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Did you know...

30 July 2004

...that the death toll from the
Sook Ching Massacre
is unknown, but probably lies between 25,000 and 50,000?
...that the casque of the
Tarictic hornbill is hollow and made of keratin
?

29 July 2004

100x100px|Colin Pitchfork

...that DNA fingerprinting
?

...that in Pac-Mania Pac-Man has the ability to jump?

...that the
Cameraria ohridella moth
destroy

...that Big Brother
in 2002?

...that in the United States, the
Republican counterpart promote the election of members of their respective parties to Congress
?

...that the IBM 350 was the first important milestone in early IBM disk storage
?

...that in the presence of
economic decision theory
?

27 July 2004

Logo of U.S. Democratic Party

...that Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
?

... that the
Michael P. Fay
?

...that according to counterclockwise around low pressure zones in the Northern Hemisphere
?

...that the Lowestoft Ness
as the easternmost?

26 July 2004

...that the
Dog Rose was often planted in victory gardens during World War II
?

...that the
Malmédy Massacre Trial is often used in extreme right-wing German propaganda
?

25 July 2004

100x100px|Montreal Expos logo

...that the weights and measures from 1836 until the establishment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
in 1901?

...that major league baseball
game?
...that the creator of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups once worked as a dairyman for famed chocolatier Milton S. Hershey?

...that musical scales
?

...that no
Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces
?

...that many of
automobile platform
?

24 July 2004

Cairine Wilson

...that Cairine Wilson was Canada's first female senator?

...that the Fifth and Sixth Crusades were turned back by Al-Kamil, a nephew of Saladin?

...that subscript
symbols placed before or after the main letter?

...that theater, film, television and comic books
?

23 July 2004

...that execution for treason
?

...that vipers
?
...that
Kolkota, India is called the City of Palaces because of its abundance of European
-style buildings?

...that seven countries have more than one capital city
?

...that in basketball technical fouls are rule violations that occur outside the play of the game?

22 July 2004

...that Jane Avril was the inspiration for Nicole Kidman's character in the film Moulin Rouge!?

...that bond convexity is a measure of the sensitivity of bond prices to interest rate changes?

...that Chetham's Library in Manchester, England is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world?

...that poetic meter into Hebrew poetry
?

...that
Spiro T. Agnew
?

...that, according to legend, one of the Iron Crown of Lombardy
?

...that a forage harvester is used to create silage feed for livestock?

...that Norman architecture is a form of the Romanesque?

...that 18th century French salons were often led by those who were creating the Encyclopédie?

...that there are several different kinds of first basemen's gloves and infield and outfield
gloves?

...that Deepdene is believed to be the world's largest irradiated diamond?

...that the
bestselling single
of all time?

...that some
Josef Stalin as one of bureaucratic collectivism
?

21 July 2004

...that the 1903 Tour de France often required riders to cycle through the night?

...that scientist Parkinson's Disease
?

...that the
Summit tunnel fire in England
may have been the biggest underground fire in transportation history?

...that within Superman's Fortress of Solitude there is an apartment set aside for Supergirl?

...that the
mysticism in Nazi Germany
?

20 July 2004

...that items which were "Banned in Boston" (i.e. censored) came to be seen as more sexy and attractive elsewhere?

...that there are at least four methods of plastic welding?

...that
sex determination in sports is no longer practiced at the Olympic Games
?

...that the Supreme Court of Pakistan meets in Islamabad?

...that the San Marco di Venezia, aka St. Mark's Cathedral, in Venice, Italy
?

...that
Thomas Macaulay referred to Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times as "sullen Socialism
"?

...that Axis Powers in 1940
?

Chicago Freight Subway

...that
Louis Mountbatten invented Mountbatten pink, a camouflage paint used during World War II
?

...that a Greek hero cult usually focused on a great man of history (e.g. Oedipus) or the founder of a city (e.g. Battus of Cyrene)?

...that The Sun Sessions album included all of the Elvis Presley tracks recorded by Sam Phillips?

...that
Chicago Freight Subway was abandoned in 1959 and the tunnels flooded catastrophically in 1992
?

...that the people of Thailand use the Thai six-hour clock in addition to the usual 24-hour clock?

18 July 2004

...that Long Ashton Research Station closed in 2003 having served agriculture and horticulture for exactly 100 years?

...that actress Hunter Tylo sued producer Aaron Spelling and won after she was fired from Melrose Place?

...that the village name UK
, is pronounced "Un-is-u-bull"?

...that the
continents
?

17 July 2004

...that when Lauri Lehtinen narrowly won his gold medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics, he was booed?

15 July 2004

Hunter Tylo's autobiography, Making a Miracle

...that nine
1981 Irish Hunger Strike
?

Old Ynysybwl Village

...that the
Coconut Crab is the world's largest terrestrial arthropod
?

...that every
Academy Award
nomination for best picture?

...that Lion Beer was Asia's first brand of beer?

...that Joseph Guillemot, winner of the 5000 m at the 1920 Olympics, was a pack-a-day smoker?

...that the
initial consonant mutation
?

14 July 2004

...that the phantom island of Brazil
supposedly emerged from the mists only once every seven years?

12 July 2004

...that the State Historical Museum in Moscow, Russia has 1.7 million coins in its collection?

...that the case
Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company established the precedents for UK contract
law?

...that medieval Europe
?

...that the execution of Flor Contemplacion strained relations between Singapore and the Philippines?

11 July 2004

...that Daniel Ernst Jablonski in the 1690s tried to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants?

...that a madrigal
with a spiritual rather than secular topic?

...that a sand dunes
?

...that there are fewer than 2000 Indian Rhinoceroses
left in the wild?

T-Mobile Team

...that the
T-Mobile Team is currently racing in the 2004 Tour de France
?

10 July 2004

100x100px|Mike Woodin

...that medieval north Italian
cities?

...that Principal Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales for 6 years and a city councillor for Oxford
for 10 years?

...that the
Wavy-leafed Soap Plant can be used to wash your hair, to stun fish, to cure rheumatism
and to make brushes?

...that the Mexican War of Independence (1820–1821) resulted in an unlikely alliance between liberales and conservadores?

9 July 2004

...that
Primary Care Trusts are statutory bodies responsible for delivering improvements to their local area in the United Kingdom National Health Service
?

8 July 2004

...that the tenth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly has been resumed more times than any other?

...that bone age is usually determined by examining x-rays of the long bones?

6 July 2004

Brimstone missile, fired from RAF Panavia Tornado airplane

...that the
Brimstone missile, an anti-tank guided missile, is carried by three Royal Air Force
aeroplane types?

5 July 2004

...that Men's Olympic Football Tournament 2004
will feature U-23 (under 23-year-old) national teams?

...that the Battle of Tarawa was the first time in World War II that the US faced serious opposition to an amphibious landing?

...that the Siege of Malta cost 1,493 civilian lives?

4 July 2004

...that Shuri Castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

...Edmund Beckett, the designer of Big Ben, said, "I am the only architect with whom I have never quarrelled."

...that the
Great Salad Oil Swindle was an infamous attempt at cornering the market
?

...that Coel
?

3 July 2004

...that the European Constitution
?

...that the Frankfurt kitchen was the first built-in kitchen, and was designed with space efficiency in mind?

...that the Pergamon Museum in Berlin hosts a reconstruction of a 113 meter long sculptural frieze?

...that
dramatic structure has been diagrammed by both Aristotle and Gustav Freytag
?

1 July 2004

...there are two known Polyomaviruses
which infect humans?

...that Ruffini's rule allows the rapid division of any polynomial by a binomial of the form x - r ?

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