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31 August 2010

18:00, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Ohio's Van Wert County Courthouse (pictured) is crowned by an award-winning statue of Justice?
... that the search for Cratendune continues though evidence that any one site is the lost village remains sparse?
... that Romgaz is the largest natural gas producer in Romania?
... that the sports club Skeid, with a former top-level football team, has also won the Norwegian league in bandy?
... that Deusdedit of Canterbury (d. 664), a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury was the first non-Italian Archbishop of Canterbury?
... that Qawmi primary education lasts six years, though it does not differentiate students by progressive grade levels?
... that when prisoner of conscience and philosopher Ukshin Hoti's sentence was complete, he was transferred to another prison instead of being released?
... that elderly Family Guy character Herbert's voice and design was inspired by a man that character creator Mike Henry met while working in a grocery store?
... that the music of In convertendo Dominus, a setting of Psalm 126 for mixed choir and organ by Jules Van Nuffel, has been compared to the style of Puccini and Vaughan Williams?

12:00, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

... that velvet bushes can be slender, shrubby, drooping or rusty (pictured)?
... that David Long of Computer Games Magazine described Superbike 2001's graphics as "almost photo-realistic"?
... that the 1988 St Jean Bosco massacre in Haiti saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide's church burned down and at least 13 people killed?
... that New Mexican bureaucrat Nicolas de Aguilar was exiled for ordering Christian natives to participate in traditional Kachina dances?
... that Walter Hass, who helped reestablish the sport at the University of Chicago, played college football under three different Hall of Fame head coaches?
... that Fehim Zavalani organized the Congress of Manastir, which decided the Albanian alphabet, in his own home?
... that Indian leader Syed Mahmud was released from prison after writing a letter of apology to the British Viceroy for participating in the Quit India movement?
... that The Washington Post described Rock Creek Park Golf Course's back nine holes in 1999 as so steep they seem "to have been designed by a mountain goat"?
... that American blogger Pamela Geller has strongly defended former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic and denied the existence of Serbian concentration camps?

06:00, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the long-nosed god maskettes (pictured) found throughout the American Midwest are believed to have been used in the ritual adoption of visiting tribal leaders?
... that the Royal Navy first trained pilots in 1911, in borrowed Short S.27 aircraft?
... that French general Jean Touzet du Vigier served four governments in World War II – the Third Republic, the Vichy regime, Free France, and the Fourth Republic?
... that Loving Natalee, Beth Holloway's bestselling book about her missing daughter, was made into the Lifetime movie Natalee Holloway that suspect Joran van der Sloot himself reportedly watched?
... that Benjamin D'Israeli, grandfather of the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, traded as a merchant of straw hats and other Italian commodities?
... that on February 9, 1913, a procession of fireballs seen across Canada to Brazil likely represented the break-up of a short-lived natural satellite of the Earth?
... that soon after the creation of the Łomża Ghetto, Nazi Germans killed all the Jews suspected of collaborating with the previous occupying power, the Soviet Union?
... that Olav V of Norway competed in skiing for the club SFK Lyn?
... that Iwan Tirta, who held a law degree, designed the batik shirts worn by world leaders at the 1994 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit?

00:00, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the 20th Premier of Quebec, Daniel Johnson Sr., who was instrumental in the construction of the Daniel-Johnson Dam (pictured), died the morning of its scheduled inauguration in 1968?
... that after Pete Allen retired from professional baseball he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and later became a physician?
... that the gold and enamel Dunstable Swan Jewel dates from about 1400 when such livery badges were highly controversial and could be dangerous for the wearer?
... that Bernard de Montfaucon was the first to use the term "palaeography"?
... that aspens and whitebark pines are keystones to the ecology of the Rocky Mountains?
... that Grady Wallace of South Carolina beat out Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain to secure the 1956–57 NCAA men's basketball scoring title?
... that when African American golfers attempted to play at Washington, D.C.'s racially segregated East Potomac Park Golf Course in 1941, angry whites threw stones and threatened them with violence?
... that the first permanent Baptist church in the history of Baptists in Alabama was originally named West Fork of Flint River Church?
... that the skeleton of a pregnant woman and her unborn child dating back to 3000 BC was found in the Kamenica Tumulus in Albania?

30 August 2010

18:00, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Minuscule 113 (pictured) manuscript of the four Gospels contains 24 pictures?
... that "Entrégate" involved a winemaker and a man with a bass guitar?
... that Neil Gardner holds the sixth-fastest recorded time for a Jamaican 400 m hurdler?
... that Dimitry Laptev worked for Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union under different names?
... that the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy provides lodging for the 72 astronomers working at the Mauna Kea Observatory?
... that to secure sponsorship for his TV show, New York-based host Jake Sasseville talked his way onto a local broadcast 700 miles away, so he would be seen by executives at his target's headquarters?
... that a single spoon-shaped lower jaw belonging to the goniopholidid crocodyliform Sunosuchus is the most well preserved fossil found from the Phu Kradung Formation in Thailand?
... that Prince Ludwig of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg mysteriously disappeared from London society to the Philippines, where he was killed during a battle of the Philippine–American War?
... that robbers stole $80,000 worth of jewelry from Lida, Princess Victor of Thurn and Taxis, but neglected to take a necklace valued at $400,000?

12:00, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Undershaw (pictured), which is currently proposed for redevelopment, was built as the family residence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes?
... that James Conder, who collected coins and issued token coins, never knew that there was a hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins buried beneath the doorstep of his house in Ipswich?
... that the 1943 Filipstad explosion in Oslo shattered the glass in over 1600 buildings?
... that Amin al-Hindi is believed to have been the last living person involved in the planning of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics?
... that, as of 2008, over 95% of urban Burkina Faso has access to improved water sources?
... that Coretta Scott King called African-American civil rights activist Randolph Blackwell an "unsung giant" of nonviolent social change?
... that the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was founded in 1810 in a log cabin in what is now Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee?
... that Jerry Nelson is the principal designer and project scientist for the Keck telescopes?
... that Watain received gold for Reaping Death?

06:00, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

A photo of baseball player Lou Gehrig in the pinstriped uniform of the New York Yankees in the foreground, with fans in the stands in the background

... that Lou Gehrig (pictured) may not have died of Lou Gehrig's disease after all, but may instead have succumbed to chronic traumatic encephalopathy?
... that Elmwood Park in downtown Danbury, Connecticut, was once used for growing hay?
... that Andrew Mack, prior to becoming Mayor of Detroit in 1834, had sailed around the world three times?
... that the number of coho salmon spawning on the Ten Mile River in Mendocino County, California, has dropped precipitously since the 1960s?
... that Red Rock Job Corps Center is within Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania, uses the facilities of the former Benton Air Force Station, and is still home to an FAA radar?
... that Qeparo is home to one of the nine churches in Albania dedicated to Saint Demetrius?
... that "The Conquered Banner" was written by Father Ryan, the "poet-priest of the Confederacy"?
... that celebrated French courtesan Rosalie Duthé has been called history's first dumb blonde?
... that Latavious Williams rejected a US$100,000 contract offer from a Chinese team but opted to play minor league basketball in the United States for only US$19,000?

00:00, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Sind Sparrow (pictured) was not recorded for 36 years after it was first described, despite searches by noted ornithologists?
... that empresario James Power was notified of the Mexican land grant offerings by the "Father of Texas" Stephen F. Austin?
... that John Lawson Walton's defence in an 1896 libel case led to the largest damages awarded by a British jury to that date?
... that although the team was founded in 1896, the first Connecticut Huskies bowl game did not come until the end of the 2004 college football season?
... that Sonny Bono produced rockabilly singer Roddy Jackson's "Hiccups"?
... that to avoid sending her to the scrapyards, the Imperial Japanese Navy converted the battleship Hiei into a training ship?
... that cameline, a middle ages "cheap" fabric of camel's hair, is considered by some authorities to be what we call today cashmere?
... that comedian Bob Hope, U.S. President Gerald Ford and, according to the Washington Post, every great African American professional golfer except Tiger Woods have played at Langston Golf Course?
... that the ground near Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis was frozen to protect the church during 1960s freeway construction?

29 August 2010

18:00, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Gukumatz (depiction pictured), one of the Feathered Serpent deities of the K'iche' Maya of Guatemala, was said to carry the sun across the sky in his jaws?
... that the original Small Diameter Bomb was developed by Boeing but the competition was restarted as a result of a corruption scandal and the Raytheon version of the GBU-53/B was selected instead?
... that Ignace Michiels of St. Salvator's Cathedral has been the organist for the German-Flemish Reger-Chor in works such as Reger's Requiem?
... that Bolinas Ridge which runs parallel to California's San Andreas Fault has been the setting for numerous automobile television commercials?
... that Olga Maturana was elected the first Mayoress of Pichilemu, Chile, in 1951?
... that the miniseries Nurse Jeffrey, a spinoff of House MD was originally released exclusively for Apple devices?
... that in 1725 Bach composed a cantata text written by Salomon Franck in Weimar, Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet, BWV 164, for the 13th Sunday after Trinity?
... that cricketer Malcolm Jardine, the father of Douglas, was probably one of the first batsmen to play the leg glance?
... that the Caroline test of self-defence is based on a burning ship going over Niagara Falls?

12:00, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Gileppe Dam (pictured) was the first dam built in modern Belgium?
... that the Kermadec Red-crowned Parakeet is the first documented example of a parrot recolonising an island after the removal of invasive predators?
... that energy executive William G. Higgs is both a Distinguished Eagle Scout and a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Military Academy?
... that Sandur was described as "an autonomous Jewish republic" in 1934?
... that during the period of normalization in Czechoslovakia, writer Ludvík Kundera was banned from being published?
... that publisher Moses Annenberg bought Ranch A in 1927 with US$27,000 cash that he had in his pocket?
... that Harvey B. Scribner oversaw the 1965 busing plan that made Teaneck, New Jersey, the first district in the US with a white majority to implement a voluntary school integration program?
... that the Western Union Defence Organization was a precursor to NATO, with its headquarters, personnel, and plans providing the structure for NATO's military command?
... that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah calls the Hezbollah theme park a "tourist jihadi center"?

06:00, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Glacier Bay (pictured) in Alaska, US, known in the 18th century as the Grand Pacific Glacier, was a single glacier that has now retreated by 65 miles to the head of the bay at Tarr Inlet?
... that St. Mary's of Aransas in Refugio County, Texas, was home to philanthropist Clara Driscoll who is known for her efforts in restoring the Alamo Mission in San Antonio?
... that Swedish death metal band Nirvana 2002 had to add the "2002" to its name after seeing an advertisement for Nirvana's 1988 debut single, "Love Buzz/Big Cheese"?
... that half of the population of Colonia Buenos Aires in Mexico City makes a living from selling used auto parts?
... that Thomas C. Molesworth designed furniture for the houses of the Rockefeller family and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
... that the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, the orchestra of the city of Dortmund, Germany, for opera and concert, founded in 1887, recorded its first CD in 2010?
... that the textual Family 1739 codex represents the Caesarean text-type in the Pauline epistles and Catholic epistles?
... that quarterback Steven Threet began his college football career at Georgia Tech, played for Michigan in 2008 and is now a member of the 2010 Arizona State team?
... that in 1663, Roger Wilbraham organised the replacement of Nantwich Bridge in Cheshire, and the new bridge was completed in time for his son to be the first corpse carried across it?

00:00, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

... that March 1862 purchases of Greek bonds in London were the result of a report that Prince Wilhelm of Baden (pictured) was to be formally recommended as a candidate for the Greek throne?
... that with over 1.2 million burials, the Bródno Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Warsaw, Poland?
... that Swedish-Norwegian television host Kristin Kaspersen is the daughter of Swedish singer Lill-Babs and Norwegian football goalkeeper Kjell Kaspersen?
... that the village of Edgehead in Midlothian, Scotland, is located on the site of the Roman road Dere Street?
... that Yolande Harmer, who was one of the most prominent Israeli spies in Egypt in 1948 is thought of as "Israel's Mata Hari"?
... that the Pyréolophore was probably the world's first internal combustion engine and was fuelled by burning powdered moss, coal granules and resin?
... that the 2009 film An Education received nine British Academy Film Award nominations, but only came away with one award?
... that Niels Bohr inspired Indian physicist Alladi Ramakrishnan to create the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai?
... that over two days Sun Yingjie won both the Beijing Marathon and a silver medal in athletics at the 10th Chinese National Games, but lost her medal because a rival spiked her drink with steroids?

28 August 2010

18:00, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Seaside Institute (pictured) in Bridgeport, Connecticut, offered amenities for Warner Brothers Corset Company's female employees and was referred to as "an island of peace in the storm"?
... that Samuel Pepys drank purl in a bawdy house behind the House of Lords?
... that when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, Polish-Jewish poet Rajzel Żychlińsky fled by taking a taxicab?
... that the Centro Urbano Benito Juárez apartment complex in Mexico City was mostly destroyed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake?
... that in 1874, Nova Scotian MP and marine architect William D. Lawrence built the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada, the William D. Lawrence?
... that the earliest accurate description of an action potential appears in the first issue of the physiology journal Pflügers Archiv?
... that Operation Marlborough was a mission to kill Iraqi terrorist insurgents wearing suicide vests who were intending to target cafes and restaurants in Baghdad?
... that the very first athletics track in Zagreb was built around the football pitch at Stadion Koturaška in 1907?
... that Maharishi Heaven on Earth Development Corp. seeks to "reconstruct the entire world" for $100 trillion?

12:00, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

A headshot of an African Canadian man in his twenties wearing a blue-collared gray shirt with a black background behind

... that Drake (pictured) had seven nominations at the 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards, the most of any artist?
... that development proposals for Washington, D.C.'s Kingman Island have included an airport, a landfill, a public aquarium, stadium parking lots, and a theme park?
... that medrogestone is a synthetic steroid with activity similar to the natural hormone progesterone, but unlike progesterone, is not transported by transcortin in the blood?
... that the 2009 Grammy-winning song "Rich Woman" was first released in 1955 by Li'l Millet and was written by himself and Dorothy LaBostrie?
... that the Opernhaus Dortmund was opened in 1966 with Der Rosenkavalier, performed in Dortmund first in 1911?
... that the American Petroleum Institute awarded George R. Brown a medal for the design of the first oil platform to be built out of sight of land?
... that the snail species Oxygyrus keraudrenii shows an evolutionary reduction of the gastropod shell for living in open sea?
... that the 8th-century Sæbø sword has a runic inscription incorporating a swastika that has been interpreted as representing Thor?
... that George Malley, whose St. Ignatius High School football team was once compared to Notre Dame under Knute Rockne, resigned from the University of San Francisco with a losing record?

06:00, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Iron Age Witham Shield was originally decorated with the leather silhouette of a wild boar (pictured)?
... that Tadeusz Adamowski, a pioneer of ice hockey in interwar Poland, played the sport at Harvard, coached the Polish national team, and was imprisoned in a German Oflag during World War II?
... that St Briavels Castle, once the royal hunting lodge of King John of England, later became a notorious debtors' prison?
... that Wendy Barlow was inducted into the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame, and that her father Bob Barlow played in 77 NHL games with the Minnesota North Stars?
... that the cruiser SMS Bremse was scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919, but was salvaged a decade later by Ernest Cox?
... that radio host Siv Stubsveen starred in A Story About Love, a film on the Internet Movie Database's bottom 100 list?
... that the KunstHausWien, a private museum in Vienna, occupies the former building of the Thonet furniture factory, creator of the iconic bistro chair?
... that the Memphite Formula, a standardized greeting on ancient Egyptian letters, was used so frequently that papyrus intended for use as letters would be prepared with the greeting already written?
... that bandleader Joe Lutcher abandoned his secular music career because of his religious beliefs, and influenced rock and roll star Little Richard to do the same?

00:00, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Acacia leprosa 'Scarlet Blaze' (pictured), a rare red-flowering form of Acacia, was discovered by bushwalkers in Australia in 1995?
... that James Sumner received the Medal of Honor for his actions in a skirmish with Cochise during the Apache Wars?
... that Bump was the billionth application downloaded on Apple's App Store?
... that Kirkleatham's Owl and Endangered Species Centre is home to one of Britain's largest collections of owls?
... that on the American syndicated game show Jeopardy!, five-time champion Chuck Forrest held the regular winnings record from early Season 2 to early Season 6?
... that the gold medal winner of boys' triathlon at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, Aaron Barclay, had never previously raced outside Oceania?
... that the office building that houses the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum was built by Freemasons and once held an auditorium said to be the second largest in the American West?
... that Bruce Springsteen was inspired to write his songs "Youngstown" and "The New Timer" after reading stories of dying steel towns in Dale Maharidge's book Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass?
... that Chilean Eloísa Díaz was the first female doctor in South America?
... that Jamila M'Barek demanded to be styled "Lady Shaftesbury" while being tried for the murder of Lord Shaftesbury?

27 August 2010

18:00, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Dashaveyor (pictured) was originally designed as a high-tech conveyor belt, but was later turned into an automated guideway transit system used at the Toronto Zoo?
... that baritone Günter Reich recorded the part of Moses in Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron with both Michael Gielen and Pierre Boulez?
... that Angelo Gaja, owner of Piemonte wine producer Gaja, is often described as "the man who dragged Piedmont into the modern world"?
... that Operation Banquet was a contingency plan to use every available aircraft in a last-ditch effort to repel a German invasion of Britain in 1940 or 1941?
... that R.C. Bannon, co-writer of Barbara Mandrell's "One of a Kind Pair of Fools," was formerly married to Barbara's sister, Louise?
... that the jellyfish Haliclystus auricula acquired the common name "Kaleidoscope" from a naming contest held in Britain?
... that the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation oversees 900 acres (360 ha) of parks and 68 recreational facilities—including 25 outdoor swimming pools, 10 indoor pools, and 8 spray parks?
... that the current President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was one of four Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples politicians elected to parliament in 1997?
... that Aarti Sequeira, the sixth season winner of The Next Food Network Star, once worked as a producer for the cable news company CNN?
... that the Church of La Soledad in Mexico City has been the site of an annual commemoration for sex workers?

12:00, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the George Hotel (pictured) in Crawley, Sussex, has hosted Lord Nelson, a stranded Queen Victoria, illegal bare-knuckle prizefighters, horse auctions, the Acid Bath Murderer and public executions?
... that radio station WGGH owner Jimmy "Fish" Fishback provided the imaging voice of the fictional "V-Rock" radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories?
... that the Bombardment of Mogador was accomplished in 1844 by a French Navy fleet against the Moroccan city of Essaouira?
... that soprano June Card appeared as Freia and Gutrune in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Michael Gielen and staged by Ruth Berghaus at the Frankfurt Opera?
... that the 6 mm sea snail Atlanta lesueurii achieves vertical migration of several tens of meters each day?
... that the music video to a song based on news about an attempted rape was viewed over 10 million times on YouTube in less than three weeks?
... that imprisoned former congressman Randy Cunningham spends his days at the U.S. Penitentiary at Tucson, Arizona, teaching fellow inmates to get their GED?
... that the medieval English archdeacon Osbert de Bayeux was accused of murdering an Archbishop of York by poisoning the communion chalice?
... that Abbot's Palace, a roccoco palace in Oliwa funded by the last Cistercian abbot of the Oliwa monastery, Jacek Rybiński, was burned down by German troops during World War II?
... that one of the many interpretations of the anecdotal meeting of Diogenes and Alexander was that of Samuel Johnson, who related it to wasting other people's time?

06:00, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Captain James Young's capture of a Spanish frigate in 1799 (illustrated) brought each of his seamen the equivalent of ten years' pay in prize money?
... that the 1991 documentary The Search for Robert Johnson shows the first interview with Claude Johnson, who in 1998 was legally declared Delta blues legend Robert Johnson's son?
... that, called out of retirement to work on the murder case of JonBenét Ramsey, detective Lou Smit resigned 18 months later after concluding that "the Ramseys did not do it"?
... that St George's Church, Little Thetford, is a 14th century Anglican church in the village of Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire, England, which was struck by lightning in 1886 and required extensive rebuilding?
... that as the Victoria Barge Canal was dredged near Guadalupe Bay, ancient artifacts and middens were discovered at what is now the Guadalupe Bay Archeological Site?
... that the first gold medal of the Youth Olympic Games was awarded to Yuka Sato of Japan in the 2010 girls' triathlon?
... that The Feildian, a monthly magazine of Bishop Feild College, was the first publication of its kind in Newfoundland?
... that Udaya Wickramasinghe, the Sri Lankan cricket umpire is remembered for giving three lbw decisions which enabled Pakistani bowler Aaqib Javed to achieve a hat-trick and world record?
... that using cocaine while pregnant is thought to be less harmful to the baby than alcohol?

00:00, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Australian pea flower Mirbelia rubiifolia (pictured) was cultivated in Hammersmith in England as early as 1792?
... that since 2005, after a gap of a century, stone traps are allowed again for bird trapping in selected regions of France?
... that Chief Engraver of the United States Mint Frank Gasparro called the Susan B. Anthony dollar his "top achievement", though the coin was largely rejected by the American public?
... that the Comber Historical Society Museum on Ontario Highway 77 was established in the former Maple Grove schoolhouse, built in 1894?
... that it seems Ugandan President Milton Obote did not consult his cabinet when issuing the 1970 Nakivubo Pronouncement and beginning the process of nationalising 80 of Uganda's biggest firms?
... that the sports club Bygdø Monolitten IL is partly named after the sculpture The Monolith in Vigeland Sculpture Park?
... that the Nasiriyah Drainage Pump Station in Iraq helps siphon water under the Euphrates River and is the largest of its type in the Middle East?
... that in 1884, Norwegian Supreme Court accessor Frederik Platou cast a minority vote against the impeachment of Christian Selmer, a former government colleague?
... that Bruce Springsteen has described his hit song "Waitin' on a Sunny Day" as the type of song he tends to want to throw out?

26 August 2010

18:00, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Queen's Aid House (pictured) has a plaque commemorating Elizabeth I's aid in rebuilding Nantwich after a fire, the only time she is known to have contributed to such a cause?
... that the Andrei Pervozvanny class battleships were the only Old World battleships fitted with lattice masts?
... that Simon of Southwell was treasurer of the cathedral chapter of Lichfield Cathedral in 1203?
... that Murray Wier was the first officially recognized NCAA men's basketball season scoring leader in 1947–48?
... that soul singer Veda Brown, who recorded for the Stax label in the 1970s, later became a cosmetologist, choir leader, and black history teacher in the Missouri Bootheel?
... that Helen Gray Cone was the first woman to hold the title of professor at the Normal College of the City of New York (later renamed Hunter College)?
... that 70% of the population of Tamil Nadu is engaged in the Indian state's agricultural sector and related industries for their livelihood?
... that the government of Indonesia did not provide funding for its national team until one month prior to the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics?
... that studies have shown that media coverage of climate change significantly understates the strength of the scientific consensus on climate change?

12:00, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

... that MV Geysir (pictured) was the center of a series of international incidents that involved Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Ken Starr, Elizabeth Dole, George Schultz and Ronald Reagan?
... that Robert Brown Job was the oldest elected member of the Newfoundland National Convention?
... that the City of Besançon got a regional Parlement from Louis XIV partly as compensation for losing its democratic government and claims to independence?
... that upon Prince Gabriel of Thurn and Taxis' death at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, he was succeeded by his uncle as heir presumptive to the Headship of the House of Thurn and Taxis?
... that after forming their coalition government the first joint interview with David Cameron and Nick Clegg was a televised debate on the economy?
... that after watching "the greatest single play" in team history, Bob Ufer exclaimed "Johnny Wangler to Anthony Carter will be heard until another 100 years of Michigan football is played!"?
... that the dramatist George Bernard Shaw campaigned for the Labour Party candidate at the St Albans by-election in 1919?
... that the Japanese legend of the Straw Millionaire depicts a peasant who becomes rich through a series of trades starting with a piece of straw?
... that although Rangers won the 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, they were banned from competing the following year because their fans started a riot?

06:00, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the US$1 million restoration of Old St. Andrew's Church (pictured), which many considered beyond repair, was the first major project in the 67 years of the Jacksonville Historical Society?
... that Jobs' vessel, the Blue Peter, was the first floating, frozen-fish processing outfit in Newfoundland?
... that Nicholas Treadwell started his art gallery in 1963 in a double-decker bus and two furniture vans?
... that software archaeology uses software visualization and other techniques to understand poorly documented legacy software?
... that Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union was founded using only US$107 in 1950 and has since grown to over 500 million dollars in assets?
... that the pure blood theory in Korea says that all Koreans descend from a single, purest and cleanest source of ancestors?
... that Lady Gaga's EP The Cherrytree Sessions, initially only available through Borders stores and digital outlets, was reissued in August 2010?
... that the Scottish Review of Books is a quarterly literary magazine published in Scotland that aims to promote discussion of Scottish literature and to challenge people's perceptions?
... that in the Singer World Series, Aravinda de Silva scored 334 runs and did not lose his wicket in all four innings he played?

00:00, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Putnam County Courthouse (pictured) in Ottawa, Ohio, built in 1912, was intended to be a landmark in 2000?
... that versions of Roberto Cantoral's songs have been recorded over 1,000 times by other artists, including Plácido Domingo, José José, Luis Miguel, Joan Baez and Linda Ronstadt?
... that after assassinating Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth fled into Maryland's Zekiah Swamp?
... that shot putter Ivan Ivančić is the oldest ever finalist at the World Championships in Athletics?
... that the Mr. Ekenhead in the second canto of Don Juan was a real-life lieutenant of the HMS Salsette marines who swam the Hellespont with Lord Byron on 3 May 1810?
... that American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Johnny B. Moore was once described as "one of Chicago's interesting secrets"?
... that the 11th-century church of San Giovanni del Toro in Ravello, Italy, has a pulpit with Arabic script and motifs which influenced the Dutch artist M.C. Escher?
... that despite their roles in her overthrow and counter-revolution, lawyers William O. Smith and William A. Kinney were later hired by Queen Liliʻuokalani?
... that at a command performance of Box and Cox (1847) at Windsor Castle, Queen Victoria and her court "laughed heartily" at the hit London farce?

25 August 2010

18:00, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

A shiny coin with a shield, the date 1873, and the legend "In God We Trust"

... that James B. Longacre's design for the Shield nickel (pictured) symbolizes the strength of the US federal government through the unity of the states?
... that the British politician Frederick William Verney was a former Church of England clergyman who had been made a Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?
... that the distinct structures of different cellular organelles may be the effects of the differing mechanics of the many proteins that create them during organelle biogenesis?
... that although Typhoon Sudal was the strongest storm to hit the island of Yap in 50 years, damaging or destroying 90% of property, there were no deaths?
... that the collapse of the Parrot Corporation, a manufacturer of floppy diskettes, caused a British political controversy?
... that the FC Barcelona Museum attracts 1.2 million yearly visitors, making it the second most visited museum in Barcelona, only surpassed by the Museu Picasso?
... that Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet, British ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, commissioned his own friend Luigi Mayer to draw pictures of places in the Ottoman Empire for his collection?
... that the political documentary Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? won the Audience Award at the 2006 Silverdocs Documentary Festival?
... that Ludwig von Wurmb, a general from Hesse-Kassel during the Napoleonic Wars, was known as the "bitter Wurmb" to distinguish him from his siblings?

12:00, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1896, Edward Ford built the 32-room George P. MacNichol House for his daughter, and the next year built the 27-room Ford-Bacon House (pictured) across the street for himself?
... that Zydeco musician Roy Carrier started out playing la la on a frottoir?
... that at the St Albans by-election in 1943, John Grimston was elected without a vote after his opponent William Douglas-Home missed the deadline for nominations?
... that while serving as the chief of staff of the Hawaiian Department of the US Army, Philip Hayes warned about the possibility of a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan?
... that 95% of adults have been infected by human herpesvirus 7, a virus that can cause influenza-like illness and seizures but normally causes no symptoms?
... that Ivar Eskeland was accomplished as a philologist, publisher, translator, biographer, literary critic, newspaper editor, theatre worker, radio personality and organizational leader?
... that the lintel over the doorway of Holy Trinity Church, Coverham, North Yorkshire, consists of a re-used Anglo-Saxon cross shaft?
... that the United States Supreme Court ruled that an Indian could not be tried for killing another Indian in Ex parte Crow Dog, resulting in the passage of the Major Crimes Act?

06:00, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Antoni Gaudí-inspired "Crazy House" (pictured) in Da Lat, Vietnam, has been variously compared to the works of Salvador Dali and Walt Disney?
... that Sir Richard Glass, who was knighted for his part in creating the first transatlantic telegraph cable, lasted only a few months as an MP?
... that The Titan's Goblet, an 1833 landscape painting by Thomas Cole, "defies full explanation" according to the museum that owns it?
... that the first stone building in Latvia was a church and a fortress of Ikšķile built by missionary Saint Meinhard in 1185–1186?
... that the Freemasons Tavern in Hove, with its elaborate mosaic exterior decorated with Masonic symbols, is "reminiscent of the Viennese Secession"?
... that wool-stapler George Goodman was a four-time mayor of Leeds?
... that astronomers believe that the Great Comet of 1264 and the Great Comet of 1556 were the same comet?
... that the New Ulyanovsk Bridge, one of Europe's longest bridges, took more than 23 years to complete due to economic difficulties following the collapse of the Soviet Union?
... that a New Jersey State Senator unsuccessfully attempted to block Marianne Espinosa's renomination to family court, citing complaints that she "giggles and throws pencils on the desk during testimony"?

00:00, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

A yellow-crested bird sits among foilage.

... that the court decision in Palila v. Hawaii saved the Palila (pictured), a critically endangered honeycreeper, from possible extinction?
... that when Lieutenant Nevelskoy of the 14-gun Opyt surrendered to Captain Bathurst of the 42-gun frigate HMS Salsette, Bathurst returned Nevelskoy's sword because of the heroic fight he had put up?
... that in 1972, the Uganda Development Corporation's portfolio was swelled with the addition of 90 nationalised British holdings?
... that professional baseball player Ollie Carnegie is the International League's career home run and RBI leader?
... that BioShock Infinite, Irrational Games' next title in its video game series, is set during 1912 in a giant airborne city constructed at the height of American exceptionalism?
... that while being stipendiary magistrate in Sarpsborg, Oluf Falck-Ytter edited the newspaper Glommen anonymously?
... that Jobar, a suburb of Damascus, is home to the 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue?
... that British Conservative Party politician William Carlile owned Gayhurst House in Buckinghamshire, the former home of one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot?
... that because Prince George produced many of his plays under pseudonyms, most of his audiences were unaware a Prussian prince was behind them?

24 August 2010

18:00, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Medina, New York, armory (pictured) was the first one designed by new state architect George Heins?
... that the only life-tariff prisoner in the UK protesting his innocence is Jeremy Bamber?
... that Terry Byrne was the only person to accompany David Beckham to the changing room after his red card in the 1998 World Cup, and later became his personal manager?
... that Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.2 was the first type of aircraft operated by the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service that could carry bombs?
... that religious master Longchen Rabjam had foreseen Tang Rimochen Lhakhang in Bhutan in a vision?
... that Berman's Bakery, Israel's second-largest, got its start by peddling black bread and honey cakes to Christian pilgrims on their way to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
... that the eponymous first album by the psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft includes the song "The White Ship", directly inspired by a short story by the writer from whom the group took their name?
... that Ohio's Paulding County Courthouse was patterned after Michigan's Lenawee County Courthouse?
... that Kickapoo Joy Juice was a fictional alcoholic beverage in a comic strip before it was produced in real life as a soft drink?

12:00, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

... that a Vermont window (pictured) is said to let coffins through, but keep witches out?
... that before becoming a professional mixed martial artist, Eduard Folayang was a high school teacher?
... that Christopher Nugent was the third United States Marine to receive the Medal of Honor?
... that American soul blues singer Kip Anderson used "A Knife and a Fork" as a warning concerning his girlfriend's food consumption?
... that British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) John Gordon Drummond Campbell had been an educational adviser to King Chulalongkorn of Siam?
... that Michael Taylor led Michigan to consecutive Big Ten football championships and became the school's all-time leader in passing efficiency?
... that Up was the second animated film to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture, after Beauty and the Beast?
... that one of the textbooks written by Ludvig Stoud Platou was reissued 15 times, including 7 times by his son Carl Nicolai?
... that Dr. Nicholas Lang of the University of Arkansas advised against ever consuming a hamdog at any point in one's lifetime?

06:00, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Van Wert Bandstand (pictured) is the only extant historic bandstand in western Ohio?
... that to show his opposition to Wilhelm II, Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz forbade any demonstrations of mourning for the deaths of emperors Wilhelm I and Frederick III?
... that Montreal Alouettes kick returner Tim Maypray returned a missed field goal for a touchdown twice in 2010—both against the Saskatchewan Roughriders?
... that the first New Zealanders were Eastern Polynesians, who are thought to have arrived in New Zealand around 750 years ago?
... that the port of Aransas City lost its customhouse after Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar relocated it to the self-named town of Lamar?
... that British Labour Party politician William Jackson was injured in the Battle of the Somme?
... that Smaalenenes Amtstidende was the first newspaper in Østfold county, Norway?
... that Angel Bakeries is the sole supplier of hamburger buns for McDonald's restaurants in Israel?
... that a seagull dropping a lit cigarette it had apparently mistaken for food may have caused a fire that wrecked a £750,000 penthouse at Brighton's Van Alen Building?

00:00, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

... that although the Montmartre funicular (pictured) is considered part of the Paris Métro, it requires a separate ticket?
... that the lithium salt of the hexafluorophosphate anion is a common electrolyte in lithium-ion batteries?
... that the largest organized collection of Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts is housed in Saint Petersburg?
... that American stock car racer Nelson Stacy lost one of the closest season points battle in ARCA history before winning the next three championships?
... that the font dating from about 1300 in St John's Church, Throapham, South Yorkshire, depicts human faces from the three continents that were known at the time of its carving?
... that Danish orienteer Ida Bobach won three gold medals at the 2010 Junior World Orienteering Championships, winning the sprint, the long course and the relay?
... that bacteria expressing the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase are resistant to all standard intravenous antibiotics for treatment of severe infections?
... that the Slav Epic cycle of paintings by Alfons Mucha consists of 20 canvases, up to six metres tall and eight metres wide?
... that a 1999 internet hoax led people to believe that a wealthy family in the 16th century would share bacon with their guests so they could sit around and "chew the fat"?
... that during the Battle of Ratsua, Frank Partridge became the youngest Australian soldier to earn the Victoria Cross?
... that Tadahiro Matsushita is one of only four People's New Party members in the House of Representatives of Japan?

23 August 2010

18:00, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Somerset's Sophie Le Marchand (pictured) has stumped three batsmen in an innings twice in Twenty20 cricket?
... that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers originally proposed a large reservoir by damming the Anacostia River at Massachusetts Avenue SE, but built the much smaller Kingman Lake in 1920 instead?
... that Australian Edward Both invented the Both Respirator, an iron lung made from plywood, to fight a polio epidemic in 1937?
... that "Tuesday's Child", an episode of the BBC medical drama Holby City, was filmed entirely on location in Ghana?
... that Eric Berry played the part of Charles in Pippin for six years?
... that although the epicenter of the 1887 Sonora earthquake was in Mexico, it was the only historical earthquake to cause considerable damage in Arizona?
... that Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club broke their transfer record, paying £5,000 to sign Johnny McNichol, who at the time had not played a single game in the Football League?
... that the Austro-Hungarian coastal defense ship SMS Wien was the only ship from the Monarch-class to be sunk during World War I?
... that songwriter and producer Popcorn Wylie allowed his children to play frisbee with old singles he had worked on, before he became aware of their value to collectors of Northern soul records?
... that Dennis Brown broke the Big Ten single game total offense record in his first start and set the Michigan football record for career passing yards?
... that the Palazzo Chupi is named after a lollipop?

12:00, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Servoss House (pictured), on the Erie Canal outside Medina, New York, uses an unusual structural system consisting of stacked wooden planks?
... that the Mana by-election, 2010 was caused by the resignation of Winnie Laban, who has been appointed as the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington?
... that Gaza's "swish, stylish" Al Deira Hotel is built of mudbricks?
... that the top three finishers in 1962 MVP award voting – Maury Wills, Willie Mays, and Tommy Davis – all played in the 1962 National League tie-breaker series?
... that the Palacio de la Autonomía in Mexico City is where the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México gained autonomy from direct government control?
... that the Star Carr house in North Yorkshire, England, was built by Stone Age hunters 10,500 years ago and is the oldest dwelling ever found in Britain?
... that Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine, called Dr. Robert M. Chanock his "star scientific son"?
... that, decades before he became Mayor of Portland, Maine, William MacVane practiced military medicine and received a Bronze Star for performing surgery "under adverse conditions" during World War II?
... that as a child French executive pastry chef Florian Bellanger was allergic to chocolate, but now claims it is his favorite ingredient?
... that the English lace manufacturer and Liberal Party politician Sir Arthur Black donated two homes in Nottingham to the National Children's Home?
... that during the 1980s more than half of the personnel of the Soviet embassy in Zambia were KGB and GRU agents?

06:00, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Admonitions Scroll (detail pictured), a treasured possession of the Qianlong Emperor, was bought by the British Museum for only £25 in 1903?
... that after being fined due to an incident, professional baseball player Tal Abernathy promised his teammates that if he was ever fined again he would buy them all a steak?
... that the Settha Palace Hotel in Vientiane is a boutique hotel, housed in a renovated French Indonese colonial building?
... that British Labour Party Member of Parliament J. H. Hall worked in the trade union movement for over 40 years?
... that prior to 1964, some cutters of the U.S. Coast Guard such as USCGC Point Marone and USCGC Point Young were commissioned without a name because they were too short?
... that Waldemar Stoud Platou founded Hansa Brewery?
... that in Colombia there were 2,832 murders of trade unionists between 1 January 1986 and 30 April 2010, making it the most dangerous country in the world in which to be a trade unionist?
... that pastry chef Candace Nelson opened the world's first cupcake-only bakery?
... that it is customary at Chimi Lhakhang to strike female pilgrims on the head with a 10-inch (25 cm) wooden phallus and that the monastery features phallic paintings on its walls?

00:00, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1915 the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.1 (pictured) became the first type of aircraft to be produced by the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service's aircraft factory Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk?
... that Harry George Woolley, who holds a club record for the most penalty minutes spent off the field, also donated the Most Sportsmanlike trophy to his lacrosse league?
... that the River Tern passes to the north of the Buntingsdale Hall in Shropshire?
... that after losing his seat in the House of Commons in January 1910, the British politician and pastor George Nicholls stood again eight times over the next 19 years, without success?
... that New Zealand cricketer Ted Badcock is the only player to be out first ball in both innings on his Test debut?
... that the 59-year-old President of the Long Island Board of Rabbis was arrested with 21 other rabbis for taking part in a sit-in opposite the United Nations HQ in 2007?
... that Milan Paumer was a member of a Czechoslovak anticommunist resistance group that fought its way across East Germany to West Berlin in 1953, evading a manhunt involving 25,000 people?
... that Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou was a law professor for five years after becoming blind?
... that the walls of the oldest part of the Uinta County Courthouse were stained with a mixture said to contain slaughterhouse blood and stale beer?

22 August 2010

18:00, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Lawrence (illustrated), Prior of Durham, composed a life of the Irish saint Brigid?
... that Michigan fullback Mel Anthony set a Rose Bowl record with an 84-yard touchdown run in 1965?
... that Lectionary 269 represents the Byzantine text-type in its early stage?
... that Lena Horne and Shirley Chisolm attended the same racially integrated Girls High School?
... that a comic book about Eva Perón was aborted during production because of political censorship to other works by the authors, and published posthumously instead?
... that Bach scored a tenor aria for oboe da caccia, recorder and bassoon in his cantata Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69a, for the twelfth Sunday after Trinity?
... that at the Palace of Westminster in May 1945, the 73-year-old British Conservative Member of Parliament Harry Selley built a 200-brick wall in 58 minutes whilst wearing a bowler hat?
... that Rabbi Bruce M. Cohen established Interns for Peace to foster personal connections between Arabs and Jews, saying "every time you create contact it's successful because it breaks stereotypes"?
... that Captain Anthony Molloy's court martial and disgrace following the Glorious First of June was attributed by some to a curse from a woman he had dishonored?

12:00, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Cecilia Bartoli sang the title role of Bellini's Norma for the first time in concert in the Konzerthaus Dortmund (pictured)?
... that the British Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Edgar Keatinge was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India?
... that Ida Siekmann, the first casualty at the Berlin wall, died after she jumped out of her third floor apartment at Bernauer Strasse?
... that the 1991 Racha earthquake was the most powerful ever recorded in the Caucasus?
... that in 2005, Raheel Raza became the first woman to lead mixed-gender Muslim prayers in Canada?
... that the cast members of The Simpsons provided their voices for The Simpsons Cartoon Studio, a computer program released in 1996 that lets users create their own Simpsons cartoons?
... that the former featherweight world boxing champion Andre Routis spent two years in Morocco as a mechanic for the French Colonial Army?
... that research by Dr. Harold Ginsberg on adenoviruses led to the development of gene therapy, in which modified versions of viruses can be used to implant healthy versions of genes to treat disease?
... that Ragnvald Gjerløw played a main role in re-establishing the Diocese of Stavanger?
... that an unwanted guest may have been served a "cold shoulder" of mutton?

06:00, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Bristol Central Library moved into its current location next to the Abbey Gatehouse on College Green in 1906, and its former building on King Street is now a restaurant (pictured)?
... that John Idzik, University of Detroit head coach until it discontinued its football program, was fired by the Baltimore Colts, along with the entire coaching staff, on two separate occasions?
... that in a letter of 22 April 772 to Probatus, who later served as his ambassador, Pope Adrian I claimed to rule a "republic of the Romans"?
... that Olav Hoprekstad had eight of his plays staged at Det Norske Teatret in Oslo from 1913 to 1940?
... that Norman Mailer and Isaac Asimov attended the same Boys High School?
... that former Michigan running back Chuck Heater coached national championship football teams at Notre Dame and Florida?
... that there is a legend that the body of Saint Oswald, king of Northumbria, rested on the present site of St Oswald's Church, Kirk Sandall, South Yorkshire, after his death in 642?
... that the Phoenix Suns were featured in all of the National Basketball Association's outdoor games?
... that despite their names, Little Bolton had a larger acreage than Great Bolton?

00:00, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

... that a chance encounter at Goodrich Castle (pictured) in 1793 inspired William Wordsworth's famous poem We are Seven?
... that Nikephoros Palaiologos and his son George twice found themselves on opposite sides during rebellions aimed at the Byzantine throne?
... that the 2008 historical drama/black comedy film Time of the Comet set a new box office record in Albanian cinemas?
... that American football player DeWayne Patmon appeared in a few movies after his National Football League career ended?
... that the tower of St Andrew's Church, Bywell, Northumberland, was built in about 850 as a defensive structure?
... that as son of a Lebanese Arab father who was raised by Jewish stepfathers after his father's death, Bradley M. Campbell quipped that his "aspiration is to become ambassador-at-large in the Middle East"?
... that the design of the Medina, New York, post office, has only been reused in Salem, Indiana?
... that Nick Pace, a mixed martial artist, won the inaugural Ring of Combat Bantamweight title by defeating his opponent via d'arce choke in the first round?
... that the rock gong was a neolithic musical instrument made out of dolerite that would resonate with a metallic tone when struck with a small igneous stone?

21 August 2010

18:00, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

A roughly circular wooden shield, with sculpted metalwork shown on the front

... that the champion of the new Australian Baseball League will be awarded the Claxton Shield (pictured), given to the top Australian baseball team since the first national tournament held in 1934?
... that, while Archbishop of Adelaide, the Dominican Robert Spence wore the simple clothes of his order instead of the purple soutane of an archbishop?
... that Cheshunt Great House, once owned by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey from 1519 until 1529, was burned down in 1965?
... that Amelia Gade Corson's successful swim across the English Channel was paid for by L. Walter Lissberger, who covered the US$3,000 cost and then collected US$100,000 from Lloyd's of London at 20–1 odds?
... that Oregon-based Electro Scientific Industries worked with Nike, Inc. to get a law passed that effectively prevents the neighboring city of Beaverton from annexing either company's property?
... that Johann Ewald, a Hessian mercenary during the American Revolutionary War, was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his performance as a Danish Army general in the 1809 Battle of Stralsund?
... that players from the FK Sørøy Glimt football team were caught in a doping case, a rare occurrence in Northern Norwegian football?
... that Bryan Hall served as the radio play-by-play announcer for the Edmonton Eskimos for 44 years?
... that the 3D Express Coach allows cars under two meters high to drive under it since the passengers are in an upper level of the bus elevated four meters above the ground?

12:00, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

... that in the Cathedral of Mayagüez (pictured), Segundo Ruiz Belvis and Ramón Emeterio Betances bought, baptized and emancipated thousands of black slave children?
... that Charlie Abbey became the first person from Nebraska to play in Major League Baseball after making his debut in 1893?
... that Exercise Verity, a 1949 multilateral exercise involving over 60 warships, was described by a British newsreel as involving "the greatest assembly of warships since the Battle of Jutland?"
... that Hugh Candidus (c.1095 – c.1160), a Benedictine monk, wrote a history of Peterborough Abbey from its foundation as Medeshamstede in the mid 7th century up to the 12th century?
... that the post office in Middleport, New York, is one of only three in the state using the same Colonial Revival-modernist design?
... that the earliest known account of Lebanese fossils is attributed to Herodotus?
... that the Fandango Pass in the Warner Mountains is located at the convergence of two trails, the Applegate and the Lassen, that were traveled by emigrant pioneers between 1846 and 1850?
... that a work based on legends from the Regina Coeli Church in Mexico City was performed by the "Fenix Novohispano" National Theater Company?
... that Fritz Teufel was known as one of the "Spaßguerilla" (fun guerilla) who carried out the 1967 "Pudding Assassination" of U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey during a state visit to West Berlin?

06:00, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

... that while commanding the Crisbecq Battery during the Normandy invasion, Walter Ohmsen (pictured) had another artillery battery fire on his position, which helped earn him the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross?
... that the plot of the platform video game The Simpsons: Bart & the Beanstalk mimics that of the classic fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk?
... that during English footballer Freddie Bunce's only season with Highlands Park FC, they won South Africa's 1964 National Football League?
... that the Jewish community of Danzig sold their historic synagogue to finance their emigration in 1939?
... that the leaders of the September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt vowed to base their rule on that of slain President Ngo Dinh Diem?
... that logging in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska has put the stability of the Alexander Archipelago Wolf population at risk?
... that the northern white beech is actually a member of the mint family?
... that a purchase of 80 paintings by Phoebe Hearst enabled artist Joseph Henry Sharp to devote himself to painting full-time in a log cabin at Little Big Horn?
... that the overhead awning for the Colosseum was saturated with scented water which dripped on spectators' heads to cool them?

00:00, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the favourite dish of former World Lightweight Boxing Champion Freddie Welsh (pictured) was Chicken Maryland, despite his professed vegetarianism?
... that 66 years ago today, 168 captured Allied airmen—accused by the Gestapo of being "Terrorflieger" (terror fliers)—arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp and subsequently formed the KLB Club?
... that Cornbread Harris, who performed on Minnesota's first rock and roll record, is the father of record producer Jimmy Jam?
... that local tradition in Lyndonville, New York, holds that Jackson Blood's family hauled all the cobblestones for their house down from Lake Ontario themselves?
... that in 1923, Henry Sullivan became the third person, and the first American, to swim across the English Channel, finishing the crossing from Dover to Calais in 27 hours and 25 minutes?
... that the Singapore case Chng Suan Tze v. Minister for Home Affairs, which held that courts could assess the lawfulness of orders made under the Internal Security Act, was overridden by statute in 1989?
... that the Giro di Castelbuono is one of Europe's oldest road running competitions, having been first held in Castelbuono, Sicily, in 1912?
... that despite being offered a scholarship by college basketball powerhouse Indiana, Ryan Wittman chose to walk on to the Cornell basketball team?
... that Alan Blinder has described Fedspeak as a turgid dialect of English used by Federal Reserve Board chairmen in making intentionally wordy, vague, and ambiguous statements?

20 August 2010

18:00, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

... that, though easily overlooked as a little brown mushroom, Crinipellis zonata (pictured) is covered in distinctive brown hairs?
... that Dr. Thomas C. Peebles, who went on to isolate the measles virus strain used in the measles vaccine, was initially rejected by Harvard Medical School because he had gotten a D in college biology?
... that the historic P Ranch in Oregon, owned by cattle baron Peter French, covered 140,000 acres (570 km²) and required 500 miles of barbed wire fence for protection?
... that former professional wrestler Steve Rickard was once stranded in Greece after airports in the country were closed due to trouble with Turkey?
... that the duties of the Egyptian Labour Corps during World War I included forming an anti-mosquito squad?
... that 20-year-old Ryan Gregson is the current Australian record holder in men's 1500 metre run, having broken Simon Doyle's old mark from 1991?
... that Cinema City Nablus in the West Bank, built in 2009, is the city's first cinema in over 20 years?
... that English scholar Ichabod Charles Wright (born in Mapperley Hall) translated the three instalments of Dante's Divina commedia; Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso?
... that the Dechencholing Palace has its own helipad despite no airport being in nearby Thimphu?

12:00, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

... that The Beatles (pictured) had 17 number-one singles during the 1960s in the United Kingdom?
... that government by itineration was a key mechanism of government in the Middle Ages in northern and eastern Europe?
... that former Jackson, Michigan, mayor Fred Janke was the captain of Fritz Crisler's first Michigan Wolverines football team?
... that the UPRM Planetarium is the only planetarium in Puerto Rico?
... that the largest fireworks display ever performed on a military base took place at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree in Virginia?
... that residents of the Kingman Park neighborhood in Washington, D.C., successfully lobbied the Washington Metro in 1977 to cancel the proposed Oklahoma Avenue Station on the Orange and Blue lines?
... that troops of both the 28th Infantry Division and 75th Infantry Division were stationed at Seabank Hotel in Porthcawl, Wales, during World War II?
... that Captan Jack Wyly was a Democratic Party power broker in Lake Providence, Louisiana, which was labeled by Time magazine in 1997 as the poorest city in the United States?
... that according to legend, a Jewish boy named Elhanan who was stolen from his parents later became the Jewish pope Andreas?

06:00, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Northern Rocky Mountains Wolf (pictured), a form of the Gray Wolf that used to live primarily in Yellowstone National Park, was court ordered to be re-listed under Endangered Species Act protections on August 6, 2010?
... that one of the windowpanes in the John H. Nichols House in Wapakoneta, Ohio, bears the incised names of several of Nichols' children?
... that the extinct rove beetle genus Ektatotricha is known from 15 beetles trapped in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar?
... that the Fraser Mansion in Washington, D.C., was the subject of a zoning battle before purchase at foreclosure auction by the Church of Scientology?
... that the fruit of the Blush Condoo are eaten by the Wompoo Fruit Dove and the Topknot Pigeon?
... that the Museum of Apollonia, near Fier, Albania, is currently closed to the public after being looted in 1991?
... that Eugene Michael Hyman is the first American to receive the United Nations Public Service Award?
... that the Hyderabad State Congress led a non-violent civil disobedience campaign for the union of Hyderabad State with India, declaring August 7, 1947, as "Join Indian Union Day"?
... that the British Labour Party politician and trade unionist Richard Kelley opposed allowing coal miners to leave work early if they had finished their day's tasks?

00:00, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the bend in the street occupied by Regent House (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, follows the line of the outer wall of the town's Norman castle?
... that The Lame Devil, Sacha Guitry's 1948 historical film, was blocked by French censorship and had to be turned into a successful play before being allowed filming?
... that Atlantic Coast High School is Jacksonville, Florida's first public high school opened since 1990?
... that the flower Campanula zoysii is considered a symbol of the Slovenian Alps?
... that the long hidden ceilings of the Monheim Town Hall in Bavaria, a Jewish residence until 1741, depict scenes of the Tanakh that were only restored in 1978?
... that the Durrës Archaeological Museum contains a collection of miniature busts of Venus, a testament to the time when the area was a centre of worship of the goddess?
... that 1954 Michigan football MVP Fred Baer and 1953 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Lattner played in the same backfield for Fenwick High School in the Chicago Catholic League in 1949?
... that the Sinan Pasha Mosque of Prizren was built in 1615, but still conserves its original stone flooring and carpentry?
... that Enrique Tirabocchi had to appeal to Benito Mussolini to retrieve a trophy he received for swimming the English Channel, as it had been confiscated by customs officials when he reentered Italy?

19 August 2010

18:00, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles (pictured) has a congregation of more than 19,000 members?
... that the katarista movement leader Víctor Hugo Cárdenas was elected Vice President of Bolivia in 1993?
... that "Please Please Me" is, arguably, The Beatles' first number-one single?
... that from 2010, reserve teams in Norwegian association football were barred from using more than three players aged over 21?
... that the Ukrainian priest Ivan Ziatyk was persecuted by the Soviet government for "spreading the Catholic Faith"?
... that the 2001 book Madonna: An Intimate Biography, by J. Randy Taraborrelli, debuted and stayed on top of The New York Times Best Seller list for three months?
... that while time, war, and hazardous emissions continually wrecked the tomb of Nizami, a 12th-century epic poet, the tomb was finally rebuilt in solid granite in 1991 in Ganja, Azerbaijan?
... that the 1993 Grand National horse race was declared void after 30 of the 39 riders failed to realise a false start had been called, leading it to be called "the race that never was"?
... that northwestern Ohio's Goll Homestead lies at the core of one of the few remaining areas of old-growth forest in the Great Black Swamp?

12:00, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Mesopotamian Marshes (pictured) were deliberately drained to 10% of their original size before beginning a recovery after the fall of Saddam Hussein?
... that the Navachab Gold Mine is the only gold mine in Namibia?
... that in 1898, Pop Williams became the first attendee of Bowdoin College to play in Major League Baseball?
... that renowned restaurateur and celebrity chef Marc Murphy cannot bring himself to like coffee?
... that Mortal Kombat has won multiple best fighting game awards at E3 2010 and is already being considered as the most violent video game ever?
... that Prince Michael of Yugoslavia, a Bernard Madoff feeder fund executive, allegedly approached Charles, Prince of Wales about becoming a potential investor at a polo tournament in 2002?
... that under the Poughkeepsie plan, Catholic children attended public schools taught by nuns wearing religious habits?
... that a 1967 image by photojournalist Lee Lockwood of American prisoner of war Richard A. Stratton bowing to his North Vietnamese captors brought charges from the U.S. that POWs were being brainwashed?
... that the Agrarian Socialist League, a Russian revolutionary émigré organization, was founded at the funeral of Pyotr Lavrov in 1900?

06:00, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Thomas William Burgess (pictured), who, in 1911, became the second man to swim across the English Channel, trained Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across?
... that Leonardo da Vinci may have designed the chess pieces for The Boredom Dodger?
... that Peter Stephens died in November 1757, 10 months before the town he founded was chartered in September 1758?
... that the Combe Haven Viaduct, on the Bexhill West Branch Line, contained over 9,000,000 bricks?
... that in 1879, the first Pelton wheel was manufactured at what would become known as the Miners Foundry in Nevada City, California?
... that Konocti Harbor, a now-closed resort and music venue in Lake County, California, was originally founded in 1959 as low-cost vacation housing for members of a plumbers union?
... that Major League Baseball player Dallas Braden pitched a perfect game on Mother's Day with his grandmother in attendance?
... that in May 1982, the British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) Michael Welsh was one of 69 MPs who called for an immediate halt to hostilities in the Falklands War?
... that world-renowned restaurateur and classically trained chef Geoffrey Zakarian was defeated by Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto on an episode of Iron Chef America by a 14-point margin?

00:00, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

... that in the Battle of Flores (illustrated), a naval engagement of the 1585 Anglo-Spanish War, the Spanish fleet of warships outnumbered the English warships, 63 to 22?
... that voice actress Maggie Roswell left The Simpsons in 1999 after a pay dispute with Fox Broadcasting Company, but returned in 2002?
... that The Buckminster Fuller Challenge awards US$100,000 every year for solutions to solve pressing complex global problems?
... that Dan Kiesel was hired as physiotherapist for the Sri Lankan cricket team upon the recommendation of Australian fast-bowler Dennis Lillee?
... that according to (RED), providing health-restoring antiretroviral drugs to HIV positive people in Africa, as described in the documentary The Lazarus Effect, costs US$0.40 per person per day?
... that Kent Island, a national wildlife sanctuary in California's Bolinas Lagoon, was once just hours from becoming the future site of a 1,500-boat marina?
... that the Pomeranian Renaissance castle Veste Landskron was abandoned after it deteriorated during the Thirty Years' and Scanian Wars?
... that on December 9, 1978, the Milwaukee Does lost to the Chicago Hustle by a score of 92–87 in the first game played in Women's Professional Basketball League history?
... that the game described in the 16th-century poem Chess was reconstructed almost 350 years later?

18 August 2010

18:00, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Swimming Reindeer (pictured), a 13,000-year-old Ice Age sculpture, was originally thought to be two separate reindeer sculptures until Henri Breuil realised they fitted together?
... that the 1255 Seal of Mindaugas, celebrated as the only surviving depiction of King of Lithuania Mindaugas, could be a medieval forgery by the Teutonic Knights?
... that land acquired from the vast estate of Samuel Mills Damon enlarged Hawaii Volcanoes National Park by more than 50%?
... that the 1995–96 Chicago Bulls are the only National Basketball Association team to win at least 70 games in a single season?
... that it took only six weeks for Max Tannone to mash parts of 30 Radiohead and Jay-Z songs for the album Jaydiohead?
... that artist Abraham "Moonlight" Pether (1756–1812) acquired his nickname from his skill at painting moonlit landscapes?
... that cricketer Gary Kirsten was the leading batsman in the 1996 Pepsi Sharjah Cup, scoring 356 runs in seven innings at an average of 89.0?
... that at the age of 16, Topsy Sinden was given the role of Violet Deveney in the 1894 hit Edwardian musical comedy The Shop Girl?
... that all of the surviving individuals of the species listed in the The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates, which include the Silky Sifaka (Propithecus candidus), could fit into a single football stadium?

12:00, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Charles Wintzer Building (pictured) in Wapakoneta, Ohio, was built as a combination house-and-tannery?
... that the Mission of the Guardian Angel was a Jesuit mission that existed in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, from 1696 to 1700?
... that commercial director Frank Budgen filmed an advertisement that involved 50 stuntmen and acrobats?
... that Swedish artist Johan Christoffer Boklund taught painting to King Charles XV of Sweden at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts?
... that Australian and British members of the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps were often bitten by the camels they were handling?
... that The American Israelite, published in Cincinnati since 1854, helped advance American Reform Judaism and is the oldest English-language Jewish newspaper still circulated in the United States?
... that at the age of 40, Randy Johnson pitched a perfect game, making him the oldest person to do so in Major League Baseball history?
... that in 2010, the Western Purple-faced Langur and the Niger Delta Red Colobus were both included among The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates?
... that entrants in the Sukkah City architecture contest are allowed to erect their structures atop a live camel?

06:00, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Roger Wilbraham founded the Widows' Almshouses (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, in memory of his wife, who died on the first anniversary of the death of their eldest son?
... that Nike's 2001 Tag ad campaign was voted one of the top ten advertisements of the decade by Campaign magazine?
... that the extinct sawfly Pseudosiobla cambelli is one of three species of Pseudosiobla known from the fossil record?
... that Colonia Asturias in Mexico City is named after the first major football stadium built in the city?
... that in 2009 the Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre produced one of the first regional theatre productions of The Wedding Singer in the United States?
... that the drama film Obama Anak Menteng, a fictionalized recreation of Barack Obama's boyhood in Indonesia, was originally intended to première during his planned state visit?
... that Ethiopian-born Meryem Erdoğan, impressed by her countrywoman Elvan Abeylegesse's success, illegally immigrated to Turkey at age 16 in order to become a distance runner?
... that satirical novelist William Thackeray was a student at Henry Sass's London art academy, which he later caricatured in his novel, The Newcomes?
... that a geomagnetic storm in 1882 resulted in unusual phenomena reported in various parts of the world as an "auroral beam", a "blood red" sky, and a "luminous mass, shaped somewhat like a torpedo"?

00:00, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Winchester Hoard jewellery (pictured), thought to be a diplomatic gift from the Romans, was so chunky that no "self-respecting" Roman would wear it?
... that John McMillan's Log School, a Latin school that eventually developed into Washington & Jefferson College, is regarded as the oldest educational building west of the Allegheny Mountains?
... that Arani Jayaprakash was the umpire at the bowler's end when Anil Kumble dismissed all 10 Pakistan batsmen in a Test cricket match in 1999?
... that Ann Meyers signed with the New Jersey Gems in 1979, with her US$50,000 salary matching what she had been paid by the Indiana Pacers in her bid to become the first woman to play in the NBA?
... that apart from eating smaller lizards and amphibians, the Central American coral snake also feeds on other snakes?
... that nickel production in New Caledonia ranks fifth in the world?
... that filmmaker David Lynch raised US$1 billion to help the Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation build 3,000 Maharishi Peace Palaces?
... that Croatian footballer Stojan Osojnak played for Dinamo Zagreb in the club's first-ever match, a friendly against the Yugoslav Air Force team in June 1945?
... that the series of small hills known as the Devil's Jumps near Churt in southern England was once said to have been kicked up by the Devil when he stole the cauldron from a local witch?

17 August 2010

18:00, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Albany, New York, has a life-size sculpture of its coat of arms (pictured) that was sculpted by a local political cartoonist?
... that the owner of the Afghani restaurant Teaneck Kebab House fled Kabul in 1985 during the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
... that Bruce Springsteen recorded the vocal of "Lonesome Day" live for each take of its music video, unlike common practice?
... that Larry Brown is the only National Basketball Association (NBA) head coach who has coached nine different NBA teams?
... that the platformer Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly was the first The Simpsons video game to be released on a handheld console?
... that one 16th-century Registrar of the University of Oxford was dismissed after neglecting his duties for a year, then imprisoned and fined after throwing a punch when the debate had ended?
... that Toshiba's 2008 television advertisement Time Sculpture holds the world record for the highest number of moving-image cameras used in a composite shot?
... that the Twin Pimples raid was carried out by No. 8 Commando and Australian Engineers in 1941, during the siege of Tobruk?
... that the 1949 Ambato earthquake, which killed 5,050 people, caused an entire town to sink 1,500 feet into the ground?

12:00, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the December 1964 South Vietnamese coup prompted both US Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor (pictured) and Vietnamese leader General Nguyen Khanh to tell one another to leave the country?
... that the altarpiece of the Santa Veracruz Church in Mexico City is said to contain a splinter of the original cross of Jesus, authenticated by the Vatican?
... that artist Abel Pann created some of his most notable work when he got stuck in Europe during WWI?
... that Glass Joe is considered one of Nintendo's most iconic characters, and has been used as a term to signify failure or weakness?
... that despite a slight build at 155 pounds, Jack Wheeler was the MVP of the undefeated 1930 Michigan football team and finished second in voting for the Chicago Tribune Silver Football?
... that as part of efforts to balance New Jersey's $2.76 billion budget in 1976, State Senator James P. Vreeland proposed cutting the governor's annual salary by $2,500?
... that con man Alexander Day used the name 'Marmaduke Davenport Esq.' to convince his victims that he was a member of the gentry in order to gain purchasing credit, which he would never repay?
... that Juggalo Championship Wrestling's Bloodymania wrestling events have featured such competitors as former WWF Champion Diesel and UFC Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock?

06:00, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Bridge School (pictured) in Raisinville Township was the first public school in Michigan, when founded in 1828?
... that Park51, an Islamic cultural center whose proposed site has sparked controversy, will include a mosque, a 500-seat auditorium, and a swimming pool?
... that Merthyr MP Edgar Rees Jones served as head of the Priorities Division of the British Ministry of Munitions during World War I?
... that in 1975 Zimbabwean Kantilal Kanjee became the first non-white umpire to stand in a first-class cricket match in South Africa?
... that street pastors were founded to confront gang culture in UK cities, and are now known for handing out flip-flops to tottering clubbers?
... that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Menarana had several adaptations for head-first burrowing, but its large size may have made burrowing difficult or impossible?
... that Prince Frederick of Württemberg attained the rank of Rittmeister 2nd class in the Army of Württemberg by the age of 15?
... that Sam Peckinpah, director of the The Wild Bunch, lived in a three-room suite at The Murray Hotel in Livingston, Montana, from 1979 to 1984?

00:00, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

... that after his acquittal at a court martial for the loss of HMS Greenwich, Captain Robert Roddam (pictured) had the minutes printed, but was told they would have sold better had he been 'condemned to be shot'?
... that the fossil relative of the House Sparrow Passer predomesticus is known only from two upper jaw bones?
... that Youngstown, Ohio, native Sylvester "Buster" Stanley won the 1993 Michigan football MVP and Dick Katcher awards?
... that the platformer Bartman Meets Radioactive Man from 1992 heavily featured the character Radioactive Man from The Simpsons, even though he had rarely been seen on the show at that point?
... that US Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor encouraged a 1965 overthrow of South Vietnam's Nguyen Khanh, and the first attempt was then made by the communist agent Pham Ngoc Thao?
... that Sanath Jayasuriya scored the fastest fifty and the now second-fastest century in ODI cricket during the 1996 Singer Cup?
... that it has been estimated that the navis lusoria, a type of a troop ship of the late Roman Empire, could reach speeds of about 10 knots?
... that according to legend, Guru Padmasambhava subdued the spirits of the Khangchendzonga, Yabdean and Mahakaal at Enchey Monastery in Sikkim?
... that the 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final ended in violence when fans invaded the pitch and attacked the referee?

16 August 2010

18:23, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Tower Optical coin-operated binoculars (pictured) can hold up to 2,000 US quarters and have kept their same distinctive look since first manufactured in 1932?
... that today, the 80th birthday of Walter Fink is celebrated at the Rheingau Musik Festival with compositions of Kirchner, Lachenmann, Rihm, Widmann and Hosokawa?
... that the English football club Trawden Forest never lost a home game in the FA Cup?
... that Morrie Yohai, who created products for Old London Foods, lived opulently in Kings Point, New York, in "the house that Cheez Doodles bought"?
... that Louis Fred Pfeifer received the United States military's highest decoration for bravery, the Medal of Honor, while serving under a false name?
... that the recently described notosuchian crocodyliform Pakasuchus had molar-like teeth that were as complex as those of carnivorous mammals?
... that Mexican singer Edith Márquez received a gold certification in Mexico for an album that includes a cover of the number-one song "Tengo Todo Excepto a Tí"?
... that after seeing The Beverly Hillbillies and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In atop the Nielsen ratings, John Aylesworth created Hee Haw as a country variety show to combine the best of both genres?
... that during a fire at a nursing home in Nigel, South Africa, on August 1, 2010, a resident objected to being rescued as she was not properly dressed?

12:00, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the 1995 Airstan incident, which ended 14 years ago today with Russian hostages escaping Taliban captivity via an Ilyushin Il-76 (pictured), was made into the 2010 Russian movie, Kandahar?
... that William Morfill was the first professor of Russian in Britain?
... that during the MN 4 zone, the saber-toothed cat Prosansanosmilus first appeared in Europe?
... that the former Dominican friary in St Andrews, Blackfriars, was destroyed in 1559 by Scottish Protestants?
... that Mona Bell, mistress of entrepreneur Samuel Hill, claimed to have performed in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show?
... that with 203 total yards and four touchdowns, Wali Lundy was named the Most Valuable Player of the American football 2002 Continental Tire Bowl?
... that during the Battle of Pinos most of the English fleet managed to escape from the Spanish fleet by abandoning their boats and throwing their baggage into the water?
... that when Robert Littell and Alison Littell McHose were elected in 2004 to the 24th Legislative District, they became the first father-daughter pair to serve together in the New Jersey Legislature?
... that H. O. West dropped out of Louisiana College to work at a lumber mill before he assembled a chain of thirty-three department stores?

06:00, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Alternative Center for Excellence (pictured), the alternative high school in Danbury, Connecticut, is housed in the only remaining 19th-century school building in the city?
... that Light Horse Tavern was named after Henry Lee III, a Continental Army soldier during the American Revolution known as "Light Horse Harry"?
... that Efraim Zuroff expressed his frustration at the failure to bring 95-year-old Erich Steidtmann to justice, saying "I am the only Jew in the world who prays for the health of Nazi war criminals"?
... that Matt Patanelli was the first University of Michigan football player selected in an National Football League Draft?
... that the Border Governors Conference, an annual meeting of the governors of the states that form the Mexico – United States border, was moved from Arizona to New Mexico this year?
... that the book Food Lovers' Guide to New Jersey placed Pithari Taverna among the best Greek cuisine in the state?
... that the Japanese Farmer-Labour Party was banned just a few hours after its foundation in 1925?
... that the Welsh library educator Peter Havard-Williams served as Chief Librarian to the Council of Europe?
... that fictional data analyst Robin Sage was freely given access to government email accounts, private bank accounts, and top secret military information by their owners within two months of her creation?

00:00, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the extinct hazel species Corylus johnsonii (fruit pictured) resembles three modern hazels found in China?
... that St Nicholas Hospital, St Andrews, was originally a leper hospital?
... that the Al-Bustan resort is part of a "construction boom" of recreational facilities in Gaza?
... that the costumes of Lyo and Merly, the official mascots of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, have inbuilt fans and optional vests lined with cool packs to keep wearers from overheating?
... that Zhang Yi promised the King of Chu to give back 600 li of land, and gave only 6 li at the end?
... that at the 1977 fight between Muhammad Ali and Earnie Shavers at Madison Square Garden, Eva Shain became the first female boxing judge at a heavyweight championship bout?
... that Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball coach Bucky O'Connor led the team to its only NCAA championship game in school history in 1956?
... that Bach used the music of the opening chorus of his Siehe zu, daß deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei, BWV 179, a cantata written for the eleventh Sunday after Trinity, in two masses?
... that several fossils of the recently described Early Cretaceous lizard Liushusaurus preserve scales, pigmentation, claw sheaths, cartilage, and small bones that make up the hemipenis?

15 August 2010

18:00, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1613, Sir Roger Wilbraham, Elizabeth I's Solicitor-General for Ireland, founded the first almshouses (pictured) in his birthplace, Nantwich in Cheshire?
... that Danish painter Albert Küchler's "Albanian Girl" was probably not Albanian, but Italian?
... that the former boxer Harold Gomes was named the Ring Magazine fighter of the month following his world title victory over Paul Jorgensen?
... that as president of Southwestern at Memphis College, David Alexander oversaw the desegregation of its fraternities and sororities?
... that television writer Bernie West, creator of The Jeffersons, described his experience as a Borscht Belt comedian saying, "Everything we did may not have been original, but what we stole was good!"?
... that Bron Taylor coined the term "dark green religion" as a set of beliefs characterized by a conviction that "nature is sacred, has intrinsic value, and is therefore due reverent care"?
... that although travel times between downtown Tainan and the Tainan High Speed Rail Station will be halved by the new Shalun Line, residents have complained that it will worsen local road traffic?
... that the samba-inspired song "Are You Going With Me?" by the Pat Metheny Group was the background music for a Los Angeles Lakers highlight reel after they won an NBA title?
... that Serge Monast was a Québécois journalist and conspiracy theorist who claimed that Project Blue Beam is a NASA plan to fake the Second Coming of Christ to bring about the New World Order?

12:00, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the rock engravings at Twyfelfontein ("Lion Plate" pictured) are Namibia's only World Heritage Site?
... that Bob Dylan paid US$2,500 per week to percussionist Bobbye Hall to get her to tour with him in 1978, in compensation for missed session musician work?
... that the Champlain Hudson Power Express could lower SO
₂ emissions by 6,800 tonnes, NO
_x emissions by 10,800 tonnes, and CO
₂ emissions by nearly 37 million tonnes during the first decade of operation?
... that Arthur R. Albohn was known in the New Jersey General Assembly as "Dr. No" for his consistent pattern of voting against legislation that included unnecessary spending?
... that the Iowa Cornets made it to the Women's Professional Basketball League championship in both of its seasons in the league, and lost both times?
... that Jens Tangen, who was ordered by Nazis to become a trade union leader, was later deposed but escaped death, unlike his deputy chairman and judicial office leader?
... that unlike living rorqual whales, the late Miocene genus Plesiobalaenoptera was probably not capable of ram feeding?
... that Ronald McDonald's costume and make-up were created in 1966 by Latvian-born clown Michael Polakovs, better known as Coco the Clown?
... that the Lightning roller coaster was so rough that the phrase "take her on the Lightning" became a folk remedy for terminating unwanted pregnancies?

06:00, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Bishop of Port Augusta, Andrew Killian (pictured) would travel thousands of miles to visit parishes in his rural diocese?
... that Sandra Perković is the youngest ever European champion in women's discus throw?
... that talks between President Gerald Ford and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1975 were held at the Deerwood Country Club in Jacksonville, Florida?
... that Acteosaurus tommasinii, a species of aquatic lizard from the upper Cretaceous, is similar to mosasauroids and modern snakes?
... that insurance litigator Eugene Anderson was admitted to Harvard Law School with the help of an attorney he met while hitchhiking across the United States?
... that the first time slavery was abolished in the Americas was in the Mexican state of Veracruz?
... that when Phil Ochs recorded "Cross My Heart", the orchestra had difficulty keeping pace with him?
... that the Yateley Complex in Hampshire was home to "Britain's most famous fish"?
... that the career of Chicago blues guitarist Sammy Lawhorn was partially curtailed by a burglar throwing him out of a third floor window?

00:00, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the parareptile Eunotosaurus (restoration pictured) was once widely accepted as a transitional form between turtles and their prehistoric ancestors?
... that Dan Povenmire was the director for the Family Guy Road to series, until he left Family Guy to create Phineas and Ferb?
... that Little Liberia in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Hard Scrabble in Providence, Rhode Island, were two urban New England neighborhoods created by free blacks in the early 19th century?
... that Upper Peninsula native Reuben Kelto was selected as the MVP of the 1941 Michigan football team that was ranked fifth in the final AP poll?
... that Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy can be used to characterize artistic materials in old-master paintings?
... that although Citizen Cope's "Sideways" has never charted, it has been covered by Santana, Sheryl Crow and Corey Taylor?
... that novelist Vera Henriksen has also written two volumes of the History of the Royal Norwegian Air Force?
... that the Brighton Forum, a serviced office complex in Brighton, England, was used to train Anglican schoolmistresses before being requisitioned for the Royal Engineers' wartime use?
... that Elias Volan was edged out as national trade union leader in 1940 by members of the Trade Opposition of 1940?
... that Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, proposed marriage to Marie-Chantal Miller on a ski lift in Gstaad, Switzerland, in 1994?

14 August 2010

18:00, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Teatro de la Ciudad (pictured) was the most important cultural venue in Mexico City until the Palacio de Bellas Artes was finally finished in the 1930s?
... that Clifford Grossmark, chairman of Gillingham F.C. from 1961 until 1983, was widely known in football circles as simply "The Doctor"?
... that in 1982 the United States Supreme Court determined that a Native American Indian tribe may impose taxes on non-Indians, in Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe?
... that Josh Zepps, the past host of the Science Channel's Brink television series, formerly wrote and narrated a radio segment that satirized the Prime Ministers of Australia?
... that the rhodocene monomer is stable in solid state at or below liquid nitrogen temperatures (−196 °C) and in gas phase above 150 °C but not at room temperature?
... that The Float@Marina Bay, a venue of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, hosts the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games as the world's largest floating stage?
... that Japanese trade union leader Ritsuta Noda was a pioneer in the underground birth control movement in Osaka?
... that when alleged demoniac Antoine Gay met another alleged demoniac, a friar who saw the meeting claimed he could hear the two demons arguing over which one was greater?
... that the fragile building material bungaroosh is so prevalent in Brighton that much of the town "could be demolished with a well-aimed hose"?

12:00, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Tollemache Almshouses (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, may stand on the site of the Hospital of St Lawrence, a medieval lazar house?
... that Austrian composer Franz Schreker's most successful opera Der Schatzgräber was performed 354 times in over fifty cities between 1920 and 1925?
... that 196 activists of the Japanese Hyōgikai trade union movement were jailed in 1926 for organizing strikes?
... that Tony Branoff became the first sophomore selected as MVP of the Michigan football team after leading the 1953 squad in scoring, handling punting duties and throwing a 66-yard touchdown pass?
... that an "exact replica" of the Temple of Solomon called the Templo de Salomão is being built in Brazil?
... that the District 5 School in the Cobblestone Historic District in Childs, New York, is one of only two buildings in the state to use cobblestone as a veneer over timber frame?
... that the motto of The Wide World Magazine (1898–1965) was "Truth is stranger than fiction"?
... that the Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco, the largest apartment complex in Mexico, was declared a disaster area after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake?
... that John R. Branca wanted all three judges at a bout to be women, but one of the boxer's handlers nixed the idea as "there's going to be a lot of blood and I don't want the three judges throwing up"?

06:00, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the fruit of Australian rainforest plant the long-leaved bitterbark (pictured) open explosively, throwing out parts as far as four metres away?
... that it took until 2010 for Franz Schreker's opera Die Gezeichneten, premiered in 1918 in Frankfurt, to appear in the Western Hemisphere as The Stigmatized?
... that Bob Widlar was the first baby to be monitored by a wireless communication device?
... that the release date of Taylor Swift's song "Mine" was moved up after a recording of the song was leaked online?
... that the Sheridan's Green Hairstreak is Wyoming's state butterfly?
... that Edwin Benbow, the only ace on the FE.8, evaded combat with the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, on 23 January 1917, only to shoot him down on 6 March 1917?
... that St Teilo's Church, Llandeloy in Pembrokeshire was built in 1926–27 from medieval ruins?
... that the Simarouba species can be used as timber, for producing edible oils and to treat dysentery?
... that oak trees may have weeping conks?

00:00, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

... that while the schooner-barge Miztec (pictured) survived the 1919 storm that took her partner, the SS Myron, her good fortune ended when she sank in 1921 with the loss of all hands on Friday the 13th?
... that the importance of the acorn as fodder for locally raised pigs led the German town of Kirchardt to include one on the town crest?
... that in order to end the dispute over jurisdiction of Fort Orange, Pieter Stuyvesant created the village of Beverwijck in 1652, which eventually became the city of Albany, New York?
... that IGN's Craig Harris stated that Urban Yeti! felt like it was produced by "a few guys down in someone's basement"?
... that Jean Leon Gerome Ferris's series The Pageant of a Nation is the largest intact series of American historical paintings by a single artist?
... that Central Highlands of Sri Lanka is the first World Heritage site in the country to be designated in 22 years?
... that St Mark's Church, Brithdir has been described as one of the few full blooded Arts and Crafts churches in Wales?
... that the Plaza Mayor, a public square in Salamanca, Spain, was originally built as a bullfighting arena?
... that long-haired males were persecuted by the Czechoslovak communist regime in the 1960s and '70s?

13 August 2010

18:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Emma Webster funded renovations to the Tousley-Church House (pictured) in Albion, New York, for the Daughters of the American Revolution despite not being a member?
... that Trapalcotherium matuastensis is one of five species of mammals recognized among seven fossil teeth from the Cretaceous Allen Formation of Argentina?
... that Itchy & Scratchy in Miniature Golf Madness was the last Simpsons video game to be published by Acclaim?
... that Maxwell's thermodynamic surface was sculpted in 1874 by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell to visualise the ideas of American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs?
... that neither the Arizona Diamondbacks nor Colorado Rockies have selected a second baseman in the first round of the Major League Baseball draft?
... that the voyages of the Otter crossing the Pacific Ocean from Australia and becoming the first vessel of the United States to enter a Californian port in 1796 were chronicled by French traveler Pierre François Péron?
... that the 1881 Chios earthquake was the last of the three "catastrophes" that affected the island of Chios in the 19th century?
... that the Jhapan festival, dedicated to the goddess Manasa, is of particular significance to snake charmers in the Bankura district?
... that Michael Batterberry started his first magazine with startup funding from Hugh Hefner and a prototype issue printed in Playboy magazine?

12:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Georgian façade of 116 Hospital Street (pictured) conceals a 15th-century structure, which might be the oldest house in Nantwich, Cheshire?
... that among the central leaders of the Norwegian temperance movement were founder Asbjørn Kloster and politician Sven Aarrestad?
... that concerned citizens of Johnston, Rhode Island, were able to prevent the construction of a waterpark at Snake Den State Park in 2005?
... that Tony Rio, placed on probation in 1958 for being part of a football gambling ring, went on to become the MVP of the 1959 Michigan football team?
... that the 1992 Simpsons video game Bart's House of Weirdness is mostly unknown today because it was only released for DOS, and therefore has almost no fan base?
... that Hans Freeman introduced protein crystallography to Australia and determined the structure of plastocyanin, the first protein to be structurally characterised in the southern hemisphere?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court delayed taking up the case of Virginia v. West Virginia for three years because it was deadlocked over whether it had jurisdiction over the issue?
... that Hockey Hall of Fame forward Sweeney Schriner was the first Russian-born player in National Hockey League history?
... that in June 1944, during the invasion of Elba the Free French assault division included 200 mules?

06:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

... that more than 440 players have lived at La Masia (pictured), but only 10% have made it into the FC Barcelona first team?
... that in the New Jersey Senate, John H. Dorsey invoked "senatorial courtesy", an unwritten rule whereby a senator can block consideration of a gubernatorial appointee from the senator's home county?
... that before it was dismantled, the Mariposa botnet was estimated to consist of 8 to 12 million zombie computers, making it one of the largest botnets in history?
... that Israeli Dudu Yifrah raised sewn-together Israeli-Palestinian flags on the summit of Mount Everest, and dedicated his climb to his Palestinian colleague Ali Bushnaq?
... that the 1910 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Maryland v. West Virginia established the current boundary between the states of Maryland and West Virginia based on a stone set in a river in 1746?
... that Wayne Wang handpicked a song for his movie Chinese Box that a group of teenagers from Sarawak, Malaysia, made their professional debut on Boys & Girls 1+1=3 with?
... that in 2007, Emeel Salem won the inaugural college baseball Lowe's Senior CLASS Award after earning a 3.85 grade point average at the University of Alabama?
... that the Colonial Revival facade of Achavath Achim Synagogue in Bridgeport, Connecticut, includes a portico with fluted columns and stained-glass windows?
... that Chung, the Wolf of Kabul's sidekick in British story papers and comics, cracked heads with a cricket bat which he called "clicky-ba"?

00:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the airship LZ 10 Schwaben (pictured) was the first commercially successful passenger aircraft in history?
... that the literary début of Norwegian writer Mikkjel Fønhus was a novel about an outlaw?
... that the 1899 U.S. Supreme Court case Morris v. United States decided who owned the water rights associated with land possessed by the heirs of the late Chief Justice John Marshall?
... that English merchant William Lowthian Green published his theory of Earth's formation while serving in the cabinet of the Kingdom of Hawaii?
... that metadynamics has been used to study, among other things, protein folding, chemical reactions, molecular docking and phase transitions?
... that St David's Church, Llangeview, Monmouthshire, is listed Grade I because of its exceptional interior including a 15th-century rood-loft and rare pre-Victorian box pews?
... that Henry Hill attended the University of Michigan on an academic scholarship and became the MVP of the 1970 football team as a walk-on?
... that one of the effects of the 1222 Cyprus earthquake was to render the harbour at Paphos unusable?
... that the Bengal chess player Moheschunder Bannerjee in 1855 introduced the body of openings now known as Indian defence?

12 August 2010

18:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the 5th century BCE Ma'agan Michael Ship (pictured) shows no wear from recurrent use and no shipworm damage, leading its excavators to believe that it sank on its maiden voyage or not long afterward?
... that the organs of a Jewish teen and a Palestinian boy, who were killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, were donated to children from the opposite sides of the conflict?
... that the Oklahoma Thunder of the World Football League won the World Bowl in 2008, 2009, and 2010?
... that of over 200 artworks known to have been created by Belgian painter Virginie Bovie, only 7 have been located?
... that the family of Sogen Kato now face an investigation into allegations they claimed 9.5 million yen in pension money when they kept Kato's death a secret for thirty years?
... that Archibald Church, a veteran of the British intervention in the Russian Civil War and a Labour MP, introduced a eugenics bill to the House of Commons in 1931?
... that flooding from the Yangtze River destroyed part of the city of Haimen before the river changed course in 1701 and created new land for the city?
... that Operation Diamond, mounted by the Mossad in 1966, resulted in an Iraqi pilot landing a Soviet-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 in Israel?
... that during Henry VIII's reign, Lancelot Ridley, one of the Six Preachers of Canterbury Cathedral, took part in the disputation Thomas Cranmer set up on Trinity Sunday 1542, in Croydon?

12:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Tooth-billed Catbird uses the leaves of the Big-leaved Bollywood (pictured) on its display court floor?
... that Rabbi Ronald Androphy of East Meadow Jewish Center protested enforcement in 2001 of an 1896 tax on houses of worship purchasing homes for clerics as violating the separation of church and state?
... that the defunct Yugoslavia national under-20 football team still hold the FIFA U-20 World Cup scoring record they set in 1987 with an average of 2.44 goals per game?
... that Indian actress Mukta Barve won the 2007 Zee Award for best actress in a commercial play for her portrayal of a Kabaddi enthusiast?
... that Mel Gibson directed four music videos for singer-songwriter Oksana Grigorieva's album Beautiful Heartache?
... that the general strike against Leopold III of Belgium broke out a few days after he returned to the throne in 1950?
... that after a fire destroyed US$500,000 worth of master recordings, singer Al Goodman of Ray, Goodman & Brown said "I just stood there and watched 30 or 40 years of my life go by"?
... that the invasive crayfish Orconectes immunis can outcompete the earlier invader O. limosus?
... that after the medieval lawyer John of Tynemouth was kidnapped for ransom, he informed his kidnappers that the writer Gerald of Wales would be travelling nearby, causing Gerald to also be kidnapped?

06:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Crown of Bolesław I the Brave (replica pictured) was melted down in 1794 and recreated in 2003 using some of its original gold?
... that to celebrate the opening of the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk, reality TV show Cake Boss produced a 10-foot (3.0 m) 1,200-pound (540 kg) cake in the shape of a flip-flop?
... that Milsons Point, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia, was named in honour of James Milson?
... that one day after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill went ashore, Richard Nixon called for a complete cessation of local drilling except for a relief well?
... that 1974 Michigan football MVP Steve Strinko suffered a degenerative knee injury and later formed an organization to provide medical assistance to others injured in college athletics?
... that Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has a history of hosting music, from Sunday concerts championed by P.T. Barnum in 1890 to the Gathering of the Vibes music festival in summer 2010?
... that St Baglan's Church, a medieval church in Llanfaglan, Gwynedd, Wales, is listed Grade I because it is unrestored, and has an exceptionally complete set of 18th-century furnishings?
... that downtown Albion, New York, is one of the best-preserved commercial areas along the route of the Erie Canal?
... that inmates of Nantwich Workhouse could be confined in a dungeon for drinking tea?

00:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Hal the Central Park Coyote got his nickname from his temporary lair in Hallett Nature Sanctuary (pictured) in Central Park, New York City?
... that Diogo Fernandes Pereira discovered the Mascarenes archipelago (Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues) in 1507?
... that Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas once crashed their horse and carriage at the prestigious Regency Square in Brighton?
... that Stephen B. Wiley of the 23rd Legislative District was nominated to the New Jersey Supreme Court, but his nomination was denied because he had voted for a pay raise for justices as State Senator?
... that the West Argyle Street Historic District in Chicago, Illinois, developed from a village named Argyle Park after the Dukes of Argyll in Scotland?
... that The Cyclone at Revere Beach was the world's first roller coaster to reach 100 feet (30 m) in height?
... that only 7 km (4.3 mi) of Vietnam's 84 km (52 mi)-long Da Lat–Thap Cham rack railway remains in service today, operated as a tourist attraction based at the Art Deco-influenced Da Lat Railway Station?
... that the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield on the medieval bridge over the River Calder is the oldest and most ornate of the surviving bridge chapels in England?

11 August 2010

18:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

... that St Peter and St Leonard's Church, Horbury (pictured) was paid for by John Carr, a former Lord Mayor of York?
... that parties that have been established less than a year before the Ukraine local elections, 2010 are not permitted to compete in these elections?
... that the merchant ship Empire Celia was still armed with a 4-inch gun over three years after the end of the Second World War?
... that Marcus Ray was an All-American member of the record-setting 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team's defense?
... that drummer Ben Koller is rumored to be a member of the band United Nations, but due to contractual obligations, the members are bound to remain anonymous?
... that Franklin W. Smith helped establish the YMCA in Boston, the first chapter of the organization in the United States?
... that because of a bug in the video game Space Hawk, the developers added black holes to explain why the player would sometimes jump to hyperspace at random?
... that Kettler Capitals Iceplex, the practice arena of the Washington Capitals, is the highest ice rink off street-level in the United States?
... that Marcus Harvey's painting Myra was vandalised twice, by two different artists, on the opening day of the Sensation exhibition in 1997?

12:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the 1901 Socialist candidate for Governor of New Jersey, Charles H. Vail (pictured), was a Universalist clergyman?
... that the New York Stars were the champions of the Women's Professional Basketball League in its second year, but never played another game as the team disbanded after the 1979–80 season?
... that during the early 1190s, the medieval English royal justice and administrator Roger fitzReinfrid had custody of both Windsor Castle and the Tower of London?
... that the July 2010 Bronx tornado was only the second known tornado to touch down in the Bronx and seventh to impact New York City since records began in 1950?
... that the 1989 wedding of Princess Marie Isabelle was denounced by her own grandfather as "treason"?
... that GRB 070714B was the most distant short-duration gamma-ray burst ever detected?
... that an investigation of climatologist Michael E. Mann by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has been criticized by scientists as "echo[ing] some of the worst offenses of the McCarthy era"?
... that the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act extinguished all aboriginal title in Alaska?
... that Colonia Algarín in Mexico City has restaurants which are recommended for their pozole?

06:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

... that after William C. Durant founded the Durant-Dort Carriage Company (pictured), the best-selling horse-drawn vehicle maker in the US, he made Buick into the nation's best-selling car and founded General Motors?
... that School Chancellor Irving Anker resisted demands to cut the school budget in 1974, saying "we cannot write off the children of New York City without calling into question every value we live by"?
... that by the late 1910s, the population of the Kenai Peninsula Wolf had been almost completely eradicated through hunting and application of strychnine?
... that J. G. M. Ramsey's funeral procession in 1884 was the largest ever witnessed in Knoxville, Tennessee, until that time?
... that No. 140 Squadron of the Royal Air Force had the help of Mosquitos to take pictures of France during World War II?
... that the adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1450 marked the first time that Israeli losses were mentioned or condemned in a United Nations resolution?
... that although Mersey Beat and Top of the Pops placed The Rolling Stones' "19th Nervous Breakdown" at the top of their charts, it is not officially recognised as a number one hit in the United Kingdom?
... that Japanese minelayer Sarushima was attacked three times by the United States Navy during World War II before being removed from the Navy List on September 10, 1944?
... that shooting an apple off one's child's head is not a feat unique to William Tell, but was reportedly ascribed to Danish hero Palnatoki in the 12th century?

00:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

... that despite reaching 25 metres (82 ft) high in nature, Decaspermum humile (pictured) has potential as an indoor or tub plant?
... that As-Sadaka Gaza Olympic Swimming Pool is the first Olympic-size swimming pool in Gaza?
... that Manuel Belgrano, José de San Martín and Martín Miguel de Güemes proposed that Argentina be a constitutional monarchy ruled by an Inca?
... that Zariphios School, founded at 1875 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, was one of the most significant Greek educational institutions in the region, attracting teachers from Greece and Western Europe?
... that the metal detectorists who found the Milton Keynes Hoard were granted a larger share of the reward than usual, because the landowners falsely claimed that they had searched without permission?
... that the largest ever dam raise in the United States is occurring at the San Vicente Dam in California, which will increase its height by 117 feet (36 m) and more than double its reservoir size?
... that among the works of architect Paul Due is the design of Hamar Railway Station from 1896?
... that, although the nearby River Teifi no longer floods, the tradition of keeping a coracle in the porch of Manordeifi Old Church continues?
... that the US entered the precursor to the International Coffee Agreement because they feared that the declining price of coffee could drive Latin American countries towards Nazi or Communist sympathies?

10 August 2010

18:00, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Gyantse Dzong (pictured) was badly damaged and plundered during the 1904 British invasion because the primitively armed Tibetans were overwhelmed after holding off the British for two months?
... that of the 658 Members of Parliament elected at the United Kingdom general election in December 1832, 189 were returned without any vote being held?
... that the beating of a child in a Boston public school sparked the Eliot School rebellion and motivated the creation of a nationwide system of parochial schools?
... that the outcome of reforming actions such as the Bill of Middlesex, initially intended to increase the business of the English Court of King's Bench, was its dissolution?
... that the first issue of The Hotspur in 1933 contained an offer for an electric shock machine?
... that the Welsh League, consisting of Aberdare, Barry, Ebbw Vale, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid-Rhondda and Treherbert, was the first professional rugby league competition in Wales?
... that affilins are proteins that can bind antigens just like antibodies, despite having quite a different structure?
... that the Christopher Walker Farm was a center for hog raising in western Ohio?
... that one restaurant reviewer expects the "upscale" Roots Club to bring "a new era of ... dining experience" to Gaza?

12:00, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Saints Boris and Gleb Cathedral (pictured), the main and biggest Orthodox church in Latvia, can receive 5,000 visitors?
... that Jean Sagbo, a real estate agent from Benin, is the first Black politician elected in Russia and has been called "Russia's Obama"?
... that "El Cariño Es Como Una Flor", performed by Venezuelan singer-songwriter Rudy La Scala, became his first best performing Latin single in 1990?
... that although the fossil mammal Veratalpa (astragalus) was described as a mole, it may instead be a rodent?
... that the 19th-century restoration of Hodgeston Parish Church in Pembrokeshire, Wales, was intended to be a model for future church restorations?
... that in 2008 Naji Hakim composed variations for oboe and organ on Philipp Nicolai's chorale Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, published in 1599?
... that South Chamorro Seamount, a submarine mud volcano near the Mariana Trench, is only the second such structure in the world to be sampled?
... that under the Spanish National Health System foreign minors in Spain have the same rights to health care as Spanish nationals?
... that the Houston Angels of the Women's Professional Basketball League had an all-male cheerleading squad, which the team's owner promised wouldn't be a "sex show – this is high class"?

06:00, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the maize weevil (pictured) is a serious pest of maize in the United States, and also infests standing crops and cereals in all tropical areas of the world?
... that Dutch architect Wolff Schoemaker, who designed the Villa Isola, was assisted by former first President of Indonesia Sukarno during the renovation of the Hotel Preanger?
... that the planned 2012 Marvel Studios film The Avengers, to be directed by Joss Whedon, was first announced in 2005?
... that in 1856 William Carpenter painted the last King of Delhi's eldest son, Prince Fakhr-ud Din Mirza, five months before the Prince died?
... that Minnesota's highest lake, Lake Abita, is only 12 miles away from its lowest lake, Lake Superior?
... that Erna Berger sang the title role of Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride in a 1955 recording with Wilhelm Schüchter and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie?
... that the President of Singapore can only refer questions regarding the Constitution to the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore Tribunal on the Cabinet's advice?
... that Ludovica Levy chaired the theatre Secondteatret in Kristiania from 1899 to 1901, along with her husband Dore Lavik?
... that Portal's music "has been compared to, among other things, a leaf blower, a vacuum cleaner and an aeronautics tunnel"?

00:00, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

... that musicologist Wye Jamison Allanbrook showed how compositions by Mozart (pictured) were influenced by the social dances of his time?
... that senior Singaporean legal officer Sivakant Tiwari was lead counsel in inquiries into the Spyros disaster (1978), the Singapore Cable Car disaster (1984), and the Hotel New World disaster (1988)?
... that Armajaro's hedge fund manager is known as "Chocolate Finger" for his exploits in cocoa trading?
... that professional baseball player J. T. Wise is the great-nephew of 1960 World Series MVP Bobby Richardson?
... that women are now allowed to smoke hookahs at the Crazy Water Park in Gaza?
... that observations and samplings from Jasper Seamount show that it is very similar to Hawaiian volcanoes?
... that the Michigan Department of Transportation has erroneously marked Forest Highway 16 as "County Road H-16" on their maps since 1992?
... that unlike other proletarian parties at the time, such as the Japan Labour-Farmer Party, the Labour-Farmer Party and the Social Democratic Party, the Japan Farmers Party based itself solely amongst the peasantry instead of a worker–peasant class alliance?

9 August 2010

18:00, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

... that on a tanker, the person in charge monitors and controls cargo transfers from the cargo control room (pictured)?
... that any act or statement which alleges bias, impropriety or any wrongdoing concerning a judge in the exercise of his judicial function falls within the offence of scandalizing the court in Singapore?
... that nominations for the 2010 Carbuncle Cup, awarded annually to the worst new building in the UK, include the Strata tower block in London, and the redeveloped Burns Monument Centre in Kilmarnock?
... that Anthony J. Alvarado was named New York City School Chancellor in 1983, the school system's first Hispanic in that post, but was forced to resign in 1984 amid charges of financial improprieties?
... that radio DJ and blues expert Mike Raven also worked at various times as an actor in horror films, a sculptor, a sheep farmer, a presenter of religious TV programmes, and a ballet dancer?
... that a large number of gastropods remain to be discovered in Afghanistan?
... that the last goal at the Stade Grimonprez-Jooris in Lille was scored in May 2004 by Matt Moussilou, before the stadium closed after serving as Lille OSC's home for almost 30 years?
... that Taichiro Morinaga was the first person to manufacture chocolates in Japan which he learned after working as a janitor in an American candy factory?
... that the tablemount structure of Sedlo Seamount, a seamount (underwater volcano), indicates that it used to be above the water?

12:00, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

... that unlike modern Sassafras, which are deciduous, the extinct species Sassafras hesperia (fossil pictured) may have been evergreen?
... that the Nanyang Style was a regional art movement practised by migrant Chinese painters in Singapore in the 1950s?
... that the Groruddalen BK football team finished third in their league in 2007 and had the league top scorer, but lost their coach and all players save two, facing relegation and liquidation in 2008?
... that despite criticism in Channel 4's Dispatches for his work at UK firm Leonard Curtis, Keith Goodman went on to become President of the Insolvency Practitioners Association?
... that The Heart of a Woman, the fourth installment of Maya Angelou's six autobiographies, has been called her "most introspective"?
... that Wireless Hill on Macquarie Island enabled the first radio link to Antarctica?
... that Indigenous Australian activist Robert Bropho won a case in the High Court of Australia challenging the redevelopment of Perth's Swan Brewery?
... that the building that houses the Library of the Congress of Mexico was a cantina at the beginning of the 20th century?
... that the anime Black Rock Shooter was based on the song of the same name by Huke and Ryo of the Japanese music group Supercell?

06:00, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

... that world champion figure skater Sonja Henie and her husband founded a museum of contemporary art (pictured) at Høvikodden in Bærum?
... that Storyville, a nightclub housed in Boston Hotel Buckminster, hosted recording sessions by Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker?
... that the Danish ethnologist Gudmund Hatt systematically inventoried cultural similarities and differences amongst northern peoples?
... that St Michael and All Angels Church, Llanfihangel Rogiet, in Monmouthshire, Wales, is approached through a working farm?
... that the Graveyard Seamounts are all named morbidly, with names such as Pyre Seamount, Morgue Seamount, and Zombie Seamount?
... that The Back Porch Majority was chosen by Life magazine to provide entertainment at the White House in 1965?
... that the Women's Professional Basketball League, which played its first game in 1978 in Milwaukee in front of 7,800 fans, collapsed after three seasons and an estimated US$14 million in total losses?
... that tree-ring dating shows that the wood for the rood screen in St Brothen's Church, Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, Wales, came from trees felled between 1496 and 1506?
... that scenes for the 2009 television advertisement The Life were filmed inside the cooling tower of an active nuclear power station?

00:00, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

... that before becoming a museum, Beit Beirut (pictured) was a vantage point for sniping and a combat zone during the Lebanese Civil War?
... that ordering "half and half" at Big Spring Cafe in Huntsville, Alabama, gets you a bowl with equal portions of chili con carne and Brunswick stew?
... that the location of the Silver King Mine was first discovered by a soldier building a road during the Apache Wars, who found black rocks that flattened when struck?
... that socialite Judith Peabody was known for clothes she wore from Bill Blass and Donald Brooks, as well as for legal aid to Lenny Bruce and her efforts at Gay Men's Health Crisis for people with AIDS?
... that Cardiff School of Art & Design, established in 1865, is the oldest constituent part of University of Wales Institute, Cardiff?
... that Nathan Quinones felt so relieved after leaving his position as New York City School Chancellor, that he said he "felt like a little bird", singing to himself as he walked down the street?
... that in 2009, the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration began planning for a Chinese-built icebreaker due to its expanding polar exploration activities?
... that the Canadian television series Tabloid (1953–1960) regularly featured weatherman Percy Saltzman's flipping of a chalk?
... that the Hovis advertisement Go On Lad compresses 122 years of British history into 122 seconds?

8 August 2010

18:00, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

... that St Cynhaearn's Church, Ynyscynhaearn, in Gwynedd, Wales (pictured), is located in an isolated position on a former island in a lake, and is approached by an ancient causeway?
... that the jury at the 2003 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival took longer to award the Grand Prix to Lamp than any other commercial in the festival's history?
... that Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sang in the Bach cantata Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, BWV 102 for the tenth Sunday after Trinity, with conductor Benjamin Britten?
... that the Oceanography Society gives out the Jerlov Award "in Recognition of Contribution Made to the Advancement of Our Knowledge of the Nature and Consequences of Light in the Ocean"?
... that architects Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno designed all stations on Norway's first railway line, the Hoved Line between Christiania and Eidsvoll?
... that Bruce Springsteen's song "Nebraska" was inspired by Springsteen seeing Terrence Malick's film Badlands on television?
... that the Thrangu Monastery, the first traditional Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Canada, with a 4 metre golden Buddha, was officially opened in Richmond, British Columbia, on 25 July 2010?
... that the Devil's Jumps, on the South Downs of West Sussex in southern England, are considered to be the best preserved Bronze Age barrow group in Sussex?
... that Duane Earl Pope‎ turned himself in to law enforcement the day he first appeared on the FBI's 10 most wanted list?

12:00, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the shell of the Macklintockia scabra snail (pictured) has ghostly bars?
... that Huntersville is unique amongst Norfolk's 19th-century neighborhoods, in that it was unplanned and developed over time?
... that the Comet Hale-Bopp inspired Graham Waterhouse to compose Hale Bopp for string orchestra, which ends with a boy soprano singing How Brightly Shines the Morning Star?
... that Operation Grand Slam in 1952 was a major naval exercise of the newly formed NATO alliance, with over 200 warships?
... that Michigan halfback Ted Kress set a Big Ten single-game rushing record with 218 yards in his second conference game?
... that for the What's it going to take? advertising campaign, celebrities such as Anna Friel and Fern Britton were made up to appear to have been the victims of domestic abuse?
... that research by Gerson Goldhaber on supernovae provided evidence that the rate of the expansion of the universe was increasing due to what was termed "dark energy"?
... that Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold (of Hollywood film score fame) composed his first opera, Der Ring des Polykrates, when he was only seventeen years old?
... that American newspaper editor James McMaster changed his name to make it sound Irish?

06:00, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Ricketts Glen State Park (pictured) in Pennsylvania was to have become a national park before budget issues and World War II ended that plan?
... that modern humans have been found to inhabit various countries for periods ranging from almost 200,000 years to less than 800 years?
... that artist Walter Tyndale painted landscapes and buildings in England that inspired Thomas Hardy's famous "Wessex" novels?
... that the world's Christian population is growing slightly faster than the world's population?
... that the annual Pflasterspektakel ('pavement spectacle') in Linz, Austria, features over 400 international street artists and attracts some 200,000 visitors each year?
... that by the early 1900s, famine, civil war and sleeping sickness had reduced the population of the Baganda people to around a third of its size in the prior century?
... that when the three Monarch-class battleships were commissioned, they were only half the size of other battleships in foreign navies?
... that Harrison Howell Dodge, who served for 52 years as the resident superintendent of Mount Vernon, often slept in the house as a night guard?
... that authorities believe convicted fraudster Edward Porta escaped from the U.S. Penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia, apparently by walking out of its minimum security area?

00:00, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Norwegian architect Einar Oscar Schou is best known for his design of the Bergen theatre Den Nationale Scene (pictured)?
... that Polly Morgan is a London based British artist who uses taxidermy to create works of art?
... that the first episode of The Force, a 2009 documentary series, followed a murder investigation after the burnt corpse of a woman was found in a suitcase?
... that Tirana Park on the Artificial Lake once contained a memorial to Sadijé Toptani, the mother of King Zog I of Albania, but it was destroyed by the Communist regime?
... that the 1687 diary of Edinburgh medical student Thomas Kincaid records the earliest known golfing instructions?
... that the Little Pamir valley in Afghanistan supports populations of Marco Polo sheep, ibex, and other wild animals?
... that in 2010, the Cotswold Air Show commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, featuring aircraft such as the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane?
... that the new Gaza Mall aims to "develop a marketing and leisure culture" in Gaza?

7 August 2010

18:00, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Mechanical Galleon (pictured) was not only a model nef and a clock, but also had smoking cannons, bells, trumpets, a drum, and a Holy Roman Emperor?
... that Samuel Gurney Cresswell was the first naval officer to cross the entire Northwest Passage?
... that 900 volunteers completed the initial work on Camano Island State Park in Washington in a single day?
... that the fossil mammalian tooth LACM 149371 shows resemblances with some ungulates, rodents, and multituberculates, but most likely belongs to the extinct Gondwanatheria?
... that Space Chair holds the world record for the highest, high-definition TV commercial?
... that the 1949–50 City College of New York men's college basketball team is the only one to win the NCAA Tournament and National Invitation Tournament in the same season?
... that the redundant church of St Ellyw, Llanelieu in Powys, Wales, is a venue for the annual Talgarth Festival?
... that when Lemrick Nelson was tried in 1992 for the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum, a few of the largely African-American jury that acquitted him later attended a party that honored him as a "hero"?
... that Sportsklubben av 1909 was the first sports club in Norway explicitly for workers?
... that Dale Webster set the Guinness World Record for "the most consecutive days spent surfing", at 10,407?

12:00, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Hell (pictured) is in Pinckney State Recreation Area?
... that Wyandot chief Roundhead had his own brother executed for siding with the United States prior to the War of 1812?
... that the Saw-shelled Turtle is one of the few native Australian animals which successfully prey on the introduced poisonous Cane Toad?
... that despite being shown only three times in its entirety, the TV ad Old Lions is credited with increasing sales of Carlsberg lager in the UK by over four hundred percent?
... that Motiejus Šumauskas, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic 1967–1975, was a partisan fighter during World War II?
... that the National Academy of Mime and Acting, an old Swedish school, will merge with the university college Dramatiska Institutet in 2011?
... that in a survey study of the officials elected in the 1999 municipal election in Bolivia, the Communist Party had the highest percentage of indigenous councilors?
... that the Delhi Dam in northeast Iowa failed on July 24, 2010, after the Maquoketa River reached record levels?
... that the Chicago Half Marathon begins and ends near the Museum of Science and Industry?
... that in Inuit lore the Adlet are mythical creatures, half-man and half-dog, but the term may also denote inland natives?

06:00, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

... that while most glaciers in the Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska are receding, Margerie Glacier (pictured) is said to be stable?
... that the Louisiana historian Garnie W. McGinty's Louisiana Redeemed: The Overthrow of Carpetbag Rule, 1876–1880 is an enduring study of Reconstruction in McGinty's native state?
... that finds from the Broighter Gold hoard have featured on one pound coins from two different countries?
... that many crew members began to cry while filming hospital scenes for the Swedish film Glowing Stars, because they thought the scenes were emotional?
... that St Mary's Church, Derwen, Denbighshire, Wales, is listed Grade I because it possesses an exceptionally complete rood screen and loft and otherwise retains much of its medieval character?
... that Władysław Wawrzyniak, one of the founders of the Republic of Ostrów, was among the victims of the Katyn massacre?
... that the inaugural Paris Marathon in 1896 was won by Len Hurst, an English brick-maker?
... that between 1560 and 1640, the business of the English Court of King's Bench rose tenfold?
... that, unlike many other monasteries and churches of the time, Marko's Monastery experienced almost no damage after Skopje fell under Ottoman rule?
... that during The Trillion Dollar Campaign, The Zimbabwean newspaper put up billboards printed on genuine Zimbabwean banknotes?

00:00, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the 1303 Crete earthquake ruptured the eastern part of the Hellenic arc (pictured), and was one of the most powerful historical earthquakes in Greece?
... that almost none of Robert Streater's 17th-century architectural painting survives except the ceiling of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, which was restored in 2008?
... that Eric Liu's 1998 book, The Accidental Asian, was praised by Time magazine for its balanced approach toward racial topics?
... that the Republic of Ostrów was a short-lived autonomous republic created in the aftermath of World War I?
... that Dennis Fitzgerald won a gold medal in wrestling at the 1963 Pan American Games, and set the Michigan Wolverines football record with a 99-yard kickoff return?
... that the solar panels on the Georgetown Intercultural Center were designed with rough glass to prevent interference with planes at Reagan National Airport?
... that the Sajur is the only river in Syria that joins the Euphrates on its right bank?
... that Gerald Garson, a New York Supreme Court Justice who was later convicted of accepting bribes, assured the lawyer bribing him: “Justice is being done”?
... that the Old Church of St Nicholas in Uphill, Somerset, England, which was built around 1080, is still used for services even though the nave has no roof?

6 August 2010

18:00, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the freshwater snail Indoplanorbis exustus (pictured) transfers veterinarily important parasites, including the fluke Schistosoma spindale?
... that the web content lifecycle can be so complex that most experts do not agree on descriptions of the number, name, or type of stages to include in the process?
... that Father Charles Beirne, S.J., advised the United States on Latin American affairs while serving as vice president of Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador?
... that a Soviet and former Russian Imperial and Azerbaijani military commander, combrig Jamshid Nakhichevanski, became a victim of the Great Purge and was executed in 1938 after his third arrest by NKVD?
... that Bill Gray appeared at every baseball position except pitcher during his professional career, including playing seven different positions during his debut season with the Philadelphia Phillies?
... that the Bolivian Socialist Republican Party supported the military governments that ruled the country in 1935–1937, 1939–1940 and 1940–1943?
... that the Patroon Creek was listed in 1993 as one of the top 10 most polluted rivers in New York, and heavy metals such as depleted uranium were found in the creek in 2003?
... that although the Albion, New York, post office is on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), it is not old enough to be a contributing property to the NRHP's Orleans County Courthouse Historic District?
... that the Japanese battleship Kirishima was sunk in the middle of the night by an unseen ship?

12:00, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

... that a wicket was first laid at the North Perrott Cricket Club Ground (pavilion pictured) soon after the Second World War?
... that art historian Eugene Goossen saw abstract paintings by Doug Ohlson as depicting "yellowish pink and green dawns, blue noons, and red-orange sunsets that swiftly slide from purple to black"?
... that the Special Air Service used LVT Buffalos to cross the Rhine river during Operation Archway?
... that Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman Phat Wilson was a member of three Allan Cup winning teams in the 1920s as Canada's senior champions?
... that Bailey's Dam saved part of the Union Navy's Mississippi River Squadron during the Civil War?
... that the Byzantine general Constantine Opos led the regiment of the Exkoubitoi, established in the 5th century, in its last battle at Dyrrhachium in 1081?
... that Swedish director Lisa Siwe's feature-length film debut, Glowing Stars, earned her the Guldbagge Award for "Best Director"?
... that anthropologist Ursula Graham Bower fought for the British Army as a guerrilla with the Naga people during World War II?
... that the Norwegian multi-sports club Ski does not offer the sport of skiing?

06:00, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the siblings of early Kona coffee merchant Henry Nicholas Greenwell (pictured) included Canon William Greenwell and poet Dora Greenwell?
... that, on 6 June 1944, half the 12th SS Panzer Division were sent to deal with dummy parachutists from Operation Titanic?
... that, in 2009, African Barrick Gold produced 716,000 ounces of gold from the Tulawaka, Bulyanhulu, Buzwagi, and North Mara Gold Mines?
... that the Lancashire textile merchant and politician Robert Needham Philips was the grandfather of the historian G. M. Trevelyan?
... that the German Catholic magazine Hochland, founded by Carl Muth in 1903, published regular contributions by historians Theodor Schieffer and Heinrich Lützeler, and philosopher Peter Wust?
... that, in Andy Beene's first season playing with the Milwaukee Brewers, he only played in one game?
... that Public Employees Federation president Kenneth Brynien was elected in 2006 by a margin of 850 votes out of 14,898 cast, but was unopposed for reelection in 2009?
... that Julie von Massow, a Prussian noblewoman, started a prayer movement in 1862 to reunite Lutheranism and Catholicism?
... that the earliest known Chairman Mao badges were made from used toothpaste tubes?

00:00, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

... that many sex positions derive their Sanskrit names from that of the Hindu goddess of sexual pleasure – Rati (pictured with her husband, the lovegod Kama)?
... that the historian Jimmy G. Shoalmire specialized in Reconstruction in Red River Parish, Louisiana, ruled from 1868 to 1876 by carpetbagger State Senator Marshall Twitchell?
... that the Pons Neronianus ('Bridge of Nero') over the Tiber in Rome may actually have been built by Caligula?
... that people tend to see the world as a grey gloom when they are depressed?
... that as superintendent of Mount Vernon starting in 1937, Charles Wall would ride on horseback to inspect the grounds, which he saw restored to the way they were in the days of George Washington?
... that the Cretaceous mammal Argentodites is known only from a blade-like tooth with eight cusps arranged in a row?
... that the historian Mark T. Carleton penned a 1971 study entitled "Politics and Punishment" which described a sudden change in racial demographics in the Louisiana penal system?
... that Cas Myslinski worked in a foundry before attending high school, and turned down a scholarship offer from Columbia University in order to attend West Point?
... that the Aberdeen Student Show has happened every single year since 1921, and has featured Flying Pigs?

5 August 2010

18:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the marine life of Wakatobi National Park (pictured) in Indonesia is threatened by overfishing and blast fishing?
... that Jim Neu's first dance theater production, Aerobia, told the story of six characters at a health club of the future where people come to exercise their "sociomuscularity"?
... that the BMW Mega City Vehicle is expected to be the first mass production urban electric car featuring a carbon-fiber reinforced plastic body?
... that Claude Aveline met Jean Vigo in a health clinic and 28 years later founded an award in his honor?
... that the Union Obrera Democratica Filipina held a mass anti-imperialist rally on May 1, 1903, the first May Day rally in the Philippines, in spite of being denied permits by the United States' Taft administration?
... that a co-founder of Vietnam Veterans of America, Stuart F. Feldman, "single-handedly ... won billions of dollars for veterans programs" through his lobbying efforts?
... that Spain's Aldeadávila Dam, completed in 1962, was featured in the 1965 David Lean film Doctor Zhivago?
... that Chris Coghlan, a first-round draft pick of the Florida Marlins in 2006, won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award in 2009?
... that bear's ears grow on the ground in New South Wales?

12:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

... that L. Martin Griffin, Jr., an environmentalist in California's Marin County, preserved the coastline by buying Audubon Canyon (pictured) which was threatened by development?
... that the Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company has been champion of the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival six times?
... that Johannes Kringlebotn, who edited the newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad after the Nazis usurped it, had been among Norway's top-ten middle distance runners?
... that the Philadelphia transit strike of 1944 started when black transit workers were allowed to hold jobs previously reserved for whites?
... that Willie Irvine was the English Football League First Division's top goalscorer in the 1965–66 season?
... that modern Pentecostalism and its offshoots developed from events in North Carolina and Tennessee during the late 19th century known as the Latter Rain Movement?
... that a substantial part of the Sami costume collection in the National Museum of Denmark's Ethnography Department was collected by Emilie Demant Hatt?
... that the four-volume work on press media history in Norway, Norsk presses historie 1660–2010 starts off 103 years before the first Norwegian newspaper?
... that Firo Prochainezo, a character of the Baccano! light novel and anime series, wears glasses in an attempt to look smarter?

06:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the William V. N. Barlow House (pictured) has one of the few hand pumped water wells left in the village of Albion, New York, in its backyard?
... that The Ecumenical Council is Salvador Dalí's vision of the meeting of heaven and earth, inspired by the first communication between the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury in 426 years?
... that after the death of Bolivian Christian Democratic politician Benjamín Miguel Harb in 2008, the Senate of Bolivia decided unanimously to grant him its highest decoration, the Banner of Gold?
... that the GO-Urban project in Ontario, Canada, planned to install maglev automated guideway transit systems in Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa, but was cancelled when the technology proved too expensive?
... that Odd Erling Melsom edited Nazi-affiliated newspapers both during and after WWII; Fritt Folk and Folk og Land?
... that the World Chess Hall of Fame originally used cardboard plaques to honor past grandmasters, and was located in the basement of a New Windsor, New York, building?
... that the ethnographic collection of Swedish missionary Karl Edvard Laman and his wife included 12 human skulls?
... that the fragmentary fossil jaw TNM 02067 may represent the only known mainland African member of the enigmatic Gondwanatheria?
... that after 33 years in jail as the "Elevator Bandit", 63-year-old Arthur Williams went on a final crime spree with a gun in one hand, a cane in the other and an oxygen tank hooked up to his nose?

00:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Micronesian navigator Mau Piailug (pictured) enabled the first Hawaiʻi–Tahiti non-instrument sailing canoe voyage in more than 500 years by mentoring Nainoa Thompson?
... that the leftist Collective Labor Movement was the largest trade union centre in the Philippines in the years just before World War II?
... that Olaf Gjerløw, grandfather of Socialist politician Tora Aasland, was a conservative editor of Morgenbladet?
... that Frankie Laine's song, "I Believe", spent eighteen weeks as a UK number-one single in the 1950s?
... that Kåre Langvik-Johannessen and Albert L. Fliflet both worked with texts by Grillparzer and Vondel, but won prizes for translating other, different works?
... that Tuxlith Chapel, a redundant church in Milland, West Sussex, was one of the first churches to be owned by the Friends of Friendless Churches?
... that the historian and educator John Ardis Cawthon wrote about poor white settlers in the Louisiana hills, lonely cemeteries, ghost towns, and even his own ancestors?
... that there are five main types of front curtain used in modern theatres?

4 August 2010

18:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Ain Sakhri lovers (pictured), the oldest representation of two people making love, was found near Bethlehem?
... that Chief Justice of California nominee Tani Cantil-Sakauye worked as a blackjack dealer in Reno, Nevada, after graduating from UC Davis School of Law?
... that the Lead Mosque of Shkodër, Albania, received its name from once having cupolas covered in lead?
... that the Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording was first presented at the 22nd Grammy Awards in 1980, but eliminated by 1981?
... that in 1958, Trudy Späth-Schweizer became the first woman to hold a political office in Switzerland?
... that sports writer Vic Ziegel co-wrote The Non-Runner's Book, which satirized the sport of marathon running?
... that Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service is to trial two fire bikes fitted with water and foam tanks and a 30-metre hose rig capable of fighting a fire for two minutes?
... that Gofraid Donn was blinded and castrated by a follower of his uncle, and later jointly ruled the Kingdom of Man and the Isles with his uncle?

12:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Neunggasa (pictured), a Buddhist temple in South Korea, was originally established in 419, destroyed in 1592 and rebuilt again in 1644?
... that art collector Rolf Stenersen donated his home, the functionalist Villa Stenersen designed by Arne Korsmo, to the State of Norway as a home for the Prime Minister?
... that Mount Albion Cemetery in Albion, New York, has one of the rare butternut trees in the region?
... that Antonello da Messina's altarpiece for San Cassiano in Venice disappeared from the church during the 17th century, only to be found later in the private collection of Archduke Leopold William?
... that World War II flying ace Hiromichi Shinohara once scored as many as 11 victories on a single day, setting a record in the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service?
... that it was feared that the Hindiya Barrage on the Euphrates could not fulfill its function?
... that studio executive Simon Kornblit, who oversaw the release of Jurassic Park for Universal Pictures, became an actor after his retirement?
... that a surgeon carried out an endoscopy on the CryoSat-2 satellite after a problem was found during final preparations for launch?

06:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory (resident butterfly pictured) imports up to 3,000 butterflies a month from around the world?
... that the merger between the Norwegian Labour Party-led Workers' Sport Federation and the Communist-led 'Red Sports' has been described as an early example of the popular front line?
... that Adolfo Kaminsky made forged IDs for Jewish refugees, South American leftists and North American draft dodgers?
... that Minuscule 759 contains only the beginning of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53–8:2) and lacks the major part of it?
... that the extinct Lotus Nelumbo aureavallis is known from Eocene rocks in western North Dakota?
... that, in the 1924 Egyptian parliamentary election, members of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority received 10% of the seats, even though the Copts made up 6% of Egypt's population?
... that George Veenker has the highest winning percentage of any basketball coach in Michigan history and served on the NCAA Football Rules Committee from 1938 to 1945?
... that courts in California, Maryland, and Wisconsin held that ladies' night discounts are unlawful gender discrimination under state or local statutes?

00:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the rhubarb curculio beetle (eggs pictured) also lives inside sunflowers?
... that in 1893 Jefferson Davis lay in state at the Louisiana Historical Association's Memorial Hall in New Orleans prior to being re-interred in Richmond, Virginia?
... that Black Issues Book Review was named one of the ten best new magazines of 1998 by Library Journal?
... that Ireland recently experienced its highest number of fatalities in a single traffic collision?
... that The New Christy Minstrels' 1962 debut album won a Grammy Award and sat in the Billboard charts for two years?
... that Shkodër Cathedral suffered damage during the Siege of Shkodër by the Montenegrin army in 1912–13?
... that the American Quarter Horse stallion Zan Parr Bar was a three-time World Champion in halter as well as excelling at steer roping?
... that the town of Marche, Arkansas, was founded by a Polish count who wanted to restore the agricultural environment familiar to most Poles before their arrival in America?

3 August 2010

18:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

... that former fighter pilot Robert V. Whitlow (pictured), although trying to secure an NFL franchise for Phoenix, said the Philadelphia Eagles' plans to relocate to Arizona did not "seem very wise"?
... that, although the 1481 Rhodes earthquake caused only a minor tsunami, it matches the age of a tsunami deposit found near Dalaman on the Turkish coast?
... that thousands of Muslims from Myanmar and Thailand who have migrated to Taiwan were descendants of nationalist soldiers that fled Yunnan when the communists took over mainland China?
... that the Mausoleum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Warsaw, Poland, preserves cells in which Nazis tortured and killed Polish resistance fighters?
... that, while Ryan Murdough is attempting to run for the New Hampshire House of Representatives as a Republican, the chairman of the state Republican Party refused to support him?
... that Rensselaer Lake, created in 1851, was Albany, New York's first municipal water supply?
... that the Deer Rock, a heritage monument of the Tlingits in Haines Borough, Alaska, US, was witness to a peaceful settlement of conflicts between Chilkoot and Chilkat clans?
... that the owner of the American Quarter Horse stallion Poco Pine once bet against his horse winning a Grand Championship, and lost the bet?

12:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the new building of the Warsaw University Library (pictured) in Warsaw, Poland, was consecrated on 11 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II?
... that Rasta Thomas, at 16 became the youngest dancer ever to win the USA International Ballet Competition in the senior division?
... that dolphins are often sighted in the estuary of the Great Wicomico River in Virginia?
... that Skulptur, a 1921 book by Joseph Chaikov, was the first book on sculpture written in Yiddish?
... that Óscar Zamora Medinaceli, a communist student activist and leader of a Maoist insurgency in the 1970s, would become a senator, mayor, ambassador, prefect and minister of Bolivia?
... that archaeologists have detected what they believe is a wooden henge underground near to Stonehenge?
... that Maureen Ogden of New Jersey's 22nd Legislative District sponsored a bill making original birth certificates available to adoptees, saying "basic rights of the little babies were not being considered"?
... that in the 1976 miniseries Dickens of London, British actor Roy Dotrice played both Charles Dickens and his father John Dickens?

06:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the ornate Jacobean Revival-style 39 Welsh Row (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, was built as a humble savings bank?
... that the two tracts of Oliver Lee Memorial State Park in New Mexico preserve archeological sites associated with Native Americans and a late 19th-century ranch?
... that three basketball officials were suspended due to unspecified "bad calls" during a 2010 UAAP college basketball game?
... that a 1960s-era church in Brighton, England, was demolished after just 20 years because it had been built with dangerous high-alumina cement?
... that the Revolutionary Left Front had the highest percentage of female candidates in the 1991 municipal elections in the major cities of Bolivia?
... that Searsville Dam, built in 1892, currently provides no drinking water, flood control, nor hydropower, but rather it irrigates Stanford University's golf course?
... that Ray Courtright, once considered Oklahoma's greatest halfback, pitched a no-hitter for the Sooners and coached the Nevada basketball and Michigan golf and wrestling teams to championships?
... that some house concerts in 1930s Harlem were used as covers for illicit sex?

00:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the fossil butterfly Prodryas persephone (engraving pictured) is so well preserved that individual wing scales can be seen?
... that the most distant planet known in 2002 was discovered by Dimitar Sasselov's team?
... that Nikolaus Pevsner stated that the crocketed and canopied stoup in the porch of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Caldecote, Hertfordshire, is unique?
... that Koji Gyotoku is the coach of the Bhutan national football team?
... that CenSeam is an initiative to biologically sample seamounts (underwater volcanoes), of which about 100,000 exist and only 350 have received attention?
... that José de la Borda went from being the richest man of Taxco to near-bankruptcy to being the richest man in Zacatecas?
... that The Rolling Stones and The Who were among the many leading rock bands who emerged from the British rhythm and blues scene of the early 1960s?
... that David Warren, creator of the first flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, was buried in a casket bearing the label "Flight Recorder Inventor; Do Not Open"?

2 August 2010

18:00, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the Wonoboyo hoard (examples pictured) is a collection of 9th century golden artifacts from the Medang Kingdom that were discovered in a paddy field in Central Java during irrigation work?
... that former Miami University head football coach Arthur H. Parmelee later studied pediatric medicine with Dr. Clemens von Pirquet in Vienna, Austria?
... that Bryan Jurewicz deflected nine passes as a University of Wisconsin Badgers defensive lineman in 1996, setting a school record?
... that "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore was transferred to the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac aboard the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System, also known as Con Air?
... that the Claustra Alpium Iuliarum represented a fortification system within the late Roman Empire to help secure internal stability?
... that Denise Jefferson started learning to dance when she was eight, but didn't pursue a career in ballet because she "had never seen anyone who wasn't white in a ballet company"?
... that four players from the 1976 NBA Draft, Adrian Dantley, Robert Parish, Alex English and Dennis Johnson, have been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame?
... that when Albanian scholar Hasan Tahsini taught his students about vacuum by killing a pigeon in a bell jar, he was accused of witchcraft?

12:00, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

... that District of Alaska Governor Lyman Enos Knapp (pictured) enjoyed donning his military uniform and watching the local militia parade before him?
... that Vietnamese General Duong Van Minh had been captured by the Kempeitai during World War II and had all but one of his teeth knocked out during torture?
... that the Filipino communist guerrilla commander Guillermo Capadocia had worked as a chef and a waiter during his youth?
... that St John the Baptist's Church, Papworth St Agnes, Cambridgeshire, is constructed in alternating blocks of limestone and fieldstones, forming a chequerboard pattern?
... that Tomm Murstad, who featured in show performances on skis and started a summer camp for youths, used the moniker "Onkel Tomm" (Uncle Tom) on himself?
... that Peltandra primaeva was the first fossil record for the genus Peltandra when described in 1977?
... that the triadic pyramid complex was an early Maya architectural form based on the Maya creation myth?
... that as the first American to play Henry Higgins on Broadway in My Fair Lady, Larry Keith said he doubted if he could get away with his English accent in England, "but I think I can in New York"?

06:00, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

... that for hundreds of years the Buddha was represented by symbols such as his footprint before images like the Seated Buddha from Gandhara (pictured) were carved in Pakistan?
... that Sir Arthur Ingram became the most extensive estate owner in Yorkshire?
... that Andris Nelsons conducted Bartok's Viola Concerto and Mahler's Fifth Symphony in the final concert with his Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford?
... that Operation Burnt Frost was a military operation to intercept and destroy American satellite USA-193?
... that after helping Nguyen Khanh to seize power in January 1964 Tran Thien Khiem was exiled for trying to overthrow him nine months later, and finally succeeded from overseas five months later?
... that the nave of St Mary's Church, Mundon, Essex, is constructed in stone, the chancel in brick, the aisle is timber-framed, the belfry is weatherboarded, and the roofs are tiled?
... that Marie-Josephte Corriveau, whose story inspired many books, songs, plays and even ballet over the centuries since her execution in Quebec, was gibbeted for mariticide in 1763?
... that, at English fairs, women enjoyed sticking pins into Silly Billy's legs?

00:00, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Giant pill millipedes from Madagascar rolled up into balls

... that millipedes in the order Sphaerotheriida (pictured) roll up into balls the size of a cherry, a golf ball, or even a baseball when disturbed?
... that the exile of the popular General Nguyen Chanh Thi by junta head Nguyen Cao Ky under false pretense of an overseas surgery trip sparked the Buddhist Uprising in South Vietnam?
... that Bach had an excellent flauto traverso player at hand for Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94, the cantata for the ninth Sunday after Trinity of 1724?
... that Bill Borgman was a lineman for the undefeated national champion 1932 and 1933 Michigan football teams and a line-mate of Gerald R. Ford on the 1934 team?
... that the Italian Etna-class protected cruisers had a belt of cork at their waterline, which was intended to seal holes by swelling through water absorption after being hit?
... that before being elected Abbot of Farfa in 761 AD, Alan of Farfa was a hermit who penned what would become one of the most successful homiliaries of the late 8th and 9th centuries?
... that retigabine is the first anticonvulsant to work by activating the K_v7 family of voltage-gated potassium channels?
... that, in 1885, Augustus Voelcker calculated that the annual value of excrement per adult was nine shillings (worth £36 in 2010)?

1 August 2010

18:00, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Kalulu (pictured), an African boy who died in 1877, was modelled in Madame Tussauds and attended Dr. Livingstone's funeral in London?
... that the Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant, founded 1758, is the third-oldest Dutch newspaper still being published?
... that, angry with being demoted by junta leader Nguyen Khanh, Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc launched a failed coup, only to have Khanh acquit them in his military court?
... that, on the morning of the Battle of Trafalgar, Horatio Nelson recalled the anniversary of the Battle of Cap-Français, which his uncle had fought on the same day, 48 years previously?
... that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed Senator George Runner's Ronald Reagan Day bill and the state will begin celebrating it on Reagan's 100th birthday?
... that Justin Godart was one of only 80 French parliamentarians who voted against dissolving the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France in July 1940?
... that the "Mad Raft Race" is an event held on the Chilkoot River as part of Fourth of July festivities observed in Haines, Alaska?
... that, as a young priest, Alexandre Le Roy accompanied an 1881 expedition to Bagamoyo, Tanzania, during which he wrote articles for European magazines?
... that the Old Whaler's Church in Sag Harbor, New York, is used by Jews on Saturday and Christians on Sunday?

12:00, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

... that Under the Window (pictured), published in 1879, launched Kate Greenaway's career as a prominent Victorian children's book illustrator?
... that in 2010 Irish Quebecer historian Marianna O'Gallagher was Grand Marshal of the first Saint Patrick's Day parade held in Quebec City for over 80 years?
... that The Undertaker, a professional wrestler, was momentarily engulfed in flames due to a pyrotechnics accident at WWE Elimination Chamber?
... that The Hepworth Wakefield, a new art gallery opening in 2011 by the River Calder, takes its name from Wakefield-born artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth?
... that Daniel I. Arnon was the first to demonstrate the chemical function of photosynthesis outside of a plant cell, creating sugar and starch from carbon dioxide and water?
... that ships from the Royal Navy, the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Polish Navy participated in the British Commando raid Operation Anklet?
... that South Vietnamese General Nguyen Huu Co was exiled by military Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky after being sent overseas on a diplomatic trip and then being locked out of the country?
... that in 1950, L.A. Daily News publisher Manchester Boddy ran in both Senate primaries, with the paper first to call Democrat Helen Douglas "the pink lady" and Republican Richard Nixon "Tricky Dick"?
... that while the Sadd-el-Kafara Dam was under construction in the 3rd century BC to control floods, it was destroyed by one?

06:00, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Portrait of clean-shaven, wrinkled-faced Asian man wearing a cap and combat fatigues

... that South Vietnamese General Ngo Quang Truong (pictured), known for his incorruptibility, refused to give his nephew a desk job, and the nephew was then killed on the front line?
... that the main town and mission of the Ibi, a Timucua tribe, were evidently destroyed by the government of Spanish Florida as a result of the Timucua Rebellion of 1656?
... that the Wickham Market Hoard of Iron age coins was not the first hoard found near the village of Wickham Market?
... that Emil Spjøtvoll was the first rector of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, whose creation he originally opposed?
... that the name of Temperance River in northern Minnesota is allegedly an early explorer's pun on the river's lack of a sandbar?
... that Deb Margolin removed Elie Wiesel as a character in her play Imagining Madoff after the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor called the play "obscene" and "defamatory", and threatened legal action?
... that Olga Lepeshinskaya's theories on the origins of cells won her a Stalin prize, but were dismissed by her husband as "rubbish"?
... that shipping magnate Samuel Garner Wilder started in the business by sailing guano from Jarvis Island to New York?

00:00, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

... that light front holographic methods were originally found by mapping the spatial quark distribution in a proton to a higher dimensional warped space (example pictured)?
... that Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky stopped appearing at presidential election rallies during their successfully rigged 1967 campaign after the latter was heavily heckled at their only event?
... that actor Zac Efron is set to star in and produce the American remake of the successful Swedish thriller film Snabba Cash?
... that Stanley Fay, captain and quarterback of the undefeated national champion 1933 Michigan football team, later became Ford Motor Company's personnel director?
... that the Borda House in Mexico City originally covered an entire city block?
... that, before becoming a Louisiana legislator, Virgil Orr once published a paper called "Vapor–Liquid Equilibrium for the Hexamethyldisiloxane–n-Propyl Alcohol System"?
... that the Soulé Live Steam Festival is held annually in downtown Meridian, Mississippi, at the Soulé Steam Feed Works complex, a former steam engine factory incorporated in 1893?
... that the Mikó Citadel of Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania, once used for defensive purposes, now houses an ethnographic museum and a library?
... that the roofline of the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum is decorated with blubber spades and flensing knives?