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30 November 2020

00:00, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Jane Withers

... that Jane Withers (pictured) rose to child stardom in the 1930s playing mischievous little girls, "tomboy rascals", and "America's favorite problem child"?
... that "Macht weit die Pforten in der Welt", written for the Basel Mission, was included with a new melody in Kirchenlied to proclaim Christ the King in opposition to the Nazi regime?
... that the press conference held at a Philadelphia landscaping company by Donald Trump's presidential campaign has inspired a virtual charity run to be held today?
... that a foundation set up by Pragya Prasun has supported more than 250 survivors of acid attacks?
... that although "O Captain! My Captain!", written on the death of Abraham Lincoln, was one of Walt Whitman's most popular poems, he grew to be "almost sorry" he wrote it?
... that the Overa-Aru Wildlife Sanctuary lies within the distributional range of the critically endangered Kashmir stag?
... that social activist Lee Hyo-jae's efforts helped abolish South Korea's patriarchal naming system, allowing people to use both parents' surnames?
... that the old baptismal font of the Vaxholm Church became a bird bath?

29 November 2020

00:00, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Round bezel ring from the West Yorkshire Hoard

... that a round bezel ring (pictured) from the West Yorkshire Hoard rattles when moved and may contain a relic?
... that in 1997, Princess Diana donated her entire wardrobe to a charity auction organized by AIDS activist Marguerite Littman, which raised more than $3 million?
... that the lady beetle Cryptognatha nodiceps helps control coconut scales and coconut whiteflies?
... that Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev composed the earliest known Hebrew erotic poems of the modern era?
... that during the 2018 Grande Tema incident, four stowaways threw faeces and urine and made threats to kill the ship's crew?
... that 13 years after it was initially announced, Jay Electronica released his album Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn) because it had leaked online?
... that although he was the eldest son of Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos, Manuel Komnenos was not named as heir, as he opposed his father's policies?
... that Major will be the first rescue dog to live in the White House?

28 November 2020

00:00, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

James R. Hall

... that upon taking command of the Fourth United States Army in 1989, James R. Hall (pictured) became the highest-ranking military officer in the Midwestern United States?
... that the ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium in Asia Minor was visited by the Roman emperors Hadrian, Caracalla, and Elagabalus?
... that years before their Neon Genesis Evangelion series became famous, Gainax's first anime, Royal Space Force, was marketed in Japan by staging a Hollywood premiere?
... that National Lacrosse Hall of Fame member Denise Wescott also coached the Germany women's national lacrosse team?
... that the Hokersar wetland is the largest bird reserve in the Kashmir Valley?
... that the Japanese mezzo-soprano Mihoko Fujimura, who appeared as Fricka at the Bayreuth Festival in 2002, toured Mahler's Resurrection Symphony with the CBSO conducted by Andris Nelsons?
... that the Columbus Quincentenary was a turning point for how the world remembered Christopher Columbus?
... that the ǃUriǁʼaekua used their cattle to defeat the Portuguese Empire decisively at the Battle of Salt River?

27 November 2020

00:00, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4848

... that NGC 4848 (pictured), a spiral galaxy, lost most of its hydrogen gas as it passed through the Coma Cluster due to ram pressure?
... that Leda Valladares produced a "Musical Map of Argentina" to document her country's folk music traditions?
... that an estimated tens of thousands of U.S. federal workers could lose due-process job protections by being shifted into Schedule F appointments?
... that Chris Lines has won five promotions during his professional football career?
... that firefighters were able to save the campground at Alaska's Hidden Lake from the 2019 Swan Lake Fire by creating a back burn with driptorches?
... that the video game Serious Sam Advance simulates 3D computer graphics on the Game Boy Advance?
... that in For the beauty of the earth, a 1978 anthem for choir and orchestra, John Rutter gave a 19th-century hymn text a new melody, marking it to be sung "Happily"?
... that the 17th-century Maine magistrate Richard Bonython tried his own son?

26 November 2020

00:00, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Nine new Labour Party MPs

... that 42 new MPs were elected to the 53rd New Zealand Parliament: 23 for Labour, including Arena Williams, Ibrahim Omer, Helen White, Neru Leavasa, Ingrid Leary, Rachel Brooking, Anna Lorck, Tracey McLellan, and Shanan Halbert (all pictured); 5 for National, including Joseph Mooney, Simon Watts, and Penny Simmonds; 9 for ACT New Zealand, including Toni Severin, Simon Court, Brooke van Velden, and Chris Baillie; 3 for the Greens, including Ricardo Menéndez March and Teanau Tuiono; and 2 for the Māori Party, including Rawiri Waititi?
... that the crown of the General Electric Building in Midtown Manhattan contains Gothic tracery and four 50-foot-tall (15 m) electric deities?
... that the 1990 Hindi film Drishti, which follows the story of a married couple who divorce and later meet again, has been praised for its "harsh look at monogamy"?
... that 19th-century Mormonism embraced the desire for a slow, dramatic, "beautiful death" with plenty of witnesses?
... that Pierre Bleuse, who learned conducting after a career as a violinist, was chosen by composer Michael Jarrell to lead his opera Cassandre, starring Fanny Ardant?
... that the Fijian fruit fly feeds on the yum-yum tree?

25 November 2020

00:00, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

1950 cover of Women's Barracks

... that Women's Barracks (cover pictured), regarded as a classic of lesbian pulp fiction, was banned in Canada and became the first paperback-original bestseller in the United States?
... that two Royal Navy ships named HMS Surly were launched within a year of each other: an 1855 mortar vessel and an 1856 gunboat?
... that American diplomat John B. Stetson Jr. gave a book bound in human skin to Harvard's Houghton Library?
... that in Ainu mythology, it is believed that a gigantic octopus god lives in Uchiura Bay?
... that although Saluche was blacklisted by the Unity Labour Party for his political jokes, the ULP prime minister attended his funeral?
... that the costumes of the ballet In Creases are modified from old leotards from another ballet and unused unitards?
... that Maddalena Mariani Masi performed the title role of Ponchielli's La Gioconda in the 1876 world premiere at La Scala?
... that the Book of Ezekiel prophesied Nebuchadnezzar II's Siege of Tyre, which lasted 13 years?

24 November 2020

00:00, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Black-cowled oriole

... that the black-cowled oriole (example pictured) hangs its woven nest under a large Heliconia, palm, or banana leaf?
... that despite opposing the establishment of Georgetown College, Francis Neale later became its president?
... that the Israeli Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law was intended to punish Holocaust survivors rather than Holocaust perpetrators?
... that an estimated 12 percent of those who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primaries voted for Donald Trump in the general election?
... that German native Marianne Ignace is helping to preserve indigenous languages in British Columbia?
... that Giovanni's Room both influenced and appears in the 2020 novel Swimming in the Dark, a gay love story set in the last years of the Polish People's Republic?
... that Jerome Robbins was commissioned by the New York City Ballet to choreograph the ballet Fanfare in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II?
... that James Bond introduced himself for the first time on film at Les Ambassadeurs Club?

23 November 2020

00:00, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Benjamin Britten

... that Benjamin Britten (pictured) composed Children's Crusade, with text by Bertolt Brecht, as a piece to be performed by children about a group of children in wartime Poland?
... that although the suffix automaton, a data structure used in computer science, was introduced in 1983, it appeared in a 1973 scholarly article as an auxiliary structure?
... that when he is sworn in next year, Mark Robinson will become the first Black lieutenant governor of North Carolina?
... that the Gulmarg Wildlife Sanctuary acts as a natural corridor in the movement of the Himalayan brown bear and markhor between Poonch and the Kashmir Valley forests?
... that the architect who was hired to remodel 5 Columbus Circle's lower stories later expressed regret for the renovation?
... that Rui Pinto uncovered four terabytes of confidential information about association football finances despite having no formal education in computer science?
... that the development of the video game Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope was affected by two developers suffering injuries during a football match?
... that Victor Jory's first major screen role as a lecherous landlord in the 1933 film Sailor's Luck was praised as "deliciously slimy" and "insanely funny"?

22 November 2020

00:00, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Daughter of the Dragon film poster

... that Anna May Wong had the starring role in Daughter of the Dragon (poster pictured), but was paid half as much as the non-Asian actor who played her father?
... that the British conspiracy-theory and Holocaust-denial group Keep Talking unites the far right and far left?
... that after 28 years away from public media, José Antonio Álvarez Lima was tapped in 2019 to head the Mexican television channel Canal Once?
... that one reviewer of the book The South's Finest called it "chronically and annoyingly" melodramatic?
... that table-tennis player Isabelle Li received a standing ovation despite losing the final at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics?
... that only the refrain of "Herr, wir bringen in Brot und Wein", a 1970 offertory hymn written after Huub Oosterhuis, appeared in the first edition of Gotteslob, but the complete text in the second?
... that the Royal Navy cutter HMS Surly carried almost £96,000 in coin between Dublin and London in 1825?
... that Pawnee professional roller skater Bright Star was called "the fastest man on wheels"?

21 November 2020

00:00, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Tibetans with yak and sheep with salt bag, 1898

... that sheep were traditionally used to carry salt from Tibet to Nepal (traders pictured)?
... that Fulper Pottery produced a precursor to the modern water cooler named the Germ-Proof Filter?
... that the Polish public-television film Invasion "depicted LGBT rights activists as a foreign-backed threat to Polish children, religion, values, and the very biological continuation of the nation"?
... that before Carole Dawn Reinhart was appointed professor of trumpet at the Vienna Music Academy, she performed in several of Al Hirt's Fanfare shows in 1965?
... that the Gozo Phoenician shipwreck excavation is the first maritime archaeological survey to explore sunken vessels beyond a depth of 100 metres (330 ft)?
... that Edgar Claxton helped set up electrification of the UK mainline railway in the 1960s, and was awarded an MBE?
... that the character of Swiss-type cheeses comes from originally being made on high alpage pastures, as part of the historic culture of Alpine transhumance?
... that German children's author Kirsten Boie has published more than 100 books?

20 November 2020

00:00, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Six-fingered glove and prop sword from The Princess Bride

... that when Mandy Patinkin played Inigo Montoya in a 2020 virtual live dramatic reading of the Princess Bride script, he used the six-fingered sword (pictured) from the 1987 film?
... that bishop Hermann of Schleswig was never actually bishop of Schleswig?
... that Cleveland Indigenous activist Sundance successfully petitioned Oberlin High School in Ohio to change its school mascot from the Indians to the Phoenix in 2007?
... that a Carthaginian army trapped 40,000 rebels and starved them into cannibalism before attacking and killing every man at the Battle of the Saw?
... that Moneyball depicted Grady Fuson being fired by the Oakland Athletics, though in reality he left voluntarily?
... that the Japanese rock band Real spells its name with the Cyrillic letter Я to indicate a desire to show the band's "real inside and outside"?
... that Daisy Yen Wu helped establish the new field of nutrition research at Peking Union Medical College?
... that the world's first fusion reactor was called the Diffusion Inhibitor so managers at NACA would not know what it was?

19 November 2020

00:00, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

William "Fatty" Foulke

... that after awarding a controversial goal in the 1902 FA Cup Final, referee Tom Kirkham took refuge in a broom cupboard to evade angry goalkeeper William "Fatty" Foulke (pictured)?
... that the Moriguchi Route in Osaka has a mini rest area on one of its entrance ramps?
... that American fashion designer Michelle Smith created the dress chosen for Michelle Obama’s official portrait?
... that the Marri rose in rebellion in Balochistan in 1918 because they heard rumours of British defeats in the First World War?
... that Jean Ritchie formed her own record label "out of self-defense" following distribution problems with None but One?
... that Anna Hájková says her research into LGBT people and the Holocaust "shows a more complex, more human, and more real society beyond monsters and saints"?
... that the parasitic wasp Diadegma semiclausum can help to control the diamondback moth, a pest that has become resistant to many insecticides?
... that John R. Casani used to carry the Pioneer 3 and Pioneer 4 spacecraft in a suitcase?

18 November 2020

00:00, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Tourist taking a picture at the Berlin Holocaust memorial

... that Rhian Sugden, Priyanka Chopra, and Pete Buttigieg have all been the subject of controversy due to social-media photographs taken at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (pictured)?
... that a rare microscope designed by Joseph Zentmayer is on display at the Delaware County Institute of Science?
... that the unusual given name of Chilean travel writer Maipina de la Barra commemorates the Battle of Maipú, in which her father fought?
... that one of the inhabited initials of the 12th-century Necrologium Lundense illuminated manuscript shows influences from Viking art?
... that former NCAA president Judith Sweet chose to pursue a career in physical education following a blind date?
... that the 1906–1907 weekly Der nayer veg (The New Path) contained some of the earliest critical scholarly writings on Yiddish language and literature?
... that First World War flying ace Max Näther was appointed as commander of his squadron at age 18?
... that the theme tune to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is actually an Eagles song?

17 November 2020

00:00, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Casaba-type warhead

... that an effort to build a nuclear shaped charge was called the Casaba Howitzer (warhead type illustrated) because General Atomics was "on a melon kick that year"?
... that Faustas Latėnas, vice-minister of Lithuania's Ministry of Culture, composed incidental music, film scores, and a string quartet subtitled "In loving memory"?
... that though it received mixed reviews at its release in 1987, Floodland by the Sisters of Mercy is now considered an essential gothic rock album?
... that despite the biggest missing-person investigation in the history of the Toronto Police Service, no physical evidence regarding the 1985 disappearance of Nicole Morin was ever found?
... that the ballet Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is performed in sneakers?
... that medieval Russians sometimes built churches in one day to ward off epidemics?
... that serial entrepreneur John Teeling broke the monopoly in Irish whiskey held by Irish Distillers by launching Cooley Distillery?
... that a newly discovered species of green pit viper, Trimeresurus salazar, was named after Salazar Slytherin from the Harry Potter series?

16 November 2020

00:00, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Sam Quek

... that Sam Quek (pictured) played in all of England's games at the 2014 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy despite breaking two ribs in their opening match?
... that the Chapel at the United Nations is a popular site for interfaith marriage ceremonies?
... that the Polish Kresy myth has been compared to the American myth of the Wild West and the German nostalgia for East Prussia?
... that Newton Collins was enslaved, manumitted, re-enslaved, and emancipated before becoming a successful businessman and landowner?
... that although the bronze-leaved clerodendrum is an ornamental garden shrub, it sometimes becomes naturalised and may become an invasive species?
... that "Levels" samples the intro from the Etta James song "Something's Got a Hold on Me"?
... that Busiri Suryowinoto was the first governor to propose splitting the province of Papua?
... that the early French science-fiction novel Memoirs of the Year 2500 was one of the most popular titles of the 18th century, despite being banned by the Holy See and the Inquisition?

15 November 2020

00:00, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

A dog bedecked with flower garlands

... that on the second day of Tihar each year, Nepali people worship dogs (example pictured) to please Yama?
... that as part of a famous priority dispute, E. T. Whittaker's 1953 book claimed that Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz developed the theory of special relativity before Albert Einstein?
... that journalist Robert Sam Anson, assigned to cover boxer Joe Frazier, instead got into the ring with him and suffered a broken leg or dislocated shoulder as a result?
... that a fatberg heavier than an African elephant was removed from a sewer beneath Cadogan Place?
... that author and book reviewer Janice Harayda started an all-woman church service in New York City in 1974?
... that the video game I Hate Running Backwards was named after a quote from the Serious Sam series?
... that Dámasa Cabezón was contracted by the Bolivian government to establish a school for girls in La Paz after having done so in Santiago de Chile?
... that Georgies is known as "the gay Cheers"?

14 November 2020

00:00, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Andrew J. Stofan studying slosh dynamics

... that Andrew J. Stofan (pictured) was an expert on sloshing?
... that at the Siege of Tunis, a Carthaginian general was crucified on the same cross to which he had previously nailed a rebel leader?
... that William E. Miller was awarded the Medal of Honor after disobeying orders during the Battle of Gettysburg?
... that Kylie Minogue was credited as co-writer for the first time on her third studio album Rhythm of Love?
... that knowing only a surname and a continent, author Hanoch Teller tracked down a boy photographed at the liberation of Auschwitz 70 years earlier for the award-winning cover of Heroic Children?
... that Arkansas poet laureate Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni had her poems published in more than 900 U.S. and international publications?
... that the Hawaiian happy-face spider can change color based on its diet?
... that in a 2009 case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a group of school officials violated the U.S. Constitution when they strip-searched a 13-year-old middle-school student?

13 November 2020

00:00, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

2b2t's destroyed spawn-in area

... that 2b2t, a no-rules Minecraft multiplayer server running since 2010, has seen more than 580,000 distinct Minecraft players join and explore its nine-terabyte map (pictured)?
... that the scholarship of Nyasha Junior on the life of Moses has been described as a starting point for how he can be viewed as a subject of feminist inquiry?
... that when iceberg A-38 calved from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in 1998, it carried a German research station with it?
... that Marion Hartog founded the first Jewish women's periodical in 1855?
... that the city flag of Columbus, Ohio, is undergoing a redesign process due to its heavy use of Christopher Columbus imagery?
... that a fire destroyed 70,000 Jōmon period artifacts found at the Ōfune Site?
... that after qualifying on the pole at a late-model stock car race, Ty Majeski chose to start at the rear for a chance to win more money—and won the race?
... that in The Cellist, a ballet about cellist Jacqueline du Pré, the cello is personified by a male dancer?

12 November 2020

00:00, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Kanutus Johannis's ex libris

... that Kanutus Johannis's ex libris (pictured) is one of the oldest marks of book ownership from Sweden?
... that Joyryde finished three songs for his album Brave while recovering from lower back surgery?
... that Joseph Paduano, the minority floor leader in the Philippine congress, began his political career in the military wing of the Revolutionary Workers' Party under a nom de guerre?
... that shortly after the Improved United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment radar network was ready for action "a mere six years" late, the Ministry of Defence had already started looking to replace it?
... that the case of Adelia Silva, an Afro-Uruguayan teacher who was removed from three different schools due to her race, generated national attention and disciplinary action against one of the principals?
... that Jon Pardi had each song on California Sunrise recorded with a full band to create the feel of a live recording and carry the "traditional country soul"?
... that clinical trials in India must have government-regulated ethics committees oversee their research?
... that "as Pembroke a horseman by most is accounted, 'tis not strange that his Lordship a Hunter has mounted"?

11 November 2020

12:00, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Larvae, pupae, and adult cactus lady beetles

... that the adults and larvae of the cactus lady beetle (pictured) prey on the West Indian red scale, the date palm scale, the white peach scale, the sugarcane scale, and the minute cypress scale?
... that a Jewish girl from Jerusalem became an acclaimed performer of Indian, Javanese, Balinese, and other ethnic dance forms in the United States?
... that 100 war elephants led the Carthaginian assault on a rebel camp at the Battle of Utica?
... that four days after participating in a 12-hour-long legislative session, Joel Molina Ramírez became the first Mexican senator to die of COVID-19?
... that when it changed hands in 2019, a "mega condo" in 220 Central Park South became the most expensive residence ever sold in the United States?
... that Yemeni poet Fatima al-Suqutriyya saved the island of Socotra by writing a qasida to Imam al-Ṣalt ibn Mа̄lik requesting military help?
... that claims that Super Mario Bros. 35 was a stolen concept from fan game Super Mario Royale were denied by the developer?

00:00, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

A fictional vision from 1922 of a floating city in 10,000 years

... that works of fiction can describe both the near and far future (example pictured)?
... that Mustafa Akıncı, the incumbent President of Northern Cyprus, claimed he was threatened by Turkish authorities in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election?
... that epidemiologist J. Michael Lane, who played a leading role in the global eradication of smallpox, trekked across the United States from Atlanta to Seattle at the age of 79?
... that the melody of the children's song "Kommt ein Vogel geflogen" ("Comes a Bird Flown") was used by Siegfried Ochs for variations in the styles of different classical composers?
... that the Swedish archaeologist Birger Nerman excavated a Scandinavian settlement at Grobiņa, Latvia, which predates the Viking Age?
... that the ballet The Runaway is partly inspired by hip-hop dance but performed in pointe shoes?
... that Harold Jarman scored in the first match ever played in the Football League Cup?
... that in 2017, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History discovered that its 19th-century diorama Lion Attacking a Dromedary contained a human skull?

10 November 2020

12:00, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

"Modern Strategy" (Moltke), 1884

... that a book on Vanity Fair says of Goedecker's "Modern Strategy", a caricature of Moltke (pictured): "... in a glance the viewer can comprehend the essence of the individual, yet recognize the man"?
... that the establishment of KVZK-TV led to the electrification of many villages in American Samoa?
... that four-term Uruguayan senator Alba Roballo was also an award-winning poet with a rebellious spirit?
... that the Khalili Collection of Enamels of the World includes a throne table made for the 18th-century Qianlong Emperor?
... that Laurence Olivier won an Emmy for his role as a London stockbroker, Parisian artist, and Tahitian leper in The Moon and Sixpence?
... that some of the students of yeshivas in World War II were exiled to the remote Komi Republic to do forced labor?
... that Vijayalakshmi Ramanan, the first woman officer of the Indian Air Force, custom-tailored her uniform as there were no specific uniforms for women when she joined the force?
... that in the early use of intravenous therapy, attempts were made to inject milk, sugar, honey, and egg yolk into a person's veins?

00:00, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

"We have only one goal ... Victory at all costs!" (29 April 1942)

... that Parole der Woche (Slogan of the Week; example pictured) has been described as "the most ubiquitous and intrusive aspect of Nazism’s visual offensive"?
... that Marla Berkowitz considers herself a sumain, meaning someone who communicates using their hands?
... that a playlist of budots music features excerpts from speeches of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte?
... that a 14-foot (4.3 m) steel cutout of Donald Trump stands outside the Trump House in Latrobe, Pennsylvania?
... that Gudrun Schröfel, the longtime choral conductor of the Mädchenchor Hannover and a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover, received the Lower Saxony State Prize in 2015?
... that Blue and Red are proposed to meet at Boston's Charles/MGH station?
... that John Djopari's book about the Free Papua Movement was banned by the Indonesian government, even though the book incorporates material from the Indonesian Army?
... that a 2010 study found 1,000 people living in Al-Ghuraba cemetery in Tripoli, Lebanon?

9 November 2020

12:00, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Mural in the apse of Vä Church

... that Vä Church is decorated with some of the oldest church murals in Sweden (example pictured)?
... that Christian Flor, described in a 1740 encyclopedia as a famous organist from Lüneburg, composed settings of Bible verses for collections, and one of the earliest Passion oratorios?
... that Ingrid Bergman won Emmy and Sylvania Awards for her world television debut in John Frankenheimer's horror movie The Turn of the Screw?
... that the mayors of Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Budapest signed the Pact of Free Cities in December 2019?
... that John F. McCarthy Jr. headed a group that suggested modifications to the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy that tripled the structural life of the aircraft?
... that Dua Lipa and The Blessed Madonna's remix album Club Future Nostalgia was crafted in two months during lockdown protocols associated with the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that state representative Patricia Haynes Smith worked with a gay rights group to decriminalize sodomy in Louisiana?
... that it is impossible to draw water from Robin Hood's Well?

00:00, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Alma John

... that after working to desegregate nursing in the US, Alma John (pictured) produced the 1970s television show Black Pride, interviewing prominent figures like Rosa Parks and Ella Fitzgerald?
... that Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! is the first boys' love series published in English by Square Enix?
... that Saadet İkesus Altan studied music in Berlin, performed as a mezzo-soprano in Germany, and became the first female vocal coach and opera director in Turkey after her return home in 1941?
... that in a speech after the 1901 FA Cup Final, General Sir Redvers Buller compared football to the Army by saying that the winning side is usually the one best practised at shooting?
... that the World Health Organization's Weekly Epidemiological Record reports on neglected tropical diseases?
... that linguistics professor and environmentalist Winfred P. Lehmann donated 160 acres (65 ha) of land in Travis County, Texas, to The Nature Conservancy?
... that two of the British Type 42 destroyers from the 1982 Exercise Spring Train would be sunk later that year in the Falklands War?
... that the company responsible for the Miss Spider children's series also produced Sex by Madonna?

8 November 2020

12:00, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

St Mark's Campanile

... that St Mark's Campanile (pictured) in Venice was initially built as a watchtower to sight approaching ships, and its spire, once gilded, became a "welcoming star" for navigators?
... that Edgar C. Polomé established Africa's most advanced phonetics laboratory at the University of Lubumbashi?
... that the Gulmarg Golf Club in Kashmir, situated at an altitude of 2,650 metres (8,690 ft) above sea level, is the highest green golf course in the world?
... that an HPV prevention group focuses on preventing cervical cancer by promoting the sharing of information on cervical screening and HPV vaccination?
... that Dieter Ruehle, stadium organist for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Kings, has played for three championship teams in three different sports?
... that the potential of a large landslide and resulting tsunami at Cumbre Vieja volcano attracted considerable attention?
... that the ballet Corybantic Games marked the first time Erdem Moralıoğlu had designed costumes for men?
... that World War II veteran Millie Bailey went skydiving to celebrate her 102nd birthday?

00:00, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Marian Anderson

... that African-American contralto Marian Anderson (pictured) was denied permission by the Daughters of the American Revolution to sing at Constitution Hall in 1939, prompting thousands of its members to resign?
... that the extinct wheel-tree leaf species T. postnastae and fruit species T. rosayi are possibly from the same plant?
... that Ukrainian-born Stefania Berlinerblau was one of the first Jewish women to practice surgery in the United States?
... that a 2019 book argues that the Armenian Genocide was part of a larger genocide which targeted all of the Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire?
... that the State-of-the-Art Car was designed to run on portions of five different subway systems?
... that the film roles of Nepali actor Dayahang Rai include a crime boss, a Maoist, the suspected killer of a popular communist leader, a police officer, and a bank robber?
... that the Carpentras Stele, the first ancient Semitic inscription ever published, was originally thought to be Phoenician but is actually ancient Aramaic?
... that Yardley's Law states that "Pretty is what works"?

7 November 2020

12:00, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Election apportionment diagram in the layout of the Bundestag

... that an election apportionment diagram (example pictured) is used to explain data in easy-to-understand terms?
... that Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri challenged the Lost Cause myth that Confederate soldiers did not engage in total war during Price's Raid?
... that Malcolm Todd uncovered a previously unrecognised Roman occupation at the Iron Age hillfort in Hembury?
... that the world's first simultaneous heart-and-liver organ transplant was performed in 1984 at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh?
... that hundreds of academics signed a letter opposing the "coordinated harassment campaign by the Polish ruling party" against law professor Wojciech Sadurski?
... that Variations for Cello Solo, premiered by the composer Graham Waterhouse in Vienna in 2020, depicts characteristics of the members of his family?
... that James Biggart's election to the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago was viewed by Tobagonian planters as lowering their social standing, because it meant that they were represented by a person of African descent?
... that Ted Heath stated "rejoice, rejoice" at the 1990 resignation of Margaret Thatcher, echoing words she had used after the 1982 recapture of South Georgia?

00:00, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Neelofa and Nabil on MeleTOP

... that when Neelofa announced live on air that she was leaving talk show MeleTOP, it was a surprise to her co-host of eight years (both pictured)?
... that the tiny parasitic wasp Metaphycus helvolus has helped control a major pest of citrus, Mediterranean black scale, in California and Australia?
... that several Collegiate Gothic buildings were constructed during W. Coleman Nevils's presidency of Georgetown University as part of his revival of the "Greater Georgetown" plan?
... that despite its name, the 11th-century Emperor's Bible is not a Bible?
... that musician Sufjan Stevens, who initially disliked ballet, allowed his music to be used in Year of the Rabbit after choreographer Justin Peck invited him to various performances?
... that Turkish voice actress Adalet Cimcoz opened and curated her country's first and only woman-owned private art gallery?
... that the minbar of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron was originally made for a Fatimid shrine in Ashkelon?
... that Edward G. Faile raised prize-winning cattle in what is now The Bronx?

6 November 2020

12:00, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Cem river in Kelmend, Albania

... that the Cem river basin (pictured) in the borderlands of Albania and Montenegro is home to more than a quarter of the total plant species identified in each country?
... that James Nathan Calloway, born in slavery in Tennessee, established an experimental cotton-growing farm in Togo?
... that Dua Lipa created the music video for her 2020 song "Hallucinate" with teams working in London, Paris, and Los Angeles?
... that Ibaqa Beki was briefly married to Genghis Khan, who abruptly gave her to one of his generals, possibly as a reward to that general for killing her father?
... that the date of Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination – September 26, 2020 – was the nearest to a presidential election in U.S. history?
... that the Battle of Roan's Tan Yard ended Missouri State Guard recruiting activities in Randolph County?
... that "All Praise and Glad Thanksgiving" is sung to the hymn tune of "Gott Vater, sei gepriesen"?
... that a radio interview with Swedish police chief Mats Löfving was described as "a bombshell"?

00:00, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Shah Jalal's open-roofed grave

... that according to local legend, the catfish that inhabit the reservoir at the Shah Jalal Dargah (grave pictured) are the cursed and reincarnated soldiers of Gour Govinda?
... that as a lobbyist for Bacardi, Otto Reich, a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, played a role in passing legislation that stripped trademark protection from Havana Club rum?
... that the 2013 Nepali historical drama Badhshala was briefly banned by the Nepali Army because the actors wore military uniforms without permission?
... that with the designation of County Highway A-2 in 1970, Mrs. Howard "Gene" Temple became the first Michigan woman to acquire a highway designation from the State Highway Commission?
... that the opera Die Prinzessin Girnara, by composer Wellesz and librettist Wassermann, and based on a legend from India, premiered simultaneously at two opera houses in 1921?
... that Estonian linguist Jaan Puhvel has worked for more than half a century on his multi-volume Hittite Etymological Dictionary?
... that in Public Access Opinion 16-006, the Illinois Attorney General ordered Chicago police officers to release their private emails about the police-involved murder of Laquan McDonald?
... that at age 102, Beatrice Lumpkin, a union organizer and lifelong member of the Communist Party, donned hazmat suit–style gear to drop off her vote-by-mail ballot for the US elections?

5 November 2020

12:00, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Charlton Heston in Forbidden Area

... that Rod Serling's Forbidden Area (actor pictured), a nuclear-war thriller, launched the four-year run of a series voted in 1970 as "the greatest television series of all time"?
... that a male spider of the species Zygiella x-notata uses vibrational courtship signals when entering a female's web to alert her of his presence as a potential mate, rather than potential prey?
... that Agnes Stavenhagen was the soprano soloist in the first performance of Mahler's Second Symphony in Munich, conducted by the composer?
... that balconies at 240 Central Park South were designed to give residents a view above Central Park's tree line?
... that Michael Jackson's manager expected him to return from an injury and perform in the 2001 Football League First Division play-off Final?
... that Leo Petrović, a historian and head of the Herzegovinian Franciscans, was murdered by the Yugoslav Partisans as part of their campaign against the Franciscans?
... that the Odyssey has been used as a school text since antiquity?
... that Ann Bedsole, the first woman to be elected to the Alabama Senate, printed a timetable for the state's hunting season on the back of her re-election campaign flyers?

00:00, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Indian stamp honouring Sachin Tendulkar

... that cricketer Sachin Tendulkar (depicted) was recognised by his native India with both a top sporting honour and its highest civilian honour?
... that Nicholas Wilder said that being diagnosed with AIDS was just another "adventure"?
... that both the adults and the alligator-like larvae of the twice-stabbed lady beetle prey on the walnut scale?
... that Walt Whitman's poem "This Dust Was Once the Man", an elegy for President Abraham Lincoln, is just four lines long?
... that San Baw, chief orthopaedic surgeon of Mandalay General Hospital, pioneered the use of ivory prostheses to replace ununited fractures of the femoral neck?
... that the 1846 death of Frederick John White after a flogging led the Duke of Wellington to order that sentences not exceed 50 lashes?
... that actress and dancer Raissa Gourevitch performed in surrealist plays before becoming an archaeological authority on Roman statuary?
... that in his hurry to get to a fire in Fort Saskatchewan, the town's fire chief was pulled over for speeding and nearly hitting a police officer in Edmonton?

4 November 2020

12:00, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

City Investing Building

... that the City Investing Building (pictured) was regarded as a "monument to greed" due to its sheer size?
... that Paula Bataona Renyaan was the first woman to become a vice governor and the third woman to become a police general in Indonesia?
... that the USA team at the 2007 World Cup of Pool wore orange shirts after both home-nation Dutch teams had been eliminated?
... that four justices dissented in the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights case concerning the Katyn massacre, calling it a denial of justice and a failure of conscience?
... that Folker Bohnet, who acted in Bernhard Wicki's 1959 film Die Brücke while still studying, toured for 13 years with a comedy play that he co-authored?

... that the entrance to Bowdoin station was designed by Josep Lluís Sert as part of a project for a never-built chapel?
... that the expulsion of Greeks from Istanbul in 1964–1965 was part of the final phase of state measures aimed at the Turkification of the local economic, social, and cultural life?
... that the French painter Genskof is a pioneer in laser eye surgery?

00:00, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Mary Dee

... that Mary Dee (pictured), a popular radio personality in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, is widely regarded as the first African-American woman disc jockey in the United States?
... that same-surname marriage was prohibited for periods in ancient China?
... that voter turnout increased by 32 percentage points following the passage of Herbert Payne's bill to introduce compulsory voting in Australian federal elections?
... that unlike neighboring tribes, the Pastia people of south Texas escaped detection by Spanish explorers until the early 18th century?
... that the 2020 film A Life on Our Planet is David Attenborough's self-described "witness statement" on how human activity has affected the environment?
... that Augustine's views of Christian theology were developed in opposition to Pelagianism, which he declared a heresy?
... that Ita Maximowna, who trained as a painter in Paris and Berlin in the 1920s, began working in scenic and costume design after World War II and went on to work internationally?
... that Steve McQueen and William Shatner starred in The Defender, the first live television drama in the US divided for broadcast on separate nights, "leaving audiences dangling on the cliff"?

3 November 2020

12:00, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Macrolepiota albuminosa

... that the fungus Macrolepiota albuminosa (example pictured) is always associated with the nests of termites such as Odontotermes obesus?
... that Don Johnson used "personality and polish" to make friends?
... that the Federal Radio Commission revoked the license of Chicago radio station WCHI in 1931 for attacking medical procedures such as surgical operations and vaccinations?
... that gravediggers discovered the Hexham Hoard of eight thousand stycas in a bronze bucket in 1832?
... that Ethel Maynard was the first black woman elected to the Arizona State Legislature?
... that Bury F.C. converted its debts of £1,230 into a credit balance of £1,329 by winning the 1900 FA Cup Final?
... that Indonesian Navy officer Louise Elisabeth Coldenhoff described her tenure as head of the personnel section as "living between angels and devils"?
... that writer and socialite Cat Marnell once described New York City nightclub Lit Lounge as "like Cheers ... but with PCP and vodka"?

00:00, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern (1857)

... that Isambard Kingdom Brunel had muddy boots and trousers when posing for what was called "one of the most famous photographs of the nineteenth century and, possibly, of all time" (pictured)?
... that The Legend of Dragoon uses four CDs, the maximum allowed in a PlayStation case?
... that Dilys Price, the world's oldest female solo parachute jumper, made more than 1,130 solo jumps before selling her parachute at age 86?
... that Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru launched Shankar's Weekly, even though its founder described the magazine as "fundamentally anti-establishment"?
... that American actress Masey McLain's feature film debut in I'm Not Ashamed was praised by critic Jordan Hoffman, who said of her acting future, "the sky is the limit"?
... that the 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état overthrew President Carlos Humberto Romero?
... that the French philologist Georges Dumézil is credited with saving the Ubykh language from extinction?
... that the shepherd's flock felt that it had been fleeced at Innsbruck?

2 November 2020

12:00, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Tom Pope playing for Port Vale

... that Tom Pope (pictured) became the second-highest goalscorer in Port Vale's history after twice being rejected by the club as a teenager?
... that the recording of "Waiting for a Train" introduced Jimmie Rodgers's trademark train whistle?
... that K. W. Gransden, despite publishing only two poetry collections, was included by Philip Larkin in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse?
... that for her sound-film debut in 1931, silent-screen star Mae Marsh begged the director to tell her what to say before each scene?
... that the synthetic compound carbonaceous sulfur hydride is the world's first room-temperature superconductor?
... that "So nimm denn meine Hände" by Julie Hausmann, first printed in 1862, placed seventh in a 2019 survey of favourite funeral music in Germany, immediately behind "My Way"?
... that Manoj Kumar and Raj Kumar had to win cases at the Delhi High Court to be awarded the Arjuna Award sporting honour in the 2010s?
... that Filipina soldier and spy Josefina Guerrero, diagnosed with leprosy, created intelligence reports that helped the Americans defeat the Japanese at Manila Harbor?

00:00, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Scorpion roller coaster

... that a lawsuit filed against Busch Gardens Tampa Bay alleged that a model was falsely imprisoned after not being allowed to get off the Scorpion roller coaster (pictured)?
... that Bups Saggu learned to play the tabla at the local gurdwara in Wolverhampton, but later moved on to playing the dhol because he "took a liking to the larger and louder sound"?
... that in 1902, the Brooklyn marine engine manufacturers Riley & Cowley built a steam car?
... that a global advisory committee has been monitoring rapidly developing COVID-19 vaccines against a background of growing misinformation and vaccine hesitancy?
... that cricketer Charlotte Taylor was the top wicket-taker in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, despite not being initially picked in the squads for the tournament?
... that Exeter Cathedral School has been educating choristers since the year 1179?
... that a group of prisoners building the Honolulu Courthouse overpowered their guards, took possession of gun batteries overlooking Honolulu, and attempted to open fire on nearby buildings?
... that The Times said that Sheila Atim "sings Dylan better than Bob"?

1 November 2020

12:00, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

First Phoenician inscription found in Phoenicia

... that almost half the known words in Phoenician inscriptions (example pictured) have never been found again?
... that Canadian professor Bob Hindmarch donated his own money to feed starving student athletes on the Canada men's national ice hockey team?
... that American artist Stuart Davis spent six years working on his jazz-inspired painting The Mellow Pad?
... that the Pilcher Monument was erected partly to warn people of the dangers of the Sark coast?
... that Martin Egel appeared at the Bayreuth Festival from 1975 to 1986, including a three-year run as Donner in the Jahrhundertring?
... that the giant pinkray limpet maintains a patch of the encrusting red alga Hildenbrandia rubra on which it feeds, driving off competitors?
... that the second birth in a Mexico City Metro station in 2020 occurred at Tláhuac?
... that Lillian Brown, makeup artist to nine U.S. presidents, stopped Richard Nixon's sobbing before he went on television to resign the presidency?

00:00, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Krishna Lal Adhikari in prison

... that Nepali author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn?
... that ChilledCow has one of the longest videos on YouTube, totaling over 13,000 hours?
... that despite being excluded from the standard edition of 1989, "New Romantics" by Taylor Swift was named one of the best songs of the 2010s decade by Rolling Stone?
... that in Poland, hanging a rainbow flag on a statue may be a crime?
... that in Bettina, the chamber opera's only solo singer portrays both Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Günderrode, reflecting their friendship and Günderrode's suicide?
... that Coronet magazine was deluged with letters and phone calls when Margueritte Harmon Bro wrote about the "Miracle Man of Virginia Beach"?
... that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fielded more than a hundred tanks in Syria and Iraq?
... that footage from the 1995 documentary film BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism was played for a U.S. congressional committee during its hearings on the National Endowment for the Arts?