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30 April 2004
- ...that Cote d'Ivoire is the world's tallest cathedral?
- ...that the film narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway in Wales?
- ...that pole stars change over time because stars exhibit a slow but distinct drift with respect to the Earth's axis?
- ...that high jumper Ulrike Meyfarth became the youngest individual Olympic champion in athletics?
29 April 2004
- ...that the Allies organized the South East Asia Command, led by Lord Mountbatten, to manage operations in the southern Pacific Theater during World War II?
- ...that there are at least 10 Malay-based creoles?
- ...that herbologiststo be a toothache palliative?
- ...that Mickey Marcus is the only person buried at the United States Military Academywho died fighting under a foreign flag?
- ...that in the United Kingdom a County palatine was one which had special autonomy and was ruled by an Earl or Count?
- ...that many Saint Death?
- ...that the Von Willebrand factor is a blood protein used by the coagulation function of the circulatory system?
- ...that Cousin problems have nothing to do with difficult relatives?
- ...that the battle of the American Revolutionary War?
- ...that most garden herbs are forbs?
- ...that The Most Dangerous Game has been repeatedly used as source material by television shows like Gilligan's Island?
28 April 2004
- ...that USSR?
- ...that Fort Caroline, near present-day Jacksonville, Florida, was the first permanent French colony in North America?
- ...that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
- ...that June and Jennifer Gibbons communicated via a twin language?
27 April 2004
- ...that the geology of the Grand Canyon area includes more than 40 identified rock layers?
- ...that the Schneider CA1 was the first French tank?
- ...that Common Flax, from which the fiberis derived?
- ...that the lowest ranks in the Norwegian militaryare the menig (Army), flysoldat (Air Force) and Utskrevet menig (Navy)?
- ...that Boris Yeltsin wanted to remove the body of Vladimir Lenin from public display in Lenin's Mausoleum but failed to achieve his goal while in power?
- ...that People's Republic of China?
- ...that gravitational collapse is a leading cause of star death?
- ...that the history of the periodic table records at least two pre-Mendeleevian attempts to organize the elements?
26 April 2004
- ...that the United States Navy practiced burial at sea as recently as World War II?
- ...that weather lore is essentially folk meteorology and varies widely in its veracity?
- ...that the Quarter Sessionsexisted until 1972?
- ...that ?
- ...that the California Manroothas 5cm round fruits covered in 1cm spines, and a bitter taste?
- ...that ?
- ...that the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the remains of a Canadian soldier who died in France during World War I?
25 April 2004
- ...that the use of the colonial-era American university system?
- ...that Tamale, Ghana obtains its electricity from Akosombo Dam in the central Ghana?
24 April 2004
- ...that the colorful Sri Lanka Junglefowl is part of the junglefowl family from which our modern domestic chickensderive?
- ...that Miranda rights are named for Ernesto Miranda?
- ...that the Byzantine Senate survived from the end of the Roman Empire up until the time of the Fourth Crusade?
- ...that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera seria Idomeneo is set on the island of Crete following the Trojan War?
22 April 2004
- ...that the ?
- ...that the Coral Snake by the mnemonic"red and yellow, kill a fellow" and "red and black venom lack"?
- ...that the white eagle on the (literally nest)?
- ...that writers in the literary genre known as fantastique include Stephen King and Honoré de Balzac?
- ...that the crown lands of the United Kingdom are different than crown lands in Canada and Australia, the latter being more like the public lands of the United States?
- ...that the Nilekingdom?
21 April 2004
- ...that the famous horny toad of Short-horned Lizard?
- ...that a woman named Christian evangelists?
- ...that and several other languages?
- ...that in 1990 Cecil Fielder became the first Detroit Tiger since Hank Greenberg (in 1938) to slug over 50 home runs in a season?
- ...that the Monty Python joke-warfare sketch is an example of a motif of harmful sensation?
- ...that attacks of September 11?
- ...that Hans Guido Mutke claimed to be the first person to break the sound barrier?
20 April 2004
- ...that Grigol Peradze was a Georgian ecclesiastic figure who was gassed in Auschwitz?
- ...that Labatt Park in London, Ontario, Canada is thought to be the oldest continually operating baseball diamond in the world?
- ...that the USS Frank Knox was named in honor of Frank Knox, who was United States Secretary of the Navy during World War II?
19 April 2004
- ...that the pigeon?
- ...that ?
- ...that Wyndham Halswelle was winner of the controversial 400-metre run at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
- ...that the first military plane mass-produced in Rumpler Taube in 1910?
18 April 2004
- ...that, following the Volga German minority in Russia?
- ...that the mythology?
- ...that TV movie called Mazes and Monsters about a group of college students and their interest in the eponymous role-playing game?
17 April 2004
- ...that the Charioteer of Delphi, an almost-intact ancient Greek statue, was lost for nearly 2000 years?
- ...that in addition to ?
16 April 2004
- ...that Sidney Street Siege?
- ...that the corticospinal tract contains both sensory and motor axons?
- ...that the Philippine-American War?
- ...that indicator species?
- ...that the soda ash, used in the production of glass, textiles, and paper, was historically made using the Leblanc process?
- ...that 1988's Hurricane Gilbert was the first to make landfall on Jamaica since 1955?
- ...that the Crown of St. Stephen?
15 April 2004
- ...that the first Louis XIII of France?
- ...that William James Sidis, an eccentric—and once world-famous—genius, entered Harvard University in 1909 at the age of 11?
- ...that Napoléon Bonaparte's defeat in what the Russians call the Patriotic War was the turning point in the Napoleonic Warsand the beginning of the end for the Emperor?
14 April 2004
- ...that the Sanskrit language animal stories written around 200 BC?
- ...that the blood vessel present during fetal development that carries oxygenated blood from the placenta to the growing fetus is called the umbilical vein?
- ...that in Sherron Rolaxby frisking him?
- ...that few trichromats?
- ...that there are only a handful of true tectonicactivity?
- ...that osteomyelitis, i.e. bone infection, is particularly common in the tibia, femur, humerus and vertebral bodies?
- ...that Anglican Church?
- ...that Washington state's San Juan Islands?
13 April 2004
- ...that, like other yellow diarrhoeaif eaten in large quantities?
- ...that the story of ?
- ...that hot-air balloon?
- ...that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan severely injured his back while filming the blockbuster hit Kal Ho Naa Ho?
- ...that iron deficiency anemia is the final stage of iron deficiency?
- ...that sickle cell anemia?
- ...that the "Pardoner's Prologue and Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is about three revellers who set out to kill Death?
- ...that hieroglyphic system was predominantly syllabic?
- ...that writer Panait Istrati is known for his line, "All right, I can see the broken eggs. Where's this omelet of yours?"
12 April 2004
- ...that the heavyweight class in boxing has no maximum weight limit?
- ...that the descent of Elizabeth II leads back directly 1500 years and fifty generations to Cerdic of Wessex?
- ...that Anglo-German novelist Elizabeth von Arnim was a cousin to New Zealand short story writer Katherine Mansfield?
- ...that one way to calculate distances in terms of latitude and longitude is the Haversine formula?
- ...that the longest NHL overtime game in the history of hockey was a 1936 match between the Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Maroons?
- ...that Lumpsuckers are fish that have modified pelvic fins which have evolved into adhesive discs that allow them to adhere to their substrate?
- ...that the medieval lifestyle and establish a monarchy based on the Scottish Jacobiteline?
- ...that Eric Coates was an English composer who wrote some songs for lyrics by Arthur Conan Doyle?
11 April 2004
- ...that Republic of China(Taiwan) uses in most international organizations?
- ...that a suikinkutsu is a type of Japanese garden ornament and a music device?
- ...that Kimono de Ginza are a group of kimono and Japanese clothing enthusiasts in Tokyo that meet monthly in full-dress in front of a department store and then later in an izakaya?
- ...that the unmanned Apollo VI space capsule was recovered by the USS Okinawa (LPH-3) 380 miles north of Kauai, Hawaii?
10 April 2004
- ...that some plants have tentacles, but octopuses have none (they have arms)?
- ...that the founders of United States Constitution?
- ...that a system?
- ...that the 2000 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the heptathlon was Denise Lewis?
- ...that Elizabeth Boleyn?
- ...that Knecht Ruprecht, a figure in Germanic folklore, is often depicted as traveling with Santa Claus?
- ...that the Battle of Indus in 1221?
- ...that Oklahoma's Price Tower is one of the only two Frank Lloyd Wright skyscrapers ever built?
9 April 2004
- ...that a dichroic prism splits light into two beams of different color, or wavelengths?
- ...that Vladimir Zworykin, a World War II-era RCAemployee?
- ...that the muckraking began at McClure'smagazine?
- ...that insane asylum?
8 April 2004
- ...that the Bön religion?
- ...that Los Angeles, California's Griffith Park was originally an ostrichfarm?
- ...that, according to cat coat genetics, two different X chromosome alleles must be expressed to create a calico?
- ...that the Second World War reconnaissance floatplane of the Fleet Air Arm?
- ...that Connie Mack managed for 53 baseball seasons, winning nine pennants and five World Series?
- ...that the first diet soda was produced in 1958?
- ...that Nazi admiral Karl Dönitz advocated tonnage wars—military attacks on commercial vessels?
7 April 2004
- ...that the site of the Franklin Dam was blockaded for seven months before its construction was halted by the High Court of Australia?
- ...that one of the three Torchic?
- ...that Peter Mitchell called for mercy on Louis Riel and blamed John A. Macdonald for causing the Riel Rebellion?
- ...that a 2002 BBC World Service global poll voted A Nation Once Again the world's most popular tune?
- ...that a theme in ?
- ...that Pope Stephen VII exhumed the remains of Pope Formosus for the Cadaver Synod?
- ...that circles and Reuleaux triangles are examples of curves of constant width?
- ...that the Antarctic ecosystem cannot support vascular plants?
- ...that a diplomatic bag is a term of art in both international relations and cryptography?
6 April 2004
- ...that Hindu temple in Indonesia?
- ...that the scandalous murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor has never been solved?
- ...that El Niñoeffect?
- ...that the fundamental complexity of chemical synthesis impedes many efforts at drug design?
- ...the Jerusalem cricket is sometimes called "the old bald-headed man"?
- ...that autonomic ganglions are cell bodies within the autonomic nervous system?
- ...that the Korean poetic form of sijo resembles the Japanese poetic form of haiku?
- ...that Czesław Miłosz?
- ...that the Mamayev Kurgan complex in Volgograd, Russia is a memorial to the Battle of Stalingrad?
- ...that Maia Chiburdanidze was the youngest woman ever to win the women's world chess championship?
- ...that the private income of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is known as the Privy Purse?
5 April 2004
- ...that Kellogg's?
- ...that stem cells in the bodies of cancerpatients?
- ...that Villeurbanne and Lyon form the second-largest conurbation in France?
- ...that Academy Awardfor Best Song, but never won?
- ...that one variety of baby blue eyes, a common California wild flower, is white?
- ...that newspaper columnist and game show panelist assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedyand she died under suspicious circumstances?
- ...that "God Save Ireland" was the unofficial national anthem of the Irish Free State?
4 April 2004
- ...that Baby blue eyes is a common Californian wild flower- and one variety of it is white?
- ...that, together with Mike Nichols, Elaine May founded the trail-blazing comic troupe The Compass Players, which later became Second City?
- ...that most of the 8,000 speakers of the Niuean language live outside the borders of Niue?
- ...that refractory metal in 1781?
- ...that the to her lover?
- ...that the Justice of the Peacecourts became increasingly archaic?
3 April 2004
- ...that the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 was sparked by a Minoan rebellion?
- ...that the Kei apple is a shrub often used for hedges, not an edible apple?
- ...that Bodega Bay in California was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds?
- ...that rattlesnake venom contains hemotoxins?
- ...that Ernest Duchesne discovered penicillin's antibiotic powers 32 years before Alexander Fleming?
- ...that the ?
- ...that the boundaries between American Georgia and Spanish Florida were defined by the 1796 Treaty of Madrid?
- ...that the term Fertile Crescent was coined by James Henry Breasted?
- ...that an important tool in drag line excavator?
- ...that New York Point lost out to Braille in the "War of the Dots"?
- ...that ragtime music since 1973?
- ...that a cousin of curling, ice stock sport, is played primarily in Germany and Austria?
2 April 2004
- ...that four different continents host red fox populations?
- ...that a ?
- ...that hymns despite being totally blind?
- ...that Austrian journalist Günther Nenning is nicknamed Auhirsch, meaning "meadow deer"?
- ...that the white-tailed deer can be found in all 48 contiguous U.S. states?
- ...that the Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine powers the Harrier jet?
- ...that Herschel Island in Canada is named for scientist John Herschel?
- ...that Heaven Can Wait, a play by Harry Segall, has been filmed at least four times?
1 April 2004
- ...that in 1929 the Graf Zeppelin completed a circumnavigation of the globe in 21 days, 5 hours and 31 minutes?
- ...that exploding head syndrome isn't fatal?
- ...that Moaning Myrtle's bathroom?
- ...that Sean MacDermott, a leader of the Easter Rising of 1916, was executed by firing squad?
- ...that heart defect?
- ...that there is a form of ?
- ...that Russian trappers who explored it in the early 19th century?
- ...that the Diners Club card was the first independent credit card?