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30 June 2012

16:00, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

... that St Lawrence's Church, Appleby (pictured), in Cumbria, contains the monuments of Lady Anne Clifford and her mother Margaret, Countess of Cumberland?
... that the Gay Women's Alternative in Washington, D.C., began as a home gathering called the Gay Women's Open House at Lilli Vencez's home in 1971?
... that baseball pitcher Tyler Thornburg has drawn comparisons to Cy Young Award-winner Tim Lincecum?
... that a "powerful chorus" on a quotation from the Sermon on the Mount forms the core of Bach's third cantata for Leipzig, Ein ungefärbt Gemüte, BWV 24?
... that while the Oman women's national football team has yet to play a game, a club from Oman played matches against national teams from Jordan and Syria?
... that Atlanta Falcons coach Jerry Glanville described Casey Elliott as "a super, super kid"?
... that in 2001, BBC One devoted a themed night of programming to text messaging?

08:00, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Russian guitar's D-G-B-D-G-B-D tuning (illustrated) approximates the major-thirds tuning D#-G-B-D#-G-B-D#?
... that Ellen Rosenblum is the first woman ever to serve as Oregon Attorney General?
... that Cale Yarborough won the 1976 Gwyn Staley 400 by beating both Richard Petty and the pace car out of the pits?
... that Joshua Jefferis, the only male Australian artistic gymnast at the London Games, was initially passed over?
... that caryopilite was named for the Greek words for walnut and felt?
... that Hal Elliott led the National League in games played by a pitcher in 1930, appearing in 48 games for the last place Philadelphia Phillies?
... that eggs of the greenhouse frog are laid on land and have been found under a flower pot?

00:00, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Marie Bankhead Owen (pictured) was the aunt of actress Tallulah Bankhead and helped create the Alabama state motto?
... that Holocaust denial and 9/11 conspiracy theories are part of what Damian Thompson describes in Counterknowledge as a "pandemic of credulous thinking"?
... that Indonesian songwriter Maia Estianty is descended from the National Hero Tjokroaminoto?
... that the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Georgetown is a former historic industrial building?
... that Ross Youngs is the member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame who died at the youngest age?
... that the Keśin were long-haired ascetic wanderers with mystical powers described in the Rigveda?
... that Catholic priest Matija Škerbec was once imprisoned in Slovenia for his political activities and later became a central figure in Slovenian emigration to the United States?

29 June 2012

16:00, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Karlskrona Ropewalk (pictured) is Sweden's longest wooden building?
... that the mountain Piotruś in the Low Beskid range is the site of a pond and stream where Saint John of Dukla is said to have rested?
... that extant Burmese chronicles are the most extensive and detailed historical records available in Southeast Asia but many lesser known chronicles remain unstudied?
... that The Twitter Republic is based on Twitter use in the website's fifth-largest market?
... that Emily Little and Larrissa Miller are part of the Australian women's gymnastic team that will compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that pilgrims would leap off a cliff named Bhairava Jhamp, near the Chorabari Glacier?
... that While She Sleeps' upcoming studio album This Is the Six is titled to reflect the band's connection with their fans?

08:00, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

... that 2008 and 2012 Australian artistic gymnastic Olympian Ashleigh Brennan (pictured) drinks coffee before every competition?
... that "I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked" marked Katherine Heigl's final appearance on Grey's Anatomy?
... that as late as 1945, between 450 and 500 stallions owned by the U.S. Army Remount Service bred with over 11,000 civilian-owned mares, producing 7,293 foals?
... that Chrisye was so disappointed with Pantulan Cita that he took a two-year sabbatical?
... that the Brown Thrasher was originally nominated as the state bird of Georgia by schoolchildren in 1928, but wasn't officially adopted until 1970?
... that Chris Archer pitched USA Baseball's International Performance of the Year in 2010?
... that the nine-armed sea star can turn its stomach inside out and engulf "mouthfuls" of sediment and detritus?

00:00, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Brown Treecreeper (pictured) spirals up and down tree trunks while foraging?
... that Dangote Cement's production facility in Obajana, Nigeria, is the largest cement plant in Sub-Saharan Africa?
... that Hayscastle in Pembrokeshire once contained a Norman motte and an RAF Chain Home?
... that theatre director and TV comedy producer Olga Lipińska launched her Cabaret under Soviet-style socialism hoping to make the world a better place?
... that the Marinmuseum acquired some of Johan Törnström's figureheads?
... that Casting Crowns' 2007 album The Altar and the Door sold 129,000 copies in its first week, the largest opening-week sales for a Christian album with no secular media support?
... that pitcher Johnny Gee, sometimes known as the "$75,000 Lemon", was the tallest person ever to play Major League Baseball until Randy Johnson debuted in 1988?

28 June 2012

16:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Himalayan Lidder Valley (pictured) lies in the Vale of Kashmir and was formed by a river that originates at the Kolhoi Glacier?
... that the Côte d'Ivoire women's national football team is Africa's sixth best women's football team while women's football is the fourth most popular sport in the country?
... that the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C., has served heads of state and royalty?
... that piercing points are used by geologists to find out how much a fault has moved?
... that the Ombla River near Dubrovnik, Croatia, is claimed to be the shortest river in the world, flowing approximately 30 metres (98 feet) before emptying into the Adriatic Sea?
... that 2012 Australian weightlifting Olympian Seen Lee won Australia's first women's weightlifting Commonwealth Games medal in 2002 and Australia's first medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
... that the hypothallus of a slime mold is produced by the plasmodium at the beginning of its fruiting?

08:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

... that triple-resonance NMR spectroscopy (spectrum pictured) is an integral part of determining the structure of proteins?
... that SS-Standartenführer Ernst Damzog personally selected staff for the killing centre in Chełmno (Kulmhof) in Reichsgau Wartheland and supervised its daily operation from 1941?
... that Tropical Storm Debby is the earliest fourth named storm in the Atlantic Basin on record?
... that Leavine Family Racing is headquartered in Texas but races from a shop in North Carolina?
... that 2012–13 will be York City's first season back in the Football League since relegation in 2004?
... that in November 2008, the German Consulate in Bangalore became the first Consulate in the city to start operations?
... that while the practice of burying horses with people was widespread among Indo-Aryan and other peoples, there is only one known example of someone buried with a cow in Europe?

00:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the 1973 completion of the Dworshak Dam (pictured), one of the tallest in the United States, wiped out one of the world's preeminent runs of steelhead trout?
... that Izetta Wesley, a female football administrator, believes the government of Liberia is insincere in how they treat the Liberia women's national football team?
... that the venomous box jellyfish (Chiropsalmus quadrumanus) once killed a child within forty minutes of his being stung?
... that General Manfred von Richthofen, like the air ace who was named after him and was his great-nephew, was awarded the "Blue Max" for his service in World War I?
... that Christian rock band Third Day, inspired by their induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, aimed to show more of their southern roots in their 2010 album Move?
... that the Three Dikgosi Monument is the most visited tourist destination in Gaborone, Botswana?
... that geologist Richard Owen died of accidental poisoning after his grocer mistook a bottle of embalming fluid for mineral water?

27 June 2012

16:00, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

... that alpine skier Kyrra Grunnsund (pictured) was the second person to represent Australia at both the Summer and Winter Paralympics?
... that an Athenaeum review of his first published novel led George Gissing to describe critics as "unprincipled vagabonds"?
... that the Scandinavian fungus Inocybe saliceticola can grow among mosses such as heart-leaved spear moss?
... that the 1169 Sicily earthquake happened on the eve of the feast of St. Agatha and killed many who were gathered in the Catania Cathedral for the feast?
... that William Shatner hosted Flick Flack (1974), a documentary television series about the film industry?
... that the Japanese release of "Weird Al" Yankovic's Alapalooza contained a bonus track of the artist singing one of the songs in Japanese?
... that six bankers spent more than £44,000 on wine at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant Pétrus, resulting in the chef giving them the food from their meal for free?

08:00, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Nobel Prize for Physics-winner Isidor Isaac Rabi (pictured) gave a speech about how an electric light works for his Bar Mitzvah?
... that astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett died when their plane crashed into the building where their spacecraft was being assembled?
... that Zac Efron and Bryan Silas drove the same race car on the same day in July 2011?
... that although a tsunami warning was issued 14 minutes after the 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake, the first wave had struck the coast two minutes earlier?
... that Jessica Fox, daughter of French and Great Britain canoeing Olympians, will make her own Olympic canoeing debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that comedian Josh Wolf is currently working on an untitled project for FOX about his experiences as a single father?
... that the very rare ghost orchid was once found in Fiddler's Elbow National Nature Reserve, near Monmouth, Wales?

00:00, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

... that a flashing blue light, used to alert local skiers that fresh powder snow is falling at the Bridger Bowl Ski Area, sits atop the Hotel Baxter (pictured) in Bozeman, Montana?
... that on his tenth album, Adentro, Ricardo Arjona included a song about menstruation?
... that Holy Cross Church, Gilling, was at one time referred to as Saint Helena's after the Roman Empress whom legend says discovered the True Cross?
... that by its third volume, the mythology of The X-Files had become so intriguing that series creator Chris Carter "had to blow it up, because he couldn't deal with it anymore"?
... that Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger was recognised as the best coach of the decade despite never winning the IFFHS World's Best Club Coach award?
... that twenty-year-old Blake Gaudry started gymnastics when he was ten years old and will represent Australia in the trampoline event at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that in 1971, Governor Tom McCall gave the James G. Blaine Society a boost when he invited tourists to come visit Oregon, but then added "for heaven's sake don't stay"?

26 June 2012

16:00, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the French paddle steamer Sphinx (model pictured) participated in the transfer of the Luxor Obelisk from Egypt to Paris?
... that Australian Kookaburra Daniel Hotchkis plays his club hockey for the Canberra Lakers in the Australian Hockey League?
... that a writers' strike in 2008 threatened the international fashion industry by leaving stars with nowhere to wear their red carpet gowns?
... that Erica Kennedy's first novel, Bling, reached 35th on the New York Times Best Seller list and was optioned for a movie?
... that the Stockton Cannery Strike of 1937, also called the "Spinach Riot", resulted in one death and 50 injuries and held up a $6 million crop?
... that Church Clothes by Christian rapper Lecrae was controversial because it was hosted by Don Cannon and criticized church hypocrisy?
... that Mark Jankowski, the Calgary Flames' first round draft pick in 2012, is the highest-ever draft pick out of a Canadian high school?

08:00, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Juliet Opie Hopkins (pictured) was known as the "Florence Nightingale of the South" and was given a full military burial at Arlington National Cemetery?
... that the open-access journal PeerJ runs in the cloud on EC2 and S3?
... that Laura Basuki washed her hair with bottled water while shooting East of the Sun?
... that double silver Paralympic wheelchair rugby medalist Nazim Erdem became the first person with a spinal cord injury to paraglide solo?
... that Satria Mandala Museum in Jakarta has life-size statues of numerous National Heroes of Indonesia?
... that Spanish author J. J. Benítez has published more than 50 books in his career?
... that Height of the Rockies Provincial Park, in British Columbia, Canada, has one of the world's highest concentrations of mountain goats?

00:12, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Matt Cain (pictured) threw more pitches in his perfect game than any other perfect game pitcher before him?
... that the anarchist Lunigiana revolt was quashed by the use of summary executions?
... that unlike co-star Holly Quin-Ankrah, who both sang and acted during the 2008 talent show drama Rock Rivals, Sol Heras had his character's singing voice provided by a Swedish session singer?
... that the GDP generated in the city of Zagreb comprises 31.4% of Croatia's GDP, exceeding that of any other county of Croatia?
... that While She Sleeps' debut mini-album The North Stands for Nothing was given away free with an issue of Metal Hammer magazine?
... that Talbiseh, a small Syrian city, has been repeatedly attacked by the Syrian Army throughout the ongoing Syrian uprising for being a major opposition stronghold?
... that Hillsboro, Oregon-based MathStar, a fabless semiconductor company, raised US$137 million, but never made a profit before ceasing to exist?

25 June 2012

16:27, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

... that rats treated with methylazoxymethanol acetate (molecular model pictured) during gestation are an animal model of schizophrenia?
... that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge live in a rented Anglesey farmhouse on the Bodorgan Hall estate?
... that Malaysian born Renuga Veeran and South Australian born Leanne Choo will represent Australia in the women's doubles badminton competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that the mineral sonolite is named for the mine in Japan where it was discovered?
... that in June 2012, Paralympic swimmer Brad Snyder became the world record holder for the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyles among fully blind athletes?
... that Nicolaus Ricii de Nucella Campli was a late-medieval papal singer whose only known manuscript was destroyed by fire in 1870?
... that Canadian artist Jubal Brown deliberately vomited primary colors on paintings in the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario?

08:42, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the NOT Tower (pictured) in Kraków was nicknamed Skeletor after it had been abandoned by the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations and left unfinished for 30 years?
... that Norwegian IOC member Gerhard Heiberg recommended Oslo to bid with Hafjell and Kvitfjell as Alpine Skiing venues instead of Norefjell, to reduce their chances to host the 2018 Winter Olympics?
... that after defeating the Vietnamese Hồ dynasty in the Ming–Hồ War, the Chinese Ming empire annexed northern Vietnam as Jiaozhi province?
... that upon hearing of Khalid ibn al-Walid's reputation in battle, the Roman-led Arab Christian garrison of Arak peacefully surrendered their fort to his army?
... that Luciano Ercoli's 1972 film La morte accarezza a mezzanotte stars the director's wife, Nieves Navarro?
... that the term New Labour was coined by Tony Blair at the October 1994 Labour Party conference, following his election as leader of the Labour Party earlier that year?
... that cartoonist Jovan Prokopljević sells chess-themed prints of "gnomish" players at chess tournaments?

00:57, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

... that pale spear-nosed bats (pictured) have up to twenty different calls, a similar vocal repertoire to many non-human primates?
... that Liuboslav Hutsaliuk was described as one of Ukraine's "first rate artists" living in the States?
... that after operating for a single year, the Yokohama Dreamland Monorail spent 35 years awaiting repair or replacement before it was finally demolished?
... that the 1969 Italian film Una sull'altra was filmed on location in the United States, including a scene shot in San Quentin State Prison's gas chamber?
... that the Saint Thomas Christian music of India may preserve elements of the earliest Christian music due to the Saint Thomas Christian community's isolation and resistance to outside influence?
... that German dressage coach Uwe Schulten-Baumer trained two riders who won a combined total of nine Olympic Gold medals?
... that the title of the Colin Bateman novel Cycle of Violence refers to a bicycle that the protagonist must ride whilst reporting on murders and court cases alike?

24 June 2012

17:12, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Royal Navy's Kil class gunboats (pictured) were designed to confuse observers in U-boats with their dazzle camouflage and double-ended hulls?
... that over five hundred Ainu hilltop forts, known as chashi, have been identified in Hokkaidō?
... that Bach's chorale cantata Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, for St. John's Day, is based on Luther's hymn about the baptism of Jesus?
... that Naomi Fischer-Rasmussen will be the first woman to represent Australia in boxing when she competes at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that Adaptiv can hide a tank from thermal imaging systems, or make it look like a car?
... that Kyle Larson won the first stock car race he ever competed in?
... that the slime mold Willkommlangea reticulata is the only species of its genus?

09:27, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

... that a network of beacons in Okinawa (pictured on Taketomi) helped enforce the Tokugawa policy of "national seclusion"?
... that NAAFI Canteen Manager John Leake was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for manning a machine gun onboard HMS Ardent during the Falklands War?
... that Israel plans to build a railway from the Red Sea city of Eilat to its Mediterranean ports that will compete with the Suez Canal?
... that Dr. O'Dowd is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films?
... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Good Hit" was momentarily removed from her seventh studio album Love? following its negative response when a snippet leaked online?
... that the Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, now part of BNP Paribas, was founded by a revolutionary government's decree?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Nuku Muhammad Amiruddin had a British ship aid him in attacking the Dutch?

01:42, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Barry Stuppler (pictured) submitted a $50 million bid for the Berlin Wall and helped create the California State Quarter in 2003?
... that Stooshe were inspired by the musicals Dreamgirls and Hairspray for their video accompanying their single "Black Heart"?
... that Glen Waverley badminton player Victoria Na will make her Olympic debut at the 2012 London Games?
... that the cider house at Great Manson Farm in Monmouth, Wales, has a rare, stone and wood cider mill?
... that the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico as depicted in the 2012 film Cristiada has been compared to the Obama administration's birth control mandate?
... that professional wrestler Ric Converse, a victim of childhood bullying, was inspired by Hulk Hogan at age eight to become a wrestler himself?
... that the German Sonne radio navigation system proved so useful to the British during WWII that they provided spare parts to keep them running?

23 June 2012

17:57, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

... that R. L. Holdsworth (pictured) reached the summit of Kamet, the highest mountain climbed at the time?
... that the death of racer Pete Orr was a driving force for insurance reform in Florida?
... that in the music video for her single "Me Haces Falta" (2007), Jennifer Lopez portrays an undercover FBI agent who surrenders her lover to the police and has regrets afterwards?
... that 1972's Sette scialli di seta gialla was one of several "imitative whodunits" released after the success of Dario Argento's L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo?
... that Book of Spells, an upcoming Wonderbook for PlayStation 3, is a companion to Harry Potter?
... that composer Włodzimierz Korcz received most recognition for the music to a protest song, which was adopted as an informal anthem of the Solidarity trade union in Communist Poland?
... that the 2012 election for mayor of Gaborone, Botswana, was contested when a councillor on the Gaborone City Council cut his ballot in half to vote twice?

10:12, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the freshwater crab Guinotia dentata (pictured) prefers shady rivers to sunny ones?
... that Major League Baseball pitcher Bob Glenn later became a pioneer in highway and traffic engineering from the 1920s through the 1950s?
... that the Yawata Steel Works were identified as the target for the bomb that fell on Nagasaki?
... that the Brunei women's national football team is forbidden from participating in the Olympic Games by its country's government?
... that The Chimneys' roof framing utilizes techniques common in the construction of ships' hulls at the time it was built in 1771?
... that Third Eye Blind's discography includes an album that sold six million copies?
... that ARCA driver Darrell Basham's race shop was demolished by a tornado in March 2012?

02:27, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Byzantine style frescos from 1380 in the Transfiguration Church in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, were destroyed during World War II and finally restored in the 1960s (example pictured)?
... that Moose McCormick was considered the first great pinch hitter in Major League Baseball history?
... that items on display at the Royal New Zealand Navy's Torpedo Bay Navy Museum include the Māori warrior's skirt which the captain of the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand wore for good luck in battle?
... that audience laughter during a scene in the Cheers episode "Coach's Daughter" between Coach and his daughter Lisa was muted out in the final cut?
... that composer, music theorist and hymn-writer Cyriakus Schneegass corresponded with Martin Luther and Caspar Creuziger?
... that Third Eye Blind's song "Blinded" is about a man who spies on his ex-lover in the bathroom?
... that the Cornish folk tale of the Mermaid of Zennor was likely to have been inspired by chair carved with a mermaid at St Senara's Church in Zennor?

22 June 2012

18:42, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Syrian poet and writer Maryana Marrash (pictured) revived the tradition of literary salons in the Middle East at the end of the 19th century?
... that the number of Mandaeans in Iraq has fallen by more than 90% since the 2003 invasion due to religious persecution?
... that York City have recorded more league victories against Rochdale than against any other club, having beaten them 43 times from 100 attempts?
... that a curator at the National Air and Space Museum, Louis Purnell, flew 88 bomber escort missions during World War II as a Tuskegee Airman, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross?
... that the land around the village of Peperga in the Netherlands was so wet that before 1660 the entire village was moved one kilometer to a drier area?
... that Bach's chorale cantata Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2, based on Luther's hymn, is part of "the largest musical project that the composer ever undertook"?
... that Abdulbaset Sieda, the new head of the opposition Syrian National Council, used to be a university professor in Libya?

08:00, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the call of the Red-necked Avocet (pictured) has been likened to a dog barking?
... that despite the Seychelles women's national football team having played only two games up to June 2012, a national football tournament for women has been around in the country since the late 1990s?
... that Crulic: The Path to Beyond, released in 2011, was the first Romanian animated feature film in two decades?
... that LinkedIn was hacked on June 7, 2012, resulting in the release of over 6 million user passwords?
... that "Kriss Kross" / "Clarion", a 2008 single by multinational band Guillemots, featured a live cover of "Black and Gold" by Sam Sparro as its B-side?
... that the "Godfather of BBQ", Johnny Trigg, was the first person to win the Jack Daniels World Championship BBQ Invitational twice?
... that Blessed Elizabeth is said to have been the lawful heiress to the Hungarian throne but was harassed and forced to join a convent by her evil stepmother, Queen Agnes?

00:00, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

... that twenty Bahraini health workers (some pictured) were sentenced to up to fifteen years' imprisonment by a military court in a trial that lasted for only a few minutes?
... that the employment of Ruth Sawtell Wallis during the Depression was "unthinkable" because her husband was also a professor?
... that Kabaret TEY was one of the most popular Polish cabarets of the 1970s and 1980s?
... that the judges in Salinger v. Random House found that "resembling a lifeless rodent" infringed on the copyrighted expression "like a dead rat"?
... that earthenware fragments from Odai Yamamoto I have a calibrated radiocarbon date of as early as 14,500 BC, before the warming at the end of the Pleistocene?
... that the Houston College Classic is seen as the beginning of the college baseball season in Texas?
... that the stable block of Newton Court, in Monmouth, hosts one of only three known breeding sites of the Greater Horseshoe Bat in Wales?

21 June 2012

16:00, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

... that it was Giovanni Lusieri who suggested that his employer should remove the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon (pictured)?
... that even though the Saudi Arabia women's national football team does not exist, women in the country have created, coached and played for their own club team outside the sight of men?
... that two ministers in Kenya's government died in a helicopter crash in June 2012?
... that poet George Ellis accompanied England's Earl of Malmesbury to France in 1796 as a member of the peace negotiations?
... that When the Emperor was Divine, a historical fiction novel about Japanese American internment, was described as "a meditation on what it means to be loyal to one's country and to one's self"?
... that the Northern Khmer dialect is spoken by descendants of the Khmer Empire native to the Isan region of Thailand?
... that at the revived KunstRAI art fair in Amsterdam in May, Bart Jansen created a stir by exhibiting his dead cat, Orville, transformed into a radio-controlled helicopter?

08:00, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the PhD robes of Stanford University (pictured) are stylistic copies of those used by Cambridge University in England?
... that players will be able to jam electronics, tap cell phones, and manipulate traffic lights in order to track and kill a target in Ubisoft's upcoming video game, Watch Dogs?
... that 1996 and 2004 Olympian Deonne Bridger is currently ranked as Australia's top female recurve archer?
... that Umberto Lenzi's 1972 film Il coltello di ghiaccio features thematic and directorial elements which one reviewer found similar to the works of Lucio Fulci?
... that Double-banded Sandgrouse chicks are precocial and can fly within a month of hatching?
... that boys from a Monmouth, Wales, prep school housed in The Grange won the British under-11 chess championship in 2003?
... that Encyclopedia Fuckme and the Case of the Vanishing Entree was praised by the The A.V. Club for its sexual writing?

00:00, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Hessentag (pictured), the annual state festival of Hesse held since 1961, attracted more than 1.2 million visitors in Wetzlar in 2012?
... that Bryan Holaday won the Johnny Bench Award in 2010, given to the top catcher in college baseball?
... that the Black River National Forest Scenic Byway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan connects to the tallest ski flying hill in the world and one of two National Forest harbors in the United States?
... that CEC Bank fell from a 32.9% share of the Romanian banking market in 1990 to 4.03% in 2006?
... that Tom Luckey, creator of multi-story climbing structures known as Luckey Climbers, is paralyzed from the neck down?
... that while Réunion women's national football team is not recognised by FIFA, the team has played full internationals against South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe?
... that the inventory of Emery Walker's former home at 7 Hammersmith Terrace includes a lock of William Morris's hair and Dante Rossetti's teapot?

20 June 2012

16:00, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Jack Enzenroth (pictured) in 1910 was the captain of the first baseball team to be coached by Branch Rickey?
... that Berchtesgaden National Park in Bavaria, Germany, was designated a Biosphere Reserve in 1990 by UNESCO?
... that Bahraini boy Ali Hassan is one of the youngest detainees since the national uprising began fourteen months ago in February 2011?
... that the Church of the Good Shepherd in Hadspen, Tasmania, took over ninety years to complete?
... that Julie Otsuka has won an Alex Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and an Asian American Literary Award for her works on Japanese Americans?
... that the Estonian Sports Museum has helped organise an exhibition to celebrate Estonia's first Olympics in London?
... that nine-year-old Martha Payne was told by her local council to stop reporting on her school dinners in her blog NeverSeconds after the national media reported on it?

08:00, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Easwaran's Love Never Faileth seeks to "bring to light ... volcanic forces (pictured) that work far, far below the surface strata of consciousness"?
... that quantum mechanics can be formulated entirely in phase space if a quantum system is represented by a quasi-probability distribution?
... that Bo Xilai is the pioneer of the Chongqing model?
... that despite FIFA recognition and twice-weekly training sessions, the Madagascar women's national football team has yet to play in a single FIFA-recognised match?
... that in 1946, French-Australian botanist Albert de Lestang provided the botany world with some rare seeds they had been looking for since 1852?
... that Allan W. Eckert claimed Incident at Hawk's Hill, his Newbery Honor novel about a boy who survives on the Canadian prairie with help from a mother badger, was based on a real event?
... that when William Snyder Webb was awarded an honorary doctorate, he had to be captured before the ceremony?

00:00, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Foxley Wood (pictured) is the largest ancient area of woodland in Norfolk and was mentioned in the Domesday Book?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's Mural with Blue Brushstroke incorporates elements of his earlier works as does Artist's Studio—Look Mickey, which includes most of Look Mickey, the artist's first work to use Ben-Day dots and a speech balloon?
... that Australian Opal Belinda Snell first played basketball as an eight-year-old on a mixed gendered team?
... that Soviet spy satellite Yantar-2K had two film return capsules which could land on the ground or on water?
... that Italian actress Ida Galli has also been billed as Evelyn Stewart and Isli Oberon?
... that according to an Alaskan report, a tribe of Eskimo cook the swamp cranberry with fish eggs and blubber?
... that British swimmer Liam Tancock has taken up ballet in order to improve his medal chances at the 2012 Summer Olympics?

19 June 2012

16:00, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

... that All Saints Church, Helmsley (pictured), contains two chapels dedicated to different saints?
... that Lance Norick was the first driver in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series to drive on rain tires in official competition?
... that Nové Spojení, a series of railway tunnels and bridges built in Prague, won the transport category of the Czech Construction of the Year award in 2009?
... that Australian archer Jesse McDonald has had a goal of making the Summer Olympics since 2003 and was named to the 2012 Australian archery shadow Olympic team?
... that Glendower Street Congregational Church stood derelict for forty years before its conversion into the award-winning Glendower House?
... that television producer and director Daniel Sackheim has won one Primetime Emmy Award and been nominated for two more?
... that You're Gonna Get Your Fucking Head Kicked In is chanted at opponents of pro wrestler Bryan Danielson?

08:00, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

... that, as a U.S. Senator, future Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth (pictured) drafted a statute that authorized punitive, court-ordered dissection of convicted murderers' corpses?
... that Kristi Harrower has won three Olympic silver medals in basketball and is in the running to earn a fourth medal?
... that the stadium at the Maury School in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was home to the annual Fredericksburg Dog Mart, which began in 1698?
... that Citra Award-winning actress Laura Basuki has been compared to Japanese AV idol Maria Ozawa?
... that the crash of an Australian National Airways Stinson in 1945 was believed by investigators to be the first in-flight structural failure attributable to metal fatigue?
... that dental similarities in Afrotarsius, an African fossil primate, and Afrasia, a newly described fossil primate from Myanmar, add support to the hypothesis that simians first evolved in Asia?
... that professional baseball player Terry Doyle works as a substitute teacher during the offseason?

00:00, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

... that St Mary's Church, Whitby (pictured), was the setting for a scene from Bram Stoker's Dracula?
... that the Yemen women's national football team has four training sessions a week?
... that although Stracimir was the eldest son of Lord Balša, the youngest, Đurađ, became the major figure of the family?
... that World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September) builds awareness of suicides, including that one third are committed with pesticides like United Nations-banned organophosphates?
... that the mineral bobfergusonite has been found only in Canada and Argentina?
... that Negro league baseball player Lemuel Hawkins was shot to death while attempting to hold up a beer truck?
... that the upcoming film Anna Karenina will be the third collaboration between director Joe Wright and actress Keira Knightley?

18 June 2012

16:00, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the mineral diaboleite (pictured) was so named out of desperation?
... that Stichting Oud Politieke Delinquenten, a Dutch organization of convicted WW2 collaborators, included 1951 founders NSB "judge" Jan Wolthuis and Waffen-SS volunteer Jan Hartman, and Paul van Tienen who turned it into a political party?
... that the name of the 1983 Bollywood film Log Kya Kahenge (What Will People Think?) refers to a social yardstick in India and the expectations surrounding women and marriage?
... that Estonian Paralympian Marge Kõrkjas was awarded 100,000 krooni (about 6,400 euros) from the government following the 2004 Summer Paralympics?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court heard six criminal appeals from convicted Mormon polygamists during the tenure of Chief Justice Morrison Waite (1874–1888)?
... that the A968 in Shetland is Britain's northernmost A road?
... that Fritz Blanding retired from baseball due to "excessive weight" and because he could have "a heap more fun" on his farm?

08:00, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

... that during the American Civil War, General Robert E. Lee ordered the destruction of the mansion at Fall Hill (pictured) because it blocked his view of advancing Union Army troops?
... that Australian Opal Abby Bishop has played basketball professionally for the Seattle Storm, Canberra Capitals, Dandenong Rangers and Adelaide Lightning?
... that Walker–Grant School was the first public high school for black students in Fredericksburg, Virginia?
... that Japanese tennis player Ryosuke Nunoi served in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II and committed suicide at the end of the Burma Campaign?
... that the only medical school and law school in South Dakota are at the University of South Dakota?
... that the tower of the Trinity Congregational Church collapsed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake after the New Zealand Historic Places Trust had declined consent for earthquake strengthening?
... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Until It Beats No More" was used as background music in her commercial for the Fiat 500?

00:00, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

... that David Stremme placed the Inception Motorsports car (pictured) 16th on the grid in the team's very first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race attempt?
... that St John's in Monmouth, Wales, has been described as "one of Monmouth's best-kept secrets"?
... that although linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf is best known for the "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis", he never stated a hypothesis, writing instead about the "principle of linguistic relativity"?
... that the National Gallery in Berlin has now expanded from its original 1876 building into five others, including a Schinkel church and two palace outbuildings in Charlottenburg?
... that Kat Driscoll's performance at the 2011 World Championships earned Great Britain a trampolining place at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that 57-million-year-old Altiatlasius from Morocco may be the oldest fossil primate yet found, despite a molecular estimate that places the last common ancestor of primates at 90 million years ago?
... that in his 2012 book, Scotty Bowers reveals Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars?

17 June 2012

16:00, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

... that three ten-foot-high (3 m) bronze horses (one pictured) in the City of London by English sculptor Althea Wynne have been nicknamed "Sterling, Dollar, and Yen"?
... that the Rhodesian Special Air Service was formed during the Malayan Emergency?
... that 2010 Commonwealth Games Australian archery gold medalist Mathew Masonwells likes to listen to Hilltop Hoods between shooting competition rounds?
... that on 13 March 2012, BBC News reported that 17 police stations in South East Wales would close to the public, including the Monmouth Police Station?
... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Goin' In", featuring Flo Rida, is featured on the soundtrack of the dance film Step Up Revolution?
... that the French ice hockey team, the Dragons de Rouen won both the regular season and Coupe Magnus in the 2011–12 Ligue Magnus season?
... that the Modoc County Historical Museum has objects in its collection that date back 8,000 years?

08:00, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Puneri Pagadi (on head, pictured), a turban, is an intellectual property of the Indian city Pune?
... that the independent comedy drama film The Taiwan Oyster, co-starring British actress Leonora Moore and shot in Taiwan, has been described as a Texas road film?
... that Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott worshipped at St Saviour's Chapel in Lyttelton, New Zealand, before embarking on the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition?
... that British sport shooter Peter Wilson is coached by a member of the Dubai royal family?
... that the 1976 song "Let Poland be Poland" by Jan Pietrzak became one of the anthems of Solidarity?
... that Jennifer Screen's first international basketball tournament with the Australian Opals was the 2006 World Championships in Brazil, where her team took home a gold medal?
... that, having first occurred in 1698, the Fredericksburg Dog Mart is the oldest dog show in the United States?

00:00, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the success of the multi-language wall poems (pictured) in Leiden, South Holland, inspired similar projects in Sofia, Bulgaria, and in Paris, France?
... that General Ulysses S. Grant held an outdoor council of war with his top generals on pews taken from the Massaponax Baptist Church?
... that 2008 silver-medal-winning Australian Opal Suzy Batkovic used to sneak out to concerts with basketball teammate Lauren Jackson while on scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport?
... that although the first two fossils of Indraloris to be found were misidentified as a carnivoran and a loris, it is in fact a member of the extinct adapiform primates?
... that Bozh, the first Slavic ruler known in history, was captured and crucified together with his sons and 70 of his nobility by the invading Ostrogoths?
... that The Runaways' second album Queens of Noise features guitar solos from both lead guitarist Lita Ford and rhythm guitarist Joan Jett?
... that chef Daniel Clifford serves garlic and bay leaf ice cream at his restaurant, Midsummer House?

16 June 2012

16:00, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

... that National League's 1934 Most Popular Umpire Dolly Stark (pictured) created a women's clothing line named the "Dolly Stark Dress"?
... that Samestate had two top-20 songs – "Hurricane" and "Shadows" – on the Christian CHR chart?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's Engagement Ring marks his transition from his prior painterly work to his subsequent more polished mechanical-looking work?
... that Hindustan Zindabad, a nationalistic slogan, translates to "Long Live India"?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic archery hopeful Ryan Tyack finished first in the all around men's recurve event at the 2012 Australian national championships?
... that the East Bay Vivarium is the oldest and largest retail vivarium in the United States?
... that the third digit in the banking industry's "3-6-3 Rule" refers to bankers being able to "tee off at the golf course by 3 p.m."?

08:00, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

... that development of the Ten Broeck Triangle (houses on Hall Place, pictured) in Albany, New York, was spurred by the 1845 removal of a cemetery whose bodies and coffins kept washing out in heavy storms?
... that Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn was a prisoner of war of the Japanese on the Burma Railway before becoming Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire and of Clwyd?
... that among the challenges to developing the Niger women's national football team is shari'a law being used to ban women from the sport in some parts of the country?
... that Carl Lachmund, who wrote detailed diaries on his studies with Franz Liszt, conducted a concert at the request of President William McKinley for the survivors of USS Maine?
... that the Jewish Orphanage of Berlin-Pankow was originally intended to be a home for refugee children who escaped pogroms after the assassination of Alexander II of Russia?
... that political boss John H. McCooey opposed the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt for President of the United States in 1932?
... that the script for British athletics film Fast Girls had to be re-written to remove all references to the Olympics?

00:00, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Swedish author Edith Unnerstad (pictured) wrote her first book at age 11 for a sister who had been hospitalized with scarlet fever?
... that the Japanese sea cucumber can aestivate and remain in a dormant state for up to four years?
... that Major Rohde Hawkins built the Royal Victoria Patriotic School as an asylum for war-orphaned girls?
... that while flying accidents were commonplace at RAAF training establishments during World War II, No. 8 Service Flying Training School's first fatality was from drowning?
... that Victor Gonzalez, Jr. was the first Puerto Rican driver to compete in a major NASCAR event?
... that Punsari, a small village in Gujarat, was awarded with the "Best Panchayat in Gujarat" title?
... that chef Myron Mixon is nicknamed the "winningest man in barbecue", having won more than 1,700 trophies?

15 June 2012

16:00, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the white rock shell (empty shell pictured) and the mulberry whelk both feed on other molluscs, but the white rock shell is also a cannibal?
... that Gojko Balšić, one of the founders of the League of Lezhë in 1444, was Skanderbeg's nephew?
... that Ryan Hanigan hit the first Major League Baseball pitch thrown to him for a double?
... that Haxhi Qamili, the main leader of the Peasant Revolt in Albania in 1914, was arrested by Serbian forces, tried in a court presided over by Xhelal Bey Zogu, and sentenced to hanging?
... that Marta met the Sierra Leone women's national football team in 2011 as part of the United Nations Development Programme?
... that the Lufilian Arc supplies 80% of the world's cobalt?
... that the family of Miami Zombie victim Ronald Poppo, a graduate of Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, believed he had died 30 years ago?

08:00, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the 2012 deployment of Carrier Strike Group Twelve will be the last for its famous flagship, the soon-to-be decommissioned aircraft carrier Enterprise (pictured)?
... that Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri painted the ceiling in the Gravisi-Barbabianca Palace?
... that the first time the Chase Court considered an appeal from a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the circuit courts, Congress withdrew the U.S. Supreme Court's power to hear those appeals?
... that Steve Waugh was the first cricket player to score 150 runs in an innings against all Test-playing nations, a Guinness record?
... that the mineral motukoreaite is named for Motukorea, the island in New Zealand where it was discovered?
... that the Druid's Head Inn, an old public house in Monmouth, Wales, now serves as the headquarters of the Monmouth Rugby Football Club?
... that Tim Bainey, Jr. plans to compete in a NASCAR race held on a track he co-owns?

00:00, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Domenico Ghirlandaio finished the frescoes of the Santa Fina Chapel (detail pictured) three years before the cult of Santa Fina was authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1481?
... that Duncan Curry, sometimes called the "Father of Baseball", was the president of the first organized baseball team and helped draft the first written rules of the game in 1845?
... that Algeripithecus, a 46–50 million year old fossil primate, was once crucial for the African origins of simians (monkeys and apes), but now suggests African origins for lemurs and lorisoids?
... that the Best Male Vocalist at the 2009 Indonesian Music Awards, Afgansyah Reza, never had any vocal training?
... that message passing in computer clusters built with commodity servers and switches is used by virtually every internet service?
... that Australian aboriginal 2008 silver medal winning Australian Opal Rohanee Cox started playing basketball again after an absence from the sport in order to inspire her daughter?
... that The Alley piano bar has walls papered with thousands of business cards, including ones from Jerry Brown and Gregg Allman?

14 June 2012

16:00, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the fungus species Hygrophorus olivaceoalbus (pictured) is nearly extinct in France?
... that Australian 2008 Paralympic swimming bronze medalist Annabelle Williams was a stunt double for Charlize Theron?
... that the PZL SM-4 Łątka never flew, because its engine was not approved for use in flight?
... that Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki organized the World Wrestling Peace Festival, an international supercard, as a way to promote world peace?
... that although Duke Huan of Tian Qi murdered Tian Yan to usurp the throne of Qi, the two brothers were buried together in the Two Kings' Cemetery?
... that Stanwell Tops had a Black Christmas in 2001?
... that While She Sleeps won the Kerrang! award for Best British Newcomer at the 2012 awards ceremony?

08:00, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Łazienkowska Thoroughfare (pictured), the most famous road in Poland, is part of the main transportation route for UEFA Euro 2012 connecting Okęcie Airport to the National Stadium in Warsaw?
... that Egyptian Olympic pentathlete Aya Medany's father was a member of a panel which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize?
... that water supply for mines in the Galilee Basin was provided as a reason to support the development of the Bradfield Scheme in Queensland, Australia?
... that Justin Timberlake's 2007 single "Summer Love" is about wanting to fall in love with a "lusty seasonal lover"?
... that Stephen Pryor won a no-hitter on June 8, 2012, in his fourth Major League Baseball appearance?
... that St Luke's Church in Christchurch, New Zealand, replaced an earlier church that was "ugly and barn-like"?
... that Get Married 3 features characters named after Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Hanung Bramantyo?

00:00, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the female Namaqua Sandgrouse incubates the eggs during the day and the more conspicuous male (pictured) takes the night shift?
... that according to ASME, Wyman-Gordon's 50,000-ton press was the largest machine in the world when completed in 1955?
... that the Pacific Pinball Museum has 800 pinball machines in storage in a secret location?
... that a sherd of medieval pottery was unearthed in 1956 at St James House in Monmouth?
... that fossils of Yelovichnus were initially believed to be the feeding trails of other organisms?
... that Charles Dennis Fisher, described as one of the "most prominent members of [the] educational staff" of the University of Oxford, died in the explosion of HMS Invincible at the Battle of Jutland?
... that 2010 Australian Junior National archery champion Alice Ingley has ancestors from the same area of England as the historical Robin Hood?

13 June 2012

16:00, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Fred Tenney (pictured) was described as "one of the best defensive first basemen of all time", while a different Fred Tenney played only six games at the position?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's Golf Ball paraphrases Piet Mondrian's pre-World War I black and white oval paintings such as Composition in Black and White?
... that diners eating at the Table Lumière in the three Michelin star restaurant Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester can select their own tableware?
... that despite finishing second in Tippeligaen with Molde FK in 2002, football coaches Kalle Björklund and Gunder Bengtsson were fired after six matches in 2003?
... that the West German Audio Book Library for the Blind made its first recordings at night, in a room covered with egg cartons?
... that the Sugababes song "Gotta Be You", according to band member Keisha Buchanan, is the first use of the crunk genre by a British band?
... that the use of "bloke", a slang term for a man, has inspired "First Bloke", a male variant of "First Lady"?

08:00, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the collection of the Nelson Museum, in Monmouth, Wales, was first housed in a gymnasium (exterior pictured) built by Lady Llangattock?
... that communist Poland's ORMO voluntary police reserves specialized in staging and performing criminal acts, unlawful arrests, and street beatings of peaceful protesters?
... that 5to Piso was the first album Ricardo Arjona released after moving to Warner Music?
... that the Emirates Cup was cancelled from the 2012–13 Arsenal season due to the 2012 London Olympics?
... that Mani Ratnam's Nayagan was one of the three Indian films to be included in Time's "All-Time 100 Movies" in 2005?
... that some of the most active parents in the Orthodox Jewish day school founded by Rabbi David Rebibo in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1965 were members of the local Reform temple?
... that muttongrass is eaten by sheep?

00:00, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Port of Póvoa de Varzim (pictured) in Portugal has 1000 years of recorded history and continuous use?
... that Bert Sincock, born in a gold rush boomtown in 1887, was the first British Columbia native to play Major League Baseball?
... that shoe salesman Hamid Ghassemi-Shall was sentenced to death because of an alleged e-mail?
... that an inscription discovered at Milecastle 19 of Hadrian's Wall is one of only 60 known dedications to the mother goddess known in Roman Britain?
... that Albert Einstein once played violin with the Zoellner Quartet, which earlier had played by invitation for Helen Keller?
... that Egyptian writings about the myth of Osiris do not clearly describe Osiris' death because the Egyptians feared that doing so might negatively affect the world?
... that the Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad was split along state lines in 1894?

12 June 2012

16:00, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the disputed Baldin Collection, including Cypresses in Starry Night by van Gogh (pictured), was looted from Germany during World War II and is today held by Russia?
... that Wes Ferrell leads all Major League Baseball pitchers in home runs hit in a season (9), and in a career (37)?
... that the name for the new bridge being built alongside the Forth Road Bridge and the Forth Bridge is to be chosen in a public vote in 2013?
... that Bach was "fired up as never before" when he began his second cycle of chorale cantatas with O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20, for the first Sunday after Trinity in 1724?
... that Clarence 13X taught that the letters of the word "Allah" stood for "arm, leg, leg, arm, head", indicating the divine status of humans?
... that the most viewed Indonesian film of 2011 was based on a story posted in a blog?
... that British archer Amy Oliver, who is due to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics, didn't like the sport when she first tried it?

08:00, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Centripetal Spring Armchair of 1849 (pictured), one of the first modern office chairs, was unsuccessful outside the US because it was considered immorally comfortable?
... that communist politician Rustam Effendi wrote the first Indonesian stage play?
... that the Japanese art film Megane, described as "an ode to the pleasures of unhurried living", was given its name after the director realized most characters wore glasses?
... that stock car racer Joey McCarthy started racing at age ten?
... that the first three concerts of Beyoncé Knowles's revue show Revel Presents: Beyoncé Live sold out within one minute?
... that Leydig cell hypoplasia is a rare genetic disorder that can cause pseudohermaphroditism or delayed or absent puberty in affected males?
... that 2012 Australian Opal Hanna Zavecz earned a basketball scholarship at the University of Wyoming even though the coach had never seen her play?

00:00, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

... that two factories (one pictured) in Copşa Mică, Romania, together made it one of the most polluted towns in Eastern Europe by the early 1990s?
... that John Hibbard played three years of college baseball for the University of Michigan despite having previously played professional baseball for the Chicago White Stockings?
... that despite São Tomé and Príncipe gaining independence in 1975, the women's national football team did not play their first FIFA recognised match until 2002?
... that Mermaid in Miami Beach was Roy Lichtenstein's first commissioned public art?
... that British World Champion Modern Pentathlete Mhairi Spence has an ambition to be the host of BBC One's quiz show A Question of Sport?
... that the U.S. Travel Act prohibits interstate or foreign travel to promote, manage or commit extortion, bribery, prostitution and other crimes?
... that the Southern Triangle can't be seen from Europe?

11 June 2012

16:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

... that when three men wearing gloves, masks and balaclavas were found on the roof of a church (pictured) missing £100,000 worth of lead, they were let off because police said they "might be there just for the view"?
... that the first SCCA E Production class racing championship won in a Mazda Miata was won by Terry McCarthy?
... that silicate perovskites may make up to 93% of the lower mantle and that the magnesium form is considered to be Earth's most abundant mineral?
... that Randolph Scott, the star of China Sky, referred to the film as "disappointing"?
... that Australian 2010 Commonwealth Games team archery gold medalist Taylor Worth is a member of a shadow archery team?
... that in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Porter subway station there are gloves attached to the escalator and embedded in the floor?
... that PSIR Rembang players attacked both referees in a match at 2008–09 Liga Indonesia Premier Division?

08:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

... that No. 7 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF (aircraft of unit pictured) was the only Royal Australian Air Force training unit to be based in Tasmania during World War II?
... that Once, which was directed by John Tiffany and choreographed by Steven Hoggett, has the most nominations at the 66th Tony Awards?
... that Elizabeth Potts was the only woman ever legally executed in Nevada?
... that Australian multiple swimming world record holder Benard Kieran took up swimming while serving time aboard a reformatory ship?
... that Cheap Trick's song "Southern Girls" is about girls in southern Canada, but the title was changed because writer Rick Nielsen didn't like the sound of "Southern Canadian Girls"?
... that exposed oak beams in the plantation house at Walnut Grove reveal Roman numerals marking where joists are to be attached?
... that Florida watermelon farmer Ross Chastain scored a top 10 finish in his very first NASCAR race?

00:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

... that when Cape Cod's village of Long Point, Massachusetts (pictured) became a ghost town, its residents took their houses with them – by floating them across the harbor?
... that Abdulwahab Hussain played a leading role and was arrested during Bahraini uprisings of 1994–2001 and 2011–2012?
... that Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow was sold on May 8, 2012, for $86.9 million, a world record auction price for contemporary art?
... that Lincoln MacMillan played on Michigan football teams that defeated Notre Dame in each of the first five games between the schools?
... that the television drama Kazoku no Uta has the lowest viewership ratings of any Fuji Television prime-time drama series?
... that during the War of 1812, Angus McDonald was commissioned as a captain in the Regular Army following his nomination and appointment by United States President James Madison?
... that Marika Mitsotakis likened the political style of her husband, Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis, to the calming effect of Valium?

10 June 2012

16:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Tim Schendel (2011 car pictured) was the last driver to win the NASCAR Midwest Division Championship?
... that the Swedish hymn En vänlig grönskas rika dräkt is used both as a summer hymn and for funerals, but is rarely sung in its entirety?
... that Anne Henrietta Martin of Nevada was the first woman to run for the United States Senate?
... that No. 7 Service Flying Training School RAAF graduated over 2,000 pilots under the Empire Air Training Scheme between 1941 and 1944?
... that Juan Luis Rodríguez-Vigil‎, President of the Principality of Asturias, resigned in 1993 because of Petromocho?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's Happy Tears was acquired in 1964 and not resold until 2002, when it established a new record for the auction price of a Lichtenstein work?
... that actor Alex Papps was still being recognised as his Home and Away character Frank Morgan twenty years after he originally departed the series?

08:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Ellen H. Johnson says Roy Lichtenstein's I Know...Brad was descended from Ingres' Madame Moitessier (pictured)?
... that mutations in the gene CYP17A1 lead to impaired sex steroid production in patients with the genetic disorder isolated 17,20-lyase deficiency?
... that Bozeman, Montana, is home to two breweries – the Bozeman Brewery Historic District and Spieth and Krug Brewery – now listed in the National Register of Historic Places?
... that the simulation video games Cafeteria Nipponica, Dungeon Village, Epic Astro Story, Grand Prix Story, and Hot Springs Story were developed by Japanese video game developer Kairosoft?
... that Walt Hazzard had his number retired by UCLA, but he allowed it to be reissued to Kevin Love?
... that in 2011, Namibia ranked fourth worldwide in uranium production, behind Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia?
... that hero of epic poetry Musa Kesedžija had three hearts?

00:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Jan Matejko created an ironic self-caricature of himself painting one of his works, the Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (pictured)?
... that the Asuka Historical Museum exhibits Asuka-period artefacts from Yamada-dera and the Takamatsuzuka Tomb?
... that Ignacy Krasicki's Pan Podstoli (1778) was one of the first Polish novels?
... that US academic Susan J. Douglas is concerned that depictions of high-powered women in media imply (incorrectly) that feminism has achieved its goals?
... that Taddeo d'Este was given a palace and admission to the Great Council of Venice for foiling an attack on Padua?
... that Magellan Development Group opted not to apply for public way permits for Coast at Lakeshore East because of the May 2012 Chicago Summit?
... that First Lady Michelle Obama describes Thomas Jefferson's attempts to grow four-foot-long cucumbers in her gardening book American Grown?

9 June 2012

16:00, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

... that in The Wedding Dance (pictured), a 1566 oil painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the movements of the people show that they are acting inappropriately or in an epitome of rustic buffoonery?
... that a new election will be held to choose the Nepalese Constituent Assembly to draft a constitution following the previous one's failure?
... that despite not playing football before he was 10 years old, Zymer Bytyqi became the youngest player in Tippeligaen aged 15 years and 261 days?
... that the title of the Japanese-language album 20 [Twenty] by South Korean rock band F.T. Island refers to the average age of the band members?
... that a character in the British farce Simple Spymen remarks he needs "a thin moustache on the top lip and a pointed beard on the bottom" to pass for a Frenchman?
... that Seline Hizli was one of only 34 individuals to be accepted onto the three-year acting course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2007?
... that in social network analysis, a Simmelian tie is the basic relationship in a clique?

08:00, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

... that at 53 years and 275 days, Queenie Newall (pictured) is the oldest female athlete to have won a gold medal at an Olympic Games?
... that film director and producer Luciano Ercoli is married to actress Nieves Navarro, star of several of his giallo thrillers?
... that Plesiopithecus, a fossil primate from the late Eocene in Egypt, closely resembles the aye-aye of Madagascar and raises questions about the evolutionary history of lemurs?
... that the only NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that Dan Pardus competed in was delayed by both fire and rain?
... that Iván Guzmán de Rojas created software that could translate multiple languages simultaneously and served as Vice-President of the National Electoral Court of Bolivia?
... that Indonesian director Teddy Soeriaatmadja decided to go into film after seeing Reservoir Dogs?
... that Hamka was accused of plagiarising his novel Sinking of the van der Wijck, described as his best?

00:00, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

... that during his ownership of Andrews Tavern (pictured), Samuel Andrews served as postmaster for the governments of both the Confederate States of America and the United States?
... that when the Munich Crisis started, Edward Fennessy and Geoffrey Roberts built the famous RAF Fighter Command plotting room in only 36 hours?
... that "3 Spoons of Suga", a song by English girl group Sugababes, was included in the soundtrack for the 2007 film St Trinian's?
... that because wood used to build the Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Hawaii's Koke'e State Park had to be floated in salt water, the buildings avoided termite damage?
... that Jimmy Makar won 22 NASCAR Winston Cup Series races as crew chief for Rusty Wallace, Dale Jarrett and Bobby Labonte?
... that the church of La Yesa in the Province of Valencia was burned down in 1840 following the Carlist Wars but was subsequently reconstructed?
... that U.S. 2012 presidential candidate Bob Ely refers to himself as a "jerk" and lists 24 reasons to not vote for him?

8 June 2012

16:00, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the racehorse Parisot, winner of the 1796 Epsom Oaks, was named after French ballet dancer Mademoiselle Parisot (pictured), whose performance created a stir in London that year?
... that satirist Abdul Samay Hamed was attacked by a knife-wielding man, but succeeded in disarming his attacker?
... that since the Israel national association football team played its first official game in 1934, more than 450 players have represented Israel in international matches?
... that the Spotted Sandgrouse may travel many kilometres from its feeding ground in order to drink?
... that bad weather was a constant hindrance to operations at No. 6 Service Flying Training School RAAF in Mallala, South Australia, during World War II?
... that according to critics, the Sugababes' song "It Ain't Easy" contains compositional elements from "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode?
... that Sydney Cumbers was nicknamed "Long John Silver" because he wore an eyepatch to conceal his missing eye that he lost when he was a child?

08:00, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

... that George Vaughan Maddox, architect of Kingsley House and Hendre House (pictured), was a native of Monmouth?
... that Kerry Blue Terrier Torums Scarf Michael was the first dog to win Crufts, Westminster and the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship?
... that Michael Roach, an American professional soccer player, played in college with future teammates Kevin Alston and Alec Purdie?
... that it took Stan and Jan Berenstain two years to revise The Big Honey Hunt, the first Berenstain Bears book, to Dr. Seuss's satisfaction?
... that George Strez Balšić was one of several noblemen who renounced their support of Skanderbeg in 1457, and he sold his fortress to the Ottomans?
... that according to The Fix by Damian Thompson, we can become addicted to sugar in the same way we can become a heroin addict?
... that Fred Bonine set the world's record in the 110-yard dash in 1886, and later saw over a million patients in his medical office?

00:00, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Kilbirnie Castle (ruins pictured) in North Ayrshire includes a 15th-century keep with walls that are 7 to 8 feet (2.1–2.4 m) thick?
... that BBC broadcaster and producer Ursula Eason pioneered the use of sign language in television programmes for deaf children?
... that the killing of four policemen in an ambush in Rentería was the Basque separatist group ETA's deadliest attack of 1982?
... that the Huites Dam provides irrigation for 89,700 hectares (222,000 acres) of land?
... that in Posthumous Trilogy, a Mate Matišić drama collection, all three plays end in the suicide of the protagonist?
... that Jan Matejko's painting The Hanging of the Sigismund Bell received a golden medal in the Paris World's Fair of 1878?
... that Frank Bliss, the first Michigan Wolverine to play Major League Baseball, tucked his trousers into long boots for shin protection as a catcher in the early 1870s?

7 June 2012

16:00, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

... that an 1888 letter written by Weldy Walker (pictured), the second African American in Major League Baseball, was called "perhaps the most passionate cry for justice ever voiced by a Negro athlete"?
... that the remains of the ancient Roman Empire settlement of Baalbek were almost completely destroyed during the Near East earthquake of 1759?
... that Polish historian Stefania Wolicka was one of the first women to receive a PhD degree in modern Europe?
... that Thomas Hart Benton's mural Achelous and Hercules, now on display at the Smithsonian, was originally painted for a women's clothing store in Kansas City?
... that local tribes have nicknamed the Malagarasi as "the river of bad spirits"?
... that geologist T. Wayland Vaughan had a private audience with Emperor Hirohito and was decorated with the Order of the Rising Sun?
... that the feature film Tortoise in Love was entirely crowd funded from the village of Kingston Bagpuize and Southmoor?

08:00, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

... that 2012 Australian Opal Samantha Richards (pictured) earned a gold medal playing on the Australian basketball team at the 2007 World University Games?
... that biscuit grass can grow in brackish or salt marshes, and survive crude oil pollution?
... that critics compared the Sugababes' 2007 song "Never Gonna Dance Again" to "Careless Whisper" by George Michael?
... that William Wheaton helped draft the first set of baseball rules in 1845?
... that Longkou Mining Group, a subsidiary of Shandong Energy, is the only company in China mining coal under the sea?
... that the species observed in Lower Hael Wood near Monmouth include ducks, skylarks, sparrowhawks and long-tailed tits?
... that Richard Benjamin Harrison, nicknamed "The Old Man", is co-owner of the Las Vegas pawn shop featured in the reality TV series Pawn Stars?

00:00, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Crown and Thistle Inn in Agincourt Square (pictured), Monmouth, was home to one of the earliest Masonic Lodges in Monmouthshire?
... that the open-wheel racing career of Emerson Newton-John was put on hold for over a decade by the September 11 attacks?
... that between 1848 and 1981, every director of Liberia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had originally resided in Montserrado County?
... that An Ruzi was made ruler of Qi despite being just a little boy, but was killed by his older brother Duke Dao of Qi after less than a year on the throne?
... that Oakley, a plantation home in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was built in 1828 by Samuel Alsop, Jr. as a gift for his daughter?
... that Indonesian actress Kinaryosih won four separate awards for her role in Suddenly Dangdut?
... that the design of the Dyott Bomber was modified from an aircraft intended for the exploration of South Africa?

6 June 2012

16:00, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

... that one of the world's great philatelic rarities, the 1 peso "In Ps" tête-bêche pair (pictured), is the only known copy of the State of Buenos Aires 1859 Barquitos postage stamp error?
... that Wedlock, a 2009 book by Wendy Moore, details the abusive second marriage of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, the great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II?
... that the career of Canadian professional wrestler Quinson Valentino, one of Ontario's top heel performers during the 2000s, ended after losing a retirement match in 2008?
... that Hamka's debut novel Under the Protection of Ka'bah promoted orthodox Islam as a path to true development?
... that the Illinois Manufacturers' Association has its origins in a group formed to oppose laws against sweatshops?
... that Pakistani cricketers hold the record for the highest number of wins in Twenty20 Internationals?
... that in his tell-all memoir The Bronx Zoo, Sparky Lyle talked about how he enjoyed sitting on birthday cakes naked?

08:00, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Rhode Island governor and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Stephen Hopkins (pictured), was also an astronomer who helped take measurements during the 1769 transit of Venus across the sun?
... that "No Me Ames", a duet by American recording artists Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, is a cover of the Italian hit "Non Amarmi", recorded by Aleandro Baldi and Francesca Alotta?
... that, aside from Monnow Bridge Gatehouse, the only standing portion that remains of Monmouth Town Walls and Defences is attached to a pub?
... that many geographic features on Campbell Island, New Zealand, were named for members of the French 1874 Transit of Venus astronomical expedition?
... that the most viewed Indonesian film of 1989, Pacar Ketinggalan Kereta, was the last feature film for both director Teguh Karya and star Tuti Indra Malaon?
... that over one thousand shelters were opened to accommodate evacuees from Hurricane Bud?
... that Bronwyn Oliver's 2005 sculpture Vine is over 16 metres (52 ft) high and was assembled by eight Croatian welders?

00:00, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Neltje Blanchan's 1897 book Bird Neighbors used photographs of stuffed birds (red-winged blackbird pictured) because contemporary cameras could not take good photographs of living ones?
... that Australian Opal Tess Madgen's U-18 South Australia Country team beat Victoria 99–61 in one of the biggest wins ever at the Australian national championships?
... that the transit of Venus of 1639 was predicted by self-taught astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks, and the only recorded observations of it were by him and his friend William Crabtree?
... that Rear Admiral Ronald Arthur Hopwood was named poet laureate of the Royal Navy by Time in 1941?
... that the German National Library of Economics, with over 4 million items and 46 kilometers of shelf space, is the world's largest economics library?
... that special trains were laid on for voters returning to Oxford University for the 1860 election of the Boden Professor of Sanskrit?
... that Rosenborg BK's young midfielder Ole Kristian Selnæs is a big fan of the Norwegian soap opera Hotel Cæsar?

5 June 2012

16:00, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Leicestershire (pictured) are the only team that have been English Twenty20 cricket champions more than once?
... that Blur guitarist Graham Coxon recorded 21 tracks for his 10-track album A+E?
... that cutthroat grass is primarily found in only two counties in central Florida?
... that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.6 floatplane trainer was the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service's last pusher aircraft?
... that Henk Ten Berge of De Telegraaf described When the Light Comes as "one of the strangest films ever produced by a Dutchman"?
... that in 386 BC Duke Tai of Tian Qi was formally recognized as ruler of the state of Qi, ending over six centuries of rule by the House of Jiang?
... that the 1907 Sydney bathing costume protests were a response by men wearing women's clothing to proposed regulations on beach dress?

08:00, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

... that when first noted, arsenoclasite appeared very similar to sarkinite (pictured), but with one perfect cleavage?
... that poet, translator and educator Margaret Diesendorf, born in Vienna and raised in Hungary, was described as "the Conscience of New South Wales"?
... that the successful kidney transplantation to a patient from the UAE in Cleveland led to the annual running of the UAE Healthy Kidney 10K in New York?
... that the young-adult novel Ice Quake by Colin Bateman involves a missing satellite, a double-size polar bear and a cryoseism?
... that Australia won the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup Final by 98 runs from India, clinching their fifth World Cup title?
... that Brushstrokes was the first component of Roy Lichtenstein's Brushstrokes series?
... that a German Gigolo has won four gold and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics?

00:00, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Bloomsbury Farm (pictured), built between 1785 and 1790, is one of the oldest surviving privately owned residences in Spotsylvania County, Virginia?
... that more than 600 sacrificial horses and 30 dogs are estimated to be buried in the 2,500-year-old tomb of Duke Jing of Qi?
... that Richard Petty Motorsports swept the front row in qualifying for the 2012 Coca-Cola 600?
... that Thomas Dick, Superintendent of Otago Province in New Zealand, "distinguished himself more by an assiduous devotion to duty than by any display of brilliance"?
... that poet Iolo Morganwg of Flemingston learned to read by watching his father carve words on tombstones?
... that Italian Bracco Geas basketball player Laura Summerton won two Olympics silver medals, a Commonwealth gold medal and a World Championship gold medal with the Australian Opals?
... that the interactive website Elf Yourself, an annual tradition where viewers can place personal images into downloadable videos of dancing elves, was first developed by Jason Zada?

4 June 2012

16:00, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the US Navy has been developing autonomous underwater gliders (example pictured) to track submarines and marine mammals?
... that the Oblates of Mary Immaculate founded missionary stations at Aminuis and Epukiro in rural eastern Namibia at the beginning of the 20th century?
... that stock car driver Casey Roderick was described as a "legitimate protege of Bill Elliott"?
... that the Taney Court held that it had no jurisdiction to review former Congressman Clement Vallandigham's arrest and trial by military commission by means of habeas corpus?
... that diplomat Karol Boscamp-Lasopolski was executed by an angry mob during the Kościuszko Uprising?
... that Thursday Nights, Channel 5 once almost led to a fight between Chelsea and Manchester City players?
... that comedienne Connie Ediss, in a string of popular London musicals from 1896, became known for her "buxom bourgeoise" characters?

08:00, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

... that in State v. Ben Kuhl (mugshot pictured), precedent was set, extending identification of individuals in criminal cases to include palm prints, not just fingerprints?
... that Australian Opal and Logan Thunder center Cayla Francis chose to play basketball over netball because she preferred the contact aspect of basketball?
... that the M16 rocket was used in only a single engagement of the Second World War?
... that the hooded oyster is known as Saccostrea cucullata (Born, 1778)?
... that the Oscoda County Courthouse, unlike many of its contemporaries, is a wood frame structure and not built of stone or brick?
... that according to Micronesian mythology, trickster god Olifat created much discord among the gods, but gave humanity the secret of fire?
... that J. K. Rowling agreed to let North Foreland Lodge girls' school perform Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but later withdrew consent as this would have been a world premiere?

00:00, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

... that an Anglo-Saxon princess (reconstruction pictured) was buried on a bed with her jewellery in the Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery?
... that Robbie Faggart won two races in five days at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1992?
... that the 1715 Bach cantata O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165, relates to Jesus teaching Nicodemus about "being born of water and of the Spirit"?
... that Daresbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, received a supreme award for renovation some weeks after it suffered significant earthquake damage?
... that heavy rain on its grass runway at RAAF Station Amberley in 1940 forced No. 3 Service Flying Training School to institute a 13-hour workday and fly at nearby airfields to maintain schedule?
... that polio eradication efforts in Pakistan were hampered by a vaccination campaign conducted by the CIA as cover in the search for Osama bin Laden?
... that Get Married 2 was released not long after its director got married?

3 June 2012

16:00, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

... that St. Oswald's church, Oswaldkirk (pictured), hosted the first sermon of the future Archbishop of Canterbury and chaplain to Charles II, John Tillotson?
... that Camp Paxson Boy Scout Camp was used as a training camp for conscientious objector smokejumpers during World War II?
... that English historian Alison Weir has produced books about Eleanor of Aquitaine in both fiction and non-fiction?
... that Fain Skinner won the 1999 World Karting Association national championship?
... that certain birds are assisted by the presence of other members of their species in raising their young, a phenomenon known as the Fraser Darling effect?
... that Lesbian and Gay Youth: Care and Counseling was the first book published on health and mental health care for lesbian and gay youth?
... that the 1970 film Le foto proibite di una signora per bene features a bossa nova-influenced score that has been compared to the work of Antônio Carlos Jobim?

08:00, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

... that wood wasps and their fungal symbionts, Amylostereum fungi (pictured), may cause a total economic loss of $254 million per year for the Canadian forest industry over the next 20 years?
... that the village of Guimerà accounts for 24 of the structures on the government of Catalonia's list of architectural heritage monuments?
... that the San Diego Chargers retired the number of Junior Seau posthumously at his memorial?
... that at age nine, Robertson Davies was paid for writing an article published in the Renfrew Mercury, his father's newspaper?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's Roto Broil was sold at Sotheby's for $75,000 in 1976?
... that during the Stalinist terror Baron Jerzy Waldorff defamed Catholic priests while serving as an editor of the popular Kraków magazine Przekrój?
... that 1988 St. Leger Stakes winner Minster Son was the first Thoroughbred racehorse to win a British Classic with its breeder riding as the jockey?

00:00, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Mexican Uriarte workshop (pictured) still creates Talavera pottery using 16th-century methods?
... that Minori Hayakari, holder of the Japanese record in women's 3000 m steeplechase, has won six consecutive national titles since the event was introduced in 2006?
... that 20% of the authors in various academic disciplines report being the target of coercive citation by scientific journal editors?
... that Richard Wickes was the first American casualty of the American Revolutionary War in New Jersey?
... that growing on the shell of the Pacific pink scallop helps the sponge Myxilla incrustans avoid being swamped by shifting sediment on the seabed?
... that the Indonesian film Suddenly Dangdut won 12 film awards, despite being filmed in seven days?
... that the Monmouth Methodist Church in Monmouth, Wales, was set back behind the houses along St James Street by law?

2 June 2012

16:00, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Tropical Storm Beryl (pictured) was the strongest North Atlantic tropical cyclone to ever make landfall during the month of May?
... that Access2Research is petitioning U.S. President Obama to issue an open-access mandate for publicly funded research?
... that in 1896, baritone Anton Sistermans premiered first Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen in Berlin, then Vier ernste Gesänge by Johannes Brahms in Vienna?
... that Jay Jeffrey was the first Division I head coach in Texas State Bobcats baseball history?
... that Titanic 2020: Cannibal City is a sequel to the apocalyptical fiction, Titanic 2020?
... that Andrea Bianchi's Nude per l'assassino follows "the giallo formula almost to the letter"?
... that the Italian Republic of Genoa controlled the Greek island of Rhodes for two years, from 1248 to 1250?

08:00, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Roy Lichtenstein's Portrait of Madame Cézanne is an ironic quotation of art historian Erle Loran's outline of the original Cézanne portrait (pictured)?
... that Johan Sørensen was the first publisher of cheap books for the mass market in Norway?
... that cancer cell chromosomes undergo distinctive changes in addition to mutations?
... that 2012 Australia women's national basketball team member Kathleen MacLeod played for a year each in Hungary and France?
... that George Gissing considered his novella The Paying Guest to be "a frothy trifle"?
... that the father–son duo of Marques and Kris Johnson each won a college basketball national championship with the UCLA Bruins after being the top high school player in Los Angeles?
... that Glen Morgan and James Wong included several references to their cancelled series Space: Above and Beyond in their script for Millennium's "The Thin White Line"?

00:00, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

... that centenarian Sammy Cox (pictured) of Carrick, Tasmania, may not have been as old as he claimed?
... that despite writing many scientific papers at Yale University and having the time limit waived, carcinologist Martin Burkenroad never submitted a dissertation?
... that Blue Scar was the first feature film to be scored by a British woman?
... that in Nguyen v. INS, the US Supreme Court upheld a law making it harder for a foreign-born illegitimate child to inherit US citizenship from the father than from the mother?
... that Stafanie Taylor, the 2011 ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year, is the only player to have scored half-centuries in three consecutive Twenty20 Internationals?
... that Susan Clark and Diane Keaton received Emmy nominations for playing Amelia Earhart in made-for-TV movies on NBC in 1976 and on TNT in 1994?
... that Fashion Star season one winner Kara Laricks describes her design aesthetic as "modern-day Annie Hall meets a Japanese street style"?

1 June 2012

16:00, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Niels Kaas (pictured) was the chancellor of Denmark during the late 1500s?
... that Action Saybusch was intended to be the first of several German expulsions of Poles from Silesia to the occupied General Government in World War II?
... that renowned German furniture designer Tommi Parzinger spent the last 15 years of his life working on Expressionist paintings?
... that Brule Lake in Minnesota is the source of two rivers that enter Lake Superior forty miles apart?
... that after a WNBL game in which Kristen Veal scored 16 points, other players shaved Veal's head to support the Leukemia Foundation?
... that the deluxe cover to Simian Mobile Disco's 2012 album, Unpatterns, is back to front and forms a moiré pattern with the CD image?
... that Arsenal went 995 minutes without conceding a goal in European football?

08:00, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Monmouth Regimental Museum displays a variety of objects, including a mediaeval "crock pot" and a baby gas mask (pictured)?
... that Lucio Fulci's 1977 film Sette note in nero has been compared to the later American film Eyes of Laura Mars?
... that although ROCOSes are visible astronomical objects, it is impossible to determine whether or not they belong to our galaxy?
... that Nikolai Ramm Østgaard served as president of the International Ski Federation for 17 years, from 1934 to 1951?
... that Reformed theologian G. I. Williamson, in the tradition of Puritan Sabbatarianism, says viewing television, newspapers or magazines is improper for Sunday Sabbath?
... that according to Rap-Up magazine, the double-sided poster included in Rihanna's 2009 box set 3 CD Collector's Set is worth the price of the album alone?
... that Snurge was the first maiden to win the St. Leger Stakes for 77 years and retired as the biggest money winner in European horseracing?

00:00, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Stanisław Klimecki (pictured) served as the President of Kraków only for a few weeks before being fired and arrested by the Gestapo in September 1939, which led to his 1942 execution?
... that 12-year-old Tom Schaar is the only person to ever complete a 1080, described as "the holy grail of all skateboard tricks”?
... that the song "Si Piensas, Si Quieres" was the third number-one hit for Roberto Carlos and Rocío Dúrcal in the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart?
... that Limonana, a lemon and mint drink that is widely popular in the Middle East, was invented by an advertising agency?
... that Gerard Reve's The Fourth Man, commissioned by the Dutch foundation Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek for the 1981 Boekenweek, was turned down as too controversial?
... that the flowerheads of the fern-leaf spider flower, Grevillea longifolia, look like toothbrushes?
... that Power has been described as powerful?