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31 March 2011

16:00, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the orbits of exoplanets Kepler-11b, Kepler-11c, Kepler-11d, Kepler-11e, and Kepler-11f (artist's depiction pictured) can fit within the orbit of Mercury?
... that despite the low ratings of CBS's Three for the Road, the 1975 series propelled Leif Garrett onto TV Guide's "25 Greatest Teen Idols" list?
... that the Soviet pre-dreadnought battleship Andrei Pervozvanny bombarded Fort Krasnaya Gorka from 13 to 15 June 1919 after its garrison had mutinied against the Bolsheviks?
... that the 1953 Suva earthquake caused the collapse of an 800-metre (2,600 ft) long section of barrier reef, triggering a tsunami and damaging submarine cables?
... that although Australian soccer player Kris Trajanovski only scored in three matches for his country, he scored three hat-tricks?
... that the citizens of Verboort, Oregon, produce 15 tons of sausage and 2,000 pounds of sauerkraut for the community's annual sausage and sauerkraut festival?
... that Tim Ryan's first electronic product was supposed to compete with a US$15 synthesizer module but ended up at a price of US$30,000?

08:00, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

... that although Shishman, a medieval ruler of Vidin, Bulgaria (pictured), was hailed by his contemporaries as a prince, king and even emperor, his only official title was that of despot?
... that the second hydration shell of chromium(III) in aqueous solution contains around 13 water molecules?
... that an incident of Indian rolling led to the death of three Navajos in 1974?
... that Gerald Barry organised a seminar that became the last public speaking appearance of Conor Cruise O'Brien?
... that each year, two athletes are named Academic All-America Team Members of the Year, one in the college division and one in the university division?
... that many readers of The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley were upset by its portrayal of Shelley?
... that in 2002, a British man working in a bookstore conned 30 people into leaving their homes and quitting their jobs?

00:00, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the slow lorises that are illegally caught and traded as exotic pets have their front teeth cut out (pictured) due to fear of their toxic bite?
... that Chief Stephen Talkhouse unsuccessfully filed three lawsuits between 1897 and 1918 against the Long Island Rail Road, and its predecessors in title, claiming Montauk Point?
... that the Krishnapuram Palace in Kerala has a copy of the Bible in Sanskrit that was printed in Kolkata in 1886?
... that hurdle technology is a technique where pathogens in a food product are subjected to "hurdles" designed to inhibit or kill them?
... that, in the mid-1980s, the Italian wine grape Verdicchio was the 15th most widely planted grape variety in the world, with more plantings than even Chardonnay and Pinot noir?
... that Ukraine has been one of the most successful nations at the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games in recent years?
... that during an eleven-year professional baseball career, German-born Rudolph "Skel" Roach played for teams known as the Prohibitionists, Omahogs, Orphans and Siwashes?

30 March 2011

16:00, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Italian wine grape Fiano (pictured) was likely grown in Roman times and is still being used for winemaking today?
... that the untitled masonry statues located in Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts, had bronze "masks" added to them because of vandalism?
... that although true bugs eat aphids, they help the aphids by eating another predator, young lacewings?
... that in the rare 1984 video game Gremlins, the player must either prevent the furry Mogwai from eating the hamburgers at the bottom of the screen, or shoot them after they transform into gremlins?
... that Émile Durkheim, one of the fathers of sociology, intended The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) to be a manifesto of this discipline?
... that Labweh, a village in Lebanon, has springs and a river named after it that flow northwards to form the Orontes River?
... that remains of the recently described saber-toothed anomodont Tiarajudens were uncovered from a location in Brazil that was first found using Google Earth?

08:00, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

... that miners in Sierra Leone (pictured) unearthed the third largest diamond in the world?
... that during Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's tenure from 1836 to 1864, the U.S. Supreme Court heard four cases involving the Sac and Fox Half-Breed Tract?
... that the second pile lighthouse built at Moreton Bay Pile Light survived being hit by a barge towed by a tug in 1945, but was destroyed by a tanker in 1949?
... that before becoming a state legislator and then railroad commissioner in Nebraska, Henry Clarke pitched with Cy Young for the Cleveland Spiders and coached Michigan Wolverines baseball?
... that the Digital Education Revolution was a promise made by Kevin Rudd as part of his 2007 Australian federal election campaign?
... that Welsh artist Alfred Janes was part of The Kardomah Gang, which included poet Dylan Thomas?
... that the Permian therocephalian Glanosuchus, an early relative of mammals, may have been warm-blooded?

00:00, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Brown Willy Cairns (pictured) are two man-made rock piles situated on the highest ridge in Cornwall?
... that Small Heath F.C. was not promoted to the Football League First Division after winning the inaugural Second Division title in 1892–93, while the second- and third-place teams were?
... that Wrath of the Titans, the upcoming sequel to the 2010 film Clash of the Titans, is being shot in 3-D rather than being converted to 3-D like its predecessor?
... that Napua Stevens's 1949 Hawaiian hit "Beyond the Reef" was later recorded by Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and The Ventures?
... that Thomas Fitch was the lead attorney in defending Morgan, Virgil, and Wyatt Earp, along with Doc Holliday, when they were indicted for murder after the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
... that a chest tomb in the churchyard of Old St Peter and St Paul's Church, Albury in Surrey commemorates the artists Arthur Devis and Anthony Devis?
... that anarchist Becky Edelsohn was the first woman to attempt a hunger strike in the United States?

29 March 2011

16:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Israel allowed a highly unusual interfaith, mixed-gender worship service at the Western Wall's Wilson's Arch (pictured) as part of a special welcome for the U.S. Sixth Fleet in 1983?
... that Louisiana historian Henry E. Chambers received his Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University, where one of his instructors was future U.S. President Woodrow Wilson?
... that the Great Barn within the Manor Farm site in Ruislip was built around 1280, using timber from the nearby Ruislip Woods?
... that Imperial German Secretary of Justice Rudolf Arnold Nieberding declared the German Lèse majesté laws as "not entirely reconcilable with the general sense of justice"?
... that John Giordano, named 1981 collegiate Coach of the Year by The Hockey News, was fired three years later when all 22 of his players signed a petition listing their grievances against him?
... that during the Second World War, the airfield at Saint-Inglevert, Pas-de-Calais, France, was used by the Armée de l'Air, the Royal Air Force, and the Luftwaffe?
... that Mia Farrow found children at Donka Hospital dying of measles because they had not received a $1 vaccination?

08:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Sign of the Kiwi (pictured) was built as a toll house for the Christchurch Summit Road?
... that an aerial shot of the festival featured in the Parks and Recreation episode "Harvest Festival" was the most expensive shot of the entire series?
... that the Hotel de France in Conakry, Guinea, was the first project of the French architectural firm Atelier LWD and architect Guy Lagneau from 1953 to 1954?
... that Claude Arnulphy of Aix-en-Provence painted portraits of Royal Navy officers while their fleet was lying off Toulon?
... that California Appellate Court Justice William A. Reppy, an appointee of Governor Ronald Reagan, was a member of the Stanford University track and field team and editor of the USC Law Review?
... that St Thomas' Church in East Shefford, Berkshire, contains the tomb of a member of the Portuguese royal family?
... that in the book The Oxford companion to Australian film, Morag Bellingham of Home and Away is described as a "soap opera super-bitch"?

00:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the final Portrait of Père Tanguy (pictured) was purchased by the sculptor Auguste Rodin and now resides in his museum in Paris?
... that 26-year-old John F. Kennedy swam in the freezing McCloud River while wintering with William Randolph Hearst at Wyntoon?
... that while inspecting the cargo of the freighter Victoria, Israeli naval commandos found 50 tons of weapons concealed beneath bags of cotton and lentils from Syria?
... that Ruprecht of the Palatinate was so unpopular as Archbishop of Cologne that he was ultimately forced to sign a resignation in exchange for an annuity of 4,000 gold guilders?
... that ABC's Jukebox Jury began as a local musical program on KNXT-TV, then the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles?
... that glamour model Linni Meister appeared nude in the music video for her single "My Ass" which was released as promotion for the 2009 Norwegian comedy-horror film Dead Snow?
... that Al Szolack lost all 245 professional basketball games he ever played in?

28 March 2011

16:00, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

... that John Howell, who built St John's Church (pictured) in Hastings, England, to the design of E.A. Wyon, arrived in town as a poor boy and became the mayor?
... that a novel type of aerodynamic arrowhead, the Abu Madi Point, was found at the prehistoric site of Abu Madi, Egypt?
... that following its construction in 1574, Coldham Hall remained the property of the Rookwood family for almost three centuries?
... that the Cayuga Nature Center has a rope climbing / rope bridge course?
... that the music video for Rufus Wainwright's song "April Fools", which appeared on his eponymous debut album, featured cameo appearances by Melissa Auf der Maur and No Doubt's Gwen Stefani?
... that although he never competed in the final round of an America's Cup race, yachtsman Gerry Driscoll permanently changed the way teams prepare for that event?
... that ex-boxer Boone Kirkman earned his nickname because of his habits while hunting with his father?

08:00, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

... that U.S. President William Howard Taft (pictured) was a member of Cincinnati's First Unitarian Church?
... that Alexander Briger conducted Don John of Austria, Australia's first opera, written by his great-great-great-great-grandfather Isaac Nathan?
... that although it gave the game a "C" rating, The Video Game Critic praised A-VCS-tec Challenge for "some of the best graphics and audio you'll experience on your 2600"?
... that migratory waterfowl can be seen in the winter in Mexico City at the Xochimilco Ecological Park?
... that the Vaccines for Children Program provides free vaccines to uninsured or underinsured children in the United States?
... that film director Uberto Pasolini created his 2008 film Machan based upon an actual 2004 incident where a group of Sri Lankan men tricked their way into an international handball tournament?
... that the upcoming new Yes album Fly from Here features Benoît David, a former Yes cover band vocalist?

00:00, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

... that All Saints Church, West Stourmouth (pictured) in Kent was damaged in an earthquake in 1382?
... that Joseph Schleifstein arrived at the Buchenwald concentration camp at age two, and survived because his father hid him in a sack?
... that the 1432 land register of the Albanian Sanjak is one of the earliest surviving Ottoman land registers?
... that Japanese seismologist Kiyoo Mogi proposed the "Mogi doughnut hypothesis" for predicting earthquakes?
... that Mo Li Hua (Jasmine Flower), a popular Chinese folk song used previously on many official occasions, was censored due to its association with the 2011 Chinese protests?
... that Stan Hansen, a longtime "Gaijin heel" in Japanese professional wrestling, officially retired at the Giant Baba Memorial Spectacular?
... that Boston Red Sox baseball player Ryan Kalish didn’t miss a single pitch he swung at in his senior year of high school baseball?

27 March 2011

16:00, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

... that James Moody (pictured) received his first Grammy Award for Moody 4B after he died?
... that the Japanese have been regarded as demonstrating "gaman" in the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami?
... that architect Frank Lloyd Wright called the Wainwright Building, built by Ellis Wainwright in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1890–92, "the very first human expression of a tall steel office-building as Architecture"?
... that James Dunne O'Connell served as the Chief Signal Officer of the United States Army from 1955 to 1959?
... that Moroccan runner Abderrahim Goumri has been the runner-up at the New York City Marathon, London Marathon (twice) and the Chicago Marathon?
... that Entropezites, Mycetophagites, and Palaeoagaracites present the oldest evidence of fungal parasitism and hyperparasitism by other fungi in the fossil record?
... that bookmaker Ladbrokes paid out on bets that former UK Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke, would fall asleep during the 2011 budget speech?

08:00, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

... that The Avenue (pictured) is still used for London Irish's pre season friendlies despite being demoted to a training facility since their move to the Madjeski Stadium?
... that the 1869 Atlantic hurricane season was the earliest year in the Atlantic hurricane database in which there were at least ten tropical cyclones?
... that Sonoma wine producer Hanzell Vineyards was one of the first California wineries to produce barrel-aged Chardonnay?
... that the small extrasolar planet Kepler-9d orbits its host star every 1.59 days?
... that cricketer Bill Shipman played over 100 first-class matches for Leicestershire?
... that with "Nearer My God to Thee", Isabella Hofmann joined the cast of Homicide: Life on the Street to add more sex appeal to the cast?
... that children's author Phoebe Gilman's inspiration for The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs came from her daughter selling mice bookmarks?

00:00, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

... that workers undertaking the 2010 Canterbury earthquake repair were outside for lunch when the oldest part of Holy Trinity Avonside (pictured) collapsed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
... that biopreservation is a benign ecological approach to food preservation which is gaining increasing attention?
... that the German ironclad SMS König Wilhelm was the largest and most powerful warship in the Imperial Navy in the late 19th century?
... that the Fujinuma Dam near Sukagawa City failed after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake causing homes downstream to wash away?
... that the Mercado Jamaica market in Mexico City offers about 5,000 species of flowers and ornamental plants, including some native species taken from the wild?
... that Pete Conway won 30 games as a pitcher for the Detroit Wolverines in 1888, "snapped a cord in his arm" in 1889, later worked as a mule skinner, and was dead by age 36?
... that, following a dispute at the Sheffield Attercliffe by-election result in 1909, Arnold Muir Wilson sued a rival for damage to his bowler hat?

26 March 2011

16:00, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

... that public transport in Valparaíso, Chile, includes trolleybuses (pictured) that were built 60 years ago, by Pullman, and were declared a national monument in 2003?
... that the medieval Church of St John the Baptist in Asenovgrad, Bulgaria, features arrowslits for defence?
... that the disgruntled sailors of the Russian battleship Imperator Pavel I instigated the 1917 mutiny of the Baltic Fleet in Helsinki?
... that six years before being cast as Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show, Frances Bavier played a similar role in the NBC sitcom It's a Great Life?
... that the Supreme Constitutional Court, as defined by the Syrian constitution, may not examine laws passed by a referendum?
... that the Jimmy Eat World single "Work" that stayed on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart for 21 weeks was described as "tailor-made for teenage runaway fantasies"?
... that California attorney Charles Stetson Wheeler built a temple to fishing at his hunting lodge on McCloud River?

08:00, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

... that more than 120,000 votes were placed across the United States to choose the final design for the Pioneer Woman statue (pictured) in Ponca City, Oklahoma?
... that the Texas State Representative James C. Spencer was a prisoner of war in the 1942 Bataan Death March?
... that according to tradition Lectionary 300, a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, was written by the Emperor Theodosius († 395)?
... that instead of being topped by a dome, the roof of the 6th-century Belovo Basilica in southwestern Bulgaria consisted of a row of baldachin-like arches?
... that when the German ocean liner SS Columbus was intercepted by the British destroyer HMS Hyperion off Cape Hatteras on 19 December 1939, she was scuttled by her crew to avoid capture?
... that Wilf Martin played for the 1964 NCAA championship Michigan Wolverines ice hockey team and later set the Denver Spurs' single-season and career records for goals, assists, and points?
... that Lenny Kravitz was a guest musician on Backatown, the major label debut by his former apprentice Trombone Shorty?

00:00, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Wright of Derby's Indian Widow (detail pictured) was exhibited in 1785 at what may have been the first one-person-show in England?
... that in United States v. Lee (1882), the Supreme Court held that a jury had properly ordered that the U.S. government return Arlington National Cemetery to the heir of Confederate General Robert E. Lee?
... that among winners of the Leonard Statuette, named after Einar Leonard Schanke, are Kari Diesen, Rolf Just Nilsen, Arild Feldborg, and Alfred Næss?
... that Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War was the last of several wars between the Burmese-speaking Upper Burma and the Mon-speaking Lower Burma, ending the Mon people's centuries-long dominance of Lower Burma?
... that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "A Many Splendored Thing" included a subplot based on a real-life murder committed over a pen?
... that when Nyasaland Governor Robert Perceval Armitage declared a state of emergency, Rose Chibambo was allowed to give birth to her baby before going to jail?
... that Mr. Universe Steve Reeves played an office boy in a 1954 episode of the ABC sitcom The Ray Bolger Show?

25 March 2011

16:00, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Michigan Wolverines baseball player and coach Charles F. Watkins (pictured) sustained severe burns from an X-ray machine, which ultimately resulted in his death?
... that the German ironclad SMS Hansa's service career was cut short due to severe corrosion in her hull?
... that Timothy Brown was the soloist in Mozart's four horn concertos with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by his sister Iona Brown?
... that, in the Itamar attack, five members of a family were stabbed to death in their beds in the Israeli settlement of Itamar in the West Bank?
... that Diosso Gorge is known as the "Grand Canyon of the Congo"?
... that Stafford L. Warren invented the mammogram?
... that Dear Friend Hitler, an Indian film, centres on letters written from Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler?

08:00, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the legs of the statue (pictured) of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott broke in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
... that over 2,000 years ago two Chinese armies traveled 10,000 km to find "Heavenly Horses", apparently infected with a tiny worm causing them to "sweat blood" from sores"?
... that Keanu Reeves has signed on to star in a new film adaptation of the Forty-seven Ronin produced by Universal Pictures?
... that the first international railway link built in Laos opened in 2009, bringing trains across the Mekong from Nong Khai to Thanaleng Railway Station?
... that John Balmer achieved renown as a flying instructor in the RAAF by reputedly parachuting from an aircraft to force his pupil to land single-handed?
... that the 2010 BBC television pilot Dirk Gently was the first screen adaptation of Douglas Adams's novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
... that actress Jennifer Aniston's "sex tape" includes puppies, a talking parrot, dirty-dancing babies and a groin kick?

00:00, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Philippine town of Daet, Camarines Norte, was the first place to celebrate Rizal Day with its construction of the first Rizal monument (pictured)?
... that Michigan baseball player and coach Jerry Utley was the owner of a luxury hotel in Baja California and the promoter of the 1933 Max Schmeling – Max Baer heavyweight championship fight?
... that the 2011 Crufts Best in Show winner, Vbos The Kentuckian, is a descendant of the 1980 winner?
... that Lady Gaga approved the use of her song "Born This Way" for the Glee episode of the same name before the single premiered?
... that Aniba rosaeodora is processed by mobile distilleries transported by raft?
... that the WiiWare video game Bit.Trip Void was designed to have a minimalistic style, reflected in the audio, visuals, and its HUD?
... that while the wilga is a valued fodder tree of rural Australia, it is not known why sheep like some trees and not others?

24 March 2011

16:00, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Marathon Dam (pictured) in Greece is coated with the same Pentelikon marble used to construct the Parthenon and is symbolic of the Battle of Marathon?
... that Rebecca Black intends to donate profits from viral hit "Friday" to school arts programs and disaster relief efforts in Japan?
... that Professor Andor Harvey Gomme's first name was a family joke?
... that the Treaty of Serbian-Albanian Alliance was signed in 1914 in the Banovina building in Niš; which is now the seat of the University of Niš?
... that Dennis Russell Davies conducted the Münchener Kammerorchester in works of Thomas Larcher with soloists Till Fellner and Kim Kashkashian?
... that even though Norwegian architect Bernt Heiberg supported the communist league Mot Dag in the 1930s, he opposed the May 1968 revolts?
... that the air-tractor sledge, the first aeroplane to be taken to Antarctica, went without wings?

08:00, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

... that female Sundevall's Roundleaf Bats (pictured) have a large pair of false teats, whose only function may be to give their young something to hold on to?
... that the Church of the Good Shepherd, damaged in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, suffered significant damage in a subsequent vandalism attack?
... that the Norwegian ship broker Ragnar Stoud Platou headed several golf clubs in Norway?
... that the Virginia Board of Health became involved in a controversy over abortion access when it was required to regulate outpatient clinics that perform first trimester abortions?
... that in Ancient Israelite cuisine, bread was primarily made from barley flour, even though wheat flour was regarded as superior?
... that Juliette (1956–66), the Canadian variety series which followed Hockey Night in Canada, attracted more than a million viewers per episode?
... that according to its original constitution, the capital of the United Arab Emirates is Al Karama, but no such city actually exists?

00:00, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Captain Philemon Pownoll (pictured), killed in battle in 1780, was a mentor for future admirals Sir John Borlase Warren and Sir Edward Pellew?
... that The Donald O'Connor Show, a 1954 NBC musical sitcom, is based on the premise of two young, struggling songwriters seeking buyers for their compositions?
... that Bit.Trip Beat took inspiration from the early video game Pong for its gameplay?
... that Barbara Staff, a co-chairman of the 1976 campaign of Ronald Reagan in Texas, became a Republican activist in reaction to her political science professor?
... that the spire of All Saints Church in Haugham, Lincolnshire, with its ornate flying buttresses, is said to echo the similar but larger spire of St. James Church in Louth?
... that Joseph Barss, the first head coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team, was born in Madras, India, in 1892?
... that when the ceasefire was issued to end the Battle of Ismailia, some Israeli paratroopers and Egyptian Sa'iqa found that they were no more than 20 meters apart?

23 March 2011

16:00, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

... that, in 1923, the Gleno Dam (pictured) in Italy failed shortly after it was completed and its flooding killed at least 356 people?
... that Lyndon Watts, principal bassoonist of the Munich Philharmonic at age 22, was the first Australian woodwind player to win a prize at the ARD Competition?
... that Michigan ice hockey coach Dan Farrell later became the chairman and CEO of a uranium exploration company?
... that the Taunton Tramway in Somerset closed down when its power was cut off during a dispute over the cost of electricity?
... that EyesOn Design are events, including an annual car show and a fundraiser for the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, focused on the emotion and character of automotive design?
... that Władysław Marian Jakowicki, a Polish physician and rector of the Stefan Batory University, was one of 19 faculty members arrested by the Soviets in 1939 who disappeared without a trace?
... that three lunar alignments of the Balquhain stone circle near Inverurie in Scotland were discovered in the 1980s?

08:00, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Saigō-no-Tsubone, or "Lady Saigo" (pictured), was a concubine who advised Tokugawa Ieyasu before the 1575 Battle of Nagashino, a major turning point in the history of Japan?
... that as a result of the 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire in New Jersey, the size of portholes on ships was increased so that they could be used as a means of escape in an emergency?
... that professional basketball player Trey Johnson ended his college baseball career after suffering a ligament injury on his elbow that required a Tommy John surgery?
... that The Islamic Society of Greater Manchester is building the first mosque in New Hampshire?
... that the Ithaca Discovery Trail, a collaboration among seven hands-on museums and the public library in Tompkins County, New York, hosts 2,900 students on field trips each year?
... that Soviet astronomer Pavel Petrovich Parenago was the first to teach a course on galactic astronomy in the Soviet Union?
... that the Turkish Union of Xanthi was banned by Greek courts because the use of the word "Turkish" in its title was considered to endanger public order?

00:00, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the first public trains in Russia were horse-drawn on the railroad between Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk (station pictured) in 1836?
... that, though there are now 101 Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives, Midland oilman Frank Kell Cahoon was his party's sole member in the 1965 legislative session?
... that 20th-century artists Eric Gill and Leon Underwood created works for Italianate parish churches in and around Oxford designed by architect T. Lawrence Dale?
... that the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company's two stamp mills on Gold Creek were driven exclusively by water power?
... that the architectural firm of F. S. Platou designed the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo?
... that Abe Cohn, son of immigrant parents identified as "Russian Yiddish" by U.S. Census-takers, played for the Michigan Wolverines football and basketball teams while attending law school?
... that HMS Mendip (L60) served in the navies of three other countries after her use by the Royal Navy in World War II?

22 March 2011

16:00, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Samuel Rayner, who painted the Derby Exhibition in 1839 (pictured), had one of his paintings exhibited in the Royal Academy when he was only 15?
... that Romania's Elena Fidatov is one of the most prolific runners at the World Cross Country Championships, having competed on 13 occasions?
... that Polish neurologist Włodzimierz Godłowski was one of the victims of the Katyn massacre?
... that "Losing a Whole Year", one of Third Eye Blind's "catchiest" songs, stayed on Billboard's alternative chart for 14 weeks?
... that the steam-powered foghorn was first demonstrated successfully in 1859 on Partridge Island in the Port of Saint John?
... that Albert Nutter took 600 wickets in first-class cricket?
... that The Jo Stafford Show and The Jo Stafford Show were produced seven years apart in the United States and Britain?

08:00, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Michigan's Arthur Karpus (pictured) played for Big Ten championship teams in football, basketball and baseball?
... that in the mid-nineteenth century Argentina successfully resisted a five-year naval blockade by France and the United Kingdom?
... that not only is Old Hemp considered the father of the modern Border Collie, but he originated the working style of herding sheep commonly seen among the breed today?
... that while the Xinfengjiang Dam's reservoir in China was filling in 1962, there were several earthquakes near it, including one at 6.1-magnitude?
... that the Root Covered Bridge is one of just eight Long truss bridges remaining in Ohio today?
... that the English Puritan Thomas Posthumous Hoby has been claimed as the inspiration for Shakespeare's Malvolio?
... that Appalachian novelist Anne Armstrong was the first woman to lecture before the Harvard School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business?

00:00, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Sonora Market in Mexico City is known for its vendors selling items related to Santa Muerte, Santería, and other forms of the occult and magical practices (samples pictured)?
... that the actions of the German armored frigate SMS Friedrich Carl during a rebellion in Spain nearly precipitated a war between the rebels and Germany?
... that former Michigan coach William Perigo played professional basketball with John Wooden as a member of the Indianapolis Kautskys in the 1930s?
... that the extinct Phlebotominae sandfly Pintomyia falcaorum is known only from Miocene age Dominican amber found on Hispaniola?
... that the Out Of The Ordinary Festival celebrates the autumn equinox in England with a variety of live music and talks about prehistoric culture and earth mysteries?
... that the town of Juneau, Alaska, was established after the 1880 discovery of gold in Silver Bow Basin by Richard Harris and Joe Juneau?
... that U.S. Army Special Forces reservist Gary Rader was arrested in 1967 for draft-card burning?

21 March 2011

16:00, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the British destroyer HMS Hasty (pictured) captured the German blockade runner SS Morea in the North Atlantic on 12 February 1940 en-route from the South Atlantic to the UK to refit?
... that George Durkin Corneal became the first coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team in 1909?
... that flooding associated with the Sanriku earthquake and tsunami in 869 extended for at least four kilometres inland on the Sendai plain?
... that John McLaughlin's Grammy nominated album To the One was inspired by John Coltrane's album A Love Supreme?
... that after defeating the Ottomans in the Battle of Ohrid, Skanderbeg distributed a large amount of ransom money to his men and dined off letnica with them?
... that there is evidence that humans have been processing fish since the early Holocene?
... that "Huda the executioner" was recently deposed as mayor of Benghazi, Libya?

08:00, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

... that St Andrew's Church, Gunton (pictured) is the only building designed by Robert Adam in Norfolk, and his only complete church in England?
... that Ozzie Cowles of Carleton, Dartmouth, Michigan and Minnesota was among the Top 15 winningest college basketball coaches of all-time when he retired at 59 in 1959?
... that Mexican freedom fighter José María Jesús Carbajal was mentored as a teenager by Stephen F. Austin?
... that in State v. Elliott (1992), the Vermont Supreme Court held that all aboriginal title in Vermont was extinguished "by the increasing weight of history"?
... that the works of Eugen Relgis, a Romanian-born anarcho-pacifist and eugenicist, were targeted by Nazi book-burners and communist censors?
... that at 5.4 kilometres (3.4 mi) long, the Taiji Cave in Anhui Province is the largest karst cave in East China?
... that Kainai artist Faye HeavyShield created the artwork body of land using images of human skin printed on paper and made into little tipi-shaped forms?

00:00, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Steens Mountain (pictured) in southeastern Oregon is named in honor of United States Army Major Enoch Steen, who crossed the mountain pursuing a band of Indians in 1860?
... that the video for industrial rock band KMFDM's new song "Krank" was simultaneously shot in Hamburg, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon?
... that Dutch child psychologist Bloeme Evers-Emden was deported to Auschwitz on the same train as Anne Frank?
... that Sologubovka Cemetery, near St Petersburg, Russia, is the largest German war cemetery in the world and the final resting place of over 30,000 German war dead from World War II?
... that miniaturist Amalia Küssner Coudert painted tiny watercolor-on-ivory portraits of royalty, including King Edward VII and Czar Nicholas II of Russia?
... that U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia mentioned "the perennial end-of-season slump of the Chicago Cubs" in his Waters v. Churchill concurrence despite the case having nothing to do with baseball?
... that assassins of Aleksandar Stamboliyski cut off his hand because he used it to sign the 1923 Treaty of Niš?

20 March 2011

16:00, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Grave Circle A (pictured) in Mycenae, Greece, was the burial place of the 16th century BC Mycenaean ruling families?
... that the anonymous Vita sancti Cuthberti, or "Life of Saint Cuthbert", is the earliest piece of English Latin hagiography?
... that General Lord Walker was the first commander of the ground component of NATO's Implementation Force in 1995?
... that the 2009 Norwegian anthology Liberalisme: Politisk frihet fra John Locke til Amartya Sen was criticized by reviewers for selecting a sample of liberal thinkers who did not belong together?
... that Rob Lowe was originally expected to leave the comedy television series Parks and Recreation after the episode "Indianapolis", but he instead signed on as a permanent cast member?
... that St George's Church in Goltho, Lincolnshire, is all that remains of a deserted medieval village?
... that Ojibwa artist Jim Denomie's painting Casino Sunrise depicts Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty standing behind Babe the Blue Ox with his pants around his ankles?

08:00, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Reza Abbasi (pictured) abandoned his career as a Persian court painter to consort with wrestlers in a midlife crisis lasting some seven years until about 1610?
... that the 1997 Central European flood was caused by some of the heaviest rains ever recorded?
... that Canadian architect Leslie R. Fairn, whose output ranged from Beaux Arts to Modernism, had a career lasting 65 years?
... that icodextrin is a polysaccharide that is used to keep tissues from gluing together after surgery?
... that Jens-Daniel Herzog staged the opera Intermezzo of Richard Strauss, with Christiane Kohl as Christine, "the composer's formidable and frequently hysterical wife"?
... that the sailing venue used for the 1976 Summer Olympics was the first and only one to take place in fresh water?
... that knife-maker Gil Hibben has designed so many knives for the Star Trek franchise that Paramount Pictures dubbed him the "Official Klingon Armorer"?

00:00, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Wright of Derby's painting of Romeo and Juliet: the Tomb Scene depicts Juliet (pictured) saying her final line "... Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!" in Shakespeare's play?
... that Steve Reich's composition, WTC 9/11, premieres today with a performance by the Kronos Quartet at Duke University?
... that John Bell received the SIAM/ACM prize with Phil Colella for computational science and engineering in 2003?
... that Glee's newest album includes two original songs that appear in the Glee episode "Original Song"?
... that Lydia Cecilia Hill was an English dancer who became a favourite of the Sultan of Johor?
... that the Centro de Abasto (Groceries Center) market, the most important in Mexico, serves 300,000 people and handles 30,000 tons of merchandise per day?
... that in his only National Hockey League playoff game, Bill Moe fractured two vertebrae?

19 March 2011

16:00, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

... that 1952 Winter Olympic gold medalist Stein Eriksen once ran a ski shop in the La Fave Block (pictured), the second oldest brick commercial building in Aspen, Colorado?
... that Norwegian entrepreneur Henrik Christian Fredrik Størmer was appointed official reporter of Norway at the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris?
... that a significant difference between the Christian Evangelical Church of Romania and the Evangelical Church of Romania, which were united under the Communist regime, is the form of baptism each practices?
... that after KV Pharmaceutical received an FDA-sponsored monopoly to exclusively market a drug that had been already available for five decades, it raised its price from about US$15 to US$1,500?
... that medieval historian Eleanor Duckett (1880–1976) and her lifelong companion, regional novelist Mary Ellen Chase, have adjoining halls named for them at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts?
... that Dutch paleobotanist Willem van Zeist analyzed the first domesticated emmer wheat found at Tell Aswad, Syria?
... that the actor voicing the creature in the Fringe episode "Night of Desirable Objects" placed pieces of orange in his mouth in order to have "a slobbery, sputtering voice"?

08:00, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

... that during the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell's forces took lead from the roof of Oxhey Chapel (pictured) in Hertfordshire to make musket balls?
... that Article 8 of the Syrian Constitution stipulates that the Ba'ath Party is the "leading party in the society and the state"?
... that Bart Thane, managing director of the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Company, pioneered hydroelectric power in Juneau, Alaska?
... that The Power of Half describes how the Salwen family sold their home, donated half the proceeds to charity, and downgraded to a house half the size and value?
... that Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson was described by Jimmie Durham as the Miles Davis of contemporary Native American art?
... that the Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan was a political entity, influenced by militant Wahhabism, that declared its independence from Russian rule in 1998?
... that as director-general of Norwegian State Railways, Edvard Heiberg became famous for the phrase "The railway is being strangled by impotent car users"?

00:00, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

... that William Randolph Hearst removed 10,000 stones of the Spanish monastery Santa Maria de Ovila (pictured), but never used them in a building?
... that one of the grounds for the impeachment of Philippine Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez was her low conviction rate?
... that the depiction of the European hallucinogenic mushroom Psilocybe hispanica in rock art suggests it might have been used in prehistoric religious rituals 6,000 years ago?
... that the Akuntsu tribe, victim of a massacre perpetrated by Brazilian cattle ranchers in the 1980s, currently numbers just five individuals?
... that during World War I, future Norwegian politician and railroad chairman Egil Werner Erichsen was hit by the Spanish Flu, but did not spend one day in bed?
... that a precursor to clay pottery found at Neba'a Faour in the Bekaa Valley was made with a type of lime plaster mixed with grey ashes, which turned into a hardened, white material resembling limestone when fired?
... that although the fungus Aseroe floriformis was named for its resemblance to a flower, it smells like cow dung?

18 March 2011

16:00, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

... that there are only 70 individual plants of Molokai twinsorus fern (herbarium specimen pictured) remaining in the wild and they are all on Maui?
... that the Mauro Solar Riser was the first manned aircraft to fly on solar power?
... that St Mary's Church, Bungay in Suffolk contains a panel depicting the Resurrection given to the church by the author H. Rider Haggard?
... that the American Bladesmith Society has partnered with several colleges to offer courses in bladesmithing and has launched its own museum?
... that the Syrian Constitution guarantees a 50% quota of the People's Assembly for workers and peasants?
... that the rare European fungus Episphaeria fraxinicola produces minute cup-like fruit bodies on the bark of ash trees?
... that the Michigan football coach complained his "defense was in the law library" after law student Oscar Lambert was declared ineligible?

08:00, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Bhumibol Dam and Sirikit Dam (pictured), which control 22% of the Chao Phraya River's annual runoff, are named after the reigning King and Queen of Thailand?
... that Norwegian meteorologist Ragnar Fjørtoft was part of a Princeton, New Jersey, team that performed the first successful numerical weather prediction using the ENIAC electronic computer in 1950?
... that a Muraqqa is an album in book form containing Islamic miniature paintings and calligraphy from different sources, which gradually replaced the illustrated book?
... that the division of the city of Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, into San Pedro and San Andrés has its origins in the pre-Hispanic era?
... that Low Isles Light, an active lighthouse established in 1878 on Low Island, a coral cay near Port Douglas, was the first lighthouse in Far North Queensland?
... that the type specimen of the extinct whip scorpion Graeophonus carbonarius was originally identified as a species of dragonfly?
... that Jimmy Lile, a knife maker from Russellville, Arkansas, made the knives for the movies First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II?

00:00, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Fred Rehor (pictured), a 256-pound pharmacy student from the University of Michigan, helped lead the 1917 Massillon Tigers to the "world's professional [American] football championship" against Jim Thorpe's Canton Bulldogs?
... that attached to the tower of St Andrew's Church, Walpole in Norfolk is a chamber that was probably an anchorite cell?
... that the Alaska-Gastineau Mine, near Juneau, Alaska, was the largest gold mine in the world for a brief period prior to World War I?
... that the endangered tree Allocasuarina portuensis is only known from suburban Nielsen Park in Sydney?
... that The Dawn, Australia's first feminist magazine, was boycotted by unions because the publisher employed women to handle the printing?
... that William F. Moran was the knife maker who revived the "lost art" of Damascus steel in 1973?
... that there were attempts to ban yerba mate in early 17th-century South America?

17 March 2011

16:00, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Church of St Cyriac and St Julitta, Swaffham Prior, (pictured) in Cambridgeshire stands less than 100 feet (30 m) from the Church of St Mary, and shares the same churchyard?
... that tiny spurs on the anthers of the aromatic perennial shrub Olga's mint act as triggers to cause the flower to release pollen when an insect arrives?
... that the 1990 U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Georgia v. South Carolina decided the seaward border between Georgia and South Carolina?
... that former chief music critic of The New York Times Donal Henahan was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism in 1986?
... that the knife-making style of William Scagel influenced the cutlery trade for over 100 years?
... that during the 1995 filming of BBC's Persuasion, the crew often had to compete for props and costumes with fellow BBC and Jane Austen adaptation Pride and Prejudice?
... that Kenyan athletes won every medal at the 2011 African Cross Country Championships held in Cape Town earlier this month, and then they all missed their flight back to Nairobi?

08:00, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Vijay Hazare holds the record for most international cricket centuries (four) at Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium (pictured)?
... that Mark Pittman sued the U.S. Federal Reserve during the 2008 financial crisis for refusing to say how it distributed $2 trillion ($2,000,000,000,000) of taxpayer-funded bank bailout money?
... that the British colonial authorities charged James Frederick Sangala with sedition for supporting civil rights for Nyasaland people?
... that the Mechanics' Union of Trade Associations was formed after more than 800 Philadelphians were jailed in a debtors' prison over the course of one winter?
... that Hockey Hall of Famer Moose Johnson was one of the first professional players to compete for the Stanley Cup in 1906, and a member of the first American team to compete for it in 1916?
... that bone fragments of the Camelus moreli, an extinct species of giant camel, were found in 2005 at the archaeological site of El Kowm in Syria?
... that in the U.S., vampire facelifts are not approved by the FDA?

00:00, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the rare Floridian flowers Robin's mint and Garrett's mint used to be in the same species as the scrub balm (pictured) until they were re-classified as separate species in 1981 and 1989, respectively?
... that Texas oilman and former mayor of Midland Ernest Angelo is partly credited with the spring revival of Ronald Reagan's 1976 United States presidential primary campaign?
... that Rangaunu Harbour contains 15% of the mangrove habitat in New Zealand?
... that New York Rangers player Mike Allison scored on his first career NHL shot on goal in 1980?
... that the first fatal accident suffered by Imperial Airways led to the first Public Inquiry into a civil aviation accident in the United Kingdom, and the expansion of Croydon Airport?
... that adults with right hemisphere brain damage may have verbose, rambling and tangential speech?
... that in the Raising Hope episode "Blue Dots", one of the main characters is revealed to be a registered sex offender?

16 March 2011

16:00, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Pleurotus citrinopileatus, an edible mushroom, (pictured) has been found to lower blood sugar levels in diabetic rats?
... that in the 1930s, the New Zealand government complied with netball in South Africa's request to leave Māori players at home when they competed against them?
... that the Frankfurt Airport shooting of 2 March 2011, in which two U.S. airmen were killed, is suspected to be the first deadly act of Islamist terrorism in Germany?
... that Pandi Geço, author of the first Albanian academic textbooks of geography, was the first to regionalize Albania into four physical-geographic regions?
... that Lyttelton Timeball Station, one of only five remaining time balls in working order worldwide until the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, is to be demolished?
... that Sir Harold Bowden, chairman of the Raleigh Bicycle Company, was also chairman of the British Olympic Association for the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles?
... that The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan, a 1954 NBC sitcom created by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine, features Mickey Rooney as a studio page trying to become a serious actor?

08:00, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

... that, following a brawl-filled game, Pittsburgh Penguins team owner Mario Lemieux (pictured) questioned whether he still wanted to be a part of the National Hockey League?
... that Singapore's first Chief of Defence Force, Winston Choo, is now the country's ambassador to Israel?
... that, on October 26, 2010, the judge in Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC ordered a permanent injunction shutting down LimeWire's P2P service?
... that the 1833 newspaper Vorwärts!, edited by Karl Marx, has been described as the "most radical" European newspaper of its time?
... that Mary Hynes, who represents Virginia on the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, has promised to ride its Metrorail system to get to board meetings?
... that a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford Animal Cemetery?
... that one of the minigames in the Wii video game Calvin Tucker's Redneck Jamboree involves exploding fish out of water?

00:00, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the small-toothed sportive lemur (pictured) is the only sportive lemur to have evolved after dispersing along river corridors between western and eastern Madagascar?
... that four different English football clubs achieved promotion to the top division while Ray Train was playing for them?
... that Emilia Carr is the first woman from Marion County, Florida to be sentenced to death since Aileen Wuornos in 1992?
... that, as of 2011, Olympic athletic venues have hosted several FIFA World Cup matches, three Major League Baseball All-Star Games, two Super Bowls, and six IAAF World Championships in Athletics?
... that Swedish actor Lasse Eriksson died on stage during the show Four happy men 2 at the Regina Theatre in Uppsala?
... that former Republican California State Senator Becky Morgan served on the Board of Trustees of both her alma maters, Stanford University and Cornell University?
... that in September 2007, Monty the meerkat made headlines in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Sun, and other leading newspapers for his purported ability to take pictures with a digital camera?

15 March 2011

16:00, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

... that crime writer Agatha Christie used her face cream to clean the more than 2500-year-old Nimrud Ivories (example pictured) after their excavation?
... that the U.S. government report Women in America says that in 2009, at all levels of education, American women earned 75 percent as much as their male counterparts?
... that Willie Hume demonstrated the supremacy of John Boyd Dunlop's pneumatic tyres by winning all of the tyre's first races at Queen's College, Belfast in 1889?
... that the name of the Pensacola people means "long-haired people" in both the Pensacola language and the closely-related Choctaw language?
... that the Firemen and Deckhands' Union of New South Wales sent a delegate to the first legal meeting of the African National Congress in 1991?
... that Hugh Kennard was shot down and wounded during World War II while leading a squadron of American fighter pilots from No. 121 Squadron RAF?
... that the font in St Peter's Church, Sudbury, was removed in the 17th century to be used as a horse trough, but was returned to the church when the horses refused to drink from it?

08:00, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Federal Highway Administration director from 1981 to 1987, Ray Barnhart (pictured), streamlined procedures and upheld the soundness of the Highway Trust Fund?
... that the Mymensingh Museum in Bangladesh contains Saraswati and Vishnu statues from a Muktagacha zamindar palace, and a huge shade used during hunting from a Gouripur zamindar palace?
... that English oboist Peter Graeme recorded with the Melos Ensemble the oboe quintet of Arthur Bliss, dedicated to oboist Léon Goossens, his teacher?
... that in 1768, the Pennsylvania Province made violations of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 punishable by "death without the benefit of clergy"?
... that Somerset amateur cricketer Herbert Fox edited a feature in the Westminster Gazette in which readers submitted Latin and Greek poetry?
... that the Grammy-nominated album Now Is the Time features the Blood, Sweat & Tears horn section on two of its tracks?
... that parachuting military dog Rob's Dickin Medal may have been awarded due to a hoax?

00:00, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Matthieu Borsboom (pictured), the current head of the Royal Netherlands Navy, previously served with ISAF in Afghanistan until he was succeeded by German Major General Richard Rossmanith?
... that when the Nassif Building in Washington, D.C., was renovated and renamed in 2006, security upgrades included steel-jacketed parking garage columns capable of withstanding an explosion?
... that each year in December, the life and works of Abedin, who painted by the Brahmaputra River, are discussed at the Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Sangrahashala art gallery?
... that Harry Halpern was a prominent Conservative rabbi who served for almost 49 years at the East Midwood Jewish Center in Brooklyn, New York?
... that in 1885, Somerset County Cricket Club suffered two of their heaviest-ever defeats under the captaincy of Edward Sainsbury?
... that when Faith Radio Network bought the radio station now known as WFRF-FM in 2003, the previous owners included everything except their 1996 Chevy Astro van?
... that despite their names, white squirrel banana and yellow squirrel banana are not bananas, but rare custard apples in Florida, and their fruits are berries?

14 March 2011

16:00, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the 2011 Christchurch earthquake broke the neck on the Rolleston Statue (pictured)?
... that during his stay in Ullinish, Samuel Johnson's views and denunciation of James Macpherson's Ossian were confirmed?
... that a New Jersey court's ruling of immunity for online ticket sellers in Milgram v. Orbitz was called a "rare defeat for a consumer protection agency" and the "biggest defense win of the year"?
... that British Army officer Captain Stephen Healey of the Royal Welsh regiment, used to play football for Swansea City?
... that collecting antique Bowie knives is one of the higher-end forms of knife collecting with rare models selling for more than US$200,000?
... that the 2010–11 Ivy League season champion Harvard Crimson team was the first men's basketball team in school history to win a league championship since the Ivy League was formed in the 1956–57 season?
... that female Silver-tipped Myotis bats are able to store sperm in their bodies for up to three months after mating?

08:10, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

... that entrances (example pictured) to Knoxville's Medical Arts Building are decorated with terra cotta buttresses, pointed arches, and transoms with Gothic tracery elements?
... that the iPad 2 is due to be released in 27 different countries?
... that about 90% of the world's amber production comes from the Amber Coast of the Sambia peninsula on the Baltic Sea?
... that although Bion Barnett retired from the board of Barnett Bank with 75 years of service, he still reviewed the bank's daily business report every evening?
... that in 1281, the Catholic Bishop of Greenland contributed walrus tusks to help fund the Crusades?
... that although Qiemo Town is described in documents from the 1st century BCE to the 9th century CE, the ancient site has not yet been discovered in spite of four major expeditions to search for it?
... that the Blue Note jazz clubs located in Greenwich Village, New York, helped define personal jurisdiction in the context of cyberlaw in Bensusan Restaurant Corp. v. King?

00:20, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Russian battleship Poltava (pictured) was designed and sometimes commanded by Peter the Great?
... that members of the indie rock band Frankie & The Heartstrings met at a calypso night in a Sunderland pub?
... that General Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling prayed to God to grant him "a nice little war that he may better his condition"?
... that in his youth, Karl Marx wrote a comedic novel, Scorpion and Felix?
... that the black-margined loosestrife beetle was introduced to North America for biological pest control against the invasive purple loosestrife?
... that according to legend, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony presented Cleopatra with several gourds of vinum acquense, an early forebear of the Italian wine Brachetto d'Acqui?
... that Ch. Fiacre’s First and Foremost today becomes the first Dalmatian with a known low uric acid level to compete at Crufts?

13 March 2011

16:30, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the geebungs of the eastern states of Australia can be narrow-leaved, lance-leaved, broad-leaved (pictured), prickly, prostrate, or stiff?
... that American naval surgeon Charles Guillou had a papal patient Pius?
... that Did You Know People Can Fly? is the first full-length album by Kaddisfly?
... that the 5000-year old settlement of Jemdet Nasr is the type site for the Jemdet Nasr period in ancient Mesopotamia?
... that the Italian wine Est! Est!! Est!!! gets its unusual name from the tale of a bishop's servant traveling ahead to Rome and marking Est ("It is") on inns where he found the best-tasting wines?
... that the German ancestry and strict discipline of its first commander earned No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF the nickname "Scherger's Concentration Camp"?
... that Florida-based Christian radio station WFRF helped launch Imani Radio in Kenya and provided 2,500 solar powered radios to local villages, hospitals, and prisoners?

08:40, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

... that since St Mary at the Quay Church, Ipswich (pictured) in Suffolk closed for worship, it has been used as headquarters for the Boys' Brigade, and a venue for performing arts?
... that 2010 Consensus College All-American placekicker Josh Jasper kicked a 54-yard field goal when he was in high school?
... that the borough of Iztapalapa in Mexico City hosts an annual Passion play that attracts 2 million spectators?
... that Howard Davies, the director of the London School of Economics, resigned due to allegations over the school's links to the Libyan regime?
... that on her way back to Singapore, HMS Petard ran into a tornado, resulting in thousands of disoriented birds using the ship as a temporary perch?
... that Bushy Park Forest Reserve, home to giraffe weevils, glowworms, and huhu beetles, also has a kiwi creche and a tree named Ratanui?
... that on 29 September 1940, two Avro Ansons collided in mid-air over Brocklesby, Australia, became locked together in "piggyback" fashion, and then successfully landed in a field?

00:50, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

... that despite its name, the Chilean blue crocus (pictured), which was considered extinct until its rediscovery in the Andes mountains in 2001, is not a crocus?
... that temperance activist Carrie Nation was the subject of a 1966 opera by Douglas Moore, starring mezzo-soprano Beverly Wolff?
... that the west doorway of St Laurence's Church, Norwich, Norfolk, contains carvings of "St Edmund being arrowed and St Lawrence being grilled"?
... that French airline Air Union lost two Farman F.60 Goliaths to accidents in 1923, one in May and another in August?
... that Season 5 of the Intel Extreme Masters eSports tournament had a prize pool of US$130,000 spread over Starcraft II, League of Legends, Counter-Strike, and Quake Live?
... that from 1863 until his death in 1904, American educator Malcolm MacVicar presided over five different universities, and was the first head for two of them?
... that MSN included Flying penguins, a BBC documentary, as one of its 12 "hoaxes of the decade"?

12 March 2011

17:00, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Belinda Meuldijk, whose father Wim Meuldijk created the Dutch TV character Pipo de Clown (pictured), continued her father's legacy with the 2003 movie Pipo en de p-p-Parelridder?
... that Ford's 1990s foray into electric vehicles ended after several of its Ecostar's sodium-sulfur batteries burst into flame during charging?
... that All Saints Church, East Horndon, Essex, has been damaged by a bomb, a tramp, and vandals?
... that Civil War historian Gilbert R. Tredway refuted the claim that Democrats in his native Indiana were less supportive of the Union war effort than were their Republican neighbors?
... that although the Kern, Bolton and Wodehouse musical Leave It to Jane was written for the Princess Theatre, it premiered elsewhere because another musical by the same creators was already running there?
... that Murad Pasha Mosque in Damascus, Syria, served as a center for the Naqshbandi Sufi order?
... that the White Star Line ocean liner SS Zealandic was disguised as a decoy version of the British carrier HMS Hermes during WW II and was sunk by German submarine U-106?

09:10, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

... that agriculture in Sierra Leone (rice farmer pictured) accounts for about 50 percent of the country's gross domestic product?
... that, as the second violin of the Melos Ensemble, Ivor McMahon played the Divertissement, dedicated by Jean Françaix to bassoonist William Waterhouse?
... that it is both possible and potentially illegal to falsify who email is from, as learned by Kilbride in United States v. Kilbride?
... that Sid Ferris was a one-eyed English cyclist who broke the records for "Land's End to John o' Groats", "Edinburgh-to-London", and "1,000 miles" in 1937?
... that the endangered Puerto Rican plant Daphnopsis hellerana is dioecious, with male plants bearing tubular flowers and females bearing bell-shaped flowers?
... that Chris August received five 2011 Dove Award nominations, including the Song of the Year nod, for his debut single "Starry Night"?
... that historians believe the 893 Council of Preslav established Old Bulgarian as the official language and Preslav as the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire?

01:20, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

... that, at 24 metres (79 ft) and 6 metres (20 ft) respectively, North Reef Light and Flat Top Island Light (plans shown in scale) are the tallest and the shortest of Queensland's timber-framed iron clad lighthouses?
... that Frank Barbour, coach of the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1892 to 1893, later led Beech-Nut into the chewing gum business?
... that three 14th-century Mamluk mosque lamps in enamelled and gilded glass sold for a total of just under £3.4 million in 2000?
... that in the aftermath of World War I, Polish agronomist Mieczysław Jałowiecki lost his renowned estates in Lithuania?
... that, on Midsummer's Eve, the sun is said to set over the tip of the largest stone in the Scorhill stone circle, suggesting the circle may have had a purpose in archaeoastronomy?
... that Romanian runner Iulia Olteanu won the 1999 European Cross Country Championships but lost her title because of a positive test for the steroid stanozolol?
... that, on April 29, 1849, the ship's master and two officers fled the Hannah in the only lifeboat after the brig was holed by ice, abandoning the passengers and remaining crew?

11 March 2011

17:30, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

... that, in a British propaganda exercise during World War II, a Wellington bomber (pictured) was built in under 24 hours, setting a new world record?
... that Harry Whitney was at the center of the Peary–Cook controversy over who had reached the North Pole first?
... that, in 1869, Johannes Brahms conducted the chamber opera Le dernier sorcier (The Last Sorcerer), composed by Pauline Viardot to a French libretto by Ivan Turgenev?
... that movement on the newly discovered Mount Lebanon thrust is the most likely cause of the 551 Beirut earthquake and resulting tsunami, which left all the coastal cities of Lebanon in ruins?
... that authorization to use a company computer is not automatically conditional on the motives or loyalty of the employee, according to LVRC Holdings v. Brekka?
... that the interior of the Stone Chamber in the Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings was regarded as New Zealand architect Benjamin Mountfort's most impressive achievement?
... that the iLoo was a cancelled Microsoft project by British subsidiary MSN UK to develop a Wi-Fi-enabled Internet portable toilet for summer festivals?

09:40, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the clock of the Victoria Clock Tower (pictured) spent the first three years inside a tower, where its chime could be heard but its face could not be seen?
... that the Minister of Justice claimed that the 2011 Malawian Air Fouling Legislation bill made farting in public illegal, but later retracted his statement?
... that John Powell's score for the animated film How to Train Your Dragon was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA award, and won an Annie Award and an IFMCA award in 2011?
... that on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the rare and endangered flowers Cyanea superba and Cyanea truncata are threatened by feral pigs and rats, while feral goats are threats to Cyperus trachysanthos?
... that Sedmoi Kontinent was the first Russian retail food company to make a public stock offering?
... that the shrine of a famous medieval shaykh in the currently depopulated village of Dayr al-Shaykh became a place of pilgrimage for locals following his death in the 13th century?
... that "all-through jet training" on Macchis at the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 2 Flying Training School was called "an expensive way of finding out that some pupils lacked the aptitude to become military pilots"?

01:50, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

... that deepwater rice (pictured) can grow 25 cm (9.8 in) in a day, but only when underwater?
... that Diné artist Ryan Singer worked for the United States Forest Service before becoming a full-time artist?
... that the ruins of St Peter's Church, Bristol, in Castle Park are a memorial to the victims of the 1940 Bristol Blitz?
... that Zynga, maker of hit games FarmVille and Mafia Wars, faces the pending class action lawsuit Swift v. Zynga, based on allegedly deceptive ads that ran in its games?
... that the Brezhnev Era in the Soviet Union began with high economic growth and soaring prosperity, but ended with social, political, and economic stagnation?
... that the Alaskan Baird Mountains were named for the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution?
... that the demo version of "Don't Hold Your Breath" was performed by Timbaland and Keri Hilson, and is distinctly different from the present version released by Nicole Scherzinger?
... that netball in the Cook Islands features an Easter competition where boys dress in women's netball uniforms?

10 March 2011

18:00, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the 1859 symphonic work Hiawatha composed by Robert Stoepel (pictured) is based on Longfellow's epic poem The Song of Hiawatha?
... that Papyrus Rylands 458 is the oldest known manuscript of the Septuagint?
... that several buildings of Cass Gilbert's Waterbury Municipal Center Complex use quotations from Abraham Lincoln as decorative motifs, despite Lincoln's lack of connection to that Connecticut city?
... that William Isarn, a Spanish count, was assassinated while trying to regain what he claimed was his family's land?
... that, according to critic Jennifer Kay, Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym "skewers Edgar Allan Poe, race in America, the snack food industry, academia, landscape painting and abominable snowmen"?
... that the Rose Historic Chapel was the first church designed by the Luttrell brothers, who subsequently became the unofficial architects of the Diocese of Christchurch?
... that the Cork Examiner described the killing of Peter Cleary, the first person to be killed by the Special Air Service in Northern Ireland, as "an act of utter folly"?

10:10, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

... that a young Lernaeocera branchialis is an ectoparasitic crustacean on the gills of a flounder or lumpsucker, and it moves on to cod or related fishes after it has matured and mated (infested gills of a whiting pictured)?
... that Léon Théry was a French racing driver who won the Gordon Bennett Cup in 1904 and 1905?
... that Renaissance artists and architects used rabatment of the rectangle as a compositional tool in their work?
... that Colorado's Aspen City Hall has previously been used as a roller rink, an armory, and a concert venue?
... that Papyrus Fouad 266 is the second oldest manuscript of the Septuagint?
... that Baron Le Roy, owner of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate Château Fortia, helped guide the creation of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée system that became the basis of French wine laws?
... that shooting guard Tim Hardaway, Jr., the son of National Basketball Association All-Star Tim Hardaway, was the first Michigan Wolverines freshman to score 30 points in a game in eight years?

02:20, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Sydenham Heritage Church (pictured), twice threatened by demolition since 1997, was demolished without authorisation after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
... that, in 1983, The Chieftains were the first ever Irish musical group to play a concert on the Great Wall of China, resulting in an album: The Chieftains in China?
... that upon making his National Hockey League debut, Blake Geoffrion became the first fourth-generation player after his father Dan, grandfather Bernie, and great-grandfather Howie Morenz?
... that Operation Moolah was an attempt during the Korean War by the United States Air Force to capture a fully operational Russian MiG-15?
... that an American soldier, who was deployed to Iraq, adopted an Iraqi boy who could not walk because of cerebral palsy?
... that collective leadership was seen as the ideal form of governance by Soviet ideologists during the rules of Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev?
... that to secure a guilty verdict, Dominick Sarsfield, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, urged jurors to beat the lone dissenter into submission?

9 March 2011

18:30, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

... that when Gare de Bellegarde (current station building pictured) opened in 1858 as part of the Lyon–Geneva railway, the station building was built in the style of a Swiss chalet?
... that Picander used one of the sayings of Jesus on the cross for an aria in Bach's cantata Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem, BWV 159, for the last Sunday before Lent?
... that Spanish-language Regional Mexican station KMAK launched in 1990 as an English-language Christian radio outlet serving Fresno, California?
... that the first independent study of water quality in Jordan's US$1.1 billion Disi Water Conveyance Project found the water to be highly radioactive?
... that four first-round draft picks of the Oakland Athletics have won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award?
... that Richard Knill Freeman, who designed British churches, hospitals, municipal buildings, schools and museums, also designed a church in Moscow in the 1880s?
... that people who suffer from Pleasure Dissociative Orgasmic Disorder are unable to feel pleasure from an orgasm?

10:40, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the House of Assembly of Bermuda appointed members to complain to King George III of the "tyranny and oppression" of Governor George James Bruere (pictured)?
... that the rare and endangered bellflower Cyanea remyi is found only on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, and as of 2010, an estimated 24 individuals are known to be growing in the wild?
... that Mikhail Lermontov, author of the poem "Valerik", won the Order of St. Vladimir for valor at the 1840 Battle of the Valerik River but was prevented from receiving his award by Czar Nicholas I?
... that in 2006 Richard Santagati received the third highest salary of any president of a private college in the United States?
... that six of the nineteen winners of the National Basketball Association's IBM Award have played for the San Antonio Spurs?
... that ProtectMarriage.com was formed to pass California Proposition 8, a voter initiative against same-sex marriage?
... that Max Boyce's 1975 recording We All Had Doctors' Papers is the only comedy album to reach number one in the UK Album Charts?

02:50, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Anna Murray (pictured) helped her future husband, Frederick Douglass, escape slavery by giving him sailor's clothes and a part of her savings?
... that a US-born ex-hippie Malati Dasi, despite fierce opposition, in 1998 became the first international female leader of the Hare Krishna movement?
... that First Nations contemporary artist Dana Claxton is a descendant of Sitting Bull's followers?
... that according to book critic Maureen Corrigan, today’s narratives of women’s suffering are breaking with a tradition going back to Homer, in that they show women talking – and fighting – back?
... that author Lorene Cary was the second African American girl accepted at the "elite" St. Paul's boarding school in New Hampshire, and in 1991 published Black Ice, a memoir of her experiences?
... that Rose Catherine Pinkney developed dozens of American television shows, including The X-Files and Girlfriends?
... that the autobiography of Renaissance medical practitioner Grace Mildmay is one of the earliest written by an English woman?
... that a critic described the work of abstract sculptor Claire Falkenstein as "a Jackson Pollock in three dimensions"?

8 March 2011

19:00, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Hikmat Abu Zayd (pictured) was the first female cabinet minister in Egypt?
... that Irish designer Orla Kiely has had her work featured on a range of Citroën DS3 cars, although she's better known for textiles?
... that Dutch television talk show host Sonja Barend retired in 2006 after forty years of making television?
... that Pauline Bebe was France's first female rabbi?
... that alleged German spy Despina Storch was described as "Turkish Delight", "Turkish beauty", and a "modern Cleopatra" in spy literature?
... that Ágnes Farkas was selected Hungarian Handballer of the Year in both 2001 and 2002?
... that even in her thirties, Scottish coloratura soprano Anne Sharp was able to pass as a teenager, performing the role of Emmie Spatchett in Albert Herring at the first Aldeburgh Festival?
... that Dutch writer, journalist, and feminist Wim Hora Adema co-founded the feminist monthly magazine Opzij in 1972, a magazine that's still in print?
... that in 1789 the Women's March on Versailles forced the King of France to accept the Declaration of the Rights of Man?

11:00, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

... that award-winning poet and Cardiff resident Ivy Alvarez (pictured) was born in the Philippines, grew up in Tasmania, has worked in Scotland, Ireland, and Spain, and had her first book published in the US?
... that Merrythought is the last remaining teddy bear manufacturer in the United Kingdom?
... that after his election in 1998 as mayor of Campbellsville, Kentucky, Paul E. Osborne formed a team that attracted Amazon.com, among others, to replace two closed factories?
... that Chris Addison promoted his new satirical radio show 7 Day Sunday as "four relatively ill-informed idiots fail to take the news seriously for an hour"?
... that Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within was described both as "well written and well informed" and as using "wildly exaggerated statistics"?
... that mathematician Leonhard Euler discovered that a simple characteristic equation could be used to solve certain linear homogeneous differential equations?
... that the women's race at the 2007 Tokyo Marathon was won by Hitomi Niiya, who at the time had never run in a marathon before?

03:00, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

... that after the Godley Statue (pictured) toppled during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, time capsules were discovered in its plinth?
... that Polish best-selling historian and dissident Paweł Jasienica, due to his criticism of the Polish communist government, had his books removed from distribution and prohibited from printing?
... that, in Arizona v. New Mexico, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Arizona's attempt to invoke original jurisdiction, but Arizona prevailed when the case returned to the court on appeal?
... that transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing is a promising new technology which allows sequencing of individual DNA molecules?
... that around the west door of St John the Baptist's Church in Yarburgh, Lincolnshire, are carvings of a coat of arms, Adam and Eve and the serpent, a Paschal Lamb, and a pelican?
... that Usher's 1997 song "You Make Me Wanna" is an acoustic guitar-based R&B, soul and pop ballad about "juggling three women"?
... that depending on the interpretation, sophismata like "All men are donkeys or men and donkeys are donkeys" can either be true or false?

7 March 2011

19:00, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the high medieval Patriarchal Cathedral (pictured) atop the Tsarevets hill in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, has had its interior repainted in a modernist style?
... that during the tenure of the Abbasid governor al-Fadl ibn Salih, the Egyptian cities of al-Fustat and al-Askar were merged into one large city?
... that Alice Waters lobbied the Clinton administration to replace White House Executive Chef Pierre Chambrin with an American chef?
... that the conservatories of the Bason Botanic Gardens in Wanganui were constructed using recycled bricks from two demolished picture theatres?
... that until Marcel Deiss petitioned the French authorities to change the wine laws in 2005, it was illegal to not list the grape variety on the labels of Grand cru Alsatian wine?
... that DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith of DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince won Grammy Awards for Best Rap Performance the same year they boycotted the ceremony?
... that although the 1965 Skyways Coach-Air Avro 748 crash ended with the passengers hanging upside down in their seats, they all survived?

10:00, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Galilee (pictured), a brigantine built by Matthew Turner in 1891, spent three years on charter to the Carnegie Institute of Washington as a magnetic observatory?
... that Nikolla bey Ivanaj was one of the participants of the Albanian Congress of Trieste held in 1913?
... that "To Be Alone with You" was the first song Bob Dylan recorded for his 1969 album Nashville Skyline?
... that former California Assembly Republican Leader and California Republican Party Chair Robert W. Naylor was editor of The Stanford Daily while he was a student at Stanford University?
... that Papel Prensa produced 170,000 tons of newsprint for 170 dailies in 2009, accounting for 75% of the newsprint market in Argentina?
... that after retiring from baseball, catcher Greg Goossen turned to acting and working as a stand-in for actor Gene Hackman?
... that the invasion of monsters from the Orange Planet in the Czech comic album Muriel a oranžová smrt was a satiric response to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968?

02:00, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

... that in the first scientific study of fossils in English, William Martin speculated that horn coral (pictured) was a kind of bamboo and said another fossil was not a small crocodile tail?
... that King Ndumbe Lobe Bell of the Duala assigned his sovereign rights to the German trading firm of Jantzen & Thormählen in 1884?
... that All Saints Church in Thurgarton, Norfolk, is notable for its medieval bench ends carved with poppyheads, an elephant, barrels, mythical beasts, a man, a lion, and fighting dogs?
... that 12 years after his team was disqualified, Jack Kirrane returned to the Olympics and captained the United States ice hockey team to a gold medal?
... that G. Topham Forrest used a plain neo-Georgian style for most 1920s and 1930s London County Council housing estates, but at Ossulston used a modernist style influenced by Viennese workers’ housing?
... that General John M. Bacon of the 3rd US Infantry regiment was incorrectly reported killed with a hundred of his men after the 1898 Battle of Sugar Point?
... that Bavarian criminal Theo Berger, despite escaping four times, spent 36 years in jail and committed suicide there in 2003?

6 March 2011

18:00, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Durham Street Methodist Church (pictured), destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, was the first stone church in Canterbury, New Zealand?
... that historian Betty Jane Gorin-Smith penned a 2006 study of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's 1863 raids though central Kentucky?
... that the Beeldenstorm was a wave of riotous destruction of church art and property that spread across the Low Countries in August 1566?
... that Margaret Creek in Ohio was named after Margaret Snowden, the first white woman settler in Athens County?
... that Leif Rode, who competed in rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics, was chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Skiing more than forty years later?
... that Young Galaxy and producer Dan Lissvik of Studio collaborated across the Atlantic using Skype to produce their new album Shapeshifting?
... that of the 1,401 species in the family Begoniaceae, Hillebrandia sandwicensis is the only one not in the genus Begonia?

10:00, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Libyan opposition has embraced "Zenga Zenga", an Israeli-created auto-tuned song and viral YouTube video that parodies Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi (pictured)?
... that the entrance to a burial vault below St Mary's Church, Redgrave in Suffolk was accidentally discovered during a rehearsal for Quasimodo?
... that American multi-instrumentalist Levon Helm won the first Grammy Award for Best Americana Album in 2010 for the album Electric Dirt?
... that the Commission for Polish Relief provided limited food and medical supplies to occupied Poland until late 1941, in spite of Britain's 1940 blockade of shipments to Nazi occupied Europe?
... that Octavius Wigram was guarding a door of Westminster Abbey at the coronation of George IV when the Queen was turned away?
... that the weevil Hylobius transversovittatus has been introduced into the United States and Canada to help control the invasive wetland plant purple loosestrife?
... that after Prince Ibrahim Mirza was killed on the orders of his brother-in-law, Shah Ismail II of Persia, his wife destroyed his Persian miniatures by washing them in water?

02:00, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

... that for 30 years the Reuben Wells steam engine (pictured), now displayed at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, pushed train cars up the steepest railroad incline in the United States?
... that the Monty Python sketch "The Mouse Problem", a mockumentary about men who want to be mice, parodies 1960s TV documentaries on homosexuality?
... that Gary Aguirre, who predicted the 2008 financial crisis, was fired by the SEC for trying to investigate Wall Street banker John Mack, a major fundraiser to President Bush's 2004 campaign?
... that with an area of 8.2 km² (3.2 sq mi), Lake Sonfon is Sierra Leone's largest inland lake?
... that Dr. Michael S. Gottlieb was instrumental in identifying AIDS in 1981 and thereafter treated actor Rock Hudson for the disease?
... that The Headshrinkers, who had last wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation in 1994, were reunited at the Yokozuna Memorial Show in 2001?
... that a Labrador Retriever named Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal for sniffing out a pressure cooker filled with TNT while on the front lines in Afghanistan?

5 March 2011

18:00, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

... that St Augustine's Church (pictured) in Norwich has a monument to a textile manufacturer, raised by 600 weavers?
... that Stanley Clarke's album The Stanley Clarke Band won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album?
... that the Heinrich-Heine-Straße U-Bahn station in Berlin, opened in 1928, was a ghost station for nearly three decades and retains much of its original appearance?
... that humorist George Washington Harris's comic character Sut Lovingood, who figured in tales attacking Abraham Lincoln and other politicians, has been described as "Huck Finn on amphetamines"?
... that a top environmental issue in Russia is water pollution, affecting 75% of the country's surface water?
... that tandem bicyclists Ernie Mills and Bill Paul set a world record in 1937 that stood for 63 years?
... that the Marvel Comics limited series 5 Ronin reimagines superheroes Wolverine, Psylocke, Punisher, Hulk and Deadpool as masterless samurai in 17th-century Japan?

10:00, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the ground beetle, Lebia grandis, can eat about 23 eggs (pictured) or three larvae of the Colorado potato beetle every day?
... that William Douglass was an 18th century American physician whose pamphlets on paper money led Adam Smith to call him "honest and downright"?
... that Queen Victoria saved her pet spaniel Dash from a carriage accident?
... that Joey DeFrancesco's tribute to Michael Jackson, Never Can Say Goodbye: The Music of Michael Jackson, was nominated for a Grammy Award?
... that California's Shine the Light Law requires companies either to provide an opt-out from personal information sharing or to disclose the data that they share?
... that, in its campaign against a Romanian World War I alliance with the Entente Powers, the newspaper Seara employed conservatives, socialists and anarchists as contributors?
... that Maryland Route 24 parallels Deer Creek through Rocks State Park?
... that a gun was fired during a melee in a 1987 basketball game between Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines?

02:00, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Joanne Siegel (pictured) was the original model for Lois Lane and later married Superman's co-creator?
... that Kentucky historian Damon R. Eubank wrote a book on the family of U.S. Senator John J. Crittenden, whose sons fought on opposing sides in the Civil War?
... that the song "Barcelona" by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé is considered an illustrative example of the difference between pop and classical singing?
... that the California Bay pea crab is one of only two marine crustaceans to be included on the IUCN Red List of endangered species?
... that the life of 14th-century Bulgarian brigand and local ruler of the Rhodopes Momchil has been retold both as an opera and as a comic book?
... that Namibian trade unionist Ponhele ya France was an outspoken critic of the "Willing buyer, willing seller" land reform principle?
... that Mark Twain threatened to eat newspaper editor Henry Martyn Whitney?

4 March 2011

18:00, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Český Šternberk Castle (pictured) appears several times in the Albanian-Czech film The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider?
... that shortly after it was introduced, the Crash Position Indicator was credited with saving the life of a critically injured airman?
... that on a commission of the Érard company to show off the expressive range of its double-action pedal harp, Maurice Ravel composed Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet?
... that the coral reef crab Zosimus aeneus contains deadly poisonous neurotoxins?
... that Rhône winemaker Jean-Luc Colombo lamented the competition from California wines, describing their rise as "losing civilisation and vulgarising wine"?
... that former Manchester City footballer Lee Crooks is soon scheduled to serve on the frontline in the War in Afghanistan?
... that Luke Matheny, whose hair was described as "a vast black bouffant that makes him look like an untidy microphone", began his Academy Award acceptance speech by joking, "I should've gotten a haircut"?

10:00, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Wehrmacht used "stick grenades" (pictured in gun barrel) for its PaK-36 anti-tank guns?
... that the CWA and PWA provided grants and loans to assist with construction of the 1930s Juneau-Douglas Bridge, connecting Juneau, Alaska, with Douglas Island across the Gastineau Channel?
... that the surface level of the Old Bavarian Donaumoos, once a bog covering 180 square kilometres (69 sq mi), has dropped by 3 metres (9.8 ft) since drainage began in 1790?
... that the University of Redwood is fiction based on a copying of the entire Reed College website, raising concerns that it could be used to collect admission application fees fraudulently?
... that in 2009 The Price is Right featured tickets to the B96 Pepsi SummerBash as a showcase showdown prize?
... that the historic Caccia Birch House in Hokowhitu includes a billiards room named after the Governor-General of New Zealand, Lord Plunket, who resided in the House temporarily?
... that dancer Jean Babilée's performance in the ballet Le Jeune Homme et la Mort included being hung by the neck on a gallows for one minute?

02:00, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Derby Museum has a diagram of Ecton Hill (pictured) made from Ashford Black Marble and other minerals?
... that much of the stained glass in the Church of St John Maddermarket in Norwich was damaged by a gas explosion in 1876?
... that Kathleen, Duchess of Newcastle purchased a dog from the Tsar of Russia in 1892 for a sum equivalent to nearly £20,000 in modern currency?
... that the rare borage Terlingua Creek cat's-eye grows only on gypsum-rich limestone near Big Bend National Park in Texas?
... that at one point in the Battle of Narvik, British destroyer HMS Hotspur found herself engaged in battle with five enemy destroyers?
... that Scottish Rugby Union player Edward Innes Pocock was also a member of Cecil Rhodes' Pioneer Column?
... that the parishioners of Highweek petitioned the pope for their own graveyard?

3 March 2011

18:00, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

... that cactus enthusiasts and collectors are major threats to the rare cacti Coryphantha ramillosa (pictured) and Escobaria sneedii?
... that Oliver H. Lowry's 1951 paper on the Lowry protein assay is the most-cited paper of all time?
... that the Anglo-Norman Lament of Edward II, written c. 1327, is traditionally credited to Edward II of England?
... that University of Michigan fullback John Garrels won medals in both the 110 m hurdles and shot put at the 1908 Olympics in London?
... that the account of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery is found at the end of the Gospel of John in Minuscule 831, 1076, 1078 and 1356?
... that golf course architect William Herbert Fowler, who redesigned the 18th hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links, was also an MCC cricketer?
... that Marilyn Monroe, Dr. Seuss, Elvis Costello, and Prince Philip all adopted matronymic surnames?

10:00, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

... that All Saints Church, Newton Green (pictured) in Suffolk has been divided at the chancel arch, the chancel being used for worship, while the rest of the church is redundant?
... that United States v. Payner is known as the "briefcase caper" case because it concerned the exclusion of evidence surreptitiously copied from a Bahamian banker's briefcase?
... that during the takeover of the hijacked Mothers' Bus by the Yamam, the hijackers killed two mothers, of two and four children, giving the incident its name?
... that as mayor of Campbellsville, Kentucky, Robert L. Miller sometimes swept out the basements of people's houses after heavy rains?
... that Sir James Hogg and the Duke of Brunswick each pressed charges against Barnard Gregory for libel because of articles that he published in The Satirist?
... that the second USRC Virginia, assisted by Richmond and Eagle, captured the armed French schooner Louis and her cargo on 26 April 1799?
... that Al Mar Knives was the first knife factory to sell a production knife for more than $US100?

02:00, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

... that 16th-century Mughal miniature painter and director of Akbar's imperial workshop, Abd al-Samad, may have been the same person as Persian miniature artist Mirza Ali (example pictured)?
... that politicians discuss the ways in which they and their families have suffered because of Oprahization?
... that though the rare Central Florida legume Crotalaria avonensis was first collected in 1950, it took another 39 years to be recognized and named as a distinct species?
...that Phoenix civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale helped coordinate and fund a lawsuit that produced the first court decision in the U.S. declaring school segregation illegal?
... that as part of its training program for up-and-coming Aboriginal filmmakers, the Canadian National Screen Institute hosts a "Spirit Day" with a traditional feast and pipe ceremony?
... that M-46 is only one of three trans-peninsular state highways in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan?
... that Donald S. Sanford, who wrote the screenplay for the World War II epic film Midway (1976), was a sonarman in the U.S. Navy during World War II?

2 March 2011

18:00, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

... that German paratrooper Walter Koch (pictured) acted against the Commando Order and saved John Dutton Frost's British paratroopers from execution?
... that in the north, the North American paper wasp Polistes annularis has rust-red markings on a predominantly black thorax, but in the south, the thorax is mostly rust-red with black markings?
... that the medieval cross in the centre of the village of Ackworth, West Yorkshire, may have been built as a memorial to victims of the Black Death?
... that the Laplace distribution with a mean of zero is a special case of the geometric stable distribution?
... that film pioneer William Haggar's 1903 short Desperate Poaching Affray is believed to have been a key influence on the "chase" sub-genre of early film?
... that Nelly and Eminem won Grammys for Best Male Rap Solo Performance in the two years when the Best Rap Solo Performance Award was split into male and female categories?
... that the Maxberg specimen, one of only 10 Archaeopteryx specimens ever found, has been lost since 1991?

10:00, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Harry Marks (pictured), whose Financial News crusaded against fraudulent stock market schemes, was himself widely implicated in dubious share promotions?
... that the ghost town of Estacado, Texas, was founded by Quakers as a farming community?
... that Ulster loyalist Robert McConnell was implicated in several sectarian attacks and killings in Northern Ireland, but was never charged or convicted?
... that the Wouri estuary is a global marine biodiversity hotspot?
... that Ralph Stackpole's 81-foot (25 m) statue Pacifica was at one time planned for permanent construction on an island in San Francisco Bay?
... that because director-writer Akiva Goldsman had an aversion to hospitals, he shot the mental hospital scenes in the Fringe episode "Bad Dreams" in a church?
... that Welsh boxer Barry Jones lost his WBO Super featherweight title through events caused by an anomaly in a brain scan?

02:00, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the Lockington Locks (pictured) lay at the end of the highest point on the Miami and Erie Canal?
... that the Cumberland false rosemary has three sets of chromosomes in its cells, one set more than other plants in the same genus?
... that the hockey rivalry between the Universities of New Hampshire and Maine is sometimes referred to as the "Border War"?
... that Stone Canyon Reservoir was used as a filming location for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974)?
... that Archelaus, the high priest of the Roman goddess of war in Comana, claimed to be the son of King Mithridates VI when he wooed, and subsequently married, Queen Berenice IV of Egypt?
... that the largest oil field in Turkey lies near the city of Batman and the Batman River?
... that physician Golding Bird invented the electric moxa in order to save patients from having to be burnt with glowing charcoal?

1 March 2011

18:00, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

... that St Faith's Church, Little Witchingham, (pictured) in Norfolk had fallen into ruin by the time its medieval wall paintings were rediscovered in 1967?
... that the petite endangered cactus Escobaria minima bears 1.5-cm long flowers that may be larger than the cactus body itself, and fruits no more than 6 mm in length?
... that RSBY, the National Health Insurance Programme of India, offers cashless health insurance of up to ₹ 30,000 to the poor for just ₹ 30?
... that American singer Missy Elliott received the Grammy Award for Best Female Rap Solo Performance both years it was presented?
... that Gulliver's Travels is reportedly the only book read by comedy writer Bill Dare, creator of BBC satirical radio comedy Brian Gulliver's Travels, while he was at university?
... that despite trailing by 20 points after half-time in the 1987 UAAP men's basketball finals, the Ateneo Blue Eagles rallied and won the championship?
... that during the 2010 Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines, Iowa, the 600 guests ate approximately 30,000 strips of bacon?

12:00, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

... that British angler and author Frederic M. Halford, pseudonym Detached Badger (pictured), is known as "The Father of Modern Dry Fly Fishing"?
... that Ohinetahi, the historical home and formal garden in New Zealand owned by Sir Miles Warren, architect of the Christchurch Town Hall, was extensively damaged during the 2010 Canterbury earthquake?
... that Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave creates life-size, painted paper sculptures of wedding gowns, shoes, needlework lace, and strings of pearls?
... that finds at the prehistoric Neolithic Tell Ghoraifé, located 22 kilometres (14 mi) east of Damascus, Syria, show the evolution that took place over a millennium, from wild to domesticated barley?
... that 12 years after the U.S. Department of Education gave Blue Ribbon status to the Howard C. Reiche School in Portland, Maine, it was declared deficient under No Child Left Behind?
... that British Army lieutenant Hubert G. Chevis was murdered in 1931 with a plate of poisoned partridge?

06:00, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

... that the canals and chinampas of Xochimilco (pictured), a World Heritage Site in Mexico City, are in danger of disappearing within 50 years?
... that former child actor Philip Amelio once taught English and coached baseball at Duanesburg High School in Upstate New York?
... that offerings in the 4000-year old temple of Al-Rawda, Syria, came from as far as Egypt, Afghanistan and India?
... that artist Corwin Clairmont designed the Salish-Kootenai's tribal seal when he was 15 and it is still used today?
... that Creal Reef, Queensland, site of Creal Reef Light, was named after a No. 101 Flight RAAF pilot who assisted HMAS Moresby with her surveys?
... that Val McDermid's novel A Darker Domain explores the social and emotional implications of the UK miners strike of 1984–1985?
... that Edgar Gilbert investigated the mathematics of shuffling playing cards?

00:00, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

... that Charles Dvorak (pictured) missed the pole vault finals at the 1900 Olympics after being told the event was postponed, but returned to win the gold medal at the 1904 Olympics?
... that Bulgaria mobilized more than 600,000 soldiers, or 12–13% of its population, upon its entry to World War I?
... that the Employees' State Insurance scheme provides social security and health insurance to over 50 million Indians?
... that in 1672, the Scottish botanist Robert Morison became the first person to write a "monograph of a specific group of plants", the Umbelliferae?
... that Maersk Line's Triple E Class are expected to be the largest ships in the world when they enter service?
... that the earliest known Maya city in the Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica dates to around 750 BC?
... that ampelographer Pierre Galet suspects that the Provence wine grape Tibouren was likely introduced to Marseilles by the Ancient Greeks, but could also be Middle Eastern in origin?
... that slippery Jills wear a baggy veil?