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30 June 2007

22:41, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

...that The Lady with a Fan (pictured) is the only Velázquez portrait in which the sitter has not yet been convincingly identified?
...that the monopoly of The Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne over coal trade in the Tyneside area raised questions in the House of Commons in the 1620s?
...that the bark of the African tree Bombax buonopozense is burnt in Ghana to drive away evil spirits?
...that because of Salvatore Pincherle, German mathematicians could attend the Third International Congress of Mathematicians despite a ban imposed during World War I?
...that the Cherokee Nation was induced to cede large portions of land in Tennessee and Georgia to the United States in the Tellico Blockhouse, Monroe County, Tennessee?
...that one of the largest rainwater harvesting projects in the world is being implemented in the rural areas of the state of Karnataka, India?

12:03, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Edward Rosewater (pictured) was the telegraph operator responsible for sending out Abraham Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" in 1863?
...that the Old National Library Building, a much-beloved national icon of Singapore, was demolished despite a rare display of public opposition?
...that in China, access to water supply and sanitation varies greatly between rural areas, where only 67% of the population has access to improved water supply, and cities, where 93% does?
...that Demologos, the first warship powered by a steam engine, saw only one day of active service in the U.S. Navy, carrying President James Monroe around New York Harbor?
...that the Danish firm Marcussen & Søn have built over 1000 organs since their foundation in 1806?
...that "Comme Ci, Comme Ça" was performed in French at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, despite being the Cypriot entry?

00:56, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the prehistoric mammal Yanoconodon (pictured) was a Eutriconodont, a group of early, ancestral mammals that in some cases, grew so big they were able to eat small dinosaurs?
...that the Burgsvik beds, a geological formation exposed on Gotland, Sweden, contain the only fossil euglenid ever discovered?
...that Paul C. Barth, former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?
...that despite sending 8000 ARVN soldiers from out of district to stuff ballot boxes, South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem could not prevent his candidate from losing to Phan Quang Dan in a 1959 legislative election by a ratio of 6-1?
...that Akwasi Afrifa became Lt. General and head of state of Ghana after a coup d'état, was detained after a second coup, won parliamentary elections after a third and was executed after a fourth coup?

29 June 2007

17:04, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Patchin Place (pictured), a cul-de-sac in Greenwich Village known for literary residents such as Theodore Dreiser and E. E. Cummings, is now a popular location for psychotherapists' offices?
...that former University of Kentucky basketball star Dirk Minniefield smoked marijuana the night before Kentucky's loss in the 1983 NCAA Tournament to the University of Louisville?
...that the Rupert Downes Memorial Lecture commemorates a Australian Army general, physician and historian who was killed in a plane crash during World War II?
...that Tung Hua Lin led a team that designed and built China's first twin-engine aircraft in a cave to avoid detection by the Japanese during World War II?
...that American sculptor Lynda Benglis sought to confront the male ethos in the arts community with an advertisement in which she only wore a pair of sunglasses?
...that the recently beatified Paul Joseph Nardini died of pulmonary typhus he contracted when giving the last rites to a member of his parish?
...that the song "Push The Button" was believed by some to relate to Iran's attempt to build nuclear weapons?

08:48, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

...that King George III was overjoyed at the destruction caused to the home of Joseph Priestley during the Birmingham Riots (pictured) in 1791?
...that Louise Pitre, a Tony Award-nominated musical theatre actress, was turned down after auditioning for the role of Josephine in the London musical Napoleon?
...that three years after tying for its final Kentucky State Football championship, Flaget High School closed due to falling enrollment?
...that the final episode of the 1986 television series Outlaws recycled footage from The Oregon Trail, because actors Rod Taylor and Charles Napier appeared in both programs?
...that income inequality increased in the United States in 2005 with the top 1% of earners having roughly the same share of income as in 1928?
...that Lt. Gen. Terry Gabreski is the first female to hold the rank of Lieutenant General in the US Air Force?
...that catfish species of the genus Hypophthalmus are unusual among neotropical fishes because they feed on plankton by straining water over a fine sieve created by numerous long, thin gill rakers?

01:52, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

...the Carney Hospital (pictured) in Dorchester, Massachusetts has the record of carrying out the first abdominal surgery in the United States?
...that Gabriele Kohlisch is one of only two people to ever win World Championship gold medals in both bobsledding and luge?
...that the Mitcham and Morden by-election in 1982 remains the last to see a gain by the British Conservative Party?
...that the Union Stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska was the largest livestock market and meatpacking center in the United States from 1955 until 1973?
...that Carlos Morales Troncoso, the foreign minister of the Dominican Republic, has degrees in both chemical engineering and sugar engineering?
...that the Poltava Bandurist Capella, directed by Hnat Khotkevych, was the first Soviet ensemble to be invited to tour North America?
...that the football song Hampden in the sun celebrates the record scoreline of the 1957 Scottish League Cup final?
...that the Lajkonik is an unofficial symbol of the city of Krakow as well as an annual festival celebrated for over 700 years commemorating victory over the Tatar invasion?

28 June 2007

18:10, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin (pictured) appears to be unique in 15th century art in depicting Christ and God the Father as identical figures?
...that American Revolutionary War officer William Stacy narrowly escaped death by burning at the stake and was given a gold snuff box by George Washington?
...that the Frosty Leo Nebula was so named because it is the only known protoplanetary nebula whose circumstellar outflow is dominated by crystalline ice in the long-wavelength emission spectrum?
...that the Australian town of Bundarra, New South Wales is home to a breeding colony of endangered Regent Honeyeaters, containing around thirty of the less than 1,500 birds remaining in existence?
...that William Cooley was a salvager and pioneer whose family's 1836 murder during the Second Seminole War led to the abandonment of the New River Settlement near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States?
...that among the toughest fighters of the Dahomey War were the corps of female warriors armed with rifles and double-edged machetes?
...that the color signals of Israel Broadcasting Authority television transmissions were erased until 1981, when Minister of Communications Yoram Aridor authorized color television broadcasting?

12:27, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
...that brownouts have claimed more helicopters in recent military operations than all other threats combined?
...that Kannada is the only language in which a Jain version of the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata exists?
...that Julius Reubke composed his Sonata on the 94th Psalm for organ a year before dying aged 24?
...that Scottish footballer Billy McPhail launched a legal case claiming that heading heavy leather footballs contributed to him developing Alzheimer's disease?
...that Vancouver police Chief Jamie Graham apologized for leaving a paper target riddled with bullet holes on the desk of the city manager, his boss, as a joke?
...that the New Zealand Railways Department dumped tank locomotives of the W^B class in the Mokihinui River to protect against erosion beside the route of the Seddonville Branch line?
...that the Greek Phlyax plays of South Italy might have been an influence on Roman comedies of Plautus?

12:08, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

...that despite being a key building of middle byzantine Architecture, the mosque of Eski Imaret (pictured) is still one among the least studied monuments of Istanbul?
...that La Martiniere Boys' College in Lucknow, India is the only school in the world to be awarded a battle honour?

07:39, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the City and Town Hall (pictured) in Rochelle, Illinois was constructed in 1884 following an 18-year disagreement over cost between the city and Flagg Township?
...that Introitus et Exitus, a financial record of the Apostolic Camera from 1279 to 1524, has been used to authenticate the provenance of artworks and study past European exchange and interest rates?
...that the Salerno Mutiny of 1943 saw the largest number of men charged with mutiny at any one time in all of British military history?
...that the third of four expeditions sent in the late 19th century by French nobleman Marquis de Rays to an imaginary majestic colony called New France in present day Papua New Guinea, saw 123 Italian settlers perish of disease and famine?
...that the Bangalore based SELCO company, which promotes solar power in rural India, has twice won an Ashden Award?
...that Ben Abell provided the St. Louis area with more than 120,000 weather forecasts?
...that The Secret Battle (1919) was the first novel by A. P. Herbert, and the first war novel to deal with the soldiers "shot at dawn" during World War I?

01:26, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Shtyki Memorial (pictured), which honors the defenders of Russia in the Battle of Moscow, is depicted on the flag and coat of arms of Zelenograd?
...that Dutch publisher Emanuel Querido published 110 works between 1933 and 1940 by German writers in exile?
...that the rock band The Sidewinders changed their name to the Sand Rubies after being sued by a cover band over the use of their name?
...that Lough Hyne is a marine lake that was probably freshwater until rising ocean levels flooded it about 4000 years ago?
...that Omaha chief Logan Fontenelle sold the Omaha land to the U.S. government and was subsequently killed by Brulé and Arapaho?
...that in the 18th century the owners of Tom King's Coffee House developed their own argot, Talking Flash, to prevent informers learning of their misdeeds?

27 June 2007

18:29, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the range of Nelson's Milksnake (Albino specimen pictured) from Mexico is linked to watercourses, and that it was thought to be the same subspecies as the more common Sinaloan Milksnake until 1978?
...that brownouts have claimed more helicopters in recent military operations than all other threats combined?
...that, in 19th and 20th century Romania, Roma people known as Ursari trained brown bears to step on people's backs, as a folk remedy for back pain?
...that according to legend, the Polish Princess Wanda would rather commit suicide than marry a leader of an invading German force?
...that Edwin Lemare was the most highly-paid organ virtuoso of his day?
...that Indian whisky is actually a distilled spirit made mostly from molasses?
...that Paul C. Barth, former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?

10:06, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Glomeris marginata (pictured), a pill millipede, is often confused with the woodlouse Armadillidium, because they both roll themselves up into a ball when disturbed?
...that a Court of Disputed Returns is an independent body that determines disputes about election results in some countries?
...that the world's first birth control clinic was set up in 1930 in the Mandya district of the state of Karnataka, India?
...that Iraqi refugee Wafaa Bilal was shot by more than 60,000 paintballs in a month-long performance art piece in Chicago?
...that the foreman of the jury who acquitted Thomas Hardy of treason during the 1794 Treason Trials in Britain fainted after reading the verdict?
...that Rufous Whistler birds, unlike all other Whistler birds, never forage on the ground but high up in trees or other high places?
...that the Sicilian friar Antonio del Duca lobbied for decades for papal authorization of a more formal veneration of the Seven Archangels?

03:15, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Yellow-tufted Honeyeater (pictured) of Eastern Australia was initially described as a thrush or a flycatcher, though related to neither?
...that the Suwa Shrine survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, although the nearby Urakami Cathedral and surrounding Catholic neighborhoods were completely obliterated?
...that Józef Mianowski, a 19th-century Polish academic and personal physician of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, falsified university records to give alibis to Polish insurgents in 1860s?
...that stellar magnetic fields create loops of plasma that arc over the surface of a star?
...that the Mexico tropical cyclone rainfall climatology tells us that one-third of the annual rainfall along the Mexican Riviera, and up to one-half of the annual rainfall within Baja California Sur, is due to tropical cyclones moving up Mexico's west coast?
...that Ba Cut (meaning Short Third), a military commander of the Hoa Hao religious sect in Vietnam, was so named because he cut off his third finger to remind him to fight French colonialism?
...that the Royal Navy ordered the construction of the destroyer HMS Ledbury two days after the outbreak of World War II?

26 June 2007

18:35, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Friends Meeting House (pictured) is the only remaining structure in the ghost town of Benjaminville, Illinois?
...that Mexican singer-actor Antonio Aguilar made over 150 albums and 150 movies in his career?
...that a decline of the population of brook trout in the Straight River in central Minnesota was caused by rising water temperatures, prompting government scrutiny of nearby irrigation operations?
...that Ryszard Bartel's design, the Bartel BM-4, was Poland's first own aircraft built in series?
...that Vlasina Lake in southeastern Serbia is famous for floating islands arising from chunks of peat broken off the shore?
...that political boss John Henry Whallen influenced every election in Louisville, Kentucky from 1885 until his death in 1913?
...that the Empire Gallantry Medal's design was changed twice in its seventeen year existence?
...that areas of the North Fly District in Papua New Guinea's Western Province experience a peak annual rainfall of ten metres?
...that Hancock Manor received wounded men from the Battle of Bunker Hill and entertained both Lafayette and George Washington?

03:22, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Frieda and Henry J. Neils House (pictured) is Frank Lloyd Wright's only work with marble walls?
...that Key Highway, built to provide better access to the municipal piers in Baltimore in preparation for increased trade through the Panama Canal, is now a truck bypass of the historic Federal Hill neighborhood?
...that the Columbia detachment of the Royal Engineers built some of the first major roads in British Columbia?
...that the Indian state of Maharashtra has started a project for the location of suitable sites for Jatropha plantations?
...that 173 of the 198 Kwaio arrested during the Malaita massacre were hospitalized for dysentery while awaiting trial in Tulagi, the Solomon Islands?
...that British Labour politician Piara Singh Khabra was the fifth Asian MP, and was the oldest MP sitting in the House of Commons and the only sitting MP to have served in the armed forces during the Second World War at the time of his death?
...the Art Institute of Chicago Building was co-financed by the financiers of the World's Columbian Exposition, which occupied the building for its first six months?
...that the Ordos culture includes some of the easternmost Scythians, who were settled for several centuries in an area about 300 kilometers from modern Beijing in China?

25 June 2007

21:29, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the bill of the Magpie Duck (pictured) becomes green as the bird gets older, and its black crown may go completely white?
...that Linus Pauling and Emile Zuckerkandl proposed using protein sequences to estimate the time since genetic divergence, early in the history of molecular evolution research?
...that Tom Dennison got a mayor elected eight times, instigated a race riot and controlled all sale of liquor, gambling and prostitution during his 30+ year reign as Omaha's political boss?
...that the Kodava Hockey Festival held annually in the Kodagu district of the Indian state of Karnataka is one of the largest field hockey tournaments in the world?
...that Irene Jordan of the South Fort George suburb of Prince George, British Columbia had owned a popular brothel that later became the first City Hall of Prince George?
...that the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting was dropped in favor of the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2006, reestablishing a prize not awarded since 1952?
...that "Cherry Pie", the best-known song by the glam metal band Warrant, was a last-minute addition to their 1990 album?
...that the author of the term Third Reich predicted that "Germany might perish because of the Third Reich dream"?
...that Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaika was the first person to write in free verse in Arabic?

15:00, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the semi-wooded lawn of the Lampert-Wildflower House (pictured) in Belvidere, Illinois provides habitat for five different species of rare plants?
...that after thirty-five ballots, Republican presidential candidates James G. Blaine and John Sherman withdrew their campaigns to support a dark horse candidate named James Garfield at the 1880 Republican National Convention?
...that Kentucky philanthropist Eli Metcalfe Bruce contributed more than $400,000 of his personal fortune to aiding Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War?
...that Semar, although depicted as a clown in Indonesian wayang shadow puppetry, is said to be the guardian spirit of Java and a god in human form?
...that litigation in the Vice Admiralty Court was frustrated after Justice Jeffery Bent absconded with its seal when he was not re-appointed to the Supreme Court?
...that Canadian musician Richard Bell was a member of Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band and became a member of The Band during the 1990s?
...that Herb Boxer was the first U.S.-born ice hockey player ever drafted by a National Hockey League team?
...that Serranus Clinton Hastings served as chief justice of both the Iowa and California Supreme Courts?
...that O. Rajagopal represented Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, despite living in Kerala?

06:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Jeronima de la Asuncion (pictured) was the foundress of the first Catholic monastery in Manila and the Far East?
...that the first online-only correspondence law school started operating in 1998 and graduated its first class in 2002?
...that Major Oscar F. Perdomo downed five Japanese aircraft in a single day and thereby became the United States' last "Ace in a day" of World War II?
...that Gubbi Veeranna's theatre company was the first one in the state of Karnataka, India to employ female artists to portray female characters on the stage?
...that Britartist Tracey Emin's "tent", Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995, destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire, listed 102 names including her grandma and two foetuses?
...that the Polish Coal Trunk-Line, one of the most important rail connections in Poland, was built because post-First World War border changes made old rail lines obsolete?
...that Peter Cochrane and Les Carlyon were the joint inaugural winners of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History?
...that of the more than one million photographic plates made in the studio of Henri Manuel, only five hundred survived World War II?
...that Scotland rugby union player Duncan Macrae won a Military Cross for his actions as part of the 51st Highland Division at Saint-Valery-en-Caux?

24 June 2007

23:07, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

...that The Happy Land, a play by W. S. Gilbert and Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, was briefly banned in 1873 for portraying a singing, dancing Prime Minister Gladstone (newspaper illustration pictured)?
...that Challenge 1934 was the fourth and last FAI International Tourist Plane Contest, a major aviation event in pre-war Europe?
...that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Bronston v. United States that statements made under oath which are literally truthful yet misleading cannot be prosecuted as perjury?
...that the "helicopter" damselflies of family Pseudostigmatidae specialize in plucking spiders from their webs?
...that the state of Karnataka, particularly the region belonging to the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, is known as the cradle of banking in India?
...that the Commander-in-Chief's Guard was a unit of the Continental Army that protected George Washington during the American Revolutionary War?
...that Robert Clark made his own alcoholic drink, "Gut Rot 1916", while stranded on Elephant Island in 1916?
...that it may take more than 220 years for eucalyptus trees to form hollows suitable for larger animals?

16:35, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

...that blackface minstrel dancer John Diamond (pictured) won numerous "Ethiopian" dance competitions until he was defeated by a real black man known as Master Juba?
...that the oldest state government building in the US state of Oregon, the 1914 Supreme Court Building in Salem, has a stained glass skylight in the shape of the State seal?
...that ten of the twenty-three Cardinal electors in the 1492 papal conclave—which elected Rodrigo Borja as Pope Alexander VI —were nephews of the popes that elevated them?
...that The Jaguar Smile was the first book-length non-fiction work by author Salman Rushdie and was written during a break from the composition of The Satanic Verses?
...that Papyrus 45 may have been one of the earliest manuscripts to collect more than one New Testament genre into a single codex?
...that the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry is the second oldest continuously operating ferry service in the United States?
...that like other bronzewing pigeons, the Common Bronzewing releases a milky substance from its crop to feed its young?

00:27, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Abraham Lincoln's short speech at the Peekskill Freight Depot (pictured) was his only recorded public appearance in Westchester County?
...that Dum Diversas, promulgated by Pope Nicholas V in 1452, authorized Afonso V of Portugal to enslave indefinitely Saracens, pagans, and other "enemies of Christ"?
...that before World War II, the Polish Army prioritized defence planning in case of Soviet attack over a plan against German invasion until the late 1930s?
...that Robert Worth Bingham purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1918 using a bequest from his second wife, to whom he had been married for less than a year before her death?
...that Ben Brocklehurst, one of the last amateur captains in county cricket and later owner and publisher of The Cricketer magazine from 1972 to 2003, is the grandfather of cricketer Ben Hutton?
...that the Wall Street Journal tracks median home purchase prices of starter homes as part of its real estate index?
...that Unsung Heroes, a twenty-part North Korean spy film series, cast U.S. Army defectors Charles Jenkins and Joe Dresnok in the role of villains?

23 June 2007

06:13, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Brunel-designed Wharncliffe Viaduct of 1836 (pictured), on the GWR main line in London, is home to a protected colony of bats?
...that Dr. Joseph Rothrock is known as the "Father of Forestry" in Pennsylvania, and is the namesake for Rothrock State Forest?
...that the award ceremony of Turkey's most important film festival, the Golden Orange, is held at the Roman amphitheatre of Aspendos in Antalya?
...that Eric Johnston, president of the MPAA, issued the Waldorf Statement in November 1947, marking the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist?
...that Frederick Augustus Hely, a justice of the peace and public servant in colonial Australia, was the first man to settle permanently at Narara, Brisbane Water?
...that Janowa Dolina, a model settlement built by the Polish state in interwar Poland, was razed barely ten years after its creation by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army during the Second World War?
...that Mikveh Israel, the first modern Jewish agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel, was founded in 1870 by Charles Netter?

22 June 2007

21:57, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

...that on a clear day visitors to Holy Hill (pictured) can view the Milwaukee skyline, located 30 miles (48 km) away?
...that the beach where Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared in 1967, and presumably drowned, was named after the SS Cheviot that was wrecked nearby in 1887 with the loss of 35 lives?
...that Roman trade with India was so large as to drain gold resources from Rome and involved the despatch of 120 ships every year?
...that Australian rules footballer Tom Lonergan returned to the sport ten months after losing a kidney as the result of an injury?
...that Sergeant George Jordan received the Medal of Honor for repulsing 100 Chiricahua Apache warriors led by Victorio with 25 Buffalo Soldiers in the Battle of Tularosa?
...that Sir John Gilmour Bt emulated his father by also winning the Distinguished Service Order, becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament, and twice serving as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland?

13:37, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

...that some dragonflies avoid overheating on sunny days by assuming a "handstand" position known as the obelisk posture (pictured)?
...that capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969?
...that baseball player Jack Lelivelt's International League-record hitting streak set in 1912 was not recognized by the International League until 2007, the year it was broken?
...that Richard Hanley's book South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating analyzes issues of applied ethics as presented in South Park?
...that British Labour MP Harry Ewing was joint chairman of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, formed in 1989 to plan for the devolution of Scotland?
...that Lake Ceauru in southwestern Romania does not exist, despite appearing on maps today?
...that, along with many other scientific discoveries made during its course, the Morea expedition confirmed the presence of jackals in Greece?

03:03, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

...that St Andrews Church (pictured) in Chew Stoke, Somerset, England, includes 156 statues of angels?
...that weather extremes in Minnesota include temperatures of −60 °F (−51 °C) and 114 °F (46 °C)?
...that HNoMY Norge, one of only two Royal Yachts left in Europe, was produced by Camper and Nicholsons, the oldest leisure marine company in the world?
...that Francisco Sionil José is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language, and has been translated into 22 other languages?
...that Czech saint Zdislava Berka ran away from home to live as a hermit when she was only seven years old?
...that in the Calgary Flames' 1988-89 season, they became the only visiting team to defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup in the Montreal Forum?
...that the Lakshminarayana Temple in Hosaholalu, Karnataka state, India is mounted on a platform (jagati), a style unique to Hoysala architecture?
...that U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, a known Stalwart, signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, a piece of legislation that was drawn up by the rival Half-Breeds?

21 June 2007

18:56, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Barthélemy d'Eyck was an Early Netherlandish artist, famous in the 15th century, who has only been attributed specific works (one pictured) in recent decades?
...that Swedish emigration to North America was so high around 1900 that the Swedish Emigration Commission produced a 21 volume report on curbing it?
...that pioneering African American journalist Larry Whiteside was part of an expert panel that chose the Major League Baseball All-Century Team?
...that football players Billy and John McPhail are the only brothers to have both scored hat-tricks for Celtic F.C. against their Old Firm rivals, Rangers F.C.?
...that, prior to developing the Elder Scrolls series, Bethesda Softworks was primarily known as a sports game company?
...that the Kisima Music Awards recognise talent from across East Africa?

11:19, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

...that American writer Elbert Hubbard traveled about McLean County, Illinois to collect past due fees from his father's clientele to complete the Hubbard House (pictured) in 1872?
...that Jeż Jerzy is a popular Polish comic, a satire on modern life, often making fun of subcultures like skinheads or dresiarze?
...that the initials of former Canadian Football League executive J.I. Albrecht stand for "Just Incredible"?
...that during the Soviet deportations from Estonia in 1940-1941 and 1944-1951 the Soviet Union forcibly transferred tens of thousands of Estonian citizens to Siberia?
...that the USS Sandpiper, originally built as a minesweeping ship, was redesignated a seaplane tender?
...that Omaha, Nebraska's Little Italy neighborhood was largely the result of two brothers' efforts to help their countrymen?
...that Shivappa Nayaka, a king in 17th century Karnataka, India, introduced a unique and variable tax system called Sist?
...that African American Methodist preacher and missionary John Marrant undertook a mission to the Cherokee while he was a teenager?

03:27, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the anticancer agent Salinosporamide A (skeletal formula pictured), which recently entered clinical trials, is produced by marine sediment-dwelling bacteria?
...that sports agent David Falk represented Michael Jordan for the whole of the player's career?
...that Joseph Bowman was the only American officer killed during George Rogers Clark's campaign to capture the Illinois Country in the American Revolutionary War?
...that in 1985, Texas Instruments became the first multinational to set up base in Bangalore?
...that E.E. Roberts' Oak Park, Illinois architecture firm rivaled the studio of fellow architect Frank Lloyd Wright?
...that a man was crushed to death during the construction of the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol?
...that Don White was the first-ever coach of the England national rugby union team?

20 June 2007

20:04, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the sea pineapple (pictured), an edible sea squirt, has been described as "something that could exist only in a purely hallucinatory eco-system" and its taste as "rubber dipped in ammonia"?
...that Texas settlers at the Council House Fight ambushed and killed thirteen Comanche chiefs at a peace treaty negotiation, provoking the Great Raid of 1840?
...that Neville Miller is remembered as Louisville, Kentucky's "flood mayor" for his strong leadership during the Ohio River flood of 1937?
...that in 1876, Paul Zweifel became the first to demonstrate that the fetus in utero consumes oxygen?
...that, despite its name, the Pygmy Blue Whale reaches lengths of 24 m (79 ft)?
...that John Candy improvised the famous "Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips." line from The Blues Brothers on the request of a set designer's father?

12:16, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

...that while the name of western Minnesota's Pomme de Terre River (pictured) translates as "Potato River", it was actually named for the prairie turnip?
...that U.S. Route 322 in New Jersey used to be concurrent with state highways on its entire route?
...that after publishing his first book, magistrate James Mudie became so hated in Sydney that he was horsewhipped in the street?
...that the uniforms of United Nations tour guides are designed by internationally famous fashion designers such as Hollywood’s Edith Head, Christian Dior and Benetton?
...that the 3rd Viscount Buckmaster, grandson of the Liberal Party Lord Chancellor 1st Viscount Buckmaster, served as diplomat in the Middle East until 1981?
...that for New York City to receive up to $500 million from the Department of Transportation, its congestion pricing plan must be approved by August 2007?

00:05, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

...that courses in bioethics and journalism are a part of the academic curriculum of The Pontifical Academy of Theology (pictured) in Kraków, Poland?
...that a military coalition from four countries helped the British colonial government to quell the 1915 Singapore Mutiny?
...that the Bucharest school of Jean Alexandre Vaillant contributed to Westernization in Wallachia during the 1830s?
...that the Lutheran liturgical calendar includes several biblical personages as “Saint” though it is commonly believed that Lutherans “do not have saints”?
...that Puerto Rican singer Tito Gómez once shared vocal duties in Ray Barretto's band in the 1970s with Rubén Blades?
...that it was common for the Roman Emperor to be elected to one of two offices of the highest judicial magistrates known as duumviri, and the other position was left up to the emperor for the appointment of a praefectus?

19 June 2007

17:18, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

...that "Giovinezza" (pictured), the official hymn of Mussolini's National Fascist Party, was played at the coronation of Pope Pius XII by the Palatine Guard?
...that Horace Liveright published the works of numerous important authors, including Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot, and hired Béla Lugosi for Dracula, but still died penniless?
...that Vishvakannada.com was the first Internet magazine in Kannada and also the first website in an Indian language to use dynamic fonts?
...that Nebraska Highway 14 became a cross-Nebraska highway with the completion of the Chief Standing Bear Memorial Bridge over the Missouri River in 1998?
...that the arms of Ferry de Clugny are featured in the Clugny Annunciation, attributed either to Rogier van der Weyden or Hans Memling?
...that even though a 1959-1961 survey showed that the Central African Republic's Bakouma sub-prefecture contained phosphatic sediment with the highest uranium content in all of sub-Saharan Africa, exploitation didn't start until 2006?
...that the Charles E. Roberts Stable was converted from a barn into a garage by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1896?

06:55, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

...that miniature scale for naval wargames (ships pictured) is worked out almost exclusively in ratios, rather than the millimetre-based scale preferred by land-based miniature wargaming?
...that had it moved into production as scheduled, the Bede BD-10 would have been the world's first kit-built jet-powered general aviation aircraft?
...that the Pagal Panthis were a religious order who led the peasants of the Mymensingh region of Bengal in armed revolts against the British East India Company and zamindars?
...that factors affecting the preservation of textiles include ambient heat, light, and humidity, and the presence of pests, airborne chemicals and pollutants?
...that during the 1950s, when the Soviet training model barred students from participation in professional theatre, Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts maintained its close ties with it?
...that the initial publication of the The Highfield Mole (since dubbed "the next Harry Potter") was financed by the sale of the house of one of the authors?

00:12, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Chicago's Crown Fountain (pictured) displays LED images of faces, which typically create the illusion of puckered lips spouting water?
...that, after the wife of liberal journalist Aleksey Suvorin was shot dead by her lover, Suvorin experienced a conversion to virulent conservatism?
...that Rīgas Satiksme is the largest provider of public transport in Riga?
...that riots broke out among Azeris in Iran after a newspaper published a cartoon about a cockroach?
...that the Naniwa class cruisers were the first protected cruisers designed in Japan?
...that existence of arbitrarily many primes in arithmetic progression was proven in 2004, but it took 75 computers to find an example with 24 primes?
...that Australian deputy judge advocate Richard Dore once ordered several hundred lashes be given to suspected Irish insurrectionists before a verdict had been made?

18 June 2007

15:36, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

...that stockbooks (pictured) are often used by stamp collectors to store both postage stamps and other philatelic items such as plate blocks, miniature sheets, covers, and lettersheets?
...that French mathematician André Bloch murdered his brother, produced all his mathematical work from an insane asylum, and published under aliases to avoid the interest of Nazi occupiers?
...that Eocursor, a small bipedal herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, is the most completely known Triassic ornithischian (beaked dinosaur)?
...that to speed up patent cases, United States federal judge T. John Ward uses a chess clock to time opening and closing arguments?
...that the 2004 USC Trojans football team went undefeated, becoming the tenth team to win consecutive Associated Press National Championships?

08:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Bede BD-4 (pictured) was the first homebuilt aircraft to be offered in kit form?
...that Omar Hayssam, a Syrian-born Romanian financier, was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison after a court found him guilty of masterminding the kidnap of three Romanian journalists in Iraq in 2005?
...that the extinct marine reptile Kaganaias is the only ancient aquatic scaled reptile to be found in Asia?
...that the burning of the Torah by Apostomus is noted in the Mishnah as one of five catastrophes to affect the Jews on the seventeenth of Tammuz?
...that Smoky Bay in South Australia was named so after the discoverer noticed large plumes of smoke from fires lit by the area's aboriginal people?

17 June 2007

20:34, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

...that almost 1 in 10 of the inhabitants of Pingelap (pictured), a Micronesian atoll, have complete achromatopsia, a rare form of colourblindness which normally only affects 1 in 33,000?
...that Alexander Brodie Spark, influential merchant, magistrate, investor and exporter in Australia during the 19th century, entertained in excess of 800 different guests in his home solely in 1839?
...that John Sebastian Helmcken opposed British Columbia joining Canadian Confederation—until he negotiated the terms himself?
...that Kuh Ledesma was the first Philippine singer to receive the Salem Music Awards in London in March 1989?
...that the yet unnamed EADS Astrium Space Tourism Project is the first suborbital space tourism project by a major aerospace consortium?
...that Muristan, a complex in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, was the location of the first hospital of the Knights of St. John?

14:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

...that William Hogarth's 1748 painting The Gate of Calais (pictured) features Hogarth himself about to be arrested as a spy for sketching the gate?
...that Gigantoraptor, a bird-like dinosaur discovered in Inner Mongolia, is thirty-five times larger than its peacock-sized relative, Caudipteryx?
...that Vijaya Dasa, an 18th-century Hindu saint from the Karnataka Haridasa tradition, composed about 25,000 devotional songs in the Kannada language?
...that Johann Christoph Altnickol, Johann Christian Kittel, and Johann Caspar Vogler were all students of Johann Sebastian Bach?
...that Vittorio Ambrosio was an Italian general who served an instrumental role in the fall of Mussolini and the eventual Italian renunciation of its alliance with Germany?
...that destructive creativity is a social theory that has been used to explain Nazi Germany, and the Enron and Watergate scandals?
...that Ghum is the highest railway station in India at 2,225 m (7,407 ft)?

06:33, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Oscar B. Balch House (pictured) was the first building Frank Lloyd Wright designed after returning from an extended trip to Europe with a client's wife?
...that Narayana Hrudayalaya, located in Bangalore, India and one of the largest pediatric heart hospitals in the world, offers a telemedicine service for free?
...that the war elephant army of Basalawarmi, a Yuan Dynasty loyalist and the Prince of Liang, was, according to myth, defeated by ten thousand mice?
...that Mogollon, New Mexico had a reputation as one of the wildest mining towns in the American West?
...that it is believed that Elizabeth I granted a temporary reprieve to the Catholic priest Richard Simpson to forestall invasion by Philip II of Spain?
...that the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment led to the enactment of mandatory arrests, without warrants, when responding police had probable cause that domestic violence had occurred?

00:05, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the antiquarian Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti refused to cede his pair of Hellenistic centaurs (pictured) to Pope Benedict XIV even after being offered a position as a cardinal in return?
...that the Viagens Interplanetarias series of science fiction stories by L. Sprague de Camp was influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian novels?
...that Fort Victoria was established as a Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading post, and eventually grew into the modern capital city of British Columbia?
...that one British bank, as an incentive for university students to open a new account with it, offers free Young Persons Railcards, valid for five years and worth £100?
...that, in Scientology beliefs and practices, KRC ("Knowledge, Responsibility and Control") forms the main ingredients of "cause" or effectiveness in life?
...that the tornado that struck Moscow on June 29, 1904 was the first ever recorded in Central Russia?

16 June 2007

16:25, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

...that mobbing behavior is seen in species as diverse as the Great Tit (pictured) and California Ground Squirrel?
...that Judith Quiney, one of William Shakespeare's daughters, was illiterate?
...that newspaper editor George D. Prentice expressed regret later in life for fiery anti-Catholic editorials that played a role in the Bloody Monday riot of 1855?
...that Jack Hides led what Lieutenant-Governor Hubert Murray described as "the most difficult and dangerous" patrol ever carried out in Papua?
...that Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna left her unfaithful husband and became a nun?
...that Sophia Collier used profits from her autobiography Soul Rush, which she wrote at age nineteen, to develop her own soft drink company?
...that Tom Wolfe's The Pump House Gang was published on the same day as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and both went on to become best-sellers?

09:08, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the William H. Copeland House (pictured) was one of three remodeling projects undertaken by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park between 1906 and 1909?
...that Mark Taylor was the first batsman in Test cricket to have made centuries on his debuts against four different opponents?
...that over 9,000 animals were killed during the inaugural games of the Flavian Amphitheatre?
...that the USS Grebe survived both World War I and the attack on Pearl Harbor, only to be destroyed by a hurricane in 1943?
...that Swedes have lived in Estonia for more than 700 years, although only a small number are permanently resident there today?
...that New Mexico State Road 6563 takes its number from the wavelength (6563 Å) used by scientists to locate areas of interest on the Sun?
...that despite shortages of money during the construction of the Deerwood Auditorium in Minnesota, the building was substantially completed in time for its first event, a lutefisk supper?

01:58, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Georgia Tech's Brittain Dining Hall (pictured) was designed by its School of Architecture and paid for in part by its Athletic Association?
...that the yacht Fri spearheaded an international protest of a flotilla of yachts in a voyage against atmospheric nuclear tests at Moruroa in French Polynesia in 1973?
...that the Vietnamese emperor Minh Mang attempted to stifle the work of Catholic missionaries by appointing them as mandarins in the royal court, claiming a lack of translators?
...that Frederick Rotimi Williams was the first Nigerian to become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria?
...that the Bonn–Oberkassel train ferry was one of six train ferries that commenced operations across the Rhine in Germany in the late 19th century?
...that despite having its faculty decimated by Operation Sonderaktion Krakau, the Agricultural University of Kraków continued to hold secret agronomy courses during World War II?

15 June 2007

19:10, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Mosque of Bodrum (pictured) in Istanbul represents the first example of a private burial church of a Byzantine Emperor?
...that one of the most successful weapons of the American Civil War was designed by one of the war's most incompetent generals?
...that Peter of Atroa was accused of exorcising demons by the power of Beelzebub, not the power of Christ?
...that during World War II, Pietro Cardinal Boetto protested against the shelling of Genoa by British warships, claiming that God would assure the triumph of Italy?
...that 12th-century Muslim scientist Al-Khazini, who proposed a theory of gravitation long before Isaac Newton, was, in his early life, a slave of the Seljuq Turks?
...that Bob Simpson made a comeback from ten years in international retirement to lead the Australian cricket team at the age of 42 when it was decimated by defections to World Series Cricket?
...that members of the catfish genus Auchenipterichthys are capable of producing sound?

12:11, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Louisville, Kentucky's first parking garage was built in 1953, as an addition to the 1913 Starks Building (pictured)?
...Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull promulgated by Innocent VIII in 1484, was re-published as the preface to Malleus Maleficarum?
...that Nicolas Chédeville arranged Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons for hurdy gurdy or musette, flute, and violin to amuse French aristocrats who liked to pretend to be peasants?
...that a Romantic poem by Alexandru Hrisoverghi is credited with having inspired historic preservation in Moldavia?
...that the village which later became Chickasaw, Alabama was started as a company town by a local shipyard?
...that the Iran-Pakistan barrier is currently being constructed by Iran along its border with Pakistan to stop illegal migration and thwart terror attacks?
...that Petrus Marcellinus Felix Liberius served in high public office for almost 60 years under both the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy and the Eastern Roman Empire, leading a conquest of Spain at the age of 85?
...that Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was named after an encounter that singer Jeff Tweedy had with a Memorial Day parade?

00:17, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Jaffa Road (pictured) is one of the oldest and longest streets in Jerusalem?
...that "Salvem el món" was the first punk song performed in the Eurovision Song Contest?
...that although Pope Gregory XVI condemned railroads as "the road to hell," Vatican City includes the world's shortest national railway system?
...that Olivia Newton-John made at least 16 appearances on The Go!! Show, an Australian popular music television series which aired between 1964 to 1967, before she found international success?
...that Ain-Ervin Mere, commander of the Estonian Sicherheitspolizei, was sentenced to death in 1961 for organizing the holocaust in Estonia, but died as a free man in England?
...that actor Powers Boothe won a 1980 Emmy Award for his portrayal of Jim Jones in the film Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones ?

14 June 2007

16:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Mamilla (pictured) has been under construction for the last 37 years, even though it is only 0.1 square kilometres large?
...that for the jazz album The Meeting, Joseph Jarman returned to the Art Ensemble of Chicago after leaving in 1993 to open a Buddhist dojo in Brooklyn, New York?
...that Abraham of Farshut founded a new Monophysite monastery at Farshut after the monks of his old monastery at Pbow almost all accepted the decision of the Council of Chalcedon?
...that the Ghana Navy was established under British Royal Navy command and headed by D. A. Foreman, a retired British officer commissioned as a Ghana naval officer with the rank of Commodore?
...that in 2003, Kimberly Casiano became the first Hispanic woman to serve on the board of one of the Fortune 1000 top five companies when she was appointed to the board of Ford Motor Company?
...that Augusto Genina's Lo squadrone bianco (1936), released during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, lionized the Italian colonization of Libya?
...that Bagrichthys macracanthus, the black lancer, is the only species of Bagrichthys, a genus of catfishes, that is traded in the aquarium hobby?

08:07, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

...that, in a quest for realism, Théodore Géricault sketched bodies in the morgue before producing the Raft of the Medusa (pictured)?
...that the 2005 movie The Interpreter by film director Sydney Pollack was based on real-life conference interpreters from the United Nations Interpretation Service?
...that the George Furbeck House represents the beginning of a three year period of experimentation by Frank Lloyd Wright which resulted in the first Prairie houses?
...that Emil Rieve was elected president of his local union when he was only 22 years old, and president of the Textile Workers Union of America when he was 46?
...that, partly as a result of the Estonian national awakening, the Estonians had the second highest literacy rate in the Russian Empire?
...that Archaeopotamus is the oldest well-identified genus of hippos, having lived 7.5 million to 1.8 million years ago?
...that Australian pop singer Lynne Randell was the first Australian recording artist to shoot a colour music video for her 1967 hit "Ciao Baby"?

01:54, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Mid-Delaware Bridge (pictured) over the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New York is the uppermost four-lane bridge on the river's main stem?
...that Tsar Alexis of Russia wrote a detailed instruction to his falconers?
...that after criticising the Australian Cricket Board, its captain Bill Lawry was sacked without being informed, and only learned of his fate on the radio?
...that Prussian uprisings refer to several uprisings of Prussians, one of the Baltic tribes, against the Teutonic Knights, in the 13th century during the Northern Crusades?
...that Church of Scientology private investigator Eugene Martin Ingram was charged with impersonating a police officer, in Hillsborough County, Florida?
...that Gia Long, the first Emperor of Vietnam's Nguyen Dynasty unified the country for the first time in its modern state with French military assistance from his friend and Catholic priest Pigneau de Behaine?
...that composer Takanori Arisawa won three JASRAC International Awards for most international royalties, due to the worldwide popularity of the Sailor Moon anime soundtrack?
...that when the first Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island was elected, there were only five qualified voters in the three-member district of Victoria?
...that the 1892 Thomas Gale House was one of at least eight "bootleg houses" designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in breach of his contract with architect Louis Sullivan?

13 June 2007

16:16, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Frank Lloyd Wright was eventually dismissed from the architecture firm Adler and Sullivan for designing side projects such as the Robert P. Parker House (pictured)?
...that Bona of Pisa, after seeing a vision of James, son of Zebedee, became a leader of pilgrimages to his shrine at Santiago de Compostella?
...that Robert Burnaby is the namesake of at least eleven places in British Columbia, including a city, a lake, and a hill?
...that Sylvia Seegrist was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences for killing three people in 1985 in a Pennsylvania shopping mall, even though she had a history of paranoid schizophrenia?
...that Richard Petty won the 1979 Daytona 500 by passing race leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough who were involved in a fight in the infield?
...that Maria Bertilla Boscardin, who was rejected by one religious order for her slowness, became a nurse and was eventually canonized a saint in the presence of several of her earlier patients?
...that Chicago theater-owner Tony DeSantis survived two near-fatal explosions in his life?

06:53, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the painter Andrés de Santa Maria (pictured) was the pioneer of impressionism and modern art in Colombia?
...that one of the largest slave escape attempts in American history occurred in Kentucky in August 1848?
...that Pinirampus pirinampu, a species of migratory catfish, is one of the most important fishery resources in certain reservoirs in its native range?
...that since his capture, Hassan Ghul has been labelled everything from a simple mail courier to top lieutenant of figures ranging from Osama bin Laden to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to al-Zarqawi?
...that some areas of the Finnish Lakeland have up to 1,000 lakes per 100 km²?
...that Lorenz Christoph Mizler founded a musical society whose members included Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frideric Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach?
...that the city of Quneitra in Syria was captured on the last day of the Six-Day War, was later destroyed and never rebuilt, and is today preserved as a memorial to the Arab-Israeli wars?
...that zuclopenthixol is a medication that can be given every two weeks to treat people suffering from schizophrenia who are unable to take tablets daily?

00:03, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the sex scenes in the Thai film Ploy that were shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival had to be re-edited by director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (pictured) so the film could be shown in cinemas in Thailand?
...that Melbourne rock band The Strangers appeared on weekly television for nine years straight?
...that the first private radio station in India was Akashvani which was set up in 1935 in Mysore, Karnataka?
...that Virginia Lamp Thomas, wife of United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, collected résumés for appointments in the George W. Bush Administration while working at the Heritage Foundation?
...that, in connection with the 7th-century Turkic conquest of Aghvania, the invaders were reported "to suck the children's blood like milk"?
...that during the G-8 Summit in Germany on June 7-8, Russian president Vladimir Putin offered to deploy elements of an American anti-misssile shield in Qabala Radiolocation Station in Azerbaijan instead of Poland and the Czech Republic?
...that Matt Wieters, the fifth pick in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft, was the third player in Georgia Tech history to earn first-team All-America honors twice?

12 June 2007

16:35, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Polish Baroque historian and poet Wespazjan Kochowski (pictured) has been considered one of the most typical representatives of the szlachta philosophy of Sarmatism?
...that the Caves of Nerja were discovered in 1959, and opened as a tourist attraction a year later?
...that western-style Japanese painter Kawabata Ryushi was so impressed with the Japanese art collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that he switched to the Japanese-style Nihonga genre?
...that Australian soldier Ringer Edwards survived 63 hours of crucifixion by Japanese soldiers during World War II?
...that the Wiseman hypothesis proposes the accounts of the book of Genesis were written hundreds to thousands of years before Moses, and that Genesis names the authors?
...that Erica Larson, a chemist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, won the Pikes Peak mountain marathon five times in six years between 1999 and 2004, more than any other woman in the event's history?

06:06, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Brandenburg Navy (pictured) fought in many battles in the Baltic Sea before merging with the Prussian Navy in 1701?
...that worm charming, grunting, and fiddling competitions are held around the world?
...that Europe's largest sewage treatment plant is in Psyttaleia, Greece?
...that the performance of La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina in Warsaw in 1628 was the earliest performance of an Italian opera outside of Italy?
...that Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu president of Burundi were assassinated by two surface-to-air missiles?
...that poor performance in the twilight of the career of Graham McKenzie, Australia's leading pace bowler of the 1960s, led to mistaken fears that he had contracted hepatitis?
...that Charles Wilfred Orr wrote more settings of A. E. Housman's poetry than any other composer?

11 June 2007

23:32, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the 1909-built Wright-Bock Fountain, (pictured) attributed to both Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Bock, was completely replaced with a replica in 1969?
...that religion in the Western Ganga Dynasty included influences from Jainism and the Hindu sects Shaivism, Vedic Brahminism and Vaishnavism?
...that Scottish clergyman Alexander Edward was deprived of his parish after the establishment of Presbyterianism, and later became an architect?
...that males of the endangered South Andean Deer have a distinctive black "face mask" that forms an elongated heart-shape?
...that the Andrew O. Anderson House in DeKalb, Illinois, a design by architect John S. Van Bergen, has long been mistaken for a Frank Lloyd Wright building?
...that Deborah Lawrie became the first female pilot with an Australian airline after winning a landmark sex discrimination case against Ansett Airlines?

12:08, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Frank Lloyd Wright's 1915 Emil Bach House (pictured) in Chicago was originally a "country home" that now stands on a busy city street in the Rogers Park neighborhood?
...that Ernest Austin set the whole of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress for solo organ, at a length of nearly three hours?
...that in order to stem a population decline a "dollar block" promotion was held in the Australian town of Jandowae, Queensland where 38 parcels of land were sold for one dollar each?
...that World War II historian Janusz Piekałkiewicz fled Poland in 1956, relying on mountaineering and secret resistance routes?
...that Dutch amateur football club IJsselmeervogels received the Dutch Sports Team of the Year Award in 1975, for reaching the semi-final of the KNVB Cup?
...that 2006 Winter Olympics speedskating champion, Shani Davis', welcome-home celebration was held at the Harold Washington Cultural Center?

10 June 2007

17:21, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Russo-Japanese War vintage Japanese cruiser Yakumo (pictured) was the only warship in the Imperial Japanese Navy (aside from prizes-of-war) to have been built in Germany?
...that the Orange Mill Historic District between Newburgh and Gardnertown, New York, features the only remaining 19th-century gunpowder mill complex in the state?
...that Oleh Lysheha, educated at Lviv University, was the first Ukrainian poet to receive the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation?
...that Henry Pering Pellew Crease was appointed British Columbia's first Attorney General by Governor (and ex-HBC Chief Factor) Sir James Douglas?
...the crash of Aero Flight 311, which claimed the lives of all 25 people on board, was the worst aviation accident ever to occur in Finland?
...that, in 1999, General Abdulsalami Abubakar was responsible for converting Nigeria's government system from military rule to democracy?

08:37, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Leyla Mammadbeyova (pictured) was the first Azerbaijani female aviator and the second parachutist woman in the former Soviet Union?
...that Shakespeare's religion is speculated by many scholars to have been Catholic?
...that B. V. Karanth trained alongside Dr. Rajkumar under Gubbi Veeranna, one of the pioneers of Kannada theater?
...that Slabsides, John Burroughs' historic log cabin in West Park, New York, is only open to the public two days every year?
...that Neil Harvey once helped the Australian cricket team win a Test by deliberately throwing away his wicket when Pakistan attempted to thwart a victory by time wasting?
...that a massive mudflow destroyed two-thirds of the Valley of Geysers on June 3, 2007?
...that Ronald Reagan is the only American President to have his diaries published into a best selling book?
...that Gasparo Berti's experiment in atmospheric pressure and vacuums led to the invention of the barometer?

01:27, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the original painting of Hogarth's Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn (pictured) was destroyed in a fire in 1874?
...that William A. Brady is the only person to have managed two undisputed heavyweight champion boxers?
...that the Australian Harvey family includes the leading Australian batsman of the 1950s Neil Harvey as well as his grandnephew Robert Harvey, who won consecutive Brownlow Medals as the best player in Australian Football?
...that the Sicilian revolt caused so many slaves to leave mainland Rome that the Vestal Virgins prayed for the desertion to stop?
...that the Aberfeldy Distillery closed for two years during World War I, because they could not get barley?
...that Paul Philippoteaux was a noted painter of cycloramas, cylindrical paintings over 100 yards long, whose effect was so realistic they have been likened to IMAX movies?
...that Kung Fu Jimmy Chow is a cartoon parody that has the appearance of a dubbed Japanese anime?

9 June 2007

17:22, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Frank Lloyd Wright designed the George W. Smith House (pictured) in 1895 as one of a series of low-cost homes but it was not constructed until 1898?
...that nearly one in every twelve suicides by firearm is a multiple gunshot suicide?
...that the first Western abbot of Singapore's Buddhist Poh Ern Shih Temple was an American?
...that in a few of the international cricket matches played by India in the 1990s, more than half of the players in the Indian team belonged to the state of Karnataka?
...that Lake Taupo's Hatepe eruption around 180 AD devastated much of New Zealand's North Island and turned the skies red over China and Rome?
...that the Soviet MT-55 bridge layer tanks were modified by the Czechoslovakians using their gap measuring mechanism and infrared equipment and renamed as the MT-55A?
...that German composer Christian Geist died of the bubonic plague in 1711, along with his wife and children?

05:57, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the 1863 Battle of Shimonoseki (pictured) was the first naval confrontation between the U.S. Navy and a Japanese fleet?
...that the New York Giants, an NFL American football team, were founded in 1925 by a bookmaker with an investment of US$500, and their estimated value has increased to nearly $900 million?
...that the father of cricketer Peter Burge had to resign from Queensland's selection committee when his son was being discussed for selection?
...that French Minister of Marine Jean-Marie Charles Abrial fought in both World Wars and was imprisoned on accusations of collaboration with the Nazis?
...that Robert Kotei, then Ghana's high jump record holder, once successfully foiled a military coup against the NRC government, only to be executed years later after a successful coup against his own SMC government?
...that famed Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof lived in a Tibetan monastery while he recorded the height and location of the highest peak outside of the Himalayas, Minya Konka?

8 June 2007

23:17, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Wallachian poet Ion Heliade Rădulescu (pictured) advocated a radical transformation of the Romanian language on the basis of Italian neologisms?
...that the catfish of the genus Batasio are found in fast-flowing hillstreams throughout South and mainland Southeast Asia?
...that for Lee Ritenour's first album, First Course, he drafted his friends, including Dave Grusin, Frank Rosolino and Tom Scott, from Dante's and the Baked Potato club in Studio City?
...that the recently released diary of teenaged Polish Holocaust victim Rutka Laskier has been compared to the diary of Anne Frank?
...that giant vegetables are entered in competitions around the world, with seeds being traded over the Internet?
...that Germerius is said to have been given as much land as the shadow of his cloak could cover (about a six miles radius) by Clovis I in exchange for his prayers?
...that footballer George Wynn was Manchester City's leading goalscorer in three consecutive seasons?

16:13, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Edward R. Hills House (pictured) was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1976?
...that the repertoire of the Australian passerine, the Red-capped Robin includes "tinkle" and "blurt" calls?
...that Mahalo.com is a human-powered search engine whose lead investor Sequoia Capital helped start both Yahoo! and Google?
...that, after playing the solo for the disastrous premiere of Elgar's Cello Concerto, the English cellist Felix Salmond never taught the piece to his students, even though he taught cello in America for 18 years?
...that, dating back to 1682, Connecticut has suffered more than 100 tornadoes, including the sixth most damaging in United States history and one which killed up to 34 people?
...that the bombing of Zurich in World War II led to court martial proceedings with Jimmy Stewart as presiding officer?
...that Mammes of Caesarea is said to have been breast-fed by his father?
...that Manson Family member Paul Watkins gave testimony to the Los Angeles District Attorney which helped explain Helter Skelter?

07:35, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the nest of the Scarlet Honeyeater (pictured) is a tiny cup of shredded bark bound with spiders' webs?
...that Donald Johanos, music director and conductor of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, was given an award by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1991 for "adventuresome programming of contemporary music"?
...that pachamanca is a Peruvian dish which has its origins in Inca cuisine?
...that some species of fish undergo a genetically programmed sex change during their development?
...that the disinvestment from South Africa campaign in the late 1980s was a key factor pressuring the South African Government to embark on the negotiations which ultimately led to the dismantling of apartheid?
...that Bidhannagar College, a government college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, had to move out of its old premises because of student overpopulation?

01:50, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
...that the house of University President Marion L. Brittain was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?

7 June 2007

23:49, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Kirchberg convent (pictured), built in 1237, is one of the oldest female church houses in central Europe?
...that Rhode Island ratified the United States Constitution more than a year after the new government had started operating?
...that all five species of the catfish genus Epactionotus are endemic to limited geographic areas in Brazil and Argentina?
...that between 1952 and 1976 members of the Soviet Armed Forces sports society won more than a hundred gold medals at Summer Olympics?
...that Cecilia Krieger, who translated the work of Sierpinski into English, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics in Canada?
...that the Foedus Cassianum, named after the negotiator, Spurius Cassius, was the first of many foederati signed by Rome?
...that Government Sanskrit College was the first college of the ancient city of Benares, established in 1791?

15:09, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Gregory S. Martin (pictured) was the first non-Navy officer nominated to head the United States Pacific Command, but withdrew after Senator John McCain questioned whether he had "the quality to command"?
...that the Squander Bug was a propaganda character created to encourage saving in the United Kingdom during World War II?
...that the rape case involving a party at De Anza College has drawn national criticism and focus on the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office?
...that after taxiing past the smoldering wreckage of Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402, BOAC flight 911 also crashed, with 188 total lives lost in less than a day?
...that Norm O'Neill's maiden Test century helped the Australian cricket team win its only Test on Pakistani soil for 39 years?
...that a Three-Year Plan succeeded in rebuilding the economy of Poland from World War II devastation?
...that the energy lobby contributed 19 million dollars to United States political campaigns in the 2006 election cycle?
...that the only written version of the Arthurian ballad "King Arthur and King Cornwall" was torn up and used to start fires?
...that Ujjayanta Palace was rebuilt in downtown Agartala, India after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1897?
...that Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time, a 1939 painting by Salvador Dalí, is believed to be a criticism of the sexualisation of child stars by Hollywood?

07:37, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Tunnel Mountain (pictured) has never had a tunnel run through it, and the name is due to an error by Major A.B. Rogers while surveying for the Canadian Pacific Railway?
...that the Aranthalawa Massacre, by the Tamil Tigers, resulted in the deaths of 30 young novice monks, their mentor, and four other civilians?
...that the test for enrollment at Germany's Helmut Schmidt University involves not an intelligence test, but military training and troop procedures?
...that before police duty belts, British female police officers had to apply for permission to carry handcuffs?
...that sexual size dimorphism in the Brown Songlark is among the most pronounced in any bird, with males as much as 2.3 times heavier than females?
...that the number of North Koreans in Russia has increased due to a decline in the North Korean economy?
...that the Finnish-Novgorodian Wars only ended with the Swedish conquest of Finland in 1249, resulting in the Swedish-Novgorodian Wars?
...that the bear Wojtek was an officially enlisted soldier of the Polish II Corps and a participant in the Battle of Monte Cassino?
...that Samuel Azu Crabbe was named and fired as Chief Justice of Ghana in a decree specifically made for the purpose by the Supreme Military Council that had appointed him four years earlier?
...that Gerlachovský štít, Slovakia's highest mountain, has been renamed seven times due to regime changes?

00:27, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Japanese cruiser Izumo was dispatched to Malta as the flagship of an Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer unit in World War I, as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance?
...that in the 1950s Dr. Leonidas Berry started the Berry Plan to provide medical counseling clinics for young drug addicts in Chicago?
...that the Australian town of Great Western, Victoria is home to a series of labyrinthine tunnels ("drives"), originally made by miners searching for gold and now used to store sparkling wine while it is resting and settling?
...that Elsa Eschelsson, the first woman both to finish a doctorate in Law and to teach in a university in Sweden, was denied the right to serve even as acting professor because of her sex?
...that the 1902 British Home Championship football tournament was won by Scotland in a replay after the deciding match was marred by the deaths of 25 spectators when a stand collapsed at Ibrox Park?
...that Józef Franczak, last of the cursed soldiers, was a Polish resistance fighter for 24 out of 45 years of his life?
...that the Walter Gale House is the earliest independent design by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright?
...that Stereo Type, by the Welsh composer Guto Puw, was written for the combination of amplified typewriters and tape and was premiered in a shopping centre in Bangor, Gwynedd?
...that L.L. "Stub" Stewart Memorial State Park is the first new full-service state park in Oregon since 1972?

6 June 2007

16:04, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the construction of the Asama class cruisers (pictured) of the Imperial Japanese Navy began as a private venture by the British shipbuilder Armstrong Whitworth of Elswick, for projected export business?
...that the practice of cumul des mandats in French politics, holding multiple political offices at different levels of government concurrently, has been used by Jacques Chirac and Ségolène Royal?
...that the law enforcement agencies of Adjara made a gift of four cars and two two-roomed apartments to six of its most successful officers?
...that cricketer Charles Macartney, who set a record for the most runs scored in one day, first learnt to bat with apples from the family orchard?
...that Oregon Governor Oswald West sent his personal secretary Miss Fern Hobbs to Copperfield, Oregon, to shut down illegal activities and impose martial law in 1914?
...that the climate of Florida includes snowfall or sleet as early as November (in 2006) and as late as April (in 2007)?
...that thermal vent ecosystems have been discovered in the Aegean Sea, in the caldera of Kolumbo underwater volcano?
...that during World War II, Allied leaders met at the Droxford Station of the Meon Valley Railway to plan Operation Overlord?

5 June 2007

23:00, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Xhosa Wars veteran Stephen Bartlett Lakeman (pictured) became an Ottoman pasha and, late in his life, helped create the Romanian National Liberal Party?
...that the Byzantine general Belisarius held the last Roman triumph ever to be awarded to a private citizen for his victory in the Vandalic War?
...that John Campanius, an early Lutheran missionary to Delaware, transliterated the Lenape language and created one of the first documents to be written in a Native American language?
...that investment banker Bill Hambrecht has pledged $2 million to help start an American Football league to compete with the National Football League?
...that the heaviest domestic pig on record weighed over a long ton but died before it could be exhibited at the Century of Progress in 1933?
...that slavery existed in Indiana as late as 1840, even though Indiana was always a free state above the Mason-Dixon line, and slavery had been outlawed in the region due to the Northwest Ordinance in 1787?
...that Hjalmar Hvam came up with the design for the world's first safety ski bindings while recovering from a skiing injury in hospital?
...that Saint Gangulphus, who was murdered by his wife's lover in 760, is invoked as a patron against adultery and marital difficulties?
...that the mounds of Indian Mound Park on Dauphin Island, Alabama are composed of oyster shells discarded over centuries by migrant Indians?

16:15, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Hill of Ash (pictured) near Kerch was the first Scythian royal mound excavated in modern times?
...that motorsport announcer Ken Squier coined the phrase "The Great American Race" for the Daytona 500?
...that Ghazi Mullah proclaimed that only the elimination of Russians from the Caucasus would please Allah?
...that when British charity Aid Convoy's first dedicated vehicle broke down while delivering aid to Macedonia, it was rescued by British radio and TV presenter Simon Mayo?
...that Paul Henkel, operating out of his son's printing house, became the first and only Lutheran publisher in the United States for years?
...that ribbon diagrams, which represent the three-dimensional structure of proteins, are produced by a computerized spline function?
...that General Edmund Rice led his regiment against Pickett's Charge, was wounded three times, escaped imprisonment by jumping out of a moving train, and received a Congressional Medal of Honor?
...that Itzik Zohar scored Israel's first international goal in football after gaining full admittance to UEFA?
...that U-515 sank seven Allied ships in a 12-hour period during her third patrol of the war?
...that Józef Franczak, last of the cursed soldiers, was a resistance fighter for over half his life?

06:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Splendid Fairy-wren (pictured) of Western Australia is more closely related to the Crow than the original European Wren?
...that the Historic Michigan Boulevard District came to be one of the most famous one-sided streets as a result of the legal persistence of Aaron Montgomery Ward?
...that Gordon Murray, the creator of classic British children's television shows Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley, burnt all but one of his puppets on a bonfire in the 1980s?
...that the modern history of aviation in Bangladesh began by meeting the needs of the Royal Indian Air Force for its World War II Burma campaign?
...that the Susquehanna Boom led to Williamsport, Pennsylvania having more millionaires per capita than any other city at the time?
...that in his varied career in French politics, Raymond Janot was concurrently mayor of a small town and secretary-general of the international French Community?
...that for the past 16 years Michael Kesterton has written a column in The Globe and Mail made up of a collection of odd news stories pulled from various sources?
...that after the 1607 Battle of Guzów, the victorious King Sigismund III Vasa gave a general amnesty which punished nobody and decided nothing?
...that investigative journalist John Sweeney stated his outburst in the documentary Scientology and Me was a by-product of viewing the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights exhibit, "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death"?

00:08, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

...that in 1877 naturalist John Muir described the waterfall in Eaton Canyon (pictured) as "a charming little thing, with a low, sweet voice, singing like a bird, as it pours from a notch in a short ledge, some thirty or forty feet into a round mirror-pool"?
...that Englishman Peter Marner was the first batsman to hit a century in one-day cricket, in the first round of Gillette Cup matches in 1963?
...that Handigodu Syndrome is an osteoarthritic disorder endemic to the Malnad region in Karnataka, India?
...that the Bukit Batok Memorial was built by Australian POWs to honor the war dead of the Japanese and Allies from Singapore's Battle of Bukit Timah?
...that although largely forgotten, Spring in Park Lane is still the British film with the highest cinema attendances in the UK?
...that St. Assam's Church in Raheny, Dublin, has been the site of Christian worship since 1189?
...that the US Supreme Court overturned the suspension of seventy-five students from Marion-Franklin High School?
...that General Sir Edward Jones was the only man to follow his father as a member of the Army Board in the 20th century, and later served as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod in the House of Lords?

4 June 2007

08:22, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

...that four Japanese War Memorials found in the Japanese Cemetery Park (pictured) were built without knowledge of the British colonial government of Singapore?
...that Dateline: Toronto, a collection of Ernest Hemingway's newspaper writings for the Toronto Star in the early 1920s, contained themes and ideas later used in The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises?
...that Chief Yellow Horse was the first full-blooded Native American to play Major League Baseball?
...that Irish cricketer Leslie Kidd played his first first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and played his last against them?
...that some scholars interpret the petroglyphs of Kamyana Mohyla in Ukraine as precursors of the Sumerian cuneiform script?
...that Tong Yabghu, khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate, campaigned with the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius in the Caucasus Mountains?
...that 35 Jewish Zionists were executed in the Pinsk massacre because they were suspected of being Bolsheviks?
...that the Community Court of Australia's Northern Territory aims to reduce re-offending by involving the indigenous community in the sentencing process?

02:12, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Franklin Steele built the first sawmill at St. Anthony Falls and the first permanent bridge (bridge pictured) to cross the Mississippi River?
...that Don Tallon, regarded as one of Australia's greatest ever wicketkeepers, was once dropped from his state team because he was ruled to be too young to travel interstate?
...that the peacekeeping Polish-Ukrainian Peace Force Battalion, created in the late 1990s, is serving as part of the Kosovo Force?
...that battle for trade was a phrase introduced by Polish communist propaganda for the nationalization of private sector shops?
...that John J. Bernet was known for bringing railroad companies back from bankruptcy to solvency, earning him the nickname "Doctor of Sick Railroads"?
...that Peter Herdic, a 19th-century Pennsylvania lumber baron, millionaire, and philanthropist, also invented the horse-drawn herdic, an early form of taxicab?

3 June 2007

15:48, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

...that during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, the Palestine Police Force (fort pictured) was augmented by the Jewish Settlement Police, Jewish Supernumerary Police and the Special Night Squads?
...that Allen Steere, a professor of rheumatology at Harvard University, is credited with discovering Lyme disease?
...that Trivikrama Mahadeva has organized the funerals of over 42,000 people?
...that debt-relief activist Ann Pettifor staged a 70,000 person protest which formed a human chain and encircled the 1998 G8 summit?
...that the first wine region established as an American Viticultural Area was the Augusta AVA in Augusta, Missouri being selected eight months before Napa Valley, California?
...that the nudie cutie The Adventures of Lucky Pierre was the first sexploitation movie to be filmed in color?
...that the Gotha Go 145 bi-plane started service as a trainer in the Luftwaffe in 1935, and was still in service as a night bomber at the end of the war in Europe?

03:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the lyre arm design (pictured) has endured from prehistory and Ancient Greece through the American Federal Period?
...that the Cumberland Valley Railroad ran its first trains in 1837 on oak stringers in place of iron rails, and that in 1839 it ran the first sleeping cars in America?
...that wind gradient causes sounds to appear to carry farther downwind, not the wind itself?
...that the Pleasant Home, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, derives its name from its location, the intersection of Pleasant Street and Home Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois?
...that ASNOVA was a group of architects that linked psychology and architecture by building laboratories and expounding psychological theories?
...that the island of Tanjong Pelumpong in Brunei was created when a ten meter deep channel was cut through the spit to provide access to Muara Port?

2 June 2007

15:12, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Eastern Whipbird (pictured) of the Australian wet forests is so named for its loud call which resembles the cracking of a whip?
...that Morlon Wiley was part of the NBA's only trade on the day of the trading deadline in 1995, being traded for Scott Brooks?
...that the $7m (£4.2m) estate of Gregory Hemingway, the youngest son of Ernest Hemingway, could not be left to his wife because of the same-sex marriage laws in Florida?
...that the first large influx of Russians in Korea came after the fall of Vladivostok to communist forces in 1922?
...that Dov Yosef, Israel's second Minister of Justice, immigrated to Israel as a soldier in the Canadian Jewish Legion?
...that biologists Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling would intentionally avoid peer review when publishing their most provocative works on molecular evolution?

01:15, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

...that the Dunedin (pictured), the first commercially successful refrigerated ship, ushered in a meat and dairy boom in Australasia and South America with its first shipment in 1882?
...that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote concertos for 1, 2, 3, and even 4 harpsichords?
...that the pasilalinic-sympathetic compass was an attempt to communicate across vast distances using a telepathic link between snails?
...that Luxembourg City's Place Guillaume II is colloquially known as the 'Knuedler', after the knot in the belt worn by Franciscan friars, one of whose monasteries once stood there?
...that Matysiakowie is both the most popular radio drama in Poland and one of the longest running in the world, with over 2600 episodes broadcast since 1956?

1 June 2007

14:49, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

...that some of the sick and the wounded left behind by the Volunteer Army during the Ice March (recruitment poster pictured) of 1919 shot themselves rather than be captured by the Bolsheviks?
...that the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House is considered a forerunner to the famous Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania?
...that baseball player Rollie Hemsley was the first member of Alcoholics Anonymous to break their anonymity on a national level?
...that St. Patrick's Church was the first Catholic parish established in New Orleans outside the French Quarter, so that Irish immigrants would have a parish that was not dominated by French-speaking Creoles?
...that Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia once owned the largest and finest collection of Russian coins?
...that footballer David Weir scored Manchester City's first ever FA Cup goal?

02:18, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

...that Charles B. DeBellevue (pictured), who had the most MiG kills during the Vietnam War, was the last American ace on active duty?
...that the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals was a leading Islamic political group, founded in 1990 by senior politician and later president of Indonesia, B. J. Habibie?
...that Paula Cooper, sentenced to death at age 15, had her sentence commuted in 1989 after an international uproar ensued and Pope John Paul II appealed to the Governor of Indiana for leniency?
...that Alexander Everett used techniques from the Unity Church and Jose Silva's Silva Mind Control, in his company Mind Dynamics?
...that Dave Brubeck's The Real Ambassadors was largely based on the goodwill tours of Louis Armstrong and other jazz musicians on behalf of the U.S. State Department during the Cold War?
...that the founding father of physical education in Poland, Dr. Henryk Jordan, started a school for midwives during his stay in New York City in the late 19th century?