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31 July 2010

18:00, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the 15th-century monastery of Saint Paraskevi, in Epirus, northwestern Greece, is situated on the edge of the Vikos Gorge (pictured)?
... that Commodore William Martin threatened to reduce Naples to ashes unless King Charles agreed to his demands?
... that a species of mushroom in the genus Phlebopus can attain cap diameters of up to 1 meter (3.3 ft)?
... that the 2001 film Gosford Park received seven Academy Award nominations, but came away with only one award?
... that Joseph Mabry's death in a shootout with another businessman was chronicled by Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi?
... that the Windswept Helmet-orchid of Macquarie Island is threatened by rabbit digging and seal wallowing?
... that New Jersey General Assemblyman Peter J. Genova sponsored a bill that would make English the state's official language, stating that "Spanish has just grown too prominent in New Jersey"?
... that an invocation to the Norse god Thor is hidden on the Sønder Kirkeby Runestone using bind runes located in the waves under a ship image?
... that college football coach Billy Laval modified his team's jerseys to help a color-blind quarterback find his receivers?

12:00, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the foundations of the redundant church of St Andrew, Woodwalton, Cambridgeshire, (pictured) are moving and it is closed to visitors?
... that less than six weeks after being fired from his 20-year career as the University of Wisconsin's football coach and athletic director, Ivy Williamson died from falling down a staircase?
... that the Ascension Island parsley fern was considered extinct until four plants were recently discovered on Ascension Island?
... that after resigning from the University of Tennessee presidency amid controversy, John Shumaker was honored by the University of Louisville for increasing its focus on research?
... that the PWS-4, a Polish sports aircraft built in 1928, was not developed beyond a single prototype?
... that commercial fishing of Sockeye salmon from the Chilkoot Lake in Haines Borough, Alaska, is worth about US$1 million annually?
... that as a result of his success during the Cambodian Campaign, Army of the Republic of Vietnam General Do Cao Tri was dubbed the "Patton of the Parrot's Beak"?
... that the 16th-century 140–142 Hospital Street in Nantwich, Cheshire, may stand on the site of the 11th-century Hospital of St Nicholas, which gives the street its name?
... that Therdchai Jivacate has designed and built prosthetic limbs for elephants injured by landmines?

06:00, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

... that American abstract artist Frederick Hammersley devised three categories for his paintings (example pictured): "Hunches", "Geometrics", and "Organics"?
... that at age 46, Bob Emery already ranks among the 20 all-time winningest college men's ice hockey coaches, with 465 wins?
... that the children's book Do You Know What I'm Going To Do Next Saturday? by Helen Palmer Geisel is often mistaken as a Dr. Seuss book?
... that Monroe Jay Lustbader of New Jersey's 21st Legislative District proposed stiffening penalties for juvenile car thieves, as those "old enough to steal cars are old enough to face severe consequences"?
... that Hungarian National Defence Day falls on 21 May, the anniversary of the climax of the Battle of Buda (1849)?
... that Lithuanian poet Liudas Gira was a member of the delegation sent to petition the Soviet Union to accept the newly proclaimed Lithuanian SSR into the union?
... that before the 19th century, the Kuban River flowed into both the Black Sea and the Azov Sea?
... that General Mai Huu Xuan presided over the capture of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem after a successful coup, which Do Mau helped organise?
... that the restaurant in the Hacienda El Lucero in San Miguel Acatlán, Mexico, serves crocodile ceviche?

00:00, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

... that over several million years, the insectivorous Melithreptus have diversified into foliage browsers like the Black-headed and Western White-naped, and bark foragers such as the Black-chinned and Brown-headed Honeyeater (pictured)?
... that, on July 19, 2010, Rich Cho became the first Asian American general manager in NBA history when he was hired by the Portland Trail Blazers?
... that the pearls of the Laccadive Sea have been praised for about 2,000 years?
... that Roy Vernon Scott, a professor emeritus at Mississippi State University, co-authored a history of Sam Walton and the Wal-Mart merchandising enterprise?
... that the Jawa Dam in Jordan is the oldest known dam in the world, dating back to 3000 BC?
... that John Joseph Woods won ten guineas for composing the national anthem of New Zealand?
... that the report "Top Secret America" by The Washington Post revealed that over 850,000 people in the U.S. intelligence community have top-secret clearance?
... that, despite its location in the Arctic, one could conceivably grow lettuce at Tanquary Fiord?

30 July 2010

18:00, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Ethiopian Garima Gospels (pictured) was redated by radiocarbon testing to between 330 and 650, making it one of the oldest illuminated Christian manuscripts in the world?
... that, in 1925, Doug Turnbull became the first college lacrosse player to earn first-team All-America honors four times, and to date only three other players have matched that feat?
... that the music recording project Gigi involves indie rock musicians singing new 1950s- and 60s-style pop songs?
... that former South African national rugby union team player Popeye Strydom also played baseball for Orange Free State?
... that one of the peaks in Antarctica is called The Mountain of Israeli-Palestinian Friendship?
... that Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Boudreau has the record for most wins as Cleveland Indians manager with 728?
... that the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum building, in which the Nobel Prize winner was born, was deliberately destroyed during WWII?
... that the stone "lions" seen at the gates of Shinto shrines are actually Korean dogs?

12:00, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Nevada Governor John Henry Kinkead (pictured) was the first United States official to hold office in Alaska?
... that the Capello Index is a rating system for footballers that evaluates 500 actions that a player might make during a game?
... that five-fingered jack and the tender brake are actually species of fern?
... that journalist David Twersky broke the news stories that prevented both Johnnetta B. Cole and Lani Guinier from serving in Bill Clinton's presidential administration?
... that silver phosphate, which was used in early photography as a light-sensitive agent, has recently been found to function as a photocatalyst for the splitting of water?
... that former Attorney General of Ireland Rory Brady successfully solved a dispute over land between broadcaster Pat Kenny and his neighbour?
... that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences eliminated the Grammy Award for Best Polka Album in 2009 to remain "relevant and responsive" to the music community?
... that tired of taking measurements by hand, Seymour London created the first automatic sphygmomanometer using an old blood pressure cuff, a column of mercury, a pump from a fish tank and a microphone?

06:00, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1944, while visiting the Albany Pine Bush, Vladimir Nabokov (author of Lolita) discovered the Karner Blue butterfly (pictured)?
... that Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut was the first indigenous land rights litigation in history in a common law jurisdiction?
... that Norwegian orienteer Finn Varde Jespersen was shot down as a pilot for the RAF 97 Squadron during the invasion of Normandy in 1944?
... that Max Desfor's image Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea was taken during the longest retreat in the military history of the United States?
... that the chamber choir RIAS Kammerchor performed Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, 400 years after its premiere, at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
... that during the Herero and Nama uprising of 1904/05, the settlement of Seeis in central Namibia was the location of two clashes between imperial Germany and the Herero?
... that after posting an 11–3 record, the 2007 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team lost to Appalachian State in the NCAA Division I Football Championship on December 14, 2007?
... that the Japanese actress Kirin Kiki auctioned off her first stage name on a television show because she claimed she had "nothing else to sell"?

00:00, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the timothy plant bug (pictured) causes "sticky dough"?
... that Clinton L. Riggs got along so poorly with most of his comrades in the Spanish–American War that he resigned upon returning stateside, only to later take command of the same unit?
... that St Mary's Church, Hardmead, Buckinghamshire, contains a memorial to Robert Shedden, who died in 1849 after an unsuccessful expedition to find Sir John Franklin?
... that the Byzantine megas doux John Doukas was taken hostage as a child, took captive a Serbian king, led a fleet against Chaka Bey and recovered much of western Anatolia from the Seljuks?
... that the Suludnon are an indigenous people who reside in the Capiz-Lambunao mountainous area of the island of Panay in the Visayas?
... that Radmilla Cody sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Navajo at the Kennedy Space Center in 2002?
... that Sauganash Hotel, located at Wolf Point, was Chicago's first hotel, first theater and the site where the newly formed town elected its first town trustees?
... that the soccer club Tornado Måløy FK has two home fields?

29 July 2010

18:00, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

... that two of the three French La Galissonnière-class ironclads (pictured) participated in the Sino-French War of 1884–85?
... that Eastern Michigan football coach Fred Trosko suffered a 29-game winless streak after the school refused to follow a conference policy allowing athletic scholarships?
... that St Leonard's Church, Spernall, Warwickshire, now redundant, is the only church to have been owned by the Ancient Monuments Society?
... that Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman was a top contender for the lead role in Thor, based on the Thor of Norse mythology, because the filmmakers "wanted someone with a Scandinavian touch"?
... that the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Isthmus Region was a pioneer of organic coffee production and one of the first fair trade suppliers?
... that György Ligeti dedicated his Hamburg Concerto to German hornplayer Marie Luise Neunecker, who premiered it in Hamburg with the Asko Ensemble?
... that the Copper Bull sculpture found in Iraq in 1923 was over 4,500 years old?
... that Pittsburgh steel magnate John Walker's personal library, including all of the original furnishings, was donated to Washington & Jefferson College and installed in the Thompson Library exactly as he had left it?

12:00, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

... that some of the money for the repair of the tower of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Boveney, Buckinghamshire (pictured) was raised from the proceeds of choir concerts at nearby Eton College?
... that Neri Colmenares, today a member of the Congress of the Philippines, was one of the youngest political prisoners during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos?
... that Mill Creek chert was one of the major exported raw materials of the Mississippian culture?
... that Brock Pemberton both played for and managed the minor league baseball Macon Peaches in 1980?
... that shartegosuchid crocodyliforms made up an endemic Central Asian Mesozoic fauna that existed after the breakup of Pangaea?
... that Ángel Daniel Vassallo is Virginia Tech's all-time leader in successful three-point field goals?
... that Ujazdów Avenue in Warsaw was renamed after Stalin in 1953, but the traditional name was restored three years later?
... that the Australian kerrawang, which is a shrub, should not be confused with the kurrajong, a tree, or the currawong, a sombre-plumaged bird resembling a crow?

06:00, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the giant maidenhair fern (pictured) of eastern Australia may reach 2 m high, rather than the 10 to 45 cm height of the commonly cultivated maidenhair?
... that S.R. Nathan was the first President of Singapore to exercise the constitutional power to use the nation's past reserves to fund government schemes during the financial downturn?
... that The Periodic Table of Videos, hosted by Martyn Poliakoff, is one of the most popular sets of chemistry videos on YouTube?
... that President Barack Obama called to congratulate baseball pitcher Mark Buehrle after his perfect game?
... that, in the 18th and 19th centuries, members of Friendly Societies in the west of England would hold annual parades carrying poles topped by elaborate brass emblems?
... that playwright Josefina Niggli is believed to be the only Mexican-American woman to have a theatre named after her?
... that the first known arch dam was the Glanum Dam, built by the Romans in modern-day France during the 1st century BC?
... that the National Hockey League rejected a bid for an expansion team in Norfolk, Virginia, even after more than 5,000 season tickets were sold?

00:00, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Calakmul (pictured) was one of the largest and most powerful Maya cities?
... that indigenous Bolivian politician Bienvenido Zacu Mborobainchi led a 2002 protest march, which resulted in an accord with the government enabling the formation of the Constituent Assembly?
... that seeds of the extinct Paleocene pine Pinus peregrinus are most similar to those of the modern red pine and tropical pine?
... that University of Maryland athletic director Dick Dull, who resigned after the death of Len Bias, hired a "no name" head football coach: Bobby Ross?
... that the 1985 Doug E. Fresh single "The Show" inspired a diss track from the duo who later became Salt-n-Pepa?
... that Dr. Hallowell Davis, credited with coining the term "audiology", donated his inner ear to the Central Institute for the Deaf?
... that Darryl Dawkins and Bill Willoughby were the first high school basketball players to directly enter the National Basketball Association after they were drafted in 1975?
... that the Thornbury Hoard was discovered in a back garden in South Gloucestershire, England, by a man digging a pond, and that it took two people to carry it to the local museum?

28 July 2010

18:00, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the phrase "pass with flying colors" comes from ships sailing into port (pictured)?
... that Elgin Gould, who recommended entrepreneurs build working-class communities serviced by streetcars on the outskirts of major cities, was killed in a horseback riding accident?
... that Montfichet's Tower was a fortress in central London first mentioned around 1136?
... that Louisiana State Rep. Ernest Wooton has challenged Governor Bobby Jindal's claim of confidentiality to many executive department documents?
... that the music video for the Kinks' "Don't Forget to Dance" reprised the band playing themselves on a ballroom stage from their previous video, "Come Dancing"?
... that Danish geologist Hinrich Johannes Rink was the founder of Atuagagdliutit, the first Kalaallisut language newspaper?
... that, in Mesopotamian mythology, Labbu was a lion-serpent from the sea, slain by Tishpak, protector-god of Eshnunna?
... that Hercules Renda was described as a "midget from the hills of West Virginia" who "ran, squirmed and tackled" his way into the hearts of Michigan football fans in the 1930s?

12:00, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the builder of the Skinner-Tinkham House (pictured) in Barre Center, New York, paid some of his mortgage to the Holland Land Company in cattle?
... that the term "echolocation" was coined in 1944 by Donald Griffin, whose work with Robert Galambos was the first to conclusively demonstrate its existence in bats as a tool for navigation?
... that the River Raisin National Battlefield Park will preserve the site of the United States' deadliest defeat in the War of 1812?
... that though widowed and in poor health, Princess Marie of Reuss was second-in-line to the Dutch throne from 1900 to 1909, pending the death of her then-childless cousin Queen Wilhelmina?
... that the first hoard in Pembrokeshire from the Civil War was found whilst building a tennis court at Tregwynt Mansion?
... that Cully Cobb, who grew up as a poor Tennessee farm boy, became a major agricultural publisher and co-founder of the Cobb Institute of Archeology at Mississippi State University?
... that in 1938 Nazi authorities Germanized over 1,500 place names in East Prussia?
... that William Munro, 12th Baron of Foulis, led a force of 900 men in a battle that historians are not sure ever took place?

06:00, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Steven Mithen speculates that the Neanderthals (rendition pictured) had a musical linguistic system which he calls "hmmmmm"?
... that emergency surgery was required to save Trent McCleary's life after he was hit in the throat by a slapshot during a National Hockey League game?
... that more than a hundred people were killed by the military junta of Natusch Busch during its 16-day reign in Bolivia in 1979?
... that Filipino human rights activist Etta Rosales was instrumental in bargaining a compromise deal between the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and some of its victims?
... that the Pittsburgh Wayfinder System is composed of more than 1,500 traffic signs that point the way to popular destinations in the City of Pittsburgh?
... that after Bolesław Krzywousty defeated Pomeranian dukes at the Battle of Nakło he gave Swietopelk Nakielski Nakło, and other grods (Slavic settlements) on the river Noteć as a fief?
... that the Chicago Cubs have had the first selection in Major League Baseball's entry draft only once in the draft's 45-year history?
... that the world's first looping roller coasters were tested with eggs, flowers, glasses of water, and even a monkey before human riders were allowed?

00:00, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Salmon Creek Dam (pictured) in Juneau, the capital of Alaska, was built in 1914 and was the world's first constant-angle arch dam?
... that Indian nobleman Anup Rai was known as "Singh Dalan" (Lion Crusher) because he stopped a lion from attacking Mughal emperor Jahangir during a royal hunt?
... that Codex Cyprius is one of the very few uncial manuscripts with the complete text of the four Gospels?
... that the former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig was one of two US battalion commanders in the Battle of Ap Gu during the Vietnam War?
... that one suggested toponomy of Baughurst in Hampshire is that the village is named after the "wood of the badgers"?
... that long-time NFL scout Ralph Kohl was considered the top "judge of football flesh" in BLESTO, the scouting combine of the Bears-Lions-Eagles-Steelers Talent Organization?
... that Nepalese communist politician Narayan Man Bijukchhe has won a parliamentary seat in every national election since the 1990 Jana Andolan?
... that Michigan linebacker Tony Momsen blocked a Vic Janowicz punt and recovered it in the endzone for the only touchdown in the famed 1950 Snow Bowl game?

27 July 2010

18:00, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the listed buildings in Rivington include a replica of Liverpool Castle and the Pigeon Tower (pictured)?
... that Stu Wilkins, an offensive guard on Michigan's 1947 "Mad Magicians" team, was a leader in establishing the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his hometown of Canton, Ohio?
... that the 115th Squadron of the Israeli Air Force is a training squadron tasked with emulating enemy forces and tactics?
... that Blessed Stephen Nehmé was known for repeating a mantra of "God can see me"?
... that during Operation Junction City, the Viet Cong launched separate battles on the same night at Ap Bau Bang and Suoi Tre, but lost more than 25 times as many men as their opponents?
... that in 1985, Member of the Walloon Parliament Bernard Anselme authored a decree establishing the city of Namur as the capital of Wallonia?
... that the Chimakum tribe of Native Americans were wiped out in 1847 by a Suquamish war party led by Chief Seattle, for whom the city of Seattle was later named?
... that the Queen's executioner lives in Windsor Great Park and feeds on weevils and nectar?

12:00, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

... that it has been claimed that the Citadel of Arbil (pictured) is the oldest continuously inhabited site in the world?
... that Len Dunderdale finished the 1938–39 season as Watford Football Club's top scorer, despite joining Leeds United during the season?
... that in 1944 British agents kidnapped a German general on the German occupied island of Crete?
... that in his only full Major League Baseball season, Sandy Ullrich was the second youngest regular on the Washington Senators roster?
... that the rise in the manufacturing of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 60s was partially due to the United States' embargo on China?
... that as Azerbaijan Commissar of Public Roads, Chingiz Ildyrym oversaw the construction of the first electrified railway in the Soviet Union?
... that the newly described Caquetá Titi may have a total adult population of less than 250 monkeys?
... that Black Tusk, a band that describes its music as "swamp metal," was formed when its members were all living on the same street?

06:00, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

... that three Adena burial mounds (one pictured) are scattered around the village of Zaleski, Ohio?
... that Friedrich Münter was the first Protestant to receive a doctorate of philosophy at the University of Fulda?
... that the Gunai indigenous people of Gippsland practiced controlled burning to induce the edible kangaroo apple to grow and bear fruit?
... that a bus advertisement by the Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers made the Governor of Iowa feel "personally disturbed"?
... that Gary Sheffield is one of ten baseball players to join the 500 home run club since 1999?
... that "Everyone", the official theme song of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics held in Singapore, was sung by five different artistes each representing his or her continent?
... that Democrat Mayor Thomas G. Dunn, national co-chairman of Democrats for Nixon, was "read out of the party" for his support of Republican President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election bid?
... that Paul Coe attempted to bring an aboriginal title class action claiming the entirety of Australia?

00:00, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Four brownish mushroom laying side to side on the ground, with small dark brown scales on their caps

... that the cap surface of the mushroom Strobilomyces foveatus (pictured) is covered with scales, while the spore surface is covered with spines?
... that British actress Christine McKenna starred in the 1979 series Flambards but is now a television producer in the United States?
... that only Air Greenland and Air Iceland operate at Nuuk Airport?
... that Australian Test cricket umpire Colin Egar received death threats after no-balling Ian Meckiff for an illegal bowling action?
... that pannage was a valuable right in the former royal Forest of Galtres in North Yorkshire, England?
... that Mark Gosling served for almost two years as Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, despite having only a primary education?
... that the extinct Chamaecyparis eureka is the oldest confirmed member of the genus Chamaecyparis?
... that after failing to engage two French warships, Captain Savage Mostyn demanded that he be tried by court-martial?

26 July 2010

18:00, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Huasca de Ocampo is home to one of three major formations of columnar basalt (pictured)?
... that Thomas J. Deverin proposed a bill requiring New Jersey public schools to begin with a daily period of silent meditation, which both opponents and supporters saw as reintroducing school prayer?
... that Emperor Alexander III of Russia provided funding for the construction of a Russian Orthodox church on Bredgade in Copenhagen at the behest of his Danish-born empress?
... that actress Jamie Sorrentini was directed by Harold Prince in the U.S. national tour of the musical Parade?
... that the football club Stålkameratene were expelled from their league in 1997, only to score 153 league goals the next year?
... that, although police later found the getaway car used in the murder of Morris Kessler, the crime remained unsolved?
... that Ola's Kool Kitchen was conceived by DJ Ola as a reaction against mainstream radio's focus on playlists prescribed by major record labels?
... that a drawing resembling a penis by Andy Warhol may be on the moon?

12:00, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Rivadavia-class battleships (pictured) were the subject of a fierce competition between France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States?
... that 1,200 journalists, human rights advocates, and leftist activists have been killed in the Philippines as a result of Gloria Arroyo's counter-insurgency program "Oplan Bantay Laya"?
... that the land upon which the office building Mechanics' Bank and Trust Company Building sits was originally set aside for Blout College in the 1790s?
... that John T. Gregorio resigned from the New Jersey Senate's 20th Legislative District after a conspiracy conviction for concealing his ownership of two go go bars operated by his son?
... that SteelPath is the first investment firm to offer master limited partnership mutual funds?
... that the 5830 metre high mountain of Altun Shan was formed at a bend in the Altyn Tagh fault?
... that Saskatchewan Roughriders running back Stu Foord scored a touchdown on his first Canadian Football League rushing attempt?
... that Bob Dylan wrote "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" in two days at a Ramada Inn in February 1969?

06:00, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

... that one of the Stone Age Lancken-Granitz dolmens (entrance pictured) was used as a shelter by the East German army?
... that the first public library in Cardiff, which opened in 1861, is the first public library in Wales?
... that Irish-American banker Sam McBirney coached a football team from a college with 400 students to a 16–0 win that broke the Oklahoma Sooners' 18-game winning streak?
... that Victorian cricketer Merv Harvey captained his brothers Ray and Neil twice in the same match, and another brother, Mick, also played for the state?
... that the German battleship SMS Kaiser damaged the British battleship HMS Warspite at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, forcing the Warspite to withdraw from the battle?
... that Amar Ramasar, a principal danseur of the New York City Ballet, took his first dance lessons at the Henry Street Settlement House?
... that, despite its lack of dedicated tourism infrastructure, 12 cruise ships docked at Da Nang Port in January and February 2010 alone, carrying 6,477 passengers?
... that, though critically injured in a 1944 blast that was "perhaps then the largest release in history of radioactive materials", Arnold Kramish credited his survival to his mother's chicken soup?

00:00, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

... that there are two Baffin Bays in North America, one (pictured) containing about a million times more water than the other?
... that at 15 years and 314 days, Glyn Pardoe was the youngest footballer ever to play for Manchester City when he made his debut in 1962?
... that George Washington's step-granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis married Thomas Law in 1796 at Hope Park plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia?
... that Joe Plumeri, CEO of Willis Group Holdings, got his start in 1968 by accidentally interviewing with future Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill at what he mistakenly thought was a law firm?
... that over 1,200 hoards in Britain from the Roman period have been found, but the very few hoards in Ireland containing Roman coins and silverware were probably loot taken from Britain by Irish raiders?
... that retired baseball coach Jacke Davis had five players he coached at Panola College go on to play in Major League Baseball?
... that the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans in Shreveport, Louisiana, is one of only a few churches in the world named after St. John Berchmans?
... that sleepy sponge crabs carry sponges on their back as camouflage, and have even used the sole of a shoe for that purpose?

25 July 2010

18:00, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the cast stone façade of Tucson, Arizona's Cathedral of Saint Augustine (pictured) uses indigenous desert plants as a design motif?
... that Alsatian architect François Spoerry was an advocate of vernacular architecture?
... that Bach may have reused earlier music for his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136 for the eighth Sunday after Trinity of 1723?
... that Governor Brendan Byrne recognized Alexander J. Menza for his service in the New Jersey Legislature on the Mental Health Planning Committee, calling him the "voice of the voiceless"?
... that the Norwegian teen film Amors Baller will include scenes shot at the 2010 Norway Cup, one of the world's largest football tournaments?
... that the extinct ant-like stone beetle Kachinus, found in Cretaceous amber, is similar in appearance to the modern genus Paraneseuthia?
... that Albanian film director Dhimitër Anagnosti, winner of many national and international awards, is also the screenwriter of most of the films he directs?
... that the security procedures at the Federal Detention Center in Miami prevented an attorney from meeting a client because her underwire bra set off a metal detector?

12:00, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Hans-Joachim Bohlmann vandalized more than 50 artworks worth more than 130 million euros, including Dürer's Paumgartner Altar (fragment pictured)?
... that Scottish actor Richard Madden began his career at age 11 when he was cast in the film Complicity, followed by his 1999 role in the BBC television series Barmy Aunt Boomerang?
... that Uchchaihshravas is declared the king of horses in Hindu mythology?
... that professional baseball player Pat Osburn's brother-in-law was Milt May, and father-in-law was Florida State Senator Wilbur H. Boyd?
... that the anti-Nazi resistance group "Olimp", organized in 1941 by members of the Polish minority in Wrocław, was named after Mount Olympus because of their main meeting place?
... that the Butterfield Cobblestone House, considered the finest Greek Revival building in Orleans County, New York, is the only cobblestone building in Clarendon?
... that the Colorado River's first dam and reclamation project suffered through major floods in 1912 and 1916 along with an earthquake in 1940?
... that philanthropist Florence Meyer Blumenthal was known by her family for having a "perfect figure" and for "bringing home massive amounts of clothing from Paris"?

06:00, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Man chugging milk in the park

... that six members of the North Carolina General Assembly compete in milk chugging (pictured)?
... that Operation Truong Cong Dinh took place in the same vicinity where its namesake conducted riverine guerrilla attacks a century earlier?
... that world champion triathlete Emma Carney was diagnosed with the life-threatening condition ventricular tachycardia and is fitted with a defibrillator?
... that DirectHit is the only accurate pharmacodiagnostic test to determine possible treatment outcomes of anticancer chemotherapy drugs for breast cancer?
... that the only action seen by the French ironclad Montcalm during the Franco-Prussian War was the capture of a German barque?
... that the anonymous Latin poem Ecbasis captivi is the oldest surviving example of a European beast epic, and contains the first medieval European example of anthropomorphic animals?
... that stage lighting accessories include barn doors, top hats and doughnuts?
... that Gloria J. Romero is leading a campaign in the California Legislature to remove serpentine as the official state rock because it is a source of cancer-causing asbestos?

00:00, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

... that US Army soldiers march to the top of Hill 303 in Korea every year to place flowers commemorating the victims of the Hill 303 massacre of the Korean War (memorial pictured)?
... that four of the five candidates currently running to be leader of the British Labour Party have backed a graduate tax as an alternative to tuition fees?
... that actress and women's suffrage activist Fola La Follette also picketed with and spoke on behalf of striking garment workers?
... that Tranquil Star is the only mare to have won the double of the Caulfield Stakes, now known as the Yalumba Stakes, and the Cox Plate?
... that Zbigniew Babiński, a Polish military and sports aviator who constructed gliders before WWI, was one of the victims of the Katyn massacre?
... that "Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)", originally a pop hit for Kris Kristofferson, was also a country music hit for Roger Miller and Tompall & the Glaser Brothers?
... that Oregon judge Marco A. Hernandez has been nominated to serve in the federal courts by both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama?
... that the geisha would rub nightingale droppings on their faces to help remove their heavy makeup?

24 July 2010

18:00, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

... that one of her biographers called Agnes Mowinckel (pictured) the mare of Norwegian theatre?
... that there are more than 50 protected natural areas in Colombia, including: Cali, "El mono Hernández", Estoraques, Hermosas, McBean, Munchique, Nevados, Puracé, Rosario y San Bernardo, Salamanca, Santa Marta, Tamá and Tuparro?
... that the Byzantine writer and diplomat Leo Choirosphaktes was imprisoned on his first embassy to Tsar Symeon of Bulgaria, but continued negotiations from his cell?
... that the French ironclad Reine Blanche bombarded the Tunisian port of Sfax during 5–16 July 1881 as part of the French occupation of Tunisia?
... that Michigan Wolverines center Alan Bovard coached the Michigan Tech football team to its first undefeated season in 1948?
... that among the orienteering pioneers in IL Heming in the 1930s was Per Bergsland, one of the three men who escaped to freedom in the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in 1944?
... that patients of French physician Georges Phillipe Trousseau included a Hawaiian king, a Scottish author, and a Roman Catholic saint?
... that a door-to-door salesman sold a US$1,700 Kirby vacuum cleaner to a woman with Alzheimer's who already owned one and lived alone in a mobile home?

12:00, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

... that according to Hindu mythology, the "king of songs" Tumburu (pictured) performed severe austerities to get a horse-face?
... that during the Vietnam War's Battles of Prek Klok I and II, 13 times more Viet Cong were killed than American troops?
... that "Woody" Hastings was one of the founders of circadian biology (circadian rhythms)?
... that the quantum rotor model can be used to describe superconducting Josephson junction arrays?
... that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is on death row in Iran for the crime of adultery, and was originally to be executed by stoning?
... that Wolf Point, which was part of the original 58-block 1830 plan of Chicago, was the original social center of the city and is now owned by the Kennedy family?
... that Bryan Hextall of the New York Rangers scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal in 1940, their last championship for 54 years?
... that the VW Beetle's Think Small has been called the best North American advertising campaign of the 20th century?

06:00, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

... that according to the Gospel of Mark, Jesus was buried in one of the rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel (pictured)?
... that civil engineer George Matthew McNaughton was involved with the construction of Silent Valley Reservoir in Northern Ireland?
... that recent molecular and morphological research has led to the identification of five species within the Malagasy bat species Miniopterus manavi—M. aelleni, M. brachytragos, M. griveaudi, M. mahafaliensis, and M. manavi itself?
... that Admiral Sir John Byng was executed by firing squad on the quarterdeck of HMS Monarch?
... that 350 West Mart Center was owned by the Kennedy family for over 20 years and sits on land that they owned for over 50 years?
... that Ann Waldron initially wrote children's books, then turned to biographies of authors from the Southern United States, and at age 78 began writing murder mysteries set at Princeton University?
... that Tryon D. Lewis was elected in 2008 to the Texas House of Representatives as an ally of Speaker Tom Craddick, who was then toppled by intraparty rival Joe Straus?
... that Brazil has been the world's largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years?

00:00, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Dutch government created the Museum Maluku (pictured) in Utrecht as a gift to the Moluccan community in the Netherlands?
... that in 1942 only two men returned from Operation Anglo, the Special Boat Section raid on the island of Rhodes?
... that in spite of hesitations due to the growing influence of Nazism in Germany, the International Federation of Trade Unions moved its headquarters to Berlin in 1931?
... that French ironclad Alma blockaded the Prussian corvettes Hertha and Medusa in the Japanese port of Yokohama during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71?
... that Commelina sphaerorrhizoma, a south-central African dayflower, was first collected in 1906, but not formally described until 2009?
... that a cave in Okinawa is called the Cave of the Negroes because three apparently African American US Marines were killed by villagers and their bodies dumped in the cave?
... that Kapyl, a town in modern Belarus, was listed in the atlas of Ortelius of 1574?
... that the water cricket Velia caprai can travel twice as fast after spitting on the water?

23 July 2010

18:00, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the French ironclad Jeanne d'Arc (model pictured) was part of a squadron of French ships that attempted to blockade Prussian ports in the Baltic Sea in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War?
... that Robert S. Lancaster created the website StopSylvia.com because he found Sylvia Browne's claims of psychic knowledge about missing children to be "incredibly offensive"?
... that "little white", a mushroom in the fungal genus Trogia, has been implicated in the deaths of about 400 people in Yunnan, China?
... that the 2007 Indy Japan 300, an IndyCar Series at Twin Ring Motegi, was the only race in that series held outside North America?
... that Swedish physician Nils Rosén von Rosenstein is considered to be the founder of modern pediatrics with his 1764 book The diseases of children, and their remedies?
... that reporting by Martin Waldron on how construction expenses for the Florida Turnpike quadrupled from original estimates earned the St. Petersburg Times its first Pulitzer Prize?
... that in the 89-year history of the Royal Australian Air Force, only three officers have been promoted to air chief marshal, the service's highest active rank?
... that in an attempt to "beef him up", Watford manager Graham Taylor placed a then 17-year-old Nigel Gibbs on a steak and Guinness diet?

12:00, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the historical Bibi-Heybat Mosque near Baku, Azerbaijan, (pictured), destroyed in 1934 as a result of the Soviet anti-religious campaign, was reopened in 1997 at the same location after the country gained independence?
... that although formally established by U.S. President Bill Clinton, the President’s Management Council has existed in various forms since the Reagan administration?
... that the 19th-century mime Charles Deburau, son of the illustrious Jean Gaspard, played before adoring audiences in the French provinces—but found little success in Paris?
... that area residents took legal action over the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston's construction of a large retreat house at the St. Methodios Faith and Heritage Center in Contoocook, New Hampshire?
... that the Northern Utina tribe took the forefront in the Timucua Rebellion of 1665, a revolt by several Timucua tribes against the colonial government of Spanish Florida?
... that Alanngorsuaq, a mountain in Greenland, has reservoirs providing 882,000 m³ of water?
... that Fulham player Maurice Cook scored the first ever goal in the Football League Cup?
... that Earache got Wormrot in January 2010?

06:00, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

... that using concepts described in Sefer ha-Temunah (pictured) the 13th-century Kabbalist Isaac ben Samuel calculated the age of the Universe, a number relatively close to the one estimated by NASA?
... that Chinese MiG pilot Zhang Jihui was credited for shooting down American Sabre ace George Davis on February 10, 1952, until Russian pilot Mikhail A. Averin disputed the claim 40 years later?
... that before "the mouth that roared" was mayor of Jersey City, he was vice-president of Hudson County Community College?
... that the Alma-class ironclads were designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme as an improved version of the French ironclad Belliqueuse suitable for foreign deployments?
... that the Laurel Run Dam, an earthen embankment dam that failed during the 1977 Johnstown flood, caused a total of US$5.3 million in damages?
... that Garrett Rivas, a placekicker, is the all-time leading scorer in Michigan Wolverines football history?
... that in the history of Gaborone, the city was attacked by South Africa four times, in 1983, 1985, 1986 and 1988, after being accused of harboring African National Congress terrorists?
... that the Hudson Utility Coupe could be used "either as a car or a truck"?

00:00, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

... that along with the giant lacewings, the moth lacewing family (fossil pictured) are regarded as the most primitive living Neuroptera?
... that Josiah Royce was the first philosopher to address the idea of loyalty, although writers in other fields had previously considered the concept?
... that Louisiana State Representative Cameron Henry in 2010 failed to gain approval of his proposed legislation to abolish his state's office of lieutenant governor?
... that Military Road in Arlington County, Virginia, was built by U.S. Army troops in just three days?
... that the first diamonds in Namibia were found near the village of Berseba in 1898?
... that the Prix Blumenthal was a prize of 20,000 francs awarded to up-and-coming French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians?
... that the Historic Chapels Trust preserves 18 redundant churches in England?
... that German classical tenor Marcus Ullmann has taken part in the recording of all Lieder of Franz Schubert, more than 700, set to the poetry of over 115 writers?

22 July 2010

18:00, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

... that at first light in 1987, the William Herschel Telescope (pictured) was the third largest single optical telescope in the world, and is still the second largest in Europe?
... that Interurban Press, a former publisher of books about streetcars and railways, also published the railfan-oriented magazines, Pacific RailNews and Passenger Train Journal?
... that Operation Lam Son II during the Vietnam War was an attempt to combine security sweeps with winning hearts and minds by organizing village fairs?
... that Crime and Punishment is a stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky′s classic novel, performed by just three actors, with each playing multiple roles?
... that in the 1970 presidential election in DR Congo, Joseph Mobuto received more votes than the number of registered voters?
... that Clara Claiborne Park was credited with writing one of the first books to allay the blame that so-called "refrigerator mothers" were made to feel at having caused their child's autism?
... that the buffalo jump at Madison Buffalo Jump State Park in Montana was used for approximately 2000 years by various Native American tribes?
... that the luxury apartment building 1049 5th Avenue is not actually on Fifth Avenue?

12:00, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Steamtown, USA was a steam locomotive museum (pictured) that ran excursions out of North Walpole, New Hampshire, and Bellows Falls, Vermont, from the 1960s until 1983?
... that R. V. Truitt, a World War I fighter pilot, studied Chesapeake Bay oysters for 30 years?
... that according to a legend, Bachorza manor is haunted?
... that during 2002 and 2003, professional wrestler Justin McIsaac would make three-hour drives from New Hampshire to Massachusetts so he could compete in Yankee Pro Wrestling?
... that the United States men's volleyball team won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympics, after not competing at the three previous Games?
... that Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Weir was kidnapped as a child, and decades later regularly had to prevent her mother from being kidnapped?
... that the French ironclad Belliqueuse once served as the China Station flagship but was later used for target practise by the French Navy?
... that Sarama is a bitch – in Hindu mythology – who snatches human foetuses from the womb?

06:00, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Geyuan Temple's Wenshu Hall (pictured) is the earliest extant wooden building dating from 966 CE during China's Liao Dynasty?
... that with 16.33 million American viewers, "Warning, It's Dirty" is the highest-rated episode of Two and a Half Men since "David Copperfield Slipped Me a Roofie", which had 16.52 million viewers?
... that after the French ironclad Atalante was condemned in Saigon in 1887, she fell into such a state of disrepair that "she foundered one night and gradually sank into the mud"?
... that the States of Maryland and Colorado have laws specifically prohibiting newspaper theft, including the taking of free newspapers, with the intent of preventing another from reading the newspaper?
... that U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam Graham Martin held George W. Webber implicitly responsible for a mortar attack that killed 32 South Vietnamese children?
... that, in 2010, American professional wrestler Scott C. Despres twice defeated Antonio Thomas in the space of a month?
... that PWS-3 was the first sports aircraft manufactured by the Polish aerospace industry?
... that after Henry Ciccarone called his 1979 squad "the greatest Johns Hopkins lacrosse team ever", Sports Illustrated wrote, "It might be easier to name the most beautiful Miss America"?

00:00, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

... that an exhibition of the work of the Glasgow Girls including Norah Neilson Gray (self-portrait pictured) is on display this month in Kirkcudbright?
... that the Michigan Wolverines, hosting the Ohio State Buckeyes in 2003, set the Big Ten Conference single-game attendance record?
... that Italian priest Pierino Gelmini remained a respected member of the Roman Catholic priesthood between his imprisonment in the 1970s and indictment in 2010?
... that the French ironclad Armide served as the flagship of the French Levant Squadron in 1874–75?
... that Ruby Brooks recorded "Tell Me Pretty Maiden" for Zonophone Records in 1902?
... that by the early 19th century, trett, an allowance of 4 pounds per 104 of commodities imported to Great Britain for dust, sand, and other waste, had fallen into disuse?
... that the newly spreading practice in East Africa of flashblood, injecting oneself with blood of another heroin user to get high, has been called "the most effective way of infecting yourself with HIV"?
... that John Howard explained his failed attempt at establishing a new sport at DePauw University by saying, "Either I'm a lousy teacher or kids in Indiana just didn't like lacrosse"?

21 July 2010

18:00, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

... that no train ever stopped at the depot built for the Hawthorne Mill (pictured) in Greenwich, Connecticut, because the planned rail line was never built?
... that in 1946 the Red Flag Communist Party initiated a guerrilla insurgency against British rule in Burma?
... that the work of American artist Sanford Biggers has been characterized by meditation and improvisation?
... that the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Blackpool, Lancashire, was built as a thanksgiving for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster being relatively undamaged in the Second World War?
... that musicologist Olav Gurvin co-edited the first Norwegian music encyclopedia in 1949?
... that in 1958, Army lacrosse coach Jim Adams fielded 33 different players against Duke to prevent running up the score, but his team still won 21–2?
... that on 3 July 1877 the French ironclad Thétis rammed her sister ship Reine Blanche, which had to be run ashore to prevent her from sinking?
... that in 2000, porters at Sotheby's auction disposed of a box in a crushing machine, accidentally destroying a painting worth about US$157,000 inside?

12:00, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

... that only a few manuscripts have fallen into such unworthy hands as Codex Boreelianus (pictured)?
... that Al Heagy, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee and Maryland head coach, also served as a university professor and the mayor of University Park, Maryland, during his coaching tenure?
... that two British monarchs took the crown at Baynard's Castle, a medieval palace in central London?
... that Google Personalized Search, a feature of Google Search, returns search results based on previous search queries made by the same person, and which results they clicked on?
... that Rose Van Thyn, a survivor of Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck, became a leading figure in Holocaust education in her adopted city of Shreveport, Louisiana?
... that the U.S. Justice Department tried to cite the merger of Detroit-based chains Cunningham Drug and Kinsel Drug as a violation of the Clayton Antitrust Act?
... that the largest landslide triggered by the 1949 Khait earthquake, the Yasman valley flowslide, had a volume of 245 Mm³ and killed about 4,000 people?
... that between the Reformation, when it became redundant, and the mid-19th century, when it was restored, Longworth Chapel in Herefordshire was used for cider making?

06:00, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the redundant Umberslade Baptist Church (pictured) near Hockley Heath, Solihull, West Midlands, is the sole survivor among grand chapels associated with the rise of Birmingham Nonconformity?
... that the largest social graph, which represents the relationships between online users, is owned by Facebook, the world's largest social networking service?
... that the Ribbon Creek incident at U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island resulted in the relief "without prejudice" of Major General Joseph C. Burger?
... that after Norwegian soccer club Stord Sunnhordland FK was discontinued, the chairman of the owners called it "a club without soul"?
... that Fort Defiance in Iowa was built to protect a gristmill and sawmill during the Dakota War of 1862?
... that although he was expelled by the Jesuit order for supporting the ordination of women, William R. Callahan insisted he was just "following the example of Jesus, who was never willing to shut up"?
... that the Oak Circle Historic District was the first historic district to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilmette, Illinois?
... that Randy Corman said juvenile car thieves "should not look at incarceration like summer camp", after an incident where a juvenile sought arrest hoping to be incarcerated together with his friends?

00:00, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Dusky Robin (pictured) was known as "Stump Robin" by early settlers in Tasmania due to its penchant for perching on fenceposts and stumps?
... that Inderjit Singh, member of the Parliament of Singapore, started six businesses?
... that a professional wrestler broke his leg at Ring of Honor's pay-per-view, The Big Bang!, but was still able to win his match?
... that the Landing Ship, Infantry HMS Invicta took part in Operation Jubilee and Operation Overlord?
... that the Michigan Wolverines football team's many high-achievers include Tyrone Wheatley in 1993, Mike Hart in 2004, and records breaker John Navarre of the 2002 team?
... that "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari" was the first release by the Japanese J-pop music group Supercell to feature a human singer?
... that Hinduism allows voluntary fasting to death, known as Prayopavesa, for a person who has no desire or ambition left and no responsibilities remaining in life?
... that Maine author C. J. Stevens amazed many of his readers by revealing that gold nuggets can be found by panning certain rivers?

20 July 2010

18:00, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

... that "milkcaps" can be orange (pictured), bright yellow, golden, woolly, downy, northern, sticky, smoky, velvety, deceptive, or vulgar?
... that Private James Pym won the Medal of Honor for carrying water to wounded soldiers while under heavy fire during the Battle of Little Bighorn?
... that the earliest settlements of Shiites in the Netherlands date back to the 1960s?
... that Parisian artist Paule Marrot landed a job at Renault developing bright colors for the forthcoming Dauphine after writing the company to say the cars of postwar Paris were uniformly somber?
... that the Michigan Wolverines football team won five consecutive Big Ten Conference championships from 1988 to 1992, with six players of the 1991 team being selected in the 1992 NFL Draft?
... that the All Burma Trade Union Congress was banned in the wake of the March 1948 crackdown on the Communist Party of Burma?
... that in 1975, Julie Ann Brown became the first American woman to win the World Cross Country Championships?
... that Captain Aub Koch of G-AEUH, a Qantas airliner shot down by Japanese fighter planes in 1942, also survived being shot down again in 1943?

12:00, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

... that at its peak, the historic James Cant Ranch (pictured) in Oregon occupied 11,000 acres (4,500 ha) and sent 500–600 cattle to market each year?
... that footballer Andy Leaning was named man of the match following York City's 3–1 extra time defeat at Liverpool in the FA Cup fifth round in 1986, with his performance being described as "heroic"?
... that Smolensky Cemetery in St. Petersburg contained the graves of mathematician Leonhard Euler and Ukraine's national poet Taras Shevchenko?
... that Takayutpi, who reigned from 1526 to 1539, was the last sovereign king of Hanthawaddy Pegu?
... that Minneapolis' bicycle sharing system Nice Ride Minnesota served over 10,000 trips in its first month?
... that Miroslav Tichý is a photographer who took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes and tin cans?
... that Hugh Main, an Australian politician, was a member of the Progressive Party's rural "True Blues" faction that evolved into the Country Party?
... that the American Classic Arcade Museum located at Funspot has been called "the Louvre of the '8-bit' world"?

06:00, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

... that it has been suggested that the shepherds in Mantegna's The Adoration of the Shepherds (pictured) are facing Joseph rather than Jesus?
... that Hockey Hall of Fame forward George Hay scored the first goal in the history of the Chicago Blackhawks in 1926?
... that Béla Bartók's Suite, Op. 14 originally featured five movements until Bartók discarded the second planned movement before publication?
... that in the wake of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Stephen A. Mikulak sponsored a bill, later signed into law, that would impose the death penalty for terrorists who kill anyone in New Jersey?
... that Sylvia Salvesen, a member of Oslo's high society, testified in 1946 about her experiences as a prisoner at the Ravensbrück concentration camp?
... that the 1999 Michigan Wolverines football team, featuring 2007 NFL MVP and Athlete of the Year Tom Brady, holds the all-time NCAA single-season attendance record?
... that prior to releasing her first EP, a song by singer-songwriter Oksana Grigorieva was featured on the Josh Groban album Awake?
... that critics found Lula 3D's "Bouncin' Boobs Technology" unrealistic?

00:00, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Charles-Amable Lenoir received a bronze medal at the 1900 World's Fair for a painting of his wife (pictured)?
... that Belarus contains large, but undeveloped reserves of oil shale?
... that Chet D. Traylor, a former Louisiana Supreme Court justice, has entered the 2010 Republican primary to challenge U.S. Senator David Vitter?
... that in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the right to boycott peacefully?
... that from the 1880s to the early 1930s there was a significant Chinese immigrant population in Mexico?
... that Burmese communist leader H. N. Goshal was executed in an inner-party purge in 1967, after having been denounced as "Burma's Liu Shaoqi"?
... that Jerusalem's Street of the Prophets was originally called "Street of the Hospitals" and "Street of the Consuls"?
... that in his book The Feather Men, Sir Ranulph Fiennes claimed to have survived a series of assassinations of SAS officers by a hit squad known as "The Clinic"?

19 July 2010

18:00, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Ward's Castle (pictured), on the state line between Rye Brook, New York and Greenwich, Connecticut, is believed to be the first reinforced concrete building in the United States?
... that The Spectator said the 1910 cricket match between Eton College and Harrow School "might be the greatest cricket match of all time"?
... that Sherman White is remembered as the best college basketball player in Long Island University history, though few got to see him play?
... that it has often been claimed that the 1948 Southeast Asian Youth Conference, held in Calcutta, marked the starting point for various armed communist insurgencies in different Asian countries?
... that Remy Hamilton established the current Big Ten Conference single-season record for successful field goals at 25 during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season?
... that the British aircraft carrier HMS Furious left her berth next to the battleship Royal Oak in Scapa Flow the day before Royal Oak was sunk by the German submarine U-47?
... that countertenor Patrick Van Goethem has taken part in the project Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia to record the complete works of Baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude?
... that the first find by amateur metal detectorist Nick Davies was the Shrewsbury Hoard, which contained around 10,000 bronze Roman coins?

12:00, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

... that George Shepherd (sample painting pictured) was one of the founding members of what is now the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours?
... that Enrique Pérez Santiago was the first Puerto Rican hematologist?
... that during the Vietnam War the Swedish FNL movement used to attack U.S. diplomats with eggs, tomatoes and, occasionally, surströmming?
... that the architectural style of Canadian architect David Webster has been locally referred to as a "castle style"?
... that Moose Brook State Park in New Hampshire is considered to be an excellent example of Civilian Conservation Corps design?
... that Robert Riefling, who debuted as a classical pianist in 1922, was appointed Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music more than fifty years later?
... that in 1675 bones of five Christian saints and one Hungarian monarch were discovered at the Pula Cathedral in Croatia?
... that Edward L. Rowan is a retired sex therapist and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award?

06:00, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the rufous candy cap mushroom (pictured) has been used by San Francisco Bay Area chefs in various desserts?
... that the Requiem of Max Reger is a musical setting not of the Latin Requiem, but of a poem Requiem written by the dramatist Friedrich Hebbel?
... that KANUKOKA is an association that facilitates cooperation between the four municipalities of Greenland—including the largest and the second largest municipalities in the world by area?
... that there is a monument in Colonia Obrera, Mexico City, to the seamstresses who died here during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake?
... that by the Treaties of Cölln and Mewe, the Teutonic Order first pawned, then sold, Neumark to Brandenburg to pay its mercenaries?
... that Hockey Hall of Famer Babe Siebert drowned in Lake Huron before he could take up a new role as coach of the Montreal Canadiens in 1939?
... that species in the fungal genus Ceratobasidium cause economically important plant diseases such as sharp eyespot of cereals and black rot of coffee?
... that the ferry from Godbout to Matane, Quebec, is Godbout's main employer?

00:00, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

... that urban renewal led to only one side of Lake Street (pictured) in Bergen, New York, being designated a historic district?
... that Claude Bracey, know as "the Texas Flyer," won the 100- and 220-yard sprints at the 1928 NCAA Track Championships and tied the world record in the 100-meter race in 1932?
... that the E. L. Patton Yukon River Bridge is the only bridge crossing of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska?
... that as a New Jersey State Senator, John J. Fay, Jr. proposed a bill creating the Office of the Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly, and was later appointed its first ombudsman?
... that the Shapwick Hoard, found by metal detecting cousins in 1998, contained the largest number of silver denarii ever found in Great Britain and was equivalent to ten years' pay for a Roman legionary?
... that Bach composed in Leipzig his cantata Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186, for the seventh Sunday after Trinity expanding his cantata written in Weimar for Advent?
... that the common soft bracken of eastern Australia is not actually a bracken, but a member of a tree fern family?
... that professional baseball player Joe Hague replaced profane language in his everyday speech with the word mullet?

18 July 2010

18:00, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

... that originally described as the Lord of thieves, Kubera (pictured) is now worshipped as the Hindu god of wealth and the regent of the North?
... that ronde-bosse involved the partial concealment of genuine gold, whereas traditional enamelling practices saw lesser materials such as copper or silver being gilded to look like gold?
... that Andrew J. Weaher was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1869 at one of the US Army's largest-ever presentations of the medal at the time?
... that Shinan District, Qingdao, China, is the site of the Qingdao International Sailing Centre, a sailing marina constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics?
... that in the years 1998, 2000 and 2001, the Michigan Wolverines football team led the Big Ten Conference in different areas including total defense, passing efficiency and turnover margin?
... that Frederick Arthur Whitaker, Civil Engineer-in-Chief to The Admiralty, was also a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and a Commander of the French Legion of Honor?
... that 18 commercial coffee plantations were established in 1926 in Sangara, Papua New Guinea, paving the way for commercial production from 1928?
... that MEP Ryszard Czarnecki thought fellow Polish MEP Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein might harm the Civic Platform in the 2009 elections because of her German-sounding name?

12:00, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Hope Mills Dam (pictured) in Hope Mills, North Carolina, failed in 2010 just two years after being reconstructed due to a 2003 failure?
... that Medal of Honor recipient First Lieutenant Lewis Warrington III is the grandson of American naval hero Lewis Warrington?
... that the 2010 Coke Zero 400 was the first NASCAR race broadcast in 3D?
... that the State Rep. Leo Berman of Tyler, particularly known for his outspoken opposition to illegal immigration, is a candidate for Speaker of the Texas House in 2011?
... that Indian communist politician and six-time Tripura Legislative Assembly member Bidya Debbarma never lost any election he contested?
... that Jeffrey A. Warsh proposed banning the use of photo radar systems, calling them an "assault on the system of American jurisprudence" that would replace "the tradition that we are innocent until proven guilty"?
... that Todmorden Unitarian Church in West Yorkshire was built in memory of "Honest John" Fielden, and paid for by his three sons?
... that according to legend, Hockey Hall of Famer Duke Keats once scored a goal after carrying the puck the length of the ice while skating backwards?

06:00, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Fonthill vase (pictured) is the earliest documented example of Chinese porcelain to have reached Europe, in the middle of the 14th century?
... that James H. Turpin was among 23 U.S. cavalrymen awarded the Medal of Honor for "gallantry in actions with Apaches" in the winter campaign of 1872–1873?
... that while John Fawcett was minister of Wainsgate Baptist Church in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, he wrote the words of the hymn Blessed Be the Tie that Binds?
... that audio engineer Bill Porter nearly ruined his first number one record, "The Three Bells" by The Browns, and had to splice two takes together to fix it?
... that on April 5, 1933, the Independent Brewing Company of Pittsburgh sent President Roosevelt a case of low point beer to celebrate the passing of the Cullen-Harrison Act?
... that American communist Dennis E. Batt took part in the founding of the Red International of Labour Unions in Moscow in 1921?
... that during World War II, Fort McGilvray sat 650 feet above Alaska's Resurrection Bay to defend against a possible Japanese invasion?
... that early in the history of Lincoln Children's Zoo in Nebraska, its entire animal collection was sold at the end of each year?

00:00, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Dzungarian Gate, the only gateway through the 3,000-mile (4,800 km) mountain-wall from Manchuria to Afghanistan, has been linked to griffins (pictured) and the legendary Hyperboreans?
... that the historian William Y. Thompson during the 1950s researched the origins of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, forerunner of the American Red Cross?
... that the Petitcodiac River once held some of the world's highest tidal bores, before a causeway was built in 1968?
... that Irish stage actor Enda Oates' theatrical career includes roles such as Macduff in the play Macbeth and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice?
... that only 9.5% of voters turned out in a Slovak referendum in 1997, due to an opposition boycott?
... that Laurence S. Weiss was a key supporter of Governor of New Jersey Jim Florio's $2.8 billion tax hike, but later pushed for its repeal after losing his re-election bid in the 19th Legislative District?
... that the "dougie" dance referred to in Cali Swag District's "Teach Me How to Dougie" actually originated in Dallas, Texas?
... that Shorty Green led the first players' strike in National Hockey League history as the Hamilton Tigers' players refused to participate in the 1925 playoffs unless they received C$200 bonuses?

17 July 2010

18:00, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Henry R. Tilton (pictured) risked his life protecting wounded soldiers at the Battle of Bear Paw but wasn't awarded the Medal of Honor until almost 20 years after the act?
... that the Michigan Wolverines football team's records in years such as 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 include those in field goals, school completion percentage, single-game receptions, and the largest comeback among others?
... that the Dissenters' Chapel in Kensal Green Cemetery, London, was the first purpose-built Nonconformist chapel to be built in a public cemetery in England?
... that Ture Königson of the People's Party in Sweden decided the outcome of the crucial 1959 vote on pension reform by abstaining?
... that the football club Ulf-Sandnes altered its name to Sandnes Ulf to accommodate the merger partner Sandnes FK?
... that college lacrosse coach Bud Beardmore led Maryland to the 1975 NCAA tournament championship, despite the fact that the team lost two of its six NCAA games and almost failed to qualify?
... that Andy Williams' album Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes stayed on the Billboard 200 list for over 176 weeks?
... that Don Dodge, a former start-up evangelist for Microsoft, switched from using a Windows-based computer to a Mac-based one after he moved to Google?

12:00, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the rare and endangered Broad Leaved Whitewood (pictured) of eastern Australian rainforests is a member of the soapberry family?
... that during Maurice W. Long's directorship of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the Engineering Experiment station set a new record of $5.2 million in grants and contracts?
... that despite great risks, the Polish minesweeper ORP Rybitwa successfully towed her sister ship ORP Mewa to port after Mewa had been hit by German bombs in September 1939?
... that after Ernest L. Oros proposed a bill to tack a $5 surcharge on New Jersey traffic tickets to pay for new police cars, opponents argued that police officers would only be encouraged to give out more tickets?
... that in 2009, direct Chinese investment in Ethiopia reached approximately $900 million?
... that Japanese film director and actress Tomoko Matsunashi was described as one of the Japanese directors who "have brought some needed originality and talent to contemporary Japanese cinema"?
... that GRB 980425 provided the first evidence that gamma-ray bursts and supernovae might be related?
... that Ramón Estévez, who played a sycophantic, "spineless corporal" in Cadence, wore glasses and "his hat most of the time" to keep from being recognized as Charlie Sheen's brother?

06:00, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

... that when first opened, Glenville School (pictured) in Greenwich, Connecticut, included a community medical clinic?
... that, in his first two and a half years as CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, Mark Cutifani led a program that reduced the number of fatalities within the company by 70%?
... that Alberta's Big-4 hockey league collapsed in 1921 following repeated accusations its teams were using ineligible players?
... that Steven C. Krane, who was at age 44 the youngest president of the New York State Bar Association, died in June 2010 at the age of 53?
... that the Stanchester Hoard, which was found by metal detectors, is remarkable because the hundreds of Roman coins are not clipped?
... that editor Willi Eichler's 1932 Urgent Call for Unity to thwart the Nazi Party's rise to power was signed by 33 leading German intellectuals including Albert Einstein, Erich Kästner and Käthe Kollwitz?
... that Tropical Storm Ignacio of August 1997 caused unprecedented rainfall in San Francisco, California, which typically receives only a trace of precipitation during the month?
... that eleven-year-old Ellen Sadler fell asleep in 1871 and purportedly did not wake for nine years?

00:00, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

... that when Danish socialist pioneer and former prisoner Poul Johansen Geleff (pictured) emigrated to the United States, Danish police helped pay for his travel costs?
... that in 2003, the Jehovah's Witnesses Association of Romania became the first religious group granted official state recognition since just after the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
... that on 28 August 1920, Peter Ronald scored Watford Football Club's first ever Football League goal?
... that Weidmann's Restaurant, established in 1870, is the oldest restaurant in the state of Mississippi?
... that Codex Vaticanus 2061, a double palimpsest, contains some parts of the New Testament, homilies of several authors, and Strabon's Geographica?
... that the grave of Medal of Honor recipient John Tracy was unmarked for almost a century after his interment?
... that Moscow Oblast hosts the Russian Mission Control Centers for spacecraft and military satellites?
... that when asked if he would be willing to direct all 10 plays in August Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle, Israel Hicks replied "Hell, yeah" and accomplished the feat over 20 years of directing?

16 July 2010

18:00, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the central monument in Bubanj Memorial Park (pictured) in Niš, Serbia, is shaped like three huge raised hands with clenched fists?
... that Wally Johansen, a starting guard on the first-ever NCAA men's basketball championship team in 1939, later became president of the Oregon State Bar?
... that the unsuccessful 1960 Ethiopian coup was the most serious threat to Emperor Haile Selassie's rule between his return to Ethiopia in 1941 and his deposition in 1974?
... that 23 U.S. cavalrymen, including Jacob Trautman and Paul H. Weinert, were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890?
... that Sashes Island was the site of a Roman crossing of the River Thames and a Saxon defensive burh?
... that Antonio Liozzi, an 18th-century Italian artist, trained under the tutelage of Marco Benefial?
... that Creole slaves under the leadership of Oude Ram Afrikaner were among the first to call themselves Africans, and that Afrikaans got its name from this appellation?
... that Tiny Gooch, placed third in the discus at the NCAA track championships, won the Southwest Conference heavyweight wrestling championship and was acknowledged as "the tallest attorney in Texas" until 1950?

12:00, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the J.H.C. Petersen's Sons' Store building (pictured) was the flagship Von Maur department store?
... that upon reading Marshall S. Cornwell's poem "Success," American writer and poet James Whitcomb Riley wrote Cornwell "your gift seems genuine and far above that indicated in verse"?
... that the part of state highway Arkansas Highway 29 that goes through Hope, Arkansas, is referred to as "Bill Clinton Drive"?
... that together with his wife Arvilla, American mycologist Job Bicknell Ellis collected, dried, and distributed 200,000 specimens of fungi to subscribers?
... that Thorvaldsen's equestrian statue of a Polish military hero spent 80 years in the country estate of a Russian Field Marshal but was destroyed within 20 years after its return to Warsaw?
... that geologist Amund Helland published pioneering works on glacial erosion and the role of glaciers in the formation of valleys, fjords and lakes in the mid 1870s?
... that the Shepherdsville train wreck, which caused about fifty deaths when two trains collided in December 1917, is the deadliest train wreck in the history of Kentucky?
... that Vidyadharas, semi-gods of Hindu mythology, milked Mother Earth, who had assumed the form of a cow, to collect mystic powers and the art of flying as her milk?

06:00, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Mary Virginia Terhune (pictured), mother of famed novelist Albert Payson Terhune, was a prolific writer who published over 50 novels and non-fiction works during her lifetime?
... that Gordie Gillespie is the all-time winningest college baseball coach and was also selected as the head coach of the Chicago Tribune all-time Illinois high school football team?
... that the music venue Wonder Ballroom in Portland, Oregon, was originally built in 1914 for the Ancient Order of Hibernians?
... that after leading African-American troops in the American Civil War, Alfred Stedman Hartwell became a supreme court judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii?
... that an investment group led by Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton converted America's oldest limestone roundhouse to an entertainment center?
... that the United States Army sends Military History Detachments to war zones to collect historical documents, such as oral histories, for writing histories?
... that the Banta-Coe House in Teaneck, New Jersey, is one of the oldest existing homes in the Garden State?
... that The Level Club has been called "the only true-to-size rendering of King Solomon's Temple that exists in the world today"?

00:00, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Mississippian stone statuary (examples pictured), artifacts made by members of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE), are figurines made of polished stone in the shape of humans?
... that Admiral Sir William Young's clashes with Lord Cochrane led to Frederick Marryat including Young in a novel as 'Sir Hurricane Humbug'?
... that despite losing Belgium to the Allies, Nazi Germany declared Flanders a reichsgau in 1944?
... that the W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus in Albany, New York, has an underground bunker designed to withstand a nuclear attack and assure continuation of the New York State Government?
... that despite being Watford's top scorer as they won the Southern League in 1914–15, professional footballer George Edmonds continued working as a printer?
... that during the week of the release of his fifth studio album Loso's Way, Fabolous decided to contribute to Trey Songz's single "Say Aah"?
... that Bethesda Methodist Chapel in Hanley, Staffordshire, now redundant, has been known as the "Cathedral of the Potteries"?
... that having taken a single dance class at Dartmouth College, Jonathan Wolken co-founded Pilobolus, which The New York Times called "one of the most popular modern-dance companies in the world"?

15 July 2010

18:00, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Fujiyama (pictured) was the tallest roller coaster in the world from 1996 until 2000?
... that research by Clement Finch showed that bloodletting could be an effective treatment for hemochromatosis?
... that the Bukit Timah Monkey Man is a cryptid said to roam around the city-state of Singapore?
... that in the 1650s the Patriarch of Antioch Macarios III Zaim played a large part in the liturgical reforms of the Russian Patriarch Nikon which led to the Raskol schism?
... that the 1978–79 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team played two of its Big Eight Conference opponents four times?
... that Frank Tolan was one of 22 American soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor for volunteering to carry water to comrades wounded in the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
... that systemin was the first identified plant peptide hormone and helps protect tomato plants against damage from herbivorous insects?
... that George Otlowski resigned after 14 years as mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, describing the job as "like fighting some kind of dragon"?

12:00, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Shandaken Tunnel reaches its 2,215-foot (675 m) maximum depth below the surface at Deep Notch (pictured) in Lexington, New York?
... that the experimental fiction project The Mongoliad, led by speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson, is to be released via smartphones as a serialized novel to which readers can contribute?
... that American schoolteacher Rita Abrams and the fourth-grade class in her school recorded an album which featured a Billboard Hot 100 hit and saw her being nominated for a Grammy?
... that in 1577 German Reformation theologian Lucas Maius helped develop a philosophical conundrum known as the 'Devil's Cross' that was said to have turned numerous parishioners away from the devil?
... that 1989–90 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team established school records by scoring 173 points and winning by a 95-point margin three nights later?
... that after earning the Medal of Honor in 1890, U.S. Cavalryman Frederick E. Toy went on to serve as an orderly to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt?
... that Consolidated Edison distributed dry ice to its customers who lost power during the July 2010 Canada/United States heatwave?
... that one of the professors hired by Beck University, David Barton, was described by founder Glenn Beck as "the Library of Congress in shoes"?

06:00, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

... that although Princess Louise of Prussia (pictured) was noble-born, her daughter Elisabeth Radziwill was considered an unsuitable marriage prospect for future emperor Wilhelm I?
... that when the Chicago Junction Railway stopped regularly maintaining the Kenwood branch, the Chicago Rapid Transit Company refused to pay rent on the line?
... that only 1,404 people died in the 1930 Irpinia earthquake, despite 70% of houses being destroyed near the epicenter, as most villagers were sleeping in the fields during the wheat harvest?
... that the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine is the largest current producer of gold in Colorado?
... that Liberal Democratic Party member Akihiko Kumashiro, a four-termer in Japan's House of Representatives, dropped out of a race for re-election when his party fielded another candidate against him?
... that 650,000 cubic yards (500,000 m³) of sediment were taken from Kingman Lake in Washington, D.C., and replaced with twice as much fill to build approach ramps to the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge?
... that the National Archives of Indonesia holds the largest archive collection related to the Dutch East India Company worldwide?
... that Knobbed porgies are born female, but become males over their lifetimes?

00:00, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

... that a chasse (pictured) is a medieval box shaped like a house or church, and usually a reliquary?
... that Blount Island in the St. Johns River is home to both the United States Marine Corps' Maritime Prepositioning ship program and the largest container facility at the Port of Jacksonville?
... that Polish lawyer Henryk Cederbaum was expelled from the bar after defending a Polish shopkeeper who accused the Russian governor-general's wife of shoplifting?
... that the 1987–88 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team, which was led by three future NBA Draft first round selections, defeated every ranked opponent they faced and averaged 102.5 points per game?
... that by the time of his death in 1847, Vice-Admiral William Young had spent 70 years serving in the Royal Navy?
... that the honorary president of Bendinat, Majorca's exclusive golf club, is King Juan Carlos of Spain?
... that the rauisuchian Tsylmosuchus is known from strata found in Russia that are early Olenekian in age, making it one of the earliest archosaurs?
... that in 1725, Louis Congo received freedom from slavery in exchange for becoming the public executioner of Louisiana?

14 July 2010

18:00, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Snellen eye chart (pictured) developed by Hermann Snellen in 1862 is the top-selling poster in U.S. history?
... that Bach composed Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a in 1719 as a congratulatory cantata for the court of Anhalt-Köthen?
... that after being ambushed by the Tonto Apaches, U.S. Calvaryman Bernard Taylor carried his wounded commanding officer half a mile back to their encampment under heavy fire?
... that the 1988–89 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team set a school record by scoring 100 points twenty times?
... that Swedish singer Anna-Lena Löfgren had more than 40 songs on Svensktoppen between 1962 and 1995?
... that volcanic eruptions may have contributed to the population decline of the Pink-headed Warbler?
... that the first Spinka Rebbe, Joseph Meir Weiss, was buried in Romania in 1909, but reinterred in Petah Tikva, Israel in 1972?
... that in 1997, Blue Öyster Cult guitarist Richie Castellano persuaded Paul McCartney to sing with the CHS Guitar Ensemble at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts?

12:00, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Egon Schiele's 1912 Portrait of Wally (pictured) was seized by the United States Customs Service which alleged that the painting was Nazi plunder?
... that Harriet E. Derman of New Jersey's 18th Legislative District supported a bill expanding those who could arrange adoptions as "we should do everything we can to encourage adoption versus abortion"?
... that "Quién Como Tú" is the third number-one single on the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart for Mexican singer-songwriter Ana Gabriel?
... that after the broadcast of images of nude paintings of Brian Cowen on RTÉ, Cathal Goan was asked to "consider his position" as Director-General of RTÉ?
... that Wayman Tisdale became the first college basketball player selected to the Associated Press All American first team as a freshman, sophomore and junior with the 1982–83, 1983–84, and 1984–85 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball teams?
... that in 1772, Lieutenant Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn claimed sovereignty over Western Australia on behalf of France?
... that for its first two years, the Norwegian newspaper Telemarksavisa was not published out of Telemark, but from Larvik and Drammen?
... that Danny Valencia, who after being drafted only 576th in baseball's 2006 draft said: "It does not matter where you start, but where you finish", debuted in the majors in 2010?

06:00, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the easy-to-grow swamp orchid Phaius australis (pictured) of eastern Australia is endangered with extinction?
... that U.S. Cavalry officer William Foster earned the Medal of Honor for gallantry in a surprise raid on the Comanche Indians at the Red River in 1872?
... that Alex "Action" Mann wears a parka, a wetsuit, and a space suit in Action Man: Search for Base X?
... that cricketer Ian Botham's three five-wicket hauls in the 1981 Ashes series led to the nickname "Botham's Ashes"?
... that Camilla Tilling was the soprano soloist in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony in the opening concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival 2010, conducted by Paavo Järvi?
... that the 1920s cost of US$30,000-per-mile ($658,000-per-mile in 2010 dollars) was a major deterrent to the completion of U.S. Route 30 in Iowa?
... that the weeping willow planted by John Parke Custis on his Abingdon plantation is known as the progenitor of all weeping willows in the United States?
... that six Israeli soldiers may face disciplinary action for filming a viral dance video called IDF Tick Tock?

00:00, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Janusz Krupski (pictured), who died in the 2010 Polish air force crash in Smolensk, was kidnapped in 1983 by the communist-era secret police and burned with acid, but that his thick sweater saved his life?
... that Eagle Butte Mine in Gillette, Wyoming, is an open-pit "truck and shovel" mine that has produced over 500 million short tons of coal since 1978?
... that John H. Foley was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading a charge into a Sioux encampment without knowing the enemy's strength?
... that Holy Spirit College in Atlanta, Georgia, will admit its first class of full-time undergraduate students later this year?
... that Irish Socialist Republican Party co-founder Robert Dorman became the first Labour Party member of the Senate of Northern Ireland?
... that Ed Reulbach of the 1908 Chicago Cubs is the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to have pitched two shutouts on the same day?
... that Jean-Joseph Marcel was first to realize that the middle text of the Rosetta Stone was Egyptian demotic script, and not Syriac?
... that the plot of Pac-Man Pinball Advance focuses on the kidnapping of all the residents of Pac-Land by the four ghosts Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde?

13 July 2010

18:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the identity of the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (pictured) was ascertained based on notes written in 1503 by Florentine clerk Agostino Vespucci?
... that six-year-old Elena Desserich left hundreds of notes, which were published in Notes Left Behind, for her parents to find after her death?
... that Erysiphe alphitoides, which causes powdery mildew on oak trees, is one of the most common diseases in European forests today, but may have originated in the tropics?
... that the Louisiana Reconstruction politician Marshall H. Twitchell survived six bullets in an 1876 assassination attempt but lost the use of both arms?
... that although St Benet's Chapel, Netherton, Liverpool, was built in 1793, when Catholics were free to worship openly, it was concealed behind the presbytery?
... that deuterium burning acts as a thermostat in newly forming stars?
... that the Nazi false flag liquidation operation Blumenpflücken has, well into the 1990s, misled people to believe that non-Nazis carried out certain liquidations?
... that, two years after winning the Medal of Honor for gallantry in the American Indian Wars, George W. Thompson deserted the U.S. Army?

12:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

... that woodworkers from the Vietnamese village of Kim Bồng (sample art pictured) created not only detail work for Huế's Imperial City, but also an entire warship for the Spanish navy?
... that the Hindu goddess Chhaya was born from the shadow of goddess Sanjna and replaced Sanjna in her house, after the latter abandoned her husband?
... that in June 1940 the Royal Air Force supplied the boats for Operation Collar, the first British raid on occupied France?
... that the retired Texas A&M University historian Garland E. Bayliss researched the 19th century origins of the Arkansas state penitentiary?
... that the National Library of Indonesia was established in 1980 through a consolidation of four libraries?
... that Thomas H. Paterniti introduced legislation in the state of New Jersey that would hold owners of adult bookstores liable if individuals contracted AIDS as a result of sexual activity on the premises?
... that Gunsa Airport started operations on 1 July 2010, becoming the fourth civil airport in Tibet, providing easy access for pilgrims to Mt. Kailash and Lake Manasarovar?
... that the Russian battleship Ioann Zlatoust was named for Saint John Chrysostom?

06:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Frome Hoard was found by a metal detectorist just 35 cm (14 in) below ground in Somerset and contained 52,503 Roman coins (coin pictured)?
... that Herb Gardiner, nicknamed "the ironman of hockey", won the Hart Trophy as most valuable player after being said to have played every minute of every game for the Montreal Canadiens in 1926–27?
... that the 1957 election in Zanzibar was the first election to be held in East Africa?
... that although it cost just £500,000 to make, on its opening day Morris: A Life with Bells On had a higher take per screen than the studio-backed big budget film The Soloist?
... that the extent of damage to buildings in the 1978 Miyagi earthquake caused revisions to both the Japanese Building Standards act and the Earthquake Insurance System?
... that Frankliniella tritici, known as Eastern flower thrips, is an insect that damages crops in the United States of America, including strawberries, grapes, beans and asparagus?
... that in 1962, biophysicist Jerome Wolken proposed sending cockroaches into space as part of an effort to detect signs of extraterrestrial life?

00:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

... that most people orient their toilet paper with the loose end hanging over the top and away from the wall (pictured)?
... that the first ever boycott to be given that name was organised by the Irish Land League against Captain Charles Boycott?
... that Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Mosienko is most famous for scoring three goals in a span of 21 seconds in a 1952 game, a feat that remains a National Hockey League record?
... that in neutral Sweden during World War II, the communist newspapers Ny Dag and Sydsvenska Kuriren were banned from being carried on trains and public buses?
... that Mexican bandit Chucho el Roto has been compared to Robin Hood?
... that the Koebel House was the first commission for the father-and-son firm of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, and included a built-in electrical and sound system controlled from the master bedroom?
... that a Catholic church in the Lithuanian town of Valkininkai claims to have the body of Saint Boniface of Tarsus, a 4th-century martyr?
... that Australia's native broom is a pea?

12 July 2010

18:00, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the bay of Fort-Liberté (fort pictured) was the site of the Caribbean's largest sisal plantation until nylon was invented?
... that the many descendants of merchant ship captain Joseph Oliver Carter included diplomat Henry A. P. Carter, Parker Ranch manager Alfred W. Carter, and Hawaii Governor George R. Carter?
... that, in 2009, Somerset County Cricket Club were boosted by the batting of Marcus Trescothick, who scored 1,817 runs?
... that Melvin Bernhardt made his London directing debut with a production of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds?
... that the walls of the Catholic church in Cassella, Ohio, which burned in an 1888 fire, remained unrepaired for nearly thirty years?
... that although the Malagasy bat Neoromicia malagasyensis was first collected in 1967, it was not formally described until 1995?
... that Larissa Riquelme, who gained international fame as a spectator at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is Paraguay's highest-paid model?
... that Nueces Bay in Texas was once referred to as papelote or Wastepaper Bay?

12:00, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Ural economic region, Ural Federal District and Ural geographical region are all different regions located around the Ural Mountains and Ural River (pictured)?
... that during the early Middle Ages the Gothic rulers in Western Europe established their own (Arian) churches alongside the Roman churches of their subjects?
... that Alan M. Kriegsman won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for his work at The Washington Post, the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for reporting as a dance critic?
... that the Ślężanie were a tribe of West Slavs of the Polish group, inhabiting territories of Silesia, which is named after them, near Ślęża mountain and river, up to the area of modern city of Wrocław?
... that Somerset cricketer Bill Hyman hit 62 runs from two overs of lob bowling by W G Grace's older brother?
... that during the Byzantine Iconoclasm, Michael Lachanodrakon allegedly forced monks and nuns to marry, abolished monasteries, tortured and executed iconophiles and set fire to relics and scriptures?
... that HootSuite, which helps users organize their online identities, is used by the Obama administration and Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, among 400,000 other people?
... that the former Smith Tavern in Armonk, New York, has been a militia headquarters, stagecoach stop, post office, parsonage, farmhouse and museum in over 200 years of existence?

06:00, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Sisimiut (pictured) is the second-largest town in Greenland?
... that Malcolm Shabazz is the first male descendant of Malcolm X?
... that, during Meridian City Hall's renovation, 1,643 terracotta tiles had to be replaced with exact replicas, which only two companies in the world could manufacture?
... that Victorien Sardou successfully sued the French periodical Gil Blas for damages when it published a plot description of his play La Tosca before the opening night?
... that the fossil dormouse Seorsumuscardinus is known only from isolated teeth?
... that Catherine Pollard was the first female Scoutmaster in the Boy Scouts of America?
... that the Third Battle of Seoul was the British 29th Infantry Brigade's first action during the Korean War?
... that the Holbrooke Hotel includes a restaurant whose chef gets mushrooms and wild lettuce from local State Park Rangers?

00:00, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

... that depictions of the Resurrection of Jesus in Christian art (example pictured) in the Eastern Church never depict the actual moment of resurrection?
... that the U.S. Army created the "Combat Infantry Band" in World War II specifically to play Frank Loesser's song, "The Ballad of Rodger Young" (listen)?
... that professional baseball player Hank Erickson was nicknamed "Popeye" due to his supposed resemblance to the comic strip character?
... that Coanwood Friends Meeting House in Northumberland has not been modified since it was built in 1760, other than replacing its thatched roof with slates?
... that William Robert Ming helped obtain an acquittal on perjury charges for Martin Luther King, Jr. from an all-white jury in 1960 in Montgomery, Alabama?
... that the prisoner rehabilitation Second Chance Program, based on works of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, was criticized during the 2010 United States Senate elections in Nevada?
... that the phototypesetting process developed by inventors Louis Moyroud and Rene Alphonse Higonnet in the 1940s helped make the hot metal typesetting of the Linotype machine obsolete?
... that although it has been said that she had enough money to buy the city of Hoboken, the "Witch of Wall Street" Hetty Green chose to rent a small, cheap apartment in the Yellow Flats for $19 a month?

11 July 2010

18:00, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Paul the Octopus (pictured) predicts Spain winning the World Cup today, while Mani the Parakeet tips a victory by the Netherlands?
... that Bill Long was Ireland's longest surviving heart transplant patient?
... that in 1980 the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros in three straight games by one run each to force a tie-breaker game between the two teams which the Dodgers ultimately lost?
... that several forts at Fort Morris Historic Site in Georgia protected the Medway River and its settlements during the French and Indian and American Revolutionary Wars and the War of 1812?
... that the praetorium site of the Pilate's Court is believed to be either Antonia Fortress or the Palace of Herod?
... that according to the Catholic religious scholar John A. Saliba, new religious movements often serve as a temporary haven for young people, enabling them to stabilise their lives?
... that in 1943 all the British Commandos involved in Operation Checkmate were captured and sent to concentration camps?
... that Andrew Balmford found that eight-year-old British children could identify 80% of Pokémon characters but only 50% of common species of British wildlife?

12:00, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Willie Heston (pictured), rated by Knute Rockne as the greatest back of all time, helped Michigan outscore its opponents 2,326 to 40 in his four years with the team?
... that the Wairau, Awatere, Clarence and Hope faults, are the main active faults of the Marlborough Fault System, and carry most of the displacement on the Australian-Pacific plate boundary in northern South Island?
... that Bach's solo cantata for alto Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170 for the sixth Sunday after Trinity, was recorded by Maureen Forrester, Andreas Scholl and Julia Hamari?
... that the 5th century Yemeni King Tub'a Abu Kariba As'ad is widely believed to have been a convert to Judaism?
... that a telescope, high school, bridge, and locks and dam are among the places named for United States Senator Robert Byrd in the U.S. state of West Virginia?
... that the historian Robert W. Mondy's Jesse Mercer: A Study in Frontier Religion, is a biography of the founder of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia?
... that the Alsace-Lorraine Regional Party, founded in 1903, was the first Catholic political organization in the German province of Alsace-Lorraine?
... that while interned in a Japanese POW camp, the Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk cultured yeast to ferment rice, producing much-needed vitamins for fellow prisoners?

06:00, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

... that aside from the Brigham House, none of Frank Lloyd Wright's built designs of "A Fireproof House for $5000" (pictured) were constructed of the specified fire-resistant concrete?
... that Abbot Peter of Farfa rescued his abbey's library and archives when it was attacked by the Saracens in 897?
... that following his return to Chile in 1880, the newspaper editor Recaredo Santos Tornero established the country's first paper mill?
... that although Chris Young was voted Tu'i Manu'a Elisala by several chiefs in American Samoa, Governor Edward Stanley Kellogg denied him the title, claiming it was incompatible with the United States Constitution?
... that Novum Testamentum Graece published by Eberhard Nestle in 1898 is still edited to the present day?
... that the dam at Red Hills State Park was damaged by the 2008 Illinois earthquake?
... that Thomas H. Forsyth was denied the Medal of Honor by the United States Department of War but later received it after a petition nearly 20 years later?
... that the villagers of the Romanian village of Bigar largely speak Czech rather than Romanian?

00:00, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Montana's Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area (namesake landform pictured) was designated a federal wilderness study area in 1981, delisted in 1982, and designated again in 1985?
... that there are over 300 trails in the Boy Scouts of America's Historic Trails Award program and that there is at least one in every US state?
... that the Simmons & Wright Company building, built in far eastern Mississippi in 1884, was filmed for the movie Due Date?
... that Cherubim Dambui was the first premier of Papua New Guinea's East Sepik Province and the first Sepik person to be ordained a Catholic priest?
... that Robert de Munro, the first chief of the Clan Munro to appear in contemporary sources, was slain in about 1369?
... that the rare American Walking Fern can be found in Wildcat Mountain State Park, a Wisconsin state park in the Driftless Area?
... that a French expedition in Syria occurred in 1860–61, to reestablish order following the massacre of Maronite Christians by Druzes and Muslims?
... that the extensive manhunt that took place after the Stalag Luft III murders was the only time that a major war crime was investigated by a single service branch of any nation's military?

10 July 2010

18:00, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Hwa Chong Institution (pictured), a pre-university educational institution in Singapore, has produced 50 President's Scholars, the most by any junior college in the country?
... that Harry Oliver, Barney Stanley and Rusty Crawford, members of the Calgary Tigers in the 1920s, all went on to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?
... that it is reputed that Salem Chapel, East Budleigh, Devon, was involved with smuggling during the 18th and 19th centuries?
... that Cleveland Indians first-round draft pick CC Sabathia won the Major League Baseball Cy Young Award in 2007?
... that the Congregational Chapel of Nantwich, Cheshire, was founded in 1780 by a former captain of the dragoons preaching in a coachmaker's shop?
... that Yuri Matochkin, the first post-Soviet governor of Kaliningrad Oblast, favoured closer ties with the European Union?
... that Canada's Federated Co-operatives partnered with SeaChoice to promote sustainable seafood, like the spiny lobster, through its co-operatives?
... that the asteroid 21 Lutetia discovered by Hermann Goldschmidt is being visited by the ESA spacecraft Rosetta today?

12:00, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

... that when Methodist George Whitefield preached in Nantwich, Cheshire, a mob tried to disperse his audience with a bull, but a Methodist Chapel (pictured) later became the town's largest chapel?
... that Iran is Sri Lanka's largest foreign aid donor?
... that the 1972 Oklahoma Sooners football team was never sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for using ineligible players although the Big Eight Conference vacated three wins?
... that after the six-year study A Christian reflection on the New Age, the Catholic Church rejected all that is close to the New Age?
... that when former General Motors president F. James McDonald was asked what he might have done differently, he said he "would make the Eldorado seven inches longer"?
... that the Family E is one of the earliest textual families of the Byzantine text-type?
... that in mycology, a sanctioned name refers to those used in early taxonomical works by Persoon or Fries?
... that the Kildare Poems, one of the first documents of Irish English, contain a satire written by 14th-century Franciscan monks against the immoral lifestyle of other monks?

06:00, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Julia Child insisted on keeping her "wall oven with its squeaking door" in her kitchen (pictured), now on display at the Smithsonian?
... that New Zealand MP William Downie Stewart's son, William Downie Stewart, became Mayor of Dunedin—and his daughter Mary served as Lady Mayoress?
... that video game critics were confused by the presentation of the game Battle Tag at Ubisoft's E3 2010 press conference?
... that the Holocaust's Arab hero Khaled Abdul-Wahab is sometimes called an Arab Oskar Schindler?
... that at least four different knuckleball pitchers have been credited as the inventor of the knuckleball, first used in the 1907 or 1908 baseball season?
... that Truth was the first crime genre novel to win Australia's Miles Franklin Award?
... that, in one study on the aetosaur Redondasuchus, the orientation of a diagram in the paper may have contributed to the misidentification of its holotype as a left scute rather than a right?
... that the Kentucky attorney and politician Fuller Harding died in 2010 in the same house in which he was born in 1915?

00:00, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

... that early game warden for Monroe County, Florida, Guy Bradley (pictured), was shot and killed in 1905 after confronting plume hunters in the Everglades?
... that Frank Curto Park, named after a local horticulturist, contains a collection of unusual urban art pieces?
... that in the 19th century Albanian scholar and patriot Naum Veqilharxhi invented a brand new alphabet to write in the Albanian language?
... that the Oklahoma football team coached by Fred Ewing played one game that had a ten-minute half and was on a 75-yard field, the lines of which the players chalked themselves?
... that the 2001 discovery of the Serendib Scops Owl was the first discovery of a new endemic bird species in Sri Lanka since 1868?
... that John James was awarded the Medal of Honor for "gallantry in action" after defending the Lyman Train from Indian attacks for three days?
... that modernist architect Peter Womersley (1923–1993) designed a house and studio for the textile designer Bernat Klein, both of which are now Category A listed buildings?
... that Arizona Beach State Recreation Site is not in the U.S. State of Arizona but rather in Oregon?

9 July 2010

18:00, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

... that a rough sketch of Peter Paul Rubens, his second wife Hélène Fourment and child, was discovered on the reverse side of the drawing of his first wife, Isabella Brant (pictured)?
... that Brigadier General James Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor twenty years after his actions in the pursuit of Chief Joseph following the Battle of the Clearwater in 1877?
... that Lithuanian art historian Paulius Galaunė studied psychoneurology at the University of St. Petersburg?
... that Franklin Mountains State Park in El Paso, Texas, is the site of the only tin mine ever operated in the United States?
... that Irish neuro-orthopaedic veterinary surgeon Noel Fitzpatrick drew upon influences from the X-Men character of Wolverine to pioneer bionic development for animals?
... that in the Eccles by-election of 1890, Henry John Roby of the Liberal Party gained the seat from the Conservatives, which was seen as a setback for the Unionist government of Lord Salisbury?
... that in 1979 Stanley Wagner opened his vineyard in the Finger Lakes area and by 1981 The New York Times said its wine had the characteristics of "some of the great white Burgundies of France"?
... that, according to the Bible, Jezebel was defenestrated in Jezreel?

12:00, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

... that a good wife is prescribed to propitiate Jyestha (pictured) – the Hindu goddess of misfortune – to keep the goddess away from her home?
... that the cargo ship Nikolai Bauman was scuttled in 1964 with a load of nuclear waste?
... that Chaim Sofer ruled that under Jewish law, abortions were not allowed in some cases?
... that in 2008, after 104 years of existence, Hull City was promoted to play in the English Premier League for the first time?
... that the election of Upendra J. Chivukula to the New Jersey General Assembly from the 17th Legislative District made him the first South Asian elected to the New Jersey Legislature?
... that Frederick Jarvis is one of only eight Medal of Honor recipients from Utah and one of only three buried in the state?
... that electric drive cars are so quiet at slow speeds that they pose a safety hazard for pedestrians, and will be equipped with electric warning sounds?
... that Corey Allen fought James Dean and cut him with a knife during filming of Rebel Without A Cause?

06:00, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the history of Japanese Buddhist architecture (example pictured) was changed by the belief in a coming dark age?
... that Bill Dague was the first consensus All-American football player from the United States Naval Academy?
... that the Landespartei, which represented the most radical wing of the Alsatian autonomist movement, moved closer to fascist positions during the 1930s?
... that Hugh Knox, son of the U.S. Secretary of State and Attorney General, was an All-American halfback at Yale?
... that siege towers at the Siege of Coria in 1138 reached above the city walls, but the general leading the assault, Rodrigo Martínez, was killed while climbing one?
... that the a cappella ensemble amarcord, five former members of the Thomanerchor, won the CARA award "Best classical album" again in 2010, for Rastlose Liebe (Restless Love)?
... that the 1971 Oklahoma Sooners football team set the all-time college football Division I record for rushing yards per game?
... that in late 17th-century London, men put on women's clothing and walked the streets in hopes of catching the eye of Whipping Tom?

00:00, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the racing roller coaster Derby Racer (pictured) killed or critically injured at least five people in its 25 years of operation, leading to a Massachusetts Supreme Court case?
... that Liber Eliensis records that Ælfwaru granted to Ely Abbey the lands of Bridgham, Hingham, Weeting, Rattlesden, Mundford, Thetford, and fisheries around those marshes?
... that in 1947, 72 out of 126 trade unions in Singapore were affiliated to the communist-led Singapore Federation of Trade Unions?
... that William O'Neill was awarded the Medal of Honor for his part in a charge at Fort Sill in 1872 which ended 17 years of combat?
... that composer Allyn Ferguson, co-creator of themes for Barney Miller and Charlie's Angels, was cited by Variety as being "among the most prolific composers of TV-movie scores in the past 40 years"?
... that the Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors are still sung by Albanian bards, who are assumed to be the very last traditional native singers of epic verses in Europe?
... that Frank Joranko was selected as the most valuable football player in the MIAA and later coached Albion College to nine MIAA baseball championships?
... that according to Hindu cosmology, women seduce and increase the sexual energy of men who enter the first realm of the underworld by intoxicating them?

8 July 2010

18:00, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

... that John Adams Cummins (pictured) was known as the "Prince of Entertainers" for his elaborate celebrations in the Kingdom of Hawaii?
... that members of the Roman Catholic lay ecclesial movement Intercessors of the Lamb wear teal habits because the color represents intercession between a green earth and a blue heaven?
... that Bam Aquino became the youngest person in Philippine history to head a government agency when he was appointed at age 26 to become Chairman of the National Youth Commission?
... that art collective Vertical Submarine, winners of the President’s Young Talents award in 2009, placed gray sunflowers in the Singapore Botanic Gardens with a poem by the fictional Chien Swee-Teng?
... that Oklahoma Sooners football head coach Barry Switzer won eight consecutive Big Eight Conference college football championships in his first eight years with the 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, and 1980 teams?
... that the clientele of Diego's Hair Salon has included politicians, diplomats, and two U.S. Supreme Court Justices?
... that officials at Brooklyn College implored federal officials not to hire William L. Taylor for a government job, saying he had "espoused liberal causes such as the rights of the Negro in the South"?
... that a German submarine sank the Soviet Revolution?

12:00, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the leaves (pictured) of Duiker Berry trees in Southern Africa are used in traditional medicine as a mouthwash and to treat toothache?
... that Clemens von Delbrück received the Order of the Black Eagle on his dismissal as Vice-Chancellor of Germany?
... that Canadian TV series Brothers TV was described as "lowbrow comedic stuff that is ever-so-watchable" but only ran for eight episodes?
... that Sergeant John O'Callaghan and Private Michael O'Regan were among thirty men in the same regiment to be awarded the Medal of Honor, one of the largest presentations ever made at the time?
... that the success of the album Dos by Myriam Hernández helped her to sign a recording contract with Warner Music?
... that Harvard medical graduate Brenda Taylor reached the 2004 Olympic final in the 400-meter hurdles?
... that Estonia created project EstWin to connect all citizens to the internet with 100 Mbit/s speed by 2015?
... that press agent Benjamin Sonnenberg described himself as a "cabinetmaker who fashioned large pedestals for small statues"?

06:00, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the $45 million penthouse at One Madison Park (pictured) comes with a free butler?
... that the remains of the ghost town of Copano, Texas, are at risk of falling into Copano Bay?
... that on May 16, 2002, Susan Ershler and her husband Phil became the first married couple to reach all Seven Summits?
... that Dikken Zwilgmeyer's "Inger Johanne" books were popular around 1900, and are regarded as a significant innovation of Norwegian children's literature?
... that Rock for the Rainforest holds the Guinness World Record for the largest environmental fundraising event?
... that Frederick S. Neilon received the Medal of Honor but was forced to retire from the military due to a leg injury, and was discharged on a certificate of disability in 1875?
... that the Friendship Games were dubbed the "Eastern Bloc's alternative Olympics" of 1984 by the Western press?
... that Hindu sadhus live in the cremation grounds of Tarapith as they believe that goddess Tara – who is attracted to bones – dwells there?

00:00, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Charles E. Fairman (pictured) was an American physician who had a personal herbarium of 23,000 fungi?
... that the British wrecked the engines of the Russian battleship Evstafi during 22–24 April 1919 when they left the Crimea to prevent the advancing Bolsheviks from using her against the White Russians?
... that Harry Söderman, who was in charge of the education of Norwegian police troops in Sweden during World War II, liberated the political prisoners at the Grini concentration camp on 7 May 1945?
... that as of 2009, there had been 99 nuclear accidents worldwide?
... that in the Fishman case Dick Anthony played a key role in convincing the court that Margaret Singer’s brainwashing theory lacked scientific support, leading to her rejection as an expert witness?
... that the German submarine U-27 was the second German submarine to be sunk in World War II?
... that a memorial for the Doodlebug Disaster was a result of a school project by three 13-year-olds?
... that Sussex Heights, Brighton's tallest building, has a resident breeding pair of peregrine falcons with their own webcam?

7 July 2010

18:00, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Pyramids of Indianapolis (pictured) were designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kevin Roche?
... that ice hockey defenceman Johan Fransson won a Swedish Championship in bandy?
... that Douglas Brand, chief police adviser to the Iraqi Interior Ministry in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion, was nicknamed "The Tower of London" due to his distinctive height?
... that the 1984 Oklahoma Sooners football team set a school single season record by only allowing 2.2 yards per rush attempt?
... that according to a 13th-century saga, Þórketill Þórmóðsson, and two of his sons, were slain in a loch near the Isle of Skye, but another son survived by leaping onto a cask that floated by?
... that John Francis O'Sullivan was awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallantry at the Staked Plains in 1874?
... that Alice in Wonderland, a Game Boy Color video game, begins with the player as Alice following the White Rabbit down its hole?
... that, after attempts were made to seize two works by Egon Schiele that he had bought, Rudolf Leopold insisted that he had not dealt in looted art, saying "I'm not a Nazi and I'm not a Nazi profiteer"?

12:00, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the La Peregrina pearl (pictured), which had been worn by the queens and queens consort of England and Spain for a few hundred years, was once almost eaten by a puppy in a Las Vegas casino?
... that Malcolm Marshall has taken more Test and ODI wickets for the West Indies cricket team than any other Barbados born player?
... that the residence of Medal of Honor recipient Solon D. Neal later became the site of the HemisFair '68 Tower?
... that in the massacre of the Albanian beys, around 500 southern Albanian leaders (beys) and their forces were treacherously killed by Ottoman forces when they were invited to a ceremonial salute parade?
... that All-American Rickey Dixon set several school interception records with the 1987 Oklahoma Sooners football team?
... that the extinct New Zealand Musk Duck was becoming more sedentary than its closest relative, the Australian Musk Duck?
... that Radio23, a radio station based out of Portland, Oregon, provides an international artistic platform for home broadcasters around the world?
... that in 1944, the Lyon to Paris rail line was blown up 22 times by the Special Air Service during Operation Houndsworth?

06:00, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the 4th century "Empress" pepper pot (pictured) held pepper, and we know the Romans had pepper because translations of the Vindolanda tablets confirm it?
... that the Wright's Almshouses in Nantwich, Cheshire, which date from 1638, were moved in the 1970s to stand by the Crewe Almshouses?
... that the Japanese ROV ABISMO collected core samples of sediment from the seabed at a depth of 9,760 meters in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench during sea trials in 2007?
... that Codex Glazier, Coptic manuscript of Book of Acts, is very close textually to the Greek manuscript Codex Bezae?
... that Reichenbach Castle was once owned by Rudolf von Erlach, the legendary commander of the victorious Bernese in the Battle of Laupen?
... that all but one of U-109's successes took place during the six patrols she carried out under the command of the U-boat ace, Heinrich Bleichrodt?
... that Selva Zoque is the largest intact tropical rainforest in Mexico, an important but threatened ecological area?
... that British Insurance insured three sisters for £1 million if one of them gave birth to the Second Coming of Christ?

00:00, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Professor Ernst von Dobschütz (pictured) expanded the list of New Testament manuscripts?
... that Sharron Backus played on seven national and two international championship softball teams and coached UCLA to nine national championships?
... that the Bloody Sunday events of 1926 in Alsace were the starting point of cooperation between communists and clerical autonomists, which led to the expulsion of the Neue Welt group of Charles Hueber and Jean-Pierre Mourer from the French Communist Party and the formation of the Alsatian Opposition Communist Party?
... that during World War I Dr. William Eldon Tucker performed 150 amputations on troops within a month, while during World War II Dr. William Eldon Tucker made improvised artificial limbs for prisoners of war?
... that Anatoly Malofeyev was a first secretary of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic during the Soviet Union era and Belarusian parliament speaker?
... that the Holy Soap website is the official British home of the Australian soap operas Home and Away and Neighbours?

6 July 2010

18:00, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the congregation of St. Luke's Episcopal Church (pictured) in Katonah, New York, met in a warehouse and movie theater before the church was built?
... that 2010 NBA Draft pick Magnum Rolle's first foul shot went over the backboard?
... that the hedge fund Clarium Capital, which had US$7.8 billion in assets under management in June 2008, saw it drop to $1.5 billion a year later because investors feared the fund worsening?
... that the Miguel Cotto vs. Yuri Foreman boxing match was the first fight held at the new Yankee Stadium since the September 1976 bout between Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton, which took place in the original stadium?
... that Nui Coc Lake contains 89 islands?
... that there are over 50,000 standard drill bushing configurations available in customary units?
... that, asked for his thoughts two decades after the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing that killed a physics researcher, Dwight Armstrong said "I don't care what public opinion is; we did what was right"?
... that funnyman and germ-phobic Howie Mandel released his autobiography in the midst of the H1N1 flu pandemic?

12:00, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

... that hairy black cups (pictured) are the type species of fungal genus Pseudoplectania?
... that Henri-Pierre Picou has been called the most fashionable painter towards the close of the Second French Empire?
... that the first non-family member to become CEO of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson was Philip B. Hofmann?
... that John Champe, American Revolutionary rebel double-agent sent to capture Benedict Arnold, was spotted and chased from the landmark the Three Pigeons by fellow rebels, before diving into the Hudson?
... that Diane McWhorter wrote in Carry Me Home that a 1963 Bill Hudson photo of a black protester being attacked by a police dog drove "international opinion to the side of the civil rights revolution"?
... that despite being only 9.3 mi (15.0 km) long, South Carolina Highway 291 runs by two colleges and an airport in Greenville?
... that, in 2004, Portland City Grill became Oregon's first restaurant to make Restaurants & Institutions magazine's list of the "top 100 highest-grossing independent restaurants" in the United States?
... that, after the Battle of Lucas Bend during the American Civil War, the opposing commanders floated insults and challenges to each other using buoys?

06:00, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

... that English gaol keeper and animal breeder Daniel Lambert (pictured) weighed 52 stone 11 lb (739 lb; 335 kg)?
... that Brandon Bess, a "surprise debutant" for the West Indies cricket team in June 2010, was rushed late to the ground, eventually arriving in the second over of the match?
... that the Electric Company helped O.J. Simpson set several current National Football League records?
... that the Italian Tocco family became the rulers of several Ionian Islands and formed the last dynasty of the Despotate of Epirus in Greece, before they were conquered by the Ottomans?
... that mathematician Lennart Carleson received his Ph.D. when he was 22 years old and later supervised the thesis of Svante Janson, who received his first Ph.D. on his 22nd birthday?
... that Bonded by Blood recorded a thrash metal version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song?
... that, seven years after California football coach Stub Allison's "nasty, opportunistic defense" helped win a national championship, he was fired for "shackl[ing] good material with a dull offense"?
... that Indriði Indriðason, an Icelandic medium, was once claimed to levitate at chest-height in front of a window and seem in danger of being thrown through it?

00:00, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Hinke Bergegren's Under röd flagg (cover pictured) was the first periodical to introduce detailed accounts of anarchist thought in Sweden?
... that the 1974–75 Buffalo Sabres had three separate 10-game unbeaten streaks during the 80-game season?
... that Johnson & Johnson CEO Richard B. Sellars kept the firm in New Brunswick, New Jersey as "the survival of our country depends on the survival of its cities, so we'd all better get involved in cleaning them up"?
... that Richard Travis received a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions around Rossignol Wood on 24 July 1918?
... that Claude Simons, Jr., son of a Tulane University basketball and baseball coach, followed in his father's footsteps by holding those same positions?
... that Marlon Stockinger is the first Filipino to have won a formula race in Europe?
... that the Marvel Studios film, Captain America: The First Avenger set for release in 2011 has been in development since 1997?
... that Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Rome, Georgia, was designed by a Benedictine Monk and architect from Belmont Abbey?

5 July 2010

18:00, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Walpole Old Chapel (pictured) in Suffolk, now redundant, was originally a farmhouse?
... that head coach Chris Scelfo's Tulane football team was forced to play all eleven of its games in different cities during the 2005 season after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans?
... that dramatist Theodore Ward, writer of Big White Fog, had his first attempt at writing a play thrown into a fire at age seven by his father?
... that Medal of Honor recipient John Nihill won so many shooting medals, he was barred from competing for further US Army awards?
... that some of the suspects in an alleged network of Russian spies planted in the United States were paired as couples and had children together to help maintain their covert status?
... that Richard Alan Minsky was a used car salesman who was featured on America's Most Wanted for being a scam artist and subsequently sentenced to 146 years in prison?
... that the "TTG" of Hollywood recording studio TTG Studios stood for "two terrible guys"?
... that one method of preparing a tiger penis for consumption is to place it dried, with testicles still attached, into a bottle of French cognac or Chinese wine and let it soak for many weeks?

12:00, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the El Corte River (pictured) (meaning "The Cut River") got its name from the cutting of giant pines which were floated downstream to Coatzacoalcos to be used for masts and beams by the Spanish navy?
... that sculptor Seymour Lipton produced three works of ceremonial art for the bimah of Temple Israel in Tulsa, Oklahoma?
... that after serving in the Culpeper County Militia under Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, Mordecai Barbour embarked upon successful ventures in manufactories and toll bridges?
... that Stephen B. Shepard, a former editor of BusinessWeek and later dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism called Chris Welles "probably the premier business writer" of his generation?
... that software company Arbor Networks sells network security and monitoring software in use by over 70% of all Internet service providers, giving it unique insight into Internet traffic?
... that the Arkansas Democratic politician Hayes McClerkin in 1970 challenged Governor Winthrop Rockefeller's "list" of militants disrupting college and university campuses?
... that male Monobia quadridens wasps will try to sting like a female, but have neither stinger nor venom?
... that Abu Dhabi generates more than half a million cubic metres of wastewater each day, and almost all is treated and re-used to irrigate green space in the city?

06:00, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Ormside bowl (pictured) is one of the finest pieces of Anglian silverwork ever found in England?
... that the defeat of a joint Byzantine-Genoese fleet by a smaller Venetian fleet at the Battle of Settepozzi caused Byzantine emperor Michael VIII to distance himself from his alliance with Genoa?
... that George E. Jonas founded and funded a leadership-training program for disadvantaged boys after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and later expanded it to include boys from all over the world?
... that the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition rescued the castaways of the Dundonald?
... that Theodore, the brother of Byzantine emperor Heraclius, was publicly humiliated and imprisoned due to his failure to counter the Muslim raids and his opposition to Heraclius' marriage with Martina?
... that common bracken's scientific name of Pteridium aquilinum is derived from its frond's resemblance to eagle wings?
... that the wheelie bike fad drove bicycle sales to over 4 million units in the US?
... that, in an eventually successful effort to end the nation's longest losing streak, Eastern Michigan University football coach Bob LaPointe hired a local hypnotist?

00:00, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Strong-billed Honeyeater (pictured) actually eats more insects than honey?
... that, in the South Korean legal system, litigants prefer to hire former judges or prosecutors as their lawyers, because they think sitting judges will treat them more favourably?
... that, as a reserve player for the New Zealand All Blacks, Mark Donaldson set up the play that won the historic 1981 Auckland rugby union test match against the South African Springboks?
... that State Senator John H. Ewing of New Jersey's 16th District opposed state funding for poorer school districts, as "some drive a Ford Taurus, like me", but "we can't pay for everyone to drive a Mercedes"?
... that the only external feature that distinguishes the rice rat genera Transandinomys and Hylaeamys may be length of the whiskers?
... that a tree planting marathon organized by Project GreenHands resulted in 852,587 saplings being planted in Tamil Nadu which resulted in the setting of a Guinness World Record?
... that, along with Michael Glynn and John Nihill, Henry Newman was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry?
... that vegan cupcakes beat traditional cupcakes in the reality TV show Cupcake Wars?

4 July 2010

18:00, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

... that all the internal fittings of Cote Baptist Church in Oxfordshire (pictured) date from 1869?
... that Avid Radiopharmaceuticals is developing a radioactive tracer which has the potential to detect Alzheimer's disease using PET scans?
... that visitors can climb through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's temporary art installation, Big Bambú, which is constantly evolving as a crew of rock climbers builds it throughout its six-month run?
... that Edwin L. Elwood received the Medal of Honor during the Campaign of the Rocky Mesa, in which he was shot in the chest?
... that Gerald S. Lesser wrote Children and Television in 1974 to defend Sesame Street against its critics?
... that the Malagasy bat species Pipistrellus raceyi is characterized by a long, straight penis?
... that, in his two Football League appearances, goalkeeper James Mangham conceded a total of ten goals?
... that Gauleiter of Tyrol and Vorarlberg Franz Hofer arranged the surrender of the troops under his command with an American sergeant, and a Jewish emigrant from Germany, Fred Mayer?

12:00, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the church of Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride (pictured) in Amlwch, Wales, is shaped like an upturned boat to reflect the town's maritime heritage?
... that George H. Eldridge received the Medal of Honor for gallantry fighting the Kiowa Indians and Chief Kicking Bird at the Battle of the Little Wichita River?
... that Bach arranged the central duet of his chorale cantata Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten, BWV 93, written for the fifth Sunday after Trinity, as one of his Schübler Chorales?
... that the spray-painting of graffiti on a Mass Rapid Transit train in a depot by Oliver Fricker and an accomplice in May 2010 caused an outcry over the security of protected installations in Singapore?
... that, after reaching Angola in the Dorsland Trek of the 1870s, many South African Boers turned back when the Portuguese tried to convert them to Catholicism and forbade their language in schools?
... that Grand Street was a magazine created by Ben Sonnenberg, who said "I thought a magazine would be a good way to give money to individuals whose writing I liked"?
... that Somerset's Anya Shrubsole was conferred the Most Promising Young Women's Cricketer Award by The Cricket Society in 2008?
... that, in September 1944 during Operation Loyton, a member of the French Resistance died eating plastic explosives he had mistaken for cheese?

06:00, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Chetco (pictured) were once one of the largest Native American tribes on the southern coast of Oregon, but now only about 40 of their descendants remain?
... that, despite having served as a Confederate congressman during the American Civil War, Judge Horatio Washington Bruce was among the first Kentuckians to advocate that the testimony of African-Americans be considered admissible in court?
... that the tomb of Son Ferrer on the island of Majorca served as a necropolis where the remains of over a hundred people, including infants, have been found?
... that Legend of Hockey Don Roberts was assigned to coach hockey despite having never played the sport and coached his team in boots due to his unsteadiness on skates?
... that excavations of Turret 10A of Hadrian's Wall have revealed pre-historic ard marks?
... that Mexican cuisine celebrity chef and author Marcela Valladolid has also been classically trained as a pastry chef in Paris?
... that, at 95,940 words in four volumes, the 1925 will of Frederica Evelyn Stilwell Cook is the longest ever, yet it disposed of only $100,000?
... that an Earl of Barrymore once rode his horse up an imitation bamboo staircase in Steine House, Brighton, to win a bet?

00:00, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

... that every winter between 1895 and 1910, electric trams were running on the ice of the frozen Neva River (pictured)?
... that Eric Hamilton, the youngest American college football head coach when hired by Trenton State College at age 23, has held the same job for 33 years?
... that the website The Oatmeal, with comics of subjects ranging from zombies, to horse care, to English grammar, receives over 20 million hits a month after existing for less than a year?
... that the list of college football coaches with 200 career wins is topped by John Gagliardi, Eddie Robinson, and Joe Paterno?
... that the Hoxne Hoard, the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold discovered in Great Britain, includes pepper pots, silverware and a body chain?
... that mycologist Olav Johan Sopp suggested classifying fungi as belonging to neither plantae nor animalia, but to a third kingdom, back in the 1890s?
... that using a continuously recording fathometer, WHOI scientists aboard RV Atlantis located and described the first abyssal plain in 1947?
... that, in a niche on the corner of the Palais Equitable in Vienna, is the Stock im Eisen, a tree trunk that people have hammered nails into since the Middle Ages?

3 July 2010

18:00, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

... that although technically edible, the fruit of Acronychia laevis (pictured) have been said to taste like turpentine?
... that ethylene oxide is a common disinfectant and a main component of thermobaric weapons?
... that Swiss photographer Antoine Sonrel created carte de visite portraits for Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Abbott Lawrence Rotch, and Anne Whitney?
... that the 21st Mechanized Corps, a Soviet Red Army formation, was disbanded in August 1941 due to failing to defend Lithuania and Latvia from Germany?
... that American heavy metal band Mastodon agreed to record the Jonah Hex soundtrack for "basically nothing"?
... that Gerald R. Stockman's support of fair housing efforts in New Jersey earned him recognition by The New York Times as "one of the Legislature's strongest open-housing advocates"?
... that English common law tracing is so limited many leading academics and judges have called for its abolition as an independent doctrine?
... that the first issue of Inspire, an English-language online magazine published by al-Qaeda, includes an article titled "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom"?

12:00, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

... that in addition to having Central America's largest roller coaster, Xetulul Theme Park has replicas of Moulin Rouge, the Trevi Fountain, and the Tikal Temple of the Great Jaguar? (replica pictured)
... that football coach Denny Douds, climbing the career wins list after decades at the same university, jumped with the U.S. Army Parachute Team in May 2010 at age 69?
... that Grove Farm was founded in 1854 by Hermann Widemann, and kept in the estate of George Wilcox until 2000?
... that Keith Piper successfully perpetuated the single-wing, "the formation-of-choice during football's leather-helmet era," for decades after it had been discarded by other teams?
... that the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Missoula, Montana, was named for Medal of Honor recipient Ernest Veuve?
... that the term firecane is used in New Orleans to describe a hurricane capable of producing a firestorm from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
... that connoisseurs say that buffalo burgers taste just like beef did 30 or 40 years ago?
... that Hot Potato tasks the player with navigating a bus through roads filled with alien potato beings?

06:00, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Samuel Parker (pictured), the first Republican candidate for delegate to US Congress from the Territory of Hawaii, married the mother-in-law of the first Democratic candidate?
... that the farmyard of the 1844 John and Eliza Barr Patterson House still contains a rosebush, peonies, and daylilies dating from the late 19th and early 20th century?
... that Dick LaRossa was elected to the New Jersey Senate after serving as weekend host of the New Jersey Lottery drawings, which made him "arguably one of the most recognizable faces in the state"?
... that the mobile gaming magazine Pocket Gamer peaked at a circulation of 700,000 copies when it was published in all T-Mobile and O2 UK stores in the UK and on the websites of Vodafone and 3 UK?
... that Florida A&M football coach Joe Taylor has a career record of 214–82–4 and won four Black College Championships at Hampton?
... that the literary critic Francis Jeffrey declared William Wordsworth's Immortality Ode, printed in Poems in Two Volumes, "beyond all doubt, the most illegible and unintelligible part of the publication"?
... that Salvador Cristau Coll, who is an Archpriest, was incardinated two times?
... that contrary to most music festivals, The Edge Festival takes place across multiple different locations, with fifty artists performing across seven venues in 2009?

00:00, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

... that hand knotted Persian style rugs with Mexican indigenous designs (pictured) are made in Temoaya, Mexico?
... that among the works of egyptologist Jens Lieblein are dictionaries of hieroglyphic names published in 1871 and 1891?
... that the PWS-6 was the first Polish aircraft fitted with slats—but the prototype is the only model ever produced?
... that Carmine DeSopo was elected to office in 1995 in the New Jersey General Assembly's 7th Legislative District in the first legislative race in state history in which spending exceeded $1 million?
... that the 1930s American radio show, Palmolive Beauty Box Theater, drew an estimated 25 million listeners in its first season?
... that Abraham Blum, a Bundist participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was murdered by the Gestapo, but his wife Luba Blum-Bielicka, a nurse, survived the Holocaust and ran an orphanage in post war Poland?
... that according to official North Korean sources, the opera The Flower Girl was written exclusively by North Korean leader Kim Il-sung?
... that Peter "Papa Bear" Mazzaferro was removed as head football coach at Bridgewater after 19 years, sued for age discrimination, and coached another 17 years there after being reinstated?

2 July 2010

18:00, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the violet coral fungus (pictured) contains lectins that can cause white blood cells to clump together?
... that a gala performance of The Rose of Castille was given on 21 January 1858 as part of the nuptials of Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess Victoria, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia?
... that the Star Watch Case Company made a "Moonwatch" that was worn by astronaut Eugene A. Cernan on a trip to the moon?
... that, out of the 2,600 km (1,600 mi) of track in use in Vietnam's national railway network, 85% of passenger volume and 60% of cargo volume is transported along the 1,726 km (1,072 mi) North–South Railway line?
... that Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1862 essay "Chiefly About War Matters" was censored because of his description of Abraham Lincoln?
... that the 1874 Fichte-Bunker, the last surviving gasometer in Berlin, became an air-raid shelter in World War II and later housed refugees from East Germany?
... that no American has won a medal in Olympic table tennis, but if one wins gold, USA Table Tennis will pay a $100,000 bonus?
... that ribbon farms established near Detroit were only 150 feet (46 m) wide, but up to 3 miles (4.8 km) long?

12:00, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1995, the ROV Kaikō (pictured) became the first vessel to visit the Challenger Deep since the landmark Trieste expedition in 1960?
... that soprano Ursula Buckel recorded the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147, which Bach had written for the feast of the Visitation always celebrated on 2 July?
... that only five units of the production model PWS-5, a Polish liaison aircraft, were built?
... that City Councilman Amir Omar is believed to be the first Muslim and first Iranian-American to hold a political office in Texas?
... that in the Victorian era the concept of a picture book for children, with illustrations dominating the text, was popularized with small books called toy books?
... that Lieutenant-General Sir Nick Parker is currently in command of 140,000 troops as acting commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan?
... that when John Livingston Lowes taught Kubla Khan, he told his class "If there is any man in the history of literature who should be hanged, drawn, and quartered, it is the man on business from Porlock."?
... that while still a boy, John Ross walked more than 600 km, crossing crocodile and hippopotamus-infested rivers, to obtain relief supplies for the settlement at Port Natal?

06:00, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the Black Currawong (pictured) of Tasmania has been observed covering itself with wet yellow clay for a 'dirt bath'?
... that Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, the mayor of Guadalupe, was murdered in front of his family in the Mexican Drug War?
... that during the 1973 Buffalo Bills season, O.J. Simpson set the current single-season National Football League record for average rushing yards per game?
... that Huber's bills itself as the oldest restaurant in Portland, Oregon?
... that Ed Saugestad began coaching the Augsburg College hockey team while he was still a student and led the school to three NAIA national championships in 37 years as the coach?
... that Zippel Bay in Zippel Bay State Park on Lake of the Woods in Minnesota was once the site of a caviar production business?
... that Justin Verlander, a first-round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers, won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award in 2006?
... that the designer of the Okryu Restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea, would later spend 38 years in a South Korean prison for spying?

00:00, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

... that Elakala Falls (pictured) may derive its name from the legend of Elakala, the story of a Native American princess who threw herself over the edge of the first waterfall when her lover scorned her?
... that an enthalpy–entropy chart shows enthalpy in terms of internal energy, pressure and volume, so that the work done in vapor cycles can be directly measured as a length?
... that Mike McShane led Norwich to eight Frozen Fours and ranks ninth all-time among NCAA men's ice hockey coaches with 564 wins?
... that the 47th Battalion was one of three infantry battalions disbanded by Australia due to casualties suffered during the German Spring Offensive in May 1918?
... that the gape of nestlings of several passerine bird species have been shown to be conspicuous in the ultraviolet spectrum?
... that in the wake of voter anger at tax increases enacted by Governor James Florio, New Jersey Assembly member Thomas P. Foy supported allowing voters to remove legislators from office by referendum?
... that the noise of the 1929 Murchison earthquake, which occurred on New Zealand's South Island, was so loud that it was heard in New Plymouth, over 250 km (160 mi) away on North Island?
... that before cola became widespread, the hamburger was typically served with coffee?

1 July 2010

18:00, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the U.S. Coast Guard (vessel pictured) maintains a permanent command in the Middle East that supports six 110-foot patrol boats?
... that drummer Kevin Kelley was the first non-original member to join the Los Angeles rock band The Byrds?
... that John Thomson served for 55 years as the schoolmaster of Nantwich Blue Cap School in Cheshire, England, and the school closed some six months after his retirement aged 86 or 87?
... that HMS Concorde, a former French ship, was involved in the capture of the French frigates Engageante and Virginie, and almost captured the Bravoure?
... that bookbinder Richard Minsky was involved in a lawsuit with the creators of Second Life over the trademark registration of SLART?
... that St. Aloysius' Catholic Church in Carthagena, Ohio, had the first tall church tower in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches?
... that Iowa and Indiana coach Gayle Blevins retired in June 2010 ranked second in NCAA Division I softball history with 1,245 wins?
... that a number of British pubs, bars and nightclubs operate a safety initiative called PubWatch that may ban individuals for drunken or anti-social behaviour?

12:00, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the ornate Chesters' Stores building of 1911 (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, was likened to the Lusitania liner because of its porthole-like windows?
... that since 1997, The Georgetown Improv Association has hosted "Improvfest," one of the oldest improvisational theater festivals in the United States?
... that Tim Coghlin advanced to the Frozen Four in six of the past eight years and has the second highest career winning percentage among the 100 all-time winningest college men's hockey coaches?
... that Rollover Pass, which connects East Bay with the Gulf of Mexico, was named after the practice of rolling exports and imports to avoid Customs during Spanish rule?
... that in 1958 while studying tropical moist static energy profiles, Herbert Riehl and Joanne Malkus found that hot towers were the primary mechanism for transporting energy out of the tropics?
... that the Little Thetford flesh-hook is a late Bronze-age (1000–701 BC) artefact discovered in 1929 in Little Thetford, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, England?
... that in 1993, U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell suggested that William G. Austin's Medal of Honor be rescinded due to the controversial battle after which it was given?
... that the shrimp Periclimenes dardanicola resides on sea anemones on the shell of the hermit crab Dardanus pedunculatus, in one of the few associations between two decapods?

06:00, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

... that the entire 30,000 km² (12,000 sq mi) area of the Gulf of Finland may freeze (pictured) in winter?
... that the piano riff played by Johnny Parker on the 1956 song "Bad Penny Blues" has been suggested as a possible influence on The Beatles' "Lady Madonna"?
... that John Hartmann, a 24-year-old law student, won election to the New Jersey General Assembly's 15th Legislative District in 1991, making him the youngest Republican ever elected to the Assembly?
... that Magdalene Thoresen became a model for several female characters in Norwegian literature, including Ibsen's "Rebekka West" and "Ellida Wangel", and Bjørnson's "Petra" and "Leonarda"?
... that the Belgian early music ensemble, La Petite Bande, takes its name from Jean-Baptiste Lully's petite bande, a string orchestra at the court of Louis XIV?
... that Judi Garman, raised by a Mennonite pastor on the Saskatchewan prairie, became the winningest coach in college softball history at Cal State Fullerton?
... that Agora was a proof of concept email-based web browser designed for non-graphic terminals and people without full access to the internet?
... that United Auto Workers of America president Stephen Yokich was taken to his first strike picket line when he was just 22 months old?

00:00, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

... that aviator Aristeidis Moraitinis (pictured), apart from being Greece’s only ace in World War I, was at the same time in command of the Hellenic Naval Air Service?
... that the Anglican church in Amlwch, Wales, named after St Eleth, was built in 1800 with money derived from copper mining at nearby Parys Mountain?
... that Somerset cricketer Izzy Westbury made her senior international debut for the Netherlands aged 15?
... that the Oyu Tolgoi mine will cost US$4.6 billion to complete, and will be the most expensive project in Mongolian history?
... that Medal of Honor recipient William R. Parnell died in San Francisco, California on August 20, 1910, after falling from a street car?
... that the Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden is rated "one of the finest pick-up spots in Manhattan"?
... that Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson said that Bruce R. Bent and Henry B. R. Brown should be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their invention of the money market fund?
... that deer penis, which is said in traditional Chinese medicine to enhance virility in men, was added to the list of banned substances during the 2008 Beijing Olympics?