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31 May 2008

19:03, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

... that dried teasel pods (pictured) were used to raise the nap on woolen fabrics?
... that the Gazette Building in Little Rock, Arkansas served as headquarters for the 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign?
... that Weeb Ewbank coached the most games in New York Jets franchise history?
... that the Norwegian lake Lutvann leaked 1,000 liters of water per minute into the railway tunnel Romeriksporten during its construction in 1997?
... that Isfield railway station, now the terminus of a preserved railway line, was used during the First World War to take German prisoners of war to work in nearby woodland?
... that the Martinican Communist Party became the largest political party in the French département d'outre-mer of Martinique in the 1960s?
... that the emotional, agitated figures depicted in the 9th-century Ebbo Gospels bear a striking resemblance to illustrations in the Utrecht Psalter?
... that Poole Stadium, a former football ground now used for greyhound racing and speedway, was the venue for the 2004 Speedway World Cup final?

13:01, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Aythorpe Roding Windmill (pictured) is the largest surviving post mill in Essex, England?
... that, although projects for restoration of the Everglades are the most comprehensive attempts at environmental repair in history, they are in danger of being eliminated?
... that Carlos Minc, the current Brazilian Minister of Environment, was one of the founding members of the Green Party?
... that Maryland's Frederick High School can trace its roots back more than a century, and has won over 35 state championships in various sports since the late 1950s?
... that in 1880 the United States Congress adjourned so members could watch the single scull race on the Potomac River between Charles E. Courtney and Ned Hanlan?
... that the 1881 children's novel Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis was made into a 1960 Disney film?
... that Georgian footballer Georgi Kiknadze won five consecutive league championships with Dinamo Tbilisi?
... that the Seaboard Air Line Railroad was the first to provide streamlined passenger trains from New York to Florida, beginning with the Silver Meteor in 1939?

06:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Flammulated Flycatcher

... that the Flammulated Flycatcher (pictured), a tyrant flycatcher endemic to Mexico, was eventually placed in the monotypic genus Deltarhynchus because of its broad bill?
... that by the time Fort Scott was completed, it was already obsolete?
... that General Ziauddin Butt, former head of the Pakistani intelligence agency, was nominated to head the army in 1999?
... that during the War of 1812, Laura Secord went to DeCou House to warn James FitzGibbon and his British troops about the surprise American attack now known as the Battle of Beaver Dams?
... that in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, Cosette's wedding gown was made of Binche lace because Hugo remembered it from his youth as being a lace of beauty?
... that land agent Timothy Dwight Hobart from 1886 to 1924 supervised the stringing of hundreds of miles of barbed wire and the digging of hundreds of wells topped by windmills to settle the Texas Panhandle?
... that Islam: The Straight Path by John L. Esposito is an introductory text on Islam that devotes half its content to the development of Islam in modern and reformist times?

00:25, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

... that inflatable and wooden dummy tanks (pictured) were used in Operation Fortitude to confuse German intelligence?
... that in 1866, French chessplayer Napoleon Marache published one of the first chess books in the United States, which also discussed strategy for backgammon and dominoes?
... that Fountains Fell, a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England, is named after Fountains Abbey whose monks grazed sheep there in the 13th century?
... that Mark Goffeney, nicknamed "Big Toe", is a professional guitarist who plays with his feet because he was born without hands?
... that the Gibraltar Football Association had their UEFA membership application blocked by Spain due to their claim on the territory?
... that North 24th Street in Omaha, Nebraska, considered the heart of the city's African American community, has not fully recovered since several riots destroyed businesses along the strip in the 1960s?
... that 1999 book Gone with the Wind in the Vatican narrated alleged scandals in Vatican City using pseudonyms from Gone with the Wind?
... that Mary Augusta Dickerson found it inspirational to write her children's books inside a Pickle Barrel House?

30 May 2008

18:23, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the stationmaster of the Kinokawa train station in Kinokawa, Japan is a cat named Tama (pictured)?
... that neurologist Derek Denny-Brown introduced British anti-Lewisite as a treatment for the copper overload disorder Wilson's disease?
... that the oldest firehouse still standing in Louisville, Kentucky was once a church?
... that a free trade agreement made effective in 2000 strengthened Indo-Sri Lankan relations and quadrupled bilateral trade, which grew to US$2.6 billion by 2006?
... that 17th-century French buccaneer Montbars the Exterminator attacked Spanish settlements in the New World, after reading about conquistador atrocities?
... that despite being considered "much too far away" to affect weather in California, Hurricane Liza of 1968 caused US$5,000 in damage and the closure of a portion of Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach?
... that some pulvinones have shown anticoagulant activity in rats, whilst other pulvinone derivatives are patented antibiotics for use in animals?
... that the Golden Age Passport has been replaced by the "Senior Pass" of the new pass series now called "America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass"?

12:22, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the Forest Kingfisher (pictured) of Australian forest and Melaleuca swampland, burrows its nest in termite mounds in trees up to 12 metres (39 ft) above the ground?
... that the presidential campaign of Bob Barr began following a successful draft effort on Facebook?
... that in a major improvement in bilateral ties since it blocked Bangladesh's entry in the U.N. in 1972, China offered to help Bangladesh construct its first nuclear plant?
... that Native American actor and director James Young Deer and his wife were an "influential force" in the production of one-reel Westerns during the early silent film era?
... that torchon lace is one of the oldest bobbin laces and has strictly geometric patterns?
... that Philippine National Artist Amado V. Hernandez wrote his masterpieces while being imprisoned in the New Bilibid Prison?
... that the Rio Napo Screech-Owl is part of a group of owls that have been reclassified three times since 1850?
... that A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize in history?

06:21, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

... that U.S. Route 127 in Michigan (pictured) was tripled in length by extending the highway to replace its parent route, U.S. Route 27 in 2002?
... that the Young Religious Unitarian Universalists protested against Victoria's Secret for allegedly printing their catalogues with paper sourced from endangered forests?
... that the yuja hwachae, Korean traditional fruit punch made with Korean pear and yuja, is often served with flower pancakes made of chrysanthemum?
... that mathematician Nathan Mendelsohn was on the first Putnam Competition-winning team in 1938, but also won second prize in an International Brotherhood of Magicians contest?
... that the Webster ruling is a legal precedent clarified by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2008, which extends to professional footballers in Europe the same contractual freedom of movement as workers in other industries?
... that Zaha Hadid's architectural design won an international competition for the upcoming Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum?
... that father and son James E. Bolin and Bruce M. Bolin both served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and as a state district court judge – thirty-eight years apart in each case?
... that after serving three terms in the Norwegian Parliament for the Conservative Party, Georg Apenes took over as director of the Norwegian Data Inspectorate?

00:06, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

... that although the Ishvara temple (pictured) in Karnataka, India, seems modest in construction, it is in fact the most complicated Hoysala monument?
... that John Kempthorne defeated an attack by seven Algerine corsairs on his single ship, HMS Mary Rose?
... that Dwight Eisenhower's home cost more than six times to renovate than it did to purchase, due to union labor and Mamie Eisenhower's whims?
... that German chemist Albert Niemann became the first person to isolate cocaine in 1859?
... that the U.S. suspended the Commercial Import Program to South Vietnam after concluding that President Ngo Dinh Diem was using the funds to repress Buddhists rather than communists?
... that Cornelia Adair, during World War I, invited Belgian refugees to stay at her Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, Ireland?
... that the Museum at Bethel Woods is devoted mostly to the Woodstock Festival, and located on its site?
... that the remnants of defensive walls and stone shelters built by shipwreck survivor Wiebbe Hayes and his men on West Wallabi Island in 1629, are Australia's oldest known European structures?

29 May 2008

17:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the Neoclassical Hollywood Masonic Temple (pictured) has been used as a Masonic Lodge, opera house, and nightclub, and is now the home of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! television show?
... that Gerobatrachus is considered to be a missing link that supports the hypothesis offered by cladistics, that frogs and salamanders had a common ancestor?
... that Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential visit to Australia saw him receive the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, one of the highest British imperial honours bestowed on a non-British subject?
... that the Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster from 1544 is the earliest German description of the world?
... that soldiers from Fort Benning patrolled the woods around the Little White House during World War II?
... that Bishop Hannington Memorial Church in Hove, England, is dedicated to a missionary killed in Uganda on King Mwanga II's orders?
... that in his book A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights, U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. proposed eight constitutional amendments?

11:16, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Robert Parker Parrott's last home, Plumbush (pictured), outside Cold Spring, New York, is now a bed and breakfast?
... that the Sperrgebiet, a diamond mining area closed to the public, makes up 3 percent of Namibia's surface area?
... that the oddly-named Saints' Roost Museum in Clarendon, Texas refers to the town having been a prohibition settlement in the 1880s that cowboys referred to as where the "saints roost"?
... that the Academic Gymnasium Danzig, along with similar schools in Elbląg and Toruń, transformed Royal Prussia into a center of classical studies in the 16th century?
... that Texas rancher Montie Ritchie was the photographer on a British Alpine Club expedition in 1949 to the Baffin Islands in the Canadian Arctic?
... that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is proposing a regional free trade area that would account for almost half of world trade?
... that Jack Christiansen and Bill Walsh are the only San Francisco 49ers head coaches in the Pro Football Hall of Fame?

05:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Hindus often worship Krishna as the small child Bala Krishna (pictured), crawling on his hands and knees with a lump of butter in his hands?
... that boundary surveyor Joseph Smith Harris climbed a ship's mast to direct mortars during the Civil War Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip?
... that Petubastis III led a revolt in Egypt against Persian rule circa 522 BCE?
... that the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is the only women's prison in Oregon?
... that Walter Emden designed London theatres and music halls in the late 19th century, including the Palace Theatre, the Duke of York's, the Garrick and the Royal Court?
... that John Aspinall was the first recipient of the James Watt International Medal?

28 May 2008

23:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the original images of Lord Swaminarayan (pictured) at the Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Karachi, Pakistan were removed and taken to India during the turbulent times of its partition?
... that QUIET, an astronomy experiment due to start observing in 2008 at the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory, Chile, will make measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation?
... that prehistoric people used the same 89 °F (32 °C) warm springs that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use in the 20th century?
... that Kaunas University Hospital, the largest medical institution in Lithuania, was designated a cultural monument in 2008?
... that Nielluccio, Sciacarello and Vermentino are the three leading grape varieties for making Corsica wine?
... that the Web Site Administration Tool simplifies the creation of an authentication and authorization system in an ASP.NET website?
... that in 1968, The Detroit Wheels recorded "Linda Sue Dixon", a thinly-veiled paean to the illicit hallucinogenic drug LSD?
... that the Wawelberg Group was a Polish special-forces unit which began the 1921 Third Silesian Uprising by blowing up seven rail bridges linking Upper Silesia with the rest of Germany?
... that Richard Neutra's Jardinette Apartments building in Hollywood is considered one of the first Modernist buildings in America?

16:38, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

... that samite was a luxurious and heavy silk fabric worn in the Middle Ages, and famously by Tennyson's Lady of the Lake (pictured)?
... that before the release of the Japanese visual novel Sora o Tobu, Mittsu no Hōhō, there was a similarly based manga series by Kensha Shimotsuki?
... that a cat named "Room 8" was the subject of a book, a documentary, a song by Leo Kottke, and obituaries that appeared in papers from the Los Angeles Times to the Hartford Courant?
... that the Red Cross with Imperial Portraits Fabergé egg commemorates the work of women from the House of Romanov for the Red Cross during World War I?
... that American physicist Hugh Bradner developed the first neoprene wetsuit but was unable to patent it?
... that the present Cape Rachado Lighthouse, erected in 1863 in Malacca, Malaysia, includes an additional concrete tower that was completed in 1990 to house a MEASAT radar?
... that Calsoyasuchus valleyceps, an extinct crocodile relative from the Early Jurassic, has a deep groove in its skull from which its species name, "valley head", derives?
... that in 1847 Thomas Huling sold the town of Zavala, Texas for US$1,000 and 5,000 boxes of "Green Mountain Vegitable Ointment"?

10:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the 120-cell 4-dimensional puzzle (pictured) is one of several n-dimensional sequential move puzzles that have been implemented as virtual puzzles but have never been solved?
... that Rachel Wall was the first American-born female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts?
... that in a major improvement in bilateral relations in 2008, Pakistan proposed sharing nuclear technology with Bangladesh?
... that the Captain Andrew Offutt Monument barely mentioning Sherman's March to the Sea makes it only one of two Civil War related monuments in Kentucky to stress strong Union sentiment?
... that Étienne-Théodore Pâquet defeated a man twice his age to become one of the youngest ever members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec?
... that Jeb Bush became the first Republican Governor of Florida to be re-elected to a second term after winning the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election?
... that the Philadelphia Phillies were the last of the original 16 Major League Baseball franchises to win the World Series?
... that aviation historian Randy Acord was awarded the Alaska–Siberian Lend Lease Award for his role in improving Russian–North American relations during World War II?

02:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the suit of armour on the effigy of Sir Ralph Fitzherbert (pictured) has been reproduced as a Second Life avatar?
... that mathematician Paul Erdős called the Hadwiger conjecture, a still-open generalization of the four-color problem, "one of the deepest unsolved problems in graph theory"?
... that the 1975 film Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris starred theater and cabaret stars Elly Stone and Joe Masiell in their only film performances?
... that more than 5 million people died of starvation or disease in the Southern India famine of 1876–78?
... that neo-Nazi politician and member of the Bundestag Fritz Rössler, who resembled Adolf Hitler, had a habit of attending parliament drunk?
... that Muscatatuck State Park was the first Indiana state park to need no additional financial assistance, even though it never charged admission?
... that Paris-based Naye Prese was the sole Yiddish-language communist daily newspaper in Europe during the interbellum period?
... that the Crown Point Light, constructed as a conventional lighthouse, was rebuilt in 1912 as a monument to Samuel de Champlain's explorations?

27 May 2008

19:08, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the 850-foot (260 m) Commerzbank Tower (pictured) is the tallest building in the European Union?
... that the discovery of a celt with Indus script in Tamil Nadu in 2006 was regarded by epigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan as the "greatest archaeological discovery of a century in Tamil Nadu"?
... that Russian right-wing politician Nikolai Markov tried to convince Germany to contribute to a conspiracy to re-instate the House of Romanov after the post-World War I revolutions?
... that the first live television broadcast viewed on a moving train was on October 7, 1948, when passengers on the B&O Railroad's Marylander saw the second game of the 1948 World Series?
... that the 1994 Bolivia earthquake was the largest earthquake ever recorded with a focal depth greater or equal to 300 km (190 mi)?
... that Bucks point lace is a bobbin lace from the East Midlands in England with both floral and geometric designs?
... that paleoecologist Heinz Lowenstam discovered that living organisms can produce magnetite within their bodies?
... that the Omaha Star building housed the DePorres Club after they were asked to leave Creighton University because of their activism in Omaha's civil rights movement?

13:07, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

... that although the Siddhesvara Temple (pictured) in Karnataka, India is currently a temple of Shiva, historians are unsure of its original faith?
... that English musician and poet Robert Wydow is the earliest known recipient of a Bachelor of Music degree from Oxford University?
... that the 2003 earthquake that killed more than 2,200 was the strongest to hit Algeria since 1980?
... that the Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters' main architectural feature is the use of sunscreens on the facade made of their principal product, Plexiglas?
... that Kenyan lawyer Gitobu Imanyara was reported to have died after he was rumored to have been slapped by Kenyan first lady Lucy Kibaki?
... that the cap and sails of Shiremark Mill were blown off in 1886?
... that historian Lon Tinkle demanded that he not be credited as historical advisor of John Wayne's 1960 film The Alamo because he felt the film misrepresented the Battle of the Alamo?
... that Bangladesh declined to renew its 1972 Friendship Treaty with India, criticizing it as unequal and an imposition of excessive Indian influence?
... that when John Stanley recreated one of his covers for Little Lulu for the cover of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide in 2005, both editions sold out within three days?

06:57, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the age of a Green Sea Urchin (pictured) is generally calculable based on its size since it grows 10 mm (0.4 in) every year?
... that during the Battle of Ridgefield in April 1777, Benedict Arnold escaped unharmed after being pinned to the ground when his horse was shot?
... that the city of Nairobi, Kenya, averages about ten vehicle hijackings per day?
... that Joshua Packwood is the first white man to graduate as valedictorian of the all-male HBCU, Morehouse College, an overwhelmingly African American university in Atlanta, Georgia?
... that the Bedouin villagers of al-Sayyid developed their own form of sign language in response to the high rate of deafness amongst their tribe?
... that Stave Puzzles makes a 44-piece jigsaw puzzle named Champ that can be put together 32 different ways but has only one correct solution?
... that in 1898, the Egyptian government appointed Maurice Fitzmaurice as their chief resident engineer for the construction of the Aswan Dam?
... that the Confederate Monument in Danville, Kentucky was built on grave plots local citizens had given up to fallen soldiers?

00:54, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

... that among gifts which Toirdelbach Ua Briain, later High King of Ireland, received from his patron Diarmait mac Maíl na mBó was the sword of Brian Boru (pictured)?
... that Mukti Bahini guerrillas were absorbed into the ranks of regular military officers and enlisted personnel upon the formation of Bangladesh's armed forces?
... that the Greasestock festival in New York showcases green technologies, such as vegetable-powered vehicles, solar vehicles, and organic farming exhibits?
... that World War II flying ace Franz Barten is credited for shooting down a total of 55 enemy aircraft?
... that The Metros, a five-piece punk pop band from Peckham, London, were formerly known as The Wanking Skankers?
... that a poem by Edward Coote Pinkney, a failed lawyer and former Navy midshipman, was used by Edgar Allan Poe to woo Sarah Helen Whitman?
... that a 2007 treaty significantly modified Indo-Bhutanese relations by reducing India's guiding role over Bhutan's foreign policy?
... that the Champlain Valley Transportation Museum in Plattsburgh, New York is home to the only known Type 82 Lozier in existence?

26 May 2008

18:53, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

... that with a height of 154 m (505 ft), the wooden pagoda of Tianning Temple in Changzhou, China (pictured) is the tallest Buddhist pagoda in the world?
... that Zygmunt Rumel, a Polish poet and soldier of the Bataliony Chlopskie, was tied to four horses and ripped apart in 1943 during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia?
... that The Locusts, an early 19th-century house in New Paltz, New York, has no fireplaces?
... that British Army officer Sir William Horrocks confirmed Sir David Bruce's theory that Malta fever was spread through goat's milk?
... that during Hossain Mohammad Ershad's rule, chiefs of Bangladeshi intelligence agencies were amongst his closest advisers?
... that a film director hired independent film actress Tanna Frederick when she praised a film of his—one she had not seen?
... that Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man is a Korean action comic that combines the styles of Mad Max, Dune and The Lord of the Rings?
... that the Dictionary of Information Security by Robert Slade has five forewords, each by an expert in the field of information security?

12:51, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Lake Balaton (pictured), a popular tourist attraction in Hungary, is the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe?
... that the 1820 children's story Maurice by Mary Shelley was lost until 1997?
... that the 9th century Navalinga temple in Karnataka, India, is a cluster of nine Hindu temples, each containing a Shiva linga?
... that in an uncommon job for women, Mary Herwerth was appointed lighthouse keeper at Bluff Point Light on Valcour Island upon the death of her husband while on duty in 1881?
... the British MI6 tried to hire the Austrian-German physicist Josef Schintlmeister as a spy in the Soviet Union, where he had worked for ten years?
... that a collection of 247 tiles illustrating children's books are installed on the Story Book Wall at the Alamogordo Public Library in New Mexico, U.S.?
... that the first regular British light infantry regiment, the 52nd Regiment of Foot, awarded the title "Valiant Stormer" to those who survived the Forlorn Hopes at Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz?
... that after preaching Baptist ideas in the 1760s, Toliver Craig, Sr. and his sons were imprisoned by colonial authorities?

06:50, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

... that rabbi Dow Ber Meisels of Kraków and Warsaw was a prominent supporter of Polish independence, including both the November (artist's impression pictured) and January Uprisings?
... that Antwerp lace is also known as "Pot Lace" because of its repeated flowerpot motifs?
... that the 1945 loss of German U-boat U-864 during Operation Caesar, a secret mission to deliver technology to Japan, is the only known incident of one submerged submarine sinking another?
... that Fire Station No. 19 in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the birthplace of kittenball, a forerunner of modern softball?
... that the Jabalpur and the Mandla districts in Madhya Pradesh were the worst affected districts in the 1997 Jabalpur earthquake?
... that the percussion instruments the txalaparta and kirikoketa originated as pieces of equipment from a Sagardotegi?
... that famous Hispanics in the United States Navy include the country's first full admiral, David Glasgow Farragut?
... that the population dynamics of fisheries is a discipline used by fisheries scientists to determine sustainable yields?

00:36, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the Dutch Gift was a collection of 40 paintings and sculptures (example pictured), presented to King Charles II of England by the Dutch Republic in 1660?
... that the US government took control of the Alaska Steamship Company's fleet during World War II?
... that the Nootka Crisis of 1789–90 marked the beginning of the end of the Spanish Empire?
... that Maharajbagh zoo in Nagpur, India, has been built on the garden of Bhonsle, Maratha rulers of the Nagpur kingdom?
... that future Admiral John Moore joined the Royal Navy when he was just 11 years old?
... that in the primaries for the 2002 Oregon gubernatorial election, candidates included one who called himself the "flying governor"?

25 May 2008

16:48, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the Hotel Bellevue Palace in Berne (pictured) was called "the best-protected building in Europe" by participants in Cold War negotiations?
... that Nona L. Brooks, a founder of the Church of Divine Science and leader in the New Thought religious movement, was the first woman pastor in Denver?
... that Canadian broadcaster Linden MacIntyre wrote his memoir during a fifty-day lockout at the CBC?
... that on September 23, 1868, the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico led a revolt in Lares, declaring it the "Republic of Puerto Rico"?
... that according to one account, after Thomas Attwood accused fellow composer Charles Edward Horn of plagiarizing a song, Horn helped clear himself in court by singing his version and that of Attwood's?
... that the church of St. Barlock at Norbury has a monument to the "lewd and vile" wife of its thirteenth Lord?

10:19, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

... that only three people have been awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation (medal pictured) for their humanitarian work?
... that Aston Villa's Bob Chatt scored an FA Cup Final goal 30 seconds after kick-off?
... that the Catalan municipality of Alcanar is officially stated as being founded in 1252, despite having a charter signed in 1239?
... that Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell built the opera house where James Earl Jones started his career?
... that the 12th-century All Saints Church, Patcham, largely unchanged since the 14th century, was rebuilt or restored four times in a 74-year period from 1824?
... that former Israeli politician and Speaker of the Knesset Shlomo Hillel was in charge of an underground ammunition factory disguised as a laundry facility during the British Mandate of Palestine?

04:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the baesuk (pictured) is a Korean traditional fruit punch made by simmering slices of Korean pear, black peppercorns, ginger, honey or sugar, and water?
... that Alexander Wilkinson managed to play 74 more first-class cricket matches despite an injured hand that almost had to be amputated after World War I?
... that caste-based communal reservations in Tamil Nadu were introduced by the government of the Raja of Panagal in August 1921?
... that the Rotunda Museum houses one of the foremost collections of Jurassic geology on the Yorkshire Coast?
... that Time magazine covers have featured self-portraits of film director and artist Matt Mahurin, who has portrayed himself as Sigmund Freud, a caveman and an Abu Ghraib prisoner?
... that the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings was surprised to learn of the existence of Buckland Windmill, the only wind sawmill in the United Kingdom?

24 May 2008

22:11, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

... that some of the fingers of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (pictured), still with rings on them, were found in a building of the Kremlin?
... that Clan Campbell of Cawdor is a Scottish clan which currently does not have a recognised clan chief?
... that the Hotel Monaco in Washington, D.C. is located inside a National Historic Landmark building that was patterned after the Roman Temple of Jupiter?
... that the First Congress of Vienna was held three hundred years before the more famous 1815 Congress?
... that Ernie Fletcher became the first Republican Governor of Kentucky in thirty-two years after winning the 2003 Kentucky gubernatorial election?
... that between 1920 and 1929 the Canadian Pacific Steamships vessel SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm bore six different names, but sailed under only four of them?
... that computer security expert Dan Kaminsky demonstrated a security vulnerability by setting up Rickrolls on Facebook and PayPal?

15:25, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1957 nonfiction novel Operación Masacre (cover pictured) by Rodolfo Walsh was published seven years before Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, which is frequently cited as creating the genre?
... that Hall of Fame basketball coach Clarence "Big House" Gaines originally planned to become a dentist before taking on a temporary coaching job that lasted 47 years?
... that Action Hyacinth was an operation of the Polish communist police, carried out in the years 1985–1987, whose purpose was to create a national database of Polish homosexuals?
... that Narciso Bassols founded Mexico's first systematic sex education program while Secretary of Public Education?
... that "Uncommon Sense" by Hal Clement received a Hugo Award for Best Short Story 51 years after it was first published?
... that Len Boyd, captain of Birmingham City F.C. in the 1950s, once played four games with a fractured leg?

09:12, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the influence of the Gulf Stream on the climate of Northern Ireland gives the landscape of Northern Ireland (pictured) its green colour?
... that actor Buck Taylor, though he still appears in mostly Western films, is also a prolific artist of the American West?
... that Troubled Island is an opera about the Haitian revolution leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who crowned himself emperor after independence was declared?
... that the Section of Painting and Sculpture, a New Deal federal art program operated by the United States Department of the Treasury, commissioned more than 1300 murals and 300 sculptures, most of which were placed in U.S. post offices?
... that the famine of 1873–74 in Bihar, India was less severe than had originally been anticipated, and 100,000 tons of grain was left unused at the end of the relief efforts?
... that the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, were plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking the removal of the Mount Soledad cross?
... that the Frieze of Parnassus on the Albert Memorial was inspired by Hippolyte Delaroche's Hémicycle des Beaux Arts?

01:31, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Samuel B. Huston (pictured) switched counties and political parties between two elections to the Oregon State Senate?
... that the supreme god of the southern African Bushmen is Cagn, a trickster who shapeshifts into a praying mantis?
... that an April Fool's Day "news story" which suggested that bull sharks had been found in Minneapolis's Minnehaha Creek drew almost 1,000 hits a day to the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association's website?
... that 1944 film Haridas was the last completed work of Kollywood icon M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar prior to his arrest in the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case?
... that the Master of Anthony of Burgundy was one of the Flemish miniature painters of the late 15th century, and may have made the first engravings for books?
... that Margie (ABC, 1961–1962) is one of the few network programs set during the Roaring Twenties, complete with jalopies, raccoon coats, period music, and references to flappers?

23 May 2008

19:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the contributions of Mary Shelley (pictured) to Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men are considered early works of feminist historiography?
... that the two-inch-tall people of The Teenie Weenies were a Chicago Tribune comic strip written by William Donahey for over 50 years?
... that the Northern Irish marilyn Slieve Gallion is a volcanic plug?
... that Page Cortez, a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, gained vital name recognition in part from television ads promoting his furniture store?
... that Ashby's windmill in Brixton worked by steam rather than wind power after 1902?
... that Russian writer and activist Zoya Krakhmalnikova's baptism in 1971 resulted in her dismissal from her job and from the USSR Union of Writers, which effectively banned her from publishing?

12:28, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

... that despite weighing little more than a pound (0.45 kg), the Dutch Bantam breed of chicken (rooster pictured) can lay more than 160 eggs in a year?
... that Henriade, an epic poem by French Enlightenment writer Voltaire, was written in honour of the life of Henry IV?
... that much of the interior of the 19th-century St Patrick's Church, Hove has been rebuilt as a night shelter which includes a variation on the 1970s "sleep capsule" concept?
... that a Brazilian music expert noted Caetano Veloso's uncertain sexual orientation in his 2006 album cê?
... that California v. Byers was the 1971 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that providing one's own information in a vehicle accident does not violate the privilege against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment?
... that the Palestinian town of Tuqu' is the birthplace of the Hebrew prophet Amos?

05:02, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the federal administration of Switzerland (government buildings pictured) has been described as "seven co-existing governments" due to the absence of hierarchy in the government?
... that Radha Ramana is the only image of Krishna that remained in Vrindavana during the 17th-century raids by Islamic king Aurangzeb?
... that Camille Le Mercier d'Erm and his colleagues formed the Breton Nationalist Party in 1911 to advocate the independence of Brittany from France?
... that the Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort, Kentucky is the only one dedicated to Black Union soldiers in Kentucky?
... that nine riparian countries along River Nile launched the Nile Basin Initiative in 1999 to better manage their common water resources?
... that 19th-century English architect John Foulston was responsible for the construction of Union Street across marshland?

22 May 2008

21:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the age of a Stair-step Moss (pictured) can be estimated by counting the number of "steps"?
... that the Chief Minister of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan joined the Tamil Tigers as a child soldier at the age of fourteen?
... that Victoria Hotel in Darwin, Australia, has survived three major cyclones and Japanese air raids during World War II?
... that Blonde lace was made out of two different thicknesses of thread to create greater contrast between the pattern and the ground?
... that U.S. First Lady Laura Bush serves as ambassador of The Heart Truth awareness campaign?
... that Captain Richard Whitaker Porritt was the first British Member of Parliament to be killed in World War II?
... that the ancient Greek city of Psophis was said to have been ravaged by the Erymanthian Boar?
... that Hazel Dolling, the châtelaine of Lissan House, always kept a chainsaw in her car while driving, in case trees had fallen on her mile-long avenue?

15:34, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the accolade (pictured) was a ceremony for knighthood in the Middle Ages?
... that Yolngu aboriginal leader Raymattja Marika was Northern Territory's Australian of the Year in 2006?
... that the Atlantic bumper is only found in the Atlantic Ocean because its ecological niche is filled by the only other member of its genus elsewhere?
... that director Goran Dukić chose only songs by musicians who had committed suicide to accompany his 2007 film Wristcutters?
... that after a chest injury, air can escape from the lungs and travel to the subcutaneous tissue of the skin, causing subcutaneous emphysema?
... that Oladevi, a deity whose worship may have originated in the Indus Valley Civilization, was honoured and feared as the goddess of cholera in rural Bengal?
... that Reigate Heath Windmill is the only windmill in England that has been consecrated as a church?
... that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service paid for the establishment of Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge, along the Muscatatuck River, by selling waterfowl stamps?

08:20, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

... that a 12th-century epigraph styles the Mahadeva temple (pictured) in Karnataka, India, as "the emperor among temples"?
... that the Seaway Trail Discovery Center is one of the few attractions in the North Country, New York, that is open year-round?
... that German mathematician Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin wrote an important two-volume treatise on potential theory and spherical functions in 1909 and 1921?
... that a Confederate scouting party entered Indiana in June 1863 dressed as an Union army patrol searching for deserters?
... that British Conservative MP Alan Gomme-Duncan, despite being strongly unionist, did not want the Stone of Scone returned to Westminster Abbey after Scottish nationalists stole it in 1951?
... that the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus was the first elected socialist municipal government in Mexico?
... that Malinda Cramer, a founder of the Church of Divine Science and an early influence in the New Thought movement, died in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake?

02:20, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

... that in addition to ballistics, the ballistic pendulum (pictured) was also used by physicists to evaluate the elasticity and flight of golf balls?
... that Republican Monty Warner called on his Democratic rival Joe Manchin to endorse George Bush for re-election during the 2004 West Virginia gubernatorial election?
... that the Polish-Lithuanian union of Lublin in 1569 marked the beginning of centuries of struggle between Poland and Russia over Central and Eastern Europe?
... that the colonial ghost town of Brunswick, North Carolina was named after Braunschweig, Germany, the birthplace of Great Britain's King George I?
... that a large part of the first vintage from the Spanish winery Dominio de Pingus was lost in 1997 when the transporting ship disappeared?
... that Nathan Daboll wrote the mathematics textbook most commonly used in American schools during the first half of the 19th century?

21 May 2008

19:40, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

... that cystatin C (structure pictured) is a human protein studied as a biomarker of decreased kidney function and prognosis in cardiovascular diseases?
... that the forced removal of 700,000 people from slums in Zimbabwe in 2005 was called "a crime against humanity" by the UN?
... that Juniper Valley Park in New York City used to be a swamp owned by Arnold Rothstein, who in the 1920s tried to sell it to the city for use as an airport?
... that Indo-Iraqi relations improved considerably after Iraq supported India's 1998 nuclear tests and its stand on the Kashmir dispute?
... that Sir William Edge, a Liberal MP, once raced against a flock of homing pigeons from London to Leicestershire by car and train, but lost the race by two minutes because the train was delayed?
... that the 1964 CBS sitcom Many Happy Returns featured character actor John McGiver managing the complaints division of a fictitious California department store?

12:54, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Kosa Pan (pictured) led one of the earliest Siamese embassies to France in the 1680s?
... that New Zealand currently has free trade agreements with Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Chile and China?
... that Harvard Japanologist Susan Pharr was recently awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government?
... that the town of Melattur in Tamil Nadu, India is famous for its Bharatanatyam, a classic South Indian dance?
... that the Wallingford Tornado of 1878 was the deadliest tornado in Connecticut history, and the second-deadliest to strike New England?
... that Fidler Point on Lake Athabasca is named for Peter Fidler, a map-maker, fur trader and explorer who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company?
... that Bolton Hall, the community center for a Utopian community formed in 1913 in the foothills north of Los Angeles, was later used as a jail?

04:55, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

... that during World War I, a torpedo struck the ocean liner SS Kroonland, (pictured) but failed to explode?
... that the 1948 Tamil film Chandralekha had the longest sword-fight sequence in any Indian film?
... that Equality North Carolina was successful in getting the 2008 edition of the State Personnel manual to prohibit discrimination based on sexuality and gender identity?
... that English musician and composer Charles Frederick Horn served as personal music tutor to Queen Charlotte?
... that the City of Los Angeles has 186 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that the Welsh Tractarian priest John David Jenkins, known as the "Rail men's Apostle", became President of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants?

20 May 2008

21:48, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the Pickle Barrel House (pictured), a cabin built of two large barrels, is based on comic strip characters that were two inches (5 cm) tall and lived in a pickle barrel?
... that international airport project MIHAN in Nagpur is the biggest economic development project currently underway in India in terms of investment?
... that ATF undercover agent William Queen infiltrated the Mongols motorcycle gang so successfully that he was elected treasurer and vice-president of his chapter?
... that the new Maoist-led government seeks to scrap Nepal's 1950 treaty with India, which sought to build strong Indo-Nepal relations to counter perceived threats from China?
... that water supply and sanitation in Uganda are recognized as key issues under the government's 2004 national "Poverty Eradication Action Plan"?
... that Kentucky's Livermore Bridge starts and ends in McLean County, but passes over two rivers and Ohio County to reach its destination?

15:32, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

... that erotic sculptures (example pictured) found in the 11th century Tripurantaka Temple in Karnataka state, India, are miniatures?
... that The Town Talk, the principal newspaper of Central Louisiana, was established by Irish immigrants on St. Patrick's Day in 1883?
... that the only items found in the burial chamber of the Pyramid of Neferefre upon excavation were mummy fragments and broken canopic jars?
... that eleven U.S. presidents stayed at the Portland Hotel, a Queen Anne-style, Châteauesque hotel which opened in Portland, Oregon in 1890?
... that the game between FC Bayern Munich and 1860 Munich on 23 April 1945 in the Gauliga Bayern, ending 3–2, was the last official football game played in Nazi Germany?
... that Indiana's state parks were initially designed to preserve their natural state, but gradually began to include recreational activities?

09:18, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I commissioned the Triumphal Arch (pictured), a monumental woodcut print over 3½ m (11½ ft) tall and nearly 3 m (10 ft) wide printed from 192 separate wood blocks?
... that the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Oregon is home to a small population of wolverines, which are rare within the United States?
... that Outwood is the oldest working windmill in the United Kingdom, having been built the year before the Great Fire of London?
... that US-CERT developed the Einstein program that monitors and protects the computer networks of U.S. departments and agencies?
... that sociology was banned as a bourgeois science by the Polish government in the Stalinist period 1948–1956?
... that Henry Failing won his second term as mayor of Portland, Oregon with only five dissenting votes?

02:51, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the last man to be gibbetted in Derbyshire was hung in chains near Wardlow and Wardlow Mires (pictured) because he had the tollkeeper's red shoes?
... that Thomas Garrigus of Oregon was a silver medalist for the 1968 U.S. Olympic Team at the Summer Games in Mexico City?
... that the armed merchant cruiser HMS Hector was in the process of being decommissioned when she was sunk in the Easter Sunday Raid?
... that the oldest courthouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is in the historic district of Greensburg, Kentucky?
... that the Saharan silver ant has several unique adaptations that led it to be called "one of the most heat-resistant animals known"?
... that Edmund Graves Brown, a member of the Louisiana Ewing newspaper family, was a U.S. Army officer in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944?

19 May 2008

18:44, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Edward Lamson Henry paid such close attention to detail that his nostalgic paintings of agrarian America (example pictured) were considered authentic historical reconstructions?
... that G1.9+0.3 is the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way?
... that the only peacetime George Cross won by a woman was awarded to Barbara Jane Harrison as a result of her actions during the fire on board BOAC Flight 712 in 1968?
... that the WF01, the first racing car built by Embassy Racing, was named after team founder Jonathan France's recently born son?
... that Haley Barbour became only the second Republican Governor of Mississippi since Reconstruction after winning the 2003 Mississippi gubernatorial election?
... that 22-year-old Ling Ling was the oldest panda in Japan at the time of his death in April 2008?
... that the Hooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House features an indoor well pump, but a five-hole, two-story outhouse connected to the house via a skyway?

12:33, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

... that lithophane (example pictured) is an artwork in porcelain that can only be seen clearly when lit from behind?
... that John Benjamin Murphy was an early advocate of appendectomies as an intervention for signs of appendicitis?
... that the Gauliga was a German football league system introduced by the Nazis after they took over the country in 1933?
... that the Oregon Korean War Memorial was not built until nearly 50 years after the Korean War began?
... that makers of Chantilly lace were guillotined during the French Revolution because they were seen as protégés of the royals?
... that despite being the first hot blast iron furnace in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Bellefonte Furnace was idle for more than six of its first ten years of existence?
... that by the end of the Second World War 60,968 ratings had passed through the Royal Navy stone frigate HMS Ganges?
... that Run, Buddy, Run, a 1966 CBS sitcom, featured Jack Sheldon fleeing from the mob after he overhears a gangster during a steam bath plotting a murder?

06:20, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Jordanian politician Sa`id al-Mufti's wife continued living in the Al-Mufti House (pictured) after his death?
... that for 25 years, Jack O'Brien conducted two parallel directing careers: Broadway musicals in New York City and Shakespeare in San Diego?
... that Welsh lawyer Edward Wynne was, in 1714, the first landowner to grow turnips on Anglesey?
... that the ethnic population of Omaha, Nebraska, including new and first generation immigrants, comprised fifty percent of that city's population in the 1920s?
... that in 1876, British historian Edwin Pears, as correspondent of The Daily News, sent letters home describing Ottoman atrocities in Bulgaria during the April Uprising which aroused demonstrations in England led by William Gladstone?
... that a 2003 medical study by Peter Pronovost, an intensive care physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital, on the use of simple checklists helped save 1500 lives and US$100 million?

18 May 2008

23:52, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

... that in the 1430s, the feudal lord Ashina Morihisa kept Aizu Matsudaira's Royal Garden (pictured) as a villa believing it to be a sacred place?
... that the Irish in Omaha, Nebraska were singled out by the American Protective Association for exclusion from public office in the 1890s?
... that music printer Robert Birchall published the first English edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier in 1810?
... that attempts to merge Cardiff Rugby Football Club and Cardiff Cricket Club to form Cardiff Athletic Club began as early as 1892, but were unsuccessful until 1922?
... that although an engineer's report proposing the draining and development of the Everglades in 1912 was riddled with errors, it was still promoted by real-estate developers?
... that Project Runway Australia will air on Arena, which was recently re-branded to the American Project Runway's first station, Bravo?
... that Malcolm Baker won a national championship in rowing as a freshman at Brown University although he never rowed in high school?

17:25, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

... that golfer Edith Cummings (pictured) was the first female athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine and the inspiration for a character in The Great Gatsby?
... that a year after conducting rival nuclear tests, India and Pakistan issued the 1999 Lahore Declaration, committing to develop safeguards to prevent nuclear conflict?
... that Aaron Lopez, who was denied citizenship in Colonial Rhode Island because he was Jewish, later became Newport's wealthiest resident?
... that before 1 January 2008, milk with a fat content of 1 or 2% could not be labelled as milk in the United Kingdom?
... that Orlando Magic general manager Otis Smith founded a children's charity in his native Jacksonville which ran for two decades?
... that the Musselburgh and Fisherrow Co-operative Society created headlines when it began a process of demutualization after 140 years as a co-operative?
... that the Caprock Chief was a proposed passenger train which would have connected Fort Worth, Texas and Denver, Colorado via the Texas Panhandle?

10:36, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the 12th century Doddabasappa Temple (pictured) in Karnataka state, India, has a 24-pointed star-shaped plan?
... that William Henry Leonard Poe wrote a short story about the failed relationship of his younger brother Edgar Allan Poe with Sarah Elmira Royster?
... that Jimmy Doolittle commanded a 22 plane demonstration celebrating the opening of Henderson, Kentucky's Audubon Memorial Bridge in 1932?
... that British Major-General Eric Cole, who helped plan the invasion of Normandy, was born in Malta and once played cricket with the Egypt national cricket team?
... that the New York Times wrote that W. S. Gilbert's play Creatures of Impulse was a "burletta of the stamp that was in vogue a hundred years ago, resembling Midas"?
... that Kuxa Kanema is a documentary about the Mozambique government’s first attempts to create a national cinema?
... that Kentucky's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards?

04:35, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Thomas Scott (pictured), a member of the Canadian House of Commons, organized the 95th Manitoba Grenadiers in thirteen days to put down the North-West Rebellion of 1885?
... that Whitney Ellsworth became associated with Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's fledgling company National Allied Publications, later known as DC Comics?
... that 6 of the Top 8 players at the 2002 Magic: The Gathering World Championship used Psychatog decks?
... that by 1901, £4m of shares in the Suez Canal bought by Benjamin Disraeli in 1875 during his premiership were rising in value by £2m per year and yielding an annual dividend of £880,000?
... that during World War I, aerial warfare expert Philip Roosevelt, first cousin once removed of Theodore Roosevelt, helped the United States Army plan its first air-land battle?
... that Brussels lace is made in pieces, with the design made separate from the ground, unlike Mechlin lace or Valenciennes lace, and is known for its delicacy and beauty?
... that the Soviet Union won a medal at every single Ice Hockey World Championships competition in which it participated?

17 May 2008

22:33, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

... that when the Weekly Arizonian withdrew its endorsement for Richard C. McCormick's (pictured) reelection, he repossessed the newspaper's printing press and began the Arizona Citizen?
... that Are you a True Scotsman? is part of Scottish military ritual determining that a kilted soldier is not wearing undergarments?
... that Verna Arvey got her first break as an opera librettist after poet Langston Hughes left his libretto for the production Troubled Island unfinished?
... that although the first Callawayasaurus fossil was discovered in 1962, it was not until 1999 that they were recognized as a separate genus?
... that Ayesha Omar sparked controversy in Pakistan when she painted two semi-nude self-portraits?
... that Operation Facelift unified the United Kingdom's co-operative retailers with a single logo in 1968, reinforcing The Co-operative brand?

15:39, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

... that HMNZS Te Mana (F111) (pictured) was the first New Zealand warship to visit a Russian port?
... that Georgia Moffett was selected for the eponymous role in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter", but not because her father is Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor?
... that the 1911 Confederate Dedication Day ceremony key speakers at the Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument were former Union officers?
... that the African mustard Subularia monticola can be found forming a dense mat on sometimes flooded muds in a lake on Mount Elgon at 4,150 meters (13,620 ft) high?
... that the unsolved murder of Mary Rogers was fictionalized as "The Mystery of Marie Roget" by Edgar Allan Poe?
... that the town of La Balize, Louisiana, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, was rebuilt several times after 1699 because of hurricanes before it was destroyed and abandoned around 1860?
... that Erik Möller, Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, helped to develop both Wikinews and Wikimedia Commons?

07:12, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the Harihareshwara temple in Karnataka, India, was consecrated in 1224 CE, in dedication to Harihara (pictured), a fusion of the Hindu gods Shiva and Vishnu?
... that the St. Philip's Church Ruins include the graves of two North Carolina governors and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court?
... that Pythagoras, a sculptor from Samos in the 5th century BCE, was credited with the innovation of sculpting athletes with visible veins?
... that serial killer Nathaniel White claimed his first murder was inspired by a scene in RoboCop 2?
... that Ichitaro Kanie grew Japan's first tomatoes in 1899, founding the ¥157 billion Kagome tomato empire?
... that the Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown, Kentucky was built due to the feelings of reconciliation following the Spanish-American War?

01:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the term choral symphony was coined by French composer Hector Berlioz (pictured) when describing his symphony, Roméo et Juliette?
... that the Gottlieb Storz House in Omaha, Nebraska is home to the Astaire Ballroom, which is the only memorial to Adele and Fred Astaire in their home city?
... that the 1999 Chamoli earthquake in India, in which 103 people died, was also felt in the Baitadi, Dadeldhura and Kanchanpur districts in Nepal?
... that former Detroit Red Wings head coach Jacques Demers is the only coach in the National Hockey League to have won the Jack Adams Award twice with the same team?
... that Hoi Khanh Temple in Thu Dau Mot was once used as a meeting place by Vietnamese independence activists, including Ho Chi Minh's father?
... that A Bayou Legend by William Grant Still was the first opera composed by an African American to be broadcast on television?

16 May 2008

18:46, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Union general Stephen G. Burbridge spent many years trying to remove the letters CSA from the Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument (pictured)?
... that Israeli actress Hanna Maron lost her leg after a grenade was thrown at her airplane, but resumed her acting career a year later?
... that Jordan's Municipality of Salt derives its name from the Latin saltus meaning valley of trees as there is much greenery in the area?
... that Harold Clapp's "fiendish efficiency" in improving Victorian Railways' train reliability was credited with losing Melbourne commuters "another excuse for being late for work in the mornings"?
... that the Japanese visual novel Yotsunoha allows the player to navigate in a top-down perspective similar to a console role-playing game?
... that before Homer Plessy challenged the Separate Car Act leading to Plessy v. Ferguson, Daniel Desdunes had challenged it but had his charges dropped?

12:25, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the first generation jet fighters include designs from WWII-era ME-262 (pictured) to Korean War-era F-86?
... that the Orton Plantation near Wilmington, North Carolina, was attacked by Native Americans, used as a military hospital, and once owned by a Colonial governor?
... that Brazilian actress Carmen Silva was diagnosed with the same illness, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, as actor Oswaldo Louzada, who played her husband on the Brazilian telenovela, Mulheres Apaixonadas?
... that scholars disagree on whether the name of the Viking chieftain Jakun means either "blind" or "the handsome one"?
... that Safi Faye's 1975 film Kaddu Beykat was the first commercially distributed feature film made by a Sub-Saharan African woman?

04:10, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

... that brothers and England football defenders Arthur Melmoth Walters and Percy Melmoth Walters (pictured) were known as "Morning" and "Afternoon" in allusion to their initials?
... that six governments have jurisdictional boundaries at Four Corners?
... that French top-ten single "Nuit" by the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones was penned in just a few hours?
... that the Nashville Predators actually increased their team payroll by 44.30% between the 2003–04 NHL season and 2005–06 season, despite a league-wide drop of −22.73% after a salary cap was implemented?
... that Speaking in Strings is a 1999 documentary film about classical violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, whose emotional concert performances have alienated some critics?
... that CMKC Group will construct and retain 30-year management rights over 1500 km of new and 512 km of renovated railway in the Republic of the Congo?

15 May 2008

21:56, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

... that one of the major differences between Mechlin (pictured) and Valenciennes lace is the cordonnet, a loosely spun silk cord used to outline and define the pattern?
... that although she was born in Argentina, Renata Fronzi pursued a successful acting career in theater, film and telenovelas in the neighboring country of Brazil?
... that while the New York Vauxhall Gardens drew in colonial New Yorkers with a wax museum and outdoor theater, a copycat competitor attracted them with ice cream?
... that the khutbah is the sermon delivered before the Muslim congregational Friday prayers and after the congregational prayers on each of the two annual Muslim festivals?
... that the second major land reform in Romania took place in 1921, following a promise made by King Ferdinand to the troops during World War I?
... that Major League Baseball pitcher Dom Zanni was once knocked unconscious in the seventh inning, yet went on to finish pitching the game and earn the win for the Chicago White Sox?

14:57, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the Uppland runestone U 328 (pictured) is an example of the Ringerike style?
... that the Tamil film Nam Iruvar featured songs written by Indian nationalist Subramania Bharati?
... that San Diego's El Cortez Hotel, site of the world's first outdoor glass elevator and moving sidewalk, became a school for evangelists in the 1970s?
... that in his first murder case, real estate and divorce specialist Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence saved suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams from being hanged?
... that in her 1992 documentary film Nitrate Kisses Barbara Hammer filmed an elderly lesbian couple having sex as part of an exploration of the repression and marginalization of LGBT history?
... that railway transport in Nagpur started in 1867 when the Nagpur railway station was constructed using locally found pink sandstone?
... that the track "Hell's Angels" from Roy Harper's 1970 album Flat Baroque and Berserk features an acoustic guitar played through a wah-wah pedal?

08:36, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the $2 million Baltimore City Hall (pictured) was designed in 1860 by architect George A. Frederick?
... that the theory of camouflage led the Special Air Service to use pink as the primary color on the desert camouflaged Land Rover Series IIA patrol vehicles, leading to the nickname The Pink Panthers?
... that the assembly location Arkils tingstad may have been made to Christianize the Vikings who lived in its vicinity?
... that the first roadside park in the world was in 1919 at Iron River, Michigan?
... that the Polish minority in Ireland is the country's largest minority group apart from British people?
... that the Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece was among the leading painters in Cologne at the beginning of the sixteenth century?
... that astronauts have a patch of velcro inside their helmets that acts as a nose scratcher and that the manufacturing process used to create silent velcro for the U.S. Army is a military secret?

02:21, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Bert Haney (pictured) lost an election to the U.S. Senate, but was later confirmed by the Senate for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit?
... that a timber in Nutley Windmill, an open trestle post mill in Sussex, England, has been dated by dendrochronology to 1738–70, and the main post is even older, dating to 1533–70?
... that former University of Texas at Austin President William S. Livingston also chaired the committee that established the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs?
... that The Janus Man, a thriller concerning espionage and betrayal, is the fourth book in the "Tweed and Co." series, for which Colin Forbes published a book every year from 1982 to his death in 2006?
... that the 40th Grey Cup in 1952 was the first time this Canadian football championship was broadcast on television?
... that Gilberto Gil describes his 2006 album Gil Luminoso as being religiously themed, although he is an agnostic?

14 May 2008

20:13, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the day after the death of six IDF soldiers in the Battle of the Beaufort (pictured), Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was still under the impression that it was won without casualties?
... that the historic Golden Gate Theater was saved by a stop-work order after demolition crews had begun to dismantle the walls?
... that Sam Cowan is the only footballer to have represented Manchester City in three FA Cup finals?
... that after writing Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz was sued for calling Alberta Martin's husband a deserter in the book?
... that DePauw Avenue Historic District, New Albany, Indiana, was once the summer estate of the man who owned two thirds of the plate glass business of the United States?
... that a report criticizing senior Pakistani leaders—including General Abdul Hamid Khan—over their conduct during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, was long suppressed by the Pakistani government?
... that Harley Parker, in 1973, was selected to be the first William A. Kern Institute Professor of Communications at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, New York?

12:57, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Amman's Mango House (pictured) was built in separate halves for the two brothers who lived there?
... that the cargo ship MV Virginian, now under contract to Military Sealift Command, was accidentally hit by an Exocet missile while unloading cargo in Iraq in 1986?
... that the Madhu school bus bombing was one of a number of attacks on civilian buses in Sri Lanka in early 2008?
... that prior to his election to the Oregon State Senate, Rick Metsger was best-known as a sportscaster for a Portland, Oregon television station?
... that the idiopathic inflammatory lung disease diffuse panbronchiolitis has the highest incidence among Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Thai cases, indicating a genetic predisposition among East Asians?
... that Dr Arthur Henry Douthwaite's testimony in court against suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams is said to have cost him the presidency of the Royal College of Physicians?
... that Daddy Cool’s 1971 single "Eagle Rock" remained at #1 on the Australian National charts for a record ten weeks before being replaced by the single "Daddy Cool" by another band cashing in their success?

04:51, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

... that 37 people were killed during construction of the Big Four Bridge (pictured) connecting Louisville, Kentucky to Jeffersonville, Indiana across the Ohio River?
... that Italy's newly appointed Minister for Equal Opportunity, Mara Carfagna, used to be a showgirl and a glamour model?
... that the 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates, the worst Pirates team of the 20th century, were so bad that their catcher Joe Garagiola later said "In an eight-team league, we should've finished ninth"?
... that the highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, where the climate is temperate oceanic, was 33.3ºC (91.9ºF) at Kilkenny Castle on 26 June, 1887?
... that the Kaleva Bottle House was built using over 60,000 bottles?
... that S.A. Swaminatha Iyer protested the British salt tax in India at the first session of the Indian National Congress in 1885?
... that after months of work, future Canadian impresario Samuel Gesser made only $200 from his first production, a 1953 Pete Seeger concert?

13 May 2008

21:52, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Hurricane Alma (pictured) was the first of three consecutive tropical cyclones to strike the Pacific coast of Mexico during a ten day span?
... that Methodist minister Ephraim Kingsbury Avery is amongst the first clergymen known to have been tried for murder in the United States?
... that Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director whose work is better known in Europe than in her native Africa?
... that England's Auditor of the Imprests, an office responsible for auditing the accounts of public officials such as the Paymaster of the Forces, became a lucrative sinecure before being abolished in 1782?
... that after being found not guilty of murdering her ex-husband, Mary Leonard became the first woman in Oregon allowed to practice law?
... that Ulysses S. Grant sent his family to live in the Licking Riverside neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky in 1862?
... that Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company is the world's largest limestone quarry?
... that The Reverend John H. Taylor served as post-Chief of Staff for former United States President Richard Nixon from 1979 to 1994?

15:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Friedrich Guggenberger's U-81 sank the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (pictured) with a single torpedo?
... that association footballers Jimmy Willis and Steve Finnan are the only players to have scored in the top five divisions of English league football?
... that Lakshmisha's 16th century Kannada writing, the Jaimini Bharata, focuses on the horse sacrifice chapter of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata?
... that in addition to providing cargo service to Ascension Island, the freighter MV Ascension also helped researchers study its green sea turtle population?
... that in 1838, Philip Kelland became the first English-born and wholly English-educated mathematician to hold the chair of Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh?
... that American manufacturing executive Chris J. Lee left the business of making air springs, elastomers, rate controls, rope isolators and solenoid valves to run for Congress?

08:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the ghost town of Buffalo City, North Carolina (pictured) was once the largest community in Dare County?
... that the largest post mill in Sussex received the largest Heritage Lottery Fund grant for an individual windmill in the United Kingdom?
... that J. Evetts Haley, the historian of the American West who ran in 1956 for governor of Texas, told Duval County political boss George Parr that "it will be my pleasure to lock you up"?
... that in a VFL game against North Melbourne, Fitzroy player Frank Curcio famously stated "hit me as hard as you like, but don’t hurt my fingers"?
... that Gibraltarian degree-level students studying in a UK university receive a full scholarship from the Government of Gibraltar?
... that Omaha pioneer Andrew J. Hanscom started a large-scale fight in the Nebraska Territory House of Representatives over the location of the territorial capital?

00:55, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

... that New Mill, Cross in Hand (pictured), was the last windmill to operate commercially by wind in Sussex?
... that Van Hanh Zen Temple is the base of a team of Buddhist scholars who are producing a Vietnamese translation of the Pali Canon?
... that the effects of tides can affect ice sheet dynamics up to 100 km (60 miles) inland?
... that the author of Captain Lindley Miller's 1864 "Marching Song of the First Arkansas" has only recently been determined?
... that dissidents within the Polish community in Omaha burnt down a church in the Sheelytown neighborhood in 1895 rather than relinquish control to the local Roman Catholic bishop?
... that Heinrich Barbl, an SS-Rottenführer, helped install piping for the gas chambers at Sobibór extermination camp?
... that in 1892, George Brann became only the third cricketer to score two centuries in a match, after W. G. Grace and William Lambert?
... that Sac Tu Tam Bao Temple was used by Vietnamese revolutionaries as a munitions factory by in the 1916 Cochinchina uprising?

12 May 2008

18:41, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

... that a swift (pictured) is a tool with an adjustable diameter used to hold a skein of yarn while it is being wound off?
... that the Tinh Xa Trung Tam Buddhist temple in Ho Chi Minh City is regarded as the spiritual birthplace of the khất sĩ tradition?
... that Elvia Carrillo Puerto founded the first feminist leagues to provide family planning programs with legalized birth control in the Western Hemisphere?
... that Hall of Fame goaltender Glenn Hall ended his record-setting 502 consecutive-games streak in the National Hockey League as a Chicago Black Hawk during the 1962–63 season?
... that British actress Jacqueline Voltaire won a "most bizarre sex scene" award in 2005 for her performance in the Mexican film Matando Cabos?
... that the Kh'Leang Temple in Soc Trang is a Khmer Theravada building from 1533—predating Vietnamese settlement—which incorporates Greek architecture?
... that screenwriter Allan Loeb's agent dropped him the day he began writing the script that saved his career?

12:08, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

...that the footprints of the Buddha (pictured) often bear distinguishing marks, such as a Dharmachakra or the 32, 108 or 132 auspicious signs of the Buddha?
...that fire is one of the most important forming processes of the geography and ecology of the Everglades?
...that the barrack at Aghavannagh, which was primarily built so that British forces could more easily track rebels of the 1798 rebellion, became a youth hostel during the 1900s?
...that sportswriter and Green Bay Packers employee Lee Remmel was one of twelve people to cover the first forty Super Bowls?
...that to preserve national unity, Polish king Stefan Batory restored the city of Danzig's economic and religious privileges after an uprising?
...that the Silver Snoopy award is presented to recipients personally by astronauts?
...that Israeli writer Eli Amir called for more Israeli literature to be translated into Arabic to promote understanding?
...that Bobby Hull became the third player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season during the 1961–62 Chicago Black Hawks season?
...that the main hall of Tay An Temple contains around 200 Buddhist statues?

03:46, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

... that at age 14 Amy Evans (pictured), a Welsh singer and actress, won the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Cardiff?
... that as a college athlete, Detroit Tigers outfielder Matt Joyce played in an exhibition game against the Tigers three years before his Major League debut with them?
... that Belgian filmmaker Armand Denis, who became famous for his wildlife documentaries with his wife Michaela in the 1950s, began his career working as a scientist and inventor?
... that the rural settlement of Mount Mee, Queensland, gets its name from the local Indigenous Australian word mia-mia, meaning "lookout"?
... that a young black aspiring actor by the name of James Earl Jones had his beginnings at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan?
... that Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism was a concept adapted by the same people who earlier thought that this concept was suicidal?
... that Kitch-iti-kipi is Michigan's largest freshwater spring and a major tourist attraction?

11 May 2008

21:11, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

... that pulmonary laceration was thought to be uncommon before CT scanning (example pictured) became widely available, because the injury is difficult to detect with X-rays alone?
... that sanfedisti irregulars, led by Cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo, toppled the Parthenopaean Republic in 1799, restoring the monarchy of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies?
... that Barzillai Quaife has been described both as "New Zealand's first public anti-racist" and "Australia's first philosopher"?
... that the Pond Eddy Bridge, built in 1904, is the only artery to access 22 homes in Pennsylvania?
... that because it reflects Hungarian phonology, the original middle name of singer and comedian Ioan Gyuri Pascu was misspelled on his Romanian-issued birth certificate?
... that Devil's Den gully, located within the Heber Down Conservation Area, was so named because the local inhabitants believed that the Devil was holding court there?
... that Chris Garneau's debut album Music For Tourists has a hidden track that is a cover of an Elliott Smith song?

14:46, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the Medusa Rondanini (pictured) in a prominent Roman collection was ignored until it was praised by Goethe in 1786?
... that the Reverend Henry Tibbs was accused of calling Winston Churchill a drug addict in 1940?
... that Birely, Hillman & Streaker was the only Philadelphian manufacturer of wooden ships to survive the post-Civil War slump?
... that Odd With, member of the Norwegian Parliament for the Christian Democratic Party, was the grandfather of 2006 Pop Idol victor Aleksander Denstad With?
... that the US Navy's Casco-class monitors, long delayed due to the exacting standards of Chief Engineer Alban C. Stimers, proved barely able to float on debut and were quickly withdrawn from service?
... that the Vondelpark in Amsterdam, Netherlands annually attracts around 10 million visitors?
... that the Nebraska Republican Party nabbed Democratic candidate Max Yashirin's namesake domain name and posted unflattering photos of him there after he stood for Nebraska's 1st congressional district?

08:33, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the Buis (pictured) was first adapted for use as a fishing vessel in the Netherlands, after the invention of gibbing made it possible to preserve herring at sea?
... that Milorg resistance member Osmund Faremo later served as member of the national parliament and local mayor for the Norwegian Labour Party?
... that the last old-Kannada grammar, authored by Bhattakalanka Deva in circa 1604 CE, followed the model of Sanskrit grammar?
... that US abolitionist Robert Purvis had two grandparents who were English, a grandmother kidnapped at twelve from Morocco and enslaved in Charleston, and a grandfather who was German Jewish?
... that in Holy Trinity Church, Warrington, is a brass chandelier which formerly hung in St Stephen's Chapel in the British House of Commons?
... that publisher Gopal Raju, considered a pioneer of ethnic media in the United States, founded India Abroad, which claims to be the oldest Indian American newspaper in North America?
... that the Klaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant in Klaipėda, Lithuania, constructed during the late 1990s and early 2000s, is the first geothermal heating plant in the Baltic Sea region?

02:17, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Eisenstein holding a skull made of sugar. Skulls and skeletons appeared in ¡Que Viva México! depicting the Day of the Dead festival.

... that Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein (pictured) shot many miles of film in Mexico with the backing of American author Upton Sinclair to make ¡Qué viva México!?
... that the military prowess of the Tulunid dynasty of Arab Egypt was due to its multi-ethnic army composed of Turkish people, Sudanese, and Greek soldiers?
... that a nuclear bomb test that significantly fails to produce its estimated yield is called a fizzle?
... that the Yan emperor Shi Chaoyi committed suicide to avoid capture, and that after his death, his head was delivered to the Tang Dynasty capital Chang'an?
... that Theodore O'Hara's Bivouac of the Dead, popularized in American Civil War memorials, was actually written for fallen Kentucky soldiers in Latin America a decade before the War?
... that William Miles Maskell was a New Zealandic farmer and entomologist who advocated biological pest control?
... that Harold Dow Bugbee of Texas sought to become the premier artist of the South Plains, as Charles M. Russell became for the northern Great Plains?

10 May 2008

15:39, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

... that after surviving a dynamite attack in 1896, fraternity parties in the 1940s, and an earthquake in 1994, Stimson House (pictured) is now a convent for Catholic nuns?
... that Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar was the first Mayor of Chennai Corporation, after the mayoralty was reinstated in 1933?
... that U.S. shipping company Sealift Incorporated has been awarded over US$400,000,000 in government contracts since the start of the 2000 fiscal year?
... that Bahá'í Faith in Niger began during a period of wide scale growth in the religion across Sub-Saharan Africa near the end of its colonial period?
... that Albert Kidd scored two goals in the last 10 minutes of the 1985-86 Scottish football season to deny Hearts the championship, despite having not scored in the whole season until then?
... that the Champion passenger train connected New York City and St. Petersburg, Florida for forty years before Amtrak consolidated it with its former rival the Silver Meteor?

08:28, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (pictured) was the first African-American to sing at Carnegie Hall?
... that the book Fear by Jan T. Gross has been a subject of significant controversy in Poland?
... that the Central Eurasian Studies Society is the first society for Central Asian scholars based in North America?
... that De Doctrina Christiana, identified as John Milton's attempt to define his own particular Christian theology, was suppressed by the government of the day and not published until 150 years after his death?
... that Valda Cooper became the first female managing editor of any daily newspaper in New Mexico?
... that Louisville, Kentucky's first rock and roll venue, in Lake Dreamland, may have been burned down by an angry resident?

01:41, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the portrait bust of the Beriah Magoffin Monument (pictured) in Harrodsburg, Kentucky was built in Neoclassical style, a style more commonly used a century before the monument was constructed?
... that in 1686 Michael Shen Fu-Tsung, a Jesuit convert from Nanking, arrived at the court of James II and became the first recorded Chinese person to visit Britain?
... that in the Jilava Massacre, perpetrated in Romania in 1940, 64 prisoners were shot to death, including a former prime minister, justice minister, and chief of secret police?
... that Indian film director Nitin Bose, who directed the blockbuster Ganga Jamuna in 1961, had introduced playback singing in Indian cinema in 1935?
... that during the Liberian Civil Wars over 5,000 artifacts were looted from the Liberian National Museum but a 250-year-old dining table given as a gift from Queen Victoria to Liberia's first President remains?
... that Raleigh Springs Mall in Memphis, Tennessee lost three of its four anchor stores (JCPenney, Dillard's and Goldsmith's) all in the same year?
... that Flaithbertach Ua Néill, king of Ailech in Ireland, was called Flaithbertach an Trostáin, Flaithbertach of the Pilgrim's staff, as a result of his pilgrimage to Rome in 1030?

9 May 2008

16:44, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

... that William H. Mumler claimed to take a photograph (pictured) showing Mary Todd Lincoln with the spirit of her deceased husband, Abraham Lincoln?
... that besides training its own officers, the Pakistan Naval Academy has trained over 2000 officers of allied navies including the Chief of Naval Staff of the Qatar Emiri Navy?
... that the United States Forest Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife partnered with the Paisley, Oregon community to restore the Chewaucan River habitat for native redband trout?
... that French Jesuit missionary and mathematician Guy Tachard was involved in embassies to Siam, which came as responses to embassies sent by the Siamese King Narai to France in order to obtain an alliance against the Dutch?
... that the Schweizer SGP 1-1 glider was launched by an elastic bungee cord, originally pulled by children and later by a Ford Model A car?
... that Governor of Italian Libya Italo Balbo brought 20,000 Italians to Libya in 1938, founding 26 new villages for them, in an attempt to colonise it?
... that bouclé is a type of novelty yarn that uses special plying techniques to obtain its charateristic loopy appearence?

09:54, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1687 Philippe Couplet published Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (pictured), the first known Western translation of a Chinese literary work?
... that tourism in Kenya is the country's second largest source of foreign revenue?
... that the Buckeye is the only U.S. breed of chicken known to have been created by a woman?
... that the TARDIS broke while filming the final scene of the Doctor Who episode "The Poison Sky"?
... that a story in Janna's 13th-century Kannada classic Yashodhara Charite deals with sadomasochism and transmigration of the soul?
... that the land acquisitions for the Southern Railway's Spencer Shops in 1896 were secretly done to prevent land speculation?
... that anthropologist Therkel Mathiassen described Comer's Midden as the only substantial find of pure Thule culture in Greenland?
... that the revitalized Historic District of Apex, North Carolina has been described as a "Gucci Mayberry"?
... that legendary princess Yennenga, the "mother" of the Mossi people, was such a great warrior that her father refused to allow her to marry?
... that publication of Malaysian newspaper Makkal Osai was suspended following its printing of a caricature of Jesus holding a cigarette and a can of beer?

02:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

... that a tornado outbreak (damage pictured) produced up to 3 inch (76 mm) diameter hail near Midwest City, Oklahoma?
... that Simbolul was a Romanian literary magazine published by Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco, later two of Dadaism's founders, while they were still in high school?
... that the Chicago Blackhawks, with the longest active Stanley Cup drought in the National Hockey League, last won the Cup in the 1960–61 season?
... that as a result of dog shows, dog fanciers established stud books and began refining breeds from the various types of dogs in use?
... that although Lookdown are common in tropical Atlantic waters, they are rarely seen in the Greater Antilles?
... that Ronald Joy was an English cricketer, who played eight County Championship matches in the 1928 season?
... that the Indian Coast Guard estimates more than 100 fishing boats and an unknown number of fishermen annually stray across the territorial waters of India and Pakistan?
... that the most popular tourist attraction in Omaha has been voted the best zoo in America, with the largest cat complex in North America?

8 May 2008

18:45, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Sark Windmill (pictured), built in 1571, is the oldest surviving windmill in the Channel Islands?
... that Joseph M. Street, a 19th century American pioneer, was present at the signing of the peace treaty ending the Winnebago War?
... that following the Darwin Rebellion of December 1918, HMAS Encounter was sent to Darwin to protect Administrator John Gilruth and his family?
... that troops of Tadayoshi Sano, a lieutenant general for the Imperial Japanese Army, were reported to have committed atrocities against civilians in Hong Kong and British prisoners of war?
... that, during a Fersommling, the only language spoken is Pennsylvania Dutch and that anyone who speaks English has to pay a fine for each word?
... that the French stormed the Bagration flèches eight times during the Battle of Borodino in 1812?
... that Canadian radio broadcaster Clyde Gilmour hosted a weekly national show for more than 40 years, presenting from his substantial personal music collection?
... that in 1789 Spain seized the British sloop Princess Royal, nearly causing a war, then used the vessel to explore the Strait of Juan de Fuca, finding the San Juan Islands and the entrances to Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia?

12:38, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Benjamin Motte published many famous works such as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (pictured) and the first English edition of Isaac Newton's Principia, an edition that became the standard translation for over 200 years?
... that the obscure mealybug, a pest of vineyards in New Zealand and California, is believed to have been introduced from Australia or South America?
... that the present-day city of Davenport, Iowa is named after George Davenport, a 19th century American frontiersman, trader and US Army officer?
... that the Tamil film Thyagabhoomi is the only Indian film banned by the British Raj for propagating the cause of India's freedom struggle?
... that Daniel Carter Beard's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark?
... that it was rumored that some seals escaped Minneapolis's Longfellow Zoological Gardens into nearby Minnehaha Creek?
... that the forthcoming Tamil film Guru En Aalu, starring Madhavan and Mamta Mohandas, is a remake of the 1997 film Yes Boss?

01:14, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

... that McCarty Church (pictured) in Los Angeles gained attention for its pastor's decision to racially integrate his white Protestant church in the mid-1950s?
... that Bradford City footballers Geoff Smith and George Mulholland each played more than 200 consecutive appearances for the club during the 1950s?
... that Salt Lake City-based robotics firm Sarcos is developing a military powered exoskeleton allowing wearers to easily lift 200 pounds (91 kg)?
... that in 1847 French Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille sent a captain to attack Vietnam to obtain the release of a bishop, not knowing the bishop had already been freed?
... that a riot reportedly instigated by writer André Breton broke out during the 1923 premiere of Tristan Tzara's Le Cœur à gaz, a play written as a nonsensical dialog between human body parts?
... that in 1994 Martin Doherty became the first person to be killed in the Republic of Ireland by loyalist paramilitaries since 1975?
... that inscriptions found on a stone pillar in the village of Talagunda in India describe the rise of the Kadamba dynasty?
... that the Silky Sifaka is a white, diurnal rainforest sifaka found solely within a small area of northeastern Madagascar?

7 May 2008

18:17, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

... that in spite of its similar appearance to the European Robin, the colourful Rose Robin (pictured) of southeastern Australia is more closely related to the crow family?
... that Andayya's 13th century Kannada work Kabbigara Kava is considered important for its strict adherence to the indigenous Kannada language?
... that the sacrifice of Jean Cadieux on behalf of his companions during an Iroquois attack in 1707 is still commemorated by the inhabitants of Calumet Island?
... that Lena Guerrero, who became a Texas state legislator at twenty-five, was the first non-Anglo person to have served on the Texas Railroad Commission?
... that Robert the Devil, an operatic parody by W. S. Gilbert of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable, ends with the devil being punished by becoming part of the exhibit at Madame Tussaud's?
... that VFL footballer Charlie Moore, the first Australian to die of gunshot wounds in the Boer War, played in the 1898 VFL Grand Final against Stan Reid, who died in the same war six weeks later?
... that the Stöðulög laws of 1871 declared Iceland an inseparable part of Denmark?
... that the 18th century American soldier Isaac Bowman, his father George Bowman, and his grandfather Jost Hite were all prominent pioneers in the Colony of Virginia?

09:44, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the windmill at South Barrule, Isle of Man (pictured) worked an incline on a railway at a slate quarry?
... that Shabdamanidarpana, a comprehensive and authoritative work on the grammar of the Kannada language, was written in the 13th century by the Indian linguist and poet Kesiraja?
... that the 1927 disappearance of the French biplane The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc), in an attempt to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, is one of the great unexplained mysteries of aviation?
... that English football full back Alfred Bower was the last amateur player to captain the English national team in 1927?
... that screenwriter Daniel Knauf's polio-afflicted father was the inspiration for his television series Carnivàle?
... that a majority of the 114 killed in the 1994 Gowari stampede at Nagpur were women and children crushed to death under the crowd’s feet?
... that according to Brunei folklore Nakhoda Manis disrespected his mother, which caused a storm to sink his ship in the Brunei River, transforming the ship into the rock known as Jong Batu?
... that Elizabethan mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright is said to be "the only Fellow of Caius ever to be granted sabbatical leave in order to engage in piracy"?

00:33, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Aberdour Castle (pictured), with parts dating from around 1200, is one of the two oldest datable standing castles in Scotland?
... that Kim Swoo Geun, a leading South Korean architect, was referred to as "Lorenzo de Medici of Seoul" by Time for his contributions to Korean culture?
... that the Bevier House Museum in Marbletown, New York includes the earliest known land grant map for Ulster County?
... that the lawsuit Motte v. Faulkner in 1735 was a legal dispute over the right to publish Jonathan Swift's complete works and its outcome was viewed by Swift as another example of English oppression?
... that although there is no commercial mining in Equatorial Guinea, 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of gold were retrieved in 2006?
... that Swedish soldier Charles F. Henningsen participated in civil wars and independence movements in Spain, Nicaragua, Hungary and the United States, but died without ever winning any of the causes for which he fought?
... that the distribution company Bunzl once held a virtual monopoly on the manufacture of cigarette filters in the U.K.?

6 May 2008

16:48, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

... that in April 2008, Forbes listed Omid Tahvili (pictured) as one of the world's ten most wanted fugitives?
... that Dr. Seuss's The Seven Lady Godivas is one of his few books written for adults, and though it was initially a failure when first published in 1939, original editions have sold for upwards of US$300?
... that L'Insoumis, a film noir alluding to the Algerian war, was Alain Delon's first real failure despite his acclaimed performance?
... that the Pinchot Sycamore, a centuries-old American sycamore, is the largest tree in Connecticut?
... that ablative brain surgery, which involves destroying brain tissue by heat or freezing, was used until recently in the People's Republic of China to treat people with schizophrenia?
... that Winkhurst Kitchen and Titchfield Market Hall, which are now at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, Sussex, have been dismantled and re-erected twice?
... that the Congressional Bowl is one of two new college football bowl games that will be played in the United States this year?

10:20, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Jane Loftus, Marchioness of Ely (pictured) was one of Queen Victoria's closest ladies-in-waiting for nearly forty years?
... that Rosetta Genomics Ltd. is a molecular diagnostics company that uses micro-ribonucleic acid biomarkers to develop diagnostic tests designed to differentiate between various types of cancer?
... that the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church?
... that at only five weeks old, Flocke the polar bear cub from Nuremberg Zoo was touted by Bild to be the future "Mrs. Knut"?
... that when the first indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in southern Florida 15,000 years ago, the region was an arid sandy landscape?
... that visiting Cistercian monks could extend the hospitality of Stratford Langthorne Abbey, near London, by supplying wine and beer for themselves and oats and hay for their horses?
... that the Mark Eden bust developer, a product claimed to enlarge women's breasts, actually worked by increasing the pectoral and back muscles?

03:59, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the Moscow Kremlin's Church of the Deposition (pictured) is named after a Byzantine tradition that the robe of the Virgin Mary was taken to Constantinople?
... that the Galena Historic District in Illinois, USA, includes more than a thousand historic properties and occupies as much as 85 percent of the city of Galena?
... that in Claude Ashton's only international appearance for the English national football team, he captained the squad?
... that the 12th century Kannada poet Harihara was initially an accountant in the Hoysala court?
... that restoration of the Old Savannah School House was the first project undertaken by the National Trust for the Cayman Islands after its creation?
... that the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of New York used the first recorded baseball uniform in 1849?

5 May 2008

21:58, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

... that in St Peter's Church, Heysham, Lancashire, is a Viking hogback stone, and in the churchyard is the base of an Anglo-Saxon cross (pictured)?
... that as General Secretary of the Mexican railroad workers union, Demetrio Vallejo renounced his salary of 20,000 pesos a month, requesting it be turned over to the railway union treasury?
... that the 1842 Lombard Street Riot capped thirteen years of recurring racial violence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
... that after Roche MacGeoghegan, Bishop of Kildare, died in 1644, his library was divided between his diocese and the Dominican Order?
... that excavations of the Cherokee town Tallassee, burnt down during the Chickamauga Wars and submerged by an artificial lake since 1957, uncovered evidence of habitation as early as the Woodland period?
... that Kisan Kanya made by Ardeshir Irani in 1937 is India's first indigenously made color film?
... that Omaha's zoo was renamed in honor of longtime Omaha World-Herald publisher Henry Doorly in 1963?

13:58, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Oregon's Warrior Rock Light (pictured) operated uneventfully for 80 years until it was struck by a barge in 1969?
... that forces of the Dutch West India Company captured Axim in present-day Ghana and signed a treaty with the local West Africans in 1642 to become the major European power in the Gold Coast region?
... that Frank Ford, an organic food farmer in Deaf Smith County, Texas, was the chief advertising spokesman for the health foods industry during its founding decades of the 1960s and the 1970s?
... that Lithuanian nobleman Feodor Ostrogski was a governor of Volhynia, a region of Ukraine?
... that the Ilmin Museum of Art is an art museum of South Korea, located on Sejongno, Jongno-gu, central district of Seoul where royal palaces and gates of Joseon dynasty are also situated?
... that some scholars believe that John Wannuaucon Quinney was the originator of the term Native American?

02:51, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the 122-year old Baltimore Steam Packet Company ("Old Bay Line") (pictured) was the last overnight steamship service in the U.S. when it ceased operation in 1962?
... that China and Peru are expected to sign a free trade agreement during the 2008 APEC summit?
... that the tiny Dinkey Train of only a passenger coach and dummy engine went to Mammoth Cave?
... that in February 2008, rugby league player Dan Dempsey was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players?
... that eight buildings in Newport, Rhode Island's Bellevue Avenue Historic District are designated as National Historic Landmarks, in addition to the district itself?
... that HNoMS Honningsvåg was a German fishing trawler captured in the Norwegian Campaign and served the Royal Norwegian Navy throughout World War II?
... that Spanish American cardiologist Valentin Fuster is the only cardiologist to receive all four major research awards from the world's four major cardiovascular organizations?

4 May 2008

19:58, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the steam yacht Gondola (pictured) on Coniston Water is thought to be the inspiration for Captain Flint's houseboat in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons?
... that the May 30, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake was also felt at Samarkand in Uzbekistan, Islamabad in Pakistan, and Dushanbe in Tajikistan?
... that the late actress and theatrical producer, Madeline Lee Gilford, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy Era, is scheduled to appear in the forthcoming 2008 film, Sex and the City?
... that Sabr is the Islamic virtue of patience and endurance?
... that the Roanoke Apartments, which opened as Roanoke's largest apartment complex, are an example of Streamline Moderne architecture?
... that Mathilde Ludendorff, a leader in the German Völkisch movement, claimed astrology was part of a Jewish effort to enslave the Germans?
... that an uncle of Christopher Columbus served as a keeper of Genoa's Torre della Lanterna?
... that the spirits of a wealthy rancher and his Indian wife have been seen and heard since the 1920s at Leonis Adobe, according to TV show Most Haunted?

12:17, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Turkey was so dissatisfied with its first set of stamps that it had France make the second set (example pictured)?
... that a shrew's fiddle was used to punish women who were caught fighting or arguing in Germany and Austria, often until both women agreed to stop bickering?
... that a 150 year-old weeping beech tree, considered to be the source of weeping beeches in the United States and declared a landmark in 1966, was located in Weeping Beech Park at Kingsland Homestead in Queens, New York?
... that in February 2008, rugby league player Brian Hambly was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players?
... that Samuel Johnson failed to get a job at Brewood Grammar School because headmaster William Budworth was concerned with Johnson's head movements?
... that Lopez and Pico Adobes, built near the San Fernando Mission, are the oldest residences in San Fernando Valley, California?
... that the Denver Broncos, who made the National Football League playoffs seventeen times between 1977 and 2005, did not make the playoffs at all in their first seventeen seasons?

06:14, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the photographs taken of Peter Jones in 1845 (pictured) are the oldest surviving photographs of a North American Indian?
... that the Old Stone House is the oldest standing building in Washington, D.C.?
... that despite nine hundred Roman Catholic churches being built in England in the fifty years after 1791, St John the Baptist's Church in Brighton was only the fourth to be consecrated since the Reformation?
... that U-boat commander Heinrich Bleichrodt refused to wear his Knight's Cross until his subordinate, Reinhard Suhren received one as well?
... that NASCAR took away the first win for its all-time winningest driver at Lakewood Speedway after his father protested the scoring?
... that despite never making landfall, remnant moisture from Hurricane Madeline in 1998 contributed to severe flooding in central Texas which killed 32 people?
... that the annual Chembuduppu festival at St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally is held in commemoration of non-Christians bringing rice to feed hundreds of voluntary labourers during its construction?

00:08, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the herb Forsskaolea tenacissima was so named by Carl Linnaeus because it was as stubborn and persistent as his student Peter Forsskål (pictured) had been?
... that Breed Street Shul, now vacant in a Hispanic part of Los Angeles, was the largest Orthodox synagogue in the western United States from 1915 to 1951?
... that "Guten Tag", the first single of German band Wir sind Helden featured a video which was a self-ironic statement against commercial music?
... that Raghavanka, a 12th century writer of Kannada literature, penned five classics just to expiate a sin his guru felt he had committed?
... that Omaha University was first located in the Redick Mansion of North Omaha's once-affluent Kountze Place suburb?
... that An Qingxu killed his father An Lushan, the Emperor of Yan, because he feared that his father would kill him and make his brother crown prince?
... that the first East Lake Community Library in Minneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront?

3 May 2008

18:05, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the English names for the towns of Brecon (pictured) and Cardigan derive from the names of Welsh mediaeval kingdoms, but the Welsh names for those same places refer to local rivers?
... that Tamil politician E. V. K. Sampath, nephew of Periyar, co-founded the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party?
... that the pumpman is the person aboard an oil tanker who maintains the liquid cargo system?
... that screenwriter Jamie Linden interpreted his winning of US$5,000 on game show The Price Is Right as a sign to relocate to Hollywood, California?
... that the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus?
... that Russell B. Cummings, as a member of the Texas House of Representatives in the 1960s, was credited with procuring passage of his state's open beach and kindergarten access laws?

12:03, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Rim Drive in Oregon, a scenic highway cited by the American Automobile Association as one of the ten most beautiful roads in the U.S., is a 33-mile loop that follows the caldera rim around Crater Lake (pictured)?
... that the Japanese virtual 3D massively multiplayer online social game Ai Sp@ce will launch in summer 2008 featuring interaction with bishōjo game characters?
... that Cormac mac Cuilennáin, bishop and king of Munster, later considered a saint, was killed in battle in 908 while leading an invasion of Leinster?
... that the Zimbabwe Open University is the largest university in Zimbabwe and the only distance education university in the country?
... that the Veteran's Monument in Covington in Kentucky is the state's only Civil War platform memorial and also the only one referring to that conflict as the "War Between the States"?
... that Frederick II of Prussia was elated by the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?

00:53, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

... that silva rerum (pictured) was a multi-generational chronicle kept by many Polish noble families from the 16th through 18th centuries?
... that the 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft's boyhood home almost became a funeral parlor?
... that male prostitutes in Pakistan generally range from fifteen to twenty-five years of age?
... that, in a bid to remain in power, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos asked his Labor Minister Blas Ople to reach out to the Soviet Union?
... that Raymond Berry is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1973, eleven years before he became the Patriots' head coach?
... that Shnaim Ohazin was an Israeli Educational Television show that taught basic concepts from the Talmud with fictionalized time travel segments?
... that councilman Larry Gossett works in an office at the King County Courthouse in King County, Washington, located exactly where he was jailed for unlawful assembly after a 1968 sit-in?

2 May 2008

16:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the Berthouville Treasure (pictured) of first- and second-century Roman silver was uncovered accidentally by a farmer's plough in 1830?
... that English engineer Roy Lunn was responsible for the development of the Ford Mustang I and the first American 4WD cars?
... that the main tourist attractions of Botswana are its game reserves?
... that despite over 85% of American Indian students giving it their support, the mascot controversy at Humboldt High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of its Indians mascot?
... that some Bahá'í prayers have been translated into more than five hundred languages?
... that Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman was the first feature film to be directed by a black lesbian?
... that the Failing Office Building in Portland, Oregon is named after a mayor of Portland and built by a locally prominent architecture firm?

10:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the art deco Burbank City Hall (pictured), with murals by Hugo Ballin, uses more than twenty types of marble in its main lobby?
... that the flora of Scotland includes the world's tallest hedge, a yew which may be Europe's oldest tree, and Dughall Mor ("big dark stranger") – Britain's tallest tree?
... that the dialogues for the Tamil film Parasakthi were penned by M. Karunanidhi who later became the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu?
... that a scrapped demolition proposal for the Baytown Tunnel in Baytown, Texas would have utilized former pieces of its structure in the creation of an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico?
... that the first organized postal system in India was established between the British East India Company factories at Madras and Calcutta during the tenure of Edward Harrison?
... that Maher Arar was deported to Syria and tortured after being wrongly identified as an "Islamic Extremist" by Project O Canada?
... that wildlife biologist Olaus Murie was the first American Fulbright Scholar to study in New Zealand?

03:12, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Pogórzanie (pictured) are an ethnic group of Poles from the Subcarpathian Voivodeship?
... that Clarence Hailey Long, a ranch foreman in the Texas Panhandle, was the inspiration for the original Marlboro Man advertising campaign by Philip Morris?
... that prison contemplative programs like meditation were used in 19th century Pennsylvania as an early prison reform?
... that after 12 years of legal tussling over delays and cost overruns on the Taipei Metro Muzha Line, the Taipei City Government was ordered to compensate its contractor Matra for US$50 million?
... that Minneapolis businessman Robert "Fish" Jones drove Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman down Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on their post-war tours?
... that the Doctor Who episode "The Sontaran Stratagem" is the first appearance of the eponymous aliens since the 1985 serial The Two Doctors?
... that the Lynchburg Ferry in Lynchburg, Texas is the oldest operating ferry service in Texas?

1 May 2008

19:59, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

... that on every May 1, the hamlet of Ickwell celebrates May Day with dancing around a Maypole (pictured) and with the crowning of a May Queen?
... that Ben Gold was just 14 years old when he was elected assistant shop chairman by his local union during the first furriers' strike in the United States?
... that the Abyssinian slave Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut was a close adviser and speculated to be the lover of Razia Sultana, the first and only female Sultan of Delhi?
... that by using the Bevatron and nuclear emulsion technique, Sulamith Goldhaber was the first person to observe nuclear interactions of the antiproton?
... that Durum wheat was used to make al-fidawsh, a dry pasta popular in Muslim Spain?
... that the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company was the second largest steel manufacturer in the USA before it merged with U.S. Steel in 1907?

13:45, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

... that Steven Spielberg filmed much of Amistad in Newport's downtown historic district because it has enough colonial buildings (pictured) to resemble 1840s New Haven?
... that the ground living warblers in the genus Tesia appear to almost lack a tail and have very long legs?
... that the people of the planet Krikkit are the main antagonists in the Douglas Adams novel, Life, the Universe and Everything?
... that within the Special Economic Zone SEEPZ, Mumbai lies an abandoned Portuguese church built in 1579?
... that Jane Addams, Mother Jones and Abe Fortas have all made notable contributions to the history of children's rights in the United States?
... that the Piliyandala bombing of April 25, 2008 was the deadliest attack on a commuter bus in Sri Lanka since the January 16 Buttala attack?
... that the Tregenna Castle Hotel in St Ives, Cornwall was the Great Western Railway's first holiday destination hotel?

06:17, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the bombardment of Brussels by French troops (ruins pictured) in 1695 was later described by Napoleon Bonaparte as being "as barbarous as it was useless"?
... that the Transition Towns movement inspired Totnes, England to introduce their own town-wide currency redeemable only in local shops?
... that anarchist Internet archive Spunk Library was once falsely accused of collaborating with the terrorist guerrilla outfit Red Army Faction?
... that in Grosvenor Park, in the city of Chester, is an archway which had been in the city's St Michael's Church?
... that Anna Maria Garthwaite, the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman, became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk-weaving trade in 18th century England?
... that Wade Phillips holds the best coaching record for the Atlanta Falcons, winning two out of the three games he coached?
... that Ratnakaravarni, the noted 16th-century Kannada poet of the Vijayanagara times, was an expert on erotic writings?

00:13, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

... that the Purna-Kalasha (pictured), worshipped by Hindus as the Divine Mother, symbolizes Mother Earth with her water, minerals and vegetation?
... that a fossil plesiosaur skull named Kimmerosaurus may be the missing head of a Colymbosaurus?
... that Richard Honaker, Bush nominee for U.S. District Judge in Wyoming, washed dishes in a work-study program while studying at Harvard University with future comedian Al Franken?
... that in 2007 the Royal Australasian College of Physicians revoked the teaching accreditation of Shellharbour Hospital due to a lack of senior staff?
... that Norwegian sociologist Ingrid Eide was also a United Nations official and a politician for the Norwegian Labour Party?
... that the first refuge from malaria that residents of Memphis, Tennessee had in 1878 was Bowling Green, Kentucky's Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station?
... that Heinrich Böll's humorous short story Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral was written for a May Day broadcast on the Norddeutscher Rundfunk?