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31 December 2013

12:00, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Wilhelm Zahn was one of the commanding officers during the sinking of MV Wilhelm Gustloff (pictured), which has been described as "Adolf Hitler's Titanic"?
... that more than 35,000 pounds (16,000 kg) of sediment flow through Hemlock Creek per day?
... that George Carleton has been suggested as the real author behind the pseudonym Martin Marprelate?
... that after its victory over the University of Virginia in a 1982 men's basketball game, Chaminade University canceled a plan to rename itself the University of Honolulu?
... that the roadable aircraft prototype Aeromobil 2.5 successfully performed a flight in early 2013?
... that Mary Barra has been named the next CEO of General Motors, which will make her the first female leader of a major automaker?
... that a dead elephant is buried under a road junction in Brighton's Bear Road area?

00:00, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Ann Thwaytes paid for the Clock Tower (pictured) in Herne Bay, Kent, England, to be built in 1837?
... that the amount of acidity flowing through Catawissa Creek at its confluence with the Audenried Tunnel is 100 times the total maximum daily load?
... that fossils of larvae and pupae are known from the extinct ant Anonychomyrma geinitzi?
... that "Turn Me Out", originally by Praxis featuring Kathy Brown, has been covered by 2 Shoes and Russ Chimes?
... that AAP politician Dharmender Singh contested the 2013 Delhi election after the original candidate, his sister Santosh Koli, died in a hit-and-run accident?
... that according to the Imperial War Museum, the youngest authenticated British soldier in World War I was a 13-year-old machine gunner at the Somme who had enlisted at age 12?
... that Billy Bates raced against an unchained cheetah – and won?

30 December 2013

12:00, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

... that two dharani pillars (pictured) erected in Baoding in 1502 are inscribed with the latest known examples of the Tangut script?
... that Michigan's Alma Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013, contains 72 structures?
... that the ants Anonychomyrma samlandica and A. geinitzi have been preserved in the same piece of amber?
... that Denis Redman received the Order of the British Empire in 1942 for his work in the Middle East and in the 1963 New Year Honours, he was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath?
... that when the 1920 Alabama Crimson Tide football team played LSU, it marked the first homecoming game in school history?
... that the Argentine telenovela Sin código was nominated for Martín Fierro Awards every year it aired, and won three awards in 2005?
... that fashion blogger Chiara Ferragni has become a model for Guess?

00:00, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the concept of hinged dissections was popularized by Henry Dudeney, who introduced the hinged dissection of a square into a triangle (pictured) in his 1907 book The Canterbury Puzzles?
... that a medal by John Croker marked the Act of Grace of 1717, which freed from prison hundreds of Jacobites, but not quite all?
... that Rostraureum tropicale is a pathogen of Terminalia ivorensis and causes basal stem cankers on dying trees?
... that although Maya Angelou is best known for her autobiographies, she has also been successful as a poet?
... that Emperor Aizong of the Jin committed suicide in the Mongol siege of Caizhou after escaping from the besieged city of Kaifeng during the Mongol–Jin war?
... that Theodore Holmes spent $750,000 developing the chicken products for Chicken George restaurants?
... that 2012 Spanish Paralympic archer Guillermo Rodriguez Gonzalez blamed the heat in London as a reason for not medaling?

29 December 2013

12:00, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the Sullivan County Courthouse (pictured) is located in the highest county seat in Pennsylvania?
... that at the Battle of Tawahin between the Abbasids and the Tulunids, the commanders of both armies fled the battlefield?
... that Patrick Schuster threw four consecutive no-hitters for his high school baseball team, setting a Florida state record?
... that Carol Channing, Donald Trump and Nicholas Turturro made cameo appearances on the sitcom The Drew Carey Show in the episode "New York and Queens"?
... that Stefan Marinović printed his first book in the printing house of Vićenco Vuković?
... that the Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse Lord Kanaloa was said to be "a pioneer for Japanese sprinters" by his trainer?
... that Neil Combee was rejected as a candidate for the Florida Senate because his campaign wrote a check that was one cent short?

00:00, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Lord Nairne was one of the first to rally to the cause of the Old Pretender (pictured) in the Jacobite rising of 1715?
... that the Yangon-based Myanmar National Symphony Orchestra, founded in 2001, was permitted to perform just three public concerts in its first dozen years of existence?
... that Francisco Javier Muñiz was considered the first important naturalist from Argentina?
... that Scintillate was rated an "inferior" winner of the Epsom Oaks?
... that the Battle of Shela was a major change in the history of the coast of Kenya?
... that artist James Le Jeune is said to have been "a brilliant catcher in the wry"?

28 December 2013

12:00, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

... that during the Mongol siege of Kaifeng, the Jin Dynasty (Jin envoys pictured) used extensive gunpowder technology, including trebuchet bombs and fire lances?
... that the Spanish Red Cross was involved with organizing disabled sports in Spain during the 1950s?
... that the Vanmeter Farm once included a pair of Indian mounds and one of Ohio's first tree farms?
... that South Sudanese Minister of Health Riek Gai Kok has been a member of the parliaments of both Sudan and South Sudan?
... that the 1953 Tamil film Thirumbi Paar was written by M. Karunanidhi, a prominent member of the Dravidian Progress Federation, as a satire on the ruling Indian National Congress?
... that Frederick Fox designed hats for Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the British Royal Family?
... that Hellcow was listed by TIME as one of the "Top 10 Oddest Marvel Characters"?

00:00, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the recent derailment (pictured) in the Bronx of a Metro-North commuter train caused the first passenger deaths in the railroad's history?
... that in 1940 the Supreme Court of Estonia accepted an order, given by the government of the Estonian SSR, to disband itself?
... that Frank Clark put on 60 pounds (27 kg) during his first two years with the Michigan Wolverines football team?
... that the first described fossil of Anochetus dubius is surrounded by a brownish bacterial growth?
... that Dorle Soria, a founder of Angel Records, helped promote Leonard Bernstein's 1943 debut with the New York Philharmonic?
... that Providence Milwaukie Hospital was originally private but became a community facility only three years after construction?
... that the satirical novel Er ist wieder da was priced at €19.33, a deliberate reference to Hitler's ascent to power in that year?

27 December 2013

12:00, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

... that it has been said of painter Vardges Sureniants (pictured) that he "will live as long as the Armenian people"?
... that the snake Philodryas baroni emits a foul-smelling substance from the cloaca when frightened?
... that Virginia House Delegate Isaac Parsons served as a militia officer during the American Revolutionary War and operated a ferry across the South Branch Potomac River?
... that the first Duke of Qin inherited his father's land at Lixian when his older brother Shifu chose to dedicate his life to war against the barbarians who killed their grandfather?
... that Sandycombe Lodge, a Grade II* listed house designed by and built for artist J. M. W. Turner in 1813, was added to English Heritage's Heritage at Risk Register in 2013?
... that 2012 Spanish wheelchair tennis Paralympian Lola Ochoa Ribes first played the sport using her everyday wheelchair?
... that in a survey of 270 Americans, none of them knew how global warming works?

00:00, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

... that exactly 1,000 years after "Good King Wenceslas" died, Saint Wenceslas Church (pictured) was built in commemoration of the event?
... that Koller's sickle is also Rauber's sickle?
... that the third key of alchemist Basil Valentine may describe a complex chemical process known as the volatilization of gold chloride?
... that Department S's second single, "Going Left Right", has been described as "among the finest songs of the entire post-punk early '80s"?
... that the U.S.–UAE 123 Agreement for Peaceful Civilian Nuclear Energy Cooperation is considered the nonproliferation "gold standard" for nuclear cooperation agreements?
... that the Poramadulla Central College cricket team began to play at a prison camp when its home ground fell into disrepair?
... that Nowell Parr was responsible for an Old Packhorse and Three Horseshoes?

26 December 2013

12:00, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

... that mazurek cakes (pictured) are traditionally served in Poland during Easter and Christmas?
... that Les cadeaux de Noël, an opera in one act by Xavier Leroux, premiered on Christmas Day at the Opéra-Comique during World War I?
... that Kalanchoe blossfeldiana is often called the Christmas Kalanchoe due to its flamboyant and colourful blooms in winter?
... that Merry Christmas to You was described by Grace S. Aspinwall of CCM Magazine as being a "fun, entertaining ensemble of Christmas music"?
... that William Cooke gave Selwyn College "five thousand rare, valuable, and useful patristic, liturgical, and other works"?
... that Die Singphoniker recorded Schubert's complete part songs and Singphonic Christmas, European Christmas carols?
... that The X Factor winner Sam Bailey, who got the 2013 UK Christmas number one with a cover version of "Skyscraper", has the nickname "screwbo", a portmanteau of "screw" and "SuBo"?

00:00, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

... that in his Nativity (pictured), Petrus Christus symbolizes the first mass by showing the angels dressed in vestments for the Eucharist?
... that Oh for Joy, the first Christmas studio album from David Crowder Band, reached a peak position of six on Christian Albums?
... that a polar bear sketch by William Gordon Burn Murdoch, who painted an 1892 Antarctic Expedition, has been used as a Christmas card?
... that Leona Lewis recorded her first Christmas album, Christmas, with Love, on the recommendation of Simon Cowell?
... that Danny Dyer, who is set to debut as Mick Carter in EastEnders on Christmas Day, was also approached to play Carl White in the show?
... that the arctic–alpine woodrush Luzula wahlenbergii has the common name Reindeer Wood-rush?
... that A Boy was Born, the first major vocal composition by Benjamin Britten, received its premiere in 1934 as a BBC broadcast?

25 December 2013

12:00, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the world's largest gingerbread house (example pictured) had edible walls and measured 2,520 square feet (234 m²)?
... that Andrew Lusk Shields tried to persuade Major General Christopher Maltby to surrender Hong Kong, but he fought on until "Black Christmas" 1941?
... that arctic or snowy wood-rush has been described as one of the most ecologically important of all arctic plants?
... that Sondre Bratland's Christmas album Rosa frå Betlehem was recorded in the Church of the Nativity?
... that in 1670, agents of Cosimo III tried to buy the Adoration of the Magi by Veronese by bribing every member of the Venetian confraternity that had commissioned it?
... that composer Heinrich Schütz published only the recitatives of his Christmas Story and offered the other music for sale on request?
... that the Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection includes Britain's first commercially produced Christmas card?

00:00, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the extinct ant Anonychomyrma constricta (pictured) has been placed in four different genera since it was first described in 1868?
... that American football punter Will Hagerup kicked a punt in 2010 that was the longest for Michigan Wolverines football since 1987?
... that King of Serbia Stefan Dečanski fled to Petrič Fortress when his son Stefan Dušan tried to overthrow him in 1331?
... that the Lincoln Road–Pine River Bridge, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, was completed in 1922 at a total cost of $18,186.15?
... that the Fraternal Society of Patriots of Both Sexes met in the Jacobins convent which also hosted meetings of the Jacobin Club?
... that Malplaquet House in Stepney, London, uninhabited for over a century, is "possibly the most superbly restored, privately owned Georgian house in the country"?
... that Vincenzo Negrini's earliest recorded performances were at the Teatro Comunitativo where he appeared in Mercadante's opera Didone abbandonata and Rossini's Semiramide?

24 December 2013

12:00, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

... that in the year following Herbert Hoover's nomination for President of the United States, more than 17,000 people visited his birthplace (pictured) in West Branch, Iowa?
... that Arthur Hulme was the first Brighton & Hove Albion footballer to be awarded a benefit match?
... that Turkestan cockroaches are replacing crickets as feeder insects?
... that a painting by Keith Henderson was shown at the first WAAC Britain at War exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art despite it provoking fury in the Air Ministry?
... that flow cytometry bioinformaticians use methods from computational statistics and machine learning to analyse single cell data gathered by flow cytometry for cancer and HIV/AIDS research?
... that Wesley Gray took a four-year sabbatical from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business to serve in the United States Marine Corps?
... that the declaration of Christmas Peace is read publicly on Christmas Eve at the Old Great Square in the Finnish city of Turku, and has been almost every year since the 14th century?

00:00, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

... that when the Bronze Heads from Ife (example pictured) were found in Nigeria in 1938, Leo Frobenius said they were Ancient Greek and explained the Atlantis myth?
... that the Great Western Iron and Steel Company went bankrupt in the Panic of 1893 and its mill never began operations?
... that the fossils of the dinosaur Arcovenator escotae were found through preliminary digging before construction took place on the A8 motorway in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France?
... that in 2012, painter Aleah Chapin became the first American woman to win the UK National Portrait Gallery's BP Portrait Award?
... that all 26 crew were rescued when SS Gasfire struck a mine in 1941?
... that Leyla Güngör scored a goal against Spain in her first game as a member of the Turkey women's national football team?
... that for the first season of Masters of Sex, Michelle Ashford assembled a majority-female writing staff, although she says this was unintentional?

23 December 2013

12:00, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Adrienne Augarde (pictured) suffered a fatal attack of appendicitis while her show was playing at the Majestic Theater in Chicago?
... that the first actual dentists to open clinics in the history of Philippines dentistry were a Filipino and a Frenchman?
... that Bonnier Carlsen temporarily halted its re-release of one of the Barna Hedenhös Swedish children's books because the 1950 publication refers to Native Americans as "red skins"?
... that Elmaamul was sold at Keeneland Sales for $185,000 (£110,000)?
... that the experience of Emil Rebreanu, an Austro-Hungarian Romanian military officer executed during World War I, inspired his brother Liviu to write the novel Forest of the Hanged?
... that the giant spiny frog is the largest frog in Hong Kong?
... that Mikio Mizuta founded Josai University in between two of his terms as the finance minister of Japan?

00:00, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Summer Leys (pictured) in Northamptonshire, England, is a nature reserve in an area of international importance for wintering wildfowl?
... that the computer model for the future version of the Enterprise seen in the Star Trek:Enterprise episode "Azati Prime" was created in only a few hours?
... that when homologous chromosomes do not separate correctly, it can lead to fertility problems and cancer?
... that the J.J. Deal and Son Carriage Factory became the largest factory built in Jonesville?
... that the Communist Party of Australia candidate Fred Paterson won almost 25% of the votes in the 1936 by-election in Bowen, Queensland?
... that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jake Diekman attended a high school in Nebraska that did not field a baseball team, yet still made the major leagues?
... that England's Robert Webb took a saw to his mellotron and played only the right half?

22 December 2013

12:15, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the Picture Rock Pass Petroglyphs (diagram pictured) in Lake County, Oregon, were probably created during the Clovis or Stemmed Point period between 7,500 and 12,000 years ago?
... that the Indian parliamentarian Shanta Vasisht had been a Kappa Alpha Theta scholarship recipient?
... that the frame of a WikiHouse can be assembled in less than a day by people with no formal training in construction?
... that the fungus Phialemonium curvatum can be identified through the use of PCR and DNA sequencing of its internal transcribed spacer?
... that after the ban on the Communist Party of Germany in 1956, its main organ Freies Volk continued to be published illegally?
... that a wealthy Augsburg patrician was one of the financial sponsors of Johann Georg von Lori's education?
... that the Big Apple has "apple green" taxis?

00:30, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the statue illustrated holds a sword in its proper right hand?
... that Matilda Hays started writing periodicals, often regarding women's issues, from about 1838?
... that the Swedish result in the PISA 2012 student survey was called a national crisis by social democratic leader Stefan Löfven?
... that Tommy Graham scored one of the goals that inflicted "one of the most humiliating Cup defeats" in Chelsea's history?
... that the hip-hop group Beautiful Eulogy experiments with other music styles such as folk, electronic, hymn tunes, and contemporary worship music?
... that Guildford Road in Perth, Western Australia was supposed to be called the Great Eastern Highway?
... that Johnny Jebsen was a WWII Artist whose kidnap by the Gestapo put at risk the Allied deception cover for D-Day?

21 December 2013

12:45, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Deborah Sussman (pictured) designed the visual landscape for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus intermedius had mandibles longer than its head?
... that in 1786, English kitchen maid Ruth Bowyer was sentenced to seven years penal transportation for the theft of five spoons?
... that the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League was dissolved in 1955 and later renamed as the Ivy League?
... that Raja Casablanca will be the first host nation champion to play in a FIFA Club World Cup final since 2000 when they play Bayern Munich in the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup Final?
... that Münchsmünster Abbey was closed in 1556 during the upheavals of the Reformation?
... that the music video for the song "Malang" had a production cost of ₹50 million (US$600,000)?

01:00, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the grand architecture of the Carnegie Free Library of Beaver Falls (pictured) helped to influence Andrew Carnegie's decision to require simpler designs for Carnegie libraries?
... that Sir Geoffrey Harrison was recalled as British Ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1968 after he admitted to an affair with his Russian maid, who was a KGB "honey trap"?
... that Paradesi was the 1953 film that launched the career of Sivaji Ganesan, though it was not his first release?
... that former Hamilton College hockey coach Albert I. Prettyman was chairman of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ice hockey rules committee from 1926 to 1946?
... that Benjamin Disraeli claimed he wrote his novel Vivian Grey at Hyde House?
... that Golda Meir sold shares for the New York newspaper Di Tsayt?
... that Gerry Brand kicked the longest drop goal ever recorded in rugby union?

20 December 2013

13:15, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the thirteen figures (example pictured) who guarded the tomb of General Liu Tingxun in 728 AD are now in London?
... that 2012 Spanish Paralympic blind footballer Antonio Jesús Martín Gaitán scored his team's bronze medal winning goal in a shootout watched by the Duchess of Lugo?
... that W.H.L. McCourtie Estate was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1991 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992?
... that Deborah Rutter, the first woman named to head the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, applied in German for her first art job in Los Angeles?
... that the cause of the 1956 Anjar earthquake, which killed at least 115 people, was reverse faulting?
... that Angus Wallace performed surgery on another passenger on a British Airways flight?
... that the town of Stora Blåsjön, Sweden, has a moose farm featuring a pair of moose named Hilda and Herbert?

01:30, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Hällingsåfallet, a waterfall along the Vildmarksvägen route (pictured), has been described as "Sweden's answer to Niagara Falls"?
... that critics praised the band Stryper for featuring their classic 1980s sound on their latest album No More Hell to Pay?
... that Mary Hamilton Swindler was the first woman editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology (1932–46) since its inception in 1885?
... that SS Oropesa sank after being hit with a torpedo by German submarine U-96?
... that Wenilo took an annual tribute of "one horse and a shield and lance" from the monastery of Saint-Rémy in Sens?
... that the claim that over 80% of South Africans use traditional healers is greatly exaggerated, according to Africa Check?
... that when Richard Branson left high school at 16, his headmaster Robert Drayson predicted he would "either go to prison or become a millionaire"?

19 December 2013

13:45, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the sängerfest (postcard pictured) origins can be traced to educator Carl August Zeller and composer Hans Georg Nägeli, protégés of Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi?
... that Xiu Xiu's upcoming Angel Guts: Red Classroom was influenced by the Japanese erotic film of the same name and its frontman's move to a dangerous area of Los Angeles?
... that the sale of Saying Grace has left an "irreplaceable hole" in the Norman Rockwell Museum's collection, according to the museum's director?
... that the female footballer Bilgin Defterli decided to go to Germany because she saw no chance to play football in Turkey due to the dissolution of women's football leagues in 2003?
... that Macau's Time Capsule is scheduled to be opened on December 19, 2049?
... that Tom Bayer, formerly serving in the United States Army, gave up his U.S. citizenship to become a citizen of Vanuatu?
... that astronomers at the Jesuit College of Ingolstadt hesitated to report sunspots since Jesuits thought the sun was "virginal"?

02:00, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

... that American frontiersman James Caudy purportedly fought off Native American fighters by nudging them off a rock formation (pictured) one by one with his rifle barrel?
... that Cavendish Pianos is the only company producing pianos still wholly built in the UK?
... that Faik Ali Ozansoy is known for having saved thousands of lives during the Armenian Genocide?
... that Danilo Kiš's final work, the 1983 collection The Encyclopedia of the Dead, helped make him one of the most important figures for the post-Yugoslav generation of writers?
... that in the 1952 Hyderabad State Assembly election, the communist People's Democratic Front won all seats from the Nalgonda district?
... that the BBC filmed The Great Train Robbery in Yorkshire, as it was the "most cost-effective and realistic alternative" to the original sites, much changed since the 1960s?
... that the inscription on Bridget Chaworth's monument commemorates her 25 years of service as a gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber to Elizabeth I and 14 years of service to Anne of Denmark?

18 December 2013

14:15, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the building which houses the National Press Monument (pictured) was once an office of the Indonesian Red Cross Society?
... that the link between marriage and health is related to cancer and heart attacks?
... that Dick Dodd, drummer and lead singer on the 1966 Billboard hit "Dirty Water", bought his first snare drum from fellow Mouseketeer Annette Funicello for $20?
... that an animal model of autism was used by Mady Hornig to implicate thimerosal in autism?
... that the candidature of BJP politician Pravesh Verma from Mehrauli was opposed by some of his party workers, who called him an "outsider"?
... that nuns sought donations in saloons to build the first St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton, Oregon?
... that, as in Brazil, families of crime victims in South Africa have successfully campaigned for the establishment of a national forensic DNA database?

02:30, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Kaiser Wilhelm (pictured) set a record in minor league baseball that was not fully confirmed for almost a hundred years?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus exstinctus was described from only two of the three fossils known to the species author?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court case FTC v. Actavis, Inc. challenged "pay-for-delay" settlements in the pharmaceutical industry?
... that Swan House was called the "finest Queen Anne Revival domestic building in London"?
... that Gabriele Schnaut recorded alto parts in Bach cantatas in the 1970s, and appeared as Waltraute and Second Norne in the Jahrhundertring film in 1980, as Isolde in 1985, and as Turandot in 2002?
... that four U.S. highways, including US-64, converge in a traffic circle surrounding the Cimarron County Courthouse in Boise City, Oklahoma?
... that Sir Denis Wright, former U.K. ambassador to Iran, was brought out of retirement on a covert mission to inform the deposed Shah that he would not be granted asylum in Britain?

17 December 2013

14:45, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the extinct ant Agroecomyrmex duisburgi (head pictured) was first described in 1868?
... that the Song fleet, armed with bombs launched by trebuchets, defeated the Jin navy in the Battle of Caishi on the Yangtze River during the Jin–Song wars?
... that Elizabeth Burchenal, considered America's leading authority on folk dancing, organized large folk dance gatherings – one in particular involving 10,000 schoolgirls?
... that the Universalist Church of Westfield Center was one of Ohio's first Universalist churches?
... that Meralda Warren and several children on Pitcairn Island wrote the first book published in both English and Pitkern, a South Pacific creole language?
... that Hong Kong's Central Government Offices, Office of the Chief Executive and Legislative Council Complex are located on Tamar Park?
... that Charles Voysey's remodelling of Garden Corner in London ensured that politician Emslie Horniman's wife had sliding shelves, to bring the morning tea-tray over her bed?

03:00, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the totem pole (pictured) in the Great Court of the British Museum is 39 feet (12 m) high?
... that Klas August Linderfelt was erased from the official list of American Library Association Presidents following his arrest for embezzlement?
... that SS Anselm was overloaded with about 1,200 Royal Marines and Royal Air Force personnel when torpedoed by a German submarine, killing 250?
... that the General John Frelinghuysen House, originally a c. 1756 tavern and town hall, is now the public library in Raritan, New Jersey?
... that the star Theta Muscae turned out to be a triple system whose central star has blown off its outer hydrogen layer?
... that during the exile of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, his eldest son Edmund Mortimer was imprisoned at Windsor Castle?
... that Cobrapost conducted a sting operation which led to the expulsion of eleven MPs from the Parliament of India?

16 December 2013

15:15, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

... that hōchōdō (庖丁道, the way of the cleaver) is a traditional Japanese culinary art form of filleting a fish or fowl without touching it with one's hands (demonstration pictured)?
... that the British destroyer HMS Beagle rescued 600 survivors of the ocean liner Lancastria, sunk by German aircraft during the evacuation of St. Nazaire on 17 June 1940?
... that the first mass protests against prostitution of children were led by ECPAT in the 1990s?
... that Subir Banerjee, who played Apu in Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955), never acted in any film afterwards?
... that The King's Hall, Herne Bay, England, was designed by F.W.J. Palmer?
... that it took four years after giving a 1999 four-star rating award for New York Post restaurant critic Steve Cuozzo to award his next four-star rating?
... that Edge referred to Deathrow as a substance-less and "contrived clone" of the 1990 Speedball 2?

03:30, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

... that when Roy Conacher (pictured) was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1998, he joined his brothers Lionel and Charlie as the only trio of siblings so honoured?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus lucidus is named for its shiny exoskeleton?
... that architect Richard Rogers' house for his parents, 22 Parkside, inspired his work on the Centre Pompidou and the Lloyd's building?
... that Stephen II Csák unsuccessfully besieged the royal castle of Buda in September 1302?
... that the Kim Mitchell song "Patio Lanterns" was broadcast on Canadian radio stations more than 100,000 times within 10 years of its 1986 release?
... that Philipp Nicolai wrote the hymn "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", the base for Bach's cantata, after the plague hit his hometown?
... that the Nový Smíchov shopping centre in Prague has hosted rock climbing?

15 December 2013

15:45, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

... that USNS Lewis B. Puller (T-MLP-3/T-AFSB-1) (pictured) will be the first purpose-built afloat forward staging base (AFSB) support vessel for the United States Navy?
... that Mark Williams-Thomas researched and presented The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, an award-winning ITV Exposure documentary?
... that the Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services was the first fire department in India to have female fire officers?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus conisquamis is noted for having a nipple-shaped spine?
... that the Black Squirrel Creek Bridge was demolished a little under ten years after it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that Cromwell Lee compiled an Italian-English dictionary which, although unfinished, is said to have been "as big as a church bible"?
... that National Hockey League player Reg Sinclair quit the sport in 1953 after only three seasons to take a job with Pepsi that paid less than a quarter of what he would have made in the NHL?

04:00, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Lyndon B. Johnson's dual appointment of Thomas C. Mann (pictured) was called "a declaration of independence, even perhaps a declaration of aggression against the Kennedys"?
... that nitrovasodilators are drugs that act by releasing nitric oxide in the human body?
... that the 2013 Little India riot, which had about 400 participants, resulted in 25 emergency vehicles being damaged?
... that Shirley Erena Murray's hymns are published in more than 140 hymnals?
... that in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the Arabic weekly al-Tilmiz was the most important journal for North Caucasian intellectuals?
... that China's Four Seas were metaphorical?
... that John Marshall Hamilton, the 18th Governor of Illinois, first became active in politics when he was thirteen years old?

14 December 2013

16:15, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the Lebombo cycad (pictured) is a different species from the Lebombo cycad?
... that when the Alid Muhammad the Pure Soul launched his abortive uprising against the Abbasids, Caliph al-Mansur is said to have remarked that at last he had "enticed the fox out of his hole"?
... that extracts from leaves of the mahogany tree suren toon are used as antibacterial poultices?
... that Runcorn signal box was one of the earliest operational signal boxes built by the LMS to incorporate Air Raid Precautions specifications?
... that during the 2012–13 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season one school advanced to the Sweet Sixteen round in each region of the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament?
... that as President of the American Physical Society, James A. Krumhansl advocated for more visas and immigration opportunities for Chinese scholars following the Tiananmen square massacre?
... that social inertia discourages chickens from attacking one another after a social order has been established?

04:30, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the 9.5-metre (31 ft) wide Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist (detail pictured) by Bartholomeus Strobel is also an allegory of the Thirty Years' War, with portraits of many leading figures?
... that the NAD 3020 amplifier sold a record 1.1 million units in its lifetime, excluding sales of designs derived from it?
... that 1992 table tennis Paralympian and 2012 Paralympic wheelchair basketballplayer Jaume Llambi Riera was one of seven Spaniards to compete at both the 1992 and 2012 Games?
... that the Wealth Partaking Scheme is a cash disbursement policy by the Macau Government to all the holders of a Macau Resident Identity Card?
... that although the pear limpet feeds on the coralline alga Spongites yendoi, their relationship could be considered mutually beneficial?
... that Hermética's EP Intérpretes includes a thrash metal cover version of the tango "Cambalache"?
... that Jan Metzler got Worms for his party for the first time in 64 years?

13 December 2013

16:45, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

... that in 1975 TIME magazine named Schwester Selma (pictured), head nurse at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, as one of the world's "living saints", alongside Mother Teresa and Sister Annie?
... that Sammy Drake and his brother Solly Drake were the first two African-American brothers to play in Major League Baseball?
... that although the 1962 Sino-Indian War was fought for just a few weeks, the subsequent internment of Chinese Indians lasted for years?
... that when a person's belief is disconfirmed, it can actually lead to stronger conviction?
... that Lilian Bland was the first woman to design and build her own aircraft, in 1910, but gave up flying when offered a motorcar instead?
... that despite some reviewers praising ATV: Quad Frenzy's graphics and soundtrack, VideoGamer.com's review said it was "quite disgraceful" that it "even made it onto the store shelves"?

05:00, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

... that a freeway segment of U.S. Highway 31, delayed for many years because of the Mitchell's Satyr butterfly (pictured), is now on hold due to funding issues?
... that the 14th-century John Grandisson Triptych was made from elephant ivory?
... that King Louis I of Naples had one cousin murdered so he could marry another, and was described by Petrarch as "violent and mendacious, prodigal and avaricious, debauched and cruel"?
... that although the 1996 reunion of the Argentine band V8 was not advertised, it was recorded in the live album Homenaje?
... that St Tugual's Chapel on Herm is over 1,000 years old?
... that Welsh singer Bessie Jones was the first to record Noël Coward's earliest stage lyric, "Peter Pan", from the revue Tails Up!?
... that German firefighters arrived late to the Karlslust dance hall fire in Allied-occupied Berlin partly because of the 40 km/h (25 mph) speed limit?

12 December 2013

17:15, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Alice Mary Longfellow, daughter of the poet, was instrumental in founding the Harvard Annex, now Radcliffe College, which has a building (pictured) named in her honor?
... that oil extracted from the seeds of false sesame can be used as an insecticide?
... that when Hale Holden became president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1914, he was the youngest chief executive of any major American rail system?
... that Sholaye-e Inquilab ("Flame of the Revolution") was the first Tajik Persian newspaper founded in Soviet Turkestan?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus corayi was the first Anochetus species described from a fossil?
... that South African trade union leader Moses Mayekiso was the central figure in the Alexandra township uprising of 1986, subsequently getting arrested and severely beaten?
... that Art Nouveau furniture was criticised by the English Arts and Crafts movement for not being "honestly" constructed?

05:15, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the Statue of Tara from Sri Lanka (partly pictured) was kept hidden for 30 years in the British Museum because it was considered too erotic?
... that caregiving behaviour is evolutionarily hardwired?
... that almost 90% of youth in the Czech Republic report never having participated in a religious group of any kind?
... that Augustus Henry Mounsey's 1879 history contains the most detailed descriptions of the military campaigns of the Satsuma Rebellion?
... that Kassiopi Castle in Corfu is considered one of the most imposing architectural remains in the Ionian Islands?
... that Virginia Mae Brown, the "'First Lady of Transportation", was the first woman chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission since its inception in 1887?
... that the Egyptian Olympic Committee distributed counterfeit Nike gear to its delegation to the 2012 Summer Olympics?

11 December 2013

04:40, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

... that in 1718 lightning struck the powder magazine at the Old Fortress of Corfu (pictured) causing "one of the greatest catastrophes" in the island's history?
... that stuffed pelts of lesser grisons have been used to make ritual offerings to Pachamama?
... that Matthew I Csák was appointed master of the stewards when king Béla IV ascended the Hungarian throne in 1235?
... that It's a Girl: The Three Deadliest Words in the World is a documentary about female infanticide?
... that New York industrialist and diplomat Arnold A. Saltzman has his name associated with an art museum, a health services center, and an international relations research center?
... that "Sexy Lady" by Jessie J reached #22 on the UK Singles Chart after it was featured in a Boots No. 7 advert, despite not being physically released as a single?
... that Bharatiya Janata Party politician Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal had his house demolished by court order?

10 December 2013

11:35, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the Dobrilovina Monastery (pictured) was "the centre of the spiritual and political life and aspirations for freedom" in the Tara River region?
... that convolutional neural networks have achieved performance double that of humans on some image recognition problems?
... that in the Exhortation to the Greeks, an anonymous Christian text wrongly ascribed to Justin Martyr, it is claimed that Plato read Moses?
... that after Ice Box Chamberlain pitched with both hands during an 1888 baseball game, no major league pitcher repeated the feat until 1995?
... that against his lawyer's advice, Nelson Mandela ended his defence speech at the Rivonia Trial with the words "I Am Prepared To Die"?
... that 50,000 people attended the opening of the Grossmont Center shopping mall in La Mesa, California – 20,000 more than the city's population at the time?
... that Mathis Bolly is the fastest football player in the video game FIFA 14, but in real life is not as fast as Luton Shelton?

9 December 2013

23:20, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

... that after a 16-year absence from the Paralympic Games, Spain's men's national wheelchair basketball team (pictured) appeared at the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
... that the contracts for the two Charodeika-class monitors were transferred to their designer, Charles Mitchell, upon the death of their builder, S. G. Kudriavtsev, in August 1865?
... that the Institute of War and Peace Studies was begun, to "study war as a tragic social phenomenon", by President Dwight D. Eisenhower – President of Columbia University, that is?
... that Catholic priest Carlos Ornelas Puga was recently kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico, and his whereabouts remain unknown?
... that Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a seven-part BBC adaptation of Susanna Clarke's first novel of the same name?
... that neither of the principal combatants won the bloody Greater Poland Civil War which terminated after the accession of ten-year old Jadwiga of Poland to the Polish throne?
... that the first car to cross Clackline Bridge carried two politicians and a boy who hitched a ride?

11:05, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the Zabarwan Range (pictured) holds Asia's largest tulip garden?
... that the remains of the armoured dinosaur Europelta were uncovered in a coal mine in Spain in 2011?
... that despite the Norwegian torpedo boat Brand having "exceptionally good" chances at scoring a hit against a group of invading German warships, her commander refrained from opening fire?
... that Minneapolis City Council member-elect Abdi Warsame is one of the first Somali Americans to be elected to a U.S. municipal office?
... that while international rankings show corruption in Poland as steadily decreasing, over 80% of the Polish public still sees it as a significant problem for the country?
... that Irene Cuesta, the 2012 Spanish national archery champion, coached the Spanish team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
... that one reviewer described Katy Perry's 2013 ballad "By the Grace of God" as having a "humming, dark tension in which Perry and melody float like red balloons"?

8 December 2013

20:30, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Rogier van der Weyden's polyptych painting The Last Judgment (detail pictured), commissioned for the Hospices de Beaune, was intended to both comfort and warn the dying?
... that English football presenter Darren Tulett – "the Austin Powers of French television" – is almost unknown in England?
... that it is unknown whether the dinosaur Nankangia was carnivorous or herbivorous?
... that the University of Wisconsin–Madison has a tradition of encouraging "that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found"?
... that Lord Chunshen, a nobleman who was assassinated in 238 BC, is the source of Shanghai's nickname "Shencheng", the city of Shen?
... that, in 2009, Los Angeles police detectives investigating a 23-year-old murder found that the killer was a fellow detective?
... that the pupae and larvae of the ant Formica pallidefulva may be stolen from the nest during a raid by slave-making ants?

08:15, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the Plumbeous Water Redstart (male pictured) catches flies in rivers by flying vertically above the water, then gliding down in a spiral back to the same place?
... that the galaxy pair Arp 147 contains a ring of nine black holes?
... that a memorial to the victims of Treblinka extermination camp, created by sculptor Franciszek Duszeńko, was unveiled by the Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland in the presence of 30,000 guests?
... that voice actor Courtnee Draper improvised some of her character Elizabeth's lines in BioShock Infinite?
... that Epsom General Hospital has its own radio station, "Epsom Hospital Radio", which is a registered charity and is staffed by volunteers?
... that writer Hu Yepin was betrayed by rival communists, arrested by the British police, and executed by the Kuomintang?

7 December 2013

20:00, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the town of Datça petitioned in 2008 to have the British Museum's Lion of Knidos (pictured) returned to Turkey?
... that the organ in Christ Church, Port Sunlight, is believed to be the largest extant four-manual Willis II organ still in its original condition and in everyday use?
... that there are an estimated 90,000 Muslims in Angola?
... that the Anthony House in Adams, Massachusetts, is the birthplace of women's rights advocate Susan B. Anthony?
... that Abdallah Deng Nhial has served as cabinet minister in both Sudan and South Sudan?
... that the long-spined limpet cultivates a garden of brown algae?
... that 15 Cheyne Walk in London was home to Admiral Sir John Balchen, Temple West, artists Cecil Lawson and Henry Ryall, Lord and Lady Courtney, and politicians James and Rupert Allason?

08:45, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

... that bodies were kept in Udny Mort House (pictured) in Aberdeenshire until they started to decompose?
... that the inner sarcophagus holding the remains of Saint Spyridon inside the Saint Spyridon Church in Corfu has a removable bottom to facilitate the changing of the saint's slippers?
... that the mustard flower known as the fleshy-fruit gladecress is "likely one of the most imperiled plant species in the Southeastern United States"?
... that Bharatiya Janata Party politician and Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly Mohan Singh Bisht "loves" watching religious soap operas?
... that Florida politician Eugene S. Matthews sold his newspaper and fled Dunnellon after phosphate mine owners threatened him for reporting on their mistreatment of lease convicts?
... that the Trevisana nera grape variety was first documented in viticulture in the middle of the 20th century?
... that all train services in Scotland were cancelled because Cyclone Bodil led to trampolines and hay bales on the line?

00:30, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

... that you can find the position of Venus in the Prague sky at the St. Nicholas Church in Vršovice (pictured)?
... that unlike other Communist Party of Australia publications, The North Queensland Guardian carried commercial advertisements?
... that an 1843 painting by English marine artist John Ward was stolen from a museum in 2009 and found later on the thief's dining room wall?
... that in 1567 John Brayne built the Red Lion playhouse, the first professional playhouse in the British Isles specifically built for that purpose since Roman times?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus brevidentatus was the second Anochetus species described from Dominican amber?
... that the singer for Supercell's album Zigaexperientia was chosen out of about 2,000 candidates?
... that the favours done by Sir Anthony Lee for the poet Thomas Wyatt were so many that it made Wyatt "weary to think on them"?

6 December 2013

16:00, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Ada Jafri (pictured) is the first notable Urdu poetess?
... that the hulk of the Russian monitor Edinorog was transferred to the Kronstadt Yacht Club in 1957?
... that the veneration of Judas Thaddaeus in Mexico has been linked to crime?
... that by January 1946 Das Volk, the second working class newspaper to be published in Berlin after World War II, had a circulation of a quarter million?
... that chess champion Alexandra Nicolau had to promise the Romanian secret police that she would return to Romania after playing international tournaments?
... that almost all of the original American free school movement schools were based on the English Summerhill School?
... that the roof of the Church of St. Nicholas in Kuršumlija, Serbia, was melted down for bullets?

08:00, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

... that when the 19th Street Bridge (pictured) was closed to automobile traffic, the planned replacement was tentatively called the "Nineteen and A-Half Street Bridge"?
... that early in the history of veterinary medicine in the Philippines, a cattle plague killed 600,000 animals from 1901 to 1902 alone?
... that Hugh Mosman, whose servant found gold at Charters Towers, lost his left forearm from a dynamite explosion?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus ambiguus has a spiny petiole?
... that Austrian tennis player Adam Baworowski, a Roland Garros semifinalist, fought in WWII first in the Polish Army against Germany and then in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front?
... that the Cook Islands was first to receive a faster Internet connection from the O3b satellite constellation?
... that after the Prince of Liang got away with murdering ten of his brother's ministers, his son went on to become a serial killer in ancient China?

00:00, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Tudor Johnny was one of the two men who designed the buildings which formed the heart of The Granite City? (example building pictured)
... that the temple at Kadisoka, discovered in 2000, was never completed?
... that the upper reaches of the Pennsylvania stream South Branch Roaring Creek has been described as the best natural habitat in Columbia County?
... that Sir William Lok brought French translations of the Gospels and Epistles from the continent for Anne Boleyn?
... that Cluny Castle, Aberdeenshire, was once owned by the "richest commoner in the northern part of the kingdom"?
... that although cancer researcher Henry T. Lynch has been described as "the father of cancer genetics," he said that distinction should go to pathologist Aldred Scott Warthin?
... that each female Acropyga epedana ant carries a mealybug on her nuptial flight?

5 December 2013

16:00, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Henry Purcell's (pictured) choral anthem Remember not, Lord, our offences is a setting of a passage from Thomas Cranmer's Exhortation and Litany?
... that Ottoman Turkey customs officials removed maps from the Bible belonging to American physician Clarence Ussher because they contained the word "Armenia"?
... that Stekenjokk holds the Swedish record for wind speed, with 170 km/h (110 mph) recorded during Cyclone Hilde on 16 November 2013?
... that over 300 journalists were killed during the Guatemalan Civil War?
... that Polyergus rufescens ants are usually outnumbered in their nests by their slaves by at least five to one?
... that National Football League player Chris Gragg was a water boy until junior high school?
... that Andy Warhol had John F. Kennedy shot with a banana?

08:00, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the 2013 $10.2 million rebuild of Melbourne tram system's Domain Interchange (pictured), was the largest redevelopment Yarra Trams had undertaken?
... that the non-fiction book The Siege: The Attack on the Taj is set during the 2008 Mumbai attacks?
... that Andy Warhol's Eight Elvises, which sold for $100 million, has not been seen in public since the 1960s and its location is currently unknown?
... that based on the history of medicine in the Philippines, Spanish Philippines was ahead of other European colonies in providing healthcare to the ill and invalid at the start of the 17th century?
... that Chinese Paralympian Genjimisu Meng was abandoned by her mother because she was born with a disability?
... that Upslope Brewing Company, a microbrewery in Boulder, Colorado, packs its beers solely in aluminum cans?
... that Thomas Athol Joyce's entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica for "Negro" was said to be ridiculous?

00:00, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

... that in 26 AD, the Emperor Tiberius was nearly killed when viewing the Sperlonga sculptures (detail pictured), which he may have commissioned?
... that the only close modern relative to the fossil ant Eulithomyrmex is Tatuidris?
... that Gula gubben (the Yellowman) performs in yellow tight fitting tracksuits at different music festivals?
... that the findings of the Katyn Commission concerning the Soviet massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war were denied for seventy years?
... that the sea defences of the New Fortress of Corfu were destroyed by the British when the British protectorate came to an end and the island was united with Greece in 1864?
... that Heinz Kühn (Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia) had led a socialist paramilitary youth group in the Saar territory in the 1930s?
... that Japanese motorcyclist Kanichi Fujiwara circumnavigated the globe by electric scooter between 2004 and 2008?

4 December 2013

16:00, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

... that in the 1920s and 1930s a series of memorial tablets to the British Empire dead of the First World War (example pictured) were erected in French and Belgian cathedrals by the Imperial War Graves Commission?
... that the Charlotte Checkers ice hockey team went five consecutive away games without a regulation loss, but lost a franchise-worst six straight home games in their 2013–14 season?
... that Matthew II Csák was the uncle of the Hungarian oligarch Matthew III Csák?
... that the former owner of Rainthorpe Hall, J Maurice Hastings, was described by Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra as throwing "wild parties" there?
... that Stereophile said that the Nait was "a profoundly anarchistic, almost subversive product"?
... that the Karnataka Fire and Emergency Services department owns a pumper manufactured by Dennis Specialist Vehicles in 1925 that is still functional?
... that according to legend, Swami Vivekananda was first introduced to Indian mystic Ramakrishna in a literature class given by Scottish theologian William Hastie?

08:00, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the Bar-backed Partridge (male pictured) is sometimes considered to have four superspecies and three subspecies?
... that as a child, Filipino TV and radio personality Tim Yap sneaked out of school to attend rehearsals of a Repertory Philippines production of Lost in Yonkers?
... that the 1970 mascot-naming contest for the Canada Fitness Award Program received 131,745 votes in one month despite a rotating strike of postal workers at Canada Post?
... that a special screening of "Neighbours: The Explosion" marked the first time the Australian soap opera had been aired during prime time in the UK?
... that the infant daughter of Emperor Xiaoming was emperor of Northern Wei for a single day?
... that there is controversy over whether non-religious people can experience the emotion of awe?
... that artist René Moncada claimed a ventilation grill at the Museum of Modern Art as his own work on permanent display?

00:00, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

... that St George's Church, Thornton Hough (pictured) was built for Lord Leverhulme, its architectural style reflecting his Nonconformity?
... that one critic of the all terrain vehicle racing video game Mad Riders said the game's handling felt "more like socks on a waxed floor than wheels on dirt"?
... that the set of The Whale, a British television film, was visited by Emmanuel Mallia, the Minister for Home Affairs for Malta?
... that after the national colours of Italy were officially specified, opposition member Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio stated that Silvio Berlusconi had achieved a "chromatic coup d'etat"?
... that Rachmawati Soekarnoputri preferred Anjasmara to play her father in the upcoming movie Soekarno: Indonesia Merdeka over Ario Bayu?
... that according to Franciszek Ząbecki, the SS-Sturmbannführer Theodor van Eupen executed prisoners of the Treblinka Arbeitslager by "taking shots at them, as if they were partridges"?

3 December 2013

16:00, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the call of the Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (pictured) is said to sound like a "machine gun rattle"?
... that Geoffrey Prime worked for eleven years at GCHQ, and was only discovered to be a Soviet spy after his arrest in 1982 for the indecent assault of young girls?
... that Chris Doohan, son of original Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott portrayer James Doohan, played the role in the Star Trek fan production, Pilgrim of Eternity?
... that an additional clock face was added at a higher level to the tower of All Saints Church, Thornton Hough because its founder could not see the lower one from his house?
... that 2006 Spanish Paralympic alpine skier Daniel Caverzaschi was ranked 20th in the world in wheelchair tennis in October 2013?
... that the chronicler Robert Fabyan recorded the arrival in England in 1502 of three men from Newfoundland?

08:00, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

... that painter Simmie Knox was the first black American artist to be officially commissioned to create a portrait (pictured) of a U.S. President?
... that a crocodilian can replace each of its teeth up to 50 times during its lifetime?
... that while it was ultimately built as a single U-shaped building, the initial euthenically inspired plans for Cushing House envisioned the dormitory as eight separate houses?
... that in 1555 John Lok brought five Africans from present-day Ghana to England to learn English and act as interpreters on future trading voyages to Guinea?
... that the Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India lowered the voting age in the country from 21 years to 18 years?
... that socialist Seattle City Council member A. W. Piper was a baker who drew editorial cartoons?

00:00, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Poland annually celebrates the defeat of Russia in the Battle of Warsaw (tank on 2008 celebration parade pictured)?
... that Tao Porchon-Lynch, who studied under Sri Aurobindo and Indra Devi, has been recognized as the world's oldest yoga teacher at age 95?
... that the Battle of Baykand, in what is now Uzbekistan, was won after al-Harith ibn Surayj suggested that it was better to die fighting than to die of thirst?
... that in the summer of 1945, Deutsche Volkszeitung accused Siemens of having produced and installed the gas chambers at Auschwitz?
... that in 1996, Edo Ronchi became the first Green politician to hold a cabinet post in Italy?
... that set into the porch of Christ Church, Higher Bebington, is a stone with the footprint of an Archosaur?

2 December 2013

16:00, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

... that Samuel Minturn Peck (pictured) was the first Poet Laureate of Alabama, a title created for him, from 1930 until his death in 1938?
... that in 1982, Jerusalem city officials revitalized the Downtown Triangle by paving it over?
... that Thado Dhamma Yaza II, Viceroy of Prome in the 1500s, fought in nearly every military campaign of his brother King Bayinnaung, and helped to expand and defend the Toungoo Empire?
... that the red nose-like structure of the cherrynose cicada contains muscles that help it suck xylem out of trees?
... that Alec Lazenby has been the Vice-Chancellor of both the University of New England and the University of Tasmania?
... that Nicholas More was the first judge in colonial America to be impeached?

05:31, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the National Geographic website listed Medellín as one of the top ten places to see Christmas lights (pictured)?
... that during the 2013 UFL Cup, Loyola Meralco Sparks outscored Blue Guards in an association football match by a margin of 33 goals?
... that Steve Lazarides was the agent for graffiti artist Banksy and is credited with creating the popularity of urban art in the 2000s?
... that the Hong Kong Security Bureau established the Outbound Travel Alert System in 2009, after a large number of Hong Kong residents were stranded during the Thai political crisis?
... that recently deceased residents of Huaquechula, Puebla, Mexico are honored with multi-level white altars for Day of the Dead?
... that sex scenes in the controversial 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow) were shot inside the Rumskulla oak, an oak tree that is more than 1,000 years old?

1 December 2013

16:00, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

... that in the restoration of Peter (pictured), Peter's triple confession of his love for Jesus is thought to reflect his triple denial of him?
... that former National Football League player Walt Singer hit the pivotal home run in the North African World Series?
... that the plinth of the Rega Planar 3 record player is made by a Scottish kitchen cabinet maker?
... that 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London has been lived in by the novelist George Eliot, artists William Dyce and Daniel Maclise, the composer Sir John Goss and the antiquary William Vaux?
... that Alexander Purdie's Virginia Gazette was the first American newspaper to publish the complete full text of the United States Declaration of Independence?
... that Trolle-Ljungby Castle is allegedly cursed by trolls?

08:00, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

... that the Chinese hadrosaur Tsintaosaurus was previously incorrectly thought to have a unicorn-like protuberance (pictured)?
... that George H. Otten completed the landscaping plan for the Oregon State Capitol mall and was responsible for the placement of Timberline Lodge?
... that the 1964 Pondicherry legislative assembly election marked the end of the hegemony of Edouard Goubert in the political life of the Union Territory?
... that Mount Hill and Hill River in South Australia were both named after John Hill?
... that the Audenried Tunnel contributes up to 80% of Catawissa Creek's acidity?
... that a previous work by Aiden Dillard, the director of Meat Weed Madness, was the only film ever booed by everyone at the screening at the TromaDance festival?

00:00, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

... that 11-year-old Dayana Kirillova (pictured) is representing Russia in the 2013 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev today?
... that Grange Court, built as a market hall in 1633 and decorated with carved mermaids, angels and grotesque people, was dismantled and stored in the 1850s?
... that the La Follette family opposed Glenn Frank's nomination for the University of Wisconsin presidency, appointed the Regents that removed him, and held the Senate seat he later sought?
... that Kosovo Myth pictures Serbia as Antemurale Christianitatis, similarly to constructions of the other nations in the Balkans?
... that 2012 Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Alejandro Zarzuela Beltran has a twin brother who plays in the same sport and a father who represented Spain at the 2008 Paralympics in archery?
... that when attacked by a sea anemone, a nudibranch Nembrotha lineolata oozed a lot of mucus and escaped with difficulty?