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30 September 2007

16:47, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

...that betalains are deep red pigments responsible for the color of beets (pictured), bougainvillea, amaranth, and many cacti?
...that the Irish artist Gerald Davis dressed as Ulysses protagonist Leopold Bloom and led Bloomsday parades?
...that Perna viridis, a fast-growing bivalve mussel native to the Asia-Pacific, is an invasive species that harbors deadly toxins and biofouls submerged structures?
...that Stanley Evans was sacked after six weeks as a junior minister of food when he said "no other nation feather-beds its agriculture like Britain"?
...that Polish partisan Adam Lazarowicz, organizer of an assassination attempt on Nazi official Hans Frank, refused the Order of the Red Star and joined the anti-Soviet resistance?

06:00, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

...that St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church (pictured) in Seattle was designed by Paul Thiry, one of the principal architects of the Century 21 Exposition (1962 World's Fair), shortly after part of the land for the Exposition was purchased from that same parish?
...that Harry Newbould was the first-ever manager of Derby County F.C.?
...that Polish bishop of Płock Antoni Julian Nowowiejski, murdered by German Nazis in Soldau concentration camp, became one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II?
...that Omaha gained an important place in the history of the First Transcontinental Railroad against the will of President Abraham Lincoln?
...that the ongoing Belgian political crisis has led to popular demands for the partition of Belgium?
...that 17-year-old Emily Benn, granddaughter of veteran politician Tony Benn, is the youngest ever Labour Party parliamentary candidate, and would, if elected, become the youngest British MP since the Reform Act 1832?
...that the long-defunct firm of E. C. Hazard and Company has been credited with pioneering the U.S. manufacture and distribution of processed canned, jarred and bottled food products?

29 September 2007

21:46, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the wall mural on Marine Parade Community Building (pictured) is Singapore's largest piece of installation art?
...that the Norman church in Pawlett, Somerset has a stained glass window showing Christ blessing children who are in modern dress and holding a teddy bear and toy boat?
...that the kidnapping of Edward Cudahy, Jr. caused a national uproar in 1903 because Cudahy's father, a meatpacking magnate in Omaha, Nebraska, paid the ransom request?
...that the Royal Air Force base RAF Honiley was closed in March, 1958 and is now being used by Prodrive Ltd. to build a motor sport facility called "The Fulcrum"?
...that the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association is a Christian sect founded by Ruben Ecleo in 1965 on the Philippine island of Dinagat, that is notorious for a 2002 gun battle with police that left 17 dead?

14:10, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

...that a 200 m section of wall by St. Martin's Cathedral from Bratislava's fortifications (gate pictured) was reconstructed, after the area was demolished due to construction of the Nový Most bridge?
...that the City & South London Railway, opened in 1890, was the world's first major deep tube and electric railway and ran under the Thames from the City of London to Southwark?
...that New Jersey's Museum of Early Trades and Crafts houses a collection of over 8,000 tools and artifacts used before 1860 that had been collected by Agnes and Edgar Land over a 50-year span?
...that Nikolaus Riehl researched the production of uranium in Nazi Germany, nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union, and the civil use of nuclear power in West Germany?
...that Alexander Hamilton's son William S. Hamilton helped recruit Native Americans to join the U.S. against Sauk Chief Black Hawk during the 1832 Black Hawk War?
...that the Ten Great Buildings were constructed in ten months, for the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic of China?

06:57, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Aston Martin DBR4 Formula One car (pictured) failed to score even a single World Championship point, even though Aston Martin sports cars won many races?
...that neotectonics is the study of geologically recent tectonics, but a clear consensus does not always exist over how far back in time "geologically recent" is?
...that in the late 1980s, as many as 50 percent of Argentina's thermal power plants had to be shut down due to lack of maintenance, causing a supply crisis?
...that Max Ernst's 1921 painting The Elephant Celebes combined Surrealism with the collage effects of Dada?
...that James Vaupel has set up an international database to study supercentenarians?
...that popular 1950s game show Down You Go is one of the only U.S. television series to air on all four networks of television's Golden Age: ABC, NBC, CBS and DuMont?
...that in the Sandeshkhali region of West Bengal more than 100 women get trafficked to red-light areas in Mumbai and Pune each year?
...that you stole the cookie from the cookie jar?

00:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the small, torpedo-shaped marine cleaner fish of the genus Elacatinus (pictured) are known as neon gobies due to their iridescent stripes?
...that the Spanish shepherd Diego Marín Aguilera attempted flight in a manned glider on May 15, 1793 after jumping from a castle at Coruña del Conde?
...that the England national football team is to train on the football pitch of the Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College, as it is the only one identical to one in Russia on which they are due to play in October 2007?
...that the 1881 Warsaw pogrom was caused by panic after pickpockets raised a false fire warning, resulting in 29 deaths by stampede?
...that the founders of the Kingdom of Mysore may have been descendents of the Hoysala Dynasty or fugitives from the Vijayanagara Empire court?
...that the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy is responsible for America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
...that the upcoming British film Hippie Hippie Shake by Beeban Kidron, which follows the 1971 obscenity trial of the Australian editor Richard Neville of satirical magazine Oz, was in development hell for nearly ten years?

28 September 2007

17:31, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

...that bird nests (pictured) range in size from the tiny one inch high cup of some hummingbirds to the massive five meter high mounds of some Dusky Scrubfowl?
...that despite being organised on St. Andrew's Day, the first official international football match did not result in a home win?
...that because of its karez well system, an ancient water system using gravity, Turfan became a prosperous Silk Road oasis city located in the second deepest depression in the world?
...that Rancho Los Encinos near Los Angeles was founded in 1797, and raised cattle, sheep and wheat, and was a stagecoach stop, before becoming a real estate subdivision with Los Encinos State Historic Park at its heart?
...that Jan Roskam wrote his book on airplane war stories, based on his own experiences, to remind aircraft engineers of the consequences of their mistakes?
...that its central location as a transportation hub for the United States led to the branding of Omaha, Nebraska as the "Gateway City of the West"?
...that huge numbers of otakus made pilgrimages to Washinomiya Shrine after it was featured in the popular anime and manga series Lucky ☆ Star?

10:01, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Jacobin revolutionary André Antoine Bernard (pictured) changed his given name to Pioche-fer ("Pickaxe") after his name day within the Revolutionary Calendar?
...that Tom Wolfe's 1989 criticism of contemporary American literature, "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast", began a feud with authors John Updike and John Irving that has continued ever since?
...that Samuel Pegge, a Derbyshire antiquarian, published a book compiled by Richard II's cooks called Forme of Cury?
...that hackers and rogue administrators often seek to eliminate evidence of their unauthorized activities by manipulating the Microsoft Windows Security Log?
...that the Chicago City Council revoked the McCarthy Building's Chicago Landmark status to make way for the controversial redevelopment of Chicago's Block 37 in the Chicago Loop?
...that the Beasts of Satan were a heavy metal band and suspected satanic cult in Italy that committed three notorious ritual murders before being arrested?
...that Mikołaj Hussowczyk's book The Song about Bison is considered to be the first large fiction work about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania?

04:11, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

...that it is not possible to configure two mutually inscribed quadrilaterals in the Euclidean plane, but the Möbius–Kantor graph (pictured) describes a solution in the complex projective plane?
...that the first public toilets in England were invented by George Jennings for the Great Exhibition of 1851?
...that Prof. Fuller Albright (1900-1969) made numerous discoveries in endocrinology (hormonal medicine), including the link between menopause and osteoporosis?
...that the Sun Ning Railway Company, South China's first significant railway, was dismantled in December 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War to deny its use by the Japanese military?
...that the planned South Beach complex in Singapore will incorporate four conservation buildings, where the first National Service enlistment was held in 1967?
...that when Nebraska completed construction of its stretch of Interstate 80 in 1974, it became the first state in the U.S. to complete its mainline interstate system?
...that the German children's series Bibi Blocksberg has been criticised because it can give a negative view of politics to children?

27 September 2007

21:16, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Charles Willson Peale's 1822 self-portrait The Artist in His Museum (pictured) summarizes his career as a painter, taxidermist, and naturalist?
...that Tanjong Katong Primary School has the most diverse student population among all government-operated schools in Singapore, as its students come from 39 countries?
...that the winnings from the 1975 Yellow Sam betting coup were paid out in the form of over a hundred sacks of IR£1 notes?
...that although Ronald Bird was on the staff of Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1934, his first-class debut came twelve years later for their rivals Worcestershire?
...that the earliest bones of the rare Golden Guernsey goat, dating from 2000 BC, were found in dolmens in Guernsey on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy?
...that the sale of the Libyan Arabian Cement Co. was the country's first initial public offering of shares and the biggest sale of a Libyan state-owned business?
...that nearby town officials caused an uproar when they moved highway markers from the Lincoln Highway in Omaha, Nebraska to their local roadway after the highway was rerouted there in 1930?

10:48, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Trinitarian Church (pictured) in Bratislava was built on the place of an older settlement which was demolished in 1529 due to the Ottoman wars?
...that Hugo Award-winning science fiction fan and editor Earl Kemp served a year in prison for publishing an illustrated edition of the Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography?
...that the last surrender of the American Civil War took place aboard the British HMS Donegal after the CSS Shenandoah completed a 9,000 mile voyage specifically to do so?
...that plant physiology is the subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants?
...that a scathing obituary of British author Lord Michael Pratt in The Daily Telegraph called him "an unabashed snob and social interloper on a grand scale", who habitually outstayed his welcome?
...that during his tenure as curator at Université Laval, François-Xavier Bélanger built a thousand-specimen strong collection of Canadian birds from the ground up?
...that the 22,200 meter Shimizu Tunnel was the world's longest tunnel when it was completed in 1982?
...that even though the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly was held in the house of statesman Carsten Anker, he was not present himself?
...that Henri II's Edict of Châteaubriant (1551) assigned the regulation of the French press to the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris?

26 September 2007

19:38, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

...that tōgyū (pictured) is a bullfighting sport practiced in Okinawa, Japan, in which two bulls wrestle in a ring in a manner compared to sumo?
...that Bykivnia, a former village, now part of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, was the burial site of thousands of enemies of the Soviet power?
...that the Defense (Emergency) Regulations first enacted in British Mandate Palestine in 1945 were incorporated into Israel's domestic legislation in 1948 and remain in force to this day?
...that long-time University of Oregon track coach Bill Hayward also played lacrosse for the world champion Ottawa Capitals?
...that Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka wore a costume made of lit lightbulbs—her 1956 work Electric Dress—to exhibitions?
...that a total of 4156 films were submitted to the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and 349 of those, from 55 countries, were selected?
...that an edition of Alpin, a supplement of the Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo, was banned by the caretaker government for publishing a controversial cartoon in relation to the Islamic prophet Muhammad?
...that after Robert William Hughes shot and wounded future Virginia Governor William E. Cameron, he was appointed a federal judge by Ulysses S. Grant?
...that during the siege of Constantinople in 626 AD, 12,000 Byzantine cavalry successfully fought off 80,000 Avars?

13:40, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the first session of the Legislative Council of Mysore State in India was held in the Jaganmohan Palace (pictured) in July 1907?
...that the Grant Park Music Festival, a Chicago tradition since its 1931 introduction by Anton Cermak, is America's only remaining free, outdoor concert series featuring classical music?
...that China's leadership for the next five years will be unveiled at the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which will open on October 15 in the Great Hall of the People?
...that after the defeat of his British Band in the 1832 Black Hawk War, Chief Black Hawk was taken captive and exhibited to large crowds throughout the United States?
...that Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, having lost his position on the Historic Churches Preservation Trust (for which he denounced the Archbishop of Canterbury as having "held a pistol to my face while the Dean of Gloucester plunged his dagger into my back"), founded his own, more intransigent, committee, the Friends of Friendless Churches?
...that a graffiti artist from the Bronx named PHASE 2 invented the famous "bubble letter" style of graffiti writing when tagging trains on the New York City Subway system in the early 1970s?
...that more than 75% of kraft pulp is bleached without chlorine?

01:12, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Baduanjin qigong (pictured) is one of the most common forms of Chinese qigong used as exercise?
...that Luník IX, a borough in Košice, Slovakia, although originally built for army and police officers, now houses the largest Roma community in Central Europe?
...that Wurzbach Parkway, an unnumbered freeway in San Antonio, Texas, does not connect directly to the city's other freeways?
...that by using automatic number plate recognition, a CCTV network known as ANPR, police in the United Kingdom are able to track the movement of cars in real time and store vehicle movement information for five years?
...that four-time Moscow chess champion Nikolay Grigoriev won ten awards in an endgame study composing tourney in 1935?
...that the Ukrainian Marines were from May 1996 until 1998 part of the Ukrainian National Guard, but were transferred to the Navy in 1998?
...that Juan de Arphe y Villafañe was a renowned engraver, goldsmith, artist, anatomist and author?
...that autobiographer Lois Mark Stalvey's 1960s anti-racist activism in Omaha, Nebraska was responsible for her husband's job transfer to Philadelphia?

25 September 2007

17:51, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Chick House (pictured) is the only 19th century hotel building still standing in the city of Rockford, Illinois?
...that the Stiefelgeiss, a breed of goat, became nearly extinct in the 1980s but is making a comeback?
...that the leaders of the failed coup in Poland in 1919 were arrested by their intended troops?
...that Matthew Ricketts was the first African-American to graduate from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and be elected to the Nebraska Legislature?
...that the photographer duo of Krupakar-Senani were kidnapped by the bandit Veerappan, while filming the movie Wild Dog Diaries in India?
...that the Annie Larsen affair led in 1917 to one of the longest and most expensive trials in America at the time?
...that lime was diluted in separated milk instead of water for Vileišis Palace construction?
...that the Danae class cruiser HMS Durban ended her wartime career supporting the Battle of Normandy as a blockship off the Normandy coast in 1944?
...that The Most Reverend Whakahuihui Vercoe was the first Bishop of Aotearoa to be elected by its Maori congregation, the first Maori to become Archbishop of New Zealand, and the first Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit?

07:42, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams (pictured) is known as the "father" of the Royal Australian Air Force?
...that by leading by one more lap in the final NASCAR race of the 1992 season, Alan Kulwicki won the 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship over Bill Elliott?
...that the 1897 Pattern British Infantry Officer's Sword was carried into battle by a young Bernard Montgomery, was used in service against the Dervishes in Sudan, and is still the ceremonial sidearm for many British regiments?
...that Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, a Swiss painter, toured England for twenty years leaving 2,662 sketches in the British Library -- including the only known image of the coronation of Edward VI?
...that John Joseph Briggs, the author of a history of the original Melbourne (in Derbyshire), corresponded regularly with Charles Darwin regarding the fins of a fish?
...that the Suevic king Hermeric abdicated his throne due to a prolonged seven-year illness?

00:41, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

...that William Gore Ouseley (pictured), a diplomat noted for representing British interests in Nicaragua and Honduras, found one of the earliest sources for the pantomime story of Dick Whittington's cat?
...that the Yue Hwa Building used to house a popular boutique hotel, and was the tallest building in Singapore's Chinatown when it was completed in 1936?
...that although in present-day India the former princely states and their princes have lost that status, the Raja of Rajnagar still wears his ancestors' tattered royal attire twice a year?
...that the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, an outdoor bandshell and great lawn, uses an innovative sound system that recreates an indoor concert hall sound experience?
...that the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, today a prominent academic journal in statistics, had as its first work a simple door-to-door survey of occupations in Manchester?
...that the Kallawaya healers travel around South America, often on foot and on ancient Inca trails, in search of traditional herbs?
...that Major Sir Hamish Forbes, 7th Baronet was awarded the MBE (Military Division) for his many escape attempts while a prisoner-of-war in Germany from 1940 to 1945, and was later patron of the Lonach Highlanders?

24 September 2007

14:26, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Baroque-style palace Dilkusha Kothi (pictured) was once a summer retreat for the nawabs of Oudh but was heavily shelled during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and is today in ruins?
...that Karl Emil Nygard was the first Communist mayor in the United States?
...that a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by Allied forces during the Battle of Kranji allowed the Japanese forces to gain strategic footholds which led to the fall of Singapore in 1942?
...that the city of Puerto Suárez in eastern Bolivia is supplied by the Brazilian power grid, not the Bolivian?
...that architect Andreyan Zakharov rebuilt the Admiralty in Saint Petersburg, with symmetrical wings to its central tower, making it a symbol of the city?
...that after the November Uprising in partitioned Poland, the government of the Russian Empire offered a bounty for one of the Polish leaders, Jan Czyński?
...that Eastern Orthodox icon expert Father Egon Sendler is highly respected by many Eastern Orthodox scholars, despite being a Roman Catholic?
...that Yugoslavian boxing champion Marijan Beneš played the violin in his youth, and published a book of poems after the end of his career?

00:06, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

... that the name of Polish anti-Nazi and anti-communist activist Łukasz Ciepliński (pictured) was banned from all books by the Communist government?
...that Augie Hiebert not only built Alaska's first television station, KTVA, but also founded the state's first FM radio station, KNIK-FM?
...that the Norwegian roller coaster Speed Monster features a unique loop around an escalator?
...that Mark Knight, a political cartoonist for the Herald Sun, created Leuk the Duck, a mascot for charity named after leukemia?
...that in Chinua Achebe's novel Arrow of God, an African chief's refusal to allow his villagers to harvest yams causes them to convert to Christianity?
...that research has shown the 80-plus miles of trails in Omaha, Nebraska increase homeowners' perceptions of the value of their houses?
...that, although only a junior officer, Akiyama Saneyuki developed the basic strategy for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War based on his firsthand observations of the U.S. Navy in the Spanish-American War?

23 September 2007

17:45, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

...that John Dement (pictured) served as Receiver of Public Moneys in the U.S. Land Office under five presidential administrations?
...that the engravings of French Renaissance artist Jean Duvet exhibit horror vacui, or a fear of leaving space unfilled?
...Benjamin Stephenson's indentured servants made over 100,000 bricks during the construction of his house in Edwardsville, Illinois?
...that Peter Adolf Thiessen, who received a Stalin Prize for his work on the Soviet atomic bomb project, had joined the Nazi Party as early as 1925?
...that South African anti-conscription activist Nan Cross once climbed a tank at a weapons exhibition and attached stickers to it reading: "Arms are for hugging, not killing"?
...that the 2002 ITC Inferno, a fire that destroyed a six-storey business complex, claimed sixty lives, and injured more than a hundred in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, was started by poor welding?

09:50, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

...that throughout the Western world until the 19th or 20th century, young boys wore dresses (example pictured) until they were breeched at an age varying between two and eight?
...that after Oregon's Point Adams Lighthouse changed colors to reduce confusion, it caused a ship to run aground in 1881?
...that the success of the Lifeline Express in providing medical services to remote places in India has seen similar projects being initiated in other countries including China, Zimbabwe, and Bangladesh?
...that Giuseppe Maggiolini, a cabinet-maker from late 18th century Milan, also made marquetry flooring for royal villas in Lombardy?
...that Dick Mann was the first motorcycle rider to win AMA's career Grand Slam by winning on short track, mile, half mile, Tourist Trophy, and road racing race tracks?
...that the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo had its origins in a humble Jesuit mission known today as Pátio do Colégio?

22 September 2007

18:26, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Tirpitz the pig (pictured) rescued after the sinking of the SMS Dresden became a ship's mascot on one of the cruisers that sank the Dresden?
...that Locust Grove, Samuel F. B. Morse's home near Poughkeepsie, was the first Hudson Valley estate to be designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark?
...that Spanish art critic Juan Eduardo Cirlot, of the Dau al Set school, gained international fame for his Dictionary of Symbols?
...that Mzoli's, a popular Cape Town eatery, nightclub and tourist attraction, in the township of Gugulethu, South Africa, started off as a butcher's shop operating from a garage?
...that the Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat is only the second species in its genus and the 26th endemic bat species from the Philippines to be described?
...that the gorge in China's Flaming Mountains, near the ruins of the once busy oasis city of Gaochang, was an important pass on the ancient trade route, the Silk Road, skirting the deadly Taklamakan Desert?

12:20, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the only remnants of Mecklenburg Castle, a medieval castle located in present-day Germany, are parts of an earthen wall (pictured)?
...that Justice Hans Raj Khanna was the lone dissenter when the Supreme Court of India ruled that those arrested during India's repressive Emergency period from 1975 to 1977 would have no rights to habeas corpus?
...that the AMP NHL Winter Classic is scheduled to be the first regular-season outdoor National Hockey League game in the United States?
...that Pierre Monatte was one of the few French trade-unionists and members of the French Left to oppose the Union sacrée national bloc during World War I?
...that Oregon's Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge was the first National Wildlife Refuge established west of the Mississippi River and will be a hundred years old next month?
...that Otton de Grandson participated in three separate military expeditions to the Holy Land: the Ninth Crusade (1270–1272), the Siege of Acre (1291), and a Templar-Hospitaller offensive in Cilicia (1298)?

02:38, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Mayslake Peabody Estate (pictured), built for Francis Stuyvesant Peabody between 1919 and 1921, has a secret staircase which leads from Peabody's private study to a bomb-proof basement?
...that at the peak of the 1979 student protests in Nepal, radicals tried to humiliate moderate student leaders by painting their faces black, garlanding them with shoes, and parading them on a push-cart through the streets of Kathmandu?
...that partially as a result of the mythical "bomber gap" between the USA and USSR, the USAF built an enormous fleet of over 2,500 jet bombers to deter what turned out to be only twenty Soviet aircraft?
...that Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited is the only company in India authorised to manufacture the indelible ink which is used in elections to prevent fraudulent voting?
...that the appearance of an outline of monkeys on a tree in Singapore drew large crowds as devotees believed that the images are a manifestation of the Monkey God and Hanuman?
...that the last chief of Clan MacQuarrie sold off his clan lands in Scotland and joined the British Army, at age 68, and fought in the American Revolutionary War?
...that the Leopoldov Prison in Slovakia was once the largest prison in the Kingdom of Hungary?

21 September 2007

12:59, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the cathedral in Haapsalu Castle (pictured) is the biggest single-naved church in the Baltic countries?
...that Stamford House in Singapore, at first an office building, was for a time in the early 20th century an annex of Raffles Hotel due to a shortage of hotel rooms?
...that Linda Chavez-Thompson was the first woman, colored person, and Hispanic elected an officer of the AFL-CIO?
...that the hearing for the Nanoor massacre case has stalled because of the defendants' repeated failure to appear in court?
...that missionary Josiah Parrish drove the first spike for the Oregon and California Railroad, and had a land dispute reach the U. S. Supreme Court?
...that Alfred D. Jones, the original surveyor of Des Moines, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska, was known for delivering mail from his stovepipe hat as the first postmaster of Omaha?
...that medieval Liubice, the capital of Prince Henry of the Obotrites, was the predecessor to Lübeck, Germany?
...that the Pentapolis of North Africa is believed to be the birthplace of Saint Mark the Evangelist?

07:46, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the renovation of Gardiner, New York's Town Hall (pictured) was criticized because it destroyed a historic outhouse?
...that poet, film producer and journalist Pritish Nandy is credited with opening India's first cyber cafe in 1996?
...that around a third of New Zealanders claim no religious affiliation, including the leaders of both main political parties?
...that the boulevards in Omaha, Nebraska are part of a 1889 system designed by Horace Cleveland that Omaha city planners are currently starting to reutilize to guide suburban street design?
...that the Katsuyama Eiheiji Line was forced to transfer operation companies because of two head-to-head train collisions within a year?
...that after Evelyn Waugh brought a priest to anoint him on his deathbed, lapsed Catholic Hubert Duggan was reconciled to the church, an event Waugh fictionalised in Brideshead Revisited?
...that to further the career of future Naval Minister Takarabe Takeshi, close friend Takeo Hirose asked Admiral Yamamoto Gonnohyoe, father of Takeshi's betrothed, to veto the marriage?
...that Samuel Parker was a lawmaker in the Provisional, Territorial, and State governments of Oregon?
...that Turkish-German professional boxer Hülya Şahin, the undefeated junior flyweight world champion, is the only female member of her club Universum?

01:09, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Portrait of Nikolai Yevreinov

...that Nikolai Yevreinov's (pictured) productions included a "monodrama" set inside the human breast and a re-creating of the storming of the Winter Palace by the Bolsheviks?
...that Philippe de Champaigne's 1662 painting Ex-Voto was a votive offering in gratitude for the miraculous cure of his daughter?
...that 12,000-year-old Paleo-Indian artifacts, including a rare fluted point, have been found in a quarry near Goshen, New York?
...that Australian amateur astronomer Gregg Thompson has been acknowledged by supernova hunters for publishing comparison charts of the brightest galaxies?
...that architect John M. Van Osdel drafted the plans for the first architect-designed house in Chicago, formed Chicago's first architectural firm and ensured passage of Chicago's first building codes?
...that the death of Eugene Ejike Obiora, a naturalized Norwegian citizen, was caused by positional asphyxiation when he was placed in a chokehold, then handcuffed on his stomach during arrest?

20 September 2007

16:05, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the University of North Alabama's Rogers Hall (pictured) served as the headquarters for the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1864?
...that Florence Boulevard in Omaha, Nebraska was originally called the "Prettiest Mile in Omaha Boulevard" when it was designed by Horace Cleveland in 1892?
...that 18-year-old online poker phenom, Annette_15, became the youngest person to ever win a World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event?
...that of the nine children born of Martina, Heraclius' wife and niece, four died in infancy, one had a twisted neck and another was deaf & dumb?
...that Fort Runyon, built to defend Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War, was almost the same size, shape, and in almost the same place as the Pentagon, built 80 years later?
...an inscribed tombstone of a political dissident, Tan Chay Wa, sparked off a court case in Singapore which eventually made international news in 1983?

09:49, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the blue plumage of the Australian Variegated Fairy-wren (pictured) strongly reflects UV light?
...that Warsaw's Carmelite Church was the site of Fryderyk Chopin's first job?
...that Spec Keene's Willamette University football team was stranded in Honolulu for two weeks following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor?
...that Roosevelt Raceway, the first night-time harness racing track, saw the first mobile starting gate?
...that wolf collars with long spikes, now widely adopted by the BDSM community, were originally used to protect dogs from wolf attacks?
...that the Ghurni clay dolls of West Bengal have been inaugurated by Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev?
...that every Byzantine Emperor under the Angeloi dynasty was overthrown in a violent coup d'état?
...that the area known as the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield has been inhabited by at least five Native American tribes?

01:56, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Jane Addams was offered burial in the U.S. National Cathedral but instead opted for interment at her family's plot (pictured) in Cedarville, Illinois?
...that Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas, one of the founders of the Party of National Progress, was accused of book smuggling during the Lithuanian press ban?
...that despite being hit by two torpedoes that broke her in half, only one life was lost in the sinking of the Liberty ship SS James B. Stephens?
...that Piłsudski's Mound, built in 1937, is the youngest and largest of the four mounds of Kraków?
...that the Newton Food Centre is promoted by the Singapore Tourism Board for sampling Singaporean cuisine, despite allegations of overpricing and mediocre food quality by locals?

19 September 2007

19:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Gudgeonville Covered Bridge (pictured) in Girard, Pennsylvania is said by local residents to be haunted by the ghost of a donkey?
...that scientists are concerned that the Bangali River in northern Bangladesh may merge with the Jamuna River and cause a loss of 100,000 hectares of land in the region?
...that Carnegie Medal-winning children’s author Berlie Doherty has written the libretti for three operas?
...that the James Bruce Round Barn was designed with a distinctive single hip roof style because of the inability of many carpenters to build a self-supporting roof?
...that director Zhang Yuan's 1999 film, Seventeen Years was the first Chinese film allowed to film inside a Chinese prison?

13:33, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

...that neither the U.S. nor Canada uses UNESCO-defined mandatory signs (example pictured) for traffic?
...that the 371-acre Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge provides nesting for 1.2 million seabirds—more than California and Washington combined?
...that the Pyramid of Senusret I was built in single-cell units instead of all at once, as was the norm?
...that Major League Baseball pitcher Sam Zoldak's only home run in his major league career did not count after the game was cancelled because of rain?
...that Welshman Sir Gore Ouseley arranged for Azerbaijan to become part of the Russian Empire in 1814?

05:55, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Thomas Milton Gatch (pictured), an Ohioan educator and politician, was the first president of Oregon State University to hold a doctorate degree?
...that former Italian Prime Minister Mario Scelba was known as the "Iron Sicilian"?
...that Lucas Bols is the oldest extant Dutch distillery?
...that Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, was the first member of the Sikh diaspora?
...that Fox Point State Park, a Delaware State Park which opened in 1995 along the Delaware River, was built atop a hazardous waste site?
...that zero is even?
...that the rare Northern colletes bee was recently found to be thriving in the unique machair seaside habitat of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland?
...that Alexandru Papana competed in bobsleigh for Romania at two Winter Olympics and later was involved in test flying the P-61 Black Widow?
...that in Greek mythology, Arion (or Areion) was an extremely swift immortal horse that could talk?

18 September 2007

22:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Plano Stone Church (pictured) was constructed in 1868 to serve as the world headquarters for the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints under the leadership of Joseph Smith III?
...that the railways of Jamaica were the first built outside of Europe and continental North America and the first in a British colony?
...that cryptologist Harry Hinsley's realisation that German weather ships were the Achilles' heel of the Enigma code led to the capture of the Lauenburg?
...that Theodosios (Hanna) of Sebastia is the second Palestinian Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem?
...that Lois DeBerry is the first African-American woman speaker pro tempore of the Tennessee House of Representatives?
...that the planetary nebula luminosity function is an accurate standard candle (luminosity measurement) outside Earth's home galaxy, the Milky Way, despite an average error factor of two for distance estimates to planetary nebulae within this galaxy?
...that Swan and Maclaren is the oldest architectural firm in Singapore?

12:23, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the first complete map of Iceland (pictured), based on Björn Gunnlaugsson's 1831–43 survey, is mentioned in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth?
...that the Fama-DFA Prize is named after University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Eugene Fama, a financial economist whose publications are the foundation of efficient market theory?
...that Rachel Carson was so disappointed in the Oscar-winning film adaptation of her 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us that she never again sold film rights to her work?
...that the Crown Colony-class light cruiser HMS Nigeria made one of the earliest captures of German Enigma material?
...that the chairman of the Tennessee House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee, Rob Briley, was arrested for vandalism and driving under the influence of alcohol after a 100 mph car chase?
...that fossilised crinoid columnals from Lindisfarne which were strung together as a necklace or rosary became known as St Cuthbert's beads?
...that one reviewer of Mary Wollstonecraft's Rights of Men apologized for his harsh review once he discovered a woman had written the book?

05:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the SGH War Memorial (pictured) was gazetted as one of the nine historical landmarks that are closely linked with the history of medical education in Singapore?
...that Rush Street, now known for its nightlife, has had four bridges over the Chicago River connecting the Loop to the Near North Side and once handled 50% of Chicago's north-south traffic?
...that the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Army is the only airmobile unit of the Ukrainian Airborne Forces which has BMD-1 and BMD-2 airborne infantry fighting vehicles?
...that the annual Gorolski Święto is the largest cultural and folklore festival in the Zaolzie region of Eastern Europe?
...that hotels in Mannum, South Australia served patrons in boats from the second floor when floodwaters rose during the 1956 Murray River flood?
...that Kentucky governor William S. Taylor was implicated in the assassination of William Goebel, his political rival, and fled to Indiana to avoid indictment?
...that the efforts by Taiwan to distinguish itself from mainland China have their roots in the Cold War of the 1950s?

17 September 2007

21:05, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the recent Hurricane Humberto (pictured) formed into a hurricane and made landfall faster than any other tropical cyclone on record?
...that Chinatown, San Francisco's waiter Edsel Ford Fong is fondly remembered for calling patrons "retarded" and "fat", slamming food on tables, groping female patrons, telling patrons to "sit down and shut up" and clearing tables before diners were finished?
...that the Palace under the Four Winds in Warsaw was owned by an heir to an enormous fortune who went bankrupt after the lost war of independence with Russia?
...that the ancient Egyptians believed that a false door allowed the spirits of the dead to receive offerings and to enter and exit the world of the living?
...that after spending a billion dollars developing borane-enriched "zip fuels" to power a new generation of jet engines, the US Air Force realized the entire idea was unworkable and had to abandon it all in 1959?
...that the Crown Colony-class light cruiser HMS Nigeria made one of the earliest captures of German Enigma material?

14:38, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

...that since 2002, New York's Middletown High School has seen the district superintendent convicted of sexual abuse, had one principal resign and another suspended, had two student walkouts and was ordered to reinstate a teacher?
...that Libya's Sirte Basin—which in some places lies more than 47 metres below sea level—contains roughly 80% of the country's known crude oil reserves?
...that pianist Glenn Gould later criticized his own 1956 recording Bach: The Goldberg Variations, which had made him instantly famous?
...that the U.S. Federal Government's largest provider of HIV/AIDS services, the Ryan White Care Act, is named after Ryan White, a teenager who was expelled from his Indiana middle school in 1985 for having AIDS?
...that in 2006, nearly 50,000 people were marooned in Labhpur and surrounding areas of Birbhum district in West Bengal because of floods?
...that the military doctrine of the cult of the offensive was one of the main causes of World War I?
...that Buddhist monk Ekai Kawaguchi was the first Japanese citizen to travel to Nepal?

03:06, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Loch Lomond Golf Club occupies land previously held by Clan Colquhoun and uses the clan's seat of Rossdhu Mansion (pictured) as its clubhouse?
...that Harriet Howard was not only Louis Napoleon's mistress, but also financed his successful 1851 coup d'état?
...that the supply of natural gas and electricity in New Orleans, Louisiana ceased as a result of the General Strike of 1892, plunging the city into darkness for four nights?
...that the Doctorfish tang has the largest range of its genus, which includes 38 species from three oceans?
...that the Plaza film theatre in Bangalore, India was modelled after the Piccadilly Circus in London?
...that Parke County, Indiana bills itself as the Covered Bridge Capital of the World because it has more covered bridges than any other county in the United States?
...that Igo Sym, one of the most popular actors of interbellum Poland, was executed in 1941 by the Polish resistance for cooperating with German occupiers?

16 September 2007

19:49, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the popularity of the Hexar AF (pictured), a 35mm fixed-lens, autofocus camera sold by Konica in 1993, was in part due to its "silent" operating mode?
...that Clayton Jacobson II, a banker from Arizona, is credited with inventing the personal water craft?
...that the memo calling for the 1907 International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam went unsigned by French anarchists, as many rejected the very idea of organized collaboration?
...that an advertising spot immediately following Xinwen Lianbo, a daily news programme shown by most terrestrial television stations in mainland China, can sell for an estimated US$100,000?
...that Colonel Gerardo Huber, a former DINA agent in charge of buying military supplies for the Chilean Army, disappeared in 1991 shortly after weapons disguised as humanitarian aid were discovered in Budapest?
...that investment analyst Martin Fridson is often referred to as the "Dean of high-yield debt"?
...that ADP-ribosylation, a posttranslational protein modification, is involved in the actions of several bacterial toxins in diseases such as cholera and whooping cough?

13:39, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

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...that the 6th-century Songyue Pagoda (pictured) is the oldest extant large pagoda in China and the earliest multiple-eave pagoda known?
...that Vera Pezer, current Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan, is a four-time Canadian Ladies' curling champion and a member of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame?
...that a woman, chamberlain Urszula Mayerin, was among the most influential figures at Sigismund III Vasa's court, signing official state documents in his name and receiving foreign ambassadors during his illness?
...that Jay Barbree is the only journalist to have covered every manned space flight in the United States, beginning with Alan Shepherd's maiden voyage in 1961?
...that between 1872 and 1876 the buildings of Tampico, Illinois' central business district were destroyed by fire three times and tornado once?
...that Duke University Fuqua School of Business Professor, financial economist and regular CNBC Closing Bell guest, John Graham was nominated for four Journal of Finance best paper awards before winning?

05:21, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

...that King of Sweden Charles Gustav was so impressed by Kazimierzowski Palace in Warsaw (pictured) that he even ordered the window frames to be removed and transported to Sweden during the Swedish invasion?
...that the Classic Veracruz culture of pre-Columbian Mexico was obsessed with human sacrifice as part of the Mesoamerican ballgame?
...that The Harvey School, a rural school in New York, was established to give an education to the founder's handicapped son?
...that Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League?
...that Harvard Business School associate professor and financial economist Randolph Cohen has published research on the valuation of baseball star Alex Rodriguez?
...that the Arly-Singou ecosystem shelters the largest remaining population of lions in West Africa?

15 September 2007

14:37, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

...that a variant of the helmet (pictured) used by the Bulgarian Army in World War II is still in service?
...that the Irish politician the O'Gorman Mahon commanded a Chilean fleet, fought thirteen duels, and won a by-election aged 87?
...that Norman Williams shot down eight German aircraft while serving as an air gunner in Halifax bombers in the Second World War, becoming the most highly decorated non-commissioned officer in the RAAF and its only "ace" who was not a fighter pilot?
...that Fischer Black Prize, first awarded in 2003, is the finance analogue to the Clark Medal in economics and the Fields Medal in mathematics, introduced in 1947 and 1936, respectively?
...that a Lesser Caymans iguana was the longest living Cyclura lizard ever at thirty-three years?
...that The Encyclopædia of Ball Juggling contains completely cross-referenced A to Z article indexing, complemented by Charlie Dancey’s light-hearted writing and cartoon illustration style?
...that St. Anne's Church in Warsaw was the place of execution of Bishop Józef Kossakowski during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794?
...that according to "Believe It or Not", Florian ZaBach played "The Flight of the Bumblebee" faster than any known violinist?

05:41, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (pictured) was buried in a communal grave?
...that the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in the southwestern United States was established in 1939 to protect Desert Bighorn Sheep and the name Kofa is a contraction of King of Arizona?
...that in 1745 William Cleghorn won a University of Edinburgh position after his rival, David Hume, was described by the town council as amoral, an atheist, and a sceptic?
...that Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Agriculture F. H. Auld's personal papers are among the few records that chronicle the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s in Alberta?
...that cultivated Christmas trees are susceptible to such pests and diseases as the Balsam woolly adelgid and sudden oak death?
...that Kellom Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska is the alma mater of Fred Astaire, Gale Sayers and Bob Gibson, as well as home to youth programs once led by Whitney Young?
...that Kumaran Pathmanadan, former chief procurer of arms for the Tamil Tigers rebel group, used over 200 passports and at least 23 pseudonyms to evade Interpol, CIA and MI-5?

14 September 2007

18:20, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, became Princess of Albania in March 1914 (arrival pictured), but had to leave the country just six months later because of nationalist turmoil?
...that the first public interest litigation case to be heard in the Karnataka High Court in India was to prevent the demolition of the very building from which it was functioning?
...that after the retreat of the Wisconsin glaciation, postglacial Lake Michigan used to drain through Mackinac Falls, which are now completely submerged under Lake Huron?
...that Peggy McKercher was the first woman to serve on the Corman Park Council?
...that each year over 1000 research papers are submitted for academic publishing in the Journal of Finance (finance's most cited journal) of which only five are awarded Smith Breeden or Brattle Prizes?
...that Patience Strong was the pen name by which the English poet Winifred Emma May was best known?
...that the annual delivery of fur tribute to the Tsar was followed by a state-sponsored feast and distribution of royal gifts to the Siberian natives?

11:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Nicholas Hilliard (pictured), portrait miniaturist to Elizabeth I and James I of England, was chronically short of funds and was briefly imprisoned for debt in Ludgate ?
...that Omaha, Nebraska's Krug Park was the site of a 1930 roller coaster accident, the worst in U.S. history?
...that New York State Route 20SY is the only route in the state to have ever had the "SY" suffix?
...that Time predicted 1973 to be a "gilt-edged year" for the stock market, just three days before the stock market crash of 1973–4 began—wiping 45 percent off the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
...that Fort Delaware State Park, once a Civil War prisoner-of-war camp, is now home to one of the largest heronries north of Florida?
...that though Theodore Thurston Geer was the tenth Oregon governor, he was the first native Oregonian to serve in that office?
...that Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell resigned as a government whip to sue Auberon Waugh who claimed that his translation of Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward was unauthorised, and helped lead to Solzhenitsyn's arrest?

01:39, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

...that people of the Sonoran Desert in North America value the fruit of the Ferocactus wislizeni (pictured) as emergency food and also as a basis for confectionery?
...that German physicist Walter Gerlach helped prove the fact that electrons spin?
...that prospector Reuben D'Aigle missed finding a huge gold deposit by only a few feet, and his boot print was found pressed into the vein when the Porcupine Gold Rush started in 1909?
...that during Ted Snyder's six-year tenure as dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the business school has relocated two of its four campuses?
...that the crest for the World Association of Ugly People features a reclining man smoking a pipe with the slogan: "Ugliness is a virtue, beauty is slavery"?
...that Edward Kerr Turner was a delegate for Saskatchewan agriculture in both national and international affairs?
...that Germany is the European leader in Christmas tree production?
...that the Lyre River provides the only spawning grounds for the endemic Beardslee trout?

13 September 2007

16:34, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

...that it cost US$1.4 billion to restore the Verizon Building (pictured), an art deco building that was damaged in the September 11, 2001 attacks?
...that the second redaction of Lithuanian Chronicles started the myth of Lithuanian Roman origin?
...that Mitică, a character in the works of Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale, has become, especially in Transylvania, a stereotype of both Bucharesters and Wallachians?
...that University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Toby Moskowitz won the Fischer Black Prize as the top finance researcher under 40 after a 4 year hiatus with no worthy candidates?
...that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was indicted for the 1976 assassination of Spanish diplomat Carmelo Soria?
...that until the 1930s and 1940s people in the United States and Canada obtained their Christmas trees mostly from native forests?
...that the 17th century Jesuit Church in Warsaw was one of many buildings razed to the ground by the Germans after the Warsaw Uprising?
...that the Core Pacific City mall in Taipei, Taiwan, is the largest mall in Asia at 204,190 square meters of total floor space?

08:08, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the neighbourhood of Bowbazar was the site of Calcutta's first horse drawn tram line (model pictured), opened in 1873?
...that Nathaniel Ames, publisher of the first annual American almanac, avoided arrest by replacing his vituperative cartoon of local judges with a biblical quotation?
...that the hills in the south of the English Lake District are known as the Southern Fells and they include England's highest peak?
...that the Italian sculptor Giovanni Duprè began his career carving fakes of Renaissance works of art?
...that anti-ganglioside antibodies may cause peripheral neuropathies and that their levels correlate with Guillain-Barré syndrome?
...that yellowtail trumpeter, a coastal marine fish tolerant to a very wide salinity range, because of its poor taste is considered a nuisance in Australia by many fishermen who target bream in estuaries?
...that the Underfall Yard takes its name from a unique system of sluices designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to remove silt from Bristol Harbour?
...that the coat of arms of Catalonia is one of Europe's oldest, dating back to the 1150 seal used by Ramón Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona?

01:53, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Croton Dam (pictured), on Michigan's Muskegon River, was the first hydroelectric plant to transmit power at 110,000 volts or more?
...that an Irish immigrant to America who settled on New Jersey's Pettys Island in 1851 was later proclaimed "king" of the island?
...that the appearance of several Nero impostors may have given rise to the passage of the Book of Revelation about the Beast, which is mortally wounded and then miraculously heals?
...that Italian film director Marco Ferreri hired actor Michel Piccoli almost immediately after the two first met for his art house masterpiece Dillinger Is Dead?
...that three different languages that used to be spoken in Nicaragua are now extinct?
...that because of low rainfall, poor soils, and the growth of the oil industry, Libya's domestic agriculture can only cover 25% of the country's food demand and accounts for just 5.6% of the GDP?
...that the 1998 Puerto Rican general strike paralyzed the island for two days, when 500,000 people took to the streets to protest against privatizing the Puerto Rico Telephone Company?

12 September 2007

14:41, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

...that an Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance aircraft (pictured) searching for missing adventurer Steve Fossett helped find eight other unknown crash sites?
...that the original scatological lyrics of Leck mich im Arsch, a canon composed by Mozart, were only rediscovered in 1991?
...that in 1526, with the heirless death of Janusz III Mazowiecki, last of the Masovian Piasts, the Duchy of Masovia was reunited with Poland?
...that Kentucky governor Ruby Laffoon bestowed the honorary title of "Kentucky colonel" the most times in the state's history, including KFC founder "Colonel" Harland Sanders?
...that many of the specific allergens of wheat causing gluten allergies have not yet been characterized?
...that in order to fight in the Spanish Civil War, American biologist Clement Markert stowed away aboard a freighter?
...that the embankment dam at Backwater Reservoir was the first in Britain to employ chemical grouting in order to form a waterproof barrier beneath the embankment?
...that while performing the Viking ritual of Heitstrenging Harald Hairfair swore not to cut or comb his hair until he conquered all of Norway?

05:43, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

...that 18th-century artist John Hamilton Mortimer, while very prolific in his production of paintings (one pictured) and holding the presidency of the Society of Artists, was accused many times of being an imitator of Salvator Rosa's work?
...that James Jurin used statistical studies to show the probability of death from smallpox vaccine was significantly less than from smallpox?
...that the Illinois Freedom Bell was submerged underwater in Geneva Lake for over 40 years before being surfaced and adopted as the official freedom bell of Illinois?
...that William Frankena "played an especially critical role in defense of fundamental academic freedoms during the McCarthy era" while chair of the philosophy department at the University of Michigan?
...that the website HardwareZone initiated the first court case in Singapore over a domain name, which was settled after just four days?
...that the father of The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening was a founding director of the American Advertising Museum in Portland, Oregon?
...that the Storz, Krug, Willow Springs and Metz breweries were regarded as Omaha, Nebraska's "Big 4" breweries?
...that former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney's Memoirs: 1939-1993 criticises another Canadian PM, Pierre Trudeau?

11 September 2007

23:28, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Singapore's Early Founders Memorial Stone (pictured), a foundation stone for a proposed memorial, became the memorial itself?
...that the Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park in Scotland covers an area of 108 square miles of Inverclyde, North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, stretching from Greenock in the north, down the coast to Largs and West Kilbride and inland to Dalry and Lochwinnoch?
...that the wife of troubadour Raimon Jordan joined the sect of the Cathars, while the troubadour himself declared in a poem that he would give up eternity in Paradise for one night with his desired lady (not his wife)?
...Amri Hernandez-Pellerano, a Puerto Rican electronics engineer and scientist, designed the power systems electronics for the NASA WMAP mission?
...that the Independent Royalist Party of Estonia's election campaign costs for the 1992 elections of Riigikogu, the first post-Soviet occupation parliamentary elections in Estonia, were 25 Estonian cents per pair of seats?
...that poet Forceythe Willson believed he was clairvoyant and that he could serve as a medium for communication with the dead?
...that Epimachus of Athens, an ancient Athenian engineer, constructed the Helepolis, which remains the largest siege machine ever built, at over 60 feet in width and 125 feet in height?
...that swimmer Katherine Rawls, Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for 1937, flew in the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron during World War II?

15:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Cape Henlopen State Park (pictured) in Delaware has been public land since William Penn's designation in 1682, yet only became a state park in 1964?
...that the Dutch National Labor Secretariat once lost many members because each union received one vote but had to pay dues for each member, severely disadvantaging larger unions?
...that Keremane Shivarama Heggade, the founder of folk-art troupe Idagunji Mahaganapathi Yakshagana Mandali was the first Yakshagana artist in India to receive the Rashtrapati Award?
...that English actor Ronald Magill played Amos Brearly, landlord of The Woolpack public house in ITV's soap opera Emmerdale, for 19 years?
...that Meng Xuenong was sacked as mayor of Beijing during the SARS crisis, but has now made a comeback as governor of Shanxi province?
...that Mahakala, a small dromaeosaurid from Mongolia, is named after Mahakala, one of the eight protective deities (dharmapalas, "Protectors of the Law") in Tibetan Buddhism?
...that the Chilean biochemist Eugenio Berríos, involved in the Letelier case and in the Soria case, also produced black cocaine and sarin gas for Augusto Pinochet?
...that alphabet books were one of the earliest forms of American literature?
...that Fritz Bleyl was one of the four founders of Die Brücke art group in 1905, but left two years later and never exhibited again?

06:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Canadian province of Ontario has had quality grades for cultivated Christmas trees (tree farm pictured) mandated by law since 1965?
...that Belarus Free Theatre is an underground theatre project created to oppose Belarusian government pressure and censorship?
...that the merged Rainbow/PUSH is an outgrowth of Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential campaign and a factional split in Operation Breadbasket, an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
...that Deganga, in West Bengal, where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination, will have to wait till 2009 for a supply of piped arsenic-free water?
...that although he contributed to an anti-militarist resolution at a congress of the Second International in 1891, Christiaan Cornelissen was one of a few syndicalists to support the Allied effort in World War I in 1914?
...that the Battle of Nisibis in 217 AD, the last battle fought between the Roman Empire and the Parthians, lasted for three days and ended in a draw?
...that Robert Desoille guided patients through waking dreams as a form of psychotherapy?
...that the European Union directive about anti-smoking warnings on cigarette packs has led to a surge of sales of cigarette cases?
...that Samuel Rivera, mayor of Passaic, New Jersey, was permitted to take office despite the fact that he had been convicted of a felony in his native Puerto Rico in the 1970s?

10 September 2007

22:44, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the centre of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is crossed by an 18th century aqueduct (pictured) nicknamed Arcos da Lapa?
...that Eduardo Malapit, mayor of Kauai, Hawaii, from 1974 to 1982, was the first mayor of Filipino descent in the United States?
...that abrasion has destroyed the 14th century Church in Trzęsacz, Poland, near the Baltic Sea, except for part of its southern wall?
...that the proposed BBC television special Planet Relief, created to raise awareness of climate change, was cancelled before it was made, for fear that it would be biased against climate sceptics?
...that retired General Volney F. Warner has publicly criticized the Iraq War; his granddaughter, First Lieutenant Laura Margaret Walker, served in Afghanistan and was the first female graduate of West Point to die in combat?
...that the 1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash is the last time spectators were killed in an accident at a British air show?

14:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Valois Tapestries (pictured), recording festivities at the court of Charles IX of France, include portraits of many members of the House of Valois–but none of the King?
...that Kentucky governor Flem D. Sampson declined the Du Pont family's offer to purchase Cumberland Falls and donate it to the state for a state park?
...that Nayachar Island in the Hooghly River was chosen as the location for a major chemical hub based on experience in developing Jurong Island in Singapore?
...that bellboy Johnny Roventini was paid $1 to page a hotel lobby for a "Call for Phillip Morris", unknowingly performing a screen test for a 40-year career as living trademark?
...that wind assistance has caused the non-ratification of many potential world records in athletics?

03:58, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Australian World War I general Sir Charles Rosenthal (pictured) was the model for a character in one of D. H. Lawrence's novels?
...that judge Otto Richard Skopil, Jr. was nominated to the federal district court by a Republican U.S. President and to the federal court of appeals by a Democratic President?
...that the Fique is a natural fiber obtained of furcraea plants, typical of Colombia, which is used in the fabrication of ropes, fabrics, tapestry and handcrafts?
...that French Canadian ornithologist Charles-Eusèbe Dionne became an elective fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union before he ever received a college degree?
...that during an emergency, U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo planes can be modified with the Modular Airborne FireFighting System and used to help fight forest fires?
...that during the Western Schism Thomas de Rossy, Franciscan friar and Bishop of Galloway, challenged any bishop of England to fight in single combat?

9 September 2007

17:22, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

...that in the early 1940s, HMS Ceres (pictured), a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy, was involved in the evacuation and later recapturing of British Somaliland?
...that Ah Jook Ku, a journalist and writer based in Hawaii, was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press, as well as the first Asian American female reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin?
...that the shrub Stirlingia latifolia is commonly known as "Blueboy" because wall plaster turns blue if made using sand taken from where the plant occurs?
...that the disastrous defeat of Yaroslav the Wise's sons at the Alta River led to a popular uprising in Kiev and dethronement of Grand Prince Iziaslav?
...that Mercedes Reaves, a Puerto Rican research engineer and scientist, is responsible for the design of a viable, full-scale solar sail at the NASA Langley Research Center?
...that Ildephonsus of Toledo regarded the Nicene Creed as comprising "sufficient knowledge for salvation" and considered it to be a pact (foedus) between a believer and God?

10:42, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Denton Hall (pictured), once the home of General Fairfax, the English Civil War commander-in-chief, was later sold for less than the value of the timber on the estate?
...that the California aerial firefighting force is operated by the CDF Aviation Management Program?
...that Santanachelys gaffneyi is the earliest known sea turtle?
...that the Australian war memorial at Mont St. Quentin was not replaced for over 30 years after its destruction by the German Army in 1940?
...that the calligraphic script of the Ford Motor Company logo is credited to Childe Harold Wills?
...that the Journal of Molecular Evolution, founded in 1971, was the first scientific journal dedicated to this field?
...that Jordan de Exeter, sheriff of Connacht, died fending off a Hebridean pirate raid in 1258?
...that Otto Schimek was himself later executed for refusing to join a firing squad executing a Polish family in 1944?
...that unlike most plesiosaurs, Leptocleidus once lived in shallow lagoon environments and likely visited brackish and fresh water systems such as the mouths of rivers?

8 September 2007

22:50, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the C-class light cruiser HMS Carlisle (pictured) was damaged by German bombers during the Allied landings in Sicily and spent the rest of the war in Alexandria harbour?
...that Isaac Homer Van Winkle served for 23 years as Oregon Attorney General, the longest of any attorney general in the state’s history?
...that the French Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities took almost 50 years to complete from A to Z?
...that while the Ukrainian Chortkiv offensive was eventually pushed back by the Polish army, the initial success of this desperate attack by the Ukrainian Galician Army is considered its finest hour in the Polish-Ukrainian War?
...that zaojing, an elaborately ornamented wooden ceiling, shaped like a well and often painted with water plants, was believed by the ancient Chinese to prevent wooden buildings from burning?

10:58, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Boston Legal actress Meredith Eaton-Gilden (pictured) is also a practicing clinical psychologist?
...that there was a lighthouse on the roof of The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, which could be seen by ships 29 kilometres away?
...that, at the age of 21, Henry III's favorite Anne de Joyeuse enjoyed precedence over all other dukes and peers of France, with the exception of the Capetians?
...that shortly after Appalachian State's 2007 college football upset of Michigan at Michigan, ecstatic Appalachian State students tore down a goalpost at their own stadium 600 miles (1000 km) away?
...that westbound trains can arrive unexpectedly on the eastbound track at Bedminster railway station to ease congestion at nearby Bristol Temple Meads?
...that a portion of the money used to purchase land for the publicly owned Noble Woods Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, came from private pledges?
...that water vapor is probably present in the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury, being brought to the planet by comets?
...that the German Communist Martin Hoop, who was arrested and murdered by the Nazi regime in 1933, was an undercover agent for the Communists?

02:44, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Charles de Talleyrand described his wife, Catherine Grand (pictured), as "an Indian, very beautiful, very lazy, the most idle woman he had ever known"?
...that the luxurious Kazanowski Palace in Warsaw, built in the 1620s, was destroyed in the 1650s and never rebuilt?
...that Singapore's DHL Balloon is the world's largest tethered helium balloon?
...that stained glass in Marston Bigot church in Somerset, England is from the abbey of Altenberg in Germany and depicts a scene from the early life of St Bernard?
...that the Shelly was an Israeli cargo vessel that sank after being accidentally rammed by a cruise liner, killing two crewmembers?
...that the real objective of the 1732 Treaty of Three Black Eagles, where Prussia, Austria and Russia agreed to support the Portuguese Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém in elections to the Polish throne, was to create a rift between France and Prussia?

7 September 2007

16:07, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Singapore Government has introduced the "Punggol 21-plus" plan to re-vitalise Punggol New Town (pictured), after an unsuccessful attempt in the late 1990s?
...that Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi‎ became the first Muslim commander ever to cross the Pyrenees mountain range in 717?
...that James Dahlman, Omaha, Nebraska's "perpetual mayor," was regarded as the "wettest mayor in America" after the number of saloons doubled during his term?
...that Queen Victoria sanctioned the British South Africa Company to issue the British South Africa Company Medal in honour of the troops who served in the Matabele Wars?
...that Portuguese soldier and explorer Francisco Barreto led an expedition to Monomotapa in search of legendary gold mines, but died along the way from tropical diseases, as did many of his men?
...that Emmy-nominated actor Leon Russom has portrayed two different characters in two different branches of the Star Trek franchise?
...that several mountains, a chain of craters, a learned society and a botanical genus are named after Louis Ramond de Carbonnières?

08:09, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the first direct observational evidence that Cygnus X-1 was a black hole was discovered at the David Dunlap Observatory (pictured) outside Toronto?
...that the Polish historian and survivor of the Nazi German Operation Sonderaktion Krakau Stanisław Kutrzeba joined an underground university in defiance of Nazi edicts?
...that in 2005, during D1 Grand Prix's end of season US vs Japan event at Irwindale Speedway, U.S. drifting driver, Vaughn Gittin, Jr. became the first to break the all-Japanese stranglehold?
...that centenarian Nittoor Srinivasa Rau, was the first chief of the Central Vigilance Commission of India and also the first to translate Mahatama Gandhi's autobiography to Kannada?
...that although the Youguo Temple collapsed in 1847 when the Yellow River flooded, its Iron Pagoda has survived six floods and remained intact for almost 1,000 years?
...that Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando and Nick Nolte were all born to German-American families in Omaha, Nebraska?
...that the medieval village of Babington in Somerset, England was destroyed around 1705 to make way for a new Manor House?
...that the largest sea turtles ever to have swum the oceans belonged to the family Protostegidae?

6 September 2007

21:46, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Permanent North American Gaeltacht (pictured) is an officially designated Irish speaking area in English/French speaking Ontario, Canada, the first of its kind outside of Ireland?
...that former basketball player Jim Krebs wrote a humorous article for Sports Illustrated about surviving a plane crash during his third season in the NBA?
...that model Albert Reed, selected to appear in September 2007 on the United States television show Dancing with the Stars, admits that he cannot dance?
...that Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801–1822) was the first university student ever to self-identify as Estonian, thus contributing to the Estonian National Awakening?
...that as part of Smirnoff vodka's Sea advertising campaign, parent company Diageo toured England with an installation capable of making saline or polluted water potable?
...that Scots' Dike was constructed by the English and the Scots in 1552 to mark the division of the Debatable Lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between the kingdoms of Scotland and England?
...that Rachel Plummer wrote the first book about being a slave to the Comanche Native Americans?

14:07, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

...that aiguillettes (pictured) are decorative tags or tips for cord or ribbon, usually of gold and sometimes set with gemstones or enameled, used to decorate 16th and 17th century clothing and hats?
...that Father Hyacinth (Jacek) Gulski had such a gift for singing that he was nicknamed the "Polish Nightingale"?
...that the short-lived Industrial Syndicalist Education League was both the first and the largest syndicalist organisation ever in the United Kingdom?
...that American folklorist Helen Hartness Flanders recorded, transcribed and catalogued traditional ballads from New England at a time when people were ceasing to sing them?
...that the use of turtle excluder devices has decreased the number of sea turtles accidentally killed by shrimp fishermen by 97%?
...that photographer Hans Namuth took over 500 black and white images of abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock at work in his studio in 1950?
...that Henry III of France took to calling Catherine of Cleves "the mistress of Saint-Mégrin", in reference to a young nobleman killed by her illustrious husband?

5 September 2007

22:56, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

...that eighty years on, scientists are still debating whether the Palæozoic fossils known as Chitinozoans (SEM image pictured) represent plants, animals or eggs?
...that the Hypothenemus hampei, a small coleopter insect native to Africa, is recognized for being the most harmful pest to coffee crops worldwide?
...that the Lobel's Maple is one of very few trees that grow with a narrow, erect crown, known as a fastigiate form, naturally?
...that aeronautics engineer Paul Moller plans to sell the M200G Volantor, a flying saucer-style aircraft, in the United States by early 2008?
...that the Hughes Brothers became the first sibling duo allowed by the DGA since Jerry and David Zucker to take co-credit as directors for their 1993 film Menace II Society?
...that Graham Linehan, co-creator of Father Ted, made his directorial debut with the comedy horror short film Hello Friend?
...that when a rival took over an estate belonging to Sir Walter Clarges, Clarges used his position as a Member of Parliament to send the interloper to jail?
...that the United States Youth Council received more than 90 percent of its funds from the Central Intelligence Agency?
...that the first HMS Ark Royal was sunk in 1636 when she struck her own anchor and stove in her hull whilst underway?

09:14, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Governor's residence in Gibraltar (pictured) is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a nun who was bricked up alive into a chamber wall?
...that Benjamin Aaron helped negotiate the first contract between a county and its public employee union in California history in 1968?
...that Coptic architectural monuments in Christian Cairo include the Hanging Church, one of the oldest in Egypt?
...that Olga D. González-Sanabria, a Puerto Rican scientist and inventor, is the highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center?
...that three Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross for their role in the Battle of Mont St. Quentin, a battle that the commander of the British Fourth Army, General Henry Rawlinson, considered Australia's greatest military achievement of the war?
...that although enterprising citizens were said to have dragged a flatboat up Spring Creek to establish Bellefonte, Pennsylvania as the head of navigation and the county seat in 1800, the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation canal did not reach the town until 1848?
...that the sixteen eight-million-year-old cypresses found in Northern Hungary in 2007 had been preserved without being fossilized?

4 September 2007

21:08, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the National Art Gallery of Singapore will incorporate two national monuments — the Old Supreme Court Building and the City Hall (both pictured)?
...that fox tossing was a popular blood sport in parts of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries?
...that Patrick Nash helped change the city charter, which called for a special election in the case of death of the Chicago Mayor, so that the Chicago City Council could appoint Edward Joseph Kelly?
...that Sir T. L. Yang was the first ethnic Chinese to become Chief Justice of Hong Kong under British colonial rule?
...that the gulf sturgeon, a subspecies of the Atlantic sturgeon, fasts for eight to nine months each year?
...that the United States threatened privately to cut off aid to Ngo Dinh Diem's Catholic regime as a result of chemical attacks on Buddhist protestors in Huế, Vietnam in 1963?
...that Alexander Novikov, double Hero of the Soviet Union and pioneering commander of the Soviet Air Force, was used to frame Marshal Zhukov, then thrown in prison by Joseph Stalin?
...that the bootleg album The Lost Paris Tapes contains the last known recording by Jim Morrison?
...that the Bank of the Holy Spirit, founded by Pope Paul V in 1605, was the first national bank in Europe?

14:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

...that coffin portraits (example pictured) of nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were meant to create an impression that the deceased is taking part in the funeral?
...that during World War II, Shepton Mallet, the oldest operating prison in Britain, was used as the protective storage of important government documents including the Magna Carta and Domesday Book?
...that Presbyterian minister Robert Jefferson Breckinridge is known as the father of the public school system in Kentucky?
...that the Suevic king Rechiar was the first Germanic monarch to convert to Nicene Christianity, the first to mint his own coins, and the only to ever ally with the peasant rebels called the bagaudae?
...that the Native American Old Connecticut Path from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Connecticut River across from Hartford, was the very first of the American trails that led west from the Atlantic seacoast settlement, towards the interior?
...that the citizens of Perugia compelled the surrender of the citadel of Gérard du Puy, the cardinal-nephew of Pope Gregory XI, during the War of the Eight Saints with a trebuchet nicknamed the cacciaprete ("priest chaser")?

3 September 2007

20:36, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the cityscapes of water-colorist Floris Arntzenius (self-portrait pictured) were mostly painted in misty or rainy weather, so the subjects could be reflected on the wet asphalt?
...that in 1995-1997 a Centers for Disease Control program identified over a hundred patients likely suffering from life threatening infections new in the history of emerging infectious diseases?
...that in late 1992, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior banned the neo-Nazi groups German Alternative (DA), Nationalist Front (NF), German Comradeship Alliance (DKB), and the National Offensive (NO) all within a month?
...that in 2005 John Carroll, the editor of the Los Angeles Times, chose to resign rather than continue reducing the number of journalists at the paper?
...that the Wendish Crusade of 1147 was a largely unsuccessful campaign of Saxons and Danes against the Polabian Slavs concurrent to the Second Crusade?

12:13, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Byron Nuclear Generating Station (pictured) produced about 2,300 MWe in 2005, enough electricity to supply 2 million average U.S. households?
...that Pope Martin V objected to the wording of the inscription on the tomb of Antipope John XXIII in the Florence Baptistry because he thought it implied John had died as pope?
...that electrocardiogram technicians responsible for recording ECGs in hospitals reduce medical errors in the emergency reporting of ECGs?
...that despite being open for only two years, the Naomi Institute earned a reputation as one of the leading educational institutions in pioneer Nebraska?
...that many of the carnatic musicians of the Mysore Kingdom were also trained in Western classical music?
...that the small population of Estonian Ruhnu sheep is thought to descend from animals left on Ruhnu Island by Swedes?

00:18, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the main building of the Krzyżtopór Castle (pictured), a Baroque structure in Poland, has been a ruin since the Swedish Deluge?
...that over 70,000 Dark-eyed Juncos have been counted in a single day at the Bird Observatory in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada?
...that in 1847, the German engineer Gustav Schleicher, who later became a veteran of the Confederate Army, founded a commune in Texas to prove the truth of communist ideals?
...that the Peshtigo Fire Museum features an intact tabernacle, one of the few items to survive the deadliest natural fire in United States history?
...that the first company union in the United States was created by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in response to the bad publicity generated by the Ludlow massacre?
...that the Hal Far Fighter Flight, a British fighter unit formed during the siege of Malta, is the source of the myth that only three aircraft formed the entire fighter cover for Malta in June 1940?

2 September 2007

17:48, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Tan Teck Guan Building (pictured) was the site of Singapore's first medical school, and has been conserved as a national monument?
...that the pieces of dougong, an ancient Chinese structural element of interlocking wooden brackets, are cut to fit so perfectly that no glue or fasteners are needed?
...that Miriam Rodon-Naveira, a Puerto Rican scientist, was the first Hispanic woman to hold the Deputy Directorship for the Environmental Sciences Division in the National Exposure Research Laboratory?
...that the participants of the Channel 4 programme Dumped were not told that they would be living on a landfill site for three weeks?
...that romance novelist Nancy Warren wrote real-life NASCAR driver Carl Edwards into two of her novels?
...that citrus fruits white sapote, hercules' club and rue are all members of the family Rutaceae?
...that in 2007, the first Australian outbreak of equine influenza caused a nationwide ban on horse racing?
...that MinnPost plans a non-profit Minneapolis-Saint Paul online newspaper that readers who wish for hard copies can print on demand?
...that the Toronto Magnetic Observatory had to be moved as the University of Toronto's electric lighting was interfering with observations?

01:17, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Count Henry Russell held receptions for princes and notables in a cave on the peak of Vignemale (pictured) in the Pyrenees?
...that WikiPilipinas is the first online encyclopedia based in the Philippines?
...that Omaha, Nebraska is the original home of the Reuben sandwich, Omaha Steaks and ConAgra Foods?
...that the apparent disparagement of Singapore as a "little red dot" by former Indonesian President B.J. Habibie has come to be used by Singaporeans with pride?
...that four of the thirty-eight IRA members that escaped from Maze Prison in 1983 were caught hiding in a river near the prison using reeds to breathe?
...that Gord Bamford, a country music singer, was one of only two Canadian artists invited to perform at the Global Artist Party at the 2007 CMA Music Festival?
...that though the Indian rivers, Tunga and Bhadra originate at Gangamoola, they flow separately for more than 145 km (90 mi)?
...that controversy arose over the ABC television network's licensing and production of a doll based on fictional rapist Todd Manning?
...that the Treatise of Garcia of Toledo was written as a satire against Pope Urban II and Bernard, Archbishop of Toledo in the eleventh century?

1 September 2007

13:29, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

...that in 1949, the Swedish dentist Alice Timander (pictured) was considered for expulsion from the Swedish Dental Association after she appeared publicly in a bikini?
...that Christine Langan distracted a man from jumping off of a multi-storey car park by speaking to him in a Manchester accent until the police arrived?
...that at the time of Roman rule in Palestine, the village of Um ar-Rehan, now located in the Barta'a enclave of the Seam Zone, held a hundred houses, a road system and a Roman bathhouse?
...that Turkish record label Kalan Müzik was suspended for a song with the word "Kurdistan" in it?
...that zoologist Georgina Sweet was the first woman to receive a DSc from the University of Melbourne and the first female recipient of the David Syme Research Prize?
...that in Estonia, a digital signature is considered legally equivalent to a manual signature through the successful Estonian ID card project?
...that John Hunt Morgan's beloved mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"?
...that Daphne Pearson was the first woman awarded the George Cross for acts of bravery during World War II?
...that the computer-player of the 1979 video game Video Chess could take up to ten hours to decide a move?

02:43, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Clarence Herbert Smith (pictured), who invented the stump-jump plough under the direction of his brother, later produced the machine for sale because the patent taken out by his brother was left to lapse?
...that David Fung performed Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Sydney Symphony in the Sydney Opera House at only 19 years of age?
...that New Zealand's North Island Robin was originally thought to be a subspecies of the New Zealand Robin, but mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis has shown that the two lineages split prior to the Pleistocene?
...that the territorial governor of Montana Preston Leslie pardoned a prostitute convicted of grand larceny because the penitentiary was not equipped to accommodate women?
...that Hasan Saltık, called "The Anthropologist of Folk Music" by Time magazine, was saved from a three-year jail term because the prosecutor was a fan?
...that National Medal of Science recipient Evelyn M. Witkin's interest in mutagenesis led her to discover mechanisms of bacterial DNA repair?