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30 June 2009

20:35, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

... that lutetium tantalate (Lu Ta O₄) (crystal structure pictured) is the densest known stable white material and is therefore an ideal material for X-ray phosphors?
... that astronomer Rolf Brahde provided commentary for the 1969 moon landing on Norwegian television?
... that the vestararius managed both the wardrobe and money of the pope from the 8th to 11th centuries?
... that Pete Overfield won a professional American football championship in 1901 and was later nominated by U.S. President William Howard Taft as a federal judge in Alaska?
... that the 1953 Asian Socialist Conference held in Rangoon, was an important precursor to the 1955 Bandung Conference?
... that Cherokee Chief J. B. Milam funded an expedition to Mexico in 1939 to find the grave of Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee writing system?
... that members of a thief network, named "Pink Panthers" by Interpol, have stolen millions of dollars worth of jewels by driving limousines through a window, escaping on a speedboat and cross-dressing?

14:35, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Pigeon Island National Park (pictured) contains some of the best remaining coral reefs of Sri Lanka?
... that as Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Wayne L. Horvitz played a major role in negotiating labor disputes ranging from coal strikes to musicians at the Metropolitan Opera?
... that Xi, a console-based alternate reality game, involved the users in searching for clues in the real world?
... that Earl Donnchadh of Carrick gave lands to Paisley Abbey so that he could found a new abbey at Crossraguel, but because the monks of Paisley wanted to keep the lands for themselves the foundation was delayed?
... that defunct Christian radio station KPBA was owned by former National Football League tight end Jackie Harris?
... that Ingvald Smith-Kielland left his ambassadorship in the Czechoslovak Republic after the Prague Spring?
... that the "Wizard of Oz" and "Iron Man" are just two of the four members of the Baseball Hall of Fame who have won Gold Glove Awards at shortstop?

08:35, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

... that W. J. M. Lokubandara (pictured), the current Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, assumed the position after he won the election by one vote?
... that HMS Canopus served for less than six months for the French Navy, and then for 89 years for the Royal Navy?
... that SN 2002cx was classified as a type Ia supernova, but does not have some features that define a type Ia supernova?
... that Angeles University Foundation, Arellano University and the Emilio Aguinaldo College are the guest teams playing in the 2009 basketball season of the Philippine NCAA?
... that the success of the championship 1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team inspired promoters to form the first National Football League in 1902?
... that 20th-century medieval scholar Erika Cheetham interpreted Nostradamus' writings as prophecies of Napoleon, Hitler, and the establishment of modern Israel?
... that although it was mocked by Indira Gandhi's Congress (I) as the "Congress for Defectors", Jagjivan Ram's Congress for Democracy helped the opposition Janata Party win the 1977 election?

02:35, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

... that University of Chicago fullback Clarence Herschberger (pictured) has been credited as the first player to run the Statue of Liberty play?
... that typical subjects for late medieval Andachtsbilder include the Pietà, Pensive Christ, Man of Sorrows and Arma Christi, and the Veil of Veronica?
... that Nanuli Shevardnadze, wife of the future president of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze, initially rejected his marriage proposal, fearing her family background would ruin his career?
... that while the Pakistan Socialist Party won several seats in 1954 in East Pakistan due to reservations for religious minorities, the party opposed such reservations in principle?
... that Bernardo Peres da Silva, the only native Governor of Portuguese India in its 451-year history, was deposed after just seventeen days in office?
... that the leaves of young Bagassa guianensis trees are so different from those of the adults that taxonomists considered them to be different species for at least 150 years?
... that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Subway" was inspired by an episode of the HBO documentary series Taxicab Confessions where a detective talked about a man who became pinned between a subway train and the platform?

29 June 2009

20:35, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Atlantic flyingfish (pictured) can glide 3 to 12 metres (10 to 39 ft) in the air after jumping out of the water?
... that Norwegian politician Rolf Thommessen edited the newspaper Tidens Tegn for more than twenty years, from 1917 to 1938?
... that the 1932 Colgate University football team was "undefeated, untied, unscored upon, and uninvited" after being snubbed by the Rose Bowl?
... that Centipede were an English jazz/progressive rock band with more than 50 members?
... that during World War II, Richard Andvord conducted illegal resistance work through the company Rich. Andvord, founded in 1865 by his ancestor of the same name?
... that industries that have shaped the Hudson, New York, historic district include whaling, antique shops and prostitution?
... that Frank Bossard was the first spy caught with the aid of an electronic transmitter?

14:35, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Wilsonville Memorial Park is both the oldest and largest park in Wilsonville, Oregon, and includes a barn built in 1901 (pictured)?
... that although he headed the Royal Stables of Norway from 1945 to 1960, Richard Andvord only had responsibility for motor vehicles?
... that the Veterans Benevolent Association, an early organization for gay American veterans, worked with the NAACP to end the issuance of the less-than-honorable blue discharge?
... that the classically-inspired porticoes on the Hudson, New York, post office echo those of the Columbia County courthouse across the square?
... that Michel T. Halbouty was a wildcatter who was credited with discovering more than 50 oil and gas fields, though he twice declared bankruptcy?
... that a Maya ruler of Ixlu, a small ancient city in Guatemala, claimed to be the lord of the major Maya city of Tikal?
... that John Mayberry, Jr. hit his first two career home runs against the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays, the last two Major League Baseball teams for which his father John Mayberry played?

08:35, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

... that although the Stonewall riots in 1969 are generally recognized as the beginning of the modern gay liberation movement, there were over a dozen pre-Stonewall LGBT rights actions in the US (Barbara Gittings pictured picketing)?
... that the rarely seen Rufous Scrub-bird occurs on Mount Banda Banda in New South Wales, Australia?
... that pioneering lesbian journalist Edith Eyde only assumed the pseudonym Lisa Ben after editors of the lesbian magazine The Ladder rejected her first choice, "Ima Spinster"?
... that Ukrainian naturalist, lecturer, artist and author John Lhotsky was credited as the first discoverer of gold in New South Wales?
... that the 1749 pamphlet Satan's Harvest Home blamed influences from France and Italy for promoting effeminacy and homosexual contact among British gentlemen?
... that Kelly Misa ranked 84th in the FHM Philippines' sexiest women of 2006?

02:35, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the LGBT rights group One Iowa held public forums during the landmark case Varnum v. Brien to discuss the importance of marriage equality (pro same-sex marriage rally pictured)?
... that Isambard Kingdom Brunel used light rails and heavy timber baulks for the Great Western Railway's baulk road track because existing technology could not produce strong rails?
... that despite having organized the first LGBT rights demonstration in the US, activist Randy Wicker denounced the Stonewall riots, saying that "throwing rocks through windows doesn't open doors"?
... that the poet William Dickey finished a poem about the death of his mentor, John Berryman, shortly before his own death in 1994?
... that São Gabriel was one of the two ships of Vasco da Gama's armada that returned from the trip to India?
... that the main theme of Indian novelist V.J.P. Saldanha's writings was the 18th-century captivity of 60,000 Mangalorean Roman Catholics at Seringapatam?
... that the organizers of San Francisco's Trans March rerouted the event through the city's Mission District to draw attention to violence against transgender people?

28 June 2009

20:35, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the publication of a rare memoir by concentration camp survivor Heinz Heger has been described as a turning point in the gay community's adoption of the pink triangle symbol (pictured)?
... that HMS Lively won five battle honours during the Second World War, despite a career lasting less than a year from commissioning to being sunk?
... that the Los Angeles chapter of the Gay Liberation Front organized a project to take over the government of Alpine County, CA, to establish a gay separatist community called Stonewall Nation?
... that the Maya archaeological site of El Tintal, in the northern Petén region of Guatemala, includes a triadic-style pyramid estimated to be 30 metres (98 ft) tall?
... that the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building is the tallest building in Harlem?
... that Pungent Stench's early demos compiled on Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins caused a "considerable amount of interest" in the group, leading them to sign a deal with Nuclear Blast?

14:35, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the first patron of St Mary's Church, Mold (pictured) was Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII?
... that Alan Wagner, the first president of the Disney Channel, was also an opera critic and radio personality?
... that Philipp Schoch is the only snowboarder to win two gold medals at the Winter Olympic Games?
... that while Chief of Defence Staff Jean Boyle was ridiculed for ordering the Canadian military to halt nearly all operations for one day to search for missing files, some were subsequently found?
... that Indian women's activist Moturu Udayam is said to have been the first woman to ride a bicycle in the state of Andhra Pradesh?
... that a "no ID, no sitting on the bench" rule will be implemented in the 2009 UAAP basketball season to avoid what happened last year when a coach was given a technical foul for not wearing his ID?

08:35, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the unusual finger structure of the dinosaur Limusaurus (pictured) gives clues on how dinosaur hands evolved into bird wings?
... that despite its author keeping detailed journals of his experiences, the baseball memoir Odd Man Out was criticized by many people named in the book as being factually inaccurate?
... that as governor of Davao del Norte, Prospero Amatong oversaw the creation of nearby Compostela Valley, eventually serving as the new Filipino province's interim governor in 1998?
... that Christian Zheng Sheng College on Lantau, Hong Kong, has a dormitory on Cheung Chau from which students take small ferries called kai-tos to get to school?
... that the British 21st Army Tank Brigade had so few tanks after the Battle of Dunkirk that two-thirds of the brigade was forced to serve as infantry?
... that Mika Tervala won gold medals in all the first five World Championships in mountain bike orienteering?
... that the estimated population of Japan significantly decreased from 160,300 in 1300 BC to 75,800 in 900 BC?

02:35, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Bishop Aloisius Muench (pictured, center), the liaison between the Vatican and the U.S. post-war occupation authority in Germany, referred to the latter as "other Hitlers in disguise"?
... that the Garfield School, a 19th-century schoolhouse in Brunswick, New York, is considered unique for its time period because its design was commissioned?
... that Coleman Coker's work has been featured in the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum, the New York City MoMA, the San Francisco MoMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the National Building Museum?
... that Duguetia tobagensis, a small tree endemic to the island of Tobago, has only been collected three times since its original discovery in 1912?
... that Luchador Mascara Dorada had to outlast nine other wrestlers to win the CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship?
... that the Quartermaster Award is the highest rank in the Sea Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America?
... that Broderbund's computer game Orly's Draw-A-Story won the inaugural Interactive Achievement Award for Computer Innovation in 1998?

27 June 2009

20:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Liebotschaner Beer, produced by some United States breweries, was originally brewed in and named after the Czech village of Libočany (pictured)?
... that Negro league baseball executive Cum Posey organized the East-West League in 1932, but the league folded before the end of the season?
... that during World War II, the Czech actor Oldřich Nový refused to divorce his wife, as a consequence of which they were both imprisoned in a German concentration camp?
... that the internal column (columella) of the shell of snail Holospira is hollow?
... that San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic Joel Selvin was an early member of the rock and roll band Rock Bottom Remainders, made up of authors and journalists?
... that in 1906, Georgian Socialist-Federalists managed to seize 315,000 rubles during an attack on a Russian treasury in Dusheti?
... that Helena Palaiologina, Queen consort of Cyprus, gave orders for the nose of her husband's beautiful mistress to be cut off?

14:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Chitradurga Fort (pictured) in Karnataka has so many interconnecting tanks to harvest rain water, it was said it never ran out of water?
... that the City of Carlisle is the largest city in England in terms of area, but is one of the smallest by population?
... that Hans G. Furth, Professor in the Faculty of Psychology of the Catholic University of America, trained to become a concert pianist and performed for Jewish internment camps?
... that Aso Mining Company, which belongs to Prime Minister of Japan Aso Taro's family, allegedly forced prisoners of war to work in mines during World War II?
... that the windmill at Aylsham in Norfolk was built so well that its demolition was abandoned?
... that Congregation Emanu-El in Victoria, British Columbia, built in 1863 in the building boom that followed the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, is the oldest surviving synagogue in Canada?
... that Wushan Man, a species of Homo, was identified from a fossil jaw found south of the Yangtze River but is now thought to come from an extinct ape that lived in China two million years ago?

08:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Nymphaea nouchali (pictured) is the national flower of Sri Lanka where it is known as Nil Manel in Sinhala?
... that Jan Władysław Dawid was a lecturer at the Flying University in Warsaw?
... that the shooting death of striking miner Tom Manning in the 1920 Anaconda Road Massacre in Butte, Montana is still officially unsolved?
... that in 1992, the Utah Utes football team, coached by Ron McBride, ended a 28-year bowl game drought by appearing in the 1992 Copper Bowl?
... that choreographer Sergey Vikulov selected three lead couples where Jennifer Olayvar was one of the dancers chosen to perform in La Fille Mal Gardée?
... that in September 2008, the Abu Dhabi Media Company established Imagenation, a subsidiary with access to more than US$1 billion with which to finance film production?
... that former long jump record holder Carol Lewis tried out for the 2002 Winter Olympics bobsleigh team?

02:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

... that dominant white, a collection of related genetic conditions, causes horses to be born with no skin pigmentation and completely or partly white coats (example pictured)?
... that there are more than 250 different crystalline forms of silicon carbide, and that some of them have a 301.5 nm lattice constant, about 1,000 times longer than usual lattice spacings?
... that Liam Jurrah, a Warlpiri from Yuendumu, is the first Indigenous Australian from a remote community in Central Australia to play in the Australian Football League?
... that Mexican group Los Bukis won the Lo Nuestro Award for Best Regional Mexican Song in 1989 with their number-one single "Y Ahora Te Vas"?
... that in the 2009 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament's semi-finals Wayamba beat Ruhuna in the bowl-out to reach the finals?
... that Sacajawea Peak is the highest point in the Wallowa Mountains and the sixth highest peak in Oregon?
... that Milwaukee Brewers baseball player Dan Thomas was called the "Sundown Kid" because he refused to play on Sabbath?

26 June 2009

20:35, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the district office at the Bly Ranger Station (pictured) in south central Oregon was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937 at a cost of $1,700?
... that Charles Cameron, fired and deprived of his house by Paul I of Russia during the battle of the palaces, later lived in retirement in Paul's favorite palace?
... that Harvard historian Ernest May's 1997 book The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis was the primary source for the 2000 film Thirteen Days starring Kevin Costner?
... that in Albanian folklore, the zana, mountain fairies revered for their beauty and courage, are said to have watched approvingly over Albanian protests against the 1878 Treaty of San Stefano?
... that Kendrick Moxon assisted Scientologists in filing 50 lawsuits against the Cult Awareness Network, which eventually led to the bankruptcy of the organization?
... that the koa wood hull of a Hawaiian-style outrigger canoe named Mālia became the mold for modern fiberglass racing canoes?
... that How Am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns? was described as "disgusting" by the parents of one of its creators?

14:35, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

... that around 30–40 endangered Sri Lankan elephants (pictured) are present within Kumana National Park?
... that Japanese tenor Taro Ichihara made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the role of the Italian tenor in Der Rosenkavalier?
... that the 2001 Gator Bowl was the final collegiate game of American football star Michael Vick?
... that Stylianos Zaoutzes, the father-in-law of Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise, was one of only two people to ever be awarded the title of basileopator, meaning "father of the emperor"?
... that the strong, dark red timber of the Australian hardwood tree the Narrow-leaved Ironbark was used in Elizabeth Farm, Australia's oldest surviving European dwelling?
... that Korea Aerospace Research Institute's STSAT-2 (Science and Technology Satellite-2) will carry two payloads, a satellite laser ranging and a Lyman-alpha Imaging Solar Telescope?
... that Geary Eppley, an administrator at the University of Maryland, confiscated thousands of copies of the student newspaper when it printed an exposé on dormitory living conditions?

08:35, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the 1906 firing of John McLean (pictured) for paying an athlete to play college football was called "the biggest scandal in the history of Missouri athletics"?
... that some historians argue that Haimo, a medieval royal official who died around 1100, was one of the first barons of the Exchequer?
... that in 1796, Abraham Bradley, Jr. published the first comprehensive postal route maps for the United States Post Office Department?
... that Chennai Central Prison was 172 years old when demolition of its premises began in June 2009?
... that former Olympic show jumper Marion Coakes won a silver medal on a pony and learned to ride on a donkey?
... that St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, Wales, contains monuments to W. E. Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his family?
... that the song "Debo Hacerlo" written by Juan Gabriel has been covered by Aleks Syntek, Pandora, Nydia Rojas and Ana Gabriel?

02:35, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Francis Amasa Walker (pictured) was brevetted a Brigadier General in the Union Army at the age of 24 and placed in charge of the 1870 United States Census at 29?
... that during the tour in promotion of the album Rise to Power, the death metal band Monstrosity headlined the Rock Al Parque festival in Bogotá, Colombia, and performed in front of 80,000 people?
... that the website United Kingdom Election Results is listed as a resource by the Parliament of Australia, The University of New South Wales, and The University of York?
... that Iceland–Norway relations date back to Norwegian colonization of Iceland in the ninth century?
... that in the course of its 150-year history, Haili Church has survived earthquakes, tsunamis, lava flows, fires, and heavy tropical rains?
... that Edward Hanrahan, groomed to succeed Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, saw his elected career end after a 1969 police raid that resulted in the death of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton?
... that the section of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 covering arbitration clauses was described as "very messy" and "a mire"?

25 June 2009

20:35, 25 June 2009

... that Saint Afan's Church, Llanafan (pictured), near Aberystwyth, Wales, was originally founded by Saint Afan in the 6th century?
... that masked wrestler Dos Caras, Jr. only defended the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship four times in 533 days?
... that the satellite GPS IIR-1, intended to become part of the United States Air Force Global Positioning System, was destroyed 13 seconds after launch?
... that the 1979 Australian vampire-science fiction film Thirst drew influence from sources as diverse as Elizabeth Báthory and Soylent Green?
... that the current minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Marcellus, New York, was ordained in 1956?
... that Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios is regularly visited by tourists wishing to view the U2-inspired graffiti adorning the walls?
... that Prescott, Arizona, Mayor Sam Steiger was criminally prosecuted for painting a crosswalk between the local courthouse and the saloons on Whiskey Row?

14:35, 25 June 2009

... that the Ceylon Tree Nymph (pictured) is the largest butterfly of the Danaidae family in Sri Lanka?
... that Joseph Anthony directed The Rainmaker, its 1956 film adaptation, and the musical version 110 in the Shade?
... that Specific ion Interaction Theory is a theory used to estimate single-ion activity coefficients in electrolyte solutions at relatively high concentrations?
... that Israel's Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center, known for its association with Jerusalem Syndrome, was built on the site of a 1947 massacre?
... that Sverre Mitsem wrote the column "SORRY" in Norway's Aftenposten from 1946 to 1996, the year he turned 89 years old?
... that the New York Islanders's 2009–10 season will be the franchise's 38th season in the National Hockey League?
... that a Royal Command Performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers was held before Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1891?

08:35, 25 June 2009

... that Matthew Boulton's (pictured) Soho Mint struck the first copper British pennies?
... that the Rumford Prize, awarded for excellent contributions to the fields of heat and light, is one of the oldest scientific prizes in America?
... that Air Vice-Marshal John Ernsting became a professor at King's College London and Imperial College, London after a successful military career of 35 years with the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine?
... that the song "Qué Te Pasa", performed by Mexican singer Yuri, became the longest running number-one single of the 1980s in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks?
... that due to rapids on the Rogue River, mules had to be used to transport mail to the post office at Illahe, Oregon?
... that Czech actress Olga Scheinpflugová suffered a heart attack directly on the stage, during her performance in the play Mother, written by her husband Karel Čapek?
... that Hughie Lehman, the Blackhawks third head coach, was hired after yelling at the first Chicago Blackhawks owner Frederic McLaughlin?

02:35, 25 June 2009

... that Marie Taglioni (pictured) made her 1830 London debut in Flore et Zéphire, the ballet credited with the introduction of dancing sur les pointes?
... that by the end of its second year in business, Participant Media's films had been nominated for 11 Academy Awards?
... that Zalman Shapiro, who received a 2009 patent for a method of diamond synthesis at age 89, was instrumental in developing the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus, launched in 1954?
... that the Little Red Schoolhouse in Brunswick, New York, served as a one-room schoolhouse from the 1830s until 1952?
... that the Tonkin commemorative medal was awarded to the French soldiers and sailors who participated in the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War, between 1883 and 1885?
... that despite being named one of the "top prospects of the decade" by Baseball America, American baseball pitcher Nick Neugebauer compiled a career record of just two wins and eight losses?
... that the protagonist of the Japanese PlayStation 2 RPG Venus & Braves is a 345-year-old with the appearance of a teen

24 June 2009

20:35, 24 June 2009

... that Laura M. Cobb (pictured) of the US Navy Nurse Corps was a Japanese POW in World War II for 37 months, during which time she continued to serve as Chief Nurse for ten other imprisoned Navy nurses?
... that Charles Perrault's The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots existed in a handwritten and illustrated manuscript a full two years before its publication in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697?
... that Canadian security guard Claude Brunelle, who was killed during the 1985 Turkish embassy attack in Ottawa, was awarded the Star of Courage?
... that limbic resonance is a process of "internal adaptation whereby two mammals become attuned to each other's inner states"?
... that historian Philip D. Curtin challenged widely-used estimates that 20 million African slaves had crossed the Atlantic, estimating that 9.5 million had arrived in the Americas by 1870?
... that the New York Yankees refused to allow its logo to appear in the Homicide: Life on the Street three-part episode "Blood Ties", which featured a subplot involving a murderous Yankees fan?

14:35, 24 June 2009

... that James F. Calvert (pictured) commanded the nuclear submarine USS Skate, the first ever to surface at the North Pole when it did so on August 11, 1958?
... that the inaugural 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens took place in Scotland, the birthplace of the rugby sevens variant of rugby union?
... that Indian labour leader J. Hemachandran called for a ban on sales of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the state of Tamil Nadu?
... that Mincarlo is the last surviving sidewinder fishing trawler of the Lowestoft fishing fleet?
... that Freeman Fitzgerald played football with Knute Rockne and once struck out 19 batters in a baseball game?
... that the taillight shark has a gland on its belly that releases clouds of luminescent blue fluid?
... that British civil engineer Thomas Page, who designed Westminster Bridge, suggested placing a submerged tube between England and France to be used as a tunnel?

08:35, 24 June 2009

... that at night, the Pacific angelshark (pictured) may use bioluminescent plankton to target its prey?
... that while in Boston in 1768, sailors and marines from HMS Romney tried to confiscate a merchant vessel belonging to John Hancock?
... that in the Scottish village of Badbea, livestock and children were tethered to prevent them being blown over the cliffs?
... that when former New Jersey Senate President George H. Large died in 1939, he was the last surviving participant in the first college football game ever played?
... that the Norwegian band Superfamily consists of several academics, including lead singer Steven Wilson who holds a Ph.D in chemistry?
... that in tropical cyclone naming, the name "Hazel" is the only name to be retired in both the Atlantic and in the East Pacific?
... that 51 composers wrote a total of 83 variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli, which were published in 1823–24 as Vaterländischer Künstlerverein and included Beethoven's 33 Diabelli Variations?

02:35, 24 June 2009

... that colonization of mature black spruce trees by jelly drops (pictured) helps protect them from future infection by rot-causing fungi?
... that the 1977 U.S. Supreme Court case Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. dealt with the legal issues of broadcasting a human cannonball act without consent?
... that the Feminist Improvising Group challenged the male-dominated musical improvisation scene in the late 1970s?
... that Krijn is the common name for the first Neanderthal discovered in the Netherlands?
... that 461 Fifth Avenue is a post-modern skyscraper noted for its use of a pre-cast concrete finish to mimic the appearance of limestone?
... that baseball player Don Kelly was drafted by the Detroit Tigers, made his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and later played his first game as a Tiger against the Pirates?
... that Tamazight language cannot grammatically express an equivalent to the English phrase "who saw what?"

23 June 2009

20:35, 23 June 2009

... that relative to its body size, the horn shark (pictured) has the strongest known bite of any shark?
... that Dan Povenmire was at a Wild Thyme restaurant in South Pasadena, California, when he first drew the character Phineas Flynn?
... that the new Puzhal Central Prison is the largest prison in India and provides relatively more facilities to inmates?
... that the 1963 Leopold Report was written in response to the controversial killing of an estimated 4,309 elk in Yellowstone National Park by the U.S. National Park Service?
... that Wade Walker helped smuggle the 1963 Mississippi State basketball team out of the state to play a racially integrated opponent in violation of a court order?
... that Bible translations in the Middle Ages were rare because "the vernacular appeared simply and totally inadequate" for such a prestigious work?
... that John Houghtaling created the Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed, which reached its peak of popularity in the 1960s, earning US$2 million in gross revenue each month, 25 cents at a time?
... that Leucopaxillus albissimus, one of the larger mushrooms in the San Francisco Bay Area, has a fruiting body unusually resistant to decay?

14:35, 23 June 2009

... that despite a buildup that lasted nearly two years, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh's (pictured) 2008 presidential campaign officially lasted two weeks?
... that Robert Despenser, a royal steward under King William II of England, derived his surname from his office which was also known as dispenser?
... that St. Paul's (Zion's) Evangelical Lutheran Church in Red Hook, New York, converted to Lutheranism from the German Reformed Church when they could not find a new pastor?
... that Polish philosopher Józef Kalasanty Szaniawski began as an advocate for restoring Poland's independence but ended as a high government official in Russian Poland—and an enemy of philosophy?
... that Virginia Cavaliers halfback Eugene "Buck" Mayer became the first consensus first-team All-American from a Southern school in 1915?
... that it has been argued that privity in English law is simply an element of consideration?
... that Socrates Hotchkiss Tryon's land claim was logged for firewood to be used in a foundry by the Oregon Iron Company, but is now the Tryon Creek State Natural Area?
... that during the American Civil War, the Third Tennessee regiment was sent to Camp Trousdale to help relieve disease, but its soldiers still suffered from epidemics?

08:35, 23 June 2009

... that penalties for possessing or supplying cannabis (dried flower pictured), one of the many drugs illegal in the UK, were reduced in 2004, only to be increased in 2009?
... that of the 68 track sprinters who have broken the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres, only Patrick Johnson is not of West African descent?
... that following the 1995 Dayton Accords, it was suggested that Bosnian mujahideen commander Abdelkader Mokhtari had secured a cache of SA-7 missiles through his influence with the President?
... that the Keane Wonder Mine in Death Valley was mined so intensely in the early 1900s that it has begun to collapse?
... that Villy Christensen is a core developer of the ecosystem modelling software system Ecopath, which NOAA named as one of the ten biggest scientific breakthroughs in its history?
... that according to rumour, an Englishman was murdered and a fire ruined Metcalfe's testimonials during a Christmas Eve party in 1895 at the Metcalfe House in Delhi, India?
... that the developers of the simulation game PHM Pegasus consulted with the hydrofoil manufacturer Boeing Marine Systems to increase the realism of hydrofoils in their game?
... that Dick King, who played in the early days of the NFL, was called "one of the greatest backs who ever wore moleskins"?

02:35, 23 June 2009

... that unlike other king parrots, the male and female Moluccan King Parrot (pictured) are similar in appearance?
... that Sir Frank Newsam took charge of the British recovery efforts after the North Sea flood of 1953 and "secured achievements that would have surprised Canute"?
... that Ken Boyer and Clete Boyer are the only brothers both to have won Gold Glove Awards at third base?
... that Alphonso Boone, grandson of Daniel Boone, started a ferry in Oregon that ran from 1847 until 1954?
... that in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, Ardingly, West Sussex, one gravestone depicts angels watching a skeleton stabbing a woman with a lance?
... that while Justice Minister, Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim lobbied for decriminalization of the use of marijuana?
... that Prince Carl Philip of Sweden is a licensed race driver currently driving for Flash Engineering in the Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia?
... that "The Great Gilroy", the leading scorer in college football in 1916, was charged in 1940 with stealing 35 shoe stitching machines from a Massachusetts factory?

22 June 2009

20:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

... that University of Chicago football star Laurens "Spike" Shull died of wounds suffered rushing a machine gun nest at the Battle of Château-Thierry (pictured)?
... that a neutron monitor can only directly detect neutrons, but is used to indirectly detect cosmic rays, high-energy charged subatomic particles impacting the Earth's atmosphere from outer space?
... that Aine Lawlor presents Morning Ireland, Ireland's most listened to radio programme?
... that John Watts de Peyster prevented the Tivoli, New York, village board from meeting in the firehouse he had built for them, because of a tax dispute?
... that as a child, Swedish opera singer Hjördis Schymberg and her four sisters performed live music to accompany silent films?
... that there are six nature reserves in Jordan?
... that after writing songs for Garth Brooks, Stephanie Davis joined Brooks' road band and recorded an album for Asylum Records?
... that the Cemetery of the Holy Rood has a privately funded area set aside for the burial of abandoned children?

14:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the June 2009 state funeral of Omar Bongo (pictured) was attended by 40 heads of state, including representatives from France, Spain and the President of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe?
... that American business historian Thomas K. McCraw won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for History for Prophets of Regulation?
... that country music singer-songwriter Roger Miller's third studio album, The 3rd Time Around, was the only record of his career to top the Country Album charts?
... that Michael Annals designed the sets for productions of Macbeth in the Soviet Union and in Portugal?
... that the South Woods at Montgomery Place near Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, are the oldest oak forest in the Hudson Valley?
... that, because of a bout with mononucleosis, Dale Castro became a record-setting college football placekicker and consensus All-American?
... that before St Wilfrid's Church was built, Anglicans in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, had to worship in the loft of a carpenter's workshop?
... that masked wrestler Ephesto is named after the Greek god Hephaestus?

08:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

... that members of the Poker Hall of Fame won events at the Super Bowl of Poker, the second most prestigious poker tournament, in 1979, '81, '82, '83, '84, '85, '86, '87, '88, '89, '90, and '91, but actor Gabe Kaplan (pictured), who portrayed "Mr Kotter" in Welcome Back, Kotter, won in '80?
... that Uruguayan Senator Rafael Michelini, whose father Zelmar was assassinated, is a politician active in human rights issues?
... that an estimated 75% of examples of American cobblestone architecture can be found within 75 miles (121 km) of Rochester, New York?
... that the Pâquet family, which owned much of what is now Saint-Nicolas Heritage Site for over 150 years, has included local, provincial and federal politicians?
... that the Yaocomico Native Americans traded the land that became St. Mary's City, Maryland to English settlers for tools and cloth?
... that Albert Adu Boahen, an academic at the University of Ghana, challenged former head of state of Ghana Jerry Rawlings in the presidential election of 1992?
... that the Lee Child novel The Visitor was published as Running Blind in the United States because the American publisher thought the original title sounded too much like a science-fiction novel?

02:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Franco-American alliance (Battle of Yorktown pictured) was sealed in February 1778 by Benjamin Franklin, officializing French support in the American War of Independence?
... that John Murray, presenter of Ireland's most popular radio show, once worked as a deputy press secretary for the Irish government?
... that in 2009, the newly discovered ultramicrobacterial species Herminiimonas glaciei was isolated from 120,000-year-old glacial ice, 3,042 metres (1.89 mi) deep?
... that Rommie Loudd was the first African American majority owner of a major league sports team?
... that the 1923 Kraków riot resulted in over 30 fatalities and helped in the fall of the Chjeno-Piast government of Wincenty Witos?
... that U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign won the most Democratic primary votes but was denied the nomination at the party's 1968 National Convention?
... that Christian Rynning-Tønnesen accepted a CEO job offer of Agder Energi in 2006, but changed his mind shortly after when offered the same position in Norske Skog?
... that George Harrison included two versions of the song "Isn't It a Pity" on his All Things Must Pass album?

21 June 2009

20:35, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the work of Kohno Michisei (pictured) was influenced by European art, which he knew almost exclusively from books and magazines?
... that the Village Diner in Red Hook was the first diner in New York to be listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
... that Ole Mørk Sandvik was a founder and first president of the Norwegian Folk Music Research Association?
... that there are ninety-four federal district and territorial courts in the United States?
... that Irish journalist Mary Wilson received three out of five stars for her meal on reality television show The Restaurant?
... that Indonesia and Papua New Guinea share a 760-kilometre (470 mi) border that has raised tensions and ongoing diplomatic issues over many decades?
... that Norwegian Liberal MP Hans Larsen Saakvitne was among the "Pure Liberals" who turned against the Liberal Prime Minister in 1888?
... that Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion was inspired by a 1980s cartoon which followed the attempts of Mr. T to coach an Olympic gymnastics youth team?

14:35, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Yale All-American Ted Coy (pictured), who played football with "his long blonde hair held back by a white sweatband," was the basis for a character in a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
... that Coronation Park was the site of the 1911 Delhi Durbar that marked the shifting of the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi?
... that Jan and Anna Puchalski, Polish Righteous among the Nations, harbored six Jewish fugitives from the ghetto in Grodno, under their bedroom floor during the Holocaust?
... that the Dollis Valley Greenwalk is one of ten parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Barnet to win a £400,000 grant to improve its quality and safety?
... that Ricardo Rangel co-founded Mozambique's first full color magazine Tempo, as a voice of opposition to Portuguese colonial rule?
... that Cards Pond is among only three of Rhode Island's nine salt ponds that receives significant freshwater from streams or rivers?
... that the swellshark bends its body in a U-shape and sucks in water to double in size and avoid attacks from predators?
... that while their old band was named after a Jack Kerouac novel, Harrys Gym took their name from an abandoned fitness center?

08:35, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the first Cat Island Light (pictured) was constructed directly on sand, with no foundation?
... that Pauline Rita played three roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas for Richard D'Oyly Carte, but left his company in 1878 never to return?
... that Nobel Prize Economist Robert Lucas estimated that the welfare costs of the business cycle in terms of social welfare are negligible?
... that Storebrand executive Gustav Aarestrup marked himself as an opponent of the Festning Tunnel and Fjellinjen?
... that Valley Entertainment acquired in 2001 the prestigious back catalogue of ambient music from Hearts of Space?
... that Marion West Higgins, the first female Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly, was the daughter of Dr. James E. West, the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America?
... that the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame is home to the world's largest muskie sculpture?
... that the FBI issued a 2002 terrorism alert after Michael John Hamdani invented a story about terrorists entering the United States as part of a plea bargain?

02:35, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

... that egg and chips (pictured) was John Lennon's favourite food?
... that Realph Norland, father of Verdens Gang and Aftenposten chief editor Andreas Norland, was himself a newspaper editor for Tønsbergs Blad?
... that Gao Ling is the all-time leader for the most Olympic medals in badminton?
... that during the 2008 fall migration, over 10,000 hawks passed the observation point at Washington Valley Park, New Jersey?
... that the cardinals were not allowed to serve simultaneously as residential bishops until the pontificate of Alexander III?
... that Cathal Mac Coille ate breakfast with CNN broadcaster Larry King on Super Tuesday of 2008?
... that in the 1625 Battle of Blavet, a French Huguenot fleet under Soubise captured a Royal fleet belonging to Louis XIII, triggering the Second Huguenot rebellion?
... that Bronisław Malinowski's ethnography Coral Gardens and their Magic describes magic spells used in Trobriand agriculture as a pragmatic component of human behaviour?

20 June 2009

20:35, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Annales laureshamenses justify the imperial coronation of Charlemagne (bust pictured) because at the time the title Emperor was unused?
... that William F. Hyland, while serving as Attorney General of New Jersey, performed as a clarinetist with Benny Goodman and later became executor of his estate?
... that Debo Hacerlo was the last album released by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel until 1994, due to a dispute with BMG over copyrights of his songs?
... that Yale All-American Paul Veeder has been credited with throwing the "first forward pass in a major game"?
... that the 1988 Polish strikes shook the country's Communist regime to such an extent that it was forced to begin considering recognition of Solidarity?
... that Norwegian philologist Konrad Nielsen, known for work on the Sami languages, was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences?
... that the Capitulations of Santa Fe granted Christopher Columbus the titles of Admiral of the Ocean Sea, the Viceroy, the Governor-General and honorific Don?

14:35, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

... that topics of Samuel Coleridge's (pictured) early poems include: holidays, cannibals, pixies, pain, suicide, loss, bars, a prison raid, women, God, an otter, a donkey, gambling, farming, school and Joan of Arc?
... that Washington State Route 106 has been renumbered four times over a 49-year period from 1915 until 1964?
... that both of the Kaiserliche Marine's Odin-class coast defense ships were rebuilt as freighters after the end of World War I?
... that in 1947, University of Michigan basketball player Mack "Soup" Supronowicz was hailed as "the greatest cage prospect in college history"?
... that Japanese pop rock singer Yui's "Again" has the highest opening week sales for a female act in 2009?
... that the Heinz Award, named in honor of the late United States Senator John Heinz, is worth $250,000?
... that The Meaning of Life series featured filmmaker Neil Jordan's account of having met his dead father on an aeroplane?

08:35, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

... that, like the related cookiecutter shark, the kitefin shark (pictured) sometimes feeds by taking bites out of animals larger than itself?
... that at the age of seven, Zach Bonner founded the Little Red Wagon Foundation to aid the 1.3 million homeless children in the United States?
... that Plácido Polanco became the first Gold Glove winner at second base to post an errorless season in 2007?
... that Thomas Bertie was one of three future admirals who served together on HMS Seahorse in 1773, the others being Horatio Nelson and Thomas Troubridge?
... that Cyclone Nancy of the 2004–05 South Pacific cyclone season was one of four severe tropical cyclones to impact the Cook Islands during the span of a month?
... that journalist and novelist Gerd Grønvold Saue is also a former board member of the International Peace Bureau?
... that a critical bug in the PSP game Class of Heroes was found only days before manufacturing began?

02:35, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

... that a shrine in Shiraz over the tomb (pictured) of the famed Persian poet Hafez was pulled down in 1899 by protesters, because it was being built by a Zoroastrian?
... that 77-year-old U.S. Representative Claude Pepper used his chairing of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Aging to highlight the falsehoods of age stereotyping?
... that Ho Chi Minh's marriage to Tang Tuyet Minh has never been acknowledged by the government of Vietnam?
... that although the Siegfried-class coast defense ships were rendered obsolete by the 2nd Naval Law in 1908, they continued to serve in their intended roles until 1915?
... that theoretical biologist Mary Jane West-Eberhard says that she learnt more about science at high school from her English course on critical reading and writing than from her biology class?
... that Fun Little Movies is the first United States company to produce comedy films to play on mobile phones worldwide?

19 June 2009

20:35, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the 6th-century Church of St. Polyeuctus (remains pictured) in Constantinople was deliberately planned to imitate the Temple of Solomon?
... that John W. Wescott initially opposed Woodrow Wilson's candidacy for Governor of New Jersey but later gave the nominating speech for Wilson at both the 1912 and 1916 Democratic National Conventions?
... that Constance Demby's 1986 album Novus Magnificat helped build the reputation of Stephen Hill's Hearts of Space Records?
... that when Indigenous Australian artist Makinti Napanangka won the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2008, her age and family circumstances prevented her from attending the ceremony?
... that August Lange, Carl Jakhelln and Olav Larssen co-wrote a book about their experiences from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II?
... that a reconstruction of Verrazzano's flagship La Dauphine is planned to arrive in New York Harbor for the 500th anniversary of Verrazzano's arrival in 2024?

14:35, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Elmendorph Inn (pictured) is the oldest building in the village of Red Hook, New York?
... that former Prime Minister of Tonga Baron Vaea piloted PBY Catalina flying boats for the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II?
... that Fluxus 1, an artists' book produced by the Lithuanian-American artist George Maciunas, was assembled over a period of 13 years?
... that Rachael English, presenter of the Irish radio news programme Five Seven Live, was joined on the show by her father, who provided Cheltenham horse racing tips for her listeners?
... that through extensive studying of the pathophysiology of hypertension, it was discovered that hypertension can be caused by genetic inheritance?
... that Damian Sims and Fred Reid spent a year out of football before being recommended to their current CFL teams?
... that according to legend, Fabian was selected as pope because a dove landed on him?

08:35, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Baroque church of Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi (pictured), which houses the hearts of 25 popes, was presented to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church by Pope John Paul II?
... that actress Nancy Andrews won a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut performance in 1949?
... that Honewort, growing in the Avon Gorge near Bristol, was one of the first rare plants to be documented in Britain, by William Turner in 1562?
... that Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Williamson underwent two Tommy John surgeries?
... that the custom of collecting a feudal aid from a vassal originated in the 11th-century France, in the County of Anjou?
... that Liz Swaine was a locally well-known television news anchor who quit to become a mayoral executive assistant and later ran for mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana?

02:35, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

... that a Franco-Persian alliance (artist's impression pictured) was concluded by Napoleon in 1807 as a step to help him accomplish his objective of attacking British India?
... that the Californian plant Eryngium racemosum has become extirpated due to the non-occurrence of natural flooding?
... that the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually by the Norwegian Nobel Committee?
... that after a 1981 robbery, lawyers for Dr. Alan Berkman claimed that he was the first U.S. doctor charged for treating a fugitive since Dr. Samuel Mudd treated John Wilkes Booth in 1865?
... that the Hockley Valley Provincial Nature Reserve in the Canadian province of Ontario supports a population of the nationally endangered Butternut?
... that Bob Haymes played a song publisher in the sitcom It's a Business and actually co-wrote the song "That's All"?
... that the reference Conspiracy Encyclopedia discusses 365 different conspiracy theories?

18 June 2009

20:35, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Charlotte of Belgium (pictured) reigned as Empress of Mexico starting in 1864?
... that DemiDec, a company that sells study material for the United States Academic Decathlon, also annually hosts the World Scholar's Cup?
... that during Shakespeare's time, it was commonly believed that there were five "outward" wits as well as five "inward" wits?
... that Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf was at the time publisher Electronic Arts' highest-selling video game ever?
... that in a June 2009 "parliamentary coup", Democrats Pedro Espada, Jr. and Hiram Monserrate agreed to vote with Republicans, giving the minority Republicans control of the New York State Senate?
... that baboons are among the hazards faced by South African winemakers?
... that paleontologist Gerta Keller theorizes that dinosaurs did not become extinct until 300,000 years after the Chicxulub meteor, though she agrees that "I'm sure the day after, they had a headache"?

14:35, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the rare Ironcap Banksia (pictured) from Western Australia has the longest pistils of any banksia?
... that during the 1950s, Louisiana State Senator Herman "Wimpy" Jones advocated voting by 18-year-olds long before ratification of the 26th Amendment?
... that the Ritland crater is believed to be a meteoric impact crater?
... that actress Mary Lawson married F. W. L. C. Beaumont, son of the Dame of Sark, and they died together in 1941 during the Liverpool Blitz?
... that camber thrust contributes to the ability of bicycles and motorcycles to negotiate a turn with the same radius as automobiles but with a smaller steering angle?
... that the Mill Colonnade was originally reviled by critics before eventually becoming a symbol for Karlovy Vary?
... that Indigenous Australian artist Rosella Namok gave birth to her second son on the way to submit a painting for the Wynne Prize?

08:35, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

... that four-time All-American football end and millionaire lumberman Tom Shevlin (pictured) died of pneumonia after contracting a cold while training the Yale football team?
... that despite the success of Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the main theme only became a hit single in the cover version by Hugo Montenegro?
... that Sir John Strange trained at the same set of chambers as Lord Hardwicke, who later made him Master of the Rolls?
... that the Global Forum for Health Research identified the 10/90 gap: just 10% of medical research spending is on 90% of existing health problems?
... that during World War II, the Czech comics illustrator Kája Saudek was imprisoned in a German concentration camp?
... that Undulus asperatus is the first new proposed cloud type in over 50 years?
... that E.D. Gleason, a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives during the 1950s, proposed a one-cent state sales tax earmarked for public school teacher salaries?

02:35, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Singaporean sculptor Han Sai Por created her 2006 work Seeds (pictured), situated at the National Museum of Singapore, from sandstone excavated during the Museum's redevelopment?
... that the Emmy Award-winning show The Freddy Awards, a ceremony honoring high school theater in the Lehigh Valley region in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, is to be the subject of a documentary film?
... that on May 31, 2009, the ROV Nereus reached an underwater depth of 10,902 metres (6.8 mi), becoming the world's deepest-diving vehicle?
... that of the three precious statues of the goddess Kannon enshrined in the Sugimoto-dera temple in Kamakura, Japan, likely none were made by the artists they are traditionally attributed to?
... that the Black Procession of Polish burghers in 1789 resulted in the passage of the belated major urban reform in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
... that before its removal, Pennsylvania Route 963 was the easternmost state traffic route in Pennsylvania?

17 June 2009

20:35, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Hurricane Irene–Olivia (track pictured) was the first actively tracked tropical cyclone that moved into the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic basin?
... that Jesse Wharton, a colonial governor of Maryland, died just over a month after taking office in 1676?
... that Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality, the doctrine of the Russian Empire in the 1830s–1850s, was also a family motto of its creator Sergey Uvarov?
... that while in college, New England Patriots cornerback Jonathan Wilhite was described as "a jokester" who "could be a stand-up comedian"?
... that post-hardcore band Enter Shikari's song "Juggernauts" contains a "Mockney spoken words" section that has drawn comparisons with The Streets?
... that in 1979, L.D. Knox of Winnsboro, Louisiana, had his name legally changed to "None of the Above" Knox to dramatize the lack of choices for voters on his state's ballot?

14:35, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Jayco, the largest privately held manufacturer of recreational vehicles (collapsible model pictured) in North America, has mostly Amish and Mennonite employees?
... that mental health patients released after long stays in psychiatric hospitals may experience institutionalization, or difficulty in managing the demands of independent living?
... that in 2005, Appalachian State, led by quarterback Richie Williams, became the first college or university in North Carolina to win an NCAA national championship in football?
... that the reference book The History of British Political Parties contains information on over 250 political parties in the United Kingdom?
... that due to certain environmental conditions, Maschaug Pond in Rhode Island is considered particularly vulnerable to storm surge?
... that actress Charlene McKenna was pleased that her full-frontal nude scene in the television series Raw attracted few complaints?

08:35, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

... that a car cooler (pictured) is an early type of automobile "air conditioner" that has been around since 1930?
... that Major League Baseball outfielder Pete Milne's only career home run was a game-winning inside-the-park grand slam?
... that Waldmann disease, a disease that is characterized by dilated lymphatic vessels, is usually diagnosed before the patient is three years old?
... that Belgian senator Baron Jacques Brotchi survived World War II as a child when his Jewish family was hidden from the Nazis by a Belgian family in Comblain-au-Pont?
... that Pilot Rock is one of the oldest volcanic formations in the Cascade Range?
... that Grammy award-winning singer Duffy made her TV debut on the Welsh language talent show Wawffactor?

02:35, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the whitish powder found on the spore sac of the beaked earthstar (pictured) is made of crystalline calcium oxalate?
... that Pope Innocent II demolished Santa Maria in Trastevere and was buried in the rebuilt basilica, in the space formerly occupied by the tomb of his rival, Anacletus II?
... that George Strait's 2009 single "Living for the Night" is the first single of his solo career that he co-wrote?
... that almost 29 years after she went missing in Darwin Harbour during Cyclone Tracy, the Booya was discovered by accident in only 20 metres (66 ft) of water?
... that from July 1, 2009, content-control software called Green Dam Youth Escort must be included with all personal computers sold in the mainland of the People's Republic of China?
... that the perpetrator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting had self-published a book praising Adolf Hitler in 1999?

16 June 2009

20:35, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Stannard Rock Light (pictured), known as the "Loneliest Place in the World", is the furthest lighthouse from land and described as one of the top ten engineering feats in the United States?
... that Irish journalist Richard Downes secretly entered Zimbabwe disguised as a tourist to film an undercover report for the BBC's Newsnight during the 2008 Zimbabwean presidential election?
... that human rights in Estonia are generally well respected, but controversies still surround the Bronze Night incident of April 2007?
... that Thomas S. Rodgers was one of five members of his family to reach the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Navy during the first 25 years of the 20th century?
... that the Association of Broadcasters of the Philippines advocates the 18 minutes of advertising per hour rule for Philippine TV stations?
... that in the U.S. state of Michigan, no one is more than 6 miles (10 km) from a lake?

14:35, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Polish Righteous Krystyna Dańko rescued her Jewish friend's sister by "smuggling" her to Warsaw before most Jews from Otwock were deported to Treblinka (pictured)?
... that Diane Dietz set the Big Ten single-game basketball scoring record with 45 points in 1982 and the University of Michigan career record with 2,076 points?
... that prior to the 1929 Royal Mail Case, British accountants were not expected to use their moral and ethical judgment in making decisions?
... that when the Louisiana State Representative C.W. Thompson died in office in 1951, then Governor Earl K. Long appointed Lizzie P. Thompson to finish her husband's term?
... that after receiving more than 10,000 protest letters, the editors of the United Methodist Hymnal decided not to eliminate "Onward, Christian Soldiers" from it?
... that in 1984, Fort Worth billionaire Ed Bass committed $30 million to (and eventually spent over $150 million on) Biosphere 2, to experiment with "recreating the Earth" and potentially settling Mars?

08:35, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was the first person to be executed by guillotine (pictured)?
... that Rafael Carrión, Sr. was one of the founders of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, the largest bank in Puerto Rico and the largest Hispanic bank in the United States?
... that Irish band Fight Like Apes named one of their 2007 EPs David Carradine is a Bounty Hunter Whos Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch?
... that Ninigret Pond is the largest of Rhode Island's nine salt ponds?
... that New Super Mario Bros. Wii will have a feature that allows the game to play on its own while paused?
... that when the Washington Huskies softball team won the 2009 Women's College World Series, it marked the 22nd time in the 28 World Series that a Pac-10 team was crowned champion?
... that it took 16 years for the pilot episode of Phineas and Ferb to be picked up?

02:35, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the "wrinkled peach" mushroom (pictured) requires light from the red end of the visible spectrum to induce fruiting?
... that gridiron football player Malik Jackson has played at every defensive position in his professional career?
... that although Telltale Games was formed after LucasArts abandoned adventure game development in 2004, the two companies are now collaborating to create a new series of adventure games?
... that the song "Aquí Estoy Yo" by Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Luis Fonsi became his sixth number-one single in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart?
... that the Louisiana politician J. Frank Colbert was active during the 1920s and 1930s in Henry George's "Single Tax" Utopian movement?
... that Fremantle Football Club defender Clancee Pearce is only the fourth player of Indian heritage to play in the Australian Football League?

15 June 2009

20:35, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

... that The Virgin of the Navigators (pictured) is the earliest known painting about the discovery of the Americas?
... that after performing the theme to the 1963 film Hud, country music singer Darrell McCall decided to take up acting, appearing in three films during the 1960s?
... that upcoming MMORPG video game Final Fantasy XIV has been in development by Square Enix under the codename Rapture?
... that when the future 9th, 10th and 11th Baronets of Cockburn were painted with Augusta Anne, the daughter of Francis Ayscough, Dean of Bristol Cathedral, she was the only one dressed?
... that the People's Action Party has dominated the Government of Singapore by winning a majority of seats in every general election since 1959?
... that John Verney became a Member of Parliament to gain contacts to help him in his career as a barrister?

11:28, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

The Sword of Stalingrad

... that after Winston Churchill handed Joseph Stalin the Sword of Stalingrad (pictured) at the Tehran Conference, a clumsy Soviet general let it slip out of its scabbard?
... that in 1956, Christian A. R. Christensen was behind the first revision of the Ethical Code of Practice for the Norwegian Press?
... that Garth Brooks released both live and studio recordings of his 1998 single "It's Your Song" to radio?
... that Tracy Kidder, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his second book, was so unhappy with his first book that he bought back the rights from the publisher so that it would not "see the light of day again"?
... that the 2006 MPC Computers Bowl featured the Miami Hurricanes, whose season had been marred by an on-field brawl, the termination of their head coach, and underachievement on the field?
... that Emirati marriage counselor Wedad Lootah claimed that many men in Saudi Arabia have their first sexual experiences with other men, due to its gender segregation?

05:28, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Cromer Windmill (pictured) has been dated dendrochronologically to 1681?
... that the 36-year-old Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund changed its name to LatinoJustice PRLDEF last year, partly due to fewer Puerto Ricans being in New York City's Latino population?
... that as the world's third largest democracy, Indonesia's 2004 legislative election was the most complicated in the world?
... that Barry Wood, Frank Sinatra's predecessor on the radio program Your Hit Parade, was promoted as America's "sweater boy"?
... that at its establishment in 1760, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters was the northernmost learned society in the world?
... that the CZW World Tag Team Championship has been won by an individual wrestler once, when it is only supposed to be intended for tag teams?

14 June 2009

23:28, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

... that when captured, the tawny nurse shark (pictured) often spits a jet of water into the faces of its captors?
... that the old Honolulu Police Station in Hawaii's Merchant Street Historic District was designed by American architect Louis Davis in the Mission Revival Style?
... that a section of the former BUS M-28 in Newberry, Michigan, has also carried the designations M-28, M-48, M-117 or M-123 at different times in its history?
... that while training for World War I, American athlete Brooke Brewer played for the "Usaacs", a football team composed of soldiers from the U.S. Army's ambulance service?
... that in 1920 Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat in Georgia?
... that a copy of Sharlot Hall‎'s poem Arizona, which mocked efforts to merge Arizona Territory and New Mexico Territory into a single state, was given to every member of the U.S. Congress?

17:28, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

... that motor officers, police jargon for motorcycle officers, go through weeks of motorcycle training (pictured), where they can expect to "drop" or crash their bikes dozens, even hundreds of times?
... that actor Frank Cellier toured in Britain, Germany, America and South Africa from 1903 to 1920, appearing only once in London, before beginning a West End career?
... that the Pokémon video game glitch MissingNo. occurs as a result of buffer data containing the player's name not being cleared?
... that galleries with Henrik Sørensen´s artwork have been raised at two of his favorite painting locations?
... that A Fine Frenzy's debut album, One Cell in the Sea, launched the group to the top of Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart?
... that Brett Swenson of Michigan State, one of college football's top placekickers, was passed over for the 2008 Lou Groza Award after missing three consecutive field goals against Michigan?

11:28, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the brains of Mormyrinae (pictured), a subfamily of African freshwater fish, use 60 percent of their body's energy, three times more than humans, the animal with the next highest percentage?
... that Indian politician Erasmo de Sequeira rejected Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's offer to make him a Deputy Minister, stating that he wanted her post?
... that the British Velocette MAC (WD) 350cc single was Velocette's first military motorcycle for World War Two?
... that cinematographer Lawrence Sher first developed an interest in photography after his father convinced him to take a 35mm camera on a Teaneck High School-sponsored trip to France?
... that Operation Antyk was the Polish Underground State's anti-communist propaganda department?
... that half of the regular advertisers for the ABC series thirtysomething pulled out of the episode "Strangers", costing the network some US$1.5 million, because it showed two men in bed together?

05:28, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Dustbot (pictured), the cleaning robot, responds to text messages and uses GPS to find homes and collect trash?
... that Tom Kruse was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his work in the Australian outback?
... that the first two classes of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers were actually conversions of other ship types?
... that while mayor of Gaza, Fahmi al-Husseini was imprisoned by British Mandate authorities on charges of opposing the British presence in Palestine during the 1936 Arab revolt?
... that in 2006, a division of the Philippines' National Labor Relations Commission had confirmed resolving 2,697 labor disputes?
... that James Scott became a top contender in the World Boxing Association's light heavyweight division while serving time at Rahway State Prison?

13 June 2009

23:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

... that a spherical wedge (pictured) is a portion of a ball bounded by two plane semidisks and a spherical lune?
... that historian Czesław Madajczyk, best known for his works on the occupation of Poland and Polish culture during World War II, has been criticized for being too malleable to the demands of the Polish communist regime?
... that a full-scale riot at Luton Town's Kenilworth Road ground on 13 March 1985 led to a four-season ban on visiting supporters?
... that Gazette de Leyde was likely the most important newspaper of the late 18th-century Europe, and the only one read by Louis XVI?
... that Patrick Swayze was the star of the first and only season of the 1982 television show The Renegades?
... that Mexican singer-songwriter Ana Gabriel ranked third at the OTI Festival held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1987 with the song "Ay Amor"?

17:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Albert Bridge (pictured) in London is seriously structurally unsound in part because of rotting caused by dog's urine?
... that XU leader Lauritz Sand was turned in to the Gestapo by a female Norwegian Abwehr agent?
... that The Tubridy Show's book club significantly boosted book sales in Ireland?
... that the motor theory of speech perception proposes that people understand speech not only through sound, but also by seeing the movements of the mouth?
... that the 2009 Loyal Arrow NATO exercises in Sweden are the biggest aerial military exercises ever held in Sweden, involving around 2000 soldiers and 50 jets?
... that Hurricane Gustav of the 1990 Atlantic hurricane season was the only major hurricane to develop during the season?

11:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Australian Pale-headed Rosella (pictured) is partial to seeds of the introduced Scotch Thistle and Rough Cockleburr, as well as the native River Red-gum and tea tree?
... that in blackjack, regardless of the casino's rules for betting and how the cards are played, it is always optimal to split aces and eights?
... that the New Lipchis Way passes an hundredal church and an Iron Age hill fort used by clubmen before crossing the Devil's Ditch?
... that the 1992 French film The Lover, the first Western film produced in Vietnam, is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras?
... that the KDN forest complex is the last large remaining rainforest in Sri Lanka other than Sinharaja?
... that the Life without Death cellular automaton, a mathematical model of pattern formation, is a variant of Conway's Game of Life in which cells, once brought to life, never die?

05:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Thrill the World is an international event in which participants (example pictured) simultaneously emulate the zombie dance from the music video of Michael Jackson's "Thriller"?
... that American journalist Andrea Elliott received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a series of articles on an Egyptian-born imam living in Brooklyn?
... that the Anna Kournikova computer virus was created by Jan de Wit using a generic Visual Basic Worm Generator program?
... that Sir William Fortescue was prompted to become a barrister by the death of his wife?
... that Rafael Palmeiro won the Gold Glove Award at first base in 1999 despite appearing in only 28 games at the position?
... that Vegard Sletten, editor of Verdens Gang in his later life, saw his liberation from Berg concentration camp on his birthday?

12 June 2009

23:28, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Ken Foster (pictured) worked at Devonport Dockyard for 35 years before becoming the Lord Mayor of Plymouth?
... that Mike Reid was a linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals before becoming a country music singer and releasing the single "Walk on Faith"?
... that Otto Nielsen played an important role behind the Norwegian cultural scene, as a program editor of the radio magazine Søndagsposten for more than twenty years?
... that Tautiška giesmė, a poem by Vincas Kudirka written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Varpas newspaper, became the Lithuanian national anthem?
... that the Manning–Kamna Farm near Hillsboro, Oregon, has ten buildings that were included in the National Register of Historic Places, including a privy?
... that during the offseason, Canadian football linebacker, Raymond Fontaine, works as a roughneck in the Alberta oil fields?
... that Upper Pine Bottom Run in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, was home to an iron furnace and sawmills in the 19th century, but today is home to state forest land and the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Upper Pine Bottom State Park?

17:28, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Neher-Elseffer House (pictured) is one of the few remaining pre-Revolutionary frame houses near Rhinebeck, New York?
... that Chelsea Bridge was little used at night when it first opened, because of its owners' policy of only turning the lighting on if Queen Victoria was spending the night in London?
... that the tiny rare green Mystery Orchid, Cooktownia robertsii, was named after Cooktown and its discoverer, Lewis Roberts, and is the only member of the genus Cooktownia?
... that George Chesworth was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for sorties against the Chinese in the Korean War?
... that the Agricultural Museum was the first agricultural periodical journal published in the United States?
... that the Holt-Bragg Bridge will be named after the family who perished when the previous bridge collapsed during the June 2007 Hunter Region and Central Coast storms?
... that Gumarcaj, in Guatemala, is archaeologically and ethnohistorically the best known of the Late Postclassic highland Maya capitals?

11:28, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

... that carrier pigeons, known as the Bavarian Pigeon Corps, were fitted with chest-mounted cameras and sent behind enemy lines for aerial reconnaissance by the Bavarian Army in the early 1900s?
... that Verne Meisner and his son Steve were the first polka music artists to win the Wisconsin Area Music Industry award?
... that the Estonian Centre Party and Res Publica Party won 28 seats each in the 2003 Estonian parliamentary election tying for the most seats?
... that Sir Thomas Clarke was only offered the position of Master of the Rolls after William Murray turned it down?
... that in 1998, Liverdance by Rhode Island Soft Systems was the first screensaver to incorporate built-in multiple advertisements?
... that Brigadier Glyn Hughes, the officer who liberated Belsen concentration camp, once labelled rugby player John Taylor a Communist for opposing apartheid?

05:28, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the West Point Rice Mill (pictured) was proposed for a Pan Am seabase terminal in the 1930s?
... that the discovery of oil in 1966 led to Dubai's rapid expansion and modernisation?
... that although threatened by habitat destruction, the endangered Nicobar Bulbul does not appear to have been impacted by the Red-whiskered Bulbul or the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami?
... that the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spent a total of 112.71 million pesos for the overseas absentee voters in 2004?
... that the song "Soy Así" was recorded by Mexican singer José José during a personal crisis that included a divorce and a change of management?
... that Hockenhull Platts, three bridges on a medieval road in Cheshire, England, were crossed in 1353 by the Black Prince, in 1698 by Celia Fiennes, and in 1780 by Thomas Pennant?
... that had she been completed, the German aircraft carrier I would have been the largest German carrier of World War II, longer even than the Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers?

11 June 2009

23:28, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Robert Dahlgren's ethanol car

... that although experts expected ethanol cars (example pictured) to underperform their petrol counterparts, Polestar Racing's E85-powered S60 won the first two races of the 2007 Swedish Touring Car Championship?
... that Hotel Woodland was designed by William Henry Weeks, a prominent architect, and was his 14th and last major work in Woodland, California?
... that in September 1945, Lieutenant General Barney M. Giles piloted one of three B-29 Superfortresses that were the first to fly nonstop from Japan to the United States?
... that in 1961, a British Velocette Venom motorcycle set the 24-hour world record at a speed of 100.05 mph which has never been equalled since?
... that Bob Dylan's song "On the Road Again" previews the grotesque characters that would feature in Dylan's later songs?
... that Hugo Jaeger's personal collection of photographs includes colour shots of Adolf Hitler on a cruise in 1939 and of the Nazi leader attending a Christmas party in 1941?

17:28, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

... that all Imperial German Navy light cruisers of the First World War were patterned after the German Gazelle-class light cruiser (pictured), designed in 1895–96?
... that University of Michigan pitcher Herman Fishman set a Big Ten record in 1936 with a 0.86 ERA and was named to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's Jewish All-American basketball team?
... that Chopin's 21 nocturnes generally feature ternary form, a melancholy melody and a broken chord bass line?
... that Sebastian Petrycy (1554–1626), in Poland, created a vernacular philosophical terminology not much later than did philosophers in France and Germany?
... that the Windsor Locks, Connecticut tornado caused more than $400 million in damage, making it the sixth-costliest tornado in US history?
... that in the 1950s, geographer George Cressey was included on a list of suspected communists in the US at the same time that China included him on its list of capitalist enemies?

11:28, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Astor Home for Children (pictured) in Rhinebeck, New York, was one of the first psychiatric facilities for children accredited by the Joint Commission?
... that Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti, who directed Antonello Grimaldi in the 2006 film Il caimano, starred in the 2008 film Caos calmo, directed by Grimaldi?
... that in the 1986 case Posadas de Puerto Rico Associates v. Tourism Company of Puerto Rico, the United States Supreme Court allowed Puerto Rico to ban legal casino advertising targeted at local residents?
... that English actor Harry Andrews played the role of Laertes in the final production at the Lyceum Theatre before it closed in 1939?
... that the systematics of snowfinches is quite straightforward, while their taxonomy was, and still is, subject to extreme confusion?
... that Orange County, California, has an unincorporated area popularly known as the Gaza Strip?

05:28, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Chief Engineer Oliver P. Echols (pictured) arranged a high-level military demonstration for the Hughes H-1 Racer but Howard Hughes and the plane did not show up?
... that country music singer George Strait discovered his backup band, the Ace in the Hole, after responding to a flyer posted around the Southwest Texas State University campus?
... that Governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray resigned from office and served three years in prison after being convicted of mail fraud?
... that Oregon linebacker Casey Matthews is the son, grandson, brother, and nephew of National Football League players?
... that Aurangzeb, apart from imprisoning his brother Murad Baksh, had the dubious credit of incarcerating his eldest daughter Zebunnisa in the Salimgarh Fort in Delhi for 21 years till her death?
... that many female portraits by Jeremiah Theus share identical poses and costumes, down to the folds and shadows of the sitters' dresses?

10 June 2009

23:28, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Edward Riou (pictured) sailed with Cook, survived his ship hitting an iceberg, but died by being nearly cut in two aboard HMS Amazon at Copenhagen?
... that Lemar is the most successful Fame Academy graduate with six top ten singles in the UK singles chart?
... that Danuta Siedzikówna, a Polish nurse in anti-Nazi and anti-Communist resistance was only seventeen years old when she was sentenced to death and executed by the communist government of Poland in 1946?
... that the winner of the 1996 Olympic air pistol competition, Italian Roberto Di Donna, also competes in the Bundesliga for the current German champions, SV Kelheim-Gmünd?
... that Puerto Rican poet Francisco Matos Paolí was arrested in 1950 because he made four speeches in favor of Puerto Rico's independence and he had a Puerto Rican Flag in his house?
... that the former Union Chapel, Brighton's oldest Nonconformist place of worship, was converted into a pub after 300 years of religious use?

17:28, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Australian moth Abantiades latipennis (pictured) is well-adapted to surviving clearfelling and thrives in regrowth forests?
... that catcher Alicia Seegert set Big Ten Conference records for batting average, hits, total bases and RBIs while playing softball for the University of Michigan from 1984 to 1987?
... that video games with isometric graphics were regarded as the second-most cloned piece of software after WordStar?
... that Rwenzururu, a region in the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda, was recognized as having a kingdom 40 years after one was declared?
... that future governor of Mississippi and Mexican-American War general John A. Quitman was born at the parsonage of the Old Stone Church in Rhinebeck, New York?
... that one of Mooney's Blue Tits laid six eggs in the gardens of Irish President Mary McAleese?

11:28, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Christ Church, Rossett, Wrexham County Borough, Wales (pictured), was designed in 1886 but not built until 1891–92?
... that Swedish modernist painter Torsten Andersson sometimes destroyed hundreds of sketches leading up to his finished works?
... that Tom Green is the winningest men's basketball coach in Fairleigh Dickinson University history and led the team to its first NCAA Tournament berth in 1985, losing 59–55 to top-seeded Michigan?
... that Byzantine official Peter the Patrician may have been responsible for the murder of Ostrogothic queen Amalasuntha, despite being instructed to secure her safety by emperor Justinian I?
... that Super Mario Galaxy 2 will mark the first time a second full-3D Mario franchise title has been made for a single Nintendo system?
... that despite a 26 minute length, the 1965 album The Return of Roger Miller won the Grammy award for best country album, and five additional Grammys for its track "King of the Road"?

05:28, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Albert Bridge in London (pictured) is the only significant surviving example of a bridge built using the 1858 Ordish–Lefeuvre Principle design?
... that President Barack Obama has appointed two former Presidents of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to positions in his administration?
... that St Mark's Church, Brighton was originally planned as a school's private chapel, but served as a public church for nearly 150 years before the school took it over?
... that "Dahil Sa Iyo", a song with Tagalog and English lyrics, is so popular that it has been suggested as a replacement for the Filipino anthem?
... that the Baudette Fire of 1910 burned down the twin towns of Spooner and Baudette, Minnesota, on October 7, 1910?
... that before the Quarter Horse Barbara L became a racehorse, she demonstrated horse trailers for her owner, a trailer salesman?

9 June 2009

23:28, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Beatriz Enriquez de Arana was the mistress of Christopher Columbus (pictured)?
... that Adrienne Beames, the daughter of Australian rules footballer, first-class cricketer, and journalist Percy Beames, was the first woman to break the 3-hour barrier in the marathon?
... that the first Governor of colonial Maryland, Leonard Calvert, appointed his successor Thomas Greene only hours before Calvert's death?
... that remnants of terracotta piping used in public baths during Roman times in Morocco are on display at the Rabat Archaeological Museum?
... that Sara Northrup Hollister, the second wife of L. Ron Hubbard, was a noted member of an occult society in Pasadena, California, who went on to play an important role in the development of Dianetics?
... that editor-in-chief Andreas Norland left Norway's largest newspaper Verdens Gang to edit Osloavisen, which lasted less than a year?

17:28, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

... that according to legend, the Houses of the Mayorazgo de Guerrero (pictured) were demolished by a jealous husband after they were given to his wife by the viceroy of New Spain?
... that a sex scandal in Boise, Idaho, in 1955 resulted in almost 1,500 people being interviewed and a list of 500 suspected homosexuals?
... that as Adam Best, David Proud will be the first visibly disabled adult actor to appear in the British soap opera EastEnders?
... that as part of preparations for 1984's Tropical Storm Isidore, some citrus farmers burned seedlings potentially infected with canker to prevent heavy rains from spreading the disease?
... that, covering 19 ha (47 acres), Maiden Castle in Dorset is the largest hill fort in Britain and one of the biggest in Europe?
... that Michael Jackson was unsuccessfully sued over allegations he plagiarized the song "Dangerous"?

09:56, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the most powerful recorded earthquake in Estonia, measuring 4.7 magnitudes in Richter scale, occurred in 1976 near the Baltic Sea island of Osmussaar (pictured)?
... that Calcutta Polo Club, established in 1862, is considered the world's oldest polo club in existence?
... that during five years of college football, E. J. Kuale played at three different colleges?
... that Islamic prophet Muhammad is said to have forbidden his followers to collect his sayings, and there is considerable criticism of such collections which have been said to form the basis of Islamic law?
... that Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again will allow players to create custom-made levels and send them wirelessly to players on other Nintendo DSi devices?
... that the presenter of The Marian Finucane Show has been compared to Jay Leno, Michael Parkinson and Jonathan Ross?

03:56, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Marian Massonius (pictured), a Polish university professor, wrote in 1920 about the Bolsheviks' rise to power as a new Russian oligarchy with the aid of Marxist ideology?
... that Daniel P. Mannix spent a year studying foxes before penning his 1967 novel The Fox and the Hound to ensure he portrayed vulpine behavior realistically?
... that Evelyn Scotney, an Australian coloratura soprano, sang opposite Enrico Caruso in his final appearance on the opera stage?
... that Iowa-based Gomaco Trolley Company, founded in 1982, makes replicas of 1902 streetcars?
... that Ivory Williams competed against Usain Bolt in a 150-metre street race as part of the Great City Games in Manchester, England?
... that even though the band Memphis May Fire formed in December 2006, it was not until February 2007 that the group decided on their name?

8 June 2009

21:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the marmoset genus Mico (Mico argentatus pictured) was formerly considered a subgenus of Callithrix?
... that Scottish actress Rona Anderson married fellow actor Gordon Jackson after appearing with him in the romantic drama Floodtide?
... that the Abelardo L. Rodriguez Market in Mexico City has about 1,500 square meters of mural work done by students of Diego Rivera?
... that a schoolbag is the only known trace of 13 year-old Irish schoolboy Philip Cairns, who disappeared in October 1986?
... that the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Zebras" earned higher ratings than an NBC special about Barack Obama, which aired the same night?
... that Anna Goldfeder, a pioneer in the fields of radiology and cancer treatment, worked as a research scientist in an abandoned building for two years before she secured enough grant money to move her laboratory?

15:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the fortified city of Jahanpanah (pictured) was the fourth city to be founded in Delhi when Muhammad bin Tughlaq established it in 1327?
... that Lithuanian writer and educator Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė, as the oldest representative, chaired the first session of the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania in 1920?
... that the pendulum in the Hornsby Water Clock has the same four-second time cycle as the one in Big Ben, but a heavier counterweight?
... that Maryland's Catholic colonial Governor William Joseph fled the colony after serving only a year in office when Protestant colonists rebelled?
... that 95% of cases of hypertension are of the essential hypertension type, and that essential hypertension has many established risk factors?
... that DNC Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell was mentioned in Richard Nixon's Checkers speech after he called for Nixon to resign from his ticket?

09:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the exterior of the General Lew Wallace Study (pictured) includes reliefs of characters of Wallace's novels?
... that a former brother-in-law to Barack Obama might stand at the next Bracknell parliamentary election in the UK?
... that Stefan Knapp, a Polish artist working in Great Britain, used his experiences in the Gulag and as a RAF pilot as a basis for his artwork?
... that Lost Forest in Lake County, Oregon, is an isolated stand of Ponderosa pine separated from the nearest pine forest by forty miles of arid high desert?
... that Buttrum's Mill, Woodbridge, is the tallest surviving windmill in Suffolk?
... that Robert Yates, assistant editor for The Observer first coined the term "grief porn" at a 2005 news conference to denote a "gratuitous indulgence of tangential association with tragedy"?

03:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

... that although classified as a stingray, the porcupine ray (pictured) does not have a stinging spine on its tail?
... that Gotjawal Forest, a naturally formed forest on Jeju Island in South Korea, consists of a rocky area of aa lava?
... that following the Grue Church fire on Pentecost 1822 in Solør, Norway, in which at least 113 people perished, a law was passed prescribing that all doors of public buildings must swing outwards?
... that Holden Bowler, the namesake of J.D. Salinger's character Holden Caulfield, was also the godfather of singer Judy Collins?
... that seed swaps, potluck-style events where gardeners exchange seeds, help maintain biodiversity and preserve cultural and regional traditions?
... that the early homophile organization NACHO adopted the slogan "Gay is Good", modeled on the African American slogan "Black is Beautiful"?

7 June 2009

21:56, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

... that because of the specific social structure of Japanese society there are many more homeless men (pictured) than homeless women in Japan?
... that the antebellum Stoney Creek Presbyterian Chapel in McPhersonville, South Carolina, was built by lowcountry rice planters as a summer chapel?
... that jolly boats were carried on practically all types of warships of the Royal Navy during the age of sail, from ships of the line down to brigs?
... that Alysa Stanton is the first African American female rabbi?
... that Scottish actor J. Grant Anderson served in both World Wars, founded a theatre in India, and played a clown in a Burmese circus?
... that The Heartbreak Express' first and second FIP Tag Team Championship reigns hold the record for most, and fewest title defences respectively?

15:56, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

... that 94% of Dartmoor kistvaens (pictured) have the longer axis of the tomb oriented NW/SE, apparently so that the deceased face the sun?
... that actress and television announcer Barbara Matera is a candidate for the centre-right The People of Freedom (PdL) party in the 2009 European Parliament elections?
... that the Goa Liberation Movement, which sought freedom from Portuguese colonial rule, achieved its aim only when the India Army invaded Goa in 1961?
... that venture capitalist Frank Legacki set American records in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly while attending the University of Michigan in 1961?
... that the fine of £175,000 handed to Arsenal F.C. in 2003 after the Battle of Old Trafford was a record for English football?
... that one-time Nickelodeon star Jason Zimbler (Clarissa Explains It All) founded the Portland, Oregon theatre company 'The Re-Theatre Instrument' in late 2007?

09:56, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Sabal causiarum (pictured), the Puerto Rican hat palm, was once the base of an industry that produced large quantities of palm-leaf hats?
... that Fine Gael politician George Lee used The Week in Politics – broadcast by his former employer – to criticise a round of golf played by several Irish senators?
... that Sofia, New Mexico, was founded in 1911 as the first Bulgarian agricultural colony in the United States, and was named after the Bulgarian capital Sofia?
... that in 1975, Eugeniusz Knapik became known as a member of a group of Polish composers who rejected the previous generation for seeking the destruction of musical tradition?
... that despite being a World Series of Poker bracelet event, the Casino Employee Championship receives little attention?
... that the small parrot known as the Guaiabero is so named in its native Philippines for its penchant for guavas?

03:50, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the 9th-century Sambisari Hindu temple (pictured) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, was buried five meters underground for centuries?
... that Norwegian physicist Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark had two brothers who were Norwegian Parliament members?
... that Rowen House School in Derbyshire was an "Educational experiment" that used the power of the childhood group in the same way as Summerhill School?
... that two American bands named themselves after the same 1960 Japanese Sun Tribe film The Warped Ones?
... that after facing 2009 All-American softball pitcher Nikki Nemitz's fastball, a sports writer for the Detroit Free Press wrote that he "actually felt a breeze" and his "knees buckled"?
... that during World War I, a British propaganda claim that Germans converted the bodies of their dead soldiers into various products, was based on a mistranslation of the German word Kadaver?

6 June 2009

21:49, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the old flower spikes of Banksia benthamiana (pictured) may contain up to 130 follicles (seed pods)?
... that the jazz singer Eva Olmerová was persecuted by the State Security service of the Czechoslovak communist regime?
... that the medieval lituus, a musical instrument that hasn't been seen or heard for 300 years and for which Johann Sebastian Bach composed music, has been recreated by a team of scientists from Switzerland and the United Kingdom?
... that Lazdynų Pelėda (Hazelnut Owl) was a common pen name used by two Lithuanian sister writers, Sofija Pšibiliauskienė and Marija Lastauskienė?
... that the Ice Hotel in Québec, Canada, is the first ice hotel in North America?
... that before winning the third series of Britain's Got Talent, dance troupe Diversity won the UK National Street Dance competition?

15:49, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Thorny Yellowwood (pictured) is an Australian rainforest tree with a spiky trunk?
... that the recently-announced video game Metroid: Other M is being co-developed by both Team Ninja and Nintendo?
... that political boss Tom Pendergast made future DNC chair William M. Boyle a precinct captain even though he was too young to vote?
... that Anthracite, Alberta, now a ghost town, was once a hotspot for illegal activities?
... that the BMW R80G/S—launched in 1980—was the first motorcycle in the BMW GS family, of which half a million examples have now been built?
... that Jerry Rosenberg, New York's longest-incarcerated inmate, was the first to earn a law degree in a New York prison and served as a jailhouse lawyer to the leaders of the Attica prison riot?

09:49, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Filipino politician Richard Gordon (pictured) is known for jumping on the scorer's table to rile up the crowd at Ateneo – La Salle games?
... that after the collapse of the Broughton Suspension Bridge in 1831, the British military introduced the order to "break step" when soldiers were crossing a bridge?
... that cookbook Seduced by Bacon by Joanna Pruess not only includes a recipe for pecan, brown sugar, and bacon ice cream, but also writings by Mark Twain?
... that the collapse of Australia's largest managed investment scheme agribusiness, Great Southern Group, is being examined by two separate Australian parliamentary committee inquiries?
... that the Pyne and Harrison Opera Company paid composer William Vincent Wallace only 10 shillings for the rights to his opera Lurline and later made £50,000 from its performances?
... that Hal Lubarsky outlasted 6,300 other players at the World Series of Poker despite playing blind?

03:49, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

... that a version of the maple bacon donut (pictured) served up in an Omaha, Nebraska, bakery is based on a simple concept: breakfast combined into one item that you put in your mouth?
... that Barry Wood, who played quarterback at Harvard and became a physician and microbiologist, was elected to both the College Football Hall of Fame and the National Academy of Sciences?
... that the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Newfangle has been described by different sources as being set in either 100,000 B.C. or two million years ago?
... that the Financial News competed with its rival the Financial Times by attacking companies which advertised there?
... that in a US study almost all surgeons indicated that they experienced needlestick injuries during their training?
... that in the Canadian film Public Domain the producers of a reality TV game show install cameras in dysfunctional contestants' homes without their knowledge or permission?

5 June 2009

21:49, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

... that optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians (dispersive prism pictured)?
... that the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct was disbanded in 1999 despite only having started work in April 1991?
... that there has been a demand for a separate Tulu Nadu state from Karnataka, India since the 1990s?
... that law professor Paul Steven Miller, who has a type of dwarfism, was one of the longest serving Commissioners of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?
... that the Nazi concentration camp Grini was built as a women's prison?
... that despite the word "heavyweight" in the title of the CZW World Heavyweight Championship, multiple non-heavyweight wrestlers have held the championship?

15:49, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

... that WW1 stopped production of AJS Model D motorcycles but a 1917 order to supply Russia with 1,100 military motorcycles enabled them to continue development?
... that according to the 2000 United States Census, Guttenberg, New Jersey, is the most densely populated incorporated place in the U.S.?
... that Mabel Philipson became the third woman to sit in the British House of Commons after winning the Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election in 1923?
... that after the Poland–Czechoslovakia war, January 23 – January 30, 1919, a new border was agreed to on Feb. 3, 1919, at the signing of the Polish-Czech border agreement, in Paris?
... that, measuring a mere 8.6 cm (3.4 in) long, the Buff-faced Pygmy-parrot is the world's smallest species of parrot?
... that the sale of alcohol was banned for three days during the 2003 Salvadoran legislative election?

09:49, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Pakenham Windmill (pictured) appeared in a short film used by the BBC in the 1950s for interludes between programmes?
... that in the advent of war with Great Britain, Adolf Hitler's Plan Z stipulated that the O class battlecruisers would be tasked with destroying convoys before they could deliver their cargo to the British?
... that Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned takes place in the universe of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series but its story is not connected to the series at all?
... that the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, which protects the privacy of driver's license information in the United States, was upheld by unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court in Reno v. Condon?
... that Stanford Keglar was coached by ex-Purdue defensive back Ken Coudret in high school, before going on to play at Purdue himself?
... that Karatsu ware is a style of Japanese pottery which is considered one of the top choices for implements used in the Japanese tea ceremony?

03:49, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

... that The Amber Witch, an opera by William Vincent Wallace (pictured), was based on a popular Gothic novel of the same name, first published in Britain in 1844?
... that the longest and shortest state highways in Washington are located in Pend Oreille County?
... that Donald Duck talk, the voice used by Clarence Nash for Donald Duck, is one of three forms of alaryngeal speech?
... that PokerTracker 3, the leading poker tool for online poker, uses a HUD analogous to the head-up display that Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator character used?
... that the audio series The Dongle of Donald Trefusis by Stephen Fry went to No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart when it was released for download in 2009?
... that Irish architect Frederick Clarendon designed the Dublin museum known as the Dead Zoo?

4 June 2009

21:49, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Medieval runic inscriptions were discovered on the old portal of Melhus church (pictured)?
... that Newington Green Unitarian Church has strong ties to political radicalism stretching over 300 years, with Richard Price in the pulpit and Mary Wollstonecraft in the pews?
... that the 1960 Velocette Viper British motorcycle was one of the first to have glass fibre enclosure panels?
... that despite winning 37.3% of the vote the opposition coalition won no seats in the 2003 Djiboutian parliamentary election?
... that former RNC chairman Guy Gabrielson was one of the few Republican politicians not to support Richard Nixon after the Checkers speech?
... that the tollbooths of the 19th-century turnpike that followed Pennsylvania Route 171 were torn down by citizens?

15:49, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the flower chafer species Eupoecila australasiae (pictured) gains its common name of 'fiddler beetle' from its violin-shaped markings?
... that the Lurgi-Ruhrgas process for oil shale extraction was originally developed for the liquefaction of lignite?
... that Shakespeare Cliff Halt, a private railway station on a cliff ledge near Dover, England, has been used by miners, the British Army, and railway employees, but never by the public?
... that from 1936 to 1939, Alexander Monkman led a volunteer effort to build a road through the Monkman Pass into British Columbia?
... that the Hindu temple Swaminaryan Mandir in Colonia, New Jersey, USA, was originally a synagogue?
... that Poland's Antoni Gawryłkiewicz, a recipient of the Righteous among the Nations medal, signed his Yad Vashem deposition in Hebrew, a language he did not understand?

09:49, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

... that a Mitch Morgan (pictured), bourbon with a slice of bacon as a garnish, served as the inspiration for Bacon Salt?
... that the Byzantine court title of protospatharios had such high prestige that an aged cleric once purchased it for over 19 kilograms (42 lb) of gold?
... that modern radars use frequency agility to reduce the effects of intentional interference, or jamming?
... that German-Italian Marxist political scientist Johannes Agnoli was, in his youth, an enthusiastic fascist and Wehrmacht volunteer?
... that angels on horseback was featured in the New York Times in 1896 as a "dish for sultry weather"?
... that in the 2003 Cypriot presidential election, Costas Kyriacou called for free love and claimed that he won 73 percent of the vote?

03:49, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the current head of the House of Lorraine (pictured) has been for the last 87 years heir to one imperial and six royal titles?
... that a new government was not formed in Cambodia for almost a year after the 2003 Cambodian parliamentary election?
... that Stegt Flæsk, a popular bacon dish in Danish cuisine, has been described as "a dish of pork fat, and only pork fat, in parsley sauce"?
... that the Dallas Aces were the world's first professional bridge team?
... that Mar Abba I, the Nestorian Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon from 540 to 552, was a convert from Zoroastrianism?
... that after ruling Japan for 135 years, the Hōjō clan set its family temple on fire before committing mass suicide within, and were enshrined en masse in the temple of Hōkai-ji?

3 June 2009

21:49, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Jackson Browne and Pat MacDonald headlined a 2005 benefit concert to restore Wisconsin's historic Sturgeon Bay Bridge (pictured)?
... that the debut single of Romanian singer Corina entitled Noi Doi reached fourth place in the Romanian Top 100?
... that soprano Deborah Voigt lost over 100 pounds (45 kg) by means of gastric bypass surgery after she was fired in the "Covent Garden incident"?
... that the Olympic ice hockey tournament was nearly canceled when two hockey teams from the United States arrived in St. Moritz, Switzerland, to compete in the 1948 Winter Olympic Games?
... that Peter Symonds, an English mercer, founded an almshouse in Winchester that was to become Peter Symonds College?
... that National Pig Day is included in a handbook for first-year teachers as a day for activities including cooking bacon, making BLTs, and discussing where pork chops come from?

15:49, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Captain James Lind was knighted after the Battle of Vizagapatam (pictured), despite losing both merchants he was escorting?
... that Torvald Tu's musical comedy Kjærleik på Lykteland from 1923 was one of the greatest stage successes at Det Norske Teatret?
... that some of the elements of the adventure pack Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate were released so that they could be used for free by the Neverwinter Nights 2 community?
... that Bruce Springsteen's song "For You" is about a woman who has attempted suicide?
... that although the report of the Benson Commission led to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, the report and Act disagreed in many ways?
... that in only his second mixed martial arts fight, the 2006 World Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling, Joe Warren, defeated former champion Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto?

09:49, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

... that when Farleigh Hungerford Castle (gateway pictured) was fortified from an existing manor house between 1370 and 1380, it was done without the appropriate "licence to crenellate" from the king?
... that Jan Piekałkiewicz, a leading Polish statistician, became the Polish Underground State's Government Delegate, and died at the hands of Nazi Germany?
... that the Chinatown in Mexico City may be the world's smallest?
... that the Oscar Award-nominated film The Final Inch, a documentary about efforts to eradicate the poliovirus, is the first film project from Google's philanthropic division Google.org?
... that surform tools can shape materials as diverse as automobile repair plastic body filler and elephants' hooves?
... that the beard of Greek cardinal Basilios Bessarion was partly responsible for the defeat of his candidacy in the papal conclave, 1455?

03:49, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich (pictured) would be New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's choice for his last meal and is sometimes referred to as an "Elvis sandwich"?
... that Katie Jarvis was cast in the film Fish Tank, after a casting agent spotted her having an argument with her boyfriend at Tilbury Town railway station?
... that the original radio studio building of KOBB (then called KBMN) in northern Bozeman, Montana, now serves as a small casino?
... that when classicist Bernard Knox was selected for the 1992 Jefferson Lecture (the U.S.'s highest humanities honor), he gave his speech the "provocative" title "The Oldest Dead White European Males"?
... that a critic reviewing country music artist Ronnie Milsap's 2006 album My Life observed that Milsap's voice remained "virtually unchanged" since his debut in the early 1970s?
... that the Sopwith Bulldog, a prototype British World War I fighter plane, was so unreliable that one test pilot said "I never remember being able to get all cylinders to fire at the same time"?

2 June 2009

20:28, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the railroad station in Dilley, Oregon, was built 23 years after the railroad reached the community?
... that in 1895, the husband of English actress Amy Roselle shot her dead and then killed himself, leaving behind a suicide note censuring the acting profession?
... that in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Ashcroft v. Iqbal, a prisoner sued Federal prison guards and their superiors alleging physical abuse?
... that As'ad Pasha al-Azm, governor of Damascus under the Ottoman Empire for 14 years, ordered the construction of the Azm Palace and Khan As'ad Pasha?
... that John Wick, who passed on information that led to an ongoing scandal about expenses of Members of the United Kingdom Parliament, once commanded the Royal Army Ordnance Corps's Mobile Bath Unit?
... that the Fossil Cabin in Wyoming was built of dinosaur bones and was billed by its builder as "the building that used to walk"?

08:21, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

... that gopchang jeongol (pictured), a spicy Korean casserole made by boiling beef tripe, vegetables, and seasonings in beef broth, is a popular dish when drinking alcoholic beverages in South Korea?
... that music producer Bill Szymczyk got started in music engineering while working on SONAR for the United States Navy?
... that Mushet steel was the first tool steel and later led to the discovery of high speed steel?
... that driving for Polestar Racing Group, Katherine Legge became the first woman to win an open-wheel race in North America?
... that San Pedro Atocpan hosts a festival every year devoted to mole sauce?
... that Henri Pinault, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Chengdu, was imprisoned and expelled from China by the Communist Party of China in 1952, but retained his title until 1983?

02:21, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Bulgarian villages of Mezek and Matochina, situated near the borders with Greece and Turkey, both have medieval castles (Matochina fortress pictured)?
... that before Tommy Walker became a footballer he was a champion sprinter?
... that Hannah Tracy Cutler wrote an advice column for farm girls before she became president of the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1870?
... that human skin flora includes roughly 1,000 species of bacteria?
... that Donald G. Fink, later to become a prominent electrical engineer, was selected as the best orator in his county at a high school competition?
... that the 1927 British AJW Summit v-twin motorcycle was capable of 161 kilometres per hour (100 mph)?

1 June 2009

20:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

... that "Ma" Newell (pictured), one of the few four-year All-Americans in college football history, was run over by a railroad engine on Christmas Eve 1897?
... that in the 2009 Indian parliamentary election, Bangshi Badan Barman of the Greater Cooch Behar Democratic Party became the first undertrial prisoner to file candidate nomination papers in West Bengal?
... that The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills, established in 1967, carries more than 500 varieties of cheese?
... that the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site in Derbyshire, which includes a mixture of mills and workers' housing, is considered the birthplace of the factory system?
... that Terrence Wheatley and teammate Sammy Joseph were the first two freshman cornerbacks to start at the same time in Colorado Buffaloes history?
... that her controversial publication of The Woman's Bible in the 1890s effectively ended Elizabeth Cady Stanton's further influence in the women's suffrage movement?

14:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

... that the Imperial Japanese Navy I-176 (pictured) was the only Japanese submarine in the Second World War to sink one of its American counterparts?
... that King Cnut the Great ordered the murder of Eadric Streona and Northman, the eldest son of Leofwine, Ealdorman of the Hwicce, in 1017?
... that Greg Golson stole over 100 bases in his five years as a Philadelphia Phillies minor leaguer?
... that the Virginia Tech Hokies, winners of the 1995 Sugar Bowl, were selected for the game only after sanctions were levied against the Miami Hurricanes?
... that the Old Log Theater is reputedly the oldest professional theater in the state of Minnesota and is the oldest continuously operating professional theater in the United States?
... that Daphne Anderson has played Father William, the Walrus, and the Red Queen in various productions of Alice in Wonderland?

08:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

... that New York's Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Church (pictured) secured its original building, a union church, by growing the fastest out of the several denominations that shared it?
... that in a defined contribution plan, a type of retirement plan, the contributions to the account are guaranteed but the future benefits are not?
... that Arsenal won the 1988–89 English Football League Championship title thanks to a goal scored in the last minute of the very last game?
... that the Helmerich Award, an annual literary award that pays US$40,000 to an "internationally acclaimed" author, is named after the actress who played "Nurse Kelly" in the 1950 film Harvey?
... that the Indian Star Tortoise, Sri Lanka Junglefowl, Sri Lankan Elephant, Sri Lanka Leopard and Rusty-spotted Cat are among the endangered species of the Hurulu Forest Reserve?
... that the last train to run on the Port Whitby and Port Perry Railway was a special passenger service to Toronto to visit the Royal Tour of 1939?
... that the Northwestern Wildcats women's lacrosse team has won the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship five consecutive times since 2005?
... that approximately 37,500 Local and Personal Acts have been passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 1539?

02:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

... that Wing Commander John Lerew (pictured), ordered to defend Rabaul against Japanese invasion in 1942, signalled headquarters the legendary gladiatorial phrase "We who are about to die salute you"?
... that the many optical effects apparent in Johannes Vermeer's The Lacemaker indicate that he made use of the camera obscura; an early photographical device?
... that Ralph Alswang designed the Westport, Connecticut, home of actor Paul Newman?
... that the Benner House is the sole surviving German-style vernacular home built to a one-room plan in Rhinebeck, New York?
... that the comic strip character Pupung was based on the creator's nephew Jeff Young?
... that the country music quartet The Oak Ridge Boys reached their highest ranking in 26 years on the Billboard 200 with the release of their 2009 album The Boys Are Back?
... that Han dynasty politician Zhang Tang once tried and executed a rat?
... that in 1987, the Elk Creek Dam's construction on Elk Creek was halted due to a court injunction issued over a lawsuit designed to protect salmon and other migratory fish from the effects of the dam on the river?