers the whole shebang?
... that Perth, Western Australia, got rid of ugly men in 1948?

06:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Ruth Belville (pictured) and her parents had a business selling people Greenwich Mean Time?
... that the Prada Store in Marfa, Texas, is never open?
... that Professor Dirk Obbink is an expert on material from garbage heaps and charred remains?
... that the Ilkley Museum in Yorkshire, England, is a notable habitat for Brunus edwardii?
... that the American television show Glee was written with the aid of Screenwriting for Dummies?
... that Frank Hansford-Miller, founder of the English National Party, emigrated to Australia?
... that "Everything in Sussex is a She except a Tom Cat and she's a He"?
... that buttock mail was a form of punishment for fornication, an alternative to the stool of repentance?
... that William Shakespeare was nicknamed "The Merchant of Menace"?

00:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

... that Tamil Hindu parents dedicate their one-month-old children to the goddess Periyachi (pictured), who is depicted ripping a woman's womb?
... that the diamond mine in Pomona, German South-West Africa, was the richest of its time, generating over a million carats between 1912 and 1914?
... that Pope John Paul II traveled more than all his predecessors combined?
... that the world's northernmost grove of Redwood trees is located in the Chetco River watershed and includes specimens reaching over 300 feet (91 m) tall?
... that Duke Dunne, an Olympic pentathlete and Michigan football captain, later presided over the sale of the Chicago White Sox to Bill Veeck and the Kansas City Athletics to Charlie Finley?
... that Holy Rosary Catholic Church in St. Marys, Ohio, was designated a historic site after its destruction?
... that between 1836 and 1846, the Congregationalist missionary Edward Stallybrass, who had proselytized in Siberia, published translations of the Old and the New Testament into Mongolian?
... that the Hungarian Railway Museum exhibits an automobile that belonged to Prime Minister Jenő Fock but that was later converted to travel on rails?