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30 November 2010

18:00, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

... that William J. Olcott (pictured), captain of the 1882 and 1883 Michigan Wolverines football teams, became the president of a railroad and a mining company?
... that Hudson's Bay Company officials learned of the 1709 Franco-Indian attack on their company's trading post at Fort Albany from uninvolved Mohawks who were visiting London?
... that despite being less than 1 mile (1.6 km) long, Washington State Route 433 is considered a Highway of Statewide Significance by the Washington State Department of Transportation?
... that the eleven Hindu deities, the Rudras, are associated with the ten vital energies of the body and the soul, and their departure is said to cause death and tears?
... that Louisiana Tech University sociologist Robert O. Trout was his state's delegate to the 1961 White House Conference on Aging?
... that due to the Scottish football referee strike, foreign officials from Israel, Luxembourg and Malta were used as replacements?
... that Tom the Great Sebastian, founded in 1950, was one of the first Jamaican sound systems?

12:00, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

... that 3 million square feet of perforated steel plates were assembled in 1942 on Umnak Island (pictured), Alaska, to build an aircraft landing strip?
... that schoolteacher Justus H. Rathbone developed the idea for founding the Knights of Pythias while reading the play, "Damon and Pythias" in the Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse?
... that all but one of the 1984 Winter Olympic venues were damaged during the Bosnian War and the Siege of Sarajevo?
... that the British Member of Parliament Percy Jewson was chairman of the Lawn Tennis Association?
... that a spring in the town of Tedef al-Yahud, Syria, is said to have been used by Ezra the Scribe 2,400 years ago?
... that racing wins by the American racehorse Luke McLuke, including the Belmont Stakes, made owner John Schorr the leading owner for 1914 and his son, J.F. Schorr, the leading trainer?
... that Major-General Robert Fanshawe was sacked after his successful defence in the 1918 Battle of Asiago, because his commander objected to his use of a defence in depth strategy?

06:00, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the asteroid 1536 Pielinen is named after Pielinen Lake (pictured) in Finland?
... that three of the four largest power stations in the world are in South America?
... that Aquila bullockensis, an extinct species of bird, is the oldest known true eagle from Australia?
... that the second single by French punk rock band Marie et les Garçons was produced in New York by John Cale, formerly of the Velvet Underground?
... that the sea slug Aiteng ater feeds on insects?
... that a 1953 strike organized by the plantation workers trade union Sarbupri forced the Indonesian government to raise wages of estate labourers by 30%?
... that the Armadillo, an armoured fighting vehicle extemporised by the British in 1940, used a layer of gravel to protect its crew?

00:00, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

... that with a death toll of 247 people, the Heppner Flood of 1903 (pictured) remains the deadliest natural disaster in Oregon, and the third deadliest flash flood in the entire United States?
... that former Palauan Senate President Peter Sugiyama's wife Akiko Sugiyama was the first woman ever elected to the Palau National Congress?
... that Trawscoed fort was explored using fluxgate gradiometer surveys?
... that while staying at their estate near the Black Sea, George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg and his family witnessed the 1905 battleship Potemkin revolt?
... that pitcher Danny McDevitt shutout the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 24, 1957, in the final game the Dodgers played in Brooklyn before owner Walter O'Malley moved the team to Los Angeles?
... that Speedway Motorsports president Marcus G. Smith started working by picking up trash at Charlotte Motor Speedway?
... that the Kriegsmarine attributed the sinking of U-168 in the Java Sea to the presence of the crew's Indonesian girlfriends on board for a party?

29 November 2010

18:00, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Mort Senter (pictured), Michigan's 1896 football captain, became involved in a diplomatic incident after Colombian soldiers seized property from his home in 1902?
... that an amendment to the Malian Family Code seeking to increase women's rights was sent back to the parliament of Mali amidst a storm of protest?
... that after the collapse of American cotton exports in the 1860s, Azerbaijan became a large-scale cotton producer, often planting it rather than food crops?
... that Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, and his brother Prince Leopold caused a national scandal when Charles suggested that Leopold marry a commoner?
... that the lift jets on the Hawker Siddeley HS.141 airliner were expected to provide a safety margin in case the V/STOL aircraft's main engines failed?
... that West Indian batsman Brian Lara came out of retirement to play in the 2010–11 Stanbic Bank 20 Series, a Twenty20 cricket tournament in Zimbabwe?
... that fortune telling fraud is a confidence game that involves persuading victims that they suffer from a curse?

12:00, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

... that medieval Mramorje necropolis (pictured) in Serbia once contained about 200 tombstones, while most of them are now dislocated, or have been swept away by the Drina river?
... that Tom McMillan became the first alumnus of Jacksonville University to play in a Major League Baseball game when he made his debut with the Seattle Mariners in 1977?
... that the exterior decoration of the medieval Church of Christ Pantocrator in Nesebar on the Bulgarian coast prominently features swastikas?
... that Nathan Witt, U.S. National Labor Relations Board Secretary from 1937 to 1940, drove a taxicab for two years so he could earn enough money to attend Harvard Law School?
... that freedom of religion in Singapore, which is guaranteed by Article 15 of the Constitution of Singapore, may be restricted by a general law relating to public order, public health or morality?
... that the University of Florida's Lady Gators golf team has won eight SEC team championships, eight SEC individual championships, and sent almost twenty players to the LPGA?
... that there are only around 100 Western Ground Parrots left?

06:00, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

... that more than 500,000 Jewish Americans served in the United States armed services during World War II (one soldier's grave pictured), and roughly 52,000 received military awards?
... that The Indian Stammering Association filed a court petition against the makers of a Bollywood comedy film that portrays people who stammer as objects of ridicule?
... that the pilot episode for South of Nowhere, which is set in a high school, was actually filmed in a prison?
... that the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan, Nasr ibn Sayyar, hoped to ease resentment among local Muslims by streamlining the province's tax system?
... that the first hybrid electric double-decker to be built was operated in London on route 141?
... that Major-General Thomas Marden was knighted for helping to defuse the Chanak Crisis, a confrontation between the British Army and Turkish revolutionaries in 1922?
... that A Jewish Girl in Shanghai, an animated film set in and around the Shanghai Ghetto, has been described as "China’s first homegrown Jewish film"?
... that Jack Ness had a 49-game baseball hitting streak that stood as a league record until it was broken by Joe DiMaggio?

00:00, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

A grey stone church on a corner site, with a prominent tower topped with a stone spire

... that when Central Methodist Church (pictured) in Eastbourne was completed, some worshippers were hauled to the top of the spire in a box to eat a celebratory breakfast?
... that the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1574 at the first session held outside its New York City headquarters in 14 years?
... that during one of his campaigns, the troops of Umayyad general Sulayman ibn Hisham suffered so much due to disease and famine that many defected to the Byzantines and converted to Christianity?
... that the comedic poetry album Tim Key. With a String Quartet. On a Boat. was made available only as a digital download and 1,000 vinyl records?
... that the Temagami greenstone belt in Ontario was the site of the largest deposit of nearly pure chalcopyrite ever discovered in Canada?
... that Bill Krieg, Emil Frisk, and Joe Riggert won a combined seven batting titles and are considered to be the best minor league baseball players of their respective eras?
... in January 1944, fighters of No. 73 Wing participated in the two largest raids mounted by the RAAF to that time, attacking targets in New Britain?
... that with the money his aunt paid him not to attend university, which she considered a den of vice, Thomas Coke travelled to Italy, where the wife of Bonnie Prince Charles fell in love with him?

28 November 2010

18:00, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Milton Mausoleum in Nottinghamshire (pictured) served as a family mausoleum, but the nave was also used as a parish church until it closed in the 1950s?
... that the 19th-century antidisestablishmentarianist politician Sampson Lloyd married the daughter of a general in the Prussian Army?
... that Queen and Country is an artwork by Steve McQueen which commemorates the deaths of 155 British soldiers as a set of postage stamps?
... that National Labor Relations Board Chief Economist David J. Saposs was accused of being a Communist, and Congress defunded his position and division in October 1940?
... that the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) began offering Internet access to residents of Gilgit in 1999?
... that Ingeborg Borgerud, former jurist for the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, was lambasted by these unions some years later for a report about working environment?
... that Oscar Wilde liked to stay at the Gilsey House Hotel in New York City?
... that Christian Steinmetz was the inaugural College Basketball Player of the Year in 1905, despite being only 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) tall and weighing 137 pounds (62 kg)?

12:00, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

... that NASA scientists have described Lake Untersee (pictured) in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, as one of the most unusual lakes on Earth with a pH like that of strong Clorox?
... that 9th-century Bulgarian first minister Isbul was so rich that he constructed and donated buildings to the monarch Malamir himself?
... that Jake Adelstein was the first American to work as a Japanese language reporter for a Japanese newspaper?
... that before the flight test program of the Sikorsky S-60 flying crane was completed, its successor was already on the drawing board?
... that Harold I. Cammer represented his legal partner, Nathan Witt, before HUAC in 1950 when his former legal partner, Lee Pressman, accused Witt of being a communist?
... that Pete Cimino once scored 114 points in a high school basketball game and then became a pitcher in Major League Baseball?
... that the Green Island Light was kept lit day and night during the Peshtigo Fire in a failed attempt to prevent a shipwreck?
... that up until 2010, Vanuatuan passports were still hand-written?

06:00, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

... that stingless bees put the slimy spore mass of the fungus Staheliomyces cinctus (pictured) into their pollen baskets?
... that Bach wrote in Weimar the opening chorus of his cantata for the First Sunday of Advent Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61, as a French overture?
... that for 14 years Moira Hoey played a character on television considered "the quintessential Irish mammy"?
... that physicist Gunnar Nordström's early death may have been caused by his passion for radioactivity and consequent use of water containing radioactive matter for sauna baths?
... that the Roman Villa Borg in Saarland, Germany, has recently been almost fully reconstructed, a century after its discovery?
... that three crew members were each given 50 "lashes with nine tails" after HMS Whiting was lost on the dangerous Doom Bar?
... that William Hohri helped fellow Japanese Americans interned during World War II get $20,000 each in compensation from the U.S. government, and then used his share to buy a Japanese-made car?
... that the format of the children's TV show Sesame Street was changed due to the success and popularity of the segment "Elmo's World"?

00:00, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

... that at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, every so often the sand recedes enough to allow the 19th century shipwreck of the King Philip clipper ship (pictured) to become visible?
... that an ancient quarry discovered near Jericho in 2009 by Israeli archaeologists may be depicted on the Byzantine era Madaba Map?
... that Howard Lester bought Williams-Sonoma in 1976 when it had four stores and sales of US$4 million and grew the company to annual sales of US$3.4 billion at 600 stores, including the Pottery Barn chain?
... that when Pennsylvania judge Cathy Bissoon was four years old, her father was stabbed to death near the family's home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn?
... that Stefano Bernardi composed a Te Deum for 12 choirs for the consecration of the Salzburg Cathedral in 1628?
... that the Chinese city of Yanji has two official languages, Chinese and Korean?
... that talent agent Martin Baum "packaged" together three of his clients – actor Sidney Poitier, director Ralph Nelson and screenwriter James Poe – who collaborated on the 1963 film Lilies of the Field?
... that in the 1960s and 1970s, Margrethe Munthe's popular children's songs were criticized for being too moralizing?

27 November 2010

18:00, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

A high-winged small aircraft flies overhead against a clear blue sky, its registration number able to be seen through its blue-and-yellow colors

... that a Rans S-6 Coyote II (example pictured), a type of homebuilt aircraft, has flown across the Atlantic Ocean twice?
... that the first woman to serve as a French Cabinet minister was Germaine Poinso-Chapuis in 1947?
... that Dinamo Zagreb footballer Mateo Kovačić became the youngest ever goalscorer in the Prva HNL in November 2010 at the age of 16 years and 198 days?
... that John Mills Houston, a stage actor, was one of 19 men selected to act as President Woodrow Wilson's honor guard during World War I?
... that French privateer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville died of yellow fever in Cuba on July 8, 1706 while organizing an attempt to capture the capital of the Province of Carolina (present-day South Carolina)?
... that because of his birth and marriage to a Russian princess, Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg was Russia's candidate to succeed Alexander, Prince of Bulgaria?
... that members of the segregated US 24th Infantry Regiment claimed that the regiment's achievements at the Battle of Sangju were not recognized due to racism?
... that five of the seven men killed when the St Ives Lifeboat was wrecked in January 1939 were survivors of a previous lifeboat wreck in January 1938?

12:00, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the 72-metre (236 ft) tall Laboe Naval Memorial (pictured) by the architect Gustav August Munzer was confiscated by the British Army after World War II?
... that although the Black Carts Turret Roman fortification is connected to Hadrian's Wall, it was probably built before the wall itself?
... that No. 71 Wing RAAF was active to the last day of World War II, flying its final mission only hours before news arrived of the Japanese surrender on 15 August 1945?
... that the Balaghat mine operated by MOIL Limited is the deepest underground manganese mine in Asia?
... that Wolfgang Schäfer, who succeeded Helmuth Rilling as professor of choral conducting for the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, is also part of the musical comedy trio BosArt?
... that the Cambridge Modern History, launched in 1902, went on to cover the history of the world up to 1910?
... that American musician Jennifer Frautschi plays an Antonio Stradivari violin known as the "ex-Cadiz," dated to 1722?
... that per his request, Ugandan environmentalist Ndyakira Amooti was buried without a coffin, his body wrapped in a palm-leaf mat?

06:00, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

... that it took 340 days to prepare 22 milligrams of berkelium (pictured) for the synthesis of 6 atoms of element 117, which took another 150 days?
... that Bagyi Aung Soe, now recognized as one of Burma's most important modern artists, lived in poverty and was considered by some to be mad?
... that The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, a merger of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, plans on redirecting Newsweek.com to The Daily Beast, despite the fact that the former website has higher web traffic?
... that when the former British Member of Parliament Warwick Brookes was declared bankrupt in 1931, he had debts of £50,000 but less than £300 in assets?
... that commando-style forces under Raymond Westerling, a Dutch army captain who led a counter-insurgency offensive in the Indonesian National Revolution, killed at least 5,000 Indonesians?
... that professional baseball player Juan Bernhardt hit the first home run in Seattle Mariners franchise history?
... that, in the late 8th and early 9th centuries, the Maya city of Sacul was one of the few kingdoms in the southeastern Petén region to use its own Emblem Glyph?
... that Texas State Rep. Edmund Kuempel, while under anesthesia from surgery, hung up on former U.S. President George W. Bush in 2009, not realizing who was on the phone?

00:00, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the totem pole (pictured) which welcomes visitors to the British Museum was documented for the museum by Rev. John Henry Keen years before it was purchased?
... that during World War II, the U.S. Navy planned to equip eighteen squadrons of assault drones with a thousand Interstate TDR and Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft?
... that the openly gay street scene in Mexico City's Zona Rosa has drawn comparisons with Barrio de Chueca in Madrid and the Castro District in San Francisco?
... that the Battle of Coral-Balmoral (12 May – 6 June 1968) was the largest unit-level action of the Vietnam War fought by the 1st Australian Task Force?
... that in the aftermath of the unsuccessful January Uprising, Polish insurgent Zygmunt Padlewski was captured and executed by the Russian authorities?
... that the ironclad HNLMS Koning der Nederlanden was the largest ship built for the Royal Netherlands Navy during the 19th century?
... that Guinean socialist politician Barry III was nicknamed "Little Elephant", due to the similarities of his political programme with that of Sékou Touré, whose nickname was "Elephant"?
... that accounts of the maritime history of Orissa say that the ancient ships were driven by steam engines and could travel underwater?

26 November 2010

18:00, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Jadeite Cabbage (pictured), a piece of jadeite carved into the shape of a Chinese cabbage with a locust and katydid camouflaged in the leaves, is the "most famous masterpiece" in Taiwan's National Palace Museum?
... that Cincinnati's Nast Trinity United Methodist Church was the first German Methodist Episcopal church in the world?
... that the 2007 home invasion murders in Cheshire, Connecticut, have been called "possibly the most widely publicized crime in the state's history"?
... that Cornell University labor law professor James A. Gross has worked as a labor relations mediator for the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball?
... that Adenanthos eyrei was formally named after Edward John Eyre, the first explorer known to have visited the only place where this Western Australian shrub has been found?
... that the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group traces its organizational lineage back to Carrier Division Two, which was initially commanded by legendary Fleet Admiral William "Bull" Halsey in 1937?
... that Commonwealth Games boxing gold medallist Simon Vallily was once a football trainee at Middlesbrough Football Club?
... that episodes of The Jimmy Durante Show ended with Durante's catchphrase, "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!" – a reference to his deceased first wife?

12:00, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Guisborough Helmet (pictured), an ancient Roman cavalry helmet discovered at Guisborough, North Yorkshire, was buried in mysterious circumstances far from any known Roman sites?
... that pitcher Jouett Meekin threw the first intentional walk in baseball history?
... that Regulus bulgaricus, the only fossil kinglet, is known from a single ulna?
... that the solo parts of Joseph Haydn's oratorio Die Schöpfung were performed by Elisabeth Scholl, Daniel Sans and Andreas Pruys in the Basilika of Schloss Johannisberg?
... that French record producer and executive Michel Esteban, who co-founded ZE Records in New York in 1978, is now the director of a cultural center in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil?
... that the foundation stones of Armstrong Chapel in Indian Hill, Ohio, are held together by earth rather than mortar?
... that when Bernard de Nonancourt, a French Resistance member and future head of Laurent-Perrier, uncovered Adolf Hitler's wine cellar, he found hundreds of cases of 1928 Champagne Salon looted from France?
... that some counseling sessions of the ex-gay group Homosexuals Anonymous included "desensitizing" naked massages, but led the men being counseled to begin having sexual encounters with each other?

06:00, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Parque Batlle is considered the "lungs" of the city of Montevideo (pictured) due to the large number of trees planted there?
... that in 2007 cashiers at Cencosud's Santa Isabel supermarkets in Chile were subject to strip searches, and many wore diapers because they had to work nine-hour shifts without bathroom breaks?
... that historian Dan Flores wrote a study of the Red River Expedition, which set out for the American Southwest in 1806 just as Lewis and Clark were returning from the Pacific Northwest?
... that the Douglas Aircraft Corporation's Cloudster II, intended for use as an executive transport, was powered by two engines but only had a single propeller?
... that Tim Smith was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in his school's first year as a conference member?
... that then-unknown singer Estelle featured on DJ Skitz's debut album in 2001?
... that in 1929 the Hudson Motor Car Company ranked third in total U.S. production by targeting budget minded buyers, but introduced the Greater Eight, a premium line of cars, at the height of the Depression?
... that the creator of Kaboom!'s villainous "Mad Bomber" also programmed a series of Brain Games that have been said to improve memory?

00:00, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the chemical element einsteinium was discovered in the debris of the Ivy Mike nuclear test (pictured) in 1952?
... that Dwayne Schintzius was the oldest player selected in the 2001 NBDL Supplemental Draft at 33 years old?
... that an animation database stores fragments of animations or human movements and can be used to re-assemble new animations?
... that the execution of Witold Pilecki, Polish Righteous among the Nations, was carried out by the Mokotów Prison Staff Sergeant Piotr Śmietański?
... that the Holyoke Building at the corner of First Avenue and Spring Streets in Downtown Seattle was the first permanent building to be completed after the Great Seattle fire of June 6, 1889?
... that in 1979, the Seattle Mariners team trainer was taking pitcher Byron McLaughlin's luggage through airport security when he was detained by authorities who discovered a .357 Magnum in his bag?
... that Gabriel Dessauer conducted in Wiesbaden the premiere of Max Reger's Hebbel Requiem in the organ version of Max Beckschäfer?
... that Beth Israel Congregation of Chester County, the first American synagogue to hire a woman as senior rabbi, is Conservative?

25 November 2010

18:00, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the 12th-century Church of St Nicholas (pictured) in Melnik, Bulgaria, may have owned and used one of the oldest extant church bells in Europe?
... that the Democratic Party of Guinea organ Le Phare de Guinée was closed down in 1949, as no printing press in Guinea dared to print it due to government pressure?
... that British company Wasp Motorcycles produces a special motorcycle sidecar designed for use by paraplegic motorcyclists?
... that among the drawings by Andreas Bloch are caricatures in satirical magazines and illustrations in Fridtjof Nansen's book on the Fram expedition?
... that United States lightship WAL 539 was the last lightvessel constructed for the United States Lighthouse Service before it became part of the Coast Guard?
... that besides the existence of 24 tracks recorded in 1928–29, the life of American classic female blues singer Bessie Tucker remains a mystery?
... that after right-wing, anti-Semite activist Ernst Werner Techow was released from jail he joined the French Foreign Legion and helped save hundreds of Jews during World War II?
... that actress and chanteuse Raquel Meller attempted to book a deluxe suite for her five Pekingese on a 1926 transatlantic voyage aboard the SS Leviathan?

12:00, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

... that in defying Spanish dominance, locals built a chapel at a higher elevation next to Fort Santa Cruz (pictured) in Oran, Algeria?
... that JFK in Ireland includes an account of a disagreement between John F. Kennedy and Éamon de Valera?
... that of the four German destroyers of the Type 1934 class, only Z4 Richard Beitzen survived World War II, while Z1 Leberecht Maass and Z3 Max Schulz were sunk in a friendly fire incident and Z2 Georg Thiele was scuttled at Narvik?
... that the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb celebrates its holiday on 3 May, in memory of the 1995 rocket attack in which its building was hit, killing a student?
... that a Roman road near Pertwood, unusually, was diverted around an ancient tumulus instead of going through it?
... that 500 kilometres (310 mi) separates populations of the shrub Adenanthos oreophilus?
... that only six of the U.S. Supreme Court's nine justices participated in a 1950 anti-communist oath case?
... that John Stanley Booth survived being wounded in the Battle of France and a tour of duty with Bomber Command, only to be killed when the aircraft he was flying struck a landing light?

06:00, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the only surviving Marion Model 91 steam shovel (pictured), in Le Roy, New York, may have been used to dig the Panama Canal?
... that both the British Royal Navy and German Kriegsmarine were dissatisfied with the results of the Action of 28 January 1945?
... that Nomo, Mercker, Milton, Verlander, Lester, Zambrano and Sánchez pitched the latest major league no-hitters for the Dodgers, Braves, Twins, Tigers, Red Sox, Cubs and Giants, respectively?
... that previous winners of Wayne Rooney's Street Striker have won trips to Brazil and South Africa?
... that unlike all later Winter Olympics, the venues of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, included separate bobsleigh and luge tracks used for competition?
... that a new fish species of the loach family was caught for the first time in 1993 in the Great Tenasserim River, located near the Burmese town of Tanintharyi?
... that, by 1900, there were so many Swedes in Omaha, Nebraska, that people started calling the north side of the city "Little Stockholm"?
... that after Armin Maiwald produced an award-winning children's film depicting his own childhood experience in the grim aftermath of WWII in Germany, he said he never wanted to see the film again?

00:00, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

... that in hippika gymnasia or Roman cavalry tournaments, riders wearing elaborate armour (helmet pictured) competed in teams to reenact battles from mythology such as those between the Greeks and Amazons?
... that after a long career as an educator, David Dwight Baldwin published historic lists of Hawaiian land snails and liverworts?
... that the Upper Tribunal, which can set precedent and enforce its decisions without intervention from the High Court of England and Wales, is the first UK tribunal with the power of judicial review?
... that on August 1, 2004, five Christian churches were car-bombed in Iraq within a few minutes of each another?
... that in March 1994, the communist-led Indian People's Front rallied tens of thousands of barefoot, starving workers, some of whom walked more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) to reach the venue?
... that James II prevented the Loyal Parliament of 1685 from meeting by repeatedly proroguing it between November 1685 and its dissolution in July 1687?
... that Norwegian hardingfele fiddler Arne Bjørndal played in more than 600 weddings and gave more than 1,000 concerts?
... that disputes between rival railway companies during the building of the Cleveland Railway became so intense that they led to a "battle" on the River Tees?

24 November 2010

18:00, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the orchid dupe wasp ejaculates visible amounts of semen as it tries to copulate with flowers of the leafless-, large- and tartan- (pictured) tongue orchids, which it mistakes for a female wasp?
... that Omar Cook and Will Conroy are the only two players to have been named to the All-NBA Development League Team three times?
... that after suppressing the Albanian Revolt of 1910, the Ottoman government prohibited publications written in the Albanian alphabet and closed the Albanian schools?
... that previous winners of the Nevada City Classic, the second-oldest bicycle race in the US, include Greg LeMond (1979–81) and Lance Armstrong (2009)?
... that the 1960 congress of the Popular Socialist Youth was the first occasion at which the Cuban motto "Fatherland or Death" was displayed in print?
... that United Nations forces had a decisive logistical advantage in the Battle of Pusan Perimeter in the Korean War, despite having no pre-established plan for fighting there?
... that Bruno Mars will drag a piano through Los Angeles in the music video for "Grenade"?
... that the 1887 Michigan Wolverines football team taught the members of the newly formed Notre Dame team how to play the game of football?

12:00, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

... that, though native to the River Amazon in South America, Leporinus fasciatus (pictured) has been introduced to the US states of Florida and Hawaii via aquarium releases?
... that the 2010 Bihar legislative assembly election takes place across six phases and over one month?
... that historian Jean A. Stuntz found that the Spanish legal system in Mexico and Texas gave much greater community property rights to women than were permitted in the original English colonies?
... that in each of the 2001 NBDL and 2006 NBA Development League Expansion drafts, there were four players selected who had previously been chosen in NBA Drafts?
... that the First-tier Tribunal in the United Kingdom hears cases on such diverse subjects as freedom of information, war pensions and operating licences for gambling companies?
... that the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy was the first United States organization focused on preserving rare breeds of livestock?
... that St John the Baptist's Church, Avon Dassett, Warwickshire, built in 1868, contains a coffin lid inscribed with the effigy of a 13th-century tonsured deacon?
... that Film Quarterly called the documentary The Truth According to Wikipedia "a sharp and wide-ranging overview of wiki-pistemology"?

06:00, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Ōkōchi Sansō (pictured), the villa of the Japanese film star Denjirō Ōkōchi, contains several buildings designated cultural properties by the Japanese government?
... that Henry Lambert of the Royal Navy fought the 36-gun French privateer Psyché twice in the same year with two different ships, drawing the first battle and winning the second?
... that Master of the Mix is a reality television elimination competition among disk jockeys vying for a US$250,000 Smirnoff contract?
... that Brutus Beefcake could not compete at the World Wrestling Federation's SummerSlam in 1990 after several bones in his face were broken in a parasailing accident?
... that the wings of Icarus in the painting The Lament for Icarus are based on the bird-of-paradise pattern?
... that minister Benjamin Rolfe, his wife and infant child were killed in an August 29, 1708 raid on Haverhill, Massachusetts, by a French and Indian force during Queen Anne's War?
... that Bay Rock Light, a lighthouse which originally stood on an islet northwest of Magnetic Island, near Townsville, Queensland, Australia, was relocated in 1992 to the Townsville Maritime Museum?
... that pitcher Fred Klobedanz once led the National League in winning percentage but, according to one analyst, actually deserved to have a losing record?

00:00, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the track cycling venue (pictured) used for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal was later converted into an indoor zoo?
... that Charles Ross, who commanded a British Army division during World War I, was the younger brother of a Nobel laureate and the author of five mystery novels?
... that several peaks of the Andean Cordillera de la Ramada, including the highest, Mercedario, were first climbed by a Polish expedition of 1934?
... that James Charles Fahey started self-publishing The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet when he thought editors were "butchering" his manuscripts?
... that the Swedish runestone Östergötland Runic Inscription MÖLM1960;230 is one of four runestones that mention guilds that existed in Sweden during the Viking Age?
... that Wyoming received four times as much money per person from the Homeland Security Grant Program as did California and New York?
... that although Janis Paige's sitcom It's Always Jan bombed, its cast included both Arte Johnson, who went on to fame in Laugh-In and Sid Melton in The Danny Thomas Show and Green Acres?
... that in his European Cup debut, German football goalkeeper Jens Ramme conceded 6 goals in 45 minutes, turning a 5–1 lead for Dynamo Dresden into a 7–5 defeat?

23 November 2010

18:00, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Amedeo Modigliani was commissioned to paint Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz (pictured) for "ten francs a sitting and a little alcohol"?
... that former college basketball standout Byron Larkin admitted that he "didn't put [his] best foot forward trying to make it" to the NBA?
... that the rowhouses at 322–344 East 69th Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side are a rare surviving group of the many rowhouses built after the completion of the Third Avenue El?
... that Kris Faafoi is the first New Zealand Member of Parliament of Tokelauan descent?
... that the magnitude of the 1881 Nicobar Islands earthquake has been estimated with records from tide gauges set up by the Great Trigonometric Survey?
... that the extinct arum family plants Petrocardium and Montrichardia aquatica are known only from the Paleocene Cerrejón Formation rainforest in Colombia?
... that Frank Bruggy set Major League Baseball personal bests in batting average, home runs and runs batted in during the 1924 season, his rookie year?
... that brandy and wine seized from a Dutch ship on 18 August 1779 changed hands during the night, as the captain of the Monsieur and the squadron leader, John Paul Jones, both claimed it for themselves?

12:00, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Crissal Thrasher (pictured) is a bird that runs more than it flies?
... that Spartacus: Blood and Sand actress Lesley-Ann Brandt was born in Cape Town, is fluent in Afrikaans and played competitive field hockey in South Africa?
... that the New York Sunday Mercury was the most widely read weekly newspaper in the United States in the mid 19th century?
... that when the wife of the owner of Kapetanovo Castle in Serbia was told that it had to be sold, she was so devastated that she poured gasoline on herself and burned to death?
... that the economy of the Kanmaw Kyun in the Mergui Archipelago is dependent on rubber plantations?
... that a follow-up study by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel showed that a child's ability at age 4 to delay eating a marshmallow for 15 minutes correlated with higher SAT test scores years later?
... that baseball player Kevin Pasley hit his first and only major league home run in his final major league at-bat?

06:00, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Cavell Van (pictured before restoration) carried the bodies of Edith Cavell, Charles Fryatt and The Unknown Warrior?
... that Ladyhawke won six prizes at the 2009 New Zealand Music Awards?
... that Theodore W. Kheel's deals ended various strikes in New York City, but Mayor Ed Koch blamed Kheel for overly generous pay packages that led to the city's fiscal crisis in the 1970s?
... that the Finnish novel Puhdistus (Purge) by Sofi Oksanen has won awards in Finland and France but had mixed reviews in Estonia, where the story takes place?
... that the Ramses–Hattusili Treaty or Treaty of Kadesh, ratified by the Hittite Empire and Egypt in 1258 BC, is the oldest surviving international treaty?
... that disagreements over the classification of fossil primates within the infraorder Tarsiiformes lie at the heart of the debate over early primate evolution and the origins of "higher primates"?
... that the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra is the largest combined professional orchestra and music school in the US?
... that executioner Robert Baxter, who was blind in one eye, once caused his assistant to fall through a trapdoor along with the man sentenced to death by hanging?

00:00, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Psilocybe semilanceata (pictured) is the world's most common psychoactive mushroom?
... that the 1932 Changma earthquake in the China resulted in a surface rupture of approximately 116 km (72 mi), the largest rupture observed for a reverse-slip event in Asia in the 20th century?
... that methoxyflurane, an emergency analgesic self-administered with a disposable inhaler, was first synthesized as a by-product of chemistry research on uranium enrichment in the Manhattan Project?
... that in 1945 the first motor lifeboat at Ilfracombe Lifeboat Station was sold to the Netherlands because that country was short of lifeboats after World War II?
... that John Phillips, a prominent English master carpenter, builder and architect, constructed James Gibbs' wooden dome for the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford?
... that "Scoops" Carey only played two full seasons in Major League Baseball but led the league in first basemen fielding percentage both times?
... that Rygge Station, opened in 1879, became an airport rail link when Moss Airport, Rygge had its first flight in 2008?
... that the muscle cuirass is one of the elements that distinguished the attire of a senior officer in the Roman Army?

22 November 2010

18:00, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

... that there were concerns that the BBC-Marconi Type A microphone (pictured) would infringe the patent of a similar, but more expensive, microphone made by RCA?
... that the fungus Oidium mangiferae causes powdery mildew on mango trees?
... that the round base of the original Archer Point Light, an 1883 lighthouse near Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, which was replaced in 1975, still exists at the location?
... that in 1999, James C. Kent ruled that the Government of Canada must answer discovery questions from the Six Nations pertaining to its handling of indigenous land on the Grand River?
... that the Dutch ironclad HNLMS Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden transported troops during the occupation of Lombok and Karangasem in July 1894?
... that baseball player Dan Meyer, who would go on to play 12 seasons in Major League Baseball, was inducted into the Mater Dei High School baseball hall of fame in 1970?
... that the Pop's Props Pinocchio, an ultralight aircraft, was designed to resemble the Fokker Eindecker of Fokker Scourge fame?
... that the Greek gold amulet MS 5236 was created by block printing as early as the 6th century BC?

12:00, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Kamadhenu (pictured), "the mother of all cows", was born from the burp or the vomit of a deity, according to some Hindu scriptures?
... that Buckminster Fuller invented the Stockade Building System, which uses bricks made from wood fibers and plaster?
... that the 8th Viscount Galway, the fifth Governor-General of New Zealand, had his term twice extended because of World War II?
... that Temple Beth Israel in Plattsburgh is the only synagogue in New York north of Glens Falls that has a full-time rabbi?
... that while Burmese painters affiliated with the Burma Art Club accepted realistically painted nudes as art, very few of them attempted to paint nudity themselves?
... that the only active players with a career .330 batting average in Major League Baseball are Albert Pujols and Ichiro Suzuki?
... that the sinking of a North Korean troop ship in the Battle of Pusan on the first day of the Korean War is credited with preventing the fall of the South Korean port city of Pusan?
... that Colombian singer-songwriter Ilona started her career singing on buses?

06:00, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

... that HIP 13044 b (artist's impression pictured), discovered in November 2010, is the first known case of a planet which originated outside of our galaxy, but then got absorbed into it?
... that Thomas Hooman's obituary in The Times claimed that he scored the winning goal in the 1872 FA Cup Final, contradicting all known contemporary newspaper reports on the match?
... that the Crusher is a 13,200-pound (6,000 kg) autonomous robot capable of climbing 4-foot (1.2 m) walls and crossing 6.5-foot (2.0 m) trenches?
... that the Connellan air disaster of 1977 remains the only aircraft suicide attack in Australia's history?
... that Bogalay Kyaw Hlaing, Paw Oo Thett, U Aung Khin, U Aung Myint, U Ba Kyi, U Kin Maung, U Lu Tin, U Lun Gywe, U Ngwe Gaing and Po Po are all artists from Burma?
... that for the Game Boy Advance version of their Activision Anthology, Activision selected the Atari 2600 homebrew game Oystron, in which the player shoots "space oysters" to collect pearls?
... that Secretary of Guam Denver Dickerson was born in Nevada State Prison?
... that a Pirate ship was hit during the Action of 12 October 1950?

00:00, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, is filled with narrow alleys, cobblestone streets and thoroughfares that are partially or fully underground (tunnel pictured)?
... that a record store clerk once told Randy Newman that the 1970 album Nilsson Sings Newman nearly finished off Harry Nilsson's career?
... that the Areopagus sermon was the most dramatic and fullest speech of the missionary career of Apostle Paul?
... that hangmen brothers William and John Billington formed England's primary execution duo until John fell through an open trapdoor on the gallows and died?
... that Tel Zeror, an archaeological tel in the Sharon Plain, Israel, was excavated by a Japanese expedition in the 1960s?
... that an illuminated manuscript, the Rochefoucauld Grail, contains what is regarded as the oldest and most comprehensive version of the legend of King Arthur and the Holy Grail?
... that Hranislav, a Bulgarian military commander in Byzantine service, was stabbed by his ally Roger de Flor, head of the Catalan Company?
... that the formation of a Protogalaxy in Newfoundland was recorded in 2010?

21 November 2010

18:00, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

... that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States tried to buy the last Almirante Latorre-class battleship (pictured) from Chile?
... that Kjeld Rimberg, who was CEO of the Norwegian State Railways, earlier had worked as a ski instructor in Davos?
... that the west gallery of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Stapleford, Leicestershire, contains a Coade stone fireplace, the Royal arms, and a dome decorated with putti?
... that fine art photographer Michael Dweck was the first living artist to have a solo show at Sotheby's of New York, in 2003?
... that two conductors shared performances of Verdi's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein?
... that the Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations Pablo Solón was the main leader of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in the 1980s?
... that Edmonton civic leaders turned down a sizable grant from philantropist and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie while constructing the Old Strathcona Branch?
... that cardiologist Richard Bing worked with the Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Alexis Carrel and aviator Charles Lindbergh on the early development of machine perfusion?

12:00, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

... that St Matthew's Church, Langford, Oxfordshire has two Anglo-Saxon carved stone reliefs of the Crucifixion, and that in one of them Christ's left and right arms have later been swapped over (pictured)?
... that after winning the Welsh heavyweight boxing title on Boxing Day, Tom Norris held onto the title for just 100 days before being beaten by Dick Power?
... that Bach's chorale cantata Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 116 contains a vocal trio, rare in his cantatas?
... that the 2010–11 Temple Owls men's basketball team was picked to win the Atlantic 10 Conference for the fourth consecutive season?
... that Charles Albert Watts edited the secularist Literary Guide without a break for over 60 years, having taken over a publishing business set up by his father, atheist writer Charles Watts?
... that two women wrestled in lingerie at the World Wrestling Federation's No Mercy (2001) event?
... that John Keir, who commanded a British Army corps in the First World War, was sacked after he complained about Edmund Allenby's bullying of subordinates?
... that the owl, dog, pelican, opossum and squirrel sculptures decorating the Perelman Building in Philadelphia symbolize attributes of insurance: wisdom, fidelity, charity, protection, and frugality?

06:00, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

A church seen from the north, with an extensive roof. On the right is the nave with a bellcote at the west end; on the left is the chancel with the vestry.

... that St Saviour's Church, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, (pictured) was built for the poorer people of the town who could not afford the pew rents at St Mary's Church?
... that in 1949, Jim Lacy became the first college basketball player in history to score 2,000 career points?
... that "So It Goes" by Nick Lowe was the first record released on Stiff Records?
... that as of 1996, Linda J. Wachner, then chief executive officer of Warnaco Group, was the highest paid female corporate executive in the United States?
... that independent custody visitors must be immediately admitted to a police station in the United Kingdom so that they can speak to people being detained and ensure that they are being properly treated?
... that Crash actress Arlene Tur played professional beach volleyball during her time at Florida International University?
... that the Reverend David Sheppard took a sabbatical from his East End Mission for the MCC tour of Australia in 1962-63, making a century to win the Second Test at Melbourne and preaching to packed cathedrals from Perth to Brisbane?
... that Revolution Software co-founder Tony Warriner created the 1986 video game Obsidian when he should have been revising his school exams, causing him to fail them all?

00:00, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Mimoides phaon (pictured) was the first swallowtail butterfly of the genus Mimoides to stray into the United States?
... that Maelsuthain O'Carroll, advisor to High King Brian Boru, was called the "chief doctor of the western world in his time" and "sage of Ireland"?
... that the UTIAS Snowbird is the first ornithopter powered by human muscles to be capable of straight-and-level flight?
... that although the U.S. Supreme Court denied Clyde Summers the right to practice law in Illinois in 1945 in In re Summers, Summers later was a highly influential scholar in the field of labor law?
... that Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz survived the burning of the hydrogen balloon Star of Poland in 1938?
... that the winner of the Notre Dame–Stanford rivalry football game is awarded the Legends Trophy, which is a combination of Irish crystal and California redwood?
... that the voyagers and adventurers in the Outline of canoeing and kayaking include Freya Hoffmeister, a German kayaker who was the first woman to complete a solo circumnavigation of Australia in 2009?
... that a myth from Choiseul Island has a man who betrayed a tribal chief punished by suffocation by the flatulence caused by the people around him eating the kernels of the Tahitian Chestnut tree?

20 November 2010

18:00, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

... that production of the Naval Aircraft Factory TDN (pictured), a World War II assault drone, was subcontracted to a company better known for making bowling balls and billiard tables?
... that James "Hub" Hart was captain of the Georgetown University football team and then played three years in Major League Baseball?
... that despite the construction of modern office and apartment buildings and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, Colonia Roma still contains 1,100 of the mansions built there in the early 20th century?
... that the British Conservative MP Alfred Jephcott was a trade unionist and a member of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers for over 40 years?
... that Windmill tump is a tumulus burial mound in Gloucestershire which contains the remains of ten adults and children?
... that the German architect Johannes Krahn designed the Bienenkorbhaus (Beehive House) in Frankfurt and St. Martin in Idstein?
... that Gift of the Wind, a large scale kinetic sculpture by Susumu Shingu in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is considered by some to be "Cambridge's most visible landmark"?
... that controversy over copyright infringement by Cooks Source made the phrase "but honestly Monica" into an internet meme?

12:00, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the discovery of chemical elements curium and americium (americium compound pictured) was first announced on a radio show for children in 1945?
... that Stan Brakhage's 1961 short film Thigh Line Lyre Triangular documents the birth of his third child?
... that the Makushin Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes of Alaska?
... that in the 1930s, poet Siegfried Sassoon lived at Teffont Magna?
... that the 1974 folk rock album The Children of Lir by Loudest Whisper is one of the most sought after records in Ireland?
... that the Amur class minelayers were the first purpose-built, ocean-going minelayers when they were laid down in 1898 for the Imperial Russian Navy?
... that measuring 15 feet by 40 feet, Bigger Trees Near Warter is the largest painting by David Hockney?
... that the Roman Cirencester Amphitheatre in Gloucestershire was once used for the sport of bull-baiting?

06:00, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Culver Aircraft Company built over 3,000 target drones (PQ-14 pictured) for the United States military during World War II?
... that in 1972, Denver voters approved a bond issue to build a performance hall for the Denver Symphony Orchestra, which played in theaters and auditoriums for its first 44 years?
... that the Cross River Rail planned for Brisbane will be the largest transport project ever built in Queensland?
... that Peter Frederik Suhm was one of the founders of the Trondheim Society, then the northernmost scientific society in the world?
... that during the 1975 test event, East Germany set up timers and cameras along the bobsleigh and luge venue used for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck to help their athletes?
... that Christopher Sower printed and published the first German-language Bible in the United States?
... that the Arlanda Line — a high-speed airport rail link to Sweden's largest airport — and its three stations, Arlanda North, Arlanda Central and Arlanda South, were partly financed by giving the Arlanda Express a 40-year monopoly?
... that Japanese 2channel users created the moe anthropomorphism Hinomoto Oniko to reverse the negative connotations of an ethnic slur?

00:00, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the 1918 Michigan Wolverines football team (game program pictured), which had its season shortened by a global flu pandemic, was recognized decades later as a co-national champion?
... that one newspaper referred to a recent student protest in Dublin as "the largest student protest for a generation"?
... that when the Lincoln cent was released in 1909, hundreds of people across the United States lined up to get them?
... that the 11th Duke of Somerset renamed 40 Park Lane as Somerset House, despite the existence of another?
... that on 6 April 1945, B-25 Mitchells of No. 79 Wing RAAF bombed the Japanese cruiser Isuzu, claiming two hits without loss despite anti-aircraft fire and frontal attacks by enemy fighters?
... that Stephen Fry, Dawn French and Catherine Tate reenact events from their childhoods in the BBC comedy TV series Little Crackers?
... that two teams from the NBA Development League's Western Conference played each other in the 2010 Finals to determine the champion?
... that Stan Brakhage's 1967 short film Eye Myth took about a year to produce, despite a running time of only nine seconds?

19 November 2010

18:00, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Great Mosque of Algiers (pictured) is the oldest mosque in Algiers and is said to be the second oldest mosque in Algeria?
... that British soap operas Coronation Street and EastEnders will cross over for the first time today in the Children in Need 2010 special "East Street"?
... that when part of Norway's Jæren Line was upgraded to double track in 2009, the Jæren Commuter Rail received four new stations: Paradis, Mariero, Jåttåvågen and Gausel?
... that New York City Opera percussionist Howard Van Hyning bought a set of 13 gongs made specially for use in performances of Puccini's opera Turandot?
... that a demonstration against raising tuition fees held earlier this month in London has been described as the largest student protest in the United Kingdom for a decade?
... that Edward Spurway, two of his sons Michael and Francis, and his brother Robert, all played first-class cricket for Somerset?
... that in 8,000 BCE the Paiján people of northern Peru used needle-like projectile points mounted on hollow shafts of cane or reed as harpoons to catch fish?
... that Carol Burnett will play a Nazi hunter on an upcoming episode of Glee?

12:00, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Aoraki / Mount Cook (pictured) is one of many places in New Zealand officially given dual names through treaty settlements between the government and Māori iwi?
... that since 1990, seven countries have tried juveniles as adults and executed them?
... that Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love" is the most recent of 103 million-selling singles in the UK?
... that Latin American public beach resorts known as balnearios can be highly politicized?
... that a spheromak is a stable ring of hot plasma that's been described as the electrical equivalent of a smoke ring?
... that before the Battle of North Borneo, No. 77 Wing RAAF surgically attacked targets at Labuan as few as 100 m (330 ft) from Allied demolition teams laying charges on the invasion beach?
... that the armor of the Fusō-class battleships was incapable of stopping their own shells?
... that in 1994, after The Cruel Sea won four ARIA Music Awards for their album, The Honeymoon Is Over, two of the ARIA trophies were stolen that same night?

06:00, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

... that William Austin Burt was the first to invent a workable typewriter in America, as well as a workable solar compass (pictured), a solar use surveying instrument, and an equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea?
... that the name of Ghardaïa in northern-central Algeria has its origins in a female saint named Daïa who lived in a cave (ghār) in the M'zab valley?
... that World War II canteen assistant Tommy Brown and two sailors boarded U-559 in order to retrieve documents which would later help break the Enigma code?
... that Kalin Lucas repeated as preseason conference player of the year prior to the 2010–11 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season?
... that Falta was the first Special Economic Zone in India?
... that Linda Bean, heiress to part of the L.L. Bean company, twice ran for the United States Congress?
... that Knoxville's Lindbergh Forest neighborhood has two Lustron houses built with prefabricated enameled steel?
... that in Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards' memoir Life, Richards makes unflattering claims about Mick Jagger, but adds "I love the man dearly; I'm still his mate"?

00:00, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

... that some stony corals, such as the aptly named boulder brain corals (pictured), resemble over-sized cerebra?
... that Nevada Governor Denver S. Dickerson resisted pressure to stop the interracial boxing match of defending champion Jack Johnson and later supervised Johnson's federal prison sentence?
... that the font in St Peter's Church, Adderley, Shropshire, has an inscription in Latin which translates as "Here wickedly the first man enjoyed the apple with his wife"?
... that Stanley Tanger not only founded Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, but he has also been credited with inventing the concept of the outlet mall itself?
... that Mad in America was a 2002 critique of psychiatry written by American journalist Robert Whitaker?
... that the Australian town of Tumbulgum was the third town in the state of New South Wales to agree that retail outlets will not provide disposable plastic shopping bags?
... that former President Jimmy Carter credited his White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz with offering insights that led to the signing of the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel?
... that one reviewer of Truth in Numbers? noted that "the Wikipedia article for the film itself was under threat of being deleted"?

18 November 2010

18:00, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

... that there is an unconfirmed tradition that William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in All Saints Church, Billesley, Warwickshire (pictured)?
... that Edorian McCullough twice won the Texas high school 100 meter championship and later played for the Frankfurt Galaxy in World Bowl XV?
... that a Chinese police officer's son, convinced that he would avoid facing criminal consequences after hitting a pedestrian, yelled "My dad is Li Gang!"?
... that philanthropist Lloyd Morain read palms in Hollywood before a career as a utilities executive, and, uniquely, served two terms as president of the American Humanist Association?
... that the murder of worshipers in Kysylyn during the massacres of Poles in Volhynia became the subject of a 2009 historical documentary film for Telewizja Polska?
... that the California Voting Rights Act makes it easier for minority groups in California to prove that their votes are being diluted in "at-large" elections?
... that American Baptist missionary George J. Geis was working at the Kachin Bible Training School he had established in Kutkai at the time of his death in 1936?
... that prior to the 1933 Cincinnati Reds season, a newspaper reported that Jo-Jo Morrissey "developed amazingly", yet he finished fifth in the league in errors and batted .230?

12:00, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Ketchaoua Mosque (pictured) in Algiers is a "mosque-turned-cathedral-turned-mosque"?
... that Newsday reporter Donald S. Kellermann deliberately broke into a bar so that he could be arrested and write a series of articles about conditions at the Suffolk County, New York jail?
... that a builder of St Mark's Church in Hadlow Down, East Sussex, was sacked for deliberately placing its weather vane upside down?
... that the newly named extinct prawn Aciculopoda is the third unambiguous fossil decapod from before the Mesozoic?
... that FBI informant Angela Calomiris donated US$50 of government money to the legal defense fund for CPUSA leaders before testifying against them in court?
... that the upcoming film My Idiot Brother went into production unusually quickly for an independent film, with a first cut to be completed less than a year after the script was picked up?
... that on April 22, 1900, Roger Denzer earned the first win in Chicago White Sox franchise history?
... that U Ba Nyan, a prominent Burmese painter, met George V of the United Kingdom in person, after he had saved one of the king's relatives from drowning?

06:00, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the staircases in the 1891 Monadnock Building in Chicago (pictured) were the first use of aluminum in a building?
... that Modi Alon scored the Israeli Air Force's first aerial victories on 3 June 1948 while flying an Avia S-199, a derivative of the German Messerschmitt Bf 109?
... that the exterior of St Mary Magdalene's Church in Croome D'Abitot was designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in Gothic Revival style, but the interior by Robert Adam is Georgian?
... that Saint Maximilian Kolbe was called the "Apostle of Consecration to Mary"?
... that Usher's song "Love in This Club, Part II", which features Beyoncé and Lil Wayne, was originally planned to have guest appearances from Mariah Carey and Plies?
... that since 1952, the Austrian Consulate General in New York City is located in the former townhouse of the paper manufacturer Augustus G. Paine, Jr.?
... that parts of the shield volcano Fumarole Butte were once covered by Lake Bonneville?
... that in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the guard stations where military police controlled access to atomic facilities are now listed historic properties used for meetings and education?

00:00, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Åland Maritime Museum in Mariehamn, Åland, features the museum ship Pommern (pictured), formerly one of the fastest windjammers in the grain trade in the 1930s?
... that the Luftwaffe command bunker and tower, and the German naval tactical headquarters were located in Saint Anne, Alderney during World War II?
... that strawweight mixed martial arts fighters Michael Willian Costa and Lincon de Sa are scheduled to face off for the inaugural Shooto South American Championship held in Brazil next month?
... that ACI Club is the single largest marina chain in the Mediterranean?
... that William Dennison Clark, whose "wretched blunder" in 1905 ended Michigan's 56-game unbeaten streak in football, killed himself 27 years later, reportedly expressing the hope to atone for his error?
... that until the end of the 19th century, the bulk of the salt used in the United States came from salt producers in Syracuse, New York?
... that it was suggested for The Hives to rename their 2004 hit to "too dumb, and Dutch and broken bones"?
... that the upthrust of Stark's Knob has been studied using snails in pillows?

17 November 2010

18:00, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Man in blue tunic and white breeches of the Spanish artillery officers uniform of the Napoleonic era

... that Captain Luis Daoiz de Torres (pictured) refused orders to hand over his barracks to French troops during the Dos de Mayo Uprising, and was killed in the ensuing attack?
... that a 25 km (16 mi) stretch of the German Autobahn near Munich served as the venue for the cycling road team time trial event at the 1972 Summer Olympics?
... that Mikhail Beketov, a Russian journalist who opposed construction of the Moscow – Saint Petersburg motorway, was beaten up by unknown assailants in November 2008, leaving him wheelchair-bound?
... that a series of diplomatic struggles between the major Mediterranean powers of the 15th century culminated in newly crowned Mehmed II ordering his first invasion of Albania?
... that a 3,000 ft (910 m) breakwater built by the British to protect its Navy in the 19th century shelters the Braye Harbour?
... that historian Paul H. Carlson co-authored a revisionist study of the 1860 capture of Cynthia Ann Parker, seized by the Comanche in 1836, when she was a young girl?
... that a boat made of seal skin dated to the Stone Age, as well as the world's oldest beer bottles, can be found in the Åland Museum in Mariehamn, Åland?
... that Walter Goodfellow obtained the type specimen of the Mikado Pheasant, comprising two long black tail feathers, from one of his porters who was wearing them in his head-dress?

12:00, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the word maelstrom was brought into the English language by Edgar Allan Poe describing the Moskenstraumen (illustrated) located at Moskenesøya island in the Norwegian Sea?
... that Billy Hulen of the Philadelphia Phillies was the last regular left-handed shortstop in Major League Baseball history?
... that records of christenings, marriages, and burials in the former parish of Fisherton Delamere, Wiltshire, England are preserved back to the 1560s?
... that Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World, written by ornithologist James Greenway, was an inspiration for the IUCN Red List?
... that the rare Fitzgerald Woollybush is found along with the barrel cone bush, claw flower, and dwarf sheoak in the Fitzgerald River National Park?
... that Louis Ayres designed the chapel at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial in France?
... that in 2005, the Leeuwin Estate winery showcased musician Sting as part of its annual concert series, raising over A$4 million for Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami relief efforts?
... that former Governor of Guam Templin Potts threatened to discharge any man under his command who married a native woman?

06:00, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Secunderabad Clock Tower (pictured), which was inaugurated in 1897, was erected in honour of the progress made by the British officers posted at the Secunderabad Cantonment?
... that when Andriza Mircovich chose to be executed by shooting, prison officials were unable to find five men willing to participate in the firing squad and had to build a shooting machine?
... that as many as 5 million people per day come into the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City to work, shop or visit its cultural and historic sites?
... that after reading articles by Julian Huxley on the disappearance of Africa's wildlife, Victor Stolan wrote to him with "the germ of the idea" that led to the World Wildlife Fund?
... that Ayame Koike was one of three recipients of the Judges' Special Acting Award from the Japan Movie Critics Awards in recognition of their performance in Always Zoku Sanchōme no Yūhi?
... that the Metro Manila radio station NU 107's program In the Raw was created as response to President Corazon Aquino's executive order of at least three Original Pilipino Music tracks per hour?
... that John Frullo, a new Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, is active in an organization which promotes the restoration of bighorn sheep to Texas?
... that in 1962 the England cricket captain Ted Dexter hit a ball out of the 120,000 seat Melbourne Cricket Ground, a feat previously thought impossible?

00:00, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the aisles of St Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, (tower pictured) were destroyed when stored ammunition was ignited by cannon fire in the Civil War in 1646?
... that the writings of Czech national poet Karel Hynek Mácha, born 200 years ago today, include the poem Máj, novel Cikáni, diary of Journey to Italy and the Diary of 1835 which deals with his relationship with his fiancée Lori?
... that the Mount Whaleback mine at Newman, Western Australia, is the biggest single-pit open-cut iron ore mine in the world?
... that singer-songwriter Fernando Osorio wrote the last song recorded by Cuban performer Celia Cruz?
... that the curator of the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum in Washington studied ballet under Russian prima ballerina Alexandra Danilova?
... that martial artist Erick Silva competed in "one of the wettest events in MMA history" when the outdoor event was subjected to torrential rain?
... that the Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus was a ministry of the California Jesuits?
... that Arthur Conan Doyle used photos of the Cottingley Fairies to prove the existence of supernatural entities, though an analysis of the images by Geoffrey Crawley showed that they were a hoax?

16 November 2010

18:00, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

... that since the 1890s, a warmer climate has caused Breiðamerkurjökull (pictured), an outlet glacier of the larger glacier of Vatnajökull, to rapidly retreat?
... that a malfunctioning starting gate at the luge venue during the men's doubles event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo would lead to the only tie in Olympic luge history?
... that St Swithun's Church, Worcester, is described as "one of the best preserved examples of an early Georgian church in England"?
... that Teslim Balogun was the first African to qualify as a professional football coach?
... that the French Battalion's bayonet charges at the Battle of Wonju impressed General Ridgway to encourage all American units to conduct bayonet fighting during the Korean War?
... that "Crumblin' Down" was John Cougar Mellencamp's first single released with his real last name?
... that Palo y hueso was Nicolás Sarquís' first feature-length movie, shot in 1968 and costing just $15,715 to make?
... that Robbie "The Flame" Olivier's last fight was stopped after a fan riot made it impossible to continue?

12:00, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

A portrait of a middle-aged man with a yellow turban, a white sash from his right shoulder running across his chest and medals adorning his black Nehru jacket

... that the Andhra Pradesh Housing Board, which was conceived by Nizam Osman Ali Khan (pictured) in 1911, enhanced the look of Hyderabad with civic amenities long before many other Indian cities?
... that the Okomu and Cross River national parks in Nigeria, both home to many rare species including chimpanzees, are both increasingly threatened by illegal forestry?
... that presenter Natasha Fatah said she broke down in tears in response to her interviewees' stories about being a refugee during the recording of the CBC Radio One program Promised Land?
... that Ashleigh "The Thunderball Kid" Grimshaw has had a negative record on two occasions in his career?
... that Höfn, an Icelandic fishing town, has an entire museum devoted to glaciers?
... that the eponymous extended play by The Shadows, The Shadows to the Fore, Spotlight on The Shadows and The Boys all were number-one EPs in the UK?
... that Belvedere, one of the historical centres of sugar production in the United States Virgin Islands, contains a villa hotel which has been converted from an old sugar mill?
... that boxer Lefty Satan Flynn was born Selvin Campbell and was nicknamed His Satanic Majesty?

06:00, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Disney Channel veteran Selena Gomez (pictured) sings the theme song for the new Disney series, Shake It Up?
... that an overactive thyroid gland can cause attacks of paralysis, particularly in young men of Chinese and Japanese origin?
... that during World War II, when a new model of the Mitsubishi 'Zero' received its American code name, the prominent general it was named after was not very amused?
... that in United States v. Carmack in 1946, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal government's power under the Condemnation Act to exercise eminent domain over land owned by a state?
... that a milestone found near Milecastle 17 on Hadrian's Wall is the only known contemporary record of the name of Gaius Julius Marcus, Roman Governor of Britain?
... that the entire 2009 NBA Development League Expansion Draft took place via teleconference?
... that British Army soldier Matthew Kilroy was found guilty of manslaughter in the Boston Massacre?
... that the sod-surfaced Larson Brothers Airport was described as the "finest airport in the state" of Wisconsin in 1932?

00:00, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Wadjemup Lighthouse (pictured) was Australia's first rotating beam lighthouse?
... that on November 14, 1942, black gospel quartet The Jubalaires had a hit with "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition", a response to the attack on Pearl Harbor the previous year?
... that Leopold II's mistress Caroline Delacroix was so loathed by the Belgian public that on one occasion, her carriage was stoned in Brussels?
... that the "strange, flat-bottomed boat" in which Beatrix Potter rowed on Moss Eccles Tarn is now housed in the Windermere Steamboat Museum?
... that Johanna Bugge Olsen was convicted of treason for having printed some "un-national" material in Arbeidet during WWII?
... that one definition of judicial bias in Singapore is that a "reasonable and fair-minded person" who is present in court and knows all the relevant facts suspects that a fair trial is not possible?
... that on 21 June 2001, on the Mount Newman railway, a BHP Billiton iron ore train consisting of 682 cars broke the world record for the heaviest train, weighing 99,734 tons and being 7.3 kilometres long?
... that when playing for the Chicago Bulls in 1985, Quintin Dailey complained that Michael Jordan received more attention from the team's coaches, arguing that he was "a player who likes to shine a little bit myself"?
... that in the 16th century people convicted of sedition had their ears nailed to the pillory in Norwich Market, and when their pillory time was completed their ears were cut off?

15 November 2010

18:00, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Michelin-starred chef Masa Takayama (pictured) would deliver food only to Marlon Brando?
... that the proposed North Bothnia Line will allow high-speed trains to travel from Stockholm to Luleå Central Station?
... that Jule Sugarman helped design and administer the Head Start Program, which has served 27 million American children from low-income families since its inception in 1965?
... that a match at the World Wrestling Federation's No Mercy (2000) event resulted from one wrestler hitting another with a car to protest racism?
... that W. G. Grace was the first cricketer to score a century of first-class centuries?
... that pediatric trauma accounted for 59.5% of all mortality in the United States for children in 2004?
... that Sir Walter Raleigh mentions the church of Tevont Evias in his Discoverie of Guiana (1596)?
... that Botetourt, one of the best known mineral springs in Virginia and one of the chief sulphuric thermals in America, was visited by General Lafayette in 1824?
... that the British National Grid saw a record 2800 MW increase in demand due to the boiling of kettles and the opening of fridge doors after the 1990 FIFA World Cup Semi-Final between England and West Germany?

12:00, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Jaipur's Jantar Mantar (pictured), a collection of architectural astronomical instruments, was recognized by UNESCO in 2010 as the 28th World Heritage Site in India?
... that after being wounded at the capture of Martinique, Lt-Gen. James Murray had to sleep sitting up for the rest of his life?
... that, with 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) of track, Rio Tinto's Hamersley & Robe River railway is the largest privately owned heavy freight rail network in Australia?
... that outfielder Harl Maggert was on pace to win a batting title when he was permanently suspended from professional baseball for throwing games?
... that Carl Scheibler's method of extracting sugar from sugar beet molasses with strontium hydroxide was widely used before World War I?
... that West Shore, a magazine published from 1875 to 1891 in Portland, Oregon, was well known for its illustrations of scenery, architecture, and commerce of the Pacific Northwest?
... that after beating the highly touted prospect Francisco "Massaranduba" Drinaldo via armbar, Yuri Alcantara was signed by World Extreme Cagefighting to appear on their last ever event?
... that the 2009 single "I've Got Nothing" was written entirely through crowdsourcing in 10 weeks?

06:00, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the cookbook I Love Bacon! has a recipe by Cat Cora (pictured) for "Pig Candy Ice Cream," which contains chopped bacon?
... that a few years after the ecological restoration of Hyderabad's Saroornagar Lake in 2003, migratory birds returned to the lake in large numbers?
... that there is an upcoming animated series starring Spider-Man based on the Ultimate Spider-Man storyline that will air on Disney XD?
... that, after breaking his nose in the 1906 World Series, Ed Hahn batted .429 to help the Chicago White Sox win their first championship?
... that the ratepayer protest led by New Zealand lawyer William Wynn-Williams nearly bankrupted Christchurch City Council?
... that Yin Yin Nwe, a Burmese geologist, was appointed UNICEF Representative to China on December 1, 2006?
... that all four football venues at the 1968 Summer Olympics would be used as FIFA World Cup stadia when Mexico hosted the Cup in 1970 and 1986?
... that the 27-million-year-old Cobb Seamount is so heavily encrusted in sea life that no bare rock surface has been found in dives?

00:00, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

... that a rainstorm that disrupted the First Test in the 1950–51 Ashes series was blamed on the American atomic bomb experiments carried out on Bikini Atoll (pictured)?
... that Saint Sava likely had a hand in the murder of 13th-century Bulgarian noble Strez, a largely independent ruler in Macedonia?
... that the Charles A. Miller House was built for the oldest funeral director in Cincinnati, Ohio?
... that Great Migrations, the largest programming event of the National Geographic Channel, is part of the largest cross-platform initiative since the founding of the National Geographic Society in 1888?
... that the artifacts on display at the Alderney Society Museum are as diverse as 1940 census papers, cinerary urns, dulcie cups, and curry powder bottles?
... that gifts to monasteries in medieval Normandy were often rerecorded on pancartes?
... that Sir Alan Huggins was one of the first non-permanent Hong Kong judges of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal appointed in 1997?
... that to promote Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes, two human-sized tomatoes picketed Super Bowl XVII?

14 November 2010

18:00, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

... that some believe the Lucan portrait (pictured) is a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci?
... that despite operating from 1878 to 1896, Dartmouth Lifeboat was only required for one shipwreck?
... that Abraham Curry and his business partners purchased a large portion of Eagle Valley for a US$300 down payment and set aside 10 acres (4 ha) to build the Nevada State Capitol?
... that the new Commonwealth boxing champion Liam Walsh and his two brothers made their pro boxing debuts on the same night?
... that when Dutch officials took control of the BredoLab botnet, they were able to use it against itself?
... that State Representative Jim Landtroop was also a winning varsity basketball coach in Plainview, Texas?
... that the SimplySiti cosmetic line was founded by and named after Malaysian singer Siti Nurhaliza, and some of its products are named after her recordings?
... that an upcoming soundtrack album will feature actress Gwyneth Paltrow performing a censored version of Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You!" for an episode of Glee?

12:00, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

... that St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield, Shropshire, (pictured) is built on the site of the Battle of Shrewsbury that took place in 1403?
... that in 1937, a BSA Empire Star motorcycle ridden by Walter Handley won a race at Brooklands with a fastest lap of 107.57 miles per hour (173.12 km/h)?
... that the Ducoudray Holstein Expedition planned to invade Puerto Rico?
... that the world's first glass summit cross was erected on the Schartwand in Salzburg's Tennengebirge mountains?
... that when Paul McCartney offered Isla Blair a ride home, his fans attacked her?
... that Rio Tinto's Pilbara operations, consisting of the Brockman 2, Channar, Eastern Range, Hope Downs, Marandoo, Mesa A, Mesa J, Mount Tom Price, Nammuldi, Paraburdoo, West Angelas and Yandicoogina mines, produced 202 million tonnes of iron ore in 2009, accounting for almost 13% of the world production?
... that the short-lived CBS adventure series Spencer's Pilots starred character actor Gene Evans as the owner of a small aviation company?
... that after hanging for nineteen years in a staff cafeteria and eleven in a living room, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri's painting Warlugulong sold at auction in 2007 for a record-breaking A$2.4 million?

06:00, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Americanization School (pictured) in Oceanside, California, was built as part of historic assimilation programs aimed at Spanish-speaking immigrants?
... that Bach composed four dialogues for his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60, three between Fear and Hope, and one between Fear and the Voice of Christ?
... that Fowey Lifeboat Station was opened in the nearby village of Polkerris in 1859, and was not moved into the town of Fowey itself until 1922?
... that Cockfield Football Club, from the tiny "two-street pit village" of Cockfield, County Durham, was dubbed the "Village Wonder Team" after reaching the semi-finals of the FA Amateur Cup in 1923?
... that Kastelholm Castle is one of only five surviving Finnish medieval fortresses that is also considered to be architecturally substantial?
... that because the Polavaram Project would submerge 276 villages in India, it was opposed by human rights and environmental activists, political parties, and neighboring governments?
... that Nick Fazekas, the number one overall selection in the 2010 NBA Development League Draft, was a D-League All-Star before he was even picked?
... that two major rivers of Borneo originate in the same area, flow in different directions, but have the same name?

00:00, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

A small stone building with four columns and a pedimented roof in the middle of a paved circle at the end of a road, surrounding by tall trees and shrubbery

... that the 1907 Woodward Mausoleum (pictured) at Machpelah Cemetery in Le Roy, New York, was built for the man who made a fortune developing Jell-O into a bestselling dessert?
... that Cuban American singer Gloria Estefan became the first female recipient of the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year award in 2008?
... that Appianoporites, Margaretbarromyces, and Quatsinoporites are all fossil fungi from Vancouver Island, British Columbia?
... that the Slovenian-Italian brotherhood was one of the platforms of the United Trade Unions of the Free Territory of Trieste?
... that after Ell Persons, an African American man, was lynched and decapitated in 1917, his head was thrown at a group of African Americans?
... that the Mignot Memorial Hospital in Alderney is not covered by the National Health Service?
... that the last engraving by William Blake was a visiting card for his friend George Cumberland, which Blake decorated with children hoop rolling and flying kites?
... that American burglar Johnny Hope, the son of another burglar, may have been part of his father's gang that robbed the Manhattan Bank in 1878, netting nearly $3 million in cash and securities?

13 November 2010

18:00, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

... that in 2011, the Swedish Transport Administration will upgrade a 57-kilometre (35 mi) section of the Coast-to-Coast Line electric railway (pictured) to shave seven minutes off the travel time?
... that in the 1777 Battle of Machias, a British amphibious assault seized stores of flour, rice, corn, shoes, and ammunition, but was driven off by United States forces assisted by Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Indians?
... that William Donald Albright homesteaded in Alberta's Peace River region in 1913 and conducted studies there that led to his farm becoming Canada's northernmost agricultural experiment station?
... that female R&B group Faya was discovered singing at a youth centre in Slough, and went on to sign a six-album deal with Def Jam Recordings?
... that in the 1949 municipal election in the Free Territory of Trieste, the communist-led Slavic-Italian Anti-Fascist Union won 97% of the votes in Monrupino?
... that American novelist Harold "Hal" King earned the title "the crown prince of suspense" with the publication of his 1979 anti-Nazi thriller Closing Ceremonies?
... that in Bach's St John Passion in the Philharmonie Luxembourg, Christoph Prégardien was the Evangelist and Andreas Pruys sang the words of Christ?
... that first baseman Babe Borton bribed opponents so that his team could win the 1919 Pacific Coast League championship?

12:00, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev once proposed a major dam on the Bzyb River (pictured), but dropped the idea when he learned it would affect the beach at his favorite resort of Pitsunda?
... that most leading Norwegian communists hit by the Nazi Operation Almenrausch in 1944 – including Peder Furubotn, Ørnulf Egge and Roald Halvorsen – survived?
... that the Canfield-Wright House was built for an oil tycoon who developed Beverly Hills and Del Mar, California?
... that Sex, Slander, and Salvation was published just before David Berg's death and the Love Charter's reorganization of the Family International?
... that according to the FBI, purported mobster Joseph Miranda once owed his life to family boss Sam DeCavalcante?
... that Menara Kudus Mosque is the only mosque in Java known to have a Majapahit-style Hindu drum tower?
... that, in 1946, Marv Rackley was hired by his teammate Jackie Robinson to play for the "Jackie Robinson All-Stars"?
... that the chancel arch in St Michael's Church, Stretton en le Field, Leicestershire, appears to be made of stone, but is actually wood covered with stucco, giving the appearance of stone?

06:00, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the "secretive character" of the Beggar Looking Through His Hat (pictured), attributed to 17th-century artist Jacques Bellange, may have appealed to its former owner, American KGB spy Michael Straight?
... that Hangar No. 1, once used by Charles Lindbergh, was built at Los Angeles International Airport when it consisted of a dirt landing strip in the middle of bean and barley fields?
... that athletes from the Tønsberg FIK Norwegian track and field club have won national championships in distance running, throwing and sprints?
... that the extended play Hits by The Beach Boys spent 34 weeks at number-one in the EP chart?
... that Cefn Golau, a disused cholera cemetery near Tredegar in Wales, has many graves dating from August and September 1849?
... that Vic Tandy was the first researcher to link infrasound and ghosts together?
... that the lyrics of Yes's last top-ten rock hit "The Calling" were inspired by singer Jon Anderson's concept of "local history"?
... that executioner Thomas Henry Scott was fired for being with a prostitute on the night before a hanging job?

00:00, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Elizabeth Bisland (pictured) lost a celebrated race around the world to Nellie Bly in 1889–90?
... that a classic hypothetical example of the Wednesbury unreasonableness doctrine in administrative law, which applies in Singapore, is a public authority dismissing a teacher because of her red hair?
... that Arne Wam, as director of the Norwegian State Railways, ended the practice of turning all the seats in whatever direction a train was facing?
... that the vocal quartet of Monika Frimmer, Christa Bonhoff, Dantes Diwiak, and Peter Kooy recorded the Augsburger Tafel-Confect ("Augsburg Table Confectionary") of Valentin Rathgeber and Johann Caspar Seyfert?
... that British engineer Bert Perrigo, who helped develop the BSA Blue Star motorcycles in the 1930s, was paid one-half-penny royalty for every motorcycle sold?
... that James Gunn's 1972 science fiction novel The Listeners was proposed as an unrecognized classic in the field by New Scientist magazine in November 2010?
... that mis-transcribed versions of the Pratt-Yorke opinion of 1757 were circulated in British North America by opponents of the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
... that the manga character Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu was inspired by the lovelorn wanderer Tora-san?

12 November 2010

18:00, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

... that in 2009 the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail (pictured), a public walkway in upstate New York, nearly doubled in length?
... that in 1939, three Icelandic Nazi-sympathizers approached Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe with the hope of making him king of Iceland?
... that Abingdon Boys School, a band that shares a name with a school formerly attended by members of Radiohead, has contributed music to anime such as Darker than Black and Soul Eater?
... that Maine Senator Charles "Babe" Carter was known for his agility, nerve, and "wonderful handling of his massive frame" as a football player in the early 1900s?
... that The Decemberists' single off of their new album has been compared to R.E.M., Neil Young, Steely Dan and Bruce Springsteen?
... that a 1993 parliamentary rule passed in the predominantly Catholic country of San Marino changed the loyalty oath from "Holy Gospel" to "on my honor"?
... that a cave near Otapi is named for and linked to a legend involving the Abkhazian hero Abrskil?
... that in the late 1940s, American blues shouter and jazz singer Duke Henderson renounced his past and began broadcasting as Brother Henderson, a minister and gospel DJ?

12:00, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

... that, according to legend, Monte Titano (pictured) in San Marino was given as a gift to Saint Marinus, a stonemason fleeing anti-Christian persecution, who established a hermitage there?
... that in the 2009 M-1 Challenge Season in the sport of mixed martial arts, Team Benelux's Danny van Bergen was one of only two team members to finish with a positive record?
... that Steely Dan singer Donald Fagen's only Billboard Top 40 hit as a solo artist was "I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)", a song inspired by the International Geophysical Year of July 1957 – December 1958?
... that Meyer Foshaug held one of the first four seats won by the Labour Party in the Parliament of Norway?
... that, in addition to mobilizing labor brigades for the post-war reconstruction of Yugoslavia, the Anti-Fascist Youth Union of the Free Territory of Trieste planned sporting and cultural events?
... that the troubadour Peire Rogier addressed a poem to Aimerico Manrique de Lara, Duke of Narbonne (c. 1152–1177), encouraging him to live up to his illustrious Spanish lineage?
... that the 19th-century Kaplaneios School in Ioannina, Greece, evolved into the most significant intellectual center of the city through the work of Athanasios Psalidas?
... that after the 2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team gave up six turnovers against Navy, EMU head coach Jeff Woodruff said, "You can't beat a high school team giving up five turnovers"?

06:00, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

... that, referring to Che Guevara T-shirts and other clothing (jacket pictured), Aleida Guevara said that Che "probably would have been delighted to see his face on the breasts of so many beautiful women"?
... that the writer Frederick James Gould became a prominent agnostic and pioneering secular humanist despite having studied theology with "devout fury" during his youth?
... that the pool for the water polo venue at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was shallow enough to allow taller Yugoslav players to stand with their heads above water?
... that director Nobuhiko Obayashi purposely made the special effects in the Japanese horror comedy film House look unrealistic?
... that Los Angeles attorney Norman Sterry represented the New York Yankees in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld an exemption from the antitrust laws for Major League Baseball?
... that after AIDS activist Rand Schrader died in 1993, his partner David Bohnett founded the GeoCities website using the benefits from Schrader's life insurance?
... that although Nancy Greene won the women's alpine skiing giant slalom race at the 1968 Winter Olympics, the stop clock malfunctioned and said otherwise, leaving her with a headache for two days?
... that a portable electric chair was moved from county to county for executions in Mississippi so that one county would not be stigmatized as a "death county"?

00:00, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

... that an early example of the Berliner Helicopter (pictured) was thought to have potential as a "flying torpedo" to be used to hold cities for ransom?
... that, because of a lifelong medical condition that may be Proteus syndrome, Mandy Sellars' legs and feet weigh about 210 lb (95 kg), while her upper body only weighs about 84 lb (38 kg)?
... that the American government and advocates of political reform have been increasingly promoting democracy in the Middle East and North Africa since September 11, 2001?
... that film studies are less concerned with filmmaking than with exploring the narrative, artistic, cultural, economic, and political implications of cinema?
... that General Sir Peter Lumsden accompanied his brother on a British military mission to Kandahar in 1857?
... that orange ironstone, white ashlar stone, brick, red sandstone, granite and timber were all used to build the All Saints Church, Beeby?
... that despite the mental demands of his profession, Edward William Archibald, considered Canada's first neurosurgeon, was described as a "distressingly absent-minded character"?

11 November 2010

18:00, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the altar of the church of the Patriarchal Monastery of the Holy Trinity (pictured) near Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, was once used for pagan sacrifices?
... that Congregation Or Chadash, Chicago's oldest LGBT synagogue, may have been targeted in the 2010 cargo plane bomb plot?
... that in the aftermath of the 1907 Kingston earthquake, the Governor of Jamaica refused an offer of eight surgeons from three United States warships?
... that Raymond Kimutai Bett set a new race record to win the 2010 Athens Classic Marathon, which celebrated the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Marathon?
... that American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter Cash McCall has evolved in musical styles from gospel to soul to the blues?
... that the Cloud Break mine project, worth A$2 billion, was in danger of not being approved after the discovery of the incredibly rare Night Parrot in the area?
... that, unlike other Colonial Revival post offices in New York, the Lenox Hill station on Manhattan's Upper East Side has two main entrances on either side?
... that the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers, a forerunner of the Royal British Legion, was founded in opposition to the re-conscription of men injured during World War I?

12:00, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the large ritual E-Group complex northeast of the ancient acropolis in the Maya city of El Chal (altar pictured) in Guatemala was once the city centre?
... that John Stirk played every league game during Watford Football Club's 1978–79 promotion-winning season?
... that the catsharks of the genus Galeus—G. antillensis, G. arae, G. atlanticus, G. cadenati, G. eastmani, G. gracilis, G. longirostris, G. melastomus, G. mincaronei, G. murinus, G. nipponensis, G. piperatus, G. polli, G. priapus, G. sauteri, G. schultzi, and G. springeri—have "saws" on their tails?
... that teenager Barbara-Ann Scott was the first Canadian to win a gold medal in Olympic figure skating with her performance at the 1948 Winter Olympics?
... that Major General Andrew Cumming CBE, who commanded British troops in the NATO-led Kosovo Force in 1992, became controller of the charity SSAFA Forces Help after leaving the Army in 2004?
... that Indiana's Gas Boom of the 1880s played a pivotal role in the development of the Hartford City Courthouse Square Historic District?
... that the body of amateur cricketer Henry Arkwright, who was killed by an avalanche in 1866, was found 31 years later missing its head and both feet?

06:00, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the birth of Gabi (pictured with mother), the first elephant conceived in Israel through artificial insemination, was viewed live by over 350,000 people in 108 countries?
... that the George W. Bush presidential campaign used John Cougar Mellencamp's "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A." at a campaign rally, despite Mellencamp's opposition to Bush's political positions?
... that the Ådalen Line of Sweden will be upgraded to become part of a high-speed railway corridor between Stockholm and Umeå?
... that while Peter Tshirumbu Tsheehama was chief of the Namibian intelligence agency, the agency was informally known as "Tshirumbu's people"?
... that by 1978, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe banned their writers from working as official scorers for Major League Baseball due to a conflict of interest?
... that Louisiana industrialist and political kingmaker Louis J. Roussel, Jr. began his career in the 1930s as a New Orleans bus driver?
... that in 1977 the body of St Mary's Church, Brentingby, Leicestershire, was partly demolished and converted into a house, leaving the tower standing?
... that after the Maliseet Gabriel Acquin gave the Prince of Wales a ride in his canoe, he was invited to London, where he set up a wigwam in South Kensington?
... that philosophers differ in opinion as to whether potential future persons have value or not?

00:00, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the seeds of Ipomoea violacea (pictured) contain several indole alkaloids having LSD-like hallucinogenic properties, and therefore were used in Aztec rituals?
... that in the children's book Mission: Earth, astronaut Thomas D. Jones describes using specialized radar technology to measure carbon monoxide pollution on the Earth?
... that floods in Malaysia in November 2010 affected the homes of a State Chief Minister and a Federal Minister?
... that by 1900, a 12-man outlaw gang led by desperado Jack Sully had reportedly stolen 50,000 cattle and 3,000 horses?
... that Sharad Anantrao Joshi was the sole Member of Parliament to vote against the bill providing 33% reservation for women in the upper house of the Indian Parliament and the state assemblies?
... that one of Sammy Davis, Jr.'s performances in Nevada was a gig at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center?
... that theatre director and critic Branko Gavella refereed the opening match of the first Croatian association football championship in 1912?
... that after visiting Sir John Fagg in 1697, Daniel Defoe wrote of Fagg's prodigious bullocks, "I never saw any thing like them"?

10 November 2010

18:00, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Dubrovnik's historic main street Stradun (pictured) was the site of a tennis match played in July 2010 by Goran Ivanišević and John McEnroe?
... that Butchers Wheel, a cutlery and tool factory in Sheffield, could only be accessed through a single, guarded door?
... that Douglas Lima was expected to showcase his skills with an easy victory over Brent Weedman in a mixed martial arts title fight, but lost?
... that despite its high praise by critics, the Community episode "Epidemiology" was the least-watched non-reality component of NBC's Comedy Night Done Right lineup?
... that Memphis and country blues guitarist and songwriter Dan Sane recorded with Frank Stokes, billed as the Beale Street Sheiks?
... that William Hancock was one of seven Hancock brothers to play rugby union for Somerset?
... that Charles Chauncey Burr was an abolitionist before the American Civil War but then became a Copperhead?
... that in the 1870s Russian liberals like Guerrier and Chicherin accused Karl Marx of being narrowly concerned with the proletariat and indifferent to the entrepreneur's "psychic labour"?
... that The Beatles recorded "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" and "Sie Liebt Dich" because the German label Odeon Records insisted that they record their hit songs in German to generate more sales there?

12:00, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Linx (train pictured) cited competition from low-cost airlines for terminating their Oslo−Stockholm train service?
... that the 1994 Health Security Express bus tour experienced technical difficulties, including an overheating bus?
... that studios release films in the fall, during Oscar season, to have a better chance at winning the Academy Awards?
... that U2's latest live EP was created as part of a program to draw customers to independent record shops during the 2010 holiday shopping season?
... that brothers Amos Jr. and Paul Stagg both played quarterback for their father Amos Alonzo Stagg at the University of Chicago, and later led teams against each other as college coaches themselves?
... that the Legion of Ratu Adil was a pro-Dutch militia and private army established during the Indonesian National Revolution?
... that Richard Nixon unilaterally created the United States Environmental Protection Agency with Reorganization Plan No. 3?
... that two unexplained stepped tunnels near King Herod's Hyrcania fortress in the Judean desert have attracted treasure hunters looking for riches described in the Copper Scroll of Qumran?

06:00, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

... that DaXiongBao Hall of Fengguo Temple (pictured), first built in 1020, is one of the earliest examples in Chinese architecture where bracket sets are used in between columns instead of simple struts?
... that spitballer Jimmy Dygert, who won 21 games in 1907, weighed about 115 pounds, which may make him the lightest pitcher in Major League Baseball history?
... that the Pawan River and the Lamandau River both flow in the Indonesian part of Borneo?
... that the "revolutionary" car chase sequence in the 1968 film Bullitt was edited by Oscar-winner Frank P. Keller?
... that Australian political journalist Alan Reid's exposé about B. A. Santamaria led to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955?
... that American football safety Jordan Kovacs went from being a walk-on to being the second leading tackler in the Big Ten Conference?
... that the alumni of the Moscow State Pedagogical University include Mikhail Gorbachev's wife Raisa?
... that in 1889 the English judge Samuel Boteler Bristowe was shot in the back by a German maker of false teeth?

00:00, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

... that on November 2, 2010, the oil painting Nude Sitting on a Divan (pictured) sold for $68.9 million, a record for an artwork by Amadeo Modigliani?
... that 11-year-old Shannon Tavarez, who played Nala in Broadway's The Lion King, died of leukemia despite efforts by Alicia Keys, Rihanna and 50 Cent to recruit bone marrow donors from among their fans?
... that the English Arbitration Act 1979 was passed as the Prime Minister went to resign?
... that, in early 1941, Johnny Sturm broke into the New York Yankees lineup after two future Hall of Famers went into slumps?
... that the National Democratic Party was formed in 1978 as the last step in Anwar El Sadat's four-phase program to introduce a multi-party system to Egypt?
... that remarks by Hall Thompson that "we don't discriminate in every other area except blacks" before the 1990 PGA Championship led golf's governing bodies to ban holding tournaments at all-white clubs?
... that Jews are prohibited from praying at the alleged tomb of Nahmanides, a foremost medieval rabbinic scholar and kabbalist?
... that a Pointer named Judy was the only dog to be registered as a World War II prisoner of war?

9 November 2010

18:00, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Manastır Mosque (pictured) in Istanbul is one of the few surviving Byzantine religious buildings of Constantinople whose dedication remains uncertain?
... that Roy Skinner, head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team, recruited Perry Wallace as the first African American to play varsity basketball in the Southeastern Conference?
... that in response to the banning of the niqāb in Egypt, students protested by wearing protective face masks?
... that when A. Skjegstad was hired by Aftenposten, he became one of the few journalists in Norway to go from a labour newspaper to a high-profile conservative newspaper?
... that American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter James Armstrong was almost stabbed to death at his home in 1997?
... that evidence of a Roman settlement has been discovered at Double Arches Pit, a disused sand quarry that is now a Site of Special Scientific Interest?
... that when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed in 1931, U.S. Ambassador to Spain Irwin B. Laughlin advised Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson not to recognize the new government?
... that a Peronist hymn was sung during the 1975 civil wedding of future Argentine presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández?

12:00, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

... that unique to the Indonesian islands of Buru and Ambelau are the Ambelau, Buru, Kayeli and Lisela people; the eponymous Ambelau, Buru, Kayeli and Lisela languages; as well as the Rufous-throated White-eye, Buru Lorikeet, Black-lored Parrot and a hairy variety of the babirusa pig (pictured)?
... that the Imperial Wireless Chain was a wireless telegraphy communications network, built in the 1920s to link the countries of the British Empire?
... that American country blues singer Lottie Kimbrough was nicknamed "the Kansas City Butterball"?
... that in the 1984 film Who Dies on His Feet, Albanian actor Llazi Sërbo rode a descendant of Naklon, a horse that Stalin had donated to Albania?
... that in 1907, the winner of the first Giro al Sas 10 km road race in Trento was disqualified for taking a shortcut?
... that U.S. President George H. W. Bush nominated Alfred C. Sikes to be chairperson of the FCC instead of Sherrie Marshall because Sikes was thought to have a better relationship with Congress?
... that when Harry Oliver joined Watford Football Club, Benskins Brewery paid the transfer fee on the club's behalf?
... that in 1844, USS General Taylor conveyed abolitionist Jonathan Walker to Pensacola, where he was infamously branded "S.S." for "Slave Stealer"?

06:00, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

... that a Mere (held by a Māori woman in picture), which was made from jade, could be used to split a man's head open?
... that in the 100 metres at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Natasha Mayers initially won the bronze, was moved up to silver, then was upgraded to the gold medal due to disqualifications?
... that the volunteer Royal National Lifeboat Institution crews at Falmouth Lifeboat Station share their building with Her Majesty's Coastguard?
... that Syrian-born clarinetist Kinan Azmeh debuted a concerto written especially for him at the opening of the Damascus Opera House?
... that John Cougar Mellencamp's number-one rock song "Lonely Ol' Night" was inspired by the 1963 Paul Newman movie Hud?
... that Theodore Plucknett was the first ever chair of legal history at the London School of Economics?
... that one of the world's largest botanical gardens in the 19th century was located on Bogor in present-day Indonesia?
... that Daren Queenan won the 1989 Continental Basketball Association Dunk Contest?
... that because Arabic author Zaynab Fawwaz wore the niqāb, her husband acted as a messenger between her and the men attending her literary salon?

00:00, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Melbourne Cricket Ground (pictured) was a venue of the 1956 Summer Olympics and also the 2000 Summer Olympics, even though cricket was not played in either Olympics?
... that the communists Harald Slåttelid and Bjarne Dalland were among 17 people executed at Trandum by Norway's Nazi occupiers on 1 March 1943?
... that after the plaintiff in the lawsuit Werner Erhard vs. Columbia Broadcasting System filed a motion to dismiss the case, he mailed checks for US$100 to each of the defendants?
... that during the 1990s, Rinia Park in the Albanian capital of Tirana became a notorious spot for drug dealers and illegal buildings?
... that Sempronius Stretton, who sketched people in early Canada, was painted at the Duke of Wellington's annual banquet celebrating their victory at Waterloo?
... that after his term as acting Governor of Guam, Raymond Stone went on to become a judge on the Supreme Court of Guam?
... that Libertas, a biographical film about the Croatian Renaissance playwright Marin Držić, was approved for funding in 1992, but was not finished until 2006?
... that Louisiana politician and timber magnate Henry E. Hardtner is known as "the father of forestry in the South"?
... that brewing beer from glacial water is only one of the many unique features of Greenlandic cuisine?

8 November 2010

18:00, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the cabin of the Heli-Sport CH-7 (pictured) was designed by the creator of the Lamborghini Countach, while the helicopter's frame is the work of Argentine inventor Augusto Cicaré?
... that Robert-Georg Freiherr von Malapert was the first recipient of the German Cross in Gold?
... that the Mount Lemmon Marathon is entirely uphill and climbs over 1 mile (1.61 km) from start to finish as it follows the General Hitchcock Scenic Byway?
... that Oscar Nilssen chaired the Hedmark branch of the Norwegian Labour Party for thirty-three years, from 1921 to 1954?
... that the rooms of the Café Rumpelmayer in the Hotel St. Moritz in New York City were designed by the German-born architect Winold Reiss?
... that Liang Congjie established the Friends of Nature in 1994 as the first environmental non-governmental organization to be officially recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China?
... that all eight venues of the 1964 Winter Olympics were reused when the Games returned to Innsbruck twelve years later?
... that Eber Brock Ward built the first Bessemer steel mill in the United States?
... that the Mudawana is the only section of Moroccan law that relies primarily on Islamic sources rather than Spanish or French civil codes?

12:00, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the hemmema (pictured), turuma, pojama and udema, four types of warships designed by naval architect Fredrik Henrik af Chapman for the Swedish archipelago fleet in the 18th century, were named after provinces in Finland?
... that Talyllyn Railway locomotives No. 3 Sir Haydn and No. 4 Edward Thomas both hold the unusual distinction of carrying the same number through the ownership of four different railway companies?
... that Chinese sport shooter Liu Tianyou ‎won his first gold medal in the men's 10 m air rifle event at the 2006 Asian Games?
... that two Berlin U-Bahn stations, Paradestraße and Platz der Luftbrücke, have been called "Flughafen" (airport) because Hitler wanted the entrance to Tempelhof Airport moved?
... that recreational physical activity reduces cancers but not melanoma?
... that the discovery of asbestos in B5 coaches during renovation has led to a legal dispute between the Norwegian State Railways and Bombardier Transportation?
... that Lorne Kusugak, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, was a founding director of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, a TV network that broadcasts almost entirely in Inuktitut?
... that Princess Xenia of Montenegro's refusal of marriage to Alexander I of Serbia severed diplomatic relations between their two countries?

06:00, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

... that, in 1996, operation of the ore trains (pictured) on the Iron Ore Line and the Ofoten Line were privatized and transferred to Malmtrafik?
... that the Tristan Thrush is a regular predator of the eggs and chicks of the Great Shearwater?
... that classic female blues singer Laura Smith recorded two songs about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927?
... that discretionary trusts in English law have been described as "powers in the nature of trusts" because they cross the traditional distinction between trusts and powers?
... that P.E. de Josselin de Jong was the nephew of J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong, a founding father of Dutch anthropology, and that both specialized in Indonesian ethnography?
... that Mary Emma Allison conceived of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF in 1950 to raise funds for powdered milk for needy children, a program that had raised $160 million by the time of her death in 2010?
... that the Consulate General of France in Jerusalem established official political ties with the Palestinian government after Yasser Arafat moved to Gaza City in 1994?
... that among the 85 cricketers to play first-class cricket for I Zingari were one member of the British Royal Family, three barons, one Earl, three Members of Parliament and one bishop?
... that Gee Jon became the first person in the United States to be executed in a gas chamber, after Nevada State Prison officials found that pumping the poison directly into his cell did not work?

00:00, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the George & Dragon pub (present building pictured) at Newton, Derbyshire, was recorded in 1577?
... that 30% of the population in the Arab world is classified as overweight or obese, including 80% of adult women in Kuwait?
... that George Cain's book Blueschild Baby was called "the most important work of fiction by an Afro-American since Native Son" for its portrayal of "a world that only black people can fully comprehend"?
... that although the fungus Aseroe coccinea was characterized in 1989, its validation as a species was delayed until 2007 because the initial description was not in Latin?
... that in 1982 the pilot of a Applebay Zuni II glider earned at least seven FAI gliding badges during the course of a single flight?
... that the redevelopment of the Paddington area of London was intended to be comparable in scale to Canary Wharf?
... that, although the Norwegian newspaper Solungen was only published from 1904 through 1914, its name was involved in a trademark dispute in 2008?
... that Battle of Britain fighter ace Richard Dickie Cork was the only Fleet Air Arm pilot to shoot down five aircraft in a day?
... that when the only known Cylindrocline lorencei died and its seeds would not germinate, it was considered extinct—but it was saved through in vitro culture of part of the seed embryo?

7 November 2010

18:00, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

... that in the aftermath of the 1855 Ansei Edo earthquake large numbers of prints were produced depicting the mythological giant catfish Namazu (example pictured)?
... that the controversial Iraq De-Ba'athification policy banned anyone affiliated with the Ba'ath Party from working in the public sector?
... that former Scientologist Tory Christman trained actor John Travolta in his initial Scientology coursework?
... that Reimar Schefold of Leiden University lived among the Sakuddei of Siberut who believe that everything has its own spirit, free to wander as it wishes?
... that aviator Janet Bragg was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial Pilot Licence?
... that when Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor to Elizabeth I, built Holdenby House, he moved the dwellings of Holdenby village away from All Saints Church, leaving it isolated?
... that March 13, 2001, was named "Ronnie McCollum Day" in Shreveport, Louisiana, to honor the basketball player of that name?
... that Canadian pioneer Susan Louisa Moir Allison was the first European to report a sighting of Ogopogo, a cryptid lake monster?
... that Polly Rosenbaum's accomplishments in her 45 years in Arizona's state legislature included eliminating spittoons and miniskirted pages from the state House of Representatives?

12:00, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Flying Duck Orchid (pictured) was first collected in 1803 at the site of the present day Sydney Opera House?
... that the Blair-Dunning House in Bloomington was the home of the only politician to hold every elected legislative and executive office in Indiana's government?
... that scholars have recommended that "Clara cell" and other medical eponyms associated with Nazi doctors or medical experiments should be replaced?
... that mezzo-soprano opera singer Martha Lipton performed 401 times at the Metropolitan Opera?
... that after Black Panther Party members Michael Tabor and Richard Moore fled to Algeria while on trial for an alleged bomb plot, party leader Huey P. Newton called them "enemies of the people"?
... that the 1915 film The Incorrigible Dukane is the oldest surviving movie starring John Barrymore?
... that during the Yom Kippur War, the Israeli Air Force carried out the Syrian General Staff Headquarters Raid after northern Israel had been struck by FROGs?
... that Bach used the first movement of his Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 as a Sinfonia for his cantata Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht, BWV 52?
... that the death of a zebra, while under the care of Sir Fleetwood Edwards, was said to greatly annoy Queen Victoria?

06:00, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Sirocco (pictured), an endangered flightless parrot, gained fame when he was caught on video attempting to mate with the back of a zoologist's head?
... that B.B. King and Eric Clapton won a Grammy Award in 2000 for their collaborative album Riding with the King?
... that when former International Lenin School worker Just Lippe fled to neutral Sweden during World War II, he was imprisoned there for a year and a half?
... that a klotok is a type of Indonesian "motorized gondola"?
... that Willie Jackson is the Atlantic Sun Conference's all-time leading scorer in men's basketball?
... that Chamaegigas intrepidus ("intrepid dwarf giant") is a tiny aquatic plant that can thrive in the desert?
... that World War II aviator William Atkinson is the highest scoring fighter ace of the Royal Canadian Navy and the last ace from The Commonwealth?
... that the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, was frequented by Al Capone, who is said to have once avoided police by escaping through secret tunnels in the hotel?

00:00, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the former Union Free School (pictured) in Le Roy, New York, is now a museum devoted to Jell-O?
... that the first automobile in Canada was first operated by parish priest Georges-Antoine Belcourt in 1866?
... that soon after the ocean liner SS Utopia collided with the battleship HMS Anson, resulting in 564 deaths near Gibraltar in 1891, the partially submerged wreckage was involved in another collision?
... that the recently restored Wara Wara (1930) is the only known surviving Bolivian silent feature film?
... that Battle of Britain pilot Francis Dawson-Paul was the leading Fleet Air Arm fighter ace on the Spitfire but was shot down in July 1940 after 25 days of combat and died of his wounds five days later?
... that one year after Bahrain's State Security Law was abolished in 2001, Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa pronounced Bahrain a constitutional monarchy and changed his title from amir to king?
... that Lai Pak-Hoi founded the first Chinese-owned film production company in Hong Kong, the Minxin Film Company?
... that the new search engine Blekko will use what The New York Times described as "Wikipedia-style policing" to weed out pages created by content farms and focus on results from trusted websites?

6 November 2010

18:00, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Harvard Crimson football team (home stadium pictured) has won 12 national championships and is the eighth winningest team in NCAA Division I football history?
... that Anglo-Saxon nobleman Ælfric Cild married into the powerful family of the ealdorman of Mercia, and succeeded him in office before being expelled by the end of two years?
... that after finishing his National Football League career with the Atlanta Falcons, Bob Adams became a Church of Scientology vice president and spokesperson?
... that Sir Nicholas Fuller was imprisoned for heresy after describing the Court of High Commission as "under jurisdiction not of Christ but of anti-Christ"?
... that The Mark Levin Show is the fourth most-listened-to radio program in the United States, with over 8.5 million listeners?
... that the most massive known neutron star is approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) in diameter, but has a mass twice that of the Sun?
... that Kenyan runner Benjamin Kiptoo set a course record of 2:07:54 at the 2010 Chuncheon Marathon?
... that in 1962, Texas A&M University professor J. Milton Nance wrote a regional history of Bryan, Texas?
... that the Diggers & Dealers conference is so popular that hotel rooms in Kalgoorlie, Australia, are booked up two years in advance?

12:00, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Berlin Airlift Monument (pictured) in Platz der Luftbrücke, Berlin, has an exact counterpart reaching towards it at Frankfurt Airport and a smaller replica at Celle Air Base?
... that two Soviet speed skaters tied for first place and won gold in the same event at the 1956 Winter Olympics?
... that actor Dax Shepard received strong reviews for both his comedic and dramatic performance in "No Good Deed", an episode of the NBC series Parenthood?
... that the autobiographical film Orchids, My Intersex Adventure (which is about an intersexed woman) won a 2010 ATOM Award for Best Documentary (General)?
... that the "strategy New Haven itself had pioneered to fight North Haven's mall" was used against the New Haven Galleria by the neighboring city of Milford 20 years later?
... that in the 2008 Nunavut general election, candidate Allan Rumbolt achieved the lowest winning plurality of any candidate in any electoral district?
... that United States security assistance to the Palestinian Authority for the 2010 fiscal year was US$100 million?
... that the Pittsburg State Gorillas have won more games than any other American football program in NCAA Division II history?
... that Reinhard Mohn took what was left of his family's publishing company (its premises demolished by Allied bombing in World War II) and turned it into the sixth-largest media conglomerate in the world?

06:00, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

... that after the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919, Amir Amanullah announced Afghanistan's independence at the Id Gah Mosque (pictured) in Kabul?
... that the Murray State Racers men's basketball program had its last losing season in 1987–88?
... that even though Simeon I of Bulgaria burned the Church of St. Mary of the Spring near the Byzantine capital Constantinople, his son Peter married the daughter of Romanos I Lekapenos there three years later?
... that juvenile balloon sharks are preyed upon by the coelacanth?
... that soprano Janis Martin appeared at the Zurich Opera as Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde?
... that All-Star pitcher Oral Hildebrand led Butler University to the 1929 national championship in basketball?
... that voice artist P. C. Ramakrishna acted in the 1969 Madras Players theatre production The Crucible?
... that upon being elected Mayor of Regina, Saskatchewan, Douglas R. Archer moved to eliminate the city's business tax?
... that the collection of the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum includes a specimen of native copper that is 8 ft (2.4 m) long?

00:00, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Erika Forster-Vannini (pictured), Chair of the Swiss Senate, is one of three women who hold the three highest Swiss political offices?
... that Samangan (Aybak), the capital of Samangan Province, lies on the Khulm River?
... that Alexei Kudrin was declared "Finance Minister of the Year 2010" by Euromoney magazine?
... that several MPs have signed an Early Day Motion to stop hunters from killing wild animals in Britain after the supposed death of the Emperor of Exmoor, a red stag (Cervus elaphus)?
... that Welsh bantamweight champion Tosh Powell died from a brain hemorrhage after a boxing match in Liverpool, at the age of 20?
... that Second World War aviator Ronald Cuthbert Hay is the only Royal Marine fighter ace?
... that Henry Holt and Company discontinued the printing of The Last Train From Hiroshima after members of the 509th Composite Group questioned the authenticity of the book?
... that Wallace Wilkerson declined to be executed by decapitation in Utah Territory, and instead took up to 27 minutes to die because the firing squad missed his heart?
... that a 1994 hoax suggesting that Microsoft had acquired the Catholic Church was considered to be the first Internet hoax to reach a mass audience?

5 November 2010

18:00, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

... that 10 players from the 1902 "Point-a-Minute" Michigan football team (pictured), which outscored opponents 644–12, became head coaches?
... that at M-1 Global's Challenge XXI event, Artiom Damkovsky defeated Mairbek Taisumov to become their inaugural Lightweight MMA Champion and Guram Gugenishvili defeated Kenny Garner (who was replacing the injured Maxim Grishin) for their inaugural Heavyweight Championship?
... that Emery Point Light, an active lighthouse at Larrakeyah Barracks, near Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, was the only navigational aid to remain functional in the path of Cyclone Tracy?
... that various authors speculate that the Byzantine aristocratic Phokas family are of Arab, ancient Roman, Armenian or Georgian origin?
... that Charles Darwin experienced the 1835 Concepción earthquake, describing the effects of both the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami?
... that soprano Myrna Sharlow once upstaged acclaimed opera singer Mary Garden in a performance of a minor role at the Boston Opera House?
... that prior to becoming Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, George Tuccaro anchored the first daily current affairs television show in Canada's north?
... that historian Gary Clayton Anderson describes the white man's advance into Texas in the 19th century as ethnic cleansing of the American Indians?
... that politician James R. Lewis was involved in plans to build a laser gun "designed to blind people", sell it to a Guatemalan colonel, and use the proceeds to build a laetrile factory in South America?

12:00, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1883 St Mary's Church, Shipton Solars, Gloucestershire, (pictured) was being used as a cow shed?
... that soprano Christiane Kohl appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as the Rhinemaiden Woglinde in both Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung?
... that no northern-born Canadian Aboriginal had been appointed Commissioner of the Northwest Territories until the appointment of Daniel L. Norris in 1989?
... that despite having to teach out of a poorly converted hotel building, Mary Adams transformed the Wesleyan Female College into a highly regarded institution?
... that "The Ballad of Molly Mogg" was "writ by two or three men of wit" – John Gay, Alexander Pope and Dean Swift – while sheltering from a storm?
... that Scott Ashjian faced a legal challenge prior to the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Nevada as he changed parties after submitting his candidacy?
... that Torstein Grythe started the boys' choir Sølvguttene in 1940, and retired as conductor of the choir as late as 2004?
... that the New York Times described Dick Miles as "perhaps the greatest table tennis player the United States has ever produced" after Miles won 10 national championships in the sport?
... that Chilean journalist Pamela Jiles announced her presidential candidacy using the slogan "We are millions, the idiots"?

06:00, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

... that all three albums by Brooke Fraser (pictured) debuted at number one on the New Zealand Albums Chart?
... that the National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin houses the world's fastest supercomputer?
... that Sandrine Salerno, current mayor of Geneva, Switzerland, is the daughter of a French mother and an Italian father?
... that Nick Leggett, the Mayor of Porirua who succeeded Jenny Brash, is currently the youngest mayor in New Zealand?
... that the Wittenberg Tigers from Springfield, Ohio, have won more games than any other Division III college football team?
... that St Peter's Church, Wolfhampcote stands isolated in a field, surrounded by mounds remaining from a deserted medieval village, disused canal workings, and a redundant railway?
... that Troughman is mythically famous in Sydney, Australia, for lying down in urinals?
... that following a sexist joke by a political opponent, Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament Lisa MacLeod wrote the cookbook I’d Rather Be Baking Cookies?
... that the phonomotor, patented by Thomas Edison in 1878 and powered only by the human voice, could drill a hole in a board?

00:00, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

... that with 800,347 inhabitants as of 2010, Tirana County (pictured) is the most populated County of Albania?
... that Apple introduced Game Sprockets in 1996 to improve game development on the Mac OS, but cancelled development only a year later?
... that Michele Bachmann and Tom Emmer will appear in My War, a documentary about the Christian youth ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International?
... that the idea behind "Pavor Nocturnus", a second season episode of the Canadian television series Sanctuary came from the 2007 film I Am Legend?
... that in 1979 Taunton Town F.C. moved from the Southern section of the Southern Football League to the Midlands section due to the opening of the M5 motorway?
... that a Leo Cullum cartoon published in the first illustrated issue of The New Yorker printed after the September 11 attacks had the caption "I thought I'd never laugh again. Then I saw your jacket"?
... that Robert Wilson was a principal tenor with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the 1930s before beginning a 25-year concert, variety and radio career?
... that Peter Bossman, born in Ghana, has been elected by the people of Piran to become Slovenia's first black mayor?
... that Fidel Castro and Che Guevara first met in Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico City?

4 November 2010

18:00, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

... that James Bond's leap from the 220 m (720 ft) high Contra Dam (pictured) in the 1995 film GoldenEye was voted in 2002 as the best film stunt ever?
... that in 1859, ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California David S. Terry killed U.S. Senator David C. Broderick in a duel?
... that Frankism, an 18th-century movement derived from Judaism, maintained that the best way to emulate God—and one's most important personal responsibility—was to transgress every taboo?
... that Thomas Barrie, found guilty in 1538 of spreading rumours about Henry VIII of England, had his ears cut off while in the pillory and later died from shock?
... that Betty S. Murphy was the first woman to serve on and the first woman chair of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, and the first woman to lead the Dept. of Labor's Wage and Hour Division?
... that Joseph Tehawehron David was a Mohawk artist who became known for his role as a warrior during the Oka crisis in 1990?
... that Detroit mayor William G. Thompson was considerably pummeled in a sensational public fight with his brother-in-law, who accused him of talking about his wife in barrooms?
... that a typhoid outbreak was caused by a church meeting in Monark Springs, Missouri?
... that Holland Island, currently underwater at high tide, used to be one of the largest inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay?

12:00, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Adaptive Vehicle Make program plans to use crowdsourcing and an open source design to develop an infantry fighting vehicle (concept pictured) within just 30 months?
... that Olga Ivinskaya, the mistress of Boris Pasternak, was the inspiration for the heroine of Dr. Zhivago?
... that a large fragment of the Northumbrian Easby Cross was over 1,000 years old when it was found built into a wall in a field?
... that the two earliest aboriginal title cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall were examples of collusive litigation?
... that the first church service in the village of Alliance, Alberta was held in a pool hall, with most of the congregation seated on pool tables?
... that clarinetist Margot Leverett started a band that fuses bluegrass music with the traditional Jewish musical style called klezmer?
... that before departing from Kraków for his victorious Battle of Vienna against the Ottoman Empire, king Jan III Sobieski said his final prayers at the Carmelite Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary?
... that the drawings of Violette Lecoq from her experiences in the Ravensbrück concentration camp were used as evidence at the trials in 1946?
... that the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta has variously been considered a thrush, a starling and a honeyeater?

06:00, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

... that women constitute more than 75% of the actual population of Bawean island (pictured)?
... that some leading botanists believe that Afghanistan is the birthplace of pomegranate cultivation?
... that Belgian soldiers continued to defend Fort de Tancrémont even after Belgium had already capitulated to Nazi Germany on 28 May 1940?
... that despite suffering from an injured fist, Indian boxer Shiva Thapa won a silver medal at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics?
... that by 2001, there were over 1,000 research studies regarding the children's television show Sesame Street's efficacy, impact, and effect on American culture?
... that R&B singer Tobi Lark's most successful recording was issued under a different name, became very popular in Wigan, and has recently been compared to a Shakespeare sonnet?
... that the largest ethnic group in Makambako, Tanzania, is the Kinga?
... that Washington State Route 220 was one of twelve highways removed from the Washington state highway system in 1991?
... that industrialist and inventor William Edenborn once tried to use monkeys to harvest cotton on his experimental farm in Louisiana?

00:00, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

... that one of the Fénix capsules (Fénix 2 capsule pictured) was used for the rescue of 33 miners trapped underground, in the San José Mine of Copiapó, Chile?
... that graphic designer S. Neil Fujita created iconic covers for such books as Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Mario Puzo's The Godfather?
... that alternative rock band Klaxons' records have charted in multiple countries worldwide?
... that American boogie-woogie pianist Booker T. Laury appeared in two films, but did not record his debut album until he was almost eighty years of age?
... that over 110 people were killed when SS Vestris sank in 1928?
... that Wendall Woodbury was the first television anchor in the United States to report on the unfolding Three Mile Island accident in 1979?
... that the venue for the 1960 Summer Olympic marathon event included the Appian Way, finished at the Arch of Constantine, and was lit at night by Italian soldiers holding torches?
... that catcher Harry Bemis once beat Ty Cobb over the head with a baseball after a home plate collision?

3 November 2010

18:00, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Winslow Homer's painting Right and Left (pictured) was named by a hunter who recognized the sportsman's achievement of killing two birds in succession with a double-barreled shotgun?
... that the children's book Don't Forget the Bacon! was used in an education case study teaching students about reliability of spoken language?
... that Marilyn Monroe's 1952 live rendition of the George Gershwin and Buddy DeSylva song "Do It Again" before thousands of marines at Camp Pendleton caused a "near riot"?
... that Austroplatypus incompertus forms colonies in the heartwood of some Eucalyptus trees and was the first beetle recognized as eusocial?
... that Ogden H. Hammond, the father of New Jersey congresswoman Millicent Fenwick, survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, though his wife did not?
... that one of the earliest driving clubs in Britain, the Bensington Driving Club, was also called the Black and White Club, after the Black Dog and White Hart public houses where it met?
... that the succulent plant Frerea indica was once on a list of the twelve most endangered plants on earth?
... that Mary J. Rathbun described over 1000 new crustacean taxa, but never attended college, and received a Ph.D. only after she retired?
... that the Sanctuary of Atotonilco in Guanajuato, Mexico, has been called the Sistine Chapel of Mexico?

12:00, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

... that one of the 62 churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South West England is currently used as a circus skills school (pictured)?
... that the 1964 BSA A65 Rocket motorcycle had a top speed of 108 mph and was sold as the fastest motorcycle being produced by BSA?
... that Norwegian folk singer Jack Berntsen had a cultural prize named after him?
... that the Matengo people are believed to have lived in southern Tanzania's Matengo Highlands since the Iron Age?
... that the Antlia Dwarf galaxy may have distorted the shape of its neighbour NGC 3109 one billion years ago?
... that newly hatched Aylesbury ducks were traditionally fed on toast, boiled eggs, rice, beef liver, greaves and boiled horses or sheep?
... that between 1933 and 1935, American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer Walter Roland recorded around fifty songs for Banner Records?
... that Empire Conveyor was the only ship sunk by U-122?
... that Phallus calongei is a pink-tipped phallic mushroom covered with greenish slime?

06:00, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Cape Don Light (pictured), at the tip of the Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory, Australia, is Australia's northernmost traditional lighthouse?
... that Otto Schimming wrote the first letter to the United Nations protesting Namibia's incorporation to South Africa?
... that the first Principal of Federico Errázuriz Regional Institute was José Kuhl, a Pallottine priest from Limburg, Germany?
... that three of the venues used for the 1956 Winter Olympics went on to appear in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only?
... that, in the 1880s, stage actress Pauline Hall performed Erminie a record-breaking 800 times in the United States?
... that a Bristol Scout from the British aircraft carrier Vindex made the first interception of an airship by a carrier-based aircraft on 2 August 1916 when it attacked a Zeppelin with explosive Ranken darts?
... that Justus Smith Stearns built the first all electric sawmill in the United States?
... that the porch of St Swithun's Church, Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire, contains a wall plate with a chronogram hiding the date of the execution of Charles I?
... that due of a lack of an official UK Singles Chart before 1969 the BBC averaged four different charts in the early 1960s, none of which are now regarded as the canonical source?

00:00, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the Yale Bulldogs football team (mascot pictured) has won 27 national championships and ranks second in wins in college football history?
... that the organ case in St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover, Warwickshire, was originally made for St John's College, Cambridge?
... that despite numerous proposed changes to the Constitution of American Samoa, voters in today's constitutional referendum cannot vote on each of them individually?
... that conservative theologians believe the Confession of 1967 radically changed how the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) interpreted the Bible?
... that American football player Bryant Moniz, who began the 2009 season as a walk-on for Hawaii delivering pizzas to pay his expenses, currently leads the NCAA in both passing yards and total offense?
... that the NSB Class 72 trains could at first not be used on the high-speed Gardermoen Line because their electronics interfered with the signaling system?
... that Annie Meinertzhagen spent part of her honeymoon studying birds at Walter Rothschild’s ornithological museum?
... that Bronx judge Burton B. Roberts, known for his no-nonsense manner and stentorian voice, was the model for the character Myron Kovitsky in Tom Wolfe's 1987 book The Bonfire of the Vanities?
... that the British Engineerium, created by a steam enthusiast who started with £300, was later bought for £3 million by another enthusiast?

2 November 2010

18:00, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

... that World Heritage Sites in Cuba include two national parks and examples of the island's historic tobacco and coffee economy (Viñales Valley pictured)?
... that the Piccolo Quintet, composed by Graham Waterhouse, was performed in a lecture concert of the first Sergiu Celibidache Festival in Munich?
... that nine athletes managed to win more than one medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics despite there only being 17 events?
... that in the Cincinnati Riots of 1884 many soldiers from the Ohio National Guard refused to report for riot duty, and some even joined the rioters?
... that prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, imprisoned in Iran's notorious Evin Prison, went on a month-long hunger strike to protest her ill-treatment?
... that Norway's train radio system Scanet was replaced by GSM-R after only 13 years of operation?
... that the Benton City – Kiona Bridge is believed to be the first steel box girder bridge in the United States, and still carries Washington State Route 225 today?
... that Gervase Bennet, MP for Derby during the Commonwealth, originated the name "Quakers" for members of the Religious Society of Friends?
... that the traditionalist Italian wine producer Giacomo Conterno has long held the motto that at the time of bottling, their barolos should be "undrinkable"?

12:00, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

... that most of the approximately 300 Belgian soldiers killed in the explosion of the Fort de Loncin (entrance pictured) remain buried in the wreckage of the fort?
... that each book in the Epic Horse series has a new protagonist and setting?
... that the Maya city of La Blanca in northern Guatemala features an unusually well-built palace complex for such a small city?
... that Louisiana Highway 975 is a gravel state highway along the banks of the Atchafalaya River?
... that editor Hans Aarnes established the first formal education program for journalists in Norway?
... that the People's Republic of China, much like the United States and Russia, has allegedly engaged in cyberwarfare?
... that Kanye West's short film Runaway was inspired in part by painters Picasso and Matisse, as well as directors Federico Fellini and Stanley Kubrick?
... that Yahoo! Kids, formerly known as Yahooligans!, is the oldest online search directory for children?
... that Nunavut Day, originally celebrated on April 1, was moved to July 9 in 2001 because the former date was not considered to be significant enough to the people of Nunavut?

06:00, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

... that in an 1883 gunfight, Billy Porter (illustrated) of the Dutch Mob shot and killed "Johnny the Mick" Walsh at Shang Draper's saloon?
... that the process of cheese ripening determines the texture and flavour of cheese?
... that during the Siege of Kandahar, Nader Shah told his Bakhtiari troops that they would each be given 1,000 rupees and a share of the spoils if their assault was successful?
... that eight players selected in the 1980 NBA Draft went on to became head coaches in the league?
... that the Cincinnati Riots of 1836 were triggered by U.S. Independence Day celebrations and were observed by Harriet Beecher Stowe and the mayor of Cincinnati?
... that in his pursuit of the Byzantine throne, Leo Phokas the Elder was outmaneuvered by Romanos Lekapenos, who had failed to support him in the lead-up to the disastrous Battle of Acheloos?
... that the Tucana Dwarf galaxy is located on the opposite side of the Milky Way to most of the rest of the Local Group?
... that Point Charles Light, established 1893, is the oldest lighthouse in the Northern Territory, Australia?
... that you can drink carbonated water from Soda Spring while hiking along the Silver Knapsack Trail in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains?

00:00, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

... that an ancient carving (pictured) of a person exposing their genitals, at All Saints Church in Buncton, West Sussex, was destroyed by a chisel-wielding vandal in 2004?
... that in 1968, historian Betty Miller Unterberger became the first woman professor at the formerly all-male Texas A&M University?
... that nipple adenomas are rare benign growths in the nipple that can look like cancer?
... that William White built the Southbridge and Pleasant Point branch railways?
... that poet John Dryden was baptised in the now-redundant Church of All Saints, Aldwincle in Northamptonshire?
... that theosophist John Varian was a leader of the utopian community of Halcyon, an influence to composer Henry Cowell, a friend of photographer Ansel Adams, and father of Russell and Sigurd who invented the klystron?
... that handheld video game Galaxian 2, released in 1981, is titled as such not because it is a sequel to Galaxian, but because it has a two-player mode?
... that Pollanisus nielseni, a moth of Western Australia with brilliantly shiny wings, was given its species name in 2005 as a tribute to Ebbe Nielsen, a noted Danish entomologist?

1 November 2010

18:00, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Amex House (pictured), European headquarters of Brighton's largest employer, American Express, is nicknamed "The Wedding Cake"?
... that Jeffrey Grosset of Grosset Wines led a movement in the 1980s to stop Australian wines that do not contain Riesling grapes from using the word "Riesling" on their labels?
... that Ingolf Schanche was the first artistic director of the Det Nye Teater, which opened in Oslo in 1929?
... that Wolke Hegenbarth's first name means "cloud" in German?
... that Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough played for Hall of Fame football coach John Gagliardi at Saint John's University?
... that politician Olav Steinnes, who dabbled in nuclear physics as a hobby, claimed to have made "the most important discoveries ever made in history by a single man"?
... that Victor Jackovich was the first United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina?
... that the removal of Omar Gjesteby as a deputy trade union leader in 1940 was partially investigated by his son, a Norwegian police investigator, some years later?
... that mural artist Henry Bird taught drawing to the modernist architect Will Alsop by insisting that he draw bricks for three months?

12:00, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Napki Malka (pictured) was an Hephthalite king of the 6th–7th century, who ruled in the area of Kabul, modern Afghanistan?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court reheard James v. Dravo Contracting Co. in 1937 after Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter's retirement altered the judicial balance of the court?
... that the first Open Era tennis tournament was held at The West Hants Club in Bournemouth?
... that until 1962, a salt-water crab lived in the Texas Panhandle, 500 miles from the sea?
... that the Yes song "Saving My Heart" was originally intended to be a collaboration with Supertramp vocalist Roger Hodgson, but Yes vocalist Jon Anderson wanted to sing it himself?
... that the Fall of Agadir took place in 1541 after a six-month siege of the Portuguese garrison by the future Moroccan sultan, Mohammed ash-Sheikh?
... that the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture is one of three separate U.S. ambassadors stationed in Rome, Italy?
... that actor and producer J. B. Fagan was the first manager of the Oxford Playhouse?
... that 29 employees were killed in the Thiokol-Woodbine Explosion when a fire spread down an assembly line and detonated 56,322 magnesium tripflares that had been manufactured for the U.S. Army?

06:00, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

... that the 1984 Halloween episode of The Fall Guy, "October the 31st", guest starred Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (pictured), veteran horror movie actor John Carradine, and Keith, Robert and David Carradine?
... that death can be found living on hell's half acre?
... that two American presidents nearly lost their souls to the Devils River?
... that the ghosts of a bride who tripped and died and her groom who committed suicide in 1904 are said to haunt an upscale restaurant in Hoboken, New Jersey?
... that the isolated All Saints Church at Highbrook, West Sussex, was paid for by two sisters who thought the parish church at West Hoathly was too far to travel?
... that according to Zuni folklore, the giant cannibalistic demon Átahsaia tried to feed soup made from dead children to two maidens?
... that the manga Haunted House continues Mitsukazu Mihara's death-themed material?
... that by riddling your ashes on Halloween, you might determine who in your household will be the next to die?

00:00, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

... that Giovanni de Ventura, a plague doctor who may have worn a beak doctor costume (pictured), was restricted by a covenant to treat only infectious patients?
... that the Ferry Plantation House in Virginia Beach is reportedly haunted by 11 spirits and offers special tours, including one on Halloween called "The Stroll of Lost Souls"?
... that killer shrimp have invaded Western Europe and could soon invade North America?
... that according to the folklore of the Crow Nation, the Little People of the Pryor Mountains were dwarves so violent and fearsome they could tear the heart out of an enemy's horse?
... that the Lenape Native American tribe called one of their Ohio settlements Clear Town, but the Germans called it Hell?
... that the Jew's Ear is an edible reminder of a suicide?
... that Bach combined in both his cantata Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht, BWV 55, and his St Matthew Passion the words Erbarme Dich with the same chorale?
... that the powerful Voorleser would hold babies' heads under water, stuff children's brains, tie their parents together, dress up the dead, tell tales about them and prepare a place for them in the underworld?