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28 February 2014

22:45, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the William H. Griffitts House (pictured) in Tennessee was a "station" on the Underground Railroad that aided African Americans escaping slavery?
... that Henry William McKenney and Alex Taylor made the first long distance telephone call from Edmonton to St. Albert in 1885?
... that the acidity load in Whiskey Run, a tributary of Drury Run, would need to be reduced by 99.5% to meet requirements set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency?
... that Samuel Appleton's defense of Hatfield, Massachusetts, was a turning point for the colonists during King Philip's War?
... that the Bath Assembly Rooms featured in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion and Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers?
... that upon his appointment as Poet Laureate of New Jersey in 2002, provocative African-American poet Amiri Baraka told Governor Jim McGreevey, "You're gonna catch hell for this"?

14:30, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the cover of the Beatles' Abbey Road is one of the best known in rock music, and regularly imitated by fans (pictured)?
... that the asteroid 2011 XC2 missed the Earth by less than 1 lunar distance on 3 December 2011?
... that Konstanze Vernon, prima ballerina in Munich remembered as Giselle, created and directed an academy in memory of her ballet partner Heinz Bosl?
... that HMS Crescent was present at Saldanha Bay in 1796 when the Dutch surrendered without a fight?
... that in 1909, hemoglobin crystals from over 100 species were used to relate biological taxonomy to molecular properties?
... that William Templeton died just days after his defeat for re-election as Mayor of Vancouver?

06:15, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Philip Morrison (pictured) transported the core of the Trinity test gadget to the test site in the back seat of a Dodge sedan?
... that ten people died when Cyclone Alan struck French Polynesia in 1998, mostly as a result of landslides?
... that Lloyd Cook was named to the Pacific Coast Hockey Association first all-star team three times?
... that the fresh water from Waterfall Bay is said to have given Hong Kong its name?
... that an Ace Spectrum release was among the first 12-inch singles to be issued?
... that Australian inventor Myra Juliet Farrell dreamed of solutions to practical problems and wrote them in mirror writing on the wall while sleepwalking?

27 February 2014

21:00, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Josephine Silone Yates (pictured) was the first black woman to head a college science department in the United States?
... that following the lifeboats disaster in 1886, memorials were erected in Southport Cemetery, in Southport Promenade, in St Annes Promenade, and in a Lytham churchyard?
... that Malcolm Orme Little retired three times?
... that a villanelle is used to "deal with one or another degree of obsession"?
... that Virat Kohli is the fastest player to score 19 One Day International centuries, doing so in 124 innings?
... that Millennium's "...Thirteen Years Later" featured the members of Kiss in dual roles?

12:45, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

... that during its centenary season, the Theater Kiel premiered an opera, Cristóbal Halffter's Lázaro, in the 1907 Opernhaus (pictured)?
... that parliamentarian Axel Jansson was removed from the Swedish Communist Party executive at the 1967 party congress?
... that Conner Mertens was the first active college football player to publicly come out about his sexuality?
... that the grey triggerfish has developed a feeding strategy for dealing with sand dollars?
... that Ezra Pound considered dumping his first poetry collection, A Lume Spento, into a Venetian canal?

03:10, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the texts on the Cippi of Melqart (pictured), known as the Maltese Rosetta stone, allowed the deciphering of the Phoenician alphabet in 1764?
... that Bhagat Singh wrote Why I am an Atheist as a reply to a religious man who thought Singh had become an atheist because of his vanity?
... that Rock Lawn, home of Hamilton Fish II and later of Patty Hearst, is Richard Upjohn's only Italian villa-style house in the Hudson Highlands?
... that Mattias Moström is the foreign player with the most matches for the Norwegian football club Molde FK?
... that Omicron¹ Canis Majoris is a star 65,000 times as bright as our Sun, and has 530 times its diameter?
... that in the 2004 Subway 400, Joe Ruttman ran only one lap before being ordered to park his car by NASCAR?

26 February 2014

19:25, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Forglen House (pictured) has "all the romantic aspirations of the early 19th century poured into it"?
... that the English Jesuit theologian Charles Davis caused a firestorm of controversy when he left the priesthood in 1966?
... that in 1887 William Eakin's residence served as a classroom for the community of Crescent Lake before a school was built the following year?
... that according to tradition the Church of the Holy Archangels, Rogoz was built from two huge elm trees?
... that in 2011, Johann Lamont became the first person to be elected as overall leader of the Scottish Labour Party?
... that Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 was hijacked by the co-pilot?

10:20, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

... that George S. Armstrong (pictured) was the first mayor of Edmonton after its amalgamation with Strathcona?
... that the 1955 Indonesian comedy Tamu Agung is a critique of the corruption under Sukarno's government?
... that the Montana Race to the Sky is a long distance sled dog race known as "the Iditarod of the Lower 48"?
... that the 2011-opened Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library in Istanbul is housed in a building, which once served for Ottoman sultans to accept salutes during a military parade?
... that Kieran Evans won a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer?
... that former Minister of Industries Keshab Prasad Badal was a leader of the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation, Nepal in the 1970s?

02:35, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Cherry Mansion (pictured) was headquarters for Union generals at the American Civil War Battle of Shiloh?
... that the Nokia Lumia Icon was the first Nokia Lumia released not using its model number as part of its branding and release name?
... that "Tom & Gerri", the third episode of Inside No. 9, was based on a play Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith had written years earlier?
... that the Surdulica massacre took the lives of 2,000–3,000 people?
... that the cancellation of a Star Trek: Voyager tie-in video game led to the foundation of BioShock developer Irrational Games?
... that no one knows where the water in Stratton Moat comes from?

25 February 2014

18:50, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Alexander Roslin painted a double portrait of himself and his wife in which she is working in pastels on a portrait of Henrik Peill (pictured)?
... that Firefly fans were developing their own video game based on the franchise before an official game, Firefly Online, was announced?
... that Frederick G. Coan was told about 2,000 people who had dug their own graves?
... that musician Rick Recht was inspired to create Jewish Rock Radio after seeing how Christian rock radio stations operated?
... that Zimbabwe's gold-winning women's field hockey team from the 1980 Olympics were promised an ox each by the Prime Minister's wife, but got packages of meat instead?
... that Ezra Pound published a translation of Chinese poetry despite not understanding the language?

11:05, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the conservation designation County Wildlife Site (example site pictured) confers no legal protection at all?
... that Marcellus Neal was the first African-American graduate of Indiana University?
... that San Francisco artists and craftspeople fought the police and city hall for years to bring about a Street Artists Program that lets them legally sell their work on the city's sidewalks?
... that the music video for Kylie Minogue's 2010 single "All the Lovers" was intended as homage to the singer's gay audience?
... that a Mediterranean tropical cyclone in 1969 resulted in hundreds of deaths in Tunisia and Algeria?
... that although Monsanto's Charles A. Thomas promised to return the Runnymede Playhouse intact, it became so contaminated with radioactivity from the Manhattan Project it was demolished and buried?

03:20, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

... that newer scholarship notices that the Cross of Otto and Mathilde (pictured) shows the siblings as family members and not as dignitaries?
... that former UCLA Bruins basketball player Joshua Smith became a fan of the university after his eighth-grade report on Bruins coach John Wooden?
... that the B. B. Moeur Activity Building is the largest WPA-built adobe structure in Arizona?
... that both the Akoya pearl oyster and the penguin's wing oyster are used in the production of cultured pearls?
... that "Flatline", a song by Mutya Keisha Siobhan, was co-written by British artist Dev Hynes?
... that the Missouri Department of Corrections believed that Cornealious Michael Anderson was in prison for 13 years, when he was actually living a normal life and raising a family?

24 February 2014

17:45, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Slovenia won eight medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics, including two gold (Tina Maze on downhill podium pictured), a record for the country?
... that when four-year-old Philip I of Castile inherited Flanders, its cities staged a revolt to get rid of his guardian Maximilian I?
... that PopMatters compared Justin Timberlake's "Not a Bad Thing" to 'N Sync's 1999 "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You", for sharing the same "emotional earnestness" and "heart-melter" characteristics?
... that Lynne Owens is the first woman to become Chief Constable of Surrey Police?
... that the book The Emperor's New Drugs suggests that antidepressants may be nothing but a very powerful placebo?
... that the "ghost" of William Brooke Smith haunted the poet Ezra Pound in several of his works?

10:00, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Edmonton mayor Cornelius Gallagher (pictured) was the first president of the Edmonton Hockey Club?
... that a Kitkehahki Pawnee village in Nebraska is the site where Zebulon Pike convinced the Kitkehahki to remove a Spanish flag and display an American flag?
... that Jordan Adams was the first freshman in UCLA Bruins men's basketball history to score 20 or more points in his first four games?
... that the channeled basket snail can use its muscular foot to catapult itself through the air?
... that former Turkish Minister of Customs and Monopolies, Tuncay Mataracı, was sentenced in 1982 to a 36-year term of imprisonment for bribery and abuse of power?
... that a US congressman thought the ad campaign Stronger than the Storm "smelled"?

00:00, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project's Night Train sled (pictured) guided the United States team to the 2010 Winter Olympics gold medal, their first since 1948?
... that Louis Braille's reading system for the blind was inspired by methods developed by both Valentin Haüy and Charles Barbier?
... that Sophie Turner Laing, a managing director of BSkyB, originally trained as a secretary?
... that Thomas Gold Appleton had a tablet placed at Appleton's Pulpit, where one of his ancestors was said to have made a speech denouncing the tyranny of Sir Edmund Andros?
... that in the 1929 split in the Swedish Communist Party, the brothers Oscar and Gunnar Öhman found themselves on opposite sides?
... that Charles M. O'Brien once spoke before the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for five hours and 50 minutes, setting a record?

23 February 2014

16:00, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Bolshoy Ice Dome (interior pictured) is scheduled to host the gold medal match of the Olympic men's ice hockey tournament today?
... that E.W. Hornung based his characters A.J. Raffles and Bunny Manders on the partnerships of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, and of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas?
... that the 1984 general election in Gibraltar came to be known as the "dockyard election"?
... that Ben Simons said that competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics "means the world to me"?
... that Frederic Brewster Loomis uncovered vertebrate fossils that were still exhibited at Amherst College's Beneski Museum of Natural History almost a century later?
... that The Gentlewoman campaigned against "tight-lacing"?

08:00, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Salt Creek (pictured) is a freshwater stream in Oregon named for salt springs along its banks?
... that Vivienne Cassie Cooper is New Zealand's "leading expert" on the microscopic algae diatom?
... that over 6.5 million users have watched, and sometimes partaken in, "playing" Pokémon Red on Twitch?
... that Honolulu City Councilmember Joey Manahan is the grandnephew of Manuel Manahan, a Filipino Senator?
... that the Banded Whiteface enters a state of torpor on winter nights?
... that when Australian sprinter Arthur Postle lost the 1907 semi-final sprint at Kalgoorlie to J. Condon, he carried on running, hopping a fence, to a bookmaker to bet on Condon winning the final?

00:00, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the snail Tonna galea (shell pictured) is one of very few species of prosobranch gastropods that are luminescent?
... that Bruce Tasker, who is competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics, originally competed in the 400m?
... that scrap metal dealers who took apart the remains of the Călan steel works sorted and sold the metal on the works' grounds?
... that players on the 2000 Florida Marlins liked Rusty Kuntz?
... that although unsuccessful, the 1915 Chilembwe uprising changed the nature of British rule in Nyasaland?
... that when the leukemia researcher John M. Goldman was arrested by Iranian authorities, he drugged his guards with barbiturates in order to escape?

22 February 2014

16:00, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the 14th-century Munich Serbian Psalter (a miniature pictured), the most extensively illuminated Serbian manuscript, has been kept in Bavaria since the late 17th century?
... that Orlando Quevedo is the first cardinal from Mindanao, Philippines?
... that the first known person surnamed Lü was the first ruler of Qi who lived more than 3,000 years ago?
... that Czech Olympic snowboarder Ester Ledecká is the granddaughter of two-time Olympic medallist Jan Klapáč?
... that Magnolia x thompsoniana (1808) was the first hybrid magnolia?
... that bobsledder Stuart Benson, who competes for Team GB today, is a Royal Air Force corporal?

08:00, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Lonnie Hanzon designed the Evolution of the Ball sculpture (pictured) at Coors Field in Denver?
... that the male sheepshead minnow becomes much more colorful in the breeding season?
... the 1982 North Yemen earthquake was the first shock in the region that resulted in fatalities since 1941?
... that although Marquee Moon sold fewer than 80,000 copies in the US, Spin and NME ranked it among the ten greatest albums of all time?
... that Titanoceratops was known from an almost complete skeleton that was assigned to Pentaceratops, and that the two were only distantly related?
... that Paolo Isnardi was forbidden from performing his own compositions at his place of employment?

00:00, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Diogenes (logo pictured) published in 50 years more than 3,400 books by 700 authors including Patricia Highsmith, John Irving and Paulo Coelho?
... that even though "Dibby Dibby Sound" chronologically follows "Earthquake", DJ Fresh considers it the follow-up to "Gold Dust" due to it featuring Ms. Dynamite?
... that Robert Brode led the group that developed the fuses used in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
... that Wyvern shipwrecked during the 2013 Tall Ships' Races?
... that baritone Franz Grundheber performed the title role in Alban Berg's Wozzeck in Paris and Berlin, staged by Patrice Chéreau and filmed in 1994?
... that Lu, Lu, and Lu are different Chinese surnames?

21 February 2014

16:00, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the 11th-century Codex Aureus of Echternach (example illustration pictured) is unusual in having several pages of illustrations for the parables of Jesus?
... that Sverre Valen conducted his last concert in 2013, aged 88?
... that one reviewer of Experimenting with Babies compared infant intellect to a "sentient grapefruit" on which parents can feed?
... that the leaders of the new Ugandan opposition political party Freedom and Unity Front include David Sejusa, a former Ugandan general and parliament member who left the country in 2013?
... that one of the accused assassins of Turkish former government minister Gün Sazak later hijacked an airplane to Bulgaria with accomplices?
... that Musca is the only official constellation that depicts an insect?

08:00, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

... that historians have been arguing about the function of the remains at Ras ir-Raħeb (pictured) for centuries, with interpretations ranging from a domestic villa to a temple dedicated to Heracles?
... that short track speed skater Kyle Carr plans to retire after the Olympics, saying, "I'd love to speedskate forever, but it doesn't pay the bills"?
... that the star system RR Caeli consists of a red dwarf and white dwarf, with a planet orbiting around both of them?
... that singer Kanako Momota performs a "shrimp jump" during live shows?
... that Norwegian footballer Håkon Lorentzen is the youngest-ever goalscorer in Tippeligaen?
... that "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" from the Ramones's Leave Home album was described as a "sing-along mental-illness ode"?

00:00, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

... that atop the Poznań ratusz (pictured) from the mid-16th century, billy goats butting heads attract hundreds of spectators daily?
... that termite-inspired robots may someday build a base for humans on Mars?
... that Armamalai Cave has cave paintings which are similar in technique to those of Sittanavasal?
... that the massive video game battle Bloodbath of B-R5RB from Eve Online involved over 7,500 players, making it potentially the largest player versus player battle ever?
... that the fossil ant Aphaenogaster praerelicta is entombed in amber with three flies, two springtails, and a wasp?
... that a 1991 Singapore court case quashed an order requiring a woman to rename her business for being too similar to J. C. Penney as the authorities had taken into account irrelevant considerations?

20 February 2014

16:00, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

... that in Ottonian art (example pictured), important manuscripts were given treasure bindings of gold and jewels?
... that physicist Robert R. Wilson provided the Fermilab with a small herd of American Bison to roam its restored prairie?
... that Lund's Tower is one of two Yorkshire follies collectively known as "The Salt and Pepper Pots"?
... that Emma Lonsdale is a "fridge kid"?
... that following a high-profile "clone war" over a copy of their Ridiculous Fishing game, Vlambeer's Luftrausers was beaten to market by a clone of its own?
... that injured Bald Eagles at a bird sanctuary in northwestern New Mexico are ensured a view of a mesa from their cages?

08:00, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the tunicates Didemnum molle (pictured) and Atriolum robustum both brood their developing embryos?
... that Henri Wald lost his job as a university professor because his government disliked his views?
... that Simmons Bedding Company has dropped bowling balls on its mattresses in order to promote them?
... that Wade Walton, the "blues barber" of Clarksdale, Mississippi, and early bandmate of Ike Turner, played a razor strop by striking it on beat with a razor?
... that the author of Farmageddon travelled the world to investigate what happens when 300,000 laying hens are held or 10,000 cows are being milked on a single farm?
... that Pensford Viaduct was offered for sale for £1, but no one bought it?

00:00, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Hungarian king Samuel Aba (pictured) not only abolished all laws introduced by Peter the Venetian, who both preceded and succeeded him, but also had Peter's supporters killed or tortured?
... that the primary star of the binary system Theta Tucanae has absorbed much of the mass of its once-larger companion?
... that the climax of the opera L'ultimo giorno di Pompei by Giovanni Pacini is the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79?
... that the Leverett Glacier in Antarctica, Leverett Glacier in Greenland, Lake Leverett in Washington, and plant species Sigillaria leveretti were all named after American geologist Frank Leverett?
... that Jan Matuszyński, who earned medical degrees in Tübingen and Paris, died of tuberculosis in the arms of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand?
... that choreographer Michael Kidd initially rejected working on his most famous movie, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), saying "We'd be laughed out of the house"?

19 February 2014

16:00, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Cyclone Winifred (pictured) was the most severe tropical cyclone to strike northern Queensland since Cyclone Althea in 1971?
... that alpine skier David Chodounsky was the only player to make the U.S. Ski Team after earning his college degree?
... that Tamarack Swamp is home to the only species of deciduous conifer in Pennsylvania?
... that Eduard Scotland and Alfred Runge designed luxury ocean liner cabins before they created St Petrus House?
... that when Javier Silva Ruete was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the First Presidency of Fernando Belaúnde, he was the youngest person having occupied that post?
... that Barra Castle was the seat of Kings?

08:00, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Tso-ay (pictured) was wounded while fighting alongside Geronimo?
... that in November 1985, a cold front and the remnants of Atlantic Hurricane Juan contributed to the costliest flooding on record in Virginia and West Virginia, causing about $1.4 billion in damage?
... that Dylan Kwasniewski is the first driver to win both the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and K&N Pro Series West championships?
... that twenty years after the Armenian Genocide, William Saroyan challenged the world to destroy the Armenian people?
... that the Iranian government executed teacher and poet Hashem Shabani for waging war on God, among other charges?
... that earlier this month, members of the Anti-Vivisection Coalition gathered outside Senate House, Cambridge, to protest against primate testing at Cambridge University?

00:00, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the $78 million Admiral Clarey Bridge (pictured) connecting Ford Island to O'ahu was called "the bridge to nowhere"?
... that romance and thriller writer James Patterson was the top earning novelist of 2010, making $70 million?
... that James Machon, competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Team GB, has been skiing since he was six?
... that Millennium's Brittany Tiplady credited the episode "The Fourth Horseman" with helping her to develop as an actress?
... that college football All-American Michael Sam could become the first active National Football League player to have publicly come out as gay?
... that after the Great Exhibition of 1851, Dorset buttons were no longer handmade?

18 February 2014

16:00, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the trick to the inexhaustible bottle (illustrated) was so widely known that it became part of a common hydrostatics demonstration for physics students?
... that Olympic bobsledder Rebekah Wilson took odd jobs to pay for her training?
... that four shots were fired at the house of Norwegian crime journalist Nina Johnsrud in 2006?
... that the Leader of Alderney has historically been a hereditary Governor, a Judge and a non-politically elected President?
... that former college basketball player Fred Slaughter was called "the dean of black sports attorneys" by The New York Times?
... that RZ Gruis is a cataclysmic variable star, a type which the American Association of Variable Star Observers recommends be watched in case it becomes a nova?

08:00, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Helen C. White's (pictured) graduate students called her "the Purple Goddess" partly due to her predominantly purple wardrobe and exceptional height?
... that the Arizona Fourth Amendment Protection Act would withdraw state support for collection of metadata and would ban the use of warrantless data in courts?
... that Binnya Dala, the most trusted adviser and general of King Bayinnaung of Burma, translated Razadarit Ayedawbon, the earliest extant chronicle of the Mon people?
... that the film rights to the biography Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story were announced a week after the book was released?
... that Roger McMurrin helped Ukrainian atheists to become Christians through their performance of Christian music in his orchestra?
... that Richard Ambler discovered that horizontal gene transfer is central to the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria?

00:00, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Zbigniew Bródka (pictured), the first Pole to win an Olympic gold medal in men's 1500 metres speed skating, is a professional firefighter?
... that "Hey Love" by Danish duo Quadron was the only song out of their album Avalanche to have been made with an outside producer?
... that in 1862, along with Bill Cust, Canadian gold prospector, fur trader, and merchant Edward Carey discovered the first gold in Peace River?
... that the name of the anarchist newspaper Burevestnik, published in Paris in 1906, was inspired by Maxim Gorky's poem Song of the Stormy Petrel?
... that Peruvian politician Jorge Torres Vallejo was awarded the San Martín Order by the government of Argentina?
... that AG Pegasi has been described as the slowest nova ever recorded?

17 February 2014

16:00, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

... that meat from crocodiles farmed in the Philippines (pictured) can be found in adobo, burgers, and hot dogs?
... that John Baines of Team GB, originally set to compete in the four-man bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics, ended up doing the two-man bobsleigh as well?
... that The FP is a film based around a Dance Dance Revolution style video game in which people die of a "187" after losing a dance-off?
... that the anarchist newspaper Burevestnik, published in Petrograd in 1917–18, encouraged the homeless and poor to appropriate homes for themselves?
... that E. Gordon Gee says Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Ed. v. Doyle is the first time the U.S. Supreme Court allowed an action to continue despite finding the First Amendment was violated?
... that Russ Pitts, an editor at Polygon, described The Castle Doctrine as the most disturbing video game he'd ever played?

08:10, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Solberg Inlet in Antarctica was named after Thorvald A. Solberg (pictured)?
... that the coat of arms of Groningen was formally adopted by Queen Wilhelmina in 1947, more than 350 years after it was designed?
... that Pål Refsdal converted to Islam while he was held hostage by Taliban?
... that communist legislator Khan Shakir Ali Khan warned of the risks of the Union Carbide plant, years before the 1984 Bhopal disaster?
... that "A Quiet Night In", the second episode of British dark comedy anthology series Inside No. 9, was almost entirely free of dialogue?
... that advertising for the film Air Mata Mengalir di Tjitarum emphasised a person who did not star in it?

00:00, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Cornwell Scout Badge (pictured) was created in memory of Jack Cornwell, who joined the Royal Navy and died at the age of 16 during the Battle of Jutland?
... that college basketball coach Jack Hirsch's family business entered the pornography industry, which he called "infinitely cleaner" than college recruiting?
... that as of January 2014, Desfado by fado singer Ana Moura had not dropped from the Portuguese Albums Chart top 20 since its release in November 2012?
... that after serving six terms in the Oregon House of Representatives and running for governor in 1978, Roger E. Martin became a lobbyist at the Oregon State Capitol?
... that the Conchos trout of the Mexican native trout found in the Rio Conchos in the Sierra Madre Occidental is the only rainbow trout subspecies native to an Atlantic Ocean drainage?
... that Cristian Raducanu, a rugby union player who represented Romania until age 22, was described by Bill McLaren as a "world-class lineout exponent"?

16 February 2014

16:00, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Sydney Leroux (pictured) represented Canada before deciding to play for the United States women's national soccer team?
... that the word "agnosticism" was coined by biologist Thomas Henry Huxley?
... that after being destroyed by air strikes in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Bhuj Airport was rebuilt by a group of 300 women in 72 hours?
... that a narrow valley extending across the southern tip of Vancouver Island and past Victoria marks the Leech River Fault, a major geotectonic boundary where the Siletzia terrane dives under Vancouver Island?
... that in five years First Capital Plus has moved from a micro finance company to the headline sponsor of the Ghana Premier League?

08:00, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Fernanda Lima (pictured), the muse of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, is in a television show named Amor & Sexo?
... that the right to gather Pacific wing-oysters in the Gulf of California was once a prerogative of the Spanish crown?
... that John Cameron travelled to Edmonton from Winnipeg via ox cart carrying 96,000 pounds (44,000 kg) of merchandise for his store?
... that Gadis jang Terdjoeal was The Teng Chun's first film to take into account the interests of native Indonesians?
... that Luisa Zissman named one of her businesses, Dixie's Cupcakery, after her daughter?
... that South Korea's proposed highest-denomination 100,000-won banknote was cancelled in 2008, since the 19th-century map Daedongyeojido depicted on the note did not portray the Liancourt Rocks?

00:00, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment (gun team pictured) had an establishment of 549 men, but suffered 640 casualties in the fighting at Gallipoli?
... that neurosurgeon Jean Talairach created a coordinate system for the brain to help standardize stereotaxy procedures?
... that the first phase of SkyCycle, a proposed network of elevated cycle paths in London, is expected to cost £220 million?
... that Polish historian Stanisław Salmonowicz, once repressed by the Polish communist authorities, has published over 1,000 works?
... that Jamaica's Merlene Ottey is the only sprinter to have won more than two medals in the 100 metres at the Olympics?
... that the core concept behind Horrible Histories is "history with the nasty bits left in"?

15 February 2014

15:56, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the ant Aphaenogaster amphioceanica (pictured) is in the same amber fossil as six Pseudarmadillo cristatus woodlice?
... that short track speed skater Jessica Smith qualified for the 2014 Olympics despite not training with the national team?
... that the 1999 video game Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey featured virtual steam powered machinery as part of the game?
... that Thomas Pilcher, who commanded a British division on the first day of the Somme, was sacked ten days later after it had taken 4,771 casualties?
... that the San Esteban carried cockroaches across the Atlantic in the 1550s?

07:41, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the David Yeiser House (pictured) is one of the few houses that survived the Battle of Paducah in the American Civil War?
... that Yoko Kondo was the Japan women's ice hockey team's oldest player in the 2014 Winter Olympics, and the only one with prior Olympic experience?
... that when describing the new octopus genus Histoctopus, scientists named a species "after the senior author's wonderful wife, Karen Zipkas"?
... that Day-Elder both propelled and pushed their trucks with worm drive?
... that "Weird Al" Yankovic offered to guest star in an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic after a co-executive producer found him showcasing fan works with his music on Twitter?
... that Arthur Francis Buddington went to Brown, then Princeton, then Brown, then Princeton, then Brown, then Princeton?

14 February 2014

23:26, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

... that descendants of Illinois State Senator Isaac Funk (pictured) were elected to the Illinois Senate, the Illinois House of Representatives, and the U.S. House of Representatives?
... that Anecdotes de Suède, a polemic against the Swedish regime of the 1680s, appeared in French, German, and English before finally being published in Swedish in 1822?
... that the futuristic imagery in The Juan MacLean's album The Future Will Come was inspired by science fiction and dystopian works?
... that Hakan Kıran, Turkish architect of the Golden Horn Metro Bridge, chose his profession because he was impressed by the concept of the town constructed by the French, in which he grew up?
... that Tio Tek Djien was so taken with the star of a play he watched that he ran away from home and married her?

15:11, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Archbishop Egbert of Trier (pictured) commissioned and carried a staff-reliquary containing what was said to be the staff of Saint Peter?
... that composer James Horner intended his musical score for the drama film A Beautiful Mind to resemble the effect generated by a kaleidoscope?
... that in 1935 the segregated Richmond Academy of Arts produced a one-man show of carvings by African-American sculptor Leslie Garland Bolling?
... that a cash prize Ryan Larkin won at the Melbourne International Film Festival for the animated film Street Musique was used to support young artists in Montreal?
... that Woodrow Wilson convinced Charles Henry Smyth, Jr., to leave Hamilton College for Princeton University?
... that Rembangan is best known for its view, but is also famous for its dragonfruit?

00:00, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Edward Ripley (pictured) warned Abraham Lincoln about an assassination plot against him the week before he was killed?
... that more than 200 seaweed species and 150 bird species have been observed on and around the small island of Lihou in the English Channel?
... that UCLA Bruins basketball coach John Wooden described Larry Hollyfield as "probably the greatest physical talent on the team" during their 1971–72 championship season?
... that Octavian Smigelschi's depiction of the Three Magi in the Romanian Orthodox cathedral in Sibiu may have been inspired by portraits of actual princes who ruled in the three Romanian provinces?
... that "Tipitina" is a New Orleans music standard that has been added to the National Recording Registry?
... that George Armstrong scored the last goal in the Original Six era of the National Hockey League, as the Toronto Maple Leafs won the 1967 Stanley Cup Finals?

13 February 2014

16:00, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Streatham portrait (pictured) is widely held to be a bad painting yet was purchased by the National Portrait Gallery for a rumored £100,000?
... that the Great American Lesbian Art Show was the first time that lesbians of color participated in a major exhibition of lesbian art?
... that in 2001 "A Puro Dolor" by Puerto Rican band Son by Four won Lo Nuestro Awards for both Pop Song of the Year and Tropical Song of the Year?
... that collections left by naturalists Frederick Lukis and his daughter Louisa, wife of Sark's feudal ruler William Thomas Collings, are the most significant natural history collections displayed by the museums of Guernsey?
... that molecular phylogenetics led to six genera of Brassicaceae resolving into the southern Africa genus Heliophila?
... that the Vatican was asked to step in to prevent the Daughters of the Cross from selling off St. Anthony's Hospital?

08:00, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

... that although Delaware has ten colleges and universities (U. of Delaware pictured) listed under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, it lacks a medical school?
... that "Long" Jones, so nicknamed for his great height, was elected to the legislature in two states, was a U.S. Marshal, and owned a mineral water plant?
... that six ground crew of No. 11 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF were court-martialled for mutiny in October 1941?
... that Peruvian leftist parliamentarian Eriberto Arroyo Mío was assassinated whilst driving his son to school?
... that the first recorded use of the platoon system in baseball dates back to 1887?
... that speed skater Kelly Gunther overcame an accident that nearly severed her foot to make the 2014 Winter Olympics?

00:00, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

... that female Marpesia zerynthia (pictured) rarely descend from the forest canopy, and are typically rounder and larger than their male counterparts?
... that the collected works of the first arranger for the U.S. Army Chorus, Joseph Willcox Jenkins, are housed with those of Joe "Handyman" Negri?
... that the Broadway play Bronx Bombers stars married couple Peter Scolari and Tracy Shayne as Yogi Berra and his wife, Carmen?
... that 2014 Olympic medallist Ståle Sandbech was, in 2010, the youngest Norwegian at the Olympics in 82 years?
... that Johann Erich Thunmann was the first scholar who presented the Illyrian theory of the origin of Albanians?
... that the Vestingmuseum Oudeschans is a local museum with archaeological findings from the fortified village of Oudeschans in the Netherlands?
... that the 2014 Canadian federal budget redefines the term beer?

12 February 2014

15:45, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

... that speed skater Jonathan Garcia (pictured) qualified for his first Olympics, was disqualified, and qualified again in a different event, all within 48 hours?
... that the USAF's 1946 Project Thumper and Project Wizard were the first detailed studies of an anti-ballistic missile system, intended to attack a V-2-like missile?
... that the first arrest for courtsiding was at the 2014 Australian Open?
... that The Dream of Jacob, a composition by Krzysztof Penderecki based on the biblical account of Jacob's Ladder, was featured in the American horror movie The Shining?
... that Broadway actress Joan McCracken was one of the models for Truman Capote's fictional Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's?
... that at the 30th Paris Motor show in 1936, the Salmson S4-DA was exhibited without any body?
... that Arianna Huffington said she thought journalist Georgina Henry was a "kindred spirit"?

07:30, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Middleham Hoard from Yorkshire included seven Spanish-American reales but only two of them were real (unreal real pictured)?
... that Yugoslavian tennis players György Dungyersky‎, Ivan Balás, Aleksandar Popović‎‎, Franjo Šefer, Krešimir Friedrich, Ivan Radović, Franjo Kukuljević, Franjo Punčec‎, Josip Palada, and Dragutin Mitić were all members of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Davis Cup team?
... that the only two passenger trains that regularly go through Cleveland Lakefront Station depart/arrive between 1:00 am and 6:00 am?
... that Spanish singer Álex Ubago sang the opening theme of the Argentine telenovela Somos familia, and toured in Argentina during the premiere?
... that Jose Salvador Alvarenga, an El Salvadorian fisherman, claimed in February 2014 to have survived 13 months at sea?
... that "Somewhere Down the Crazy River" is, according to its producer, "kind of like a guy with a deep voice telling you about steaming nights in Arkansas"?

11 February 2014

23:15, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

... that ski jumper Eva Ganster (pictured) pre-jumped at the 1994 Olympics, twenty years before ski jumping became an Olympic sport for women this year?
... that for 24 hours, for every download of the song "Invisible" by U2, Bank of America was giving $1 to the organisation (RED), raising $3,138,470 to fight HIV-AIDS?
... that John Mitchell became the first African American to play for the Alabama football team as a member of the 1971 Crimson Tide squad?
... that Robert H. Liebeck designed the airfoil used in NASCAR's 2007–2012 Car of Tomorrow?
... that YinzCam, a Pittsburgh-based company providing official mobile apps for more than 30 professional sports franchises, was created by Carnegie Mellon University Professor Priya Narasimhan?
... that Esteban Mestivier was appointed interim Argentine military and civil commander of the Falkland Islands but was murdered in a mutiny less than a month after his arrival?
... that much of the filming for "Sardines", the first episode of Inside No. 9, took place in a wardrobe?

15:00, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Art Deco building for studying Atlantis (interior pictured) in Bremen had a crucifix, but with Odin on it?
... that Norwegian cross-country skier Finn Hågen Krogh was promised a spot in the individual sprint in the 2014 Winter Olympics but was controversially dropped 8 days later?
... that Rita Lenihan wrote the Latin motto for the WAVES and would later become their Director?
... that in the years since the Greenback Depot closed in 1954, it has been used for fertilizer storage, an antique shop, and a boat manufacturer's offices?
... that Jamie McDonald ran 5,000 miles across Canada dressed as comic book hero The Flash?
... that when astronomer Lacaille originally charted the constellation Caelum, it was recognized as an "engraver's chisel"?
... that after Harry C. Foster's expulsion in 1916, no one was expelled from the Massachusetts House of Representatives until 2014?

06:45, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Burger King grilled chicken sandwich (pictured) has been reformulated several times since its introduction in 1990?
... that ballet dancer Sally Gilmour was "acclaimed in the 1940s as second only to Margot Fonteyn among British ballerinas"?
... that the War Revenue Act of 1898, introduced in the U.S. to raise funds for American military actions against Spain, established a one-cent-per-call tax on telephone use?
... that Reginald Mount and partner designed a renowned anti-venereal disease campaign in 1943–44?
... that the 13th-century Floriańska Street in Kraków is one of the most prestigious streets in Poland?
... that Illinois Secretary of State Ozias M. Hatch once accompanied Abraham Lincoln for an inspection of the Army of the Potomac?
... that tiger penis soup can command US$300 a bowl, and its key ingredient has been counterfeited?

10 February 2014

22:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

... that King Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia (pictured) lost two realms and his head to Mehmed the Conqueror, much as he had predicted?
... that four days after its opening, a train using the Newcastle-Bolgart Railway caused a bushfire?
... that during his childhood, Josh Hutcherson once dyed the tips of his hair to match one of Justin Timberlake's looks?
... that the position of the Crucifix on the Cross of Mathilde from the Essen Cathedral Treasury has been described as clumsy and awkward?
... that 2014 Olympian Chris Creveling is a former World Champion inline skater?
... that NASA engineers chose "Send Me On My Way" as "wake-up" music for the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, for Sol 21?
... that U.S. President Bill Clinton participated in a jam session at Reduta Jazz Club during a 1994 visit to the Czech Republic?

14:15, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Essen cross with large enamels (pictured) displays five large cloisonné enamel plaques, a Crucifixion in the center and symbols of the Evangelists at the four ends?
... that Armen Dzhigarkhanyan has appeared in more films than any other Russian actor?
... that while pictures of Christopher Columbus, Count Zeppelin and Charles Lindbergh appear on the Glockenspiel House, a carillon plays?
... that Peter Brunt, who would become Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University, was rejected for military service during World War II because he had flat feet?
... that India's Yanaimalai (Elephant Hill) got its name because it looks like an elephant sitting down?
... that New Malden High Street contains many Korean shops, reflecting the large population of South Koreans in the London suburb?
... that 2014 Olympian Emily Scott was preparing to apply for food stamps when a USA Today article about her brought in over $48,000 in donations, allowing her to continue training?

06:00, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the crab Lauridromia intermedia usually wears a sponge but one individual was found sporting a gorgonian wrapper (pictured)?
... that upon William S. Edmiston's retirement as Mayor of Edmonton, he feted the occasion by taking his council and press out for an oyster dinner?
... that Katy Perry's song "Double Rainbow" shares its title with a 2010 viral video?
... that 2014 Olympic speed skater Eddy Alvarez underwent knee surgery in 2012 that left him too weak to navigate stairs?
... that Sphero was initially prototyped with electronics taken from a smartphone?
... that Eduardo Arnold wrote an unpublished book about the early life of Argentine president Néstor Kirchner?
... that Dude Perfect's basketball trick shots relied more on American football skills?

9 February 2014

21:45, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the psychedelic U.S. cover of Jimi Hendrix's debut album Are You Experienced (pictured) was shot in London's Kew Gardens with a fisheye lens?
... that delay of the planned restoration of the ruined Katowice historic train station, which attained monument status in 1975, has led to public protests?
... that Georgetown University is the oldest post-secondary institution in Washington, D.C.?
... that mass surveillance in East Germany was so extensive that there was one informer per every 6.5 citizens?
... that the 2001–02 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team won their first game in the National Invitation Tournament after a bank shot by Reece Gaines with 5.3 seconds left in the game?
... that in Patrick Süskind's play Der Kontrabaß, the double bass in the title role is a "constant handicap" to its player, "humanly, socially, sexually, musically"?
... that the roof of the House of the Seven Lazy Brothers shows how hard-working the brothers had really been?

13:30, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Imelda Marcos (pictured) claimed in the film Imelda that her extravagant clothing "inspired the poor to dress better"?
... that the JBL Paragon, the world's first domestic stereo loudspeaker system, was 106 inches (270 cm) wide and resembled a sideboard?
... that chief of counterintelligence for Russia's FSB, Oleg Syromolotov, is head of security for the 2014 Winter Olympics?
... that the Öküz Mehmed Pasha Caravanserai in Kuşadası, Turkey was built in 1618 in the form of a small citadel with a battlement and merlons on its top?
... that Pseudarmadillo tuberculatus was one of two Pseudarmadillo species described in 1984 from fossils in Dominican amber?
... that Jim Gregory learned of his firing as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs when he was offered the position of director of the NHL Central Scouting Bureau?
... that when they were exhibited in 1978, the sculptures of a Hatstand, Table, and Chair by British pop artist Allen Jones were attacked with stink bombs?

05:15, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

... that artist Andrea Polli used a nephelometer to visualize airborne particulates in her art installation Particle Falls (pictured)?
... that many of the historic buildings in Langenstraße in Bremen were seriously damaged during World War II but have been carefully reconstructed since?
... that Miguel Enríquez went from being a shoemaker to being one of the most wealthy and influential figures in the New World?
... that the British seaplane tender Engadine carried a pigeon loft that housed carrier pigeons to be used by her aircraft if their wireless was broken?
... that anthropologist Nina Jablonski was inspired to study science by a National Geographic program on palaeontologist Louis Leakey?
... that The Elstree Project is an ongoing oral history of the studios of Elstree and Borehamwood, with interviewees including Brian Blessed, Steven Spielberg and Roger Moore?
... that Titanic survivor Dickinson Bishop was rumored to have gained access to a lifeboat by dressing in women's clothing?

8 February 2014

21:00, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Axenstrasse (pictured) weaves through many rock fall galleries and tunnels along cliffs near Lake Lucerne?
... that Emery Lehman shaved seven seconds off his personal best to qualify for the 10,000-meter speed skating race at the 2014 Winter Olympics?
... that the Sukorambi Botanical Garden is home to 300 species of herbs, 200 of flowers, and 500 books?
... that the Golden Horn Metro Bridge in Istanbul is a cable-stayed bridge, which has a swing bridge on one side and features a metro station in the middle?
... that Great Central Railway locomotive no. 506, now preserved and restored for display at the Barrow Hill Engine Shed, was named after Eric Butler-Henderson when it entered service in 1919?
... that devotional articles have been produced and sold as far back as the times of ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia?
... that Fourmile Creek is actually eight miles long?

12:45, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Roselius House (pictured) in Bremen, Germany, was completed in 1588 and is now a museum with items from the Middle Ages through the Baroque period?
... that Senator J. L. Carpenter's wife gave birth to Frankenstein?
... that Turner's painting The Fountain of Indolence is probably also The Fountain of Fallacy?
... that the upcoming video game Sonic Boom is designed specifically for Western audiences as part of a new, Westernized Sonic franchise?
... that the Bluecap Memorial in Cheshire commemorates a foxhound and is a listed building?
... that the Back to the Future musical is scheduled to première in the West End in 2015—the same year that Marty McFly and Doc Brown travelled to in Back to the Future Part II?
... that residents of Motspur Park feel that the London Buses route K5 should be more frequent?

04:30, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Ferdinando Sardella's doctoral thesis on the "forefather" (pictured) of the Hare Krishna movement received the academic award for "outstanding research in religion"?
... that the nudibranch Okenia zoobotryon may contain the same anti-predator chemicals as its prey, the bryozoan Zoobotryon verticillatum?
... that the Michelides Tobacco Factory became an ice cream factory after the decline of the Western Australian tobacco industry?
... that the Singapore Government takes the view that separation of powers is less important than choosing leaders that can be trusted and do not need to be fettered?
... that Lyman Hakes Howe was the first person to give full-length phonograph concerts?
... that the 1996–97 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was the longest on record, with both unusually early and late activity?
... that Robert Farrar's Donut, about a couple who eat a donut during sex, stars a straight couple in the film version but a gay couple on the stage?

7 February 2014

20:15, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

... that 2014 Olympian Sugar Todd (pictured) convinced her parents to move from Nebraska to Wisconsin when she was nine to further her speed skating career?
... that large negative earnings surprises may have legal and reputational costs to managers?
... that century-old buildings in the historic courtyard neighborhoods of Ohel Shlomo and Sha'arei Yerushalayim were razed to make way for the Jerusalem Light Rail?
... that 46 Italian paratroopers died in the 1971 RAF Hercules crash?
... that Robinson Crusoe House in Bremen, Germany, was built by a coffee merchant who admired the fictional Robinson Crusoe for his Hanseatic spirit?
... that during the term of Kwesi Nyantakyi, Ghana has qualified for three successive FIFA World Cups?
... that Queen is one of five soundtracks simultaneously composed by Amit Trivedi during five months in 2013?

12:00, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Charles Wilson (pictured) allowed a young woman, who would later become a famous writer under the pen name Katherine Mansfield, to use the New Zealand Parliamentary Library?
... that the Grand Mosque of Constanța was the first structure in Romania to be constructed with reinforced concrete?
... that Eva Rydberg has performed at the Paris Olympia?
... that Oregon Public Broadcasting praised The Oregon Desert for blending scholarly natural science writing with cowboy humor?
... that following the assassination of Diyarbakır police chief Gaffar Okkan in 2001, more than a hundred babies were named after him?
... that the horror movie The Exorcist features Henze's Fantasia for Strings during its closing credits?
... that the magnetic termite builds its wedge-shaped mound with its axis in a north-south direction?

04:00, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Mathilde, Abbess of Essen, is pictured with her brother Otto on the donor portrait of the Cross of Otto and Mathilde?
... that The Crescent in Birmingham stood unfinished for over 150 years before it was demolished?
... that Mike O'Connor worked for the Committee to Protect Journalists in one of the most dangerous countries for journalists?
... that mobile payment startup Clinkle raised US$25 million in Silicon Valley's largest round of seed funding?
... that Peter Austin built some 140 breweries in 17 countries?
... that the 1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut is considered by some to be the first modern suicide bombing?
... that Lorde says her song "Ribs" was inspired by "this big party I had when my parents went away"?

6 February 2014

18:55, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

... that William Joy designed scissor arches to save the tower of Wells Cathedral (pictured) from collapse?
... that ostrich farming in the Philippines was promoted by the Philippines Department of Agriculture during the food crisis of 2008?
... that Polish Jesuit Piotr Skarga's Lives of the Saints (1579) contained graphic and detailed description of tortures and suffering?
... that the Black Sea jellyfish has become established in the estuaries of the Petaluma and Napa Rivers flowing into San Francisco Bay?
... that the third-person action-adventure video game Freedom: First Resistance was based on Anne McCaffrey's novel trilogy Catteni Series?
... that Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho is one of the few paintings in which Francis Bacon showed his subject in an outdoor setting?
... that in a by-election in Britain in 1908, before women were given the vote, a Mrs Lois Dawson was allowed to vote because her name appeared on the electoral register by accident?

11:10, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Bimala Prasad (pictured) would be feared as the "lion guru" and respected as a "living encyclopedia"?
... that George Frampton used the same model for casting the Statue of Queen Victoria in St Helens, Merseyside, as he used for statues in Leeds and Winnipeg?
... that Nic Fiddian-Green replaced Horse at Water with Still Water?
... that design features in Sabine Hill in Elizabethton, Tennessee, suggest influences from buildings in Williamsburg, Virginia?
... that Rudolf Alfred Höger painted on the Eastern Front in World War I?
... that Chris Taylor was named the Tidewater region's baseball player of the year in his senior year of high school?
... that before the renowned Armenian illustrator Krikor Torosyan could publish his caricatures, he was killed during the Armenian Genocide?

03:10, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Statue of John Laird was moved when Birkenhead War Memorial (pictured) was erected in 1925?
... that outside the Deutsche Bank building in Bremen there is a model of people on a planet?
... that Hilary Wayment took a sabbatical to study the 16th-century stained glass windows in King's College Chapel, Cambridge?
... that St. Charles Medical Center – Madras, the only hospital in Jefferson County, Oregon, is licensed for 36 beds but uses only 25 of them?
... that Catalan refugees in Cuba founded the publication Per Catalunya! in 1942?
... that although Crown Duel's fictional setting of Sartorias-deles is most like New Zealand, its customs and fashions were inspired by the court of Louis XIV?
... that the doctors who discovered the Roseto effect—that reducing stress reduces heart disease— did so over a beer?

5 February 2014

18:25, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Gullifty's, a landmark Pittsburgh restaurant known for its desserts (example pictured) and as "the city's premier jazz club, mostly by default", closed in 2013?
... that Hasculf de Tany, castellan of the Tower of London, was once involved in a lawsuit that ended with the other side being fined a warhorse?
... that Thabit marks the top of Orion's right boot?
... that Joseph C. Smith's orchestra was the first to record a Cole Porter song?
... that Minderoo Station once held an estimated 50,000 sheep, cattle, and horses?
... that during World War I, magazine editor Octavian Codru Tăslăuanu first served in the Austro-Hungarian Army, but later deserted to join the Romanian Army after that country entered the war?
... that in July 2012 news media reported that the online encyclopedia Wikipedia had been appointing new administrators much more slowly in recent years?
10:05, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Michael Waltrip's (pictured in 2008) win in the 2011 NextEra Energy Resources 250 took place ten years after his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win and the death of Dale Earnhardt?
... that the Full Throttle Saloon in Sturgis, South Dakota, claims to be the world's largest biker bar?
... that, by spring 1944, French Resistance leader Émile Coulaudon had assembled 10,000 volunteers in Auvergne?
... that the Solomon Creek boreholes are the second-largest sources of iron discharge in the Coal Region, contributing 9% of the iron load in the region?
... that the church of the 13th century St Catherine's Monastery, Bremen, Germany, was once used as the city's arsenal?
... that Pedro Cordero Martín, the athlete representative on the Catalan Sports Federation of Cerebral Palsy, competed at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Paralympics in boccia?
... that Arnold Wolf was a drama teacher and an industrial designer before he came to head loudspeaker manufacturer JBL?

00:55, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Inchdrewer Castle (pictured) was where George Ogilvy, 3rd Lord Banff, who "sold his country and religion for a ten shilling note", was murdered, and his body burnt?
... that Emma Knyckare was locked inside a glasshouse in Gothenburg in 2013 to host the aid show Musikhjälpen, along with Sarah Dawn Finer and Kodjo Akolor?
... that the statistical jackknife technique was so named because it is useful in a variety of situations much like a jackknife?
... that prior to World War I the Victoria Hotel (Toodyay) was the meeting point of the volunteer Light Horse Regiment?
... that Soviet artist Boris Gusman, who commissioned Prokofiev's Cantata, died in the Great Purge before he could hear it performed?
... that The Day We Fight Back, a movement opposing NSA mass surveillance, is supported by organizations such as Reddit and Mozilla?
... that Arizonasaurus had a large sail along its back made of the spines on its vertebrae?

4 February 2014

16:45, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

... that fruit of the Simon plum (pictured) looks like a tomato?
... that Iranian writer Ahmad Kamyabi Mask was named Chevalier of the Order of Academic Palms for his contribution to French literature?
... that Philadelphia Phillies player César Hernández was signed to a contract at the age of 16?
... that the Staffordshire County League (South) was originally formed as the Walsall & District Junior League after a meeting of football club representatives at the People's Coffee House in Walsall?
... that the 17-point April 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship game first half performance by Spike Albrecht was featured in The New York Times 2013 Year in review?
... that the Island of Lake Billy Chinook contains one of the United States' last remaining undisturbed communities of two native vegetation types?
... that 22 people were killed in 1972 when a Canadair Sabre crashed into an ice cream parlour in Sacramento?
09:00, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

... that a small blind beetle (pictured) lives in a fungus garden inside the nest of the termite Hypotermes makhamensis?
... that Robert Wolfall, the vicar of the Church of St Mary, West Harptree in England, was the first Anglican to celebrate Holy Communion in North America?
... that a two-story railroad worker's home was built for only $800 in 1888?
... that among the thousands dead in the Third attack on Anzac Cove was Australian folklore hero "the Man with the Donkey"?
... that at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, director Louis C.K. personally handed out tickets to distributors to see his new film Tomorrow Night?
... that the Laurel Run mine fire has been burning since 1915 and may burn for another century?
... that Saritha, who plays the female lead in Maro Charitra, was the 162nd girl to be auditioned for the part?
01:15, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Manchurian apricot (flower pictured) has been shown to be effective in expelling parasitic worms?
... that when HMS Reunion was wrecked in the Thames Estuary, not a single life was lost?
... that Antemas challenged the Communist Party of Indonesia by helping to establish a film importers' association?
... that the Chicago Cardinals–Toronto Argonauts exhibition game of August 1959 inaugurated Exhibition Stadium and was the first to feature an NFL team in Toronto?
... that some critics thought that the figures on the Port Sunlight War Memorial were too realistic?
... that former French football international Jean-Pierre Adams has been in a deep coma since 1982?
... that Bernard Waldman flew on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to photograph the event with a high-speed camera, but took no footage because he forgot to open the camera shutter?

3 February 2014

17:36, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Pepe Reina (pictured) and Joe Hart have won the most Premier League Golden Glove awards – both overall and consecutively – with three each?
... that the 1993 Klamath Falls earthquake was the strongest to hit Oregon in recorded history?
... that the professional footballer Helge Haugen was a medallist in orienteering during his youth?
... that the abuses suffered by Ben Affleck and Shia LaBeouf in the webcomic Theater Hopper stemmed from the artist's dislike of the actors?
... that Accounting, Organizations and Society is a top academic accounting journal that focuses on the relationship between accounting and both human behaviour and organisations?
... that Swedish actor Allan Svensson played Gustav Svensson in the hit comedy series Svensson, Svensson?
... that Mary Babnik Brown was the first woman to have her hair used as crosshairs in military aircraft bombsights?
08:00, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

... that a cup (pictured) is a small container for drinks?
... that Sasheer Zamata is the first female black Saturday Night Live cast member hired since the addition of Maya Rudolph?
... that at an early stage in her singing career Celia Cruz was part of the orchestra of the communist Radio Mil Diez?
... that in John Rutter's Latin Magnificat of 1990, the text of the second movement is a poem to Mary, "Of a Rose, a lovely Rose"?
... that the proceeds of the 1913 FA Charity Shield football match were donated to the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster Fund?
... that the fruit of the Japanese Alpine Cherry can be used to make green dye?
... that British architect Richard Feilden was killed by a falling tree whilst creating a woodland memorial for his recently deceased father?

00:00, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

... that two purebred Arabian horses have served as "Thunder" ("Thunder II" pictured), the mascot of the Denver Broncos?
... that the Church of St Philip and St James in Norton St Philip was visited by Samuel Pepys?
... that Peruvian politician Jorge del Prado was awarded orders and medals of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and the Soviet Union?
... that a sea anemone was discovered mysteriously burrowed into the Ross Ice Shelf in 2010?
... that the historic Suding & Soeken building is still home to the paint company that moved there in 1901?
... that American astronomer Pamela L. Gay has directed citizen science projects enabling people to help map the surface of the Moon through an online mapping interface?
... that a British loudspeaker was called "FRED"?

2 February 2014

16:00, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Bishop Franz Kamphaus (pictured) opposed the pope, "convinced that our way of counselling women would save the lives of many more children"?
... that traditional shweshwe fabric made in South Africa was previously imported from Europe and popularised by 19th century German settlers and a Sotho king?
... that in addition to owning what would become Breakheart Reservation, Benjamin Newhall Johnson also served as President-General of the Sons of the American Revolution?
... that a directional crisis delayed completion of a Schubert symphony for 191 years?
... that after the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim executed his family, al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi fled to Palestine, where he provoked an uprising of the Bedouin under Muffarij ibn Daghfal?
... that in St Hildeburgh's Church, Hoylake, is a stained glass window depicting a Boy Scout being embraced by an angel?
... that Super Bowl XLVIII has been dubbed the Mass Transit Super Bowl?

08:00, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Duesenberg Model A (pictured) was the first production car with four-wheel hydraulic brakes?
... that Sainte-Enimie was named after a Merovingian princess after she was cured of leprosy three times in a nearby river?
... that China's Premier Li Keqiang and Vice President Li Yuanchao both studied under Li Yining, who is known as "Mr. Stock Market"?
... that at the 2005 Genesis pay-per-view event, Christian Cage made his Total Nonstop Action Wrestling debut?
... that the song "Horn OK Please" marks the first collaboration between Gulzar and Honey Singh?
... that Peruvian teachers' union leader and former Member of Parliament Óscar Felipe Ventura is a noted saxophone player?
... that the Siberian apricot has been studied as a source of biodiesel?

00:00, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

... that Caesar Hull (pictured), a World War II fighter pilot of Southern Rhodesian birth, has memorial monuments dedicated to him in Norway and England?
... that The Monitors was the first film production of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe?
... that botanist David Moore advised the British Ministry of Defence in their plan to regain the Falkland Islands?
... that the Honduran Patriotic Front, an alliance formed ahead of the 1980s elections, called for an electoral boycott in protest against perceived fraud?
... that Lemmons became the "most brilliantly creative household in Britain" in the spring of 1972, when it was home to the families of Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jane Howard and Cecil Day-Lewis?
... that the father and mother of Mark Sokolich, mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, died when he was 12 and 13 years old, respectively?
... that the skink Brachymeles bonitae has tiny legs and a variable number of toes?

1 February 2014

16:00, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

... that when Cape May Brewing Company (outside pictured) opened in 2011, the co-owner built their first brewing system using scrap metal?
... that Bremen's Post Office included paintings of nymphs and a banqueting hall?
... that Isaac Collins published the first American family Bible?
... that the statues of Ludwig Mond and John Brunner stand next to each other in the grounds of the factory they founded?
... that the orchid Dipodium variegatum forms symbiotic relationships with fungi of the genus Russula?
... that exhibits in the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center include a moonshine still donated by the moonshiner's son?
... that the initial design of the Enterprise as seen in Star Trek: Enterprise was inspired by the 2002 Ford Thunderbird?

08:00, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Bounty Bible (pictured) was presented to the Pitcairn Islands people 160 years after the mutineers from HMS Bounty settled there?
... that the documentary Craigslist Joe, about a man living off the kindness of strangers, was inspired in 2008 by the Great Recession?
... that residents of Batei Munkacs, a small Hasidic neighborhood in west Jerusalem, were not allowed to shave their beards or sidelocks?
... that Gamlingay Cinques Common is a remnant of a much larger heathland which was once visited by Charles Darwin?
... that Total Nonstop Action Wrestling held a match at their Turning Point event that claimed to use barbed wire instead of ring ropes?
... that before it was converted to a sewer, locals complained that Philadelphia's Dock Creek was "offensive and injurious to the Health of the Inhabitants"?
... that the Upper Silesian Railway was part of the first rail network connecting Berlin, Vienna, Kraków and Warsaw by the late 1840s?

00:00, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

... that the Countess of Derby (pictured) was ostracised for leaving her husband and was unable to return to respectable society until after he became embroiled in his own affair with Elizabeth Farren?
... that The Castle, headquarters of internet company Rackspace, was formerly an enclosed shopping mall that also hosted churches, a nightclub, and hurricane survivors?
... that Max Hermann Maxy's experience in World War I significantly influenced his paintings?
... that two lasting legacies of Boeing's GAPA missile project were the CIM-10 Bomarc and the BEAC computer?
... that on the Gaskell Memorial Tower in Knutsford, Cheshire, are two different depictions of Mrs Gaskell?
... that in 1987 the Peruvian senator Enrique Bernales Ballesteros was appointed as the first United Nations special rapporteur on mercenaries?
... that Valley National Bank of Arizona employed a full-time curator to manage the art displayed at all of its 200 branches?