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31 January 2014

16:00, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

The Projecta Casket

... that the 4th-century Esquiline Treasure from Rome includes the Projecta Casket (pictured), which has a Christian inscription and pagan iconography?
... that educator Carleton Washburne led a study that identified 6.5 years as the optimal mental age for children to begin to learn to read?
... that American folk rock singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke co-wrote "Choose Your Battles", a song by recording artist Katy Perry?
... that Riojasuchus was an ornithosuchid that is known from four skeletons and lived about 217 to 215 million years ago?
... that at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Unbreakable pay-per-view event, the main event received a rare 5 star match rating by wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer?
... that the Catholic bishop of Shanghai, Thaddeus Ma Daqin, has been held under house arrest by the Chinese Government since 2012?
... that, according to the American Pie Council, 20% of Americans have eaten an entire pie?

08:00, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Captain Larry Dzioba of HMCS Protecteur (pictured) while off the coast of Portugal in 1980 hoisted an Esso flag on the ship's mast joking that they were the "biggest floating gas station in the neighborhood"?
... that Sussie Eriksson shows along with Siw Malmkvist and Lasse Berghagen in the group Creme Fraiche?
... that the Boer War Memorial in Winsford, Cheshire, records the names of those who served in the conflict and survived as well as those who were lost?
... that following a corruption scandal in Turkey, PM Erdoğan reshuffled his cabinet appointing ten ministers, among them nine new – Ala, Çavuşoğlu, Elvan, Güllüce, Işık, İslam, İşler, Kılıç and Zeybekci?
... that the Italian symphonic power metal band Holy Knights released its début and sophomore albums, A Gate Through the Past and Between Daylight and Pain, more than ten years apart?
... that a Ghanaian, John Antwi, is the current top scorer in the Egyptian Premier League?
... that the Nirbheek is marketed as India's first gun for women?

00:00, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

... that while the most visible structures date from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), the history of the Great Wall of China reaches back to the 7th century BC (Han dynasty watchtower pictured)?
... that Charles Henry Bond, co-founder of cigar manufacturer Waitt & Bond, was also an arts patron who sponsored Geraldine Farrar?
... that Argentine vice president Amado Boudou lives in the luxury apartment complex Madero Center?
... that the extended version of Lecrae's single "Round of Applause", from Church Clothes 2, was featured by Pepsi as one of "three songs you need to hear right now"?
... that the Treaty of Bytom and Będzin ended the fourteen-month long imprisonment of Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth?
... that Burt K. Snyder was a five-term state representative from Lake County, Oregon, who also served for many years as a trustee for the Bernard Daly Educational Fund?
... that the Monument to the Mersey Tunnel in Birkenhead was originally both a monument and a source of lighting, but now "merely serves as a memorial"?

30 January 2014

16:00, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) long island of Herm (flag pictured) has up to 100,000 tourists pass through it in summer?
... that the Boeing RC-1, designed to haul ore and oil out of the Arctic, would have been twice the size and weight of the largest aircraft ever built?
... that rape during the Rwandan Genocide led to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda defining rape as an act of genocide?
... that Ethel Sands was "one of the leading artist hostesses of her time"?
... that the city of Uppsala in Sweden helped renovate the Uppsala House in Estonia?
... that William Paynel supported Matilda's claim to the English throne, despite her husband Geoffrey of Anjou having previously attacked William's castle?
... that at the end of The Beatles' rooftop concert, John Lennon jokingly said, "I hope we've passed the audition"?

08:00, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

... that a German Magnificat, or Song of Mary (pictured), ends the last work by composer Heinrich Schütz, known as his swan song?
... that Asia Bibi is the first woman in Pakistan to be sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy?
... that the United States Post Office Department established a post office at Valley, West Virginia, in 1928, and shuttered it only nine years later?
... that the first courses at No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF in World War II were run not by the air force but by civil organisations under government contract?
... that the tugboat Trabajador helped rescue fifty-two people from the British freighter Silver Hazel that was wrecked in San Bernardino Strait?
... that the Delaware Breakwater Range Rear Light was dismantled in 1919 and re-erected in Florida eight years later?
... that the Ussurian pear is the hardiest of all pears?

00:00, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Bill Armour (pictured) was manager of the Cleveland Bronchos when they signed Nap Lajoie to the most lucrative contract in baseball up to that time, and of the Detroit Tigers when they signed Ty Cobb?
... that elements in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Kir'Shara" have been compared to the Nag Hammadi library and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code?
... that after Belgian-American photographer Aimé Dupont's death, his wife continued the business and was so successful that many of the subjects thought she was Aimé?
... that the night anemone is adept at camouflage and mimicry?.
... that the annual Gary Con gaming convention in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin originated as a get-together for friends and family after the March 2008 funeral for Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax?
... that Ri Ul-sol is seen as an ultraconservative within North Korean politics?
... that in 1951 the director of the Uruguayan communist daily Verdad was demoted by the party leadership?

29 January 2014

12:00, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the Silver Cross Tavern (pictured) is the United Kingdom's only legal brothel?
... that Captain Jermyn Symonds, who became a Member of Parliament from Auckland, originally moved to New Zealand in 1841 to join his brother, who drowned that year?
... that imperialism also happens within academia?
... that although Illinois was legally a free state, the Illinois Constitution of 1818 allowed the use of slave labor at the Illinois Salines?
... that Wilbur Jackson competed as the first African American under scholarship for the Alabama football team as a member of the 1970 Crimson Tide squad?
... that Varadaraja Perumal, the first Chief Minister of North Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, declared independence for Eelam before his self-exile?
... that the creator of the MovieCode blog was inspired by Neill Blomkamp's 2013 film Elysium, which uses an extract from an Intel manual?

00:00, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

... that members of the psychedelic rock and roll band Mind Garage were inspired to write their song "Circus Farm" while staying at Valley View (pictured) in Romney, West Virginia?
... that Hermann Kahan was found alive in a pile of corpses in Ebensee concentration camp by American forces who liberated the camp?
... that the plot to The Drew Carey Show episode "The Dog and Pony Show" was inspired by the British comedy film The Full Monty?
... that women's football forward Seyhan Gündüz was capped 32 times internationally, scoring 12 goals, a rate of 0.375 a match?
... that a sideboard or side deck is used in some collectible card games to modify playing decks?
... that Carl Falck wrote an article titled "Some thoughts from Norway's oldest man" in 2013?
... that publishing in leading accounting journals affects many aspects of an accounting researcher's career, including reputation, salary, and promotion?

28 January 2014

12:00, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Vern Bickford (pictured) stayed as a member of the Boston Braves organization due to a flip of a coin?
... that female Stefania evansi frogs can carry up to 30 eggs or froglets on their back?
... that before World War II, the heart of Manila was at Plaza Lacson?
... that the Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment suffered 127 men killed during 7 months at Gallipoli, and then exactly the same number in 2 years fighting in Sinai and Palestine?
... that, according to Meat Atlas, the world's biggest meat company, JBS, can accommodate a daily slaughter of 12 million birds, 85,000 head of cattle and 70,000 pigs?
... that Daniel Dougherty gave the nominating speech for Winfield Scott Hancock at the 1880 Democratic National Convention, and did the same for Grover Cleveland at the 1888 DNC?
... that a dark store is never visited by its customers?

00:10, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Brighton and Hove's Regency-era seafront (one section pictured), "overflowing [with] architectural inventiveness", was nearly demolished in its entirety in the 1930s in favour of Modernist buildings?
... that Havaner lebn was the first lasting commercial Jewish newspaper in Cuba?
... that Kang Chang-hee is the first Speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea from the Chungcheong provinces?
... that while political analyst Aníbal Delgado Fiallos had been a staunch critic of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya's constitutional reform, he took part in the protests against Zelaya's ouster?
... that ‪Gare de Dijon-Porte-Neuve‬, currently Dijon's secondary train station, is being prepared to become the city's newest TGV station?
... that 1941's Tjioeng Wanara was the first "colossal" film production in Indonesia?
... that Swedish soprano Erika Sunnegårdh, who has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, said that her voice was "like a wild horse"?

27 January 2014

12:25, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Albert Dubois-Pillet added the "Pillet" to his name when signing his paintings (example pictured) in an attempt to hide his art-related activities from the military?
... that the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, the oldest Protestant seminary in the United States, started in the New York City home of the Rev. John Henry Livingston in 1784?
... that the first four-part vocal work printed in the Americas was "Hanacpachap cussicuinin", published by Juan Pérez Bocanegra in the Quechua language?
... that Huna Totem Corporation is an Alaskan village corporation that has helped develop facilities for tourism in southeastern Alaska?
... that the Jammu–Sialkot railway line was permanently closed after the Partition of India?
... that Rufus P. Turner, who created some of the first transistor radios, became an English professor at age 52?
... that the star BX Circini is thought to have formed from the merger of two white dwarfs?

00:40, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Medal of Honor recipient Audie Murphy (pictured) starred in over 40 feature films, including his WWII biopic To Hell and Back, but his only starring television series was Whispering Smith?
... that the Prié blanc wine grape is produced in some of the highest-elevation vineyards in continental Europe?
... that after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Parson Joseph Roby took to the pulpit with a musket under one arm and his sermon under the other?
... that Europe's first collector's museum is on Teerhof where all the buildings were virtually destroyed in World War II?
... that the Mokelumne Aqueduct, originally built in 1929, is the sole water supply system for over one million people in the San Francisco Bay Area?
... that soon after his attempt to buy The New York Times failed, Chen Guangbiao said he wanted to buy The Wall Street Journal?
... that the 1945 film Club Havana was shot in four days and did not use a script?

26 January 2014

12:55, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

... that at the 1878 wedding of Nora Robinson and Alexander Kirkman Finlay (pictured) at St James' Church, Sydney, the crushing and screaming from the 10,000 sightseers were almost continuous?
... that Larisa Savitskaya, the sole survivor of the Aeroflot Flight 811 accident, was warned by the KGB not to reveal the accident to the public?
... that Erik de Mauny, the BBC's first Moscow correspondent, confirmed the presence there of Kim Philby?
... that when the Manor Church Centre in Egremont was completed, it was the largest Presbyterian church in England?
... that Allan Levene is running for the United States House of Representatives in the 2014 elections in four districts, in four different states, simultaneously?
... that retired American football player Mitch Marrow owns a dog daycare business?
... that Georges Méliès's 1903 film The Oracle of Delphi was accidentally filmed in 3D?

01:10, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the Black-breasted Thrush's (male pictured) breeding time differs depending on which country they are situated in?
... that Phillip Swagel and Neel Kashkari wrote the plan that became the basis for the Troubled Asset Relief Program?
... that King Tvrtko II of Bosnia assured the pope that he was a good Catholic, but at the same time had the head of the heretical Bosnian Church as adviser?
... that Bethany College, founded in 1840, is the oldest surviving post-secondary institution in West Virginia?
... that Henry Jamyn Brooks painted 300 portraits, in one picture?
... that Samanar Hills, a protected monument in Tamil Nadu, has been damaged by illegal quarrying?
... that Olympic athlete Andy Holden once ran 100 miles and drank 100 pints of beer in a single week?

25 January 2014

13:10, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the male ornamental tree trunk spider (male and female pictured) usually becomes mutilated while mating, especially when the female is aggressive?
... that segregation in Mississippi was challenged in 1959 when police prevented Dr. Gilbert Mason from swimming in the ocean, precipitating the Biloxi Wade-Ins and subsequent race riots?
... that the stapes, named for its resemblance to a stirrup, is the smallest bone in the human body, measuring 3 mm × 2.5 mm (0.118 in × 0.098 in)?
... that Loree Rodkin designed the jewelry worn by Michelle Obama to the 2009 inaugural balls?
... that the memoir Wave is based on the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami?
... that the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade suffered 42 dead in the Battle for No.3 Post, but had to abandon it as untenable less than two days after capturing it?
... that Michael Jackson once led the National Football League (NFL) in receiving touchdowns?

00:10, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Renoir's oil painting La Parisienne (pictured) was shown at the first Impressionist exhibition, in Paris in 1874?
... that Hussein Samatar was the first Somali American elected to public office in Minnesota?
... that the mural on the Von Bock House in Tartu in Estonia shows a building that is just down the street?
... that the prickly brown ray was accidentally discovered by an expedition to study shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico?
... that Linda Nolan was labelled "Naughty Nolan" due to her posing in risqué publicity photos?
... that although Piotr Skarga's Sejm Sermons political treatise was ignored during his lifetime, he was labeled a "patriotic seer" centuries after his death?
... that because the Spitzen Gebel was used by Bremen piano movers, drinkers can get a "swig from the lamp"?

24 January 2014

16:00, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Kitty Jutbring (pictured) won VeckoRevyn's competition "Plus Size Model of the Year" in 1999?
... that Charlie Robertson pitched a perfect game in his fourth Major League Baseball start?
... that evidence of mill-building at The Riddy dates back to Norman times?
... that the spectrum of the red star Pi¹ Gruis shows the presence of such elements as technetium, zirconium, lanthanum, cerium and yttrium?
... that one of Archbishop Thomas Becket's complaints about Ranulf de Broc was that the royal official had seized a cargo of wine belonging to the archbishop?
... that the ant Aphaenogaster cockerelli sometimes plugs the entrance of a red harvester ant nest with small pebbles?
... that "Treat 'Em Right" is frequently used to close compilation albums?

08:00, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Kwee Tek Hoay's novel Drama dari Krakatau blames the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (pictured) on deliberate damage to a Vishnu statue?
... that King Stephen Thomas was forced to become the first ruler of Bosnia to engage in religious persecution?
... that Minnesota's nickname, the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", derives from an early desire to attract more settlers by advertising its large number of lakes?
... that Thomas Ashburnham, 6th Earl of Ashburnham, married a telephone operator in Fredericton, New Brunswick?
... that people are fighting around Al-Mastumah in Syria as they were over 2,800 years ago?
... that St. Michael's, the oldest continuously operating Catholic church in Tennessee, was built in 1842 as a log meetinghouse?
... that as well as patenting the use of manganese oxide in the making of Sheffield steel, Josiah Marshall Heath had a bat named after him?

00:00, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

... that GCHQ replaced 50 buildings with a single doughnut (pictured)?
... that Marie Jansen reportedly earned a half a million dollars in musical theatre, but after declaring bankruptcy was unable to pay her weekly seven dollar lodging bill while working as a seamstress?
... that Charles Augustus Magnussen, villain in the Sherlock episode "His Last Vow", was described as "the one man [Sherlock] truly hates"?
... that Juliana R. Force brought about the first public showing of American folk art in the United States?
... that Cincinnati's Fenwick Club was established as a Catholic alternative to the YMCA?
... that Tiwi islander Matthias Ulungura was the first Australian to take a Japanese prisoner-of-war on Australian soil during World War II?
... that in the comedy film Frank, Michael Fassbender's character wears a large papier-mâché head throughout the film?

23 January 2014

16:00, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Frederick August Wenderoth and Charles Christian Nahl often painted together, including the large scale gold rush scene Miners in the Sierras (pictured)?
... that Anglican priests established St Mary's Mission Station in Odibo, northern Namibia, in 1924?
... that in the plays of Kenneth Horne, virgins "offer themselves up, with some degree of apprehension, for ravishment"?
... that the Lyman-alpha blob 1 is a blob of gas 300,000 light-years across located some 11.5 billion light-years from Earth?
... that NHS Blood and Transplant stated several people had asked to be removed from the UK organ donor register as a result of a storyline involving Holby City character Mo Effanga?
... that in the starlet sea anemone, genes involved in the formation of the column base are identical to those responsible for the development of the head in vertebrates?
... that the three men jailed for plotting to blow up a statue of Lenin in Ukraine were caught after the statue had already been removed?

08:00, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

... that since dozens of Elliot Marbles (example pictured) were brought to the British Museum their ownership has been uncontested?
... that over 2,200 acres (8.9 km²) of protected lands bound the Great Salt Lake Legacy Parkway Scenic Byway?
... that in August 1924 Adolf Dobrovolný presented commentary of the first broadcast sports event in Europe on Czech Radio – a heavyweight boxing match?
... that a former Elks lodge in Montrose, Colorado, has since housed a college, a social services agency, and city offices?
... that a Scotland national football team manager was first appointed in 1954, before which the team was chosen by a Scottish Football Association selection committee?
... that three of Lieutenant General Michael Ferriter's four children are also serving military officers?
... that the stinking dapperling mushroom is possibly poisonous?

00:00, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

... that a Norwegian school (pictured) was named for Thor and built by a hammer?
... that 2014 Olympic speed skater Anna Ringsred used to be afraid of racing, calling competition "scary and nerve-racking"?
... that the term physical organic chemistry was coined by Louis Hammett in 1940 when he used the phrase as a title for his textbook?
... that Ernst Roth, general manager of Boosey & Hawkes, published four late songs by Richard Strauss in 1950 after the composer's death, naming them Four Last Songs?
... that 95 churches in the USA and one in Haiti are both Primitive and Progressive?
... that the Queen Victoria Monument in Birkenhead is in the form of an Eleanor cross?
... that a famous line by Li E reads "rain/wash/autumn/lush/people/pale"?

22 January 2014

16:00, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (anointing of the Queen pictured) was postponed because the King required immediate surgery?
... that articles in The Accounting Review, a top accounting journal, have become increasingly mathematically rigorous over the past decades?
... that when the .cz domain reached a million websites in 2012, the Czech Republic became the 12th EU member state to have reached this figure?
... that the keeper of the Christiana Light was 105 when he died in 1862, the oldest known lighthouse keeper in United States history?
... that although Robert fitzRoger owed his offices to the Chancellor William Longchamp, unlike most of Longchamp's appointees, fitzRoger retained those offices after Longchamp's fall from power?
... that The New York Times estimated that 8,000 infants died in one year from consuming swill milk that was sold as fresh milk?
... that Cobra Station gets its unusual name from the snake-like shape of the property?

08:00, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the octopus Velodona togata (pictured) was named for the large, distinctive membranes on its arms?
... that the Henry Powell House was renovated to change its architectural style from Greek Revival to Second Empire?
... that psychedelic rock concert poster artist Gary Grimshaw was sentenced to 15 days in jail and a $150 fine for flying a 15 cent kite with a dirty word written on it?
... that the RAF's pip-squeak system kept track of their fighters during the Battle of Britain using their voice radio sets?
... that Cusi Cram based one of her plays on a controversy involving two lesbian mothers and the U.S. Secretary of Education that began with an episode of PBS's Postcards from Buster?
... that the Monument to Captain John Francis Egerton commemorates a soldier who was killed in the First Anglo-Sikh War?
... that Abraham Lincoln once defended Illinois State Senator Asahel Gridley in a slander trial?

00:00, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

... that S. N. Cooke gave Birmingham a war memorial (pictured) with a Twist?
... that George Packer's book The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America won the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction?
... that after briefly serving as President, Tomás Villalba helped create Uruguay's first banking regulations?
... that the theft of a single axe from Odell Great Wood led to three months hard labour for one woodsman?
... that County Yard is the site of a planned "train haven"?
... that the authors of the Buildings of England series say that the Grand Entrance to Birkenhead Park is "grand indeed"?
... that alleged drug trafficker Serafín Zambada Ortiz was arrested by US federal agents when he went out to do some Christmas shopping?

21 January 2014

16:00, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Andrew Stevovich's work (example pictured) has been described by art critic Carol Diehl as a marriage of simplicity and complexity?
... that the Aurora Film Corporation, founded in 1906, produced India's first newsreel and first children's film?
... that Bill Hooper scored Darlington's first Football League goal, which was "in all probability" the first goal scored in the Third Division North?
... that the navigator was the sole survivor of Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 which crashed near Sharjah, killing 85 people?
... that during World War II, Otto Busse provided the partisans of Białystok with weapons, clothing and medicines at his own expense?
... that the Indonesian wayang theatre developed from the Ravana Chhaya puppet theatre of Odisha, India?
... that the Yamaha NS-10 sounded so bright that Bob Clearmountain had to hang tissue paper over the tweeter?

08:00, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

... that while Li (character pictured), shared by more than 100 million people, is one of the most common surnames in the world, Li and Li are far less common?
... that Sandra Kurtzig was the first woman to take a Silicon Valley technology company public?
... that Lepidotus was a genus of prehistoric fish that existed from the Late Triassic (Rhaetic) to the middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian)?
... that Dread Pirate Roberts is the founder of the "Amazon.com of illegal drugs"?
... that Who's Bigger: Where Historical Figures Really Rank by Steven Skiena and Charles Ward uses metadata from the English Wikipedia to rank all persons in order of significance?
... that Ming China's armies deployed their cannons to defeat the Oyirad Mongol hordes at the Kerulen and Tula rivers in 1414?
... that Djoewariah began her career as a victim of human trafficking and closed it as a queen?

00:00, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Mathew Ahmann (pictured next to Martin Luther King, Jr.), a Catholic layman, made a speech preceding King's I Have a Dream during the 1963 March on Washington?
... that at completion, the 80-meter-high Aciliu Viaduct will be the highest in Romania?
... that Olga Tañón, now the most awarded performer at the Lo Nuestro Awards, did not win when she was nominated for the Award for Tropical New Artist back in 1993?
... that Tunisia's new interim prime minister, Mehdi Jomaa, is trained as an engineer?
... that earnings management involves the alteration of financial reports to mislead stakeholders, and may be difficult for individual investors to detect?
... that Polish writer Irena Jurgielewiczowa was also an underground teacher and a resistance fighter in WWII?
... that Anthony Seldon wants Embassy Court in Brighton to be demolished and "parties [held] to celebrate"?

20 January 2014

16:00, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Polish economist and MP Killion Munyama (pictured) did not originally plan to stay in Poland, but the fall of communism changed his mind?
... that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was the first game developed by Bethesda Game Studios to not include a character class system?
... that the Asian clam is causing trouble in San Francisco Bay?
... that the architecture of the German Courthouse in Bremen was inspired by the French Château de Blois?
... that Warren Bardsley was the first cricketer to score centuries in each innings of a Test match?
... that prior to commanding a Confederate company, Isaac Parsons served as a Virginia House Delegate and was involved in a dispute with U.S. Congressman Charles J. Faulkner over legal fees?
... that the owners of The Showgrounds refused to allow Warrenpoint Town F.C. to play there because of a projected rise in insurance costs?

08:00, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the Indian submarine museum Kursura (pictured) is the first of its kind in South Asia and is visited by about 250,000 people each year?
... that one of the Hillsboro Fire Department's earliest pieces of equipment was previously used in Sacramento, California, Portland, Oregon, and Albany, Oregon?
... that the Lavaggi LS1 was the first Le Mans Prototype race car to be designed and built in Monte Carlo?
... that "Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu", composed by Ilaiyaraaja, was named the fourth most popular song of all time in a 2002 online poll conducted by ‏BBC World Service?
... that the crimes of Linda Taylor became the basis for Ronald Reagan's mythical "welfare queen" during his 1976 presidential campaign?
... that Denny Crum retired at the end of the 2000–01 season with the Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team with 675 wins, the most of any head coach for Louisville?
... that White Bull is South Sudan's first beer brand?

00:00, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

... that during a renovation in 2013, medieval coins and children's graves were found under the floor of Enåker Church, Sweden (pictured)?
... that Robert V. Short, a tailor by training, was a member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention?
... that Arsenal exited the FA Cup and Football League Cup, and lost the UEFA Cup Final, on penalties in the 1999–2000 season?
... that Bonnie McKee has co-written eight number one singles, five of which were sung by Katy Perry?
... that Poland is considered a founding member of the United Nations despite not having attended the first meeting?
... that former Chilean Environment Minister Adriana Hoffmann identified 106 new species of cacti?
... that Bascom Lamar Lunsford sold "Good Old Mountain Dew" to Scotty Wiseman for US$25 so he could buy a train ticket home?

19 January 2014

16:00, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the Mangrove Robin (pictured) consumes a significant amount of crab in its diet, in addition to its primary prey of insects?
... that John Mohardt played baseball for the Detroit Tigers with Ty Cobb and football for the Chicago Bears with Red Grange?
... that a Light Elf can carry 1,250 kilograms (2,800 lb)?
... that St John's Church, Egremont, has the largest unsupported ceiling in Merseyside?
... that the Minar-i Pakistan was designed by Russian-born Pakistani architect Nasreddin Murat-Khan?
... that in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series, Dr. Watson was first told about Holmes in the Criterion Bar?
... that the four lions surrounding the Obelisk Commemorating Roger Barnston have been described as either mourning or snoozing?

08:00, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the three-cent nickel (pictured) was once more common than the five-cent one in the United States?
... that Sardi was Indonesia's first professional music supervisor?
... that the corvette Kulish is named after the weapon of the Indian mythological god Indra?
... that film producer Bernard Glasser, whose debut was a Three Stooges film, had previously worked as a teacher?
... that after almost 75 years, the Dowding system remains the canonical example of force multiplication, having achieved 100% effectiveness on several occasions?
... that Butterly House in Toodyay, Western Australia, is at town lot 1?
... that Ronald Reagan designated a week in June to be National Dairy Goat Awareness Week?

00:00, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the Lord's Grace Gates (pictured) were nearly moved as they were being damaged by turning lorries?
... that a penalty scored by Patrik Berger in the final of Euro 96 gave the Czech Republic a 1–0 lead over Germany, but the Czechs lost to a golden goal in extra time?
... that Danilo Kiš's 1965 novel Garden, Ashes mixes fact and fiction, with both the narrator and the author having lost their fathers in the Holocaust?
... that Janice Eberly was the first female National President of Future Farmers of America and then Chief Economist for the U.S. Treasury Department?
... that "Por Amarte Así" won an ASCAP Latin award in categories Pop/Ballad, Salsa and Duranguense for Alejandro Montalbán and Eduardo Reyes?
... that Hermann Müller was mayor of Idstein for 24 years and won the Hessentag festival for the German town in 2002?
... that Don Hutson led the National Football League in receiving yards for four consecutive years from 1941 to 1944, the longest such streak in NFL history?

18 January 2014

16:00, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

... that city planners initially opposed the building of Jerusalem's first high-rises, the 17-story Wolfson Towers (pictured), saying they would "dwarf the Knesset"?
... that as a young girl, Margaret George became interested in Cleopatra because they both had dark hair, and later wrote a best-selling novel about her?
... that the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay was the inspiration for the British sitcom Fawlty Towers?
... that violence against doctors in China has been described as a "crisis", with more than 17,000 incidents reported in 2010?
... that Sana Mir has captained the Pakistan women's cricket team in 33 Twenty20 Internationals, and is the team's leading wicket-taker?
... that the Memorial to John Whitaker stands in the forecourt of the Sunday School that he established in 1814?
... that Sounds of HIV sets the genome of the HIV/AIDS virus to music?

08:00, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the Japanese Shinto shrine Omi Jingu (pictured), dedicated to Emperor Tenji, holds karuta and water clock festivals and has been recently popularized by the manga Chihayafuru?
... that the 1883 season was the first time a football team representing the United States Naval Academy lost a game?
... that Siti Nurhaliza was anxious when performing with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra for her 2013 concert, despite having worked with London Symphony Orchestra?
... that the Wyoming Division Canal contributed to the Wyoming Valley becoming the largest producer of anthracite in the world?
... that footballer Mohamad Mochtar began a 42-year career in acting after being discovered in a barbershop?
... that Kerala Soil Museum in India, which opened on January 1, has been described as the world's largest soil museum?
... that journalist Judith Newman wrote a New York Times article asking Wikipedians to help craft an entry about her?

00:00, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

... that evidence of Iron Age and Romano-British settlement has been found at Hanger Wood (pictured)?
... that David Jewett Waller was one of the most well-known people in northeast Pennsylvania at the time of his death?
... that The Silence of the Lambs is the only post-studio era film that went into wide release during the winter dump months to win the Academy Award for Best Picture?
... that physicist Ted Paige, a Fellow of the Royal Society, started researching haemochromatosis when he found out he was suffering from the disease?
... that West Indian Twenty20 cricketer Deandra Dottin was the first woman to score a century in a women's Twenty20 International?
... that a lawsuit by Dorothy Proctor led to the revelation that hundreds of Canadian prisoners had been subjects of scientific experiments?
... that Essighaus was the building in Bremen where Sigmund Freud had a fainting spell?

17 January 2014

16:00, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

... that 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol (chemical structure pictured) spilled into the Elk River in Charleston, West Virginia, upstream from the intake for tap water servicing up to 300,000 people?
... that friends of Dan Tan, the Singaporean accused of fixing soccer matches on four continents, say he rarely watches the game?
... that the Pass Christian Light was deactivated in part because neighboring property owners refused to trim their trees?
... that to prepare for his role in 1926's Subway Sadie, Jack Mulhall rode a subway for "practically an entire day"?
... that the 1942 Belize hurricane was the only known hurricane to strike Belize in the month of November?
... that East Wind Over Weehawken sold for a record price?
... that at one point, there was more automotive production in Massachusetts than in Detroit, Michigan?

08:00, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the Mills Community House (pictured) is the only remaining building from Benzonia Academy?
... that Western Australian architect Michael Cavanagh was responsible for redesigning St Mary's Cathedral, where he was married 27 years earlier?
... that of the nearly 500 players to wear New York Islanders jerseys, only 14 have served as team captain and Ed Westfall was the first?
... that Marie Collings, a wealthy pirate's daughter, purchased an island and became its hereditary ruler but never visited it?
... that the building of St Robert's Church, Pannal, North Yorkshire, was begun by brothers of the Trinitarian Order in the 14th century?
... that during World War II, Commander Sherman E. Burroughs, Jr., was in charge of a Naval base in the Mojave Desert?
... that the stars of Si Gomar portrayed each other's parent, child, and lover?

00:00, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the family of George Washington established several plantations in West Virginia (Blakeley pictured)?
... that Tom Crutchfield was instrumental in producing the first captive-bred albino Burmese pythons?
... that due to the damaging effects of Cyclone Gretelle in 1997, the government of Madagascar held a televised fundraiser to raise money for storm victims?
... that Roger Ebert said the animated documentary film Ryan "is hard to describe, impossible to forget"?
... that Norwegian footballer Jon Inge Høiland scored the decisive goal when Malmö FF secured the 2004 Allsvenskan title?
... that the Old College Hill Post Office in Cincinnati, Ohio, was converted into a house after closing in 1892?
... that the American Horror Story: Coven episode "The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks" was inspired by rumors about Stevie Nicks and witchcraft?

16 January 2014

16:00, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Francis Fletcher made a map of "Elizabeth Iland" (pictured) while travelling around the world with Sir Francis Drake?
... that 2013 YP139 is the first discovered asteroid from the NEOWISE program, and is considered potentially dangerous?
... that 62 Spanish ISAF peacekeepers were killed when their Yakovlev Yak-42 crashed on the flight from Afghanistan?
... that Frank Scheibeck played professional baseball in Detroit in three different decades and three different leagues between 1888 and 1906?
... that, unusually, Macclesfield War Memorial contains a sculpture of a soldier killed by gassing?
... that Wolfgang Rösch, who studied mechanical engineering and theology, administers the Diocese of Limburg during the absence of the bishop?
... that Elsa the Snow Queen, a protagonist in Walt Disney's Frozen, was originally written as a villain?

08:00, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the Linn Isobarik loudspeaker (pictured) is named after the isobaric loudspeaker?
... that Dean Semler was the first recipient of the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Dances with Wolves?
... that Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Russellville, Tennessee, closed after its congregants' sympathies split between the opposing sides of the American Civil War?
... that at least three members of the orchestra Lief Java also acted in films?
... that the mite Archegozetes longisetosus can pull 1180 times its own weight?
... that John Rutter composed "The Lord bless you and keep you" for the memorial service of his former music teacher at Highgate School?
... that completion of 4+1⁄2 mi (7.2 km) of Interstate 80 in Utah marked the last portion of Interstate 80 to be completed?

00:00, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the aerial suspension illusion (pictured) was first recorded in the early 19th century in India?
... that Gus Hetling was awarded an automobile in 1912 as the most valuable player in the Pacific Coast League?
... that unlike other cemeteries in Turkey that accommodate one religion only, Mersin Interfaith Cemetery includes graves of Muslims, Christians and Jews?
... that the Bay Area Museum in Texas occupies a former church building and continues to host weddings in the old sanctuary?
... that Kylie Elizabeth Watson received the Military Cross after saving an Afghan soldier despite his comrades not wanting a woman to help?
... that the 1958 Asian Games torch was carried in relay from the US administered Okinawa Island to Kyushu?
... that speed skater Patrick Meek qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics despite not being able to "really see anything"?

15 January 2014

16:00, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Birmingham Crematorium

... that the creation of Birmingham Crematorium (pictured) was supported by three bishops and a principal?
... that one reviewer said Christina Aguilera's song "Save Me from Myself" "cracks open the super diva to reveal something like a real person inside"?
... that multi-award winning solar astronomer John Wainwright Evans chose the name for the town of Sunspot, New Mexico?
... that female infanticide in India has a history spanning centuries?
... that 18 different official currencies are currently in use in the countries of North America?
... that George Burditt was a writer on many episodes of the sitcom Three's Company and later became the show's executive producer?
... that Game Informer wrote that Max: The Curse of Brotherhood's central conceit was a "gimmick that simply doesn't work all that well"?

08:00, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Cyclone Amara (pictured) caused a complete suspension of flights to and from Rodrigues?
... that Orangina's bottle, shaped like an orange, with a glass texture designed to mimic the fruit, was introduced by Jean-Claude Beton in 1951?
... that a New York Times reviewer wrote that Xiu Xiu's 2013 Nina Simone tribute album Nina accentuated Simone's "spooky, unsettling side"?
... that ruins found underneath a Cairo market in 2006 could belong to the largest sun temple built by Ramesses II?
... that Ameer Abdullah decided to return for his senior year at Nebraska because "life is bigger than football"?
... that the hymn Soldiers of Christ, Arise is known as "The Christian's bugle blast" due to the military-based call to arms in its lyrics?
... that Hal Peck reached Major League Baseball even after shooting off two of his toes?

00:00, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Wappocomo (pictured) was built in 1774 with bricks that were used as ballast to stabilize ships loading tobacco in the James River?
... that after Argentine heavy metal guitarist Osvaldo Civile's death by suicide, newspapers printed photos of him playing truco with the Grim Reaper?
... that the first session of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas occurred over three years after it was established?
... that the megafauna on the seabed of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain is dominated by sea cucumbers such as Oneirophanta mutabilis, Psychropotes longicauda, and Amperima rosea?
... that Aaron McDuffie Moore was the first black physician in Durham, North Carolina, and founded a hospital for African Americans there in 1901?
... that the 1932 jazz standard "Moten Swing" was an important development in the move towards a freer form of orchestral jazz and the development of swing music?
... that Sir Richard Paget encouraged his daughter to fall from the open platform of a London bus, to demonstrate his theory that a person could do so safely due to air currents?

14 January 2014

16:05, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

... that although Tianyi Studio was destroyed during the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, its offshoots, led by Run Run Shaw (pictured), later dominated the film-making and television industries of Hong Kong?
... that the Swedish bishop Åke Bonnier is a billionaire in Swedish kronor?
... that Batei Saidoff, a Jerusalem courtyard neighborhood built in 1911 with two water cisterns and an outdoor bathroom tower, was considered luxurious for its time?
... that Brian Davies founded the International Fund for Animal Welfare in 1969 and Network for Animals in 2010?
... that as of December 2012, 40.9% of Filipinos in Belgium were considered "irregular", living there without legal residency status?
... that, according to co-writer Nelly, "4x4", from Miley Cyrus's album Bangerz, was "about having fun"?
... that during his 1755 birthday party attended by five hundred people, John Spencer secretly married Georgiana Poyntz in an upstairs bedroom?

08:20, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Mary E. Clarke (pictured) was the first woman to achieve the rank of major general in the United States Army?
... that the existence of Stateroom was revealed by Edward Snowden during the 2013 Global surveillance disclosure?
... that Icy Strait Point, the only privately owned cruise destination in Alaska, has won awards for its preservation and economic reinvigoration of local culture?
... that denial of the Cambodian genocide was made illegal in Cambodia in 2013?
... that in Lady of Sherwood, Jennifer Roberson chose to write about the demise of Richard I because the "death of a popular monarch always provide fodder for novelists"?
... that Chanel CEO Maureen Chiquet has been called a Francophile?
... that the daily load of manganese in Tangascootack Creek is 101 times higher than the maximum load allowable by the Environmental Protection Agency?

00:35, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Ohio's Brumback Library (pictured) was the first county library in the United States?
... that the Hanlon Expressway is named after Felix Hanlon, who helped cut the first tree to inaugurate Guelph, Ontario?
... that the Trinity Chapel in Salisbury Cathedral contains a 13th-century consecration cross painted on the wall?
... that Timothy Massad is President Barack Obama's nominee for chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission?
... that the French Riviera Marathon has the second highest number of participants of all marathons in France?
... that the Asus Transformer Book Duet uses both Microsoft Windows and Android as operating systems?
... that Stonewall Jackson once woke his men by singing "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken" out of tune?

13 January 2014

16:50, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon high cross (pictured) at Stapleford was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "by far the most important pre-Conquest monument" in Nottinghamshire?
... that, with its total installed capacity of 95 MW, the Kızıldere Geothermal Power Plant is the biggest of its kind in Turkey?
... that Robert Loftus Owen Versfeld used imported kikuyu grass to create the first grass rugby pitch in the Transvaal?
... that despite having public support and some land purchased, the Highclere, Kingsclere and Basingstoke Light Railway was never built?
... that the clown Petruk from Javanese puppetry is most easily recognised by his long nose?
... that according to charters issued by the Nemanjić rulers of Serbia, the fortified Ratac Abbey had a hospital for poor people?
... that even Nazi occupiers bowed to Dame Sibyl Hathaway, the feudal ruler of the island of Sark, who was later described as a "benevolent dictator" and a "lady of unusual personality"?

09:05, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the corals Pocillopora verrucosa (pictured) and Pocillopora damicornis can reproduce by fragmentation, by releasing their gametes into the sea or by brooding their eggs?
... that, since 1998, Alaska has been the only state in the United States without a law school?
... that the 53-year span between Hockey Hall of Famer Marcel Pronovost's first Stanley Cup championship, as a player in 1950, and eighth, as a scout in 2003, is a record?
... that in 2011, a report of the Karnataka Lokayukta exposed the biggest mining scam in India?
... that St. Henry's Catholic Church is the only stone building in its rural locality?
... that the final episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise ended eighteen years of Star Trek on television?
... that because of the Texas Vampires, permission is needed to study blood from Newfoundlanders?

01:20, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the UFO-like Kielce Bus Station (pictured) has been praised as "one of the most valuable" architectural designs of the last decades of the People's Republic of Poland?
... that the racehorse One in a Million was rated at 116p?
... that parts of The Drew Carey Show episode "Drew Cam" were broadcast simultaneously on the television and the Internet, a first for a primetime show?
... that French priest François Ponchaud was one of the first people to publicise the genocide in Cambodia?
... that the extinct ant Afropone was first described from fossils in kimberlite?
... that Gavin Patterson, the new CEO of BT, is known for his open shirt collar?
... that after the 1936 crash-landing of his Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe, nicknamed Sea-Aska, Russel Owen telegraphed his sponsors: "Sea-Aska on her asska in Alaska"?

12 January 2014

17:35, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the Gerhard Marcks Museum in Bremen is dedicated to the creator of the Musicians of Bremen sculpture (pictured)?
... that Francis Bacon's 1949 painting Head VI was his first of almost 50 works based on Diego Velázquez's c. 1650 Portrait of Pope Innocent X?
... that a Masonic Temple is located one block away from Jerusalem's downtown district, in the historic Ezrat Yisrael neighborhood?
... that the 1954 BOAC Constellation crash remains Singapore's deadliest aviation accident?
... that Hong Kong's Stone Nullah Lane was named after the street's former water channel where laundry was washed?
... that the Fermanagh Mallards were thrown out of the Women's Premier League after failing to travel to Belfast for an association football match?
... that Queen Saw Omma, when told she was to be killed lest she pass to another man, replied to her would-be killer "Nga Nu, aren't you a man?"

09:50, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

... that C-Band All Sky Survey (C-BASS South pictured) aims to map the entire sky with two telescopes?
... that Peter Riegel devised a simple formula for predicting race times?
... that the Swanson Coupe Model W-15 has been described as "beautiful"?
... that the sign language interpreter for the state memorial service of Nelson Mandela made meaningless hand gestures that did not reflect established signs?
... that Ching Lau Lauro played at The Theatre, Leeds, England, in 1834?
... that in 1927 the Ben Gold-led Fur Workers Industrial Union was founded by New York locals expelled from the AFL-affiliated union?
... that Julián Ladera was born in a ghost village?

02:05, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Thomas Davies, a Royal Artillery officer, was the first to illustrate and describe the Superb Lyrebird (pictured)?
... that award-winning crossword constructor Bernice Gordon, who turns 100 this month, is the oldest living contributor to The New York Times crossword puzzle and still creates new puzzles every day?
... that Abhilash Tomy, the first Indian to complete a solo, non-stop circumnavigation under sail, used the INSV Mhadei for his voyage?
... that Hadidjah was not partnered with her husband as a supercouple, but rather a footballer?
... that MTV initially refused to broadcast the music video for The Pursuit of Happiness' song "I'm an Adult Now" because of its references to drugs, alcohol, and sex?
... that American football player Jim Collier scored the New York Giants' only touchdown in the 1962 NFL Championship Game by recovering a blocked punt in the end zone?
... that Gandhi was "the best policeman the Britisher had in India", according to Subhas Chandra Bose in The Indian Struggle?

11 January 2014

18:20, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

... that singer Rebecca Simonsson (pictured) and the other members of the music group Sunblock, all glamour models, have been called "the sexiest thing since The Pussycat Dolls"?
... that No. 482 Squadron RAAF's main hangar, upgraded in preparation for the entry into service of the F-111C swing-wing bomber, was nicknamed the "Taj Mahal"?
... that Indian sprinter Milkha Singh set an Asian Games record in the 400 metres when he won gold in the 1958 Games in Tokyo?
... that London's oldest operational fire station, with an extension designed in the 1890s by Robert Pearsall, closed on 9 January 2014?
... that Whisper has been called "the anti-Facebook"?
... that Veganz, Europe's first vegan supermarket chain, opened in Berlin in 2011 and plans to open in London in 2014?
... that Onfim, a 13th-century boy from Novgorod, did his homework on pieces of birch bark, writing psalms and drawing images of himself, animals, and his teacher?

10:36, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the three-generation Kim dynasty government of North Korea (monuments pictured) is similar to a royal family, unlike all other communist countries?
... that Edgar Lee Masters wrote a poem dedicated to Chicago Symphony Orchestra benefactor Bryan Lathrop?
... that Indian sprinter Milkha Singh set an Asian Games record in the 400 metres when he won gold in the 1958 Games in Tokyo?
... that Koeda Sembrani was the last romance which partnered Roekiah and Djoemala?
... that Washington State lost fumbles twice in the last three minutes, allowing Colorado State to come back from a 15-point deficit to win the 2013 New Mexico Bowl 48–45?
... that Sinaloa Cartel drug lord El Chino Ántrax raffled cars and other gifts to his followers on social media?
... that the western three-toed skink is sometimes persecuted because it is mistakenly thought to be venomous?
00:00, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

... that England national football team colleagues Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle (pictured) reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart with "Diamond Lights"?
... that Hallelujah! The Welcome Table (2004) is author and poet Maya Angelou's first cookbook?
... that the bulk of the founders of the Socialist Party of Honduras had been members of the Christian Democratic Party?
... that Rabbi Ezra Schochet, dean of Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad, Los Angeles, is also the yeshiva's CEO, curriculum supervisor, and senior professor of Talmud?
... that in 1942 McKissack & McKissack received $5.7 million to design and build an airfield for the Tuskegee Airmen – the largest contract that the U.S. government had ever awarded to a Black company?
... that the news site Caucasian Knot does not have any editorial offices due to security concerns?
... that Swedish aircraft designer Swen Swanson designed his first home-built airplane when he was 17 years old?

10 January 2014

16:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

... that physician and relief worker Ruth A. Parmelee (pictured) reported during the Armenian genocide that thousands of people "drop dead from hunger, thirst, and fatigue"?
... that the winner of two-player dueling indie game Nidhogg is eaten by the mythological Norse serpent Níðhöggr?
... that Stephen Rubin turned the Liverpool Shoe Company into Pentland Group, the UK's largest sports apparel company and owner of Berghaus, Mitre, Speedo and several other brands?
... that the African Children's Choir appears on Steven Curtis Chapman's 2012 Christmas album Joy?
... that after his defeat by the Scots in 1384, Ralph de Greystoke was taken to Dunbar Castle and ransomed for 3,000 marks?
... that the Elias Kumler House was restored after being condemned as a structural hazard?
... that Benjamin Clementine was discovered by a record company agent while busking on the Paris Métro?

08:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

... that preservationists saved the tower of the Walnut Hills United Presbyterian Church (pictured), even though the rest of the building was demolished?
... that radicals can be stabilized by the captodative effect?
... that in the early 16th century Andrea Cambini wrote a notable history of the Ottoman Empire, although he had never left Italy?
... that Batool Fatima has played 76 One Day International cricket matches, the most by a Pakistani woman player?
... that Hezekiah Balch helped found Tusculum College, one of the first American colleges west of the Appalachian Mountains?
... that there are two war memorials in Crewe, one with a statue of a soldier, and the other with a statue of Britannia?
... that June Newton chose the pseudonym "Alice Springs" for her photography work by blindly stabbing a pin into a map of Australia and landing on the town of the same name?

00:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

... that when the Statue of Richard Grosvenor (pictured) was created in the 1860s, it was said to have been the largest sculpture in Britain to be carved from a single block of marble?
... that blind poet María Josefa Mujía was Bolivia's first woman writer after its independence?
... that Kotschy's gecko climbs well despite not having adhesive pads on its toes?
... that Gary Loveman was a Harvard professor before his present occupation as CEO of Caesars Entertainment, and his career became a business case study at Stanford?
... that video game Dropsy began as an illustrated story for which the plot was guided by commentators on a Something Awful forum post?
... that before his rugby career, Luke Baldwin competed in track and field in secondary school?
... that instead of repairing their damaged ships at the Venetian arsenal in Corfu, many captains chose to sink them?

9 January 2014

16:00, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

... that De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe (three main characters pictured), the 1924 Dutch children's book based on a real-life shipwreck in 1618, has sold more than 250,000 copies?
... that illustrator, hill farmer, and painter Reg Gammon was honoured by a retrospective at the RWA for his 100th birthday?
... that the first Test of India's 2013–14 series against South Africa saw wicket-keepers from both teams bowling in the same match for the first time ever in Test cricket?
... that Stein Reinertsen is the first bishop of Church of Norway since Reformation who was not appointed by the Norwegian government?
... that Aeroflot Flight 3519 crashed in 1984, killing 110 people?
... that Addison Cresswell, agent to Jonathan Ross and Michael McIntyre, founded a company with Paul Merton and Julian Clary?
... that the music video for Tupac Shakur's song "Temptations" does not feature Shakur because he was incarcerated at the time?

08:00, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

... that indie games designer Phil Fish (pictured) said in a scene of Indie Game: The Movie that he would kill himself if he didn't release his game, which later sold a million copies?
... that at 1,025 route kilometers, Tiruchirappalli forms the second largest division of India's Southern Railway zone?
... that the current Japanese record for women's high jump was set by Miki Imai in 2001?
... that the asteroid 2014 AA entered Earth's atmosphere on the early morning of January 2, 2014, less than a day after it was discovered?
... that the principal of the Communist Party of Burma Medical School, Yebaw Tun Maung, was killed in an army attack in 1968?
... that one reviewer found Poesaka Terpendam to be the first film in which Djoemala seemed out of place?
... that Adrian Piper, a black, female conceptual artist, has said that she was kicked out of the art world for her race and gender?

00:00, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Barzillai J. Chambers (pictured), the Greenback Party's 1880 nominee for Vice President of the United States, was not active during the campaign after he was injured falling from a train?
... that during the Second World War, the Luftwaffe landed planes on a frozen lake at Trondheim Airport, Jonsvatnet, where the ice was 1 metre (3 ft) thick?
... that Stewart Mell scored Scarborough's first goal in the Football League?
... that the Gratiot County Courthouse, a Classical Revival structure, was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1957 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976?
... that David Bosco served as deputy director of a joint United Nations–NATO project on refugee repatriation in Sarajevo?
... that V603 Aquilae was the brightest nova recorded, outshone by only Sirius and Canopus?
... that after being won by Colombians in its first four years, the Bogotá Women's Race has been won by Africans ever since?

8 January 2014

16:00, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Henry John Elwes described Wellingtonia Avenue (pictured) as "by far the best avenue" of giant sequoia that he had seen?
... that Iosif Vulcan changed the name of a young literary debutant to Mihai Eminescu, later Romania's national poet?
... that the grass Vetiveria nigritana is grown in farms in Nigeria to control soil erosion, provide pest control, and improve the yield of crops such as maize?
... that in the 1972 New Year Honours, Patrick Kay was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath?
... that West House, Chelsea, was the London home of Withnail's flamboyantly gay Uncle Monty in the 1987 cult film Withnail and I?
... that in 882, Ishaq ibn Kundaj arrested the Abbasid Caliph al-Mu'tamid when the latter tried to flee into Tulunid territory?
... that all of the illustrations in upcoming indie puzzle video game Gorogoa are hand drawn by the developer?

08:00, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the spines of the false stonefish (pictured) are venomous and can inflict a painful wound?
... that Chinese athlete Wu Shujiao set an East Asian Games record in 100 metres hurdles when she won gold in the 2013 Games in Tianjin?
... that the social network Stage 32 is named after the old RKO Soundstage 17 where Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was filmed; now known as Paramount's Stage 32?
... that Sinaloa Cartel drug lord Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza was recently killed in a gunfight, but his body was not recovered by Mexican authorities?
... that the decision of China and the Holy See to establish diplomatic ties in 1918 did not succeed due to France's objection?
... that Hillsboro, Oregon, politician Katie Eyre Brewer was honored for helping to save a heart attack victim's life by performing CPR?
... that the song "Lungi Dance" is actually a tribute to Rajinikanth, a leading South-Indian actor?

00:00, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Baron Karl Eduard von Liphart discovered a new Leonardo da Vinci painting (angel pictured)?
... that Lucy Deane Streatfeild in 1898 was one of the first to raise concerns about the health risks arising from exposure to asbestos?
... that the 1979 British Classic St. Leger Stakes was won by a 20/1 long-shot, the French Thoroughbred Son of Love?
... that the "bad-guy cue" used in hundreds of features and cartoons comes from the 1914 photoplay tune Mysterioso Pizzicato?
... that an agent liked the sound of Onzy Matthews's band and music but expressed concern after seeing the band was racially mixed?
... that Spanish rugby union international Matt Cook is the second Jerseyman to play international rugby union?
... that The Dalles Mint in Oregon helped stop a fire?

7 January 2014

16:00, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

... that missionary Ernest Yarrow (pictured) spoke about an "organized, systematic attempt to wipe out the Armenians"?
... that Lilford's wall lizard acts as pollinator for some plants endemic to the Balearic Islands?
... that Begum Akhtar Riazuddin, the first woman to write modern Urdu travelogues, was one of the 1000 PeaceWomen nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005?
... that the Spanish Federation of Sports for the Blind hosted the first IBSA World Championships and Games in 1998 in Madrid?
... that Nigerian feminist writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is sampled on Beyoncé Knowles' new album Beyoncé?
... that the Cordemais Power Station is the largest thermal power station in France?
... that Arzu Karabulut currently plays for both German and Turkish football teams?

08:00, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the Black Duck Joint Venture uses helicopter surveys to identify trends in breeding populations of the American Black Duck (pictured)?
... that Frank Macey scored two of the Amateurs' six goals against the Professionals in both the 1925 and 1926 FA Charity Shields?
... that Severe Tropical Cyclone Hina, which formed in March 1997, was the worst tropical cyclone to affect Tonga since Cyclone Isaac in 1982?
... that Edward Kirk Warren, who invented featherbone as an alternative to whalebone in corsetry, is the namesake of two state parks in Michigan?
... that the United Kingdom government's Open Government Licence is compatible with the CC-by licence?
... that American jockey Steve Cauthen rode Tap On Wood in the 2,000 Guineas Stakes in 1979 to win the first of ten British Classic victories in his career?
... that before Tsar Nicholas II of Russia gave his wife a piano, he had Earnest Lipgart paint 100 figures on it?

00:00, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

... that up to 100,000 pairs of the BBC's LS3/5A loudspeaker (pictured) have been put into circulation during its two-decade-plus production period?
... that Herbert Thomas Johnson's grave is near that of William H. Gilmore, one of Johnson's predecessors as adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard?
... that following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, there was an anti-Serb pogrom in Sarajevo?
... that Raadi Manor land was used by the Estonian National Museum and a secret Soviet airfield?
... that whilst the exact etymology is uncertain, the colour yellow and the Italian mountainous plateau La Sila have been offered as possible etymologies for Silaum, a genus of flowering plants?
... that Jane Aitken was the first woman to print an English-language Bible in the United States?
... that Jürgen Klinsmann disliked the parody song "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann?" because he felt it compared him to Hitler?

6 January 2014

16:00, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the carol "We Three Kings" (Magi pictured) was the first American Christmas carol to be featured in the "prestigious" and "influential" British collection Christmas Carols Old and New?
... that the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 allows extra U.S. federal government spending in 2014 and 2015, but limits it in 2022 and 2023?
... that Skederid Church was built by the father of Saint Bridget of Sweden, who also had some of her first religious visions there?
... that historian John Vincent called the New Social Alliance a "poor man's Young England"?
... that Rachmat Kartolo, son of actors Roekiah and Kartolo, initially did not want to enter the film industry but ultimately completed more than 40 movies?
... that the number 1 sex advertising site in Hong Kong was shut down by police in December 2013?
... that a 240-million-year-old animal latrine was dubbed "the oldest communal toilet"?

08:00, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the Lafayette dollar (obverse pictured) was the first US coin to depict an American citizen?
... that Mexican feather work was prized by both Aztec and European rulers?
... that James P. Hagerstrom is one of seven pilots to be a flying ace in two wars—World War II and the Korean War?
... that the religious festival "Fiesta del milagro" in the Argentine province of Salta started because of the 1692 Salta earthquake?
... that schools in New York and Florida have banned Rainbow Loom rubber-band bracelets, claiming they distract students in the classroom and breed animosity in the play yard?
... that at the 2005 Bound for Glory pay-per-view event, Kevin Nash had to be removed from his NWA World Heavyweight Championship match and replaced with Rhino due to a medical emergency?
... that the film Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! had its name changed three times owing to its producer's belief in numerology?

00:00, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

... that longhorn crazy ants (pictured) often share their nests with parasitic wingless ant crickets which steal food from them?
... that Track 61, which previously carried freight to the South Boston Army Base and South Boston Naval Annex, is the proposed location of a new passenger train service?
... that of the 29 listed buildings in Crewe, only one dates from before the arrival of the railway in 1837?
... that American singer-songwriter Katy Perry's "Legendary Lovers" is a worldbeat song that discusses Eastern philosophy?
... that William de Greystoke was given permission to crenellate "his dwelling place" in October 1353, which would later become known as Greystoke Castle?
... that the Tumin is an alternative currency used in the municipality of Espinal, Veracruz, Mexico?
... that Estelle Ramey's name was formalized so that she could go to school?

5 January 2014

16:00, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the true painter of Magistrate of Brussels (pictured) was only identified in 2013?
... that a collection of diaries by sailors and soldiers has been listed on the UNESCO-associated Australian Memory of the World Register?
... that it took roughly 32,000 sandbags to repair a single flood defense breach caused by Typhoon Vera?
... that Arne Pedersen, the most successful player in Fredrikstad FK history, won six league titles and three cups with the club?
... that 2014 puzzle game Monument Valley's visual style took inspiration from M. C. Escher, Japanese prints, minimalist sculpture, Fez, and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP?
... that the Tamil Communist Party leader V. Ponnambalam later regretted having contested the 1975 Kankesanthurai by-election?
... that in the inaugural Sydney Marathon, the women's winner had never run a marathon before?

08:00, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the tsunami fish (pictured) drifted thousands of miles on a ghost ship wrecked by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami before being discovered on the coast of Washington?
... that Gorky González Quiñones won the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes for his efforts to revive Mexican maiolica pottery?
... that East Preston tram depot opened at the same time that trams returned to Bourke Street where Melbourne's previous cable tram service closed in 1940?
... that Da Chu, a dynasty formed during the Jin–Song wars, was barely a month old when the Song Dynasty abolished it?
... that surgeons at the St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston were credited with developing early silicone gel implants for breast augmentation?
... that the Amitabh Bachchan Award for Youth Icon of the Year was instituted in his honour at the recently concluded 11th Chennai International Film Festival?
... that Christopher Helt represented retired Army colonel Richard J. Thomas in a 1997 lawsuit against his wife, claiming that her smoking was a violation of the Clean Air Act?

00:00, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Giles Gilbert Scott submitted two designs for the Chester War Memorial (pictured), but both were rejected?
... that the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) professional wrestling promotion held a memorial tournament to honor a wrestler who had died as a result of an injury sustained at one of their events?
... that during his 64-year career, animator Bob Givens created the first official design for Bugs Bunny?
... that Peter the Great had outlawed stone buildings in Tartu before the Great Fire of 1775?
... that in 1417, heiress Elizabeth Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick, refused to accept her family's entail to her cousin James Berkeley, starting a lawsuit which lasted until 1609?
... that Studio Killers member Chubby Cherry wrote a song based on her crush with a person named "Jenny"?
... that after SS Umona was torpedoed and sank off the coast of Sierra Leone in 1941, survivors used the reflective surface of a tobacco tin to attract the attention of potential rescuers?

4 January 2014

16:00, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

... that after the Titanic sank, Sophie Radford de Meissner (pictured), a former lady-in-waiting in the Russian court, requested an audience with the U.S. President to deliver a message from one of the victims?
... that the UK series The Taste marks Nigella Lawson's return to Channel 4 after 10 years?
... that the creation of the Warsaw Gay Movement was a counter-reaction of Polish gays against Operation Hyacinth?
... that Lancelot de Carle, an eyewitness to the trial and execution of Anne Boleyn, wrote a poem detailing her life and the circumstances surrounding her death?
... that an article in Reader's Digest about the health effects of tobacco led to an advertisement disputing the science?
... that a speech delivered by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was sampled and used by American singer Beyoncé Knowles in a song called "Flawless"?
... that footballer Ian Bennyworth paid his own transfer fee to move from Nuneaton Borough to Scarborough?

08:00, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Tropical Storm Jebi (pictured) damaged 320 homes and 200 hectares (490 acres) of crops in Quảng Ninh Province?
... that Hockey Hall of Famer Bun Cook won 636 games and seven Calder Cups as a coach, both American Hockey League records?
... that the contribution of academic accounting research to the accounting profession includes the assessment and development of accounting practices, and the development of university curricula?
... that Joe D'Cruz won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Korkai, which is based on history and the lives of Parathavars?
... that video game Cart Life, winner of three Independent Games Festival awards including the grand prize in 2013, is the first game that Richard Hofmeier developed?
... that Kim Chol-man pioneered North Korea's munitions industry, the country's economic base?
... that the IKEA soft toy Lufsig sold out in Hong Kong within hours partially due to a Cantonese pun?

00:00, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the PL-01 (pictured) is a new tank design which was developed in Poland?
... that goalkeeper Dean Lyness, an unused substitute for his first three league clubs as a teenager, finally made his Football League debut with his fourth?
... that a costume created for Hilary Swank in the 2003 film The Core later appeared in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Anomaly"?
... that D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery is one of the oldest fish hatcheries in the United States?
... that the extinct ant Afromyrma petrosa was found over a diamond mine?
... that the Downton Abbey law allows for equal succession of female heirs to hereditary titles and peerages?
... that sakte-tv (English: slow-TV) was named word of the year in Norway in 2013?

3 January 2014

16:00, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the Scottish island of Stroma was inhabited for thousands of years but was abandoned in 1962, with the last islanders leaving their houses (pictured) to fall into ruin?
... that Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain was found playing sexual games with two women while blindfolded?
... that crossover experiments are used to study the mechanisms of chemical reactions?
... that Anthony Carleton's son-in-law Hercules Underhill confirmed the sale of New Place to Shakespeare?
... that after Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell had died in 1970, $750,000 in cash was found stashed in shoeboxes and various containers in his room at Springfield's St. Nicholas Hotel?
... that Kathy Kinney was originally intended to be a one-off guest star in the pilot episode of The Drew Carey Show, but was later promoted to series regular?
... that John Everard was imprisoned in the Tower of London and expelled from the King's Inns as a result of his conduct?

08:00, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

... that Portrait of a Commander (pictured) sold for £9 million ($13.7 m) in 2010, despite doubts over its authenticity as a Rubens?
... that China, with over 34,687 species of animals and vascular plants, is the third-most biodiverse country in the world?
... that J. H. Hobbs, Brockunier and Company developed an improved formula for lime glass that enabled American manufacturers to produce high-quality glass at a lower cost?
... that the Philippines grabbed their sixteenth gold medal in men's basketball at the Southeast Asian Games as they went undefeated in the 2013 tournament?
... that in 1931 at Kimberley Downs, 80 cattle were found to have pleuropneumonia in one muster?
... that the Wright Opera House Block, a three-story Italianate commercial building constructed of cream-colored brick, was built for $20,000?
... that Luftwaffe aircraft bombed SS Abukir for an hour and a half but failed to hit her?

00:00, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

... that despite the Apollo statue (shown reassembled) already being in 121 pieces, Robert Murdoch Smith was concerned that local Arabs would further destroy them?
... that Aquilo caught fire and sank in 1966, and all aboard were rescued by the intervention of USCGC Point Ledge?
... that Albert Clapp received part of the £132 that Somerset paid to its professional cricketers in 1890?
... that early work on Bell's theorem appeared in an "underground" physics newsletter, Epistemological Letters (1973–1984), because mainstream journals were reluctant to publish it?
... that Charles Wilkins Short owned one of the most valuable private herbariums in the world?
... that one of the international reactions to the Euromaidan was the formation of a human chain on the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing in Medyka as a sign of support for pro-EU protesters in Ukraine?
... that Bruton Dovecote has over 200 pigeon holes?

2 January 2014

16:00, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

... that the first elevator in Northern California was installed in the E. Janssen Building (pictured) in Eureka?
... that Stefan Vladislav of Serbia founded the Mileševa monastery?
... that Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux orchestrated her husband's release from a concentration camp after he was captured by the Gestapo?
... that the Argentine telenovela Mis amigos de siempre features actors Osvaldo Laport and Soledad Silveyra as a couple, as in the older telenovela Campeones de la vida?
... that octogenarian poet Joyce La Mers donated $500,000 to Light Quarterly, the US's only literary magazine devoted to light verse?
... that Cossinia trifoliata trees endemic to New Caledonia have become vulnerable to extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's 1998 assessment?
... that in 1935, Ole Fahlin produced the Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe which was classified as a "flying automobile"?

08:00, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

... that when Julia Louis-Dreyfus (pictured) won an Emmy for playing Selina Meyer, she became the first comedic actress to win Primetime Emmy Awards for three different regular cast roles?
... that racing driver Jack Brabham and actor Bud Tingwell served with No. 5 Operational Training Unit RAAF as an engine mechanic and a flying instructor, respectively?
... that Stanley Hudson Dodwell was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in June 1947 for his public services in Hong Kong?
... that the ancient Assyrian Balawat Gates were discovered by the first Assyrian archaeologist, Hormuzd Rassam?
... that Michael Fenton was one of the "Patriotic Six" who resigned their seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council to frustrate the financial policy of Governor John Eardley-Wilmot?
... that the two stars of TU Muscae are so close they are in contact with each other?
... that Bridget Holmes emptied the chamber pots of four kings of England?

1 January 2014

21:14, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

... that in deleterious environmental conditions, the White Mountain saxifrage (pictured) closes up its leaf rosettes to prevent dehydration and photoinhibition?
... that the BBC First World War centenary season will include 130 newly commissioned programmes to mark the centenary of the First World War?
... that Doug Manchester, owner and publisher of U-T San Diego, built several of the tallest buildings in San Diego?
... that Rocky the Musical was written in English and later translated into German for its world premiere?
... that in 2013, mayor of Chépica Rebeca Cofré was named one of the 100 Leading Women of Chile by El Mercurio newspaper?
... that the Equestrian Statue of Viscount Combermere was the first major piece of open-air public sculpture to be erected in Cheshire?
... that publication of The Diary of Malcolm X is being held up by a legal dispute between the publisher and some of Malcolm X's daughters?

12:00, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

... that after the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, it took its first space selfie (pictured), which was posted on its Facebook account the following day?
... that while pitcher Noodles Hahn was still playing baseball, he received a job offer to become the Dallas city veterinarian?
... that in 1958, No. 486 Squadron became responsible for maintaining the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, the first turboprop aircraft operated by the RAAF?
... that Elizabeth Hussey allowed the first of the tracts by the anonymous satirist Martin Marprelate to be printed on a secret press at her home at East Molesey in October 1588?
... that the Lydia Pinkham House, on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places since 2012, is being reviewed for selection as a National Historic Landmark for its association with the Pinkhams?
... that Randall Carver portrayed taxi driver John Burns in the television series Taxi for only the first season (1978–79)?
... that Stoke sub Hamdon Priory is not, and never has been, a priory?

00:00, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

... that tonight across Scotland, people celebrating Hogmanay will go first-footing with a black bun (pictured)?
... that tilted block faulting can cause ductile lower crust of the Earth to ascend, creating domal mountain ranges?
... that the Pakistan Army Chief Raheel Sharif is the brother of Major Shabbir Sharif who died in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and received the Nishan-e-Haider?
... that Judith Pipher has been referred to as the "mother of infrared astronomy?"
... that students need to enter a lottery to attend Beaverton Health & Science School, a public school that was rated as below average by the state of Oregon?
... that William Wilkinson and Lincoln City teammates Arthur Hulme and William Ross were three of numerous new signings for Gravesend United in the 1898–99 Southern Football League season?
... that Bach set Johann Gramann's hymn "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" in a cantata reflecting the end of the year with praise?