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31 December 2014

12:00, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

... that in 1918 Turkish politician Hafiz Mehmet (pictured), speaking in parliament about the Armenian Genocide, said "God will punish us for what we did"?
... that Operation Momentum's three-day training program raised a secret guerrilla army of 9,000 in just over six months?
... that Iota Sigma Pi's National Honorary Member award has gone to chemists Marie Curie, Gerty Cori, and Dorothy Hodgkin?
... that Server Sundaram (1964) was the first Tamil film to depict the behind-the-scenes processes involved in film-making?
... that extensive remains of the 14th-century Storeton Hall in Merseyside have been incorporated into farm buildings?
... that the government-run Milli Bus service in Afghanistan received close to 1,000 buses as foreign aid after many were destroyed during war?
... that Jesse K. Dubois complained that Abraham Lincoln "has for 30 years past just used me as a plaything to accomplish his own ends"?

00:00, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

... that "University Moves to Thwart Early Marriages" was the 1963 Harvard Crimson caption beneath a photo of the school's "hideous" new housing complex for married students (pictured)?
... that a tributary of Coles Creek is named after something that resembles a chimneystack?
... that Charles DeWitt Watts, the first African American board-certified surgeon in North Carolina, worked a paper route to help pay for his college education?
... that the marsh shrew can run along the surface of the water for up to five seconds?
... that Huntington Creek has six direct tributaries that are Class A Wild Trout Waters: Mitchler Run, Shingle Run, Arnold Creek, Lick Branch, Phillips Creek, and part of Kitchen Creek?
... that three artists covered "We'll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again" within two years of its original release?
... that MEP Jan Huitema campaigned with a 1954 Fordson Dexta tractor, arguing for "farmers' wisdom"?

30 December 2014

12:00, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

... that puffbirds (pictured) have been nicknamed bobos (Spanish for "dummies") due to their propensity to sit motionless waiting for prey?
... that Garratt Road Bridge is the longest extant timber bridge in Western Australia?
... that during the Indian National Congress campaign for Indian general election, 2014, Priyanka Gandhi called Manmohan Singh the "Super PM"?
... that World War II veteran Lowell Steward was a childhood friend of Jackie Robinson?
... that because of antisemitism, the Lorelei Fountain, honoring German poet Heinrich Heine, was placed in New York City instead of in Heine's hometown of Düsseldorf?
... that a South Korean organisation named Fighters for a Free North Korea has sent out gas balloons containing materials such as transistor radios, DVDs, and brochures to North Koreans?
... that problems with a brutalist gray elephant were "like a five-car accident at an intersection. You just can't tell what caused it"?

00:00, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the 15th-century Trinity Carol Roll contains eleven medieval Christmas carols and the earliest copy of the Agincourt Carol (pictured)?
... that the extinct lacewing Ainigmapsychops takes part of its name from the Greek word for riddle?
... that Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly spent over 20,000 hours sitting on flagpoles in the 1920s and 1930s, including hundreds of hours in the rain and subfreezing weather?
... that at the Swatantra 2014 conference it was said that over ₹8,000 crore (US$960 million) could be saved if free software was used in 320,000 schools across India?
... that the 1978 Tamil film Aval Appadithan included scenes that were shot using live-recording?
... that Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko and his son Oleksiy were elected to represent the No.12 constituency in the past two elections?
... that Brian Vickers won the 2006 UAW-Ford 500 stock car race by inadvertently wrecking his teammate?

29 December 2014

12:00, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Nicolas Zamora (pictured) was the first Filipino Protestant minister in the Philippines and is credited with the foundation of the first indigenous evangelical church in the Philippines?
... that the Sigma I-64 war game held in April 1964 predicted that the U.S. could put 500,000 troops into Vietnam and still lose?
... that the Welsh author Arthur Machen used Saint Ilar—whose towns have been renamed and churches conflated with a Frenchman—as an example of the lost traditions of the Celtic Church?
... that the beat for Neon Jungle's "Braveheart" was found after the group "raided" their producer's laptop?
... that Sitriuc mac Ímair was the third son of Ímar to reign as King of Dublin?
... that after the 1983 Popayán earthquake resulted in the deaths of nearly 300 people, the Colombian government passed new legislation relating to construction materials?
... that even though it shares the same highway number, Osan-Hwaseong Expressway does not directly connect to its other part?

00:00, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the Camas pocket gopher (pictured) has been described as "morose and savage", yet can be tamed in captivity?
... that Giles Guthrie, who became chairman and chief executive of the British airline BOAC in 1964, subsequently captained the airline's new Vickers VC10 jet airliner to North America?
... that director Corey Allen said that the episode "Captive Pursuit" showed that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was less "squeaky clean" than Star Trek: The Next Generation?
... that two healthcare centres are named after Yung Fung-shee because she left her estate to the Hong Kong Government?
... that 21st-century economic migration of Poles is comparable in size to the century-old migration of Poles to the United States?
... that the Marriage Charter of Empress Theophanu gave the Byzantine princess Theophanu joint imperial authority with Holy Roman Emperor Otto II?
... that the "delivery station" that would eventually become the Webber Park Library was in a drug store?

28 December 2014

12:00, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

... that music from Joaquin Turina's opera Margot (libretto cover pictured) about a Parisian courtesan has become a popular piece during the processions of Holy Week in Seville?
... that New York City plans to use its payphone network to provide free WiFi coverage over five boroughs?
... that the fossil maple species Acer kenaicum was suggested to be an ancestor of silver maples?
... that the 1979 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game had the highest Nielsen ratings of any U.S. basketball game?
... that Little Black Creek is not a perennial stream, but contributes 11.43 cubic feet of water per second to the Jeddo Tunnel?
... that the saint Narahari Sonar calls God his customer?
... that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and J. Fred Buzhardt, two of Strom Thurmond's closest advisors, tried to talk him out of his marriage to former beauty queen Nancy Moore?

00:00, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

... that a runestone (pictured) documents a murder committed by Blakumens, whose ethnic identity is disputed?
... that Kylie Minogue was initially contracted to play Charlene Robinson in Neighbours for one week?
... that in 2014, the series Zaguri Imperia was the most searched string by Israelis on Google?
... that Shikha Pandey is the first cricketer to have played both state level cricket for Goa and international level cricket for India?
... that the world-renowned Scottish fly tyer Megan Boyd, known for her exquisite and effective salmon flies, was not an angler?
... that although the shooting of the film based on "the worst industrial disaster" was completed in 2009, it was not released until 2014?
... that Bruckner's military march may not have been performed by the band for which it was composed, but a march he did not write was performed for his centenary?

27 December 2014

12:00, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

... that The Doctor (pictured) sent a heartwarming video to console an autistic boy on the death of his grandmother?
... that CNN Philippines is set to launch in time for Pope Francis's visit to the Philippines?
... that José Villegas Cordero suffered from depression after his brother fell off a boat and drowned?
... that the Ohio State Buckeyes field hockey team has won three Big Ten Conference championships and one conference tournament title?
... that with her song "Royals", Lorde became the youngest artist to chart at No. 1 on the Billboard charts in 26 years?
... that Bruckner's elegy Vor Arneths Grab was performed at graveside by men's voices and trombones for the funeral of Michael Arneth, prior of St. Florian Abbey?
... that early in World War II, Winston Churchill took refuge in the Barn?

00:00, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Bristol County Jail (pictured) houses the town's Historical and Preservation Society?
... that it took the Secret Service four days to realize that bullets had struck the White House on 11 November 2011?
... that the mites that infect livestock have no eyes?
... that the Bloody Sunday massacre of Jews took place two months before the Stanisławów Ghetto was formally set up in December 1941?
... that Azhiyatha Kolangal, Balu Mahendra's directorial debut in Tamil cinema, was partly autobiographical?
... that the North Shore Towers, a gated residential community in New York, generates its own electricity?
... that fans were invited to take part in the video for Neon Jungle's new single, "Can't Stop the Love"?

26 December 2014

12:00, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

... that during its occupation of the Dutch East Indies, the Empire of Japan issued both gulden and roepiah (example pictured)?
... that New York Giants safety Nat Berhe is the first player of Eritrean descent to be drafted into the NFL?
... that the Derbendcis Ottoman constabulary units were so poorly motivated that the Ottomans had to hire mercenaries to ensure their loyalty?
... that it was theorized that Ukrainian-American rapper Your Old Droog was actually Nas secretly recording under an alias?
... that a group of Swedish businessmen spent more than $2.5 million to renovate the Lady Hutton?
... that after its closure, Dr. Holbrook's Military School served as headquarters of a New York Guard regiment protecting the Croton Aqueduct during World War I?
... that the wife of sculptor Jacob Epstein hoped that he would have an affair with his Kashmiri model Sunita Devi or her sister?

00:00, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the story behind the carol "What Child Is This?" centres around the Adoration of the Shepherds (pictured)?
... that the flag of Christmas Island only became official nearly 16 years after its creation?
... that Georges Méliès plays seven different roles in his film Joan of Arc?
... that Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flats produced the album Christmas with Nashville after making a guest appearance on the Nashville television series the previous season?
... that the colorful Pahiyas Festival, held every May 15 in Lucban, Quezon, Philippines, begins with mass and a procession with images of saints taken from the San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Parish Church?
... that Bach's Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a, was performed for his first Christmas as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but its initial performance may have been earlier in 1723 at a Marian feast there?
... that Christmas spiders are so named because they are found during summer?

25 December 2014

12:00, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi contains an over-large peacock (detail illustrated) that is a Medici emblem?
... that Aubrey Plaza rewrote the majority of her lines when voicing Grumpy Cat in Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever?
... that Tom Odell covered the last song recorded by The Beatles for the John Lewis Christmas advert in 2014?
... that Lapis Lacedaemonius, a volcanic rock known today only from a single source, has been used as decoration in places as far apart as London, Venice, and Palermo?
... that "See, Amid the Winter's Snow" calls for the listener to "Sing through all Jerusalem, Christ is born in Bethlehem"?
... that Libby Lane is the first woman to be appointed a bishop by the Church of England?
... that the Gloria by Karl Jenkins was premiered in 2010 by The Really Big Chorus?

00:00, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

... that in Botticelli's Madonna of the Book (pictured), cherries represent the blood of Christ and plums indicate the tenderness between Mary and the Child?
... that Mischocyttarus mexicanus female wasps may be brood parasites, cannibalizing eggs of a foreign nest and placing an egg of their own in an empty cell?
... that Confucius' disciple Bu Shang played a significant role in the transmission of the I Ching?
... that lens.com lost its trademark for the word LENS in 2012 because the courts decided that a retail website did not meet the definition of "computer software"?
... that in 1970 NAACP chairman Stephen Gill Spottswood publicly termed the Nixon administration's social policies "anti-Negro"?
... that strain partitioning results in rocks being deformed in different ways when exposed to stress?
... that Josef Knubel first climbed the Matterhorn as a fifteen-year-old?

24 December 2014

12:00, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

... that due to the peculiar role of Native Americans in German popular culture, "Indianer reenactment" (pictured) was quite common in communist East Germany?
... that Jack Hadjinian, the first Armenian American mayor of Montebello, California, is the grandson of an Armenian Genocide survivor?
... that the Verlorenvlei redfin, having lost one of its two habitats, now faces threats from agriculture and invasive species?
... that the famine of 1460 is known as "Damaji Pant's famine" in the Deccan region in honour of the saint's generosity in the famine?
... that basketball player Bryce Alford joined his father at UCLA after breaking a 50-year-old New Mexico high school single-season scoring record?
... that the Fence Cutting Wars caused more than 20 million dollars of damage in Texas by 1883?
... that Paradise is due to be demolished?

00:00, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Nazi art dealer Sepp Angerer sold Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet (pictured) for Hermann Göring?
... that OK Go's one shot video for "I Won't Let You Down" involves the use of the band members and dancers using personal mobility devices to create choreographed routines inspired by Busby Berkeley?
... that the 1996 train collision in Silver Spring, Maryland, led to the creation of the first comprehensive federal rules for passenger car design in the United States?
... that St David's Hospital in Carmarthen, Wales, features a 500-seat multicoloured chapel that was entirely funded and built by the patients?
... that William W. Cargill founded Cargill, the largest privately-held company in terms of revenue in the US?
... that Aquilops ("eagle face") is the most ancient definite neoceratopsian discovered in North America?
... that the British botanist Dorothea Pertz also trained as a masseuse?

23 December 2014

12:00, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the 2000 film Girlfight marked the debut of Michelle Rodriguez (pictured), who had never had a speaking role before but was called "extraordinarily gifted"?
... that Sunil Kumar Verma was co-inventor of Universal primer technology, which allows identification of any unknown biological sample and its assignment to a known species source?
... that HMS Alceste was wrecked, then later burned, by Malayan pirates?
... that Maryat Lee's company Eco Theater developed plays from oral histories, using unpaid actors in productions often followed by discussions?
... that in the grounds of Poulton Hall, Merseyside, is a former brewhouse with a turret containing a 32-bell carillon?
... that Steely Dan's "FM" has four key changes in its first eight lines?
... that male bryozoans Electra pilosa liberate sperm into the sea and females may actively collect this?

00:00, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the potential area of the red-crested tree rat (illustration pictured) is infested with feral cats?
... that the British horror novelist Simon Clark wrote a sequel to John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids?
... that the Dahlander pole changing motor is a Swedish invention for achieving two speeds in an electric motor?
... that the first mention of the name Sarajevo was in a 1507 letter written by Feriz Beg?
... that during the restoration of Cranberry Creek, nearly 7,000 feet (2,100 m) of it was relocated?
... that when it opened in 2011, London Fields Brewery was the first commercial brewery to be opened in Hackney since the 19th century?
... that Joseph Gillespie jumped out of a window with Abraham Lincoln?

22 December 2014

12:00, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Thorleiv Røhn (pictured), a gold medal–winning Norwegian gymnast at the 1906 Intercalated Games, was convicted of treason after the Second World War?
... that Kolejka, a popular Polish educational board game about shortages in the communist shortage economy, has itself been in short supply?
... that a New York Times Magazine writer described Ellen Page's performance in the 2005 film Hard Candy as her artistic breakthrough performance that "almost no one noticed"?
... that William of Orange stayed in Gayton Hall, Wirral, in 1690 on his way to Ireland?
... that the 2014 Swedish Cabinet crisis led to the planning of the first extra election in Sweden since 1958?
... that Richard Dawson was inspired to write The Glass Trunk after performing a database search in Tyne and Wear archives for "death"?
... that the owners of the Cereal Killer Cafe came up with the idea for the business after being hung over?

00:00, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

... that St Nicholas' Church, Wallasey (pictured), is also known as the Golfers' Church?
... that Honduran journalist Herlyn Espinal had aspirations of running for mayor of his hometown of Santa Rita, Yoro, before his murder?
... that Michael Haydn composed a mass suitable for Lent and Advent, the Missa Tempore Quadragesimae, in D minor for just choir and organ?
... that the Bradley–Terry model can be used to predict which team will win a match, which wine is best, or which documents a search engine should display first?
... that American rock bands Linkin Park and Thirty Seconds to Mars co-headlined the Carnivores Tour?
... that Brendon McCullum is the only cricketer to score two Twenty20 International centuries?
... that according to legend, Shang Qu predicted the exact time of Confucius' death?

21 December 2014

12:00, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

... that The Roses of Heliogabalus (pictured), owned by Juan Antonio Pérez Simón, is being exhibited in London for the first time in over one hundred years?
... that the distress calls of long-tailed vole neonates are in the ultrasonic range?
... that the Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world groups countries into nine cultural clusters?
... that Ellie Greenwood beat the record for the 100-mile Western States Endurance Run by 50 minutes?
... that thousands of volunteers have corrected millions of lines of digitised Australian newspapers on Trove?
... that the Suquamish Museum houses a 300-year-old canoe that was used by Suquamish tribesmen as recently as 1989?
... that there were "countless" debates over the authenticity of Trent from Punchy?

00:00, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Ziegfeld girl Dolores (pictured) has been described as the first celebrity clothes model?
... that Dieterich Buxtehude combined as funeral music for his father the earlier Mit Fried und Freud, composed for Menno Hanneken, and a new lament Klag-Lied?
... that salt surface structures include the extrusive advance structure where salt flows under gravitational pressure?
... that Cape Verde's Olympic team at the 2012 London Games included Lidiane Lopes, the nation's youngest-ever competitor at age 17?
... that the Benedicite window in Liverpool Cathedral, designed by Carl Edwards, has an area of 1,600 square feet (150 m²)?
... that the modern city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was founded in 1836, when the Lochapoka Creeks created the town of talasi at the Creek Council Oak Tree in Indian Territory?
... that the popular podcast Judge John Hodgman started as a segment on Jordan, Jesse, Go!?

20 December 2014

12:00, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

... that "the smallest newspaper in the world" (issue shown) was published by Swift Lathers from his home for over 50 years, and had paid subscribers in 38 U.S. states?
... that after the 2004 Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500, the Hendrick Motorsports team wore their caps backwards in victory lane to honor the late Ricky Hendrick?
... that Ros Pesman was the first female Challis Professor of History at the University of Sydney?
... that lilies grow two to three miles below the surface of the North Atlantic?
... that the murder of Atcel Olmedo remains unsolved because the suspects have never been located?
... that The Honest Company, which was co-founded by Jessica Alba in 2011, is valued at approximately US$1 billion?
... that after the death of Benito Mussolini, his body was stolen and was missing for four months?

19 December 2014

23:55, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the Harriet F. Rees House (pictured in 2010) in Chicago was recently moved one block north to make room for a basketball stadium and a 1,200-room hotel?
... that, in 2013, Alexander Blackman became the first British serviceman to be convicted of a battlefield murder while serving abroad since the Second World War?
... that Anton Bruckner composed the Mayer Cantata, his first extended composition for large wind ensemble and choir, for the name day of Friedrich Mayer, prior of the St. Florian Abbey?
... that the Indian union territory of Puducherry elected a member of a Puducherry regional party as their representative in parliament for the first time in 2014?
... that Božidarka Frajt won the Golden Arena for Best Actress for playing herself in The Living Truth?
... that the Klondike Mountain Formation has fossil hot springs and contains a lagerstätte?
... that the Wapi Project was a victim of its own success?

11:40, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the Laves graph (pictured), a highly symmetrical three-dimensional structure that forms one of the several crystal structures of carbon, is named after German crystallographer Fritz Laves?
... that Abraham Lincoln encouraged physician Robert Boal to run as Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives?
... that the ovi poems sung by women are protest songs that narrate their complaints about hard work, unhappy marriages, and despotic husbands?
... that the Sigma II-65 war game was held although four prior Sigma games foresaw that escalating the Vietnam War would lead to more U.S. casualties?
... that Martin Luther's hymn "Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin", a reflection of the canticle of Simeon, is the base of funeral music by Schütz, Buxtehude and Bach?
... that in 1887 Peter Daniel Anthonisz became the inaugural president of the Ceylon branch of the British Medical Association?
... that after an expansion of the Glenwood Generating Station was rejected, the Oyster Bay Town Supervisor said the action was justified because consumers were wearing sweaters in their homes?

18 December 2014

23:25, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Bacon and Hams includes a portrait (seen here) of "The Author in Fancy Dress as a Side of Bacon, designed by himself, which took the First Prize of Forty Guineas at the Covent Garden Fancy Dress Ball"?
... that the only female MP of the Finnish far-right Patriotic People's Movement, Hilja Riipinen, was also a women's rights and temperance advocate?
... that although the Hendrick Martin House, in Red Hook, New York, was built according to German building traditions, it shows later Dutch and English influence?
... that Michelle Garvey's body was identified after an amateur sleuth submitted a suggestion to police thirty-one years after her death?
... that the big-headed fly Metanephrocerus belgardeae expanded the known range for the genus to North America?
... that Hermann Graf was the first fighter pilot to claim 200 aerial victories?
... that future Amtrak President Joseph H. Boardman, while Commissioner of the New York State Department of Transportation, accused the railroad of stealing his Turboliners?

11:10, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the opera house for the Dresden court, Opernhaus am Taschenberg (pictured), opened in 1667 and was dedicated as a church in 1708?
... that for 116 of the 260 lorry models produced by Vanajan Autotehdas, only one or two units were ever produced?
... that since the execution of Andries Jan Pieters and a German soldier for war crimes on 21 March 1952, no further executions have taken place in the Netherlands?
... that as early as 1962 the Sigma war games predicted that American intervention in the Vietnam War would be unsuccessful?
... that Ashok Kumar was the cinematographer of India's first 3D film, My Dear Kuttichathan?
... that the temporary removal of The Partisans, a Boston sculpture depicting Polish cursed soldiers, triggered protests by the Polish-American community?
... that Charles Buckles Falls' signature – an f within a black, square box – became so well recognized that he was eventually able to drop the f entirely?

17 December 2014

09:13, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

... that David Wilkie, a nineteenth-century Scottish artist, was the key figure in the development of British genre and orientalist art (genre painting pictured)?
... that the founder of Forbes called Charles F. Seabrook the "Henry Ford of agriculture"?
... that the book The 4 Percent Universe discusses how visible matter makes up only four percent of the matter in the universe?
... that Salvatore Stabile wrote, directed, and produced his first feature film when just 19?
... that the book Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America contains a chapter entitled "I've Got Way Bigger Problems Than a Spinach Salad Can Solve"?
... that "Mia", a song by Belgian musician Luc De Vos which was voted "best song ever" three years in a row on Studio Brussel, gave its name to the MIAs, the Belgian Music Industry Awards?
... that Briarcliff Manor was settled 200 years before it was founded?

16 December 2014

20:58, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

... that West Virginia businessman and real estate developer Howard Llewellyn Swisher (pictured) also edited a literary journal in which he referred to himself as "Chief of the Tribe"?
... that the publisher claimed that demand for Zoe Sugg's debut novel Girl Online was so high that every bookshop started selling it before its official release date?
... that Hans Wallat conducted Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ninety times?
... that the voice actors in Chaar Sahibzaade, the first Punjabi 3D animation film, were kept anonymous?
... that the Arthur R. Hoard House‎‎ in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, was home to state assemblyman Horace B. Willard and two mayors?
... that the bee Megachile rubi cuts portions of leaf to shape and size to line each cell it builds?
... that Buck Mountain is most likely named after Albert Ansbach?

08:43, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the Briarcliff Manor Public Library (pictured) was run by Grace Baird Hersey, mother of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer John Hersey, for 28 years?
... that Kosuke Kato was the third person to pitch a perfect game in Japanese baseball's Eastern League?
... that Colonia Dignidad tells the story of a German woman's attempts to rescue her husband, who had been kidnapped by General Augusto Pinochet's DINA?
... that Johan Hjalmar Théel discovered the sea cucumber Elpidia glacialis while on an expedition searching for the Northeast Passage?
... that Project Hotfoot was disguised as a working party of the U.S. National Geodetic Survey?
... that the feast day celebration in honor of Saint Isidore the Laborer involves water buffalo kneeling in front of a church in Pulilan, Bulacan?
... that director Luc Besson's debut feature film Le Dernier Combat contained only two words of dialogue?

15 December 2014

20:28, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the east window of Liverpool Cathedral (pictured), designed by J. W. Brown, is themed on the Te Deum laudamus?
... that Jyoti Amge, the world's smallest living woman, made her American TV debut in the American Horror Story: Freak Show episode "Monsters Among Us"?
... that in 2000, the Osteopathic Oath was used by every osteopathic medical school in the U.S.?
... that after the 1966 Tashkent earthquake destroyed most of the city, Tashkent was rebuilt in a more Soviet style?
... that male brown soft scale insects are rarely found?
... that Operation Booster Shot parachuted shoes into trackless muddy wilderness?

08:13, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the design of the Olympic Park Observation Tower (pictured) in Beijing was inspired by blades of grass, but has also been likened to a bunch of nails?
... that 7-foot-6-inch (229 cm) Mamadou N'Diaye is the tallest college basketball player in Division I?
... that the 1995 documentary Father, Son, and Holy War was screened by Doordarshan only after an eleven-year court battle ended with a 2006 order by the Supreme Court of India to screen it?
... that in the aftermath of the Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 894–896 the Magyars were forced to migrate westwards in the Pannonian Basin where they established the powerful Kingdom of Hungary?
... that the albums Satellite Kite and Instruments of Mercy earned Beautiful Eulogy a status as one of the most innovative hip-hop acts in Portland, Oregon?
... that Animal Land won Best Children's Manga at the 37th Kodansha Manga Awards?
... that spots on the male warty glowspot cockroach do not glow?

14 December 2014

19:58, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Hank Williams' (pictured) cover version of "Lovesick Blues" combined elements from previous versions by Emmet Miller and Rex Griffin?
... that the stained glass in Liverpool Cathedral includes depictions of Grace Darling, J. S. Bach, and Christopher Columbus?
... that the 1899 work Momijigari was the first film to be designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan?
... that Gravel Run was on the border of Catawissa Township for only three years?
... that in its six years of existence during and after World War II, Toronto-based Research Enterprises Limited produced C$220 million worth of radar systems and optics?
... that Israel College of the Bible offers both international and Hebrew Bachelor of Theology degrees?
... that Confucius considered Gao Chai unintelligent because he was very short and ugly?

07:43, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Edward Middleton Manigault was possibly inspired by fireworks on the Hudson River (pictured)?
... that Mexico never paid China the $3 million indemnity it agreed to after the deaths of 300 Chinese immigrants in the 1911 Torreón massacre?
... that the Bhushi Dam was built to supply water to steam engines of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway?
... that Bucko by Erika Moen and Jeff Parker was published as a webcomic before being published as a physical graphic novel?
... that between 1875 and 1899, the architecture firm Habershon and Fawckner designed and laid out Cardiff's working class suburb of Splott, creating more than 1,700 houses?
... that most of the Stony Creek watershed is forested, but nearly a third is barren land?
... that in 1809 the French frigate Junon was captured by the British, then recaptured by the French and set on fire?

13 December 2014

19:28, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

... that controversy still exists over whether Adah Robinson or Bruce Goff deserves the primary credit for designing Boston Avenue Methodist Church (pictured) in Tulsa, Oklahoma?
... that the radial velocity of the star Epsilon Coronae Borealis had been observed for seven years before the discovery of its planet was announced?
... that the acquisition of Netsmart Technologies resulted in a legal decision that became influential in delineating what management must do when agreeing to a private equity buyout?
... that the 2011 film Like Crazy was filmed without a conventional screenplay, with almost all of the dialogue improvised by the actors?
... that when Charlie Clausen joined Home and Away as Zac MacGuire, he had to give up recording his podcast TOFOP, as Seven Network deemed it a conflict of interest?
... that Greg Chiat founded luxury brand The Elder Statesman after receiving a cashmere blanket as a gift?
... that equipment for a 100-man Auto Defense Choc company could be parachuted on 11 pallets?

07:13, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

... that fashion designer Jill Stuart (pictured) sold her first collection to Bloomingdales by the age of fifteen?
... that Candidula arganica, a snail found in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, lives primarily in meadows?
... that anti-Greek riots occurred in Australia, Canada, and the United States during the early 20th century?
... that "Weird Al" Yankovic's 2014 album Mandatory Fun is his first Billboard 200 number-one hit in his over-thirty-year career?
... that riots in response to El drama del 15 de octubre led the Di Domenico brothers to cut the most controversial elements of the film?
... that the Church of the Holy Family, Ince Blundell, contains an altarpiece and grisaille paintings by Gebhard Flatz?
... that in 2014, Islamists clashed with security forces in the historic center of Tripoli?

12 December 2014

18:58, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the Great Mosque of Salé (pictured) was temporarily closed during the French protectorate in Morocco to prevent it being used as a place to awaken awareness of Moroccan nationalism?
... that discus throw world record breaker Bob Fitch created his own throwing technique and wrote a university thesis on the subject?
... that in the event of a severe flood, the gray-tailed vole will abandon its complex network of tunnels and head for high ground?
... that Kate Chopin chose to publish "A Pair of Silk Stockings" in Vogue because of its "fearless and truthful" depiction of women and their lives?
... that Los Angeles's Bimini Baths were named after the island of Bimini?
... that when Confucius asked his disciples to express their ambitions, Zeng Dian said he only wanted to bathe in the river, relax in the breezes, and sing?

06:43, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the Armenian Orphan Rug (pictured) was woven by 400 orphans of the Armenian Genocide, and contains over four million hand-woven knots?
... that zoologist E. Newton Harvey had a firefly, a bioluminescent bacterium, and a centipede named after him?
... that over half a million glass photographic plates of the night sky are being scanned by the Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard project?
... that unlike his father, Ragnall mac Somairle of the twelfth-century Kingdom of the Isles endorsed new religious reforms?
... that one scholar suggests Louisa May Alcott wrote the sensationalist novella Behind a Mask to subvert the fantasy of the perfect "little woman"?
... that to celebrate the Catholic victory at the Battle of Besançon in 1575, masses were held at St. Stephen's Cathedral and St. Jean's Cathedral?
... that the 200-million-year-old Tachiraptor is a new type of dinosaur discovered in Venezuela?

11 December 2014

18:28, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Sheikh Muhammad (pictured), the best-known Muslim Marathi poet, wrote devotional poetry to the Hindu god Vithoba?
... that the 2013 film Gravity won seven Oscars, more than any other film at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony?
... that Nazi-era art dealer Walter Hofer was the main buyer for Hermann Göring's art collection?
... that the online marketplace Silk Road 3.0 appeared only hours after Silk Road 2.0 had been shut down as part of Operation Onymous?
... that the Rupert Covered Bridge No. 56, built in 1847, is the oldest remaining covered bridge in Columbia County, Pennsylvania?
... that the British artist Frank Roper built a foundry on the ground floor of his house to create his metal sculptures?
... that the bluestripe pygmygoby was named after a ship?

06:25, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

... that there is a distinct difference in land use between the northern and southern half of Lake Tremblant (pictured) in Quebec, Canada?
... that the Ohel Moshe Synagogue is now a museum commemorating the Jewish refugees who lived in Shanghai during World War II?
... that the husband of Lady Anna Mackenzie ran the castle where she was later imprisoned when her second husband invaded Scotland?
... that a titanium in zircon geothermometer estimates the temperature at which zircon crystals have been formed?
... that King Nyaungyan of the Toungoo Dynasty, who started the reunification of Burma after the collapse of the Toungoo Empire, is also referred to as the founder of the Restored Toungoo Dynasty?
... that "The Manchester Rambler" was written by folk singer Ewan MacColl after he took part in the mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932?
... that a rocket may soon attempt to land on an autonomous spaceport drone ship?

10 December 2014

13:20, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

... that scholars concluded that The School Sayings of Confucius (1895 cover pictured) was a 3rd-century forgery, before similar texts were discovered in tombs dating centuries earlier?
... that ornithologist and professor of wildlife management A. William Schorger presented Lawrence College with the skin of the only cougar ever preserved in Wisconsin?
... that libraries in Brighton and Hove include a former pub, a former vicarage, and part of a lido?
... that in Welsh legend, Saint Aelhaiarn was raised from the dead with his eyebrow replaced by an iron pike spike?
... that the pond at Westmoreland Park in Portland, Oregon, was planned to be used as an ice rink during winter?
... that James Wood Bush was one of more than 100 Native Hawaiians who fought in the American Civil War while Hawaii was still an independent kingdom?
... that the National Shrine of Saint Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of hopeless cases, has many devotees among students and those reviewing for board examinations in the Philippines?

01:35, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Canadian botanist, combat ambulance driver, and political activist Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (pictured) urged women voters to support conscription, yet was also anti-suffrage?
... that the upcoming film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II: The Green Legend will be the first feature film to premiere simultaneously in IMAX theaters and on Netflix?
... that a local politician proposed removing a sculpture in Stockholm called After the Bath because one of the people it depicts is Mao Zedong?
... that Cambridge won the 1860 University Boat Race with a time of 26 minutes 5 seconds, the slowest winning time in the history of the race?
... that the 30-member Oregon Mandolin Orchestra is modeled on the traditional mandolin orchestras that were popular in the United States during the 19th century?
... that a likelife image embedded in an aquamarine gemstone pendant by artisan jeweller Wallace Chan was inspired by the Horae?
... that venom is thought to have had a single origin in the evolutionary history of snakes?

9 December 2014

13:50, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the flower urchin (pictured) was named the "most dangerous sea urchin" in the 2014 Guinness World Records?
... that Emma Sulkowicz has protested against Columbia University's handling of her sexual assault case by carrying her mattress around campus?
... that Polistes chinensis cannibalize their larvae in prey- and honey-limited conditions?
... that the upcoming film Concussion is based on the article "Game Brain" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, a true story about chronic traumatic encephalopathy in NFL players?
... that the world's most northerly agriculture is practiced in Svalbard, only 800 miles (1,100 km) from the North Pole?
... that Operation Pincushion training continued despite desertion of half its second class?
... that B V Keskar, India's longest-serving Minister for Information and Broadcasting, banned the harmonium, Hindi film music, and cricket commentaries on All India Radio?

02:05, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

... that when consecrated, Visby Cathedral (pictured) in Sweden housed two congregations, one for city residents and one for visitors?
... that poet Jackie Hill-Perry has started branching out into hip hop music, releasing her debut album in November 2014?
... that on Okinawa, the wasp Polistes japonicus found a new place to overwinter after the arrival on the island of a new banana plantation pest?
... that Audrey White was refused a job at the BBC in case her looks "alarmed timid men from Wigan and country districts"?
... that the popularity of the 1965 Scandinavian erotic film I, a Woman inspired Andy Warhol to make his experimental film I, a Man?
... that the Requirements Office military supply effort was disguised by the United States Agency for International Development's refugee relief program?
... that Swedish blogger Daniel Paris took the last name Paris as a tribute to the American socialite Paris Hilton?

8 December 2014

14:20, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the Greens Ledge Light (pictured) is a typical example of a sparkplug lighthouse?
... that General Dietrich Peltz suggested the idea of "aerial ramming" to halt Allied bombing of Germany?
... that in 2013, the Bharat Ratna – India's highest civilian award – was conferred on Sachin Tendulkar, the youngest recipient and first sportsperson to receive the honour?
... that prior to becoming the chief architect of Lyon, Abraham Hirsch designed the Grande synagogue de Lyon?
... that in the 61-year history of Burger King, the company has changed ownership five times and had more than twenty CEOs?
... that the National Shrine of Saint Michael and the Archangels is the only church in the Philippines that holds the sacrament of confirmation twice a week?
... that the dominant queen in a nest of the wasp Polistes apachus will eat eggs laid by other females?

00:35, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Euphemia Lamb (pictured) had more of a sex life "than the rest of us put together" according to John Maynard Keynes?
... that when strongly stimulated, the earthworm Diplocardia longa is visible as a dark silhouette against the luminous slime it exudes?
... that John A. Kennicott, the founder of Kennicott Grove in Glenview, Illinois, gave free scions of his plants to interested nurserymen?
... that a 900-horsepower engine was built in tribute to Randy Dorton?
... that Sister Asuncion Ventura used her inheritance to establish the Asilo de San Vicente de Paul orphanage in Manila?
... that Navalram Pandya penned Bhatnu Bhopalu, the Gujarati play based on Henry Fielding's The Mock Doctor?
... that the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 491 Squadron was never based in Australia?

7 December 2014

12:50, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the Allenville Mill Storehouse (pictured) was erroneously considered to be a mill, not a storehouse, for almost one hundred years?
... that fashion designer Alain Manoukian sent four airplane loads of relief supplies to earthquake victims in Armenia in 1988?
... that an SS Republic passenger described the ship as a "floating palace"?
... that while Jesse More Greenman was curator at the Missouri Botanical Garden he increased its plant collection from 600,000 to about 1,500,000 specimens?
... that the Anand Patwardhan documentary Jai Bhim Comrade, released in 2011, took 14 years to produce?
... that the Fine Arts Center at Arizona State University, designed by Antoine Predock, is named for its fourteenth president, J. Russell Nelson?
... that Hibutsu ("hidden buddhas") are found only in Japan?

00:00, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

... that there are two almost identical Benin Pendant Masks, one in the British Museum and the other in the Met (detail pictured)?
... that Nikki Lane was inspired to write country music after she broke up with a country musician?
... that the National Association of Black and White Men Together is an organization for LGBT people in the U.S. who are interested in multiracial relationships?
... that Bagrat II Bagratuni, prince of princes of Arab-ruled Armenia, led a revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate from 849 until his treacherous capture and transfer to Samarra in 851?
... that the boobrie in Scottish folklore is said to prey on animals being transported on ships, preferably calves, but will also eat lambs and sheep?
... that Lionel Hamilton's 1951 production of The Romantic Young Lady at the Kettering Savoy starred Peter Bell and Ronald Radd?
... that in the cuisine of Corsica, chestnut is so important that it was an ingredient in 22 courses of a typical 19th-century wedding lunch?

6 December 2014

12:00, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

... that New York's famous Sleepy Hollow was named after "Slapershaven", an old Dutch name for the Pocantico River (pictured)?
... that the Lyceum and Lawn Tennis Club established Cuba's first free public library?
... that Last.fm users selected a single from Lucky Soul's debut album The Great Unwanted for a "Christmas Chart Attack"?
... that in 1942, a drunken pilot crashed his plane at Herdla Airport in occupied Norway, burning down the operations center?
... that a female Neotropical wasp Parachartergus colobopterus can only become a queen if the workers don't suppress her?
... that the Chicago Fire of 1874 led to the reorganizing of the city's fire department along military lines?
... that test screening participants for the film The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc asked, "Why does she have to die at the end?"

00:00, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Woodhouse's toad (pictured) seems to be displacing the Arizona toad in central Arizona?
... that Charlotte Brontë's nom de plume for Jane Eyre uses the name of the "head of all female book collectors in Europe"?
... that plaquettes differ from medals in being decorated only on one face?
... that the current Indonesian cabinet is the first to include a female foreign minister?
... that Cadwallon ap Gruffydd, son of the king of Gwynedd, was willing to murder three of his mother's brothers to gain power, but was himself later killed by another brother of hers?
... that South Africa won the nine-nation ICC KnockOut Trophy in 1998, defeating West Indies by four wickets in the final?

5 December 2014

12:01, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Loboc Church (pictured) was patterned after San Ignacio Church in Intramuros?
... that the Sigma Coronae Borealis star system is composed of three sun-like stars and two red dwarfs?
... that the opening track from Le Tigre's debut album Le Tigre modifies the titular question from "Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)"?
... that the Fort of Justices was built as a reaction to a possible German invasion, resulting in the simplicity of the buildings?
... that in his autobiography With the Century, North Korean dictator Kim Il-sung stated that his motto is "The people are my God"?
... that Christine's margareta rat was named after a member of the expedition that discovered it in 2011?
... that television critic Marvin Kitman co-authored a book with George Washington?

4 December 2014

19:56, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the use of Great Highland Bagpipes (carving of piper pictured) in Scotland was first attested during the early modern period of Scottish music?
... that racing driver Anthony Kumpen, winner of the 2014 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series season, works for a bicycle maker?
... that the Barrington Civic Center Historic District includes Barrington Town Hall, which incorporates a stone said to be hewn from Plymouth Rock?
... that Herbartianism was greatly influential in the development of the science of education in the 19th century?
... that a male Mischocyttarus flavitarsis marks its mating perch by secreting a substance from a gland in its abdomen?
... that the atmospheric lighting and sets used in BBC's 1979 ghost story Schalcken the Painter were based on paintings by Vermeer?
... that the London Evening Standard asked whether Richard Banks, the Chief Executive of the UK's "bad bank", was "Britain's best banker"?

07:41, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Russian-American singer Willi Tokarev's (pictured) parents named him Vilen in honor of Vladimir I. Lenin?
... that La tragedia del silencio was the first Colombian silent film to have a score?
... that according to one source, John Komnenos was offered the crown of the Byzantine Empire after the abdication of his brother, Isaac I Komnenos, but refused?
... that the plots for the upcoming adventure series Pig Goat Banana Cricket are interwoven?
... that a cafe in Manor Park, Sutton, is London's first energy-efficient building to use straw-bale construction?
... that The Rapture's dance-punk song "House of Jealous Lovers" was an influence on Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack"?
... that Mill Creek is named after a mill?

3 December 2014

19:26, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

... that the baptistry of Baclayon Church (interior pictured) has an unusual retablo housing the Santo Entierro in a glass coffin and the Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in the central niche?
... that none of the artist Kate Lechmere's paintings have survived?
... that during the recording sessions of From Elvis in Memphis, producer Chips Moman refreshed Elvis Presley's sound by incorporating Memphis soul?
... that the sting of Synoeca surinama wasps is used in defense and contains the neurotransmitter serotonin to induce vasoconstriction and pain?
... that Núria Albó, author and mayor of La Garriga, is a Creu de Sant Jordi laureate?
... that Ben Jones called Stone Quackers a "more pure, raw, uncut expression of the same artistic impulse" that manifested the character of Alfe in his other series, The Problem Solverz?
... that the Hindu saint Sena Nhavi says that barbers show the "mirror of discrimination" and cut the "hair of egotism" and the "nails of passion"?

06:41, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Auguste Bonheur's award-winning painting La Sortie du pâturage (pictured) was made a lottery prize by the French government as a way of promoting contemporary art?
... that two future Admirals of the Royal Navy began their careers aboard HMS Aldborough, a sixth-rate coastal survey vessel?
... that the Communist Party of China calculated that 1.6 billion big-character posters were made to denounce Pan Fusheng and his "anti-party clique"?
... that the area most affected by the 1872 North Cascades earthquake was largely unpopulated, resulting in limited damage?
... that James B. Weaver ran for President of the United States as a Greenbacker in 1880 and as a Populist in 1892?
... that The Verge wrote that Google Inbox "feels a lot like the future of email"?
... that in the Balinese dance kebyar duduk, androgynously made-up men spin in circles while seated or half-seated?

2 December 2014

18:26, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Harrison B. Tordoff (pictured) said he was passionate about restoring the peregrine falcon because his experience as a fighter pilot "was as close as a human could get to being a peregrine"?
... that the Czech language contains a sound, ř (example: "řeka" (river)), that does not occur in any other known language?
... that Smithsonian anthropologist Bruce D. Smith started his study of the origin of agriculture in Eastern North America with a cigar box full of seeds?
... that the song "Do or Die" by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars features the contribution of the band's fans?
... that the Baiounitai were one of the Slavic tribes that established a military alliance led by Chatzon and besieged the Byzantine city of Thessaloniki in the mid-610s?
... that Liostenogaster vechti wasps defend their nests from large ants by grasping the ants and then dropping from the edge of the nest to remove them?
... that the comedian anchor of the Emmy-nominated Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola is considered "the reluctant voice of a cynical generation"?

06:11, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

... that scholars believe the relief carvings on the 12th-century Old Bridge (piers pictured) in Hasankeyf, Turkey, depict the page corps of Artuqid ruler Qarā Arslān?
... that although it outnumbered its attackers at the Battle of Nam Bac, the Royal Lao Army was routed by the People's Army of Vietnam?
... that Cologne-born character actor Erwin Hiller, portraying the Frenchman Marcel Hillaire, toured U.S. college campuses with a one-man stage show celebrating French literature?
... that the Northern Ice Field on Mount Kilimanjaro is the largest glacial remnant on the mountain with an area of 0.95 km² (0.4 sq mi)?
... that the Pettakere cave in Indonesia has hand print paintings estimated to be between 35,000 and 40,000 years old?
... that Fu Buqi was one of only two disciples that Confucius praised as a junzi in the Analects?
... that nasal dwarfgobies live for only three months?

1 December 2014

12:00, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

... that Max Carey (pictured) dropped out of seminary to play baseball?
... that illiterate Operation Hardnose spies used modified survival radios to count and report traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
... that 16th-century Spanish friar Domingo de Vico was sacrificed after scolding an Acala Ch'ol ruler over how many wives he had?
... that the Varagavank monastery was the site of Armenian resistance to Turkish government forces during the Armenian Genocide?
... that the fossil big-headed fly Priabona is named for the age of the rocks in which it was found?
... that the Loon Church, built between 1855 and 1864, was reduced to rubble when a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Bohol in 2013?
... that the Chinese land slug Rathouisia leonina is carnivorous?

00:10, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

... that The Sunday Times termed the Sinclair C5 electric vehicle (pictured) a "Formula One bath-chair"?
... that Diego Costa scored a record seven goals in his first four Premier League matches?
... that when Polybia sericea catches an insect, it drags its prey onto a twig or piece of grass to prevent it from being stolen by ants?
... that Bárid, King of Dublin, was made lame in 877 during a battle at Strangford Lough?
... that among fossils found at Koonwarra, Victoria are those of horseshoe crabs, ginkgo and gnetophytes?
... that Duanmu Ci was said to have ridden a quadriga to visit Yuan Xian's tiny hut?
... that Namacpacan Church is built with buttresses and thick walls in order to withstand earthquakes?