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30 April 2011

18:00, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the French Government issued a postage stamp (pictured) bringing attention to the theft of Cézanne's The Card Players in 1961?
... that a 17th-century Yemeni Orphans' Decree requiring the conversion of orphans to Islam was still being enforced as late as 1948?
... that Wilhelmine Reichard, the first German woman balloonist, fell unconscious at 7,800 metres (25,600 ft) during her third flight in 1811 and crash-landed in a forest?
... that on April 15, 2011, United States v. Scheinberg resulted in the end of online poker play for United States residents on the three online poker sites that account for approximately 95% of the market?
... that despite being told by doctors that he might never walk again, British swimmer Graham Edmunds has won two Paralympic gold medals in world record times?
... that as many as 6,400 human and animal illustrations, including Bir Hima Rock Petroglyphs and Inscriptions, have been recorded in Saudi Arabia's southwest Najran area?
... that Mormon bigamist Warren Jeffs spent a year in a prison called Purgatory?

12:00, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Sir Winston Churchill's American grandfather paid $125,000 for a new luxury steam yacht, Clara Clarita (pictured), that could only manage a speed of ½ mph (0.8 km/h)?
... that the inscription on Leoš Janáček's gravestone was inspired by his choral composition The Wandering Madman?
... that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 was reportedly voted on without any committee members reviewing the actual language?
... that despite questions about the suitability of his batting temperament, three of Andrew Strauss's centuries are among the five highest scores by England batsmen in ODI cricket?
... that Civic Commons is an organization reducing government IT costs with open source technology?
... that Brigadier Philip Hicks, the commander of an airborne brigade, had to swim ashore during the Allied invasion of Sicily?
... that clips of VHS tapes from the website Everything is Terrible! include how to massage a cat, an anti-pedophilia yellow dinosaur, and a direct-to-video crime drama featuring Jay Leno?

06:00, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Wilma Dykeman RiverWay Plan (pictured) is a 17-mile greenway system designed to encourage economic development and multi-modal transportation along the French Broad River?
... that Ryan Bourque, son of Hockey Hall of Famer Ray Bourque, has won four medals, including two gold medals, with Team USA in International Ice Hockey Federation tournaments?
... that Barranquilla is the fourth most populous city of Colombia?
... that recently retired Fr. Daniel Coughlin was the first Catholic priest to serve as Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives?
... that the offices of Air India were attacked as part of the violent reaction to the Babri mosque demolition in Pakistan and Bangladesh?
... that the "Irish of Vincennes", three Irish nationals arrested in Paris on terrorism charges in 1982, were framed by members of a Presidential secret police unit?
... that John Haldeman, a journalist covering the Louisville Grays baseball team, was asked to play second base for the team for one game during the 1877 season?

00:00, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Albert Bierstadt's 1863 painting The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (pictured) is sometimes likened to Frederic Edwin Church's The Heart of the Andes?
... that visually impaired skier Richard Burt won four Winter Paralympic medals for Great Britain?
... that despite losing an 1896 eminent domain case in the US Supreme Court, the battlefield tourist trolley between Gettysburg and Round Top operated over the Gettysburg National Military Park for 20 more years?
... that La Voz de un Ángel by Yuridia ranked among the best-selling albums of the year in Mexico for three years in a row?
... that photographer Mary Ellen Matthews has been responsible for the celebrity portraits used as commercial bumpers on Saturday Night Live since 1999?
... that the interior part of the Mooghaun fort was demolished to facilitate its use as a picnicking spot?
... that Mike Loan amassed a career batting average of .500 by hitting safely once in two at-bats in his only career Major League Baseball game?

29 April 2011

18:00, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

... that for much of the Middle Ages, church altars were hidden from view at points in services by curtains hung from a ciborium (example pictured)?
... that HMS Prince William was named for the future King William, who was present at the engagement she was captured in?
... that in 1919, the Pacific Coast Parks Association named Portland, Oregon's Laurelhurst Park the "most beautiful park" on the West Coast?
... that Povilas Budrys was voted Best Actor by the Lithuanian Theatre Union for the 1991/92 season?
... that Lower Swell is located on the banks of the River Dikler?
... that Filep Karma is serving a 15-year jail sentence for raising the flag of West Papua in Jayapura, Indonesia?
... that writer-director Tom Shadyac made the documentary I Am after suffering post-concussion syndrome from a serious bicycle accident—and sleeping in his closet to avoid acute sensitivity to light and sound?

12:00, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the festival of Ridván, the "King of Festivals" of the Bahá'í Faith, celebrates events that took place in a garden in Baghdad (pictured) almost 150 years ago?
... that controversy over Pedro Almodóvar's 1990 film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! led to the creation of the NC-17 rating?
... that in 2007, the Amber Palace of Amer Fort in Rajasthan was visited by 1.4 million tourists?
... that Wilson Onsare made the fastest ever marathon debut at the 2003 Paris Marathon, but never improved upon his debut time?
... that the only known specimen of the extinct spider Palaeoperenethis is in the Royal Ontario Museum?
... that the churchyard of St James' Church in Cooling, Kent, is said to have provided the inspiration for the opening chapter of Charles Dickens' book Great Expectations?
... that in his Major League Baseball debut, Marcos Mateo came into the game in the 11th inning, loaded the bases, then gave up a sacrifice fly to lose the game?

06:00, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Jeremy Kerley (pictured) was recruited by Texas and Stanford to play baseball and by Oklahoma to play college football, but he ultimately decided to play football for Texas Christian University?
... that the Gilgamesh restaurant in Camden, London, is said to be "an ostentatious replica of a Babylonian palace"?
... that Lewis Milestone's 1926 sports drama comedy silent film The New Klondike was the first film assignment of writer Ben Hecht?
... that Japanese composer Kenichi Maeyamada remixes anime and video game music under the pseudonym "Hyadain"?
... that, unlike the closely related house mouse, the wild Algerian mouse clears away its own droppings?
... that Burundian Internet journalist Jean-Claude Kavumbagu was arrested and charged with treason after writing a blog post criticizing his country's security forces?
... that Meadow Lake revelers took a ferry to hurdy gurdy houses?

00:00, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

... that General Franco (pictured) denied the fact that the British merchant ship British Corporal had been attacked by his forces during the Spanish Civil War?
... that although audio spill is often undesirable in the recording of popular music, it can be heard on records by The Beatles and Christina Aguilera?
... that Anthony Sadowski, after escaping captivity in the Great Northern War in 1704, came to America and helped Daniel Boone's father found Amity Township, Pennsylvania?
... that Berry Hinton had only three losing seasons in his twenty-three years as head baseball coach from 1943 to 1967 at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston?
... that the use of herbicide on the natural habitat of the Lesser Prairie Chicken may have created a perceptual trap?
... that Kipling's Rewards and Fairies includes "If—" which has been voted Britain's most popular poem?
... that Burmese prisoner of conscience Nilar Thein once evaded police capture by rickshaw taxi?

28 April 2011

18:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the umbrella mouth gulper (pictured) lives in deep sea marine habitats where it swallows fish much larger than itself?
... that "Semper Fidelis" by John Philip Sousa is regarded as the official march of the United States Marine Corps?
... that US actor Martin Sheen has advocated on behalf of imprisoned Kyrgyzstani activist and journalist Azimzhan Askarov?
... that a riot after the 1980 Scottish Cup Final between Celtic F.C. and Rangers F.C. resulted in a ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages at sporting events in Scotland?
... that the sex organs of Anthoceros laevis are visible on its dorsal surface?
... that NBC accidentally ran a promo about a secret wedding from the Parks and Recreation episode "Andy and April's Fancy Party" two months before the episode aired?
... that Namibian entrepreneur Harold Pupkewitz (age 95) has managed his business conglomerate since 1937?

12:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Jaigarh Fort in Rajasthan, which was a center of artillery production, has the world's largest cannon on wheels, the Jaivana (pictured)?
... that in 1889, the Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company agreed to build a smelter in Great Falls, Montana, if a local power company built a dam to supply it with power?
... that on his debut album, The Experiment, Dane Rumble found it difficult to write his former band's usual hip hop music, so he turned to pop rock?
... that Richard Waghorn was awarded the Air Force Cross after winning the 1929 Schneider Trophy seaplane race?
... that the extinct planthopper Tainosia quisqueyae was named for the Taíno people and Hispaniola?
... that when he made his major league debut, Chicago Cubs pitcher James Russell became the 97th former Texas Longhorn to play in the major leagues?
... that Theâtre de l'Étoile du Nord has been said to be "as boho as Tunis gets"?

06:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Australian creeping plant Commelina cyanea (pictured) is known as scurvy weed as early settlers ate it to ward off scurvy?
... that in 2007, the foundation headed by Guatemalan human rights activist Norma Cruz helped to convict over 30 individuals accused of murdering women?
... that despite having won all its round-robin matches, South Africa lost to India in the final of the Titan Cup?
... that African American artist Herman "Kofi" Bailey was the one-time artist-in-residence for Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana?
... that Walraversijde, the site of a reconstructed medieval fishing village, is the most studied archaeological site of its type in Europe?
... that Hal Stalmaster landed his role in Disney's 1957 film about the American Revolution, Johnny Tremain, without the help of his brother, casting director Lynn Stalmaster?
... that the Janet Smith case, the unsolved 1924 murder of a Scottish nursemaid in Vancouver, led to an attempt to make it illegal to employ Orientals and white women in the same household?

00:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Charles Elliott Perkins (pictured) was appointed assistant treasurer of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad at the age of 20?
... that Golondrina points are considered the most prevalent of Paleo-Indian points in the South Texas Plains and typify the region's first distinguished cultural pattern?
... that the plant Fumaria painteri has only been found twice in Britain, and both times by the Rev. W. H. Painter?
... that during the Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party, Raúl Castro proposed term limits for the country's leaders?
... that, in the 1918 season, Joseph McCulloch coached star American football players from multiple schools, including 1917 All-American Archie Weston?
... that Avenue Habib Bourguiba is the principal thoroughfare of Tunis?
... that Perry Como's musical conductor, Mitchell Ayres, was offered his long-time job with the singer during a golf game?

27 April 2011

18:00, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the British destroyers HMS Diamond (pictured) and HMS Wryneck were sunk by German aircraft on 27 April 1941, about four hours after they rescued over 500 troops from a sinking Dutch troopship?
... that after the Rwandan Genocide, social worker and survivor Godeliève Mukasarasi founded a group to help widows and orphans further their socio-economic rights?
... that the 1934 United States Trust Company theft was the work of an international gang that stole more than $2,000,000 in multiple robberies?
... that the Millennium Dam on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia will house Africa's largest hydroelectric power plant and impound the continent's largest reservoir when completed?
... that the release from prison of Iosif Begun, a leader of the campaign to free the Jews of the USSR, was announced in 1987 by Soviet politician Georgy Arbatov on Face the Nation?
... that in the Finnish card game Ristikontra, a player wins a trick by playing another card of the same rank as the first card in the trick?
... that Christopher Isherwood named the character Sally Bowles after Paul Bowles, because he found Bowles attractive?

12:00, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

... that former presidential son Mikey Arroyo (pictured) currently sits as a sectoral representative of tricycle drivers and security guards in the House of Representatives of the Philippines?
... that Liberty Cinema in Mumbai got its name as it was built in 1947, the year of Indian Independence?
... that Small Heath F.C. went through the 1893–94 season without drawing a League match?
... that the dense forest in the area around Csóványos in Northern Hungary has been described as "almost mystical"?
... that Kenyan Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai ran a course record to win the 2011 London Marathon and become the fourth fastest man ever in the marathon?
... that during convoy escort duty in the Battle of the North Atlantic in 1943, HMS Polyanthus was sunk by U-952 using new weapons technology?
... that Gendang beleq, a music and dance performance popular in Lombok, Indonesia, is so named because it uses two big drums?

06:00, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Havana's National Schools of Art (school of ballet pictured), conceived by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, are considered to be outstanding architectural achievements of the Cuban Revolution?
... that Louisiana Attorney General Percy Saint in 1929 ruled that impeachment proceedings against Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr. were constitutional?
... that artificial deformation of a skull enabled archaeologists to identify the Adena as the builders of the Hodgen's Cemetery Mound in Tiltonsville, Ohio?
... that James Parfitt's best bowling in first-class cricket came in his second match, when he claimed seven wickets in the first innings, all bowled?
... that the bone disease opsismodysplasia was named from the Greek word opsismos meaning "late"?
... that Byzantine historian Timothy E. Gregory served as director of the Ohio State University excavations at Isthmia?
... that after plans for the Douglas 2229 SST left no room for fuel other than in the fuselage, a designer sketched a cartoon with diving suit-clad passengers immersed in fuel, under "No Smoking" signs?

00:00, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

... that baseball pitcher Andy Hansen (pictured) earned his first major league victory against the Philadelphia Phillies, the only other major league team for which he would ever play?
... that despite being banned by Spanish colonial authorities in Mexico, the making of amate, or bark paper, never disappeared?
... that pro-Palestinian activist Vittorio Arrigoni was kidnapped by suspected members of a Islamic militant group operating in Gaza and later found hanged?
... that Will Ferrell produced and stars in the upcoming Spanish-language comedy film Casa de Mi Padre, which has been described as in the style of "an overly dramatic telenovela"?
... that around 252 glider infantry of the 1st Airlanding Brigade were drowned during the Allied invasion of Sicily?
... that although Charles Messier discovered the galaxy M91 in 1781, it was added to his catalogue only two centuries later?
... that after her role in the 1972 horror film Frogs, actress Lynn Borden began collecting frog figurines as a hobby?

26 April 2011

18:00, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Christiane Ziegler excavated the Tomb of Akhethetep (pictured) from 1991 to 1999?
... that when Bach derived his third cantata for Easter of 1724, Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß, BWV 134, from his secular cantata for New Year's Day, he just wrote new text under old text?
... that poet Jacqueline Berger compares the writing process to dreaming?
... that the Falkland Islands have on average only 2–3 hours of direct sunlight per day in winter and only 6 hours in summer?
... that "Heartaches," featuring Elmo Tanner's whistling, became a number 1 hit fourteen years after it was recorded?
... that Lagmann mac Gofraid, a late 11th-century King of Mann and the Isles, has been labelled as the only known Scot who took part in the First Crusade?
... that the upcoming 2012 film, Jack the Giant Killer (directed by Bryan Singer), is expected to take an adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend?

12:00, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Celts (helmet pictured) once inhabited Transylvania?
... that Steven Hallard and Richard Priestman were part of a team that won Great Britain's first Olympic archery medal in 80 years?
... that Abutilon pitcairnense is extinct in the wild after the single wild plant died in a landslide in 2005?
... that after eight years singing in Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Thomas Lawlor went on to perform more than 60 roles for other opera companies?
... that a two-mass-skate bicycle has demonstrated self-stability even though it has minimal gyroscopic effects and does not have positive trail, two features most commonly associated with bike stability?
... that Alexander, the eldest son of Bulgarian tsar Ivan Shishman, converted to Islam to avoid execution and died as governor of Ottoman Smyrna?
... that even though ...And the Native Hipsters's first single, "There Goes Concorde Again" was initially a 500-copy private release, it went on to reach number five on the UK Indie Charts?

06:00, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the genus Comesperma contains such plants as the Broom Milkwort (pictured), pink matchheads and love creeper?
... that the sinking of the Blanco Encalada was the first successful attack on a ship by a torpedo boat?
... that George B. Jackson, a businessman in San Angelo, Texas, who had been born into slavery in Virginia, was termed "the wealthiest colored man in Texas" in the late 19th century?
... that most of the victims of 2011 Cirebon bombing were police officers attending Friday prayer?
... that the Woodsboro and Frederick Turnpike, which is now part of Maryland Route 194, was the last private toll road in Maryland when it was purchased by the state in 1921?
... that in 1991, Vladimir Velichko became the first First Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union?
... that rugby league club Warrington paid £20 to sign Riki Papakura from New Zealand in 1911?
... that one hotel in Mogadishu advises tourists visiting Somalia to hire at least ten armed guards for their protection?

00:00, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Edward II of England made Andrew Harclay (pictured) Earl of Carlisle in 1322, only to have him hanged, drawn and quartered less than a year later?
... that despite the previous session permanently fixing the territorial capital in Tucson, the 9th Arizona Territorial Legislature's first act was to move it to Prescott?
... that sportswriter Neil Stevens was presented with the Hockey Hall of Fame's Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2008?
... that the ocean liner SS Ranpura ran aground near Gibraltar on 15 April 1936 while carrying $50 million (1936 dollars) of rare Chinese art?
... that catcher Dave Liddell faced only one pitch in his Major League career, and got a hit?
... that the 1929 drama film Betrayal was the last silent film directed by Lewis Milestone and the last silent film performed by Gary Cooper?
... that as principal bassoonist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Julie Price celebrated her predecessor William Waterhouse in the recent concert The Proud Bassoon at Wigmore Hall?
... that Rhett Akins was inspired to write Blake Shelton's song "Honey Bee" after reading an article on Mike Huckabee?

25 April 2011

18:00, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

... that La Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin (pictured) is the only public museum in Europe that combines collections of magic with a site for performing arts?
... that the opening chorus of Bach's cantata for the Second Day of Easter, Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66, has been termed "one of the longest and most exhilarating of Bach's early works"?
... that archaeologists believe they have uncovered the Monastery of the Virgins described in a 6th-century account of Byzantine Jerusalem?
... that four-time Winter Paralympic bronze medalist Matthew Stockford became the manager of Olympic skier Chemmy Alcott?
... that Wharton Reef Light, now on display at the Townsville Maritime Museum, Queensland, is the only survivor of a series of 20 automatic lighthouses installed from 1913 to the early 1920s?
... that author Andrew Morton's biography, Madonna, sold only half of its initial print run of 500,000 copies?
... that The Motherfucker With the Hat was the Broadway debut for actor Chris Rock?

12:00, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Franz Liszt dedicated his Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H (the BACH motif) to the organist Alexander Winterberger (pictured) who premiered it at the Merseburg Cathedral?
... that the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District was formed in 1904 following concerns over the expansion of the Metropolitan Railway and the growth in population of Northwood?
... that Jovan Skerlić's role in literature and general cultural and political development has resulted in the suggestion that the 1900–1914 period in Serbian history should be named after him?
... that the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, has the largest collection of Atlantic organisms in Canada?
... that Metropolitan Police officer Chris Allison was the Gold Commander for police operations in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings?
... that the community-initiated Nata Bird Sanctuary in Botswana opened in 1993 and the same year received the "Tourism for Tomorrow" award for the Southern Hemisphere?
... that while playing for Barrow, footballer Fred Laycock left the pitch to sign for Nelson before completing the match, and was then fined for representing Barrow while contracted to another club?

06:00, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

... that more than 100 people died in the CTV Building (ruins pictured) in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
... that in Ghanian women's health, breast cancer is the leading malignancy, accounting for over 15% of all malignancies in Ghana?
... that Center Point, Camp County, Texas, was settled in 1865 by freed slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation, and is the birthplace of mezzo-soprano Barbara Smith Conrad?
... that the extinct trapdoor spiders Baltocteniza and Electrocteniza were both identified from specimens in Baltic amber?
... that a plaque on Phoenix Tower in Chester states that King Charles I stood on the tower in 1645 as he watched his soldiers being defeated at Rowton Moor?
... that Democratic and Republican plans for the 2012 United States federal budget both focus on deficit reduction, but differ in their changes to taxation, entitlement programs, and research funding?
... that the longest-running number one of the UK Dance Chart in 2005 was "Hung Up" by Madonna, which spent four weeks at the top of the chart?
... that Representative J. D. Rumberg of the 10th Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ tried to ban all horse racing in the territory but was only able to have it outlawed on his own ranch?

00:00, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the winner of the 1912 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Kenmare Sorceress (pictured), was purchased from a brick-layer in Wales?
... that the award-winning writer Evelyn M. Richardson lived on a 600-acre island for 35 years?
... that nordic skier Peter Young won a bronze medal for Great Britain at the 1994 Winter Paralympics, ten years after winning his first Paralympic medal at the 1984 Games?
... that after energy and climate "czar" Carol Browner left the Obama administration, Heather Zichal took over those responsibilities but not the informal title?
... that music writer Piero Scaruffi called the 1980s American experimental rock group the Orthotonics, "one of the most surreal and unpredictable combos of the era"?
... that the first woman to write a book on childbirth was Louise Bourgeois Boursier?
... that a live album released in 2009 includes a duet by Fito Páez and Joaquín Sabina, who had not spoken for more than 10 years?

24 April 2011

18:00, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Bach was only in his twenties when he composed the cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, for Easter (pictured), using in seven movements the words and tune of Martin Luther's Easter chorale?
... that child actor Darryl Richard made his last TV appearance on the series finale of ABC's The Donna Reed Show, March 19, 1966, a day after his 20th birthday?
... that it is said that Thomas à Becket preached either in the church dedicated to him, in Capel, Kent, or in its churchyard?
... that Joseph Bloomfield Leake left the Iowa State Senate to serve in the American Civil War but was later elected back to the Senate?
... that St. Andrews Biological Station in New Brunswick is Canada's first marine biological research station?
... that Nelson F.C. lost only one home match in the Football League Third Division North during the 1924–25 season?
... that Geoff Emerick, who co-created the send tape echo echo delay audio effect at Abbey Road Studios, once said that "God only knows" how it worked?

12:00, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the star cluster Messier 103 (pictured) can be observed with the use of binoculars?
... that James C. Nelson, appointed as a Montana Supreme Court Justice by George W. Bush's campaign chair, wrote that blocking same-sex marriage was a "societal cancer grounded in bigotry and hate"?
... that St Mary Magdalene's Church in Tortington is decorated with carvings of grotesque, boggle-eyed monsters, rare beakhead figures and chevron ornamentation?
... that Aziz Ahmad is considered one of the best Buzkashi players in Afghanistan?
... that Angry Birds was named App of the Year at the British Appy Awards?
... that in the Fourth Test of the 1965–66 Ashes series the Australian cricket captain Bobby Simpson and his batting partner Bill Lawry made 244 runs in 255 minutes, the highest opening stand against England in Australia?
... that in the burrowing wolf spider Allocosa brasiliensis, males often eat older, less fecund females that they lured into their burrow using pheromones, while preferredly mating with virgins?

06:00, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Henry Conybeare, a civil engineer who planned a water-supply scheme for Mumbai which is still in use today, also designed St Mary's Church (pictured) in Itchen Stoke, Hampshire?
... that the only known specimen of the extinct planthopper Glisachaemus jonasdamzeni is preserved with a parasitic mite?
... that Felipe González González was Governor of Aguascalientes from 1998 to 2004?
... that artist Edward Hopper's wife served as the model for both women in his painting Hotel Lobby?
... that Steve and Christian Thomas are the first father-son combination to each score at least 50 goals in a single Ontario Hockey League season?
... that in the 2010 documentary film 180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless, Jeff Johnson emulates the 1968 journey made by Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins?
... that Charles Silent tried to resign from the Arizona Supreme Court almost immediately upon taking up the office?

00:00, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the snail Theodoxus fluviatilis (shells pictured) can reach population density up to 6412 snails per m²?
... that M. A. Muqtedar Khan calls Jewish rabbi Mukhayriq "the first Jewish martyr of Islam" and "a true Islamic hero"?
... that police used cryptic messages placed in a newspaper and disguised as Mensa puzzles to communicate with the perpetrator of a letter bomb campaign?
... that Juice Newton played Australian rules football for the Melbourne Football Club?
... that attack helicopters racked up an impressive five-to-one kill ratio over jet fighters during the J-CATCH exercises in the late 1970s?
... that boxer Adrian Dodson competed for Guyana at the 1988 Summer Olympics and for Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics?
... that the 5th Arizona Territorial Legislature had difficulty maintaining a quorum in its lower house due to the large number of members that did not attend the session?

23 April 2011

18:00, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

... that a portion of Black Eagle Dam (pictured) was dynamited on April 14, 1908, so that floodwaters from the collapsed Hauser Dam could pass through?
... that wrestler Charles B. Sprott sued the reigning World Heavyweight Champion in 1973 for calling him names in a parking lot?
... that Bright Angel, composed by Graham Waterhouse for three bassoons and contrabassoon, relates to the Bright Angel Trail of the Grand Canyon which the composer hiked with his father at the age of nine?
... that Alimuddin Zumla was the first Zambian doctor to be shortlisted for the BMJ Group's Lifetime Achievement Award?
... that organocerium compounds can serve as an "environmentally friendly alternative" to other organometallic reagents?
... that the first musical episode of Grey's Anatomy was conceived over seven years before it was produced, while the series was still untitled?
... that a conspiracy of silence surrounded the fate of English cricketer Walter Gilbert for 60 years after his death?

12:00, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Tamil devotional poetry describes how clothes of married women slipped off at the sight of the Hindu god Shiva appearing in the form of a naked beggar (pictured)?
... that Barend Joseph Stokvis, a Dutch professor of medicine, was the first to describe the rare disease acute porphyria in a 1889 study?
... that the first phase of Mitt Romney's 2012 U.S. presidential campaign was announced via a video message?
... that Pedro Virgili, from Vilallonga del Camp, was one of the most prominent royal surgeons of Spain in the 18th century?
... that the Spring Creek Site in western Michigan is a type site for Ottawa pottery?
... that Alaungpaya was a village headman who founded the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma, and unified the country for the third time in its history?
... that up to 200 people played a game of football on land near Brothertoft, Lincolnshire, in the 1760s as a protest against enclosure?

06:00, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the extinct trilobite Bumastus (artist's rendition pictured) was named after its resemblance to large grapes?
... that the Indianapolis Art Center was founded in 1934 as a Works Progress Administration project?
... that Supernatural, a 1998 album by British singer Des'ree, sold 50,000 copies in the United States, although her 1994 album I Ain't Movin' sold over a million copies?
... that artist Charles Alston's bust of Martin Luther King Jr. was the first image of an African American displayed at the White House?
... that RCA used its Triniscope color television design during FCC meetings, even though it was clear it would not be accepted?
... that Edward J. Burke coached the Drexel Dragons men's basketball team to their first NCAA Tournament?
... that Dickshooter was named for Dick Shooter?

00:00, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

... that according to Kawasaki's theorem, an origami crease pattern with one vertex may be folded flat (pictured) if and only if the sum of every other angle between consecutive creases is 180º?
... that the 6th Arizona Territorial Legislature was delayed from 1869 until 1871 because no Territorial Governor was available to call for elections?
... that the flash of light accompanying an earthquake in 1896 was attributed by some residents of North Piddle, Worcestershire, to a large meteor?
... that when the first cents coined by the U.S. Mint were ridiculed for their crudeness, Mint worker Adam Eckfeldt replaced the chain design with a wreath and put a trefoil under Liberty's head?
... that the medieval fortresses Lardea and Ktenia in modern southeastern Bulgaria were lost by the Second Bulgarian Empire to Byzantium in 1322 only to be recovered in 1324, then ceded back and once again recaptured in 1332?
... that Gandrung traditional dance, popular in Java, Bali and Lombok, was originally dedicated to the rice goddess, Dewi Sri?
... that Montana Supreme Court Justice Brian Morris, who clerked for U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, was the starting fullback in the 1986 Gator Bowl for the Stanford Cardinal football team?

22 April 2011

18:00, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

... that in 1864 the Church of St John the Baptist, Upper Eldon, (pictured) in Hampshire was being used as a cowshed, and in 1973 its only occupant was "a beautiful white owl"?
... that every Good Friday since 1922, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging (The Netherlands Bach Society) has performed Bach's St Matthew Passion in Naarden?
... that Louisa Hubbard founded the Women's Emigration Society in 1880 to help young women from London find employment outside of the United Kingdom?
... that most of the remaining redwoods in Oregon are in the Winchuck River watershed?
... that African-American writer Felicia D. Henderson has worked on projects as varied as the television series Soul Food, Gossip Girl, and Fringe, and the comic series Teen Titans?
... that the Loire Valley chansonniers are 15th century illustrated songbooks that are smaller than a modern paperback?
... that the possibly extinct wall crab spider species Garcorops jadis was named for C.S. Lewis' Jadis, the White Witch?

12:00, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Jesus at Herod's Court (pictured) is mentioned in only one canonical gospel, the Gospel of Luke?
... that in the 1820s, chemist Antoine Labarraque won a prize of 1,500 francs for discovering a way to remove the appalling smell from Paris's gut-processing factories?
... that after The Redmond Spokesman won University of Oregon's Hal E. Hoss trophy for the best weekly newspaper in Oregon three times in five years, the award was retired and given to The Spokesman's publisher?
... that the record-setting Finnhorse trotter Reipas was originally a thin, weak foal of unknown parentage?
... that footballers Denis Law, Robert Smyth McColl and Hughie Gallacher have each scored three hat-tricks for Scotland?
... that the queen ant of the Acropyga acutiventris carries a mealybug Xenococcus annandalei in her jaws on her nuptial flight?
... that during the trial that led to the U.S. Supreme Court case Mancusi v. DeForte, which established a reasonable expectation of privacy at work, the jury deliberated for 28 hours without sleep?

06:00, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Courtney Vandersloot (pictured) was the first NCAA Division I basketball player, male or female, with 2,000 points and 1,000 assists in a career?
... that the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors were large, 17 metres (56 ft) long, fixed flamethrowers used in the Mametz sector of the Battle of the Somme, and that the remains of one have recently been rediscovered?
... that Felix Schlag won the prize for designing the Jefferson nickel, but was required to submit an entirely new "tails" or reverse side?
... that when the ABB Group and CMS Energy invested US$1.5 billion into projects at the Moroccan port of Jorf Lasfar, it was the largest foreign investment ever in that country?
... that at age 18, Australian country music singer Samantha McClymont was crowned Grafton Jacaranda Queen, named Trans-Tasman Entertainer of the Year, and was a Top 118 finalist for Australian Idol?
... that the Carlton Hotel sold New Zealand's first beer on tap?
... that 17 years after Bruiser Brody's 1988 murder, the stadium where he was killed was one of the venues of the Bruiser Brody Memorial Cup Tour, which featured his assailant, Invader I, on the card?

00:00, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the first recorded ascent of Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze (pictured) on 27 August 1820, was led by a Bavarian Army officer, Josef Naus?
... that Judge C. C. Bridgewater's tenure on the Washington Court of Appeals ended when he missed the deadline to file for re-election—because he was in a medically induced coma after a heart attack?
... that Mote Park stopped being used by Kent after a green wicket cost them eight County Championship points due to a low scoring cricket game that ended in under two days?
... that jazz guitarist Julian Lage recorded his Grammy-nominated debut album Sounding Point when he was only 20 years old?
... that the Foresight Institute's Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology includes both annual prizes and a US$250,000 Grand Prize modeled after historical technological prizes such as the Longitude prize?
... that The King of Rome's skin is preserved in Derby Museum because he survived where other pigeons died?
... that Republican Texas high court Judge Cathy Cochran took her husband's surname when they married in 1966, and he took her maiden name in 2001?

21 April 2011

18:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

... that depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art (example pictured) date back to early Christianity and can be seen in the Catacombs of Rome?
... that Jurassic Park's discussion of chaos theory was inspired by Ivar Ekeland?
... that five thousand types of communion tokens have been issued by Presbyterian churches?
... that the historian Josephus wrote that the Jordan River had its source in Aaiha, because of an underground stream feeding the Hasbani River?
... that one-quarter of the plant diversity of Mexico occurs in Landa de Matamoros municipality in Querétaro?
... that Fort Center may be the earliest archaeological site in Florida where maize was cultivated?
... that Dwight B. Heard is credited with making Arizona's cotton industry more competitive after becoming president of the Arizona Cotton Association?
... that "You Debt Your Life" was the second American Dad! episode to feature the story of how Roger the Alien saved Stan Smith at Area 51, the first episode having been "Roger Codger"?

12:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the ancient British custom of rushbearing (pictured) was opposed by the Puritans, probably for encouraging intemperance, but deemed acceptable by King James I in his Declaration of Sports?
... that Radix natalensis is a widespread freshwater snail in Africa?
... that Blue Labour is a socially conservative trend in the British Labour Party that argues for Flag, Faith and Family?
... that Ox Baker, a former tag team partner of Walter "Killer" Kowalski, was among the wrestling legends who spoke at the Killer Kowalski Memorial Show in 2008?
... that Groupe Bogolan Kasobané of Mali is a pioneer in the bogolan fine arts movement?
... that Air India One is the call sign of any aircraft carrying either the Prime Minister of India or the President of India?
... that at its peak, the Gare de la Bastille in Paris handled over 1,000,000 roses a night?

06:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Hai Van Pass (pictured) has been the scene of at least two of Vietnam's most serious railway accidents?
... that addition of sulfur increases the refractive index of polymers?
... that several members of the 4th Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ were accused of accepting bribes after the session created the territory's first "permanent" capital?
... that Ancient Greek girl Myrtis was made a friend of the Millennium Development Goals by the United Nations Regional Information Centre?
... that Oregon Court of Appeals Judge David Schuman finished second in the North American speed skating finals in the 220-yard competition at the age of 17?
... that decoration of the Michoacán Market in Mexico City with stencils increased sales?
... that on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, Leslie Whetter was accused of incompetence, "chiefly through lack of determination in character and failing to do his level best"?

00:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Piper's Opera House (pictured) was used by boxing champion Gentleman Jim Corbett as a training facility in preparation for his title bout with Bob Fitzsimmons?
... that Breton writer Jacques Cambry (1749–1807) published important works on Celtic history and monuments, and in 1805 founded the Celtic Academy?
... that the Late Eocene marine Hoko River Formation is noted for producing crab, gastropod, cephalopod, and wood fossils?
... that the monument to Sir Henry Furnese in All Saints Church, Waldershare, Kent, fills a chapel, and has been described as "outstanding"?
... that after Rick Wakeman left Yes without a full-time keyboardist in 1997, the band borrowed Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro for their final rock radio hit "Open Your Eyes"?
... that the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck sought the imprisonment of Admiral Reinhold Werner, who nearly precipitated a war between Spanish rebels and Germany in 1873?
... that the oldest known museum labels are from c. 1900 BCE, describing 2000 BCE objects?

20 April 2011

18:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Ethiopian eunuch (pictured) has been described as the "first baptized gay Christian"?
... that in the U.S. Supreme Court case Stoner v. California, Potter Stewart wrote that the police could not depend on their bud, a hotel clerk, to help smoke out a suspected robber?
... that Landysh, a Russian vessel built with funding from Japan to decommission nuclear submarines, was requested by Japan to assist in the aftermath of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents?
... that American ceramics sculptor Richard Deutsch had a piece exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in 1981, just three years after his first solo show?
... that "G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N (You Know I've Got A)" by Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now! is a reply to Avril Lavigne's song, "Girlfriend"?
... that Combretum glutinosum, found in The Gambia and the Sahel belt, is used to make yellow dye?
... that, after chopping off her husband's penis, Lorena Bobbitt won her trial by employing the abuse defense?

12:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the concept of self-propelled particles can explain why flocking birds (pictured) suddenly change direction for no apparent reason, or abruptly switch from a flying state to a landing state?
... that in one concert, bassoonist Lyndon Watts premiered Bernd Redmann's Migrant, played Jörg Duda's first Finnish Quartet, which he had commissioned, and the Bassoon Quintet of Graham Waterhouse, which he had premiered?
... that the British minelayer HMS Plover laid over 15,000 mines during World War II, including two that sank the German destroyer Z8 Bruno Heinemann off the Belgian coast in January 1942?
... that John VI Kantakouzenos concealed the purpose of the meeting that resulted in the 1327 Byzantine–Bulgarian Treaty of Chernomen by describing it as eight days of rejoicing and feasts?
... that the Rome bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics will use 70 percent of the city's existing venues?
... that among the many children of Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald were inventors, clergymen, civil servants, Members of Parliament, army officers and admirals?
... that German art nouveau painter and architect Richard Riemerschmid began designing furniture after he could not find what he wanted for his flat following his marriage?

06:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the John Hancock Tower (pictured), in Boston, Massachusetts, won the Twenty-five Year Award thirty-five years after it was completed?
... that Jean-François-Auguste Moulin was one of the last two holdouts in the French Directory to resist Napoleon Bonaparte's seizure of power?
... that in 1916, members who attempted to remove a "whites only" clause from the constitution of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America were accused of "fomenting socialism"?
... that former California State Assemblyman George W. Milias, a graduate of both San Jose State and Stanford, was President of the California Republican Assembly and state Republican Party Chairman?
... that White Ware or Vaiselle Blanche was a limestone based prototype of clay pottery developed somewhere in the Levant in the ninth millennium BC?
... that after graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison H. Eid clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas?
... that before he entered politics, Joseph Stalin's poetry was widely read and much admired in Georgia?

00:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Captain Charles Inglis (pictured) helped frustrate a planned French invasion of Britain?
... that artist Maya Lin worked with the U.S. Geological Survey to create her Bluespring Caverns-inspired sculpture Above and Below?
... that Lev Voronin, a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, was acting Premier of the Soviet Union between Nikolai Ryzhkov's hospitalisation and Valentin Pavlov's election as Premier?
... that the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe, Cheshire, was opened in 1887, destroyed by fire in 1910, and rebuilt on the same site in 1911?
... that Ernst Cadman Colwell, together with his students, elaborated a new method of textual criticism known as the Claremont Profile Method?
... that the album Gloria by Mexican singer Gloria Trevi features a song dedicated to The Rolling Stones?
... that the 2011 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, held in France in April 2011, marks the first time that all of the Six Nations will participate in the competition?

19 April 2011

18:00, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Shamash delivering the measuring rod and line

... that a measuring rod is depicted on both the Code of Hammurabi and the Tablet of Shamash (pictured)?
... that Hollingworth Magniac had business relationships with William Jardine and James Matheson, whose Jardine Matheson and Company partnership became Asia's largest trading company?
... that in 2010, a white member of the Monticello Association was one of three Thomas Jefferson descendants given the "Search for Common Ground" award for working to heal the family's past and legacy of slavery?
... that the first Ottoman governor of Syria, Janbirdi al-Ghazali, revolted against Ottoman rule two years into his reign?
... that all that remains of the Old Church of St Mary the Virgin in Preston Candover, Hampshire, is the chancel?
... that only one side of the extinct parasitic wasp Neanaperiallus is visible in its sole fossilized specimen?
... that a week after co-producing an Usher concert in the Philippines, Representative Ronald Singson was jailed in Hong Kong for alleged drug trafficking?

12:00, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Elizabeth J. Feinler (pictured), better known as "Jake", ran the Network Information Center of the Internet until 1989?
... that five members of the popular Irish band The Miami Showband were shot in an ambush by the Ulster Volunteer Force at a bogus military checkpoint in Northern Ireland?
... that after the California Court of Appeal treated a teenager's letter as a formal appeal, Presiding Justice Daniel J. Kremer wrote a unanimous opinion overturning the boy's speeding ticket fine?
... that angry residents burned down a toll booth on the west end of Perkiomen Bridge in 1867, and another on the east end in 1872?
... that Ash-sha'ab yurid isqat an-nizam (The people want the fall of the regime) was the most common slogan in graffiti during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution?
... that, to raise money for the all-black high school where he was principal, Charles W. Cansler sometimes held demonstrations of his ability to calculate large columns of numbers faster than adding machines?
... that new Police Commissioner of New Zealand Peter Marshall held off an invasion of his home by 13 people in the Solomon Islands with a ceremonial sword?

06:00, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

... that USAF General Vogt "shut down the war" and sent 119 aircraft to recover Major Roger Locher (pictured) only 60 miles (97 km) from Hanoi—the deepest rescue inside North Vietnam during the Vietnam War?
... that Peñamiller, Querétaro, Mexico, is promoted as the gateway to the Sierra Gorda?
... that racist music is considered an effective recruiting tool for the modern neo-Nazi and white supremacy movements, and a breeding ground for domestic terrorism in the United States?
... that pamphleteer George Thomson criticized his fellow physicians for fleeing London during the Great Plague, just when the city needed them most?
... that the total amount spent on lobbying in the United States in 2010 was $3.49 billion?
... that in 2007 Lucy Aharish became the first Arab to present the news on mainstream Israeli television?
... that, when trying to gain the rights to use a Björk song for an upcoming episode, the creators of Glee initially could not reach her as she apparently did not have a telephone number?

00:00, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Nikolai Ryzhkov (pictured), the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, was considered to be a conservative by radical reformers during the Gorbachev Era?
... that Allah Made Me Funny is a documentary featuring three American Muslim comedians?
... that Jacques Cauvin said the Neolithic Revolution moved into Anatolia via "the acculturation of a local cultural background by a dominant, expansionist culture"?
... that at the time of the 3rd Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ there were no stage coaches running in Arizona?
... that Shoot to Kill (1990) had to be made as a drama documentary because many of its subjects had either been shot by the RUC, given new identities, or forbidden to talk by the Official Secrets Act?
... that the first painting exhibited at the Royal Academy by Henry Thomson was of Daedalus fastening wings on his son Icarus?
... that Abraham Bolden was the first African American member of the US Secret Service Presidential Protective Division?
... that two people owed their survival of the Sture Murders to an ambiguous order issued by a mad king?

18 April 2011

18:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut (pictured) is the third oldest museum in the Near East?
... that historian Leslie Bethell became only the second English citizen elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters?
... that the World War II U-boat commander Heinz-Otto Schultze was the son of the World War I U-boat commander Otto Schultze?
... that William F. Yardley, the first African American candidate for governor of Tennessee, is believed to have been the first African American attorney to argue before the state's supreme court?
... that the first life insurance company was founded in 1706?
... that the artwork created for the MBTA's Red Line Northwest Extension cost one half of one percent of the total construction costs of the rail line?
... that traditional Cornish fairings were sold at fairs for young men to give to their sweethearts?

12:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the 7th-century Law of Æthelberht (first folio pictured), a Kentish legal text, is the earliest extant document in the English language?
... that during the 11½ day rescue of Bat 21 Bravo, the Americans flew an average of 90 sorties a day to protect their airman, hitting the NVA with over 800 air strikes in direct support of his rescue?
... that until 1959, the Finnhorse was the only horse breed allowed to be raced in Finland?
... that Christoph Schlingensief died before the Berlin premiere of the opera which he had staged, Metanoia. Über das Denken hinaus by Jens Joneleit, conducted by Daniel Barenboim?
... that the redundant churches of St John and St Mary both stand near The Ridgeway long-distance path in Oxfordshire?
... that 140-pound quarterback Ferris Jennings ran 66 yards for the first of only two touchdowns scored all year by the 1934 Michigan football team that also featured future US President Gerald Ford?
... that, despite speculation that the Panama Creature was an alien life form, it was later shown to be a decomposing Brown-throated Sloth?

06:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Warner's Hotel in Christchurch demolished its northern end and built a theatre in its place to shield its patrons from the noise of the printing presses in the adjacent Lyttelton Times Building (buildings pictured)?
... that playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz turned his controversial play Stallerhof into an opera libretto for Gerd Kühr, which premiered at the Munich Biennale?
... that the Jardín del Arte Sullivan art market in Mexico City does not permit works with political or religious themes?
... that Lord's Cricket Ground in London has been the venue for four Cricket World Cup Finals matches?
... that an unidentified suspect, dubbed the Long Island serial killer, is believed to have murdered as many as eight people and dumped their bodies along the Ocean Parkway in New York?
... that artist Jeppe Hein created Bench Around the Lake to appear as if it tunnels in and out of the ground at the Indianapolis Museum of Art?
... that James Watt asked Sir Joseph Banks PRS to support the Pneumatic Institution, where willing subjects, including its laboratory superintendent, a young Humphry Davy, were given laughing gas?

00:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Pinal de Amoles, Querétaro, Mexico hosts an annual national level Huapango dance competition (pictured)?
... that Valentin Pavlov, the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union and de facto Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, was involved in the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev?
... that the sculpture Confluence by Robert Stackhouse and Carol Merrit was inspired by Langston Hughes' poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
... that Stanford University graduate Charles Coiner, a Republican Idaho Senator from 2004 to 2010, supported efforts to teach about Japanese-American internment in Idaho public schools?
... that the Heroes' Monument of the Red Army in Vienna was built to commemorate 17,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Vienna Offensive of World War II?
... that in 1886, 200,000 salmon and salmon trout fry (young trout) were deposited in the Chamcook Lake in New Brunswick?
... that Maud Gage Baum forced her husband to eat stale doughnuts because he did not consult with her before buying them?

17 April 2011

16:00, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Bach composed Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182, for Palm Sunday as his first cantata for the Schlosskirche (pictured) of the court in Weimar?
... that the first car that had a body entirely of plastic was manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in 1941?
... that the Codex Sangallensis 1395 is one of the oldest manuscripts of the Vulgate?
... that the design of the West Washington Street Bridge in Muncie, Indiana was inspired by the work of an American Civil War engineer who built military bridges?
... that Tell Arslan in the Sands of Beirut was the oldest known neolithic village settlement in the Beirut area?
... that missionary E. E. Aiken was a member of Skull and Bones at Yale in 1881 and the next year wrote a book denouncing such secret societies?
... that in Jones v Kaney, the UK Supreme Court overturned a line of authority going back 400 years to allow an expert witness to be sued for professional negligence?
... that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) established the Elite 88 Award in 2009 to recognize the student athlete with the highest grade point average at each NCAA championship?

08:00, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

... that 84% of Botswana is covered by the Kalahari Desert (pictured), a flat terrain known as a "thirstland", which harbours some of the wildlife of Botswana?
... that in 1903, Benjamin Franklin Yoakum began building the Gulf Coast Lines in southern Texas as a link in a projected transcontinental railroad system stretching from Chicago to Mexico?
... that Monte do Gozo, a hill in Spain, is most known for its view of a sight below, a view that is now largely obscured?
... that preacher John "Zion" Ward was jailed for blasphemy in 1832, prompting a petition to Parliament by Henry Hunt, and a speech in the House of Commons by MP Joseph Hume?
... that the German destroyer Z9 Wolfgang Zenker had exhausted her ammunition after the Second Naval Battle of Narvik and she had to be scuttled by placing demolition charges after she had been beached?
... that Hospital Tobar García is the only facility in the federated capital of Buenos Aires that specializes in mental illness in children and adolescents?
... that nearly all orders for Nintendo's Laser Clay Shooting System were canceled as a result of the 1973 oil crisis, plunging the company ¥5 billion into debt?

00:00, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the original walk-in safe from a bank that once occupied the first floor of the Wheeler Opera House (pictured) in Aspen, Colorado, is still on display in the lobby?
... that Zenith Productions, which produced Inspector Morse, was later also responsible for Ant & Dec's SMTV Live?
... that Ivan Silayev was the last Premier of the Soviet Union?
... that editor John Jympson was fired during production of Star Wars because director George Lucas disliked his rough cut of the film?
... that, according to the excavator, the more than 3000-year-old "Green Palace" of Tell al-Fakhar in Iraq was pillaged and burned with the defenders still inside?
... that bizarre silks of the early 18th century feature "some of the most extraordinary shapes to be introduced into silk design" before the development of Art Nouveau?
... that Neptune, god of the sea, can be found in Henderson Street, Edinburgh?
... that the Spirit Fruit Society is considered to have existed longer and more successfully than any other utopian group in the United States?

16 April 2011

16:00, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

... that three million trees, including pine, oak, sweet chestnut, and acacia (pictured), are being planted every year as part of reforestation efforts in Cape Verde?
... that Edward Litt Laman Blanchard, who later became a prominent writer for the Drury Lane pantomime, began writing for The Town when he was 17 years of age?
... that Epitaphium, composed for string trio by Graham Waterhouse, is performed today in Wigmore Hall in a memorial concert for his father, the bassoonist William Waterhouse?
... that the Natural Bridges National Monument Solar Power System in Utah was the world's largest solar cell power plant when it opened in 1980?
... that singer Jenny Silver debuted with the Swedish dance band Candela, when it was signed to Bert Karlsson's label Mariann Grammofon?
... that in the Indian state of Bihar, pressure from communist Party Unity guerrillas forced the upper-caste paramilitary Bhoomi Sena to surrender to the peasant organisation MKSS?
... that the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript, compiled around 1430-1440 by an amateur scribe and country gentleman, contains the only extant copies of Sir Degrevant and the Alliterative Morte Arthure?
... that Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s new opera about student activism, Kommilitonen!, was intended to be performed by students?

08:00, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the extinct Eocene parasitic wasp Brevivulva electroma (pictured) was named from the Latin words meaning "short amber wrapper"?
... that the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory exhibits neolithic relics from the Beqaa Valley recovered by Jesuits?
... that recycling in Canada is administered by the provincial and local governments?
... that Hamburger Feuerkasse was the first official fire insurance company established in the world?
... that Sir Henry Primrose, the chairman of the board of the Inland Revenue, played two international football matches for Scotland in the 1870s?
... that a performer's authenticity in art may involve conforming to the composer's intention or ignoring it?
... that the Fordwich stone in the Church of St Mary in Fordwich, Kent, may have been part of the shrine of Saint Augustine of Canterbury?
... that Alaska Supreme Court Justice Craig F. Stowers worked as a park ranger before he earned his Juris Doctor from UC Davis School of Law?

00:00, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

... that American artist Colin Campbell Cooper helped rescue survivors of the Titanic, and during the rescue created several paintings (example pictured) which document the events?
... that the 17th century Jacobean mansion Swakeleys House in Ickenham was visited by Samuel Pepys in 1665 and recorded in his diary?
... that the Tasmanian pygmy possum is the world's smallest species of possum?
... that a match at the World Wrestling Federation's Survivor Series (2000) event ended with one wrestler using a forklift to destroy a car, supposedly with his opponent trapped inside?
... that Warren Matthews, a graduate of both Stanford and Harvard appointed by Republican Governor Jay Hammond, was the second-longest serving Supreme Court justice in Alaska history?
... that Lumley Chapel is the oldest standing building in the London Borough of Sutton?
... that as many as 11 geological features in Utah are named Mollie's (or Molly's) Nipple?

15 April 2011

16:00, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Romania's Symbolist movement (iconography pictured) fostered the literary careers of far-right theorist Nae Ionescu, defrocked monk Tudor Arghezi, and Dada co-founder Tristan Tzara?
... that Ruislip Manor was largely undeveloped rural land at the turn of the 20th century until the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway in 1912?
... that during World War II, Germany and Japan wanted to divide all of Asia between each other along a line on the 70th meridian east longitude?
... that although described as one of the finest buildings in Glasgow, The Egyptian Halls may be demolished?
... that former Hillsboro, Oregon, mayor Harry T. Bagley worked to get a conviction overturned from a trial his brother George R. Bagley presided over?
... that Blackbutt, Christmas Bells, and Turpentine grow in the Garawarra State Conservation Area?
... that John Fenn, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and his colleagues at Monsanto "practically bathed" in PCBs during the early 1940s?

08:00, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

... that coach Billy Gillispie once made Kentucky Wildcats center Josh Harrellson (pictured) sit in a bathroom stall during half-time of a game?
... that under the ongoing Russian police reform, the name of Russia's law enforcers was changed from "militia" to "police"?
... that Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi, India, built on the site of the original Kashi Vishwanath Temple, still shows evidence of the temple in its foundation, columns, and rear?
... that when Antoinette Sterling sang the English folk song "Three Fishers" in the late 1800s, she made the first verse "quite bright" so as not to give away the unhappy ending?
... that the Beaux Arts exterior of the 1907 Surrogate's Courthouse in New York features no fewer than 54 sculptures of historical and allegorical figures?
... that Namibian Hans Daniel Namuhuja was the first author to publish poetry in Oshindonga, a dialect of Oshiwambo?
... that soon after he was ordained, John Wesley preached in St Mary's Church in Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire?
... that as an unelected Congressional delegate from Jefferson Territory, George M. Willing claimed to have created the word "Idaho" as a name for Colorado?

00:00, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the 75-metre (246 ft) tall towers of St. Florian's Cathedral (pictured) in Warsaw's eastern district of Praga highlight its role as a form of protest against the Russian domination of Poland?
... that while building a wagon road along Union Creek, Francis M. Smith and John M. Corbell rediscovered Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States and one of the clearest in the world?
... that the extinct parasitic wasp genus Aspidopleura is known from only two fossils found in Baltic amber?
... that Ditsworthy Warren House, built on Dartmoor for the keeper of a rabbit warren, was used as a filming location for Steven Spielberg's forthcoming movie War Horse?
... that the German destroyer Bruno Heinemann was forced to transfer fuel oil to the destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt during the Norwegian Campaign to allow the latter to return to Germany?
... that the Mariana Islands period of prehistoric stone megaliths, such as those found at House of Taga on Tinian, may have originated with the Rota Latte Stone Quarry?
... that Hospital Borda's Radio La Colifata is the world's first radio station broadcast from inside a psychiatric hospital?

14 April 2011

16:00, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

... that James FitzGerald (pictured), the first editor of the Lyttelton Times, later founded its main competitor, The Press?
... that riparian forests contain some ⅓ of the estimated 3000 flora species in Benin?
... that the first Allied soldier killed during the Normandy landings was part of Operation Deadstick?
... that the Chapman Swifts, a flock of Vaux's Swift, inspired a Portland, Oregon, community to raise over US$60,000 for a new school heating system so the birds could have the old chimney to roost?
... that because it was too dark inside the Church of St Peter ad Vincula in Colemore, Hampshire, the parishioners petitioned the bishop in 1669 to have the south transept removed?
... that Decuriasuchus may be the first known archosaur to exhibit group behavior?
... that the Pistol River received its name after James Mace lost his pistol in it in 1853?

08:00, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

... that staff of the historic The Press Building (pictured) were two weeks away from moving into a new office building when the 2011 Christchurch earthquake struck, killing one?
... that Robert Phelps is a "grandfather" of modern variational principles, according to Ivar Ekeland?
... that Llanwenarth House was a recipient of The Good Hotel Guide César Award for Best Welsh Country House of the Year 2002?
... that Hurricane Hiki was the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the United States?
... that Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, who led the struggle against Israel's Orthodox establishment to recognize the Reform movement, co-authored a book with an Orthodox rabbi?
... that someone was once stabbed at the Sunset Esplanade in Hillsboro, Oregon, for complimenting an Oakland Raiders hat?
... that in the early 19th century, the word gullible wasn't in the dictionary?

00:00, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the George Washington Masonic National Memorial (pictured) was proposed in 1852, began construction in 1922, dedicated in 1932, and finished in 1970?
... that pirate leader Emilio Changco operated out of Manila Bay till his arrest in the 1990s?
... that above the arcade in the chancel screen of St Mary's Church, Capel-le-Ferne in Kent is a large round-headed opening that is unique in England?
... that composer Jan Müller-Wieland called his first stage work, premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1992, a "Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists"?
... that there is pressure to close the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant, the oldest in France, because of concerns over the risk of earthquakes?
... that the commander of the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, Captain Helmuth Brinkmann, was a classmate of the battleship Bismarck's commander Ernst Lindemann?
... that in Oregon's 1990 U.S. Senate election, incumbent Mark Hatfield's opponent in the Republican primary was best known for having spent 40 days tree sitting to protest old-growth logging?

13 April 2011

16:00, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

... that San Francisco fireboat Phoenix (pictured) pumped some 5.5 million gallons (20.8 ML) of seawater to help fight fires after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake?
... that Rudolf Fränkel's Lichtburg cinema in Berlin, with its rooftop searchlights, probably influenced Cecil Clavering's Odeon cinema in Kingstanding?
... that Tal Brody was drafted 12th in the National Basketball Association draft, but chose instead to play basketball for Israel?
... that a stained glass window in St. Paul's Church, King Cross, Halifax built in 1911, is dedicated in memory of Edward Wainhouse, whose daughter married the first vicar of the prior church built in 1846?
... that leading Ulster Defence Association member Stephen "Top Gun" McKeag sang "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" after committing a sectarian killing?
... that the extinct Miocene redwood, Sequoiadendron chaneyi, is the probable ancestor to the giant sequoias in California?
... that Quezon Representative Lorenzo Tañada III's first girlfriend was former Akbayan Representative Risa Hontiveros while they were studying at the Ateneo de Manila University?

08:00, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

... that in Thailand, the smiling terrapin (pictured) is believed to contain the souls of people who died while trying to save others from drowning?
... that No. 1 Basic Flying Training School was formed in 1951 in response to the RAAF's increased demand for aircrew during the Korean War and Malayan Emergency?
... that the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, the topic of Sandeep Bhagwati's opera for the 1998 Munich Biennale, was considered fit for a film?
... that the two branches of New Zealand's Ashburton River flow in parallel less than 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) apart for 20 kilometres (12 mi) before they join?
... that the adjective "Polish-Lithuanian" refers to pre-nationalistic, multicultural inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, unlike the modern understanding of the two nationalities?
... that R. E. Grant Govan, founder of Indian National Airways Ltd, also co-founded the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Cricket Club of India?
... that, according to legend, on the advice of Xenoclea, Hercules agreed to become a slave of the Queen of Lydia?

00:00, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

... that approximately 6,500 out of a national population of an estimated 56,452 people (2010) in Greenland are employed in the fishing industry (fishing vessel pictured)?
... that the Knoxville Riot of 1919, one of the events of that year's Red Summer, began when a lynch mob stormed the jail in pursuit of a man believed to have been the mayor's illegitimate son?
... that the Ottoman torpedo boat Sultanhisar attacked and seriously damaged the Australian submarine HMAS AE2 in 1915 but rescued all the crew before the submarine went down in the Sea of Marmara?
... that 1986 Nobel Prize winner John Polanyi spent three years in Canada as a child to avoid German bombings during World War II?
... that Abu Ali Iyad was one of the last remaining Fatah commanders fighting the Jordanian Army until he was killed near Ajloun during a major offensive by the latter?
... that the French ship of the line Censeur was captured during the Battle of Genoa in 1795 after coming to the assistance of a damaged ship?
... that Mammotrectus super Bibliam, a guide book to understanding the Bible, was popular in the 15th century, but was criticized in the 16th century?

12 April 2011

16:00, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

... that The Man in the Moone, a 1638 book (frontispiece and title page pictured) by the English bishop Francis Godwin, is considered one of the first science fiction books?
... that Urbanus, the Grammy-nominated album by Stefon Harris, was recorded in the days leading up to Barack Obama's inauguration?
... that the Sierra Gorda region in central Mexico has more butterfly species than the United States and Canada combined?
... that Detlev Glanert's opera Caligula, after the play by Albert Camus on the cruel Roman emperor, was first staged at the Oper Frankfurt in 2006?
... that Rhodactis howesii, a sea anemone-like corallimorph, is eaten by the Samoans but can prove fatal if consumed raw?
... that the homemade Israeli mortar memorialized in Jerusalem's Davidka Square was totally inaccurate, but it made such a huge noise that it sent the enemy fleeing in panic?
... that the 15th-century Treatise of Love is based on the 13th-century monastic manual Ancrene Wisse, but shows considerably less interest in carnal love?

08:00, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Princess Ennigaldi, daughter of the last Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus, created the world's first museum (ruins pictured)?
... that during a career lasting almost fifty years at TV station WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida, George Winterling helped develop television weather forecasting?
... that traditionally, each season of cross country running in Italy concludes in March with Trofeo Alasport on the island of Sardinia?
... that goaltender Ben Scrivens signed with the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs organization mainly for the opportunity to work with goalie coach François Allaire?
... that Perry Como's musical arranger, Nick Perito, also helped Bob Hope's wife, Dolores, revive her singing career after 60 years?
... that in Jalpan de Serra in Querétaro, Mexico, there is an annual festival to celebrate "countrymen" visiting from the United States?
... that the North American Star League, a professional e-sports league for players of the video game StarCraft II, will award US$100,000 to the winner of its inaugural season?

00:00, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda (example pictured) in Querétaro, Mexico, have been classified as "mestizo architecture" because of the mixture of European and indigenous influences?
... that Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson wrote a personal letter to Lieutenant Charles Inglis congratulating him for his part in the action of 31 March 1800?
... that on July 28, 2006, Daytona Cubs baseball player Ryan Harvey set a Florida State League record by hitting four home runs in a game against the Clearwater Threshers?
... that Frank Searle designed the X-type and B-type bus, and was the Managing Director of Daimler Airway and Imperial Airways?
... that the Großgaststätte Ahornblatt, a concrete building in the shape of a maple leaf in former East Berlin, was built in 1973 and demolished in 2000?
... that Pele's hair, and Pele's tears are well preserved at Devastation Trail after the 1959 eruption of Kīlauea Iki crater?
... that 19th-century English artist John Carter learned to draw, paint and write with his mouth, after a fall from a tree left him paralysed below the neck?

11 April 2011

16:00, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Pawtuxet-class revenue cutters Ashuelot, Kankakee, Kewanee, and Pawtuxet were all sold in 1867 after barely three years service, but their sister ship Levi Woodbury (pictured) retired in 1915 as the Coast Guard's oldest cutter?
... that Jerry Harper was the first Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball player to lead his team in scoring all four years?
... that Salvador Dalí insisted that his painting Galatea of the Spheres be displayed on an easel previously owned by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres?
... that an annual award is given in honor of the Georgia old-time craftsman and blacksmith Alex W. Bealer, author of The Art of Blacksmithing?
... that Keipert syndrome affects the nose and big toes?
... that acquisitions whilst Christopher Wright was Head of Manuscripts at the British Library included the archives of Punch magazine and that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
... that Tommy Lyttle, the leader of the Ulster Defence Association's West Belfast Brigade, liked to read James Bond novels?

08:00, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

... that in 1986, a possible image of President Abraham Lincoln was discovered in an 1860s photo (pictured) of the deck of revenue cutter USRC Wayanda?
... that the German town of Bingen am Rhein has used Klopp Castle for city administration since 1897?
... that Amy Krouse Rosenthal is the only author to have three children's books on Pennsylvania State University's baker's dozen list of the "very best picture books published in 2009"?
... that the crew of the Santorini tried and failed to smuggle weapons, hidden inside barrels, into the Gaza Strip three times, before being caught on their fourth attempt?
... that the Jersey J-Cup, patterned after the Super J Cup Japanese wrestling tournament, is the second-oldest independent wrestling tournament in the United States?
... that the Museo Soumaya, a private museum in Mexico City based on one couple's art collection, has the largest collection of Auguste Rodin sculpture outside of France?
... that the old television game show Place the Face asked contestants to recognize glimpses of nearly forgotten persons from their past?

00:00, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the U.S. government imprisoned the Baron of Arizona (pictured) after learning he had damaged books in Mexican and Spanish libraries?
... that the proposed construction of the Halabiye Dam on the Euphrates in Syria threatens the Roman–Byzantine sites of Halabiye and Zalabiye?
... that the land at West Weber, Utah, was reported in 1903 to have a reputation as one of the poorest soils between the Great Salt Lake and Ogden?
... that Alexander Gradsky is believed to be the first Russian artist to have performed rock and roll music in a concert, when he was 13 years old?
... that the Blockade of Wonsan in the Korean War was the longest naval blockade in modern history, lasting 861 days?
... that automotive journalist David E. Davis wore a full beard after a racing accident severely disfigured his face – and the ambulance attendant threw away pieces of his nasal cartilage?
... that as a teenager, Justine Thornton, the fiancée of British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, appeared in the controversial television comedy Hardwicke House?

10 April 2011

16:00, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Beagle Channel in Tierra del Fuego National Park in Argentina is named after the British ship Beagle (pictured), which sailed with the explorer Charles Darwin in 1833–34?
... that the debut album by American singer-songwriter Lotti Golden was listed by New York Times music critic Nat Hentoff as one of the most influential albums of the late 1960s?
... that the city of Ajdabiya, newly recaptured by Libyan rebels, was founded as a staging post on the crossroads of two key trading routes?
... that the Franciscan Church in Zamość was among the largest churches in 17th-century Poland?
... that as a senior, basketball player Pete Padgett received the Doc Martie Award, given annually to the University of Nevada's top male athlete?
... that the neo-realist film A Berlin Romance is a strong critique of the obsession with consumer goods and the Americanization of mid-1950s Berlin?
... that Isaac Perrins, an 18th-century bareknuckle prizefighter, was described as "the knock-kneed hammerman from Soho"?

08:00, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

... that although the nuclear policy of the United States regulates the nuclear energy industry more strictly than most others, there have been 52 incidents (Three Mile Island cleanup pictured) costing an estimated $8.56 billion?
... that just one day after arrest, Lithuanian partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas was transferred to a hospital in a critical condition with a punctured eye and missing testicles?
... that the decorative, "humpbacked" Chamberlain Bridge in Barbados, named after British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, replaced an older bridge destroyed by the Great Hurricane of 1898?
... that George Johnstone was a Royal Navy officer, an MP, a director of the East India Company, a member of the Carlisle Peace Commission and the first Governor of West Florida?
... that Marino Murillo, the former Minister of Economy and Planning of Cuba, believes the Cuban economic system is too paternalistic and supports the creation of a small-scale private market?
... that the unauthorized use of data from the National Register of Electors, the permanent database of eligible Canadian voters, can carry a penalty of a year in prison?
... that Acid-Fest, a professional wrestling memorial show for Trent Acid, featured one of the largest battle royals ever held?

00:00, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Henry Seidel Canby compared the ruins of Isabella Furnace (pictured) to a 12th-century Persian mosque?
... that cadet Francis A. Dales began Operation Pedestal on an American merchant ship, continued on a British destroyer, and ended it on an American tanker requisitioned and manned by a British crew?
... that by winning the 1979 Gillette Cup Final, Somerset County Cricket Club won their first trophy since forming 104 years earlier?
... that the documentary film Berlin im Aufbau has historical significance in that it documents the first phase of the rebuilding of the destroyed city of Berlin after World War II?
... that Penally Abbey in Pembrokeshire is believed to have been founded by Saint Teilo in the 6th century?
... that although the despot of Valona John Komnenos Asen plundered a Venetian ship in 1350, he became a Venetian citizen three years later?
... that in the Fringe episode "The Ghost Network", the writers wanted guest actor Zak Orth to shave his head in preparation for a scene, but he successfully "begged" them not to?

9 April 2011

16:00, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

... that trolleybuses in Derby (example pictured) last operated in 1967, but there are still five preserved by collectors?
... that Gent Strazimiri, who began his career as an anti-communist activist, is now a member of the Albanian parliament for the Democratic Party of Albania?
... that the influential 2000 oncology paper "The Hallmarks of Cancer" identified six features that all cancers have in common?
... that Reverend Heinrich Schmelen, a German missionary in South-West Africa, married an indigenous Nama woman in 1814, an action encouraged by the missionary societies of that time?
... that the 1965 Pacific hurricane season had 10 named storms, with one storm becoming a hurricane?
... that Jayden Pitt, the lightest player on the Fremantle Football Club playing list at only 70 kg (150 lb), was a surprise selection when he made his début in the opening round of the 2011 AFL season?
... that John T. Cunningham, who has chronicled much of New Jersey's past, once said, "My goals did not include either the writing of books or becoming a historian"?

08:00, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Hensley Settlement in Kentucky (school pictured) is an Appalachian living history museum?
... that the convoy, a group of merchantmen or troopships travelling together with a naval escort, was revived during World War I?
... that Danny Goodwin, the Chicago White Sox first-round draft pick and first overall pick in 1971, decided not to sign with the team?
... that St Mary's Church, in Sandwich, Kent, was damaged by the French in 1217 and again in 1457, and by an earthquake in 1578?
... that H. S. Lloyd is the most successful dog breeder in Crufts history, winning Best in Show on six occasions?
... that Albert Bandura's 1986 book Social Foundations of Thought and Action was said to contain "outlines of the grand theory" of human behaviour psychologists were seeking for over a century?
... that Dead Women Crossing in Oklahoma is reputedly haunted by a schoolteacher who disappeared the day after she filed for divorce in 1905, and was found murdered two months later?

00:00, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

... that some whales "lunge feed" on bait balls (pictured), an extreme method of feeding which has been called the largest biomechanical event on Earth?
... that former Kennel Club Chairman Leonard Pagliero flew supplies to the Norwegian resistance movement during World War II?
... that the Task Force on Childhood Obesity, established by the Obama Administration in 2010, seeks to eliminate childhood obesity in the United States within a generation?
... that The inSpiral Lounge is a vegetarian restaurant, organic bar and live music venue in Camden Lock, London that hosts performances of acoustic and electronic music?
... that Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy D. Snyder, discusses the estimated 14 million deaths that occurred in Eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945?
... that The Washington Post named Libyan female lawyer Iman al-Obeidi, who accused Muammar Gaddafi's troops of politically motivated rape, a "symbol of defiance against Gaddafi"?
... that the Major League Baseball career of Larry McLean ended at the Buckingham Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, during a drunken encounter with his manager, John McGraw?

8 April 2011

16:00, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

... that during a raid on Berlin in 1944, RAAF Squadron Leader Bill Brill's (pictured) Avro Lancaster was struck by incendiary bombs dropped by another Allied aircraft above him?
... that Anesrif is managing the construction of the High Plateau line, a railway across Algeria?
... that Tim Tebow, Maya Moore and Matt Bonner were two-time team members of the Year in American football, women's basketball, and men's basketball, respectively?
... that Mehadia, Romania, is located on the site of the ancient Roman colony Ad Mediam, noted for its Hercules baths?
... that before the Hershey–Chase experiment confirmed the role of DNA, scientists believed that genes were carried by proteins?
... that French marshal Victor-Perrin, on his way to command the Siege of Kolberg (1807), was captured by a Prussian freikorps?
... that Trey Songz' 2011 single "Love Faces" is a mid-tempo piano-based ballad that discusses facial expressions that people make when having sexual intercourse?

08:00, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Alice Manfield (pictured), commonly known as Guide Alice, worked as a mountain guide on Australia's Mt Buffalo for forty years from the 1890s?
... that the yacht Amazon's former owners include Arthur Lowe of the British sitcom Dad's Army?
... that John R. Isbell was the primary contributor to the mathematical theory of uniform spaces?
... that the 2011 murder of Sian O'Callaghan in Swindon, England, has been linked to the 1996 unsolved murder of Melanie Hall?
... that John Adams' "Christian Zeal and Activity" from American Standard is an arrangement of "Onward, Christian Soldiers", a popular hymn tune by Arthur Sullivan?
... that in 2003 the German author Dieter Schenk became an honorary citizen of Gdańsk after his work led a German court to overturn a World War II ruling on the defenders of the Polish Post Office in Danzig?
... that 37 photographs, 12 home movies, a bunch of books and a search warrant have had their day in the U.S. Supreme Court?

00:00, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

... that at the height of battle the wolf's head of the Dacian Draco (pictured), with its several metal tongues, made a shrill sound and its strips of material waved in the wind?
... that Paul Signac praised Charles Angrand's drawings as "masterpieces", calling them "poems of light"?
... that in the churchyard of All Saints Church, in Little Somborne, Hampshire, is the grave of Thomas Sopwith, the pioneer aviator?
... that Hans Stadlmair, conductor of the Münchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades, in 1971 premiered Wilhelm Killmayer's Fin al punto, of which the composer said, "The calm already contains the catastrophe"?
... that despite being set up similarly, government-sponsored fixed markets never replaced "tianguis" or open air markets in Mexico?
... that in 1918 Morris S. Halliday, a New York State Senator for the forty-first Senate District, resigned his seat to enter the United States Army Air Service?
... that a parrot was branded sectarian after being heard whistling "Follow Follow"?

7 April 2011

16:00, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych (pictured), known for the "Carol of the Bells", was nicknamed "Ukrainian Bach" in France?
... that George, a Jack Russell Terrier, died from injuries sustained while protecting several children from an attack by two Pit Bulls?
... that Austrian American biochemist Oskar Baudisch, whose study of trace elements in aqueous solutions led to his discovery of the Baudisch reaction, died by drowning?
... that the mass of the extrasolar planet Kepler-11g could not be determined because its orbit is too far from those of its sister planets?
... that former Washington Times editor James R. Whelan claims he was dismissed from the paper after control of it was "seized" by leaders of the Unification Church?
... that Kenny Meadows has been described as one of the best illustrators to work for Punch in the magazine's early years?
... that Grant Hill's response to Jalen Rose's comments in The Fab Five—the highest-rated ESPN documentary—was shared by nearly 100,000 people on Facebook in the next few days?

08:00, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Nahuel Huapi National Park in Argentina is named after Nahuel Huapi Lake (pictured), with nahuel and huapi meaning "jaguar" and "island" in the Mapuche language?
... that the M-64 highway designation in Michigan was moved twice in two years by exchanging the number with different roads?
... that the first manual on a double-entry bookkeeping system was written by Benedikt Kotruljević in 1458, more than 36 years earlier than previously thought?
... that in the 1970s, Shreveport historian Walter M. Lowrey headed a project on Louisiana Methodism, which included a study of circuit riders?
... that two of the venues used for the Four Hills Tournament have also been used for Olympic ski jumping competitions?
... that saxophonist King Curtis was stabbed to death a week after releasing his album Live at Fillmore West?
... that Miss San Antonio 2010 Domonique Ramirez temporarily lost her title after pageant officials complained that she had gained weight and allegedly told her to "get off the tacos"?

00:00, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond (pictured) was known as the "Double Duchess"?
... that Czech actor Martin Miller portrayed Kublai Khan in Doctor Who?
... that near the end of its lengthy run, the television series This Is Show Business introduced the future novelist Jacqueline Susann as a panelist?
... that Norwegian behavioral neuroscientist Terje Sagvolden showed that the spontaneously hypertensive rat strain is a valid animal model for the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?
... that a tavern in Baltimore, the Henry Fite House, served as the United States capitol for two months?
... that Ray William Johnson is the second most subscribed person on YouTube?
... that the dimachaerus, a type of gladiator, used a fighting style adapted to defend with his weapons rather than a shield?
... that in the Parks and Recreation episode "Camping", protagonist Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) revealed she once dreamed of being happily married to the fictional alien ALF?

6 April 2011

16:00, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Cubs' pitcher Carl Lundgren (pictured) had "speed to burn green hickory and an assortment of curves that would keep a cryptograph specialist figuring all night but he was wild as a March hare in a cyclone"?
... that Hezekiah Holland reckoned in 1650 that the end of the world and the Day of Judgment were then 216 years away?
... that the 2011 Jerusalem bus stop bombing was a bomb attack carried out in a bus station in downtown Jerusalem which killed a 59-year-old British national?
... that the Argentine superhero live-action TV series Los únicos is influenced by the X-Men film series, Heroes and Sky High?
... that sociologist Max Weber suffered a nervous breakdown after his father, Max Weber Sr., suddenly died following a father–son argument?
... that Polish State Forests oversee 77.8% of forests in Poland?
... that Rebecca Black's "Friday", dubbed the "worst song ever" by some critics, has made Black a "viral star" with the video attracting over 80 million Youtube hits?

08:00, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Lion Gate (pictured), the main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae in Greece, is the sole surviving monument of Mycenaean sculpture?
... that for her second novel, The Space Between Us, Indian-American writer Thrity Umrigar modeled the character of Bhima after a real-life domestic servant who worked for her family?
... that Pensacola Dam on the Grand River in Oklahoma is referred to as the longest multiple-arch dam in the world, with 51 arches?
... that the extinct mason bee species Anthidium exhumatum and Anthidium scudderi are known from the Eocene Florissant Formation in Colorado?
... that the music to the hymn "Follow On" was later adopted by Rangers F.C. as the music for their anthem, "Follow Follow"?
... that Minnette Gersh Lenier used stage magic to teach remedial reading?
... that at Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery in East Sussex, England, Mr. Bacon is buried next to Mrs. Egg?

00:00, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the wildlife of the Falkland Islands includes no native terrestrial reptiles, amphibians, or even trees, and that the only native terrestrial mammal, the warrah (pictured), became extinct in the mid-19th century?
... that Chee Dodge was elected vice-chairman of the Navajo Council in 1946 but died before taking office?
... that "Hammerhead" by Jeff Beck won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance?
... that during the making of Les Femmes du 6e étage, a 2011 French comedy film by Philippe le Guay, Spanish actresses Berta Ojea and Concha Galán learnt their French dialogue phonetically?
... that Trinidadian virologist Dr. Joseph Lennox Pawan M.B.E. was the first person to show that rabies could be spread by vampire bats to other animals and humans?
... that the Myth of Skanderbeg is one of the main constitutive myths of Albanian nationalism?
... that Harley Warrick, painter of Mail Pouch barn signs, would sometimes spell 'tobacco' with three 'c's just to see if anyone noticed?

5 April 2011

16:00, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Stele of the Vultures (fragment pictured) celebrates a victory of Eannatum of Lagash (2460 BC) over Umma in southern Mesopotamia?
... that a girls' school that was burned in 1863 during the Union Army occupation of Triune, Tennessee, in the American Civil War was not replaced until 30 years later?
... that, while the criss-cross algorithm visits all eight corners of the Klee–Minty cube when started at a worst corner, it visits only three more corners on average when started at a random corner?
... that the printing house of Anton Wilhelm Brøgger, in Oslo, Norway, was carried on by his descendants until 1981, almost 100 years after Brøgger's death?
... that the emblem of Bellerophon riding the flying horse Pegasus was designed for British airborne forces during the Second World War?
... that at the end of his career as a professional handball player in 2005, István Csoknyai had won more national league and cup titles than any other Hungarian player?
... that the world's largest pelican is over 15 feet (4.6 m) tall?

08:00, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Bank Street Historic District in Waterbury, Connecticut, has a rare Queen Anne Style commercial building (pictured second from right)?
... that 425,000 German prisoners of war were held in 700 camps throughout the United States during World War II?
... that James Monroe Smith, who had been forced from the presidency of LSU on fraud charges, was thereafter named vocational rehabilitation director at the Louisiana State Penitentiary?
... that the extinct parasitic wasp Metapelma archetypon is thought to have preyed upon wood-boring beetles?
... that entrepreneur Ralph Høibakk was one of a group of Norwegians who skied to the South Pole in 1990, the first people to do so since Roald Amundsen?
... that television producer Eugenio Derbez sends actors and actresses to Mexico City's La Lagunilla Market to pick up the vocabulary and accents of the people they will portray in his reality series?
... that netball became an Olympic-recognised sport in 1995 after 20 years of lobbying?

00:00, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Boston Beaneater Bobby "Link" Lowe (pictured) was the first Major League player to hit four home runs in a game and was selected in 1911 as the best utility player in baseball history?
... that the early Britons were skilled horsemen and faced Julius Caesar with a well-organized force of 4,000 horse-drawn chariots?
... that after more than 40 years as a recording artist, 31 studio albums and one award as an art director, Neil Young won his first Grammy Award as a musician for "Angry World"?
... that Adolf Eichmann felt he was given his "big break" by fellow Austrian Leopold von Mildenstein?
... that Beidha, a major archaeological site near Petra in Jordan, had Natufian, Neolithic and Nabataean occupations?
... that Virginia Woolf stayed at the Carbis Bay Hotel in the spring of 1914 for three weeks whilst recovering from a bout of mental illness?
... that Paraguayan actor Arnaldo André used to slap telenovela actresses who worked with him?

4 April 2011

16:00, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

... that among the replicas exhibited in the Jurassic Museum of Asturias in Colunga, Spain, are the copulating Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs (pictured)?
... that North Carolina A&T State University President James B. Dudley organized a society whose aims included discouraging African American farmers from getting mortgages?
... that after a series of austerity measures were voted down in the Portuguese parliament in March 2011, Prime Minister José Sócrates resigned and called for a legislative election?
... that conductor Christoph Poppen played Bach's Partita for Violin No. 2 interspersed with related Bach chorales, sung by the Hilliard Ensemble?
... that in the 1950s, Woolverstone Hall was the Inner London Education Authority's only state-run boarding school?
... that Chris Hill is one of only three Big Ten Conference men's basketball players to have been named an Academic All-America three times?
... that after receiving a letter during the 1702 Siege of Nöteborg, Peter the Great offered the defending officers' wives safe passage, if they took their husbands with them?

08:00, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Oxford Terrace Baptist Church (pictured), collapsed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, was considered by the dean of ChristChurch Cathedral as one of the "iconic churches of the city"?
... that Jane Austen's brother, Francis, captured two French merchant ships and fought off their escorts while captaining the sloop-of-war HMS Peterel?
... that Keith Richards made a guest appearance on Phantom, Rocker & Slick's debut album?
... that members of the 2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team won earned CCHA Best Defensive Forward and Best Goaltender awards?
... that Everett Bowman was the founder of the Cowboys' Turtle Association, the first organization of professional rodeo cowboys?
... that the Zagreb School of Economics and Management is the largest private institute for higher education in Croatia?
... that because it depicts a same-sex marriage, the children's picture book King & King was the subject of a question in the 2008 Democratic U.S. presidential primary debates?

00:00, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Perry Prichard established a 24-hour motocross distance world record (pictured) at Gravity Park USA as a benefit for Haitian relief?
... that there are 672 Indigenous Territories in Brazil, covering about 13% of the country's land area?
... that Susie Fishbein, best-selling author of ArtScroll's Kosher By Design cookbook series, has been called "the Jewish Martha Stewart" and "the kosher diva"?
... that cycloids are believed to have been driven to extinction when crabs spread across their territory?
... that socialist Salvationist Frank Smith stood for the British House of Commons twelve times before he was finally elected, at the age of 74?
... that "Zawinul's Mambo" from the Grammy winning Chucho's Steps was dedicated to Joe Zawinul who heard a recording of it before he died?
... that the King of the nonexistent Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia calls himself a "Republican monarchic"?

3 April 2011

16:00, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

... that Leonardo da Vinci's student Salaì painted a nude version of the Mona Lisa called Monna Vanna (pictured)?
... that places of worship in the English district of Horsham include a mosque in a former Baptist chapel?
... that the Danmark served as a training ship for the United States Coast Guard after it was trapped in the United States by the outbreak of World War II, leading to the acquisition of the USCGC Eagle?
... that in 1999 the sea flooded the Blayais Nuclear Power Plant in France, knocking out the power supply and safety systems and resulting in a Level 2 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale?
... that frustration in mixing all of the microphones in a musical production of Hair was what sparked Dan Dugan's invention of the automixer?
... that Ohio's Paulding County Carnegie Library was the first Carnegie library in the United States to serve an entire county rather than an individual city?
... that Michigan baseball coach Frank Sexton was confronted with a knife, a cane and an arrest warrant after declaring a forfeit when Indiana refused to continue play due to darkness?

08:00, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Italian wine grape Vespaiola is named after the wasps (pictured) that are attracted to the sugary pulp of the ripening grapes?
... that artist Will Henry Stevens was inspired for his subject matter by writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman?
... that, starting in 1944, a Nazi labor subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp was set up outside every HASAG arms factory in Germany?
... that St Elmo Courts, a heritage building registered as Category II with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, is currently being demolished?
... that Arnold Schoenberg has been only one of many composers to set poems from Albert Giraud's Pierrot lunaire to music?
... that a rare breed of horses found in the high mountains of Sierra del Sueve in Asturias, Spain, does not trot but moves with an easy gait, leading to its popularity as a "ladies' mount"?
... that Anthony Robles won a national NCAA wrestling title despite being born with only one leg?

00:00, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

... that larvae of Cuban endemic firefly Alecton discoidalis (pictured) attack land snails?
... that Polish anti-Communist fighter turned Stalinist informant Edward Wasilewski committed suicide in 1968, on the day of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia?
... that nuclear magnetic resonance crystallography can be used to explore features of microcrystalline formation too fine to be seen through X-ray, neutron, or electron diffraction?
... that Computer and Video Games magazine wrote that The Mystery of the Druids holds "very little appeal for anyone but the most patient and geeky PC-head"?
... that the publisher of The Town newspaper, Renton Nicholson, once engaged in a public feud with rival publisher Barnard Gregory?
... that in 1903, The Kennel Club merged four breeds of toy spaniels into the King Charles Spaniel?
... that doctor Bohdan Pomahač performed the first full face transplant in the United States?

2 April 2011

16:00, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

... that, in 1960, Volkmar Wentzel photographed Capt. Joseph Kittinger making a record-setting 102,800-foot (31,300 m) skydive (pictured)?
... that, even though the Valle d'Aosta is surrounded by the Alps in the far northwest region of Italy, nearly 90% of its wines are red and rosé made from varieties like Petit Rouge?
... that the titular character of the 15th-century romance Sir Degrevant was called the "perfect romance hero" precisely because he was untouched by love?
... that the larva of the Texas beetle, Brachypsectra fulva, can live for over two years without feeding?
... that Charles Edward Roehenstart was the natural son of a Catholic archbishop and a duchess?
... that Revlon named a fragrance "Charlie" after the company's founder, because competitor Estée Lauder released one called "Estée"?
... that, after leaving UCLA and the University of Georgia, basketball player Nicole Kaczmarski started waiting tables at Outback Steakhouse?

08:00, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

... that "special correspondent" military artists followed Victorian armies round the British Empire, sending back illustrations (1881 example pictured) that "left an indelible stamp on the art of the comic strip"?
... that Louisiana educator Stephen A. Caldwell became a school principal 14 years before he received his bachelor's degree?
... that figure skating was the first Winter Olympic sport to hold all of its events indoors, during the Winter Olympics in 1932?
... that in 2007, the 110th U.S. Congress introduced the FAIR USE Act, which would have prevented the Supreme Court from levying damages against companies for secondary infringement?
... that Romanian art historian Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaş, the alleged son of King Carol I, was police chief under German occupation during World War I?
... that for the 2003 horror film Deep Freeze, director John Carl Buechler created a giant trilobite as the "monster"?
... that former Mr. Belvedere actor Rob Stone later became a producer of documentaries, including a short film on homelessness that featured Mr. Belvedere himself?

00:00, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the California Senate passed a bill making the sale of balloons (pictured) illegal in January 2011?
... that 14-metre (46 ft) tall Siberian crabs are being used in experimental breeding programs?
... that a wanderer survived both the French Revolution of 1789–99 and the Russian Revolution 127 years later?
... that in early 2010 reporters claimed that an unprecedented attack on Jordan was targeted at both terrorists from Al-Qaida and U.S. military bases?
... that the inhabitants of the Sand Ridge Site ate drums?
... that Clubfoot George was executed by vigilantes because they believed that he was innocent?
... that the U.S. military hopes to incorporate Transformers into its combat units?
... that the noble lady Sayyida al Hurra became well respected for her booty?
... that Thomas Jefferson wished to practice free love but the object of his affections became pregnant and gave birth to Frankenstein?

1 April 2011

16:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the Australian government requires high-risk sex workers to wear full-face respirators (example pictured)?
... that Ntrepid was paid $2.76 million by the U.S. military to create sock puppets?
... that Batman is half female?
... that nesting is not used by breeding Mute Swans but they do use this thing?
... that Robert Tappan Morris was convicted of a crime for releasing a worm?
... that Dr. Who's parents are Brazilians from a family known for pineapples?
... that even small amounts of dead cat can explode when heated?
... that Europe was ruled by a child during the American Revolutionary War?
... that a typical Labia minor is chocolate brown, up to 7 mm long, and equipped with pincers?

08:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

... that there is a desk full of candy (pictured) on the floor of the US Senate?
... that Rudyard Kipling's final resting place is at the bottom of the sea off the coast of Ireland?
... that recent quantum chemical calculations have established that arsoles are only moderately aromatic?
... that St. Joseph has been in Egypt since 1852?
... that in 2010, three survivors of the Titanic were rescued by the USCGC Chincoteague?
... that a real Bastard commanded Africa in the nineteenth century?
... that a species of crab, Tumidotheres maculatus, has been found living on an asteroid?
... that ice cream grows in Florida?

00:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

... that the 2011 Honda CBR250R sport bike (pictured), styled after the VFR1200F, shows design influence from the Chrysler 300 car?
... that Matt Howard is the first player named to the Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament All-Tournament team four times?
... that the Munich Biennale is an opera festival created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze, focused on opera premieres of young composers?
... that the stoning murder of two Israeli boys on the outskirts of their settlement in the Judean desert in 2001 led to U.S. legislation cracking down on killers of Americans overseas?
... that La Nueva Viga Market in Mexico City is the second-largest seafood market, after the Tsukiji fish market?
... that during Operation Kita in February 1945, six Imperial Japanese Navy warships, sailing from Singapore to Japan, evaded the 26 Allied submarines which were positioned to attack them?
... that the Glee cover of The Beatles' "Blackbird", included on an upcoming album, marked the first time the song charted on the Billboard Hot 100?