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30 November 2014

12:25, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

... that London's Philharmonic Hall building (pictured) once had one of 30 car showrooms all in the same street?
... that during rainfall, the desert lizard Phrynocephalus versicolor adopts a bottom-up, head-down stance in order to trickle water towards its mouth?
... that Vincent Hanna, the lead character in both L.A. Takedown and its 1995 remake Heat, was inspired by real-life police officer Chuck Adamson?
... that Royal Lao Army troops fled 150 km (93 mi) after their defeat at the Battle of Luang Namtha?
... that baseball player Jacob Hannemann is a cousin of Mufi Hannemann, the former Mayor of Honolulu?
... that in the book Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine, pediatrician Paul Offit criticizes the use of vitamin C to treat the common cold?
... that Charles D'Almaine was the first person to make a record using the Stroh violin?

00:40, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the 1801 edition of The Encyclopaedia Londinensis volume III makes note of certain "remarkable" features of plumeless silver thistle (pictured)?
... that although Dutch Jewish siblings Eva and Abraham Beem tried to hide from the Nazis in the home of a Christian family, Abraham's circumcision gave them away?
... that The National is the first daily newspaper in Scotland to support independence for that country?
... that Romanian Orthodox bishop Nicolae Bălan went from being an Iron Guard supporter to working with his country's new Communist regime in suppressing the Greek-Catholic Church?
... that the wasp Polistes erythrocephalus acts as a natural pesticide in tobacco plantations in South America?
... that TV Guide referred to Ezri Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as "Ally McTrill", a reference to the television series Ally McBeal?
... that Phoumi Nosavan launched the Battle of Lak Sao against United States advice?

29 November 2014

12:55, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the bee Coelioxys sodalis (pictured) is a kleptoparasite?
... that the ouster of Arthur Demoulas by Arthur Demoulas led to protests by employees and customers of Market Basket?
... that the only named tributary of Messers Run is called Negro Hollow?
... that Dareka no Manazashi, the 6-minute 40-second Japanese anime film directed by Makoto Shinkai, was screened alongside his other film, The Garden of Words?
... that when the Manleluag Spring Protected Landscape was established in 1934, its boundaries were referenced to an alibanbang tree that was 35 cm (14 in) in diameter at the time?
... that Richie Farmer holds records for most points scored in the KHSAA championship game (51), and most ethics violations by a Kentucky executive branch officeholder (42)?
... that the Israel National Council for the Child says that slapping children is neither ethical nor educational, and can be destructive?

01:10, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the character Miranda Sings, played by Colleen Ballinger (pictured), is ranked No. 7 among YouTube comedy channels?
... that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach conducted his Magnificat decades after he composed it, juxtaposed in the concert to his father's Credo?
... that K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I, ajaw of Piedras Negras, erected many stelae that became prototypes for monuments raised by his successors?
... that the protagonist of Hatred is a mass-killing villain who begins a "genocide crusade" in his hatred of humanity?
... that the Clinton administration abandoned plans to nominate Alicia Munnell to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors following protest by ten Republican Senators?
... that on the Church of St Teresa of Avila, Birkdale, there is a flèche over the crossing, and a bellcote on the gable of the north transept?
... that a massive "welcoming ceremony" with fireworks and lion dancers greeted county leader Li Lianyu upon his return from a Communist Party National Congress?

28 November 2014

12:00, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

... that St James the Less, Pimlico (pictured), designed by George Edmund Street, has been called "one of the finest Gothic Revival churches anywhere"?
... that after being scorched by wildfires, the blackened branches of the mountain maytenus readily sprout?
... that the Diaspora Yeshiva Band infused rock and bluegrass with Jewish lyrics, creating a music style it called "Hasidic rock" or "Country and Eastern"?
... that Fred Wesley Wentworth designed many of the buildings constructed after the devastating 1902 fire in Downtown Paterson, New Jersey?
... that a dyestuff extracted from the endangered Armenian cochineal was historically used to dye rugs and paint manuscripts and frescoes?
... that Morden station is at one end of a 27.8-kilometre (17.3 mi) long tunnel, the longest on the London Underground?
... that Confucius said, "I used to judge a person by his appearance and erred in Ziyu"?

00:00, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

... that botanist Thomas W. Whitaker was honored for his work with squashes and pumpkins (pictured) by having a squash variety named after him?
... that the English harvest hymn "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" is also a popular Thanksgiving song in the United States?
... that Gladys Kathleen Parkin obtained a first-class commercial radio operator's license at the age of fifteen?
... that the common click beetle is an agricultural pest and its larvae, known as wireworms, cause damage to crops?
... that Bayume Mohamed Husen served in the German army but died at Sachsenhausen concentration camp?
... that the John F. Adams House has been described as the "finest late Italianate dwelling still standing in Pawtucket"?
... that Halfdan Ragnarsson was one of the leaders of the Great Heathen Army?

27 November 2014

12:05, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

... that under the patronage of Matthias Corvinus (pictured), Hungary became the first country outside Italy to embrace the Renaissance?
... that the London Philharmonic Orchestra recorded all of the 205 national anthems used at the medal ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that Ming military leader Kong Youde defected to the Manchus, but committed suicide after being outflanked by the Ming army?
... that Camera Obscura's album Let's Get Out of This Country was recorded in two weeks?
... that the historic Elk Lake Guard Station in Oregon's Deschutes National Forest was converted into a Forest Service information center in 2001?
... that during the beginning of the Italian occupation of Albania, Fashizmi was the sole daily newspaper published in the country?
... that studio potter Carol McNicoll designed costumes for Brian Eno of Roxy Music?

00:20, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Govanhill Baths (pictured) is the last surviving Edwardian public bathhouse in Glasgow?
... that Carl A. Wiley, inventor of synthetic aperture radar, published his concept of solar sails in a pulp mag under a pen name?
... that endoparasites occupying up to 80% of the abdomen of the social wasp Ropalidia romandi may actually increase their host's life span?
... that Dead Rising: Watchtower, currently in production, is the first digital film to be produced by Legendary Pictures?
... that Bambolinetta was probably the only duck species to propel itself underwater with its wings, like a penguin?
... that Christina Stead challenged Finola Moorhead to write a book with no male characters?
... that the plight of the Richmond Sixteen came to the attention of Prime Minister Asquith via a letter thrown out a train window?

26 November 2014

12:35, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

... that at the time of description, the extinct Tilia johnsoni (pictured) was the oldest basswood macrofossil occurrence?
... that Keshavlal Dhruv compiled fifteenth century Gujarati poems and published them in 1927?
... that Chinese astronomer Qu Qinyue was sent to work at a coal mine during the Cultural Revolution?
... that the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 won the International TV Award at the Ondas Awards, in Barcelona?
... that Benguela Province witnessed an influx of many IDPs during the Angolan Civil War?
... that the Audenried Tunnel, the Catawissa Tunnel, the Green Mountain Tunnel, the Oneida Number One Tunnel, and the Oneida Number Three Tunnel were all built in the Catawissa Creek watershed in the early 1930s?
... that higher-speed rail is actually a lower train speed category than high-speed rail?

00:50, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the Balinese dance form panyembrama (pictured) was designed as a secular welcoming dance, but is now also performed to welcome the gods?
... that Johnny Burnett once had nine hits in a Major League Baseball game?
... that Francis Arthur Freeth developed ways of purifying TNT during World War I, and came out of retirement to do secret research for British special forces in World War II?
... that Saumarez Homestead contains a thirty-room Edwardian mansion, and has hosted fashion shows and a film festival?
... that in the wasp Metapolybia cingulata, queens and workers look alike and can only be distinguished by dissection?
... that the Castilian raid of Salé resulted in the capture of 3,000 citizens of Salé who were taken as slaves for Seville?
... that food critic Phyllis Richman was once called "the most feared woman in Washington"?

25 November 2014

13:05, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the National Museum of the Philippines declared San Juan Bautista Parish Church (pictured) one of two National Cultural Treasures in the Bicol region?
... that Eystein Olafsson, King of Dublin, was "deceitfully" killed by Halfdan Ragnarsson, King of Jórvík?
... that the main star of the Theta Coronae Borealis system spins at 393 kilometres (244 mi) per second at its equator?
... that the concrete Robespierre Monument collapsed four days after its erection in Moscow in 1918?
... that Confucius thought so highly of his disciple Nangong Kuo that he gave the student his niece in marriage?
... that reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel won the Grammy, Latin Grammy, and Lo Nuestro Award for Urban Album of the Year for their album Los Extraterrestres?
... that the vicinity of Devil Hole Run has been described as "Hell-like" and "sinister"?

00:20, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Swedish politician Hjalmar von Sydow (pictured) was murdered by his own son with an iron in March 1932?
... that the American football players inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as "Gator Greats" include "All-American Waterboy" Tootie Perry, attorney Goldy Goldstein, and halfbacks Red Bethea and Larry Dupree?
... that acute flaccid myelitis is suspected to be caused by enterovirus 68, a relative of the polio virus?
... that the 1861 University Boat Race featured the first non-British competitor in the history of the event?
... that Lem, Poland's first scientific artificial satellite, sees blue stars while Heweliusz, its second, sees red stars?
... that K'inich Yat Ahk II, the last ruler of Piedras Negras, defeated the rival state of Pomona before his capture by K'inich Tatbu Skull IV of Yaxchilan?
... that during swarming, Parachartergus fraternus wasps spray venom to mark the new nest site?

24 November 2014

12:35, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

... that hundreds of people in Salé stole goods salvaged from a capsized French ship, leading to the city's bombardment (representation pictured)?
... that Connie Dion was the winning goalie during the most lopsided shutout in NHL history?
... that the reverse of the 50,000 Colombian peso note features an image of writer Jorge Isaacs' house "El Paraiso"?
... that among Confucius' disciples, Yan Yan was considered the most distinguished in the study of the classics?
... that Vespula austriaca is an obligate parasite wasp with a large stinger and very curved sting shafts?
... that "the child welfare system failed Phoenix Sinclair"?
... that while a hypothetical coup in South Vietnam was being played in the Sigma II-64 war game, a real coup was staged against General Nguyễn Khánh?

00:50, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the original pioneering settlement of Wyangala, Australia, was submerged on completion of Wyangala Dam (pictured) in 1935?
... that Singaporean swimmer Samantha Yeo was twelve years old when she competed at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games?
... that after 1832, John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company dominated the fur trade in Montana on the upper Missouri River by using the paddle steamer to transport goods?
... that Candidula spadae, a snail native to Central Italy, is at risk in part because of tourist activities?
... that every member of the Cambridge crew that won the March 1849 University Boat Race came from Trinity College?
... that the Sutton Heritage Mosaic, one of the largest examples of wall art in Britain, consists of over 100,000 pieces?
... that asking prices for the poorly received video game Cubic Ninja jumped to as much as $500 after it was used for the first Nintendo 3DS homebrew exploit?

23 November 2014

10:45, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Northern Irish architecture firm Hackett Hall McKnight created the Belfast MAC (pictured), described as one of the "most stunning new British buildings of the century"?
... that, when complete, the PandaX dark matter detection experiment will be one hundred times as sensitive as the current most-sensitive detector?
... that the niece of Pat Chan, Singapore's "Golden Girl", is also an international competitive swimmer?
... that Davis Run is one of two streams in the watershed of Catawissa Creek that has a substantial population of brown trout?
... that the nests of the South American wasp Protopolybia chartergoides have transparent envelopes?
... that the 1842 University Boat Race was Oxford's first victory on "London water"?
... that Sakakibara Kenkichi and Yamaoka Tesshū once engaged in a forty-minute sword duel without either striking a single blow?

22 November 2014

22:30, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Armenian-American architect Mihran Mesrobian (pictured) restored palaces in the Ottoman Empire and designed hotels in Washington, D.C.?
... that the N1 is Nokia's first new product since the sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft?
... that Mike Conte of the heavy metal band Early Man put "lots of riffage" into the score of Secret Mountain Fort Awesome?
... that the Maryland Terrapins field hockey team has won a record 56 games in the NCAA tournament?
... that the extinct ants Azteca alpha carried larvae of the nematode Formicodiplogaster myrmenema?
... that during the corruption probe into Gu Junshan, investigators located a gold model boat, a gold Mao statue, and crates of luxury liquor in his family compound?
... that although the Seeley G. Mudd Chemistry Building is Vassar College's youngest completed academic building, it is slated for demolition in 2016?

10:15, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the High Line (pictured), once an abandoned elevated railway slated for demolition in New York City, is now a linear park with about 5 million annual visitors?
... that Jack Lumber was the first game published by Sega's third-party publisher Sega Alliance?
... that following the 2014–15 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, CBS will broadcast the Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament for the 18th consecutive year?
... that William E. Bradley, Jr. resigned less than a year after becoming the first President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics?
... that the Central Mental Hospital in Ireland, completed in 1850, was the first secure hospital in Europe?
... that the 1856 University Boat Race was umpired by a former Cambridge University Boat Club president who had rowed in both the March and December races of 1849?
... that the largest leishu encyclopedia ever printed contained 852,408 pages?

21 November 2014

22:00, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

... that both dancers in the cendrawasih dance (pictured), depicting the mating ritual of the "bird of the gods", are women?
... that Sir Robert Risson is credited as "the man who saved Melbourne's trams"?
... that the 1845 University Boat Race was the first time the event was contested along The Championship Course?
... that the completed English localization of 1989 video game Mother was abandoned only to be rediscovered and later uploaded to the Internet?
... that the literary motif of "forced seduction" was called a male rape fantasy, an attempt by the hero to get to know the heroine, a useful lesson for women to not dress sexy, and an enjoyable fantasy?
... that Shirley Clarke called Goodbye in the Mirror the first "real woman's film"?
... that drinking from the Hoofprint of Einion's Horse, a petrosomatoglyph in Wales, was thought to cure what ailed you?

20 November 2014

22:42, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Swedish radio presenter Carolina Norén (pictured) took over the job of hosting the chart show Svensktoppen from Annika Jankell in 2007?
... that an eroge called Paizuri Cheerleader VS Sakunyuu Ouendan! allegedly ripped off one of the computer graphics samples from Kanojo x Kanojo x Kanojo?
... that Marko Happich once narrowly lost a downhill race to Stephan Eberharter, the former in a sidecarcross and the latter on skis?
... that the Somali tectonic plate is breaking into tectonic micro-plates, like the newly-formed Lwandle Plate?
... that Ohad's 2009 hit "Bo'i Kala", set to the words of the traditional song accompanying a Jewish bride to the chuppah, is a remake of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"?
... that the color of Lime Green Icicle Tower, a 42-foot (13 m) glass sculpture at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, has been described as Kermit the Frog?
... that the 2012 satirical comedy drama OMG – Oh My God! was the first film produced by Grazing Goat Pictures Pvt. Ltd?

10:27, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the façade of Nuestra Señora de la Porteria Parish Church (pictured) in the Philippines is made out of volcanic rocks?
... that U.S. President Lyndon Johnson approved Operation Triangle the month before the Tonkin Gulf Incident began the Vietnam War?
... that Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey was published just before the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 on which it was based?
... that the 1914 Battle of Kolubara ended with a decisive Serbian victory after a month of bloodshed?
... that Oxford won the 1976 University Boat Race with the then-fastest winning time of 16 minutes and 58 seconds?
... that although Guatemala is the world's largest producer of cardamom, local use is negligible?
... that chemistry professor W. Conway Pierce brought a shotgun to class after a colleague interrupted his lecture with a flock of birds?

19 November 2014

22:12, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

... that only about 40 objects in the fifth-century Anglo-Saxon Quoit Brooch Style of metalwork (example pictured) are known?
... that Zhuansun Shi, a disciple of Confucius, started his own sect of Confucianism?
... that the Muzaffar Ali-directed drama Aagaman (1982) marked the film debut of Anupam Kher?
... that Peter Blondeau pioneered the technique of inscribing lettering onto the edge of coins?
... that the 1852 University Boat Race saw the Oxford crew coached by former Cambridge cox Thomas Selby Egan?
... that the 2014 drought in southern Brazil is believed to be due to failure of the flying rivers?
... that the annual Nobel Banquet is held in the Stockholm Stadshuset's red Blue Hall?

09:57, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Maximilian William (pictured), brother of King George I, was exiled for plotting to regain his inheritance, and his election as prince-bishop was invalidated because it was a Lutheran's turn?
... that the music video for the song "A Criminal Mind" by Gowan won the 1985 Juno Award for Video of the Year?
... that Swedish scientist Anders Bárány is the grandson of Nobel laureate Róbert Bárány?
... that Washington, D.C. held its first Attorney General election this year?
... that although one of the tributaries of Little Catawissa Creek (Stony Run) is unable to support fish life, the other tributary (Trexler Run) is Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that the first Test match between Sri Lanka and India was in the 1982–83 cricket season?
... that Thérèse de Dillmont's Encyclopedia of Needlework included product placement for Jean Dollfus's company in Mulhouse?

18 November 2014

00:25, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

... that motorists derisively refer to the elevated U-turns on Metro Manila's C-5–Kalayaan Interchange (pictured) as the "ninth and tenth wonders of the world"?
... that the only female swimmer for Benin at the 2008 Summer Olympics finished 87th out of 90?
... that a theoretical problem in the mobility analogy led to the inerter being proposed as a new theoretical element of mechanical networks and later fabricated as a real component in Formula One?
... that the title track from the Dave Brubeck Quartet's Bossa Nova U.S.A. was the last in the album to be recorded?
... that in 2014, Newsweek ranked Briarcliff High School 17th-best in the United States?
... that Terry Myerson compared the technological differences between Windows 10 and 7 to the differences between a Tesla and a first-generation Prius?
... that in a 2013 music video, Hasidic Jewish singing star Benny Friedman jumped into a swimming pool fully clothed, joining a three-piece band playing underwater?

17 November 2014

12:40, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

... that when Confucius learned that his disciple Zilu (pictured) had been pickled, he ordered all the pickled goods in his house to be thrown away?
... that Etal Castle, located near the Anglo-Scottish border, lost its military value after the Union of the Crowns in 1603?
... that stele 14, erected by Yo'nal Ahk III, is considered one of the finest examples of niche stelae?
... that during the Korean War, No. 391 Squadron RAAF ran a "Transit Hotel" that accommodated business people and entertainers, as well as military personnel?
... that Secretary of State-elect of Rhode Island Nellie Gorbea is the first Hispanic to win statewide office in New England?
... that Arvo Pärt began his choral composition Da pacem Domine (Give peace, Lord) two days after the 2004 Madrid train bombings?
... that U.S. Air Force tanker pilots were struck dumb when they radioed in to speak with a United Arab Emirates mission during air refueling and heard a female voice answer?

00:55, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

... that William Shatner (pictured) was shocked by the negative feelings of the Star Trek cast when he interviewed them for his book, Star Trek Memories?
... that Thirty Seconds to Mars retreated to the isolation of rural Wyoming to record their self-titled debut album?
... that Brilliant Chang sold cocaine, heroin, and opium to young women in London, fueling a "white slavery" stereotype?
... that Magic Cap's Telescript programming language included the ability to send bits of its programs to other computers to run remotely in the cloud?
... that Indian actor Akshay Kumar, who began learning martial arts at age nine, hosted a 2004 television mini-series demonstrating seven martial arts styles?
... that the Rutgers Scarlet Knights field hockey program has played in four different conferences since 1988?
... that parent management training is one of the most effective ways to reduce child behavior problems?

16 November 2014

13:10, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Dark Run (pictured) is one of the few fertile streams in the watershed of Catawissa Creek that supports fish life?
... that the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy was West Indies' first major tournament win since the 1979 Cricket World Cup, defeating England in the final by two wickets?
... that the band Lutefisk was formed to cure the "premature midlife artistic crisis" of its frontman?
... that female Parascaris equorum roundworms, an intestinal parasite of horses, can grow to be as long as 15 inches (38 cm)?
... that Turkey's new presidential palace, Ak Saray, contains an office with no electrical outlets to prevent bugging?
... that actress Bianca Kronlöf was a travelling reporter for the Sveriges Radio and TV charity show Musikhjälpen in 2013?
... that the tritone heard at the beginning of Jimi Hendrix's song "Purple Haze" was historically called "Devil in music" and to play it was considered comparable to ringing Satan's doorbell?

00:00, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

... that for The Conquest of the Pole, Georges Méliès built a man-eating marionette frost giant (pictured) that required twelve puppeteers to operate?
... that B. R. Vijayalakshmi is Asia's first woman cinematographer?
... that Sant Nirankaris were expelled from the Sikh community after the 1978 Sikh-Nirankari clashes, in which 13 Sikhs and 3 Sant Nirankaris were killed?
... that Bruckner dedicated Os justi, his motet for eight voices in strict Lydian mode, to the choir master of St. Florian abbey?
... that Wolfhouse Run is named for the lair of a human Wolf?
... that the 1857 University Boat Race featured the first keel-less carvel-built boat in the history of the race?
... that Gelae baen, Gelae balae, Gelae donut, Gelae fish, and Gelae rol are beetles of the genus Gelae?

15 November 2014

12:00, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

... that during the American Civil War, Middletown, Virginia's St. Thomas Chapel (pictured) was used first as a Confederate hospital and later as a Union stable?
... that the 45,000-year-old remains of Ust'-Ishim man are the oldest modern human genome to be fully sequenced to date?
... that Bruckner scored his second setting of Christus factus est for eight vocal parts, trombones, and strings, but added, "Besser ohne Violinen" (Better without violins)?
... that Peak Walk in the Swiss Alps is the first suspension bridge to connect two mountain peaks?
... that the office of University of Missouri Chancellor John W. Schwada was stormed by student protesters in May 1970?
... that a coffee extract used in Starbucks' discontinued Mazagran beverage was later used in the formulation of the company's line of bottled frappuccino beverages?
... that in his legal defence of Saddam Hussein, Hussein Mjalli argued that "Iraq, Iraqi people, Iraqi law, and the Iraqi president were hijacked"?

00:00, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the Balinese dance condong (pictured) is said to have come to a sick prince in a dream?
... that after R. H. Naylor was credited with predicting the R101 airship crash, he became Britain's first regular astrology columnist?
... that the forces of Minye Thihathu II of Toungoo and his ally Raza II of Arakan ended the Toungoo Empire by capturing Pegu (Bago) in 1599?
... that Creasy Creek is the only headwater tributary of Nescopeck Creek to have alkaline waters?
... that Lou Reed directed a short film?
... that the tail of Maximowicz's vole can be either dark brown or bicoloured?
... that Eddie Golden, a third-generation professional wrestler, has teamed with his real-life uncle Jimmy Golden on the independent circuit?

14 November 2014

12:00, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Jack Newton (pictured) was killed in action as a bomber pilot, 55 days after being elected to the Parliament of Western Australia?
... that Cambridge won the 1839 University Boat Race by 35 lengths, the largest winning margin in the history of the race?
... that Maude Delap was the first person to breed jellyfish in captivity?
... that Gilindire Cave in southern Turkey is called Aynalıgöl (Mirror Lake) in common parlance, in reference to the lake inside it?
... that Selena was inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame three months after her death?
... that newly moulted eastern swamp crayfishes move into deeper water, presumably to avoid being cannibalized?
... that the title of Annie's The A&R EP refers to her and producer Richard X?

00:00, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

... that new school tattoos (example pictured) are not limited to traditional subjects and have included cultural icons like the USS Enterprise?
... that the "War Edition" of the sheet music for "My Belgian Rose" was physically smaller in order to conserve paper for World War I?
... that Gertrude Guillaume-Schack founded the German Cultural Association in 1880 to fight state-regulated prostitution?
... that a 2003 study reported that 87% of reservoirs supplying water to residential buildings in Kolkata, India, were contaminated?
... that Tim Frazier suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon during his college basketball career, as had his older sister seven years earlier?
... that the red-naped snake is a small, venomous snake and is listed as threatened in Victoria?
... that one of the arrangements on Glenn Branca's Lesson No. 1 includes a sledgehammer?

13 November 2014

12:00, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

... that shrikethrushes (grey shrikethrush pictured) have calls described as "strong, mellow and beautiful"?
... that Jeff Banister overcame bone cancer in high school and paralysis in college to play in Major League Baseball?
... that Nik Wallenda's walk across Chicago was telecast with a 10-second delay in case something went wrong?
... that the volatile anhydrous compounds titanium nitrate and vanadyl nitrate can add nitro groups to organic compounds?
... that Amy Robertson is the only head coach in the 15-year history of the Indiana Hoosiers field hockey program?
... that in the Ganga puja festival, the Tripuri people of India build a temporary bamboo temple in a river stream and pray to be saved from epidemic diseases?
... that the 1967 horror film The Blood Demon was advertised in Rhode Island newspapers as Crimson Demon to remove the word "blood" from the title?

00:00, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the Guatemalan Revolution (celebratory mural pictured), which lasted from 1944 to 1954, included an agrarian reform program that granted land to half a million landless peasants?
... that "Cowpuncher's Cantata" was the only record by a British male artist to appear in the first UK Singles Chart?
... that Protonectarina sylveirae can increase the yield of coffee crops?
... that three different bridges were built across Logan Run in 1934 and 1935?
... that while on the faculty of Arizona State University, Harry K. Newburn served as the acting president of Cleveland State University?
... that following criticism, the UK suicide prevention charity Samaritans discontinued their Twitter-based Samaritans Radar service nine days after launch?
... that under Hector Bell, the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board displeased the religious community by introducing Sunday-morning tram services?

12 November 2014

12:00, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the museum Nordland fylkesmuseum bought the Nordlandsjekt Anna Karoline (pictured) after their first choice, Brødrene, was shipwrecked?
... that CIA case officer James William Lair recruited Vang Pao, and they founded a covert 30,000-man guerrilla army?
... that the wasp Blastophaga psenes has a symbiotic relationship with figs?
... that John Lewger, Maryland's first practicing attorney and its first Attorney General, is considered the father of the Maryland Bar?
... that although Ran Qiu was severely criticized by Confucius, he is still considered one of the Master's top ten disciples?
... that several reviewers consider Master of Puppets the best heavy metal album of all time?
... that engineer Benjamin Bevan had a heart attack while watching an eclipse?

00:00, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Command Sergeant Major William McLeroy (pictured) was the first amputee to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom?
... that the $10 banknote of the Canadian Journey Series includes an excerpt from the iconic Remembrance Day war poem "In Flanders Fields"?
... that Neil Douglas Findlay was the first British general to be killed during the First World War?
... that George Bacon fought as a Green Beret during the Vietnam War, a CIA paramilitary in the Laotian Civil War, and a mercenary in Angola, all by age 30?
... that No. 91 (Composite) Wing was responsible for administering all Royal Australian Air Force units deployed in the Korean War?
... that Major Arthur Moon enlisted four prisoners of war who were artists to create a unique record of camp conditions during construction of the Thailand-Burma Railway, then buried those works?
... that in his 1989 book Homecoming, Bob Greene reprinted scores of letters from Vietnam veterans who claimed they were spat upon when they returned from the war zone?

11 November 2014

12:00, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

... that journalist Hanna Stjärne (pictured) was announced as the new CEO of Sveriges Television in September 2014 and will take the post within six months?
... that hundreds of Colorado high school students protested a proposed curriculum change?
... that drummer Shannon Leto co-founded Thirty Seconds to Mars in 1998 with his younger brother Jared Leto?
... that no athlete for Cape Verde at the 2008 Summer Olympics progressed beyond the first round, replicating the country's performance at every other Olympic Games?
... that Florence Nagle and Norah Wilmot were among the first women licensed as racehorse trainers in Britain, after Nagle won a Court of Appeal ruling in 1966?
... that the white-rumped falcon has been known to nest in woodpecker holes?
... that former speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia William Spencer Anderson was originally a barber from Delaware?

00:00, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the Mabitac Church (pictured) is known for its panoramic view, but you have to climb 126 steps to see it?
... that Eddie Einhorn organized the International Wrestling Association in 1975 with the goal of building the first nationwide business promoting wrestling?
... that the Battle of Baguio involved the U.S. 33rd and 37th Infantry Divisions, and the guerrilla organization USAFIP–NL?
... that Dirk Mudge was minister before and after Namibian independence, following the 1978 elections, in the Transitional Government of National Unity, and in Namibia's first National Assembly?
... that although Klingermans Run and the nearby Cranberry Run have similar geology, the former is Class A Wild Trout Waters and the latter is incapable of supporting fish life?
... that general Cristóbal de Mondragón was over eighty when he commanded the Spanish troops in the Battle of the Lippe in 1595?
... that in Menace from the Moon, a lunar colony‍—‌founded in 1654 by a Dutchman, an Englishman, an Italian, and "their women"‍—‌promises Earth heat-ray doom unless it helps them escape their dying world?

10 November 2014

12:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Martinus Rørbye's painting View from the Artist's Window (pictured) is considered one of the highlights of the Danish Golden Age of painting?
... that Titanica was the second feature-length IMAX film released, and included footage of the wreck of the RMS Titanic taken using two Mir submersibles?
... that Confucius compared his disciple Zai Yu to rotten wood because he slept during the day?
... that large holes on the side of a Cumbrian mountain show where 18th-century mine workings in Greenside Mine have collapsed?
... that Matilda Cullen Knowles is considered the founder of modern studies of Irish lichens?
... that with a width of 4.6 feet (1.4 m), Little Tomhicken Creek is the narrowest named stream in the Catawissa Creek watershed?
... that physicists Wallace Leland and Harold Agnew put a shark in the bed of Marshall Holloway, director of the Ivy Mike thermonuclear test?

00:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Ronny and Ragge, a popular TV duo created by Swedish comedian Peter Settman (pictured), put out their own album with musician Christer Sandelin?
... that the development team for Cities: Skylines, which has been called more ambitious than SimCity, consists of only nine people?
... that twenty-five years ago tonight, Stasi officer Harald Jäger gave the order to open the gate at his border crossing on the Berlin Wall?
... that Bruckner's third setting of the gradual Christus factus est, composed 40 years after the first, reaches a dramatic climax and ends pianissimo?
... that Barney Burman, Joel Harlow and Mindy Hall won an Academy Award for makeup in 2009 for Star Trek, the first Oscar in the history of the franchise?
... that of the provinces (now abolished) of Madagascar, Fianarantsoa had the highest fertility rate?
... that Kim Kyu-jong was disappointed that he didn't look like a woman on the cover of his EP Turn Me On?

9 November 2014

12:00, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the eyes of the sand diver (pictured) have an iridescent surface layer?
... that to further his career, New Zealand architect Reginald Uren worked his passage to England as a greaser on a steamer?
... that Welcome to the Jungle contains a cover of a Banks song not officially sanctioned by her?
... that "The Flame", the first published short story by Bertie Louis Coombes, concerned a miner in imminent danger of being blown up?
... that although the ranges of the Mexican spiny pocket mouse and the painted spiny pocket mouse overlap, the latter tends to be found in moister, lower habitats?
... that model and former wife of Yannick Noah Heather Stewart-Whyte appeared on back-to-back September Vogue Paris covers?
... that Basement Jaxx feature a twerking robot in their "Never Say Never" music video?

00:00, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Långholmens spinnhus (pictured) was a women's prison located on the island of Långholmen in Stockholm, Sweden?
... that the discoveries of nobelium and lawrencium were disputed between Soviet and American scientists for decades?
... that dragons, octopuses, diver flippers and flowers have been washing up on the beaches of Cornwall after they fell off the Tokio Express in 1997?
... that Elsie Dalyell was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire after travelling across Europe with the Royal Army Medical Corps to provide aid during World War I?
... that part of Little Pine Creek was designated a public highway in 1837?
... that the libretto Adriano in Siria by Metastasio was the basis for more than 60 operas?
... that Aaron Guzikowski's first film, Prisoners, was released almost six years after he completed the script?

8 November 2014

12:00, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

... that other millers viewing the fully-automated flour mill designed by Oliver Evans (pictured) could not appreciate its advantages?
... that South Africa has a hotline to report illegal parking in bays designated for disabled drivers?
... that Mumba Cave contains a large assemblage of archaeological evidence for the transition between the Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age in East Africa?
... that Orange Is the New Black character Lorna Morello has been said to have "the most amazing accent on television"?
... that Italian artist Trento Longaretti was named after his dead sibling?
... that Big Girls Don't Cry is a nonfiction book that argues that "the women's liberation movement found thrilling new life" as a result of the 2008 U.S. presidential election?
... that there are rubber rooms below the launch pads at Kennedy Space Center?

00:00, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

... that San Pablo Cathedral (pictured) was a parish church prior to a new diocese being established in 1966?
... that Swami Bodhamayananda, director of the Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, teaches a "philosophy of strength and fearlessness"?
... that Deborah Luster produced more than 25,000 images, many of them using tintype, focusing on crime?
... that victory celebrations for the 2004 Subway 500 were canceled due to the Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash?
... that Winners & Losers producer Maryanne Carroll helped actor Damien Bodie secure the role of Jonathan Kurtiss?
... that it is not known why river chubs have disappeared from Little Catawissa Creek?

7 November 2014

12:00, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Ciceri e Tria (pictured) is an Apulian pasta dish that originated from Arabs who at one time ruled the region?
... that the Dispatch sternwheeler carried as many as 400 passengers over two hours downriver from Coquille to Bandon, Oregon, to attend baseball games there?
... that twin settlements of Mikuszowice and Komorowice were divided by a state border for hundreds of years, but are now unified in one country, separated only by a river?
... that William Gill charted the first entrance to the port of Liverpool that could be navigated in all tides?
... that the film St. James Place depicts James B. Donovan's negotiations for release of American Francis Gary Powers, shot down over the Soviet Union in the 1960 U-2 spyplane incident?
... that Betty May testified under oath that her husband ritually sacrificed a cat and drank its blood?

00:00, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the Queen Anne house (pictured) at the Allen Centennial Gardens was home to four deans of the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences?
... that Green Bay Packers offensive lineman David Bakhtiari was the first rookie in Packers history to start every game at left tackle in a season since the start of the 16-game season?
... that rhapsodomancy was so vague, Virgil wrote against it in The Aeneid?
... that in the Byzantine Empire, the office of orphanotrophos, head of the imperial orphanage, ranked among the higher offices of state?
... that Australian physician Claudia Burton Bradley was one of the first diabetics to be treated with insulin?
... that the stream Shingle Run is actually named after sawmills?
... that while testifying in a 2004 lawsuit involving the meaning of the word steakburger, a corporate CEO was grilled on the witness stand?

6 November 2014

12:00, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Bob Healey (pictured), founder of the Cool Moose Party, ran for Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island in 2010 in order to abolish the office?
... that in 1914, a disgruntled worker killed seven people at Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio, and set it on fire?
... that Roger Wilbraham probably admired the Venus de' Medici statue in the 1770s?
... that the identity of Vernon County Jane Doe has remained a mystery since 1984?
... that the 1974 general election was the last to be held in Sikkim as an independent country before its merger with India in 1975?
... that London's Henrietta Street once had five pubs, but by 1970 had none?
... that Lord Zoltan was one of the first American pro wrestlers to start wearing facepaint?

00:00, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Smiley (pictured), an American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) living at Gothenburg's Maritime Museum, died after the heat was turned down in her pond to save money?
... that white supremacist Earnest Sevier Cox referred to his long friendship with black separatist Marcus Garvey as "a spiritual understanding"?
... that news of the gutting of Albion Mills in 1791 was warmly received by some London rivals?
... that The Voice Kids contestant Juan Karlos Labajo was described by his coach as "the funniest kid I have ever met"?
... that the Princeton Lectures in Analysis are based on Elias M. Stein's Princeton lectures in analysis?
... that before he was Illinois Secretary of State, George H. Harlow was personal secretary to Governor Richard J. Oglesby?
... that the Crab Tree Club fined anyone who arrived in evening dress one shilling?

5 November 2014

12:00, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Anton Bruckner's Ave Maria for seven voices, the first motet composed after his studies, was sung by his choir in the Linz Cathedral (pictured)?
... that the Sardinian long-eared bat is the only remaining mammal endemic to Sardinia after others, such as Hensel's field mouse, became extinct after the arrival of humans on the island?
... that Phuti Mahanyele was chosen as ForbesWoman Africa Business Woman of the Year in 2014?
... that Argentine thrash metal band Hermética was part of the 1994 edition of the Monsters of Rock festival in Argentina, alongside Black Sabbath, Slayer, and Kiss?
... that a factory established by Ole Gabriel Kverneland in 1879 became the largest manufacturer of ploughs in Norway in the 1920s?
... that the Tijuana Cross-border Terminal will let passengers check in while in the U.S., walk across a bridge over the border, and catch a flight at Tijuana Airport in Mexico?
... that Grace Boelke, a physician, was employed by the lingerie manufacturer Berlei to ensure their garments were anatomically correct?

00:00, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Richard Hamming introduced what is now called the Hamming distance (illustrated), the number of positions in which two code words differ?
... that in the game Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, players progress by increasing Satan's wrath?
... that members of the House of Borgia call Pedro de Atarés their ancestor, even though he had no children?
... that Anatolian rock lizards on the island of Icaria have bolder, higher-contrast markings than those from elsewhere in its range?
... that the Charles Cryer Theatre, opened by Prince Edward in 1991 in Carshalton, was given the name of a man who campaigned for creation of the local Secombe Theatre?
... that Tafelberg School for children with special learning needs is one of over 250 schools in the United Kingdom and South Africa linked for mutual benefit via Afri Twin?
... that "Father of Logology" Dmitri Borgmann earned $10,000 for coining the name Exxon, making him (at $2000 per letter) the world's highest-paid writer?

4 November 2014

12:00, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the facial markings in this photo of Māori chief Tuterei Karewa (pictured) may have been enhanced by the photographer using black paint?
... that two redheaded sisters are behind the How to be a Redhead website and the "Rock it Like a Redhead" beauty and fashion event?
... that physician Newton Adams was known as "the teacher with three coats" by the Zulu?
... that firearms laws in the Czech Republic allow people to carry concealed firearms for self defense?
... that Cengiz Aktar was part of a campaign calling for an apology from the Turks to Armenians for the Armenian Genocide?
... that the male alligator pipefish keeps developing eggs in a brood pouch on his abdomen?
... that Packers Run flows near Devils Feather Bed?

00:00, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the Australian raven (pictured) is the commonest crow-like bird in urban Canberra, Sydney, and Perth?
... that the Los Angeles Angels, a 1961 Major League Baseball expansion team, played their first season at Wrigley Field?
... that Henry Blundell built two substantial buildings to house his art collection on the grounds of Ince Blundell Hall?
... that although a battle near Mérida in 1546 established Spanish control in the north of the Yucatán Peninsula during the Spanish conquest, the last Maya kingdom in the south did not fall until 1697?
... that Murata Jukō created the Japanese tea ceremony?
... that India is raising the Sikkim Scouts to defend its 222 km (138 mi) border with China in Sikkim?
... that frontier west physician William Goforth had quite winning manners and excavated megafauna at Big Bone Lick in Kentucky?

3 November 2014

12:00, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the crest of No. 77 Squadron RAAF (F/A-18 Hornet pictured) features an oriental temple lion nicknamed the "grumpy monkey"?
... that BlackBerry CEO John Chen joked about the iPhone 6 "bendgate" incident while introducing the Passport?
... that the Rechthuis in the Dutch village of Bellingwolde was used as a courthouse from 1643 to 1811?
... that the 2014 romantic comedy film Anjada Gandu represents actor Sathish Neenasam's first commercial film role as a solo hero?
... that Antananarivo Province was excluded from the republic proposed by the other five of Madagascar's provinces in 2002?
... that Barton Currie edited the Country Gentleman and the Ladies' Home Journal, and hired Zane Grey to write for both?
... that some kinds of supernova may create zombies in space?

00:00, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

... that among P. S. Krøyer's paintings of his wife Marie is a double portrait (pictured) in which they painted each other?
... that the Iowa Hawkeyes field hockey team was the first from a Midwestern university to win the NCAA Championship?
... that Momoko Kuroda is known for her "haiku pilgrimages", some of which spanned decades?
... that the Holmes family of the early Colorado HOP Ranch befriended Southern Ute Native Americans, fed them biscuits and lent them field glasses and rifles for hunting expeditions?
... that in 1806 Franciscan friar Paškal Jukić was an editor of Il Regio Dalmata – Kraglski Dalmatin, the first Croatian-language newspaper?
... that composer Dennis McCarthy called the soundtrack album for Enterprise "the hardest recording session of my entire career" because of the September 11 attacks?
... that when Walter Zinn attempted to demonstrate the safety of the boiling water reactor in the BORAX Experiments, things did not go according to plan?

2 November 2014

12:00, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the flag of Eritrea (pictured) bears a resemblance to the Eritrean People's Liberation Front's flag?
... that in a reign of ten years, Stephen III of Hungary had his throne usurped twice and fought a series of wars with the Byzantine Empire, before dying at the age of 25?
... that Fort Nikolaevskaia was the first European settlement on the Alaskan mainland?
... that the Arabian partridge sometimes hybridises with Philby's partridge or the rock partridge?
... that Robert "Throb" Young met Primal Scream vocalist Bobby Gillespie at school, and was the band's guitarist for two decades?
... that according to the impedance analogy, a spring is analogous to an electrical capacitor?
... that Green Bay Packers rookie defensive lineman Khyri Thornton was so big that he had to cut a slit in his shirt to get it over his head?

00:00, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (pictured) was one of the wealthiest magnates of Poland and Lithuania, ruling over 200,000 subjects living on estates in what is today Ukraine?
... that at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Chad had only two athletes competing, both finishing seventh in their heat?
... that Bhumibol Adulyadej, the King of Thailand, once stood on his head for Sir Martin Gilliat?
... that the Province of Perugia once supplied almost half of the butcher's meat consumed in the city of Rome?
... that Capital Beltway was one of two park and ride stations built specifically for the high-speed Metroliner passenger train?
... that in 1130 during the Jin-Song Wars, Wanyan Wuzhu's troops were trapped at Huangtiandang for 48 days?
... that while serving as chair of the US Atomic Energy Commission, Dixy Lee Ray was chauffeured to and from her office along with her Scottish deerhound and miniature poodle?

1 November 2014

12:00, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

... that the Neuquén-Cipolletti railway bridge (pictured) was the first construction project in Argentina to use compressed air?
... that Swiss feminist Meta von Salis was horrified when someone suggested she marry her friend Friedrich Nietzsche?
... that Operation All Clear was the first operation conducted by the Royal Bhutan Army?
... that a law professor and a journalist are among those arrested in the 2014 Malaysian sedition dragnet?
... that baseball player Tony Boeckel was overcome by heat during his Major League debut, and struck in the head with a ball two days later?
... that tiella refers to several dishes in Italian cuisine, including one prepared with potato, rice, onion, and mussels?
... that Japanese politician Sahashi Shigeru is the hero of three contemporary novels?

00:00, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

... that Caitlin Doughty (pictured), whose web series Ask a Mortician humorously explores death, wrote the 2014 bestseller Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory?
... that during the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards reputedly moved out of Chaonei No. 81, "Beijing's most celebrated haunted house", because they were scared?
... that Belinda Nash researched the history of the Witch of Pungo for decades?
... that Bacarra Church is known for its "beheaded" belfry?
... that the extinct witch-hazel Langeria is named for American philosopher Susanne Langer?
... that Starfucker's third studio album, Reptilians (2011), includes snippets in which British-American philosopher Alan Watts discusses his beliefs about death?
... that Idstein Castle has a witches' tower?