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30 April 2007

20:32, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Achelous-class repair ship USS Atlas (pictured) was used to repair damaged landing craft after D-Day in 1944?
...that a special kind of soil from Bidar fort is an essential ingredient in making Bidriware, a metal handicraft of Karnataka, India?
...that United States Senator Charles Sumner was nearly beaten to death by Representative Preston Brooks in the Old Senate Chamber of the United States Capitol?
...that maize was the staple of Aztec cuisine, and that maguey worms, spirulina and corn smut were popular Aztec foods?
...that the low alcohol beer Buckler was taken out of the market in the Netherlands after sales dropped as a result of the negative image created by comedian Youp van 't Hek in 1989?
...that orographic rainfall, one of the three types of rainfall, is caused when cool air is forced upward by mountains to form clouds which then produce rain?

13:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Company style paintings (example pictured) were made by Indian artists for patrons from the British East India Company in the 18th and 19th centuries?
...that the Brown Rock Chat sometimes nests in the rafters of inhabited houses?
...that St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is one of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's oldest churches and a prime example of the 'Polish Cathedral' style?
...that nomadic eagle falconers maintain that "as the man trains the eagle, so does the eagle train his man"?
...that Josef Hoffmann co-founded two major art groups and his designs served as a precedent for modern architecture?
...that ten case forms can be traced in the Lithuanian language, seven of which are preserved in the standard language version?
...that Arthur Fonjallaz was expelled from the Heimatwehr, a fascist organization in Switzerland, because he advocated an annexation by Italy?

06:49, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Japanese painter Takeuchi Seihō (work pictured) was one of the first to receive Japan's Order of Culture when it was established in 1937?
...that Copadichromis borleyi is a type of mouthbrooding fish endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa?
...that the first Director of Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department, Glenn Knight, was also the first legal officer in the country to be charged for corruption?
...that a British submarine flotilla dominated the Baltic Sea for a major part of WWI, but the loss of the Socialists in the Finnish Civil War forced the crews to scuttle the fleet outside Helsinki?
...that the term "a feather in your cap" comes from the traditional rights bestowed upon warriors or hunters who have killed their enemy or prey?

29 April 2007

23:22, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the teponaztli (pictured) is an Aztec wooden slit drum?
...that Fort Antes in what is now Nippenose Township, Pennsylvania, survived a scorched earth attack during the American Revolutionary War, despite having been abandoned by its defenders?
...that Chitrakala Parishat, an art institution and a cultural organization in Bangalore, was the brainchild of famous Russian painter Svetoslav Roerich who used to reside in that city?
...that Peter of Tarentaise started the charitable tradition of giving food to poor farmers in the spring called pain de Mai (May-bread), which continued for over 600 years?

17:19, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

...that none of the more than 1000 windows in the Waldspirale residential complex (pictured) in Darmstadt, Germany are identical?
...that the people of the Bronze Age Elp culture in the present-day Netherlands lived in longhouses similar to those inhabited by the area's farmers today?
...that MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable"?
...that the Arab Socialist Action Party, the main secular opposition group in Saudi Arabia at the time, faced a massive crackdown in the spring of 1982?
...that William Firmatus, a Norman hermit, is said to have led a wild boar by the ear from a farmer's plot and instructed it to fast for the night in a solitary cell?

09:35, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Mormon leader Charles Shreeve Peterson (pictured) was the first settler of Utah's Morgan Valley?
...that the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 established the first peacetime draft in the United States?
...that Philip Whistler Street was a Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia -- as were his son Kenneth and his grandson Laurence?
...that the Common Skullcap, a perennial plant found throughout Eurasia, is traditionally used as a mild sedative?
...that the Potawatomi, a tribe of Native Americans, were evicted from land near Indiana’s Yellow River less than six years after tribal chiefs signed a treaty granting them that land in perpetuity?
...that the Lutheran Church of China was created from the union of no less than 25 separate Lutheran missionary agencies?

28 April 2007

21:37, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Ibirapuera Auditorium (pictured) in São Paulo, Brazil, features a reversible stage that can play concerts to audiences inside and out?
...that 18% of all deaths occurring in automobile accidents are the result of traumatic aortic ruptures?
...that Gaetano Donizetti's opera Le duc d'Albe didn't receive its first performance until more than 40 years after his death?
...that Dr. Andrew Rochford, a presenter on the popular Australian television show What's Good For You, got his break after he won the popular show The Block?
...that the ideology of the Romanian National Renaissance Front has been described as "operetta fascism"?
...that according to Ronald Enroth's book Churches That Abuse, "spiritual abuse can take place in the context of doctrinally sound, Bible-preaching, fundamentalist, conservative Christianity"?
...that Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look", a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s?

10:57, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the pedestal of the The Bronze Horseman (pictured) is believed to be the largest stone ever moved by humans?
...that the port of Kuala Belait, one of the two ports in Brunei, is located in Kampong Sungai Duhon?
...that Benedict Arnold learned about the capture of his fellow-conspirator John André while living on Sugarloaf Hill, from which he then fled?
...that Japanese painter Shimomura Kanzan came from a family of Noh actors, and that themes from Noh drama frequently appeared in his works?
...that participants in the Sterling Institute of Relationship dance naked in a ritual while being videotaped?
...that Jim Hutchinson, who died in 2000, was the longest-lived first-class cricket player, at 103 years and 344 days?
...that Edward R. Bradley was the preeminent owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses in the Southern United States during the early 20th century?

03:04, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the attack transport USS Bayfield (pictured) served as headquarters for planning the D-Day landings on "Utah Beach" in 1944?
...that there are 618 species of birds in Belize?
...that the Zambian district of Chiengi has no television or telephone service?
...that American comic book artist Art Saaf also made storyboards for The Jackie Gleason Show and illustrated Highlights for Children?
...that the Institute of National Remembrance, a Polish research institute on modern Polish history, has been in a center of recent Polish politics?
...that the Tel Aviv bus 5 massacre was the deadliest suicide bombing in Israeli history up until that time?
...that when Reprise Records signed 17-year-old Chris Cummings to a record contract in 1992, he was the youngest artist they had ever signed?

27 April 2007

16:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Oxtotitlan grottoes feature some of the few existing examples of Olmec culture paintings (pictured)?
...that ceramics expert Otto Natzler perfected over 2,000 colours and styles of glazes?
...that the enrollment rate of girls in schools in Yemen is the lowest out of all Middle Eastern countries?
...that gay pornographic film director Scott Masters directed more than 100 loops before founding his own company, Nova Studios?
...that more than one million Koreans moved to Arab countries and Iran between 1975 and 1985?
...that nearly 3 million rupees worth of property was stolen from the house of Kannada cinema actor Srinath on the day of his daughter's marriage in 2001?

09:31, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Japanese diplomat Tatsuo Kawai (pictured) was sacked as an official spokesman at the Foreign Ministry after leading a strike there in 1940?
...that the 1914 comic strip Abie the Agent, the first American comic with a Jewish protagonist, has been called the first adult comic?
...that Kveldulf Bjalfasson, a ninth-century Norwegian landowner and grandfather of the Viking Egill Skallagrímsson, was reputed to be an ulfhéðinn or werewolf?
...that Nabisco Brands, Inc. sold the US Shredded Wheat operations to General Foods, and the international Shredded Wheat operations to General Mills?
...that between her marriage to Marcus Garvey and her relationship with President of Liberia William Tubman, Pan-Africanist activist Amy Ashwood Garvey ran a club on London's Carnaby Street?

02:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

...that a cyclic cellular automaton is a system of simple mathematical rules that can generate complex patterns mixing random chaos, blocks of color, and spirals (pictured)?
...that reification is a logical fallacy that occurs when qualities of a living being are attributed to an abstract concept?
...that Whistling Kites in Australia primarily hunt live prey, while those in New Guinea are principally scavengers?
...that the Poplar Tree Elementary School building was damaged by boulders from blasting works during its construction, and it initially had no playground?
...that the women courtiers in the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom were expected to be adept in 64 arts, with Kasuti embroidery being one of them?

26 April 2007

19:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Japanese painter Tomioka Tessai (work pictured) was encouraged by his mentor, Buddhist nun and poet Otagaki Rengetsu, to synthesize Buddhist and Shinto elements in his works?
...that former Ghana MP Eric Amoateng was arrested in the United States and has pled guilty to drug trafficking-related charges?
...that the town of Channapatna in India is known as the "toy-town of Karnataka" due to the popularity of the wooden toys manufactured there?
...that the eight surviving medieval Bulgarian royal charters are among the few available secular documents from the time of the Second Bulgarian Empire?
...that the performance of "Let Me Try" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 featured performers banging on what appeared to be drums of industrial waste?

13:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

...that during the Toronto Raptors 2006-07 season (team pictured), the National Basketball Association team won their first division title in franchise history?
...that there are 254 Hewitts and Nuttalls in England?
...that Yalchik Lake is the biggest lake in Mari El, Russia?
...that Anne Hyde Choate was the second president of the Girl Scouts of the USA and also an international Scouting leader in WAGGGS for fifty years?
...that Marbrianus de Orto was one of the first composers to write a completely canonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass?
...that Tejashwini Sreeramesh, an Indian Member of Parliament from the Kanakapura constituency of Karnataka, was previously an anchor of a talk show on Udaya TV?

05:27, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the International One Design for yachts (pictured) was developed so that races would be decided by the crew's skills?
...that microfinance organization FINCA International is known as the "World Bank for the poor"?
...that Alex Stevenson is the only footballer to play for both the Republic of Ireland and Rangers F.C.?
...that the non-fiction book Est Playing the Game was almost blocked from publication because it described techniques used in Erhard Seminars Training?
...that one of the liturgies of the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, a part of Western Rite Orthodoxy, is a modified form of the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer?
...that John Bower was the first non-European to ever win in any events at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1968?
...that Banga Mahila Vidyalaya (Bengali Women’s College) was the first women’s liberal arts college in India?

25 April 2007

21:28, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Winter Quarters Bay (pictured) is the southern-most port in the Southern Ocean?
...that the 1934 film Sati Sulochana was the first ever talkie produced in the Kannada language?
...that Marthe Richard was a former prostitute and spy who worked to make brothels illegal in France?
...that Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park in California was initially built and run in the 1970s by the Newhall Land and Farming Company?
...that despite a requirement for scientists to share data, over a quarter of geneticists could not access data required to validate research?
...that Andrew N. Meltzoff's research revealed that infants of only a few weeks of age can imitate facial expressions and hand gestures?
...that Alexandru Ghika, the founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis, was the great-great-grandson of Grigore IV Ghica, Prince of Wallachia?
...that the villagers of Kotor referred to Dominican visionary and anchoress Osanna of Cattaro as "the trumpet of the Holy Spirit" and the "teacher of mysticism"?
...that it is said that the name for Gilbertstone in Birmingham derives from a man named Gilbert lifting an erratic to extend his land?

13:08, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Ruben M. Benjamin House (pictured) was built by John Long Routt, the first governor of Colorado?
...that Amsterdam's Prostitution Information Center provides the city's visitors with information and advice about prostitution?
...that the Lieutenant Governor's Court was the first real civil court in Tasmania and that a judge-advocate presided in the court rather than the lieutenant governor?
...that Terry Major-Ball, elder brother of the former British Prime Minister Sir John Major, wrote an "exquisitely funny" autobiography detailing his mishaps running the family's garden ornament business in the 1950s?
...that the Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation is the first attempt at recording the complete history of Russian and Soviet animation?
...that the father of Nguyen Van Cu, the Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilot who led the 1962 Presidential Palace bombing, was a dissident jailed by Ngo Dinh Diem?
...that the David Bowie song "Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)" was inspired by Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies, which was also the basis for the film Bright Young Things?
...that Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club was the site of Tiger Woods’ record third consecutive amateur championship?
...that Very Light Jet entrepreneur Jim McCotter founded a religious movement?

05:26, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the land holdings of Henry Newhall (pictured) formed the basis of what is now Santa Clarita, California?
...that 25 of the 368 Cuban bird species are endemic?
...that according to legend, when a peasant stole a donkey from Opportuna of Montreuil's abbey, she "left the matter up to God," and the next day, the peasant's field was sown with salt?
...that the 2,000 American soldiers who fought in the Battle of Short Hills against 17,000 British men suffered only minor casualties and were able to inflict considerable damage on the enemy?
...that there are two radio stations in Brunei that broadcast partially in Gurkhali for the Nepalese speakers of the First Battalion of the Royal Gurkha Rifles stationed in Brunei?
...that Jiang Rong was inspired to write his 2004 novel Wolf Totem during China's Cultural Revolution after a failed attempt to domesticate a wolf?
...that the 1983 film Circle of Power won a Dramatic Films award at the 1982 Sundance Film Festival?
...that County Route 708 in Camden County, New Jersey is only one of four routes in that county that has multiple routes of the same number?

24 April 2007

21:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (pictured) in Paraná, Brazil was reinaugurated to honor its famous architect Oscar Niemeyer, who completed his design for the museum's annex at the age of 95?
...that Donald Stephens, recently deceased mayor of Rosemont, Illinois for 51 years, is believed to have been the longest-serving mayor in the United States?
...that in economics, the kinked demand curve theory was the first attempt at explaining sticky prices?
...that French mycologist and naturalist Lucien Quélet claimed in his book, Mycologic Flora of France, that the human race as a whole was becoming more and more primitive?
...that the Lykaia in Arcadia was a primitive rite of passage centered upon a threat of cannibalism and the possibility of a werewolf transformation?
...that James T. Brand of the Oregon Supreme Court was the presiding judge for most of the Judges' Trial, in which 10 German lawyers and judges were convicted of war crimes after World War II?

14:14, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

...that even though Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, it reached an even wider audience in its theatrical adaptations (advertising poster pictured)?
...that in negative base systems, positive and negative numbers can be represented without the use of a minus sign?
...that Gurdwara Sahib Klang, a Sikh Gurdwara in Malaysia, was constructed with donations collected by Sikh Sangats all over Malaysia, including a large sum from the Prime Minister's Department?
...that in 2000, Willamette Industries, Inc. was fined a then-record $11.2 million by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for violations of the Clean Air Act?
...that Ladipo Solanke, long the Secretary-General of the West African Students' Union, was the first person to broadcast on the radio in the Yoruba language?
...that the Portland Power’s Natalie Williams was the leading scorer in the ABL during the 1997 to 1998 season?

07:46, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the LWD Szpak (pictured) was the first Polish-designed post-World War II airplane?
...that the Romanian artist Ion Valentin Anestin was censored and ultimately arrested by the Communist regime for publishing caricatures of Joseph Stalin during World War II?
...that a British Gurkha Battalion has been maintained in Brunei at the request of the Sultan of Brunei since the 1962 Brunei Revolt?
...that Kerry Lynch is the only nordic combined skier to ever be disqualified for doping and stripped of his medal at the Winter Olympics or Nordic skiing World Championships?
...that Charles Menzies established Newcastle, New South Wales as a settlement, when he was only 21 years of age?
...that Jacqui Oatley is the first female football commentator in the history of BBC football programme Match of the Day?

01:38, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the students of Jagiellonian University tore the portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I to pieces at the Collegium Novum (pictured) while rallying for independence from the Austrian Empire?
...that the Avinguda Diagonal, a street in Barcelona, Spain, is so named because it cuts the central district Eixample in two diagonally?
...that Dan Jones heard founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Joseph Smith, Jr.'s "final prophecy" the day before Smith was killed?
...that the Vietminh named the grenades they made and used against the French after Phan Dinh Phung, who led a rebel army in the initial colonisation of Vietnam?
...that Australian Test cricketer Ray Lindwall played in two rugby league grand finals for the St. George Dragons?
...that Annette Akroyd, an orientalist, is remembered primarily for her early efforts at women’s education in India?
...that a German-American was aboard the German submarine, U-94, when she was sunk by United States Navy and Canadian Navy forces?

23 April 2007

18:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the oligopoly formed in Minneapolis by Pillsbury, Northwestern Consolidated (pictured) and General Mills before the Great Depression was the world's largest flour miller?
...that the Royal Brunei Navy formed as the Boat Section of the Brunei Malay Regiment?
...that Eduard Bloch was a Jewish doctor whose life was saved out of "everlasting gratitude" by Adolf Hitler?
...that on May 3, 2002 a military MiG-21bis aircraft crashed into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight?
...that the far right political writer Armin Mohler was refused entry to the SS and forced to return to his native Switzerland, where he was arrested for desertion from the Swiss Army?
...that Lyndon Johnson declined to respond to the Vietcong's Christmas Eve 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing, fearing that fighting during the holiday season would damage morale?
...that Julian Salomons was the only chief justice in New South Wales to resign before he was sworn into office?

12:29, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

...that in the Big Runaway during the American Revolution in Pennsylvania in 1778, Rachel Silverthorn (pictured) rode to warn settlers on Muncy Creek of impending attack when no man would?
...that tourism is Nicaragua's second largest industry, having grown 394% in the past 12 years?
...that Royal Governor of Chile José de Garro planned to defeat the Mapuches by taking their chiefs hostage in a ruse, but the plan was rejected by King Charles II of Spain as too deceitful?
...that in 1961 the Portland Buckaroos hockey team beat the Seattle Totems in the Western Hockey League championship to win the Lester Patrick Cup in its first season of existence?
...that the non-fiction book The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled is cited in academic journals as an extreme example of encounter groups?
...that Irish cricketer and artist Robert Gregory was the subject of four poems by W. B. Yeats?
...that piano player and pupil of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Maryla Jonas, debuted at the age of 9?

05:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Jewelers' Row (pictured) in Philadelphia was the first speculative housing development in the United States, featuring that country's first row houses?
...that book peddlers played an important cultural role in various countries, for which they sometimes suffered state persecution and sometimes enjoyed state protection?
...that Australian Olympic swimming gold medalist Neil Brooks retired after being suspended for drinking 46 cans of beer on a flight from Britain back to Australia?
...that as British Colonial Secretary, Arthur Creech Jones oversaw dominion status in 1948 for Ceylon?
...that the 1928 legislative election is considered the last free election in Poland before the fall of communism six decades later?

22 April 2007

20:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Royal Air Force ordered 1,291 De Havilland DH.10s (pictured) for use in World War I, but they were only used in a single bombing mission before the armistice ended the fighting?
...that Kannada poet and Indian political activist Kayyara Kinyanna Rai published his first journal, Susheela, at the age of 12?
...that Michigan State University Libraries has the largest catalogued collection of comic books in the world, with over 150,000 items?
...that President Ngo Dinh Diem survived the 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing after a 500 lb (225 kg) bomb landed in his room and failed to detonate?

13:41, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

...that John Ives (pictured) was elected a fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society by the age of 21?
...that the West Pharmaceutical Services explosion in 2003 occurred just 170 miles from the site of another industrial disaster, America's second-worst?
...that Du battant des lames au sommet des montagnes (French for "From the beating of the waves to the summit of the mountains") is a legal description of the manner in which the island of Réunion was divided into parcels?
...that Rasau Field, one of the two onshore oil fields of Brunei, was discovered in 1979 but oil production only started in 1983?
...that when the Sudanese Boeing 737 Air West Flight 612 was hijacked, the hijacker originally wanted to fly to Rome or London but was forced to settle for Chad due to a lack of fuel?

05:36, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

...that St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford (pictured) was closely associated with the early Oxford Movement?
...that the mushroom Lactarius rubrilacteus is also known as the "Bleeding milkcap" because it releases a dark-red milky substance when sliced or cut?
...that the South Seas Evangelical Church, the third-largest religious affiliation in the Solomon Islands, traces its history to a mission for Kanakas in Queensland, Australia?
...that British Conservative politician Robert Jones was the only person to represent the parliamentary constituency of West Hertfordshire from its creation in 1983 to its abolition in 1997?
...that the brief Dodecanese Campaign in 1943 resulted in one of the last major German victories in World War II?
...that Pankaj Gupta was one of the earliest Indian sports administrators involved in football, hockey and cricket?

21 April 2007

21:35, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

...that in the 100th meeting of the Red River Shootout (pictured), the Texas Longhorns tied their record for biggest margin of victory over their rival, the Oklahoma Sooners?
...that Wee Chong Jin, one of the former judicial officers of the Republic of Singapore, was the longest-serving Chief Justice of Singapore and of a Commonwealth country, having held the post for over 27 years?
...that Dr. Hanumappa Sudarshan was honored with the Right Livelihood Award, also known as alternative Nobel Prize, for showing how tribal culture can help secure the basic rights and needs of indigenous people?
...that Ashley Mallett, Australia's most successful post-war off spinner, had his career curtailed by arthritis?
...that the genus Brachyplatystoma includes many large species of Amazonian catfish, including one which may reach about 3.6 metres (almost 12 feet) in length?
...that, even though the soldiers that constituted the Red Lancers, a horse-mounted military unit, first served as the Dutch Royal Guards, they were almost completely destroyed after their first battle in 1812?

13:45, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Rothschild giraffe (pictured) is the most endangered and tallest subspecies of giraffe?
...that the role of Kanephoros was the most prominent public office a girl or woman could hold in ancient Athens?
...that tens of thousands of Armenian Khachkars have allegedly been destroyed in a systematic manner by the government of Azerbaijan?
...that during a 1942 air attack on the Koolama, an Australian merchant ship, a man survived a direct hit to his head by a bomb, dropped by a Japanese aircraft?
...that Dr. Naseem Ashraf was accused in Dawn of having a hidden agenda of de-Islamisation of the Pakistan cricket team?
...that Shikellamy, an Oneida chief, was an emissary between the Iroquois and colonial government of Pennsylvania for nearly twenty years and helped negotiate several treaties?
...that the 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt stalled after President Ngo Dinh Diem falsely promised reform, allowing loyalist forces to crush the rebels?

06:43, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Sugarlands (pictured), a valley once known as "Moonshiners' Paradise", is now the location of Great Smoky Mountains National Park headquarters?
...that in the early 18th century the Marquis de Ségur owned three of the five most prestigious wine estates in Bordeaux?
...that 1927 Italian football champions Torino F.C. were stripped of their title for match fixing?
...that labor union activist Sam Pollock, who helped lead the Auto-Lite Strike, is the grandfather of noted experimental filmmaker Damon Packard?
...that the Romanian politician Costică Canacheu campaigns for the official recognition of Aromanians as a national minority in his country?
...that females of the tropical fish subfamily Glandulocaudinae are able to hold sperm in their ovaries for several months?

00:17, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Achelous-class landing craft repair ship USS Krishna (pictured) and her sister ship USS Indra are the only U.S. Naval vessels to have borne the name of Hindu deities?
...that the body of a 5th-century Germanic warrior found with the Treasure of Pouan was initially thought to be that of Theodoric I?
...that Australian cricketer John Gleeson attributed the finger strength used in his two-finger bowling action to a childhood of milking cows?
...that the first documented discovery of gold in California was at Rancho San Francisco in 1842, six years before the California Gold Rush?
...that the 1964 South Vietnamese coup by General Nguyen Khanh succeeded even though his accomplice General Tran Thien Khiem overslept?
...that Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee John Pesek was also inducted into the Greyhound National Hall of Fame?

20 April 2007

15:27, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

...that David Farragut (pictured) in 1862 became the first Hispanic U.S. Navy Admiral?
...that somewhere between a quarter and a third of Icelanders living in Iceland died due to the 1783 eruption of Laki, and the subsequent famine?
...that light echoes appear to exceed the speed of light due to simple interstellar illusions?
...that despite the scar literature after the Cultural Revolution in China contributing to Deng Xiaoping's return to power, he later suppressed it?
...that the Irish–Australian surveyor Robert D. Fitzgerald became so skilled in his hobby of botany that Charles Darwin corresponded with him and 4 plants were named in his honour?
...that Churumuri.com, one of the most popular blogs on WordPress.com, is named after a snack made of puffed rice that is a speciality of Mysore, Karnataka in India?
...that the Governors Court in New South Wales had a rule barring ex-convict lawyers from appearing before it, but all of the lawyers in the penal colony were ex-convicts?

07:58, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Gilbert Jessop called Henry Scattergood (pictured) America's greatest wicket-keeper?
...that British philosopher Iain King is attempting to apply the scientific revolution to ethics?
...that the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency is building nuclear power plants that float on water?
...that during the 2007 Rolex 24 At Daytona, Katherine Legge completed the one millionth lap in the history of the race?
...that Dusky Woodswallows roost together in large flocks during the breeding season to protect their young from predators?
...that the person or group responsible for the blackmail letters of the Glico Morinaga case in Japan is known as the Monster with 21 Faces?
...that First Command Financial Planning, Inc., a financial services company that caters to the U.S. military, was found "willfully" non-compliant related to fraudulent activities in its marketing?

00:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Joachim Piccolomini (pictured) was repeatedly urged by his fellow Servites to become a priest, but felt unworthy to be anything more than an altar server?
...that Neville Duke was the top Allied fighter ace in the Mediterranean theatre in World War II, having shot down at least 27 aircraft?
...that the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball program is the only college women's team to appear in every NCAA Tournament and every Sweet 16?
...that in the book Beyond Capricorn Peter Trickett claims that the Portuguese were the first to discover Australia, between 1519-24?
...that Sir Charles MacCarthy, the British colonial governor of Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, was killed by the Ashanti and his head kept as a trophy?
...that Uruguayan footballer Víctor Rodríguez Andrade helped found the Uruguayan Basketball Federation team 25 de Agosto?
...that Zhang Chengzhi, who formed China's first group of Red Guards while a student at Tsinghua University Middle School, converted to Islam?

19 April 2007

16:03, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

...that bats comprise about 20% of all mammal species found in the Central Oregon Coast Range (pictured)?
...that a version of the traditional Bengali panjika, the Hindu astrological almanac, comes with an interactive CD-ROM?
...that none of the storms of the 1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season in the Arabian Sea made landfall?
...that as Charles I of Austria attempted to regain the Hungarian throne in 1921, Czechoslovakia nearly entered Budapest in order to prevent a Habsburg restoration?
...that the study reported in Evaluating a Large Group Awareness Training concluded that attending an LGAT seminar had minimal lasting effects, positive or negative, on participants' self-perception?
...that Martin Lindsay led the 1934 British Trans-Greenland Expedition, which set a world record for travelling 1050 mi (1680 km) using sledges?
...that only three works of Egardus, a fourteenth century composer whose music was known in Flanders, Italy, and Poland, are known to have survived?

05:41, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Los Angeles Lakers (pictured, in gold and white jerseys) and San Antonio Spurs (black jerseys) had an intense rivalry, during which the two teams won a total of six NBA championships in seven seasons?
...that Gottlieb Ott changed Berne's cityscape both by constructing new buildings and removing a medieval tower?
...that the All India Sikh Students Federation was a major part of the movement for a Sikh-majority state of Punjab in India?
...that species of Prosaurolophus, a duckbilled dinosaur, have been described by Barnum Brown and Jack Horner, two of the most prominent paleontologists of the 20th century?
...that Thrud the Barbarian, a comic character parodying Arnold Schwarzenegger's depiction of Conan the Barbarian, has the intelligence of a garden snail?
...that the Free Belgian Forces fought in several theaters during World War II, including Great Britain, East Africa, the Mediterranean, and northwestern Europe?

18 April 2007

23:05, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

...that The Mather School (pictured) in Dorchester, Massachusetts, is the oldest free public elementary school in North America?
...that Jerry Zimmerman was the last active Major League Baseball coach to umpire a major league game?
...that the first recorded use of "mad as a March hare", which refers to the antics of hares during their breeding season, was written by Sir Thomas More in 1529?
...that the defection of Polish secret police agent Józef Światło in 1953 shook the Polish United Workers' Party and led to the liberalization of Polish October?
...that Mother Theresa University, in Vilpatti Panchayat, South India, is the nation's only university exclusively devoted to women's issues?
...that the history of invasive and interventional cardiology began with catheters being placed into the right and left ventricles of a living horse in 1711?
...that the Korean dialect spoken by ethnic Koreans in Japan has changed so much that some of its speakers don't think it can be properly referred to as "Korean" anymore?

16:21, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the lockstep walking (pictured) was a trademark of the American prison system of the 19th century and sometimes replaced the military step of inmates as a form of punishment?
...that Berne's Christoffelturm, when it was over 500 years old, was pulled down in a political move that had 415 supporters and 412 opposers?
...that in Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., the United States Supreme Court declared that "nudity itself is not inherently expressive conduct"?
...that Ninasam, a cultural organization in Karnataka, India, had a project sponsored by the Ford Foundation of the United States?
...that the Cadillac Northstar LMP Le Mans prototype did not actually use an engine from a Cadillac, but instead an Oldsmobile?
...that Dominican Anthony Neyrot renounced Christianity after being captured by Moorish pirates, but publicly reconverted and was stoned to death at Tunis?
...that during the Battle of Dalmatia, Croatian forces were so ill-equipped that they stuffed explosives into Coca-Cola cans to create hand grenades?

08:05, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

...that 18th century French artilleries were the most efficient at cannon operation (pictured), capable of firing 150 shots per cannon daily during siege?
...that the 1932 comedy Pojkarna på Storholmen, starring Fridolf Rhudin, is one of the most successful Swedish films in history?
...that the White-eyed Gull, a rare gull endemic to the Red Sea, does not have white eyes?
...that Rajarsi Janakananda, before becoming the leading disciple of Hindu Guru Paramahansa Yogananda, was a self-made American millionaire named James Jesse Lynn?
...that the polymathic Thomas Shaw Brandreth invented the Cycloped, a horse-powered locomotive, and published a blank verse translation of the Iliad into English?
...that Hugo Stoltzenberg developed the poison gas used at the 1915 Battle of Ypres during World War I?
...that former Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson was cast in the 1927 silent exploitation film Is Your Daughter Safe? to ensure it would pass the city's censorship boards?

01:17, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Aichi D1A (pictured) was a carrier-borne dive bomber primarily used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War?
...that a nonconvex polygon with three convex vertices is called a pseudotriangle?
...that online data broker Intelius owns more than half of the people search market?
...that Dorus Rijkers was a Dutch lifeboat-captain who saved over 500 men, women and children from drowning at sea?
...that Kampong Sungai Teraban in Brunei was settled by a group of Malay fishermen who moved across the Belait River after a falling out with the inhabitants of Kuala Belait?

17 April 2007

18:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Sue (pictured) is the largest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found?
...that the Court of Civil Jurisdiction was the first civil court established in New South Wales, Australia?
...that in 2005, the newly-upgraded RORO ferry Queen of Oak Bay lost power and crashed into a marina, damaging or destroying 28 other vessels?
...that the history of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore dates back to the arrival of Lutheran Hakka refugees following the Taiping Rebellion in China?
...that Operation Independence, which aimed to crush the Guevarist guerilla ERP, was the first large-scale operation in the Argentine Dirty War?
...that Australian Olympic swimming champion Faith Leech grew up on a diet of carrot juice and beetroot after refusing all other food as a baby?

08:10, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Cai Wenji

...that the life of Han Dynasty poet and composer Cai Wenji (pictured) is depicted in Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute?
...that the pyramid scheme Holiday Magic was investigated by the State of California, the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission and shut down for fraud?
...that footballer Francis Lee earned his nickname Lee One Pen by setting an English record for the most penalties scored in a single season?
...that Polish-Jewish and American historian Adam Ulam escaped The Holocaust by leaving to study in the U.S. only days before the Germans invaded Poland?
...that the cities of Viterbo and Narni fought a two-year battle over where the popular nun Lucia Brocadelli of Narni would reside?

01:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

San Francisco Armory

...that the San Francisco Armory (pictured), a National Guard stronghold during the "Bloody Thursday" events of 1934, is now used as a BDSM porn studio?
...that exploitation film director/producer S. S. Millard was able to pass himself off as Romanian nobility when a former Romanian queen visited California?
...that John Downer, Premier of South Australia from 1885 to 1887, is the grandfather of Alexander Downer, the current Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs?
...that Beighton Cup is the oldest field hockey tournament in the world?
...that until 1861 Newton Abbot railway station had three separate train sheds for trains running on lines to and from Exeter, Plymouth, and Torquay?
...that Canford Cliffs, an affluent suburb of Poole, Dorset, includes an exclusive branch of HSBC bank which requires that customers without large accounts or mortgages pay to enter?
...that Reginald H. Thomson, the civil engineer responsible for "virtually all of Seattle's infrastructure", had a Ph.D. in philosophy?

16 April 2007

18:07, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the enigmatic Ediacaran biota (fossil pictured) have been classified into every major group of lifeforms, including their own kingdom?
...that like the characters in his television series The Practice and Boston Legal, David E. Kelley worked as a lawyer in a Boston law firm?
...that the concentration ability of Augustine Fangi reportedly allowed him to undergo an operation without anesthetic and feel nothing?
...that Bengali nationalism motivated the proposal for a united, independent Bengal as an alternative to the 1947 partition of Bengal?
...that the Australian legal doctrine of Persona designata allows a judge to exercise non-judicial power, if it has been conferred to the judge personally, rather than to his or her court?
...that the concept of cross-boundary subsidies is developed out of a merging of ideas from the studies of landscape ecology and food web ecology?
...that Judy Morris, co-writer of the Academy Award winning Happy Feet has also acted in many of the most popular North American and Australian television programs since the age of 10?

11:45, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

...that, according to a ruling issued by U.S. federal judge Robert W. Sweet (pictured), McDonald's is not to blame for its customers' obesity?
...that some species of Iridomyrmex ants have a symbiotic relationship with caterpillars?
...that Bhadda Kapilani, the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in understanding past reincarnations, was the former wife of Mahakasyapa, who led the sangha following the Buddha's paranibbana?
...that the First Tokyo Middle School, one of the top public secondary schools in Japan, expelled all of its Korean international students in 1905 when they demonstrated against the Eulsa Treaty between Japan and Korea?
...that Pedro Vuskovic's plan to move Chile's economy to a socialist model by democratic means led to runaway inflation and economic recession?
...that the International Grape Genome Program in Adelaide, Australia discovered that white grapes only exist today due to a rare genetic mutation that took place thousands of years ago?
...that, following his death, Constabilis is said to have appeared to the abbots of La Trinità della Cava, which he founded, the first four of whom have also been declared saints?

06:14, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the first official Japanese Embassy to the United States (pictured) occurred in 1860?
...that Kannada cinema star Dr. Rajkumar was buried at Kanteerava Studios in Bangalore?
...that aged 14, Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win a gold medal at the Olympics?
...that Sam Mbakwe was nicknamed "the weeping governor" for shedding tears when trying to get the federal government of Nigeria to pay more attention to his state?
...that the events of Polish October together with Hungarian November shook the Eastern Bloc in 1956 and set the course for the Revolutions of 1989?
...that, until Johannes Rebmann saw snow on Kilimanjaro in 1848, most Europeans thought it could not exist in Africa?
...that Sarkis Soghanalian, the "Cold War's largest arms merchant", was backed by the CIA and was the primary private arms dealer to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war?
...that the preservation movement that resulted in the Chicago Landmark designation began with the 1957 adoption of the Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House?

15 April 2007

23:31, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Master of the Playing Cards (3 of Birds pictured) was a 15th century German engraver and the first major master in the history of printmaking?
...that National Cavalry refers to the reformed Polish cavalry, succeeding the famous but obsolete Polish Hussars?
...that Lake Kutubu, the largest upland lake in Papua New Guinea, has 12 endemic species of fish?
...that Charles M. Loring was the father of the park system in Minneapolis, where Horace Cleveland designed the Grand Rounds and Theodore Wirth placed a park near every home?
...that Nihonga artist Ogura Yuki was the first woman to be selected chairperson of the Japan Art Academy, and one of only two women painters to be awarded Japan's Order of Culture?
...that Joseph Smith Jr. instructed that members of the Latter Day Saints' First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles should be accepted by the church as prophets, seers, and revelators?
...that Nguyen Van Nhung, who executed Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu following South Vietnam's 1963 coup, was himself executed a few months later, after another coup?

16:50, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Russian admiral Vasily Zavoyko (pictured) defended against superior British-French forces in the 1854 Siege of Petropavlovsk, and even captured the British banner?
...that Thomas Lant called the College of Arms "a company full of discord and envy?"
...that the Dehousing Paper, presented to the British War Cabinet in 1942, advocated for a strategic bombing campaign of German cities?
...that American John Thayer is the only known first-class cricketer to have died on the RMS Titanic?
...that the French-designed Minié rifle was the dominant infantry weapon of the American Civil War?
...that Franz Liszt's symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht was inspired by a painting of the same name by Wilhelm von Kaulbach?
...that David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party?
...that Lt.-Col. Tatsuji Suga of the Imperial Japanese Army and Commander of all POW and civilian internee camps in Borneo in World War 2, was a graduate of the University of Washington?

05:57, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

...that despite his commitment to historical accuracy, Albrecht Altdorfer's masterpiece The Battle of Alexander at Issus (pictured) is depicted as occurring in the Alps, in 16th century costume?
...that Yasa, the sixth arahant of Gautama Buddha, was also the son and former husband of the first two female lay disciples?
...that Frederick Matthew Darley was offered the position of Chief Justice of New South Wales, Australia, twice, and that he refused it the first time as he would earn less money than if he continued to practise as a barrister?
...that Emperor Gia Long united Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty after French missionary Pigneau de Behaine, whom he met in a forest while fleeing the Tay Son dynasty, sought French military assistance?
...that Canadian Ministers of Finance have a tradition of buying or wearing new shoes on budget day?
...that the key area of NBA basketball courts was widened to reduce the effectiveness of dominating centers like George Mikan?

14 April 2007

21:07, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

...that fashion designer Gareth Pugh has earned critical acclaim for his clothing made of inflated PVC (example pictured) but has never sold a single dress?
...that Bollywood actress Shenaz Treasurywala was discovered while stuck in India when Kuwait Airways lost her luggage, including travel documents she needed to return to school in New York?
...that Alan Davidson, regarded as one of the greatest left arm fast bowlers in the history of cricket, only took up the skill when his uncle's weekend team ran out of fast bowlers?
...that the Beta Effect, which affects larger tropical cyclones and needs to be accounted for in tropical cyclone forecasting, forces a more northwest tropical cyclone track in the Northern Hemisphere?
...that when the Workers Party of North Korea was founded in 1946, Kim Il-sung was given the position of Vice Chairman of the party?
...that Lloyd Groff Copeman, the inventor of the rubber ice cube tray, the electric stove and a toaster which turned bread automatically, was singer Linda Ronstadt's grandfather?

15:22, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

...that atop Berne's medieval clock tower Zytglogge (pictured) a gilded figure of Chronos strikes the bell every hour?
...that when Katherine Ann Power, a fugitive from justice for 23 years before turning herself in, was on the run in Oregon, she was treated for depression by Courtney Love's mother?
...that the lionfish genus Parapterois includes P. heterura, an attractive species uncommon in the aquarium trade, and the poorly known P. macrura?
...that long after Lana Stempien died by drowning, someone or something turned on the GPS system on her abandoned boat?
...that after being captured by pirates, friar Matthew Carrieri offered to remain a captive in place of others, which shocked the pirate captain so much he set all the prisoners free?
...that in 1954, the Federal Communications Commission sought to force union attorney Edward Lamb to surrender his broadcasting license on the grounds that he associated with communists?
...that vented cell (or flooded cell) nickel-cadmium batteries are used when large capacities and discharge rates are required?

02:57, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the bust of Ankhhaf (pictured), in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, is a realistic portrayal of the features of an actual person, which is rare in Ancient Egyptian art?
...that the Swiss castle Ruine Wulp was at one point torn apart and replaced with a single tower and building?
...that Building 470 at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland housed fermentor tanks for producing Bacillus anthracis during the Cold War?
...that generic antecedents are essential parts of communication; and there are many strategies to refer to them clearly and appropriately?
...that the 1975 film Tubby the Tuba marked the first time that computers were used in the production of an animated feature?
...that during the Mexican-American War, Ygnacio del Valle destroyed a gold mine on his property to prevent the Americans from gaining access to it?
...that it took a musicologist 12 years to reconstruct the missing portions of the only copy of English Renaissance composer Martin Peerson's Latin motets so they could be published and recorded?

13 April 2007

20:12, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the prototypes for the WW II German U-boat fleet (Type II pictured) were designed by a Dutch company and built in Finland at the Crichton-Vulcan shipyard?
...that the Declaration to the Seven was the first British pronouncement to the Arab states of the former Ottoman Empire advancing the principle of national self-determination?
...that due to Claude de Bernales' marketing of the gold fields of Western Australia in the 1930s, production increased sevenfold and employment in the industry quadrupled?
...that the Missa de Beata Virgine was the most popular of Josquin des Prez's masses in the 16th century?
...that British MP James Henderson Stewart was only one of four National Liberals to vote against Neville Chamberlain in the Norway Debate?
...that the Cave of Swallows is so large and wide that it is possible to navigate a hot air balloon through the cave with ease?
...that Phreatobius cisternarum, a species of catfish, is one of the few fish species that lives underground?

11:14, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

...that British television programmes including Cluedo and The Forsyte Saga were partly filmed at Arley Hall in Cheshire?
...that Alwatan is the first and oldest Omani newspaper?
...that legend says that Osanna of Mantua miraculously learned to read just by looking at a piece of paper with the words Jesus and Mary written on it?
...that US physicist Gaylord Harnwell was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh?
...that Elvira Popescu, an actress, theatre director, and recipient of the Légion d'honneur, was one of four women who inspired Henri Matisse's painting La Blouse Roumaine?
...that in Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. the U.S. Supreme Court held that preliminary work activities should be included as working time under the Fair Labor Standards Act?
...that the Ouachita Madtom is a rare species of miniature catfish found only in central Arkansas?

03:35, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Romanian socialist Constantin Mille (pictured) amused himself by fabricating news about his activities and having them published in the Conservative Party press?
...that Kenneth Farrow GC attempted to rescue a boy from an underground aqueduct despite strong current, heavy deposits on the floor and almost no headroom or handholds?
...that Camillo Ynitia was the only Native American on the northern frontier of Alta California to secure a large land grant for his tribe?
...that Zen master Dahui Zonggao ordered the destruction of the Blue Cliff Record, his master's collection of koans, making it unavailable for the next two centuries?
...that although Russian is the most widely used second language in Ukraine, it has no official status in the country?
...that 11th century Muslim Al-Andalusian poet Wallada bint al-Mustakfi dressed in public in the fashion of the harems of Baghdad, without a customary hijab?
...that the homosexual content of the works of António Botto led Catholic students to call for the author's hanging?

12 April 2007

19:52, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Swedish-Norwegian Union Jack of 1844 (pictured) became so unpopular that it was contemptuously nicknamed the Sillsalaten, after a colorful dish of pickled herring, red beets and apples?
...that the Auto-Lite Strike culminated in the "Battle of Toledo," a five-day melee between 6,000 striking workers and 1,300 members of the Ohio National Guard that left two dead and more than 200 injured?
...that botanist Leonard John Brass was born and died in Australia, served in the Canadian Army, became an American citizen and did most of his fieldwork in New Guinea?
...that educator Eliot Wigginton, editor of the landmark 12-volume Foxfire oral history anthologies, had to give up teaching in 1992 after pleading guilty to child molestation?
...that citizens from the city of Narni, Italy tried to kidnap Dominican mystic Columba of Rieti for their own city, but she escaped?
...that Put Down Your Whip, a 1939 oil painting by Xu Beihong, recently sold for US$9.2 million, the highest price ever paid for a Chinese painting at an auction?
...that the Saint Petersburg–Hiitola railroad was completed by 1917, but a year later the Finnish Civil War caused traffic to stop, with a mile of track removed?

13:06, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

...that All Saints' Church in Daresbury, Cheshire has stained glass panels (pictured) depicting characters from Alice in Wonderland?
...that the crown in the coat of arms of Amsterdam is the Imperial Crown of Austria?
...that yaylag, the Turkic tradition of moving to highland pastures in the summer, started in the fourth millennium BCE?
...that Grey Herons began nesting in the Kaggaladu heronry in only a single tree?
...that the ancient goddess Venus derived her epithet Venus Erycina from her celebrated temple on Mount Eryx in Sicily?
...that the steam generated by the Southeast Steam Plant for the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota is enough to heat 55,000 homes?
...that Stephana de Quinzanis once threw herself upon a cartload of thorns in imitation of a penance done by St Thomas Aquinas?
...that the idiom forty winks relates to the biblical use of the number 40, thus meaning just the right amount of sleep?

05:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the soldiers of the Black Brunswickers (pictured) dressed entirely in black and wore hats with Death's Heads on them to reflect their commander's hatred for Napoleon?
...that Sorubim is a genus of catfish with shovel-shaped long noses?
...that despite the country's oil revenues, only 87% of Venezuelan citizens have access to potable water and 71% have access to sanitation?
...that during the Holocaust, Capuchin friar Père Marie-Benoît created fake passports and baptism certificates in order to smuggle hundreds of Jews out of Southern France?
...that chal is a traditional Turkic drink made from fermented camel's milk, which is popular in Central Asia, as well as in the Near East?
...that an appellate court panel immediately freed Wisconsin civil servant Georgia Thompson on conclusion of oral arguments, an almost-unheard of occurrence?
...that the bestselling 1906 erotic novel Josephine Mutzenbacher is thought to have been written by Felix Salten, the author of Bambi?

11 April 2007

23:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Charles Frederick Field (pictured) was the basis for Inspector Bucket in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House?
...that Leela Majumdar, author of children's books, translated Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea into Bengali?
...that Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta is an ancient Sumerian tablet describing how Enmerkar of Uruk forced the people of Aratta to contribute materials for the ziggurats he was building?
...that the modern meaning of "ballad", a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form, came about from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway composers?
...that NASA conducts field trials, called Desert RATS, for new technologies for manned exploration of the surface of the Moon, Mars, or beyond?

15:56, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Belgium's Carnival of Binche (pictured), which features a "battle of confetti", is the culmination of a build-up lasting 50 days?
...that in the 1957 Polish legislative elections, only 723 of 60,000 candidates were allowed to run?
...that it is unclear whether the Church of St Abamūn in 13th century Busiris was dedicated to Abāmūn of Tarnūt or Abāmūn of Tukh?
...that the earliest known examples of polyphonic music, dating from the 9th century, are written in Daseian notation?
...that Hypancistrus is a genus of catfish with suckermouths, including popular aquarium fish such as the zebra pleco?
...that pharmacist Sir Hugh Linstead introduced the British Act of Parliament which criminalised cannabis cultivation?
...that Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter was the first of its kind in Hong Kong?

06:01, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the typical Amsterdammertjes (pictured) that line the streets of Amsterdam will be gradually removed?
...that in 1906 The New York Times praised The Langham apartment building, noting among its modern amenities "real ice"?
...that the "secret university" largely organised by Frank Bell in a World War II POW camp taught subjects as diverse as Urdu, pig-farming, civics and chess?
...that Neil Doak was named in the Ireland squad for the 2003 Rugby World Cup but did not play, just missing out on becoming the first Irish dual cricket/rugby union international since the 1960s?
...that Antoni Szylling was captured by the Germans as a Major in the Russian Army during World War I, and was captured again by the Germans in World War II as a General of the Polish Army?

10 April 2007

22:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Jewish-Polish historian Lucjan Dobroszycki who survived the Litzmannstadt Ghetto (pictured) in World War II was known as the New York City YIVO's "research consultant to the stars"?
...that the "Girl Grimmett", Peggy Antonio, was the first Australian to take a wicket in women's Test cricket?
...that Finland was close to becoming an independent kingdom in 1742?
...that professional ice hockey player Bob Bailey was traded three separate times for Bill Dineen over a nine year period?
...that the process of adding sugar to wine prompted 900,000 people to protest in the French Languedoc, culminating in riots that killed five people?
...that the Armenian community of Dhaka played a major role in education in Bangladesh, and owned major landmarks, such as the gardens of Shahbag and Bangabhaban?
...that, as part of an advertising campaign in 2006, award-winning Romanian writer Ioan T. Morar impersonated Communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu?

16:10, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

...that alongside the many honours, awards and medals bestowed upon him during his lifetime Winston Churchill (pictured) was offered a dukedom, which he declined?
...that Grey's Scouts, despite starting off as a small provisional group, became one of the most effective and successful Special Forces units in the Rhodesian Bush War?
...that although the modern trumpet is a recent invention, primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia?
...that the Amoy dialect of Chinese formed the basis of Taiwanese?
...that the Chaga mushroom has been used as a folk remedy in Eastern European countries for ulcers, cancer and gastritis since the 16th century?
...that Dr John Billings was an Australian neurologist who developed the Billings ovulation method of family planning?
...that the Poznań International Fair is the largest trade fair in Poland?

05:56, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park (logo pictured) is the first national tribute to home front American women?
...that 18th century prostitute Sally Salisbury was sent to prison after a riot but was released by a judge who was infatuated with her?
...that the city of Mysore, in the Indian state of Karnataka, has been called the "Cultural Capital of Karnataka"?
...that Neil McLean persuaded the British government not to recognise the Yemen Arab Republic takeover of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen during the North Yemen Civil War?
...the 1765 cookery book The Frugal Housewife, or, Complete woman cook by English author Susannah Carter was republished in Boston in 1772, illustrated with engravings by Paul Revere?
...the AT&T Corporate Center is the tallest building built in Chicago in the last quarter of the 20th century?

9 April 2007

23:49, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

...that a view from the Plaza Mayor (pictured) in Trinidad, Cuba, is featured on the 25 centavo convertible peso coin?
...that the Century apartments is one of the first residential buildings to be built in the Art Deco style, causing it to stand out from its Beaux-Arts neighbors on Central Park West?
...that despite plagiarizing a Chinese-French-Latin dictionary ordered by Napoleon, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes went on to become a member of the French Academy of Sciences?
...that convicted American felon Matthew Cox was so bold in committing over $15 million of mortgage fraud that he allegedly even took out a mortgage under the name of The Simpsons character "C. Montgomery Burns"?
...that The Wordless Book was invented by the London Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon and employs religious symbolism and color psychology in evangelism?
...that the Bangladeshi filmmaker Alamgir Kabir was imprisoned by Ayub Khan for being a leftist?

15:59, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Eagle Grange No. 1 (pictured) in Clinton Township, Lycoming County was the first grange to be established in Pennsylvania?
...that upon completion of Central Reclamation Phase 1 of the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation project in Hong Kong, the coastline of Central, Hong Kong was extended up to 350 metres beyond the original coastline?
...that Eugene Antonio Marino became the first African American Catholic archbishop in the United States in 1988?
...that Hungerford Market, a food market in London for nearly 200 years, was demolished in the 1860s to make way for Charing Cross railway station?
...that George B. Schwabe served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1921 to 1922 and was the first and only Republican to hold that position until 2005?

06:09, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Jaina Island, a Maya necropolis, contains over 20,000 burials, with every one excavated having one or more ceramic figurines (example pictured)?
...that the LST-1-class tank landing ship USS Benzie County was featured in a World War II-era Camel cigarettes advertisement?
...that the 1903 Vagabond Hurricane is the most recent Atlantic hurricane to strike the state of New Jersey, and briefly threatened the life of President Theodore Roosevelt?
...that the large reredos above the altar in St. Martin's Church in Brighton, England, includes 20 pictures and 69 statues, all of which were carved in Oberammergau, Germany?
...that 8-year-old Sylvia Mendez played an instrumental role in the 1946 Mendez v. Westminster case, which successfully ended de jure segregation in California schools?
...that architecture critics praised the Art Deco Ghostbusters Building, in New York City, when it opened in 1929?

8 April 2007

23:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

...that a sculpture of Jesus near Tiškevičiai Palace (pictured) in Palanga was torn down in 1948 and not reconstructed until 1993?
...that Al Sobotka, who drives the Zamboni for Detroit Red Wings games, is the namesake of the team mascot Al the Octopus?
...that naturalist Remington Kellogg used his time serving in France during World War I to collect specimens for universities in the United States?
...that archaeologists discovered bones of at least seven people sacrificed by druids in Havránok, Slovakia?
...that the Imperial Castle in Poznań was to be a symbol of Prussian power but was lost to Poland only eight years after its completion?

16:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Poznań 1956 protests (memorial pictured) were the first major demonstration against the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland?
...that S. graminifolium was one of only four Stylidium species collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander from Botany Bay in 1770 on their voyage to Australia with James Cook?
...that in five years of operation during World War II, more than 747 vessels were built in the Richmond Shipyards in Richmond, California—a feat not equaled anywhere else in the world, before or since?
...that Lucceius Albinus had just been appointed Roman procurator and was still on his way to take office in Judea when the High Priest of Israel took advantage of the lack of imperial oversight to assemble a Sanhedrin and had James, the brother of Jesus stoned without Roman authorization?

03:45, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the geology of Gloucestershire (Garden Cliff pictured) is one of the most diverse in England, with rocks from the Precambrian through to the Jurassic represented?
...that The Crystals did not actually sing on their 1962 #1 hit "He's a Rebel"?
...that Pectinaria australis, a marine ice cream cone worm of New Zealand, builds a delicate tube home from sand grains only one grain thick?
...that New York City's Central Park West Historic District contains only one building not felt to contribute to its historic character?
...that Brazilian bull rider Adriano Moraes is one of only three men to ride ten out of ten bulls at the U.S. National Finals Rodeo?
...that Ellis Bent was the first barrister appointed as a judge in Australia?

7 April 2007

19:14, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the fossil of Ichthyornis (pictured) discovered by Benjamin Franklin Mudge was the first bird recognized to possess teeth?
...that despite the relatively low level of academic output by Professor Gary Chaison, he is widely cited in the American mass media?
...that Le Quang Tung, the Catholic head of South Vietnam's special forces had his CIA funding threatened because he concentrated on repressing Buddhists and raiding temples instead of fighting communists?
...that press passes grant the bearer access to crime scenes or other restricted areas unless it would interfere with the duties of emergency personnel?
...that Innocence, a 2005 documentary film about a school in rural northern Thailand, influenced the Thai government to reverse cuts it had made in the education budget?
...that an apparition of Saint Michael is said to have convinced Antoninus of Sorrento and Catellus of Castellammare to found a new church after both resigned from the same bishopric?

06:07, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Louis-Sébastien Lenormand invented what is now known as BASE jumping by parachuting from the tower of the Montpellier observatory in 1783 (jump illustrated), and also coined the word parachute?
...that bishop Adam Stanisław Krasiński was one of the leaders of the Bar Confederation, the first Polish uprising?
...that Dr Brewer's A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar is a 19th century example of the persistence of the caloric theory of heat transfer?
...that poison, over its 6500-year history, has been used for both great progression in medicine and as a hugely popular method of assassination?
...that the Banat Bulgarian Stefan Dunjov participated in both the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Italian unification, and was the first Bulgarian to be promoted to the rank of Colonel?
...that Anuruddha, one of the leading five disciples of Gautama Buddha, was his cousin?

6 April 2007

22:52, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Tillamook Cheddar (pictured), a Jack Russell Terrier from Brooklyn, New York, is the world's most successful and widely shown animal artist?
...that Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets is believed to have been the first professional painter of Chechen origin ever?
...that the Gortyn code is the largest surviving piece of ancient Greek epigraphy?
...that aquarium filters are necessary to support life as aquaria are relatively small, closed volumes of water compared to the natural environment of most fish?
...that British architect Jan Kaplický escaped from Prague to London in the wake of the Prague Spring, carrying only US$100 and a few pairs of socks?
...that the cornerstone of moral syncretism is that religion cannot be the only arbiter of morality?
...that Chabad rabbi Milton Balkany misappropriated more than $700,000 of federal grant money from a charitable organisation that cared for disabled children?

16:00, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

...that, 23 years after explorer Charles Sturt found and named the Murray River, his brother Evelyn Sturt (pictured), a Police Magistrate and notable grazier, declared it absurd that the area would ever become agricultural?
...that the Australian cricket team's world record of 16 consecutive wins ended during its 2002 India tour, when India recorded only the third win in Test cricket history by a side forced to follow-on?
...that Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, the oldest church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was originally built by a Universalist Society but soon acquired by a Catholic French Canadian congregation?
...that Adolfo Holley was the first Minister of War and Navy of the victorious revolutionary congressional junta in the Chilean Civil War?
...that Assaji, the last of the first five bhikkhus of Gautama Buddha to become an arahant, converted Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the Buddha's two chief disciples?
...that the Woodward & Lothrop Service Warehouse in Washington, D.C. still features a large pink neon sign identifying it as a Woodward & Lothrop property, even though the company is defunct?

06:00, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

...that pattens (pictured) were wooden-soled overshoes worn from the 14th to 19th centuries to raise the wearer above mud and dirt?
...that Work, painted over 13 years from 1852 to 1865, is generally considered to be the most important painting by Ford Madox Brown?
...that the units of the Red Army and the Afghan army fought the Battles of Zhawar in 1985-86 to destroy a mujahideen supply base near the Pakistani border?
...that numerous common idioms feature one of the various slang meanings of 'dime'?
...that when Birmingham-based early-music choir Ex Cathedra founded its Baroque orchestra in its 1983–1984 season, this was the first period instrument orchestra to be established in an English city outside London?
...that Ngo Dinh Diem became president of South Vietnam after a fraudulent 1955 election run by his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, polling 133% of registered voters in Saigon?
...that Sara Gruen’s historical novel Water for Elephants recounts that circus workers were sometimes thrown off the circus train in the middle of the night, a practice known as "redlighting"?

5 April 2007

22:56, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the term "reserve heads" (pictured), found in Ancient Egyptian tombs, is derived from the prevalent theory that they serve as an alternate home for the spirit of the dead owner if anything should happen to the body?
...that an entire army had to retreat during the Cádiz Expedition of 1625 because almost all had become drunk on wine taken from a village they were raiding?
...that The Best Bet, a film by former Singaporean gambling addict Jack Neo, was intended to warn people of the perils of gambling?
...that the July Theses, a set of proposals found in a speech by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, were inspired by his visits to Communist China, Korea and Vietnam?
...that a boycott of Juanes' song "La Camisa Negra" was organized after it was used by neo-fascists?
...that Squirrel Systems introduced the first touch screen point of sale terminal in 1984?
...that the mother of Jamila Massey, an Indian actress and writer, refused to allow her to attend drama school, after the death of her father?

14:10, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the rare Pitkin Marsh lily is limited today to three small colonies, due to cattle overgrazing of its habitat (pictured) and the flower's popularity with humans?
...that Bishop Barbatus of Benevento is thought to have helped the city's resistance to Byzantine Emperor Constans II by destroying a Temple of Isis in the city, reusing the materials in building the city wall?
...that Dumitru Dămăceanu was a Romanian Army officer prominent in the royal coup of 1944, and later was a signatory to the Paris Peace Treaties of 1947?
...that the late-15th century Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales, a setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, is one of the most famous works composed by Josquin des Prez?
...that the Brabham BT19 driven by Jack Brabham was the first car bearing its driver's name to win a Formula One world championship race?
...that during his tenure as India's cricket coach, Kapil Dev, broke down in a BBC interview about alleged match-fixing?

06:17, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the California Wine Country (pictured) is known for its cuisine, recreation and history as much as viticulture?
...that Ajit Wadekar was the first Indian to represent the country as Test Cricket player, captain, coach/manager and Chairman of Selectors?
...that Alexander of Bergamo is thought to have survived the decimation of the Theban Legion for their conversion to Christianity only to be individually beheaded later for the same reason?
...that as part of a successful flattery campaign to persuade Ngo Dinh Diem's loyalist general Ton That Dinh to defect, his colleagues bribed his soothsayer to predict his elevation to political authority?
...that American Chabad Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin has been convicted of fraud twice?
...that British barrister Sir Tony Hetherington was the first head of the Crown Prosecution Service after it was founded in 1986?
...that it is estimated that 40% of the Tamil and Malayalam Nadar caste are Christians?

4 April 2007

23:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the priest Leopold Moczygemba (pictured) was responsible for the founding of Panna Maria, Texas, the first Polish community in the United States?
...that the SS in Nazi Germany were above civilian law, answering only to the SS-run Hauptamt SS Gericht?
...that after his 1967 film Branded to Kill, contract director Seijun Suzuki was fired by the Nikkatsu Company for making films "that make no sense"?
...that retired LAPD homicide detective "Jigsaw John" St. John was posthumously reinstated to active duty in 1995 so that he could be buried as a detective?
...that the Chronicle of Huru, a 19th century forgery advancing Moldavia's independence, claimed that a Moldavian federal republic emerged from the Roman province of Dacia in 274?
...that Patacara, who became a Buddhist while disconsolately wandering naked through the Indian city of Savatthi, rose to become the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in her mastery of the Vinaya?
...that the 16th-century Castillo de la Real Fuerza in Havana is the oldest stone fortress in the Americas?

15:32, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Kupa Synagogue (pictured) in Kraków features paintings of people standing by the rivers of Babylon, a rare depiction of human figures in Jewish religious art?
...that German textile artist Gunta Stölzl was the only female "master" of the Bauhaus?
...that Liu Heita was a Xia general during China's transition between the Sui and Tan dynasties in the 7th century?
...that Ngo Dinh Can, brother and confidant of South Vietnam's president Ngo Dinh Diem, was believed to have organised black market smuggling into North Vietnam?
...that the 800,000-member Global Pastors Network continues the legacy of Bill Bright by attempting to, in their own words, "win 1 billion people to Christ"?
...that French pirate Jacques de Sores, who captured Havana in 1555, went by the nickname of "The Exterminating Angel"?
...that the taekwondo form Ko-Dang was named after Korean nationalist Cho Man-sik, imprisoned and executed for his opposition to Kim Il-sung's communists?

06:40, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

...that giant diffuse galaxies, located in the centre of galaxy clusters (pictured), often possess a halo of devoured star matter extending as far out as 3 million light years?
...that the fruits of Matico (Piper aduncum) are used as a condiment, for flavoring cocoa, and its leaves are used as an antiseptic, to stop hemorrhage, and to treat infections?
...that Greek composer Phivos has written songs for artists including Keti Garbi, Angela Dimitriou, Manto, Thanos Kalliris, and, most successfully, Despina Vandi?
...that the graphic novel The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers combines Kolkata's Babu culture and the legend of The Wandering Jew?
...that the television series ER aired an episode based on the 2003 Chicago balcony collapse?
...that Clarenceux King of Arms Stephen Leake appointed his thirteen year old son Chester Herald in 1752?
...that Clare Winger Harris was the first woman to publish short stories under her own name in science fiction magazines?

00:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Dyrehaven, a forest park outside Copenhagen, Denmark, has 15 entrances, all with characteristic red gates (pictured)?
...that Phoebe Hessel, who masqueraded as a man for 17 years to fight in the British Army alongside her husband, is buried in the churchyard at St. Nicholas Church, Brighton, England?
...that when Indrajit Gupta, a Communist, became India's Union Minister for Home Affairs in 1996, he became head of a ministry "which once policed the Commies"?
...that Russian architect Lev Kekushev built Art Nouveau buildings in Moscow, Russia, in the 1890s and early 1900s, "signed" with a lion (Lev) ornament or sculpture?
...that the synagogue at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna, Austria was devastated during Kristallnacht in 1938 and converted into a transformer station after the war?
...that John Aloysius Ward, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff from 1983, took early retirement in 2001, after the later years of his ministry were overshadowed by cases of sexual misconduct by priests in his archdiocese?

3 April 2007

17:07, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Jack Iverson developed his unique "bent finger" bowling action (pictured) while experimenting during recreational cricket while serving in Papua New Guinea during World War II?
...that Conservatory Water in Central Park, New York City, shelters a seasonal population of the unusual freshwater medusa Craspedacusta sowerbyi?
...that Monisha, a South Indian cinema actress, was only 15 years old when she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her debut performance in Nakhashathangal?
...that the U.S. Navy tank landing ship USS Orange County was decommissioned in August 1946, less than 18 months after entering service, but recommissioned four years later for the Korean War?
...that Immediate Past President of the American Bar Association Michael S. Greco taught English at Phillips Exeter Academy before attending law school?

10:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the daisy-like Sydney flannel flower (pictured) is actually a member of the carrot family?
...that Ranji Hordern took 34 out of 51 wickets (66 percent) in three matches for the Philadelphians in their 1909 tour of Jamaica?
...that Anastasio Aquino led a rebellion of El Salvador's indigenous Nonualco tribe in the early 19th century, sacking the city of San Vicente in the then-Federal Republic of Central America?
...that Stoic philosophy contrasts kathekonta, actions in accordance with nature, with "perfect actions" (katorthomata) derived from pure reason?
...that Alpamysh, an ancient Turkic epic or dastan, is one of the foremost examples of the Turkic oral literature of Central Asia?
...that the de Bruijn notation and the de Bruijn index are mathematical notations invented by Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn for use in λ calculus?

03:47, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

...that Battery Chamberlin contains one of the last disappearing guns (pictured) on the West Coast of the United States?
...that the Red Forest, near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, gets its name from the ginger brown colour of its dead pine trees after the Chernobyl accident?
...that the site of Spains Hall, an Elizabethan house near Finchingfield in Essex, has been owned by only three families since the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086?
...that the relics of Sariputra and Mahamoggallana, Gautama Buddha's two chief disciples, were the subject of more than two million Sri Lankan pilgrimage visits after their discovery by Sir Alexander Cunningham?
...that the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction, the first criminal court in Australia under British rule, operated more like a court-martial than a court of law?
...that Jan du Plessis, Chairman of British American Tobacco's board of directors, was named the tenth most powerful person in British business by The Times in 2006?

2 April 2007

20:51, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the BBC recorded live performances of Hancock's Half Hour, The Goon Show and Steptoe and Son at the Playhouse Theatre (pictured) in London?
...that the 1860 Republican and 1864 Democratic national conventions were held at the Wigwam, a building built in just over a month?
...that Lor Tok, a Thai comedian and actor, had roles in more than 1,000 films from the 1930s to the 1980s?
...that Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona was set at Rancho Camulos in Piru, California?
...that German physicist Max von Laue wrote an article for Acta Crystallographica, which dealt with the absorption of x-rays under interference conditions, while in French military incarceration in 1945?
...that William Ansah Sessarakoo, the "Prince of Annamaboe", became a celebrity in mid-18th century London after he was released from slavery, and was compared to Aphra Behn's fictional Oroonoko?

13:41, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the complex flavor of hoja santa (pictured) has been variously compared to eucalyptus, licorice, sassafras, anise, nutmeg, mint, tarragon and black pepper?
...that Burning Bright by John Steinbeck was an attempt at a new form of literature, the "play-novelette"— but both the play and novel were savaged by the critics and Steinbeck never wrote for the theatre again?
...that while the center of gravity for a set of points is located at the spot from which the sum of the squares of distances to all the points is minimized, the geometric median is the spot from which the sum of distances is minimized?
...that although a response to the 1885 Endicott Board recommendations for the coastal defense of San Francisco, the batteries at Fort Miley were not completed until 1902?
...that Flocabulary is an educational New York City-based project that uses hip hop music to teach SAT-level vocabulary?
...that the Althing of Iceland confirmed Thorlac Thornalli as a saint over 700 years before the Catholic Church did?

06:08, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the Tyska kyrkan (pictured) in Stockholm, is situated in the oldest German ecclesiastical parish outside Germany?
...that Joseph Monier was one of the principal inventors of reinforced concrete?
...that Koreans in Vietnam form that country's second-largest group of expatriates after the Taiwanese?
...that South African mining magnate Sir Lionel Phillips survived being shot five times in an assassination attempt?
...that when Archie Goodall scored the lone goal for Ireland in a 9–1 loss to Scotland in 1899, he became the oldest footballer to score in international football in the 19th century?
...that Kosambi, a city in ancient India which was a frequent site of sermons by the Buddha, was one of the places considered suitable for his Parinibbāna?

00:02, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

...that the cappuccio (pictured), a type of headgear worn by men and women in 15th century Florence, was typically made by tailors instead of hatmakers?
...that Desmarest's Hutia has the most complex stomach of any rodent?
...that Richard de Southchurch, Sheriff of Essex, planned to attack London with burning cocks?
...that Rush Limbaugh was a U.S. ambassador to India?
...that the Tempest Prognosticator employs a jury of twelve leeches that use small hammers to ring a bell to indicate the approach of a storm?
...that Serge Voronoff's surgical technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue onto human males has some modern supporters?

1 April 2007

00:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
...that the Alameda Works Shipyard in Alameda, California, was one of the largest and best equipped shipyards in the United States?
...that Ananthabhadram, a film by Indian director Santhosh Sivan, was inspired by classical Kathakali dancing and paintings of Raja Ravi Varma?
...that the California Condor, Mauritius Kestrel and Kakapo were all saved from extinction using modern bird conservation techniques?
...that German settlement in Bulgaria dates back to the 13th–14th century?
...that Mahmoud el-Meliguy, an Egyptian actor famed for his villain film roles, was nicknamed "Marlon Brando of the East"?