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31 March 2015

12:00, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the spotted blue-eye (pictured) has been found in water of pH 3.68 to 9.4?
... that Louise Lincoln Kerr, a member of the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame, co-founded the National Society of Arts and Letters and Phoenix Symphony?
... that Australia will participate in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, in honor of the competition's 60th edition?
... that Minister-General Ananda Pyissi and his Royal Burmese Army twice failed to stop the first two Mongol invasions of Burma?
... that the cover artwork for Glenn Branca's 1981 album The Ascension is by painter Robert Longo?
... that Charles Zukowski received the Presidential Young Investigator Award for his work in VLSI circuit simulation?
... that in Tangled, the Walt Disney adaptation of the fairy tale "Rapunzel", the princess is not rescued by a prince, but by a thief?
... that Premier Zhou Enlai called Qin Yi the most beautiful woman in China?
00:07, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Mary Brewster Hazelton exhibited The Letter (pictured) at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition, where she won a bronze medal?
... that a quaranjavirus that can infect humans was discovered in 1953, but it took 60 years to classify it?
... that Jack Zink was a mechanical engineer who received 35 patents for combustion equipment inventions, and was noted for his achievements in business, car racing, and philanthropy?
... that the upcoming film Love and Friendship is based on Jane Austen's epistolary novel, Lady Susan?
... that Patrick Fairweather was the first director of the Butrint Foundation, which aims to preserve and conserve Albania's Butrint archaeological site?
... that the Kaushitaki Upanishad teaches that knowledge should be one's pursuit, not religious rituals?
... that Alice H. Lichtenstein is the lead author of the American Heart Association's Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations?
... that on March 30, 1965, following the March 23 uprising, King Hassan II categorically wished illiteracy upon Moroccan intellectuals?

30 March 2015

12:00, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

... that "the cake book with the train on the cover" (example pictured) has sold over a million copies in Australia?
... that "Smoke From Your Cigarette" by Lillian Leach and the Mellows was Lou Reed's favorite song?
... that the Post Instrument directly converted visual measurements of aircraft into map locations?
... that in the Sanskrit epic poem Ramayana, Krodhavasa, wife of Kashyapa, was short-tempered, and the children born to her were ferocious animals, birds, and fish, all monsters with sharp teeth?
... that Taruk, the present-day Burmese term for the Han Chinese, originally referred to the Turkic troops of the Mongol armies that invaded Burma between 1277 and 1287?
... that rapper Rome Fortune's Beautiful Pimp II EP features his grandfather on the vibraphone?
... that 280 people were injured, 30 cars were set on fire, and 8 bus stops were destroyed during a protest by the Blockupy movement?
... that Richard Wagner considered his future biographer to be "a bit over-excited for the level of his education"?

00:00, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

... that diplomats of several nations, including the Soviet Union, sought refuge in the United States' embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia (pictured), and were among the 281 persons evacuated from the embassy by a US military airlift in 1991?
... that Jeannette Corbiere Lavell served as president of the Native Women's Association of Canada?
... that Beyoncé and Jay-Z's On the Run Tour was promoted by a faux movie trailer featuring eight celebrity cameos?
... that Karnes Hollow is named after a valley whose etymology is unknown?
... that communist leader José Manuel Fortuny was a friend and adviser to Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz?
... that Bach used music of thanks from his cantata Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29, for his final Dona nobis pacem (Grant us peace)?
... that until 2008 there was no men's football officially played on Sundays in Northern Ireland?
... that Monique Watteau wrote feminist fantasy novels, raised monkeys, and drew a yeti for Hergé?

29 March 2015

12:00, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

... that one of Mesrop of Khizan's paintings (pictured) features Jesus Christ stepping on the head of a dragon?
... that Farkhunda, an Afghan woman, was killed in Kabul by a mob for an incident of Quran-burning that she may or may not have committed?
... that Nanticoke Creek has been erroneously referred to as Lee's Creek, Miller's Creek, Robbins Creek, Bobbs Creek, Rummage Creek, and Warrior Run Creek?
... that American physician Cora Smith Eaton was the first woman to summit the East Peak of Mount Olympus, and eventually climbed all six of Washington's major mountains?
... that Snowden, the film about whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently in production, is based on The Snowden Files and Time of the Octopus?
... that naval officer and meteorologist Lawrence Hogben participated in the hunt for the battleship Bismarck, and later helped plan the Normandy landings?
... that the Western Australian pipe lily grows readily in cultivation?
... that the 12th-century theologian Clement of Llanthony not only wrote a gospel harmony, but also a long commentary on the harmony?

00:00, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the title of Sibylle Lewitscharoff's (pictured) first crime novel, Killmousky, comes from the name of a cat in Midsomer Murders?
... that Jack Whitehall ran off the set during the filming of "La Couchette", an episode of anthology series Inside No. 9, to vomit?
... that Cläre Jung has been called "the soul and muse" of a circle of Berlin-based expressionist poets that includes Else Lasker-Schüler?
... that the 2015 commission on police reform in the United States controversially recommended that independent prosecutors investigate when an officer kills a civilian while on duty?
... that Brazilian footballer Caio Rangel signed for Italian club Cagliari in 2014?
... that a train derailment in March 2015 killed fifty-eight people and injured more than 150 in Uttar Pradesh, India?
... that the Mexican revolutionary Julia Nava de Ruisánchez created the country's first training institution for social workers?
... that Figaro's divorce will take place in Cardiff more than two centuries after his marriage?

28 March 2015

12:00, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Allegory of Fortune (detail pictured) almost got its painter jailed and excommunicated?
... that as a nurse in rural Saskatchewan, Jean Cuthand Goodwill often reached emergency patients via bush plane or dog team?
... that the statue of Robert Peel was the final work by Matthew Noble to be completed?
... that ISIL hostage Kayla Mueller once participated in the International Solidarity Movement in defending the homes of Palestinians?
... that Roy English, who lends his vocals to Alesso's "Cool", was originally a member of Eye Alaska?
... that a critic said that the heroine of Doris Lessing's novel The Good Terrorist is neither a good person nor a good revolutionary?
... that Stephen D. Dillaye, briefly the presidential nominee of the Union Greenback Labor Party, was once beaten in the head with a cane by a former Congressman?
... that the "indescribable damage" caused by 5 inches (13 cm) of rain descending upon Coal Creek in 90 minutes did not qualify for federal aid?

00:00, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the Mary Birdsall House (pictured), designed for a 19th-century leader in women's rights, was said to be "technologically progressive, healthy, and emancipating"?
... that Jef Van Meirhaeghe was the most combative cyclist in Oman?
... that metabolites isolated from the porous sea rod show cytotoxic activity against human tumour cells?
... that the psychologist May Smith spent three years studying the effects of fatigue on herself?
... that East Fork Harveys Creek is impaired for an unknown reason?
... that when paintings by Stanley Anderson were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, there was a "stampede" to buy them?
... that when Battin High School closed in 1977, it was the last all-girls public high school in New Jersey?
... that the now-lost film September Morn concluded with a sailor having "Votes for Women" tattooed on his chest?

27 March 2015

12:00, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

... that at the unveiling of the equestrian statue of the Duke of Cambridge (pictured) in London, King Edward VII unexpectedly gifted the statue to the City of Westminster?
... that before studying medicine and making significant contributions to modern neuroanatomy, South African neuroscientist W. Maxwell Cowan considered becoming an attorney?
... that one of the four photographers filmed in Keepers of the Streak checked himself out of hospital after a heart attack to attend Super Bowl X?
... that Silvia Mistral's book described how Barcelona appeared to burn at the end of the Spanish Civil War?
... that the High Desert Museum near Bend in central Oregon was founded by Donald M. Kerr?
... that after the National Liberation Council took over Ghana on February 24, 1966, covert operations specialist Robert Komer called their new government "almost pathetically pro-Western"?
... that Louisa Parr's novel Adam and Eve was used as a source of Cornish English in the English Dialect Dictionary?
... that no player has ever taken multiple hat-tricks in international women's cricket?

00:00, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

... that during World War II, Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (pictured) made "one of the greatest achievements in the history of U.S. codebreaking"?
... that Fritchley Tunnel is believed to be the oldest surviving railway tunnel in the world?
... that Elena Torres established the first Montessori school in Mexico?
... that the upcoming film Patient Zero was originally known as Patient Z?
... that in Vedic literature, Gargi Vachaknavi is honored as one of the great natural philosophers, renowned expounder of the Vedas, and a person with knowledge of Brahmavidya?
... that in the early 20th century, John McHenry sold honey from the valley of Bee Sellers Hollow to locals?
... that the W Ursae Majoris variable star system V1191 Cygni has one of the highest known rates of mass transfer?
... that Seymour Van Gundy was offered an assistantship at the University of Wisconsin to continue studying cucumbers?

26 March 2015

12:00, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

... that on July 15, 2011, Sucheta Kadethankar became the first Indian woman to walk across the Gobi desert (pictured), a distance of 1,000 kilometres (620 mi)?
... that the premiere of Erik Bergman's only full-length opera, Det sjungande trädet (The Singing Tree), was delayed for over a year because of its complex staging requirements?
... that Julieta Montaño, who was arrested during the 1980 Bolivian Coup, later served in the House of Deputies?
... that the 1986 Giro d'Italia was won by Roberto Visentini?
... that ‘Ofa Likiliki, a Tongan attorney and women's rights activist, won a Best Project award for her film Dear Tita from the Pan-Pacific Media Project in 2014?
... that the Autonomous Turkish Cypriot Administration set up its own airline within months of its establishment?
... that Jimi Hendrix Jnr appears in the music video for Beautiful People's "If 60's Was 90's", miming to Jimi Hendrix's guitar solo?
... that feminist writer Anne O'Hagan is thought to have written anonymously about the difficulties of living with an old-fashioned mother?

00:00, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Pat Nuttall showed that systemic infection of the host is not required for pathogens such as tick-borne encephalitis virus (pictured) to be transmitted between vectors?
... that missiles from USAF fighter planes started dozens of fires in the Battle of Palmdale?
... that Filipinki was the first Polish all-girl vocal group?
... that Cecil and Frank Rhodes learnt how to ride a horse while staying with their aunt at the Manor House in Sleaford?
... that Benjamín "Tuca" Pardo, a character from the Argentine telenovela Graduados, made a cameo on Los vecinos en guerra?
... that the fossil stick insect Eoprephasma was described from two isolated forewings?
... that to create Chrissy Skin Rug, artist Chrissy Conant was covered in Vaseline and silicone to make a life-size cast of her body?
... that India and Sri Lanka shared the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy after the final was washed out twice?

25 March 2015

12:00, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Raquel Liberman (pictured, center) escaped twice from slavery and helped to dissolve the Zwi Migdal, an early-20th-century Argentine human trafficking ring?
... that the 2015 mockumentary UKIP: The First 100 Days received more complaints to Ofcom than any programme from 2014?
... that novelist Margarita Sharapova left Russia because she was told she would suffer for her books?
... that Tom Brady is the only starting quarterback for the New England Patriots to lead the team to a Super Bowl victory?
... that John Gosse Freeze was on the bar of Columbia County, Pennsylvania, for more than 60 years?
... that Ariana Grande described the release of "Put Your Hearts Up" as "the worst moment of my life"?
... that Herb Lotman was involved both in the development of the Chicken McNugget and the founding of the Women's PGA golf championship?
... that eastern Australia has a purple flag?

00:00, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the first scientific descriptions of several species of dragonfly were published by the watercolourist Moses Harris (one of his illustrations pictured)?
... that Sayaka Osakabe created a women's support network for workplace harassment and named it Matahara, formed from the words maternity and harassment, which has become a Japanese legal term?
... that a borehole dug at the mouth of Gravel Run in the late 1800s revealed 38 different strata?
... that U.S. Mint Assistant Director Mary Margaret O'Reilly three times had her mandatory retirement extended by order of Franklin D. Roosevelt, but he refused when he was asked to extend it a fourth time?
... that Know Your IX has been termed a "survivor-run, student-driven campaign to end campus sexual violence"?
... that Ximena Cuevas is the first Mexican videographic artist whose works were acquired for the permanent collection of New York's MoMA?
... that after the sinking of HMS Bayano in 1915, thousands of Isle of Man residents turned out for the funeral procession even though none of the victims were from the island?
... that when Eduardo Rodríguez broke his right arm at the age of seven, he learned how to pitch with his left arm?

24 March 2015

12:00, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Vincent van Gogh's Houses at Auvers (pictured) is an oil painting featuring a peasant cottage, as were many of his works?
... that Elizabeth Bauer Mock was the first former Taliesin fellow to join the Museum of Modern Art staff?
... that Prisoners of the Sun‍—‌the fourteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin‍—‌was made into a musical in 2001?
... that a 2003 study co-authored by Geoffrey Kabat and co-sponsored by the tobacco industry concluded that its results did not support a causal relation between passive smoking and mortality?
... that the sea gooseberry Pleurobrachia pileus has fishing tentacles up to twenty times its body length?
... that Concha Michel, whose grandfather was a feudal lord on the coast of Jalisco, Mexico, was a communist and supported women's farming collectives?
... that the "whimsical physics toy" Donut County was inspired by locations in Bruce Springsteen songs?
... that as a child, Alexander Raikhel wanted to be a scientist so badly that he deliberately failed a vision test so he could wear glasses?

00:00, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the 1976 Hindi film Mrigayaa marked the acting debut of danseuse Mamata Shankar (pictured)?
... that after being shot during an attempted robbery, Henry C. Gooding lived for over a decade with a bullet lodged near his heart?
... that in 1985 the Fijian island of Viti Levu was hit by two tropical cyclones‍—‌Nigel and Eric‍—‌within 36 hours?
... that Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's collaborative jazz album Cheek to Cheek won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album?
... that a massive Panamanian Flag flies above the statue of Amelia Denis de Icaza, who wrote Al Cerro Ancón?
... that in the early 1900s, Barnes Run and Wolffs Run made up 25 percent of the water supply of Hazleton, Pennsylvania?
... that elected Sloviansk mayor Nelya Shtepa has been jailed since 11 July 2014 for allegedly colluding with pro-Russian separatists?
... that some 18th-century estates employed garden hermits to dwell as living ornaments, sometimes dressed like druids, in purpose-built hermitages and follies?

23 March 2015

12:00, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the motto of a cookbook by Paul Tremo (pictured), a court chef to King Stanislaus Augustus of Poland, was, "Not everyone thinks, but everyone eats"?
... that the first clear use of the name "Palestine" was in the 5th century B.C. by Ancient Greek historian Herodotus?
... that Georges de Peyrebrune was "one of the most widely read women in France"?
... that the Joint Agency Coordination Centre was established by Australia to coordinate the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?
... that Angella D. Ferguson discovered that African-American infants learned to sit and stand at a younger age than European-American babies?
... that the comb jelly Beroe cucumis feeds on other comb jellies, particularly Bolinopsis infundibulum?
... that on days that the Edah HaChareidis rabbinical court in Jerusalem adjudicated a divorce, its chief rabbi, Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky, would fast?
... that Long Run is just half a mile (0.8 km) long?

00:00, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 13 (entrance pictured) is the largest single state game land in Pennsylvania, with an area of 49,529 acres (20,044 ha)?
... that Anita Brenner refused to accept the Aztec Eagle, Mexico's highest award for foreigners?
... that in the downloadable expansion Crusader Kings II: Sword of Islam, players can send their characters on the Hajj to Mecca?
... that when the French frigate Minerve attempted to ram the HMS Dido at the Action of 24 June 1795, the British ship became suspended by its rigging from the French ship's bowsprit?
... that Arizona Territorial Justice John H. Campbell married the widow of his law partner and fellow Associate Justice, Frederick S. Nave?
... that the extinct ant Gesomyrmex germanicus was described from only four fossils?
... that Kali, a fine art painter, was a veteran of the Polish resistance movement during World War II?
... that the anti-vaccine book Melanie's Marvelous Measles has received over 1,000 one-star reviews on Amazon.com?

22 March 2015

12:00, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Two Girls Dressing a Kitten by Candlelight (detail pictured) is an example of Joseph Wright of Derby's mastery of chiaroscuro?
... that Sarah Marquis walked for three years across Asia and Australia, covering a distance of 20,000 kilometres (12,000 mi)?
... that because of a pilgrimage to relics of St. Valentine, the basilica minor St. Valentin in Kiedrich has Gothic-carved pews for the congregation?
... that the debut single by pop singer QT was conceived to market an energy drink of the same name?
... that besides fish, the vermiculated fishing owl feeds on frogs, crabs, small mammals, and birds?
... that Mariah Carey was unable to shoot a music video for "Never Too Far" because she was recovering from a physical and emotional breakdown?
... that marine biologist Anne Rudloe of the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory was also a Zen Buddhist Abbot?
... that the Soviet Union's "Eighth Five-Year Plan" was technically its Seventh Five-Year Plan?

00:00, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the petals of the blue tinsel lily (pictured) turn red as they age?
... that boxer Taishan Dong is named after a mountain?
... that Beirut V – Minet El Hosn electoral district was a single-member constituency used only in the 1953 Lebanese general election?
... that Deuane Sunnalath was blamed for the fatal incidents that led to a split in the Forces Armées Neutralistes?
... that celebrating his fiftieth birthday, Graham Waterhouse played the cello in his compositions for string quartet, some with a solo instrument?
... that unlike most of Arizona's Territorial Secretaries, William Francis Nichols did not wish to become governor but instead declined an offer to be nominated?
... that Brian Ellerbe would have been the only Michigan basketball head coach to have led his team to a Big Ten Tournament championship, but the victory was vacated due to a scandal?
... that Icelandic children's author Þórdís Gísladóttir writes about how to find out what goes on behind your neighbours' curtains?

21 March 2015

12:00, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Spanish singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias (pictured) performed at the Lo Nuestro Awards of 2014 and won six accolades the following year?
... that Peter Aduja was the first-ever Filipino American to hold major elected office in the United States?
... that The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison has been lauded for successfully joining high fantasy and steampunk?
... that investigative journalist Arbana Xharra uncovered links to terrorist organizations while investigating religious extremism in Kosovo?
... that at WrestleMania XXX, Daniel Bryan claimed the WWE World Heavyweight Championship by winning the first and last match of the pay-per-view?
... that no bids were received for the construction of a bridge over Black Ash Creek in 1900?
... that writer Becky Birtha self-identifies as an African-American with Cherokee, Catawba, African, and Irish heritage?
... that the comb jelly Beroe ovata can consume four times its body weight in a day?

00:00, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

... that during the Defense of Van (pictured), missionary Grace Knapp wrote that the Armenian defenders made their own bullets by reusing enemy shrapnel?
... that although Spring Run is designated as a Coldwater Fishery, it is devoid of trout?
... that the Indian town of Arang is home to the 11th-century Jainist Bhand Deval temple where three huge sculptures of nude tirthankaras are deified?
... that in 1958 Joseph Chader became the first Armenian government minister in Lebanon?
... that the biography of Sessue Hayakawa won Duke University's John Hope Franklin Book Award?
... that scholar Barbara Newman suggests that the multiple female figures in medieval Christianity were "distinctive creations of the Christian imagination" that deepened the medieval vision of God?
... that the title of Van der Graaf Generator's H to He, Who Am the Only One refers to the fusion of hydrogen nuclei to form helium?
... that in 2012 Complex ranked Sarah Kerrigan as the most evil woman in gaming?

20 March 2015

12:00, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Rosemond Mountain (pictured)‍—‌said to be the best female singer on the English stage‍—‌was taught by the castrato Venanzio Rauzzini?
... that although Sugar Notch Run is impaired for its entire length, brook trout inhabit it upstream of the Hanover Area Recreation Fields?
... that Kham Ouane Boupha supplied seven paratroopers for spying inside China?
... that the Washington Monument, the world's tallest obelisk, sustained more than 150 cracks from the 2011 Virginia earthquake?
... that the art of Imna Arroyo is based on the theme of "women's energy"?
... that 336,000 Tutsi fled Rwanda during the Rwandan Revolution?
... that ornithologist Robert Ridgway consulted with inventor Milton Bradley and Smithsonian head Samuel Pierpont Langley to create a new dictionary of color names for naturalists?
... that the directors of Quinceañera shot the film in their neighbors' houses and cast their cleaning lady in a role?

00:00, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Frederick Reines used an 8,000 ton Cerenkov detector in a salt mine near Cleveland to detect neutrinos from supernova SN1987A (pictured)?
... that the upside-down jellyfish has three different methods of obtaining nutrients?
... that Austrian poet Doris Mühringer was mentored by Hans Weigel who became an early publisher of her works?
... that the Advayataraka Upanishad defines a guru (teacher) as one who disperses darkness?
... that the U.S. Army cancelled Project Camelot on the day Congress began investigating it?
... that the child saint Sicarius of Brantôme was venerated as one of the infant victims of the Massacre of the Innocents?
... that Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is the second Tim Burton film to be shot in Tampa Bay, the first being Edward Scissorhands in 1989?
... that the dance technique of Martha Graham gave at least one man "vagina envy"?

19 March 2015

12:00, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Fresh Wharf (pictured in the early 1960s) in the City of London stood on the site of a quay that dated back to Roman Londinium?
... that in 2007, the high priest of Takht Sri Damdama Sahib, Balwant Singh Nandgarh, formed a Sikh group called Ek Noor Khalsa Fauj to stop the religious gathering of Dera Sacha Sauda?
... that a Spiderwoman Theater performance in Italy was cancelled for fear of riots?
... that Niloofar Rahmani is Afghanistan's first female fixed-wing Air Force aviator?
... that the Philippine documentary To Live for the Masses, on the life of former president Joseph Estrada, was initially given an "XXX" rating by the MTCRB and was banned from public exhibition?
... that the May 18th National Cemetery commemorates victims of the Gwangju Uprising in Korea?
... that just two of Stella Sierra's many books are said to have confirmed the poet's "place in Panamanian letters"?
... that Roaring Brook flows through Roaring Brook?

00:00, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Ilse Thiele (pictured) was the president of the Democratic Women's League of Germany from 1953 to 1989?
... that though police investigating the disappearance of Leah Roberts found her wrecked Jeep 15 years ago today, they only looked under the hood in 2006 and saw the starter relay wire had been cut?
... that the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge walked 22 miles (35 km) to preach at the Taunton Unitarian Chapel?
... that Tom Love dropped out of college twice before becoming the billionaire owner of Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores?
... that Abrahams Creek was named for a local Mohican chief?
... that in the Shree Govindajee Temple in Imphal, Manipur, the plating of the domes is said to be made up of 30 kilograms (66 lb) of gold?
... that Maria Elizabetha Jacson was wary of offending her society's conventions by writing about sexual classification?
... that an Australian Gippsland waratah is thriving at Wakehurst Place?

18 March 2015

12:00, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the present Gothic Revival Peterskirche (pictured) in Leipzig replaced an actual Gothic church?
... that Mexican singer Luis Miguel won the Lo Nuestro Awards for Pop Male Artist and Pop Album of the Year consecutively in 1994 and 1995?
... that Frank Love's father built Purcell's Love Hotel?
... that before becoming a conservation land, Willard's Woods was a 100-acre orchard?
... that the Northern Crown constellation was seen as an eagle's nest or boomerang by Indigenous Australians?
... that Women's Art Resources of Minnesota pairs emerging women artists with professionals in a mentorship program?
... that during the Września children strike of 1901–04, ethnic Polish schoolchildren were flogged for protesting against religious instruction in German?
... that Arizona Territorial Supreme Court Justice William Wood Porter's most recognizable feature was his nose?

00:00, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Margaret Kennedy (pictured as Captain Macheath) was the first person to perform Thomas Arne's song "A-Hunting We Will Go"?
... that the 22nd Arizona Territorial Legislature gave final passage to a women's suffrage bill on St. Patrick's Day 1903?
... that unlike living species of the genus, the extinct ant Gesomyrmex pulcher is from Germany rather than Asia?
... that scholar and linguist Elise Otté assisted her stepfather in translating the Elder Edda, but found working with him intolerable?
... that in a double direct election, individuals are elected as representatives for two tiers of government in one election?
... that the production team on the downloadable expansion Crusader Kings II: Sons of Abraham wanted the expulsion of Jews to hurt players in the long run?
... that Cyclone Honorinina killed 99 people?
... that Eleanor Cripps Kennedy led a clothing club during the grasshopper plagues?

17 March 2015

12:00, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Persoonia media (pictured) can range from a 30-centimetre (12 in) shrub to a 25-metre (82 ft) tree?
... that the lack of minorities and women in Shirley M. Malcom's college classes later inspired her to manage the National Science Foundation's Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program?
... that "Fantasy" was the first song by a female to debut at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100?
... that one of the tiaras now owned by Elizabeth II was rescued by Albert Stopford from the Vladimir Palace in Saint Petersburg just before the October Revolution?
... that in The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber argues that the "order and regularity" of bureaucracies are more harmful than valuable?
... that Japanese undercover agent Suzuki Keiji posed as a reporter to enter Burma, where he helped found the Burmese Independence Army?
... that six Irish kings died in the Battle of Islandbridge?
... that when film producer William Fox first saw Life's Shop Window he suggested, "Let's burn the damn thing"?

00:00, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Via dei Coronari in Rome (pictured) maintains the character of an Italian Renaissance street?
... that Naomi Sager helped develop the first computer program to parse English?
... that the budget for the development of Red Dead Redemption was estimated at between US$80 million and $100 million?
... that the Australian Pacific blue-eye was described from a specimen taken to Vienna?
... that when Lieutenant General Hatazō Adachi learned of the Takenaga incident, he shed tears while praying to the emperor?
... that contralto Marga Höffgen, known as a Bach singer for Karajan and as Erda in Bayreuth, recorded Max Reger's Requiem compositions?
... that The Village in the Jungle has been described as "the first novel in English literature to be written from the indigenous point of view rather than the coloniser's"?
... that years of clashes with the far right cost Romanian Germanist Traian Bratu an earlobe?

16 March 2015

12:00, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Brazilian footballer Alan (pictured) expressed a desire to play for Austria?
... that the Battle of Garnett's & Golding's Farm was a part of George B. McClellan's failed attempt to take the Confederate capital of Richmond?
... that Musola Cathrine Kaseketi is Zambia's first female professional film director?
... that, when described, the brown lacewing species Wesmaelius mathewesi was the most ancient member of its subfamily?
... that novel writer Regīna Ezera campaigned for a free Latvia, but suffered financially as a result of the fall of communism?
... that Elvis & Nixon, currently in-production, centers on the December 1970 meeting between singer Elvis Presley and President Richard Nixon?
... that Verónica Diorio, a character on the Argentine telenovela Graduados, wore a Union Jack T-shirt on Malvinas Day?
... that the Master Apartments, a residential art deco skyscraper in New York City, takes its name from Master Morya, a non-corporeal spiritual leader?

00:00, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Lev Tolstoy is buried in the cemetery of Sireköpinge Church (pictured) in Sweden?
... that the winner of Best In Show at Crufts in 1987, Viscount Grant, was owned by Chris Amoo of the British Band The Real Thing?
... that policemen from the Directorate of National Coordination were co-opted into an airborne army unit?
... that the Canadian-born psychiatrist Lydia Giberson was the first woman assistant vice president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company?
... that six years after The Debate Society produced their first show, A Thought About Raya, they produced A Thought About Ryan?
... that although both teams were strong in The Football League between 1976 and 1981, West Bromwich Albion only won once against Aston Villa in that period?
... that the local Vlachs persuaded many "Hungarians, Saxons and other Catholics" who had settled in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cumania to join the Orthodox faith?
... that one of Louisa Murray's works was accidentally set on fire by the magazine that was to publish it?

15 March 2015

12:00, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

... that nobody knows what the newly coined Chinese word duang (pictured) means?
... that high school dropout Alex Cable collaborated on work that led to the Nobel Prize in Physics and founded Thorlabs, a company with US$200 million of annual sales?
... that Julia Quinn won back-to-back RITA Awards for her Regency romances On the Way To the Wedding and The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever?
... that Ajith Kumar starred in Tamil cinema's first prequel?
... that Kanye West sings instead of raps his guest verse on "FourFiveSeconds"?
... that after Gabriel Langfeldt diagnosed Knut Hamsun as having "permanently impaired mental capabilities", Hamsun portrayed Langfeldt negatively in his book On Overgrown Paths?
... that the molecular cloud in the Westerhout 40 nebula is shaped like a shepherd's crook and it is forming new stars?
... that Karen Boccalero, founding director of a community arts center, was remembered as a "progressive, chain-smoking, cussing nun"?

00:00, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Rebecca Kamen (pictured) was inspired to create the sculpture Butterflies of the Soul by a Nobel prize winner's drawings of Purkinje cells?
... that Formula 1 is a motor racing themed board game originally published by Waddingtons in 1962?
... that Manuel Erotikos Komnenos's surname is believed to derive from the village of Komne in Thrace?
... that during World War II, Fritz Homann served as a fishing trawler, weather ship, Vorpostenboot and buoy tender?
... that The Times dubbed John Pickard one of Britain's top doctors?
... that the announcement of the upcoming Adventure Time miniseries was called a "stunt"?
... that Pippa Cross was inspired to enter the film and television industry after helping organise a BAFTA Awards ceremony?
... that Zeblon Gwala, the inventor of the purported HIV/AIDS treatment ubhejane, has said he got the idea for its ingredients in a dream?

14 March 2015

12:00, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the Cordyceps fungus (pictured), featured in the BBC documentary Planet Earth, inspired the look of the Infected during the development of The Last of Us?
... that Ilia Koshevoy won the 2013 Gran Premio della Liberazione by just one second?
... that the novel The Peppered Moth is a fictional biography of Margaret Drabble's mother, which Drabble's sister A.S. Byatt did not like?
... that cardiologist and Gambian native Hannah Valantine is the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity at the United States National Institutes of Health?
... that the Off the Air special "Dan Deacon: U.S.A." features videos from artists worldwide, despite its national focus?
... that Dagmar Hülsenberg, with a doctorate in both cost accounting and materials science, was the youngest professor in the German Democratic Republic?
... that Falls Run is one of eleven officially named streams in the watershed of Nescopeck Creek that has not been assessed by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission?
... that the fashion designer Zoran declared a woman's only jewelry should be her children or husband?

00:00, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Chicago's Maggie Daley Park includes a quarter mile long ice skating ribbon (pictured)?
... that Robert René Meyer-Sée was instrumental in organising the 1912 London exhibition of Futurist painting?
... that Hezbollah candidate Hassan Fadlallah was elected from the Bint Jbeil district in 2009 with over 94% of the cast votes?
... that the character Victoria Lauría, from the Argentine telenovela Graduados, was originally to have been played by actress Julieta Ortega, but she was later reassigned to another character?
... that the Center for Biofilm Engineering at Montana State University tackles biofilm issues including chronic wounds, bioremediation, and microbial corrosion?
... that Geoffrey Talbot held lands around Swanscombe assessed as owing 20 knight's fees, as recorded in the Cartae Baronum?
... that two circumpolar stars known as The Indestructibles marked heaven as a destination for the Ancient Egyptian pharaohs?
... that artist Janice Wright-Cheney turned old fur coats into hundreds of rats?

13 March 2015

12:00, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Nancy Cox-McCormack (pictured) considered Mussolini a "creative force" and sculpted the first bust made of him after his march on Rome?
... that the Carreidas 160, the fictional supersonic business jet appearing in The Adventures of Tintin, featured "swing-wing" technology allowing its wings to assume any of three positions?
... that Jalila Khamis Koko was awarded a "Heroes for Human Rights Award 2013" by the European Union Delegation to Sudan?
... that the launching of the semmelwrap became a viral success on Swedish social media?
... that Jakub Mareczko was the most successful under-23 cyclist in Italy in 2014?
... that the 1987 Hugh Masekela song "Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela)" became the unofficial anthem of the anti-apartheid movement?
... that George Weil withdrew the control rod from Chicago Pile-1 nuclear reactor, initiating the first man-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction?
... that "the dress" actually was blue and black?

00:00, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the green apple aphid (pictured) may have ten to fifteen generations in a year?
... that Sara Goldrick-Rab's advocacy of free community colleges in the United States influenced President Obama's own plan?
... that the Italian cruiser Carlo Alberto was used for radio experiments by Guglielmo Marconi while serving as a royal yacht for King Victor Emmanuel III?
... that each member of The International Swingers band first came to public attention as a member of another band?
... that in 1965 it was noted that despite summer droughts in the area, the Scotch Run tributary had never run dry for at least 52 years?
... that Arizona Territorial Chief Justice Sumner Howard resigned to ease the appointment of John C. Shields, only to see Shields' nomination rejected by the United States Senate?
... that a browser game for the Christmas special of Uncle Grandpa features the titular character as he dances through children's houses to deliver presents?
... that Spanish hurdler Maria José Martínez-Patiño forgot to bring her "certificate of femininity" to a competition and, after a test, was declared a man?

12 March 2015

12:00, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the War Cemetery in Kohima (pictured) contains 1,420 Commonwealth burials from the Second World War, including the cremated remains of 917 Hindus and Sikhs?
... that economist Neil W. Chamberlain made major contributions as an industrial relations scholar, but eventually became disillusioned about his entire profession?
... that York Hollow is named after three different people?
... that Mrs Nicol played parts such as Mrs Malaprop in Edinburgh, and after she retired in 1834 her daughter performed similar roles there?
... that St George's Roman Catholic Church in Taunton was not consecrated until 52 years after it opened?
... that Nocomis platyrhynchus are brown on top but white on the bottom?
... that Anne Beffort is remembered for her works on Victor Hugo and Alexandre Soumet, as well as for her support of French culture in Luxembourg?
... that Swedish company Teenage Engineering has produced accessories for its OP-1 synthesizer that make it compatible with Lego motors?

00:05, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the Neapolitan spurilla (pictured) defends itself with stinging cells derived from the sea anemones it eats?
... that model Charlotte McKinney became "insta-famous" by posting pictures to Instagram?
... that in 1915 the US finished a 16-inch artillery piece that weighed 284,000 pounds (129,000 kg) and that could shoot a 2,400-pound (1,100 kg) shell 21 miles (34 km)?
... that Reece Grego-Cox scored a goal from a distance of 50 yards for the Queens Park Rangers under-19 team, which the Daily Mirror compared to one by David Beckham?
... that J. R. R. Tolkien was shipped back to the UK on the HMHS Asturias after he got trench fever during the Battle of the Somme?
... that Thomas W. Talley, longtime chair of the chemistry department at Fisk University, also published the first compilation of African-American secular folk songs?
... that when two winners were declared for the 1724 Taunton by-election, the High Sheriff of Somerset had to choose which to accept?
... that the successful novelist Nell Zink wrote fiction for fifteen years for just one penpal?

11 March 2015

12:20, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Florence Nightingale's Parisian friend "Clarkey" (self-portrait pictured) said that it was better to be a galley slave than a woman?
... that during the 1967 Opium War, both traffickers and their mules were bombed indiscriminately?
... that fluorocarbon chemist Henry Aaron Hill was the first African-American president of the American Chemical Society?
... that the "UKIP Calypso" claims that the next British Prime Minister will be Farage?
... that Constance Ellis was the first woman to receive a medical degree from the University of Melbourne?
... that in Money Monster, a disgruntled viewer takes a TV financial adviser (played by George Clooney) hostage after following a stock tip and losing all his money?
... that Choo-tai of Egham, Best Champion at Crufts in 1913, was poisoned and killed later that year, something that was attributed to suffragettes?
... that art thief Vincenzo Pipino would also look for cashmere clothing when he raided a private residence?

00:35, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

... that art historian Cornelius Vermeule described the three-cent silver (pictured) as one of the ugliest U.S. coins?
... that publicity-shy billionaire Ian Livingstone is married to a journalist for the celebrity gossip magazine OK!?
... that the Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972 changed the country's name to Sri Lanka from the old name Ceylon, and proclaimed it as an independent republic?
... that mezzo-soprano Marie-Louise Gilles appeared in trousers roles in Wiesbaden and as a valkyrie in Bayreuth?
... that the surficial geology in the vicinity of Pond Creek includes Wisconsinan Till, alluvium, boulder alluvium, alluvial fan, bedrock consisting of sandstone and shale, and wetlands?
... that Rob Hart, NFL Europe's all-time leading scorer, was a retailer at Virgin Records and a substitute teacher?
... that Chain Reaction, an anti-nuclear war sculpture, was anonymously funded by Joan Kroc?
... that Filipino singer Jason Dy was often hired by men to serenade their loved ones?

10 March 2015

12:50, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Manet considered La Nymphe surprise (pictured) one of his most important paintings?
... that Laurel Run used to be "of considerable size and importance", but is now a "trickling flow of water"?
... that after the Italian cruiser San Giorgio was scuttled in shallow water in 1941, the British commissioned its wreck as an immobile repair ship?
... that in 2014 the rapper RedCloud broke the Guiness World Record for longest freestyle rap?
... that the film India's Daughter is based on the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman?
... that the works of Georgette Heyer include her first novel The Black Moth (1921), which she based on a story she wrote for her haemophiliac younger brother?
... that in 1891 a single specimen of Underworld windowskate was collected from the California coast, even though this fish is otherwise found only in the Atlantic?
... that Romanian literary critic Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică pushed for his country to enter World War I, and found himself deported to Bulgaria once that happened?

01:05, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the Italian cruiser Pisa (pictured) was one of the ships that "completely destroyed" Derna, Libya, during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12?
... that a design by Jody Clark was selected to become the fifth definitive portrait of Elizabeth II on British coins?
... that Rogers Creek is also known as Marsh Creek, despite having a tributary named Marsh Creek?
... that Italian soprano Teresina Brambilla was known for performing leading parts in operas by Amilcare Ponchielli, whom she married?
... that as of 2002, St. Paul's Cathedral, Abidjan was the second largest cathedral in Africa, built at an estimated cost of US $12 million?
... that Helen Papashvily's story Anything can Happen argues that people should be tolerant of those who are not born in their country?
... that the Legal Quays were once the only places in London at which ships were authorised to load and unload cargo?
... that clothing manufacturer and self-taught cultural anthropologist Eli Sagan called his inclusion in Nixon's Enemies List his "proudest life moment"?

9 March 2015

13:20, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the Broadmoor Sirens (pictured) are tested every Monday at 10 am to ensure their readiness to give warning should a patient escape from Broadmoor?
... that Mongol-Manchu-Chinese-Canadian poet Chia-ying Yeh, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, was imprisoned with her baby during the White Terror of Taiwan?
... that the first baseball World Series trophy, the Dauvray Cup, was funded by stage actress Helen Dauvray?
... that Yoko Hayashi helped investigate the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Stations whilst also trying to eliminate discrimination against women?
... that The Last of Us received the most wins at the 10th British Academy Video Games Awards, collecting five BAFTAs?
... that although he defeated and drove Sayf al-Dawla out of Syria, Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid soon agreed to divide the country with him?
... that the Sirima-Shastri Pact paved the way to Sri Lankan citizenship for 300,000 and repatriation to India for 525,000?
... that advertising executive Jane Trahey persuaded Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, and Judy Garland to pose for an ad campaign, giving them each a mink coat as payment?

00:00, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the Chinese physicist He Zehui (pictured) researched nuclear physics in Heidelberg during World War II?
... that Margaret Allen was the first woman to perform a heart transplant?
... that the Methodist church founder John Wesley gave a sermon about the treatment of his sister, the poet Mehetabel, at the hands of their father?
... that on 8 March 2011, International Women's Day, Surekha Yadav became Asia's first woman train driver to drive the Deccan Queen from Pune to CST?
... that swimmer Dara Torres is a twelve-time Olympic medalist, has won medals in five different Summer Olympics, and is the oldest swimmer to ever win an Olympic medal?
... that Miss Kamala (1936) was the first South Indian film to be directed by a woman?
... that Alice Perry was the first woman to graduate as an engineer in Ireland and the United Kingdom?
... that the Chinese writer Lulu Wang is a best-selling Dutch-language author?

8 March 2015

11:55, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
... that Princess Sophia Singh campaigned for women's rights outside the palace where her godmother, Queen Victoria, had let her family live?
... that if not for her high scores in high school, Xuemei Chen might not have been able to study plant physiology at Peking University?
... that Dope is cinematographer Rachel Morrison's seventh film to screen at the Sundance Film Festival in six consecutive years?
... that Myra Adele Logan was the first woman to perform open heart surgery?
... that teenage poet Marie Heiberg's first book was Mure-lapse laulud (Songs of a Problem Child)?
... that Bangalore Nagarathnamma, concert artist and promoter of the Thyagaraja Aradhana, was the first female artist in Madras to pay income tax?
... that Sinah Estelle Kelley helped mass-produce penicillin for the U.S. Department of Agriculture following the Second World War?
... that men don't laugh at Ayelet the Kosher Komic's jokes?

7 March 2015

23:40, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the Beis Rachel Synagogue (pictured) is some half a meter (about two feet) higher than the rest of the row houses in the historical Jerusalem neighborhood of Knesset Yisrael?
... that 400,000 Argentines attended the 18F demonstration to protest the death of Alberto Nisman, despite torrential rain?
... that Shah Rukh Khan has starred in six films produced by Dharma Productions?
... that Cuban poet Magaly Alabau and Ana María Simo founded Medusa's Revenge, New York's first lesbian theater?
... that London Buses route 467 is the only London bus route to contain school extensions at both ends after adopting the duties of the Surrey bus route 833?
... that Spencer Run used to be a tributary of Fishing Creek, but is now a tributary of West Creek?
... that Viola Hatch, of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, was a founder of the National Indian Youth Council and an AIM activist?
... that Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans East Wildlife Sanctuary have the reputation of being man-eaters?

11:25, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the driver killed in the Valhalla train crash (wreckage pictured)‍—‌the deadliest in Metro-North Railroad's history‍—‌had her Mercedes-Benz ML350 on the tracks for about 30 seconds before the train struck it?
... that on 11 September 2002 Andrew Dallmeyer premiered a one-man show in which he played Osama bin Laden as a shopping-mall Santa Claus?
... that the ICMEC and NCMEC's Global Missing Children's Network assists investigations across 22 participating countries?
... that when Yale professor Kang-i Sun Chang was a young girl, her father was imprisoned in Taiwan and her grandfather committed suicide in China?
... that when the Church of All Saints in Chipstable, Somerset, was rebuilt in 1869, it reused stone from the original church as much as possible?
... that Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code, an organization that aims to teach one million African-American girls to code by 2040?
... that following its capture at the Battle of Mykonos in 1794, the French frigate Sibylle became "one of the finest frigates" of the Royal Navy?
... that Sports Illustrated stated that former Alabama State center Chief Kickingstallionsims had one of the greatest names in sports?

6 March 2015

23:10, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Eliza Ann Grier (pictured), an emancipated slave, was the first African-American woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of Georgia?
... that T. Rex and the Crater of Doom details the development of the hypothesis that dinosaurs were wiped out by an impact event?
... that during the Spanish conquest of the Maya, the Spanish conquistadors preferred the cotton armour of their Maya enemies to their own steel armour?
... that Australian physicist Eric Burhop led an international team at Fermilab that detected the
Λ⁺
_c (charmed lambda baryon)?
... that no date has been specified for admitting the public to California's Marsh Creek State Park, although the park was formally named on January 27, 2012?
... that during the First World War, the UK Ministry of Labour allowed women to work at the Hughes Bolckow Ship wrecking company provided they didn't have to lift a sledgehammer weighing more than 5 pounds (2.3 kg)?
... that Romanian psychologist Florian Ștefănescu-Goangă initially cooperated with the country's communist government, but ended up a political prisoner?
... that the Waldorf–Astoria Hotel's famed maître d'hôtel, Oscar Tschirky, created the Waldorf salad, eggs Benedict, and Thousand Island dressing?

10:55, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the Stanley Hotel, Nairobi (pictured) was the first location to sell a bottle of Tusker?
... that physicist Warren Elliot Henry learned quantum mechanics from Arthur Compton, nuclear theory from Wolfgang Pauli, and molecular spectra from Robert Millikan‍—‌and played tennis with Enrico Fermi?
... that Guillaume Apollinaire wrote in The Cubist Painters (1913), "A man like Picasso studies an object as a surgeon dissects a cadaver"?
... that Elvy Kalep, Estonia's first female aviator, was a friend of Amelia Earhart?
... that all the riders on the Armée de Terre cycling team are enlisted soldiers?
... that Verrill's hermit crab sometimes makes use of a tube-like shell fixed to a rock and consequently becomes a filter feeder?
... that Lilian Knowles was Britain's second professor in Economic History and had been one of Girton College's steamboat ladies?
... that in the 1947 film The Beginning or the End, when Vannevar Bush tells President Franklin Roosevelt that he has a top-secret matter to discuss, Roosevelt's dog Fala leaves the room?

5 March 2015

22:40, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

... that in captivity, the larvae of the beetle Goliathus orientalis (pictured) can be fed commercial dog or cat food?
... that Lyle Stevik's true identity has never been discovered?
... that although the Battle of Vientiane caused some 600 civilian deaths, the losing military force escaped intact?
... that although Alabama Chief Justice and botanist Thomas Minott Peters owned slaves before the Civil War, he later championed equal rights for African Americans and women, and wanted Jefferson Davis hanged?
... that Abbey Brewing Company, founded in 2005 in Abiquiu, New Mexico, is the first American monastic brewery founded since before Prohibition?
... that the Hamdanid prince Abu Firas, widely regarded as one of the greatest Arab poets, wrote his most renowned work while a Byzantine prisoner of war?
... that Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 329 are the smallest state game lands in Columbia County?
... that the LGBT drama series Cucumber, Banana, and Tofu are all named after the same study of the male erection?

10:25, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Rosa Bonheur's Ploughing in the Nivernais (pictured) was described as a "pictorial translation" of George Sand's novel La Mare au Diable?
... that Philadelphia Phillies infielder Freddy Galvis participated in the Little World Series and subsequently, at age 16, signed his first contract?
... that when 4 inches (10 cm) of rain fell in 45 minutes in the watershed of Coal Creek, causing it to flood severely, Wadham Creek (less than a mile away) did not even overflow its banks?
... that Marta Lamas co-founded the first feminist newspaper supplement in Mexico?
... that the Skanda Upanishad preaches the unity of Vishnu and Shiva, gods of the rival Hindu sects?
... that Plant 1 of Snoqualmie Falls Hydroelectric Plant, completed in 1899, was the first completely underground hydroelectric power plant?
... that the leaf curl plum aphid and the thistle aphid have two hosts, spending part of the year on stone fruits and part on other plants?
... that the opera La Loca (The Madwoman) was written as a vehicle for Beverly Sills in honor of her 50th birthday?

4 March 2015

22:10, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

... that the 104-foot (32 m) Sivadol (pictured) in Sivasagar, Assam, is believed to be the tallest Shiva temple in India?
... that the first woman elected to the Geological Society of America, Mary Emilie Holmes, was also one of the cofounders of a historically black college?
... that the common water moss provides a protective habitat for fish eggs and aquatic invertebrates?
... that film producer Lisa Bruce began working on The Theory of Everything in 2009, but it was only released in 2014?
... that the electoral district Beirut I had the largest concentration of Jewish voters in Lebanon?
... that Dame Lowell Goddard is believed to be the first person of Māori ancestry to become a High Court judge in New Zealand?
... that Grand Canyon freshman Miroslav Jakšić made his first college basketball appearance against No. 1 Kentucky?
... that a founding abbess of the restored convent of Sant'Ambrogio della Massima was convicted of pretending to be a saint?

09:55, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

... that "Movie Queen" Butterfly Wu (pictured) became the mistress of China's spymaster Dai Li and the mother-in-law of President Li Zongren?
... that Team Roompot only hires Dutch cyclists?
... that Salvador Alvarado drove the first feminist Congress in Mexico, which was held in Mérida, Yucatán in 1916?
... that Vasudeva Upanishad extols Vaishnava sectarian marks?
... that the first gristmill and the first sawmill in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania were both built on Gardner Creek?
... that fifteen species of dragonfly have been recorded in Rodley Nature Reserve in West Yorkshire?
... that Frances Ames was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Cape Town?
... that according to some sources, the Serbian despot Đurađ Branković bribed the Ottoman commander Turahan Bey to stand back from the Battle of Kunovica?

3 March 2015

21:40, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

... that to the displeasure of the vacationing governor, Arizona Territorial Secretary George U. Young (pictured) used his power as Acting Governor to grant clemency to several prisoners?
... that the northern cup coral often contains symbiotic zooxanthellae in its tissues, whereas the southern cup coral does not?
... that the villagers of Hodal in Herjedalen sent Olav Trondsson a 6-pound (2.7 kg) pike as a gift?
... that the Royal Navy's 1793 Raid on Genoa‍—‌intended to intimidate the city of Genoa into submission‍—‌had the opposite effect?
... that Warrick Couch has spent his career researching how galaxies form, evolve with time, and are organised in the universe?
... that the Every Kid in a Park initiative will begin in the fall of 2015, just before the U.S. National Park Service's 100th anniversary in 2016?
... that Miss P is the second beagle to win Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, and her great-uncle was the first?
... that S.O.A.P. encouraged their fans to come up with a backronym for their name, though they were unimpressed by the "countless unsavoury submissions"?

09:25, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

... that during the breeding season, the male Hypseleotris compressa (pictured) can appear to glow?
... that Mila Tupper Maynard is thought to have been the first female minister in Nevada?
... that Edward Burne-Jones took twelve years (1870–82) to complete The Mill?
... that the German fighter pilot Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke was probably shot down by the American fighter pilots Don Gentile and John Trevor Godfrey?
... that the Sequential Circuits Prophet 2000, manufactured in 1985, was one of the first samplers able to trigger multiple samples at once?
... that the engineer Willie Hobbs Moore, credited with expanding Japanese manufacturing practices at Ford Motor Company, was the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in physics?
... that a football cup final was moved to Holm Park after one of the teams involved had allegedly received threats?
... that the cinematographer John Guleserian was hired to shoot the 2015 sex comedy The Overnight after his wife introduced him to the film's director?

2 March 2015

17:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

... that Aleen Cust (pictured) was the first female vet recognised by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in Ireland and the United Kingdom?
... that Atma Upanishad tells about three types of "Self"?
... that after members of the Artists Union occupied the New York Federal Art Project offices in 1936, police arrested 219 of them, the largest-ever arrest in the city?
... that Anastasia Gosteva's fantastic tale Большой взрыв и черепахи (2006), translated by Boris Meshcheryakov as Big Bang and Turtles, has been published by UNESCO online?
... that approximately $40 million was spent on marketing Game of War: Fire Age?
... that the 2013 Ontario budget repealed a sales tax sunset provision so that the government could collect tax debts?
... that model and actress Pia Miller is the first Australian celebrity tourism ambassador for Chile?
... that Harveys Lake, the largest natural lake in Pennsylvania by volume, was discovered by accident?

00:00, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

... that K-Run's Park Me In First (pictured), also known as Uno, was the first beagle to win the Westminster Kennel Club dog show?
... that the 2015 Football League Cup Final is a repeat of the 2008 Final between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur?
... that in the 1960s, Kamal Ranadive established India's first tissue culture research laboratory at the Indian Cancer Research Centre in Mumbai?
... that six bridges were built across Toby Creek in 1941 alone, and four were built in 1963?
... that a scene from Resident Evil 5 was submitted to the British Board of Film Classification due to a complaint of racism?
... that American boxer Cletus Seldin was named after former New York Yankees third baseman Clete Boyer?
... that the dominant species of mangrove in the Sundarbans is being seriously affected by top dying disease?
... that Eleanor Winthrop Young was the first president of the Pinnacle Club, an association for women interested in "the climbing art"?

1 March 2015

12:00, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

... that in 1788 a wa (pictured) arrived in Spanish Guam, stating they had always traded there but stopped after witnessing European cruelty?
... that Corrado Miraglia, who created the role of Ismaele in Verdi's opera Nabucco, became a soloist at the Milan Cathedral when he retired from the stage?
... that the main Michillinda Lodge building in Whitehall, Michigan, was 110 years old when it burned down in 2012?
... that immunologist Mary Loveless collected and prepared some 30,000 insects to use for her research into insect venom allergies?
... that when the Neutralists chose sides in the Laotian Civil War, the Patriotic Neutralists went to the communists?
... that in 2006 Verónica Cruz Sánchez became the first Mexican human rights activist to be awarded the Defender of Human Rights award from HRW?
... that Rihanna's song "Towards the Sun" was compared to her collaboration with Coldplay, "Princess of China"?
... that Brigadier General Alfred Judson Force Moody died of a heart attack shortly after arriving in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War?

00:00, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

... that in December 2014 up to 350,000 litres (77,000 imp gal) of oil was spilt (pictured) after an oil tanker collided with a cargo vessel in the Sundarbans, Bangladesh?
... that the Ku Klux Klan in Canada, established in the 1920s, once included a Conservative Member of Parliament in the House of Commons and had liberal, conservative, and progressive supporters?
... that future Syracuse lacrosse coach Roy Simmons Sr. was expelled from the University of Chicago for playing in a high school football game?
... that China's Qianlong Emperor called off his annual imperial hunt to receive Lord Macartney?
... that a US$399 limited edition of Borderlands: The Handsome Collection includes a remote-controlled Claptrap?
... that Belgian cinematographer Benoît Debie spent ten years working in television before shooting his first feature film?
... that after the Catalan village of Conill was abandoned, one of its buildings was demolished in order to move its olive press to a public park in a nearby town?
... that Lady Gaga recorded the song "Till It Happens to You" for the 2015 film The Hunting Ground?