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28 February 2011

18:00, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the mutualism between hermit crabs and the sea anemone Calliactis parasitica (pictured) may require the presence of an octopus?
... that a prehistoric chamber tomb is located in Avielochan in Highland, Scotland?
... that Kararname was the name of the book of decisions of the first assembly of the Prizren League held on June 10, 1878?
... that British Lieutenant General James Bucknall is currently deputy commander of 130,000 troops from 48 countries in his role with ISAF in Afghanistan?
... that Letran Knights captain Fernando Libed scored the title-clinching shot in the 1987 Philippine NCAA basketball championship despite being on medication for hepatitis days before Game 3?
... that Gross Barmen, the first Rhenish mission station to the Herero in South-West Africa, was established in 1844 by Carl Hugo Hahn and Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt?
... that, according to Bede, Dryhthelm the monk died, was given a tour of hell and heaven, and came back to tell the tale?

12:00, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

... that French cellist Jules Delsart (pictured) was a soloist in the premiere of David Popper's Requiem for three cellos and orchestra, along with the composer?
... that when the Puerto Rican mint tree Cornutia obovata was listed as endangered in 1988, there were only seven growing in the wild?
... that N. D. Cocea's republican activism in the Kingdom of Romania involved fabricating rumors about a peasant revolt, supporting Soviet Russia, and being tried for lèse majesté?
... that Jeff Krogh was credited with winning a NASCAR Winston West Series race even though he finished 35th in the event?
... that Japanese wrestler Maunakea Mossman made his wrestling debut in the United States at the Gary Albright Memorial Show?
... that John F. Kennedy's foreign policy experts were dubbed "the best and the brightest"?
... that the Spooks episode "On the Brink" is based on the financial crisis of the bank Northern Rock?
... that the long strap fern was one of the subjects of pteridomania?

06:00, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

... that slow lorises (pictured) and their conservation are threatened by the exotic pet trade and traditional medicine?
... that, while commanding the Desert Rats in Iraq, Patrick Marriott kept a large silver rat on his desk?
... that the Limon Railroad Depot is one of three remaining Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad stations in Colorado?
... that although the composer Arnold Elston studied with Anton Webern in Vienna, he did not employ the twelve-tone technique?
... that in 1914, the Greeks living in southern Albania declared independence for Northern Epirus?
... that Pulney Andy was the first Indian to receive a British medical degree when he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of St. Andrews in 1860?
... that Swiss-born U.S. soldier Rudolph Stauffer was one of 22 Medal of Honor winners from Lieutenant Colonel George Crook's 1872–73 "winter campaign" against renegade Apaches in the Arizona Territory?

00:00, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the ancient Street Called Straight of Damascus, Syria, still connects the eastern gate (pictured) of the old city with the western one?
... that Bach used a four-note trumpet signal throughout the first movement of his chorale cantata, Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort, BWV 126, for Sexagesima?
... that Cincinnati's Scarlet Oaks was once the only known extant house designed by James Keys Wilson?
... that Eduardo Iturrizaga became Venezuela's first and only chess grandmaster, at the age of 19?
... that comedians Matt Besser and Nick Kroll appeared in the Parks and Recreation episode "Media Blitz" as morning zoo-style radio hosts named Crazy Ira and The Douche?
... that George Samuel Sewell was the first civilian to be awarded a bar to the George Medal, for fighting fires at a petrol refinery during the Hull Blitz?
... that Ralph LaPointe, namesake of the field house at the University of Vermont's Centennial Field, committed a league-record six errors in a baseball game for the International League's Baltimore Orioles?

27 February 2011

18:00, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the Black Thunder chocolate bar (pictured) is named after the Shinto god of thunder, Raijin?
... that the tribute act Zappa Plays Zappa, led by Frank Zappa's son Dweezil, won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for their performance of Frank's song "Peaches en Regalia"?
... that Lieutenant George C. Kimble, commander of the Gonzales Ranging Company, led 32 men from Gonzales, Texas, to reinforce the surrounded Alamo garrison?
... that the guidance system of the AA.20 air-to-air missile was based on that of missiles intended for use against tanks?
... that three of the five Moreton Island lighthouses, on Moreton Island, Queensland, Australia, had to be relocated because of coastal erosion?
... that the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art, established in 1952, is deemed to be the world's first museum of naïve art?
... that the two-letter Russian word щи is transliterated with eight letters in German?

12:00, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

... that The Monument of Matrones (pictured), the first anthology of English women writers, included devotional works by Lady Jane Grey and Elizabeth I of England?
... that in his works, Czech photographer Viktor Kolář focuses on documenting his native region, Ostrava?
... that after winning both halves of the elimination round, the San Sebastian Stags were named outright champions of the 1988 Philippine NCAA basketball tournament?
... that Jordan's new justice minister, Hussein Mjali, called for the early release of Ahmed Daqamseh, the attacker responsible for killing seven Israeli schoolgirls in the 1997 Island of Peace massacre?
... that although the graceful fern is native to the tropics, it can survive temperatures as low as −7 °C (19 °F)?
... that the Louisiana State Rep. Simone B. Champagne of Iberia Parish lost a state Senate race in January 2011 despite having the support of U.S. Senator David Vitter?
... that bass opera singer Richard Watson was given so many roles in the operas by Gilbert and Sullivan that his colleague Richard Walker left D'Oyly Carte Opera Company?

06:00, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

... that St Mary's Church, East Ruston, Norfolk, is notable for its 15th-century painted and carved chancel screen (part of screen pictured)?
... that Luftwaffe group commander Alois Lindmayr led a formation of Dornier Do 17 bombers on a bombing raid into the heart of London on 15 September 1940, the climax of the Battle of Britain?
... that the Cass County Courthouse served as a pattern for at least two other Iowa county courthouses?
... that former England cricketer David Gower scored nine centuries in Ashes series, the fourth most by any batsman?
... that the Black Society for Salvation was a secret Albanian nationalistic society that staged uprisings in 1911–1912?
... that both the Adena and the Hopewell left artifacts at southwestern Ohio's Beam Farm?
... that the election on February 19, 2011, of Jonathan W. Perry to the Louisiana State Senate gives that body its first Republican majority, 20–19, since Reconstruction?

00:00, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the John Kendrick House (pictured) is the only remaining house of its era on the Green in Waterbury, Connecticut?
... that future Australian conductor and record producer James Walker was lauded as a "child wonder" after his performance on piano, organ and violin at age seven?
... that Swan's Landing on the Ohio River in southern Indiana is one of the most important Late Archaic archaeological sites in North America?
... that Khor Virap monastery, where Gregory the Illuminator was imprisoned for 13 years by King Tiridates III, is one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in Armenia?
... that, in 2010, Major General Colin Boag served as Chief of Staff to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan?
... that the video for Queen's song "Bicycle Race" featured several dozen nude women racing at Wimbledon Stadium?
... that the Samedi division of the Royal Court, one of the Courts of Jersey, sits on a Friday, rather than a Saturday as the name suggests?
... that Stan Brakhage's 1988 film I... Dreaming features Stephen Foster song lyrics scratched directly onto the film emulsion?

26 February 2011

18:00, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the Madras Forest Department was established in 1855 by Dr. Hugh Cleghorn (pictured), "the father of scientific forestry in India"?
... that the fruits of Ficus yoponensis are one of the preferred foods of the Mantled Howler Monkey and contain more vitamin C than any other possible foods?
... that Time magazine described the Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, as "an old rock 'n' roll hotel", due to its association with rock stars?
... that Benjamin Burns played in the first-ever international rugby union match, between England and Scotland in 1871?
... that in 1960, the founders of a Cafe church wondered, "Would Jesus want to hang out with folks at a traditional institutional church? Or would he want to hang out over a beer in a bar, or coffee in a restaurant?"
... that the Pueblo Lands Act (1924) was passed in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's reversal of its position on whether the Nonintercourse Act applies to New Mexico?
... that Zoni Weisz, a Dutch Sinto survivor of the Porajmos, has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the world's largest flower arrangement?

12:00, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Bhadra Dam (pictured) in Karnataka inundates a reservoir which has a gross irrigation potential of 162,818 hectares (402,330 acres)?
... that, between 1970 and 2006, 306 fatalities occurred in the Western Australian mining industry?
... that Al-Wasat Party, officially established in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, is the first legal party in Egypt with an Islamic background?
... that Stan Brakhage's 1981 film The Garden of Earthly Delights was created by pasting montane zone vegetation directly onto strips of clear film leader?
... that the ruins of St Andrew's Church, Covehithe in Suffolk are threatened by coastal erosion?
... that racing driver Glen Kidston was the only survivor of the crash of a Luft Hansa Junkers G 31 in 1929?
... that before Amanda Staveley reportedly turned down a marriage proposal from Prince Andrew, she was a model and Cambridge student, and later became a self-made multi-millionaire?

06:00, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the maintenance shed (pictured) at New York's Batavia Cemetery was originally a bank building?
... that during the Siege of Güns, Captain Nikola Jurišić and his garrison of 800 Croats held out against 19 full-scale assaults and incessant bombardment by the Ottomans?
... that a jury awarded an alleged robber $20,000 in 1935 for a botched 1931 burglary of the Harriman Erie Railroad station after the cops shot his leg?
... that the British destroyer HMS Hostile had to be scuttled on 23 August 1940 by her sister ship, HMS Hero, after striking a mine off Cap Bon which broke her back?
... that in the roof of the chapel of St Michael's Church, Berechurch, Essex, are carvings of the emblems of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon?
... that German-born U.S. soldier John Schnitzer received the Medal of Honor along with First Lieutenant Wilber Wilder for rescuing a wounded comrade during battle with the Apache Indians in 1882?
... that the eucalyptus El Grande, Australia's largest tree, was accidentally killed by forest officials?

00:00, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

... that a 200-year-old costume worn by "the king" (pictured) on Castleton Garland Day in Derbyshire is now in the local museum?
... that German conductor Fritz Lehmann left a recording of Bach's Christmas Oratorio unfinished when he died during a concert of the St Matthew Passion?
... that actor Richard Armitage was subjected to waterboarding while filming Spooks episode "The Tip-Off"?
... that the Schoenau ultimatum contributed to the ability of the Egyptian and Syrian alliance to successfully launch a surprise attack against Israel during the Yom Kippur War?
... that there is no direct discussion in the New Testament of the dual nature of the Person of Christ as being both divine and human?
... that the Argentine "San Lorenzo march" was played when the Germans entered Paris during World War II, then again by U.S. forces when they liberated the city?
... that Cholesbury Camp, an Iron Age hill fort in Buckinghamshire, England, was once thought to have been built by Danes?

25 February 2011

18:00, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

... that during his United States Army service, Graciela replaced her foster brother Machito (pictured) as the lead singer of his band, the Afro-Cubans?
... that physical chemist Sir Eric Keightly Rideal was depicted in the novels The Search and Strangers and Brothers written by his former student, C. P. Snow?
... that the PERISCOP made it possible to retrieve live fish from over 2,000 m (6,600 ft) deep, despite the extreme pressure at that depth?
... that 19-year-old Medal of Honor recipient Albert Sale received the award for killing an Apache warrior in hand-to-hand combat and taking his war pony?
... that St Gallgo's Church, Llanallgo, Wales, was used as a temporary mortuary following the 1859 wreck of the Royal Charter, which claimed over 400 lives?
... that Ethiopian long-distance runner Sentayehu Ejigu won medals at World, African and Continental-level competitions in 2010?
... that the British destroyer HMS Grenade tied up to the French destroyer Bison on 3 May 1940 to rescue 36 survivors after the latter's forward magazine was bombed by a Junkers Ju 87 dive bomber and exploded?

12:00, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the name Bucephalus, meaning "ox head", was given to a genus of trematodes because their cercaria larva (pictured) seemed to have horns?
... that the busiest route of the Weston-super-Mare Tramways ran from an Old Pier to a Sanatorium?
... that Frederick Merriman was the first Chairman of Committees in New Zealand?
... that among the WWI dead commemorated at the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge was one enemy soldier, the Hungarian poet, Ferenc Békássy?
... that the adventure based holiday centre at Caythorpe Court, Lincolnshire, was originally a hunting lodge, and has also been a military hospital and agricultural college?
... that Nepal Transport Service, founded in 1959, was the first Nepalese public bus line?
... that French actor Sebastian Roché replaced German actor Thomas Kretschmann in the Fringe episode "Momentum Deferred", as Kretschmann was unable to be a recurring character?
... that Medal of Honor recipient Cornelius C. Smith later led U.S. troops during the Philippine Insurrection?

06:00, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the British destroyer HMS Gallant (pictured) struck a mine on 10 January 1941 that blew the bow off the ship, and had to be towed stern-first to Malta by the destroyer HMS Mohawk?
... that Sir Richard Herbert was the illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and Maud, daughter of Adam ap Howell Graunt?
... that the 1641 edition Selva morale e spirituale by Claudio Monteverdi is considered his "most significant anthology of liturgical works since the Vespers in 1610"?
... that Charles Lapworth worked closely with both Eugene V. Debs and Charlie Chaplin?
... that the 1980 Ispaster attack was the Basque separatist group ETA's deadliest of 1980, the year in which they killed more people than any other?
... that Reed Hadley starred in two 1950s CBS drama television series, including The Public Defender in the role of an attorney for the indigent?
... that the Love Tester, created in 1969, was the first product by Nintendo to use real electronic components?

00:00, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Royal Marine Lieutenant General Sir James Dutton (pictured) was sent to The Pentagon as a liaison in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001?
... that pottery boat models found at Tell Mashnaqa, northeastern Syria, suggest that people of the Khabur region had already made use of boats for transport and fishing by c. 5000 BC, if not before?
... that Philadelphia organist Leonard MacClain debuted an instrument called the “Photona" on CBS Radio in 1935?
... that automotive manufacturing is a significant industry in Russia, directly employing around 600,000 people and supporting 2–3 million people in related industries?
... that it was reported that Australian cricketer Michael Swart was called up to represent the Netherlands at the 2011 Cricket World Cup, but he didn't make the final team?
... that the legal basis for the largest casino in the world derives in part from a violation of the U.S. federal Nonintercourse Act (1790) and a state statute lobbied for by Mothers Against Drunk Driving?
... that devotions to the Holy Name of Jesus exist both in Eastern and Western Christianity?

24 February 2011

18:00, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the 1977 dissolution of Rosendale Village (pictured) in Upstate New York was viewed by its mayor as a work of conceptual art?
... that until Sony introduced a competitor in 1968, every color television in the world used RCA's shadow mask tube design?
... that Edward L. Kessel assembled the world's most comprehensive collection of Platypezidae flat-footed flies?
... that the 14th-century Church of St Mary in Barton Bendish, Norfolk, contains a 12th-century doorway moved from a nearby church when that was demolished?
... that commanding prices up to $400,000, pre–World War II versions of the Martin D-45 guitar (first made for Gene Autry) are the most expensive production-model guitars in the United States?
... that the prehistoric Neolithic Tell Ramad, located 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Damascus in Syria, is considered one of the few sites fundamental to our understanding of the origin of agriculture?
... that Sean Hughes MP got Scottish MPs to give him their free tickets to the 1986 English FA Cup Final so his constituents could watch the Everton–Liverpool Merseyside derby?

12:00, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

... that when Bulgarian politician Rayko Daskalov (pictured) was released from prison in 1918 with the task of stopping a soldiers' uprising, he went on to take charge of the rebellion instead?
... that the three mine policy, in place from 1984 to 1996, restricted the number of active uranium mines in Australia to three?
... that St Dona's Church, Llanddona, Wales, was rebuilt in 1873 with the rector at the time acting as the architect?
... that many readers credited Deborah Tannen's bestselling 1990 book on language and gender, You Just Don't Understand, with helping to save their marriages?
... that in 1918, terrorists opened fire on Lenin's car after he gave a speech at Saint Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Manege, but Lenin escaped unscathed?
... that Niqmepa was installed as King of Ugarit, an ancient city-state in northwest Syria, by Hittite king Mursili II, who had forced his brother, Arhalba, to abdicate?
... that Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles have never selected a player at first base in the first round of the MLB Draft?

06:00, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the strong colors in Paul Gauguin's Spirit of the Dead Watching (pictured) are symbolic of the native Polynesian belief that phosphorescent lights were manifestations of the spirits of the dead?
... that with over 40,000 citations in scientific literature, Polish-American polymer chemist Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is one of the most cited chemists in the world?
... that a steam-powered cannon, the Architonnerre, was described by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century, but he attributed it to Archimedes of the 3rd century BC?
... that the westbound lanes of Interstate 470 in Missouri were closed for a month due to a landslide which caused the roadway to collapse?
... that Jarvis Hall, a former chapel in Steyning, West Sussex, has housed a bottling plant, a gym, a dance school, and four Nonconformist congregations—including Methodists who moved out and built a larger church nearby?
... that actor Kirk Acevedo suggested his real-life wife play his character's spouse in the Fringe episode "Unleashed"?
... that Arslanbob in Kyrgyzstan is the largest single natural source of walnuts on Earth?

00:00, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the mushroom Cortinarius vanduzerensis (pictured) is so slimy that it has been described as "much too slippery to be of value"?
... that the Belitung shipwreck was an Arabian dhow which was sewn together, and held the "Tang treasure", including the largest gold Tang cup ever found?
... that the two largest Gettysburg Battlefield monuments "Pennsylvania State Memorial" and "Eternal Light Peace Memorial" were dedicated, respectively, on the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, at battlefield reunion encampments?
... that the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust, a charity founded in 1996, looks after redundant Church of Scotland churches and currently has five buildings under its care?
... that Gerhard Taschner recorded the Violin Concerto dedicated to him by Wolfgang Fortner, with both Wilhelm Furtwängler and Hans Rosbaud?
... that Nels Nelsen, at the time holder of the world's longest ski jump set at Big Hill, was not allowed to participate in the 1928 Winter Olympics because officials thought it inappropriate for an athlete to work for his fare on a freighter?

23 February 2011

18:00, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the 3rd Earl of Egremont (bust pictured) simultaneously maintained around 15 mistresses with more than 40 children at Petworth House?
... that in 1984, while Queen's song "I Want to Break Free" charted within the Top 10 in Europe and South America, its video was banned in the US?
... that the beach at Kiryat Sanz in Netanya was the first in Israel to schedule separate swimming hours for men and women?
... that in order to save David Nowakowsky's music from destruction by the Nazis, thousands of pages of his work were buried under a dung heap at a farm in France?
... that Rosie's Diner, featured in the Bounty paper towel commercials in the U.S., was sawed in half and moved from Little Ferry, New Jersey, to Rockford, Michigan, in 1990?
... that the magnetochemistry of gadolinium compounds makes them the most suitable contrast agents for MRI scans?
... that Howard Arman conducted Handel's opera Tolomeo in 1996 for the Handel Festival in Halle, where the composer was born on 23 February 1685?
... that a dachshund named Lump once ate a work by Pablo Picasso?

12:00, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

... that in 1906, Albert Clément drove a Clément-Bayard (pictured) to finish third in the first international motorsport Grand Prix?
... that the Byzantine general Nikephoros Melissenos proclaimed himself emperor, but submitted to his brother-in-law, Alexios I Komnenos, in exchange for the title of Caesar?
... that the Glee episode "Comeback" was originally rumored to be a Justin Bieber tribute, but his music only served as "a small plot point"?
... that Lauritz Weidemann served as a county governor in Norway for almost 35 years?
... that the LoDaisKa Site in Colorado was occupied for 7,500 years, starting in the Paleo-Indian period?
... that Dutch American biochemist Donald Van Slyke discovered the amino acid hydroxylysine, and was the first recipient of the American Medical Association's Scientific Achievement Award?
... that the British destroyer HMS Greyhound initiated the night phase of the Battle of Cape Matapan on 28/29 March 1941 when her searchlight illuminated an Italian cruiser?
... that GCH Foxcliffe Hickory Wind's victory at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this year beat odds of 60–1?

06:00, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

... that after Washington, D.C.'s Hoover Field and Washington Airport merged to create Washington-Hoover Airport in 1933, a highway bisected the conjoined airfield's main runway (plane take-off pictured)?
... that works by German artist Georg Muche were confiscated by the Nazis and displayed in their 1937 Degenerate Art exhibition?
... that St. Louis, Missouri, has the most slave freedom suits available to researchers in the United States, and 301 cases are searchable online?
... that Thomas W. Stivers was issued the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, but he was murdered in a business dispute before he could receive his medal?
... that although it can be difficult to define, some signs of surface bargaining include reneging on agreements already reached during collective bargaining or raising new issues late in negotiations?
... that according to Victor Gardthausen, Codex Sinaiticus is younger than Codex Vaticanus by at least 50 years?
... that the churchyard of St Caian's Church, Tregaian, Wales, contains the grave of a man who died in 1581 aged 105 with over 40 children and 300 living descendants?

00:00, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

... that after a fox took shelter in the ruins of Capel Lligwy (pictured), in Anglesey, north Wales, a vault was discovered containing "a large mass of human bones, several feet in depth"?
... that California '49er Stephen William Shaw helped discover Humboldt Bay, painted over 200 portraits of San Francisco notables, and started growing grapes in Sonoma County?
... that the location of BHP Billiton's Yeelirrie uranium project is referred to by the local Aborigines as a "place of death"?
... that British Major General Richard Barrons, who led efforts to incentivise Taliban soldiers to surrender in exchange for civilian jobs, was hand-picked for the role by U.S. General Stanley A. McChrystal?
... that Uncial 0321, thought to be the same as Uncial 067 for 164 years, was recently recognized as being a separate manuscript?
... that Khabur ware pottery was named after the Khabur River region in northeastern Syria, where large quantities of it were found by archaeologist Max Mallowan at the site of Chagar Bazar?
... that during World War II, Derby Art Gallery's Ernest Townsend created camouflage designs to make Spitfire engine factories look like a village from the air?

22 February 2011

18:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

... that English professional cyclist Thomas Gascoyne (pictured) set world records for both 25 miles and the 'flying start quarter mile'?
... that Ann Preston was the first female dean of any medical school?
... that the Iranian legend of Haftvad has parallels in dragon slayer stories in the folklore of many other countries?
... that sections of state highway M-37 in Michigan have been named for a Civil War general, a governor, and the road's "divine scenic and recreational delights"?
... that the Japanese pop music female duo ClariS have not released photos of themselves to the public, and instead have employed illustrators to draw their likenesses?
... that German-born U.S. soldier Christian Steiner was one of 32 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for battling against Cochise and the Apache Indians in the Chiricahua Mountains in 1869?
... that a humorous solution for the Buridan's bridge sophism is that Plato should let Socrates cross the bridge and then throw him into the river on the other side?

12:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the snail Pittieria aurantiaca feeds on honeydew produced by the lantern bug Enchophora sanguinea (pictured), the first recorded trophobiotic interaction between a gastropod and an insect?
... that Croatian mountaineer Stipe Božić is the second European, after Reinhold Messner, to climb Mount Everest twice?
... that César Franck wrote his Violin Sonata as a wedding gift for violinist Eugène Ysaÿe?
... that the 1999 Bridge Creek – Moore tornado, ranked F5 on the Fujita scale, was the costliest tornado in United States history?
... that the first Iannotta San Francesco ultralight aircraft was built in a Capuchin Friary in Naples and named after the Capuchins' patron saint, St Francis of Assisi?
... that Swiss-born Medal of Honor recipient Julius H. Stickoffer was the only U.S. soldier to receive the award for actions during the Black Hawk War in Utah?
... that there was intense volcanic activity in Uruguay during the Cretaceous period about 130 million years ago?

06:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Pine Islet Light (pictured), now located at the Mackay Marina, Queensland, Australia, is the last fully functional kerosene powered lighthouse in the world?
... that when the Ottomans entered the castle gates during the Siege of Gvozdansko, they met no resistance because the defending Croatian soldiers were already dead of wounds, hunger and cold?
... that Myotis vivesi is a species of bat that hunts marine fish and crustaceans?
... that art critic Jorge Romero Brest was the director of Argentina's National Museum of Fine Arts from 1955 to 1963?
... that the exoplanet Kepler-9b's "year" becomes four minutes longer every time it completes an orbit around its star?
... that Syrian political cartoonist Ali Farzat's 1989 exhibition at the Arab World Institute in Paris brought him a death threat from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein?
... that composer Gian Carlo Menotti bought the Scottish 18th-century Yester House near Gifford because of the acoustics in the ballroom?

00:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Callipogon relictus (pictured) is the largest beetle of Russia, reaching a length of 110 mm (4.3 in)?
... that in 1805 Marguerite was the first slave to file a freedom suit in St. Louis, and she gained an end to Indian slavery in Missouri?
... that the lowest stage of the tower of St John the Baptist's Church, Stanton, Suffolk, was left open to allow processions around the church?
... that Arthur Cheetham's film of children playing on the beach at Rhyl is recognised as the first film of the Cinema of Wales?
... that the Crawford Library was called the greatest philatelic library in the world when its owner died in 1913?
... that Saleh al-Ali led one of the first Syrian rebellions against the French mandate, and was sentenced to death in absentia by a French court-martial?
... that atmospheric models were not able to outperform statistical models in forecasting tropical cyclone tracks until the 1990s?

21 February 2011

18:00, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the German armored cruiser SMS Prinz Heinrich (pictured) set the design standard for all subsequent armored cruisers built for the Kaiserliche Marine?
... that the Mexican state of Sonora lost about half its territory in the mid-19th century to the United States?
... that The Daily Telegraph's Tom Hoggins stated that Body and Brain Connection created a new video game genre called "mathercise", a portmanteau of the words math and exercise?
... that the Indian Claims Limitations Act of 1982 was the first statute of limitations imposed on claims arising from aboriginal title in the United States by Congress?
... that the spire of North Church has been called Portsmouth, New Hampshire's "landmark of record"?
... that under Anton Mosimann, the restaurant of the Dorchester Hotel became the first hotel restaurant outside France with two Michelin stars?
... that megaphone can be crystallized from an ether-chloroform solution?
... that the track "Palermo" from the Chicago Underground Trio's album Slon contains recorded sounds from a Sicilian fish market?

12:00, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

... that instead of pinnacles on the tower of St Margaret's Church, Abbotsley (pictured) in Cambridgeshire, there are statues of four kings?
... that the 1995 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships was hosted in Gjøvik Olympic Cavern Hall, the world's largest cavern hall for public use?
... that NBC only ordered four episodes for the second season of Homicide: Life on the Street because the network had not decided whether to cancel or renew the series?
... that Theodosius Dobzhansky was the first president of the Behavior Genetics Association?
... that in September 1864, Sitting Bull was shot in the hip while leading an attack on a wagon train commanded by Captain James L. Fisk?
... that in 1999, a giant planet was hypothesized to exist in the outer Oort cloud of the solar system, but most astronomers are skeptical of its existence?
... that Tony Burrello's single "There's a New Sound" was described by Billboard magazine as "a studied attempt to be as screwy as possible", but went on to sell over 100,000 copies?

06:00, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the French wine grape Fer (pictured) gets its name from the element iron, because of how hard the vine's wood stock is?
... that the Marshall JTM 45 was based on the Fender Bassman, but had different harmonic content because of increased feedback?
... that in 1143 the Byzantine-Norman nobleman John Rogerios plotted to usurp the throne of his brother-in-law Manuel I Komnenos, but was betrayed by his own wife?
... that TIGER grants are contributing to the construction of the Gateway Project, a high speed rail corridor between Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station?
... that the Polish Pomeranian anti-Nazi Pomeranian Griffin resistance organization was persecuted by the Soviets due to its strongly Catholic character?
... that the city of Sulphur, Louisiana, once placed a memorial light on its water tower to honor Dr. Alvan Lafargue for having delivered 5,000 babies?
... that at Isha Home School in Coimbatore, India, origami is used to teach mathematics?

00:00, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Bach's cantata for Septuagesimae 1724, Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin, BWV 144, is based on the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (pictured)?
... that Patrick Sheltra, the 2010 ARCA Racing Series champion, was the first owner-driver to win the series title since Benny Parsons in 1969?
... that exoplanet Kepler-9c has an orbit that decreases by 39 minutes every time it circles its star?
... that Andrew L. Sevier, a Louisiana state senator from 1932 to 1962, was the scion of a family that traces its lineage to John Sevier of Tennessee?
... that mass strandings of the squat lobster Pleuroncodes planipes occur in California during El Niño years?
... that the opening of the Italian Spring Offensive against Greek positions, in March 1941, was personally observed by Benito Mussolini?
... that The Dante Quartet, an eight-minute experimental film, took six years to produce?

20 February 2011

18:00, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Leach's spider crab lives with the snakelocks anemone (pictured), eats the anemone's food and mucus and is protected from predators by the anemone's stings?
... that the Old Orchard Street Theatre in Bath was built as a provincial theatre before becoming a Roman Catholic Church and since 1865 a Masonic Hall?
... that replicas of the Harley J. Earl Trophy, named after NASCAR's second commissioner, are sculpted by John Lajba and awarded to the winners of the Daytona 500?
... that the first game to be considered a Yoshi game is the 1991 Nintendo Entertainment System game, Yoshi, which was developed by GameFreak?
... that kabbalists believed that those who think of themselves as Ayin, a mystical symbol of Kabbalah, will ascend to a spiritual world where everything, including life and death, is equal?
... that French engineer Achille Collas invented a working machine to make engravings from medals, coins and other bas-reliefs, and another to copy sculptures at a reduced scale?
... that the city of Chicago has warming centers open from December 1 to March 1 each year?

12:00, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the 1973 Soviet economic reform initiated by Alexei Kosygin (pictured), the Premier of the Soviet Union, tried to reduce the powers of the central Ministries?
... that the Centipede–Lake Way project, located at Lake Way, is scheduled to become Western Australia's second uranium mine by 2013?
... that Soul Surfer is an upcoming film about Bethany Hamilton, who lost her left arm in a shark attack while surfing?
... that Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury was the first tribal Nonintercourse Act lawsuit to go to a jury?
... that Andy Lally and Brian Keselowski are competing for Rookie of the Year in the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series?
... that in ecologically diverse Poinsett State Park in South Carolina one can see mountain laurels draped with Spanish moss?
... that the Westungarische Volksstimme editor Paul Wittich was the first social democrat elected to the town council of Pressburg (today known as Bratislava)?

06:00, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the dwarf Seneb (sculpture pictured) overcame his diminutive size to become a high-ranking royal official in ancient Egypt, marry a priestess and own thousands of cattle?
... that between 1969 and 1984, the Charlie Conacher Humanitarian Award was presented to a National Hockey League player who made outstanding community service contributions?
... that Tropical Storm Hubert, a weak tropical cyclone, killed 85 people and left 35 more missing throughout Madagascar in March 2010?
... that the Florida perforate cladonia was the first lichen to be added to the United States' endangered species list?
... that mountain coatis, a genus of small carnivorans from the Andes, were considered to represent a single species, until a second species was recognized in 2009?
... that Cedric Wright accompanied his best friend Ansel Adams when three of Adams' most famous photographs were taken?
... that when the 1983 arcade game Up'n Down was ported to the Atari 2600, its "bluesy" background music was replaced with "a very unsettling version" due to limitations in the 2600's sound capabilities?

00:00, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

... that NASA engineers shook a Saturn V test vehicle (S-IC stage pictured) for over 400 hours to ensure it would withstand the rigors of launch?
... that former Syrian chief of staff Ali Aslan was considered the "operational brain" of the Syrian Army during the 1990s?
... that the first official United States silver dollar contained an illegal amount of silver?
... that Sir James Rögnvald Learmonth was knighted in King George VI's bedroom after performing nerve surgery for his vascular disease?
... that a Pacific tropical storm and a Gulf of Mexico hurricane contributed to flash flooding in Minnesota and Wisconsin in September 2010?
... that Stephen Herbits spent three years as Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress?
... that the dog breed the Tesem appears on monuments and in wall paintings of the Ancient Egyptians?
... that the month after the Montreal Canadiens lost to their provincial rivals, the Quebec Nordiques, in the 1982 NHL playoffs, Quebec's beer consumption fell by 9.5 percent?

19 February 2011

18:00, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

... that fortuitous finding of a colossal basalt lion (pictured) in 1955 led to discovery of the Ain Dara temple near Aleppo in Syria, which was built in three structural phases between 1300 BC and 740 BC?
... that Mary Frances Winston Newson was the first American woman to be awarded a PhD in mathematics from a European university?
... that Stan Brakhage described his 1959 film Cat's Cradle as "sexual witchcraft involving two couples and a 'medium' cat"?
... that British botanist Charles Edward Hubbard was "the world authority on the classification and recognition of grasses"?
... that Doomsday Gun (HBO, 2004) was the first television drama to deal with U.S. and British covert involvement with Saddam Hussein preceding the Gulf War?
... that the two leading sopranos in the 1711 world premiere of Handel's Rinaldo, Isabella Girardeau and Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti, were bitter rivals?
... that Hemioniscus balani is called a "parasitic castrator" although its barnacle host remains a functioning male because the barnacle can no longer also function as a female?

12:00, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the ruined Church of St Mary (pictured) in Islington, Norfolk, has retained roofs only on its tower and chancel?
... that when wine importer Kermit Lynch tried to contact Domaine Raveneau to import their wine to the United States, they hung up on him?
... that the SSM-A-3 Snark and SSM-A-5 Boojum cruise missiles were named after beasts from Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark?
... that in July 2003, amidst improving ties, Muhammad Mustafa Mero became the first Syrian prime minister to visit neighboring Turkey in 17 years?
... that "New Allegiances", the series seven premiere of the British television series Spooks, was partially filmed on location in Moscow, Russia, the first time in series history where filming took place outside the United Kingdom?
... that Master of the Blankney Hunt, Edgar Lubbock played in four FA Cup Finals, twice on the winning side?
... that the Marshall JCM800 series of amplifiers, used by many hard rock and heavy metal bands of the 1980s, owes its name to the owner's initials and his car number plate?
... that every no-hitter in franchise history for the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball club was thrown by a pitcher wearing an Expos uniform back when the team was based in Montreal, Canada?

06:00, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Morefield's leather flower (pictured) was first discovered in a vacant lot in 1982 by a 21-year-old botany student?
... that from a standing start, Wales rugby union international Roy John could jump up and reach the crossbar set at 3.2 metres (10 ft 6 in) above the ground?
... that the bat Myotis escalerai was first recorded in France in 2009?
... that Michigan's 1915 quarterback Lawrence Roehm was called the "thinking type", "160 pounds of undaunted courage", and a "peppery" player who imbued his team with "do-or-die spirit"?
... that legal action following the burial of a two-year old child in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Akenham, Suffolk, led to a change in the law in 1880?
... that Alan B. Slifka, who created the Abraham Fund Initiatives to promote coexistence of Jews and Arabs in Israel, was also the first chairman of the Big Apple Circus?
... that in 2004, the measurement of the size of a ski jumping hill was changed from the construction point to the hill size?
... that Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who leads Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, was formerly defence minister under President Hosni Mubarak?

00:00, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the popularity of the Balancing Rocks formation grew when the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe featured it on certain issues of Zimbabwean banknotes (pictured), including the current series?
... that in 1881, a tunnel was dug under St. Petersburg's shortest street, Malaya Sadovaya Street, as part of a Narodnik plot to assassinate Czar Alexander II?
... that while Nielluccio is sometimes described as indigenous to Corsica, the grape may actually have come to the island from Genoa and could really just be a clone of Sangiovese?
... that Vidyasagar Setu, the longest cable-stayed bridge in India, was built over the course of 20 years?
... that from 1859 to 1931, the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia, taught "orthodox southern moral and racial values" to young Southern women?
... that the beautiful purple-tinged flowering Castilleja septentrionalis (pale painted cup) is a parasite on the roots of other plants?
... that British appeal court judge James Stirling was a Wrangler, a Devil, and an amateur bryologist?

18 February 2011

18:00, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

... that uranates have been used to add various colors to glass (example pictured)?
... that a Norwegian song from 1950 with lyrics by politician and poet Arne Paasche Aasen sold 100,000 records?
... that Leonard Nimoy says that his work on Fringe, which began with the episode "There's More Than One of Everything", will be his last acting project?
... that the 13th-century New Testament manuscript known as Minuscule 827 does not include John's account of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery?
... that a woman immigrant from Frankfurt, the Countess Leon, founded the communal Germantown Colony established in 1835 in Webster Parish, Louisiana?
... that Home and Away actor Charles Cottier is embarrassed in real life because his character Dexter Walker falls in love with an older woman?
... that during the 1950s, the United States Navy intended to use Gorgons to deliver chemical weapons?
... that Romanian novelist Sergiu Dan survived deportation to Transnistria, spoke of it in one of the few local contributions to Holocaust literature, and was later imprisoned by the communist regime?

12:00, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the AAM-A-1 Firebird (pictured on DB-26) was the first air-to-air missile to be developed following the end of World War II?
... that Oliver Lewis, founding member of the electronic music group Deviations Project, is considered to be the "world's fastest violinist"?
... that in the 1990s Luobi Cave near Sanya, Hainan, China, yielded the oldest evidence of human settlement in Hainan, as well as China's most southern occurrence of Upper Paleolithic era stone tools?
... that Justice, a 1954 NBC TV legal drama, was based on cases of the Legal Aid Society of New York?
... that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman began the last of three lectures collected in The Meaning of It All by saying, "I have completely run out of organized ideas"?
... that while Syrian President Hafez al-Assad was ill in 1983, Hikmat al-Shihabi, chief of staff of the Syrian Army, and Ali Duba, head of the Military Intelligence, were part of an interim ruling committee?
... that the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland had planned to be aboard Manx2 Flight 7100, which crashed on landing in February 2011?
... that Gabe Carimi, who is expected to be picked in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft, fasted for Yom Kippur until an hour before game-time in his freshman year of college?

06:00, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Belgian Symbolist artist Félicien Rops called French writer Octave Uzanne (pictured) "the Bibliophile's dream"?
... that the Iron Age Meare Lake Village was built on a peat bog on the Somerset Levels?
... that Brother Cajetan J. B. Baumann (1899–1969) was the first member of a religious order to ever be named to the American Institute of Architects?
... that Scrivener said that few Greek New Testament manuscripts from the 12th century were equal to Codex Ephesinus in "weight and importance"?
... that Adalbert Schneider was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for the sinking of HMS Hood on 24 May 1941 in the Battle of the Denmark Strait?
... that comedian Nick Offerman said of filming the Parks and Recreation episode "Ron & Tammy: Part Two": "I remember there was lots of howling, and I came away very sore and scarred?"
... that Michigan quarterback Ted Bank wore a specially constructed knee brace to allow him to play football after suffering a shrapnel injury in World War I?
... that the SHARP aircraft was a sort of low-altitude communications satellite in the form of an electrically powered airplane?

00:00, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

... that W. P. Clark constructed Bustard Head Light, Double Island Point Light (pictured) and Pine Islet Light, and started but did not complete the construction of Cape Cleveland Light and Dent Island Light?
... that the Salaulim Dam in Goa, India, has a unique duckbill type of spillway located in the gorge section?
... that Polish poet Juliusz Słowacki is one of the Three Bards of Polish literature?
... that the ice hockey team Spektrum Flyers was disbanded after two years because its management moved it from Oslo to Bergen?
... that the UK singer Don Charles, who had one top forty hit, later bought a Maltese night club with Rolf Harris?
... that Dutch Major Lodewijk Thomson, second-in-command of the International Gendarmerie in Albania, was probably killed by an Italian sniper on 15 June 1914, in a peasant rebel attack on Durrës?
... that Czech film director Jan Sviták was killed shortly after the liberation of Prague in 1945?

17 February 2011

18:00, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Oswald Hall (pictured), former residence of Richard Oswald, the British representative at the 1783 Peace of Paris after the American War of Independence, became a teaching farm in the 20th century?
... that artist John DeStefano spent sixty years creating mannequins after deciding that he could not support his family with his art?
... that although the Jura wine grape Poulsard is dark-skinned, the amount of color pigment in its skin is so low that it can be used to make white wine?
... that legend says that Welsh noblewoman Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam was so beloved that when she died 3000 knights, nobles and weeping peasants followed her body to its burial place?
... that all of the federal judges in South Carolina recused themselves from South Carolina v. Catawba Indian Tribe?
... that the prehistoric archaeologist Johanna Mestorf was the first female museum director in Germany, and at 71 became the first or second female professor?
... that a one-minute kiss scene involving Home and Away character Steven Matheson took hours to film because of the actors' nerves?

12:00, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Sylvester H. Roper's steam velocipede (pictured) of 1867–1869 is one of three candidates for the title of first motorcycle?
... that the Sigur Plateau is a wildlife corridor which is important for maintaining the genetic diversity of elephants and general biodiversity in South India?
... that Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz was a German geophysicist whose equations use seismic waves to map underground features?
... that the United States Air Force's 14th Test Squadron was originally activated during the Cold War as the 14th Missile Warning Squadron and assigned to operate radar sites around the United States?
... that scholars estimate that it takes two or three generations for a tradition to emerge?
... that a brass in All Saints Church, Little Wenham is said to be one of the best pre-Reformation brasses in Suffolk?
... that the lawyer who argued Connick v. Myers before the U.S. Supreme Court for Harry Connick, Sr., had interviewed Sheila Myers, the appellee, when she had applied to work for Connick?
... that the Barnesville Petroglyph is unusual because its human faces have noses?

06:00, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Thomas Hislop (pictured) enjoyed being Minister of Education, as his father was the author of the New Zealand Education Act?
... that the Thing Moot in Little Langdale was used as an open-air meeting place by Viking settlers?
... that Pinocchio's sentence "My nose grows now" could be neither true nor false, which means his nose grows if, and only if, it does not grow?
... that the neighborhoods of the city of Cholula, Puebla, in Mexico have a complicated system for sponsoring its many religious festivals?
... that while it took Wire three months to come up with a title for their last album, Object 47, the band immediately agreed on naming their current record Red Barked Tree?
... that 24 non-fatal accidents at No. 1 Flying Training School RAAF in 1926 prompted its commander to remark that the cadets must have learned how to crash "moderately safely"?
... that Fringe actress Anna Torv considers "August" one of her favorite episodes?
... that in 1972, Republican Robert L. Frye claimed that his Democratic opponent offered him a job to entice Frye to leave the race for Louisiana education superintendent?

00:00, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

... that St Mary the Virgin's Church, Wiggenhall, Norfolk (pictured) is notable for the quality of its carved wooden fittings?
... that Canadian rock band Bleeker Ridge formed in 2003, when the youngest members were 12 years old?
... that the only high-ranking Byzantine official to die in the 557 Constantinople earthquake was a curator and honorary consul killed by a piece of decorative marble?
... that for the 2009 independent feature film Jordon Saffron Taste This!, director Sergio Myers created a filmmaking style he calls "Free Flow Filmmaking"?
... that Olav Braarud remained the managing director of the Oslo light rail company Holmenkolbanen while it was controlled by the fascist Nasjonal Samling and the Nazi military during World War II?
... that after the failed Siege of Phasis during the Lazic War against the Byzantines, the Sassanid Persian shah became so upset with his losing general that he had him flayed alive?
... that the Moyes Dragonfly ultralight aircraft was designed for the specialised role of towing hang gliders, but is also used for herding livestock?

16 February 2011

18:00, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the coffin of Rasputin rested in Chesme Church (pictured) before his burial at Tsarskoye Selo in 1916?
... that during the Boer War General Henry Hildyard told Winston Churchill that his Brigade was in "formation for taking advantage of ant-heaps"?
... that Julianna Margulies appeared in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Black and Blue" as a romantic interest to the much-older Ned Beatty?
... that the Quicksilver GT500 is the first aircraft certified under Part 21.24 of the Federal Aviation Regulations?
... that courts have held that a Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo implementation statute extinguished all tribal aboriginal title in California?
... that Typhoon Rananim was the strongest typhoon to strike the Chinese province of Zhejiang since 1956?
... that indigenous customary law, known as usos y costumbres, is used for local elections in Mexico and Bolivia?
... that Charles Blackader survived three years on the Western Front in the First World War, only to be invalided home after being licked by a rabid dog?

12:00, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the 150-million-year-old ink of the extinct, squid-like Belemnotheutis (artist's rendition pictured) was used to draw a picture that paleontologists called "the ultimate self portrait"?
... that, in the Rule 90 cellular automaton, any finite pattern eventually fills the whole array of cells with copies of itself?
... that James Troy served as the light keeper of Cleveland Point Light for 50 years, the longest serving light keeper at one lighthouse in Australia?
... that Richard Smith directed the Marx Brothers in their first film, Humor Risk?
... that under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, whistleblowers in Great Britain are protected from dismissal, but not from libel lawsuits if their allegations turn out to be false?
... that the New Zealand mushrooms Amanita australis, A. nothofagi, Entoloma haastii, Mycena cystidiosa, M. minirubra, and Oudemansiella australis were all described by Greta Stevenson as new to science?
... that British soap opera Hollyoaks introduced fictional killer Silas Blissett to raise awareness of Internet safety?

06:00, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey (pictured) placed third in his class in the 2011 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race, won overall by a team comprising drivers Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas, Graham Rahal and Joey Hand?
... that the main protagonist from the manga series Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Syaoran, ends up becoming one of the series' main antagonists?
... that the east end of Nevada State Route 230 is known as the Welcome Interchange?
... that in 1950, Arnold Cook was the first person to bring a guide dog to Australia?
... that Ṭūsī was the first one to recognize that, if a declarative sentence that declares itself being false, is false, this does not necessitate it being true?
... that Sunny South, a clipper ship captured in 1860 with a cargo of over 800 slaves, was built by a racing yacht designer, and outran the steam-powered HMS Brisk for four hours?
... that Colonel Joachim Meichssner refused to kill Hitler in a suicide attack because he could not bear the stress of waiting?

00:00, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the Saint Usuge Spaniel (pictured) was saved from extinction after World War II thanks to a priest in the Bresse region of France?
... that former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a parishioner at St. Raphael's Church in New York City?
... that the 1952 Cairo Fire is the focus of numerous conspiracy theories because those responsible for it have never been identified?
... that French author Jeanne Galzy, largely forgotten today, wrote novels dealing with lesbian love and desire?
... that St Michael's Church, Buslingthorpe, in Lincolnshire contains one of the earliest military brasses in England?
... that Saturday Night Live comedian Will Forte played a man obsessed with the Twilight series in "Time Capsule", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation?
... that in the Caribbean, off Anguilla, the Flirt Rocks are north of the Prickly Pear Cays, while a channel separates the cays from Dog Island?
... that the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley gave a guitar to Jane Williams and commemorated the gift in the poem "With a Guitar, to Jane"?

15 February 2011

18:00, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

... that on the first ride of the first internal combustion motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen (pictured), the seat caught fire?
... that Ch. Obo II is considered to be the father of the modern American Cocker Spaniel?
... that the Socialite application of the NECA Project allowed "face to face", emotion-based interactions between animated agents on the internet?
... that the French socialist parliamentarian Ernest Lafont was expelled from Soviet Russia on the orders of Leon Trotsky?
... that crime writer Dick Francis was a notable figure in Welsh horse racing, becoming British Champion Jockey in 1954?
... that Winston Churchill, after being driven down the Niagara Parkway, described it as "the prettiest Sunday afternoon drive in the world"?
... that Romy Rosemont, known for her portrayal of Carole Hudson in Glee, was due to appear alongside her husband, Stephen Root, in Red State, but had to withdraw due to scheduling difficulties?
... that Ham Hill Hillfort is one of the largest hillforts in Britain, and is the only one with a pub in its interior?

12:00, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the Cursinu (pictured), a Corsican dog breed, is used for hunting boars, foxes and hares?
... that Hermann Maaß refused a teaching position at Harvard University to continue his fight against National Socialism from within Germany?
... that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "See No Evil" features a suspected police shooting, which was based on a real-life investigation from a book by David Simon?
... that despite being of Kurdish origins, Syrian writer Salim Barakat is considered one of the most innovative poets and novelists writing in the Arabic language?
... it is believed that Minuscule 826 is the archetype of the textual family 13?
... that Ellen Hayes was not only a rare 19th-century female mathematics professor but was also the first woman to run for statewide office in Massachusetts?
... that Krishan Kumar's 2003 book, The Making of English National Identity, was described by Bernard Crick as "the deepest and best reflection so far by a fine sociologist and an intellectual historian"?
... that the Bakossi people of the Mungo River in Cameroon have a legend that their ancestor Ngoe built an ark to save his family and many animals from a great flood?

06:00, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the three-story Grand Hotel (pictured) of New Ulm, Minnesota still shows the signs of when it was a two-story building?
... that Aslie Pitter, founder of Stonewall F.C., Britain's first and most successful gay football club, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work fighting homophobia in London?
... that the single horn of the mythical rhinoceros-like Karkadann was said to cure epilepsy and open the bowels, while its tears were claimed to solidify into prayer beads that are still used in Iraq?
... that Tom Horabin MP survived the January 1947 crash of a BOAC Dakota airliner?
... that Dani Siciliano wanted her cover of Nirvana's "Come as You Are", from her album Likes..., to have the feel of a jazz standard?
... that more than 100,000 spectators saw Norway lose the men's 4 x 10 km cross-country relay by 0.4 seconds to Italy at Birkebeineren Ski Stadium during the 1994 Winter Olympics?
... that the canine actor Sykes starred in the award winning television advertisement "Every Home Needs a Harvey", viewed over a million times on YouTube?

00:00, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

... that extinct diadectid reptiliomorphs (life restoration pictured) were the first large herbivorous land animals?
... that in Michael Carr's successful by-election campaign, he issued a leaflet mentioning 26 times that he was local to the constituency?
... that the result of the Congress of Gela, a peace conference in Sicily in 424 BC, has been compared to the Monroe Doctrine?
... that the Holtsmark distribution was proposed in 1919 as a model for the gravitational field of stars?
... that the private Miraflores Museum in Guatemala City has three mounds from the ancient Maya city of Kaminaljuyu in its grounds?
... that British-born architect Patrick Horsbrugh was active in the British Army, Royal Air Force, and the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II?
... that Bill Bowerman, a coach for the Oregon Ducks track and field team, created the first Nike prototype shoe by pouring rubber into his wife's waffle iron?

14 February 2011

18:00, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

... that because Leonid Brezhnev (pictured) had more than 200 decorations, it was decided to break the Soviet custom of featuring only one decoration on cushions during his funeral?
... that singer Cee Lo Green appeared on Saturday Night Live to perform "Bright Lights, Bigger City", the third single from his album The Lady Killer, backed by an all-female band?
... that The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is the 2011 winner of the Mathematical Association of America's Euler Book Prize?
... that the British Army used sugar houses in New York City to hold prisoners during the American Revolutionary War?
... that the non-profit group A Human Right is raising money to purchase a satellite to provide free basic internet access to developing countries?
... that when confused with Mathew Montagu, the taller Montague Mathew claimed "there was as great a difference between them as between a horse chesnut [sic] and a chesnut horse"?

12:00, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the Hindu deity Ardhanarishvara (pictured) is depicted with the right half as male, sometimes with an erect penis, and the left half as female with a well-developed breast?
... that the PAD emotional state model uses three numerical dimensions to represent all emotions?
... that basketball players Grady Livingston of Howard and Anwar Ferguson of Houston were each NCAA Division I season blocks leaders during their careers?
... that in the Welsh folk tale of Y Ladi Wen, the "white lady" ghost purportedly guarded the treasure of Ogmore Castle?
... that Pornographic Apathetic by film director T. Arthur Cottam was featured at film festivals in South Korea and France, and at an art exhibit in Vienna?
... that the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resulted from the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act?
... that William Wadé Harris baptized over 100,000 converts in an eighteen-month period in West Africa?

06:00, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

... that funds for the Betty's Hope (wind mill pictured) restoration project were raised by organising a concert called "A Penny Concert"?
... that the Pterodactyl I unmanned aerial vehicle can use synthetic aperture radar to conduct reconnaissance missions?
... that Charles Lever wrote of the demise of Daly's Club, Dublin: "nothing in history equals it – except, perhaps, the entrance of the French army into Moscow"?
... that when Amraal Lambert, Captain of the Kaiǀkhauan in South-West Africa, moved from Leonardville to ǂKoabes, he could not pronounce the Nama name of the settlement and changed it to Gobabis?
... that the first Native American land claim lawsuit to be filed federally and the first one to be successful arose from aboriginal title in New York?
... that to keep the French wine grape Len de l'El from fading into obscurity, Gaillac wine growers used wine laws to dictate a minimum usage of the grape for all white Gaillac blends?
... that Louis Leithold, an AP calculus "legend", came out of retirement at age 72 to "relentlessly" drill high school students in calculus?

00:00, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the JB-4 missile (pictured) was guided via television?
... that the Byzantine general Constantine Dalassenos came twice close to ascending the throne and marrying the porphyrogenita Zoe, but was rejected in favour of less independent-minded candidates?
... that Clare Taylor represented England in the World Cup at both football and cricket?
... that A Teaspoon Every Four Hours, a play co-written by Jackie Mason, set a Broadway theatre record which may be broken next month by Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark?
... that Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch, in his history of the church published in 1762–1785, claimed there is a place in the church for heretics?
... that local opposition to Fred Wilson's public artwork E Pluribus Unum may cause sponsors to cancel its installation in Indianapolis?
... that despite telling a reporter in 1997 that he would "never" reunite with The Cars, singer Ric Ocasek relented in 2010 to record Move Like This, the band's first studio album in 23 years?
... that flying ace William Stanley Jenkins scored his first two confirmed aerial victories while still admitted to a hospital?

13 February 2011

18:00, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the economy and art of Urartu (example pictured) flourished in the 8th century BC only to decline a century later?
... that the St Albans by-election in 1904 was triggered by the sale to the Admiralty of two battleships which had been built for the Chilean Navy?
... that the Museo Regional de Arqueología in La Democracia, Guatemala, was founded to house artefacts collected from the local cotton plantations?
... that it has been estimated that 8.5 million Japanese civilians were displaced from their homes as a result of the air raids on Japan during World War II?
... that Alpha Road in Dallas is named for the former freedmen's town of Alpha, Texas?
... that in the tower of St Nicholas' Church, Buckenham, Norfolk, is a dovecote lined with brick nesting boxes?
... that MacHomer, a one-person play blending William Shakespeare's Macbeth with The Simpsons, was conceived by Rick Miller in 1994 while he was playing the minor role of Murderer No. 2 in a production of MacBeth?

12:00, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Vetka, (church in town pictured) on the Sozh River, in Belarus, is located in an area which was highly radioactive due to the nuclear fallout of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986?
... that, in United States space policy, President Eisenhower sought to avoid a space race due to his belief in small government, but Congress created a NASA much stronger than he had sought?
... that until the late 1970s, the hybrid grape Baco Blanc was the primary grape behind the French brandy of Armagnac?
... that since the discontinuation of commuter rail in Cleveland, Ohio, there have been at least three proposals for restoring service, but none have progressed beyond studies?
... that Vikingskipet sports venue, built for the 1994 Winter Olympics, has hosted world championships in speed skating, bandy, speedway and track cycling?
... that John F. Kennedy's early-morning speech from the balcony of the Elton Hotel in Waterbury, Connecticut, was credited with helping him win the state in 1960?
... that there have been reports of ghosts, and of activity by satanists, in St Botolph's Church, Skidbrooke, Lincolnshire?

06:00, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Dublin's former Kildare Street Club is adorned by whimsical beasts, such as monkeys playing billiards (pictured)?
... that Olga Novikova of Kazakhstan won four gold medals, winning every women's event in ski orienteering, at the 2011 Asian Winter Games?
... that the 2007 independent feature film Dreamscape was expanded from 63 minutes to 86 minutes based upon a suggestion from reviewer M. J. Simpson?
... that the report of an investigation of delays in completing the Idamalayar Dam project in Kerala stated it was a "victim of recurring and long inertial periods of labour unrest"?
... that the grant allowing the Potomac Curling Club to open its home in 2002 became the subject of an attack ad in Maryland?
... that Techno Viking has received more than 20 million clicks on YouTube and given rise to more than 700 responses and remixed versions?
... that an aborted family picnic was a major contributing factor that drove Harry Lonsdale to found his company, Bend Research, in Oregon instead of California?

00:00, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

... that a dying parishioner paid for architect Robert North to travel so that his design for St. James' Episcopal Church (pictured) in Batavia, New York, would reflect "the quiet spirit of the English countryside"?
... that fish ladders are constructed so that salmon can navigate past hydroelectric dams on their way to spawn?
... that Cherokees were recruited into Thomas' Legion to fight for the South in the American Civil War by William Holland Thomas, the only white chief of the Cherokees?
... that a mural outside Mama Ayesha's Restaurant, featuring 11 U.S. Presidents, was chosen by Washington City Paper as the second-best mural in Washington, D.C.?
... that the Irk Bitig (Book of Omens) is the only known complete manuscript text written in the Old Turkic script?
... that the extinct crocodile Rimasuchus often preyed on large mammals, including early humans?

12 February 2011

18:00, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Google's Art Project features digital versions of 17 pieces of artwork (including Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, pictured) at a resolution of 7 gigapixels?
... that the anonymous Greek author of Hellenic Nomarchy, written in 1806, dedicates his work to the activist Rigas Feraios?
... that pioneer aviator Léon Lemartin set a world record when he carried seven passengers in a Blériot XIII Aerobus?
... that both Interstate 81 and U.S. Route 11 in West Virginia roughly follow the Warrior Path, an old Indian trail through the Eastern Panhandle region?
... that the Reverend Richard Boys was responsible for the moral upkeep of Hudson Lowe and his men who guarded Napoleon I during the exile on Saint Helena?
... that since the 1990s, the Cross de San Sebastián has been dominated by runners of East African origin?
... that Fringe's executive producers compared the episode "Marionette" to a Rip Van Winkle experience?

12:00, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

... that George Frideric Handel (pictured) wrote Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate for the celebration of the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, to English words?
... that the Sewell Ministry, led by Henry Sewell, was the first responsible government of New Zealand?
... that the song "Mr. Malcontent" on the Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album Mainstream is based on the character played by Daniel Day-Lewis in My Beautiful Laundrette?
... that Pontyclun railway station, previously called Llantrisant, was originally two separate railway stations that were later merged into one?
... that French singer Amaury Vassili is currently the youngest professional tenor in the world?
... that Leonid Brezhnev's legacy was described by Mikhail Gorbachev as "an Era of Stagnation"?
... that much of the demolition of Sugar House Prison in Utah had to be carried out stone by stone, because dynamite had little effect on its heavy walls?

06:00, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Marojejy National Park (pictured) contains the last remaining mountain scrub in Madagascar to be unaltered by fire?
... that the MXR Dyna Comp, a guitar effect, is favored especially by Nashville guitar players and other chicken pickers?
... that Guatemalan Roberto González Goyri, who was awarded the Order of the Quetzal, illustrated a children's book in Cubist style?
... that in addition to being named an All-American in both football and basketball at the University of Oklahoma, Tom Churchill finished fifth in the decathlon at the 1928 Summer Olympics?
... that Algernon Sidney Badger, a public official in New Orleans during and after Reconstruction, was named a Union Army colonel for "meritorious service" at the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay?
... that Jennifer Lopez's 2011 comeback, "On the Floor", samples Kaoma's 1989 hit single "Lambada" but fellow latin artist Kat DeLuna felt it was similar to her own 2010 single "Party O'Clock"?
... that the old Bridge Tender's House on the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., is now a giant kaleidoscope?

00:00, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the Zliten mosaic (portion pictured) is an ancient Roman floor mosaic from about the 2nd century AD that depicts gladiators and scenes from ordinary life?
... that Puerto Rican singer Olga Tañón received a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album for her album Sobrevivir?
... that New Georgia, Liberia, was established by Africans "recaptured" from a slave ship and held for seven years in Georgia waiting for courts to decide their fate?
... that while performing in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Me and Juliet, actress Joan McCracken got pregnant, lost her child to a miscarriage, and lost her husband, Bob Fosse, to another woman?
... that Lysgårdsbakken, the ski jumping hill for the 1994 Winter Olympics, has become the 11th-most visited tourist attraction in Norway?
... that the early efforts of the precursor to the Pacific Salmon Commission included dynamiting dams?
... that Anatolius, a 6th-century Byzantine official accused of being a crypto-pagan, was tortured, thrown to the "wild beasts" of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, and then crucified?
... that the octagonal Sodom Schoolhouse shared its premises with a Methodist church?

11 February 2011

18:00, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

... that British manufacturers refused to enter the first Grand Prix (winner Ferenc Szisz pictured) because they suspected the French organisers were using it as propaganda for their automobile industry?
... that Elizabeth W. Champney, author of the "Three Vassar Girls" series, married her former drawing instructor when he happened to pass through her hometown?
... that because the rodent Akodon spegazzinii is so variable, several populations have been named as separate species?
... that Christine Weidinger returned to the Metropolitan Opera after 16 years to appear as Semiramis, the title role of Rossini's Semiramide?
... that LifeSpring Hospitals, an Indian hospital chain that provides care to low income patients in Hyderabad, was the first health care company to join the UN's Business Call to Action?
... that England international footballer and twice FA Cup winner Harry Goodhart became Professor of Humanities at the University of Edinburgh?
... that the city of Huejotzingo, Mexico, celebrates Carnival with four battalions of residents firing wooden muskets at each other?

12:00, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

... that sea butterflies Limacina helicina and Limacina antarctica (pictured) are keystone species of polar open seas?
... that humanist minuscule handwriting, invented in the fifteenth century in Italy, was based on Carolingian minuscule, which Renaissance humanists took to be ancient Roman?
... that the Fringe episode title "Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?" refers to a novel that was later adapted into the film Blade Runner?
... that the Cameroon line of volcanoes is 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) long, and includes Mount Oku, the second highest mountain in Cameroon?
... that children's writer Will Scott, author of The Cherrys series, wrote 2,000 short stories for adults?
... that Bohuslav Martinů's Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra was first performed in the United Kingdom by oboist Evelyn Rothwell at The Proms?
... that Gary Fanelli, who represented American Samoa in the marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics, has competed in various costumes including Elwood Blues, a Ghostbusters ghost, and Michael Jackson?

06:00, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

... that U Dhammaloka (pictured) was an Irish hobo who became one of the first known western Buddhist monks and was twice tried for sedition?
... that the Government of Hong Kong invoked the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance for the fourth time in history to protect Ho Tung Gardens?
... that The Wall Street Journal calculated that Michigan Wolverines point guard Darius Morris is the most valuable college basketball player in any major college program?
... that unlike most other churches in the Welsh county of Anglesey, St Ffinan's Church was built in Romanesque revival style?
... that in 1967 Arkansas Republican chairman Odell Pollard reported that his state ranked second highest nationally in the percent of African Americans serving on draft boards?
... that the sacred wild-olive Olea oleaster of Olympia, not the cultivated olive, was used for the olive wreaths that crowned ancient Olympic winners?
... that Cuban songwriter Emilio Estefan earned the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year the same year he was named Person of the Year by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences?
... that the United States Air Force enlisted Tarzon to destroy North Korean bridges?

00:00, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

... that a photograph of Private John Hines with the German money and equipment he had looted during the Battle of Polygon Wood in 1917 (pictured) is one of the best known Australian images of World War I?
... that the Rich Representation Language includes commands for displaying a wide range of emotions in the faces of animated characters?
... that Acromis spinifex is one of the few tortoise beetles that shows maternal care of its young?
... that Zamfir Arbore went from being a figure in Russian anarchism and a close associate of Mikhail Bakunin to serving two terms in the Senate of Romania?
... that with the use of the captured merchant vessels MV Izumi and MV York as motherships, Somali pirates introduced a new strategy that has been said to be "game-changing"?
... that although Arley Hall, Cheshire, was in Jacobean style, its owner decided that its chapel should be in Gothic style?
... that after suffering the loss of the use of an arm, Augustus Wade Dwight returned to lead his regiment, only to die in the Battle of Fort Stedman?
... that the monster costume in the Roger Corman-produced horror film Night of the Blood Beast is the same one used in the film Teenage Cave Man?

10 February 2011

18:00, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

... that during World War II, the Legaliteti sought the return of King Zog (pictured) to the throne of Albania?
... that merchant Lester S. Willson and his wife entertained members of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition in their home on the evening before the expedition left to explore Yellowstone?
... that in Australia, the only initiative to introduce community forestry, within the internationally understood context, is in the Wombat State Forest?
... that American rapper Jay-Z has won the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration four times since its conception in 2002?
... that the center section of the Consolidated XB2Y dive bomber was cut from a solid steel block?
... that according to Roman law, counterfeiters were to be thrown to wild beasts?

12:00, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the spring-loving centaury (pictured) and other rare plants at the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge are declining because of groundwater pumping?
... that in 1887, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume outsold Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet worldwide?
... that father and son producers Thomas and David Frost have both been presented Grammy Awards for Classical Producer of the Year?
... that British organometallic chemist Peter Maitlis coined the term metallomesogens for "metal complexes of organic ligands which exhibit liquid crystalline (mesomorphic) character"?
... that Ballard Bunder Gatehouse in Mumbai was obscured from view for more than 50 years until it was restored by the Indian Navy and made a maritime museum?
... that nearly half a century after the assassination of Huey Long, the Louisiana physician Edgar Hull disputed a longstanding claim that Long had received inferior medical treatment following the fatal shooting?
... that the pilot of Lufthansa Flight 592 persuaded solo hijacker Nebiu Zewolde Demeke to trade his pistol for the pilot's sunglasses?

06:00, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the Hubble Bubble was a mysterious Local Void sphere, centered on Earth, predicted from redshift velocities of Type Ia Supernovae (pictured at lower left of NGC 4526)?
... that Sussex cricket captain Herbert Whitfield also played international football for England?
... that museum theatre encompasses not only first and second person interpretation, but also demonstration, storytelling, and performances?
... that Petra, a sculpture of a urinating policewoman, received a German art award in 2011?
... that St Michael the Archangel's Church, located near Booton in Norfolk, is often known as the "Cathedral of the Fields"?
... that Jerry Nemer was the first Jew to captain a major athletic team at the University of Southern California?
... that John H. Eastman, the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, from 1910 to 1914, made his living as a tinsmith?
... that French winegrower Domaine Coche-Dury suffered damage to its Corton-Charlemagne vines after a helicopter crashed into them?

00:00, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Way Kambas National Park in Indonesia hosts a breeding centre for the critically endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros (pictured)?
... that block cellular automata, invented by Norman Margolus, can be used to simulate lattice gases, sand piles, and billiard-ball computers?
... that the 15th-century church of St Twrog, Bodwrog, Wales, has some bull's head decorations, showing its link with a prominent local family of that time?
... that the Groundhog Day blizzard and ice storm of 2011 produced storm surges near Chicago and forced the first school cancellations in both Chicago and Toronto since 1999?
... that the Museo Regional del Sureste de Petén in Guatemala was built to offset damage from a highway construction project?
... that the GT-1 could deliver a torpedo up to 25 miles (40 km) from its launching aircraft?
... that the Friends of Five Creeks helps restore creeks in the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay including daylighting Marin Creek?
... that the Allenton hippopotamus was discovered in England in 1895 and is now in Derby Museum?
... that Henry Fonda took singing lessons to prepare to be the male lead in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream, but said that even so, he "couldn't sing for shit"?

9 February 2011

18:00, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

... that, before Ed Westcott photographed J. Robert Oppenheimer holding a cigarette (pictured), he gave the physicist money so he could buy cigarettes?
... that, in 1984, John Butt became the first – and only – Westerner to graduate from the noted Darul Uloom Deoband Islamic Madrasah since its foundation in 1866?
... that heavy fog meant that helicopters were unable to participate in rescue operations after a recent train wreck in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany?
... that Tu Holloway, while playing for the 2010–11 Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team, recorded the first triple-double by a Xavier player since 2001?
... that Bruce Jackson, who mixed concert sound for Elvis Presley and Bruce Springsteen, was described by Barbra Streisand as "the best sound engineer in the world"?
... that St Caffo's Church, Llangaffo, Wales, commemorates St Caffo who was martyred in the area in the 6th century?
... that Fringe episode "Amber 31422" was the first project identical twin brothers Shawn and Aaron Ashmore had worked on together in fifteen years?
... that 2,000 people in medieval garb re-enacted the Battle of Tewkesbury at the 2003 Tewkesbury Medieval Festival, one of the "ten most bizarre festivals" in England?

12:00, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the New Ulm Oil Company Service Station (pictured) was supposed to be flanked by decorative windmills?
... that space policy concerns not only a country's civilian space program, but also its policy on both military use and commercial use of outer space?
... that "Here I Stand", a song by Usher, was compared to the work of Stevie Wonder, and was nominated for a Grammy Award?
... that the AGR-14 ZAP rocket would have used flechettes to destroy anti-aircraft guns?
... that Mount Jobe in Canada was renamed in honor of Mary Jobe Akeley to acknowledge her exploration efforts in the Rocky Mountains?
... that United States Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Cavanagh is the Beanpot ice hockey tournament's all-time leading scorer?
... that Comedy Central's South Park was the "number one influence" for the humor in the adult video game Bonetown, a game which encourages the player to have sex with as many women in-game as possible?

06:00, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the parasitic flatworm Hymenolepis microstoma (pictured) has stem cells in its neck region that generate new body segments in a process called strobilation?
... that three decades before he served in the State Senate, W. Scott Heywood drilled the first oil well in the state of Louisiana?
... that, before the 1907 Philippine Assembly elections, the nominating convention of the Nacionalista Party ended in disarray while the Progresista Party's candidates were heckled "Hang them, kill them" at their rallies?
... that the radio station WGRQ began broadcasting in May 1986 but did not receive its broadcast license until November 1987?
... that the exotica album Orienta by Star Trek composer Gerald Fried was said to resemble the dreams of a person who has fallen asleep during a Fu Manchu movie on television?
... that, in 1973, a Learjet 24 crashed shortly after take-off from DeKalb-Peachtree Airport after striking birds which likely came from a landfill site adjacent to the runway?
... that ancient Egyptian temples contain architectural elements that symbolize houses, hills, tombs, marshes, and guard towers?
... that the fictional character Bobby Simpson from the soap opera Home and Away was only allowed to marry after a real life shopping center filled with people approved?

00:00, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the first church built on the site of St Deiniol's Church, Llanddaniel Fab, Wales (pictured), is said to have been established by St Deiniol Fab himself in 616?
... that the beetle Caryobruchus gleditsiae is named after the legume Gleditsia triacanthos, although it lives exclusively on palms?
... that John David Duty is the first person to be executed in the United States with pentobarbital, which is commonly used for animal euthanasia?
... that the Tietê Bus Terminal in São Paulo, Brazil, is the largest bus terminal in Latin America and the second largest in the world?
... that the chemistry of the plutonyl ion resembles the chemistry of the uranyl ion very closely?
... that Bill Harman, the tallest catcher in Major League Baseball when he was signed, played in 15 games for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1941 and they lost every one of those 15 games?
... that the Pratt-Read LBE glider bomb was intended to be guided by television signals and radio control?

8 February 2011

18:00, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

... that a male Long-tailed Finch (pictured) is unable to tell the sex of an unfamiliar Long-tailed Finch on sight alone?
... that Christopher Nolan has said that he plans to direct a final installment of his Batman trilogy titled The Dark Knight Rises for release in 2012?
... that Carex lutea, an endangered species of sedge that is endemic to North Carolina, is threatened by fire suppression efforts?
... that Brooke Fraser's song "Betty" is about a girl who hides behind her scars and birthmarks?
... that Benjamin Morgan Harrod, the civil engineer who designed the New Orleans water and sewerage systems, had been a Union captive of the Battle of Vicksburg?
... that the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 29 Squadron is headquartered in Hobart, Tasmania, despite the absence of RAAF bases or aircraft in the state?
... that the UK's oldest working oil pump can be found at Kimmeridge Oil Field in Dorset?

12:00, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the Chautla Hacienda in Puebla, Mexico, is home to an English style residence hall called "The Castle" (pictured), as well as the first hydroelectric power plant in Latin America?
... that Otto Redlich published the Redlich–Kwong equation of state in 1949?
... that Peter M. Rhee, one of the first American battlefield surgeons in Afghanistan, was the attending physician of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords after the shooting in Tucson?
... that the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 require that all maintenance workers in the United Kingdom who may come into contact with asbestos must be given special training?
... that after Rolling Stone published photos and addresses of 100 gays and lesbians under the headline "Hang Them", Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato was awarded USh1.5 million in damages?
... that Methodists worshipped at the Samuel Danford Farm near Summerfield, Ohio, for more than fifty years before erecting a church building there?
... that a South Korean naval unit defended a North Korean ship against Somali pirates?

06:00, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

A dark-skinned man in a black batting helmet and a white baseball uniform with "PIRATES" on the chest begins to release a baseball bat following a swing at the plate.

... that Pittsburgh Pirates' first-round draft pick Barry Bonds (pictured) went on to set Major League Baseball records for most MVP awards (7), most home runs in a single season (73), and most career home runs (762)?
... that the controversial Malay novel Interlok will be amended before being included in the syllabus for the subject of Malay literature in Malaysian schools?
... that the habitat of the rare Navajo sedge is limited to the shady side of steep, often vertical, cliffs of red Navajo Sandstone of the Colorado Plateau at elevations between 5700 and 6000 feet?
... that Jocotitlán, Mexico, sits at the foot of a small dormant volcano, which could become active again?
... that the man arrested in the parking lot of an American mosque with explosives in his car was a former commercial bush pilot in Indonesia?
... that Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy is a 2011 TV movie starring Hayden Panettiere as American student Amanda Knox who was found guilty of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy?
... that when a Farman Sport biplane was modified in 1926 with a short, broad parasol wing, it gained the nickname "the Flying Postcard"?

00:00, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

... that a corset company's sales increased greatly when a pioneering photo ad (example pictured), created by Earnest Elmo Calkins, appeared on the back cover of a woman's magazine?
... that Julian Assange's lawyer, Mark Stephens, has been called "the patron solicitor of previously lost causes"?
... that the electronics industry is using more and more tin-silver-copper alloys to replace lead-containing materials?
... that 89 book leaves stolen from the British Museum library were discovered in the Ashley Library of Thomas James Wise after it was sold to the same museum?
... that, after "Stop ... pooping!" was uttered by Rob Lowe in the Parks and Recreation episode "Flu Season", the line was deemed the "single greatest self-effacingly comic moment of his long, handsome career"?
... that the original specimen of the rare Caribbean plant tropical lilythorn was destroyed when Berlin was bombed during World War II?
... that St Peter's Church, South Somercotes, Lincolnshire, has been called "The Queen of the Marsh"?
... that golden paintbrushes in the Pacific Northwest grow better as a result of periodic wildfires?
... that billiards player François Mingaud invented the leather cue tip, perfected backspin, then persuaded an audience that the balls were "tormented by a devil"?

7 February 2011

18:00, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the Piper LBP (pictured) and Taylorcraft LBT were both developed during World War Two in response to a U.S. Navy requirement for a "Glomb", an unmanned glider bomb?
... that the Dutch government froze all contacts with the Iranian regime following the execution of dual Dutch-Iranian citizen Zahra Bahrami on charges of drug trafficking?
... that Clyde Mayes played on four different NBA teams in just two seasons before leaving to pursue his professional basketball career in Europe?
... that the design of St Michael's Church, Longstanton, Cambridgeshire, was influential in the American Gothic Revival?
... that the original version of Robert Indiana's famous LOVE sculpture was fabricated in COR-TEN and has been on exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art since 1975?
... that the Kentucky historian Charles P. Roland's An American Iliad compares the American Civil War to the heroic ancient fight between Greece and Troy?
... that the album Tarik O'Regan: Threshold of Night by the choral group Conspirare was nominated for two Grammy Awards?
... that there are only seven mature plants of Catalina mahogany remaining on Santa Catalina Island in California, making the species "one of the rarest trees in North America"?
... that Benedict Nichols, Bishop of Bangor, was with King Henry V when he captured Harfleur?

12:00, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Cape Moreton Light (pictured), an active lighthouse on Cape Moreton, Moreton Island, Queensland, is both the oldest in Queensland and the only one built of stone?
... that Menggu Ziyun is a 14th century rime dictionary of Chinese as written in the 'Phags-pa script?
... that the British armoured cruiser HMS Achilles and the armed boarding steamer Dundee sank the German auxiliary cruiser Leopard in 1917 as it attempted to break through a British blockade?
... that Wolfenstein 1D, a fangame based on Wolfenstein 3D, features the same main character and plot but all objects are represented as one-dimensional pixels in a single line?
... that the World Bank is supporting the scheme for the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit System in the Philippines financially and technically through its Clean Technology Fund?
... that former Ohio State Buckeyes basketball player Jamar Butler was MVP of the 2008 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament?
... that the Samaikyandhra Movement is a socio-political movement organized around the need for the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to remain united and to oppose the secession of Telangana?
... that a dam was built on the Aras River in the 1960s, and inaugurated in 1971, with two hydroelectric power generators in Iran and two in Azerbaijan?
... that Olga Khokhlova realised that her husband Pablo Picasso had a mistress when she saw La Lecture?

06:00, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

... that automated weather buoys (example pictured) have been deployed to record weather information from the Earth's oceans since 1951?
... that, in 1991, Texas political activist Clymer Wright led the successful initiative to establish term limits on municipal officials in Houston, Texas?
... that Stokeleigh Camp is one of three Iron Age fortifications overlooking the Avon Gorge near Bristol?
... that the population density of Moroccan locust nymphs can reach several thousand individuals per square metre (11 sq ft)?
... that the Wheeling Suspension Bridge is still open to traffic, despite U.S. Route 40 being diverted to the nearby Fort Henry Bridge after it was completed in 1956?
... that Australian-born conductor Bryan Fairfax led the Polyphonia Orchestra in the first British performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 1 in D minor in 1964?
... that economists blame market failures on non-convexity?
... that the ancient city of Hamaxitus on the west coast of present-day Turkey used to issue coins featuring a nearby shrine for the Greek deity Apollo?
... that the lavaslope centaury, the only plant in the gentian family, Gentianaceae, that is native to Hawaii, is one of only 3% of the Hawaiian flora to have an annual life cycle?
... that Hall of Fame football coaches Bear Bryant and Dan Devine faced off in the 1968 Gator Bowl, which saw the worst loss for Alabama in 22 bowl games to that date?

00:00, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Vince Lombardi, the namesake of the National Football League's Super Bowl trophy (pictured), had only a single playoff loss in his coaching career, at the 1960 NFL Championship Game?
... that the 145 m² (1,560 sq ft) naval ensign from the Spanish 74-gun ship San Ildefonso was hung in St Paul's Cathedral during the funeral of Lord Nelson?
... that hydroxyl megamasers were used to make the first detection of Zeeman splitting in a galaxy other than the Milky Way?
... that the endangered Garber's spurge, endemic to Florida, is known from only seventeen locations, one of which, on Cudjoe Key, consists of a single plant?
... that James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Red Rover was adapted as a burlesque on the London stage in 1877 by Sir Francis Cowley Burnand?
... that the THUMS Islands in California are camouflaged drilling rigs named in honor of NASA astronauts who died in accidents?
... that the Never Miss a Super Bowl Club will not only lose a member at the kickoff of Super Bowl XLV, but the person will not be able to root for their favorite team?

6 February 2011

18:00, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the Musiktheater im Revier (pictured) in Gelsenkirchen staged a new musical for the 100th anniversary of the soccer club FC Schalke 04 in 2004?
... that Ralph Crosthwaite never played in the NBA, despite being drafted by both the Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics?
... that, in female bedbugs, the spermalege reduces the wounding costs caused by a male's needle-like penis?
... that the statue George Washington by Richard Henry Park was the first public monument in Milwaukee?
... that the archaeological site of Tell Bazmusian in Iraq was flooded by Lake Dukan?
... that Catholic Bishop of Adelaide Laurence Sheil excommunicated Mary MacKillop, who eventually became Australia's first saint?
... that the Frankfurter Löwen, founded in 1977, were the first American football club to be formed in Germany and winner of the first two editions of the German Bowl?

12:00, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Kamo (pictured) stole 341,000 rubles, was caught, feigned insanity for over three years, partly by eating his own excrement, escaped, was recaptured and sentenced to death, but was freed after a revolution?
... that St. Euprepius of Verona is venerated as the city's first bishop?
... that in world-system theory, sociologists debate whether two world-systems have ever existed during the same period?
... that the Clan of Xymox album Twist of Shadows established the Dutch band's cult status in the United States?
... that Ranveer Singh had to stay at Delhi University and prepare for his role as Bittoo Sharma of Delhi, in his debut film Band Baaja Baaraat?
... that the First African Baptist Church of Richmond allowed its enslaved members to remarry if their spouses were sold out of state?
... that, as part of the Land Question saga in Prince Edward Island, British troops were called in to enforce rent payments after an agreement by tenants not to pay them in 1864?

06:00, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the larvae of the common green lacewing, Chrysoperla carnea (pictured) usually consume aphids, but when food is scarce they will eat each other?
... about Il Guerrin Meschino ("Wretched Guerrin"), an Italian prose romance with elements of fable, written by the Tuscan trovatore Andrea da Barberino about 1410?
... that, after his professional basketball career in Israel was over, Jerome Lambert became a firefighter in Arkansas?
... that after successful restoration efforts in the 1990s, anglers in Lake Ahquabi now catch twice as many fish as in most other lakes in Iowa?
... that a bottle of 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon is kept at the Smithsonian for winning the 1976 Judgment of Paris wine tasting?
... that the German plant physiologist Gustav Gassner, whose 1931 book remains a popular reference, studied smut?

00:00, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the flatworm Pseudobiceros bedfordi uses its two penises to engage in penis fencing (pictured)?
... that twenty-six U.S. states have an official reptile?
... that the pews in St Mary's Church, Badley, Suffolk have been untouched since the 18th century?
... that the November 2010 sale by Silver Star Holidays of its local bus routes around Caernarfon ended nearly ninety years of bus service operation by the company?
... that the collection of jams Nine to the Universe suggests that, in his final years, Jimi Hendrix was moving toward jazz?
... that Polish and Italian prisoners taken by the Russians after the Battle of Krzykawka were deported to Siberia?
... that, according to a 1982 survey, Gris-gris were one of the top-three forms of birth control known to women in Senegal?
... that, while attempting to land at Marden Airfield, a French biplane carrying oysters crashed into a hedge?

5 February 2011

18:00, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the sinking of the German armored cruiser SMS Prinz Adalbert (pictured) resulted in the greatest single loss of life for the German Imperial Navy in the Baltic Sea during World War I?
... that, besides giving hundreds of benefit concerts for residents of OHEL children's homes, Hasidic singer Shloime Dachs frequently hosts OHEL residents at his own home?
... that, with a tower only 6.7 metres (22 ft) tall, the lighthouse keepers at Cape Cleveland Light had to wind the clockwork mechanism every 75 minutes?
... that Andrew Querbes, the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, from 1902 to 1906, was born in New Orleans while the city was occupied by the Union Army?
... that Simplicidentata, the group including rodents and their closest extinct relatives, is characterized by the loss of a pair of upper incisors?
... that, in 2000, Solomon Islands politician Andrew Nori led the Eagle Force in a coup d'état against Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, taking him hostage at gunpoint and demanding that he resign?
... that the instruction manual for the video game Summer Sports: Paradise Island was misprinted, leaving out instructions for four of the games?

12:00, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede (pictured) is one of three machines credited as the first motorcycle?
... that young Sokolov's Dwarf Hamsters are born with a dark stripe down their back that fades with age?
... that there are, at most, 250 Thomas' Lidflowers left growing in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands?
... that the foremost authority on primate anatomy during the 20th century, William Charles Osman Hill, enjoyed drugstore ice cream and gardening with his wife, Yvonne?
... that the Class 11 was the only type of standard gauge 2-8-2 locomotive built in quantity for South African Railways?
... that WOLD-FM in Marion, Virginia, signed on almost exactly six years before "W*O*L*D", Harry Chapin's song about a fictional FM station in Boise, Idaho, peaked on the Billboard Hot 100?
... that for most of Sir Richard Lane's time as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, there was no Great Seal?

06:00, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

... that there are currently only ten confirmed populations of fragrant prickly apple (pictured), a rare species of cactus endemic to Florida?
... that Tony Macedo once had his ribs broken by a backpass from Tosh Chamberlain?
... that, in 1999, Katherine O'Regan came within 63 votes of keeping Winston Peters' party New Zealand First out of Parliament?
... that at least 21 American troops died as a result of friendly fire during the recapturing of Kiska in 1943, despite the island being uninhabited at the time of the assault?
... that the authors of the webcomic Zahra's Paradise remain anonymous, for fear their coverage of recent Iranian events could endanger their relatives in Iran?
... that the Progress M-09M spacecraft, currently resupplying the International Space Station, is carrying a birthday present for station commander Scott J. Kelly?
... that a recipe for bacon jam by Martha Stewart includes freshly brewed coffee?

00:00, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

... that high autumn pork prices are blamed on Americans eating so many BLTs (pictured) during the summer?
... that a display of sculptures by Hallsteinn Sigurðsson was installed in the tunnels and vaults of a hydroelectric power station in Iceland?
... that Jocelyne François won the Prix Femina in 1980 for Joue-nous "España", a partly autobiographical lesbian novel?
... that cognitive rehabilitation therapy, which has been recommended for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, is also used to treat depression, schizophrenia, and ADHD?
... that the R.D. Whitehead Monument is situated where a popular Milwaukee watering trough used to be?
... that, after art professors Jean Heiberg and Axel Revold had to leave the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts during the Nazification in 1941, they were secretly running an undercover arts academy in Oslo?
... that Eamonn Mansfield resigned from the Irish Free State Senate five days after he was elected?

4 February 2011

18:00, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

... that over 300 mosaic floors (example pictured) were discovered during archaeological excavations of Antioch between 1932 and 1939?
... that the railway in Alderney is the only working railway in the Channel Islands, and draws a number of visitors to the island every year?
... that the American Society of Magazine Editors book The Best American Magazine Writing 2007 features investigative journalism about the Beslan school hostage crisis and survivors of Agent Orange?
... that English comedy duo Ant & Dec won 'Most Popular Entertainment Presenter' for the tenth year in a row at the 16th National Television Awards?
... that the Vinegar Hill Historic District in Bloomington, Indiana, is distinguished by its lawn furniture?
... that the Cornelius XBG-3 "bomb glider", an early guided missile designed in 1942, would have used a forward-swept wing?
... that, in the early twentieth century, Buttrills was the centre of education in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales?

12:00, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Major-General Gerald Cuthbert (pictured), a British Army commander in World War I, was nicknamed "Bluebell" by his subordinates?
... that lunar lava tubes could provide natural shelters for manned lunar habitats?
... that ten visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary experienced by Sr. Reinolda May led to the establishment of Ngome Marian Shrine, a pilgrim's center in KwaZulu-Natal?
... that Southampton Castle was one of the first castles in medieval England to be equipped with a cannon?
... that during World War I, journalist Alexis Nour argued that an alliance with the German Empire could turn Romania into a colonial power?
... that, in April 2011, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's new two-tier National Terrorism Advisory System will replace the current color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System?
... that, although Chris Marcus was seven feet tall in high school, it took convincing from the school's basketball coach for him to play for the team?

06:00, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Johann Heinrich Zedler published Grosses Universal-Lexicon (pictured), which was the largest and most comprehensive German-language encyclopedia developed in the 18th century?
... that the mountains of Petatlán host a local environmental group, some members of which have been imprisoned by the government and defended by groups such as Amnesty International?
... that members of the Assembly of Vlorë rejected the autonomy of the Albanian Vilayet, projected a couple of months earlier, and signed the declaration of its complete independence on November 28, 1912?
... that, according to the theory of generations, major historical events that occur in a generation's youth, determine the actions they take later in life?
... that Nehrim: At Fate's Edge is an award-winning total conversion mod of Bethesda Softworks' The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion developed over the span of four years?
... that the 1975 Orange Bowl was the last college football game coached by Ara Parseghian at Notre Dame?
... that despite being roundly denounced by educational experts as ineffective and promoting inequality, an eleven plus exam is still incorporated into the Maltese educational system?
... that Mia Skäringer, a Swedish actress and comedian, won the Kristallen Award for best comedy show on television in both 2008 and 2009?

00:00, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Fonderie Paccard, which crafted the four bells for the Mission Hill Winery bell tower (pictured), also created the bells for St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York and Sacré-Cœur in Paris?
... that Ed Freed collected four hits, including two doubles and a triple, in his Major League Baseball debut with the Philadelphia Phillies?
... that iceberg watching is a popular attraction among tourists in Nunavut?
... that Amala, the giant who supports the Earth in the mythology of some Native Americans, is said to have slept in his urine?
... that when they were listed as endangered in the United States in 1989, there were only three small populations of Brooksville bellflower and only four tiny populations of small-anthered bittercress known to exist?
... that to fund the construction of his lavish tomb, Vietnamese Emperor Khải Định raised taxes by 30 percent?
... that the turret of the Charles B. Russell House in Cincinnati, Ohio, has a pinnacle shaped like a beehive?
... that the minerals armalcolite, pyroxferroite and tranquillityite were discovered in lunar rocks?

3 February 2011

18:00, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

... that cirrus clouds (pictured with a fire rainbow) cover an average of 20% to 25% of the Earth's surface at any time and can produce glories, fire rainbows, and sundogs?
... that Primitive Hall, built by Joseph Pennock in 1738, has been owned or controlled by his descendants ever since?
... that in the book Net.wars, author Wendy M. Grossman attributes Internet conflict in the 1990s to culture shock from an influx of users?
... that Copper Inuit men Uloqsaq and Sinnisiak became the first Inuit convicted for murder in Canada when they were found guilty of killing a priest?
... that the Democratic Farmers League of Sweden promoted a modernized form of copyhold, whereby peasants would be relieved from debts?
... that Milton Levine founded Uncle Milton's Toys, best known for its ant farm, with ants from the species Pogonomyrmex californicus?
... that Casper the Commuting Cat is a book about the true story of a cat who was a regular bus commuter in Plymouth, England?

12:00, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

... that diamond prospecting permits have been awarded covering an area of 2,150 km² (830 sq mi) between Temboc and Kasonga Lunda over the Kwango River (pictured) stretch of about 185 km (115 mi) in Angola?
... that although it is thought that the Jenny Lind Tower was moved to its present location by an admirer of the late singer, the admirer was born 17 years after Lind toured the United States?
... that the Polish canned fish paste paprykarz szczeciński was inspired by an African dish?
... that Crestwood Court, the first mall in the St. Louis area, has countered the loss of major retailers by adding tenants such as an art gallery and dance studio?
... that the Dragon Rapide aircraft that crashed into the English Channel off Folkestone in 1934 had taken part in that year's King's Cup Air Race?
... that in 1909, journalist Jules Fournier was charged with contempt of court in Quebec for calling decisions made by its courts system a "prostitution of justice"?
... that due to safety concerns following the Waco siege, when Joseph Borg seized the headquarters of a Christian ministry in Tampa, he used an armored vehicle to ensure that resistance would be futile?

06:00, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Australia's Organ Pipes National Park, which has 400-million-year-old volcanic formations, features hexagonal basalt columns (pictured) known as the "Organ Pipes"?
... that the Los Angeles Dodgers' victory in the 1959 tie-breaker series was one of five tie-breaker appearances in franchise history, more than any other team in Major League Baseball history?
... that between 1979 and 1989, the ivory trade was primarily responsible for the death of more than 500,000 elephants?
... that in 1763, the Mississauga chief Wabbicommicot appeared at Fort Niagara to demand rum payments from the British, and warned of consequences should they not be received?
... that the canticle of Simeon is part of Bach's cantata Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde, BWV 83, first performed on 2 February 1724 for the Feast of the Purification of Mary?
... that Jorge Luis Borges wrote his short story "There Are More Things" as a memorial to H. P. Lovecraft?
... that during World War II, bomber pilots of the United States Navy learned how to launch aerial rockets using SCARs?

00:00, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Herne Bay College (pictured) in Eddington, Kent, once possessed one of the largest and best-equipped school engineering workshops in England?
... that Elke Neidhardt, who had a minor recurring role in Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, went on to direct the first full modern Australian production of Wagner's Ring Cycle?
... that the 3.5-Inch FFAR, developed by the U.S. Navy as an anti-submarine weapon, lacked an explosive warhead?
... that Stanford University alumnus Walton J. Wood became the first public defender in the history of the United States in 1914?
... that Dave Douglas got the name for his album Strange Liberation from a phrase used by Martin Luther King, Jr. in reference to America's involvement in the Vietnam War?
... that the first enantioselective total synthesis of the antitumor antibiotic roseophilin used the Nazarov cyclization reaction as a key step?
... that in recognition of his efforts to assist new Ukrainian immigrants to Canada, Cyril Genik was dubbed the "Czar of Canada"?

2 February 2011

18:00, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Elizabeth McCombs (pictured), who won the 1933 Lyttelton by-election succeeding her deceased husband, was the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament?
... that 34 of 35 people aboard were killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashed in Hampshire in May 1957?
... that the Landis Report reviewed United States administrative agencies in 1960 for President-elect Kennedy and recommended greater clarity on the roles and authority of agency chairs?
... that the Dunhuang Go Manual is the earliest surviving manual on the strategic board game of Go?
... that despite tourist numbers in Malta falling by 8 percent in 2009, the number of tourists arriving from Libya jumped by 24.7 percent?
... that Brian K. Zahra was appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court by Governor Rick Snyder to replace Maura Corrigan, leaving appointees of Republican governors with a 4–3 majority on the court?
... that the Farman F.450 Moustique, a French sport and training monoplane from the 1930s, was sold with an optional dog compartment?

12:00, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

... that picnic beetles (example pictured) are attracted to beer?
... that Jal Hans, India's first commercial seaplane service, is part owned by Pawan Hans, India's largest helicopter services provider?
... that over 13,000 square feet (1,200 m²) of German-made tile lines the interior of the Wheeling Tunnel?
... that, together with Platychelys, Pleurosternon is one of the few fossil genera with characteristics of both modern turtle suborders?
... that Israeli film-maker Nurit Kedar received death threats after extracts from her film Concrete were screened on Britain's Channel 4 television?
... that the Battle of Grochowiska, one of the largest battles of the January Uprising, has been also described as the "most bloody" and a "Pyrrhic victory" for the Polish insurgents?
... that when a Douglas Dakota crashed on takeoff at London's Croydon Airport in 1947, 12 people were killed?
... that the Iggy Pop song "Funtime" has been covered by R.E.M., The Cars, Blondie, Boy George and Liv Tyler's mother?

06:00, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

... that Persian miniatures sometimes depict the Prophet Muhammad (example pictured), but usually do not show his face?
... that Charles Asten, a member of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War, received the Medal of Honor for completing his duties on the USS Signal despite being on the sick list?
... that RAF Weston-super-Mare in South West England was formed in 1940 when the Royal Air Force took over an existing municipal airport?
... that Jo Tong Sop was a member of the North Korean football team that won the 1986 King's Cup against Aarhus Gymnastikforening?
... that New York's "War Memorial Church" was founded in 1944 by the Apostolic Vicar for the U.S. Armed Forces before Allied victory was assured?
... that architect Vlastimil Koubek arrived in the United States from Czechoslovakia with just $12, but by the end of his career had designed buildings worth more than $2 billion?
... that Green-backed Trogons feed mostly on fruit?

00:00, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the spherical tokamak fusion power concept (typical plasma pictured) was initially tested in the START reactor on a shoestring budget using bits of older experiments?
... that Henry Mann's 1949 book, Analysis and design of experiments, filled mathematical gaps in the statistical writings of Ronald A. Fisher?
... that, during the construction of the Bærum Tunnel, an automatic groundwater measuring system was used to compensate for any leaks?
... that American minister and Free Will Baptist theologian Ransom Dunn rode over thousands of miles of frontier on horseback, collecting donations for the opening of Hillsdale College?
... that in 1827, HMS Nimble, an anti-slave patrol, ran aground near the Florida Keys while engaged in a gun battle with the Spanish slave ship Guerrero, which also ran aground and sank?
... that the medieval St. Laurence and All Saints Church, Eastwood must replace 38 metres (125 ft) of its wall to accommodate London Southend Airport?
... that Fred and Val Gregory were two of four brothers who were simultaneously contracted to Watford Football Club?

1 February 2011

18:00, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the small rural town of Yecapixtla, Morelos, Mexico, is home to a World Heritage Site (pictured)?
... that the Joseph Barker House near Marietta, Ohio, was built by the same man who built many boats for the Burr conspiracy?
... that American marathon runner Kim Merritt won both the 1975 New York City Marathon and 1976 Boston Marathon at the age of twenty?
... that Sixtine Vulgate (1590), prepared by Pope Sixtus V, differs in 4900 variants from Sixto-Clementine Vulgate (1592), prepared by Pope Clement VIII?
... that, in the case of White v Driver, Sir John Nicholl ruled that the will of an insane person could be valid provided the testator was lucid when making the will?
... that the Faces of Meth project shows before-and-after images documenting physical deterioration caused by meth use?
... that Charlie Webb was appointed manager of English association football club Brighton & Hove Albion while awaiting repatriation from a prisoner-of-war camp in Mainz, Germany?

12:00, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the South Korean naval vessel Choi Young (pictured) launched a rescue operation that freed the tanker Samho Jewelry from Somali pirates with only one hostage injured?
... that Charles Fletcher, the first European settler in what is now Navarro River Redwoods State Park, built an inn in 1865 that remained open until the 1970s?
... that Lycée Pierre Corneille was founded in 1593 to educate children "in accordance with the purest doctrinal principles of Roman Catholicism"?
... that, during World War II, hundreds of vessels produced for the United States Navy at two different shipyards first entered the Atlantic Ocean at Hingham Bay in Massachusetts?
... that The Great White Wonder was named the best album of 1991 that 'You Didn't Hear' by Spin?
... that St Andrew's Church, Willingale, Essex, shares its churchyard with the adjacent church of St Christopher?
... that Mario Moraga, former regidor of Pichilemu, Chile, is popularly known as "El Sin Pelos en la Lengua", meaning "The One Without Minced Words"?

06:00, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the Luoyang Museum collection includes Tang Dynasty figurines (pictured) and a Western Han Dynasty house-like kitchen mingqi?
... that The Off Hours was the first film to be given the "SSF Tag" by the Sustainable Style Foundation for its environmentally friendly practices?
... that U.S. Army Private Dale Maple was condemned to death in World War II for aiding two German prisoners of war in an unsuccessful escape attempt, though his sentence was commuted by President Roosevelt?
... that the Hålogaland Bridge in Norway was considered being built as a symphony bridge, which combines the structural components of a suspension, cable-stayed and cantilever bridge?
... that Dennis Day, a longtime cast member of The Jack Benny Program, had his own NBC comedy show, The Dennis Day Show, in the 1953 season?
... that Blue Peter's album, Falling, contained the song "Don't Walk Past", the video for which was inspired by the then-recent film Blade Runner?
... that in a diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks, the U.S. embassy in Colombo implicated Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in alleged war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan Civil War?

00:00, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

... that the 2012 version of A Star Is Born, with Beyoncé Knowles (pictured) slated to star, would be the fourth remake of the film?
... that the Church of SS Peter and Paul is one of only three surviving Medieval Latin churches in Galata, Istanbul?
... that, although its working title was "DL Part 2", Nelly claims his 2011 duet with Kelly Rowland, "Gone", is not a sequel to their 2002 duet "Dilemma"?
... that the Walter Curtis House has been recognized as one of the best Greek Revival farmhouses in southeastern Ohio?
... that the Royal Engineers used to go to Harewood Park, a rural estate speculated by the British media to be the future home of Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton, for demolition practice?
... that Thomas-Morse's general plant superintendent called the company's MB-4 mail plane "the worst thing on wings"?
... that, fifteen years before they launched ABC's The Odd Couple, Tony Randall and Jack Klugman appeared together in an episode of CBS's Appointment with Adventure?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court held in O'Connor v. Ortega that public employees have Fourth Amendment rights in the workplace but declined to decide whether they were violated in the case under consideration?