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31 March 2013

16:00, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

... that a view of the Rock of Gibraltar (pictured) has hung since the 18th century in a lady's art gallery in the Netherlands?
... that a Serbian monk named Lazar built the first mechanical clock in Russia in 1404, one of the first in Europe, at the request of Vasily I of Moscow?
... that Franz Schubert's sixth and final mass was not performed until October 1829, almost a full year after his death?
... that Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley, is said to have rebuilt Caludon Castle in about 1580 after its deterioration following the 1398 banishment from England of Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk?
... that one of the Easter traditions in Poland includes making and displaying of the Easter palm, the tallest of which can reach over 30 metres (98 ft)?
... that isolated sheilings were ideal for "sexual experiment"?

08:00, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

... that in art Doubting Thomas (pictured) normally thrusts his fingers into the wound of Jesus, but the Gospel of John does not say whether he did this?
... that Patrick J. Hanratty, the "father of CAD/CAM", is a gold prospector?
... that red ochre was officially sanctioned a national colour of New Zealand in 1975 with the introduction of the Queen's Service Order civilian award?
... that Corporal K. Chandana, a member of a Sri Lanka Army LRRP unit, was killed in 2008 while he covered the retreat of his team deep behind enemy lines?
... that the University of Michigan, founded twenty years before the Michigan Territory became a U.S. state, is Michigan's oldest university?
... that Lilac rabbits are penalized at British shows for having white hairs in their armpits?

00:00, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

... that in 1814, Franz Schubert composed his first mass, a missa solemnis in F major, for the centennial celebration of the Lichtental parish church, also known as Schubertkirche (pictured)?
... that in Armenian television, the Yerevan dialect is used more than the standard language?
... that Sergeant H. G. S. Bandara posthumously received the last Parama Weera Vibhushanaya of the Sri Lankan Civil War, having distinguished himself in battle just two days before it ended?
... that exploration of the fourth dimension in art led to "an explosive, nuclear and hypercubic" crucifixion?
... that Dr. Frank William Green worked on horseback as a physician along the Canadian Pacific Railway?
... that South African model Reeva Steenkamp appeared in the reality TV show Tropika Island of Treasure which premiered two days after her death?

30 March 2013

16:00, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

... that in addition to aircraft maintenance, No. 1 Aircraft Depot RAAF was responsible for research flights in Australia and the Pacific, such as the 1927 Papuan Survey Flight (Seagull III pictured)?
... that Countess Wilhelmina von Hallwyl acquired such a large art collection, including European paintings and Asian porcelain, that its catalogue contained 50,000 entries spanning 79 printed volumes?
... that circular layouts, in which the nodes of a graph are drawn on a circle, have been used to visualize the cyclic parts of metabolic networks?
... that the testimony of Holocaust survivors like Louis Micheels helped to acquit an SS physician, Hans Münch, at the 1947 Auschwitz trials?
... that the One Direction song "Rock Me" was composed in a single-day collaboration between Peter Svensson of the Swedish band the Cardigans, Allan Grigg, and Sam Hollander?
... that the 17-game start of the Hershey Bears 2012–13 season was the team's worst in eight years?

08:00, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the uncommon mineral aguilarite (pictured), named for discoverer Ponciano Aguilar, is known from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australasia?
... that dhumpa sangita is a musical art form from Odisha, India, created by the Oriya poet Kavisurya Baladev Rath?
... that Leslie Finer's reports during the 21 April 1967 coup d'état in Greece prompted the junta to buy all the newspapers which carried his articles?
... that multi-bacterial infection resulting from the contamination of wounds by oral flora often complicates the recovery for survivors of leopard attacks?
... that artist Washington Bogart Cooper was called "the man of a thousand portraits"?
... that the music video for "Amor Puro" was filmed at the St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a building built in 1133 AD in Spain and dismantled and sent to New York in more than 11,000 crates in 1925?

00:00, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

... that when Ruben Yttergård Jenssen (pictured) was signed by Tromsø IL in 2006, the head coach claimed it was better in some respects than signing Ronaldinho?
... that Sasipada Banerji is credited with founding the first women's journal in Bengali and Bharat Sramajivi, the first Indian journal of the working class?
... that Operation Graffham was a Second World War political deception intended to convince the Swedish government that the Allied nations were about to invade Norway?
... that even though Enid Bosworth Lorimer had an acting career spanning 70 years, only six people turned up at her funeral?
... that Kevin Shields used a "slapdash approach" to recording while producing "City Girl"?
... that Grumpy Cat's signature facial expression is permanent and probably caused by feline dwarfism?

29 March 2013

16:00, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Monument and tombstone of Soghomon Tehlirian in the Ararat Cemetery

... that the Ararat Massis Armenian Cemetery contains the graves of many prominent figures of Armenian and American history such as Soghomon Tehlirian (pictured), Victor Maghakian and William Saroyan?
... that Kim Deinoff was once bitten in the arm by an opponent during a football match?
... that the extinct pine Pinus driftwoodensis was first described from a permineralized conifer cone in chert?
... that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's religious compositions, especially his All-Night Vigil, were responsible for the revival of interest in Russian Orthodox music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
... that tenor Martin Lattke performed with the ensemble amarcord in the Frauenkirche Dresden Bach's lost St Mark Passion in a reconstruction by Diethard Hellmann?
... that Sir Matthew Browne was involved in legal and financial transactions concerning the Globe Theatre in 1601?

08:00, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the brawny bolete mushroom (pictured) may contain the antabuse-like compound coprine?
... that Bache Hall in Cheshire, a former country house, now provides accommodation for students of the University of Chester?
... that the first production of Ghost Patrol, a chamber opera composed by Stuart MacRae, won the 2013 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Opera?
... that commoners who participated in Seokjeon (a stone-throwing game) during Korea's Joseon Dynasty could be awarded government posts as a result?
... that in the United Kingdom, 5,675, 5,608, and 6,045 people aged 15 and over committed suicide in 2009, 2010, and 2011 respectively?
... that Berkeley, California, rapper Lil B's Rain in England is an ambient hip hop album without any beats or profanity?

00:00, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the postmodern architecture of the mixed-use development Washington Harbour (pictured) has been described as "pop art" and "cartoonish"?
... that Franz Schubert regarded his fifth mass so highly, he contemplated dedicating it to the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II?
... that Polish-American George S. Wise was the first president of Tel Aviv University?
... that a build-up in numbers of the brittle star Amphiura filiformis in the North Sea may have been caused by eutrophication?
... that New York Yankees prospect Vidal Nuño has also been a Wildcat, Scrapper, Captain, Wild Thing, and RiverDog?
... that the future Norwegian king Harald Hardrada led the Byzantine Varangian Guard against the Lombards and Normans in the Battle of Montemaggiore in Italy?

28 March 2013

16:00, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Josh Linkner (pictured) was awarded a Champion of Change award in the youth entrepreneur category by President Barack Obama?
... that Tio Ie Soei uncovered Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari's origins, leading to a scandal?
... that entertainment site MovieWeb used the Growing Pains theme and scenes from The Walking Dead in a comedic video that was seen as making the latter show's zombie violence seem family-friendly?
... that Shehr-e-Roghan of Bela is of Buddhist origin?
... that having been awarded over two dozen medals, Armenian American Marine Victor Maghakian is considered one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War II?
... that century-old vines of Bouchalès exist in Bordeaux, having likely survived phylloxera due to an old vineyard practice of flood irrigation disrupting the life cycle of the louse?

08:00, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

... that there are figures of many gods as well as, unusually, a tortoise (pictured), on the steps to the Saptashrungi temple, built in 1710 AD?
... that baseball umpire Fieldin Culbreth umpired in the first no-hitters thrown by pitchers for both the Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Mets?
... that the St. Joseph Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas earned the moniker "St. Joske's" after a department store called Joske's was built around its three sides?
... that obsolete Type 88 shells from the 41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun were modified to create the Type 99 armor-piercing bomb used during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
... that in 1975, an award named in honor of nurse and professor Luther Christman was created by the American Assembly for Men in Nursing?
... that at the Battle of Fornham on 17 October 1173, not only was the losing commander Robert de Beaumont the Earl of Leicester captured, but his wife, Petronilla, who was in armour, was too?

00:00, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the seed and stem of Eriophorum angustifolium (pictured) are edible and are used in traditional Native American cuisine?
... that the Edward C. Elliott Hall of Music is named for a college president who vowed never to "spend one damn penny on music on this campus"?
... that most epic poems about the Babi Yar massacres were written by Russian and Ukrainian Jews who managed to survive the Holocaust?
... that American football coach Bill Kenney has coached eight all-conference players, six All-Americans, 10 Academic All-Americans and 47 Academic all-conference players?
... that the Assassins of the Abu Qubays fortress paid an annual tribute of 800 gold pieces to the Crusader order of Margat in the early twelfth century?
... that Arthur Gilbert became the oldest competing triathlete in the world in 2011, age 90?

27 March 2013

16:00, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

... that developments in the Polish film industry during the Interbellum saw the emergence of stars like Pola Negri (pictured)?
... that the main character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was inspired by a group of rare genetic disorders known as progeroid syndromes?
... that Gerold C. Dunn earned two degrees from Stanford University and was later appointed to the California Court of Appeal after just one year as a Superior Court judge?
... that teacher Mary Louise Graffam hid hundreds of Armenian girls from the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide?
... that the listed buildings in Dodcott cum Wilkesley, Cheshire include a former monastery, game larder, icehouse, folly with kennels, battlemented water tower, clock tower and a sundial?
... that Wallace found Kayoa's virgin forest "a glorious spot" full of beetles?

08:00, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

... that officials added Verdigris, Oklahoma, to a highway exit sign because of the large crowds basketball player Rotnei Clarke (pictured) attracted during high school?
... that in 2003, Aishwarya Rai was the first Indian actress ever to be appointed a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury?
... that Jean-Claude Berrouet is considered to be one of the foremost proponents of "classicist" winemaking, in that he prefers his wine to be made at lower temperatures and shorter fermentation periods?
... that the ivory curl tree can grow 30 m (100 ft) tall in its natural rainforest habitat?
... that the effects of Hurricane Isaac in Florida forced the cancellation of the first day of the 2012 Republican National Convention?
... that during a 2010 court case Pyotr Verzilov burst into the court and dumped a bag full of live cockroaches?

00:00, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the architecture of the Church of St. Wenceslaus (pictured) in New Prague, Minnesota, is based on a church in Prague, Czech Republic?
... that English watercolour painter and engraver Francis William Topham was one of Charles Dickens' "splendid strollers"?
... that according to legend, the wife of Charlemagne had white grapes planted in what is now the Corton-Charlemagne AOC because she didn't like seeing red wine stains in his beard?
... that Ray Duncan established both the Durango Mountain "Purgatory" Ski Resort and the Silver Oak Cellars wine business?
... that the sinking of the ferry SS Heraklion off the coast of Falkonera was one of the worst maritime accidents in Greek history?
... that the San Francisco Giants drafted Brock Bond when they meant to draft Casey Bond?

26 March 2013

16:00, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the ammonite Hildoceras bifrons (pictured) has been used as an index fossil to help identify the age of rocks?
... that Jacob Grimm described The Building of Skadar, recorded after the singing of Old Rashko, as "one of the most touching poems of all nations and all times"?
... that the Armenian Philanthropic Society of Baku built the first library in Baku in 1870?
... that Philemon Holland claimed that he wrote out the whole of his translation of Plutarch's Moralia with a single quill pen?
... that the Japanese I-351-class submarine was designed to support up to three flying boats with fuel, ammunition, water, and even replacement aircrew?
... that although Ralph Horween was the National Football League's oldest living player in 1994, the league mistakenly honored another player as such?

08:00, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

... that 47 plant species of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., including Ceanothus greggii (pictured), are named in honor of Josiah Gregg?
... that the Toronto Blue Jays wear an alternate jersey in the national colours of Canada on Canada Day?
... that Armenian journalist, writer, and translator Rita Vorperian can speak seven languages?
... that Rita Hayworth's song and dance performance in Gilda helped demonstrate the stability of the newly invented strapless dress?
... that the smoke from the Olympic Pipeline explosion reached 30,000 feet (9,100 m) high?
... that after her retirement in 2008, Australian swimmer Michelle Engelsman was honoured for her "Speedo Services to the Australian Swimming Team"?

00:00, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

... that although the Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar (pictured) was intended in part to honor the deceased US president Warren G. Harding, no mention of him appears on the coin?
... that the first version of the Piano Concerto by Frederick Delius was never performed in public, but the composer played a two-piano reduction with Ferruccio Busoni in 1898?
... that Katharine Hepburn recruited Hilda Crosby Standish to be medical director of the first birth control clinic in Connecticut?
... that the Provençal wine grape Barbaroux and the Barbarossa grown in Liguria and Piedmont were once thought to be the same grape until DNA testing showed otherwise?
... that the medieval royal official Hugh de Cressy was one of the first persons summoned as a Serjeant-at-Law when he was summoned in 1176 by King Henry II of England?
... that some women in the Arab Spring were dubbed the "Twitterati" for their influential Twitter accounts of the protests?

25 March 2013

16:00, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the fortress of Qalaat al-Madiq (pictured), located outside ancient Apamea in northern Syria, was ordered built by the Zengid sultan Nur ad-Din?
... that James Ashworth is the second British soldier to be awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for bravery during the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan?
... that LifeStraws for filtering contaminated water given to Kenyan school children in Mutomo District were small enough to hang around their necks?
... that Bruce Rondón, a Venezuelan baseball player, was described as a "rare talent" by General Manager Dave Dombrowski of the Detroit Tigers?
... that Ballinamallard United's club chairman has speculated that their matches are poorly covered on TV because it is deemed too expensive to send cameras to Ferney Park?
... that Armenian inventor Stephen Stepanian's patent for the first concrete mixer truck was initially rejected, reportedly due to a belief that a truck couldn't support the weight of a concrete mixer?

08:00, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Lie Tek Swie's Siti Noerbaja (film still pictured) was the first adaptation of Marah Roesli's novel of the same name?
... that Nehru's eulogy for Gandhi following the latter's assassination has been called one of the great speeches of history?
... that Maxine Feldman's song "Amazon" is traditionally performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival?
... that Torment: Tides of Numenera became the first video game project to raise $1,000,000 in under seven hours on the crowd funding platform Kickstarter?
... that Major K. A. Gamage posthumously received the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya, Sri Lanka's highest military award for gallantry, for his actions just one month before the end of the civil war?
... that Papeete's Notre Dame Cathedral contains Stations of the Cross that were influenced by Paul Gauguin?

00:00, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

... that baseball player Nate Freiman (pictured) caddies for golfer Amanda Blumenherst?
... that about 90% of the plants found in Libya have been recorded growing in El-Kouf National Park?
... that Ukrainian helicopter pilot hero Mykola Melnyk made 46 sorties over the highly-radioactive Chernobyl Power Plant, and then continued firefighting flights into his fifties?
... that the Michigan Geological Survey severed its university affiliations in the 1890s due to perceived disadvantages of those relationships, but became part of Western Michigan University in 2011?
... that Zelma Long is considered to be one of the female pioneers of wine production in the U.S. state of California?
... that Colan Church contains a brass plaque with a bullet hole?

24 March 2013

16:00, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the Church of Our Lady of the Palm on the Plaza Alta, Algeciras (church and plaza pictured) owes its name to a Spanish victory on Palm Sunday 1344?
... that Wing Commander Tyron Silvapulle was posthumously awarded the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya, Sri Lanka's highest military award for gallantry, more than 12 years after his nomination?
... that the island of Cyprus is the result of of the Anatolian tectonic plate and the African plate colliding?
... that after having written a poem on the 1625 great plague of London, the poet Abraham Holland died of the plague the following year?
... that a 1999 exhibition series between the Baltimore Orioles and Cuban national baseball team marked the first time a Major League Baseball team played in Cuba since 1959?
... that Australian microbrewery Nail Brewing produced the most expensive beer in the world, using water melted from a block of Antarctic ice?

08:00, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

... that American industrialist Bradish Johnson (pictured) was involved in the "swill milk" scandal, in which organic distillery waste was fed to sick old cows and their milk sold as "farm-fresh"?
... that Margaret Michaelis-Sachs took photos of the Jewish market in Kraków which "carry the weight of history, offering a visual trace of a way of life that was destroyed by fascism"?
... that Raees Mohammad scored 110 not out and took four wickets in Quaid-i-Azam Trophy's final in 1954–55?
... that the peaks of the Centennial Range in the Yukon are named after Canada's provinces and territories?
... that Sierk Coolsma baptised the first Sundanese Christians?
... that the South American palm, Bactris campestris, was described independently by four different taxonomists, each of whom place it in a different species?

00:00, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

... that if it rains near harvest time some Pomerol wineries, such as Château Pétrus (pictured), will use helicopters hovering over the vineyards to dry out the grapes?
... that Anthony Midget was briefly hired to be an assistant coach at Marshall, but was hired at Penn State before ever coaching a game at Marshall?
... that Task Force 80 was the designation of the U.S. naval task force involved in the invasions of Sicily and mainland Italy during World War II?
... that actress Helen George, of the British television series Call the Midwife, was previously a backup singer for Elton John?
... that shortly after journalist Jaime Guadalupe González Domínguez was assassinated, his online news portal was shut down for fear of future reprisals?
... that Luigi's Flying Tires, a Disney California Adventure attraction that opened in 2012, is based on Disneyland's Flying Saucers ride of the 1960s?

23 March 2013

16:00, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the bacterium Paenibacillus tylopili is found in the mycorrhizosphere of Tylopilus felleus (pictured)?
... that Sir John Scott was the grandfather of Reginald Scott, author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft?
... that, on Bad Company's song "Can't Get Enough", the "ringing" guitar has an open tuning based on the overtones of the note C?
... that Erik Johannessen kept a clean sheet for 672 minutes in the 1974 Norwegian First Division?
... that households in the Lammas Ecovillage purchase a one thousand year lease from the organisation which runs it?
... that Bhakta Vidur (1921) was India's first banned film?

08:00, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Gold Base (pictured) in Riverside County, California, is the Church of Scientology's closely guarded international headquarters?
... that Margaret Snyder was the first director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)?
... that Men Against Rape and Discrimination (2013) is an Indian social campaign launched by Farhan Akhtar to raise awareness of rape and discrimination against women?
... that Joseph Thomas, the chief surveyor of the Canterbury Association, initially intended to place Christchurch at the head of Lyttelton Harbour?
... that a study of lichens was used in the nomination process for the Alice Creek Historic District?
... that Shanu Lahiri promoted graffiti art drives to beautify Kolkata?

00:00, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the Fatimid Caliphs built mosques in the Fatimid architecture style, such as al-Azhar Mosque (pictured), in Mahdia, Al-Mansuriya and Cairo?
... that Armenian American businessman Vahan Chamlian runs the world's largest dealership of secondhand clothes?
... that DNA evidence showing Dureza and Mondeuse Blanche to be the parents of Syrah confirmed that the grape was native to France?
... that Ruby Hurley opened the NAACP's first permanent office in the Deep South?
... that the Ateneum Theatre began as an experimental stage thanks to the mainly proletarian neighbourhood of Warsaw in which it was established?
... that while a Scottish minister was in hiding to avoid treachery charges, his nephew demanded he appear in court if he wished to claim his inheritance?

22 March 2013

16:00, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

... that philanthropist Dolores Zohrab Liebmann (pictured) was deeply affected by witnessing the arrest and then murder of her father Krikor Zohrab in the Armenian Genocide?
... that All I Want Is Everything (2013) marked Sagari Venkata's debut as an actress in Indian cinema?
... that businessman and Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient Helmut Eberspächer was fined 140,000 DM for tax evasion?
... that according to England fans, England beat Germany in "Two World Wars and One World Cup"?
... that Lieutenant-General Émile Janssens is believed to have been personally responsible for causing a mutiny in the Republic of Congo in 1960?
... that Lawrence Lessig's pathetic dot theory stresses the importance of computer code in regulating our behavior?

08:00, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Marselan (pictured), along with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, is featured in a vineyard project between the Chinese and French governments aimed at generating interest for winemaking in China?
... that former Alabama football player Jim Bunch was selected to the 1979 College Football All-America Team and later served as an innkeeper at a bed and breakfast?
... that Vajara, founded in 1999, is Tibet's oldest and most famous rock and roll band?
... that in 2009, Sergeant Sugath Chandrasiri Bandara fired an RPG-7 at close range against an explosive-laden enemy vehicle, which killed him but saved his unit?
... that parasitic flat worms of the genus Paramphistomum, including its type species P. cervi, are responsible for a serious disease called paramphistomiasis in cattle and sheep?
... that the coon songs of African American vaudevillian Irving Sayles elicited encores in Australia?

00:00, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Dr. George Goodfellow (pictured) performed the first laparotomy to remove a bullet, was America's leading authority on treating gunshot wounds, and is regarded as the first civilian trauma surgeon?
... that Ivy Queen's Flashback (2005) "cements her status as the Queen of Reggaetón and Latin hip hop" according to an editor for Newsday?
... that one reason the medieval English writer Robert of Cricklade's biography of Thomas Becket may have been lost is it was too favourable to the side of King Henry II of England rather than Becket?
... that multiple Leptocleidus skeletons have been found preserved as gemstone quality opal over the course of the history of plesiosaur research?
... that choreographer Pauline Koner was inspired to dance after seeing Anna Pavlova perform The Dying Swan?
... that when Bourbon won the St. Leger Stakes in 1777, neither the racehorse nor the horse race had an official name?

21 March 2013

16:00, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Tung Chung Battery (pictured) was built to protect its eponymous bay from pirates, but now faces towards Hong Kong International Airport?
... that Chief Petty Officer K. G. Shantha was killed in a sea battle when he rammed his Arrow-class patrol boat into a Sea Tiger suicide boat to save another navy vessel?
... that in "Pusher Love Girl", Justin Timberlake compares several narcotics, such as heroin, cocaine, plum wine, MDMA and nicotine, to the love of his girl?
... that Megan Schutt was the leading wicket-taker during the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup?
... that Daddy Yankee's album Barrio Fino was the best-selling Latin album of the 2000s decade in the United States?
... that competitive eater Furious Pete can wolf down seventeen bananas in 45 seconds?

08:00, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

... that fully developed larvae of the starry cup coral (pictured) may be able to survive in the ocean for around 78 days before settling?
... that although scientist Min Chiu Li was fired from the National Cancer Institute, his work there led to the first chemotherapy cure of cancer in adults?
... that the Ottoman province of Karli-Eli in western Greece was named after the region's last Christian rulers, Carlo I Tocco or his nephew Carlo II Tocco?
... that while Elizabeth Stafford's family was in exile in Geneva in 1556, the Protestant reformer, John Calvin, stood godfather to her youngest brother, John Stafford?
... that the Mezquital Valley produces one-quarter of all green chili peppers grown in Mexico?
... that James Ferraro originally intended to release his 2011 album Far Side Virtual as a set of ringtones?

00:00, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

... that 40% of Southern Rhodesian white males fought (example platoon pictured) in the First World War?
... that Chris Remo composed the soundtrack for Thirty Flights of Loving, a video game created to support a crowd funded campaign to revive the Idle Thumbs podcast?
... that five species of threatened sharks, such as the scalloped hammerhead, have come under international protection regarding trading of their fins?
... that Olympic Bronze medalist, Wimbledon quarterfinalist and Dutch champion Hendrik Timmer coached Princess Juliana of the Netherlands in tennis?
... that the Horse Protection Act of 1970 was designed to eliminate soring, but inspectors still find hundreds of violations each year?
... that Greek journalist Helen Vlachos was placed under house arrest in October 1967 for calling the Minister of the Interior of the junta, Brigadier Stylianos Pattakos, a clown?

20 March 2013

16:00, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the larvae of the Middle-Eastern salamander Arouss Al Ayn (pictured) are often cannibalistic?
... that 2002, 2006, and 2010 Paralympic skier Jon Santacana won three gold medals at the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships?
... that Gocho described his debut single "Dándole" as a combination of mambo and urban music?
... that Mats Møller Dæhli won Manchester United's "Young Player of the Year" award in 2012?
... that the famed Arapian pastourma and soutzouki market in Athens, Greece, operates out of a 15 m² (160 sq ft) store?
... that actor Robert O'Reilly based his performances as Gowron in the Star Trek franchise on Edmund from the Shakespeare play King Lear?

08:00, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

... that one of the icons of the Metabolist architectural movement was the Nakagin Capsule Tower (pictured)?
... that pearl diver Isokichi Komine is regarded as one of Rabaul's oldest pioneers?
... that Lie Kim Hok's Malajoe Batawi was the first grammar of Batavian Malay?
... that Meena Kandasamy was the youngest person ever to represent India as a writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program in 2009?
... that if unfavorable water conditions cause the coral species Acropora palifera to become dissociated from its algal symbionts, it will undergo bleaching and be prone to disease and death?
... that National Football League player Geoff Schwartz didn't start playing football until age 13, because his parents wanted him to study for his Bar Mitzvah?

00:00, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the research of Gertrude Van Wagenen (pictured) and John McLean Morris led to the development of the morning-after pill?
... that the namesake of the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette University anonymously donated $33 million to Marquette despite her lack of formal connection to it?
... that Janala (2009), a Bengali film directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta won best film at the 54th Asia Pacific Film Festival in 2009?
... that Simeon Magruder Levy was in 1802 the first Jewish graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point?
... that the Russian submarine AG-22 joined Wrangel's fleet during the Russian Civil War as the Whites evacuated the Crimea in late 1920 and was interned in Bizerte, Tunisia in 1921?
... that the pioneering series of self-portraits by Bauhaus artist Gertrud Arndt have been described as "ranging from severe to absurd to playful"?

19 March 2013

16:00, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

... that in 1892, Curt Schimmelbusch proposed that medical dressings should be sterilised daily, prior to surgery, and designed an autoclave (pictured) to implement this?
... that the government of Pakistan signed the Long March Declaration on 17 January 2013, allowing Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri to help decide upon a caretaker Prime Minister?
... that Armenian historian and professor Dickran Kouymjian was awarded the St. Mesrob Mashtots Medal from Karekin II, the Catholicos of All Armenians?
... that the National Polytechnical Museum in Sofia holds the only Bulgarian-manufactured Hammond organ?
... that Spanish LW12 classified para-alpine skier Óscar Espallargas moved to Aran for the 2011–12 ski season?
... that in the 1920s, novels with no words were popular in Europe?

08:00, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the Termit Massif Reserve (landscape pictured) in Niger covers an area of 100,000 square kilometres (39,000 sq mi) and is the largest single protected area in Africa?
... that Shu-Park Chan, the founder of International Technological University in Silicon Valley, had earlier tried to start a university in China?
... that the Italian battleship Dante Alighieri, named after the medieval Italian poet, was the only battleship ever named for a poet?
... that Soosan Firooz has been described as Afghanistan's first female rapper?
... that in 1992, Zimbabwe played their first Test cricket match, and were the first team to avoid defeat on their debut since 1877?
... that Fanny Murray, a mistress of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, once reputedly ate a £20 note between two slices of bread?

00:00, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

... that although Steve Reich's works have often been referenced by pop and rock musicians, the Radiohead-inspired Radio Rewrite is the first time Reich (pictured) has returned the compliment?
... that approval for a Major League Baseball 1969 expansion franchise in Kansas City was contingent on Sick's Stadium in Seattle being renovated?
... that in Greenland, 1 in every 5 people attempt to commit suicide?
... that William Allen Whitworth was the first mathematician to publish Bertrand's ballot theorem, one of many misnamed mathematical theorems?
... that U.C. Raman was the first Scheduled Caste candidate nominated by the Indian Union Muslim League for an unreserved constituency?
... that William Arnott, founder of Arnott's Biscuits Holdings, first took up gold mining for a living but quit when he could not find any gold?

18 March 2013

16:00, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the British racehorse Simonsig (pictured) won his début in steeplechase by 49 lengths, then followed that up with a 35-length victory a few days later?
... that land from the Fairfield estate in Somerset, England was sold to build a wind farm but is now the site of the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station?
... that after Eirik Holmen Johansen was invited for a trial with Manchester City, his brother Tobias was offered a contract with the club?
... that the big bud mite is so tiny that it can be transported by wind, rain or flying insects?
... that the Kejache, a Maya people with a former territory straddling the modern border of Mexico and Guatemala, may have been descended from the inhabitants of the great Maya city of Calakmul?
... that Stephen Jay Gould once called Donald Prothero "the best punctuated equilibrium researcher on the West Coast"?

08:00, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Filipino fashion and society blogger Ingrid Chua-Go's (pictured) fascination with writing was sparked by a toy typewriter her mother gave her as a child?
... that the albums Somewhere There's a Someone, Dean Martin Sings Songs from The Silencers, The Dean Martin Christmas Album, The Dean Martin TV Show and The Hit Sound of Dean Martin were all released by Dean Martin in 1966?
... that in 1560, Nikolaus Herman published his book of hymns which follow the Gospels of the church year and primarily address children?
... that in 2012, a three-day World Congress of Religions conference was organized by the Institute of World Religions to commemorate the 150th birthday of Swami Vivekananda?
... that the Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad was one of five railroads serving Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, near the turn of the 20th century?
... that marathon runner Yuki Kawauchi shaved his head as an apology to his fans after a poor performance at the Tokyo Marathon meant he missed the London Olympics?

00:00, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Arnold of Nijmegen's stained glass windows (pictured) in Tournai Cathedral show Queen Fredegund's plot to have her husband's rival assassinated?
... that individual patients, doctors, and organizations are questioning waste in health care in the United States through the Choosing Wisely campaign?
... that Sir John Sackville was an uncle of the English queen Anne Boleyn and a great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth I?
... that Leeds United banned Galatasaray fans from attending the UEFA Cup semi-final at Elland Road because of the 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence‎?
... that the company Guide uses computer generated news anchors in its app to turn written news stories into video episodes?
... that Cuban baseball player Michel Abreu had a US$425,000 signing bonus voided when it was discovered that he lied about his age?

17 March 2013

16:00, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the indri (pictured) is one of 13 species of lemur found in Zahamena National Park in Madagascar?
... that almost 40,000 Bulgarians were listed as Voynuks in the 16th century Ottoman registers?
... that the Dutch 2013 crime movie De wederopstanding van een klootzak is based on a 2004 graphic novel about Saint Boniface?
... that because he was born with severe cerebral palsy and had problems typing, Emik Avakian invented a typewriter that operated without the use of hands?
... that Kevin Shields was influenced by "a noise generator" while with The Complex?
... that at its peak, Chinese merchant George Kwok Bew's fruit firm handled around six thousand bananas every day?

08:00, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

... that there is long-standing uncertainty about the relationship of Lenzites warnieri (pictured) to other polypore fungi?
... that Howard Hille Johnson's campaign for a state school for the blind in West Virginia led to the establishment of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind on March 3, 1870?
... that the Jacksonville neighborhood of Riverside and Avondale is the most architecturally diverse neighborhood in Florida?
... that in taking the role of Irish detective Jack Taylor, actor Iain Glen pays homage to Jack Nicholson's character, Jake Gittes from the 1970s film Chinatown?"
... that "La Reyne le veult" was used incorrectly when granting Royal Assent to the Act of Supremacy 1558?
... that two of Lecrae's albums have been called the most important albums in Christian hip hop?

00:00, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the old Stadtfriedhof in Göttingen (chapel pictured) is the final resting place of no fewer than eight Nobel Prize winners, including Max Born, Otto Hahn and Max Planck?
... that environmentalist critics have argued that Woody Guthrie's song "Pittsburgh Town" (1941), recorded by Pete Seeger, was a commentary on the city's pollution problem at the time?
... that prominent sculptor and painter Varaz Samuelian sculpted a statue of the Armenian folkloric legend David of Sassoun in front of the Fresno County Courthouse?
... that the largest single manufactured export from Kenya is canned pineapple, which is due to the presence and operations of Del Monte Kenya?
... that in August 1810, British thoroughbred racehorse Petronius ran in what was described as "one of the finest races ever run"?
... that the Portrait of Olivia Boteler Porter was identified as being by 17th-century painter Anthony van Dyck after a photo of it was discovered on a website?

16 March 2013

16:00, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

... that art historian Norma Broude suggests that Gustave Caillebotte's Le Pont de l'Europe (pictured) may depict the artist cruising near the Gare Saint-Lazare?
... that the Star of Caledonia is designed to be lit up by using light emitting diodes?
... that during the filming of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "First Flight", the cast and crew were presented with a flag from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65)?
... that Buddy Brown was a member of the College Football All-America Team and won the Jacobs Blocking Trophy as a player for Alabama in 1973?
... that Intef I, Intef II and Intef III were all buried in saff (row) tombs in El-Tarif in Egypt?
... that the engine of the Russian ship of the line Retvizan was removed in 1863 even though it was considered the best ship of its type in the Imperial Russian Navy?

08:15, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

... that among the signs that the Isaac Young House (pictured) in New Castle, New York, was expanded from an older building are the wider clapboards on the rear, and doors and windows that barely fit?
... that Haseeb Ahsan selected Wasim Akram for the first time against New Zealand in 1984?
... that Nicole Scherzinger's song "Boomerang" is about "not letting the haters keep you down"?
... that Captain James Carroll brought the first large steamboat to Alaska?
... that because of the possibility of dead heats, the number of possible outcomes of a horse race is not a factorial, but an ordered Bell number?
... that the majority of local councils of the Boy Scouts of America have gone through thousands of name changes, merges, splits and re-creations since the establishment of the organization in 1910?

00:30, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Charlie Getzein (pictured), known for his "pretzel curve" pitch, won 59 games in 1886 and 1887, including four games in the 1887 World Series?
... that Dalen Hotel in Dalen, Telemark, Norway is among the best preserved wooden hotels from the 19th century?
... that "Whatever It Takes" was the first song to be written for Leona Lewis' debut studio album, Spirit?
... that James M. Geraghty served as Spokane, Washington's City Attorney during the first decade of the 20th century, while his grandson, Jack Geraghty, was Mayor of the city during the last decade?
... that in Ontario, most catastrophic injuries in fishing and canoeing involve drowning and are fatal?
... that the Chatter ring has been played with by Tim Shadbolt, the Mayor of Invercargill?

15 March 2013

16:45, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

... that although Penn Symons (pictured) was mortally wounded in the stomach at the Battle of Talana Hill he remounted his horse and rode out of sight of his troops before asking for help?
... that the entire production team of Andrew Davies' 1995 serial Pride and Prejudice followed him when he began adapting the TV serial Emma for ITV?
... that a stage adaptation of Kwee Tek Hoay's novel The Rose of Cikembang was made before he even finished writing it?
... that Nepalese politician and conservationist Harka Gurung was honoured with a memorial football tournament after his death in a helicopter crash?
... that the Russian ship of the line Konstantin was deployed to Denmark during the First Schleswig War of 1848–50 to help preserve Denmark's territorial integrity against Prussia?
... that Robert Silverberg's short story "Good News from the Vatican" features the election of a robot to the position of Pope of the Catholic Church?

09:00, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

... that in the Pingyao's tortoise-shaped city plan, the Shuanglin Temple is rated as the city's third treasure characterized by its over 2,000 coloured art sculptures (pictured) on display?
... that in 1999, winemaker Daniel Baron persuaded Cabernet Sauvignon producers Silver Oak Cellars to establish Twomey Cellars, to pursue Merlot production?
... that after a common career span of 27 years, Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla are costarring for the first time in the upcoming film Gulaab Gang?
... that New Zealander Leo McKendry was both the last Mayor of Blenheim and the first Mayor of Marlborough?
... that in the 1930s, the discoverers of cerevisterol purified 10 grams (0.35 oz) from 4,500 kilograms (9,900 lb) of dry yeast?
... that Australian cricketer Stan Sismey, who was wounded in action as a pilot during World War II, once left the field of play during a game because shrapnel was working its way out of his body?

00:00, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Sara Bard Field (pictured) traveled by automobile from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in 1915 to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures for women's suffrage to Woodrow Wilson?
... that Fingle Bridge, in a deep Dartmoor gorge, is built on the historic crossing point between the hillforts of Prestonbury Castle and Cranbrook Castle?
... that the Iraqi government issued an arrest warrant for Wathiq al-Battat, the head of a new Shi'a Iraqi militia group called the Mukhtar Army?
... that the male spiny lobster katydid was described for the first time in 2003?
... that Newry City AFC was launched by the Northern Ireland manager after the winding-up of the former club?
... that Armenian American inventor Oscar H. Banker is considered the "father of the automatic transmission"?
... that Alacahisar, the Turkish name of Kruševac, means "colorful town"?

14 March 2013

16:00, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the official seat of the Government of Estonia, Stenbock House (pictured), was originally designed as a courthouse?
... that at the age of 11, footballer Corkie Blow was awarded the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society for saving the life of a younger child?
... that Giedroyc Doctrine, developed by émigré publicist Jerzy Giedroyc in 1970s, shaped the eastern policy of Poland after 1989?
... that French-born Cuban botanist and priest Brother León completed only two of the five volumes of the Flora of Cuba before failing eyesight forced him to pass the work on to others?
... that the Holocron is a database of the Star Wars Expanded Universe and Star Wars canon, including its characters, creatures, languages, locations, vehicles, and weapons?
... that Birendra Nath Datta is an Indian folklore researcher, who received Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of the country in 2009?
... that despite his hectic schedule, Chen Hanwei agreed to act in Ghost Child – for a plate of "cheap chicken rice"?

08:00, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Ma Mati Manush is a political slogan coined by All India Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee (pictured) which helped her party to defeat the Left Front in the elections of West Bengal?
... that after several decades, U.S. Air Force pilot Ray Melikian reunited with the aircraft he flew in World War II?
... that the destination of the first commercial flight in the Northern Territory by Qantas was Austral Downs?
... that Sarkese ruler William Frederick Collings made his disabled heiress climb cliffs and hunt, and sent her a consolation telegram to say he was sorry her firstborn was a girl?
... that the centre piece of Battalion Park, at west Calgary, is 16,000 large whitewashed stones, arranged on a hill slope representing the battalions numbered 137, 113, 151, and 51?
... that the Maryland Food Collective, founded in 1975 at the University of Maryland, operates under the motto "Food for people, not for profit"?
... that after a 42-year career documenting the neighborhoods and buildings of Jerusalem, architectural historian and popular author David Kroyanker moved to Tel Aviv?

00:00, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the black sea cucumber (pictured) can emit a mass of sticky cuvierian tubules to enmesh a potential predator?
... that Miami Hurricanes point guard Shane Larkin, the son of Barry Larkin, quit baseball after a Little League coach told him the tutoring he had received from Tony Pérez and Pete Rose was "all wrong"?
... that in the Bengali film Ami Aadu, a poor Indian village girl writes a letter to US President George W. Bush informing him about the troubles of her life caused by the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
... that Jon Challinor's first victory in a Conference play-off final came in 2012, after he appeared in finals in 2004, 2007, and 2009?
... that George Gershwin worked as an extra in the Yiddish Theater District, and Walter Matthau worked as a cashier?
... that during the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, Emmanuel de Martonne helped make changes to borders in Romania and the Balkans?
... that the wreck of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci was salvaged upside down and repaired in drydock that way?

13 March 2013

16:00, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

... that after success in a naval battle, Lord George Graham was featured in the portrait Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin (pictured) by William Hogarth, alongside a dog in a wig?
... that the Initiative Council headed by mathematician Eshref Ademaj played a pivotal role in the early restoration of universitarian education in Kosovo in the early 1990s?
... that gold miner Louis Ah Mouy built the very first houses in South Melbourne and Williamstown?
... that the genus Bactris, believed to have evolved 26 to 36 million years ago in South America, is one of the six palm genera found to show the highest speciation rates?
... that Bhatt Mathuranath Shastri pioneered several new genres in Sanskrit literature by writing radio plays, essays, travelogues, short stories, Ghazals, Thumris, Dadras and Dhrupads in Sanskrit?
... that Sir Robert Drury was among the first to support Mary Tudor's claim to the throne in July 1553?
... that Julian Assange did not participate in the filming of Alex Gibney's 2013 film We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, and tweeted a denouncement of the film without seeing it?

08:00, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

... that criticisms made by John Cotton (pictured) about the doctrine of preparationism were a factor in the Antinomian Controversy and Anne Hutchinson's banishment from Massachusetts in 1638?
... that beetles act as an intermediate host to complete the life cycle of the worm Raillietina cesticillus, a parasite that infests the intestines of chickens?
... that Norwegian female academic pioneers from the 19th century included Dagny Bang, Kristine Munch, Louise Isachsen, Helga Eng and Rikke Nissen?
... that Tultepec, Mexico, the host of the country's National Pyrotechnic Festival, produces around half of the nation's fireworks with sixty percent of the town's population involved in the business?
... that Armenian historian Barlow Der Mugrdechian was instrumental in the establishment of a student exchange program between California State University, Fresno and Yerevan State University?
... that the first Wimbledon Championship in 1877 was won by Spencer Gore and made a profit of £10?
... that the 1940 cartoon Ants in the Plants, about an ant colony that defends itself against an anteater, was called a war allegory that possibly referred to France's Maginot Line?

00:00, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Loretta Lynn (pictured), Mary Breckinridge, and Thelma Stovall are all Kentucky Women Remembered?
... that the Peach Palm is being tested as a replacement to supply hearts of palm previously harvested from the Fiji Sago Palm, which became a threatened species due to Fiji's tourist industry?
... that J. W. Bhore, chairman of the Health Survey and Development Committee, better known as the Bhore Committee, was an ICS officer who had served as the Diwan of Cochin?
... that the 1987 novel The Firebrand, written by American author Marion Zimmer Bradley, depicts the Trojan War from the perspective of the prophet Kassandra, daughter of King Priam?
... that Armenian composer Krikor Kalfayan is the author of over 150 musical compositions?
... that the Sixth Street Bridge is the longest and oldest metal truss bridge in Michigan?
... that suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt told guests she bought Juniper Ledge, her house near Briarcliff Manor, New York, to keep its berries from being made into gin?

12 March 2013

16:00, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the RAe TEE II electric trainsets used by the Gottardo (pictured), a Trans Europ Express (TEE) train, could operate at four different overhead line voltages?
... that slave Austin Dabney was the only African American granted land by the Southern state of Georgia for his military service in the American Revolutionary War?
... that due to quicksand, passengers on the new London and Birmingham Railway detrained for over five months at Denbigh Hall station to continue their journey by stagecoach?
... that Saeed Abedini, an Iranian American Christian pastor, was sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran on charges of undermining national security?
... that in 1976, U.S. President Gerald Ford tried to prevent Major League Baseball from awarding an expansion franchise to Toronto?
... that there are over 1000 ancient monuments on the Carneddau and Glyderau mountain ranges in North Wales?
... that basketball executive Jim Buss of the Los Angeles Lakers attended jockey school even though he stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m)?

08:05, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Émile Zola wrote that Gustave Caillebotte's Young Man at His Window (pictured) represents "anti-artistic painting ... because of the exactitude of the copying"?
... that Lada St. Edmund, a go-go dancer on the 1960s American television show Hullabaloo, later became the highest-paid stuntwoman in Hollywood history?
... that welfare in Poland is covered by the constitution of Poland, which contains an article dedicated to social security as a right of all citizens?
... that Lytle Park in Cincinnati, Ohio was the first park to be located above a freeway?
... that Joseph Merk, principal cellist at the Vienna Court Opera, helped to bring Beethoven's Triple Concerto out of obscurity?
... that the Michigan Wolverines women's basketball team is currently coached by Kim Barnes Arico, a former two-time Big East Coach of the Year?
... that the accident of a Congolese aircraft in March 2013 involved no fatalities on the ground, despite crashing in the middle of a city?

00:20, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Stephanie Kopelousos (pictured) is the youngest person and the first woman to head the $8 billion Florida Department of Transportation?
... that when the British authorities attempted to deport Jewish refugees in Palestine to Mauritius aboard the SS Patria in 1940, the paramilitary organization Haganah sank the ship with a bomb?
... that in Juliet H. Lewis Campbell's novel Eros and Antieros the hero raises and marries the daughter of his unrequited love?
... that Savi's pipistrelle emits echolocation calls in synchrony with its wing beats?
... that cricketer Matt Prior once accidentally smashed a window in the Lord's Pavilion?
... that the first location of the Sky Zone chain of trampoline parks was originally intended as an arena for a professional sport involving trampolines and rotating goals?
... that Martha Hackett appeared in thirteen episodes of Star Trek: Voyager as Seska, including two after her character died on screen?

11 March 2013

16:35, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the edible mushroom Boletus badius (pictured) turns blue when cut or bruised?
... that Sir William Drury's name appears in the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?
... that the Hope City technology park being built in Ghana is expected to include Africa's tallest building?
... that Maria Ozawa had to film Kidnapping Miyabi in Japan following protests preventing her from coming to Indonesia?
... that the publication of Daniel Defoe's political pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters led to his arrest on the charge of seditious libel?
... that Kate Nash paid for her 2013 album Girl Talk through crowd funding?
... that Pope Anastasius II was sent to the sixth circle of hell as a result of mistaken identity?

08:50, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the Buitenmolen, the Grafelijke Korenmolen (pictured), the Torenmolen van Gronsveld and the Zwaan are the oldest tower mills in the Netherlands?
... that by the age of 20, future Tisch School of the Arts dean David Oppenheim was an accomplished clarinetist?
... that the Crusade of Romanianism, a far-right movement "against capitalism, oppression and violence", was pro-fascist but anti-Nazi?
... that Kostas Tournas' 1972 progressive-psychedelic rock opera Aperanta Horafia is considered a landmark of Greek rock?
... that Madura Station occupies an area greater than Brunei yet has only nine permanent employees?
... that American football player Kevin Minter set an LSU Tigers record for most tackles in a bowl game?
... that Battery Path was located on Hong Kong Island's waterfront when it opened, but is now situated further inland due to the amount of land reclamation?

01:05, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

... that in the first version of the chamber opera In the Penal Colony, based on the short story by Franz Kafka, composer Philip Glass (pictured) included the character of Kafka as narrator?
... that the extinct rose species Stonebergia columbiana is named for its type locality of British Columbia?
... that in 1937 The Literary Digest described Father Bernard R. Hubbard, "the Glacier Priest", as the highest-paid lecturer in the world?
... that Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe shares many plot elements with his other work Moll Flanders, the two novels being published within a year of each other?
... that in 1969 the Trans Europ Express Catalan Talgo began providing through train service between Spain and Switzerland despite a break-of-gauge at the Spanish–French border?
... that Karsten Whitson turned down US$2.1 million from the San Diego Padres in order to play college baseball?
... that the Military Association of Atheists & Freethinkers provides "atheists in foxholes" with advocacy, community and education?

10 March 2013

17:20, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the Singapore High Court (pictured) can grant the remedy of declaring void a law inconsistent with the Constitution enacted before its commencement, even though Article 4 seems to say otherwise?
... that in 2009, Tiger Woods set the course record at Nova Scotia's Fox Harb'r?
... that Lascaris Battery, an artillery battery in Malta built in 1854, housed the headquarters for the defence of the island during World War II?
... that the Giant Schnauzer Jafrak Philippe Olivier won the title of Best in Show at Crufts in 2008?
... that Justin Timberlake's song "FutureSex/LoveSound" has been seen as heavily influenced by David Bowie's 1974 album Diamond Dogs?
... that the Druze village of Kaftin in northwestern Syria was well-known for its pigeon houses?
... that former UCLA Bruins basketball player Bob Myers was a walk-on, but appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, met President Bill Clinton, and was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno?

08:00, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Thomas Ellison (pictured) captained the first officially sanctioned New Zealand rugby union team in 1893?
... that Silver Oak Cellars has been cited as one of a dozen California wineries which "have reached cult status" for its Cabernet Sauvignon production?
... that John Blackadder, while a young officer in the Scottish Army, killed a fellow officer in a duel in 1691?
... that after the Greek War of Independence broke out in 1821, Greeks were the targets of mass executions, pogroms, and looting in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople?
... that in "New York City", John Lennon responded to U.S. government officials who wanted to deport him, singing that "the Statue of Liberty said come"?
... that the Bruise Brothers helped the San Diego Chargers lead the National Football League (NFL) in sacks in 1980?
... that the site of the factory established by Charles Wigg in 1865 is now a nature reserve?

00:00, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

... that a large sculpture (smaller version pictured) by Caroline Shawk Brooks was listed by customs officials not as a work of art, but as "110 lbs. of butter"?
... that Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members Marina Sirtis and Denise Crosby had their roles switched during casting?
... that wheelchair basketball player Mareike Adermann tore her anterior cruciate ligaments four times in four years between the ages of 14 and 18?
... that the Longmead Stadium was given to Tonbridge Angels by the council as compensation for evicting them from their old ground?
... that University of Idaho president Duane Nellis initially withdrew from consideration for his current position, and has been offered the presidency of Texas Tech University without applying?
... that while one review called Wise Men "whoppingly bland", another review praised its "surprise ending"?
... that Krikor Apikoğlu founded Apikoğlu, the first company to mass produce meat products in Turkey?

9 March 2013

16:10, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

... that for over a hundred years, the subject of the painting now identified as the Martyrdom of Saints Crispin and Crispinian (close-up pictured) by Aert van den Bossche was a mystery?
... that during the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794, Tadeusz Kościuszko's army successfully defended the Polish capital of Warsaw from forces under Frederick William II of Prussia?
... that French Olympian Félix Debax was killed in battle in the first month of the First World War?
... that ants act as an intermediate host to complete the life cycle of the worm Raillietina tetragona, a parasite that infests in the intestines of birds such as chicken and pigeons?
... that businessman, philanthropist and merchant mariner James S.C. Chao donated $40,000,000 to Harvard Business School in 2012?
... that the Culverden Stadium was the location of the record set for most penalty kicks taken in a football match?
... that in the early days of NightWash, Klaus-Jürgen Deuser performed his comedy show on a platform next to tumble dryers?

08:25, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

... that a sign of Jesus was removed from The Oval (pictured) in Belfast because it hadn't earned the owner any money for a number of years?
... that former General Hospital star Steve Burton shows more of his "own personality" while portraying his newest role, Dylan McAvoy, on The Young and the Restless?
... that Dakshayani Velayudhan, the first dalit woman graduate in India and a member of the Cochin Legislative Council, was the only dalit woman member of the Constituent Assembly of India?
... that Bach's congratulatory cantata Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen, BWV 215, was first performed for August III with a torch-light procession of 600 students?
... that Marshman Edward Wadsworth served as president of the Michigan Mining School and as State Geologist of Michigan at the same time?
... that after Swami Vivekananda gave a lecture on Vedanta Philosophy at the Graduate Philosophical Society of Harvard University, he was offered a faculty position?
... that Norwegian tennis champion and Olympic doubles quarterfinalist Jack Nielsen was a professional brewmaster and the president of Rotary International?

00:40, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

... that a reviewer praised Roekiah's (pictured) "demure" acting in Gagak Item (Black Raven)?
... that during her tenure Syeda Bilgrami Imam was the only female member of the National Commission for Minorities in India?
... that Queen Wilhelmina visited the First Church in Albany, the second-oldest congregation in New York, on the occasion of its 300th anniversary?
... that Sameh Fahmi, Egypt's former oil minister, has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for exporting natural gas to Israel at lower prices than market rates?
... that Madonna makes reference to her 1989 single "Express Yourself" in her 2012 song "Some Girls"?
... that due to Kvik losing 8–2 against Hødd in the decisive match of the 1965 Norwegian Second Division, Kvik's rivals Rosenborg were not promoted on goal difference?
... that the Budokwai in London is the oldest judo dojo in Europe and that Guy Ritchie, Kylie Minogue, Mick Jagger, and William Hague have all trained there?

8 March 2013

16:00, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

... that British king William IV's daughter, Lady Mary Fox (pictured), wrote a feminist narrative about a mysterious land now known as Australia?
... that many protected areas of Cameroon are still in "pristine" condition, mostly because there is less tourism in Cameroon than other regions of Africa?
... that Eddy Martadinata, one of the founders of the Indonesian Navy, died when his plane crashed into a mountain?
... that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "North Star" was filmed on the Western sets at Universal Studios, including one used in the 1940 film My Little Chickadee?
... that the evangelistic training program Evangelism Explosion is used by over 20,000 churches worldwide?
... that college basketball player O. D. Anosike was nicknamed O. D. as a child after his kindergarten classmates struggled to pronounce his given name, Oderah?
... that young Easter Island butterflyfish sometimes act as cleaner fish, picking parasites off the skin of larger fish?

08:00, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Peter the Wild Boy (pictured), a feral child brought to Great Britain in the spring of 1726, is the subject of Daniel Defoe's pamphlet Mere Nature Delineated?
... that MacDonald Pass was part of a Montana toll road known once as "the Frenchwoman's road" because it was operated by the wife of French Canadian Constant Guyot?
... that Ottoman politician Cemal Azmi was known as the "butcher of Trabzon" for his role in the Armenian Genocide?
... that Morro Solar in Peru, the site of the Battle of Chorrillos, is also the location of an astronomical observatory?
... that in 2012, UCF wide receiver Quincy McDuffie set a school and Conference USA record by returning two kickoffs for touchdowns in the same game?
... that in the upcoming Bengali film Kangal Malsat, the marginal and downtrodden people of society wage a war against the government?
... that famines have repeatedly led Scandinavians to eat bread made partially out of bark?

00:00, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the Palais Leuchtenberg (pictured) in Munich was built from 1817 to 1821 at a cost of 770,000 guilders, which was the entire construction budget of Bavaria for 1819?
... that Tankiz, the 14th-century Mamluk Viceroy of Syria, commissioned the repair and construction of a number of architectural works including nearly 40 in Damascus alone?
... that Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Chris Mullin called his stint with Run TMC "the most fun I had playing basketball in my whole life"?
... that Major G. S. Jayanath is the only Commando to receive the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya, Sri Lanka's highest military award for gallantry?
... that Glee's 500th filmed musical number, "Shout", is set to be shown in its 81st episode?
... that Lou Qinjian, governor of China's Shaanxi Province, began his career as a rusticated youth?
... that Royal Tunbridge Wells has a church dedicated to King Charles I that had no vicar for 33 years, an opera house that became a pub, and a rugby club whose alumni include an RFU regional administrator and aftershave-drinking Colin Smart?

7 March 2013

16:00, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the Sealyham Terrier (pictured) was created at Sealyham House in Pembrokeshire, Wales?
... that the residence of the French ambassador to Lebanon was originally intended to serve as a casino?
... that although Losang Jamcan is the chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region, he is subordinate to Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party Chief?
... that Minuscule 888 has an unusual order of Gospels: Matthew, John, Mark, Luke?
... that para-alpine skier Úrsula Pueyo was the only member of the 2010 Spanish Winter Paralympic team not to compete in the visually impaired class?
... that the protagonist in Ben H. Winters' The Last Policeman is trying to solve a murder amid the disruptions caused by an impending asteroid impact?
... that Argentine actor Gastón Soffritti worked in Graduados to leave the teen drama genre?

08:00, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Guo Jia (pictured), an advisor to Cao Cao, had already foreseen that Cao would win the Battle of Guandu against Yuan Shao when he pointed out ten advantages Cao had over Yuan four years before the battle?
... that during the eight-year course of making The Decay of Fiction, in which he honors the past of the Ambassador Hotel, director Pat O'Neill collaborated with 45 actors and spent US$250,000?
... that early this year a Somali journalist was arrested for reporting on an alleged rape by government security forces?
... that Abbie Farwell Brown received permission from Lewis Carroll for her school newspaper to be named The Jabberwock?
... that during the Argentine Decembrist revolution, José María Paz was captured when his horse was entangled with bolas?
... that faced with high teacher turnover rates, Hertford County Public Schools helped build teacher housing?
... that Lynn D. Stewart, a co-founder of the Hooters restaurant chain, played offensive guard for the University of Illinois' Fighting Illini, which won the 1964 Rose Bowl?

00:00, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

... that a 1997 Management Master Plan for the preservation and conservation of the biodiversity of the Waza National Park (pictured) is reported to be the first of its kind in Cameroon?
... that while Betsy Blackwell was editor-in-chief of Mademoiselle, the magazine's circulation rose from 178,000 to nearly a million?
... that the 1961 squad was the first of six Alabama football teams that Bear Bryant led to the national championship as head coach of the Crimson Tide?
... that Swiss computer science academic Bernhard M. Hämmerli is a specialist in the field of critical infrastructure protection in the European Union?
... that North Devon's Biosphere Reserve was the first "new style" UNESCO-designated Biosphere Reserve in the United Kingdom?
... that the Facebook page Valor por Tamaulipas received death threats from a Mexican drug trafficking organization?
... that after Brad Pitt complained of his children's "horrible diaper rash", responders to a People request for advice overwhelmingly recommended Boudreaux's Butt Paste?

6 March 2013

16:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the appearances of Maria Malibran (pictured) in Nicola Vaccai's opera Giovanna Gray marked the last time she performed at La Scala?
... that Abdullah Pasha al-Azm was the last member of the prominent al-Azm family to serve as the governor of Damascus Province during Ottoman rule?
... that Tayyare Apartments in Istanbul, originally built in 1922 for the victims of a fire disaster, houses a five-star hotel today?
... that in the 1880s, H.W. Crabb's vine collection was one of the largest in the world?
... that in the BBC Four documentary Treasures of Ancient Rome, Alastair Sooke sets out to debunk the myth that Roman art is unoriginal?
... that Slick Johnson's best finish in NASCAR competition occurred because he failed to qualify for the Daytona 500?
... that during the 1974 Vladivostok Summit with the Soviet Union, the U.S. delegation took its breaks outside in sub-zero temperatures due to fear of being bugged?

08:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the wildlife of Cameroon (gorilla pictured), considered one of the wettest parts of Africa, records Africa's second highest concentration of biodiversity?
... that Murray Battery in Hong Kong was demolished in the 1950s and replaced with the Central Government Offices?
... that Karamokho Alfa led the jihad that established the Imamate of Futa Jallon in present-day Guinea?
... that Guernsey RFC's ladies team was rejected from joining the RFU leagues on logistical grounds, despite the men's team playing in the RFU's National League?
... that Shabnam Shakeel was a Pakistani Urdu poet who won the "President's Pride of Performance award" in 2004?
... that the coats of Alaskan hares are white during the winter but grey-brown during the summer?
... that Texas-born singer Roberta Dodd Crawford was both a princess and a prisoner of the Nazis?

00:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the Poeh Museum (pictured) presents the history of the Pueblan people through visual arts, without using any text?
... that Hilde Levi helped develop the radiocarbon dating equipment used to date the Grauballe Man?
... that one owner of the Williams–DuBois House in New Castle, New York, was a sea captain who planted tree specimens from the Far East on the property?
... that the original producers of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann relocated its second act to Venice to include "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" (the Barcarolle), the opera's most famous piece?
... that the SEC commissioner denied a request by the 1960 Alabama football team to allow for a "sudden death" overtime period in the event of a tie in their game against Georgia Tech?
... that poverty in Poland is more likely to affect young than old people?
... that in 1990, Michael Beaumont, feudal ruler of Sark, overcame a nuclear physicist's one-man invasion attempt and remains the only inhabitant allowed to keep pigeons and unspayed dogs?

5 March 2013

16:00, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

... that polyps of the brain root coral (skeleton pictured) can recognise their clones and "help" them when they need assistance?
... that 110-year-old Arturo Licata is Italy's and Europe's oldest living man?
... that in 1892 Wellshot Station in Queensland was the world's largest sheep station by number of sheep, with almost half a million head?
... that Norwegian footballer Stian Dyngeland participated in the singing contest Idol?
... that Usmar Ismail incorrectly labeled Anak Perawan di Sarang Penjamun (The Virgin in the Robbers' Nest) as the first film adaptation of an Indonesian novel?
... that the admirers of poet Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake included Theodore Roosevelt and Oliver Wendell Holmes?
... that the French army general headquarters moved location five times during the Battle of France to avoid being overrun by the German offensive?

08:00, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Giovanni Battista Agucchi (pictured), who became secretary to the Pope in 1623, was a friend of artists and a writer on Baroque art theory?
... that the new biopic, The Light: Swami Vivekananda, was released in early 2013 as a tribute for the 150th anniversary of the Swami's birth?
... that Joe Cambria was the first Major League Baseball scout to concentrate on recruiting players from Latin America?
... that in 2012, an estimated 150,000 to 500,000 children were held in slavery in Haiti as domestic servants?
... that Minuscule 890 once belonged to Cardinal Bessarion?
... that Sir Christopher More, stepuncle of Saint Thomas More, was one of the first officers in the Exchequer with formal legal training?
... that an uninhabited island in the Bahamas is populated by swimming pigs?

00:00, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the establishment of the Afghan Local Police (officers pictured) in 2010 was opposed by President Hamid Karzai?
... that First Congregational Church in Salt Lake City was the first non-Mormon church in Utah?
... that the engraver Jacopo Caraglio fled to Venice from the Sack of Rome in 1527, before moving to Poland as court goldsmith?
... that in "Mirrors", Justin Timberlake sings to a lover about "coming to the realization" that she is his "other half"?
... that former University of Memphis runner, sports agent, and convicted doping enabler Stefan Matschiner stated after his conviction that "only the stupid ones get caught"?
... that the Independent International Commission on Kosovo's assessment was that NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was illegal but legitimate?
... that Gary Connery is the first skydiver in history to land from a 2,400-foot (730 m) jump without a parachute?

4 March 2013

16:00, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the nomoli statues (pictured) discovered in Sierra Leone are of unknown origin?
... that Seth Jones, a projected top pick in the 2013 National Hockey League Entry Draft, is the son of former National Basketball Association player Popeye Jones?
... that in the square of a graph, all vertices with a distance of no more than two in the original graph are adjacent?
... that the State of East Indonesia was nicknamed the "state which goes along with the master"?
... that John Eaves designed the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E), first seen in the movie Star Trek: First Contact?
... that Christian reinterpretation of pagan traditions, sacred sites, and lore was officially sanctioned as a means to facilitate Christianization?
... that Johnny Ray set a world speed record for tractor-trailers in 1975 at Talladega Superspeedway?

08:00, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the Lochamer-Liederbuch, a manuscript of songs (sample pictured) and organ works, is regarded as "one of the most important surviving collections of music from fifteenth-century Germany"?
... that Chen Be-yue's nomination to Taiwan's constitutional court led to a proposal to bar public servants from holding permanent residency in foreign countries?
... that the megalithic site of Hirebenkal, built over 2000 years ago, is reportedly the largest necropolis in South India?
... that historian and Tufts University professor Christina Maranci conducts research in five languages including classical Armenian?
... that precarious rock formations were evaluated to estimate the peak ground acceleration of the 1952 Kern County earthquake?
... that English footballer Chris Joyce rejected a contract-offer from FC Dallas and moved to Norway?
... that the Australian mushroom Amanita ochrophylla has an odour reminiscent of ants?

00:00, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Allan Hills A81005 (pictured) was the first lunar meteorite found on Earth?
... that after surviving the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and the Munich Massacre, Israeli Shaul Ladany set a world record in race walking?
... that any Roman Catholic baptised male is eligible for election as pope in March 2013?
... that Société Parisienne was a French manufacturer of velocipedes, bicycles, tricycles and automobiles?
... that Florida Governor Fred P. Cone passed the bar exam but never received a law degree?
... that the golden sea cucumber is able to reproduce asexually by splitting in half?
... that at 33, Frank Zullo was the youngest person to be elected mayor in the history of Norwalk, Connecticut?

3 March 2013

16:00, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Henry Bell Gilkeson (pictured) served as a House Delegate, State Senator, and school principal in West Virginia, as well as his county's schools superintendent and bar association dean?
... that television executive Lukas Reiter was a mock trial national champion in law school?
... that Whalsay Parish Church is dedicated to the Holy Rood?
... that Jason Newsted has recorded songs with Metallica, Voivod and several musical supergroups?
... that para-alpine B2 classified visually impaired skier Gabriel Gorce was the youngest member of the 2010 Spanish Winter Paralympic team?
... that Knife Edge Two Piece has been described as looking like a "crashed unidentified flying object"?

08:00, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the Musgum mud huts (pictured) in Cameroon are adobe structures in the reverse catenary arch form, which can bear maximum weight with least use of building material?
... that Vice Admiral Shōji Nishimura refused to abandon ship when his flagship, the battleship Yamashiro, was capsizing during the Battle of Surigao Strait in 1944?
... that para-alpine sit skier Nathalie Carpanedo, a member of the first women's adaptive ski team in Spain, was awarded the Real Orden del Mérito Deportivo Español?
... that Yoko Ono's song "Born in a Prison" has been credited with anticipating ideas that would be proposed by French philosopher Michel Foucault?
... that the commander of Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, MajGen Mark A. Clark, first got involved in special operations through an officer exchange program with the U.S. Air Force?
... that Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 282 was used for redating Papyrus 46, a manuscript of the New Testament?
... that Kevin Ray's Boudreaux's Butt Paste Ford had the fifth-scariest paint scheme in NASCAR history, according to ESPN The Magazine?

00:00, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

... that NGC 2467 (pictured) is also known as the "Skull and Crossbones nebula"?
... that the political career of John C. Breckinridge included service as Vice President of the United States and Confederate States Secretary of War?
... that The Poppy Fields never existed as a band, yet they had a hit song that reached number 24 on the UK charts?
... that in 2012, Mike Edwards led all college football players in kickoff return yards?
... that the Blauer Enzian, a German / Austrian express train, was named after a mountain flower, the Blue (or Spring) Gentian (Gentiana verna)?
... that Sir Philip Magnus began his career as an educational reformer while working as a rabbi at the West London Synagogue?
... that the names of 3,500 "fans" will appear in the credits of a film promoting a brand of beer?

2 March 2013

16:00, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

... that the first concert of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra (hall pictured) in postwar Poland took place three months ahead of the end of World War II in Europe?
... that Charles Stewart lost his right hand in a naval battle at the age of 16, yet still reached the rank of vice-admiral?
... that the percentage of Latinos among New York City's total population increased from 2% to 29% between 1940 and 2010?
... that Ernest Bohr, who played field hockey for Denmark at the 1948 Summer Olympics, was the nephew of Olympic football player Harald Bohr, and the son of physicist Niels Bohr?
... that the Terai Arc Landscape has one of the highest densities of Bengal tigers in the world?
... that Emily Graslie's work on "The Brain Scoop" has been described as "articulate and hilarious" by Scientific American?
... that the myrtle orange is a fungus?

08:00, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Vahram Papazyan (pictured) and Mıgırdiç Mıgıryan, the two athletes who represented Turkey in its first-ever Olympics, were both ethnic Armenians?
... that the tower of the Palace Hotel in Copenhagen is decorated with mosaics symbolizing morning, day, evening and night?
... that according to Mariel Hemingway in the documentary Running from Crazy, seven members of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway's family have committed suicide?
... that in 1524, Elisabeth Cruciger's hymn "Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn" was the only song by a female author published in the Lutheran hymnal Erfurt Enchiridion?
... that months after whistleblower David Weber reported concerns about ethics violations by SEC Inspector General David Kotz, Weber was terminated for unrelated reasons?
... that the Settebello, a high-speed train between Milan and Rome, used ETR 300 trainsets, which had distinctive observation lounges at front and rear?
... that American aviator Robert Hathaway unknowingly became feudal ruler of Sark by marrying the ruling dame, but was dismayed to learn that the island was too small for a golf course?

00:00, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

... that George Hirst was the first person to discover a viral enzyme (pictured)?
... that more than 2.8 million children were evacuated from major cities in Germany during World War II?
... that the Indonesian state news agency Antara was established before the country's independence?
... that little is known of the Ancient Greek painter Peiraikos other than that he painted ordinary people and sold well?
... that Bebo and Chucho Valdés won the Grammy and the Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for their album Juntos Para Siempre?
... that Manny McIntyre was a member of the first all-black line in professional hockey history and the first known Black-Canadian to play professionally in organized baseball?
... that three years after a Tremont Group employee wrote an encyclopedia entry on the importance of due diligence, his company paid $1 billion for failing to conduct due diligence in the Madoff scandal?

1 March 2013

16:00, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

... that half the length of the Racket-tailed Coquette (pictured) is tail?
... that instead of surrendering to a Montenegrin army, Oso Kuka and his group exploded their positions during an enemy attack?
... that Sjumandjaja's award-winning Kabut Sutra Ungu (Mist of the Purple Silk), about issues faced by widows, was based on a book offered to him on a train?
... that 109-year-old Ralph Tarrant is currently the United Kingdom's oldest living man?
... that professional golfer Bubba Watson was featured in the song "Michael Jackson" by hip hop artist Andy Mineo from his album Formerly Known?
... that Zhang Qingwei, the Governor of China's Hebei province, is a rocket scientist who was instrumental in launching an American-built satellite and sending the first Chinese astronauts to space?
... that the three leading runners in the first Jerusalem Marathon finished the race at the wrong finish line?

08:00, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

... that Anthony Chenevix-Trench aimed to abolish school uniform completely at Eton, but only succeeded in abolishing the rule requiring smaller boys to wear suits that included a "bumfreezer" (pictured)?
... that 14% of Haitian households reported having at least one member who suffered sexual violence in Haiti between the January 2010 earthquake and January 2012?
... that the title page of the Erfurt Enchiridion, a Lutheran hymnal from 1524 with 26 songs, recommends using the handbook "for continuous practice and contemplation"?
... that Tony Palomo, a Guamanian historian who served in the Legislature of Guam, worked as a copy boy for the Milwaukee Sentinel while attending Marquette University?
... that Lectionary 311 is a bilingual Greek–Arabic manuscript of the New Testament?
... that the extinct Gigantoproductus giganteus was the largest known species of brachiopod?
... that speaking coach Nick Morgan's interest in body language was sparked in part by the realization that his father was gay?

00:00, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

... that P.S. Krøyer and Kristian Zahrtmann were among the painters featured in the first exhibition at Den Frie Udstilling (pictured) in 1891?
... that Shavarsh Krissian, the editor of the first sports magazine in Turkey, was killed in the Armenian Genocide?
... that HD 140283 is thought to be the oldest known star, being nearly as old as the universe itself?
... that screenwriter Tom Jankiewicz collapsed after a screening of his film Grosse Pointe Blank, and died soon after?
... that climate change threatens the flora and fauna of the Sacred Himalayan Landscape, including the endangered snow leopard?
... that the Mission olive was brought to California in the 18th century by Spanish missionaries?
... that St. Stephen's Cathedral organist Peter Planyavsky has composed parodies under the names of P.P. Bach, J.P. Haydn, and W. A. Plagiavsky Mozart?