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31 May 2007

19:26, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Villa Medicea di Pratolino (pictured), visited by Michel de Montaigne in 1581, was later owned by the Demidov princely family of Russia and by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia?
...that Lucy Brewer claimed to have served in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812, but was probably invented by an American writer?
...that Suyab, the 7th-century capital of the Western Turkic Khaganate, had Buddhist temples, Nestorian monasteries, Zoroastrian ossuaries, and Turkic bal-bals?
...that little is known about the career of American architect John S. Van Bergen because a fire in 1964 destroyed most of his architectural drawings and records?
...that Supraśl Lavra is one of six Eastern Orthodox monasteries for men in Poland?
...that Alse Young is believed to have been the first person to be executed as a witch in the American colonies?

10:22, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Arthur Heurtley House (pictured) in Oak Park, Illinois is considered the first fully mature example of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie style?
...that British music publisher Boosey & Hawkes owns copyrights to much major 20th century music, including works by Bartók, Bernstein, Britten, Elliott Carter, Rachmaninoff, Steve Reich and Stravinsky?
...that Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, resigned after confessing to torture and forgery?
...that the Commonwealth of Kentucky had a Confederate shadow government during the U.S. Civil War, although it never officially seceded from the Union?
...that British politician David Renton, Baron Renton served for over 60 years in Parliament, representing two parties and then as a life peer, and was the oldest member of the House of Lords when he died?
...that Australian cricketer Bill Johnston, the fastest bowler to reach 100 Test wickets, took career-best figures shortly after a near-fatal car crash?

02:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the cabriole leg (pictured) is a furniture style occurring in ancient China and Greece that re-emerged in Europe around 1700?
...that Thoroughbred horse trainer Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr. is a United States' Racing Hall of Fame inductee?
...that Yuri Izrael, Russian vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, believes the Kyoto Protocol is scientifically unsupported?
...that after capture by English adventurer Sir David Kirke and combat with the Iroquois, surgeon Robert Giffard de Moncel helped start the first hospital in North America?
...that William Penn Patrick, founder of companies Holiday Magic and Leadership Dynamics, ran against Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination for Governor of California?
...that the beach volleyball events at the 2007 Games of the Small States of Europe will take place on the Larvotto, Monaco's most famous beach?
...that Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from the Red Mountain AVA were used to create the first US wine outside of California to receive consecutive perfect scores from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate?

30 May 2007

20:47, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the words said by the Virgin Mary in Jan van Eyck's Washington Annunciation (pictured) are painted upside down so God can read them?
...that, aged 38 in November 1984, Bob Holland was the oldest Australian cricketer to make his Test debut in more than half a century?
...that the fictional Tyranids Hive Fleets of the Warhammer 40,000 game contain special ships for an alien invasion?
...that the sack of Constantinople by Latin crusaders in 1204 destroyed the Byzantine economy, with the Latin emperors melting down statues for coin, and the Venetians exporting architecture spoils to decorate their churches?
...that Alfred Winslow Jones, father of the hedge fund industry, was a sociologist?
...that the medieval Greek mystic Gregory Palamas successfully defended his doctrine of Tabor Light through three synods of the Orthodox Church?
...that the shooting of followers of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Tri Quang by the Catholic government of Ngo Dinh Diem led to months of protests which culminated in a coup in November 1963?
...that the government of Kenya named the 1963-67 secessionist Shifta War after "shiftas", the local word for "bandit", as part of a propaganda initiative?

12:47, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the United States Marine Hospital (pictured) in Louisville, Kentucky is considered the best remaining antebellum hospital in the US?
...that Vagish Shastri, Sanskrit grammarian, linguist and yogi taught the pop singer Madonna Sanskrit pronunciation?
...that Aluminaut, the world's first aluminum submarine, helped recover a lost atomic bomb?
...that not only have Isobel Joyce and her twin sister Cecelia played for the Ireland women's cricket team, three of their brothers have played for the men's team?
...that Judge Learned Hand showed his disrespect for U.S. District Judge Robert A. Inch by frequently referring to him in internal documents as "the Inchworm" or "Judge Millimeter"?
...that the first experimental reforestation station established in California was Henninger Flats in 1903?
...that Gour Govinda Ray, Brahmo Samaj missionary and scholar specialising in Hinduism, attempted to compare Krishna with Christ?
...that the OSA Group was the first association of architects to bridge Constructivism from art to architecture?
...that Slovak Paradise National Park is home to more than 2,100 species of butterfly, resulting in the highest concentration in Slovakia?

02:30, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Syrian American children

...that the earliest Syrian immigrants in the United States (pictured) arrived in the 1880s?
...that the Indian mobster turned Congress politician Pappu Kalani won two elections while in jail?
...that the company Leadership Dynamics was cited by psychologists as the first form of Large Group Awareness Training?
...that the catfish genus Steindachneridion was named after its discoverer, the Austrian zoologist Franz Steindachner?
...that William R. Ellis served as mayor of two Iowa cities before being elected to represent Oregon in the United States Congress?
...that the Society for the Reformation of Manners, founded in England in 1691, included a network of "moral guardians" in London to gather information about moral infractions?
...that L.J. Cooke, the first coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team, created the tradition of the Little Brown Jug?

29 May 2007

20:14, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the 240 mm M1 howitzer (pictured), popularly nicknamed the "Black Dragon", was the most powerful weapon deployed by US field artillery units during World War II?
...that an Anglo-Australian trade boycott was threatened in 1932-33 after Australian cricket captain Bill Woodfull was struck over the heart by a ball bowled by Harold Larwood according to England's Bodyline tactics?
...that the Discovery Institute conducts public relations campaigns to promote intelligent design and discredit evolution?
...that the Unami Lodge was the founding chapter of the Boy Scouts of America's Order of the Arrow?
...that during the 1990 New York Giants season, the NFL American football team set a league record for fewest turnovers in a season?
...that the 16th-place of "Vjerujem u ljubav" in the semi-final of Eurovision 2007 marked the first time that Croatia had not reached the final since its independence?
...that vinkenzetting (Dutch) is a 400-year-old sport in which the male Chaffinch that makes the most bird calls wins?
...that the Great Western Railway operated road motor (bus) services in England and Wales from 1903 until 1933 as it was cheaper than building new railways?

13:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

...that some species of waterfowl lose all their flight feathers (pictured) at once while moulting, rendering them incapable of flight?
...that tajchy, a network of 60 water reservoirs and more than 100 km of channels, was built in the 1700s to drain flooded silver mines in Banská Štiavnica?
...that before 1954, public transport in Belfast included electric trams?
...that in 1992 about 10-15% of the Nicaraguan population emigrated to the U.S.?
...that Pascal Taskin altered a harpsichord by Joannes Goermans to make it look like Jan Couchet's work so he could earn more from its sale?
...that Major League Baseball player Cass Michaels was given the last rites after being hit in the head by a career-ending pitch?
...that during the Napoleonic Wars, a Prussian Regiment, formed from prisoners-of-war, served in the French Army?
...that Sajjida Shah debuted for Pakistan's women's cricket team aged just twelve?
...that Wollongong Head Lighthouse is the only place in eastern Australia to have two lighthouses within close proximity?

06:20, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Lt. General Charles Roadman II (pictured), the son of U.S. Air Force flight surgeon and command pilot Major General Charles Roadman, was the Air Force's 16th Surgeon General?
...that Anthony of Kiev left his Monastery of the Caves when it gained 12 members because he felt it was crowded?
...that Saudi Arabian Prince Abdul Majeed bin Abdul Aziz was Governor of the provinces of Tabuk, Medina and then Mecca, between 1980 and his death in 2007?
...that England has won six of the seven Women's European Cricket Championships to date?
...that Anthelm of Belley left his post as bishop of Belley in protest at the lifting of the excommunication of a count who had held one priest captive and murdered a second?
...that Sir Anthony Eden was considered the least effective British Prime Minister of the 20th century in three separate polls?
...that the Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster involved 30 tons of liquid steel at 1,500°C, engulfing a room full of workers?
...that James Madison's Report of 1800 was used to support the doctrine of nullification, despite his objection to that doctrine?

00:04, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Friar Camilo Henríquez (pictured), a founding father of Chile and editor of Chile's first newspaper, was interrogated by the Spanish Inquisition for possessing banned Enlightenment philosophy, including books by Rousseau and Mercier?
...that Gay Talese's seminal 1965 magazine feature "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" was written without Talese ever being allowed to interview Frank Sinatra?
...that Dr. Benjamin Bates gave up his practice to accompany Sir Francis Dashwood around Europe, but Dashwood died and Bates never received the huge payment he had been promised?
...that the German 502nd heavy tank battalion was the first unit to be issued the famous Tiger I heavy tank?
...that Pham Ngoc Thao, one of the key figures in South Vietnam's Strategic Hamlet Program, was a communist agent who deliberately mismanaged it to stimulate popular dissent?
...that the distinct resemblance of a certain silver mixture, known as Diana's Tree, to a forest of trees led alchemists to theorize the existence of life in the realm of minerals?

28 May 2007

17:42, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Scottish-Russian photographer William Carrick pioneered Russian ethnographic photography (example pictured)?
...that World War II naval aviator William O. Gallery was one of three brothers who became US Navy rear admirals?
...that the earliest cannon projectiles were round shot and grapeshot?
...that Ernie Toshack debuted for the Australian cricket team a year after World War II ended, during which he had been rejected by the army on health grounds?
...that Saalumarada Thimmakka was awarded the National Citizen's award for planting and nurturing 284 banyan trees along an Indian highway?
...that beneath Vienna's Judenplatz is an excavation that displays the remains of a medieval synagogue?
...that the Roman general Barbatio was beheaded for treason after his wife's indiscreet letter was intercepted by Emperor Constantius II?
...that the Crusade of Varna required simultaneous attacks on the Muslim Ottoman Empire by Christian Hungary and the Muslim Karamanids, which did not occur?
...that the external decorations of the Perugia Cathedral were never completed?

09:09, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the mammals found in Senegal include the critically endangered Dama Gazelle (pictured)?
...that New South Wales Chief Justice Sir Leslie Herron was Australian Father of the year?
...that the earliest European term for "cannon" was the Medieval Latin word "bombardum", and that "cannon" itself came from the Latin word canna, meaning a tube?
...that in 1925 Saskatchewan produced over half of the wheat in the Dominion of Canada?
...that the Polish air force combated in the victory of Lublin-Brest Offensive, which cleared the path for the Red Army to recapture Warsaw?
...that despite wild differences in subject matter, 1970s Japanese science fiction television series Akumaizer 3 features frequent allusions to Alexander Dumas' famous novel The Three Musketeers?

02:23, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the St. Philomena's Church (pictured) in the city of Mysore in India was built in Neo-Gothic style drawing inspiration from the Cologne Cathedral in Germany?
...that during his research into women's olfactory selection of potential mates, Swiss biologist Claus Wedekind conducted what has become known as the "Sweaty T-shirt Study"?
...that emigration of physicians and nurses poses a major problem for Nigeria's health care system, as there were 21,000 Nigerian doctors practising in the U.S. alone?
...that the events in the novel The Dig take place during the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, England?
...that Kona lows bring severe weather to Hawaii two to three times each year between October and April?
...that while leader of the short-lived secessionist state of South Kasai, Albert Kalonji gave himself the title of Supreme Chief of the Muluba People and Protector of the Associated Tribes?

27 May 2007

15:23, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

...that when noted American poet Lucretia Maria Davidson (pictured) died at age 16, she had written over 278 poems of varying lengths?
...that a slogan of the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire is "Prolétaires de tous les pays, caressez-vous" (Workers of the world, caress yourselves!)?
...that the DC comic book Batman: The Last Arkham drew on the influences of psychology and biology books such as "Superstition in the Common Pigeon"?
...that over 100 million people in Indonesia lack access to safe water and more than 70 percent of the country’s 220 million population relies on water obtained from potentially contaminated sources?
...that Sungai Tujoh is the westernmost point of Brunei and is one of the four land crossing points into the Malaysian state of Sarawak from Brunei?
...that in Ancient Roman entertainment, a desultor was a performer who led several horses in full gallop—as many as six or eight at once—and leaped from one to another?

01:03, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the mosque of Kalenderhane (pictured) in Istanbul contained the most ancient cycle of frescoes portraying Saint Francis of Assisi still extant?
...that Maharaja Suraj Mal took over Bharatpur, India, and established it as the capital of Mewat state?
...that New Zealand photographer Laurence Aberhart uses an obsolete camera and a type of photographic paper that is no longer manufactured?
...that Batasio sharavatiensis, a species of bagrid catfish discovered near Jog Falls in India, is named after the Sharavathi river in which it was found?
...that Joseph-François Lambert was a French adventurer who tried to overthrow the "Mad Queen" Ranavalona I of Madagascar?

26 May 2007

16:56, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the main building for the MacPhail Center for Music (pictured) in Minneapolis, Minnesota was designed so it could be easily converted into a retail/office space should the school fail?
...that Jeremiah Arkham, the sadistic head of Arkham Asylum in the Batman universe of DC Comics, held Batman captive in his comic book debut?
...that Byzantines were skilled at using diplomacy as a weapon of war?
...that the late Sir William Northam was the oldest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal?
...that Genlisea margaretae, a carnivorous plant native to Southeast Africa, has the smallest recorded flowering plant genome?
...that nearly every known example of the New Zealand-designed Charlton Automatic Rifle was destroyed in a fire at the storage depot shortly after World War II?
...that Frank Lloyd Wright's Plan for Greater Baghdad included a 300-foot gilded statue of Harun al-Rashid?

09:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

...that according to Greek mythology, the festival of Delia was instituted by Theseus after slaying the Minotaur (pictured)?
...that the red column of the Kruty Heroes Memorial recalls the colonnade of the famously red-colored main building of the Kiev University where many of the Ukrainian cadets slain at the 1918 Battle of Kruty had studied?
...that the play Four Nights in Knaresborough, which tells the story of the aftermath of Thomas Becket's murder using modern language and idiom, is to be re-made as an action movie in the style of Young Guns?
...that William R. Bell, the District Officer for Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1915 to 1927, was killed while collecting a head tax from the resistant Kwaio?
...that Jack Fingleton, a journalist who was press secretary to former Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes, represented Australia in Test cricket?

02:00, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

United States pavilion at Expo 67 with minirail

...that during Expo 67's first week (pavilion pictured) it set the still standing single-day attendance record for a World's Fair?
...that the Japanese seaplane carrier Wakamiya conducted the world's first naval-launched air raids?
...that cloud suck has dragged paragliders to altitudes as high as 9,946 meters (32,600 feet)?
...that the snakeskin gourami is one of Thailand's five most important aquacultured freshwater species?
...that the artistic creations of Tommaso Francini marked a distinct stage in the importation of Italian features in the French formal garden?
...that Tran Kim Tuyen, the intelligence chief of South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem was referred to as "Vietnam's Goebbels"?
...that researchers believe the monotypic New Zealand genus Oreostylidium represents an extreme example of floral paedomorphosis and should be transferred back to the related Australian genus Stylidium?

25 May 2007

18:33, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Kirk o' Field (pictured) in Edinburgh was the location of one of the world's great unsolved historical mysteries, the murder of Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, in 1567?
...that the Youth Olympic Games are planned to teach Olympic values to teenage athletes?
...that Manuel Gamio conducted the first scientific excavations in the Valley of Mexico?
...that Western Ganga literature included Kannada poetry and prose written by royalty, on topics ranging from religion to elephant management?
...that the time traveling premise featured in the Chrono series of video games was inspired by such television programs as The Time Tunnel?
...that Marshal Soult's last offensive against the Duke of Wellington's forces in the Peninsular War was lost before a single red coat could join the battle?
...that the Short Knuckleduster gull-winged flying boat never entered military service, but data from its handling and engine steam-cooling aided the design of Short's Empire and Sunderland aircraft?

11:07, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the founder of the Caucasus branch of the Qadiriyyah Tariqah, Kunta-haji (pictured) is often referred as the "Chechen Gandhi" because of his doctrine of nonviolence?
...that although people from the Isle of Man are British citizens, they do not have freedom of movement or employment throughout the European Union?
...that the Scientology Task Force of Hamburg, Germany reported on what it called brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force?
...that Gaius Pontius, the Samnite general and victor at the Battle of the Caudine Forks, is believed to be an ancestor of the Roman governor of Judea Pontius Pilate?
...that ten days before the ratification of the Peace of Szeged, Vladislaus, King of Hungary, swore an oath which invalidated it and all future treaties with the Ottoman Empire?
...that Eddie Ingram played for the Irish cricket team for 25 years, after making his debut at the age of 17?
...that in 2002 Nicaragua had 15 times fewer banks than its Central American counterparts with only six compared to the regional average of 107 per country?

04:59, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Vädersolstavlan (pictured) is the oldest known painting of Stockholm?
...that almost 60% of Belfast's adult population regularly participate in one or more sports?
...that trade unions in Argentina have traditionally played a strong role in the politics of the nation, with approximately 40% of workers in the formal economy being unionized?
...that the Sabine Free State, a border area between Spanish Texas and American Louisiana but administered by neither for 15 years in the early 19th century, attracted every kind of outlaw known from both sides, as well as settlers, adventurers and political refugees?
...that Ira Losco, who led Malta to a second place finish in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest, sang the official anthem at the opening ceremonies of the 2003 Games of the Small States of Europe?
...that police officers in Croatia are only allowed to use their guns if there is a threat to their life or the lives of other people, or to prevent a crime from being committed for which the maximum prison sentence is five years or more?
...that the San Salvador was a galleon of the Spanish Armada whose capture supplied the English with a significant proportion of the gunpowder that they used in the campaign?

24 May 2007

17:33, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

...that opponents of Cameroon's first president, Ahmadou Ahidjo, danced to show their displeasure (Cameroonian dancers pictured)?
...that the "Guild of Saint Luke" was the usual name for the painters' guild in cities of the Low Countries?
...that the cruiseferry M/S Nordlandia (originally M/S Olau Hollandia) was built to be NATO-compatible, so that she could easily be converted to a troopship?
...that Ivan Bogorov, who published the first Bulgarian newspaper in 1846 in Leipzig, was also an ardent supporter of Bulgarian linguistic purism and was known for his often amusing neologisms?
...that the ocean liner SS Paris, built in 1913, reached such heights of luxury and service that sea gulls purportedly followed it more than any other ship, hoping to feast on scraps of haute cuisine that were thrown overboard?
...that the Tooting impact crater on Mars was named after the London suburb of the same name because the discoverer "thought [his] mum and brother would get a kick out of having their home town paired with a land form on Mars"?

08:50, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Simon de Montfort was killed and had his testicles cut off at the Battle of Evesham (pictured)?
...that there are fifteen distinct police agencies enforcing law in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
...that Gustavus Blin Wright, a pioneer road builder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada, built the 127-mile-long Old Cariboo Road in 1862–3?
...that the 14th century Chinese military treatise of the Huo Long Jing edited by Jiao Yu described the use of cast iron grenades, firearms, fire lance flamethrowers, cannons, land mines, naval mines, rocket launchers, and winged rockets?
...that Bristol Byzantine was an architectural style used for industrial buildings in Bristol between 1850 and 1880?
...that the minesweeper USS Threat was transferred to the government of Mexico after being decommissioned by the US Navy and renamed the Francisco Zarco?
...that West Indies cricketer Sir Harold Austin, who captained the team twice on tours to England, later became the Speaker in the Barbados House of Assembly?

23 May 2007

22:34, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the longest river on the island of New Guinea, the Sepik (pictured), was named the Kaiserin Augusta by German explorers in 1884, after the German Empress of the day?
...that Horabagrus brachysoma, an endangered species of the genus Horabagrus, has been considered a potential flagship species for media attention to provide a focus for wildlife conservation of inland biodiversity?
...that the 18th century Bow porcelain factory in the district of Bow, London was a short-lived rival of the Chelsea porcelain factory in making the earliest soft-paste porcelain in Great Britain?
...that the Turkish tanbur is one of the four musical instruments that make up Turkish classical music's basic quartet?
...that Otto van Veen was Peter Paul Rubens' first master, but is now best known for his emblem books?
...that two separate newspapers called the Western Mail have been published in Perth, Western Australia, the first from 1885 to 1955 and the second from 1980 to 1988?
...that Władysław Orkan, a Podhale Polish writer and poet of the Young Poland movement, never passed his matura exams?

14:46, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Pieter Brueghel the Elder's painting, Netherlandish Proverbs (pictured), features depictions of around 100 common sayings of the 16th century?
...that Conor McPherson's The Weir was performed on Broadway in 1998, less than a year after its original opening at The Royal Court Theatre in London?
...that Judge Henry F. Werker's rejection of unfair labor practice charges against baseball owners preceded the two-month 1981 Major League Baseball strike, even though his opinion ended by urging the parties to "PLAY BALL"?
...that the non-fiction book The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions analyzes cults from an evangelical Christian perspective?
...that the name of the Cheers episode The Gift of the Woodi is a reference to O. Henry's short story The Gift of the Magi?
...that the first Azerbaijani language newspaper, Akinchi was founded in 1875 by Hasan bey Zardabi?
...that Job Charnock landed at Sutanuti on 24 August, 1690 with the objective of establishing the settlement, which is now Calcutta?

05:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

...that British Pre-Raphaelite painter Solomon Joseph Solomon (artist of the picture) was one of the few Jewish painters of his time to become a member of the Royal Academy?
...that Lieutenant Peter Bover, whose shooting of a Royal Navy sailor sparked the Nore mutiny of 1797, was exonerated by the mutineers and cheered on returning to his ship?
...that the summer 1944 Lublin-Brest Offensive of Soviet Army succeeded in bringing the Soviets to the vicinity of Warsaw, where the Warsaw Uprising began?
...that modern nursing was founded by Florence Nightingale at the Selimiye Barracks in Istanbul, Turkey during the Crimean War (1854-1856)?
...that the Gideon H. Pond House was built by Gideon Pond, who came to Minnesota to teach farming and Christianity to the Native Americans?
...that the Kipawa River in Quebec, Canada, is being considered for hydroelectric development which would completely divert it?
...that Randy Gumpert first pitched for the New York Yankees in 1946, even though it had been eight years since he was on a major league roster?
...that consumer protection law in the United Kingdom incorporates directives from the European Union?

22 May 2007

22:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Swedish narrow-gauge railroad Upsala-Lenna Jernväg includes the biggest remaining steam locomotive (pictured) built for 891 mm rail gauge?
...that the Brothers Grimm were amongst the Göttingen Seven, university teachers who protested changes to the constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1837?
...that when the RMS Titanic was built in Belfast in 1912, the largest shipyard in the world was in Belfast?
...that Vortex I, which took place in Oregon in 1970, remains the only state-sponsored rock festival in United States history?
...that Colombian National Police Sub-Intendant John Frank Pinchao was kidnapped by the FARC guerrillas for almost 9 years, until finally escaping in 2007?
...that a 1973 book on Prem Rawat, Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji?, featured an introduction by American anti-Vietnam War activist Rennie Davis?
...that the satirical magazine The Georgetown Heckler changed its name from The Georgetown Lampoon after being threatened with a lawsuit by the Harvard Lampoon?
...that British architect Sir Colin Wilson, known for designing the new British Library near St Pancras station, donated his collection of modern art to the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester?

16:15, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

...that many of the earliest known copies of the New Testament are remains of papyrus books from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (papyrus pictured)?
...that in the Roman Empire, ten-year celebrations called "decennalia" originated after Augustus refused the lifetime supremacy offered to him?
...that although it was not particularly well-known in Bulgaria until the late 19th century, today Bulgarian beer is one of the country's most popular alcoholic beverages?
...that the Duke of Wellington had not seen Kitty Pakenham for ten years when he proposed marriage to her in 1806?
...that the Northeastern United States was struck by a major tornado outbreak on July 10, 1989?
...that, like Aphrodite bathing in the sea at Paphos, Hera too renewed her maidenhood annually, in the spring of Kanathos?
...that nutritionist-turned-molecular biologist Thomas H. Jukes was one of the few scientists ever to have a regular column in the journal Nature?

09:57, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Green Knight (pictured) of medieval literature is thought by many scholars to represent the Devil due to its strange colour?
...that John J. Clague won the Logan Medal, the highest award of the Geological Association of Canada, in 2007?
...that 5-HT₃ antagonists, effective for treating the nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy, have no effect on motion sickness?
...that the fifth-century Syriac Curetonian Gospels found in Egypt represent a considerably older, independent textual tradition of the four gospels?
...that alpine skier Jean Saubert won one-third of all medals earned by the entire United States Olympic team at the 1964 Winter Olympics?
...that Californian politician Lou Papan received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1996?
...that Romulus Whitaker won the Whitley Award for establishing a rainforest research station at Agumbe, India to conserve King Cobras?
...that the House of Gediminas ruled Lithuania from 1285 to 1572?

03:10, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

...that The Geysers, a geothermal power field located north of San Francisco, California, (power plant pictured) is the largest geothermal development in the world?
...that Betty Roberts was the first woman to serve on Oregon's Supreme Court?
...that Swearing on the Horns is a Highgate pub tradition that dates back to the 1600s?
...that the autobiography of Italian sculptor Raffaello da Montelupo contains the only known contemporary reference to Michelangelo's natural left-handedness?
...that the Rusty-barred Owl is one of the only two members of the Strix genus of birds to be found in South America?
...that William Moore was the earliest settler of Skagway, the famous gold rush town in the Klondike Gold Rush?
...that the European fascist alliance New European Order split in 1955 due to a dispute over the issue of whether South Tyrol should be Italian or Austrian?

21 May 2007

20:28, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Sauk Rapids Tornado of 1886 changed the economic structure of central Minnesota after it destroyed at least 109 commercial or public buildings in Sauk Rapids (damage pictured)?
...that at least 36 vases painted by the Athenian Meidias Painter are still in existence more than 2,400 years after they were created?
...that Mary Brunner, a member of the "Manson family", was incarcerated after a shootout with police at a robbery?
...that Irish writer and trade unionist Brian Behan once took part in a swearing match at the British Museum?
...that unemployment protection in Italy is guaranteed by Italy's constitution?
...that Superman stops a mad scientist and his army of robots in the 1941 animated short film The Mechanical Monsters?
...that Saskatchewan Highway 58 travels the Missouri Coteau to an important shore bird site on Canada's second largest saline lake?
...that the Jesus Army, a British Christian outreach organisation, has been condemned by the Cult Information Centre, another British charity?

14:09, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Russian photography pioneer Karl Bulla (pictured) left more than 200,000 glass negatives that are now in the public domain?
...that 13 rioters convicted by a jury of their peers were later pardoned for their actions in the Muncy Abolition Riot of 1842?
...that British art historian Sir Oliver Nicholas Millar GCVO served in the Royal Household for 41 years, becoming the first Director of the Royal Collection in 1987?
...that Robert S. Vance was the third American federal judge to be assassinated as the result of his judicial service?
...that over four hundred 4000-year-old carved stone balls have been uncovered in archaeological digs in Scotland?
...that the Judaic legal fiction of Prozbul protects both the poor and wealthy from the effects of the Sabbatical Year?
...that Sammy Ellis won 22 games and made the All-Star team for the Cincinnati Reds in 1965 despite allowing the most Earned Runs in the league?
...that the 1912 comic strip Polly and Her Pals by Cliff Sterrett was the first American strip to have a female protagonist?

07:27, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the tallest wooden sculpture of Bodhisattva in the world (pictured) is housed in Puning Temple of China?
...that the New York Giants of the NFL won the first Super Bowl in their franchise history during their 1986 season?
...that bread and beer were the two basic staples of Ancient Egyptian cuisine?
...that the first computer simulations of galaxy mergers were conducted by Alar Toomre in the 1970s?
...that Crotalus tigris has the highest toxicity of venoms among rattlesnakes, even though it has a low venom yield?

00:56, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

...that one of the finest naturalistic Late Antique ivory diptychs (pictured) was found in a well at the abbey of Montier-en-Der, originally called Puteolus ("little well")?
...that German-born Richard Lieber started the trend of American state parks having inns and charging fees for using the parks, so that citizens would appreciate them more?
...that BBC radio presenter Margaret Hubble presented Woman's Hour alongside Marjorie Anderson and Jean Metcalfe in the 1950s?
...that major portions of Japanese writer Shōko Ieda's 1991 book Yellow Cab, about the eponymous sexual stereotype of Japanese women, were later denounced as "fraudulent" by her research assistant?

20 May 2007

17:39, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Swindon's Link Centre (pictured) contains the tallest climbing wall in Wiltshire?
...that Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia was exiled for life, after marrying a commoner of black ancestry?
...that the 1942 animated short film Japoteurs features a scene similar to the one in Superman Returns in which Superman catches an airplane in mid-air?
...that Beechy, Saskatchewan, despite only having a population of 243, is home to former provincial Leader of the Opposition and Saskatchewan Party founder Elwin Hermanson?
...that the story of Kamsa and Bar Kamsa is the most famous Jewish legend regarding the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem?

06:37, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

...that an endoclip (pictured, right) is used to close two mucosal surfaces in the gastrointestinal tract without the need for surgery and suturing?
...that the Kraków szopka is a unique Polish Christmas tradition that portrays artistic interpretations of buildings of Kraków along nativity scenes?
...that the biggest walk-through aviary in India is located on the shore of the Karanji Lake in Mysore?
...that Shinozaki Mamoru was credited as the "Japanese Schindler" for saving thousands of Chinese and Eurasians during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore?
...that the Romanian poet Mehmet Niyazi, a major figure in Crimean Tatar literature, was expelled from Crimea three times during his lifetime?

00:27, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

...that on average, laying the track leading up to the final spike of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway cost $112,000 a mile?
...that the Defense Production Administration, a branch of the U.S. government set up to oversee defense production during wartime mobilization, was abolished after only two years?
...that the Center Region of Argentina produces 90% of the country's vegetable oil?
...that John Vesey, a 16th-century bishop of Exeter, had a fordkeeper's cottage built along Plants Brook to help provide security for travelers on the Wylde Green Road?
...that Pokey Allen, former head coach of the Portland State Vikings football team, appeared in television commercials threatening to have himself shot out of a cannon into the backyards of anyone not buying season tickets?
...that after an ultimatum by the Chicago White Stockings to pull his African American players from the active roster, baseball manager Charlie Morton put Moses Fleetwood Walker back on despite having given him time off for injuries?

19 May 2007

16:31, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

...that classification of the Yellow-crowned Amazon (pictured) is so problematic that some authorities divide it into three separate species?
...that Isaac Ironside, a politician in Sheffield, attempted to implement ideas originating from Robert Owen and from Toulmin Smith's localist theories?
...that some of the disused railway stations between Plymouth in Devon and Penzance in Cornwall, England, were closed during the "Beeching Axe" in the 1960s?
...that from 1950 to 1953, the Office of Defense Mobilization was one of the most powerful agencies in the U.S., controlling almost every facet of the economy?
...that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard created a belief system regarding sexual activity?
...that American thoroughbred race horse Little Current received the 1974 Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse despite having his racing career ended mid-season by a bone chip in his leg?

04:24, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

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...that the Tibetan Tree of physiology (pictured) thangka describes a detailed account of anatomical knowledge gained through ritual human dissection?
...that chief justice Frederick Richard Jordan once decided that the government of New South Wales had "no business" refusing a water irrigation licence just because the applicant was Italian?
...that Bertie Smalls, considered by many as Britain's first supergrass, avoided jail by informing on his partners-in-crime, despite having led them in an armed bank robbery?
...that the non-fiction book All Gods Children was cited by a report of the American Psychiatric Association, to describe coercive persuasion?
...that Georgian theatre director Kote Marjanishvili's use of puppetry in his adaptation of Oedipus Rex was inspired by a similar set-up in Edward Gordon Craig's 1911 adaptation of Hamlet?
...that John Constable did full-size oil sketches before starting all his largest "six-footer" paintings?

18 May 2007

21:57, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

...that at the age of 21, Roman Emperor Nero (pictured) instituted the games of Juvenalia in recognition of the first shaving of his beard?
...that many abandoned flour mills in Mills District, Minneapolis have been converted to museums, parks, theaters, and condominiums?
...that in the Indian Gaarudi Gombe ceremonial dance, dancers are required to wear full-body doll-suits made of bamboo sticks?
...that at the age of 70, former English Football League and international soccer referee Pat Partridge took over as linesman in a non-league match he was watching, after the original linesman took over from the injured referee?
...that Cameroon's Western High Plateau has a rainy season that lasts nine months?
...that a tiger-haunted jungle was cleared to make way for the wide grassy stretch of the Maidan park of Kolkata?
...that "Anytime You Need" was the first Eurovision Song Contest entry to feature lyrics in Armenian?
...that an average of 90,000 people a month walk, jog, cycle or skate along Florida's Pinellas Trail?

14:36, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

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...that when Captain Linda Garcia Cubero (pictured) graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1980, she was the first Latina to graduate from any U.S. military service academy?
...that John Martin Scripps was the first Briton in Singapore to be sentenced to death by hanging?
...that the 2800 verses of the Mohanatarangini make it the longest work by Kanaka Dasa, a 16th century saint and one of the foremost names in Kannada literature?
...that the ethnically-fueled 1989 Sukhumi riots in the Soviet Union's Abkhaz ASSR left eighteen dead and almost 450 injured?
...that Christopher Buckley's novel Florence of Arabia was an homage to Fern Holland, one of the first U.S. civilians to be killed in the Iraq War?
...that the Imperial Russian statesman and sociologist Paul von Lilienfeld laid out his theories on organicism when he served as the governor of Courland?
...that the Gaussian Network Model has a wide range of applications from enzymes composed of a single domain, to large macromolecular assemblies, such as ribosomes and viral capsids?

06:40, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

...that 18th century Franco-Portuguese industrialist Jácome Ratton (pictured) left a vivid account of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake in his memoirs and was exiled to the Azores during the Napoleonic Wars?
...that Rotylenchulus reniformis, a roundworm found in tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world, is a major parasite of crop plants?
...that Robert Harrill, ironically known as the "Fort Fisher Hermit," received thousands of visitors per year and was once the second most popular tourist attraction in North Carolina?
...that American evolutionary biologist Jack Lester King co-authored a provocative 1969 paper, "Non-Darwinian Evolution", on the neutral theory of molecular evolution?
...that, while the first model of the Atar Volant series was a simple turbojet engine, the third model was a proper coleopter, an aircraft with an annular wing that is able to land and take-off vertically without need of a runway?
...that the Defense Production Act played a vital role in the establishment of the American domestic aluminum and titanium processing industries in the 1950s?

00:04, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the 200 km/h maximum speed of the Munich-Nuremberg Express (pictured) makes it the only regional train in Germany fast enough to not impede ICE traffic?
...that Himalayan Hemlock (Tsuga dumosa) was first brought into the United Kingdom in 1838?
...that the Hukou F-5F crash in May 2007 involved an F-5/F jet fighter hitting a military base in Taiwan while simulating a low attack, killing four people?
...that Joseph Schröter, a 19th century Prussian military doctor, was a noted mycologist who discovered and described many previously unknown species of flora and fungi?
...that Alessandro Striggio's influential Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno will be performed in June 2007 after being lost for more than 400 years?
...that Irish cricketer Scott Huey was the last bowler to dismiss Sir Len Hutton in first-class cricket?

17 May 2007

15:26, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Christianization of Lithuania (pictured) was completed in 1413 when Samogitia, the last pagan nation in Europe, was converted?
...that Australian author Ion Idriess wrote an average of one book every ten months for 42 years?
...that the Haberbusch i Schiele company provided food for the entire city of Warsaw during the Uprising of 1944?
...that the spring of the Hell-Bourg village spa on Réunion started to fail around 1920, but an attempt to reopen it with dynamite caused the partial destruction of the spa, while the spring was later buried by a landslide?
...that the Marcab Confederacy was said by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to be one of the most powerful galactic civilizations?

09:06, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

...that racist coon songs (sheet music book pictured) paved the way for popular acceptance of ragtime music?
...that with the publication of Deepnirban in 1876, Swarnakumari Devi became the first woman novelist amongst the Bengali people?
...that the non-fiction book Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion is cited in the definition of Cults, by the American Psychological Association's Encyclopedia of Psychology?
...that Polish composer Roman Palester's involvement with Radio Free Europe in the early 1950s led to communist officials expunging his name from official publications and prohibiting performances of his work?
...that Reid Stowe and Soanya Ahmad are attempting to circle the globe multiple times in a 1,000-day, non-stop voyage in a gaff-rigged schooner designed and built by Stowe?
...that Clemente Micara was the Vatican’s first envoy to Czechoslovakia?

16 May 2007

21:51, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the British Percival P.74 helicopter project (pictured) was canceled in 1956 because the aircraft was unable to fly?
...that Estonian nationalist Aili Jõgi, aged 14, blew up the wooden memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn in 1946?
...that in the 1984 Brown v. Hotel and Restaurant Employees case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New Jersey gaming law requiring union leaders to be of good moral character?
...that Frederick Bligh Bond enlisted the help of a number of spiritualist mediums to guide his excavations at Glastonbury Abbey?
...that the Six Feet Under episode The Plan has been described as a parody of Werner Erhard's est and The Forum personal development programs?
...that Iowa Stars centre Aaron Gagnon twice lost out on a Western Hockey League award to the Medicine Hat Tigers' Kris Russell before finally winning an award of his own?

15:23, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the House of the Faun, one of the grandest private residences discovered in Pompeii, is named after the statue of a dancing faun (replica pictured), in its central impluvium?
...that NFL hall of famer Bud Grant and MLB hall of famer Dave Winfield both played for the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team?
...that the land of Haydarpaşa Cemetery, a burial ground in Istanbul, Turkey for British Commonwealth soldiers from three wars, belonged to Suleiman the Magnificent?
...that heavyweight boxer Joe Baksi recorded nine victories in his first year as a professional, including one over future actor Jack Palance?
...that Marie de France's poem "Chevrefoil", one of the 12 Lais of Marie de France, recounts an episode from the legend of Tristan and Iseult?

06:14, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

...that 47 people were killed in a gun turret explosion (pictured) onboard USS Iowa on April 19, 1989?
...that the linenfold style of relief carving, popular in Northern Europe from the 14th to 16th centuries, could be made with little carpentry skill and was mass produced in workshops from the later 15th century?
...that the once-buried remains of a power canal and flour mills in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota have been unearthed and are now open as Mill Ruins Park to provide historical interpretation in the area?
...that the World of Final Fantasy VIII is the second in the Final Fantasy series of console role-playing games to include pre-rendered backgrounds?
...that in Greek mythology, Heracles chased off the man-eating birds of Lake Stymphalia by playing castanet-like clappers called "crotala"?

15 May 2007

22:43, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the GTP category of the IMSA GT Championship (car pictured) was credited with innovations including antilock brakes, traction control and active suspension?
...that Tomorrow's Pioneers is a television program for children produced by Hamas?
...that the Atari 8-bit computer game Dandy was originally written as its developer's MIT thesis?
...that the lyrics of one of the most popular French folk songs, Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, which has the same melody as the English song For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, were written on a false rumour?
...that the concept of a communist crime was introduced in Polish law to facilitate studying and prosecution of crimes committed by people in authority against Polish citizens or the nation?
...that Kendal mint cake was carried by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the first successful ascent of Everest?

15:07, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Ludlow wall boxes (sample pictured), unlike traditional British cast-iron pillar boxes, are made largely of wood?
...that the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806 was one of two entirely victorious uprisings in the history of Poland?
...that Saskatchewan Highway 39 is one of Canada's busiest highways, facilitating transport for $6 billion in trade goods via approximately 100,000 trucks per year?
...that The Haunted Manor is the most famous and popular of Polish operas?
...that the non-fiction book From Slogans to Mantras was cited in Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title that should be owned by every library?
...that William Hone played cricket both for and against the MCC inside four days in June 1868?

04:35, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the floor of the Church of St. Wojciech (pictured) in Old Town, Kraków is up to 2.6 m below the level of the Main Market Square, repeatedly overlaid with new pavement in the course of eight centuries?
...that Manitoba Provincial Route 394 is the farthest north in the province?
...that the body of Grand Duke Dimitri Konstantinovich of Russia was rescued from a mass grave and secretly buried in the garden of a house in St. Petersburg?
...that the Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group is developing a standardized interface for NAND flash, the memory used in flash drives, digital cameras, and MP3 players?
...that the novel The Program draws on influences from Lifespring, Werner Erhard, and Large Group Awareness Training?

14 May 2007

21:47, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

...that John Paterson (pictured) was the last Archbishop of Glasgow of the Church of Scotland?
...that almost 12,000 years ago, the 2,700 feet- (820 m) wide River Warren Falls fell 175 feet (53 m) in the area that is now downtown St. Paul, Minnesota?
...that Brazilian director Humberto Mauro first became interested in film after buying a Kodak camera in 1923, and won the Brazilian film of the year award only 4 years later?
...that the Battle of Durbe was by far the largest defeat suffered by the Teutonic Knights and Livonian Order in the 13th century?
...that Leung Kar Yan, one of the best-known kung fu film stars in Hong Kong action cinema, actually knew no martial arts, and simply copied moves shown to him?

15:00, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

...that after his move to Philadelphia in 1879, English-born cricketer Arthur Wood (pictured) had to satisfy a five year residency requirement before he was allowed to play with the Philadelphian cricket team?
...that the "100,000 year problem" is among the biggest mysteries facing those attempting to reconstruct past climates today?
...that the Hungarian Gold Train was a 1944 Nazi operated freight train that carried stolen Hungarian valuables to Berlin, but never reached its destination?
...that Australian chef Tobie Puttock is the godfather of Daisy Boo Oliver, the youngest daughter of British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver?

06:11, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Pakistani Sufi singer Sain Zahoor (pictured) cut his first record in 2006, was nominated for the BBC World Music awards by word of mouth, and was the winner for the Asia/Pacific region that year?
...that due to the reputation of its founder, Jan Groenveld, the Cult Awareness and Information Centre of Australia became used as a resource in publications on cults soon after its founding?
...that George Hennet built and operated depots on behalf of the South Devon Railway after it was short of money?
...that members of the Lingbao School of Taoism believed their spirits would be refined in heaven after death and then reincarnated on Earth?

13 May 2007

22:29, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Moldavia's Prince Grigore Alexandru Ghica (pictured) ordered the abolition of slavery after being shocked by the suicide of a Roma cook?
...that a Hocktide initiation ceremony in Hungerford, England involves a blacksmith driving a nail into the initiate's shoe?
...that Margaret Singer was mandated to attend a PSI Seminars course by a United States federal court order?
...that Russian television implied that Filipp Kirkorov won the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with "Kolibelnaya Dlya Vulkana" when he in fact only came 17th?
...that British Labour politician Margaret Hodge defeated five challengers in the Parliamentary Barking by-election in 1994, including Conservative Theresa May and UKIP's Gerard Batten?
...that the oldest ornamental water tower in the world is the Louisville Water Tower, which is even older than the famed Chicago Water Tower?

14:00, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the main threat to Pisonia brunoniana (pictured) in New Zealand is cutting by people trying to prevent small songbirds from getting trapped by its very sticky seeds?
...that out of 60 four-star generals in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps, 17 were promoted upon retirement in recognition of combat citations, and one was promoted posthumously?
...that Thurman Tucker did not commit a single error during the Cleveland Indians' 1948 World Series-winning season, finishing with a perfect fielding percentage?
...that former Manitoba MLA John Moore Robinson established the soft fruit industry in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley in the late 1800s, along with the region's first corporate water management system to irrigate it?
...that at the 2005 Games of the Small States of Europe in Andorra, Iceland won 34 medals in swimming alone?

07:37, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Edward Manning Bigelow (pictured) is known as the "father of Pittsburgh's parks"?
...that Leo Arnaud is the composer of the well-known Olympic theme "Bugler's Dream?"
...that the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution explains why the rates of molecular clocks are generally independent of population size?
...that Reginald Hugh Hickling drafted Malaysia's Internal Security Act, but did not expect it to be used against political opponents?
...that Mussolini's Quota 90 fixed the lira exchange rate against the pound sterling at the prevailing rate from five years earlier, when he assumed power?
...that Nazi officer Reiner Stahel commanded the garrison of Warsaw during the uprising of 1944?
...that Oliver Granger was a licensed Methodist preacher before becoming an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement?

12 May 2007

22:41, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Stairs Expedition to Katanga (William Stairs pictured) was the winner in a race between two Victorian-era imperial powers to seize a vast mineral-rich territory in central Africa, which it achieved by assassinating the African king Msiri?
...that Dougherty Valley High School will be, upon its opening, the first real-estate developer-built high school in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District?
...that not only did Jim Harrison play for the Ireland cricket team, but so did his three brothers, his brother-in-law, and his nephew?
...that during World War II, Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier asked that religious orders take Jewish children into hiding to avoid Nazi death camps?
...that as a young man, Fang Xuanling correctly predicted the downfall of the Sui Dynasty after the death of Emperor Wen of Sui?
...that Georgia was the home of prehistoric humans more than one and a half million years ago?

15:23, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

...that housetruckers in New Zealand live in old trucks and school buses (pictured) that have been converted into mobile homes?
...that former Boston Red Sox player Matt Young was only the second pitcher to throw a complete game no-hitter and lose, accomplishing the feat against the Cleveland Indians in 1992?
...that the current constitution of Nicaragua, the ninth in the country's history, was the final step in the institutionalization of the Sandinista regime?
...that two of the four known species of the worm-eating shrewlike rats from Luzon Island, Philippines were first described in April, 2007?
...that the Kent Music Report was a weekly table of Australian music singles and albums which was the primary record chart in that market from 1974 to 1988?
...that Monomohun Ghose became the first Indian practicing barrister in 1867?

05:51, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Jan Stanisławski, a Polish modernist painter, had his portrait (pictured) painted by another icon of Polish Modernism, Stanisław Wyspiański?
...that potato tubers grow at the end of stolons?
...that Sir Sassoon Eskell is regarded in Iraq as the Father of Parliament?
...that in one type of Anglo-Saxon trial, the accused tried to prove innocence by swallowing a piece of bread and cheese, called "corsned", without choking?
...that the speed of sound and temperature in the atmosphere can be remotely sensed by bouncing a radar signal off of sound waves in a RASS system?
...that some irregular troops in the Khyber Pass region during World War II were issued Khyber Pass Copy rifles because of concerns they would steal higher-quality ones and desert with them?

11 May 2007

23:47, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Vulcana (pictured) was a Welsh strongwoman who traveled the world with her partner, performing as The Atlas and Vulcana Group of Society Athletes?
...that Beatus of Lungern, a first century Christian missionary to Switzerland, is often depicted as a monk fighting a dragon?
...that Edward F. Boyd pioneered the concept of niche marketing in the United States by avoiding ethnic stereotypes in advertising for Pepsi?
...that flora and fauna of the Indian state of Karnataka include a species of ant newly discovered on the campus of the Indian Institute of Science?
...that though no fossil grasses have been discovered, the earliest-known grassland ecosystem, the 30+ million-year-old Tinguiririca fauna of Chile, can be detected through the grazers' teeth?
...that baseball player Jimmy Brown led all St. Louis Cardinals hitters in batting average with .300 en route to their 1942 World Series victory?

16:19, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial (pictured) in Vienna commemorates the 65,000 Austrian Jews who were victims of the Holocaust?
...that Francis Bacon described antiquities as "remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time"?
...that during the Hardin County onion pickers strike in 1934, anti-union vigilantes seized control of the town of McGuffey, Ohio, for a day?
...that William Campbell was the first acknowledged discoverer of gold in the Australian state of Victoria in 1850, but kept his discovery secret for fear a gold rush would disrupt his pastoral interests?
...that Richard Polwhele's polemic poem The Unsex'd Females deplored the female pastime of amateur botany due to the impropriety of learning about the reproduction of plants?

09:56, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Jean Balukas (pictured) began her record-setting streak of seven consecutive U.S. Open straight pool championships when only 13 years old?
...that the well-known Parthenon building in Athens replaced an Older Parthenon on the same site?
...that the United Kingdom's most reported UFO incident was observed at RAF West Freugh?
...that Lewis Sperry Chafer was a budding musician at Oberlin College but became a leader in the dispensationalist movement and founded Dallas Theological Seminary?
...that despite his lack of surgical training, Gerónimo Lluberas once successfully removed a foreign object embedded in the cornea of an eight-year-old boy's eye?
...that the 32nd Indiana Monument, currently at Cave Hill National Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, is the oldest surviving American Civil War memorial?

02:18, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the first windowed envelope (pictured) was designed in 1901 by Americus Callahan?
...that Edward Lipiński was one of the most prominent Polish economists of the 20th century?
...that Mongolian barbecue is neither Mongolian nor barbecue but is a restaurant style of stir-frying based on teppanyaki that originated in Taiwan?
...that Triptych, May-June 1973 is the second of Francis Bacon's three "Black Triptychs" painted in commemoration of the suicide of his lover George Dyer?
...that the Oriental Seminary, established in 1829, was the earliest privately run modern school in Kolkata?
...that the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute has trained over 10,000 trade union organizers since its 1989 founding?
...that the first feature film of director Paul Verhoeven is Business Is Business, a 1971 comedy film about two prostitutes in Amsterdam?

10 May 2007

18:40, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Australian Broadcasting Corporation cult film reviewer and war correspondent John Hinde (pictured) bequeathed AU$1 million to start a new Australian literary prize?
...that the catfish genus Hemiancistrus currently includes species of two other undescribed genera?
...that the early 1980s recession was the most serious recession in the United States since the Great Depression?
...that plastic surgeons use body shaping to remove large amounts of hanging skin from the bodies of men and women who have lost as much as 45 to 136 kg (100 to 300 pounds)?
...that Elias Zoghby, a Melkite Catholic archbishop, attempted to re-establish communion between the Melkite Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church while maintaining communion with the Roman Catholic Church?

11:44, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

...that baseball player Jack Clements (baseball card pictured) was the first person to catch 1,000 games in Major League Baseball and the last regular catcher to throw left-handed?
...that the precise status of the Florida Maple (Acer barbatum) as an independent species, or a subspecies of Sugar Maple (A. saccharum) is not clear?
...that most of the dogs seen in the 2007 Thai film, Ma-Mha, were strays rescued from shelters and trained specifically for the film?
...hammered oak piles used during the Medieval construction of pile bridges have remained solid for up to 750 years?
...that among people on stamps of Azerbaijan, featured in 1995 are eight female astronauts?
...that Boans, a department store in Perth, Australia, was once the largest private employer in Western Australia?

05:32, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Duquesne Spy Ring consisted of 33 Nazi spies (one pictured) arrested by the FBI in 1941 and sentenced to serve a total of over 300 years in prison in what is the largest spy ring conviction in the history of the United States?
...that although Duraiappa stadium mass grave was unearthed in the northern city of Jaffna, Sri Lanka in April 1999, the 24 victims have not been identified yet?
...that the Chief Justice of Chester presided over a court independent of the rest of the English judiciary until 1830?
...that the phage group was an informal network of biologists centered around Max Delbrück that contributed heavily to the origins of molecular biology?
...that American diplomat and attorney Adrian S. Fisher was a leading negotiator of the earliest international nuclear test ban and non-proliferation treaties?

9 May 2007

20:58, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Rule 184 cellular automaton (examples pictured) can simultaneously model the behavior of cars moving in traffic, the accumulation of particles on a surface, and particle-antiparticle annihilation reactions?
...that Archbishop of Toledo Pedro Segura y Sáenz had to leave the city during the Spanish Civil War, because he denounced the Republican government and extolled monarchy?
...that Dwarkin developed the hand-held harmonium, a western instrument, to make it suitable for use with Indian music?
...that the grey colored Achelous-class landing craft repair ship USS Askari was painted green during the Vietnam War, reflecting her assignment to the brown-water navy?
...that Antonio Ricaurte immolated himself in 1814 to prevent the Spanish Crown from taking over the San Mateo estate in Venezuela?
...that Four Plays in One is a Jacobean stage play by John Fletcher and his collaborators containing four shorter plays written between 1590 and 1607?

14:12, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Jagiellonian Library (pictured) of Kraków, dating back to the 14th century, is the largest Polish collection of pre-19th century texts?
...that the Calvinist philosopher and New Testament scholar Vern Poythress argues that mathematics is the rhyme of the universe?
...that the travel narrative The Malay Archipelago, by biologist Alfred Russel Wallace, was used by Joseph Conrad as a reference for his novel Lord Jim?
...that Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Raatbek Sanatbayev was running for President of the National Olympic Committee of Kyrgyzstan, when he was assassinated, as the previous head of the Committee had been?
...that Flamingo, a stabile by Alexander Calder located in Chicago, was the first piece of art commissioned by the General Services Administration under its Percent for Art program?

06:58, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

...that sandwich board-wearing human billboards (pictured) gave rise to the term "sandwich man"?
...that Brazilian indie singer-songwriter CéU was the first international artist chosen for promotion through the Starbucks Hear Music Debut CD series?
...that the non-fiction book Gifts of Deceit described Koreagate, and the United States Congressional investigation of the Unification Church?
...that the regional newspaper of Wagga Wagga, The Daily Advertiser, was first published in 1868, making it one of the oldest in Australia?
...that the valleys of the Minnesota and Upper Mississippi Rivers were carved by Glacial River Warren, an enormous river which drained Glacial Lake Agassiz in central North America?

00:18, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

...that sailors and shipowners would refuse to sail when Moll Pitcher (pictured), an eighteenth-century fortune-teller famous throughout New England, predicted disaster?
...that U.S. President Bush has indicated he may use the third veto of his Presidency on the Matthew Shepard Act?
...that the world's third largest statue under cover, The Statue of the Republic, is housed in El Capitolio, in Havana?
...that José María Morelos, a mule driver and priest from Michoacán, won 22 straight battles against the Spanish in the Mexican War of Independence?
...that Sir Brian Smedley was named a High Court judge only a few years after overruling Government attempts to keep key evidence secret in the 1992 Matrix Churchill trial?
...that 2007 International Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee Bruton Smith went to bankruptcy court before he became one of the 400 richest Americans?

8 May 2007

17:28, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the original version of the Gettysburg Cyclorama (detail pictured), a cylindrical painting of almost 300 feet (91 m) in length, recently sold for a reported US$10 million?
...that Ray Davies of The Kinks began having an identity crisis when people walked up to him singing "Oh yes he is" after "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" became a hit?
...that the football stadium Nya Gamla Ullevi which is under construction in Gothenburg, Sweden, is only the second Swedish top league stadium built since 1966?
...that the Romanian Skete Prodromos on Mount Athos shelters an icon of Theotokos considered in the Eastern Orthodox world to have been miraculously painted?
...that Jacobean play The Atheist's Tragedy is the only dramatic work recognized by the consensus of modern scholarship as the undisputed work of Cyril Tourneur?
...that Ganendranath Tagore established the Jorasanko Natyasala, a private theatre in his own household, in Kolkata in 1865?

10:16, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Observatory (pictured) on Clifton Down in Bristol is likely to have been used as a lookout post since at least the Iron Age?
...that Werner Erhard named his company Erhard Seminars Training after the science fiction book est: The Steersman Handbook?
...that of 43 people on board, the sole survivor of the 2006 Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash was at the toilet at the time of the crash?
...that, fearing his life was threatened, Ottoman Dragoman Alexander Hangerli moved to Russia and started a career as a linguist?
...that Maniam Moorthy, a member of the first team of Malaysians to summit Mount Everest, fell during army training a year later and became a paraplegic?
...that though the origin of the Western Ganga Dynasty of Talakad (in modern Karnataka, India) is debated, they made rich contributions to the polity, culture and literature of the region?
...that historical demography, popularized by French historian Louis Henry, is the study of historical records leading to estimations of past human population?
...that plant collector Mary Strong Clemens sometimes paid for field-trip accommodation with scripture lessons and hymn-singing?

02:05, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

...that native Tennessean Peter Ellis Bean (pictured) fought with José María Morelos in the Mexican War of Independence and with Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans?
...that ancients thought that the river Himera divided the island of Sicily in half, when in reality Himera was the name of two separate rivers, the Grande River and the Salso River?
...that Australian cricketer John Elicius Benedict Bernard Placid Quirk Carrington Dwyer was the great-grandson of transportee Michael Dwyer, a leader in the Irish Rebellion of 1798?
...that Flaschenhals was a micronation created in the Rhineland after the Armistice of 1918?

7 May 2007

19:55, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Hurricane Tico (pictured), a Pacific hurricane of the 1983 season, caused flooding and record rainfall in Oklahoma?
...that there are eleven disused railway stations between Exeter St Davids and Plymouth Millbay, Devon, England, at eight of which there are visible remains?
...that the website of the defunct magazine Child was so successful, it has become a portal to the publisher's other parenting magazines' sites?
...that Marc-André Raffalovich, a French poet, writer on homosexuality, and patron of the arts, had a life-long relationship with John Gray, the purported model for Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray?

13:05, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

...that PZL-106 Kruk (pictured) is a Polish agricultural aircraft designed and built by WSK-Okęcie?
...that Hispanics in the United States Naval Academy account for the largest minority group in the institution?
...that the non-fiction book A Doctor's Report on Dianetics criticized L. Ron Hubbard's prescription of vitamins and glutamic acid to Dianetics subjects?
...that a scandal caused by the suicide of French politician and suspected murderer Charles de Choiseul-Praslin helped foment the 1848 Revolution?
...that Wiborada, a spiritual mentor of Ulrich of Augsburg, was the first female saint to be canonized by the Vatican?

06:43, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

...the tiger's prey in Henri Rousseau's painting, Tiger in a Tropical Storm (pictured), is not shown but Rousseau said it was a group of explorers?
...that in 1843 the German missionary Hermann Mögling published the first ever newspaper in the Kannada language?
...that a regiment of Spanish troops served in the French Army from 1809 to 1813, despite France and Spain being at war with each other in the Iberian Peninsula?
...that mine drainage from the Iron Mountain Mine toxic waste site in Northern California was measured to have a pH of -3.6?

6 May 2007

23:57, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

...that stars must have at least 9 times the mass of the Sun in order to undergo a core collapse and become a Type II supernova (example pictured)?
...that Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood, a classic Australian novel, hasn't been out of print since it was edited into a single volume in 1889?
...that at Traverse Gap, a valley in Minnesota and South Dakota, water originating in the watershed of the Gulf of Mexico can flood across the continental divide into the watershed of Hudson Bay?
...that endocrinologist Sir Raymond Hoffenberg was forced to leave South Africa in 1968 due to his opposition to apartheid, and was later President of the Royal College of Physicians and President of Wolfson College, Oxford?
...that the Very Reverend Anthony Bridge, brother of former Law Lord Lord Bridge of Harwich, gave up a career as an artist to become a Church of England priest?
...that the duckbilled dinosaur Hypacrosaurus is known from the largest collection of hatchling remains for any duckbill, due to the discovery of nests belonging to H. stebingeri?

16:23, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

...that French explorer Christian de Bonchamps (pictured) proposed breaking a stalemate in treaty negotiations by capturing and holding hostage Msiri, King of Katanga?
...that Hugh O'Bryant, the first mayor of Portland, Oregon, was elected into office by a mere four votes?
...the Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley, a World Heritage Site, is considered to be the "spiritual heart" of Andorra?
...that Catherine Lim's 1994 essay The PAP and the people - A Great Affective Divide invoked such a strong response from the Singapore government, its then-PM Goh Chok Tong outlined which topics were permissible for public discussion?
...that Chinese immigration to the Russian Far East has led to fears of Chinese irredentism in Russia, even though there are less than 35,000 Chinese in all of Russia?

09:03, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

...that neonatal nurses are in high demand in the United States because the number of nurses has not kept up with the 27 percent rise in premature births (premature infant pictured) over the last 20 years?
...that the congress hall on the site of the former Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg has been converted into a museum?
...that in 1775 military-minded Empress Maria Theresa of Austria dedicated the Schönbrunn Palace Garden Gloriette as a monument to Just War?
...that the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature of New South Wales was the first Supreme Court in Australia and that its first judge evaded hearing any cases?
...that American aircraft designer Clyde Vernon Cessna's most famous inventions included the cantilever wing and the V-shaped tail configuration?

02:12, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the ghost fungus (pictured) from southern Australia is so named as it is bioluminescent?
...that cricketer Les Jackson played in two Test matches for England, one in 1949 and a second in 1961, the longest gap between Test appearances for any player with only two caps?
...that Thomas MacNutt, the first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, was also one of the original eight people who formed the precursor of the Progressive Party?
...that the Way of Human Rights in Nuremberg, Germany has a sculpture and engraving dedicated to each article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
...that in 1927, Oregon congressman Maurice E. Crumpacker drowned in San Francisco Bay after claiming he had been poisoned?
...that cricketer Dick Motz took one wicket in his last Test match in August 1969, becoming the first New Zealand bowler to take 100 Test wickets?

5 May 2007

16:11, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the current rendering of the mermaid in the coat of arms of Ustka (pictured) is the result of a two-year debate over the size of her breasts?
...that from around 900 to 1500 the Mixtec people wrote using pictorial representations and symbols?
...that Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center archivist Larry Pile has a military intelligence background with the U.S. Army Security Agency?
...that Philadelphian Nelson Graves was only 14 years old when he made his first-class cricket debut?
...that the Kentucky bar examination is the only one in the United States that uses the Multistate Essay Examination without also using the Multistate Performance Test?
...that The Man Who Came Early, a 1956 time travel short story by Poul Anderson, was written as the antithesis of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

07:14, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Nihonga watercolor painting Dance of Flames (pictured) by Japanese artist Hayami Gyoshū was the first art work of Showa period Japan to be accorded the status of "Important Cultural Property" by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs?
...that since its founding in 1948 Israel has had twelve Attorneys General?
...that John F. Davis, who served for ten years as Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, had previously worked as a defense lawyer for perjury defendant Alger Hiss?
...that Canadian agronomist Seager Wheeler was instrumental in developing a sustainable agricultural economy in Saskatchewan, which has a short prairie growing season and harsh winters?
...that former journalist Walter Hayes developed the business case for the development of the Ford Cosworth DFV, the most successful engine in Formula One history?
...that the fish Coreoleuciscus splendidus had a movie named after it in 1999?

4 May 2007

23:38, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Rufous Hornero

...that the Rufous Hornero (pictured), a common species in the ovenbird family, is the national bird of Argentina?
...that the Monument of Liberty in Istanbul, the gathering place for the second rally of the Republic Protests, is a memorial for the 31 March Incident that took place in 1909?
...that the creation of Kannada Sahitya Parishat, an Indian non-profit organization to promote the Kannada language, was first initiated by Bharat Ratna Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah, the Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom?
...that during the drive to emancipate Russia's serfs, one scurrilous rumor held that committee member Grand Duke Constantine Nikolayevich was insane thanks to too much masturbation?
...that the Farm Labor Organizing Committee's 2004 collective bargaining agreement with the Mt. Olive Pickle Co. marked the first time an American labor union represented guest workers?

17:14, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the currently abandoned Old High School of Music (pictured) in Rousse, Bulgaria has previously housed a primary school, a junior high school, a university, and a trade school?
...that the wealthy connoisseur Claude-Henri Watelet created the first romantic landscape garden in France?
...there are at least twelve large Rottnest Island shipwrecks?
...that for fifty years the Red River Trails were used by Red River ox carts as the principal means of transportation between modern-day Winnipeg, Manitoba and St Paul, Minnesota?
...that Bold Lane car park, used by shoppers in Derby, England, is one of the ten most secure places in the world, alongside Air Force One, Area 51, and Fort Knox?
...that before he became Vice Chancellor at Ahmadu Bello University, Ishaya Audu was the personal physician of the University's namesake, Ahmadu Bello?

07:41, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Cross in the Woods

...that the Cross in the Woods shrine (pictured) in Michigan contains the United States' largest collection of figurative dolls dressed as nuns?
...that there are 43 designated "Areas of Concern" within the Great Lakes watershed that show severe environmental degradation?
...that some South Welsh coal miners in the 1800s would raid the homes of strikebreakers dressed as a "herd" of Scotch Cattle?
...that Jyotirindranath Tagore played a major role in the flowering of the talents in his younger brother, the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore?
...that James Mortimer was regularly invited to chess tournaments even though he lost most of his matches, managing to beat masters including Johannes Zukertort and Mikhail Chigorin?
...that the film Quitting, originally titled Yesterday in an allusion to the song by The Beatles, was retitled after copyright owner Michael Jackson withheld permission to use the song?

01:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Japanese painter Uemura Shoen (work pictured) was the first woman awarded Japan's prestigious Order of Culture?
...that a researcher at the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences discovered that the linear arrangement of genes on a chromosome corresponds to the development of body segments in fruit flies?
...that Victor Gauntlett supplied his personal pre-production Aston Martin Vantage for use in the filming of the James Bond film The Living Daylights?
...that the architecture of Ottawa is dominated by its role as the national capital of Canada?
...that, in 1989, the daughter of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, then Indian Minister for Home Affairs, was kidnapped within five days of her father assuming office?
...that the Cave of the Mounds’s many speleothems have earned it recognition as the “jewel box” of North American caves?

3 May 2007

18:52, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Itasca State Park (pictured) in Minnesota contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River?
...that cefquinome is an antibiotic developed to treat bovine respiratory disease?
...that marine conservation activists have organized an annual International Coastal Cleanup day that draws more than 300,000 volunteers in 88 countries to pick up trash from the beaches around the world?
...that Dr. Sue Gordon became the first full-time and first Aboriginal magistrate in Western Australia in 1988?
...that the Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge protects nearly 7,000 acres of American crocodile habitat in southern Florida?
...that Sabancaya, a 5,976 m (19,606 ft) stratovolcano in the Andes, is the most active volcano in Peru?

11:12, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge (pictured) was the first of more than 500 national wildlife refuges in the United States?
...that arctic haze contributes to global warming, raising temperatures by up to 1.7°C (3°F) during the arctic winter?
...that British rifleman William Green's memoir is one of the few accounts by an enlisted man of life in the Duke of Wellington's army, and as such, has provided source material for many historians?
...that Xaltocan, an island in Mexico, means "sandy ground of spiders" in Nahuatl?
...that the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin provides visitors with rides in an 80-year-old biplane?
...that in 1851, Hugh O'Bryant was elected the first mayor of Portland, Oregon by a mere four votes?

03:21, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Roseland Christian School (pictured) changed from a completely Dutch-American student body in 1884 to a completely African American one by the mid 1980s?
...that Minnesota's Buffalo Ridge is the site of the first wind farm in the upper Midwest?
...that King Henry VIII was a talented musician and composer, and his song Pastime with Good Company became a popular tune throughout Renaissance Europe and remains a choral favorite?
...that Iceland leads the world in renewable energy and is the first country to supply all electricity from renewable sources?
...that Doppler spectroscopy was used to discover the first extrasolar planet in 1995 and has since been used to identify more than one hundred exoplanet candidates?
...that overcrowding in Chicago's racially segregated Black Belt was so severe that in 1934 an estimated 6.8 people were living in the average kitchenette apartment?

2 May 2007

18:42, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

...that the Sviatohirsk Lavra (pictured), an Orthodox Christian monastery in eastern Ukraine that dates back to the 1500s, was recently rebuilt anew after being destroyed by the Soviets in the 1930s?
...that Israeli pilot and peace activist Abie Nathan landed his plane in Egypt in 1966 in an attempt to deliver a message of peace to President Nasser?
...that the average speed of the contestants in the Great Steamboat Race, held each year before the Kentucky Derby, is only 7 miles per hour?
...that the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay will carry the Olympic torch across 22 countries on 6 continents between March and August 2008?
...that Werner Erhard was investigated by the Church of Scientology after he incorporated Scientology beliefs and practices into Erhard Seminars Training and The Forum?

11:03, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Albert Tissandier (pictured) and his brother Gaston demonstrated the first electric powered flight?
...that chocolate was the first non-alcoholic social beverage in early modern European cuisine?
...that the South Wales Gas Pipeline is the United Kingdom's largest high pressure gas pipeline?
...that the Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team has won two NIT championships and made 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, but has also had a winless season?
...that children in a test audience for Sesame Street’s episode Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce were so distressed by the show that producers declined to air it?
...that Saint Gorgonia supposedly cured herself of a life-threatening illness by anointing herself with elements of the Eucharist mixed with her own tears?

03:17, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Sir Arthur Chichester (pictured) was appointed Governor of Carrickfergus in 1598, succeeding his brother, who had been killed in battle and whose head was used as a football by the victors?
...that huge boulders can be transported to the open ocean by rafts of plant matter?
...that Israel is the world's largest recipient of United States overseas military assistance?
...that the Romanian organization Corpul Muncitoresc Legionar was created by the Iron Guard in order to rally the working class around fascism?
...that the cast of By the Sword (1991), the first feature film about fencing, included two actors sharing the same last name as the director?
...that real estate developer James Graham Brown, who was worth $100 million when he died in 1969, lived most of his life in a small suite in his Brown Hotel?
...that reindeer hunting provides an important staple food for many households in Greenland?

1 May 2007

20:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

...that William Marshall produced an engraving (pictured) of Charles I of England as a Christian martyr for the Eikon Basilike, published ten days after the King was executed in 1649?
...that the expulsion of Poles by Germany was contemplated in the 19th century and implemented in the 20th?
...that more than half of the 214 bird species found on Barbados are considered "accidental"—that is, they are found there only because they strayed off-course?
...that selenium contamination in the late 1970s led the Kesterson Reservoir in Central California, once rich in several species of fish and other life, to only support saline-tolerant mosquitofish?
...that a separatist group refuses to allow the exploitation of crude oil and natural gas reserves in the Ogaden Basin, Ethiopia?
...that aggressive NK-cell leukemia, a type of leukemia with a systemic proliferation of natural killer cells, is more prevalent in Asians than other ethnic groups?

11:51, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Dragon's Teeth Gate (pictured), an ancient navigational landmark, was documented in one of the earliest historic records of Singapore?
...that Golden Boy was the first book musical ever to play at the London Palladium?
...that English cricketer and footballer Arthur Milton was the last surviving person to have played Test cricket for the England cricket team and international football for the England football team?
...that Klaus Traube worked on building the German fast breeder in Kalkar when he changed his view about nuclear power, went into opposition and was considered a security threat by the German secret service?
...that a 1922 dispute about how Georgia was to be integrated into the Soviet Union was one of the factors that led Lenin to break with Stalin and call for his removal for office in his testament?
...that Orval Grove was one out away from a no-hitter in a baseball game on July 8, 1943 when Joe Gordon hit a double off his pitch?

03:36, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

...that Gatke Hall (pictured), a former post office, was moved completely intact on rollers down a city street over a six month period in 1938 to its new home at Willamette University?
...that the founding of Phenomena Research Australia, in response to a surge of unidentified flying object sightings in 1947, was the first gathering of Australian UFO enthusiasts?
...that Marilee Jones, the disgraced former dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was called "the guru of the movement to tame the college-admissions frenzy" by The New York Times?
...that until the discovery of the Library of Nag Hammadi in 1945, the 2nd century CE work Against Heresies was the best surviving description of Gnosticism?
...that poet Anna Williams's works include On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Unfortunately Drowned in the River Avon ?
...that the avifauna of Lithuania includes a total of 342 species, of which 2 have been introduced by humans?