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31 May 2010

18:00, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the feathers of the Red Warbler (pictured) contain alkaloids, which make the birds unpalatable?
... that the Russian Empire built the Krepost Sveaborg fortress around Helsinki, Finland, during the First World War?
... that presidential advisor John P. Lewis argued that aid to developing nations was a necessary component of American foreign policy, despite the budgetary costs and the potential for misuse?
... that Minuscule 715, the manuscript of the New Testament, contains also extracts of Eulogius of Alexandria and of Hesychius?
... that Chilean-German pianist Alfredo Perl is the current conductor of the Detmold Chamber Orchestra?
... that elections of Superintendents of the Provinces of New Zealand were such exciting events that even the children of that time could remember it later in their adult lives?
... that, although doctors give it only a 10% success rate, smoking cessation educator Joel Spitzer encourages people to quit smoking cold turkey?
... that a fire on the French battleship Justice nearly caused an explosion similar to one that had destroyed one of her sisterships?

12:00, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

... that water is fresh in the western part of Lake Balkhash (pictured) and is saline in the eastern part?
... that the 15th Alabama Infantry is best known for being one of the regiments that confronted the 20th Maine on Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863?
... that Gunnar Sætren was manager for the Bandak-Norsjø Canal for sixteen years starting in 1891?
... that the Quebec Remparts won the 1971 Memorial Cup, Canada's junior hockey championship, after a playoffs marred by fan violence and threats against players by the Front de libération du Québec?
... that Louis F. Kosco sponsored "retaliatory legislation" in the New Jersey Senate to impose a commuter tax on New York residents who worked in the Garden State?
... that although the Italian battleship Impero was built in Genoa, it was moved to Trieste for completion?
... that the South Yuba Canal Office was the headquarters for the largest network of water flumes and ditches in California?
... that the male Pink-Striped Oakworm Moth attracts females by buzzing similar to a bee?

06:00, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

... that a coffee roasting plant has been built among the dairy farms historically located in the Coleman Station Historic District (landscape pictured) near Millerton, New York?
... that Montague Edward Smith, a Justice of the Common Pleas, was made both a Bencher and Treasurer of the Middle Temple, despite having been called to the Bar at a different Inn of Court?
... that an earthquake similar in size to the 1916 Irondale earthquake could cause nearly USD 1 billion in damage to cities of Alabama?
... that professional footballer James Caine's son Brian also played professionally?
... that the documentary film 9to5 – Days in Porn by Jens Hoffmann documents a year in the lives of members of the U.S. porn industry?
... that in English trusts law, beneficiaries of charitable trusts have no direct control?
... that Alanqa is a newly described pterosaur from Morocco which had a wingspan of up to six metres?
... that the configuration of the Sud-Est Grognard led to the aircraft being given the nickname "Hunchback"?

00:00, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the battleships of Spain included the smallest dreadnoughts ever built (España pictured)?
... that the popularity of the medieval historical work Gesta pontificum Anglorum, written by William of Malmesbury about 1125, pales besides that of its companion work the Gesta Regum Anglorum?
... that the Kolb Flyer ultralight aircraft is powered by two engines that only produce 11.5 horsepower (8.6 kW) each?
... that the animators of the video game company Amanita Design created the designs of puppets for the film Kooky?
... that the Messina Palace in Valletta, a residence of wealthy naval officers for centuries, was purchased by the German-Maltese Circle in 1989, with assistance from the Federal Republic of Germany?
... that as head coach in 2003, Scott Marr brought the Albany Great Danes men's lacrosse team to the NCAA tournament for the first time?
... that, at 115 metres (377 ft) tall, the ArcelorMittal Orbit observation tower, planned for the 2012 Summer Olympics, will be the United Kingdom's largest piece of public art to date?
... that Triaenops goodmani, an extinct bat from Madagascar, is known only from three lower jaws?

30 May 2010

18:00, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the North American XB-21 (pictured) outperformed its competitor for a U.S. Army Air Corps bomber contract, but lost on price?
... that English suffragette Olive Wharry was imprisoned in 1913 for an arson attack at Kew Gardens?
... that the emission spectrum of GRB 020813 confirmed the relation between supernovae and gamma-ray bursts?
... that American mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer created the role of the mother of Yueyang in Tan Dun's opera The First Emperor at the Metropolitan Opera in 2006?
... that Minuscule 714, the manuscript of the New Testament, contains also a fragment of Sentences of Peter Lombard?
... that director Vladimir Pogačić's 1951 film The Last Day is considered the first Yugoslav spy film?
... that Dean Martin's song "The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane" was a number-one in the United Kingdom but is omitted by the UK Singles Chart?
... that award-winning author Lois Duncan thinks that her novel Don't Look Behind You was a premonition of her daughter being killed by a hired gunman?

12:00, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Peter I Island (pictured) was the first land to be discovered south of the Antarctic Circle?
... that Frederick Booth-Tucker of The Salvation Army was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind medal in 1913 for his work among the poor of India?
... that the history of meditation is inherently intertwined with the religious context within which it was practiced?
... that Carmelita González, who earned $21 for her first film appearance, became a leading actress during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema?
... that Carlin–type gold deposit represent some of the largest hydrothermal gold deposits in the world?
... that in 1953, Austrian aerospace designer Ferdinand Brandner led a team that created the world's most powerful turboprop aircraft engine, the Soviet Kuznetsov NK-12?
... that the Action of 9 February 1799 fought between the frigates USS Constellation and L'Insurgente during the Quasi War was the first ever victory for the United States Navy?
... that Robert John Armstrong gave the benediction at a former farm boy's inauguration?

06:00, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Swahili name Shetani (carving pictured), for evil spirits carved by the Makonde people of East Africa, is a borrowing from the Arabic Shaitan, which comes from the same source as Satan?
... that the first prototype ConvAirCar crashed because its pilot read the wrong fuel gauge before takeoff?
... that Estonian-Jewish chemist Moses Wolf Goldberg earned the Habilitation degree in 1935 despite increasing xenophobia at ETH Zurich?
... that the bootlace tree and bootlace oak are found across Australia's dry interior?
... that actor Matt Damon guest starred in the season finale episode of 30 Rock "I Do Do" after learning he was at the top of series creator Tina Fey's guest star wish list?
... that as a result of her parents' divorce, Princess Alexandrine became the adopted daughter of her otherwise childless uncle Frederick William IV of Prussia?
... that derivatives of diamond-like compound adamantane are used as drugs against flu and Parkinson's disease?
... that Pythagoras, Kepler, and Galileo reside in a subway station under Cambridge, Massachusetts?

00:00, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

... that dermatologist Henry Radcliffe Crocker was the first doctor to try to diagnose the condition of the Elephant Man (pictured), suggesting that his condition was related to the nervous system?
... that during the Battle of Jutland, the German dreadnought SMS Posen accidentally rammed the light cruiser SMS Elbing, which had to be scuttled due to the damage?
... that a St. Petersburg Times investigation on deaths related to Scientology was recommended in an article of the Indiana International & Comparative Law Review?
... that the Old Nichol was a Cockney enclave and the East End of London's most notorious slum in Victorian times?
... that in 1976, Arkansas Republicans nominated for governor an unknown plumber, Leon Griffith of Pine Bluff, after a Minnesota Vikings football player declined the party's offer of support?
... that the fungus Epidermophyton floccosum can cause the diseases tinea pedis, tinea cruris, tinea corporis and onychomycosis?
... that American sociologist Mildred Parten developed a theory on children's stages of play?
... that in 1066, the Lutici sacrificed the head of a captured bishop to their deity?

29 May 2010

18:00, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

... that land diving (pictured), the precursor to bungee jumping, is done without any safety equipment by the men of Pentecost Island?
... that Odd Øyen, active in Norway's WWII resistance, later became the first non-Swede in many years to be decorated with the Order of Vasa for participation in the Congo Crisis?
... that the Dyott monoplane, built in London, was flown over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) in the United States during 1913, and would have been flown in India had it not been commandeered by the Admiralty in 1914?
... that theatre producer Fred O'Donovan worked with a range of people as diverse as Seán O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Peter O'Toole and Maureen Potter?
... that Kassian Cephas, a court photographer of the Yogyakarta Sultanate, was the first indigenous person from Indonesia to become a professional photographer?
... that the Italian ship Castore was commissioned as a gunboat, but was later redesignated as a barge, a minelayer, and a torpedo training vessel?
... that William Sharp, surgeon to paupers and a princess, commissioned a painting of his family playing music on a barge?
... that the crystal symmetry of melanophlogite changes depending on the guests trapped inside it?

12:00, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

... that thirty knights of Josselin Castle (pictured) defeated the same number from Ploërmel at the Battle of the Thirty?
... that over 100,000 people claim to have been at Thomond Park in 1978 when Munster became the only Irish rugby team to ever beat the All Blacks, although the stadium only had a capacity of 12,000?
... that HMS Erin, a Reshadieh class battleship, was flagship of the Nore reserve in 1919?
... that lesbian union organizer Mary Kay Henry was elected the first woman president of the Service Employees International Union on May 8, 2010?
... that Chard Museum in Somerset, England, includes a collection of early articulated artificial limbs?
... that Kenyan long distance runner Eliud Kiptanui went on to win the Prague Marathon after the Eyjafjallajökull eruption prevented him from traveling to the Vienna Marathon three weeks earlier?
... that the Saab 18 bomber could be fitted with a 57-millimetre (2.2 in) cannon under the nose for strafing missions?
... that the title track of Boogie Bill Webb's 1989 album, Drinkin' and Stinkin', was inspired by his encounter with three drunken women?

06:00, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Robert Deniston Hume (pictured), a late 19th-century salmon-cannery and hatchery owner on the lower Rogue River in the U.S. state of Oregon, referred to himself as a "pygmy monopolist"?
... that the 68.98-kg Welcome Nugget found in Ballarat, Victoria in 1858 was the largest gold nugget found, until eclipsed by the Welcome Stranger 11 years later?
... that Josephus, who provides the sole surviving account of the Siege of Yodfat, was not only a participant of the battle but in fact commanded Yodfat's defenders?
... that the Russian frigate General Admiral evacuated Cretan insurgents and their families in 1868 during the Cretan Revolt against the Ottoman Empire?
... that Al Martino had the first ever number-one single in the United Kingdom?
... that in 1911, pioneer aviator George Dyott made one of the first nighttime flights in his Deperdussin in Nassau, carrying a searchlight powered by cables to the ground?
... that typhoid adware infesting a victim's laptop may pump advertisements to "healthy" laptops close by in a wireless internet cafe without the victim's knowledge?
... that not only was Wong Yu (黃裕) the sole survivor of an airline crash, he was also the hijacker of the plane?

00:00, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the pyjama shark and the leopard catshark (pictured) ambush chokka squid by hiding in the squid's spawning grounds?
... that the American Chicago blues singer, harmonicist and songwriter, Golden "Big" Wheeler, got his enthusiasm for playing the harmonica when he was working as a taxicab driver?
... that Siobhán Parkinson recently became the first ever Laureate na nÓg?
... that New Jersey State Senator John P. Scott was described by The New York Times as "one of the most conservative Republicans in the Legislature"?
... that the Ottoman battleship Abdul Kadir was canceled and scrapped because its keel blocks had moved?
... that William Sharp, the first science teacher in a British public school, resigned in 1850 and later published papers on homeopathy?
... that it is estimated that 1.5 million Australians are descended from migrants who were received at the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre?
... that one of the duties of the medieval English justice Richard Herriard (d. 1208) was paying prostitutes for King John of England?

28 May 2010

18:00, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the listed buildings of Marbury cum Quoisley in Cheshire, England, include an obelisk, a lychgate (pictured), a churchyard wall, and half a bridge?
... that following his defeat at Neopatras, John Palaiologos led the remnants of his army in a 40-mile overnight ride to come to the aid of the Byzantine fleet and win the Battle of Demetrias?
... that the grasslands of the Ord River Floodplain are the only place in Western Australia where Zitting Cisticolas occur naturally?
... that Louisiana Creole jazz clarinetist Louis Cottrell, Jr. played Carnegie Hall in 1974?
... that Bogdan Žižić is the only film director whose first two feature films both won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film?
... that to prevent flooding on Colorado State Highway 74, 34-foot high walls were constructed along the road?
... that during the Battle of Pindus (1940), the Italian Julia Division, after its initial advance, was surrounded and virtually wiped out by the Greek Army?
... that the decision in R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Northumbria Police Authority was described by Robert Ward as opening "a Pandora's box – from which a host of evils were loosed upon the world"?

12:00, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Manusela National Park in Indonesia protects 14 endemic birds including the threatened Salmon-crested Cockatoo (pictured)?
... that Frim Frimodig played high school football with The Gipper and held Michigan State's single-game basketball scoring record for 35 years?
... that HMS Laura, captured by the French in 1812, became an American privateer, only to be recaptured by the British less than a year later?
... that Albert W. Barney received an award from a day school and retired after sitting on the bench?
... that 2⅓ miles (5.8 km) of Iowa Highway 316 form the border between Marion County and Warren County, Iowa?
... that Ole Jacob Broch founded Scandinavia's first life insurance company?
... that Beta Cassiopeiae is the brightest of the Delta Scuti variables in the sky?
... that each year on the Danish island of Bornholm, an artist is selected to have a street in the village of Østermarie named after him?

06:00, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Alabama land- and slave-owner Benjamin Ogle Tayloe (pictured), reputed to be America's richest man in 1860, lost a half million dollars during the American Civil War?
... that painter David Alfaro Siqueiros was denounced as a thief when he attempted to take a votive painting from a Mexican church?
... that in England's Premier League football competition, 14 players from 10 different clubs have won the Golden Boot award, given to the season's top scorer?
... that Emil John Mihalik, the first Byzantine Eparch of Parma, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?
... that 2006 high school boys basketball All-Americans included 24 McDonald's All-American Game selectees of whom about 22 are expected to play in the National Basketball Association?
... that Richard Baker Wingfield-Baker served as High Sheriff of Essex, Deputy Lieutenant of Essex, and Member of Parliament for South Essex?
... that the Lakes Argyle and Kununurra Ramsar Site sometimes holds up to 200,000 waterbirds, as well as large numbers of Freshwater Crocodiles?
... that Gooch Gauthier coached a "little band of Battling Bishops" to victory over the Michigan Wolverines in the 1928 season opener at The Big House?

00:00, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the black under-wing markings of the Letter-winged Kite (pictured) resemble an M or W?
... that within a period of 13 years, the Austro-Hungarian Navy succeeded in producing 13 battleships?
... that a lunar eclipse enabled Christopher Columbus to trick the indigenous people of Jamaica into resuming supplying food to him and his crew while they were stranded there?
... that the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in the Old English epic poem Beowulf?
... that historian Doris Mary Stenton helped revive the dormant Pipe Roll Society in 1922, and became its organizing secretary in 1923?
... that the Russian tanker Vandal was one of the first two diesel-powered ships in the world?
... that Peter Deinboll was decorated with both the British Distinguished Service Order and Bar and the Norwegian War Cross with Sword?
... that Mysterious Walker, who played for or coached more than 30 baseball, basketball and football teams, earned his nickname pitching for the San Francisco Seals under a pseudonym and wearing a mask?

27 May 2010

18:00, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

... that even though Gassed (pictured) was voted picture of the year by the Royal Academy of Arts, E. M. Forster considered it too heroic?
... that Denton Hall Turret is the easternmost surviving stretch of Hadrian's Wall?
... that geographer Yngvar Nielsen published a travel guide book in 1879, which played an important role in the development of tourism in Norway?
... that the Littlehead porgy fish has been described as one of the most brightly colored members of the porgy family, which contains well over 100 species in 37 genera?
... that a photograph of Wem Town Hall in Shropshire, England, taken during a fire, appears to show the ghost of a young girl standing amidst the flames?
... that the American Detroit blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, Bobo Jenkins, penned the politically motivated "Democrat Blues" on US Election Day in 1952?
... that the Hunterian Collection includes about 30,000 coins, the majority of which are Greek or Roman?
... that Boeing's Phantom Ray UCAV was kept a secret even within the company for almost two years?

12:00, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Hermes o Logios (pictured) was the longest-running Greek periodical prior to the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence (1821)?
... that Walter Conway's Tredegar Medical Aid Society was a model for Britain's National Health Service?
... that the Eastern Docklands in Amsterdam, which used to be an industrial harbor area, now attracts trendy professionals and young families with children?
... that bass Franz Kelch sang the role of Seneca in the first recording of Monteverdi's opera L'incoronazione di Poppea with Walter Goehr and the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich?
... that baseball player Miguel Fuentes, who threw the last pitch in Seattle Pilots history, was murdered at the age of 23?
... that after serving as personal assistant to Tom Cruise, Michael Doven became a film producer?
... that sultan Baybars divided the land of Ar'ara between two of his amirs in 1265–1266 CE?
... that the medieval poet Frithegod is best known for his Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi, a Latin poem on the life of St Wilfrid that's been called "one of the most difficult Latin poems written in pre-conquest England"?

06:00, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Nymphaea thermarum (pictured), the world's smallest water lily, was recently saved from extinction?
... that the resignation of Sri Mulyani Indrawati as finance minister of Indonesia caused its stock exchange to drop by 3.8% and its currency value to drop by 1%, and was the fourth most talked about topic in Twitter?
... that the Großes Torpedoboot 1913 class torpedo boat was the largest class of torpedo boats ever produced for the Kaiserliche Marine?
... that British shooter Matt Skelhon shot a perfect 600 score whilst winning a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?
... that between 2005 and 2008, EContentplus funded over 60 digital content projects ‎in the European Union, including DIGMAP and Communia?
... that bass singer Harry van der Kamp founded the Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam to perform madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck?
... that Gernot Bergold is considered the father of biochemical insect virology?
... that the directors of Blue Mont Central College had to offer the college's building and land to the state of Kansas three times before the state accepted it and converted it into Kansas State University in 1863?

00:00, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Spanish floating battery Duque de Tetuán (pictured) was considered a failure as a ship of war?
... that during the Middle Ages, a papal legate holding a legatine council outranked all other council attendees?
... that pitcher Amalio Carreño was ejected in his final Major League Baseball appearance?
... that species of the jelly fungus genus Tremella are parasitic on wood-rotting fungi?
... that Louisiana State Sen. Robert M. Marionneaux was the first white elected to campus government at historically black Southern University in Baton Rouge?
... that a hedge or topiary made of the lillipilli Syzygium smithii is more resistant to psyllids than other lillipillies are?
... that the Vilar Technology Center at Washington & Jefferson College was renamed the Technology Center, after its namesake reneged on a $18.1 million pledge to the college?
... that according to local tradition, the rental paid to the king for the Scottish castle and island of Fraoch Eilean was one snowball?

26 May 2010

18:00, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Pizzo Coca (pictured) was formed with a post-glacial valley?
... that when Bolivian veteran trade unionist Román Loayza Caero announced his presidential aspirations in 2009, the Unique Confederation of Rural Laborers of Bolivia (CSUTCB), which he had led for nine years, publicly denounced his candidature?
... that the 1992 College Baseball All-America Team included three future Major League All-Stars, two future Olympians and the Major League career recordholder for no-hitters caught?
... that George Osborne, in his first speech as the new British Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced a new independent Office for Budget Responsibility to take the politics out of economic forecasting?
... that the Bloch MB.480, despite proving successful in testing, was cancelled by the French Navy in favour of landplanes?
... that Charles de Condren (1588–1641) was the second superior of the Oratory of Jesus?
... that archaeologists found pottery shards at the Bowen site linking it to the Oliver Phase of woodland culture development?
... that in the Bancoult litigation, the English courts and government first decided that the Chagossians could return home, then that they couldn't, then that they could, and then that they couldn't?

12:00, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

... that according to the Hindu epic Mahabharata, the apsara Tilottama (pictured) was so beautiful that the god-king Indra developed a thousand eyes on his body to see her?
... that the destruction of over 150 million reis-worth of Nyassa Company stamps was ordered in 1895 by the Portuguese government because the stamps had been printed in England and not Portugal?
... that the medieval English royal administrator William of Wrotham (d. c. 1217) was responsible for the development of royal dockyards at Portsmouth?
... that the Wadi Qelt Synagogue located in Wadi Qelt west of Jericho, is the oldest synagogue in Israel that has been found to date?
... that John Kobs, Michigan State's first hockey coach, switched Baseball Hall of Famer Robin Roberts from a first baseman to a pitcher?
... that The Colm and Lucy Show began as a result of the death of Gerry Ryan, the presenter of The Gerry Ryan Show?
... that the Quebec-born Etienne Hastrel de Rivedoux helped to organize French military operations in the French Revolutionary Wars (1793–1801), the Napoleonic Wars (1805–1815), and the July Revolution (1830)?
... that Howl's album, Full of Hell is dedicated to people who were called 'fags', 'weirdos' and 'losers'?

06:00, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Édouard Manet's 1879 Self-Portrait with Palette (pictured) is expected to bring up to US$42.5 million at auction this June?
... that John Rinka, the eighth-highest scoring player in NCAA men's basketball history, scored 3,251 points in the era before the three-point line was instituted?
... that the Shcherbakov Shche-2 was used by the Soviet Air Force to resupply partisan forces during World War II?
... that Rocky Iaukea, a second generation American professional wrestler, is the son of King Curtis Iaukea?
... that in the documentary film Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy all eight Elm Street films are explored through interviews with over 100 members of the production team and cast?
... that the medieval English monk Adam of Eynsham wrote the Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis, one of the fullest and most trustworthy hagiographies from the Middle Ages?
... that the caterpillar of the moth Aglaope infausta can retract its head into its prothorax?
... that reading an issue of the magazine Reflex so seriously disturbed the wife of a former Czech Prime Minister that she had to be hospitalized?

00:00, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Roa–Hønefoss Line (Jevnaker Station pictured) was built to allow the Bergen Line to both connect to Oslo, Norway, and be built with standard gauge?
... that Louisette Bertholle was one of three authors of the seminal 1961 cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking, with Julia Child and Simone Beck?
... that Lectionary 241 belonged to Matthew Baillie, physician and pathologist, before it came to the Glasgow University Library?
... that Ike Davis, the New York Mets rookie first baseman, is the 197th son to follow in their father's footsteps and became a Major League Baseball player?
... the wedding featured in the 30 Rock episode "Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land" was filmed in Saint Cecilia's Catholic Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn?
... that the magazine Albania is regarded as a mini-encyclopedia of the Albanian culture of the early 20th century?
... that Nazi concentration camps relied on a hierarchical prisoner functionary system to both run the day-to-day camp operations and keep the prisoners divided and dependent?
... that Mien Ruys, a Dutch garden architect, started the fad of designing gardens using railroad ties (Dutch, bielzen), so much so that her nickname became Bielzen Mien?

25 May 2010

18:00, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Lectionary 239 and Lectionary 240 (pictured) once belonged to the chaplain of George III, then to William Hunter?
... that the last commander of the USS Oklahoma held that position for only 34 minutes?
... that the Louisiana state appeal court Judge H. Welborn Ayres wrote a history of his native Ashland, a village in northern Natchitoches Parish?
... that the only French soldier killed in the 1940 assault on the Maginot Line's Ouvrage Fermont is interred in its main gallery?
... that Luther Halsey Gulick, son of missionary Peter Johnson Gulick, had a son Luther Halsey Gulick who is in the basketball Hall of Fame, and a grandson also named Luther Halsey Gulick?
... that Nikephoros II Orsini was killed during the Battle of Achelous and his whole army was destroyed by Albanian forces, marking the end of the Orsini dynasty in the Despotate of Epirus?
... that Ciguli Miguli is a 1952 Yugoslav film that was banned for 25 years for its satire of socialist bureaucracy?
... that cricketers Charles Winter, Charles Winter, and Charles Winter all failed to make double-figure scores when batting on their first-class debuts?

12:00, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Cyrba spiders are said to be primitive because they retain characteristics that other jumping spiders (example pictured) lost?
... that SMS Westfalen led the retreat of the German High Seas Fleet from the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916?
... that Johnny Noble was the first Hawaiian composer to be inducted into the ASCAP?
... that Microgale macpheei is the only known recently extinct tenrec?
... that P. T. Barnum named English showman Tom Norman the "Silver King" because of his gift for putting on a show?
... that Obama Anak Menteng (Obama, the Menteng Kid), a novel about Barack Obama's childhood in Indonesia, was written in just four days?
... that while inspecting anemometers on the rooftop of the Bidston Observatory, John Hartnup Jr. "was seized with a fit of giddiness" and fell to his death?
... that the Giaconda Winery is named after the Mona Lisa?

06:00, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Ty Cobb (pictured) won more Major League Baseball batting titles than any other player, though the precise number is unclear?
... that Hugh Bardulf is one of the few justices mentioned by name in the Tractatus of Glanvill, an early medieval English legal text?
... that despite covering more than 50% of this planet's surface, abyssal plains are among the least explored regions on Earth?
... that Lucy Lambert Hale, the secret fiancée of Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, later married a United States Secretary of the Navy?
... that Pan Am and Norwegian Air Lines planned the first transatlantic scheduled airline service in 1936, but Pan Am backed out three weeks before the scheduled start, and instead ran a route further south?
... that the Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House in Washington, D.C., has been called the "Cream White House" and the "Little White House," and was once the headquarters for NASA?
... that Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers report ranked the United States 28th, citing a lifetime risk of maternal death six times greater in the U.S. than in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
... that John Law, bishop of Clonfert, Killala and Elphin, was a Second Wrangler?

00:00, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Chogyal established the first monastery (pictured) in Sikkim at Yuksom in 1701, which is part of a Buddhist pilgrimage circuit including Norbugang, Pemayangtse, Rabdentse, Sanga Choeling, Khecheopalri Lake, and Tashiding?
... that pictures from the photographic archive of Michael Ochs have been featured in practically every release by Rhino Records and Bear Family Records?
... that although two prototypes of the Interstate XBDR flying bomb were ordered, only a 1/17-scale model was ever built?
... that the last three New Zealand Open tournaments, the leading men's golf tournament in New Zealand, were played on Michael Hill's private golf course?
... that Stephen Gately's book The Tree of Seasons contains an introduction written by his husband describing his early life in one of "the poorest parts of Dublin City", "a place of civil unrest and terrorist activity"?
... that Doug Yasinsky and Brick Bronsky started their own Harrisburg-based wrestling league, International Pro Wrestling?
... that the floors in the Swanson Science Center at Washington & Jefferson College are overstabilized to protect the laboratories from vibrations due to an adjacent highway?
... that Ana María Canseco has posed dressed as Greta Garbo and wore a mustache?

24 May 2010

18:00, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

... that an Edinburgh judge and Member of Parliament had his wife, Lady Grange (pictured), kidnapped and effectively imprisoned for 13 years in remote parts of western Scotland?
... that Indian Rock Schoolhouse is the only one of 12 19th-century one-room schoolhouses remaining intact in Amenia, New York?
... that the thallium-rich mineral lorandite from the Allchar deposit is being used to determine the flux of solar neutrinos?
... that Mexican painter Gabriel Flores created a mural in 1967 honoring the child heroes who died in the Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican–American War?
... that though the pearl dace faces threats such as habitat destruction, invasive species, and overharvesting, it has not yet been listed as federally endangered in the United States?
... that the criminal syndicate known as Avalanche was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks in the second half of 2009?
... that World War II fighter pilot Nigel Cullen, who became an ace with 16 aerial victories, was nicknamed "Ape" for his imposing physique?
... that, while President of the American Statistical Association, Robert V. Hogg wore the name tag "Boss Hogg" after the character on the television series The Dukes of Hazzard?

12:00, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid (pictured) received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal on three separate occasions, for his actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, and the Battle of Attu?
... that breast cancer in men tends to be diagnosed later than breast cancer in women?
... that the medieval French monk Reginald of Canterbury wrote a long Latin epic poem on Malchus, a Syrian saint whose life was originally recorded by Saint Jerome?
... that the basalt of Malapai Hill is full of xenoliths of lherzolite brought up from the mantle?
... that design work on the Avro Canada CF-103 began before the aircraft it was supposed to replace entered service?
... that in order for the village of Millbrook, New York, to accept the donation of Thorne Memorial School, it had to incorporate?
... that Rotrou III of Perche was one of the first to go over the walls at the Siege of Antioch, a major action of the First Crusade?
... that the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon successfully navigated the "roaring forties", "furious fifties" and "screaming sixties" only to get wrecked on the rocks of Central California 500 feet (150 m) offshore?

06:00, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the farmhouse (pictured) at Lynfeld in Washington, New York, is built in a rough "C" shape, an unusual configuration for an Italianate-style building?
... that the British band Githead was originally formed in 2004 as a one-off live act to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Colin Newman's and Malka Spigel's record label Swim ~?
... that the medieval English clergyman Ralph Foliot donated 20 books to Hereford Cathedral on his death?
... that Heerfordt's syndrome affects 0.3% of patients afflicted with sarcoidosis?
... that in the recent UK election Nick Smith regained Blaenau Gwent for Labour, keeping a promise to the late Michael Foot?
... that a hurricane that struck Monterrey, Mexico, in 1909 resulted in the deaths of at least 4,000 people during the night of August 27?
... that Norwegian film critic Arne Hestenes, a one-time jury member of the Cannes Film Festival, was an honorary citizen of Cannes?
... that the documentary film Countdown to Zero, which analyzes the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons, has been privately screened for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton?

00:00, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Edward Griffin Hitchcock (pictured), son of missionary Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, was known as "the Holy Terror" while Sheriff of Hawaiʻi island?
... that to save money on the construction of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Amenia Union, New York, the congregants brought building materials to the site with their own horse teams?
... that Angela de la Cruz, Susan Philipsz, Dexter Dalwood and the Otolith Group were nominated for the 2010 Turner Prize?
... that in Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) an English court permitted the separation of two conjoined twins knowing that one would die?
... that photographer and artist Zoe Leonard's 1995 exhibition Strange Fruit (for David) featured discarded fruit skins sewn together and decorated?
... that the Tupolev ANT-37 bomber Rodina was used to set a flight distance record by an all-female crew in 1938?
... that the same cast members starred in Robert Altman's 1982 Broadway and film versions of Ed Graczyk's Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean?
... that the Monza ampullae are metal pilgrimage souvenirs from the Holy Land, dating to circa AD 600, and important in art history for their iconography?

23 May 2010

18:00, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Minuscule 699 (pictured) contains an unfinished treatise by Pseudo-Dorotheus, on the Seventy Disciples and the twelve Apostles?
... that Canadian nun Eulalie Durocher has been associated with the recovery of a man declared dead and sudden changes in the course of two fires?
... that the 1923 children's novel King Matt the First is as popular in Poland as Peter Pan is in the English-speaking world?
... that soprano Dorothee Mields sang solo and tutti in five cantatas composed for Pentecost by the prolific Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, a contemporary of Bach?
... that the Humble Indie Bundle, a week-long "pay what you want" charitable promotion from several independent video game developers, raised over $1 million?
... that despite being blind and unable to walk without assistance Joaquín Balaguer won 24.6% of the vote in the 2000 Dominican Republic presidential election?
... that the traditional crop of the Pacific island of Tuvalu, pulaka, is threatened by rising sea levels, and thus is their way of life threatened as well?
... that Giuliana Camerino named her Venetian fashion house Roberta di Camerino after the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Roberta?

12:00, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Holy Grail tapestries (detail pictured), depicting scenes from the legend of King Arthur, were designed by Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and John Henry Dearle?
... that soprano Adele Stolte recorded the Bach cantata for Pentecost Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172 with the Thomanerchor conducted by Erhard Mauersberger?
... that the first English translations of the works of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov were published by Breslov Research Institute more than 170 years after the Rebbe's death?
... that Albanian writer Jani Vreto was excommunicated by the Orthodox metropolitan of Gjirokastër, who accused him of having committed heresy by "creating an Albanian question"?
... that the horror short story compilation novel Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales won five major awards and was nominated for another?
... that Lectionary 226 of the New Testament, in some parts is a palimpsest, contains lessons from the Old Testament?
... that after the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, Napoleon predicted General Michel Ordener would die within five or six years—and although he retired, Ordener died in 1811?
... that the reed beds of Minsmere RSPB reserve, one of the UK's premier birdwatching sites, were established as a result of anti-invasion measures during World War II?

06:00, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

... that 26 gold Visigothic votive crowns, designed to be hung in a church (example pictured), were found in 1857 in the Treasure of Guarrazar?
... that Edith Hughes, considered Britain's first practising woman architect, was refused entry to the all-male Royal Institute of British Architects in 1927?
... that a recent gas outburst at a colliery in China led to death, poisoning, suspensions, sackings and the disappearance of one person?
... that there is only one surviving example of a coin struck at the Anglo-Saxon mint at Horndon-on-the-Hill?
... that in 1921 Oliver Winfield Killam, a Texas industrialist and former Oklahoma state legislator, launched the South Texas Oil Boom centered near Laredo?
... that the headscarf of the St. Lucian national costume can be tied to show the availability of the woman for courtship?
... that in the aftermath of the Kentucky gubernatorial election of 1899, one of the candidates was assassinated and another candidate was charged as an accomplice to the crime?
... that one archaeological site was discovered by groundhogs?

00:00, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the cathedral of the Lopushna Monastery (pictured) in northwestern Bulgaria, built in the 1850s, employs vernacular Gothic decorative features?
... that Charles Cornwallis, during his governorship in India, refused to blame General William Medows for his performance in the 1792 Siege of Seringapatam?
... that the 1991 College Baseball All-America Team included a future Major League All-Star, a future Olympic games gold medalist and the Major League career pinch hit RBI record holder?
... that Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley's poem "Little Orphant Annie" was first published in the Indianapolis Journal?
... that the design of the SECAT S-5 was based on that of an earlier aircraft, work on which the outbreak of World War II had disrupted?
... that Fay Boozman, as the state health director under Governor Mike Huckabee, managed the "Healthy Arkansas" initiative, including the fight against obesity?
... that voter turnout for the 2001 judicial reform referendum in Botswana was just 4.9%?
... that Shishupala Vadha, a Sanskrit epic poem by Magha, contains what has been called "the most complex and exquisite type of palindrome ever invented"?

22 May 2010

18:00, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the restoration of Lewis Mumford's house (pictured) in Amenia, New York, after his death actually made it more difficult to sell?
... that Gonzalo Aguirre Villafán, former president of the parliamentary Defense Committee of Bolivia, was educated in Israel?
... that Gold to Go offers 10-gram gold bars and custom pure gold coins for purchase from vending machines?
... that as a state senator in 1995, Jim Keet, the 2010 Arkansas Republican gubernatorial nominee, co-sponsored a law to raise safety standards for boating?
... that the nose of the F+W C-3605 had to be stretched by six feet (1.8 m) to balance its center of gravity?
... that Lithuanian-born Aldona Gustas co-founded an artistic forum in West Berlin, the "Berliner Malerpoeten", intended to attract individuals who both wrote and illustrated their works?
... that 18.6% of the Croatian A1 motorway's route between Zagreb and Split consists of tunnels, bridges, viaducts and similar structures?
... that due to Bhutanese tradition, which regards river convergence as inauspicious, there are three chortens built especially to ward off evil spirits at the point where the Paro Chhu converges with the Wong Chhu?

12:00, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Jean Ambroise Baston de Lariboisière (pictured) directed French artillery to fire on an ice-covered lake at the Battle of Austerlitz, helping to win the day for Napoleon?
... that the repertoire of the Japanese musical style danmono consists of eight pieces, all very similar in style?
... that Waddesdon Road railway station generated only £4 per year in passenger revenue before being taken over by the London Underground?
... that the existence of the mineral frankdicksonite was predicted before its discovery?
... that Kirt Bennett's Young Leaders Academy in Baton Rouge was cited for excellence on The Oprah Winfrey Show and George H.W. Bush's "National Points of Light"?
... that Les Éboulements is located in the centre of the Charlevoix crater in Quebec, and was named after a large landslide that occurred in 1663?
... that for creating a writing system for his Oromo language, Sheikh Bakri Sapalo was placed under house arrest in Dire Dawa by the Ethiopian government?
... that Stinking Roger can be found east of Albany to Esperance and beyond?

06:00, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

... that in order to refloat her after running aground off Finland in 1918, SMS Rheinland (pictured) needed 6,400 metric tons of equipment removed, more than a third of her normal displacement?
... that the cemetery at the former Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church near West Liberty, Ohio, includes graves of veterans of both the American Revolutionary War and World War II?
... that Canadian nun Émilie Gamelin was one of only 226 women who sought to vote at the 1832 Montreal West by-election?
... that a study in three Siberian towns found that 52% of deaths of people between the ages of 15 and 54 were due to alcoholism?
... that former Louisiana State Rep. Tommy G. Armstrong of Shreveport is particularly known for his opposition to video poker?
... that control of the Dunne D.6 was provided by a pair of levers, one for each of the pilot's hands?
... that remnants of a mill and dam, originally built in late Roman/early Byzantine period, can still be seen at the place of the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Mirr?
... that Bobby Weed is the co-founder of a non-profit organization that aids autistic children?

00:00, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

... that past and present churches in Hastings, East Sussex, include one in the middle of a wood, one on the beach for the fishermen, one on a "crazy site" and one (pictured) with "a very naughty turret"?
... that the German dreadnought battleship SMS Baden was the only capital ship not successfully sunk in the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919?
... that international wine critics fear that the Hochmoselbrücke will harm some of the best vineyards of the Mosel riesling?
... that in 2001, the Zaans Museum received a commendation at the presentation of the annual European Museum of the Year Award?
... that Parashqevi Qiriazi was only 11 when she started to work as an elementary teacher in "Shkolla e Vashave", the first Albanian School exclusively for girls, which opened in 1891?
... that The Headbangers were reunited during the Break The Barrier, a professional wrestling supercard in 1999?
... that Amos Starr Cooke ran the Royal School for the Kingdom of Hawaii before co-founding the Castle & Cooke corporation with Samuel Northrup Castle?
... that rodeo performer Bill Linderman was the first person to win three Rodeo Cowboys Association season championships in a year?

21 May 2010

18:00, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Black Honeyeater (pictured) eats charcoal from the ashes of campfires in Australia's outback?
... that the success of the Hot Latin Tracks number-one song, "Suavemente", was said to have been influenced by Elvis Crespo's son?
... that two stories explain the naming of Tres Palacios Bay in Texas; one of which involves a vision by shipwrecked Spaniards of vanishing palaces along the bay's shores?
... that near Calstone Wellington the Ridgeway meets the Wansdyke?
... that USNS Zeus was the first cable repair ship specifically built for the United States Navy?
... that Brain Drill's album Quantum Catastrophe is loosely based on the 2012 phenomenon?
... that during the 1910 London to Manchester air race, Claude Grahame-White's Farman III biplane was guarded by boy scouts, while he ate biscuits?

12:00, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Emmanouil Argyropoulos (pictured), the first Greek aviator to fly over his country, was also the first casualty suffered by Greek military aviation one year later during the Balkan Wars?
... that the mines of the Iberian Pyrite Belt have been active since before Roman times?
... that Lorette Wood served as both the first female city council member and the first female mayor of Santa Cruz, California?
... that before the birth of his first child, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma and his wife traveled to Paris to ensure their child was born on French soil?
... that Matagorda Bay in Texas was separated from East Matagorda Bay after local residents diverted the Colorado River to control flooding?
... that actress Eileen Beldon played a parlormaid in the 1938 film adaptation of Pygmalion?
... that the American Samoa Fono, the legislature of American Samoa, formed with the encouragement of Governor Vernon Huber?
... that German literary scholar Hans Ernst Schneider had himself declared dead so that he could marry his wife again?

06:00, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

... that 16-year-old Elena Myers (pictured) is the first female motorcyclist to win a race in the 76-year history of AMA Pro Racing?
... that no President could be elected for several weeks after the 2003 Nauruan parliamentary election due to the Parliament of Nauru being evenly split between three candidates?
... that Arturo Di Modica's Bund Bull was modelled after both Wall Street's Charging Bull and the Chinese zodiac's Ox?
... that in the Battle of Neopatras, a Byzantine army of about 30,000 was surprised and defeated by a force of 300–500 Latin knights?
... that people of Nova Scotia’s Bear River First Nation used to hunt porpoises for their livelihood?
... that Arkansas Atty. Gen. Bruce Bennett in his failed 1960 gubernatorial bid depicted Orval Faubus, the central figure of the 1957 Little Rock Central High School desegregation case, as a tool of the NAACP?
... that the Soviets considered converting several unfinished hulls of Tsarist battlecruisers to 22,000-long-ton (22,000 t) oil barges after the end of the Russian Civil War?
... that Sir Robert Howard was twice placed in the Fleet Prison after failing to explain to the Star Chamber why Lady Purbeck kept having children?

00:00, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the ecosystems of the Cham Islands (pictured) in Vietnam were recognized as a global Biosphere Reserve, the Cu Lao Cham Marine Park, by UNESCO on 26 May 2009?
... that during the Victorian era, orchid hunters often endured tropical diseases, wild animals, cannibalistic tribes, and competition amongst each other?
... that three different owners of mills at Bloomvale in Pleasant Valley, New York, defaulted on their mortgages and lost the mills to foreclosure?
... that the military efforts of the medieval English nobleman Gilbert de Lacy at Ludlow later became the basis of the medieval romance Fouke le Fitz Waryn?
... that the State of Florida has twice ordered Manatee Palms Youth Services to cease admissions due to unsafe conditions?
... that in a controversial 1988 referendum, the population of Sjöbo Municipality in Sweden voted in favor of banning Sjöbo from accepting foreign refugees?
... that several works by Romanian Symbolist poet D. Iacobescu, who died around the age of twenty, speak about his losing battle with tuberculosis?
... that Henry Willard purchased the Willard Hotel with gold coins because the U.S. Supreme Court told him to?

20 May 2010

18:00, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Volkspark Friedrichshain (pictured) is the oldest and second largest urban park in Berlin?
... that the song "Why Don't You Love Me", performed by Beyoncé, peaked at number one in the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart, though it was never released as single?
... that in Revelation, Jesus holds seven stars in his right hand, which has been viewed as an implicit critique of a coin of Domitian which depicts his infant son with seven stars?
... that the first Czech aviator, Jan Kašpar, made his first flight with Blériot XI in 1910?
... that due to the Becket controversy, from 1163 to 1173 no new bishops were appointed in England?
... that Théodore Chassériau's painting of his sister Aline Chassériau, now in the Louvre, was painted when he was 16 and she was 13?
... that at the time of its discovery in 2000, GRB 000131 was the most distant gamma-ray burst ever recorded?
... that the Navajo Nation Zoo was facing immediate closure after a visit by the gods in 1999?

12:00, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Bobby Moore Sculpture (pictured) was unveiled as the finishing touch to the new Wembley Stadium when it opened in 2007?
... that the Classic period Maya city of Punta de Chimino was one of the last cities to survive the political collapse of the Petexbatún region of Guatemala?
... that Don Coleman was the first Michigan State football player to have his number retired, the Spartans' first African-American coach, and the first African-American teacher at Flint Central?
... that the Hotel Pulitzer in Amsterdam is built from 25 historic canal houses, dating to the 17th and 18th century?
... that Jonita Lattimore performed at the opening weekend at the current homes for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and the Grant Park Music Festival?
... that one of the first acts of the Second World War on the continent of North America was the seizure of the German cargo ship Christoph Van Doornum by the Sheriff of Botwood?
... that conductor Fritz Werner and trumpeter Maurice André collaborated on choral works of Bach and on music of Werner himself?
... that cool flames knock car engines?

06:00, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the painting The Toilette of Esther (pictured) by Théodore Chassériau depicts Esther preparing to be presented to King Ahasuerus, ruler of Persia, who subsequently took her as his wife?
... that Józef Kowalczyk served longer in one country than any other apostolic nuncio?
... that the Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos, in Mexico City, provides more than 85 million public transport rides annually, using exclusively electric trolleybuses and light rail cars?
... that Guillaume Beneman was one of several prominent late 18th-century Parisian ébénistes of German extraction, including the royal cabinetmaker Jean Henri Riesener?
... that Lindsey Hunter was the oldest player in the National Basketball Association until he was dropped by the Chicago Bulls?
... that the 2010 ANZAC Test, a rugby league match between Australia and New Zealand, was the first event to be held at Melbourne's AAMI Park?
... that State Rep. Bryan Pedersen of Cheyenne has proposed that Wyoming invest 80 percent of its permanent minerals and land accounts into private equities and hedge funds?
... that the rice rat Transandinomys talamancae has three digits on its penis, of which the middle is longest?

00:00, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Delamere Forest (pictured) is the remnant of the Norman hunting forests of Mara and Mondrem, which once covered over 60 square miles (160 km²) of Cheshire, England?
... that singer Jimmy Hughes recorded his 1964 hit "Steal Away" in one take?
... that Lectionary 228 very often interchanges the letters "omicron" and "omega"?
... that a fire station at the Louisiana State University Fireman Training Center is named in honour of former Louisiana state fire marshal V.J. Bella?
... that Karma Gon Monastery, the original monastery of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, was founded in the 12th century by Düsum Khyenpa, the first Karmapa Lama?
... that Sellas Tetteh's Ghana under-20 team was the first African team to win the FIFA U-20 World Cup, in 2009?
... that American singer, songwriter and record producer The Mighty Hannibal once sang with members of The Pips, and was later known for the song "Jerkin' the Dog"?
... that Lincoln City was the first club to reach 100 seasons in the Football League without ever playing in the top division?

19 May 2010

18:00, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the first United States postage stamp that depicted a space vehicle (pictured) was issued in 1948?
... that James Dampier Palmer accepted the Stewardship of the three Chiltern Hundreds?
... that friction stir processing can make aluminum alloys into superplastics?
... that Nationaltheatret Station, which is located within the Oslo Tunnel and serves all lines of the Oslo Commuter Rail, is Norway's only underground mainline railway station?
... that Indian anthropologist Nirmal Kumar Bose, also a scholar on Mahatma Gandhi, did not agree with Gandhi's practice of active sexual celibacy?
... that the 17 buildings with Category A listed status in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, include a glass cone?
... that after Father Knows Best ended, actor Billy Gray devoted his later interest to riding and collecting motorcycles?
... that buses used on Burnley & Pendle bus route X43 are named after the Pendle witches?

12:00, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

... that between 1924 and 1975, Oslo Sporveier took over all operators of the Oslo Tramway (SL95 tram pictured)?
... that American actor John C. Becher appeared in both the original 1966 production and the 1983 revival of Mame?
... that the mosaic floor of the Maon Synagogue shows the steps in ancient wine making?
... that Petro Marko is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern Albanian prose?
... that after the first rally of the People's Committee to Protect Ukraine, participants complained of being hassled by the police in an attempt to limit the number of partakers in the rally?
... that Thomas Gisborne Gordon is the only one-handed rugby football player to ever have been capped at international level?
... that the German blockade runner Doggerbank was mistakenly sunk by U-43 in March 1943, with all but one of the crew lost at sea?
... that the Independent Film Channel's list of the 25 scariest moments in non-horror movies includes Large Marge, a role played by Alice Nunn in Tim Burton's film Pee-wee's Big Adventure?

06:00, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center (entrance pictured) is located in the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated?
... that the Tarporley Hunt Club, founded in 1762, is the oldest surviving hunt club in England?
... that Hyron Spinrad discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of Mars, and was the first astronomer to identify a galaxy with a redshift greater than one?
... that the Habeas Corpus Parliament succeeded the Cavalier Parliament?
... that Lady Gaga's song "Dance in the Dark" is about a girl who likes to have sex with the lights off because she is embarrassed about her body?
... that Tonda Wildlife Management Area is the largest protected area in Papua New Guinea?
... that Roman Emperor Majorian issued a law that imposed a minimum age of 40 years to women who wanted to take religious vows?
... that HMS Centurion pretended to be HMS Anson during Operation Vigorous?

00:00, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

... that moments after Faisal Shahzad's failed 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt, a surveillance video caught images of him walking through Shubert Alley (pictured)?
... that Vesla Vetlesen became a government minister for Norway's Labour Party in 1986, thirty years after renouncing communism and joining the party together with her husband Leif Vetlesen?
... that apart from being a folk musician and painter, Heber Bartolome was an active lobbyist for the rights of Filipino composers?
... that two of the eight German Type IXA submarines, U-37 and U-38, were to eventually become the 6th and 10th most successful U-boats in World War II?
... that during the 1988–89 NBA season, the Washington Bullets had both a center named Charles Jones and a forward named Charles Jones?
... that the pictured rove beetle lives in the intertidal zone and feeds on beach hoppers?
... that Epenow, the Wampanoag slave who tricked his English captors into returning him home, is thought to be the basis of the "strange indian" mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry VIII?
... that when not in use, a Halkett boat's hull could be worn as a cloak or used as a blanket, its oar used as a walking stick and its sail as an umbrella?

18 May 2010

18:00, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

... that when the Dungtse Lhakhang (pictured) in Paro, Bhutan, was restored in 1841, the donors were thanked by etching their names on tree trunks which form the columns of the ground floor?
... that after the death of Sangamitta, the daughter of Emperor Ashoka, observances were held in her honor throughout Sri Lanka for one week?
... that Antony Grey, who died at the end of April, became Stonewall Hero of the Year in 2007, to mark the 40th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK in which he was instrumental?
... that JCall, a new Middle East advocacy group along the lines of J Street, is founded to lobby the European parliament for a resolution to the Middle East conflict?
... that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case J.S. v. Bethlehem Area School District found the district could expel a student for making a website mocking his teacher, even though he made it outside school?
... that police sergeant Ole Barman served two years as theatre director at Det Norske Teatret?
... that the former Ouvrage Vélosnes of the Maginot Line, a French fortification constructed in the 1930s, is now a protected habitat for bats?

12:00, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the China Aviation Museum (pictured) is located in an underground bunker and includes a replica of the Wright Flyer?
... that "Telethon" was the first episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation to be written by star Amy Poehler?
... that Estonia attempted to re-establish independence before the Soviets reoccupied the Baltic states in 1944?
... that before becoming senior editor at Reason magazine, Michael C. Moynihan was a fellow at the free-market think tank Timbro?
... that despite heavy European and other influences, Mexican pottery and ceramics still retain indigenous elements?
... that Thomas John McDonnell consecrated Marist College's altar with the relics of two martyrs?
... that the currently operating railway lines in Norway have 2487 bridges and 695 tunnels?
... that the Emerald Valley Golf Club in Creswell, Oregon, was once owned by a timber products company and later by Arnold Palmer?

06:00, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the World Cup Sculpture (pictured), celebrating England's 1966 FIFA World Cup Final victory, was criticised for not looking like the players involved?
... that the World War II novel Cry Slaughter! by Filipino author Edilberto K. Tiempo was described by Robin Winks and James R. Rush as "one of the few books that mingle melodrama and style"?
... that in 2009 Linda King sold 60 letters from her former lover, author Charles Bukowski, for $69,000?
... that the Tupolev ANT-21 was rejected by the Soviet Air Force because it was not armed with recoilless rifles?
... that the final episodes of New York: A Documentary Film aired just weeks after the September 11th attacks, prompting director Ric Burns to produce an additional three-hour episode focusing on the World Trade Center?
... that almost 2,500 gullgubber have been found at Sorte Muld, on the island of Bornholm in Denmark?
... that the GCHQ case was the first case to hold that exercises of the Royal Prerogative were subject to judicial review?
... that singer-songwriter Azalia Snail was dubbed the "Queen of lo-fi"?

00:00, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the crew of Russian cruiser Gromoboi (pictured) suffered heavily during the Battle off Ulsan because their captain ordered his gunners to remain at their guns even when they were out of range?
... that seventeen-year-old rock guitarist Desireé Bassett has been called "the future of rock and roll"?
... that Lectionary 232, a manuscript of the New Testament, was variously dated in the past?
... that Helge Hansen, a WW2 sabotage leader in the Stavanger district in 1944, also took part in the anti-demolition operation Sunshine in 1945?
... that the branched shanklet is a mushroom that grows on the decomposing remains of other mushrooms?
... that the aerodynamic work of Hans Multhopp on lifting bodies assisted in the design of the Space Shuttle?
... that Hylli i Dritës is regarded as one of the most important Albanian magazines of the early 20th century?
... that a reviewer described each successive solo album by Bob Drake as "a more twisted aural journey than the previous one"?

17 May 2010

18:00, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

... that astronomer Ben Gascoigne (pictured) discovered that the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbours, the Magellanic Clouds, are twice as far away as first thought?
... that Majbølle Mølle was officially opened in 1988 by Prince Henrik of Denmark after its restoration?
... that Jenaro Flores Santos was the first peasant organizer to lead the Bolivian national trade union centre COB?
... that shells of Amphidromus were among the first Indonesian land snails brought to Europe?
... that the Lhuentse Dzong suffered serious damage during a 2009 earthquake that measured 6.1 on the Richter scale?
... that "Happy Jack" Fellows, a prisoner of war for six-and-a-half years during the Vietnam War, was awarded the Silver Star for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while interned"?
... that former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos used the Filipino term Maharlika as a nom de guerre until his World War II exploits as a guerrilla soldier were proven false in 1985?
... that the hull of the Russian imperial yacht Livadia was compared to a pancake, a turtle, and a pair of soup plates?

12:00, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the British Courageous class battlecruiser HMS Courageous (pictured after aircraft carrier conversion) was damaged when her forecastle deck buckled during her sea trials while running at full speed in a rough head sea?
... that 17-year-old Selena Gomez replaced 42-year-old Nicole Kidman as the lead in the film Monte Carlo?
... that De Bullemolen, Lekkum, was one of the first windmills in Friesland fitted with sails that had leading edges using the Fok system?
... that MASA, formed in 1959, was the second-largest manufacturer of buses in Mexico when it was acquired in 1998 by Volvo?
... that Sports Illustrated described the Jewish Sports Review as "tireless in its service mission" to report on the activities of Jewish athletes?
... that Edward Francis Small was the first Gambian to be elected to the country's legislative council?
... that the name of the liverwort genus Ptilidium comes from the Greek word ptilidion for "small feather", a reference to the plant's "feathery" appearance?
... that in Edgar Degas' painting Young Spartans Exercising, the four women in the foreground share ten legs?

06:00, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

... that a specimen of the bioaccumulator fungus Sarcosphaera coronaria (example pictured) was found to contain the highest concentration of arsenic ever reported in a mushroom?
... that both the textile mills and residence of Nathan Wild, a prominent local figure in Columbia County, New York, are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that British skier Russell Docker has competed at the Winter Paralympics on three occasions after being paralysed in a 1995 accident?
... that the Neely-Sieber House in Lima, Ohio, changed hands after the violent death of its oil baron owner?
... that "94 Meetings", an episode of NBC's comedy Parks and Recreation, featured the return of several actors who had previously appeared in the series, such as Alison Becker and Susan Yeagley?
... that Thomas Edison hailed George de Bothezat's rotorcraft, the "Flying Octopus", as "the first successful helicopter"?
... that eruptions from Mahogany Mountain, a caldera volcano, produced rock formations in Leslie Gulch over 15 million years ago?
... that General Charles Gordon believed that the Coco de Mer nut was the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?

00:00, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Royal Armouries museum describes the 68-pounder (pictured) as the finest smoothbore gun ever produced?
... that Deandra Dottin scored the first century in a women's Twenty20 International, making 112 not out in the opening match of the 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20?
... that Bulgarian music television channel MM Television, which operated between 1997 and 2010, was managed by comedian Kamen Vodenicharov?
... that Sewall Pettingill studied the last three Heath Hens, and later assisted in filming four Walt Disney nature films, one of which won an Academy Award?
... that Herculine Barbin, a collection of memoirs written by a hermaphrodite, inspired Jeffrey Eugenides to write Middlesex, which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
... that the U.S. Army Air Corps cancelled the Douglas XP-48 because its performance figures seemed to be too good to be true?
... that the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" took place during a Major League Baseball tie-breaker?
... that British track cyclist Barney Storey won a gold medal at the 2008 Paralympics within an hour of his wife Sarah winning one?

16 May 2010

18:00, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Russian Rear-Admiral Andrei Alexandrovich Popov (pictured) designed two circular battleships and a yacht for the Romanovs?
... that tens of thousands of people were executed for witchcraft in Europe and the American colonies?
... that Pavant Butte in Utah probably formed in an eruptive sequence similar to the 1963 eruption of Surtsey?
... that before Michael Fingleton became CEO of the Irish Nationwide Building Society, he was the chairman of Irish aid agency Concern?
... that Matt Kilroy struck out more batters in a season than anyone else in Major League Baseball history, yet does not hold the single-season strikeout record?
... that the dwarf cabbage tree (Cordyline pumilio) was consumed by the Maori as a relish?
... that in 1974 the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the state's criminal libel law in a case involving controversial Sharp County newspaper editor Joseph H. Weston?
... that the Turkmen Carpet Museum in Ashgabat has the world's largest hand-woven carpet, recognized by Guinness World Records?

12:00, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Metropolitan Block (pictured) is the best-preserved building of the Lima, Ohio, oil boom of the late 19th century?
... that during the Balkan Wars, Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane?
... that Bob Valesente has coached football for the Kansas Jayhawks, Baltimore Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers and Frankfurt Galaxy?
... that the Kuri Chhu river in hilly Bhutan provides opportunities for both kayaking and rafting?
... that Pill Hill, Chicago, is the setting of the play Pill Hill that debuted at the 1990 Yale Repertory Theatre Winterfest?
... that in the mid-1700s, inns made up an estimated one-third of the buildings in Tvrđa, a Habsburg fort that forms part of the city of Osijek in Croatia?
... that the long-finned goby is a tropical, demersal and amphidromous fish that is found in the waters of the Indo-West Pacific and Western Pacific regions?
... that British World War I hero Gilbert MacKereth was almost removed from his grave in San Sebastián due to unpaid burial taxes?

06:00, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the University of Chicago's new athletic home, Gerald Ratner Athletics Center (pictured), is a suspension structure supported by masts, cables and counterweights?
... that Norway's 93 km (58 mi) long Numedal Line was built to aid the construction of hydroelectric power stations?
... that the snail Bathynerita naticoidea lives in oil seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico?
... that Thomas Greenhill, surgeon to the 7th Duke of Norfolk, was the last of his mother's 39 children?
... that in 1939, excavations beneath John Mackintosh Square in Gibraltar for an air-raid shelter revealed no signs of any foundations, suggesting it has always been an open square?
... that Francis Ley is credited with introducing baseball to England with the Derby County Baseball Club?
... that Jedward dream of performing alongside Eminem, Muse and Arcade Fire at Oxegen 2010?
... that Patrick Manogue was a miner '49er and sat on a bishop's chair?

00:00, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Phil Packer (pictured), who was rendered paraplegic in 2008 by a rocket attack while serving in the Iraq War, has since rowed the English Channel, climbed El Capitan, and completed two London Marathons?
... that the 1909 Grand Isle hurricane, which killed more than 370 people, is the eleventh deadliest tropical cyclone in US history?
... that the historic Samson Pit silver mine in the Harz Mountains of Germany was, for a long time, the deepest mine in the world?
... that Lady Gaga loaned her costume designer to the American television series Glee for the episode "Theatricality"?
... that the manhwa Recast was published not just in Korean, but also in German, French, and American English?
... that al-Mazar, a village depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War, was the burial site of many fallen soldiers in a 1260 battle in which Egyptian forces halted the Mongol raids into Palestine?
... that The Burnett Center academic building at Washington & Jefferson College is adorned with cast iron fleur-de-lis balusters that were salvaged from the former Hays Hall dormitory?
... that the 1982 play Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn includes 31 scenes, 16 possible endings, 10 characters, and 8 major plot variations, all performed by only 2 actors?

15 May 2010

18:00, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the meaning of the circles in Rembrandt's painting Self Portrait with Two Circles (pictured) has been the subject of much speculation?
... that following his death in 1943, Ch. My Own Brucie, an American Cocker Spaniel, was described as the most photographed dog in the world?
... that Hulda Shipanga, the first black Namibian nurse promoted to the rank of matron, attended to the wounded at the Old Location Uprising in 1959 when white doctors refused to treat them?
... that apple seed oil has long been used for soap in Africa and India?
... that the Kapchagay Reservoir in Almaty Province, Kazakhstan, was responsible for reducing the water level of Lake Balkash by roughly 7 feet (2.2 metres) in depth?
... that Barbara Hammer's Tender Fictions, one of a documentary trilogy on LGBT histories, focuses on the "constructedness" of the self?
... that Teluk Cenderawasih National Park is the largest marine national park in Indonesia?
... that the Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters was a showcase for the company's aluminum products, using aluminum thread in carpets and drapes?

12:00, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Rear-Admiral Ernest Troubridge (pictured) was court-martialled for his failure to successfully engage the German warships SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau?
... that the builder of the Hugh T. Rinehart House was a county commissioner of Auglaize County, Ohio?
... that Arnaud Gonzalez was a member of the France team that won the UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship in 1996?
... that the Grumman XTSF was the only aircraft design ever designated as a torpedo scout by the U.S. Navy?
... that acoustic paramagnetic resonance was independently predicted by Semen Altshuler and Alfred Kastler in 1952?
... that former Louisiana State Senator Joe LeSage was a quarterback for the LSU Tigers and at the age of 27 was named to the LSU Board of Supervisors?
... that when Mazra'a was one of the Viftlik estates of the Galilee governor Daher al-Omar, it was exempt from paying taxes to the Ottoman Empire?
... that one of Sir Henry Firebrace's escape plans for Charles I of England failed when the king got stuck in a window frame?

06:00, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the White Horse Temple (pictured) is, according to tradition, the first Buddhist temple in China, established in Luoyang in 68 AD?
... that the Bronzeville Children's Museum is the only African American children's museum in the United States?
... that Yevgeny Zavoisky discovered electron paramagnetic resonance in 1944, but missed nuclear magnetic resonance three years earlier?
... that Shirley Davidson, an ice hockey player who had won the Stanley Cup three times in the 1890s, was alleged to have committed suicide with his fiancée after his father refused them permission to marry?
... that in 1961 snack manufacturer Verkade, to attract female workers, was one of the first Dutch companies to open its own day care facility?
... that Sir Thomas Troubridge lost his right leg and left foot at the Battle of Inkerman, but refused to leave the field until the battle had been won?
... that millions have visited the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame, including one who knelt in front of the flame, fell, and burned to death?
... that Capitol Records initially refused to release Merle Haggard's song "Irma Jackson", which is about an interracial relationship, because they felt it would hurt Haggard's image?

00:00, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Polydorus (pictured being killed by Polymestor), son of Priam, features in Euripides' Greek tragedy Hecuba, Virgil's Roman epic The Aeneid and Homer's Iliad?
... that members of the Philo Literary Society at Canonsburg Academy would cover the windows with their cloaks to prevent onlookers, because secret societies were presumed to be tied to freemasonry or witchcraft?
... that after appropriate treatment for limb infarction, approximately 70 percent of infarcted arms and legs remain alive and vital after six months?
... that the name of 14th century Scotsman Paul Mactire probably means "Paul the Wolf" rather than "Paul, son of Tire"?
... that the engine of the Capella Javelin ultralight aircraft was controlled using a motorcycle-type throttle?
... that the only Japan Series MVP to also win a World Series MVP is Hideki Matsui?
... that Fred Thompson, who wrote the book for many hit musical comedies between World War I and World War II, once had three shows running on Broadway simultaneously?
... that as a wedding present, Pedro Romero de Terreros, the first Count of Regla, gave his bride two dresses covered with diamonds?

14 May 2010

18:00, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the hunting lodge at Bykenhulle (pictured) in East Fishkill, New York, can be entered only by turning a carved liquor bottle on the door to "pour" into a nearby shot glass, revealing a peephole?
... that on his 75th birthday Sir D'Arcy Power was presented with a record of 609 of his "selected writings" by a special committee of the Osler Club?
... that the 1970 New Guinea earthquake killed fifteen people on Halloween?
... that Malik Zulu Shabazz, the leader of the New Black Panther Party, was given the "Young Lawyer of the Year" award by the U.S. National Bar Association?
... that a Dunne D.8 flew from Eastchurch to Villacoublay, crossing the English Channel, in August 1912?
... that the Battle of Rafah was the last major military engagement in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
... that the reality television series Junior Apprentice was delayed until after the 2010 United Kingdom general election because of the BBC's political impartiality regulations?
... that Wooden Leg didn't have one?

12:00, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Somerset and England Under-19 wicket-keeper Jos Buttler (pictured) was named as the 2010 Young Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year?
... that some solids can reversibly transform between the covalent and molecular forms?
... that Kenn Kaufman was the youngest person ever to be awarded the Ludlow Griscom Award by the American Birding Association?
... that the lake sediments at Thomsons Lake are 30–40,000 years old, the oldest found in Western Australia?
... that on September 9, 1949, Albert Guay blew up a Douglas DC-3 over Sault-au-Cochon in Quebec, Canada, killing 23 people, in order to kill his wife and collect insurance money?
... that as the first Governor of American Samoa following World War II, conversion of the Samoan economy to a pre-war state was Ralph Hungerford's top priority?
... that Texas A&M football coach Harry Stiteler resigned in 1951 after admitting he had misrepresented the facts about being beaten by a stranger near a Houston hotel?
... that the Magic Fountain of Montjuïc in Barcelona was built on the site of four columns representing Catalan nationalism?

06:00, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Catalan Atlas (pictured), one of the most important maps of the medieval period, was made by Abraham Cresques, who belonged to the Majorcan cartographic school, in 1375?
... that Åge Hadler won the first individual World Championship title in men's orienteering, in 1966?
... that the Babcock-Macomb House was the first built in Washington, D.C.'s new Massachusetts Heights neighborhood, and later became the embassy of Cape Verde?
... that where the legal maxim of iura novit curia applies, the parties to a legal dispute do not need to plead or prove the law that applies to their case?
... that eleven men survived a fire during construction of the North River Tunnels by breathing through a hacked air pipe 500 feet from the Shippen Street shaft?
... that William Wingfield was Chief Justice of Brecon Circuit before becoming Master in Chancery?
... that the song "42" by Coldplay took its name from one of Chris Martin's favourite numbers?
... that Elmer H. Inman married the daughter of the warden of his first prison?

00:00, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

... that although the Apostles' Creed states that Jesus (pictured) is sitting at the right hand of God the Father, the New Testament also depicts him as standing and walking?
... that the artist Arthur Nahl was the first elected Leader of the San Francisco Olympic Club?
... that Boronia imlayensis is found only on one ridgetop in Mount Imlay National Park in far southern New South Wales?
... that the Cameron Ram-type Blowout Preventer was the first successful blowout preventer for oil wells?
... that at the United Kingdom general election on 6 May 2010 Helen Grant became the first black female candidate to be elected as a Conservative MP?
... that the Museum of Vuk and Dositej is the oldest preserved residential building in Belgrade, Serbia?
... that about one million people were affected by floods in the Kamala and other rivers in northern Bihar in India in 2003?
... that for the last two decades of his artistic career, American abstract painter John McLaughlin did not use curves in his paintings?

13 May 2010

16:00, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Admiral-class battlecruiser Hood (pictured) escorted British merchantmen into Bilbao in 1937, even though the Nationalist cruiser Almirante Cervera was attempting to blockade the port?
... that the tenor Kurt Huber sang the Evangelist in Bach's Ascension Oratorio Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11, composed for the feast of the Ascension of 275 years ago?
... that the 2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team features an incoming class with the sons of two former National Basketball Association players, one of whom is the younger brother of a current one?
... that Portbury Ashlands is a new nature reserve on the site previously used to dump the waste from Portishead power stations?
... that the B-side of Jimmy Buffet's single "The Great Filling Station Holdup" did not air on country radio because of the word "screw"?
... that the South Park episode "Crippled Summer" featured several mentally handicapped children meant to resemble Looney Tunes cartoon characters?
... that the Royal Columbian Hospital, the oldest hospital in British Columbia, was built in 1862 during a Gold Rush for $3,396 by the Corps of Royal Engineers and a chain gang?
... that although Sally Wister's Journal was written as a series of letters in 1777–78, the addressee of the letters did not receive them until 1830?

08:00, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

... that architect Gregory Henriquez designed the central stair in the redevelopment of Woodward's building (pictured) in Vancouver like a giant umbilical cord, symbolising the rebirth of the site?
... that for the year 2004, Kaare Frydenberg was the highest paid leader of a Norwegian fully state-owned company?
... that if an election court in the United Kingdom finds someone guilty of a corrupt practice, they are prevented from voting or holding elected office for five years?
... that the Basilica of San Albino was established in Mexico, but is currently located in New Mexico?
... that the New York Central's engines 1290 and 1291 operated for more than 55 years on a single 62-mile (100 km) branch line in southwestern Ontario?
... that Dutch painter Willem Thibaut made the cartoons for the two stained-glass windows in the Sint Janskerk in 1570?
... that two ships of the German Type 1936B destroyer class, Z35 and Z36, both sank after hitting "friendly" mines on the same day in the Gulf of Finland?
... that Morganna, the Kissing Bandit, originally wanted to be a nun but ran away from school at the age of 13 to become an exotic dancer and legendary kisser of baseball players?

00:00, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

... that George Clavering-Cowper (pictured) went on a Grand Tour and, despite becoming an earl and an M.P., he stayed in Florence and became a prince?
... that the Romanesque Revival St. John's Catholic Church fills an entire city block in Delphos, Ohio?
... that Chinese writer Shi Tiesheng was paralyzed at age 21 while he was a zhiqing?
... that Planet Earth Live is a BBC nature documentary that will premier with orchestral accompaniment in large cities throughout the United States during the 2010 summer?
... that Paula Bauersmith appeared in the original Broadway productions of Bury the Dead, Sail Away, and Breakfast at Tiffany's?
... that Unicorns, an unpaid English cricket team made up of out-of-contract professionals and aspiring youngsters, was created to take part in the 2010 Clydesdale Bank 40 competition?
... that the Rihanna song "Breakin' Dishes" is about a woman exacting revenge on her unfaithful husband?
... that when transferred from Lincoln City to Leicester City for £27,500 in 1954, English footballer Andy Graver was said to be "afraid of the responsibility of living up to such a big price tag"?

12 May 2010

16:00, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the battleship USS Recruit (pictured) was built in New York City's Union Square?
... that Straight Up is the newest book by Joseph J. Romm, whom Time magazine called "The Web's most influential climate-change blogger"?
... that the Guangzhou destroying angel has fatally poisoned almost 30 people since the year 2000?
... that a September 1922 typhoon spawned waves that covered the 56-meter (184 ft)-high Mizunokojima Lighthouse?
... that Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport, a military airfield from which former American POWs were released during Operation Homecoming, is slated to become a fully functional civilian airport by 2015?
... that Forrestdale Lake used to be an important tortoise hunting site?
... that Albert B. Wohlsen, Jr. was only into a few weeks of his tenure as mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when he had to deal with fallout from the Three Mile Island accident?
... that following the wide usage of A.C.E. mixture as an anesthetic, one doctor found patients were more relaxed when he used Eau de Cologne and chloroform for dental operations?

08:00, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Burnham-on-Sea has had three lighthouses; the Round Tower, High Lighthouse and Low lighthouse (pictured), but only the last, the smallest, is still operating?
... that Provenge is the first vaccine approved by the FDA for cancer treatment?
... that Jack L. Rives became the first Judge Advocate General in any branch of the U.S. military to hold the rank of Lieutenant general?
... that the Arab village of Sulam is identified with the ancient Shunama mentioned in the 14th century BCE Amarna letters, and with biblical Shunem?
... that Cameron's Line is a suture fault in the Northeast United States formed by the Taconic orogeny around 450 mya?
... that the rice rat Transandinomys bolivaris is characterized by very long whiskers, up to 5 cm (2 in) in length?
... that Joseph Breitenbeck was sued by a parish church for implementing the Vatican II reform of changing the language of the Mass from Latin to English?
... that in 2008 Australian judge Betty King referred to herself as the "queen of banning things"?

00:00, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the historic Unity Ranger Station in northeastern Oregon has had a 60-foot high fire lookout tower (pictured) with a built-in water tank located on the compound since 1938?
... that the Romanian author and politician Emil Isac reacted against ethnic nationalism by maintaining close contacts with Hungarian intellectuals such as Endre Ady and Oszkár Jászi?
... that the five victims of the Ipswich serial murders are the subject of the 2010 BBC One drama serial Five Daughters?
... that although he was a squatter, Edward Wingfield Humphreys had decidedly liberal beliefs, and one of his best friends used to jokingly taunt him with being a 'beastly radical'?
... that the first men executed under Adolf Hitler's Commando Order were from No. 2 Commando?
... that Anton Santori's play Emira is considered to be the first original Albanian drama ever written?
... that the number of species in the rodent genus Oryzomys was reduced from 43 to 5 in 2006?
... that when Dylan Thomas' wife, Caitlin Thomas arrived at his death bed, her words were reportedly, "Is the bloody man dead yet?"?

11 May 2010

16:00, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

... that BBC terrorism consultant Crispin Black survived the bombing of RFA Sir Galahad (pictured) during the Falklands War?
... that the list of lemur species promoted by the book Lemurs of Madagascar is not universally accepted by all lemur researchers?
... that Hays Hall, the first dormitory at Washington & Jefferson College, was designed by noted Pittsburgh architect Frederick J. Osterling?
... that Ricardo Blas, Jr. surpassed the previous record for the heaviest Olympic competitor by 44 lb (20 kg) when he competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
... that marsh rice rats in Florida are infected by an "unprecedented" number of internal parasites?
... that HMS Tynedale, a destroyer of the Royal Navy, attacked and damaged a U-boat in 1942 that would sink her a year later?
... that the Baton Rouge Teamsters Union business agent Edward Grady Partin provided the immunized testimony which sent Jimmy Hoffa to prison?
... that avid cyclist Randy Wyner founded Chronic Tacos because he was "tired of biking so far to find a good taco"?

08:00, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Palestinian Arab village of Khulda (pictured), depopulated and destroyed during the 1948 Palestine war, had a history that stretched back to the period of the Crusades?
... that Bolivian right-wing senator Roger Pinto Molina owns 3,269 hectares of land in Porvenir?
... that in 1973 the Paraguayan Episcopal Conference was able to revive a newspaper of its own, Sendero, after having shut its previous press organ in 1969 due to government harassment?
... that the name of the Karmanasa River in India means "destroyer of religious merit"?
... that the pyramid in the centre of Karlsruhe, Germany, was erected over the vault of the city's founder?
... that the song "Let's Live for Today", which became a 1967 hit single for The Grass Roots, was originally titled "Piangi Con Me" and featured lyrics written entirely in Italian?
... that Prince Charles made a cameo appearance in a live episode of British soap opera Coronation Street to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary in 2000?
... that although the only known natural definitive host of the fluke Catatropis johnstoni is the marsh rice rat, its normal host may be a bird?

00:00, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Ernest Hemingway's wife Hadley Richardson (pictured) lost a suitcase containing his early manuscripts at a Paris train station in 1922?
... that a 1762 painting of the destruction of Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá is the earliest known depiction of a historical event in Texas?
... that Atsuko Seta is the first Japanese pianist to perform with the Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra?
... that Milecastle 8 of Hadrian's Wall lies beneath the A69 dual carriageway?
... that Kelly Faris has won five consecutive post-season basketball tournaments, including a National Championship?
... that the word "Jejemon" may come from Filipino online users' penchant to type in "hehehe" as "jejeje", supposedly because the letters "h" and "j" are beside each other?
... that although Kënka e sprasme e Balës is the best-known work of Gavril Dara the Younger, it was published after his death?
... that a new orchid species, Ornithidium donaldeedodii, was "discovered" when a mislabeled plant at the University of California Botanical Garden had its DNA analyzed?

10 May 2010

16:00, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the flower spikes of Banksia lemanniana, Banksia caleyi (pictured) and Banksia elderiana hang upside down rather than erect like most other Banksia species?
... that later politician and broadcasting director Kaare Fostervoll became Norway's youngest school principal in 1927?
... that Moscow is home to an estimated 35,000 stray dogs, about 500 of which live in the metro stations?
... that Hootie Ingram tied the SEC record for interceptions, coached football at Clemson, and was the athletic director at Florida State and Alabama?
... that the House of Lords took the unprecedented decision to set aside R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate Ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No.1) because of concerns a judge could have been biased?
... that Juan Mateos was the founder of Gibraltar's first hospital which remained on the same site and served the people of Gibraltar for almost four and a half centuries?
... that, among the films he directed, Liliom was one of Fritz Lang's favourites?
... that the Danish Society for Nature Conservation began campaigning against litter in 1912 with the slogan "Sandwich wrappers and egg shells don't look pretty in forest pools!"?

08:00, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

... that by the 19th century, the penlops, ruling from Trongsa Dzong (pictured), had become so powerful that Trongsa had effectively become the capital of Bhutan?
... that De Sweachmermolen in Langweer, the Netherlands, is the only combined drainage and corn mill in Friesland?
... that Minuscule 697 was found in a village near Corinth, and bought by C. L. Merlin, British vice-consul in Athens, in 1865?
... that definitive hosts for the fluke Ascocotyle pindoramensis include a variety of birds as well as the marsh rice rat?
... that Ernie Zampese coached the leading pass offense in the NFL six times in seven years and has been credited with putting the "air" in Air Coryell?
... that the Palestinian village of Hableh is located on a rocky ridge in which there are numerous ancient cisterns cut into the rock?
... that hotel lounge singer Loretta Ables Sayre, in her 2008 Broadway debut in South Pacific, was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Theatre World Award?
... that James Whitcomb Riley's 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" was so named because of a typesetting error during printing?

00:00, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

... that as well as being Bishop of Montreal, Ignace Bourget (pictured) was also bishop of the titular see of Telmesse and archbishop of the titular see of Martianopolis?
... that over 200 Paraguayan trade union leaders were arrested by the Stroessner government in connection with a 1958 general strike?
... that Air Force One is equipped with an operating table for emergency use by the Physician to the President?
... that journalist Michael C. Moynihan announced he would support the protest movement Everybody Draw Mohammed Day and post his favorite entries to the Reason magazine website?
... that Leon Smith, recently appointed as Great Britain's Davis Cup captain, coached a young Andy Murray to an Orange Bowl under-12s tennis title?
... that the honorary title City of Military Glory has been bestowed on the citizenry of 27 Russian cities for courage and heroism shown during the Great Patriotic War?
... that co-founder of the Alexander & Baldwin corporation Samuel Thomas Alexander, son of missionary to Hawaii W. P. Alexander, died on the Zambezi River?
... that Australian aborigines ground the red berries of the Rough Saw-sedge to make flour?

9 May 2010

16:00, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the 2010 Moscow Victory Day Parade (logo pictured) to be held today (9 May), will be the first Victory Day Parade to include foreign troops marching on Moscow's Red Square?
... that David McCullough worked on his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman for ten years?
... that the Black-throated Gray Warbler has expanded its range due to warming climate, instead of losing habitat like most migratory New World warblers?
... that the magister officiorum Hermogenes was joint commander with the famous general Belisarius at the Byzantine victory in the Battle of Dara?
... that even after being hit by three one-ton bombs, the USS Washington only listed by three degrees?
... that the original capacity of Adelaide's Union Hall was chosen to be 499 because building regulations required a fire officer be present when halls with 500 or more seats were in use?
... that Gibtelecom is the largest telecommunications operator in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar and the official sponsor of the annual Gibtelecom International Chess Festival?
... that the graceful shark has been described as "tubby"?

08:00, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

... that while they are primarily feeding structures, radioles (pictured) also serve as respiratory organs for certain sessile marine polychaetes?
... that Jayson Stark called the 1999 New York Mets a "sinking ship" four days before they won the Wild Card in a tie-breaker game?
... that the 1903 Turkey earthquake killed 3,500 humans and 20,000 animals and registered a magnitude of 7.0?
... that as Governor of American Samoa, John Gould Moyer suggested his men's tour of duty be reduced because he claimed "the climate [of American Samoa] is bad for most Caucasians"?
... that the Armstrong Whitworth shipyard in Elswick submitted four plans for the Brazilian battleship Riachuelo?
... that there are more than 600 ghost estates and 300,000 empty houses in Ireland, as a result of the country's property bubble?
... that Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam, the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, surmounted the Malaysian government's ban on the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims, on constitutional grounds?
... that Hoya Saxa is the Georgetown University school cheer, and has been used by students at sporting events since the 1890s or earlier?

00:00, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

... that New Zealand's indigenous Māori people used the cabbage tree Cordyline australis for food, medicine, and to make strong ropes like those used for morere swings (pictured)?
... that Matt Holliday broke a potential record-breaking streak of RBI titles by Ryan Howard thanks to his performance in the 2007 National League Wild Card tie-breaker game?
... that although as a eunuch the powerful Byzantine official Staurakios was barred from the imperial throne, he nevertheless plotted to become Byzantine Emperor?
... that the school opened at Gjønnes in 2004 was moved from Nadderud, where it had been established in 1958 with the intention of existing only five years?
... that Wood Siding railway station was fitted with a ladder to allow the station porter to see approaching trains?
... that in April 2010 South Korean mountaineer Oh Eun-Sun became the first woman to summit all 14 eight-thousanders, the world's tallest mountain peaks?
... that the German settlement of Hochheim, Texas, which means "high home", is named for founder Volentine Hoch who appropriately built his house on a nearby hill?
... that it may not be possible to determine what ?Oryzomys pliocaenicus is?

8 May 2010

16:00, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the extinct fir species Abies milleri, known from Early Eocene fossils (pictured) found in Ferry County, Washington, is considered the oldest confirmed record for the fir genus?
... that Eça de Queirós, one of the greatest writers in the Portuguese language, was born in Praça do Almada, the civic center of Póvoa de Varzim in Portugal?
... that Jay Riemersma, tight end for the Michigan Wolverines, Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers, is currently a Republican candidate for Congress from West Michigan?
... that according to the colophon, Minuscule 686 was copied and corrected from a manuscript from Jerusalem?
... that the Goffe Street Special School for Colored Children was built in 1864 to provide educational opportunities for African American children in New Haven, Connecticut?
... that William Morris's wife Jane was the model for the figure of the dying Beatrice Portinari in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting Dante's Dream?
... that Jerry Vandergriff led the Angelo State Rams to 18 consecutive winning seasons and the winningest record of all Texas universities in the 1980s?
... that Clonakilla, like most wineries in the Canberra wine region, is not actually based in the same territory as Canberra?

08:00, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the longest recorded sniper kill is from 2,475 m (8,120 ft) using a L115A3 Long Range Rifle (pictured)?
... that Galaxy 15, a communications satellite, was originally designed to last 15 years but is currently out of control?
... that the 1972 Neil Diamond song "Play Me" is an audience favorite among women, including Nancy Sinatra, who likes it "because it is sexy"?
... that Lupe Joe Arenas, one of the first Mexican-American football stars, once held the NFL career record with 4,572 kick and punt return yards?
... that the training ship USS Recruit (TDE-1) at the Naval Training Center San Diego was also known as "Building 430"?
... that The Steinettes, an a cappella quartet from New York City, appeared in Robert Altman's rarely seen 1980 comedy HealtH?
... that the twenty-ninth government of Israel was the first to have a non-Jewish minister?
... that Texas State Highway 112 was renumbered from Texas State Highway 69 because people kept stealing the road signs?

00:00, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

... that goose pulling (pictured) was a popular blood sport practiced in Belgium, England, the Netherlands and the United States that involved a man on horseback galloping past a live goose and pulling its head off?
... that Callistus Valentine Onaga oversees a microbank as part of his position as a Roman Catholic bishop in Nigeria?
... that the Russian battleship Oslyabya was the first armored battleship ever sunk by gunfire alone, without any torpedo hits?
... that in 1896, Stephen Wootton Bushell became the first person to decipher some of the characters of the extinct Tangut script?
... that the Kyrgyzstan White House was at the center of the 2010 Kyrgyzstani riots?
... that Parker Watkins Hardin became the first Democrat to be defeated in a Kentucky gubernatorial election against a Republican candidate, losing to William O'Connell Bradley in 1895?
... that Lectionary 220 and Lectionary 223 are written in minuscule letters on parchment leaves?
... that Mike Brumbelow was captain and MVP of the TCU Horned Frogs' first Southwest Conference championship team in 1929 and coached UTEP to two wins in three appearances in the Sun Bowl in the 1950s?

7 May 2010

16:00, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

... that fume hoods are not biosafety cabinets (pictured), and vice-versa?
... that David Moosman led his high school to the Illinois state championship in football and qualified for the state championships three times in wrestling?
... that although the genus Hesperomys once included most of the cricetid rodents of the Americas, it is now no longer used?
... that Arild R. Øyen, a former WFP official and ambassador to several African countries, including DR Congo, later conciliated in Congo's criminal trial against Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland?
... that in 1982, a Canadian Member of Parliament accused the CIA of infiltrating the RCMP and funneling political contributions to favoured politicians in provincial elections?
... that librarian Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright attempted to finance the escape of a Russian revolutionary?
... that the Philadelphia bridge currently carrying Girard Avenue over the Schuylkill River is the third bridge built in that location since 1852?
... that archaeological excavations of church courtyards in Britain have revealed furnaces, suggesting that bells were often cast on site?

08:00, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Many-coloured, Splendid (pictured) and Elegant Parrots inhabit Australia's southern hinterlands?
... that the IBM 608, released in December 1957, was the first commercial completely transistorized computer?
... that the U-boat SM UB-50 sank nearly 100,000 gross register tons of shipping?
... that upon seeing a religious service in Wailuku in 1832, Queen Ka'ahumanu asked a congregation to name a church after her?
... that the Happy List of UK volunteers, philanthropists and much-loved entertainers was printed by the Independent on Sunday in 2008 as an antidote to the Sunday Times Rich List, and quickly became an annual fixture?
... that one of the reasons the U.S. Navy cancelled the Curtiss XSB3C dive-bomber project was the aircraft's requirement for the use of 115/145-octane avgas?
... that, although first active in the Romanian capital of Bucharest, poet Alexandru Robot identified more with his adoptive Bessarabia and was called a "semi-Bessarabian"?
... that professional wrestler Cueball Carmichael's championship belt was stolen during one of his matches?

00:00, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Russian armored cruiser Rossia (pictured) became the first warship to use an aerial device on the high seas during a time of war when she flew an observation balloon in May 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War?
... that over the course of his career at Michigan State Normal College, Elton Rynearson coached at least one year in every varsity sport, including football, basketball, baseball, and track?
... that although known for their erotic protests, the Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN is against legalizing prostitution?
... that Arizona passed the toughest illegal immigrant law in the U.S. following the murder of rancher Robert Krentz?
... that although related species usually infect several hosts, the parasitic nematode worm Aonchotheca forresteri is known only from the marsh rice rat?
... that Romanian poet Luca Caragiale, the son of celebrated dramatist Ion Luca Caragiale, is said to have been brought to tears by his father's rejection of Symbolism?
... that a 2006 survey found that the sleeping position preferred by 50% of British couples is back-to-back?
... that Jack Mann, a pioneer of winemaking in Western Australia, took over two thousand cricket wickets bowling underarm?

6 May 2010

16:00, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the Tango Monastery (pictured) in Thimpu was founded by Lama Gyalwa Lhanampa in the 13th century and built in its present form by Tenzin Rabgye, the fourth King of Bhutan, in 1688?
... that a colleague once described Ed Scogin of Slidell, Louisiana, as "the conservative conscience" of the Louisiana House of Representatives?
... that the award-winning 2006 Serbian black comedy The Optimists was inspired by Voltaire's satire Candide?
... that bass singer Jakob Stämpfli appears on the recording of the reconstructed secular Bach cantata Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen, BWV 249a, also called Shepherd cantata?
... that the logotype of the manuscript Bible passage Oriental MS 424 quoted names of the scribes and dates of two of its ancestor manuscripts?
... that two of Mitty Collier's biggest hit records were versions of gospel songs originally penned by James Cleveland, but rewritten with secular lyrics?
... that in September 2009, Buckinghamshire-based coach company Woottens Luxury Travel teamed up with local radio station Mix 96 in a promotion to name their tiger mascot?
... that John Tidwell broke the University of Michigan's single game and season basketball scoring records in 1960 despite "the handicap of a short and twisted left arm"?

08:00, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the fungus Mycena californiensis (pictured) was "resurrected" in 1999?
... that the NCAA record for double plays in a single game was tied by Old Dominion University during a 1985 game at the Bud Metheny Baseball Complex?
... that the endangered Borneo shark was rediscovered in 2007, after not having been seen for many decades?
... that the French battleship Masséna was sunk as a breakwater during the Gallipoli Campaign?
... that 18th-century publisher John Marshall popularized fictional biographies for children?
... that a forty year old disagreement over the maritime Russia–Norway border, where the disputed area covered 175,000 km² (68,000 sq mi), was settled in April 2010?
... that record producer Rick Hall established the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, on the basis of the commercial success of Arthur Alexander's 1962 hit "You Better Move On"?
... that when Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid was found plagiarising the work of Welsh author Glyn Jones, he claimed he had a photographic memory and had copied his work unconsciously?

00:00, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

... that cleaning of the painting Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match (pictured) revealed the arousal of the central figure?
... that Mike Stock's only job as a head coach came near the middle of his 44-year American football coaching career?
... that the Lund 1 Runestone depicts two wolves that have a sword and shield strapped to their bodies?
... that the Cursa de Bombers 10 km road race in Barcelona was created by firefighters protesting about their working conditions?
... that The Turtles wrote their 1968 single "Elenore" as a parody of one of their previous hits?
... that the French battleship Jauréguiberry had a torpedo air chamber accidentally explode between her propellers when she fired her stern torpedo tube in 1905, flooding her steering compartment?
... that when railroad tracks to Passaic, New Jersey, were severed by the Erie Lackawanna Railway, they left the bridge swung open and kept short service to the Carlton Hill station in Rutherford, New Jersey?
... that when the Byzantine usurper John Komnenos the Fat tried to sit on the imperial throne, it broke under his weight?

5 May 2010

16:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Raw Head (pictured), in Cheshire, England, was a Marilyn, but was demoted in 2009 after a re-survey?
... that the powerful Byzantine eunuch official Aetios plotted to have his brother placed as emperor, but was thwarted when Nikephoros I seized the throne?
... that an 1100 cow dairy farm in Rice Lake, Wisconsin expects to save over $70,000 per year from its installation of an 848 kW CHP system operating on anaerobic digester gas from cow manure?
... that before Blaine Sexton won Olympic bronze as part of the British ice hockey team he played for the Windsor Swastikas in Canada?
... that McMillan Hall at Washington & Jefferson College is the eighth oldest academic building in the United States that is still used for its original educational purpose?
... that the most influential person in Mike Hanopol's career as a pioneer Pinoy rocker was his guitar-playing maternal grandmother?
... that Allen Iverson is the only player who led the NBA in steals for three consecutive seasons?
... that American political scientist Charles Merriam pushed for the use of quantitative analysis in the practice of political science even though he had almost no mathematical training?

08:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Bathsheba at Her Bath (pictured) has been called "Rembrandt's greatest painting of the nude"?
... that Virginia Johnson, wife of a former Arkansas Supreme Court justice, became in 1968 the first woman ever to seek the office of Governor of Arkansas?
... that the Warsaw Lyceum, where Nicolas Chopin was a teacher and his son Frédéric Chopin a pupil, was founded by the Prussian government as a German language school?
... that the American soul blues and electric blues singer Earl Gaines received no credit on his biggest-selling single?
... that over 100 people stated that they wanted a netbook based on Mayuri Shirasagi, the heroine of the visual novel Kimi no Nagori wa Shizuka ni Yurete?
... that four-time block leader Mark Eaton averaged 5.56 blocks per game in the 1984–85 NBA season?
... that although the 20 mm Breda is an anti-aircraft gun, during the Kurtës Ambush it was used against German trucks?
... that Scottish bookseller Alexander Donaldson sold cheap copies of books after their copyright had expired, in disregard to London booksellers' opinions on literary property?

00:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the frilled shark (pictured) may have the longest gestation period of any vertebrate, at three and a half years?
... that English drummer Chris Townson replaced The Who's Keith Moon on a 1967 UK tour?
... that the French battleship République was hit by a torpedo from the Patrie, her sister ship?
... that José Rodríguez was once the manager of a Cuban League championship baseball team that included five future members of the US Baseball Hall of Fame?
... that the asphalt volcano is a rare underwater volcano composed of asphalt and erupting petroleum and methane instead of lava?
... that Nobel Prize winner Alexander Prokhorov, one of the founders of laser physics, has also described an antiferromagnetic transition in the organic material DPPH?
... that Capcom's Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will be run on the MT Framework engine, the same engine that is used by Resident Evil 5 and Lost Planet 2?
... that "The Mighty Midget", Rodney Wilkes, won the first ever Olympic medal for Trinidad and Tobago at the 1948 Games?

4 May 2010

16:00, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the blood of Serpula tubeworms (pictured) appears green when deoxygenated, though it is light red when oxygenated?
... that before beginning his revolt in 803, Bardanes Tourkos, with his three principal associates, Thomas, Leo the Armenian and Michael the Amorian, allegedly visited a monk who foretold their fates?
... that a finished study for The Death of Nelson by Daniel Maclise in Westminster Palace is in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool?
... that the tianguis market is a Mexican tradition which comes mostly unchanged from the pre-Hispanic era?
... that Matthew Elderfield took a €193,000 paycut from his previous position in the Bermuda Monetary Authority to go work as Ireland's Financial Regulator?
... that the district Nadderud in Norway, now known for the multi-purpose stadium Nadderud stadion, once delivered limestone to Akershus Fortress in 1629 and the Royal Palace, Oslo, in 1827?
... that William J. Winter, while serving as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, confirmed an estimated 45,000 Catholics?
... that RuBot II is the world's fastest Rubik's cube-solving robot?

08:00, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the legend of Krishna killing the horse demon Keshi (pictured) may have its origins in the tale of Greek hero Heracles slaying the horses of Diomedes?
... that the New Zealand Member of Parliament Frederic Jones was described as the foremost local government expert of his time?
... that during the opening sequence of "The Squirt and the Whale", The Simpsons addressed the controversy surrounding censorship of the South Park episode "201"?
... that since 1969 more than 600 works of contemporary chamber music have been premiered at the festival Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik in the Ruhrgebiet, the European Capital of Culture for 2010?
... that footballer Barry Hutchinson scored in each of the seven games that Weymouth played in January 1965?
... that German politician Willy Brandt was the first recipient of the International Rescue Committee's Freedom Award in 1957?
... that Louisiana State Senator Sydney B. Nelson's bid for Senate President was halted in 1988 by the tradition in his state that the governor choose the legislative leaders?
... that the Tibetan saint Drukpa Kunley, according to mythology, created the Takin, found in Motithang Takin Preserve, with the head of a goat and the body of a cow?

00:00, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Benjamin West's painting The Death of Nelson (pictured) proved so popular that, within about a month, it was seen by 30,000 people in his studio?
... that Kevin Harvick broke a 115-race winless streak by winning the 2010 Aaron's 499?
... that Christian Jouanin, a French ornithologist, has described three species of birds, including Jouanin's Petrel and the critically endangered Djibouti Francolin?
... that the Bessarabian-centered agenda with which Viaţa Basarabiei magazine confronted Romanian authorities in the 1930s has been called "ferocious nativism" and an "aberrant form of defense"?
... that because their range is the southernmost of all rainbowfishes, Australian rainbowfish can tolerate low winter temperatures of 10 to 15 °C (50 to 59 °F)?
... that on average, Kenyan water utilities provide 14 hours of service each day, supplying water for 16 hours in Nairobi and for 6 hours in Mombasa?
... that Mike Gary played American football at Minnesota with Bronko Nagurski and coached Western Michigan for 13 years, including undefeated seasons in 1932 and 1941?
... that while the 126.8-metre (416 ft) Raghadan Flagpole in Amman is both earthquake- and weather-resistant, excessive noise means the flag must be lowered during high winds?

3 May 2010

16:00, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the island of Schwanenwerder in Berlin, Germany, houses a column (pictured) from the former Tuileries Palace?
... that John Ashley, American outlaw and occasional pirate, robbed banks and hijacked whiskey shipments from the Bahamas?
... that the genomes of Babesia bovis and Theileria parva, two protozoans that cause diseases in cattle, are remarkably similar?
... that the Hermoniakos' Iliad is a 14th-century paraphrase of the Iliad, written in vernacular Greek?
... that the George Munger Award, given since 1989 to the college football coach of the year, is named for long-time Penn coach and decathlon champion George Munger?
... that an antipathy between Paul ten Bruggencate and Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer while they worked at Göttingen Observatory resulted in the creation of the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics?
... that the reason why occupancy frequency distributions tend to be bimodal is not known?
... that construction of Interstate 140 outside Wilmington, North Carolina, was delayed in part to redesign an off-ramp to avoid a 450-year-old oak?

08:00, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the two modern breeds of Cocker Spaniel, American (pictured) and English, are thought to have been descended from only two dogs?
... that in coverage of a charity event for Darfur, the blog Gawker referred to attendee Micah Jesse, internet gossip blogger, as a "publicistgay"?
... that Jess Cameron scored more than half of her team's runs when the Australian Under-21 cricket team played the senior team?
... that Simonsbath House was the only house in the Royal Forest of Exmoor for 150 years?
... that the French seaplane carrier Commandant Teste was based at Oran from September 1937 to February 1938 to protect neutral shipping from commerce raiders during the Spanish Civil War?
... the specific name of the Gabonese fungus Pulveroboletus bembae is derived from the name used by the Baka people for the tree it associates with?
... that Indian Mound Cemetery, originally created by the Hopewell culture, was defended in battle by Confederate soldiers and is the last resting place of an owner of the Washington Redskins?
... that Ambrose Burke went on to become president of Saint Ambrose University after being expelled from its seminary as a student?

00:00, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the origins of the Carnival in Bern (pictured) can be traced back to the 15th century?
... that Olympic marathon runner Lisa Weightman won the Award for Business Excellence from Australian broadsheet The Age?
... that Cleo O'Donnell coached the 1914 Everett team that outscored opponents 600 to 0 and was rated by Sports Illustrated as the greatest high school football team of all time?
... that the capture of the strategic Klisura Pass by the Greek army, in January 1941, was considered a major success by the Allied forces?
... that the 2010 Canadian film GravyTrain is the first feature film appearance of Glass Tiger lead singer Alan Frew?
... that the Becher Point Wetlands form one of the youngest wetland systems on the Swan Coastal Plain?
... that Cars is the last artwork by Andy Warhol and remained unfinished on his death?
... that during "Boobquake", thousands of women tested a hypothesis that they could start earthquakes by dressing immodestly?

2 May 2010

16:00, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Ati Konanayakar (pictured) was constructed as a successor to the Temple of Thousand Pillars that was destroyed by the Portuguese colonials in 1622?
... that Eddie Dodson was convicted of robbing 71 banks, more than any other bank robber?
... that the district Øvrevoll has Norway's only track for gallop horse racing?
... that Sylvan Lake is the deepest in Dutchess County, New York?
... that Havergate Island is the only island in the county of Suffolk, England, and has the largest breeding population of pied avocets in the UK?
... that when Minnesota Duluth coach Jim Malosky retired in 1998 he was the winningest football coach in Division II history and ranked 11th in wins among all college football coaches?
... that Jewish pirates from Joppa raided traders between Rome and Alexandria, interrupting Rome's grain supply during the First Jewish–Roman War?
... that 40,000 people were estimated to make a living from seaweed farming in the Philippines in 1997?

08:00, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the painting David Garrick as Richard III (pictured) by William Hogarth shows the actor David Garrick as Richard III on the eve of the Battle of Bosworth Field?
... that Doris Parkes competed in ice hockey and speed skating at the 1931 Banff Winter carnival?
... that Animal's drumming on The Muppet Show was performed by English drummer Ronnie Verrell?
... that the Palestinian village of Al-Qabu was depopulated on 1 May 1949, almost a month after the 1949 Armistice Agreement had been signed?
... that Donovan Warren was initially projected to be selected in the first or second round of the 2010 NFL Draft, but was not drafted at all?
... that the "Song of Çelo Mezani", an Albanian folk song, was censored in 1973?
... that Ronald Skirth wrote The Reluctant Tommy, a memoir of World War I, about his deliberate acts of sabotage to avoid killing enemies?
... that the Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra of Hillsboro, Oregon, once used an owl from the Oregon Zoo in a concert?

00:00, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

... that St. Nicholas Kirche in New York City (pictured), founded in 1833 by the Austrian priest Johann Stephen Raffeiner, was the first German-speaking church in the city?
... that the Edinburgh publisher, James Donaldson, bequeathed the funds for Donaldson's Hospital?
... that Dayton Flyers coach Mike Kelly has the fourth best winning percentage (81.9%) of all time among college football coaches with at least 25 years of experience?
... that former Bolivian presidential candidate Fernando Untoja has called for a political return to the system of ayllus?
... that the German Mediterranean Division consisted of two ships, Goeben and Breslau?
... that the Zion Hill Mission was the first free European settlement in what is now Queensland?
... that Swedish athlete Lena Berntsson has competed at World Championship-level in both the 60-meter dash and weightlifting?
... that Brill railway station was owned and operated by Richard Temple-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos?

1 May 2010

16:00, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the effect the berries of pine heath (pictured) had on the Grey Currawong made one observer wonder if they were narcotic?
... that 10,000 people protested against construction of a dam across the Subarnarekha River in India?
... that the Louisiana State Representative George B. Holstead participated in the Olympic track and field trials held in New Orleans in 1948?
... that the Arab village of Sheikh Danun is made up of two old villages constructed around shrines dedicated to sheikhs?
... that New York City-based hip hop poetic theater ensemble Universes were sponsored by the US State Department to tour six countries in Africa, Asia and Europe in 2008?
... that U-30 sank the first ship in World War II on 3 September 1939 when she torpedoed the British liner Athenia, just 10 hours after Britain declared war on Germany?
...that Robert O. Peterson, who founded the Jack in the Box fast food chain in 1951, was married to the mayor of San Diego during the 1980s?
... that in the fluke Notocotylus fosteri, the genital pore is located above the oral sucker?

08:00, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Oregon State University's first standalone library (current library pictured) was not opened until 1918 even though the school was established in 1868?
... that Günther Weidlinger broke the 23-year-old Austrian record in the marathon in his second-ever race over the distance?
... that Toolibin Lake supports 25 species of breeding waterbirds, which is the greatest number for any wetland in southwestern Australia?
... that in 2007 French actress and comedienne Mimie Mathy was selected the fifth most popular French celebrity by the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche?
... that the New Eritrea Party initially favoured Italian trusteeship of Eritrea prior to independence?
... that after the death of Florence of Worcester on June 5 or July 7, 1118, his work was continued by John of Worcester until 1141?
... that Revocation's guitarist David Davidson was an alumnus of Berklee College of Music?
... that German nobleman Wilhelm, 2nd Duke of Urach, was elected King of Lithuania, but never visited that country?

00:00, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

... that Edward Steichen (pictured) asked Ansel Adams to be in charge of the darkroom of the U.S. Naval Aviation Photographic Unit during World War II?
... that in 1914, Paul Walden described the first room-temperature ionic liquid, ethylammonium nitrate?
... that in 1935, the Hardanger Line became the first new line of the Norwegian State Railways to open with electrification?
... that American football player Mark Ortmann was a discus throw champion in high school?
... that Rev. Griffith Hughes was the first to describe grapefruit, which he referred to as "The Forbidden Fruit"?
... that the Austro-Hungarian battleships Habsburg, Babenberg, Árpád, Prinz Eugen, Tegetthoff and Viribus Unitis participated in the bombardment of Ancona?
... that as a college student, Philadelphia Phillies president David Montgomery attended Phillies games at Connie Mack Stadium with future governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell?
... that Dan Boisture said of his move from the two-time defending national champion Michigan State Spartans football to the Eastern Michigan Hurons, "There weren't many jobs open ... It was a cute campus"?