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29 February 2008

22:28, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Hagia Sophia (pictured) in Turkey has runic inscriptions left by Vikings?
...that according to the Books of Kings, ancient Egyptians captured and burnt down the Canaanite town of Gezer and gave it as a dowry to the Pharaoh's daughter?
...that Baseball Hall of Fame manager John McGraw said that Bill Monroe "was the greatest infielder he had ever seen"?
...that the Hennepin, which transported construction aggregate around the Great Lakes early in the 20th century, was the first self-unloading bulk carrier in the world?
...that Mohammed Atif Siddique was sentenced to imprisonment after being charged with collecting online files related to the War on Terror and encouraging classmates to watch videos of beheadings?
...that short draw is a hand spinning technique that produces yarn suitable for weaving but not knitting?
...that Quoc An Temple in Huế was founded by a Zen monk from China, whose disciple lineage covers most of the Buddhists in southern Vietnam?

16:27, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

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...that Kazys Grinius (pictured), the third Lithuanian President, was deposed in a military coup on his 60th birthday?
...that Harry Blackmun's colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court felt his long history of baseball in the Flood v. Kuhn majority opinion was beneath the Court's dignity?
...that Vogel State Park is one of the two oldest in the State of Georgia?
...that former Drexel University president Hollis Godfrey was an advisory member of Woodrow Wilson's Council of National Defense?
...that a blue line marks where Pogue's Run once ran through downtown Indianapolis?
...that the 1976 Football League Cup win made Tony Book the first to do so as both a player and manager?
...that Hillary Rodham called children's rights a "slogan in need of a definition"?
...that in 1261, Caesar Alexios Strategopoulos reconquered Constantinople from the Latins, thereby restoring the Byzantine Empire?

09:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the Saviour's Lutheran Church in Baku, Azerbaijan (pictured) survived Joseph Stalin's rule by promising to pray for him?
...that Tran Cao Van's plot to install Duy Tan as the independent boy Emperor of Vietnam happened only after he bribed the boy's chauffeur into allowing him access?
...that Stieg Larsson's posthumously published Swedish crime novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was a best-seller critically compared with War and Peace?
...that Bordeaux wine merchants in the Middle Ages, concerned about the competition from nearby regions, prohibited trading access to Bordeaux until most of their wine was sold?
...that blind Nguyen Dinh Chieu's writings praising Vietnamese revolutionary Truong Dinh saw him regarded as the leading revolutionary poet in the south?
...that the author Amulya Malladi, an expatriate Indian, said that when she first moved to Denmark that "Danish sounded to me like the buzzing of bees"?
...that 13 years after his death in 1875, the future Royal College of Art found a letter from the widow of Richard Burchett, headmaster for over 20 years, asking for a pension?
...that the Buddha statue of Long Son Pagoda in Nha Trang, Vietnam is a major vantage point over the city?

02:29, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

...that canvaswork designs of plants called slips appliquéd on silk or velvet (pictured) were often based on woodcuts from herbals?
...that Grits Gresham, the former host of ABC's The American Sportsman, revealed that Ronald Reagan used a gun to rescue a nurse from a mugging?
...the Trim and Fit weight loss programme targeting obesity in Singaporean schoolchildren resulted in its participants suffering from teasing and stigmatization?
...that squab is the meat from a young domestic pigeon?
...that the formulas John Knox and Harlan J. Brothers came up with to calculate e were no more difficult than college-level calculus?
...that uprisings broke out in 1916 over the jailing of Phan Xich Long, who declared himself Emperor of Vietnam and tried to arm his rebels with magic potion that supposedly made them invisible?
...that people from County Carlow in Ireland are nicknamed "scallion-eaters" because, in the early 19th century, Carlow town supplied most of the onions in Leinster?

28 February 2008

19:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

...that a high speed tablet press (animation shown) can punch out over one million tablets an hour?
...that Dada artist Marcel Duchamp's Bottle Rack was mistakenly thrown away as garbage?
...that Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner was the first military woman to command an operational naval aviation squadron?
...that the Lithuanian Electricity Organization, a planned energy holding company, will be responsible for building a new nuclear power plant in Ignalina in 2015?
...that Hödekin, a house spirit of German folklore, is best known for saving the wife of a man of Hildesheim from committing adultery?
...that the Indiana Medical History Museum is the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the U.S.?
...that the advice of Nguyen Thanh helped to form the partnership between Prince Cuong De and Phan Boi Chau in working against French rule of Vietnam?
...that 7% of electricity in New Zealand is generated by geothermal power?
...that Douglas Fraser's lobbying and member mobilization were critical in convincing U.S. Congress to provide $1.2 billion in loans to a near-bankrupt Chrysler in 1979?

12:36, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the initial Vietcong reaction to the 1963 South Vietnamese coup that killed Ngo Dinh Diem (pictured) was that it must have been a trick?
...that Pierre Galet is considered the "father of modern ampelography"?
...that Gregg Nations made his Lost writing debut with the episode "Eggtown" after being the script coordinator for over two seasons?
...that the Siege of Candia in the Cretan War (1645-1669), lasted almost 22 years?
...that under the Vijayanagara empire, Kannada literature made major progress due to the development of its native metres?
...that according to TV critic Gareth McLean, none of the Britons featured in the Channel 4 documentary series New Hero of Comedy are "Heroes"?
...that the Greater Lynchburg Transit Company doubled its patronage by providing Liberty University's shuttle bus service?
...that naval heroes Peter Tordenskjold and Niels Juel are buried in Copenhagen's Church of Holmen?
...that Nguyen Quyen, principal of the Tonkin Free School, got his first teaching job by default?
...that Jefferson Davis conceded the American Civil War at the Burt-Stark Mansion?

05:29, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Horatio Nelson credited William Locker (pictured) as a major influence on his career?
...that Basil W. Duke became the chief consul and lobbyist for the L&N Railroad after the American Civil War, even though he led many efforts in destroying their property during the war?
...that a papabile was asked during the papal conclave of 1572 by a representative of King Philip II of Spain to withdraw his candidacy in order to maintain peace in Italy?
...that Anstey Hill Recreation Park in Adelaide, South Australia contains ruins of what was the largest plant nursery in the Southern Hemisphere?
...that the Imperial Russian Navy operated the Satakundskaya Flotilla, a gunboat unit on a Finnish lake during World War I, without ever actually firing a gun?
...that construction for the bobsleigh, luge, and track to be used for the 2014 Winter Olympics has been delayed due to high downhill grades and location near a World Heritage Site, including near an endangered species of brown bear?
...that two of North Carolina's most prominent authors, Thomas Wolfe and O. Henry, are buried near each other in the Riverside Cemetery in the Montford Area Historic District in Asheville?

27 February 2008

23:27, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington all visited the Yelverton Inn (pictured) in Chester, New York?
...that John Duncan, a Scottish Presbyterian theologian and missionary, was affectionately known as "Rabbi", due to his knowledge of Hebrew and his passion for the Jewish people?
...that softball pitcher Vicki Morrow was named Big Ten Player of the Year in 1987 after winning 26 games, including 18 shutouts, and striking out 446 batters?
...that the 1945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours included peerages for the heads of the British armed services of World War II and the first awards of the newly inaugurated Defence Medal?
...that The Monkees' 1967 hit "Pleasant Valley Sunday" was named for a street in West Orange, New Jersey, where the song's authors, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, lived?
...that a study by the University of Salford concluded that the high density of high-rise buildings in Salford has "a dramatic influence on the region's weather patterns", in particular by encouraging drizzle?
...that the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Central Powers that helped clear Bolshevik forces from Ukraine?

16:58, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the Milion (pictured) of Constantinople was the origin of all the roads into the European cities of the Byzantine Empire?
...that Nguyen Than Hien and Nguyen Thuong Hien were among the leaders of the Quang Phuc Hoi, the first anti-colonial revolutionary group to advocate a republic for Vietnam?
...that Sariputra, one the two chief disciples of Gautama Buddha, is frequently featured in the Jatakas alongside Mahamoggallana and the Buddha in their past lives?
...that Frederic A. Godcharles served as a Pennsylvania Representative and Senator, as director of its state library and museum, and wrote twelve volumes on its history?
...that prior to Interstate 410 and the Interstate Highway System, Texas State Highway Loop 13 was the primary loop around San Antonio?
...that since 1967 the state of Tamil Nadu in India has been ruled by Dravidian parties?
...that photos of the rogue wave encountered by the MS Stolt Surf contributed to the growing evidence of their presence in the deep ocean?

07:17, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the map (pictured) by Piri Reis, a 16th century Islamic cartographer, is the oldest surviving Turkish map to show the Americas?
...that there is a disagreement on whether Hurricane Emilia was a Category 5 hurricane?
...that Jakub Wejher, one of 17th century Poland's richest magnates, founded the town of Wejherowo?
...that writer Charles Hamilton's estate complained to the BBC that the character played by Peter Stephens in The Celestial Toymaker too closely resembled Hamilton's Billy Bunter?
...that the Joint Communique in 1963 to end South Vietnam's Buddhist crisis broke down in one day, after a scuffle between Buddhists and police?
...that the hiring of Tom Jurich by the University of Louisville was dubbed "the most significant day in the recent history of college sports in Kentucky"?
...that Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama was buried in St. Francis Church in India?
...that the Swedish American Line was the first transatlantic shipping company to operate a diesel-engined ocean liner?
...that Indiana's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts?

01:05, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the 12th-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen published Scivias (illustration pictured) to share her religious visions?
...that David Owen Dodd was a 17-year-old boy hanged as a Confederate spy in the American Civil War?
...that more than one million people in China invested in the Yilishen Tianxi Group Ponzi scheme, which involved breeding ants to be used as ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine?
...that the upcoming Paramount Pictures film G.I. Joe, based on the toy line, had its development delayed because of the Iraq War?
...that Lithuanian supermarkets offered cheaper beer, chocolate and soap to those who voted in the 2003 Lithuanian European Union membership referendum?
...that the origins of Cabernet Sauvignon were likely an accidental crossing of Cabernet franc and Sauvignon blanc?
...that the Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742 between the Anglicans and the Quakers of Philadelphia was caused by their inability to agree on who would supervise the election?

26 February 2008

19:04, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

...that of Bao Quoc, Dieu De and Tu Dam, the three "national pagodas" in Huế under the Nguyen Dynasty, the latter two were vandalised by the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem, while Thien Mu (pictured) was regarded as the unofficial city symbol?
...that John Story, the first Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford, was elected to parliament, gaoled, exiled, re-elected, kidnapped, put in the Tower, tortured, hanged, drawn and quartered, and finally beatified?
...that Ben Chapman, the actor who portrayed the Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon, was a veteran of the Korean War?
...that springs are the main source of water supply in rural Rwanda?
...that the Ferry County Carousel in Republic, Washington has 24 jumping horses with colors ranging from Appaloosa to Red Sorrel?
...that psychoanalytic literary critics blame Volumnia, a character in Shakespeare's play Coriolanus, for her son Coriolanus' aggressive behavior?
...that the relatively advanced age and poor health of Pope Paul III contributed to his successful election to the papacy in 1534?

13:04, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

...that listed structures in the parish of Acton in Cheshire include an aqueduct (pictured), sundial, icehouse, clock tower, telephone box and a statue of a dog upsetting a food bowl?
...that the trial of Satanta and Big Tree was the first time Native American war chiefs were tried for acts committed during a war party?
...that Frederick Law Olmsted planned for The Dorchesterway to extend his Emerald Necklace park system all the way to Boston Harbor?
...that at 1,328 feet (405 m) above sea level, Brockway Mountain Drive in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is the most elevated road between the Rockies and Alleghenies?
...that, despite being blinded and dismissed for attempting to depose Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos, General Alexios Philanthropenos was later recalled to service?
...that Kinkri Devi waged a war on illegal mining and quarrying in her native Indian state of Himachal Pradesh despite her illiteracy?
...that Nina Bang was one of the world's first female government ministers?
...that British MP Peter Thomas was the first Conservative politician to serve as Secretary of State for Wales and the first Welshman to become party chairman?

07:04, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Master Juba (pictured) was the first top billing black man in a blackface minstrel show?
...that the country music group Carter's Chord comprises three sisters, whose parents were in Waylon Jennings' band The Waylors?
...that Kochi in Kerala, India is the only place where Chinese fishing nets are used outside of China?
...that the final section of the Chemins de Fer du Calvados was closed by damage from the 1944 D-Day?
...that the cutter HMS Entreprenante was the smallest British warship at the Battle of Trafalgar?
...that Morarji Desai is India's only Finance Minister to have tabled the Union budget twice on his birthday?
...that the First Presbyterian Church of Chester, New York, has worshipped in three different buildings, all in different locations, in its history?
...that Douglas Barton Osborne Savile showed that the coevolution of rust fungi and their host plants could be used as an aid to plant taxonomy?
...that the US Supreme Court ruled a defendant has a fundamental right not to be tried in court if he lacks a rational and factual understanding of the charges against him?

00:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (pictured) was the first of Queen Victoria's relations to celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary?
...that the psychiatric hospital of Denmark's Capital Region treats about 35,000 patients with mental disorders every year, which is about 40% of the nation's total?
...that French geography professor Henri Enjalbert theorized that Albania, the Ionian islands and southern Dalmatia were the only European regions with grapevines following the last Ice Age?
...that in 1909, New Zealand gifted a new battlecruiser to Britain?
...that disappointment is one of two primary emotions involved in decision-making?
...that the railcar that ran on the Shimoga-Talaguppa railway in India had to be reversed on a turntable, so that it could start its return journey?
...that synchronized swimmer Ruth Pickett Thompson received the AIAW's 1979 and 1980 Broderick Awards?
...that Douglas Henshall and Daniel Craig were originally considered for the roles of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair in 2003 film The Deal?
...that the Memorial Tunnel along the West Virginia Turnpike was the first tunnel in the U.S. to have closed-circuit television monitoring?

25 February 2008

18:55, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Desiderius Erasmus nicknamed his academic opponent Jacobus Latomus (pictured) "Hephestion," a reference to Latomus's distinct limp?
...that Bradford City Football Club blamed their FA Cup exit in the 1919–20 season on a pre-game trip to Fry's chocolate works?
...that swimmer Ann Colloton, the University of Michigan's Female Athlete of the Decade for the 1980s, was inducted into the school's Hall of Honor in February 2008?
...that the Battle of Pogue's Run was done to prevent Democrats from rising against the American Civil War in Indiana?
...that opera singer Rosemary Kuhlmann was an assistant to the international vice-president of PepsiCo for 16 years from the age of 56, despite intending to stay for only four months?
...that the United Breweries' chairman Vijay Mallya, named his Bangalore Royal Challengers, an Indian Premier League cricket team, after his liquor brand?
...that the black locust trees planted in 1767 when Cornelius Wynkoop's house was built along Main Street in Stone Ridge, New York, are part of its historic character?
...that 32 is a desirable score in darts because it is divisible by 2 many times?
...that after sinking the British ocean liner SS Dwinsk in June 1918, the German submarine U-151 remained in the area and used the survivors in seven lifeboats as a lure in order to try to sink additional Allied ships?

11:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the sundial in the Wilanów Palace (pictured) in Warsaw, designed by astronomer Johannes Hevelius, has the figure of Chronos?
...that the Israeli documentary Paper Dolls followed the lives of five health care providers from the Philippines who perform as drag queens?
...that Willis Adcock, a Canadian-American chemist, helped create the first atomic bomb, the silicon transistor, and the integrated circuit?
...that replacing firewood with coal as the main fuel in early modern England led to many problems for the local glass industry?
...that four-star admiral Maurice E. Curts was replaced as commander-in-chief of the United States Pacific Fleet after only two weeks?
...that wine writer Alexis Lichine developed a separate ranking of Bordeaux wine estates, including both Left and Right Banks, while advocating a revision of the original 1855 classification?
...that Sir Yuet-Keung Kan is Hong Kong's longest serving Justice of Peace?
...that the ghost town of Ajax, Utah was centered on an 11,000 square foot (1,000 m²) department store lying entirely underground?
...that William Henry Emerson was the first dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology?

04:27, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

...that in 1908, the Kinzie Street railroad bridge (pictured) in Chicago was the longest and heaviest bascule bridge in the world?
...that after suing to gain Marc Hall permission to take his boyfriend to a Catholic high school's prom, David Corbett was appointed Canadian Superior Justice?
...that Libris Mortis, a comprehensive overview of undead within the Dungeons & Dragons universe, details the use of mummies and vampire spawn as player characters?
...that six-year-old Antonietta Meo could soon become the youngest saint not a martyr canonized by the Roman Catholic Church?
...that four Indiana counties gave land to create Whitewater Memorial State Park as a memorial to fallen American soldiers of World War II?
...that Château Pape Clément, first planted in 1300 by the future Pope Clement V, is the oldest wine estate in Bordeaux?
...that according to Christianity Today, the Born Again Movement and its spinoff new religious groups have nearly twice the size of the government-sanctioned Christian church in China?
...that James Redfern's statues for Bristol Cathedral are now on a Yorkshire church because they were too "papist"?

24 February 2008

22:24, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Greater Manchester has nine castles (one pictured), of which five are Scheduled Ancient Monuments?
...that speed limits on Guam Highway 1 may differ depending on which side of the road you are on?
...that after a year as Assistant Secretary to the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt, James H. Douglas, Jr. left the government and founded a committee opposing Roosevelt's monetary policies?
...that The Star of Poland, the biggest balloon in the world, burned in 1938 during an attempt to beat the high-altitude world record?
...that tennis pro Martina Navratilova lived with vaudeville actress Frances Dewey Wormser and her husband when she arrived in the United States in the 1970s?
...that the production of visual art in Cambodia nearly ceased during the Khmer Rouge period?
...that Mitch Daniels became the first Republican Governor in 16 years in the 2004 Indiana gubernatorial election?

16:14, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the Urnes style (example pictured) was the last phase of Scandinavian animal art?
...that Italian-American aerospace engineer Enea Bossi, Sr. designed a pioneering human-powered aircraft and the first aircraft used by the NYPD?
...that the biggest tax investigation in modern Germany currently targets hundreds of individuals for possible tax evasion by moving assets to Liechtenstein?
...that Paul Feyerabend's autobiography Killing Time contains descriptions of his careers as an officer in the Wehrmacht, an operatic tenor, and a philosopher of science?
...that the Cottonmouth jack is so named because of its pure white tongue and mouth?
...that the Israel Prize was set up in 1953 at the initiative of Israeli Minister of Education Ben-Zion Dinur, who then went on to win the prize in 1958, and again in 1973?
...that Summerlin Parkway, a freeway in Las Vegas, was initially constructed by the Summerlin homeowners' association?

09:48, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

...that during the Korean War the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (pictured) received a Presidential Unit Citation from Dwight D. Eisenhower for their heroism in the Battle of Kapyong?
...that Romanian avant-garde writer and classical violinist Grigore Cugler publicly criticized Communist Party politician Ana Pauker and resigned his diplomatic post, living the rest of his life in Peru?
...that American novel After This by Alice McDermott was included in the New York Times' 100 Most Notable Books of the Year?
...that Thomas Tilling, whose company grew into a major bus operator in Britain by the first half of the 20th century, entered the transport business with a horse and carriage in 1846?
...that scholarly journal Anarchist Studies was attacked by Stewart Home as a "sad and reactionary 'academic' journal" incapable of engaging in critical debate?
...that Hiram Straight was the foreman of the jury in Oregon City, Oregon, that sentenced five Native Americans to hang for the Whitman Massacre?

03:48, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

...that HMS Calliope (pictured) was the only ship in Apia harbour to escape being wrecked in the great tropical cyclone which struck Samoa in 1889?
...that proteins are often broken down into smaller fragments by in-gel digestion before they are analysed by mass spectrometry?
...that in 1922, Erich von Stroheim's silent film Foolish Wives was the most expensive ever produced?
...that when 74-year old Irish politician Pól Ó Foighil was told he was too old to be an election candidate, he challenged the younger man to twenty press ups?
...that Bhushan Steel, the largest manufacturer of auto-grade steel in India, is expanding its capacity to 12 million tonnes annually?
...that Hurricane Hernan was the second of three Category 5 Pacific hurricanes in the 2002 hurricane season?
...that in 1916, footballer Bob Benson volunteered to replace an absent Arsenal team-mate just before a game, only to collapse and die during the match?

23 February 2008

21:27, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the Dendera zodiac (pictured), an ancient relief on display at the Louvre, was originally a planisphere on the ceiling of a temple in Egypt?
...that the centerfire revolver cartridge .44 Russian, despite its name, was developed by an American handgun manufacturer, Smith & Wesson?
...that the East Timor political party Association for the Integration of Timor into Indonesia quickly changed its name to Timorese Popular Democratic Association to improve public relations?
...that in More Demi Moore, Demi Moore appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair eight-months pregnant and wearing only a diamond ring?
...that the first book on Buddhism in Dutch was written in 1879?
...that future four-star admiral Frank H. Brumby was accused of technical incompetence by the Naval Court of Inquiry investigating the accidental sinking of the submarine S-4?
...that Clark State Forest was Indiana's largest Civilian Conservation Corps cantonment?

14:02, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Pope Clement IX (pictured) received a vote in the final ballot from every cardinal present at his election to the papacy in 1667, except himself and Neri Corsini?
...that the ghost town of Melmont, Washington was only populated for twenty years?
...that the award-winning Turkish restaurant Changa in Istanbul is being supervised by the Kiwi chef Peter Gordon?
...that forced labor of Hungarians in the Soviet Union was dubbed malenkij robot (corrupted Russian for "a little work") in Hungary?
...that a dispatcher training simulator is a computer-based training system which simulates the behaviour of an electrical power grid?
...that before his 40th birthday Gus Stager swam for an NCAA championship team and coached three high school championship teams, four NCAA championship teams, and the 1960 U.S. Olympic team?
...that the year 2008 is the 90th Anniversary of the Republic of Estonia?

07:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Mysore Palace (pictured), a tourist attraction in the city of Mysore, is one of the most visited monuments in India, even more than the Taj Mahal?
...that the Scottish investment company Alliance Trust was formed in 1888 from companies providing loans to immigrant farmers in Oregon?
...that the work of make-up artist and body painter Joanne Gair, whose works include the 1992 Vanity Fair cover of Demi Moore, has been featured in ten consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues?
...that in 1907, the Inlet of Vårby in Lake Mälaren became one of the first maritime environments in Sweden to suffer the crayfish plague?
...that Lee Embree took the first air-to-air photographs of the 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor from an unarmed B-17 Flying Fortress, which arrived in Hawaii 30 minutes after the beginning of the attack?
...that the current series of banknotes in Singapore feature the portrait of Yusof bin Ishak, the first President of Singapore?

01:09, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the Fabyan Windmill (pictured) located in Geneva, Illinois is one of the authentic Dutch windmills in the U.S.?
...that future Canadian Senator John Gilbert Higgins hung black crêpe paper on his door in mourning the day that Newfoundland joined Canada?
...that in the forthcoming Bollywood film Krazzy 4, actor Hrithik Roshan performed an "item number" for the first time?
...that Jeff Robinson, who played nine seasons in Major League Baseball, was the thirteenth pitcher in the National League to strike out three batters on nine pitches?
...that a study of 930 patients with fatigue-like symptoms showed 62% testing MELISA-positive to metal allergy?
...that in 2006, Tsering Chungtak became the first Tibetan ever to participate in a major international beauty pageant?
...that F. Scott Fitzgerald was furious when he read his wife Zelda's first novel, Save Me the Waltz, because she had used material which he was planning to use in Tender Is the Night?
...that while Nicholas Fitzherbert was abroad, two priests were arrested in his father's house and hanged, drawn, and quartered?

22 February 2008

17:45, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Hiram Wesley Evans (pictured), the second Imperial Wizard of the "second" Ku Klux Klan, boasted of having helped re-elect Calvin Coolidge as U.S. President?
...that fluoride varnish can be applied to tooth surfaces to prevent tooth decay, but is currently underutilized for the purpose?
...that the Ngoc Lu is regarded as the most important drum of the Dong Son culture of the Bronze Age, whose artefacts have been found at Co Loa Citadel, Chau Can, Lang Ca, Lang Vac, Xuan La and Viet Khe?
...that the first person in England to become a Bahá'í was Mary Thornburgh-Cropper in 1898, the year now regarded as the founding of the British Bahá'í community?
...that geology professor Lawrence Wager was an Arctic explorer and mountaineer who in 1933 reached the highest point yet climbed on Mount Everest?
...that the Chalk Tunnels under Chełm, Poland are thought to total up to 15 km (9.3 mi) in length?
...that although Gather Together in My Name, the second book in Maya Angelou's six autobiographies, was not as critically acclaimed as the first one, it continues the same themes of racism and sexism?

11:45, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the MacCrimmons (pictured), one of Scotland's most famous bagpiping families, have been thought to have roots in Cremona, Italy?
...that many of the 250,000 foreign laborers in Dubai live in conditions described by Human Rights Watch as being "less than human"?
...that alleged paranormal activity at the Andrew Bayne Memorial Library in Bellevue, Pennsylvania reportedly peaked in 1998, when a 400-year-old elm tree on the property was dying of Dutch elm disease?
...that Wetsens station on the North Friesland Railway, which served a sparsely populated part of Friesland, Netherlands, closed in 1902, less than eight months after opening?
...that the great earthquake in 365 CE destroyed nearly all towns in Crete?
...that Dutch Catechism, a bestseller with translations sold globally, was issued by bishops of the Netherlands to make the message of Jesus "sound as new as it is"?
...that only about fourteen of the Tramcars in the National Tramway Museum are operational?

03:54, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

...that systematic recycling of broken glass was a common practice in the Roman glass industry (example pictured)?
...that Hurricane Darby's remnants caused the Space Shuttle Columbia's landing at the end of STS-50 to be postponed for a day?
...that African-American Lemuel A. Penn, murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on suspicion of being a civil rights activist, was actually a career soldier and Bronze Star recipient?
...that the President of Latvia said the result of the 2003 Latvian European Union membership referendum wiped out the divisions of Europe created by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939?
...the geneivat da'at principle in Jewish law has been used to forbid false advertising, insider trading, cheating on the Regents exams, and the failure to cite secondary sources?
...that Labworth Café, built in 1932, is the only example of the architectural design of Ove Arup and was made a Listed building in 1996?
...that the wreck of the scallop dredger Solway Harvester was discovered by the Royal Navy's minehunter HMS Sandown?

21 February 2008

21:50, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

...that prehistoric frog Beelzebufo may have grown to over 40 cm or 16 in (size comparison pictured), larger than any living frogs, and is called "the Frog from Hell" by the media?
...that The Casuarina Tree short stories set in the 1920's Malaya by W. Somerset Maugham came out of travels he paid for by working as a British spy?
...that Iceland was the first country to recognize Lithuania's re-established independence in 1991?
...that Hartford, Connecticut's Webster Theater, opened in 1937 as a movie theater, is now a music venue where Incubus and No Doubt performed when they were barely known?
...that the Arthur Middleton class attack transport USS George Clymer saw service in four major wars and earned a total of fifteen battle stars?
...that Polish poet and political activist Apollo Korzeniowski was the father of novelist Joseph Conrad?
...that the Premier League's proposal to play some matches outside England has been condemned by the Football Supporters' Federation as "outrageous desecration of the national game"?
...that Gordon Parks High School, an alternative school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is named after the famous photographer?

15:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the second walls of Brussels (pictured), after proving ineffective during the French bombardment of Brussels and War of the Austrian Succession, were replaced by a series of roads to facilitate commerce?
...that two years after masterminding the murders of backpackers, Sam Bith was made a general in the Cambodian Army?
...that the Western State Normal Railroad is the only known railroad built by a university and the only funicular operated in Michigan?
...that despite not being present at the Battle of Trafalgar, Richard Strachan was among those rewarded for the victory?
...that the US military's adoption of Eagle Cash stands to save them millions of dollars, and eliminate thousands of wasted man-hours, during the War in Iraq?
...that Sir James Lithgow played a prominent role in restructuring the British shipbuilding industry in the 1930s?
...that a rumour that Kylie Minogue had written a song for Hot Chip's recent album, Made in the Dark, was started by the band itself?
...that Francie Kraker Goodridge, who set a world indoor record in the 600-yard run, did not receive a varsity letter or sports scholarship and had to work as a waitress to put herself through college?

09:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

...that listed building St Leonard's Church (pictured) in Brighton and Hove was on Church Road, but is now on New Church Road after another church was built?
...that Dr. Charles A. Stafford, a flight surgeon, was awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart, and the U.S. Army had a hospital ship re-named after him during World War II?
...that the coal strike of 1981 was the first against Cape Breton Development Corporation since their nationalization in 1967?
...that Laurence C. Jones, the founder of the Piney Woods Country Life School near Jackson, Mississippi, once convinced a white mob not to lynch him by telling them about his educational mission?
...that the Central Park Mall leading to the Bethesda Terrace provides the only purely formal feature in the naturalistic original plan of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux for Central Park, New York?
...that the ocean liner SS Shalom accidentally rammed and bisected the Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali, sinking the bow of the tanker but not the stern?
...that at the time of construction Interstate 70 in Colorado featured the world's highest road tunnel?

02:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the Chevron House (pictured) in Singapore houses the international headquarters of Caltex, a petroleum brand name?
...that Ellyse Perry played both cricket and soccer for Australia at the age of sixteen?
...that Italian painter Perugino had probably finished his altarpiece The Virgin appearing to St. Bernard by the time Raphael became his apprentice?
...that the Valley View Ferry, Kentucky's oldest business, is seven years older than the state itself?
...that the Olive python, Australia's second largest snake, can eat prey as large as a wallaby?
...that the Indonesian occupation of East Timor claimed over 100,000 lives and was characterized by torture, forced disappearance, and starvation?
...that orchidologist Henry Frederick Conrad Sander's magnum opus depicted life-sized orchids in volumes over 20 inches (63 cm) tall?
...that M-209 was the shortest state highway in Michigan at a half-mile until 1996, serving as a connection to a former Coast Guard station?
...that when Galway Councillor Fintan Coogan was re-elected in 1999, the Irish Times reported his victory under the headline "City's Lazarus claims resurrection status as he defeats provider of fish"?

20 February 2008

20:03, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

...that in the 250-year-old Durga Puja of Shobhabazar palace, the goddess (statue pictured) was offered homemade sweets because non-Brahmin patrons were not allowed to offer rice?
...that François de Troy was admitted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with a reception piece called Mercury cutting off the head of Argus?
...that the Satellite Transit System at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is the second oldest airport people mover system in the U.S.?
...that till the 17th century, the Bordeaux wine region of the Haut-Médoc was a vast expanse of salt marshes?
...that California's four-lane Bayshore Highway, now a freeway, was built to high standards in the 1920s and '30s, but was called "Bloody Bayshore" because of the number of crashes?
...that British actress Anastasia Griffith spoke only in an American accent while auditioning for an American character on Damages?
...that a significant number of Iraqis have emigrated to Russia as early as the 1990s?
...that the people of Uniontown, Alabama were surprised that Phillip Henry Pitts built such a large house in 1853, so it is now known as "Pitts' Folly"?
...that paperback rights to Gay Talese's 1971 non-fiction novel about the Bonanno crime family, Honor Thy Father, sold for more money than the paperback rights to Mario Puzo's The Godfather?

13:35, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

...that French miniature painter Jacquemart de Hesdin is noted for his marginalia (example pictured), shapes of animals and foliage which give manuscript pages a frame?
...that the economy of Ohio includes the world's largest plants for processing yogurt, soup, ketchup and frozen pizza?
...that multiple-award winning Indian film Vanaja, which could not be screened in India because it found no takers, was the Master of Fine Arts thesis of its director, Rajnesh Domalpalli?
...that former England under-21 goalkeeper Lee Grant has been described by Owls manager Brian Laws as "probably the most outstanding keeper" in the Championship?
...that Sparrenberg Castle in Bielefeld, Germany, was built before 1250 by the counts of Ravensberg?
...that 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model Melissa Haro was the youngest fashion model contestant on the first season of Project Runway?
...that although London and South Western Railway passenger trains first arrived in Plymouth, England in 1876, its Plymouth Friary railway station terminus was not opened until 1891?
...that Oregonian newspaper co-founder William Chapman served in the first session of the Oregon Territorial Legislature and was Iowa Territory's first delegate to the U.S. Congress?

06:12, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

...that after the Chester Town Hall (pictured) was officially opened in 1869 in Chester, England to replace an earlier building burnt down in 1862, another fire destroyed the council chamber in 1897?
...that moss of the genus Polytrichum has adapted to trap moist air between rows of lamellae?
...that after a recent shooting at Northern Illinois University, a report of a possible gunman on campus was posted on the school's website within 20 minutes?
...that the Jnanpith Award for modern literature in India has been awarded to more writers of Kannada literature, than those of any other Indian language?
...that the American tennis player Michael Leach gained national rankings in doubles playing with his father?
...that four countries are working together with Israelis and Palestinians to create a range of new cooperative economic projects to foster peace, in the Valley of Peace initiative?
...that Family Moving Day was the last entry in Beechwood Bunny Tales, a series of children's books written by French author Geneviève Huriet, to be translated into English?
...that the Heywood class attack transport USS William P. Biddle rescued survivors from four US Navy troopships torpedoed during Operation Torch?

00:11, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the Saxon Garden (pictured) was opened in 1727 as the first publicly accessible park in Warsaw?
...that the Islamic prophet Muhammad, while in Mecca, was a merchant involved in trade between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea?
...that the 9,000 ton McCawley-class attack transport USS McCawley was accidentally sunk during the Solomons campaign in 1943 by friendly fire?
...that after bad reviews, the distributors of the 1992 animated film The Princess and the Goblin used enthusiastic comments from children in its promotional material?
...that Oregon judge William Gilbert opposed Joseph McKenna's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court after the two had served together on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals?
...that computer simulation techniques were used to review the design of One Marina Boulevard in Singapore?
...that the England national football team has only had fifteen managers since the position was made a full-time post in 1946?
...that Tony Spear, a leader of the Mars Pathfinder project, is now working to pursue the Google Lunar X Prize?
...that the white kunzea was among the first Australian plants introduced to cultivation in England?

19 February 2008

17:47, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels created illustrations of the life of the nuns of the abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs (pictured), shortly before it was closed on the orders of Pope Clement XI?
...that the U.S. Supreme Court case Holloway v. United States sought to establish whether the Federal carjacking law applies to crimes committed with the "conditional intent" of harming drivers who refuse a carjacker's demands?
...that De brief voor de koning (The Letter for the King) by Tonke Dragt was chosen in 2004 by the judges of the Gouden Griffel as the best Dutch children's novel of the past fifty years?
...that Brest Fortress in Belarus was belatedly honoured by the USSR as a Hero Fortress in 1965 for its resistance to the Nazi invasion in 1941?
...that Romany Marie's café was a bohemian hangout in Greenwich Village for artists, authors, explorers, scientists, visionaries, and other intellectuals from the 1910s through the 1950s?
...that three Queens of England and several British nobles were beheaded in Tower Green, a space within the Tower of London?
...that 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model Quiana Grant served for four years as her mother's eyes while the latter underwent a series of corrective surgeries for chorioretinitis?

11:47, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

...that during the construction of Centennial Tower (pictured) in Singapore, the tower rose 20 storeys in just three months?
...that the second movement of Symphony No. 21 in A major by Joseph Haydn has a mirror recapitulation, which is unusual for both a work of Haydn's and a symphony?
...that the sQuba, developed by Swiss company Rinspeed, is the world's first car that can be driven both on land and under water?
...that the battle of the Dukla Pass was one of the bloodiest battles in Slovakia's history?
...that Tibbia College, with 84 patents in herbal medicine, is the only medical institution in India to offer education and training in two ancient systems of medicine, Ayurveda and Unaani?
...that U.S. politician William Waldo served as a county judge in Oregon after his younger brother served on the Oregon Supreme Court?
...that the plot of the Lost episode "The Economist" was compared to the Book of Daniel, the TV series Alias, and the film Assassins?
...that Martin Corry, a Fianna Fáil TD for over 40 years, once suggested in the Dáil the use of poison gas to end the Partition of Ireland?

05:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

...that due to its numerous attractions such as Lal Bagh (pictured), Bangalore, the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka, is known as the "Garden City of India"?
...that white nose syndrome has caused a mortality rate of over 90% of bats in some caves?
...that Singaporean artist Chua Ek Kay’s ink paintings blended traditional Chinese painting forms and Western art theories and techniques?
...that four of the five ships operated by the Hamburg Atlantic Line and their successors were named Hanseatic at some point of their tenure in the company?
...that Archduke Felix of Austria was once barred from entering Austria, and he held a news conference to announce his illegal arrival the day after sneaking in from Germany in 1996?
...that the Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico is the largest privately owned, contiguous tract of land in the United States, making its owner Ted Turner the biggest private land owner in the country?

18 February 2008

23:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the Simris Runestones (pictured) include one of the earliest Scandinavian sources that mention Sweden?
...that cleaning up Quassaick Creek convinced Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to make environmental law his lifelong work?
...that as a protest against what they call "Imperial Manila", the local government of Cebu Province forced all of its schools to sing the Philippine National Anthem in Cebuano instead of Tagalog?
...that two 79th Academy Award Best Visual Effects nominees employed mathematician Ronald Fedkiw's model for their special effects?
...that, at a debate on evolution in 1860, Bishop Wilberforce allegedly asked Thomas Huxley if it was through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey?
...that the U.S. Navy's Harris-class attack transports Leonard Wood, Joseph T. Dickman and J. Franklin Bell were all named after U.S. Army generals?
...that Most Rev. S. Arulappa, Archbishop of Hyderabad, was the youngest to be consecrated as a Roman Catholic Archbishop in India?
...that South Korean screenwriter and director Byeon Seung-wook spent five years working on the scenario for his 2006 directorial debut film, Solace?
...that before becoming mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania in 1862, Prescott Metcalf started two railroads, numerous manufacturing firms, and was the director of a canal?

17:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Lingyan Temple in Shandong, China features a nine-storey Song Dynasty pagoda, named the Pizhi Pagoda (pictured) from the Sanskrit word pratyeka?
...that according to Lapsiporno.info, a blacklist of websites compiled by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation included those containing legal pornography?
...that Penny Neer, 1982 AIAW discus champion and one of the top U.S. discus throwers, also blocked 64 shots for the University of Michigan women's basketball team?
...that the Eneabba Stone Arrangement is an Aboriginal stone arrangement once thought to have been associated with survivors of the Vergulde Draeck, a Dutch galleon wrecked on the coast of Australia in 1656?
...that forthcoming Tamil film Aegan, starring Ajith Kumar, marks the directorial debut of choreographer Raju Sundaram?
...that the bobsleigh and luge track used for the 1992 Winter Olympics has 80 km (50 mi) of ammonia refrigeration piping and 40 km (25 mi) of electrical conduit running though its 6,500 m³ (8,500 cu yd) of concrete?
...that Dương Quỳnh Hoa, who socialized with Saigon elites during the Vietnam War, was a communist spy?
...that Shirazi wine from the Persian city of Shiraz was white and has nothing to do with the Shiraz grape used to make wine today?

11:18, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

...that a heather fire in 1996 revealed many more quern-stones than had been previously known on the ancient quarry site of Wharncliffe Crags (pictured)?
...that Francis Bok, who was held as a slave in northern Sudan for ten years, now works as an abolitionist for the American Anti-Slavery Group?
...that Red Plague, a poem of Józef Szczepański, commander of Batalion Parasol during the Warsaw Uprising, was banned in the People's Republic of Poland due to its anti-Soviet sentiments?
...that Momoko Ueda became the youngest golfer in Japan LPGA Tour history to finish first on the money list?
...that the artillery of the Nguyen Lords was so strong that cannons were placed at 4 m intervals along a 12 km defensive wall to repel the rival Trinh Lords of Vietnam?
...that Jeff Groscost oversaw the passing of an alternative fuels bill in Arizona whose cost ballooned from $10 million to $140 million?
...that Sergeant James Graham was declared the "bravest man at Waterloo" for closing the North Gate at Hougoumont, an act which Wellington claimed saved the battle?
...that the origins of Pak Khlong Talat, the primary flower market in Bangkok, Thailand, date to the 1700s?
...that Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Gail Neall was initially so bad that her coach filmed her as an example to other swimmers of what not to do?

04:46, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Fir Island (pictured) is the main northwest Washington wintering area of 30,000 to 70,000 snow geese that migrate from Wrangel Island in Russia?
...that Otte Wallish calligraphed Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948 and helped design its first coins, but since it as yet had no name, he sketched the first postage stamps for a country called Yehudah?
...that of the original 28.9 miles (46.5 km) operated by the Grand Rapids, Belding and Saginaw Railroad, less than 2 miles (3.2 km) remain in use?
...that Vietnamese politician and dissident Hoang Minh Chinh was jailed twice after criticizing the Communist Party?
...that the rooflines of the newest school in the Cornwall Central School District mimic the surrounding hills in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York?
...that the film crew of the forthcoming Tamil film, Kanthaswamy adopted two villages near Madurai to give film profits to?
...that Australian General George Vasey regretted to have sent a small unit too far without adequate support for the Battle of Kaiapit during World War II and considered himself lucky to have won?
...that in March 2007, about five thousand workers were evacuated from Hong Leong Building in Singapore after tremors originating from Sumatra were felt?

17 February 2008

22:28, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

...that twelve floors in Springleaf Tower (pictured), a skyscraper in Singapore, were sold at S$225 million in October 2007, while nine months earlier, they were sold at S$134 million?
...that the Port of Mainz was an important war harbour for the Roman fleet from which Roman ships patrolled the Rhine?
...that official mail stamps were first introduced into the U.S. by the USPOD, due to an 1872 Republican election plan, to abolish free franking that 31,933 people were entitled to at a cost of US$5 million?
...that the "sweaty saddle" aroma associated with Shiraz from the New South Wales wine region of the Hunter Valley is actually a wine fault?
...that University of Michigan Hall of Honor inductee Al Renfrew was the first person to play on a NCAA championship college hockey team and later coach a national champion?
...that "Palestinian archaeology" can refer to a field of archaeological inquiry known as Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and more recently, to archaeological research conducted by Palestinians themselves?
...that in 1940, the USS American Legion transported a Norwegian Princess to the safety of America, along with a vital Bofors 40mm gun to be used as a mass production prototype?
...that Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary in Kerala, India, receives migratory birds from far away Siberia?

16:29, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

...that in the Japanese theatrical art known as Taishū engeki (pictured), it is not uncommon for fans to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of yen on gifts for the performers?
...that many cellular phone ringtones use Music Macro Language, developed in the 1980s as a means of programming music on personal computers and video game consoles?
...that U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has expanded the Human Terrain Team program to match anthropologists with every brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan?
...that "quickfire", a form of arson employed in Scandinavian blood feuds, was punishable by death only if the perpetrator was caught in the act and killed at the scene of the crime?
...that the fifth growth Bordeaux wine estate of Château Cantemerle was not included in the original maps from the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855?
...that the USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14) ran hazardous support missions to the American garrison on the bitterly contested island of Guadalcanal for over 14 months?
...that Holocaust survivor Miles Lerman immigrated to the United States in 1947 and became a major figure behind the establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.?

10:04, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Masaccio's fresco The Tribute Money (pictured) is linked to Pope Martin V's 1423 agreement that the Florentine church be subjected to state tax?
...that Hans Thomsen, the German Chargé d'Affaires in Washington, D.C. immediately prior to World War II, directed an effort to influence the foreign policy platform of the 1940 Republican National Convention?
...that Burrabazar, in Kolkata, expanded from a yarn and textile market into a large wholesale market?
...that, in December 2007, the Canadian bobsleigh duo of Pierre Lueders and Justin Kripps were the first people to slide down the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track that will be used for the 2010 Winter Olympics?
...that trains to London ran eastwards from Devonport Kings Road railway station when it opened in 1876, but from 1890 they ran westwards?
...that Bill Orwig hired Bob Knight as basketball coach at Indiana and has been inducted into the athletic halls of fame at three universities — Indiana, Michigan and Toledo?
...that about three-quarters of the Oroville-Chico Highway (now Route 149) in California's Sacramento Valley has been absorbed by realignments of Routes 70 and 99?

04:01, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the Fuji Xerox Towers (pictured), a skyscraper in Singapore, was given the 2005 Energy Smart Label Award by the Energy Sustainability Unit and the National Environment Agency?
...that when Shiv Chowrasia, a former caddie, won the 2008 Indian Masters golf tournament, he became the third Indian to win a European Tour event?
...that Marie Hartwig, faculty member at the University of Michigan from 1930–1976, was a lifelong advocate for women's sports and one of the first women inducted into the school's Hall of Honor?
...that the Valens Aqueduct was the major water-providing system of medieval Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul?
...that eighteen fallen Confederate soldiers were moved when the Confederate Monument in Georgetown was dedicated?
...that the first Douglas DC-9 jet airliner to crash was West Coast Airlines Flight 956 in 1966?
...that 'HMS Incomparable was a design for a mammoth battlecruiser, proposed by British Admiral Jackie Fisher in 1915, but never built?

16 February 2008

20:08, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

...that water from Tin Brook (pictured) was diverted to create the first canal in New York history?
...that Odd Nansen, son of the famed scientist and explorer Fridtjof Nansen, founded Nansenhjelpen to help Jewish refugees escape the German invasion of Czechoslovakia to Norway, then survived Sachsenhausen himself?
...that Crookham, a village in England, dates as far back as the Domesday Book, but that it split into Crookham Village and Church Crookham upon the founding of the nearby Christ Church in 1840?
...that after Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall resigned, F. Whitten Peters served as acting Secretary of the Air Force for 19 months?
...that according to John of Ephesus, in 583, Empress Constantina, consort of Maurice, gave birth to the first heir born to a reigning Byzantine Emperor in over 100 years?
...that the art critic Charles-Nicolas Cochin was a designer and engraver to King Louis XV's Menus-Plaisirs du Roi?
...that Academy Award-winning film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was adapted from a book by the pilot of "The Ruptured Duck," one of 16 USAAF bombers in the Doolittle Raid on Japan during World War II?

11:40, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the scientific name of the vase-shaped forest fungus Gomphus floccosus (pictured) means 'woolly plug'?
...that the World War II-era Crescent City class attack transports USS Crescent City and USS Calvert each received ten battle stars and a Navy Unit Commendation?
...that Qabala treasures, monetary treasure troves discovered in Azerbaijan, contain drachmas of Alexander the Great and denarii of four Roman Emperors?
...that historian J. Bowyer Bell was tear gassed in Belfast, held hostage in Jordan, shot at in Lebanon, kidnapped in Yemen and deported from Kenya?
...that the oldest black church in Kentucky is the Second Christian Church in Midway, Kentucky's historic district?
...that early plans for Washington, D.C. had the White House facing a convergence of radial avenues centered on the present-day North Lawn, with gardens descending to Tiber Creek in the present-day South Lawn?
...that Satoru Kobayashi, one of Japan's most prolific directors, wrote and directed the first pink film in 1962?
...that Lambda Sigma, a college sophomore honor society originally founded for women only, was required to disband due to Title IX and was reestablished under its current name in 1975?

05:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the facade of Hitachi Tower (pictured) in Singapore has three sections which break the verticality of the tower?
...that the murder of Solomon P. Sharp was the inspiration for a number of literary works, including Edgar Allen Poe's Scenes From 'Politian'?
...that most of Petroleum Road, a privately owned asphalt road in the Golan Heights, is marked on maps as inaccessible to traffic because of poor road quality?
...that film editor Sam O'Steen collaborated on twelve films by Mike Nichols, earning Academy Award editing nominations for Silkwood and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf??
...that "are you other?" or "are you other being?" are Inuktitut translations of the name of Ahimaa Cave, hollowed out of a massive cliff by Qamanirjuaq Lake?
...that the U.S. Supreme Court held in NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. that although employees cannot be fired for exercising their right to strike, they can be "permanently replaced" by strikebreakers?
...that the Pine Creek Rail Trail, a 65 mile (105 km) rail trail along Pine Creek in Pennsylvania, was named one of "10 great places to take a bike tour" in the world by USA Today?

15 February 2008

23:12, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Princess Louisa Maria Teresa (pictured) was called by a Royal Stuart Society paper the "Princess over the Water", an allusion to the title King over the Water?
...that the official cause of the Great Fire of 1811, which lasted for three days and burned down the whole Podil neighborhood of Kiev, was children playing with fire?
...that traditional Chinese phoenixes in carved reliefs of the Qianling Mausoleum are modeled on ostriches?
...that halfback Chuck Ortmann punted 24 times in the famed 1950 Snow Bowl, having decided the best strategy was to keep the slick ball on the other side of the field in the opponents' hands?
...that the Ormsby-class attack transports USS Ormsby and USS Sheridan earned six battle stars for WWII service apiece, and were both scrapped after accidents in 1969?
...that architect Otto Königsberger illustrated his uncle Max Born's popular physics book?
...that textile arts are those arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct and decorate objects such as clothing, carpets, and curtains?
...that the fictional character "Thirteen" in the FOX medical drama House is referred to as such on the show's daily call sheets to further propagate an inside joke within the show's narrative?

16:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Laporte (courthouse pictured), one of thirteen municipalities in Sullivan County, is Pennsylvania's smallest county seat by population?
...that Lactarius helvus, a mushroom whose smell has been likened to Maggi instant soup or fenugreek, was implicated in the poisoning of 418 people near Leipzig, Germany?
...that William Bambridge, the father of England Football international Charles Bambridge was a member of the Te Waimate mission, New Zealand who became official photographer to Queen Victoria?
...that NASCAR official Robin Pemberton's decision concerning the final outcome of the 2007 Daytona 500 resulted in his brother's team finishing second instead of first?
...that the 1989 Malta Summit between the United States and Soviet Union was held onboard SS Maxim Gorkiy, a Soviet cruise ship that had partially sunk near Svalbard less than six months before?
...that Annie Fargé, who played a scatterbrained French wife to an American architect in the 1960 CBS sitcom Angel, was described by Time as "easily the brightest newcomer to situation comedy" though the series folded after one season?
...that a poster in the 2003 Estonian European Union membership referendum called on Estonians to vote yes "for access to millions of sexier men"?

10:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the Métro léger de Tunis (pictured), a public transport system using light rail, is the only one of its kind in Africa?
...that Dr. John Roberton proposed "medical police" and advocated use of cantharides whilst another Dr. John Roberton was a pioneer of obstetrics?
...that most of the American Civil War events in Midway, Kentucky, including that which the Martyrs Monument in Midway commemorates, involved the stealing of horses?
...that the Atlantic Marine ecozone, with its dense fog and massive icebergs, has been feared by mariners who have dubbed its northern extent "Iceberg Alley"?
...that Narmada Bachao Andolan, a NGO in India, was the main reason for World Bank to conduct its first-ever independent review of any of its projects?
...that the 20-year tenure of District Attorney Joe Rubio, Jr. was marred by corruption which led to his father having spent more than three years in U.S. federal prison for conspiracy and extortion?
...that key donors of land to Louisville, Kentucky's 26-mile (42-km) parkway system included a veteran of the Confederate Army and a notorious political boss?
...that the old block of the Bank of China Building in Singapore was the tallest building in the central business district, Raffles Place, from 1954 till 1974?

02:35, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

...that upon completion, the Mausoleum of Khomeini (pictured), under construction since Ayatollah Khomeini died, will have a tourist center, a university and a shopping mall?
...that the kiss between Luke Snyder and Noah Mayer on As the World Turns is the first kiss between gay male characters on a daytime American soap opera?
...that Saint-Bris is the only appellation out of 150 in the French wine region of Burgundy where the wines may contain the grape variety Sauvignon blanc?
...that Edgar Allan Poe satirized the concept of a self-made man in his story "The Business Man" using a character that makes his fortune cutting the tails off cats?
...that every year 70,000 to 80,000 migratory birds visit Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary, an artificially created forest in West Bengal, India?
...that judge Michael W. Mosman was involved in U.S. Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell's voting to uphold Georgia's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick while working as his law clerk?
...that the small private rooms called cabinets gave rise to the political sense of cabinet, after English monarchs began to discuss matters of state in these settings?

14 February 2008

20:24, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

...that when the 18th century artist Alexis Simon Belle (pictured) had his son baptized, the godmother was only six years old?
...that the postage stamps of the Palestinian National Authority have featured many well-known figures, but those with Pope John Paul II might be fake illegal stamps?
...that many villages in Tajikistan received only one to two hours of electricity per day during an on-going energy crisis in Central Asia?
...that Miś Uszatek, a children's cartoon about a bear and his friends, is one of the best-selling export products of Polish TV?
...that the charitable Sheffield Town Trust funded a cricket match which aimed to "prevent the infamous practice of throwing at cocks"?
...that Robert Parker's newsletter The Wine Advocate was the first to widely adopt the 50–100 scale wine rating scale, using it as parallel to the American educational grading system?
...that Bill Keightley is one of only two people who have never played for nor coached the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team to have their jerseys retired by the University of Kentucky?
...that the ocean liner SS Leonardo da Vinci was constructed in 1960 with provisions to be nuclear-powered?
...that an ongoing strike by Gaelic footballers and hurlers in County Cork, Ireland, has led to Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern asking for the players and the county board to resolve their dispute?

14:24, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

...that according to his Memoir, 18th-century painter Julius Caesar Ibbetson (work pictured) was named after the caesarean section which delivered him after his mother fell on the ice?
...that Equine Hippique Canada, Canada's official equestrian federation, describes itself as a "little known and hardly recognized" entity, despite selecting the Olympic teams?
...the world's longest tunnel system is the two parallel tunnels at the Atatürk Dam of Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey?
...that vin jaune, from the French wine region of Château-Chalon, is made with a layer of yeast that grows on top of the wine while in the barrel?
...that the rivalry between Leeds United and Manchester United football clubs has its roots in the 15th century English civil war, the Wars of the Roses?
...that John "Willy" Williams , the Australian World War II air ace who later took part in the "The Great Escape", became a POW merely three days after being promoted to command No.450 Squadron RAAF?
...that in a college prank televised across the United States, spectators at the 1961 Rose Bowl unknowingly displayed the word "CALTECH" in an altered card stunt instead of the nickname of one of the teams on the field?

08:21, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

...that paintings by Henry Howard (pictured) in the "Grand Revolving Temple of Concord" in Green Park had to be saved by the cavalry from "the multitudes of idle and dissolute spectators"?
...that TenneT, the Dutch transmission system operator, is a joint owner of the ±450 kV, 580 km (360 mi) NorNed, the longest high-voltage undersea power line in the world?
...that Seattle pioneer David Denny married his own stepsister, made and lost a fortune worth US$3 million, and survived an axe-blow to his head at age 67?
...that the European fungus Ramaria formosa, found under beech trees, resembles a yellow-tipped pink piece of many-branched coral?
...that English publishers John Stockdale and his son John Joseph Stockdale were involved in separate lawsuits decades apart, which led to changes in the law in 1792 and in 1840, respectively?
...that the Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill Switchback Railroad, the second railroad built in the United States, was a major precursor to the roller coaster?
...that Michiko Maeda, the first Japanese actress to appear nude in a mainstream film, was banned from Japanese cinema for 42 years for disobeying a director?

13 February 2008

23:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

...that, of the 2.6 million hectares of cultivated land in Peru, approximately 1.7 million hectares have an irrigation infrastructure (example pictured) but only 1.2 million hectares are actually irrigated?
...that the French wine region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape has a wine law banning the overhead flying, landing or taking off of flying saucers?
...that before he became involved in the Ituri conflict, alleged war criminal Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui was a nurse?
...that the Great Phenol Plot of 1915 was to divert phenol from U.S. explosives production to prop up German Bayer's aspirin business?
...that rubrics were originally anything written in red letters in a manuscript, but now most often mean instructions, especially for officiating clergy, or scoring tools for tests in education?
...that Wally Weber, football player, coach and broadcaster at Michigan for 45 years, was renowned for his "polysyllabic fluency" and sounding like an "an educated foghorn"?

17:08, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Grey Towers (pictured) is the only U.S. National Historic Site managed by the U.S. Forest Service, since it was the home of its first director, Gifford Pinchot?
...that British Labour MP James Lamond was criticised in the 1980s as an apologist for the Soviet Union because he defended the invasion of Afghanistan?
...that Tunisian Railways operates a standard gauge network in the North and a meter gauge network in the South of Tunisia?
...that financier Gurdon Wattles was responsible for building the historically significant Wattles House in Omaha and the Wattles Mansion in Hollywood?
...that Juliusz Wertheim, a Polish pianist, conductor and composer, was a mentor of Arthur Rubinstein, considered one of the greatest piano virtuosi of the 20th Century?
...that the WWII-era Windsor-class attack transport USS Queens (APA-103) was sunk as an artificial reef off Texas in 2007?

11:06, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the SS Charles W. Wetmore (pictured) negotiated the St. Lawrence River rapids in 1891 to become the first whaleback ship to operate outside the Great Lakes?
...that Jake Simmons, Jr. was the most successful African-American entrepreneur in the history of the petroleum industry?
...that the New Zealand Railways Department's experimental RM class Westinghouse railcar was the first railcar to enter revenue service in New Zealand?
...that Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain, head of the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1900 to the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising, is credited with inventing the game of snooker?
...that Independent Operational Group Polesie, composed of mostly reserve and second line troops, was nonetheless the last regular unit of the Polish Army to capitulate during the German invasion of Poland in 1939?
...that USOC president Doug Roby initially took no action against Tommie Smith and John Carlos after their Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics, but expelled them after an IOC threat to expel the entire U.S. track team?

03:28, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Oak marble gall (pictured) contains large amounts of tannic acid, which was used for making iron gall ink?
...that while Isko Moreno was running for vice mayor in Manila in 2007, posters were distributed of him wearing only swimming briefs?
...that William Hogarth's prints Beer Street and Gin Lane contrast the misery of gin drinkers with the happiness and good health of those who drink beer?
...that Swiss watchmaker Parmigiani Fleurier made the Bugatti 370 – a $200,000 watch in honour of the supercar Bugatti Veyron – which won the 2006 "Watch of the Year" Award from the Japanese press?
...that the CPF Building, which houses the Central Provident Fund Board, was the site of a silent protest by four people demanding greater transparency and accountability in Singapore?
...that tais weaving in East Timor is performed solely by women, using techniques passed down through generations in an oral tradition?
...that Heimir was a Gothic hero who evolved into a traitor through centuries of story-telling?
...that the tide of the Texas-Indian Wars was turned at the Battle of Bandera Pass when six-shot revolvers were used for the first time against the Comanches?

12 February 2008

20:01, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Captain Philip Broke personally led the boarding party from HMS Shannon onto the USS Chesapeake (pictured)?
...that Avenue Charles de Gaulle in N'Djamena is a rare street in Chad to have retained its French name despite President François Tombalbaye's Authenticité Africanization program?
...that state senator Mike Kopp is the only Gulf War veteran currently serving in the Colorado General Assembly?
...that two members of No. 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, were among the 50 Allied POWs murdered by the Gestapo, following The Great Escape in 1944?
...that Keith Munyan, Jr., the Los Angeles photographer who has done publicity shots for Hilary Duff, Cindy Crawford, Jessica Simpson, and other celebrities is himself a former model?
...that during the later stages of World War II, the Bordeaux wine estate Château Lascombes served as a headquarters for the Allied forces?
...that John Percival, when headmaster of Rugby School, gained the nickname "Percival of the knees" because he was concerned about "impurity" and insisted that boys secure their football shorts below the knee with elastic?
...that Cullen Football Club played on a golf course when they were first formed in 1890?

13:54, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Khotyn Fortress (pictured), site of the Battle of Khotyn between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire in 1621, is one of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine?
...that about 12 million people were forced laborers in Nazi Germany during World War II, and less than 2 million received direct compensation after the war?
...that after the New Zealand Railways Department's RM class Thomas Transmission railcar was written off in 1925, the railcar's body was used as a private dwelling?
...that Margaret Downey's first major public activism for atheism was in response to the Boy Scouts of America refusing to renew her son's membership due to his professed atheism?
...that the first bank in Oregon was co-founded by William S. Ladd who had previously built the first brick building in Portland, Oregon?
...that Thaddeus Radzilowski, a Polish-American historian, is a cofounder of the Piast Institute?
...that dozens of tornadoes were produced during a two-day tornado outbreak in 1997, killing at least 27 people in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, USA?
...that 6 Battery Road, a high-rise in Singapore, was on completion the largest building for the Standard Chartered Bank Group worldwide, and represented the largest single investment by a British company?

03:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

...that fungus Tricholoma pardinum (pictured) was responsible for over 20% of cases of mushroom poisoning in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century?
...that a 1907 mansion in Hollywood, California known as Jualita was the location for scenes from the film Rain Man and the TV show The O.C.?
...that while repelling Soviet advances across the frozen Lake Suvanto, Finland managed to capture 12 anti-tank guns, 140 machine guns, 200 light machine guns and 1500 rifles in the Battle of Kelja in 1939?
...that after surviving the battles at Badoeng Strait and Midway, the Japanese destroyer Asashio was sunk in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea while picking up survivors from her sister ship, the Arashio?
...that Louisville's Union Station was the largest such facility in the southern United States?
...that Herbert Armitage James, who was headmaster of Rugby School for 14 years, had one of the best stamp collections in England?
...that when Indian Agent Robert Neighbors was introduced to Comanche Chief Old Owl, the Comanches were so pleased with the agent’s generosity that they proposed adopting him into their tribe?

11 February 2008

18:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

...that during the construction of Samsung Hub (pictured), a high-rise commercial building in Singapore, the building sank on one side from 3 mm to 39 mm in just four months?
...that the lead ship of the Frederick Funston class, the USS Frederick Funston (APA-89), was named after a US Army General lampooned by Mark Twain?
...that vineyard owners in the Provence wine region of Cassis used to hire prostitutes from Marseilles to assist with picking grapes at harvest time?
...that Raymond Jacobs maintained to have been the last surviving member of the original party of Marines who raised the first flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima?
...that French actuary Maurice Princet is known as "the mathematician of cubism" for the role he played in birth of the art movement?
...that the Peachtree Road Race, held annually on July 4 (U.S. Independence Day) in Atlanta, Georgia, is the world's largest 10 kilometer road race with 55,000 runners participating in 2007?
...that Colorado state senator Chris Romer has proposed using a wiki-like web site to involve citizens in drafting legislation?

11:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the first stamps of Palestine (Rachel's tomb stamp, pictured) under the British Mandate were trilingual, due to a League of Nations requirement?
...that the two parts of California State Route 139 were constructed by a joint highway district of Lassen and Modoc Counties and by the U.S. federal government before being turned over to the state?
...that at 2,300 miles (3,700 km) long the Missouri River Valley drains one-sixth of the United States, and is the longest river valley on the North American continent?
...that the Michigan Railroad Commission twice condemned the St. Joseph Valley Railroad because of the poor condition of the latter's line?
...that the death of Orvil Dryfoos, publisher of The New York Times from 1961 to 1963, was attributed to stress from a 114-day strike by his staff?
...that award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow described her dictionary of women's biographies as "a mad undertaking, born of a time when feminists wanted heroines and didn't have Google"?

05:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

...that American painter George Cooke's Interior of St. Peter's Rome (pictured), measuring 17 by 23.5 feet, was the largest oil painting of its time, and still ranks among the world's largest?
...that the physical and chemical properties of water are markedly different when it is heated under pressure at temperatures between 100 and 374°C?
...that during the 2004-2005 vintage, the European Union wine growing zones accounted for nearly 70% of worldwide wine production?
...that Ancient Tondo became so prosperous that the Kingdom of Brunei had to attack it and set up a rival settlement to keep it in check?
...that Academy Award-nominee Tamara Jenkins spent time at Yaddo, the artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, to write her screenplay for The Savages?
...that the first Styxosaurus fossil to be discovered had about 250 stones in its stomach that it probably swallowed for ballast?
...that the Owyhee Dam near Adrian, Oregon, was the tallest dam of its type in the world when it was completed in 1932?

10 February 2008

23:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

...that at Traverse des Sioux on the Minnesota River (pictured), Sioux tribes were induced to enter into an 1851 treaty, ceding 24 million acres (9.7 million ha) for seven cents per acre?
...that the SIA Building, a skyscraper in Singapore, is the flagship building of Singapore Airlines?
...that Sir George Everest, after whom Mount Everest was named, is buried at St Andrew's Church, Hove, despite being born in Wales, dying in London and having no apparent connection with the church or town?
...that the case of Styllou Christofi, the penultimate woman to be hanged in Britain, failed to cause a public outcry because she, in the opinion of her executioner Albert Pierrepoint, was not very glamorous?
...that the environment of Florida supports the breeding of 34 species of non-native fish, a higher number than any other place on earth?
...that Master of Wines, David Peppercorn and his wife Serena Sutcliffe questioned the authenticity of Imperial bottles of Château Pétrus owned by Hardy Rodenstock, inciting a controversy?
...that the 1996 TV film Hidden in America reminded viewers that on any given night, up to five million children in America go to bed hungry?
...that the Tumblagooda sandstone contains the earliest record of animals walking on the land?

17:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the first postage stamps of Israel (pictured) were issued on May 16 1948, within 48 hours of the independent republic being proclaimed?
...that while only three Avro Chinooks, Canada's first jet engine design, were ever built, they led to the very successful Orenda design that followed?
...that swimming Hall of Famer Harry Holiday won 6 NCAA championships, and set 7 world and 18 American records in the mid-1940s but never competed in the Olympics due to World War II?
...that passing the Level 4 diploma program from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust is strongly encouraged before taking the Master of Wine examination?
...that despite a requirement from the Michigan Legislature it connect three counties within ten years of its founding, after 21 years the St. Joseph Valley Rail Road had completed only 7.5 miles (12.1 km) of track, all in St. Joseph County?

10:17, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

...that halos commonly used in Georgian imagery of royalties are missing in wall paintings of medieval Georgian monarchs (examples pictured) discovered at the Betania Monastery?
...that American trauma surgeon Tom Shires operated on both Texas governor John Connally and gunman Lee Harvey Oswald after the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
...that the Pickering Operations Complex, a high-rise telecommunication hotel in Singapore, has eight refrigerating plants each with a capacity of 300 tons, and 16 control centres?
...that Lepoglava prison (Croatian: Kaznionica u Lepoglavi) is the oldest and largest prison located in Croatia?
...that Gay Talese's The Kingdom and the Power from 1969, about the personalities that shaped The New York Times, is credited with beginning the trend of books that report about the media?
...that the first Hillsboro Public Library that opened in 1914 was the only Carnegie library built in Washington County, Oregon?

01:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the Academy of Music in Warsaw (pictured), the oldest and largest music school in Poland, is named after the most famous of its students, Fryderyk Chopin?
...that Chiquibul National Park surrounds the ancient Mayan site of Caracol?
...that Flora Solomon pioneered staff benefits programs at Marks & Spencer that influenced the development of the British National Health Service and Labour's concept of the welfare state?
...that Billy Mercer became caretaker assistant manager of Sheffield Wednesday in October 2006, having previously played for rivals Sheffield United?
...that SGX Centre, a twin building development in Singapore, was built at a location to be the gateway to the new downtown?
...that the international ice hockey career of Art Berglund spanned five decades?

9 February 2008

15:57, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

...that sea otter conservation efforts have included successful translocations of sea otters (pictured) from Alaska to British Columbia and Washington?
...that 1-methylcyclopropene, a synthetic plant hormone, is used to keep produce from ripening prematurely and to keep cut flowers from wilting?
...that the U.S. Supreme Court has held that an employer lockout during a whipsaw strike is not an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act?
...that Thomas Mullins was cashiered in 1815 for failing to have his regiment pick up fascines and ladders, contributing to the British defeat at the Battle of New Orleans?
...that Caesars Indiana's The Glory of Rome is the largest riverboat in North America, and the largest riverboat casino in the world?
...that Spanish anarchist Joan Peiró served as Minister of Industry in the Spanish government, and was later executed by the government of Francisco Franco?

09:55, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Emery Molyneux's 16th-century terrestrial and celestial globes (pictured) were the first to be made in England and by an Englishman?
...that the USA's first locally designed jet engine, the Lockheed J37, spent ten years in development but was never used on a production aircraft?
...that Murray Klein, the co-owner of Zabar's food market, sold Beluga caviar at a loss rather than lose a high profile publicity and price war with archrival Macy's, which was later dubbed the "Beluga caviar war" by the press?
...that ethnographer Eric Mjöberg, leader of the first Swedish scientific expedition to Western Australia's Kimberley region, smuggled out indigenous human remains and that 90 years later, Sweden returned all 18 boxes of them?
...that the first post-war survey of sympathy for Nazism in Germany was conducted in 1947 by the Allensbach Institute?
...that the Bradshaw Trail is a historic overland stage route and the first road connecting Riverside County, California USA to the Colorado River?

01:19, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

...that of the fifty examples of Antonio del Pollaiuolo's Renaissance engraving Battle of the Nudes (pictured) known in modern times, sixteen are in the United States?
...that with the 2008 bird flu outbreak in West Bengal, 16,000 birds were destroyed in Itahar, but health workers retreated from villages that refused to kill their birds?
...that a New York appeals court recently ruled that Sneha Anne Philip died in the collapse of the World Trade Center even though she had been missing since the night before the attack?
...that the Kaimai Tunnel running through the Kaimai Ranges is the longest rail tunnel in New Zealand?
...that butterfly motifs in the textiles of Oaxaca reflect pre-Christian spiritual beliefs among the Mazatec people?
...that Tomotley, a Native American historic site in Monroe County, Tennessee, is currently submerged by an artificial lake?
...that Charlie Fonville broke a 14-year-old shot put world record by almost 12 inches (30 cm) at the 1948 Kansas Relays but was not allowed to stay with the other athletes because he was African-American?

8 February 2008

18:13, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

...that childless Emperor Lý Thái Tông built Hanoi's One Pillar Pagoda (pictured), which resembles a lotus in a pond, after dreaming that the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara handed him a baby son?
...that Bion J. Arnold designed an experimental single-phase alternating current electric locomotive for the Lansing, St. Johns and St. Louis Railway, but a fire destroyed it before it could be tested?
...that just three years after it was founded, the Spanish labor union Solidaridad Obrera became the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo?
...that Hofstra University named its business school after former NASDAQ director Frank G. Zarb?
...that the fungus Boletus luridus may cause nausea and vomiting if consumed with alcohol, or if not thoroughly cooked?
...that outspoken British judge Melford Stevenson once described a case before him as a "pretty anaemic kind of rape" because the victim was the accused's ex-girlfriend?

12:11, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Seattle's Cascade neighborhood (pictured), declared "blighted" in the 1960s after it was cut off from nearby Capitol Hill by Interstate 5, nonetheless contains seven designated Seattle Landmarks?
...that Donald Cameron ('Taillear Dubh na Tuaighe') ("Black Tailor of the Axe") got his nickname after killing the rival Scottish Highlands clan chief in battle with a Lochaber axe?
...that Japanese submarine I-17 was the first Axis ship to shell the United States mainland in World War II triggering an "invasion" scare along the West Coast?
...that Thomas E. Latimer, a one-term mayor of Minneapolis, also played a key role in the landmark freedom of the press case Near v. Minnesota?
...that after being captured from the French, HMS Donegal went on to capture two French ships at the Battle of San Domingo?
...that Prince Gabriel Konstantinovich was saved from execution during the Russian Revolution by the writer, Maxim Gorky?

02:35, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

...that underneath Mount Parish, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, lies a network of World War II air raid precaution tunnels (pictured) totalling 1.8 km (1.1 mi) in length?
...that in 1802 John Francis Rigaud published a translation of Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting?
...that publication of comics in Hungary largely stopped during World War II due to Nazi pressure?
...that over nine percent of ballots were rejected for both questions in the British Columbia recall and initiative referendum, 1991?
...that among the students of Polish pianist Aleksander Michałowski was Jerzy Żurawlew, who founded the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competitions in 1927?
...that Skerryvore, off the west coast of Scotland, considered by some to be the world's most graceful lighthouse, was built by an uncle of Robert Louis Stevenson?

7 February 2008

21:32, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

...that St Mary's Church, Widnes has a wayside pulpit (pictured) incorporated into its boundary wall?
...that American film maker John Korty’s studio in Marin County inspired George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola to establish studios in the San Francisco Bay Area?
...that Omaha, Nebraska pioneer gambler Dan Allen was buried with his madam girlfriend under a concrete slab with columns resembling bedposts?
...that the Athina B became a temporary tourist attraction after becoming beached at an English seaside town?
...that two-time Olympic diving gold medalist Bob Webster won his first collegiate diving title for a junior college with no pool, training off a board in his coach's back-yard sand pit?
...that, at his death, Charlesworth Samuel was one of only two sitting Members of Parliament who attended the first session of the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda in 1981?
...that voice announcer Bob LeMond, who announced on the original, lost pilot episode of I Love Lucy, had to re-record his original lines for the show once the episode was rediscovered in the early 2000s?

13:56, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

...that in his Nuova Cronica (illustration pictured), the 14th century Florentine banker Giovanni Villani described the destruction of the original Ponte Vecchio bridge during the flood of November 4, 1333?
...that leading Canadian human rights activist Kalmen Kaplansky died in 1997 on International Human Rights Day?
...that Noble Ellington, a veteran member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Winnsboro in the northeastern portion of his state, is involved in legal action so that his wife may continue to serve as his legislative secretary?
...that Jesse Lowe, the first mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, is credited with naming the city after the local Native American Omaha Tribe?
...that the only New Deal housing project with spacious, wide-open areas was Lockefield Gardens?
...that the Santa Cruz sheep breed numbers less than 200 individual animals?
...that Russian critics considered Armenian actor and poet Petros Adamian one of the best tragedians of the world for his interpretations of Hamlet and Othello?

02:46, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (pictured) was the first British princess to marry a commoner in over five hundred years?
...that Boletus pulcherrimus, a large red and brown pored mushroom from California and New Mexico, stains dark blue when cut or bruised?
...that award-winning financial analyst Dana Telsey was first hired at a mutual fund company after her mother met a former neighbor on the street and asked him "Can you give Dana a job?"
...that sparkling wine was produced in the Languedoc wine region of Limoux long before it was produced in Champagne?
...that an engineer for the Michigan United Railways devised a special shoe which allowed the motorman to cut ice build-up on the third rail, in response to Michigan's harsh winters?
...that the tilted trees in Canada's Taiga Shield, caused by repeated freezing and thawing of the shallow soil's permafrost, have been likened to a "drunken forest"?
...that American Judge Herbert Jay Stern, who served on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, presided over a jury trial in the U.S. court for Berlin, Germany, which was the subject of the book and movie Judgment in Berlin?

6 February 2008

19:41, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

...that when Canterbury Presbyterian Church (pictured) closed in 2004, its congregants were absorbed by a nearby church that had split from Canterbury twice in its 178-year history?
...that director Li Yu's Fish and Elephant is often considered the first lesbian-themed film to come out of mainland China?
...that the Sumter-class attack transports USS Warren (APA-53) and USS Wayne (APA-54) collectively earned 11 battle stars for WWII service and were both converted postwar into container ships?
...that Arsenio Lacson was the first person to be elected to three terms as mayor of Manila?
...that Czar Peter I of Russia not only stayed as a blacksmith's personal houseguest at what is now called the Czar Peter House in Zaandam, but also paid a widow boarding there to move out so there would be room for him?
...that Barton Academy in Mobile was the first public school in the U.S. state of Alabama?
...that Canadian biochemist Archibald Macallum used measurements of ionic concentrations in blood sera to argue for the ancient marine origin of all vertebrates?

13:36, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the sarcophagus of King Gustav I of Sweden and his consorts at Uppsala Cathedral (pictured) had once been confiscated by authorities in Antwerp because the Flemish sculptor Willem Boy was in debt?
...that Leonard Skierski was one of fourteen Polish generals to be murdered by the NKVD in the Katyn massacre of 1940?
...that the network of railways in Plymouth, England, once served 28 stations, but today just six stations remain in use?
...that the first Lutheran church in Omaha, Nebraska became the largest Lutheran congregation in the United States by the 1920s?
...that visitors to James Whitcomb Riley's boyhood home inspired Riley to write many of his poems, including Little Orphant Annie?
...that Pandora Jewelry's charm bracelets feature a patented thread system that allows beads to be evenly spaced across the band?
...that the disappearance of jellyfish from Kāne'ohe Bay has generated concerns about maintenance of the local yellowtail scad population?

02:22, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the 18th-century artist William Peters regretted the erotic works he had painted (example pictured) when he became an Anglican minister later in his life?
...that the construction of the James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home was paid for by the owner's contract to supply hardtack to Union troops in the American Civil War?
...that Gregorio Perfecto High School is named after the politician, Gregorio Perfecto, who signed the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines with his own blood?
...that Thomas Masterman Hardy's first command was HMS Mutine, a ship he had himself captured at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife?
...that, according to legend, the Northumbrian princess and saint Osana's grave is said to have trapped the concubine of the priest of the church in which she was buried?
...that Leonard McEwan, in an unusual move, stepped down from the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1974 to become instead a district court judge in Sheridan, where he had earlier practiced law?
...that model Anna Loginova founded a women bodyguard firm in Russia because male bodyguards are sometimes made to wait outside restaurants while the client is inside?
...that the Gough Map, housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, is the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain and is believed to date from sometime between 1355 and 1366?

5 February 2008

17:13, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Vermont coppers (pictured) were the currency used in Vermont before it became a U.S. state in 1791?
...that although clansmen or clanswomen of a Scottish clan may wear a Scottish crest badge, the actual crest and motto within the badge are the sole property of their chief?
...that the Black jack, Caranx lugubris, was first described in 1860 by Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey in his two-volume work Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba, or "Natural History of the Island of Cuba"?
...that Panagbenga Festival was not only created to celebrate Baguio's flowers and culture but also to prove that the city has recovered from the 1990 Luzon earthquake?
...that the Soviet Leningrad Front was subject to a 28 month long blockade in World War II?
...that the 1973 Rose Bowl holds the attendance record in American college football bowl games at 106,869?
...that Khwaja Ahsanullah and his son Khwaja Salimullah clashed over the latter's Islamic fundamentalism?

07:05, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the Xa Loi Pagoda (pictured), which boasts Vietnam's tallest bell tower, was raided and vandalised by the special forces of President Ngo Dinh Diem?
...that famed Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley would regularly supply the children of the Lockerbie Square with candy on his walks?
...that Kimberly Crest House and Gardens, a Victorian mansion and California historic landmark donated to the city of Redlands for a botanical park, is a mirror image of the Magic Castle?
...that the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty was concluded between private citizens and the Comanche, then recognized by the United States, and opened 3,000,000 acres (12,140 km²) to settlers?
...that in the Ukrainian-Soviet War (1917-1922) the Ukrainians fought for their independence first from the Russian Empire, and then the Soviet Union?
...the first chief justice of the Australian Capital Territory Richard Arthur Blackburn heard the first significant Aboriginal Land Rights case in Australia?

4 February 2008

21:21, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the redside dace (pictured) is the only species of minnow to routinely feed on flying insects by leaping from water?
...that Dick Kimball, University of Michigan diving coach 1958–2002, won national championships both as a springboard diver and trampoliner?
...that Votan, a legendary figure from Mesoamerica, has been erroneously identified with the Norse god Odin and the Mayan ruler Pacal the Great, among others, despite a lack of evidence?
...that British Columbia's Creston Valley, the province's first Wildlife Management Area, is a Ramsar wetland of international importance and a global Important Bird Area?
...that 3–5.5 million OST-Arbeiters, slave laborers from Eastern Europe, worked in Nazi Germany during WWII?
...that Connecticut Route 136 is one of only two state highways in Connecticut that has a gap in state maintenance?
...that Multinational Division Central-South, part of the Multinational Force Iraq, has been under the Polish command since its creation in 2003?
...that the wetlands of the Hudson Plains are "notorious for their large populations of biting insects"?

13:48, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Joseph Farington (pictured) kept a diary almost daily from 13 July 1793 until 30 December 1821 that has provided historians with insight into the London art world as well as first-hand accounts of important political events of the day?
...that Cape Leeuwin, the most south-westerly point of the Australian continent, is named after the Dutch galleon Leeuwin?
...that when Jean-Paul Sartre's classic first novel Nausea appeared in 1938, it was reviewed by Albert Camus, still a journalist in Algeria working on his own later-classic first novel, The Stranger?
...that the indigenous Nambikwara language of Brazil has a special implosive consonant used only by elderly people?
...that tradition has it that Warren Hastings hunted with elephants in the jungle in Chowringhee, now a business district in Kolkata, India?
...that Tiggy Legge-Bourke was the nanny of Prince William of Wales and his brother Prince Harry?
...that due to the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, English letter writers often used two dates on their letters, a practice known as dual dating?

05:41, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

...that in the early 1950s Air Marshal Donald Hardman (pictured) transformed the Royal Australian Air Force's command structure from one based on geographical area to one based on operational function?
...that despite denouncing Fidel Castro's 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks, politician Carlos Rafael Rodríguez became one of Castro's most trusted allies after the 1959 revolution and served as Vice President?
...that the Grey-faced Sengi is the first living species of elephant shrew to be described in over a century?
...that a discontinued 1980s hockey helmet by sporting goods manufacturer Cooper Canada Ltd. is today used in making a particular puppet?
...that University of Michigan All-American softball player Jenny Allard has led Harvard University to its first four Ivy League softball championships since taking over as coach in 1995?
...that the strength of the Ukrainian People's Army fell from 300,000 to just 15,000 after five months of war with Soviet Russia?

3 February 2008

23:41, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Samuel Johnson wrote a satirical verse on the 21st birthday of his protégé Sir John Lade (pictured) that, aside from correctly predicting his future career, partly inspired A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad?
...that the name of Whangaroa Harbour, an inlet on the northern coast of the Northland Region of North Island, New Zealand, comes from the Māori lament "Whaingaroa" or "What a long wait" of a woman whose warrior husband had left for a foray to the south?
...that American luger Tony Benshoof set the fastest recorded luge speed at the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track used for the 2002 Winter Olympics when he reached 86.6 mph (139.5 km/h) in October 2001?
...that Indiana state governor Frank O'Bannon stayed at Fort Harrison State Park while the governor's mansion was being made handicapped-accessible?
...that Group 13 was a notorious group of Jewish Nazi collaborators within the Warsaw Ghetto, known as the Jewish Gestapo?
...that local boyars protested against the Russian annexation of Bessarabia after the Russo-Turkish War in 1812, arguing that the Ottoman Empire had no right to cede a Moldavian territory?
...that epidemiologist Brian MacMahon showed for the first time that women who give birth early in life have a lower risk of breast cancer?

17:41, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

...that sixteen ships of the US Navy's Gilliam class, including Banner, Carteret, Dawson (pictured), Gasconade and Geneva, were expended as atomic bomb targets after barely two years of service?
...that in the late 1860s, the soprano Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa and her husband Carl Rosa founded the Parepa-Rosa English Opera Company, which introduced opera to places in the United States that had never staged it before?
...that the Matsés language of Peru has undergone some mixing with other indigenous languages because the Matsés people previously had the custom of capturing women from neighboring tribes?
...that George Schlatter was the manager of the comedy club where Dan Rowan and Dick Martin performed before going on to produce their Emmy Award winning TV show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In?
...that Abraham Gancwajch was one of the most prominent Jewish Nazi collaborators and criminals in the Warsaw Ghetto?
...that publishing an illustrated edition of David Hume's The History of England was a financial disaster for Robert Bowyer?

11:23, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Ralph Barton created a number of group caricatures (image map pictured), including one of 139 faces?
...that the USS Garrard (APA-84), like other ships in her class, had an active service life of less than two years?
...that George Nicol organized the 42-day book auction which inspired the influential Roxburghe Club?
...that Polish duke Władysław the White gained a nickname of King Lancelot due to his adventurous life?
...that Lewis Call developed an account of post-anarchism based on the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and cyberpunks such as William Gibson?
...that Marian Gołębiewski, a clerk and elementary school teacher, would become one of the elite Polish commandos during WWII and later, a member of the anti-communist resistance in Poland?
...that the easternmost part of California State Route 20 follows a branch of the historic California Trail, parts of which have been preserved as a National Recreation Trail?

02:38, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver, (pictured) the second named for an African American, was sponsored by singer Lena Horne and constructed in 42 days from start to delivery?
...that Timoteo Viti was probably responsible for part of the training of Raphael in Urbino, and many years later worked under his direction in Rome?
...that residents of Indianapolis came to the aid of Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Morton, providing food, clothing, and nursing?
...that the Petit Pont in Paris, France has been destroyed at least 13 times since its construction in the Roman era?
...that Dzhigit is a reference to a skillful and brave equestrian in the Caucasus, and the derived term "Dzhigitovka" means the special style of trick riding, which originated in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and is also popular with Russian Cossacks?
...that the German four-mast sailing ship Herzogin Cecilie, under Finnish flag after 1920, won the "grain race" from Australia around Cape Horn to Europe four times from 1926 to 1936?
...that Scottish music publisher Robert Bremner disagreed with Francesco Geminiani's opinion on vibrato, and removed a passage advocating its use from a reissue of one of Geminiani's publications?
...that after spending fifteen years building the largest telescope in the world, scientists in the Soviet Union were dismayed to find that BTA-6 performed much worse than the Hale telescope it was designed to beat?

2 February 2008

20:27, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

...that La Mojarra Stela 1 (pictured), a 4-ton artifact of the Epi-Olmec culture, features a Mesoamerican ruler and appears to record his ritual bloodletting and a "dripping sacrifice"?
...that John B. Harman, father of the current deputy leader of the British Labour Party, was the defence's main witness in the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams?
...that the Mansfield, Coldwater and Lake Michigan Rail Road owned two non-contiguous railway lines, each in a different U.S. state, and each leased by a different company?
...that over Edouard Deville’s lifetime, his method of photogrammetry was used to map mountainous regions in Canada roughly the size of the United Kingdom?
...that the Pensacola Convoy, which in 1941 carried the first United States soldiers to be based in Australia, was planned initially to reinforce Allied forces defending the Philippines?
...that Marlon Brando's disinherited Tahitian grandson Tuki Brando became famous as a model for Italian men's Vogue at 16 and the face of Versace in 2007?
...that the USS Cortland (APA-75) was the object of a failed Nazi sabotage attempt in World War II?
...that herring scad (Alepes vari) from the Red Sea has high levels of luminescent bacteria living symbiotically with the fish as part of the fish's gut flora?

15:05, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

L'Âme de la France

...that the bronze L'Âme de la France (pictured) lay face-down on the ground from 1948 to 1968 after it fell from its pedestal during a tropical cyclone?
...that screening and treatment with antibiotics are recommended for asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy?
...that Jacob Piatt Dunn in 1886 wrote the first scholarly history concerning the Indian Wars?
...that because Fr. Joseph Strub believed the Irish were not seen to be as hard-working as Germans, he specifically requested that Fr. William Power not be selected as the first rector of the Pittsburgh Catholic College?
...that in recent years the alcoholic beverage ouzo has been subject of intense scientific study?
...that Indianapolis' Garfield Park Conservatory was the first glass and welded-aluminum conservatory in the United States?
...that production of Lost: Missing Pieces (short mobisodes/webisodes spun-off from the TV series Lost) was delayed several times due to contractual issues with the actors, writers and directors guilds?
...that William Revelli, director of the University of Michigan Marching Band for 36 years, was the first to synchronize music and movement, in place of traditional rigid military-style formations?

05:36, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

...that in 1968, French astronomer Agop Terzan discovered Terzan 7 (pictured), an unusually young 7.5 billion year old globular cluster of the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy?
...that U.S. Route 50 in California was the route traveled by many '49ers and the Pony Express, and later became California's first state highway and a branch of the Lincoln Highway?
...that Oregon U.S. District Court Judge William G. East ordered Robert F. Kennedy to explain why the U.S. government should not pay fees to a private attorney who was ordered to defend a criminal defendant?
...that Association Footballer Billy Mosforth was a leading exponent of the screw shot, which allows players to bend the ball's trajectory?
...that Omaha pioneer real estate agent Byron Reed was one of the greatest collectors of the 19th century, with a collection currently valued at almost $8,000,000?
...that despite being unfinished, the Lazaro Cardenas Dam successfully protected the Mexican towns of Gómez Palacio and Torreón from possible flooding triggered by Hurricane Naomi in 1968?

1 February 2008

20:02, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

...that the first and only President of London's Oriental Club was the Duke of Wellington (pictured)?
...that in 2002 the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad bought 41½ miles (66.8 km) of track between Meadville and Corry, Pennsylvania for $1?
...that the 1982 release of the album Juju Music by the Nigerian band King Sunny Adé and His African Beats has been credited with launching the World Beat movement in the United States?
...that the Polish Astronomical and Meteorogical Observatory, located on the peak of Pop Iwan (2022 meters above sea level) in Chornohora, was the highest located permanently inhabited building in interbellum Poland?

Augustus Kountze went on to establish a banking institution with branches in Omaha, Denver and New York City?
...that women in Rome were forbidden to drink wine, under penalty of death or divorce?

13:37, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

...that a bridge has existed at the site of the Pont Notre-Dame (pictured) in Paris, France since antiquity?
...that presidential candidate Barack Obama's chief of staff, Pete Rouse, came to be known as "the 101st Senator" due to his savvy on Capitol Hill?
...that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zhang Jianzhi, despite a long civil service career, did not become a chancellor until age 79, and a year later took part in overthrowing the only female emperor in Chinese history, Wu Zetian?
...that Paul's walk, the central aisle of Old St Paul's Cathedral, was a grapevine for London gossip and news during the 16th and 17th centuries?
...that John William Hansen, a member of International Cricket Council's Code of Conduct Commission, is a New Zealand High Court justice?
...that before the bobsleigh track in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy was shortened to its current configuration in 1981, it was used as part of the film For Your Eyes Only?
...that Biglow Canyon Wind Farm is the largest planned wind farm in the U.S. state of Oregon?

05:37, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

...that Carl Frederik von Breda (pictured), a Swedish portraitist who trained with Joshua Reynolds, was unable to complete his two largest commissions due to a coup and lack of studio space?
...that David Suzuki: The Autobiography is actually David Suzuki's second autobiography?
...that Israeli scholar Charles Liebman pioneered contemporary scholarship on American Orthodox Judaism and argued that "religious extremism is the norm" in Israel?
...that Charles R. Brayton, as political boss of Rhode Island, pushed through legislation called the Brayton Act that limited the state's governor to appointing little more than his own private secretary?
...that the radio station of North Community High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the official broadcaster for traffic reports in the area?
...that German philosopher Leo Frobenius thought that all non-European culture in Africa had to be the result of a white civilization which he called the African Atlantis?
...that Kenneth Summers pastored four Assemblies of God churches before being elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006?