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29 February 2012

17:05, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

... that a new twin pyramid complex (east pyramid pictured) was built at the Maya city of Tikal every twenty years to celebrate the end of a Maya calendrical cycle?
... that because Drew Crawford's father, Dan, was a referee in the National Basketball Association, Drew was exposed to elite players like LeBron James and Reggie Miller?
... that the blast furnaces at the Hunedoara steel works in Hunedoara, Romania, were shut down 115 years to the day after the first such units were inaugurated there?
... that Royal Navy officer Charles Phipps combined a parliamentary career with commanding ships in the American War of Independence?
... that the deadliest accident Aeroflot experienced in the 1980s occurred in July 1985 (1985-07), when a Tupolev Tu-154B-2 stalled en route and crashed near Uchkuduk, Uzbek SSR, killing all 200 people aboard?
... that New Zealand peace campaigner Owen Wilkes had his mail monitored?

09:20, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

... that funding for the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator (pictured) prompted a Government Accountability Office reprimand in the United States?
... that Rihanna's Rated R: Remixed received mixed reviews?
... that Sanusi Pane has been called the most important Indonesian dramatist prior to the national revolution?
... that surangas are horizontal, tunnel-like structures dug into laterite hill slopes to supply water in the Kasaragod district of Kerala and Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka?
... that U.S. Navy destroyer John Finn (DDG-113) is named in honor of John William Finn, the first Medal of Honor recipient of World War II?
... that during trial proceedings of the Kareeboomvloer massacre, a prison official was requested to explain the meaning of life?

01:35, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

... that international cannabis smuggler Howard Marks (pictured) took on the alias of "Mr. Nice" after he bought a passport from convicted murderer Donald Nice?
... that after the 1933 Michigan Wolverines football team won the first game in what was to be an undefeated season, Gerald Ford wrote that the University of Michigan had "more drunks than ever"?
... that U.S. Air Force weather officer J. Murray Mitchell investigated the Arctic haze and became an eminent climatologist commemorated by the Mitchell Glacier?
... that Itō Chūta was the leading architect of early twentieth-century Imperial Japan?
... that Friendship and Freedom, published in 1924, was the first gay-interest periodical in the United States?
... that the Ray Butts EchoSonic gave live slapback to Chet Atkins, Scotty Moore, and Carl Perkins?

28 February 2012

17:50, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the large Baroque pilgrimage church complex in Mariánská Týnice (pictured) served its religious purpose for only eight years?
... that American baseball players Brett Jackson, Jeff Beliveau, James McCann, Tuffy Gosewisch, Matt Clark, Pete Andrelczyk, Matt Shoemaker, Justin Cassel, Chad Tracy and Andrew Garcia won silver at the 2011 Pan American Games?
... that it is widely suggested that the publication of the novel Oromay, depicting the Eritrean War, led to the disappearance of its author, Baalu Girma?
... that the Standard Plaza was the largest office building in Oregon when it opened in 1963?
... that Admiral Jonathan Faulknor's grandfather, father, son, two brothers, nephew and grandson were all naval officers?
... that third-generation stock car driver Ryan Blaney, who will compete in NASCAR for Tommy Baldwin Racing this year, won his first race at age nine?

10:05, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

... that six Rossetti paintings, including Monna Rosa, Mnemosyne, and Veronica Veronese (detail pictured), were all displayed together in the drawing room of Frederick Leyland, who called them "stunners"?
... that Alemu Abebe was sworn in as mayor of Addis Ababa in 1977 after the mayor-elect had been assassinated?
... that the Stephen and Harriet Myers House in Albany was considered the best-run Underground Railroad station in New York?
... that Australian national team water polo player Sophie Smith is working on a degree in fashion design?
... that rather than being most closely related to other West Indian legumes, the Greater Antillean endemic genus Pictetia is closest to species found in Africa and Mesoamerica?
... that the Black Act introduced the death penalty for over 50 criminal offences, including being found in a forest while disguised?

02:20, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

... that among long-term prisoners held at Akershus Fortress in the 19th century were Norwegian career criminals Gjest Baardsen (pictured) and Ole Høiland, and Sami rebel Lars Hætta?
... that Rock Sand won the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, the Epsom Derby and the St. Leger Stakes to claim the English Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1903, and later became a stud in Kentucky?
... that Duke's, a Mumbai-based soft-drink brand, was bought by PepsiCo in 1994 and withdrawn from most segments in 2004 before being relaunched in 2011?
... that Indonesian actor HIM Damsyik identified with the antagonistic role which brought him to fame?
... that broth prepared with the bark of woolly willow is used in Native American medicine to treat sore throats?

27 February 2012

18:35, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Gemma Beadsworth (pictured) and her brother Jamie both represented Australia in water polo at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
... that Foucauldian discourse analysis analyzes content by looking at the power relationships within it, and how the power shapes the language used?
... that Gangavataran was the first sound film, and the last film, to be directed by Dadasaheb Phalke?
... that following a cold case review, police arrested a suspect for the 1961 murder of Jacqueline Thomas 46 years after the crime was committed?
... that in 1943, a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crashed in Astwell, Northamptonshire, near the Silverstone bomber station which was built in the same year?
... that in his award-winning string quartet Chinese Whispers, Graham Waterhouse has phrases gradually morph as they pass from player to player, as verbal phrases do in the whispering game?

10:50, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

... that during World War II, the multi-national Alsos Mission captured and dismantled a German experimental nuclear reactor (pictured)?
... that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Washington v. Texas that the right to obtain witnesses in one's favor is critical to the very ability to "present a defense"?
... that a steel works and a shipyard form major components in the economy of Galați, Romania?
... that Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes, released in January 2009, was Rihanna's first remix album?
... that the antagonist of the Millennium episode "522666" represents "an indictment upon the modern obsession with celebrity"?
... that Shia Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr called for Saudi protestors to use "the roar of the word" in response to police bullets?

00:00, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Hostess Brands has claimed that the Hostess CupCake (pictured) was "the first snack cake ever introduced to the market," but that claim has been disputed by rival Tastykake?
... that hundreds of Polish coal miners spent two weeks underground in the 1981 strike at Piast Coal Mine in Bieruń?
... that in the 1980s, an estimated 50,000 to 150,000 neotropical parrots were illegally imported annually into the United States?
... that Old Carthusians F.C. is one of only two football clubs to have won both the FA Cup and FA Amateur Cup?
... that the Union Watersphere in Union, New Jersey, was formerly the tallest sphere-topped water tower in the world?
... that in 1914 Prince Obolensky thought his peasants were enthusiastic about a war to defend Belgrade, later learning they had understood him to mean Belgorod, home of the relics of St Ioasaph?

26 February 2012

16:00, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

... that European welterweight champion Johnny Basham (pictured) faced a manslaughter charge after killing an opponent in a boxing match?
... that Double Fine Productions raised more than $1 million in under 24 hours in a record-breaking, crowd-sourced Kickstarter funding drive for their upcoming adventure game?
... that racehorse Pope came from behind "within a few strides of the winning-post" to win the 1809 Derby Stakes by a neck?
... that construction of the Vianden Pumped Storage Plant began after a treaty was signed between Luxembourg and the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate?
... that Iowa golden-saxifrage is sometimes considered to be a variety of Chrysosplenium alternifolium?
... that Brigitte, who plays the French Bulldog Stella on the TV show Modern Family, has been called the most famous dog on television since Frasier's Eddie?

08:00, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Australian former Paralympian Alison Quinn (pictured) was brought to gymnastics as a child in the hope that it would improve her coordination and symmetry?
... that Michael Hart failed to get elected to the New Zealand Parliament, but was chosen as Mayor of Christchurch 13 years later?
... that Die Freundin, a German lesbian magazine published from 1924 to 1933, was temporarily shut down by the Weimar government?
... that the life of Wenlock Christison, who was condemned to death for being a Quaker while in Massachusetts Bay Colony by Governor John Endicott, was spared by King Charles II?
... that four Connecticut Huskies women's basketball players have been drafted first overall in the WNBA Draft, including Maya Moore in 2011?
... that Carl Friedrich Gauss is credited with a proposal to signal aliens by drawing a massive representation of the Pythagorean theorem on the Siberian tundra using pine trees and fields of wheat?

00:00, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

... that French general Hubert Lyautey (pictured) described his defensive tactics in the Zaian War as analogous to hollowing out a lobster?
... that in 1936, Mahmoud set a course record at Epsom and became the third of four grey racehorses to ever win the Derby Stakes?
... that actor John Abraham's first production Vicky Donor deals with the concept of sperm donation?
... that in the 1991 PBA First Conference Finals, Ginebra San Miguel became the first team in Philippine Basketball Association history to win a championship series coming from a 1–3 deficit?
... that the plot of the adventure game Undercover: Operation Wintersun focuses on a nuclear physicist trying to destroy Nazi German prototype nuclear weapons during World War II?
... that Zennor Head, Cornwall, is named after a woman who was reputedly washed up there after being thrown into the sea in a barrel by her husband?

25 February 2012

16:00, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Colorado's Redstone Inn (pictured), originally a 1900s dormitory for unmarried male Colorado Fuel and Iron workers, had indoor plumbing, electricity and telephone when it was built?
... that in 1937, after German artist Heinz Kiwitz was lauded in the Nazi press, he wrote an open letter to Hitler to renounce the praise?
... that the University Times, a newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh, was threatened with closure when it covered a heated dispute among the faculty and administration in 1979?
... that a fossil of the Middle Permian therocephalian Blattoidealestes represents the oldest record of multicuspid teeth among theriodonts, the ancestors of mammals?
... that Nina Wilcox Putnam wrote the story that was the basis for The Mummy and drafted the first 1040 income tax form?
... that the music video of the title track in AKB48's single Give Me Five is 34 minutes long?

08:00, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Alcock's Arabian (pictured), an Arabian horse imported to England in the 18th century, is putatively the ancestor of all grey Thoroughbred horses?
... that there are several ruins of Serbian Orthodox churches in Dvorane?
... that nearly half of all of the championships won by the William & Mary Tribe football team have occurred during current head coach Jimmye Laycock's tenure?
... that one species of the extinct bivalve Similodonta was found 108.90 metres (357.3 ft) down a Welsh borehole?
... that Pulitzer-winning photographer Frank Noel survived five days in a lifeboat after his ship was torpedoed, three years in communist prison camps, and the King David Hotel bombing?
... that in the "Pilot" for The Cosby Show Bill Cosby's character taught his son a lesson using Monopoly money?

00:00, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

... that comedian Nick Swardson (pictured) first performed stand-up comedy at the age of 18 "as a goof" and was selected to perform at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado just two years later?
... that the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society has donated over 60,000 corneas for transplantation in 57 countries, including those of the late President of Sri Lanka, J. R. Jayewardene?
... that Paul Kelly's song "Dumb Things" was used on the soundtrack, for the Yahoo Serious film Young Einstein after Kelly's wife Kaarin Fairfax acted in a scene with Serious' wife Lulu Pinkus?
... that the Federal Web Managers Council is the steering committee for the Web Content Managers Forum, an ad hoc community of more than 2,000 U.S. government web and new media professionals?
... that near the hamlet of Barkip in North Ayrshire, the largest anaerobic digestion power plant in Scotland was completed in June 2011?
... that the New Zealand immigrant Hugh Gourley had jobs as varied as gold digger, livery trader, saddler, coach operator, undertaker and Mayor of Dunedin?

24 February 2012

16:00, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Bruno Braquehais' photography of the 1871 Paris Commune (example pictured) is considered an important early example of photojournalism?
... that the Otis Redding and Carla Thomas album King & Queen was Redding's first duet album, and the last studio album he recorded before his death?
... that pitcher Justin Pope broke Roger Clemens' college baseball record of 35 consecutive scoreless innings?
... that the masterpiece painting Battle of Grunwald by Jan Matejko was among the most wanted artifacts that Nazi Germany planned to destroy?
... that British midwife and bestselling author Jennifer Worth criticized Mike Leigh's 2004 film Vera Drake for depicting an "invariably fatal" method of abortion as quick and painless for women?
... that Bonfire helped Anky van Grunsven win three Olympic gold medals?

08:00, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

... that silleros (pictured) carried European travelers across the Quindío pass in the Colombian Andes in wickerwork chairs mounted on their backs?
... that the theft of the Sforza Hours is one of the earliest recorded examples of art theft in the Italian Renaissance?
... that Olympic shooter Arthur Jackson turned down a position as head of promotions at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company so that he could continue competing in shooting tournaments?
... that due to licensing issues, the 1985 video game Blade Runner was based on the movie soundtrack by Vangelis rather than on Blade Runner itself?
... that Sjumandjaja was the first Indonesian to attend the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography and the first non-Russian to graduate summa cum laude?
... that Jacksonville's Catholic-affiliated St. Vincent's HealthCare merged with Baptist Health in 1995 to cut costs by $100 million, but the organizations separated in 2000?

00:00, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Sinan Reis, a Sephardi Jewish pirate and Barbary corsair whose family was expelled from Spain in 1492, helped Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa defeat the Spanish at the 1538 Battle of Preveza (pictured)?
... that The Doobie Brothers' single "Minute by Minute" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Song of the Year but lost to the band's prior single, "What a Fool Believes"?
... that Negro league baseball stars Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and Oscar Charleston each played in Cuba for the Leopardos de Santa Clara?
... that the village of Poljance was mentioned in the Dečani decree, dating to 1330, issued by Serbian King Stephen Uroš III?
... that Hungarian Realist painter Tivadar Zemplényi was awarded a silver medal at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair?
... that in 1812, the British government temporarily made the crime of machine-breaking punishable by death despite Parliament having rejected the same suggestion in 1788?

23 February 2012

16:00, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

... that William Hiseland (pictured), the last survivor of the Battle of Edgehill, also fought at Malplaquet sixty-seven years later?
... that the Beirut-based actor and visual artist Rabih Mroué had to premiere a piece in Tokyo because it was banned at home?
... that New Jersey Assemblyman Gregory P. McGuckin is the son of the first directly elected mayor of Brick Township, New Jersey?
... that Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, Maya Angelou's first book of essays, has been called one of her "wisdom books"?
... that French paleontologist Charles Lamberton scathingly rebutted a theory claiming that some extinct, giant lemurs were aquatic and that one of them was an "arboreal-aquatic acrobat"?
... that the tragic end of Raj Kapoor's film Aah (1953) was changed to a happy one after the film's release?

08:00, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the second ship of the Japanese Ibuki class of heavy cruisers (pictured) was scrapped less than a month after she was laid down in order to clear her slipway for an aircraft carrier?
... that Indonesian author Kuntowijoyo said he did not follow a blueprint when writing?
... that Animal Justice Party, federally registered in May 2011, is the first Australian political party dedicated to animal rights issues?
... that the racehorse Sir Peter Teazle was the first winner of the Derby Stakes to sire another winning colt of the race, siring Sir Harry, Archduke, Ditto and Paris?
... that a Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court was removed from office for not removing a granite monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery, Alabama?
... that small shells of Trigonoconcha are triangular?

00:00, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Sir Peter Lely's depiction of naval officer Sir Jeremiah Smith (pictured) has been called "one of the finest portraits of the age"?
... that Benito Mussolini admitted that one of the causes of the Italian defeat at the Battle of Himara was the high morale of the Greek troops?
... that prosimian primates like lemurs and slow lorises have a "second tongue" called a sublingua, which they use to clean their toothcomb?
... that the Samut Prakan radiation accident resulted from old teletherapy heads left lying around in a car park?
... that unlike all modern Thoroughbreds, the 1785 Derby winner Aimwell was not descended in the male line from either the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian, or the Byerley Turk?
... that findings of Cylindroteuthis and other belemnites in Greenland suggest that an early form of the Gulf Stream existed as early as the Valanginian (Early Cretaceous)?

22 February 2012

16:00, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Adolf Carl Noé challenged disbelief in the possibility of North American coal balls (example pictured) by presenting a wheelbarrow full of them?
... that in 1784, the racehorse Serjeant had to run half a mile more than the previous winner, Saltram, in order to win the Derby Stakes?
... that Theological College, a Roman Catholic seminary in Washington, D.C., educates seminarians from over 30 dioceses around the world?
... that according to The New York Times, the "overwhelmingly young" Local Coordination Committees of Syria are starting to "emerge as a pivotal force" in Syria?
... that Rhodesian soccer captain Bobby Chalmers, a white man, was assisted in his leadership of the mostly black national team by his proficiency in both Ndebele and Shona?
... that a cluster of streets in Jerusalem's Mekor Baruch neighborhood are named after the Maccabees, heroes of the Hanukkah story?

07:45, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake caused Hebgen Lake, near Yellowstone National Park, to recede 22 feet (6.7 m), leaving a wide gravel beach along the lakefront of Lonesomehurst Cabin (pictured)?
... that attackers broke the legs and hands of journalist Tipu Sultan after he implicated a Bangladeshi MP in an arson attack on a girls' school?
... that Edna Clarke Hall's many drawings and prints based on Wuthering Heights reflected the artist's own periods of emotional crisis?
... that the 2012 special election in Zambales' 2nd district was contested by members of three political families in the Philippines?
... that Jordy Mercer and Matt Hague have been baseball teammates in college and the minor leagues since 2008, as both attended Oklahoma State and were drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates?
... that a Skyscraper won the Epsom Derby of 1789?

21 February 2012

23:30, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the Hook and Ladder No. 4 (pictured) fire station in Albany, New York, is one of the few Dutch Colonial Revival buildings in the city?
... that Walter D'Arcy Ryan was the first to illuminate the whole of Niagara Falls and also the first to illuminate an entire skyscraper, the Singer Building?
... that although Hasan Dosti initially served as Minister of Justice of the quisling government of Albania during WWII he later joined the resistance movement?
... that upon its incorporation of classical studies in 1820, Romney Academy became one of the earliest institutions of higher education in the South Branch Potomac region of present-day West Virginia?
... that a slave found liable for the manifest form of the Roman delict of furtum ("theft") could be thrown from the Tarpeian Rock?
... that the extinct Argentinian bivalve Cuyopsis symmetricus was named for the symmetry of its rectangular shells?

15:15, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the 1815 Derby winner Whisker (pictured) was said to be "as near perfection as a horse could be"?
... that from 1942 Oliver H. Langeland, and from 1944 to 1945 Lorentz Brinch was in command of D13, a Milorg district with about 7,000 soldiers behind German lines in occupied Norway at the end of World War II?
... that Iznik-tiled lunette panels believed to have been removed from Istanbul's Piyale Pasha Mosque in the 19th century are currently on display in various museums such as the Louvre and the V&A?
... that OK Go band member Damian Kulash was trained in stunt driving for the making of the music video for "Needing/Getting"?
... that following the 2011 Libyan civil war, many Tuareg fighters for the defeated government became members of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, seeking an independent Azawad?
... that Albert Kirchner, who made many pornographic films, was the first filmmaker to direct a film about the life of Christ?

07:00, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

... that steel produced at Govăjdia (furnace pictured) and at Reşiţa in present-day Romania was used in the building of the Eiffel Tower?
... that Spanish character actor José Manuel Martín starred in one of the earliest Spaghetti Westerns, Savage Guns (1961), and went on to become one of the most prolific villains of the genre?
... that the bivalve mollusc Laternula elliptica was collected and first described on an expedition that included HMS Beagle?
... that Pedro Dibut was one of several white Cubans who played baseball in both the Negro leagues and the major leagues before integration?
... that Am Abend, a 1910 German film, was one of the earliest pornographic films?
... that actor Gerald Anthony was called "daytime's answer to Al Pacino" for his portrayal of fictional character Marco Dane on the American soap opera, One Life to Live?

20 February 2012

22:45, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the statue of Nelson Mandela (pictured) located in Parliament Square was originally intended to be placed in Trafalgar Square, home to Nelson's Column?
... that with his team HIT Gorica, football manager Edin Osmanović was runner up in the Liga Simobil Vodafone and Slovenian Football Cup and participated in the UEFA Cup?
... that the crinite mariposa lily is found only on serpentine soils of the Klamath Mountains in Douglas County, Oregon?
... that German illustrator Günther Strupp survived Nazi imprisonment and became a contributor to Ulenspiegel, a magazine created by two other survivors?
... that the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory conducts scientific research on design and control of a class of robotic systems worn or operated by humans?
... that Raising Hope creator Greg Garcia created a fake Twitter account and pretended to be actor Lucas Neff as a practical joke?

14:30, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the Great Mosque of Central Java (pictured) has six hydraulic umbrellas to represent the six tenets of iman?
... that Douglas W. Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History has overseen the forensic examination of over 10,000 human remains from over an 8,000-year time span?
... that György Zala's statue of the Archangel Gabriel won a "Grand Prix" at the Paris Exhibition of 1900?
... that the Ordovician age bivalve Villicumia has overlapping teeth seen in few other bivalves?
... that although the Treaty of Wallingford in 1153 required Roger de Bussy to give up Oxford Castle to King Henry II of England, it is not clear if de Bussy had control of the castle?
... that Lawyers for Liberty of Malaysia are trying to save Hamza Kashgari from being executed in Saudi Arabia for three allegedly blasphemous tweets?

06:15, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Brookesia micra (pictured on a match head) is the smallest known chameleon?
... that in the 1930s, James Herman Robinson, who later founded Operation Crossroads Africa, was chased by a lynch mob after encouraging African American churchgoers to vote?
... that the 1981 general strike in Bielsko-Biała in Poland forced several officials to lose their jobs?
... that members of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors include United Kingdom's most experienced and successful songwriters like Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney and Elton John?
... that the work of the Italian American theater architect Eugene De Rosa includes The Broadway Theatre, built in 1924?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Moestopo convinced his soldiers to use manure-covered bamboo spears and eat cats?

19 February 2012

22:00, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

... that a trumpet appears in movement 4 of the Bach cantata Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott, BWV 127 in a "grand, tableau-like evocation of the Last Judgement" (pictured)?
... that Jack le Goff has been called "one of the greatest coaches in three-day eventing history", as he built a multiple-medal-winning team from previously unknown horses and riders?
... that White Heat by Marco Pierre White was described by one critic as "possibly the most influential recipe book of the last 20 years"?
... that current Australian Institute of Sport players Tessa Lavey and Olivia Thompson both competed at the 2009 FIBA Under-17 World Championship?
... that "Sucker M.C.'s" was the B-side of the first single by Run–D.M.C.?
... that, while running against him for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, Levi L. Lamborn gave William McKinley a red carnation, which became McKinley's good-luck charm for the rest of his life?

13:45, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the wreck of the SS Port Nicholson, a British merchant ship sunk in 1942 by U-87, (pictured) is reported to contain £2 billion worth of precious metals?
... that Fadhila Mubarak was arrested by Bahraini police after approaching a checkpoint with "pro-revolutionary" music playing from her car?
... that Russ Oliver, dubbed the "second Red Grange" at age 16, was the fourth University of Michigan athlete to win nine varsity letters in three major sports?
... that Ron Gilbert, the creator of the Monkey Island video game series, told Wired that he was an addict of the iPhone and Android video game Game Dev Story?
... that a portion of the song "Make Your Move" by the Christian rock band Third Day was used during the 2010 football game between Alabama and Penn State?
... that New Zealand politician William Thomson was "portly in presence and strong in voice, [and] could both be seen and [be] heard"?

05:30, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Deptford Dockyard (pictured) built and refitted ships for Cook, Vancouver, Bligh and Nelson, Drake was knighted there and Peter the Great was a visitor?
... that Caligula, "enflamed with lust", tried to detach wall paintings of Atalanta and Helen of Troy?
... that Turret 18B of Hadrian's Wall may have functioned as a workshop for the repair of shoes?
... that Fuahea Semi, a luger who sought to be the first Tongan at the Winter Olympic Games, used the name of a lingerie firm for more than two years?
... that the ISNSCE's Tulip Award in DNA Computing was first given in Leiden, whose botanical garden is known as the birthplace of the tulip culture in the Netherlands?
... that Delray Brooks co-founded a professional basketball team?

18 February 2012

21:15, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Paul Davidson (pictured) produced thirty-nine movies directed by Ernst Lubitsch?
... that the racehorse Noble won the 1786 Derby Stakes despite 30/1 odds against him?
... that the title track of Otis Redding's Pain in My Heart was accused of being a copyright infringement due to similarities with Irma Thomas' "Ruler of My Heart"?
... that the Serbs of Kosovo held a non-binding referendum in which they rejected the Republic of Kosovo's authority in north Kosovo?
... that juvenile Graeffe's sea cucumbers mimic the bright colouring of the sea slug Phyllidia varicosa, which is toxic?
... that footballer Radim Nečas became the most expensive player in Czechoslovakia when Slavia Prague signed him for 25 million Czechoslovak koruna in 1992?

13:00, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Russian Antarctic research stations Vostok and Mirny are named after the sloops-of-war Vostok and Mirny (pictured) sailed by Bellingshausen and Lazarev, the discoverers of Antarctica?
... that the legal case pursued by Adolf Grimme, Greta Kuckhoff and Günther Weisenborn against the Nazi judge who sentenced them dragged on for more than a decade, only to be dropped by the public prosecutor?
... that the writer of the Glee episode "On My Way" wrote "The First Time" first?
... that despite entering York City's team after the start of the 1983–84 season, Alan Pearce played 18 times that season for the side that won the Fourth Division?
... that although the Peshtigo Reef Light incorporates a keeper's dwelling, it has never been permanently manned?
... that botanist Reidar Jørgensen was a national champion in middle distance running?

05:10, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Berlin's Theater des Westens (pictured) was the stage for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with Anna Pavlova, the premiere of Henze's opera König Hirsch, and the premiere in German of My Fair Lady?
... that Igor Sikorsky told the Wings Club in 1964 that the helicopter would not be replaced by vertical take-off and landing aircraft?
... that the West Cornwall Bryophytes Site of Special Scientific Interest is one of only three sites in the British Isles where the rare liverwort Cephaloziella integerrima can be found?
... that the bark of Acacia reficiens is used to curdle milk, and its thorns used to pierce ears in the Kaokoveld region of Namibia?
... that actor and model Jan Uddin, best known for his role in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Jalil Iqbal, was beaten by his father, who also refused to let him watch television or read books?
... that the outdoor spaces of Zeckendorf Towers make up the largest residential green roof in New York?
... that the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas, is devoted to the creator of Conan the Barbarian?

17 February 2012

20:10, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Russian geographer Andrey Kapitsa, discoverer of the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica (pictured), was a son of Pyotr Kapitsa, a Nobel Physics laureate known for low temperature research?
... that the 1982 Apple II game Bolo was praised in 2010 for its "surprisingly nice AI enemies"?
... that Miikka Kiprusoff became the 27th goaltender in National Hockey League history to win 300 games, reaching the milestone on February 8, 2012?
... that Édouard Joseph Dantan was only 19 when he won a commission for a large religious mural?
... that Jon Hunter Spence, author of the 2003 book Becoming Jane Austen, was born in the U.S. state of Georgia but died an Australian citizen?
... that Polybius henslowii has more swimming legs than other swimming crabs?
... that the Missouri School for the Blind was the first school in the United States to adopt the Braille system?

08:00, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

... that in 420 BC, Herodotus claimed Nile crocodiles had a cleaning symbiosis with a bird (pictured)?
... that Ohio attorney William A. Lynch once tried a case with a future Supreme Court justice as co-counsel and a future U.S. President as opposing counsel?
... that in nine years of circulation, Indonesian literary magazine Poedjangga Baroe had 125 employees or contributors but never more than 150 subscribers?
... that the Millennium Park Bus Depot in Delhi overtook the Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv to become the largest bus station in the world?
... that English filmmaker Greta Schiller directed the 1976 short film Greta's Girls which is one of the first documentaries that focuses on lesbians?
... that after the Krejci Dump became part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area in Ohio, the National Park Service discovered the land qualified for Superfund cleanup?
... that in 1896, one newspaper described Charles Dashwood as 'the personification of kindness in his dealing with aborigines'?

00:00, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the Port Washington Light (pictured) was restored with the assistance of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg?
... that the video game Dustforce won the $100,000 Independent Game Developers prize at the 2010 GDC Online conference?
... that editor Pap Saine was imprisoned for sedition after criticizing the Gambian government response to the murder of his co-editor and childhood friend?
... that in 1821, Gustavus became the first of four grey horses to win the Derby Stakes?
... that English photographer Alfred Horsley Hinton, a staunch defender of pictorialism, was once called a "slimy snake" by the American Edward Steichen?
... that the Russian R-29RMU2 Layner submarine-launched ballistic missile is claimed to be the best missile of its type in the world?
... that the Aquasar supercomputer architecture uses the heat it generates to warm a university campus?

16 February 2012

16:00, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the Cranberry Creek Archeological District (pictured) contains several hundred ancient American Indian burial mounds?
... that Sir Thomas, a racehorse purchased by George, Prince of Wales, became the first horse owned by a member of the British Royal Family to win the Derby Stakes?
... that the chemistry between Slamet Rahardjo and Christine Hakim was chosen as the second best in Indonesian cinema?
... that Muddy Waters' Folk Singer has been described as one of the few "blues albums that qualify as audiophile recordings"?
... that journalist Musa Muradov was once trapped in a basement for 14 days by damage from an artillery shell?
... that although Paul Kelly's 1985 first solo single "From St Kilda to Kings Cross" did not chart it was included in "Top 20 Sydney Songs" and "Top 25 Melbourne Songs"?
... that the hairy sea cucumber can eject its internal organs to confuse and deter predators?

08:00, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the Duke of Wellington was almost kicked in the head by his war horse Copenhagen (pictured) after riding the horse for 17 straight hours during the Battle of Waterloo?
... that the greatest number of known species of marine fungi are found growing on mangroves including Api Api Putih and Bakau Putih?
... that the developers of Double Fine Happy Action Theater incorporated new game behavior in response to watching children play with their augmented reality game?
... that the ballad "Born Again" by the Christian rock band Third Day features vocals from Lacey Mosley of the alternative metal band Flyleaf?
... that St. Vincent's Medical Center Southside, founded as St. Luke's Hospital in 1873, began in a rented, two-room farmhouse in Jacksonville, Florida?
... that the six-rayed star often has to compete with the larger ochre starfish for food?
... that Don Barksdale became the first African American basketball player to play in the NBA All-Star Game after he was selected to play in the 1953 game?

00:00, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Sir John Hill was tasked with preparing HMS Temeraire for sale and disposal, an event depicted by J. M. W. Turner in The Fighting Temeraire (pictured)?
... that the first parabolic ski, the Elan SCX, was initially dismissed as a fad but today is considered a major design breakthrough?
... that Warren Campbell is one of three Australian rules footballers in South Fremantle's 1997 Westar Rules Grand Final winning team who had a father or uncle play in South's previous premiership win in the 1980 WAFL Grand Final?
... that Grand-Am regulars John Pew and Oswaldo Negri teamed with NASCAR driver A. J. Allmendinger and IndyCar driver Justin Wilson to win the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race?
... that the Israeli city of Netanya and Jerusalem’s Straus Street were both named in honor of an owner of Macy's department store?
... that rookie cheerleaders from the Jacksonville Roar earn less than $100 for each Jaguars game?
... that former American football player Tony Dauksza in 1971 became the first person to traverse the Northwest Passage in anything other than a ship, completing the journey by himself in a canoe?

15 February 2012

16:00, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

... that according to Russian sociologist Daria Khaltourina (pictured), Protestantism positively influenced the capitalist development of social systems through the promotion of literacy and Bible reading?
... that the fourth Rebbe of Radomsk, founder of a network of 36 Hasidic yeshivas in pre-war Poland, paid for the education of over 4,000 students out of his own pocket?
... that the Marlow, Buckinghamshire gastropub, The Hand and Flowers, owned by chef Tom Kerridge, is the first pub to receive 2 Michelin Stars?
... that the Pallava ruler Narasimhavarman I assumed the title "Vatapi-kondan" or "taker of Vatapi" after his victory in the Battle of Vatapi against the Chalukya king Pulakesin II in 642?
... that, starting in 1989, Selena's brother A.B. Quintanilla III was the main songwriter for her songs?
... that the extinct incense-cedar Calocedrus huashanensis is one of only three conifers found in the Ningming Formation?
... that the remains of moats, mottes and a moot are among the 27 scheduled monuments in Maidstone, England?

08:05, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Columnea consanguinea (pictured) have translucent red heart-shaped markings on their leaves to attract hummingbirds?
... that Arizona Territorial Governor Joseph Henry Kibbey preferred to be addressed by the title "judge"?
... that the White Horse Pagoda, Dunhuang, was built to commemorate "Tianliu", the white horse of the monk Kumārajīva, which carried Buddhist scriptures all the way from Kucha to Dunhuang in China?
... that As the World Turns heroine Ellen Lowell was the first major character in any serial to have an illegitimate child?
... that Zainal Mustafa, a National Hero of Indonesia, died in 1944, yet his family did not learn of it until 26 years later?
... that a childhood desire to know truth led Steve Hagen to Zen Buddhism?
... that when "Who's That Chick?" debuted at number nine on the UK Singles Chart, Rihanna became only the fourth act in UK chart history to have at least three songs in the top ten of the UK Singles Chart?

00:20, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Arizona Territorial Governor Richard Elihu Sloan (pictured) had the legal authority to make appropriations and levy taxes without legislative approval?
... that Liverpool charity Bradbury Fields runs a club for blind people to ride tandem bicycles?
... that pairs of figures personifying the Church and the Synagogue are found in Christian Medieval art?
... that the name Pachylemur, now used for a type of extinct giant lemur, was first used as group name of primitive primates once considered intermediate between pachyderms and lemurs?
... that Big Nose Kate, who claimed to have witnessed the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, spent her final years at the Arizona Pioneers' Home?
... that despite reaching the 1985 Football League Cup Final, both Norwich and Sunderland were relegated from the First Division at the end of that season?
... that the names of numbers in Georgian are constructed in part using a base-20 system?

14 February 2012

16:35, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the 1885 watercolor painting Love's Messenger (pictured) shows several symbols of "beauty, love, and abundance of Venus and the sensuality and unpredictability of her son Cupid"?
... that the ESPN Rise boys' high school basketball All-American team was formerly known as the EA Sports All-American team?
... that after a close finish at the 1808 Derby Stakes, the owners of the second, third and fourth placed horses all challenged the winner, Pan, to match races?
... that the peachleaf willow was used in traditional Eskimo medicine to treat skin sores and watery eyes?
... that English poet and heritage campaigner Sir John Betjeman described the 15th-century Harmondsworth Great Barn as the "Cathedral of Middlesex"?
... that A Free Ride is considered to be the earliest surviving American hardcore pornographic film?
... that Canterbury Cricket Week is the oldest cricket festival week in England?

08:35, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

... that The Flower Book, an album of watercolors by Edward Burne-Jones (example pictured), does not contain any paintings of flowers?
... that a live concert performance of the Third Day song "Lift Up Your Face" was released along with the rest of the concert to benefit 2011 Joplin Tornado relief for Joplin, Missouri?
... that current Australian Institute of Sport player Sara Blicavs is testing a sport bra for Berlei?
... that Henry Seymour was a secularist and anarchist who introduced the Edison Disc record to England in 1913?
... that in the Oval Office, George H. W. Bush used the C&O desk instead of the Resolute desk during his presidential term?
... that hip hop artist Run-D.M.C. performed their first paying gig at the Disco Fever nightclub in the Bronx?
... that the crab Dyspanopeus sayi may have lived in the Venetian Lagoon for 15 years before it was discovered?

00:00, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the gooseneck barnacle Pollicipes polymerus (several pictured) will become sterile if there are no others within 20 cm (8 in)?
... that Calais came to be called the "brightest jewel in the English crown" owing to its great importance as the gateway for the tin, lead, cloth and wool trades?
... that when judges could not agree the winner of the Best in Show title at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 1921, a referee gave the prize to the Cocker Spaniel Midkiff Seductive?
... that the German cellist Robert Hausmann was the dedicatee and first performer of both Bruch's Kol Nidrei and Brahms's Double Concerto in A minor?
... that the song "Call My Name" by Christian rock band Third Day was covered by country singer Keith Urban?
... that Josh Bell received a US$5 million signing bonus, a record for a player chosen in the second round of the Major League Baseball Draft?
... that one Sam rode another to victory at the 1818 Derby?

13 February 2012

16:00, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

... that art showing a fainting Virgin Mary (example illustrated) became less common in the 16th century, after attacks by theologians?
... that the flat-headed crocodilian relative Aegisuchus had a circular projection on top of its skull that may have served as an eyespot in mating displays?
... that between 1968 and 1971 English non-league football team Sutton Athletic F.C. won three successive promotions whilst also winning three successive league cups?
... that Adelbert Theodor Wangemann recorded the voice of Helmuth von Moltke in 1890, the only known recording of someone born in the 18th century?
... that Jonathan Harvey visited Chamonix to sample a thunderclap for use in his opera Wagner Dream?
... that Queen Elizabeth II has owned more than 30 descendants of her first Corgi Susan?
... that in 1968, the German artist Bazon Brock created a sign in the style of a high voltage warning saying "der Tod muß abgeschafft werden ..." ("death must be abolished ...")?

08:10, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

... that girih tiling patterns used by medieval Islamic artisans (example pictured) in some cases exhibited quasicrystalline tiling, five centuries before Penrose tilings were discovered in Europe?
... that Sangay, a stratovolcano in Ecuador nicknamed The Frightener in Quechua, has been continuously erupting since 1934?
... that after being a major part of Baku in most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the city's Armenian population almost completely disappeared due to a pogrom in 1990?
... that Cuban journalist Yndamiro Restano Díaz was reportedly released from prison at the request of Danielle Mitterand, the wife of the former President of France?
... that adult Megaphragma mymaripenne wasps are only 200 micrometres long, similar in size to single-celled organisms?
... that the Airedale Terrier Boxwood Barkentine won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in his very first show as an adult?
... that the 1923 Michigan football team's undefeated season was saved when Edliff Slaughter executed what Fielding Yost called "the greatest play in football I ever saw"?

00:25, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

... that during his 1838 Lyceum address, Abraham Lincoln (pictured) warned of a tyrant overtaking the United States from within?
... that the Bach cantata for Sexagesima, Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister, BWV 181, ends in a chorus of "madrigalian lightness and delicacy perfectly appropriate to the joyous message of the parable"?
... that in 1800, Champion became the first racehorse to win both the Derby and the St. Leger Stakes?
... that Samar Badawi and Manal al-Sharif are suing Saudi authorities for rejecting their driving licence applications?
... that the Stone Bridge at Regensburg, probably built in 1135–46, was the city's only bridge across the Danube for about 800 years?
... that footballer Andy Flynn played in all of York City's seven FA Cup games in the 1926–27 season, as the team reached the competition's first round for the first time?
... that Blondie, B.C., and Hägar the Horrible are all zombies?

12 February 2012

16:40, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

... that George Peter Alexander Healy's portrait Abraham Lincoln (pictured) was based on his earlier work, The Peacemakers?
... that during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, Indian pilots landed Dakota aircraft at Poonch Airport during the night with the help of oil lamps in the absence of any landing aids?
... that the USNS Montford Point, a Mobile Landing Platform, will be a pier at sea for the United States Navy once it enters service in 2015?
... that India has 53 urban agglomerations with a population of one million or more as of 2011 against 35 in 2001?
... that the only state legislator in Missouri or Illinois to condemn the burning of Francis McIntosh in 1836 was Abraham Lincoln?
... that Phantom, the 1811 winner of the Derby Stakes and the leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1820 and 1824, covered a half-sister to produce Cedric, the winner of the 1824 Derby?
... that Japanese skeleton shrimp are invading the coastlines of North America, Europe, and New Zealand?

08:40, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the "You meet the nicest people on a Honda" ad campaign established Honda's brand image in the US and helped the Super Cub (pictured) become the top-selling motor vehicle in history?
... that the castellan of Sati refused to allow Venetians to capture it after Balša II ceded it to the Venetian Republic in 1395?
... that Shiawase no Pan was the tenth highest-grossing film in Japan between 28 and 29 January 2012, despite being released in only 47 cinemas?
... that the former Spa Road railway station, opened in 1836, was London's first railway terminus?
... that according to critic Roger Ebert, Private School reflected a trend of "anti-woman" films?
... that Joseph Clarkson Maddison's designs took both first and second place in a contest to design Christchurch Town Hall?
... that Revelation, the tenth studio album by the Christian rock band Third Day, was produced by Howard Benson, a Jew?

00:25, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

... that in Mexico's Lagunas de Montebello National Park (pictured) there are ancient Maya ruins next to 59 lakes whose colors range from emerald and turquoise to purple and reddish black?
... that French actress-singer Alice Delysia made her career on the London stage, giving each English line "a sparkle seven times its own"?
... that a distilled beverage – Smirnoff vodka – was featured in an American television commercial for the first time in decades in a spot produced by The Glover Park Group?
... that Jon Weber played on four consecutive minor league baseball championship teams?
... that the extinct bivalve subfamily Praenuculinae can be told apart from its sister subfamily by looking at teeth?
... that American poet Peter Filkins was the first to translate Czech writer H. G. Adler's novels, described by The New Yorker as "modernist masterpieces", into English?
... that the King and Queen pub in Brighton, the Clayton & Black firm's Mock Tudor "pantomime", has hosted Miss Miniskirt competitions and Margaret Thatcher?

11 February 2012

16:40, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Richard Childress Racing driver Tim George, Jr. (pictured) was originally a professional chef?
... that attendance at meetings of New York's Albany Institute declined in the 1830s because members were bored by papers presented by the group's meteorologist?
... that Russian submarine B-585 Saint Petersburg was launched on the 300th anniversary of the Russian city of Saint Petersburg?
... that Captain America in: The Doom Tube of Dr. Megalomann was the first appearance of Captain America in a video game?
... that the clawless lobster Tricarina is known from a single fossil, obtained from an oil well 3,852 m (12,638 ft) below ground in western Iran?
... that Queens Park Rangers came from two goals down at half time in the 1967 Football League Cup Final to eventually win with a goal scored by Mark Lazarus?
... that King Gustav III of Sweden, in an experiment, commuted the death sentences of a pair of twins on the condition that one drank 3 pots of coffee, and the other tea, every day for the rest of their lives?

08:55, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

... that for an International Horse Show the fox hunting author William Fawcett (pictured) produced "The Moonlight Steeplechase", an event based on the engravings of Henry Alken?
... that Buenos Aires seceded from the Argentine Confederation from 1852 to 1861?
... that Downing Hall was once the home of naturalist Thomas Pennant, who described it as being "incapable of being improved into a magnitude exceeding the revenue of the family"?
... that Gerardo Concepción won the 2010–11 Cuban National Series Rookie of the Year Award?
... that tartar emetic is used to induce vomiting in birds to determine their diet?
... that the medieval royal official Herbert of Winchester is likely the same person as "H.", who tried to assassinate King Henry I of England in 1118 and was blinded and castrated in punishment?
... that the racehorse Azor won the 1817 Derby Stakes after being entered in the race only to act as a pacemaker for a more highly regarded stable companion?

01:10, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

... that while the Blue Ridge blueberry can be used for pies and jelly, the shiny blueberry (pictured) was used by the Seminole to treat "hog sickness"?
... that lumber magnate Theodore B. Basselin willed most of his fortune to The Catholic University of America to create a scholarship for young men studying for the Catholic priesthood?
... that North Korea competed in an international sporting event hosted by South Korea for the first time in 2002?
... that the Malahat, a 246-foot (75 m) sailing ship, delivered more illegal liquor during Prohibition than any other rum-runner?
... that after Lord Grosvenor's Rhadamanthus and John Bull won the Derby Stakes in 1790 and 1792, only three horses showed up in 1794 to run against and lose to his Daedalus in the smallest field in Derby history?
... that neighbors of the Hastings Prototype House in New York compared its Moderne appearance to an appliance?
... that Carina Vance Mafla's campaign to shut down "torture clinics" that try to turn lesbians straight began years before she was appointed Ecuador's Minister for Public Health?

10 February 2012

17:25, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the development of Danish sculpture was greatly influenced by Jacques Saly, a Frenchman, who designed the statue (pictured) of King Frederick V?
... that Olympic bronze medalist John Russell was a member of the United States' last military delegation to equestrian at the Summer Olympics as well as its first civilian one?
... that in a 1998 case the Singapore Court of Appeal held the Internal Security Act contained no precedent facts as Parliament clearly intended that detention decisions were to be made by the Government?
... that the Archives of American Gardens holds images and records of over 6,350 United States gardens, many of which were collected by the Garden Club of America in the 1920s?
... that Lydd Town F.C. were promoted after winning their league five times in a row?
... that Eugene Eisenmann worked as a lawyer before writing The Species of Middle American Birds for the Linnaean Society of New York?
... that although the title of the postwar satirical journal Ulenspiegel means "owl mirror" in High German, in Low German it means "kiss my behind"?

09:20, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the cargo ship MV Delta Mariner (pictured), which struck a bridge over the Tennessee River in January 2012, transports rocket parts from the manufacturer in Alabama to Cape Canaveral?
... that the racehorses Assassin, Hannibal, Cardinal Beaufort, Election and Lap-dog won the Derby Stakes in 1782, 1804, 1805, 1807 and 1826 respectively, making the 3rd Earl of Egremont the first-ever owner of five Derby winners?
... that five years after winning a Military Cross for "conspicuous gallantry" in the Great War, Roy Royston was playing leading man on stage in Little Nellie Kelly?
... that the eight-century-old Xinye Village is acclaimed as China's largest open-air museum of ancient residences?
... that Larry Jeffries was twice named the Southland Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year while playing for the Trinity Tigers?
... that Caesar led the funeral procession of King Edward VII, ahead of nine kings and a number of other heads of state?

01:35, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the rock scallop (pictured) has an orange mantle and blue eyes?
... that 76-year-old Muslim rocker Laila Sari performs in a headscarf?
... that the Darmstadt Windspiel, a German sailplane which set a 1934 world distance record, was silk covered and weighed less than its pilots?
... that Rhino made his surprise debut for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling at their 2005 No Surrender pay-per-view event?
... that among the displays at the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition in Kristiania were locomotives, a farm, an African village and a ski collection?
... that the Adriatic Sea receives one third of freshwater flowing into the Mediterranean?
... that Don Eigler shared the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for using a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange 35 xenon atoms to spell out the letters "IBM"?

9 February 2012

17:50, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

... that since Lange's 1962 invention of the first plastic ski boots (example pictured), they have been on the feet of five times as many World Cup medal winners as any other brand?
... that Russian Presidential press attaché Natalya Timakova, rated the third most powerful woman in Russian politics in 2011, allowed Wikipedia to use materials from the Presidential website Kremlin.ru?
... that the prototype of the Kaproni Bulgarski KB-11 Fazan, a Bulgarian Army liaison aircraft of World War II, was nicknamed "Quasimodo"?
... that due to a dead heat, the racehorse Cadland had to run twice to win the 1828 Derby Stakes?
... that journalist Freedom Neruda was imprisoned in 1996 for satirizing the Ivorian President and was named one of the "50 World Press Freedom Heroes" in 2000?
... that a broken right ankle prevented Earl Belcher from playing in the NBA, and he is now a professional jazz musician?
... that the Muscogee people rubbed moistened tramp's trouble on their faces to enhance their youthfulness?

10:05, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

... that ablaq is an Arabic term for the use in stonework of alternating or fluctuating rows of light and dark color stone (pictured)?
... that the Overmyer-Waggoner-Roush Farm near Lindsey included a tree farm at a time when most Ohio farmers saw woodlots as nuisances?
... that Shieh Chung-liang was sued for libel after reporting that Taiwan's Kuomintang political party had offered a donation to Bill Clinton's re-election campaign?
... that Michael Choice is the first University of Texas at Arlington baseball player to be drafted in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft?
... that the Umayyad defeat in the "Day of Thirst" led to the almost complete loss of Muslim control over Transoxiana over a period of fifteen years?
... that journalist Pavel Sheremet triggered a "public row" between Belarus and Russia by hopping a border fence?

02:20, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

... that in June 1956, the British submarine HMS Telemachus (pictured) briefly went missing during a hydrographic survey off the coast of the Australian Antarctic Territory?
... that the Zuihō class aircraft carriers were originally built as submarine tenders which could be converted into light aircraft carriers or fleet oilers?
... that the first uterus transplant in the world with an organ taken from a cadaver was performed by Dr. Ömer Özkan and his team at the Akdeniz University?
... that the New Zealand Anglican clergyman William Orange amassed a library of 15,000 titles during his life?
... that in humans, 1-lysolecithin can be hydrolyzed by at least ten different enzymes?
... that Mildred Lewis Rutherford thought that the only problem with slavery was the burden it placed on white slaveholders?

8 February 2012

16:00, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

... that a hacker tried to hold journalist Rowenna Davis' (pictured) email account for ransom?
... that Ekso Bionics develop intelligent exoskeletons that can be strapped on as wearable robots, and can enhance the strength, mobility, and endurance of soldiers and paraplegics?
... that following the death of Samir Ghawshah, Ahmed Majdalani succeeded him as secretary-general of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front?
... that the setting for the children's show The Adventures of Abney & Teal was inspired by Victoria Park, London?
... that the commotion following the racehorse Smolensko's victory at the 1813 Derby Stakes resulted in an overthrown phaeton and a broken arm amongst the spectators?
... that Nazi Germany gave newlyweds interest-free loans that were forgiven if the couple had four children?
... that according to legend, Robert Kirk was taken to fairyland for revealing the secrets of the Good People?

08:00, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the Malloch Building (pictured) was used to represent Lauren Bacall's apartment in a film with Humphrey Bogart?
... that Tuhama Ma'rouf of the Syrian Communist Labour Party was designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International after her arrest in February 2011?
... that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Balecium still exists although Baleč was destroyed in the 15th century?
... that eleven of journalist Ignacio Gómez's colleagues at El Espectador were murdered in the first fourteen years of his career?
... that Sandi Patty has won more GMA Dove Awards for Vocalist of the Year than anyone else?
... that the son of Hans Dessauer, a coloured paper manufacturer in Aschaffenburg, left Germany in 1929, changed his name to John H. Dessauer and wrote the book My Years with Xerox, The Billions Nobody Wanted?
... that thiophosphoryl fluoride ignites spontaneously in air, but burns too cold to hurt anyone?

00:00, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the woodcuts of modernist printmaker Blanche Lazzell (pictured) were influenced by ukiyo-e?
... that the largest of the 67 Petit & Fritsen cast bells of the Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon weighs 15,000 pounds (6,800 kg)?
... that Robert Runyon photographed significant events of the Mexican Revolution, discovered several new plant species, and was mayor of Brownsville, Texas?
... that by winning the 2011–12 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters became the first team in 27 years to successfully defend an All-Filipino Championship?
... that Jineth Bedoya Lima was abducted, tortured, and raped following her reporting on Colombian paramilitary groups?
... that members of the extinct bivalve genus Hemiconcavodonta are unique in the subfamily Concavodontinae in that their teeth point in two directions?
... that Christmas Gift Evans House was not a Christmas gift?

7 February 2012

16:00, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

... that it is claimed that the Reiterdenkmal (pictured), an equestrian monument in the centre of Windhoek, Namibia, is the only monument in the world where an ordinary soldier is placed on horseback?
... that Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, was a member of the anti-Islam group Norwegian Defence League, a sister organization of the English Defence League?
... that Francis Arkwright was a Member of Parliament and Legislative Council in two different countries?
... that pediatric neurologist Paul M. Ellwood, Jr. coined the term "health maintenance organization" (HMO) in the American health care system?
... that Shackles was the first Indonesian novel to portray a prostitute sympathetically?
... that Canadian national Naser al-Raas was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for attending a rally of the 2011 Bahraini uprising?
... that after his victory in 1802, Tyrant was described by a contemporary sports writer as "one of the worst horses that ever won a Derby"?

08:00, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the desert plants pale wolfberry (pictured) and Berlandier's wolfberry were both used by native Americans for medicinal purposes?
... that Steven Gan took advantage of a loophole in Malaysian Internet law to create the country's first independent news source?
... that despite many critics writing that "Stupid in Love" was about Rihanna and Chris Brown's altercation on the night of the 51st Grammy Awards, the song was written two days before the event?
... that Arodys Vizcaíno's fastball has been recorded as fast as 101 miles per hour (163 km/h)?
... that the Central Committee of the Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia included only one woman?
... that, as a publisher and literary critic, Drago Siliqi increased translation of foreign literature into Albanian and encouraged Ismail Kadare to write his first novel, The General of the Dead Army?
... that after the Thoroughbred racehorse Bloomsbury won the 1839 Derby Stakes, his identity was questioned and bookmakers refused to pay out on "winning" bets?

00:00, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Nick Castellanos (pictured) received a $3.45 million signing bonus from the Detroit Tigers, the highest ever for a player not drafted in the first round in the Major League Baseball Draft?
... that the oldest jockey to win the Derby Stakes was John Forth, who rode Frederick to victory in 1829?
... that the Helena train wreck of 1989 occurred during a record cold snap that ranked No. 4 on the NOAA's list of Montana's Top Weather/Water/Climate events of the 20th century?
... that Al-Ashraf Musa's defection from the Mongol coalition was critical for the Mamluks' victory during the Battle of Ain Jalut?
... that Bob Wasserman served as police chief, city councilman, and mayor of the city of Fremont, California?
... that the stems of blaspheme vine are "viciously armed" with prickles?
... that the disused Barnes Cemetery in Barnes, west London, is said to be haunted by a ghostly nun hovering over the grave of the victim of a notorious murder?

6 February 2012

16:00, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Moses (pictured) won the 1816 Derby Stakes wearing the Duke of York's colours, and became the third racehorse owned by British Royal Family to win the Derby?
... that the Rosemount ski boot, one of the earliest all-plastic designs, was invented by a company better known for aerospace instruments?
... that current Canberra Capitals players Jessica Bibby and Natalie Porter were both 2000 WNBA draft picks?
... that the actress Helen Barry, who starred in London and New York, married an ex-Mayor of Monmouth?
... that the fruit of mountain snowberry honeysuckle is eaten by the yellow-billed magpie?
... that Louis de Saint-Just and Maximilien Robespierre dined at the Ledoyen two days before they were executed on 26 July 1794?
... that Gabriel Duvall has been called the least significant justice in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States?

08:00, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Vincent van Gogh's Road with Cypress and Star (pictured) is said to reflect his increasing awareness of his upcoming death?
... that the extinct horsetail Equisetum thermale grew in Jurassic hot springs?
... that International Press Freedom Award laureate María Cristina Caballero began reporting for a Bogotá newspaper at the age of 16?
... that Ilaiyaraaja won three Best Music Direction awards during the 1980s at the National Film Awards (India)?
... that John Stone missed only three games for York City in the 1973–74 season as the club won promotion to the Second Division for the first time?
... that Christopher Werner made a lifelike South Carolina Palmetto tree out of iron, copper, and brass?
... that in 1917 Ida Adams recorded for His Master's Voice the song from Houp La! "Oh! How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo"?

00:00, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

... that in 1781 both a Dutch zoologist and a Swedish naturalist described the transverse ladybird (pictured)?
... that Photo Bits, a soft porn magazine published from 1898 to 1914, was the first pin-up magazine in the United Kingdom?
... that 70 metres (230 ft) down Sima de las Cotorras, a giant sinkhole inhabited by thousands of parakeets, there are rock paintings on the sheer cliff wall painted 5–10 thousand years ago?
... that one reviewer thought ZX Spectrum computer game Moonlight Madness should have been called Daylight Robbery due to its price?
... that the death of singer Melky Goeslaw led to greater interest in male breast cancer in Indonesia?
... that Blücher was at Epsom when Blucher won the Derby?

5 February 2012

16:00, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Têtes Noires (pictured) was the first all-female rock band from Minneapolis?
... that the Caribbean seagrass elysia, a sea slug, prefers star grass to other seagrasses?
... that Dwyane Wade has played more minutes, scored more points, made more field goals, made more free throws and recorded more assists than any other player in Miami Heat history?
... that the 1727 Bach cantata for a solo soprano Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke, BWV 84, one of few works Bach named "Cantata" himself, shows the spirit of the beginning Enlightenment?
... that the Governor is the only state government official in Tennessee who is directly elected by the voters of the entire state?
... that Aboubakr Jamaï went on a hunger strike after his newspapers were banned in Morocco?
... that Jeremy Irons guest-starred in The Simpsons episode "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" as the voice of a bar rag?

08:00, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the 1913 Michigan Wolverines football team featured running by Jimmy Craig (pictured), a "Hawaiian yell," and snake dancing behind the Michigan band?
... that the last Batak priest-king Sisingamangaraja XII was shot and killed by Dutch troops in 1907, ending his thirty-year war against the colonisation of Sumatra?
... that according to one critic, Rihanna appeared to embody the same "spiraling dance-floor siren" persona on "Complicated" as she did on the album's lead single, "Only Girl (In the World)"?
... that Mildred Seydell was one of the first female newspaper journalists in the State of Georgia?
... that Afghanistan, Burma, India, Pakistan, and Philippines were the first five members of the Asian Games Federation?
... that Hubert Brooks was one of only five RCAF members to receive the Military Cross during World War II and that his citation was the longest?
... that the hosts of C-SPAN series American Writers visited a meat processing plant to discuss Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?

00:00, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Rossetti's Found, a painting about prostitution, featured a white calf (detail pictured)?
... that each of the three volumes of Taylor Branch's history of the civil rights movement were given names from aspects of the Book of Exodus?
... that in the 1945 Canadian federal election, Yukon Communist Tom McEwen came within 162 votes of being elected to parliament?
... that the Gilbert-Sinton neighborhood grew rapidly along Cincinnati's first streetcar line?
... that after being selected third overall in the 2008 MLB Draft, Eric Hosmer was given a six million dollar signing bonus, the largest in Kansas City Royals history?
... that a mildly retarded man gives away his family's fortune in Eudora Welty's The Ponder Heart?
... that the winner of the 1831 Derby Stakes, Spaniel, was also the smallest horse in the race?

4 February 2012

16:00, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

... that French manufacturer Vétra built trolleybuses (example pictured) for transit systems in 12 countries, on three continents?
... that Wu Ying, named China's sixth richest woman at the age of 25, has been sentenced to death for financial fraud?
... that the architecture of Turkey has been influenced by many architects from Germany and Austria invited between 1924 and 1942 to work in Ankara?
... that XTERRA World Champion Lesley Paterson plans to co-produce a remake of the Oscar-winning 1930 film All Quiet on the Western Front?
... that while the fifty-seventh episode of Glee features newly cast actors to introduce Rachel's two fathers, the actors cast to play them in 2009 were cut from the second episode?
... that in 1992 the leader of the Gambela People's Liberation Movement, Agwa Alemu, was killed by his own troops?
... that Mündig never competed on a racecourse prior to winning the 1835 Derby Stakes, and bookmakers were misled to lengthen his odds based on false information fed to them by his trainer?

08:00, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

... that in some areas of northern Alaska, the willow species Salix alaxensis (twig pictured) constitutes over 95% of winter food for moose?
... that South West Queensland had Australia's first opal discovery, Australia's first natural gas strike and Australia's largest cotton farm?
... that the ending to Miami Vice's "Out Where the Buses Don't Run" "set a new standard for TV direction"?
... that one of the essays in William Gibson's new non-fiction collection Distrust That Particular Flavor caused Wired magazine to be banned in Singapore?
... that Suburgatory star Jane Levy was named on Forbes 2011 list of 30 under 30 who are "reinventing the world"?
... that during colonial times, the French used Muang Sing as a weigh station and market for their opium monopoly?
... that Major League Baseball's Detroit Wolverines used a Lady as their Opening Day starting pitcher in 1887, the year they won the World Series?

00:00, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Michael Pineda's (pictured) fastball averaged 94.7 miles per hour (152.4 km/h) in 2011, leading Major League Baseball rookies with at least 100 innings pitched?
... that in the early phase of the Ethiopian revolution, the underground publication Yäsäffiw hezb dems was widely distributed in spite of military censorship?
... that the racehorse Young Eclipse, winner of the second Derby ever held, later sired a second horse named Young Eclipse, who came second in the 1802 Derby?
... that Vashon High School in St. Louis, Missouri, has won 14 state basketball championships since 1934?
... that cuneiform tablets found at the ancient city-state of Ugarit include several letters of reprimand sent to its king Ibiranu by Hittite overlords?
... that comparison of displacement patterns along the Imperial Fault during the 1940 El Centro and 1979 Imperial Valley earthquakes shows that fault slips occurred in at least two discrete "patches"?
... that, in the 1840s, the congregation of the First Congregational Church in Guilford, Connecticut, underwent a split due to differing views on the abolition of slavery?

3 February 2012

16:00, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Emilius (pictured) and his sons Priam and Plenipotentiary were all winners of the Derby Stakes?
... that Novo Sancti Petri in Chiclana de la Frontera contains a golf course designed by Severiano Ballesteros?
... that Pres Mull was one of the first Distinguished Alumni of Appalachian State University?
... that athletes from 17 of the 21 competing NPCs won at least one medal in the 1964 Summer Paralympics?
... that the Autolib' scheme plans to make 3,000 electric cars available to the Parisian public for rental by late 2012?
... that "Missing My Baby" was one of the first songs to be played on radio stations after Selena was murdered?
... that BJ Birdy, the first mascot of the Toronto Blue Jays, also starred in a Toronto Star comic strip created by the mascot's performer?

08:00, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the gray sea star (pictured) can be found eating the coot clam in Tampa Bay, Florida?
... that mandatory, prohibiting and quashing orders, and the order for review of detention, which are remedies available in Singapore administrative law, derive from ancient British prerogative writs?
... that Central VPA High School in St. Louis, Missouri, is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River?
... that Australian basketball players Nicole Romeo and Michaela Dalgleish both played basketball at an American university for a single year?
... that elimination of the United States Department of Commerce has been proposed by both President Barack Obama and former Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry?
... that Littlehampton Fort was the first in Britain to be built with a Carnot wall?
... that members of the Canadian indie rock band Reverie Sound Revue sent sound files to each other via e-mail in order to record their first studio album?

00:00, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Daisy Burrell (pictured) was talent-spotted for The Valley of Fear while playing Cinderella?
... that Jacksonville, Florida's most populous city and largest in area, has the only consolidated city-county government in the state?
... that the main building of Hamburg's university of fine arts, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, was designed by architect Fritz Schumacher and completed in 1913?
... that Australian basketball player Rebecca Haynes played basketball for three different American universities?
... that the College of Arms was reincorporated by Queen Mary I on 18 July 1555, although its officers of arms had proclaimed her rival Lady Jane Grey as rightful queen two years earlier?
... that effects unit builder Robert Keeley attributes his commercial success to low tolerance?
... that near Tresilian Bay in Wales, there is a cave where couples throw stones to find out how long they should wait before they get married?

2 February 2012

16:00, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

... that motifs of joy in the strings connect recitative and chorale in a movement of the Bach cantata for Purification, Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, on the Nunc dimittis canticle of Simeon (pictured)?
... that although "A Scandal in Belgravia", the first episode of the second series of Sherlock, was well-received by reviewers, the BBC got complaints for showing its nude scene too early in the evening?
... that current Canberra Capitals players Molly Lewis and Mikaela Dombkins both played for the AIS and Sydney Uni Flames?
... that author Lucy O'Brien was criticized for giving too much emphasis to singer Madonna's discography in the biography Madonna: Like an Icon?
... that Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Bishop of Mangalore Diocese from 1965 until his death in 1996, was the longest-serving bishop in the diocese's history?
... that Ciudad Deportiva Millito Navarro, a multi-sport complex currently being built in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is named after Emilio Navarro, the first Puerto Rican to play in Negro league baseball?
... that the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, now regarded as iconic, was replaced in 1873 after being said to have "not a single line or feature ... suggesting taste or beauty"?

08:00, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the bangalay (pictured) can live for 600 years and its base can reach six metres (20 ft) in diameter?
... that in 2011 Indonesian businessman Erick Thohir became the first Asian to own an NBA franchise?
... that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Seling v. Young that laws authorizing civil commitment of sexual predators are not criminal laws?
... that the Ellerslie Eagles, a club in the Auckland Rugby League celebrating its centenary later this year, did not officially become known as the Eagles until 1971?
... that it took almost 10 years for the Swedish power metal band Timeless Miracle to release its début album?
... that in Christian doctrine, the Humiliation of Christ was willingly accepted by him?
... that after winning the 1819 Derby Stakes, the racehorse Tiresias overcame his jockey's restraints, left the racecourse and galloped into town?

00:00, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

... that former Syrian prime minister, Lutfi al-Haffar (pictured), was an active participant and organizer of the 1936 Syrian general strike?
... that in his speech of June 9, 1989, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping implicitly compared the Tiananmen Square shootings to the 1970 Kent State shootings?
... that rugby player Frédéric Banquet scored the first ever try in Super League history?
... that young fronds of the prickly rasp fern are pink-tinged?
... that the Steven Curtis Chapman song "Long Way Home" features the ukelele, an instrument which Chapman said "you can't frown and play"?
... that Avram Miletić, who wrote Serbian songs, was a grandfather of Svetozar Miletić, the 19th-century leader of Serbs in Vojvodina?
... that juvenile cushion stars look so different from their seniors that they were thought to belong to a species in a different biological family?

1 February 2012

16:00, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

... that The Art of Woo, starring Sook-Yin Lee and Adam Beach (pictured), was funded by a grant from the Canadian Film Centre's Featured Film Project?
... that there is no official list of the world's most wanted criminal fugitives?
... that Alexander is the first solo album created by Alex Ebert, lead singer of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Ima Robot?
... that the Society of Friends of the Constitution, formed in 1791 to support the Constitution of 3 May, was the first Polish political party?
... that Canberra Capitals player Michelle Cosier took a year off from basketball because she was pregnant?
... that in Bach's mature 1735 chorale cantata Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit, BWV 14, the cantus firmus of Luther's hymn is played by horn and oboes, while the voices perform a counter-fugue?
... that the Bozeman Carnegie Library was intentionally built across from Bozeman, Montana's red-light district and opium dens?

08:00, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

... that Rapid Ranger (pictured) was only the third Greyhound to win the English Greyhound Derby on two occasions?
... that Canberra Capitals player Hannah Bowley also plays Australian rules football?
... that wild black currants are commonly made into jam and jelly?
... that the design of KitchenAid stand mixers has barely changed since the 1930s?
... that Lorna Kesterson worked as a newspaper journalist and editor until her election as the first female mayor of Henderson, Nevada?
... that Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe is the largest Ramsar Convention wetland in the world, over twice the size of Belgium?
... that former U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes spoke at the ceremony to lay the cornerstone of the Sandusky County Jail and Sheriff's House in Fremont, Ohio?

00:00, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

... that the basket star, Gorgonocephalus eucnemis (pictured), resembles an animated bush when trying to catch prey?
... that 8 million visitors to Expo 67 in Montreal saw Probošt's mechanical Christmas crib, a unique Czech nativity scene?
... that Georgios Stavros, who appeared on various Greek banknotes issued before 1932, was the founding governor of the National Bank of Greece?
... that former journalist hostage Terry A. Anderson led a campaign for the release of Turkish editor Ocak Işık Yurtçu?
... that Indonesian songstress Vina Panduwinata outperformed Janet Jackson and David Pomeranz at the 1985 World Popular Song Festival?
... that Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian web designer and Canadian permanent resident, has been sentenced to death by Iran for allegedly designing and moderating pornographic websites?
... that the film 10 Promises to My Dog is based on a novel that was inspired by The Ten Commandments of Dog Ownership?