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30 September 2012

16:00, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

... that since 1979, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Peshawar is the only direct market for gemstones from Pakistan (example pictured) and Afghanistan?
... that numerous piles of trash were set ablaze when Baltimore's garbage collectors and police officers conducted overlapping strikes in July 1974?
... that Mulugeta Buli created a private security cabinet for Emperor Haile Selassie?
... that in 1905 Cherry Lass won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes and the Epsom Oaks, but finished third in the St. Leger Stakes and missed the Fillies Triple Crown in British horse-racing?
... that CNN International has been accused of suppressing the documentary iRevolution: Online Warriors of the Arab Spring to appease the Bahraini government?
... that Gilla Gerzon, the Director of the Haifa USO, had 241 trees planted in Israel in memory of the 241 Americans killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing?
... that the ASA ruled that the New Labour, New Danger adverts portrayed Tony Blair as "dishonest and sinister"?
... that Purshottam Solanki, the Fisheries Minister of Gujarat, allegedly caused a loss of ₹400 crore (US$72.4 million) to the state government when granting contracts for fishing in reservoirs?

08:00, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

52-Hertz whale

... that the 52-Hertz whale is known only by its unique sound (listen, speeded up ten times to 520 hertz), the only one of its kind ever recorded, and has been called the loneliest whale in the world?
... that while pancreatic injury is less common than other abdominal injuries, its diagnosis can be very difficult due to the location of the pancreas in the body?
... that during his address to the 12th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Governor Trittle expressed concern about the cowboys in the southwestern parts of the territory?
... that tennis player and Australian Open winner Algernon Kingscote was the son of novelist Lucas Cleeve?
... that the propaganda film Berdjoang was the Japanese overlords' only feature-length film in the Dutch East Indies?
... that Terry Francois was the first African American member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
... that during the Philippine–American War, the Capture of Malolos cost only eight American lives?
... that Wikimedia UK was initially denied charitable status by the British government on the basis that providing free access to information on its own was not a charitable purpose?

00:00, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the morning sun star's (pictured) predatory attacks on other starfish are not always successful, as the velcro star and the rainbow star fight back and the slime star emits repellent mucus?
... that an asteroid that Swiss physics teacher Michel Ory thought he had discovered in 2008 turned out to be a periodic comet, and the discovery earned him an Edgar Wilson Award?
... that the East German police comedy Hands Up or I'll Shoot, produced in 1965, was banned by censors and only released in 2009?
... that Julius Achon was the first Ugandan athlete to win a gold medal at the World Junior Championships?
... that the European Commission-funded news portal Presseurop translates and publishes news articles from over two hundred sources into ten European languages?
... that one-term state legislator John Gurley Flook wrote the bill in 1868 to establish a land-grant agricultural college, which grew and became today's Oregon State University?
... that according to local Muslim tradition, the prophet Muhammad leaned against a stone in the southern Syrian town of Mahajjah?
... that Mary Buckland, a scientific illustrator, took a year-long geological tour as a honeymoon with her husband William Buckland?

29 September 2012

16:00, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the base of Bach's cantata Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, for the feast of Michael (pictured) on 29 September 1724 is a hymn by Paul Eber sung to a famous tune?
... that Sergei Bondarchuk, the director of the Academy Award-winning Soviet film War and Peace, first offered the role of Pierre Bezukhov to Olympic weightlifter Yury Vlasov?
... that in 1995, the Egyptian left-wing leader Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed was nominated to the Upper House of Parliament by Hosni Mubarak?
... that 35 days after the December 1988 Spitak earthquake, six people were rescued alive from a collapsed building?
... that the racemare Busybody improved the race record by three seconds when she won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes in 1884?
... that the BBC documentary, The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea, explores the legend claiming that the pharaoh Hatshepsut built ships that were capable of sailing to the Land of Punt?
... that Eustachy Trepka, Stanisław Murzynowski, and Hieronim Malecki were early Polish Lutherans who translated the Gospels, works of Martin Luther, and other religious texts while working in Królewiec (Königsberg) in the 16th century?
... that the most popular species for Christmas trees in Denmark and most of Europe is the Nordmann fir?

08:00, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Yad Kennedy (pictured), an Israeli memorial to John F. Kennedy designed by architect David Resnick, is shaped like the trunk of a felled tree, symbolizing a life cut short?
... that according to Buddhist cosmology, in the beginning of the world, Maha Sammata was elected by the people of Jambudvipa, the only habitable continent on earth, to be their first monarch?
... that in the 1950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash, an aircraft exploded in a fireball but when rescuers arrived they found one of the passengers walking around the wreckage?
... that Nico Ladenis was the first self-taught chef to win three Michelin stars?
... that none of the fillies Moonshell, Shahtoush, Love Divine, Imagine, Eswarah, Light Shift, and Look Here ever won another race after winning the British Classic Race Epsom Oaks?
... that the East Asian banded red snake can harbour tapeworms and eating its raw meat may lead to parasitic infections?
... that a petroleum geologist named William Warren Orcutt began collecting fossils from the La Brea Tar Pits in 1901, bringing the site to the attention of the scientific community?
... that Dardanella featured a Chinese man dubbed the "Douglas Fairbanks of Java"?

00:00, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Jim Bottomley (pictured) set the Major League Baseball single-game record for runs batted in during the 1924 season, a record that still stands?
... that the collection of the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas of Madrid has some 40,000 items, from Ming and Qing dynasty porcelains to Granadian silk, Moroccan embroidery, and Turkish inkpots?
... that tourism in the Republic of Ireland accounts for around 4% of the Irish GNP?
... that there are approximately thirty shrines and Roman temples on the slopes of Mount Hermon?
... that the migratory Caspian lamprey is more threatened than the freshwater Carpathian brook lamprey?
... that footballer Ergys Kace was born in Albania, but moved to Greece at the age of three?
... that the Gibraltar Dam was built on the Santa Ynez River to impound 14,500 acre-feet (17,900 dam³) of water, but about half of the reservoir's capacity has been lost due to siltation?
... that a female literary critic and a Jewish senator were among the noted promoters of Romania's fascist movements?

28 September 2012

16:00, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

... that St Laurence's Church, Morland (pictured), has the only Anglo-Saxon tower in Cumbria?
... that the 360 kilometres (220 mi) North-South Carrier is the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Botswana?
... that the Polish-Latin dictionary written by the Polish Arian Jan Mączyński in 1564 included translations of jargon, and was a subject of a satirical poem by Jan Kochanowski?
... that in 2013, the Czech Republic plans to directly elect its president for the first time in its history?
... that the inaugural King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1951, with the then-largest prize ever in British horse racing, was won by Supreme Court?
... that Ibn Ra'iq ordered the destruction of the Nahrawan Canal to stop a mutinous army from advancing on Baghdad, even though it was the main irrigation network for the fields that fed the city?
... that U.S. President Harry Truman won an upset victory in 1948 after trailing in the polls by a significant margin throughout nearly all of 1948?
... that although he appeared in eight films with his wife, Kartolo was never cast as her lover?

08:00, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the US-31–Island Lake Outlet Bridge (pictured in video) in Charlevoix, Michigan, is the fifth bridge to cross the channel at that location?
... that while serving as the Akwamu Chief, Agyen Kokobo ruled the state with his mother as the queen mother?
... that the 18th-century Burmese chronicle Maha Yazawin of Toungoo Dynasty has formed the basis for all subsequent histories of the country?
... that when Dr. Joseph Brittan caused a scandal in England, he responded by emigrating to Christchurch, New Zealand, following his brother Guise Brittan?
... that "Kill the DJ" by Green Day was released on 14 August 2012, but it was also played at a secret show by the band eight days earlier?
... that Magnus Sylling Olsen's first goal in Tippeligaen was named the best goal of the round?
... that the white waratah, mountain and Mueller's geebungs are three members of the protea family found only in Tasmania?
... that in response to "Heil Hitler", Karl Schneider said he regretfully could not cure Adolf Hitler, as he was an ophthalmologist, not a neurologist?

00:00, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Pieter Nieuwland (pictured), an 18th-century child prodigy and polymath who died a year after becoming a professor, has been called the Dutch Isaac Newton?
... that officialese can be traced to the exercise of authority going back as far as the oldest human civilizations?
... that Liverpool journalist John A. Willox, the winner of the 1892 Everton by-election, had become a newspaper editor at the age of 21?
... that the Point Gammon Light was turned into an observation tower for bird-watching?
... that former Syrian chief-of-staff, Anwar Bannud, was the only Syrian officer to reach a rank of colonel under the French mandate?
... that no other racehorse has started with longer odds and won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes than Montaval in 1957?
... that although John Tarchaneiotes was the nephew of Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, he became one of the leaders of the Arsenites, who denounced Michael's legitimacy?
... that serving shrubs has recently become a trend in bars across the United States, Canada, and London?

27 September 2012

16:00, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

... that in 2007 Özlem Cekic (pictured) became the first woman of Muslim immigrant background in the Danish Parliament?
... that near the former Auschwitz concentration camp, the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim now fosters dialogue and reconciliation between Germans and Poles, Christians and Jews?
... that the entire Arostropsis weevil genus is known from only one specimen, which is 45 million years old?
... that Josh Falkingham scored a goal during his first match in the Scottish Football League First Division?
... that according to Hazel Robinson of California Literary Review, the title of Chris Brown's song "Bassline" is a metaphor for "penis"?
... that in Armenia, chess is one of the country's most popular sports?
... that in 1955, Vimy became the first foreign horse to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and captured the largest prize in British horse-racing that year?
... that Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels gave a violin to Nejiko Suwa that might have been a stolen Stradivarius?

08:00, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Tsankov Kamak dam (pictured) is the first double-curvature arch dam in cupola shape in Bulgaria?
... that Harry Steinfeldt performed in a minstrel show before becoming a professional baseball player?
... that the Tasmanian mushroom Entoloma mathinnae is named after a 19th-century indigenous Australian girl?
... that Veer Hamirji - Somnath ni Sakhate is the first ever Gujarati film to be shortlisted for an Oscar nomination?
... that bridges carrying 12 Mile Road and 23 Mile Road both cross the Kalamazoo River in Calhoun County, Michigan, and were added to the National Register of Historic Places the same day?
... that Cancrocaeca xenomorpha, the world's most highly cave-adapted crab, lives only in the Maros karst of Sulawesi?
... that the Bristol Pound, launched on September 19, 2012, is the largest alternative currency in the UK to the official pound sterling?
... that every time William F. Fitzgerald was appointed to the bench it was to replace another judge who had died?

00:00, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Heston Blumenthal's restaurant The Fat Duck in Bray, England, serves dishes such as egg and bacon ice cream, and snail porridge (pictured)?
... that in 1971, Alex Johnson said he would prefer "playing in hell" than remaining with the California Angels?
... that Hyderabad auditorium Ravindra Bharathi was inaugurated by former President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in 1961?
... that Henry Herx, a film critic for Catholics, was upset that Siskel and Ebert walked out on a film, as "his job was to sit there and watch it and give an honest review" no matter how bad?
... that the Altes Stadthaus in Bonn was built for French occupation forces after World War I?
... that the official video for One Direction's "Live While We're Young" was premiered four days early following a leak of it online?
... that in the early 1900s the Illecillewaet Glacier in British Columbia, Canada, was described as the "most visited glacier in the Americas"?
... that Caine's Arcade, a short documentary on nine-year-old Caine's cardboard arcade, has raised over $200,000 towards his college fund and the creation of a non-profit organization?

26 September 2012

16:00, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

... that when the Texas landmark Steves Homestead (pictured) was restored by the San Antonio Conservation Society in the 1950s, Yale University donated an 1857 Chickering grand piano?
... that former Syrian prime minister Nasuhi al-Bukhari resigned after only three months in office when talks to ratify the Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence broke down?
... that the Theatre Royal is the oldest surviving theatre building in Manchester?
... that Brooks Kieschnick is the first Major League Baseball player to hit a home run as a pitcher, designated hitter and pinch hitter in the same season?
... that the Chashme Shahi, a Mughal garden in Srinagar, was built by Ali Mardan who was a governor of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan?
... that the school of surgery founded by Charles Illingworth, Glasgow's Regius Professor of Surgery from 1939, "came to dominate academic surgery in Britain for a generation or more"?
... that the Australian tree Agathis atropurpurea is known as the black kauri or the blue kauri because of the colour of its bark?
... that French tennis player Christian Boussus was part of the victorious French Davis Cup squad who held the title between 1929 and 1932, as "the Fifth Musketeer", although he never played a match?

08:00, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the round symbol on the coat of arms (pictured) of Toppenstedt represents the Tangendorf disk brooch, an Iron Age fibula discovered at a Bronze Age tumulus in the German municipality in 1930?
... that Ray Long was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine between 1919 and 1931, and left to become a book publisher?
... that despite early concerns that the race course would be too long for Black Jester, the colt won the 1914 St. Leger Stakes by five lengths and set a new record time?
... that Enamorada de Ti included previously recorded songs by American singer Selena, which were turned into duets with other artists?
... that explorer Matthew Brisbane survived three Antarctic shipwrecks but was murdered in the Falkland Islands in 1833?
... that fossilized seeds of the extinct tree Eucommia montana are found from British Columbia to Colorado?
... that Muhammad al-Khuli was removed as the Syrian Air Force Intelligence chief by Hafez al-Assad due to international pressure regarding Khuli's alleged involvement in the Hindawi affair?
... that Solomon Islands dance on Tikopia is "almost obsessional behavior"?

00:00, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

... that The World's 100 Most Threatened Species includes one (pictured) with only five surviving mature individuals?
... that Ernie Padgett turned an unassisted triple play in the second game of his major league career?
... that the Church of St Candida and Holy Cross in Whitchurch Canonicorum is the only parish church in England to have a shrine containing the relics of a saint?
... that the rough-scaled sea snake is highly venomous and every scale on its body is adorned with a spine?
... that when it first appeared in the list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2010, Claude Bosi's restaurant Hibiscus was one of only three UK-based restaurants in the list?
... that Sazhen-S uses lasers to discern the slant ranges of space craft?
... that Andreas Boltz is the cathedral music director at the Frankfurt Cathedral Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus?
... that the proverbial phrase "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" was first coined by Christian anarchist writer Elbert Hubbard in 1915?

25 September 2012

16:00, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

... that when the mineral paramelaconite (pictured) was first described, it was not recognized as a valid species?
... that a set of running blades like Oscar Pistorius wears costs $30,000?
... that the Hurtigruten steamer Nordnorge was sunk by Royal Navy warships, while employed by the Germans in a false flag operation?
... that reproduction in the East African toads Nectophrynoides viviparus and Nectophrynoides laevis involves females giving birth to live young?
... that actress Ashleigh Cummings sat her Year Eleven exams early, so she could take part in the Australian film Tomorrow, When the War Began?
... that the Camberwell Collegiate School in London was designed by the architect of the city's Fishmongers' Hall?
... that civic activist and former toymaker Carl Berner is the oldest living man in New York City?
... that before entering The Clink restaurant, diners must hand over any mobile phones or sharp objects?

08:00, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

... that when African-American former slave Jordan Anderson (pictured) was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years' back pay as proof of good faith?
... that the leaves of the Port Arthur plum smell like stale cabbage when crushed?
... that journalist A.A. Hamidhan turned down a chance to be Kalimantan's first governor?
... that outreach services can target diverse populations, from sex workers to Wikipedia editors and readers?
... that Loras College, Iowa's oldest post-secondary institution, was founded in 1839, seven years before Iowa became a U.S. state?
... that Amanda Carter was the oldest member of the Gliders at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, and the only one who had participated in 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics?
... that the Syrian village of Hit contains a 4th-century Byzantine church dedicated to the martyrdom of Saint Sergius?
... that filmmaker and Eagle Scout David Lynch was declared medically unfit for conscription, was arrested for detonating a pipe bomb, and was present at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy?

00:00, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

... that although Kylie Gauci (pictured) is a 2 point player, she was the only player on her team to score a three point basket at the 2012 Paralympics?
... that the Shri Laxmi Narayan Mandir is one of the oldest functioning temples in Karachi?
... that Robert Draper's book Do Not Ask What Good We Do reveals that a meeting of Republicans in 2008 took place to "put the brakes" on Barack Obama's presidency?
... that Chamant's win over Brown Prince and Silvio in the 2,000 Guineas Stakes in 1877 was misreported as a victory by 2,000 men under "Chamat Croun" and "Prince Silvio" in the ongoing Russo-Turkish War?
... that of the 21 Grade I listed buildings in Coventry, 11 date back to the 14th century?
... that Major League Baseball shortstop Neal Ball beat his close friend Babe Ruth in a bowling challenge in 1923?
... that although the Fischerinsel in central Berlin was levelled in the 1960s to build tower blocks, a replica of the old inn Zum Nußbaum was constructed in the Nikolaiviertel in 1987?
... that in his new book Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg traces the origin of the insult "asshole" to the soldiers of World War II?

24 September 2012

16:00, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the first-century Blacas Cameo (pictured) shows the Emperor Augustus clothed only in a goatskin aegis?
... that in a lost commentary on the Book of Genesis, Nerses IV the Gracious related the story of how some Armenian monks were allowed to see the Garden of Eden?
... that Autism Cymru worked with the Welsh Government to develop the first national autism online community?
... that Arizona Territorial Delegate Mark Smith was accused of receiving gold from the Wham Paymaster Robbery?
... that the author of Adab al-Tabib, called the "crowning achievement" in early Islamic medical ethics, may actually have been a Christian?
... that Hans Thamm, who founded the boys' choir Windsbacher Knabenchor in 1946 and conducted them for 31 years, recorded Bach's cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in 1961?
... that Siam's token participation in World War I paved the way for the country's full independence?
... that Kelly Heath received his only Major League Baseball at-bat because of a case of hemorrhoids?

08:00, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

... that yellow fairy cups (pictured) are one of the most common small discos?
... that a Roman inscription at the Syrian town of Darkush on the Orontes River attests to the existence of a shipbuilding industry for river-going boats in the town?
... that Kaapa Tjampitjinpa was the first Indigenous Australian artist to win a contemporary art award, and the first to have the export of his paintings refused under cultural heritage laws?
... that a year after capturing Ahlat, Arjish and Van in Anatolia, the Ayyubid prince al-Awhad Ayyub faced revolts in each of those cities?
... that the Indonesian album AkustiChrisye was inspired in part by Frank Sinatra's rearrangements of his hits?
... that the original Cathedral of Saint Demetrius in Craiova, Romania, formed part of the unwalled city's defenses?
... that demand for beer from Pittsburgh's East End Brewing Company spiked after the Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XLIII?
... that Shelley Chaplin was an All-American even though she was not American at all?

00:00, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

... that satirist Păstorel Teodoreanu (pictured) embarrassed his fellow Romanian Masons when he showed up drunk for his initiation ceremony?
... that al-Shaykh Saad in the Hauran region of Syria was mentioned by several Christian scholars and pilgrims, including Eusebius, Egeria and Jerome, as the town of St. Job?
... that the Thoroughbred Petrarch earned £11,700 in prize money from various races in 1876, the most in British horse-racing that year?
... that Roekihati bucked a trend of intellectualising films in the Dutch East Indies?
... that the account of life in the Yertsevo labor camp, described in the book A World Apart by Herling-Grudziński, preceded Solzhenitsyn's revelations about gulags by a decade?
... that Norway international footballer Jarl André Storbæk captained Strømsgodset in his first match for the club?
... that in the music video for "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)", American singer Ne-Yo "channels" Michael Jackson in his dance moves?
... that Meow, once the world's heaviest cat, gained international attention due to his weight loss plan?

23 September 2012

17:18, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the Tomb of Bibi Jawindi (pictured) is considered the most ornate of the five monuments in Uch?
... that 15-year-old, 2012 British Paralympic swimmer Josef Craig set world records in both the heats and final of the 400 metre freestyle S7 event to win the gold medal?
... that the town and refugee camp of Khan Dannun in Syria was originally a basalt caravanserai built by the Mamluk governor of Damascus in 1376?
... that John J. Mullen was elected Mayor of Everett, Massachusetts, while he was suspended from his position on the Board of Aldermen?
... that "Accrington Stanley, Who Are They?" was originally scripted to use Tottenham Hotspur instead of Accrington Stanley?
... that Memorial Hall was the first building shared by male and female students at the University of Delaware?
... that even though Panajotis Dimitriadis is a midfielder, his play as a centre back got him on TV2's list as one of the five best players in the 2012 Norwegian First Division?
... that the majority of Chicago-based Calumet Photographic's retail stores are in Europe?

08:00, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the restaurant The Cube (pictured in Milan) has "popped up" in Milan, Stockholm, Brussels, and London?
... that Johann Sebastian Bach composed the cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131, as a young organist at Mühlhausen's Divi Blasii church?
... that Romeo Acop is the incumbent representative of Antipolo City's Second Legislative District?
... that the wattle Acacia riceana, native to Tasmania, was named after the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of its discovery?
... that Joe Molloy, a school teacher, and Robert Nederlander, a theatre executive, served as managing partners of the New York Yankees when George Steinbrenner was banned from baseball?
... that The Goat Puzzle in the 1996 adventure game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is considered by many to be one of the hardest video game puzzles of all time?
... that NASCAR driver Jeff Choquette's grandfather, Jack Choquette, won the 1954 NASCAR Modified Division championship?
... that the daughter of Candice Cohen-Ahnine is a Jewish-Saudi princess whom French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempted to bring to France, but failed?

00:00, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Jubho Lagoon in Pakistan is home to around six thousand vulnerable Dalmatian Pelicans (pictured)?
... that although Charles Warren is best known for political leadership in environmental matters, he also crafted legislation that created the first U.S. statewide 9-1-1 emergency telephone service?
... that a legend likens some of the earth pyramids near Stob in southwest Bulgaria to petrified wedding guests?
... that Enedina Arellano Félix, the leader of the Tijuana Cartel, is the first female Mexican drug lord?
... that the Russian Space Command is responsible for controlling Russia's military satellite constellation?
... that Frederik Magle required the use of the thigh bone from a giraffe as an instrument in his symphonic suite Cantabile?
... that the shortstripe goby and the yellowline goby always live in association with a sponge?
... that Confederate Colonel William Henry Harman was killed at the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia, the town where he was born?

22 September 2012

16:00, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Haesindang Park, on the eastern coast of South Korea, is also known as "Penis Park", due to its statues representative of phallic architecture (pictured)?
... that Yair Shamir, who has recently entered politics in Israel, served as the director of Israel Aerospace Industries from 2005 to 2011 without pay?
... that the vegetarian philanthropist Arnold Hills planned to contest the Walthamstow by-election in 1897 as a temperance candidate?
... that Franz Lehrndorfer was the organist of the Munich Frauenkirche cathedral for over three decades?
... that the Syrian village of al-Mushannaf has a well-preserved temple, dated to the first century BC, that was dedicated to Zeus and Athena?
... that Harley Peyton, writer of "Episode 6" of Twin Peaks, found it difficult to write for Kyle MacLachlan's character Dale Cooper?
... that the Swedish feminist network Bara Bröst won the right for women to bare breasts at swimming pools in Malmö, but the city's ruling did not result in any significant difference?
... that it was known as early as the 16th century that water held in a cup made of lignum nephriticum from New Spain would become brightly blue?

08:00, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

... that although British sculptor John Angel spent much of his career in America, he designed the Exeter (pictured) and Bridgwater War Memorials in the 1920s?
... that the North-West University Botanical Garden is currently the only botanical garden in the North West Province of South Africa?
... that the Tolowa people of California will refrain from performing the Nee-dash dance for the rest of 2012 so as to honor the late Eunice Bommelyn?
... that Vacha Dam is the tallest dam in Bulgaria?
... that Eduardo Castro Luque, the deputy-elect of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico, was assassinated two days before he was to enter office?
... that the award-winning, romantic Japanese anime film, Hotarubi no Mori e, has been likened to the works of Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli?
... that the extinct plant species Eucommia jeffersonensis and Eucommia rolandii were both described from fossils in 1997?
... that the video game Self-Defense Training Camp was criticized for its emphasis on crotch kicking?

00:00, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the 13th-century Old French Roman d'Alexandre en prose describes the adventures of Alexander the Great, including flying into the air and travelling under the sea (pictured)?
... that brothers Caleb and Corban Joseph were both selected in the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft?
... that the Syrian town of Assal al-Ward was long famous for its flower produce which supplied the attar makers of nearby Damascus?
... that Tissa David, the second woman to direct an animated feature film, also animated the Raggedy Ann character for the 1977 film, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure?
... that the scalybark gives its name to an ecological community found only on 126 hectares (310 acres) of Lord Howe Island?
... that former investment banker Paul Deighton described his appointment as 2012 Olympics chief executive as "the only job I would have considered leaving Goldman Sachs for"?
... that winners of William Proxmire's Golden Fleece Award for wasteful U.S. government spending include the Department of Justice for researching why prisoners want to escape?
... that a bank robbery led to a career in bowls for Steve Glasson?

21 September 2012

16:00, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

... that 120 Polish miners died in the rubble when the newly built train tunnel collapsed along the Poprad River Gorge (pictured) in the Beskid Mountains?
... that the reformer Konrad Hubert assisted Martin Bucer for 18 years at St. Thomas, Strasbourg, making Bucer's ideas and concepts readable?
... that the Walthamstow by-election in 1910 was fought partly over the Osborne judgment?
... that 2012 British Paralympic swimmer Susie Rodgers won six medals at her first international meet?
... that U.S.-based television production company Zodiac Entertainment intentionally avoided references to American culture in its shows?
... that the 'false positives' scandal which broke in Colombia in 2008 involved members of the military murdering civilians and presenting them as guerrillas killed in battle, in order to inflate army body counts?
... that Pederson's shrimp, the spotted cleaner shrimp and the anemone mysid are all found living in close association with the ringed anemone?
... that the 2012 political book Britannia Unchained attracted criticism for accusing British employees of being "among the worst idlers in the world"?

08:00, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

... that major-thirds guitar-tuning is a repetitive tuning in which chords are raised an octave by shifting all notes by three strings on the same frets (illustrated)?
... that members of the gymnastics Fierce Five won all three medals of the senior all-around at the 2011 City of Jesolo Trophy?
... that Yule marble from Treasure Mountain, Colorado, was used in the building of the Lincoln Memorial?
... that Klaus Martin Ziegler championed new church music as an organist, the founder and conductor of choirs in Kassel and Stuttgart, and as a festival director?
... that the village of Janabiyah in Bahrain is home to hundreds of prehistoric burial mounds and that artefacts obtained from excavations show that the Dilmun civilisation of Bahrain engaged in trading with the Indus Valley civilisation?
... that in 1943, Herringbone won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes by a neck and beat the same filly to win the St. Leger Stakes by a head?
... that the 1978 film Absolution was not released in the United States until 1988, four years after the death of its star Richard Burton?
... that American murderer Rufe Persful was three times released on parole after shooting fellow inmates who attempted to escape?

00:00, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Your Majesty (pictured) won the St. James's Palace Stakes and the St. Leger Stakes and earned £19,268 in 1908, helping Persimmon and Jack Joel become the leading sire and the champion owner that year?
... that wild monkeys can be seen in Florida along the Silver River?
... that the Kessler's gudgeon and the Danube gudgeon both have barbels by their mouth which help them in their search for food?
... that the artwork for Christina Aguilera's single "Your Body" sees her "bodacious curves on full display"?
... that the Tibetan Army was trained and sold supplies by the British government?
... that a replica of the Long Tan Cross is one of only two memorials to foreign military forces permitted in Vietnam?
... that the lekythion, a metric pattern in Greek poetry, was named after a joke involving people losing their little oil flasks?

20 September 2012

16:00, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

... that adaptive rower Oksana Masters (pictured) posed for ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue" and won the first ever U.S. Paralympic medal in trunk and arms mixed double sculls?
... that Scope, once the best-selling English magazine in South Africa, was repeatedly banned during the Apartheid era?
... that the Gibraltar War Memorial of 1923 rests on an esplanade and steps built by a Governor of Gibraltar two years previously?
... that Jest won the British Classic Epsom Oaks in 1913 in record time?
... that the caecilians Chthonerpeton indistinctum and Typhlonectes compressicauda both give birth to live young?
... that the death of hydroplane racer Dean Chenoweth led to enclosed cockpits being adopted for Unlimited class hydroplanes?
... that in 1648 the English Parliament ordered Starborough Castle to be destroyed?
... that 2012 U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign spokesman Kevin Madden was listed second of the "50 Most Beautiful" in Washington, D.C. in 2006, according to The Hill newspaper?

08:00, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the town of Shakotan is home to the three great capes of the Shakotan Peninsula: Kamui (pictured), Shakotan, and Ōgon?
... that the Mia Mia Bridge across Australia's Campaspe River was built in 1868 with trusses recovered from a sunken ship at the bottom of Hobsons Bay near Melbourne?
... that the decision to make Fabiana García Lago's character in the telenovela Sos mi vida a Paraguayan immigrant came after she tried the Guaraní language accent during the first day of filming?
... that the fossilized remains of the knobby brain coral and the symmetrical brain coral have been found in Puerto Rico dating back to the Pleistocene?
... that NASCAR star Kyle Busch praised then 14-year-old John Hunter Nemechek after they raced against each other?
... that the Prentice Women's Hospital Building in Chicago, a cloverleaf-shaped building which pioneered computer-aided design techniques, is threatened with demolition?
... that the filly Habibti set a track record to win the 1983 Prix de l'Abbaye in France, and was named Horse of the Year in Britain later that year?
... that the song "Mayday" by Lecrae has "chaotic" and "funky" production?

00:00, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the Wong brothers (one pictured) were bankrupted, then made rich, by working with the same man?
... that Albert Einstein's letter to the 1948 World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace was censored to remove his call for a world government?
... that Eye on It by TobyMac beat Slaughterhouse for the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200, and was the first Christian album to hit No. 1 since 1997?
... that land mullets can be found in Sea Acres National Park?
... that Gary Pearson scored his first goal for Darlington with a 25 yard free kick against Luton Town in January 2002, although his team went on to lose 3–2?
... that the survivors of the bombing of HMS Pandora were onboard HMS Olympus when she was sunk?
... that a side effect of the laws passed by the 16th Arizona Territorial Legislature was that fiestas were effectively ended within the territory?
... that the Irish-bred British-trained racehorse Chief Singer won the 1984 St. James's Palace Stakes by eight lengths and set a track record at Royal Ascot?

19 September 2012

16:00, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

... that fragments of wall painting from the Japanese Buddhist temple of Kamiyodo Haiji (site pictured) have been dated to the late Asuka period, as early as those of Hōryū-ji?
... that 2009's Marathi film Gandha, written and directed by Sachin Kundalkar, blends three different stories with a common factor of the human sense of smell?
... that after New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote in parliamentary elections, suffragist Kate Sheppard enrolled women at Tuam Street Hall?
... that in 1997 Zaire-born baseball player Ntema Ndungidi became the highest ranked Major League Baseball draftee from Quebec?
... that the early talkie Karnadi Anemer Bangkong was based on a popular novel but ultimately controversial?
... that 15-time Paralympic medallist swimmer Sebastián Rodríguez lost the use of his legs after going on hunger strike during an 84-year prison sentence?
... that the red cushion star turns part of its stomach inside out and engulfs sponges, other invertebrates and detritus?
... that an elephant-headed goddess, often referred to as the female Ganesha, exists in the Hindu pantheon?

08:00, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Numaga (pictured) was one of the leaders of the Paiutes during the Paiute War of 1860 on Pyramid Lake, Utah Territory?
... that British para-equestrian Deborah Criddle and Figaro IX were the first rider and horse pairing to win three gold medals at consecutive European, World and Paralympic competitions?
... that the foul-smelling greenish-brown slime in the lattice of the fungus Colus hirudinosus attracts insects that help disperse its spores?
... that gooks protected bal maidens from sunlight, noise and flying debris?
... that there are ruins of an ancient Roman temple off of the road between Rashaya and Aaiha?
... that three years after arriving at the Fäviken estate as a sommelier, Magnus Nilsson had become head chef and the restaurant was ranked the 34th best in the world?
... that thousands of foreign-born Lone Soldiers serve alongside locals in the Israel Defense Forces?
... that the Tantric Japanese form of the Hindu Ganesha – "God of Bliss" – depicted as an elephant-headed human couple in a sexual embrace, represents the unity of opposites?

00:00, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the Rose of Venezuela (flower pictured) and Inga thibaudiana are trees that grow in seasonally flooded tropical forests?
... that poet Ishmael Reed learned to play jazz piano at the Jazzschool beginning when he was 60?
... that the Poland–Russia border, now only 232 km (144 mi) long, used to be much longer?
... that the Jiwani Coastal Wetland in Pakistan is an important nesting site for the endangered olive ridley and green turtles?
... that fossils of Eucommia constans are the youngest and most southerly examples of Eucommia in North America?
... that in July 1992 a plane taking off from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport crashed and killed 108 people on board?
... that "Episode 7" was the only episode of Twin Peaks directed by its co-creator Mark Frost?
... that Michelin starred chef Sat Bains only chose to study catering because of the number of girls in the course?

18 September 2012

16:00, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Pleuni Touw (pictured) had the first nude scene in Dutch television on 1974's The Hidden Force?
... that Stewart Iron Works was once the U.S.'s largest supplier of cemetery fences and gates?
... that Canadian wheelchair basketball player Patrick Anderson retired in 2008 to become a musician, but returned to win his third Paralympic gold medal at London 2012?
... that an independent Gibraltar Port Authority was formed three hundred years after Queen Anne granted Free Port status to Gibraltar?
... that Leopold Loeffler, who worked on commissions for the court of Franz Joseph, became the professor at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków on the invitation of national painter Jan Matejko?
... that one television critic was "freaked out" by the lack of swearing in Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course?
... that bassoonist and composer Victor Bruns, who played at the Leningrad Opera and with the Staatskapelle Berlin, composed six ballets and four bassoon concertos?
... that the fruits of the Lecythis ampla tree resemble little wooden pots with lids?

08:00, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the green sea urchin (pictured) shades itself from the sun with bits of vegetation and shell but the jewel sea urchin prefers to hide in crevices during the day?
... that the 821st Main Space Intelligence Centre maintains the Russian catalogue of satellites?
... that the Cameron D-96 was the world's first thermal airship, while the D-38 set records for altitude and flight time?
... that carbon neutral fuels have been proposed to store wind power, minimizing intermittency problems and enabling its use with conventional vehicles and existing natural gas pipelines?
... that Steve Donoghue won his fourteenth and final British Classic Race at the 1937 Epsom Oaks, riding the filly Exhibitionnist (sic)?
... that 2012 British Paralympian Jonathan Fox won the gold medal in the men's 100 metre backstroke S7 event after setting a new world record in the heats?
... that the Tribune covering Hillsboro, Oregon, is Pamplin Media Group's first new paper in a decade?
... that even remembering can cause forgetting?

00:00, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the Finnish Voima, launched in 1952, was the first icebreaker in the world with two bow propellers (pictured)?
... that Sultan al-Atrash's decisive victory near the town of al-Mazraa in 1925, inspired Syrian nationalists in Damascus and the countryside to join the rebellion against the French occupation?
... that the amber pen shell spends its adult life almost completely buried in the seabed in a single location?
... that the Avery Road–Galien River Bridge, the Blossomland Bridge, and the now demolished North Watervliet Road–Paw Paw Lake Outlet Bridge are in the same county in Michigan and were added to the NRHP the same day?
... that Ragnar Hvidsten was the first Norwegian to play in the FA Amateur Cup?
... that the World War I American War Memorial at Gibraltar also commemorates Operation Torch of World War II?
... that when the filly Tiffin retired from racing in 1929, the press described her as "the fastest horse in the world, irrespective of age or sex"?
... that Edwin Swope was the only warden of Alcatraz who did not have an escape attempt during his tenure?

17 September 2012

16:00, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Banbhore is an ancient city in Pakistan dating back to the first century BC, which contains the remains of one of the earliest mosques (pictured) in the region?
... that Romanian Sandu Tudor, once a Futurist poet and libelous journalist, was proposed for canonization?
... that a tomahawk may be used to split an angle into three equal parts, despite the impossibility of doing so with compass and straightedge?
... that Dave Frishberg wrote the lyrics to "Van Lingle Mungo" while reading a baseball encyclopedia?
... that Lanre Oyebanjo scored York City's second goal in their 2–0 victory over Newport County in the 2012 FA Trophy Final, hosted at Wembley Stadium?
... that when the Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM lens was introduced in 2010, it became the widest ultra wide-angle rectilinear zoom camera lens commercially available?
... that in 1920, British Commander (and later Admiral of the Fleet) Bruce Fraser was imprisoned in the Black Hole of Baku?
... that after starting his culinary career making bacon sandwiches in a café, Steve Drake went on to win a Michelin star as head chef at two restaurants?

08:00, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the fossil genus Astreptolabis (pictured) is one of four described Burmese amber earwigs?
... that Alicia Keys' debut performance of her new single "Girl on Fire" featured a gymnastics display by 2012 Olympics gold medalist Gabby Douglas?
... that the Lal Suhanra National Park is the only biosphere reserve in Pakistan recognized by UNESCO?
... that ten female chefs in the United States won a Michelin star in 2012, including Carrie Nahabedian, Missy Robbins, April Bloomfield and Melissa Perello?
... that at 58 feet (18 m), the Buddha Statue in Hyderabad is the world's tallest monolithic statue of Buddha?
... that coordinators of the Square Roots festival in Chicago wanted 80 to 100 percent of their vendors to come from neighborhood businesses?
... that Alexandros Kasmeridis saved two penalties in Thrasyvoulos' penalty shoot-out victory over Levadiakos in the fourth round of the 2011–12 Greek Football Cup?
... that one reviewer thought that the final battleground of video game Mass Effect 2: Arrival broke the laws of physics?

00:00, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Palmeira Square (pictured) in Hove, England, occupies the site of the Anthaeum—whose spectacular collapse the day before it opened made its promoter Henry Phillips go blind from shock?
... that the split-nose crab was first found at a depth of 500 metres (1,600 ft) in the waters near the Aleutian Islands?
... that after Theo van Gogh's murder, Ebru Umar took over his regular column in Metro?
... that Kerevat Airfield on Ataliklikun Bay was never fully operational?
... that after retiring from baseball, Allie Clark worked for the Iron Workers Local 373 for thirty years and served on the city council of South Amboy, New Jersey?
... that the archaeological mound at Tell Aran in northern Syria is the largest tell in the Aleppo region?
... that Margarete Bieber was the second woman to become a university professor in Germany?
... that the edible mushroom Agaricus bernardii is often found along roads that have been de-iced with salt?

16 September 2012

16:00, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

... that at 270 feet (82 m), the US 12–St. Joseph River Bridge (pictured) is the longest surviving camelback bridge in the U.S. state of Michigan?
... that Japan's first wooden roller coaster appeared in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla?
... that a stele of Egyptian king Seti I was found built into the wall of a local house in the village of Tell Shihab in southern Syria?
... that, Jesús Blancornelas, a Mexican journalist, risked his life while reporting on the Tijuana Cartel, the drug trade in Mexico, and political corruption?
... that despite being the son of a two-time NASCAR champion and brother of a Daytona 500 winner, Randy Baker never finished better than 17th in NASCAR competition?
... that Dedeline Mibamba Kimbata, a member of DR Congo's first Paralympic team, competed in a wheelchair donated by Kenyan Paralympian Anne Wafula Strike?
... that excavations at the town of Jayrud in the Qalamoun Mountains of Syria produced microliths, blades, scrapers and other lithic tools dating back to the Natufian culture?
... that it took 120 years before it was discovered that deep-water Stokes waves, named after George Gabriel Stokes, are unstable?

08:00, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

... that more than half of the Kappa V Archaeological Site (flooding pictured) has been destroyed by wave wash erosion?
... that chef Martin Hadden left Ockenden Manor shortly after winning a Michelin star?
... that it is theorized that Jews' Gate Cemetery in Gibraltar was founded on Windmill Hill due to the expulsion of Jews mandated under the Treaty of Utrecht?
... that Jordan Winston Early was a licensed exhorter?
... that the German left-liberal daily paper Berliner Börsen-Courier published stock exchange data from 1868, had a sports reporter from 1885 and made playwright Bertolt Brecht known in 1922?
... that Charles Hazlewood formed the first British orchestra consisting entirely of performers with a disability?
... that the Phoenician settlement of Tell Sukas in modern Syria was located at the center of the fertile plain of Jableh on a hill with access to two natural harbors?
... that sociology in Russia was declared a "bourgeois pseudo-science" and banned from the 1930s to the 1950s?

00:00, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the Waiʻoli Tea Room (pictured) in Hawaii began as a Salvation Army job skills program?
... that Tracey Shelton had to run from the debris cloud after photographing the explosion from a tank shell in Aleppo, Syria, that killed three opposition fighters?
... that people are able to implicitly learn underlying sequential structure in a series using sequence learning?
... that the proposed German ancillary copyright would affect sites that used even short snippets of news articles?
... that Arabian horse breeder William Robinson Brown founded the Maynesboro Stud 100 years ago?
... that Ian McEwan dedicated his latest novel, Sweet Tooth, to his friend, the late Christopher Hitchens?
... that the creator of the video game Happy Wheels used graphic violence to counter the unrealistic consequences in other games?
... that U.S. volleyball player Phil Eatherton set three career records at Ball State University and made it to the "Showcase Showdown" on The Price is Right?

15 September 2012

16:00, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Annie Lowrie Alexander (pictured) was the first licensed female physician in the Southern United States?
... that the extinct earwig Tytthodiplatys is the oldest confirmed member of its family?
... that the Meadowbrook State Parkway was dedicated in 1998 in memory of Norman J. Levy, the New York State Senator who sponsored the first U.S. law requiring seat belts while driving?
... that the Braldu River is a river in Skardu District of Gilgit–Baltistan, that originates from the Baltoro and Biafo Glaciers?
... that 2012 British Paralympic medallist Stephanie Millward set the British record for the 100 metre backstroke at the age of 15, before she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis?
... that St Matthew's Church in Burnley, Lancashire, England, was rebuilt after it burnt down on Christmas Day in 1927?
... that Yusak Pakage was sentenced to ten years in prison after raising a flag?
... that the final Clark's Point Light was specially constructed to resist cannon fire?

08:00, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the Collegiate Church of San Gimignano has a fresco cycle (sample pictured) said to have been painted by a man who never lived?
... that John Van Antwerp MacMurray predicted the American war with Japan in a 1935 memorandum commissioned by the U.S. State Department?
... that the night-light mushroom is one of over 70 species of bioluminescent fungi?
... that most of 2012 Paralympic wheelchair rugby player Cody Meakin's classmates walked to their year 12 formal, donating saved transportation money for his post-accident rehabilitation?
... that the upcoming comedy film, The Hangover Part III, is set in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Tijuana?
... that Tonga was one of the 45 countries that sent only a single athlete for the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
... that seeds of the extinct tree Eucommia eocenica have been found with latex covered fossils?
... that the American colt Black Tarquin won the British Classic St. Leger Stakes in 1948, and was later rated as the best British-trained racehorse of his generation?

00:00, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the Duvensee paddle (pictured) on display at the Archaeological Museum Hamburg is the world's second oldest known paddle?
... that Randy Velarde turned the eleventh unassisted triple play in Major League Baseball history on May 29, 2000?
... that Iranian space rocket Kavoshgar-5 will contain a rhesus monkey?
... that in 1985, Random House paid Karleen Koen $350,000 for the rights to Through a Glass Darkly, at the time a record sum for a new novelist?
... that Jacques Pic became a chef to win back the Michelin stars that had been lost at his family's restaurant?
... that Tyler Cowen, an economics blogger, argues in the ebook The Great Stagnation that the Internet has not made us richer?
... that the Sharif family is a Pakistani political family, largely involved in the country's politics through the Pakistan Muslim League (N)?
... that the The brothers collaborated on Rentjong Atjeh?

14 September 2012

16:00, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Jane Stanford (pictured), co-founder of Stanford University, ordered her jewels to be sold to provide funding for the Stanford University Libraries?
... that Diego Ramírez de Arellano set a southern navigation record in 1619 that was unbroken for 150 years?
... that the frugal appropriations authorized by the 14th Arizona Territorial Legislature were just one reason the session was nicknamed the "Measly Fourteenth"?
... that the cyanobacterium Nostoc commune can withstand desiccation and repeated freezing and thawing?
... that fakanau, considered by Christian missionaries to be evil dancing, eventually disappeared from Tuvalu?
... that George Bray's association with Burnley F.C. as a player, coach, kit man and supporter spanned seven decades?
... that in 1977, the Douglas Stenstrom Bridge in Indian Mound Village, Florida, replaced the Osteen Bridge, a 1920s hand-turned swing bridge that had become an unsafe driving hazard?
... that during the bird flu pandemic of 2005, chef Alexis Gauthier removed bird related products from the menu at his Michelin starred restaurant in London?

08:00, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the silver modius (specimen pictured) on display at the Forum Amastrianum in Constantinople represented the standard for this Roman unit of capacity in the Byzantine Empire?
... that although Czech psychiatrist and neuropathologist Oskar Fischer made significant contributions to the description of Alzheimer's disease, his works largely remained unknown until 2008?
... that the Ouachita Dusky Salamander, the Fourche Mountain Salamander, and the Rich Mountain Salamander are all endemic to the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas and Oklahoma?
... that Abraham Avigdorov received the Hero of Israel citation for his actions in the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine?
... that Moubray House, one of the oldest buildings on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, was once the premises of Archibald Constable, the owner of the Encyclopædia Britannica?
... that Mulford Winsor was Arizona Territory's first Territorial Historian?
... that Parasola auricoma mushrooms are short-lived, typically lasting only a few hours?
... that NASCAR driver Mike Olsen is known for being sponsored by Little Trees?

00:00, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Podoserpula (pictured) has a unique form of fruit body not known in any other fungi?
... that 2012 British Paralympian Helena Lucas was the only female sailor in the 16-boat fleet for the 2.4 mR event, in which she won her nation's first ever Paralympic sailing gold medal?
... that Edmond Panariti, the current minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania, is the first Albanian government minister to visit Australia?
... that DDG Hansa lost all but one of its ships in World War I and all its ships in and after World War II and still became the world's largest heavy lift shipping company?
... that George M. Stratton founded Berkeley's psychology department?
... that despite being over 70 years old, the Byzantine general Bessas was entrusted with overall command of the Byzantine forces in the Lazic War?
... that Poczta Królewiecka, published 1718–20 in Królewiec (Königsberg), was the second oldest Polish newspaper?
... that Philip Bell was governor of the puritan Providence Island colony, which turned into a haven for pirates?

13 September 2012

16:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

... that of the two roller coasters in New Jersey named "Jumbo Jet"—one closed without a single rider, and another was sold for two rail cars of ketchup to a Soviet amusement park (pictured)?
... that the investigation into the murder of Celine Figard saw the UK's first national DNA screening programme in the hunt for a suspect?
... that Steven Rodriguez became the first player selected in the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft to reach the major leagues?
... that the Madras State awarded 75 acres (30 ha; 0.117 sq mi) to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for the establishment of Central Leather Research Institute?
... that before the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary began operations in 1934 there was a citadel on Alcatraz Island?
... that nearly half the students in the Harvard "Introduction to Congress" course were implicated in a cheating investigation?
... that tenor Martin Petzold, a former member of the boys' choir Thomanerchor and a singer of Bach's Evangelist parts with the group, co-published 800 Years Thomana?
... that two men and a dog died during the 1909 Portola Road Race in Oakland, California?

08:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo, a onetime resident of Yonkers, New York, personally chose the location for the city's new post office (pictured) in 1916?
... that the larvae of the terrestrial Ceylon caecilian have gills and a tail fin and develop in water?
... that the village of Najran in Syria was named after the Najran of South Arabia, whose inhabitants, the Balharith, fled to Syria in the 520s?
... that the British racehorse Teenoso won the 1983 Derby Stakes with the slowest winning time of this race in the 20th century?
... that María Soledad Iparraguirre was only the second woman to serve on the executive of the Basque separatist group ETA and was wanted by Spanish police for participation in at least 14 assassinations?
... that Christian Garcia reached Major League Baseball despite enduring three elbow surgeries?
... that Ed, Edd n Eddy's TV movie series finale, Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, premiered on November 8, 2009, and achieved high ratings success for Cartoon Network?
... that despite being founded in 1984, the Roux Scholarship contest was only first televised in 2012?

00:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the Pyrenean desman (pictured) is believed to be almost extinct in the southern area of its range in the Iberian Peninsula due to changes to its habitat?
... that Ryan Westmoreland, considered one of the best prospects in baseball, has had brain surgery twice to correct a cavernous malformation?
... that the town of Muzayrib in southern Syria served as the first major resting place along the Hajj caravan route from Damascus to Mecca during the Ottoman era?
... that indigenous Australian rapper Briggs toured with Ice Cube, who he described as "my favourite rapper since I was a kid", just a year after releasing his first EP?
... that in May 1936, on orders of the Nazis, Expressionist artworks were burnt in the furnace of the Kronprinzenpalais, which housed the modern art division of the Berlin National Gallery?
... that 2012 British Paralympic silver medallist archer Mel Clarke had to remodel her shooting style after Lyme disease caused her to lose her sight in one eye?
... that the Dutch television series De Kris Pusaka draws from Indonesian stories about krisses?
... that Colonel Joseph H. Tucker, twice commander of the Camp Douglas (Chicago) prison camp during the American Civil War, was never mustered into the Union Army?

12 September 2012

16:00, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the butter-foot bolete (pictured) and red-capped butter bolete are in the same section?
... that Jamal Fyfield assisted Matty Blair's winning goal for York City in the 2011–12 FA Trophy semi-final second leg against Luton Town with a cross from the left flank?
... that in a move to accommodate Muslims, the West African Catholic trade union CATC replaced the word "Christians" in its name with "Believers"?
... that Ragnhildur Helgadóttir became the youngest female member of the Icelandic Parliament when she was elected in 1965 at the age of 26?
... that the town of Jindires in Syria was the site of a decisive Roman victory against the Parthians in 38 BC?
... that in 1979 Irish horse trainer Edward O'Grady became only the fifth individual to train the winner of the Galway Plate and the Galway Hurdle in the same year?
... that the Suru River, a tributary of the Indus River, originates from the Panzella glacier and flows entirely in the Kargil district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir?
... that near-death experience researcher Karlis Osis said his research created a "diminishing fear of death"?

08:00, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Roderich Kreile (pictured), the 28th cantor at Dresden's Kreuzkirche, led the boys' choir Dresdner Kreuzchor in recording music by Gottfried August Homilius, the 15th cantor?
... that the Alcatraz water tower was covered in graffiti during the island's occupation by Native Americans?
... that wheelchair tennis player Andrew Lapthorne won the doubles tournament at his very first Grand Slam?
... that chef Alain Ducasse opened his restaurant Le Louis XV following a challenge by the Prince of Monaco?
... that Japanese child actress Miyu Honda is also a figure skater?
... that to date, the 2009 song "The Climb" performed by Miley Cyrus, is her first and only single to peak at number one on the U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary chart?
... that 2012 British Paralympic gold medallist Sophie Wells was the first para-equestrian rider to win an international, non-disabled dressage competition?
... that an annual bike tour in Memphis, Tennessee, takes place at midnight?

00:00, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Limpet mine

... that during Operation Mardonius in 1943 SOE agents used magnetic limpet mines (pictured) to sink ships at Oslo harbour?
... that Jeff Powers and Jesse Smith played on the United States men's national water polo team at the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Olympic games?
... that Chilean Mexican band Los Ángeles Negros adopted that name after a member's mother said she liked it?
... that NYPD detective Barney Ruditsky once stopped a robbery with the help of his wife on their wedding anniversary?
... that the filly Saucy Sue won the 1000 Guineas, the Epsom Oaks, and the Coronation Stakes in 1925, helping Lord Astor become Britain's champion owner that season?
... that a week before he graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Hugo Johnstone-Burt was approached to play Fish Lamb in Cloudstreet?
... that the Royal Naval Hospital Gibraltar was the first military hospital to receive a Baby Friendly Award from UNICEF?
... that in 1955, two years after interviewing American actor Gregory Peck for the newspaper France Soir, French journalist Veronique Passani became Peck's wife?

11 September 2012

16:00, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Shane Warne (pictured) has taken more wickets than any other Rajasthan Royals cricketer?
... that at least one species in the earwig family Pygidicranidae is cannibalistic?
... that the Abbasid vizier al-Fadl ibn al-Rabi' was the main instigator of the civil war between brothers and rival caliphs al-Ma'mun and al-Amin?
... that scenes in "Episode 5" of Twin Peaks were filmed in Angeles National Forest?
... that the Old English Lambeth Homilies (c. 1200), written in the Middle English period, share five homilies (and the Poema Morale) with the Trinity Homilies (c. 1200–25), which likewise preserve Old English forms?
... that after failing to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in triathlon, American Mary Beth Ellis went on to win five Ironman Triathlons, including the 2012 U.S. Championships at Ironman New York?
... that the filly Sun Stream narrowly won the 1945 Epsom Oaks by "a small head"?
... that in 2010, the restaurant Au Crocodile was sold for over a million euros?

08:00, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Rear Admiral Charles Boarman (pictured) was a member of the U.S. Naval Board in Washington during the American Civil War while two of his sons-in-law served in the Confederate Army?
... that minuscule 880, a 15th-century manuscript of the New Testament, was written by George Hermonymus, a teacher of Reuchlin and Budeus?
... that Libby Houston received the 2012 H. H. Bloomer Award from the Linnean Society of London?
... that for the portrayal of Trevor Raznik in the film The Machinist, Christian Bale lost 63 pounds (28.5 kg)?
... that during the Liverpool Exchange by-election in 1897, the Liberal candidate Russell Rea was denounced by a Conservative Party politician as a "white slave" of Irish Nationalists?
... that Spanish governor Diego de Salinas surrendered Gibraltar to English marines under the command of a former Viceroy of Catalonia in 1704?
... that the Musidora Stakes, an annual race held at York, was named in honour of the 1000 Guineas and Epsom Oaks-winning filly Musidora?
... that the Alcatraz gun gallery was situated in the recreation yard, mounted on one of the dining hall's exterior walls?

00:00, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

... that in 2009, Arawak artist and archaeologist George Simon (pictured) and a team of researchers uncovered evidence of human settlements in Guyana that date back to 3,000 BCE?
... that recent estimates of the number of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia range from a denial of any political prisoners at all to 30,000?
... that water polo player Shea Buckner won NCAA Championships and was named to the All-American first team in both 2008 and 2009?
... that species in the fungal genus Endogone are important in the ecology of plant succession in sand dunes?
... that it is not compulsory for a place of worship in England and Wales to be officially registered, but doing so makes the premises exempt from Council Tax?
... that Alabama nose tackle Jesse Williams is the first Indigenous Australian to receive a scholarship to play college football in the United States?
... that Victoria's Secret Angel model Chanel Iman plays Usher's love interest in the music video for "Dive"?
... that Monsieur d'Amour married four times, once to a 14-year-old girl?

10 September 2012

16:00, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

... that during World War II, civilians evacuated from Gibraltar (memorial pictured) were moved to Morocco, Madeira, England and Jamaica?
... that John Hilliard's Cause of Death (1974) suggested four different interpretations of one photographic negative?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Michael Roeger has played football, basketball, table tennis and cricket?
... that the English racehorse Galatea won both legs of the Fillies Triple Crown that were held in 1939?
... that rhythmic gymnast Georgina Cassar was the first athlete from Gibraltar to compete at the Olympic Games?
... that the Glee episode "Britney 2.0" features Britney Spears mashed up with Justin Bieber?
... that Rabbi Aryeh Tzvi Frumer, a leading rosh yeshiva in prewar Poland, was forced to work in a Warsaw Ghetto factory making footwear for German soldiers?
... that leading the Our Greatest Team Parade will be two giant lion heads?

08:00, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Prince Rupert's cube, named for Prince Rupert of the Rhine, can pass through a square hole drilled into a smaller cube (pictured)?
... that beer distributor Ron Fowler led a group that included golfer Phil Mickelson that was approved by Major League Baseball to purchase the San Diego Padres for $800 million?
... that Varietease, starring Lili St. Cyr and Bettie Page, was Irving Klaw's first feature length documentary film about 1950s burlesque?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Carlee Beattie was named the most valuable player at the 2000 Netball State Titles?
... that after pressure from his mamluks, the Burji sultan Sayf ad-Din Inal supported James II with a naval fleet in his attempt to gain the throne of Cyprus?
... that the cricket team Chennai Super Kings of the Indian Premier League has received the Fly Kingfisher Fair Play Award three times out of five?
... that water polo goalkeeper Chay Lapin set the all-time saves record at the University of California, Los Angeles?
... that Mississippi's Spanish Fort is neither Spanish nor a fort?

00:00, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the Alcatraz Gang (member pictured) was a group of eleven American POWs singled out for extra harsh treatment by their North Vietnamese captors because of their fierce resistance to captivity?
... that Mayer Zald and John D. McCarthy developed the resource mobilization theory, which became one of the major theories on social movements?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer Jake Lappin is able to perfom push ups without using his legs?
... that upon the release of Mariah Carey's 12th studio album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, her song "Betcha Gon' Know (The Prologue)" peaked at number 66 on the U.S. Hot Digital Songs chart?
... that Ethel McMillan holds the distinction of being the first woman in New Zealand appointed as a savings bank trustee?
... that Kara Mustafa Pasha, the founder of the Ridwan dynasty, was a former gate-slave of Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Simon Patmore has Erb's palsy and works as a technology officer?
... that the orange sea lily and the beaded crinoid conceal their bodies in crevices while they extend their arms to filter feed?

9 September 2012

16:00, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

... that early mycologists classified species from the class Myxogastria (random species pictured) as "fungus animals"?
... that blind athlete Robert Matthews won eight Paralympic gold medals for middle and long distance running and now competes as a cyclist?
... that the 1969 Greensboro uprising started with a student council election?
... that the Umayyad military leader Abdallah al-Battal became a popular hero in medieval Arabic and Turkish tradition for his exploits against the Byzantines?
... that a California casino is putting up a million dollars to save the Chukchansi language, which has eight fluent speakers?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Amber Merritt was named the MVP at the 2012 Gliders and Rollers World Challenge?
... that in 2008, the only songs to spend two weeks at number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Songs chart were Madonna's "4 Minutes", featuring Justin Timberlake, and Donna Summer's "Stamp Your Feet"?
... that Michelin starred chef Lisa Allen has an allergy to shellfish?

08:00, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the seven highest National Basketball Association league leading minutes per game averages have been by Wilt Chamberlain (pictured)?
... that in 1924, Izetta Jewel became the first woman to address a major political party convention to second a U.S. presidential nomination?
... that the tadpoles of the Sri Lanka rock frog and the Kirtisinghe's rock frog are often found on wet rocks near mountain streams?
... that 2012 Indian Paralympic powerlifter Farman Basha won an event for non-disabled athletes in 2006, leading to a ban on disabled athletes in Indian Powerlifting Federation events?
... that according to T. E. Lawrence, the Syrian town of Tafas was the site of an infamous massacre perpetrated by retreating Ottoman troops during World War I?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic rower Erik Horrie was previously a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team and only took up rowing in 2011?
... the spores of the mushroom Boletellus russellii are grooved and furrowed like its stem?
... that American artist Jean Wells created a five-foot tall ice cream cone for a San Diego Museum of Art exhibition?

00:00, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the Sooty Oystercatcher (pictured) forages for two hours on either side of low tide?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer Rosemary Little had to raise AUD$8,000 to replace her racing wheelchair following a collision at the 2011 City2Surf?
... that the Ellerbusch Archaeological Site in the U.S. state of Indiana was picked for extensive excavation partly because it was so small?
... that Abdullah Al Rabiah, once named the world's 45th most influential Arab by a business magazine, used to work as a surgeon who separated conjoined twins?
... that the Astor Bridge was considered "one of the most hazardous road sections in Florida" in the 1970s?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic long jumper Stephanie Schweitzer works as a personal trainer?
... that the filly Lady Carla won the 1996 Epsom Oaks by nine lengths, the fourth-widest margin of victory of this race in the 20th century?
... that Indonesian journalist Saeroen operated a chain of hotels named after bats?

8 September 2012

16:00, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

... that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Kayla Clarke (pictured) has a scholarship from the Queensland Academy of Sport and receives athlete support grants from the Australian government?
... that the Corporation of Madras was established in 1688, and is the oldest municipal body in India?
... that in the Kinks' song "Sitting in My Hotel", singer and songwriter Ray Davies muses about the cost of stardom in terms of loneliness and losing touch with his roots?
... that a Philippine Basketball Association team that successfully defends the Philippine Cup for three consecutive times, will permanently keep the Jun Bernardino Trophy?
... that in August 2012, an employee of Gibraltar-based Profield Contractors was arrested on suspicion of being a member of a terrorist cell?
... that 2012 Paralympics competitor Rajinder Singh Rahelu won the first-ever medal for India in powerlifting in 2004?
... that the type specimen of Eucalyptus denticulata was only collected in 1989?
... that Conflict Kitchen, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a take-out restaurant that only serves food from nations with which the United States is in conflict?

08:00, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the extinct lacewing Undulopsychopsis (fossil pictured) is the only psychopsid to have wavy wings?
... that the Beilin-Abu Mazen agreement was a proposed Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty created by Yossi Beilin and Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) in 1995?
... that five-time gold medallist Thomas Oelsner was the first athlete to be sent home from any Winter Paralympic Games when he failed a drugs test in 2002?
... that the June 26, 2012, Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances has been criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation?
... that Henry Nock, the maker of the seven-barrelled volley gun used by Patrick Harper in Sharpe episodes, founded a company which became Wilkinson Sword?
... that the Dras River, a tributary of Suru River in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, originates from the Machoi Glacier?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Damien Bowen has previously competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and 2010 Commonwealth Games?
... that Bird Island Nature Reserve has no introduced animals?

00:00, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Sarah Vinci (pictured) made her national team debut at the 2011 Osaka Cup?
... that the Danube bleak, a migratory fish, has had its traditional routes blocked by the building of dams?
... that Mika Yamamoto, the fifteenth journalist killed in Syria in 2012, was the first Japanese reporter to be killed in the ongoing armed political conflict in Syria?
... that Tim Hunter, director of "Episode 4" of Twin Peaks, was inspired by Otto Preminger's use of small sets in 1945's Fallen Angel?
... that John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized the sinking of the Palatine Light ghost ship with a poem written in 1867?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic sailor Stephen Churm competed in his first sailing race in 1963?
... that the Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Brăila, Romania, is the country's only former mosque converted into an Orthodox church?
... that the 2011 film Love's Kitchen starring Dougray Scott, Claire Forlani and featuring chef Gordon Ramsay in a cameo role, took £121 on its opening weekend?

7 September 2012

16:00, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the wasp Deinodryinus velteni (pictured) is one of only three Deinodryinus species described from the fossil record?
... that British record producer Shahid "Naughty Boy" Khan started his career by winning twice in one year, once for The Prince's Trust and then on Deal or No Deal?
... that Irapé Dam on the Jequitinhonha River is the tallest dam in Brazil?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic 100 metre runner Gabriel Cole became a serious runner after the intervention of his high school French teacher?
... that Karen Gillan, who portrays Amy Pond, was so moved by her exit from Doctor Who that she could not read the script without crying?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Matthew Silcocks has Poland's syndrome, a syndrome he had at birth, that caused development problems with his right arm?
... that the Black Salamander may defend itself by biting a western garter snake attacking it?
... that Ben Burns, a pioneering white editor of black publications, answered if he was "Negro or white" by saying: "Neither, I'm Jewish"?

08:00, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

... that each of the three Russian Petropavlovsk-class battleships (Poltava pictured) had a different type of steel armor?
... that Canadian S10 swimmer Summer Mortimer won a medal in each of her individual events at the 2012 Paralympics, breaking two of her own world records?
... that a Japanese bank funded a project to improve the quality of Hussain Sagar reservoir in Hyderabad, India?
... that a minimal surface of revolution can be visualized as soap film stretched between two circular wires, and C. W. B. Goldschmidt discovered mathematical solutions describing cases in which the film breaks?
... that in her film debut Kris of Mataram, Fifi Young stabs herself with the titular weapon?
... that 2012 Paralympics competitor and Gold Coast Wheelchair Rugby Titans captain Ben Newton was a member of the undefeated 2011 Australia national wheelchair rugby team?
... that of all the county bridges currently in use in Wyoming, EDZ Irigary Bridge has the longest clear span?
... that in 2002, Randy and Teri MacDonald were the first brother-sister combination to compete against each other in NASCAR since Ethel and Tim Flock in 1949?

00:00, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Jan Nepomucen Głowacki, considered the father of the Polish school of landscape painting, was the first to devote an entire series of works to the Tatra Mountains (painting pictured)?
... that U.S. federal tax increases and spending cuts mandated for 2013 have been called a fiscal cliff due to their projected economic effects?
... that British swimmer James Crisp has won medals in every different competitive stroke style?
... that domestic violence in Pakistan has been described as "endemic in all social spheres"?
... that in United States v. Jackalow (1862), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a jury should decide whether the Long Island Sound was on the "high seas"?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Georgia Beikoff quit cricket and soccer in order to pursue athletics?
... that Lucy Spraggan's song "Last Night" reached number eleven in the UK charts despite being pulled midweek?
... that Brad Teague was fastest in third-round qualifying for the 1989 Daytona 500, but did not compete in the event?

6 September 2012

16:00, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the Mexican burrowing caecilian (pictured) is viviparous, with the young feeding on glandular secretions in the oviduct?
... that Lindsey Berg was twice named the USA Volleyball Indoor Female Athlete of the Year?
... that the Hanajira tribe inhabited the area between Gaza and Beersheba before being expelled to the Gaza Strip during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
... that in 1915, British ship-owner Joseph Hoult offered a reward of £500 each to the next four British merchant ships that sank German U-boats?
... that Georgian daba Manglisi has been a mountain resort area for the people of Tbilisi since the 19th century?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympian Rachael Dodds, who has cerebral palsy, was introduced to athletics by her physiotherapist?
... that during the Albanian Revolt of 1432–36, forces under Gjergj Arianiti defeated 10,000 Ottoman troops under Ali Bey near the valley of Shkumbin?
... that Mike Kenny is the most successful British Paralympian, having twice retained his gold medals in three swimming events?

08:00, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the Vätsäri Wilderness Area in Lapland, which covers an area of 1,550 square kilometers (600 sq mi), includes taiga forests of Scots Pine and thousands of small lakes (pictured)?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Matthew Cameron has represented his country in athletics and wheelchair basketball?
... that pottery from the Duffy Archaeological Site in Illinois is distinctive for its lack of decorative elements?
... that in 1332 Taynal, the Mamluk governor of Tripoli, was transferred to Gaza as punishment by the viceroy of Syria, only to be reassigned to Tripoli three years later?
... that Blessed Guerric's relics, located at Igny Abbey in Arcis-le-Ponsart, are still venerated?
... that according to her memoirs, African American preacher Zilphia Elaw gave over a thousand sermons in Victorian Britain?
... that 2012 Australia Paralympic equestrian Rob Oakley started riding horses as a way to impress a girl?
... that a 19th-century brick synagogue in Radzanów designed with Moorish-style motifs, serves as a public library since there are now no Jews in Radzanów?

00:00, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

... that when he was a lieutenant colonel, General Larry O. Spencer (pictured) was the first Air Force officer to serve as assistant chief of staff at the White House Military Office?
... that Shane Warne served both as a captain and a coach for Rajasthan Royals, and led his cricket team to win the 2008 Indian Premier League Final?
... that the Marxist ethnographer Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev considered that shamans were almost always mentally ill?
... that the clouded salamander stayed at home in Oregon while the wandering salamander travelled by bark from California to Vancouver Island?
... that 2012 British Paralympic cyclist Mark Colbourne broke his back in a paragliding accident?
... that Mansehra Rock Edicts are fourteen rock edicts of Mauryan emperor Ashoka dating back to the third century BC mentioning aspects of the emperor's dharma law?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic table tennis player Melissa Tapper started her competitive playing career competing against able-bodied athletes even though she has Erb's palsy?
... that the churchyard of All Saints Church, Ulcombe in England contains a yew tree claimed to be more than 2,000 years old?

5 September 2012

16:00, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the odor of the mushroom Cortinarius camphoratus (pictured) has been likened to old goats, burnt horn, and sweaty feet?
... that 2012 British Paralympic footballer Ibrahima Diallo was diagnosed with cerebral palsy after a physiotherapist saw him running?
... that the single known specimen of Houston's Whitebeam grows on a cliff in North Somerset and cannot be accessed without ropes?
... that Liz Johnson won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics just eleven days after the death of her mother?
... that the tsunami triggered by the 1979 Tumaco earthquake coincided with low tide, greatly reducing the area inundated and the likelihood of a far higher death toll?
... that Anuya Bhagvath makes her Bengali cinema debut in Gora, a film based on a novel by Rabindranath Tagore?
... that the Val-Saint-Lambert Abbey is an important example of Cistercian architecture in Belgium?
... that Mike Chase hoped to be NASCAR Rookie of the Year in the Winston Cup Series in 1995, but was released from his team after failing to qualify for the year's first race?

08:00, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Vanguard Cave (pictured) is one of four caves in Gibraltar which have been nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympian Erinn Walters weighed 900 grams (2.0 lb) at birth?
... that reported human rights issues in Lesotho include food shortages at the central prison?
... that the DOX BOX International Documentary Film Festival, founded by Syrian filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia in 2008, quickly grew into the most important documentary film gathering in the Arab world?
... that the Drayton Island Ferry was limited to a capacity of six people after reports were received of its operator carrying 40 passengers on board?
... that Sowmya Raoh worked as a voice artist before making her playback singing debut?
... that 2012 British Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Terry Bywater made his Paralympic debut in 2000 in Sydney?
... that although collected in 1958, the fungus Engleromyces sinensis was not described as a new species until 52 years later?

00:00, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the Teen Age Message was sent by Russian scientists from the Eupatoria radio telescope (pictured), and was humanity's first musical Active SETI broadcast?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympian Jodi Elkington is also a netball umpire?
... that film-maker David Lynch acts opposite his real-life partner Isabella Rossellini in Tina Rathborne's semi-autobiographical film Zelly and Me?
... that Sarpsborg 08 rejected Brescia's attempt to get Magnar Ødegaard on a trial, because it was in the middle of the Norwegian football season?
... that the Syrian city of Tell Rifaat dates back to the Iron Age when it was an Aramaean settlement known as "Arpad"?
... that South African Paralympic swimmer Achmat Hassiem had his leg severed in an attack by a great white shark?
... that the extinct wasp Deinodryinus areolatus is one of two Deinodryinus species known from Baltic amber?
... that when Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz cried, "even the State Department listened"?

4 September 2012

16:00, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

... that ruisreikäleipä (pictured) is a Finnish rye hole loaf which was stored for all the Nordic winter's length and is still a main component of the Finnish diet?
... that mathematician Fredrik Lange-Nielsen was elected into several governmental commissions?
... that a reviewer called the gay pornographic film Dream Team an allegory of gay liberation?
... that in 1943 HMS Calpe helped sink a U-boat which had sunk two of her sister destroyers that same month?
... that British Paralympian Caz Walton won gold medals in athletics, table tennis, and fencing?
... that "the one who cried" is often depicted shaking Mount Kailash in Indian art?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby player Josh Hose became a quadriplegic after a car rollover?
... that the mushroom Mycena atkinsoniana will "bleed" yellow-orange juice when injured?

08:00, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

... that in May 2011 a sullage tank exploded near the Gibraltar Cruise Terminal (pictured)?
... that Indonesian Paralympian Ni Nengah Widiasih beat the ASEAN ParaGames powerlifting record for her weight class by 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) last December?
... that Millennium's "Sense and Antisense" underwent several rewrites to lessen its focus on race relations?
... that Chan Yan-tak was the first Chinese chef to win three Michelin stars?
... that it is disputed whether or not the Pemberton-Billing P.B.1 ever flew?
... that 2012 Australia Paralympic equestrian Grace Bowman was featured on ABC's Race to London?
... that DARPA director Arati Prabhakar was the first female director of National Institute of Standards and Technology, and also the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in applied physics from Caltech?
... that the villous deadly carrot is used to stun fish?

00:00, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

... that at 12,095 feet (3,687 m) in elevation, Colorado's Independence Pass (pictured) is the highest paved crossing of the Continental Divide in the United States?
... that the music of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Arnold Schoenberg inspired jazz-guitarist Ralph Patt to invent major-thirds tuning?
... that a grey sandstone wall is all that remains of Caludon Castle in Coventry, whose history stretches back to pre-Norman times?
... that as a ten-year-old, 2012 Paralympic swimmer Michael Auprince chose to have his leg amputated?
... that an alleged Burmese drug lord and nine Thai anti-narcotics soldiers are accused of committing the 2011 Mekong River massacre, the deadliest attack on Chinese nationals abroad in modern times?
... that Indonesian Paralympic competitor Setyo Budi Hartanto is the son of fishmongers?
... that infection with the parasitic nematode Rhabdias bufonis can cause host frogs to die?
... that after giving up professional football to serve in World War II, Jack Roberts escaped from a POW camp and walked 400 miles to freedom with a broken neck?

3 September 2012

16:00, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

... that 2012 Paralympian Chris Bond (pictured) is missing both legs below his knees, his left wrist and his right four fingers as a result of a severe infection from a flesh-eating disease?
... that the fungus Pluteus nevadensis was named after the Colima volcano?
... that Brother Esteban de Perea was the reluctant jailer of New Mexico governor Pedro de Peralta, founder of Santa Fe?
... that the extinct wasp Deinodryinus? aptianus has antennae similar to only two other Deinodryinus species?
... that Madhu Trehan, an Indian journalist, had to apologise for publishing an article rating Delhi High Court judges?
... that Joss Whedon is developing a television series based on the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
... that two-time world champion water skier and 2012 Paralympic athletics competitor Scott Reardon was the first person with a disability to win his state's water skiing championship?
... that the Faizrakhmanist sect, including 27 children, was discovered to be living underground in catacomb-like chambers in Kazan in Tatarstan?

08:00, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the recently discovered Trogloraptor of Oregon is the namesake and sole member of an ancient family of cave-dwelling spiders with hook-like feet (pictured)?
... that Indonesian T46 runner and Paralympic hopeful Martin Losu set two regional records at the 2011 ASEAN ParaGames?
... that the 1895 Quchan earthquake had a lower death toll than the one that struck the town in 1893, partly because most of the rebuilt houses used a lighter form of construction?
... that Bach composed his chorale cantata Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 33, on a hymn by Konrad Hubert with a melody by Paul Hofhaimer, and first performed it on 3 September 1724?
... that sediments from the Sendai River in Tottori Prefecture, Japan, created and replenish the Tottori Sand Dunes?
... that Sanjay Hazare is the first international cricket umpire from Vadodara, and second from Gujarat?
... that the future of the tropical tree Milicia regia for timber production is threatened by a gall fly, Phytolyma lata?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalballer Jennifer Blow found a rock resembling the lucky egg from Cool Runnings and started a pre-game ritual of quoting the movie while holding the rock?

00:00, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

... that U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (pictured) wrote that he did not have "the privilege of dividing the court when alone"?
... that in 2011, Channel 4 described Ola Abidogun as a "new GB sprint star"?
... that Nicolas de Bruijn was inspired to prove De Bruijn's theorem on packing bricks into boxes by his seven-year-old son's inability to pack some bricks into a box without wasted space?
... that Władysław Machejek was a political hack writer during the Stalinist reign of terror in Poland following World War II?
... that Dennis Lillee took seven out of his twenty-three Test five-wicket hauls at the Melbourne Cricket Ground?
... that Eichwald's toad was first described in 2008, having previously been considered to be a subspecies of the Caucasian toad?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player Tyan Taylor participated in two extreme sports: skydiving and bungee jumping?
... that in the novel Corrupting Dr. Nice by John Kessel, several versions of Jesus Christ are transported to the twenty-first century?

2 September 2012

16:00, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the mite Brevipalpus phoenicis (pictured) reproduces primarily by parthenogenesis and almost all individuals are female?
... that adaptive rowers Pam Relph, Naomi Riches, James Roe and David Smith, alongside cox Lily van den Broecke, won a gold medal at the 2011 World Rowing Championships and have been selected to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
... that the 1966 Syrian coup d'état removed the original founders of Ba'athism from power, caused the party to split, and brought neo-Ba'athists to power in Syria?
... that basketball player Kobe Bryant went to Germany to receive Orthokine treatments that have not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration?
... that in some portrayals of the marriage of the Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati, their yet-unborn sons are depicted?
... that in 1960, Martial became the first Irish racehorse to win the British Classic 2,000 Guineas Stakes?
... that 14-year-old 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer Rheed McCracken qualified for the Games after only using a wheelchair since late 2009?
... that the 2006 Swift raids were the largest workplace immigration action in United States history?

08:00, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

... that Selwyn in New Zealand, which celebrates its 150th birthday this month, was planned for 2,000 residents, but was depopulated by flooding and now has many derelict buildings (ruins pictured)?
... that Harrison Brown led the Manhattan Project team that first successfully isolated gram quantities of plutonium?
... that the county of Dorset in England has one of the most studied coastlines in the world?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair tennis player Janel Manns became an incomplete paraplegic at age 32 after a bathroom accident and initially played basketball, not tennis?
... that Olive Garden successfully participated in Coca-Cola's H₂NO program, which sought to steer customers away from tap water in favor of buying soft drinks and bottled water?
... that Indonesian Paralympic S6 swimmer Agus Ngaimin first competed at the national level when he was twenty?
... that in 1937 the Nazis organized the Degenerate Art Exhibition attempting to discredit modern art, which Hitler declared to be degenerate?
... that Dexter Bean's BlackJack Racing team, which he drove for in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series, was so named because his father formed the team after winning big in Vegas?

00:00, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

... that wheelchair tennis player Peter Norfolk (pictured) must tape a tennis racket to his hand in order to play?
... that John P. Bennett, the Arawak priest and linguist, wrote An Arawak-English Dictionary at a time when the Arawak language was thought to be near extinction in Guyana?
... that during the tenure of Jerry Glanville, Portland State set a Football Championship Subdivision record for most points scored in a loss against Weber State in 2007?
... that half of Lie Tek Swie's films were literary adaptations?
... that 2012 Paralympic swimmer Matthew Haanappel is the cousin of Cadel Evans and delayed taking the VCE in order to spend more time training for the Paralympics?
... that the Cheboygan Bascule Bridge was the last bascule bridge built in the U.S. state of Michigan before the end of World War II?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball team captain Meica Christensen plays the song "The Final Countdown" before competitions?
... that the first of a record-breaking 26 consecutive formation loops performed by British aerobatic team The Blades was executed by a blind pilot?

1 September 2012

16:00, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the hairy geebung (pictured) is endangered by too frequent fires?
... that blind 2012 Paralympic swimmer Tim Antalfy also surfs, water skis and wakeboards?
... that Dr. James West, the founding medical director of the Betty Ford Center, was an alcoholic when he was a student and later wrote as a newspaper columnist about alcoholism and alcohol abuse?
... that Saqlain Mushtaq took 19 five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket, and achieved two hat-tricks in One Day International matches, both against Zimbabwe?
... that "culture warrior" Bachtiar Effendi was active in the cinemas of both Indonesia and Italy?
... that eating paradise nuts can cause nausea, vomiting and hair loss?
... that American economist and professor Stanley Lebergott argued that consumerism has had a positive impact on the U.S. economy and standard of living?
... that blind 2012 Paralympic swimmer Jeremy McClure completed the 2011 Ironman 70.3 Busselton with assistance from sighted guides in running, cycling and swimming?

08:00, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

... that among the thousands of shrimp and prawn species are mantis shrimps (pictured) which can knock their prey out with powerful punches?
... that Taiwanese comedian Chu Ke-liang went into hiding for ten years to escape gambling debts to underworld figures?
... that among the fifty-seven active lighthouses in Maine are the easternmost in the country and the first completed in the United States after its independence from Great Britain?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair tennis player Adam Kellerman was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma when he was thirteen years old?
... that Smooth 70s is the UK's only national 1970s radio station, while Absolute Radio 70s claims to be the UK's only station dedicated to the decade?
... that despite being nearly deaf, David Smith played volleyball at the 2012 Olympics?
... that Franz Kafka wrote the 109 Zürau Aphorisms at the estate of his sister Ottla and her husband in Zürau where he sought recovery from tuberculosis?
... that the coaches of 2012 Paralympic swimmer Richard Eliason advised him to take the bus until the end of the Paralympic Games?

00:00, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

... that the wooden racing surface of the Los Angeles Motordrome (pictured) was treated with crushed sea shells to improve traction?
... that 2008 South African Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Nick Taylor was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Paralympics?
... that opponents of the new mosque of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro tried to block its construction by arguing in court that Islam was not a religion?
... that when Sten Grytebust was selected for the Norway national under-23 football team, he didn't know that such a team existed?
... that the female Black Mountain Salamander broods her eggs?
... that 2012 Paralympic wheelchair racer Kristy Pond was named the IPC Athlete of the Month in May 2011?
... that Loetoeng Kasaroeng was the first film produced in what is now Indonesia?
... that the Fort Gates Ferry has been featured in both a commercial with Paul Newman and in the "world's worst commute"?