Wikipedia:Recent additions/2018/November

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• 00:00, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Einsatzgruppen murder Jews in Ivanhorod.

• ... that a right-wing West German newspaper claimed that a Holocaust photograph (pictured) depicting the murder of Jews in Ivanhorod, Ukraine, was a Communist forgery?
• ... that the string-of-sausage lichen is very sensitive to air pollution and has become locally extinct over much of its former range?
• ... that bryologist Margaret Sibella Brown was awarded an honorary master of arts degree from Acadia University at the age of 84?
• ... that Robin Sparkles's "Let's Go to the Mall" was inspired by Alanis Morissette's material from her pre-Jagged Little Pill years?
• ... that neuroscientist Yang Dan and her team discovered that mice either enter a dream state or eat more in response to activation of certain brain neurons?
• ... that a small group of besieged Nizari Ismailis in the fortress of Shahdiz refused an offer of a safe withdrawal and fought against the Seljuk army from tower to tower in a last stand?
• ... that the Cubbington Pear Tree, voted England's Tree of the Year for 2015, is at risk of being felled during construction of High Speed 2?
• ... that the Ming dynasty awarded the pirate Wang Zhi 100 shoulder-loads of rice, which he dumped into the sea?

• 00:00, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Lula Mysz-Gmeiner

• ... that Lula Mysz-Gmeiner (pictured), a contralto and influential voice teacher from Transylvania, performed lieder written for her by Max Reger and other prominent contemporaries?
• ... that a unit of disabled and aged veterans garrisoned key parts of Great Britain in the 18th century?
• ... that in 1923, Andrew B. Turnbull helped convert the Green Bay Packers into a publicly-held, non-profit corporation, and then was elected as that corporation's first president?
• ... that Nanchang Laoyingfang Airport, once an airbase used to attack Chinese communist rebels, is now the site of the communist provincial government?
• ... that Mary Ellen Cuper was the first postmistress at New Norcia?
• ... that the United States was ordered by the World Court to lift some sanctions against Iran over humanitarian concerns?
• ... that Burhan Uray worked as a logger and rubber tapper before becoming "the timber king" of Indonesia?
• ... that after being damaged twice by Allied ships, escorting a blockade runner, and hitting two mines, the German torpedo boat T24 was sunk by air-launched rockets?

• 00:00, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Relocated cemetery at Georgetown University

• ... that 46 Jesuits were exhumed during the relocation of the Jesuit Community Cemetery (pictured) at Georgetown University in 1854?
• ... that footballer Neil Matthews was the first Rochdale player to win an international cap at any level?
• ... that Solo 66 is a German trick-taking card game for five players in which a soloist always plays against the other four?
• ... that following his failed rebellion in 1926, governor Xia Chao was executed and his severed head was displayed on a spike?
• ... that sites in Florida Bay with an abundance of loggerhead sponges experience few blooms of cyanobacteria?
• ... that in 1991, the founder of Ecclesia Athletic Association and seven other members were indicted for what a federal prosecutor termed "the largest child slavery ring in the history of the United States"?
• ... that jellyfish can disable power stations?

• 00:00, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

 

The Durant

• ... that The Durant (pictured) in Flint, Michigan, was opened as a hotel in 1920, vacated in 1973, acquired by the Genesee County Land Bank in 2005, and reopened as an apartment building in 2010?
• ... that Mexican suspected hitman René Velázquez Valenzuela shaved his head and grew his beard as a sign of loyalty to his boss?
• ... that the concept of an ethnographic group is more commonly found in Soviet and post-Soviet, rather than Western, scholarly works?
• ... that when William C. F. Robinson was sworn in as governor of South Australia, the band played a song that he had composed himself?
• ... that for his role in the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann was described as a desk murderer by Hannah Arendt?
• ... that the herring-bone hydroid has two types of feeding polyp which differ in their behaviour?
• ... that Close But No Cigar, the debut album of the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, reached number one on the U.S. Contemporary Jazz Albums chart?

• 00:00, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Kirchner acting in 2015

• ... that Ignaz Kirchner (pictured) and Gert Voss often played opposite each other at the Vienna Burgtheater, in roles such as Shakespeare's Antonio and Shylock, and Tabori's Goldberg and Mr. Jay?
• ... that the Colonial replaced a train that often could not fill a single passenger car?
• ... that trail runner Aurélia Truel gave up on playing handball because she was too short?
• ... that the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS were thought to have committed war crimes against Italians during World War II in retaliation for Italy's surrender?
• ... that Yang Dan was awarded the TWAS Prize for synthesizing bioactive natural compounds?
• ... that during the University of London's General Examination for Women of 1869, a matron was in attendance in case the candidates became over-excited?
• ... that historical novelist Elizabeth Byrd was the editor of a salacious confession magazine in the 1950s?
• ... that the 2004 Taylor oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico leaks 300 to 700 barrels of oil per day and could continue for the next 100 years if not contained?

• 00:10, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Detail of chandelier in Thorne miniature room

• ... that Narcissa Niblack Thorne commissioned approximately 100 miniature rooms replicating historical interiors from Europe and North America on a 1:12 scale (detail of chandelier pictured)?
• ... that Ratna Ani Lestari and her husband, the regent of Jembrana, were the first married couple to lead two adjacent Indonesian regencies?
• ... that the French submarine Amazone was named after a mythological tribe of women warriors?
• ... that Ryan Kocer won the Best Male Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award in 2008 after losing his left leg the year before?
• ... that the shear vane was developed for testing soils, but has also been used on snow to determine the risk of an avalanche forming?
• ... that political scientist Hu Fo counted among his students the former president, vice president, and premier of Taiwan?
• ... that Gorgonorhynchus repens has an unusual sticky, branched proboscis with which it snares its prey?
• ... that in 1953, Francis D. Pastorius and Edward E. Holloway were elected to local offices that the Philadelphia city government had abolished a month earlier?

• 00:00, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Zdrojewicz (right) during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

• ... that a famous photograph shows Małka Zdrojewicz (pictured), who smuggled weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto inside her boots?
• ... that the many lakes in the Nancy Lake State Recreation Area were created during the retreat of glaciers 9,000 years ago?
• ... that Gilles Courteau made the switch from French to English as the official language used for coaching in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League?
• ... that the Australian Federal Court of Bankruptcy lost its jurisdiction in 1977 but was not formally abolished until 1995?
• ... that the gray grass mouse inhabits forests of Podocarpus parlatorei and Alnus acuminata on steep hillsides on the eastern flanks of the Andes?
• ... that Günther Morbach appeared in more than 180 operatic bass roles, including Mozart's Sarastro in the new Opernhaus Dortmund and in a Harald Weiss world premiere at the Staatstheater Braunschweig?
• ... that until being murdered in May 2018, Mexican journalist and radio station founder Juan Carlos Huerta anchored the newscast on the television station XHTVL-TDT?
• ... that Bill "Maverick" Golden drove the Little Red Wagon, drag racing's first wheelstander?

• 00:00, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Ha! Ha! Pyramid

• ... that the Ha! Ha! Pyramid (pictured), a monument commemorating a flood in La Baie, Quebec, is covered in 3,000 yield signs described by the designer as being similar to the Greek delta?
• ... that the Hyperion proto-supercluster was discovered using astroinformatics?
• ... that Arvo Pärt composed Cecilia, vergine romana on an Italian text about Saint Cecilia for choir and orchestra, on a commission for the Great Jubilee in Rome?
• ... that children have mistaken the poisonous fruits of Adenia hondala for those of the passion flower?
• ... that Iris Kadrić played international football for Sweden under-17s, before switching to play for Bosnia and Herzegovina?
• ... that dozens of Nazi concentration camps were staffed by guards from the Luftwaffe?
• ... that Haifan Lin's discovery of piRNAs was named by Science as one of the top breakthroughs of 2006?
• ... that a Trump resort is directly linked to Moscow?

• 00:00, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Constantin Cantacuzino around 1820

• ... that when Constantin Cantacuzino (pictured) was made Caimacam of Wallachia, his own son reportedly shouted in protest?
• ... that the Deccan Chargers, winners of the 2009 Indian Premier League, finished last in the league stage in the previous season with just two wins in fourteen matches?
• ... that before becoming a Yad Vashem historian, Shmuel Krakowski worked for Polish communist intelligence and security organizations?
• ... that viewers have watched 1.5 billion minutes of BuzzFeed's Worth It in 2018 alone?
• ... that a letter authored by Ali, the first Shia Imam, to Malik al-Ashtar, governor of Egypt, includes a model for governing based on justice for every place and every time?
• ... that Peter Bielik was nominated for director of the National Memory Institute, despite having blamed Jewish Holocaust survivors for the 1945 Topoľčany pogrom?
• ... that the sea hedgehog hydroid is predated by the nudibranch Zelentia pustulata, which feeds on it and winds egg coils around its branches?
• ... that Lukas Radovich believed his audition for the Home and Away character Ryder Jackson went so badly that he booked a flight to Perth, but was then offered the role?

• 00:00, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Bloodhound missile

• ... that the UK's Violet Friend anti-ballistic missile system was designed to use Bloodhound anti-aircraft missiles (example pictured) and radars to lower its cost?
• ... that Sir James Hamilton was largely responsible for the design of Concorde's distinctive wings?
• ... that Slovak fascists and anti-fascists joined forces to intimidate returning Holocaust survivors, culminating in the Topoľčany pogrom?
• ... that when footballer Wyn Griffiths suffered an injury during a 1945 friendly match for Arsenal, he was replaced by a player from another club who had attended the game as a spectator?
• ... that Antonio Vivaldi composed three settings of Dixit Dominus, each an extended setting of the vespers psalm for five soloists, choir, and orchestra, and one even for double choir?
• ... that St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral became the first Catholic pro-cathedral in the United States in 1789?
• ... that the tombstone of Vietnamese anti-colonialist Phạm Thận Duật was buried face-down for nearly a century to conceal it from the French authorities?
• ... that former professional Overwatch player Brandon "Seagull" Larned was recruited to NRG Esports by Shaquille O'Neal?

• 00:00, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Cathedral of the Plains

• ... that farmers hauled 17 million lb (7.7 million kg) of Kansas Fencepost limestone in horse-drawn wagons to build the Cathedral of the Plains (pictured)?
• ... that Udo Zimmermann composed two operas about the resistance group White Rose, one while he was a student?
• ... that in 1345, the Earl of Derby attacked and defeated an army of 7,000 Frenchmen with a force of 1,200 Anglo-Gascons?
• ... that in 1975, Margaret Guilfoyle became the first woman in the history of the Australian parliament to hold a cabinet-level ministerial portfolio?
• ... that Derrick Barnes based the main character of Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut on his own son?
• ... that 65 percent of internees at the Topaz War Relocation Center were American citizens of Japanese descent?
• ... that during its time 200 million years ago, Ledumahadi's estimated weight of 12 tonnes (26,000 lb) made it the largest animal to have lived on Earth?
• ... that the Nazi doctor Friedrich Entress organised and administered phenol injections directly into the hearts of Auschwitz prisoners?
• ... that the calls of the black-collared starling include a kraak kraak sounding like a jay and a whistling prrü like a bee-eater?
• ... that the Twitter user dril published the Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection to preserve his best tweets in case of a future societal collapse?

• 04:20, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Coat of arms of the Prince of Wales

• ... that the coat of arms of the Prince of Wales (pictured) features the Red Dragon, but with a white label of difference?
• ... that Leo Holzer led a resistance group inside the Theresienstadt concentration camp?
• ... that oppositionist delegates to the Philippine Constitutional Convention of 1971 were among the first to be arrested when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines?
• ... that an obscenity conviction for screening Kenneth Anger's Fireworks was reversed by the Supreme Court of California?
• ... that Camille Saint-Saëns composed the Messe de Requiem, in memory of his patron, in just eight days, and conducted the first performance in 1878 at Saint-Sulpice in Paris?
• ... that Hesham Ashmawy was one of Egypt's most-wanted militants prior to his arrest in Libya last month?
• ... that the United Kingdom conducted 24 nuclear weapons tests in the United States between 1962 and 1991, and has conducted subcritical tests not involving explosions since then?
• ... that Tommy Lockhart booked a roller-skating grizzly bear to perform as the on-ice intermission entertainment at a Hershey Bears game?

• 00:00, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

 

King Kalākaua during his state visit

• ... that King Kalākaua's 1874–75 state visit to the United States (Kalākaua pictured) made the African-American Pacific Appeal newspaper wonder if there was "a sudden abandonment of colorphobia prejudice"?
• ... that historian Felix Römer found that 116 of 137 German World War II combat divisions he researched implemented the Commissar Order, contrary to postwar denials?
• ... that after Schafkopf and Watten, Wallachen is probably the most widely-played card game in Old Bavaria and an indispensable part of Bavarian pub culture?
• ... that the back cover of Luis Miguel's album México en la Piel was changed in 2005 because the original had altered the colors of the Mexican flag, which is illegal in Mexico?
• ... that Chang Chun-Yen, a pioneer of Taiwan's hi-tech industry, was forbidden from going abroad to study because of his father's involvement in the February 28 incident?
• ... that neuroendocrinologist Catherine Woolley found evidence of brain plasticity using a technique described in 1873?
• ... that an enclave of Edmonds, Washington, was formed after several failed attempts at annexing the community of Esperance?
• ... that Brennan's Criterion Bar in Bundoran, Ireland, had no television, discouraged live music, and banned swearing?

• 00:00, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

 

A. tenuissima

• ... that the seeds of Acacia tenuissima (pictured) were used by Indigenous Australians to make damper?
• ... that "Love Interruption" was the first song American musician Jack White released after the breakup of rock duo The White Stripes?
• ... that according to Lea Hernandez, editor of webcomic subscription service Girlamatic, she originally wanted to call the website "ModernGirls" but the name was already taken by a porn site?
• ... that 17-year-old Dutch chess grandmaster Lucas van Foreest has a brother, great-great grandfather, and great-great granduncle who have all been Dutch Chess Champions?
• ... that the East Side Access railroad expansion in New York City has been estimated to cost about $3.5 billion per mile of new tunnel, seven times more than similar projects in other countries?
• ... that Herman Pines, who could not attend university in Poland because of Jewish quotas, worked on developing aviation fuels that helped the Royal Air Force win the Battle of Britain?
• ... that the first woman voted in as head of state says she would not have got her job if women in Iceland had not walked away from theirs?
• ... that Joan L. Mitchell co-invented JPEG?

• 00:00, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Harrods at night

• ... that Zamira Hajiyeva spent £16.3 million at the London department store Harrods (pictured) over a ten-year period?
• ... that the foliage of the cauliflower hakea is so prickly that gloves are recommended when collecting seed?
• ... that racist graffiti on mathematician Chawne Kimber's college campus, along with George Carlin's seven dirty words, inspired her to politicize her quilting?
• ... that the Georgetown Car Barn, opened in 1897, operated as a terminal for cable cars for less than a year?
• ... that Marcel Comeau was a minor league Most Valuable Player, and a junior league Coach of the Year, but never played or coached in the National Hockey League?
• ... that 694 Italians have been recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust in Italy?
• ... that following his retirement from playing, footballer Andy Kerr became a financial advisor in the Far East?
• ... that Peter Kubelka's experimental film Schwechater was originally commissioned as a beer commercial?

• 00:00, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Lady Angela in 1921

• ... that the poet Edith Sitwell described Lady Angela Forbes (pictured) as "an elderly gorilla affected with sex appeal"?
• ... that the stretch limousine involved in the recent crash near Schoharie, New York, killing 20, appeared at two vehicle inspections earlier this year with different license plates?
• ... that in 1800, a reviewer of Francis Hews's writings was unsure whether he should be sent to "Bridewell for correction, or to Bedlam for a cure"?
• ... that Cliona orientalis is a bioeroding sponge that tunnels into such corals as Goniopora tenuidens, Dipsastraea pallida, and Astreopora listeri?
• ... that Liamani Segura, who sang the US national anthem before 1,300 high school basketball fans at age six, taught herself by watching music videos on YouTube?
• ... that Tania Tetlow is the first female president of Loyola University New Orleans?
• ... that Greenwich pensioners played one-armed versus one-legged cricket?

• 00:00, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Courthouse in Bedford, New York

• ... that a museum in the Bedford Village Historic District occupies the former courthouse (pictured), erected in 1787 and the oldest government building in Westchester County?
• ... that the Dutch playwright Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken wrote very popular classicist tragedies, and sent an ode in French to George Washington, for which he thanked her?
• ... that under the Byzantine Empire, the Arab Christian tribe of Bahra' were tasked with guarding the Syrian holy city of Rusafa?
• ... that Puisand Lai represented the Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team in 2018, and was also rated the world's seventh overall in girls' wheelchair tennis in 2017?
• ... that David Benedictus dedicated his 1963 satirical novel You're a Big Boy Now to "the only girl I've ever loved—wherever they may be"?
• ... that the northern striped dogwinkle lays around 550 eggs in a capsule, most of which are eaten by the 10 to 20 juveniles that eventually hatch?
• ... that former First Lady of Slovenia Barbara Miklič Türk met her husband and former Slovenian president Danilo Türk while working as a librarian at the United Nations?
• ... that the first official baseball game in Germany took place under the Nazi regime at the 1936 Summer Olympics?

• 00:00, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Bust of Ptolemy I in the Louvre

• ... that Ptolemy I Soter (bust pictured), a companion of Alexander the Great, founded the Ptolemaic dynasty to which Cleopatra VII belonged?
• ... that the novella Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts was translated as Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing several times, the first in 1866 by Charles Godfrey Leland?
• ... that footballer Bob Jones was signed by Everton as a goalkeeper, despite originally playing as a left half, after the original goalkeeper failed to arrive at a trial?
• ... that the attacks on civilian villages by Soviet partisans in Finland were a forbidden topic in Finland until the 1990s?
• ... that Welsh footballer Stan Griffiths was given a medical discharge during World War II due to injuries suffered during his playing career?
• ... that PSYCHLOPS has been adapted for children?
• ... that Barbara P. McCarthy disagreed with philologist Rudolf Helm about whether or not Lucian originated a particular form of satiric dialog?
• ... that the seed pods of Acacia ramulosa resemble horse tails?

• 00:00, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Red remembrance poppy

• ... that the purple remembrance poppy was created to commemorate animals that served during wartime, but is not endorsed by The Royal British Legion which sells the official red remembrance poppy (pictured)?
• ... that Edward John Granet proposed a successful World War I air raid on a German hydrogen factory and Zeppelin depot using planes shipped in crates from England to Southern France?
• ... that the First World War memorial at Woodvale Park in Belfast is cut to resemble a stone from Giant's Causeway?
• ... that after first-class cricketer Noel Phillips rejoined his regiment during the First World War, he received the Military Cross for gallantry on the battlefield?
• ... that the BBC first televised the National Service of Remembrance from The Cenotaph in 1937?
• ... that when the O'Byrne-class submarines were seized by France before their sale to Romania, the Romanian Navy had to wait 15 more years to get its first submarine?
• ... that Leslie Joy Whitehead, a Canadian woman, enlisted in the Serbian Army as a man so that she might get closer to the front lines in World War I?
• ... that during the First World War, the British Ministry of Munitions proposed trading rubber for German binoculars?

• 00:00, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Luther Monument on a 1902 postcard

• ... that the main statue of Martin Luther in the 1868 Luther Monument (pictured) in Worms appears in several copies in the United States, including in Washington, D.C.?
• ... that the lake at the bottom of Kauhakō Crater has a greater depth-to-surface-area ratio than any other lake in the world?
• ... that the Mexican Army leaked a picture of Misael Torres Urrea that ended up popularizing several drug ballads?
• ... that despite the coral Stylophora pistillata being a common species with a wide distribution, and Stylophora madagascarensis being common around the coast of Madagascar, the IUCN has assessed one as "near threatened" and the other as "endangered"?
• ... that Anne Ratna Mustika, her husband, and her uncle all served as regents of Purwakarta, Indonesia?
• ... that despite clear orders to fire only if fired upon, the German torpedo boat Albatros crippled the Norwegian ship Pol III after being rammed, thus firing the first shot of the Norwegian Campaign?
• ... that Gary Wiren is estimated to have taught golf to more than a quarter of a million people in 32 countries?
• ... that in 1976, the Gilling sword was found in a river by a nine-year old boy, and was subsequently awarded its own Blue Peter badge?

• 00:00, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Chalfont Viaduct in 2009

• ... that the Chalfont Viaduct (pictured in 2009) on the M25 motorway was famous for its graffiti slogan "Give Peas A Chance"?
• ... that Ann Thomas Callahan was one of the first indigenous graduates of the Winnipeg General Hospital's nursing school?
• ... that in the fairy-tale opera Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin by Udo Zimmermann, two orchestras play on stage, representing two empires in conflict?
• ... that Brigadier Leonard Cuthbert Lucas was decorated for his part in the construction of facilities for the British Operation Totem nuclear tests at Emu Field, South Australia?
• ... that despite opposition from within his resistance group, Andrej Steiner orchestrated the arrest of Jewish collaborator Karol Hochberg?
• ... that Changchun Dafangshen Airport was controlled by four different armed forces between August 1945 and May 1946?
• ... that as an adult, Marcy Tigner sold more than two million albums featuring her natural child-like voice?
• ... that during storms on 1–2 July 1968, hailstones the size of tennis balls fell in Cardiff and blood-red rain covered Southern England?

• 00:00, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Mark 1A Light Weight Air Warning Radar

• ... that Wing Commander Alfred George Pither established a network of radar stations (example pictured) in northern Australia?
• ... that Donald Trump "accidentally" contributed to a children's book?
• ... that Frisian poet Cynthia Lenige died in 1780 at age 24, her work being published two years after her death?
• ... that Seattle's replica of the Statue of Liberty stands at around five percent of the original's height?
• ... that in the UEFA matches played by Athletic Bilbao in European football, the club used only one player who was a full international for a country other than Spain?
• ... that activist Andy Stapp joined the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War to build an anti-war movement within the military?
• ... that one of the earliest accounts of the use of cocaine for spinal anaesthesia was given by William Keiller, anatomy professor at Galveston, Texas?
• ... that the Lonely Tree was named Welsh Tree of the Year in 2014 despite having been blown over during a storm?

• 00:00, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

 

The Surrey Stag

• ... that a steel sculpture (pictured) at the entrance to the University of Surrey's Stag Hill Campus was strength-tested before being placed to ensure it could bear the weight of students attempting to climb it?
• ... that drag racer Roberta Leighton was the first woman licensed by the National Hot Rod Association to race in a Gas class?
• ... that the Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini provided a phonetic theory of voicing around 350 BCE?
• ... that Wen Fong co-founded the first Ph.D. program in Chinese art and archaeology in the United States, at Princeton University?
• ... that the crab Zebrida adamsii lives among the spines of a sea urchin?
• ... that Roman Twardy conducted the Wiesbadener Knabenchor in the first recording of a rediscovered Passion oratorio by Johann Mattheson?
• ... that 65 percent of internees at the Topaz War Relocation Center were American-born citizens of Japanese descent?
• ... that Indian Medical Service officer Arthur Francis Hamilton was affectionately nicknamed "Alu", the Hindi word for potato?

• 00:00, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Catherine Kerrison

• ... that historian Catherine Kerrison (pictured) thinks beauty is still important for any woman in the public eye?
• ... that the French video game developer Quantic Dream would consider moving to Canada if its tax breaks were taken away?
• ... that in 1997, the annual Children's Book Award for children's fiction was renamed in honor of Josette Frank?
• ... that the assassination of John F. Kennedy overshadowed the launch of the first season of Doctor Who?
• ... that Maurice Rossel's report on Theresienstadt concentration camp has been described as emblematic of the failure of the Red Cross during the Holocaust?
• ... that subscription-based airline Wheels Up provides a "Same Day Game Day" airline service to college football games?
• ... that the 1227 Gothic church of the Cistercian Marienstatt Abbey escaped demolition because it became a parish church in 1831?
• ... that the custom cars built by Dick Megugorac were described as having "bomb-proof reliability" and "could be driven anywhere, anytime"?

• 00:00, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Avis Crocombe and husband, 1886

• ... that Victorian cook Avis Crocombe (pictured, right) prepared "dead man's leg" for the servants' hall at Audley End House?
• ... that despite being only 8 miles (13 km) long, Washington State Route 546 is considered a major freight highway due to its connections to Interstate 5 and the Canadian border?
• ... that the name of the theropod dinosaur Cristatusaurus means "crested reptile", in reference to a thin sagittal crest located on top of its snout?
• ... that Greg Fitzgerald, the CEO of Bovis Homes, started his career in construction as a tea boy?
• ... that a ruling by the European Court of Justice allowing employers to ban staff from wearing the hijab has been described as a normalization of hijabophobia?
• ... that despite playing as a defender, Ildefons Lima is the leading goalscorer in the history of the Andorra national football team?
• ... that the complete Psalm 131 and the first verse of Psalm 133 in Hebrew comprise the text of the last movement of Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein?
• ... that Chicago alderman Dorsey Crowe survived falling 800 feet (240 m) from a plane and being thrown through the roof of a car?

• 00:00, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Mount Judd

• ... that Mount Judd (pictured) is also known as the "Nuneaton Nipple"?
• ... that Jobst Oetzmann directed the film The Loneliness of the Crocodiles, presented at international film festivals, and the award-winning 484th episode of the police crime drama Tatort?
• ... that Nanchang Qingyunpu Airport, once China's largest airport, was destroyed during the Second Sino-Japanese War?
• ... that in 1931, William Robins carried a colour of Barrell's Regiment in a ceremony to unite it with that of Clan Stewart of Appin, their adversaries at the 1746 Battle of Culloden?
• ... that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Lou Reed considered the guitar-playing on Neil Young's "Danger Bird" to be the best he had ever heard?
• ... that because the court described him as a "simpleton", Stefan Baretzki's admission that he knew the Holocaust was a crime was used to convict other defendants at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials?
• ... that during its time 200 million years ago, Ledumahadi's estimated weight of 12 tonnes (26,000 lb) made it the largest animal to have lived on Earth?
• ... that Mexican drug lord Martín Arzola Ortega complained about the increase in price of potato chips in prison?

• 00:00, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in 2018

• ... that the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (pictured) in Munich, a royal theatre for operettas in the 19th century, presented the German premiere of Harold Rome's musical Fanny in 1955?
• ... that in 1958, Preben von Magnus was the first to describe monkeypox in monkeys?
• ... that the Wisconsin School is a school of thought that uses economic interpretations to explain much of American diplomatic history?
• ... that footballer Óscar Sonejee scored the goal that won the Andorra national football team their first-ever point in an international fixture?
• ... that most Germans who committed war crimes in Italy during World War II never faced justice?
• ... that on her hundredth birthday, British soprano Carrie Tubb was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music?
• ... that the Brooklyn Naval Hospital treated almost a quarter of Union casualties during the American Civil War?
• ... that women brewsters were the primary producers of beer before commercialization of the industry?

• 00:00, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

 

A decorated trajinera by Romero

• ... that the Day of the Dead was commemorated by Betsabeé Romero in Mexico City in 2016 with an installation of 103 trajineras (example pictured) decorated as memorial offerings?
• ... that after the withdrawal of German forces, left-wing partisans defeated and summarily executed some 400 to 2,500 Nazi collaborators in Meligalas, Greece?
• ... that Oded Muhammad Danial, as the deputy mayor of Bandung, Indonesia, established a program for dakwah in city buses?
• ... that small female Patagonian octopuses often choose an empty mollusc shell to lay their eggs in?
• ... that Akshay Nanavati is a US Marine Corps veteran who overcame drug abuse and alcoholism to publish a book endorsed by the Dalai Lama?
• ... that the inter-governmental Working Definition of Antisemitism has generated controversy over its inclusion of examples of criticism of Israel?
• ... that John Lennon and Yoko Ono were heckled for not riding in a hot air balloon?
• ... that Praeludium, a 1992 composition by Graham Waterhouse, has been described as a "dramatic concert piece"?

• 00:00, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Warsaw Ghetto boy

• ... that this photograph (pictured) was taken to glorify the SS men who suppressed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but helped convict them of murder?
• ... that Mary Paton Ramsay argued for the influence of medieval mysticism on the poetry of John Donne?
• ... that decorative patterns using isosceles triangles date back to the Early Neolithic?
• ... that the Indonesian actor Adipati Dolken adopted his stage name from the owner of the villa where he stayed on vacation in Puncak?
• ... that a reviewer came to like John Rutter's anthem O clap your hands better, many years after he first found the jollity of its beginning "a bit relentless"?
• ... that Carl J. Seiberlich was the first naval aviator qualified to land airships, airplanes, and helicopters on an aircraft carrier?
• ... that a sociophonetic study found that young boys lower the pitch of their voice even before puberty to seem more masculine?
• ... that by pushing a glass tube into his ear, pioneering biotremologist Frej Ossiannilsson discovered that the leafhopper inside the tube produced faint vibrations?

• 00:00, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

 

Late sixth-century BC red-figure plate of an ithyphallic satyr

• ... that satyrs (example pictured) are male nature spirits in Greek mythology known for their mischievous and bawdy behavior?
• ... that the citizens of Târgoviște, Romania, put a jinx on boyar Emanoil Băleanu, which was seen as being fulfilled when his wife died in childbirth?
• ... that The Hexer, the first attempt to portray The Witcher universe in film, was "crushed by the reviewers and laughed out by fans", and has since been described as "the film we all want to forget"?
• ... that the sponge Oscarella lobularis can multiply by forming drips and bubbles?
• ... that between 1933 and 1936, Max Troll betrayed hundreds of fellow communists to the Bavarian Political Police, a forerunner of the Gestapo?
• ... that the rock band XTC were a key influence on Britpop and later power pop acts?
• ... that following the July Revolution in France, Heinrich Heine wrote a history of emancipation in Germany, beginning with Luther's Reformation?
• ... that Donald Liebenberg experienced 74 minutes of totality aboard a Concorde during the solar eclipse of June 30, 1973?