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Did you know...

31 August 2005

21:11, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

...that the
Bassein Fort was at the centre of Portuguese operations in India during the 16th century
?

...that Mount Pantokrator is the highest mountain on the island of Corfu at 914 metres tall?
...that the Beehive House was constructed as a home for Brigham Young, a polygamist, and his wives?
...that Manitoba politician Colin H. Campbell is said to have won his seat in the 1907 election by a margin of one vote?
...that the liberal arts colleges
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00:35, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

...that Royal Academy in the 1860s
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...that the
Fulani ethnic group across northern Cameroon
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...that the
circumnavigate North America
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...that the last
James Winkfield in 1902
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...that on
14 August 1936 Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, thus becoming the last person to be publicly executed in the United States
?

29 August 2005

23:39, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

...that the Minchiate was a deck of playing cards similar to the tarot, but with forty trumps?

...that bulk vending machine operators often spray Mike and Ikes and Hot Tamales with cooking spray to keep them from sticking together?

...that
Yrausquin Airport in the Caribbean island of Saba
has commercial air service despite prohibition for airline airplanes to land there?

...that
congresswoman Coya Knutson sang and played her accordion
at campaign events?

...that a Starets is a spiritual leader unique to the Russian Orthodox Church?

09:53, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Barren Island

...that the only active volcano in South Asia is on Barren Island, one of India's Andaman Islands?

...that the Muslim state of Ifat was completely annexed by Ethiopia in 1415?

...that the 1892 farce Charley's Aunt has been the basis of at least six different films, as well as the successful 1950s Broadway and West End musical, Where's Charley?

...that the
Battle of Baghdad
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26 August 2005

22:59, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Hearst Tower

...that the uncommon triangulated frame of Hearst Tower, currently under construction in New York City, requires about 20 percent less steel than a conventional perimeter frame?
...that
Bryce State Mental Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, has served as a model of both progressive and inhumane mental health
treatment during its 144-year career?

...that the notated music
in the western world?

...that in
infant mortality rate in the world
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00:09, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

...that Nikolai Gumilyov
, did not even exist?

...that
Charles Brooks, Jr., was the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States
?

...that Rodger Penzabene, co-author of the 1968 Temptations hit "I Wish It Would Rain," used a real-life breakup as inspiration for the song and committed suicide when the song was released?

...that the Presidio of Santa Barbara, built by the Spanish in 1782, is the second-oldest European building in the U.S. state of California?

25 August 2005

00:18, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

...that Liugong Island is considered the "birthplace of China's first navy" and is also the site of its defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War?

...that Closer Economic Relations is a free trade agreement between the governments of New Zealand and Australia?

...that in
Elizabethan England anyone opening a message in a bottle without the approval of the Queen could face the death penalty
?

...that Antarctosaurus was one of the largest dinosaurs ever to live in South America?

...that the
Hungry i nightclub was instrumental in launching the careers of Lenny Bruce, Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen
?

24 August 2005

13:16, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

...that the American toad is a common species of toad found throughout the eastern United States and Canada?

...that in 2001 Watercolour Challenge won a Royal Television Society award in the category of Best Features - Daytime television?

...that
River Deep - Mountain High", his 1966 production for Ike & Tina Turner, his best work, despite its commercial failure in the United States
?

...that the messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro
and a band of fanatic followers and resulted in the death of more than 15,000 people?

23 August 2005

23:32, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

...that American art that depicts the Goddess of Liberty and is the first known painting to celebrate the emancipation of slaves in the United States
?

...that although football stadium architect in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century, only two of his works have been listed
for preservation?

...that men who practice snake charming often also use their skills as a form of pest control?

... that Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003
?

12:42, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

...that the border between
Victoria Nile
?

...that the defeat of
Hindu kingdoms in South India
?

...that the People's Republic of China
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...that Catholic in German Cameroon
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...that the honey fungus
which covers more than 3.4 square miles (8.9 km²) and is thousands of years old?

00:19, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

...that a subtropical
seawater?

...that the
1928 St Moritz games
at the age of 35?

...that Swaziland
that restricts the sexual relations of unmarried women?

...that detonating
nuclear weapons is specifically forbidden in Britain under the Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Act 1998
?

...that the South Africa
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22 August 2005

11:40, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

...that the Border Reivers
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...that
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was independent India's first individual Olympic medalist when he won the wrestling bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki games
?

...that Los Chicos and Menudo, Puerto Rican rival boy bands during the early 1980s
?

...that the Battle of Asal Uttar fought between India and Pakistan was the largest tank battle in the history of the Indian subcontinent?

... that crocodiles
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01:03, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

...that about half of Ireland's citizens live outside of the Republic of Ireland?

...that the Nurek Dam in Tajikistan is the tallest dam in the world, and in 1994 generated enough hydroelectric power to supply three-quarters of that country's generation capacity?

...that cosmetic surgery working towards his goal of resembling a live tiger
?

... that the Narita Airport, which took nine years to build 9 km of track bed, is the only bullet train
line ever officially cancelled?

...that
Todd Cameron Smith
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19 August 2005

13:12, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

... that urushiol-induced contact dermatitis accounts for 10% of all lost-time injuries in the United States Forest Service?

...that day beacons and other navigational aids vary in standard designation worldwide much like driving on the right or left?

...that three of the Arabic names, were in fact named for members of the Apollo 1
crew?

... that rock formations
cooled from underground ice?
...that the definitive image of the African and Caribbean goddess Mami Wata was based on a poster of a Samoan snake charmer?

00:08, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

... that the Khardungla Pass
has been incorrectly claimed by Wikipedia to be the highest motorable road in the world?

...that cricketer to score more than 200 runs (a double century) in a Test innings
?

...that Foundation 9 Entertainment is the largest independent video game developer in North America?

...that the Protestant, and indigenous beliefs, but traditionally rejects the Bible
and other written scriptures?

...that the Islamic Spaniard Judar Pasha led 4,000 Moroccans to victory against more than 40,000 Songhai troops at the Battle of Tondibi, putting an end to West Africa's Songhai Empire?

18 August 2005

01:09, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

... that the Puritanism in the early 17th century
?

...that Lancashire cricketer Dick Barlow was immortalised in Francis Thompson's poem "At Lord's"?

...that Henri Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the Times, averted a war between the French Third Republic and the German Empire in 1875?

...that the slave state—and that it launched the career of the great black Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge
?

17 August 2005

00:55, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

...that several countries, including Sweden and Germany have started a nuclear power phase-out, with the goal of gradually shutting down all nuclear power plants?

...that sociocracy is a form of government relying on principles of consensus?

...that the
Philadelphia Metro is a free daily newspaper that was first published in 2000
?

...that the imperial forces led by a European officer corps, was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion
?

...that adjustable
Renault Spider
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16 August 2005

00:34, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

...that the
leg break bowled by Shane Warne to Mike Gatting that turned around the 1993 Ashes cricket series is widely known as the Ball of the Century
?

...that the most popular
Duala peoples of Cameroon is a mermaid called a jengu
?

...that though only 14% of all U.S.
nuclear testing was conducted at the Pacific Proving Grounds
, they comprised nearly 80% of the total explosive yields of all U.S. tests?

...that the Mauritania Railway transports iron ore on trains up to three kilometers long?

15 August 2005

12:17, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

...that the belltower in Perth, Western Australia containing the largest set of change ringing
bells in the world, several of which are 280 years old?

...that
colonised
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...that the intestine during times of oxygen scarcity, and can inflict an excruciating sting with the two-pointed spike under its eyes
?

...that
settle
?

14 August 2005

23:58, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

...that Andrew Ellicott taught Meriwether Lewis the art of surveying?

...that Juan Esteban Pedernera was interim President of Argentina in 1861, following the death of Santiago Derqui?

...that Niger
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...that the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for its managing of its lands with concern to the environment
?

11 August 2005

20:23, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

...that Chicago in 1891, and then returned to its original site in 1968
?

...that Silvio O. Conte was a U.S. Congressman who once donned a pig mask in order to protest pork barrel spending?

...that the
Kittlitz's Murrelet nests in isolated locations on inland mountaintops, unlike most other seabirds
, which nest in seashore colonies?

...that knighted by Pope Paul VI
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10 August 2005

20:19, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

...that the Michelangelo in 1536 but not fully completed until Mussolini ordered it in 1940
?

... that
computer game for the Windows platform
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...that
U.S. dollars gambling in casinos
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...that the Saskatchewan town of Macklin erected a 32-foot-high statue of a horse's anklebone to commemorate the sport of Bunnock?

01:54, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

...that Margaret Roper, daughter of Thomas More, purchased his head after his execution and preserved it in spices until her own death?

...that
Black Hawk, despite that fact that he was in prison when the land-transfer treaty
was signed?

...that oakmoss is a type of lichen used extensively in modern perfumery?

...that the
Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai had upgraded the city's drainage system by building the Brihanmumbai Storm Water Disposal System
?

9 August 2005

04:04, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

...that an industrial process for making
instant mashed potatoes was patented in 1912
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03:24, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

...that the United States Army managed Yellowstone National Park for 32 years from Fort Yellowstone?

...that the football league in Indonesia
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...that 2005 British general election
?
...that the Thunderdome, the home of the basketball and volleyball teams of the University of California, Santa Barbara, is famous for a tortilla-throwing incident in a men's basketball game televised on ESPN?

8 August 2005

13:24, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

...that attempts have been made to produce
Common Milkweed latex
?

...that the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 was seen as formally demonstrating Australia's independence to the world?

...that ethnomusicologist
known for the idea that students should learn to play the music from the cultures they study?

...that Inca empire
by a five-day process of alternately freezing, sun-drying, and trampling under foot?

7 August 2005

21:55, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

...that Saint Anthony's nut, popular with pigs as well as humans, is named for Anthony of Padua, patron saint of swineherds?

...that in response to the 1852 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, writers in the Southern United States produced a body of anti-Tom literature which attempted to show that slavery was not evil?

...that at the Spanish conquest of Peru
?

...that famine scales are the ways in which degrees of food security are measured, from situations in which an entire population has adequate food to full-scale famine?

4 August 2005

22:31, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

...that the height of clouds is measured using a ceiling balloon?

...that
Maurine Brown Neuberger was the third woman elected to the U.S. Senate and that as a U.S. Senator she sponsored one of the first bills to require warning labels on cigarette
packaging?

... that the 1985 comedy film Head Office has established stars such as Danny DeVito starring in roles that are little more than bit parts?

...that
People's Republic of China
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01:04, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

...that the Revolt of the Comuneros, an uprising against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is considered by some to be the first modern revolution?

...that comic-book writer Stan Lee, novelist/historian Winston Groom, and district attorney Jim Garrison have all been victims of Hollywood accounting?

...that the "Victory Tests" were a series of cricket matches between a team of Australian servicemen and an English national side played just two weeks after World War II ended?

...that Ronald E. Neumann the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan is the first ambassador since John Q. Adams in 1817 to be appointed to the same country where his father was also ambassador?

2 August 2005

23:54, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

...that
Wimbledon champion Alice Marble was shot in the back while working as a spy in Switzerland during World War II
?

...that Nashville radio station WWTN launched the career of the nationally-syndicated financial advisor Dave Ramsey?

...that Hertfordshire puddingstone is a conglomerate rock named after its resemblance to Christmas pudding?

...that cigarette advertising campaign, died of lung cancer
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03:12, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Van Tran

...that
Vietnamese-American to serve in a state legislature in U.S.
history?

...that Johnson composed music for some of the most important motion pictures of Malayalam cinema, including Perumthachan and movies directed by Padmarajan?

...that the U.S. House of Representatives
the next year?

...that the Australian Giant burrowing frog does not croak, but rather hoots like an owl?

1 August 2005

12:19, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

...that the opera King Arthur is unusual because the principal characters do not sing, rather they recite dialogue accompanied by music?

...that sexual success and physical attractiveness
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...that during a flood in 1937, Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky was partially submerged, and a worker caught a two-pound fish in the lobby?

...that Kabloona (1941) is a classic account of a Frenchman's life among Canadian Inuit?

00:44, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

100x100px|Too Much Heaven

...that all of the publishing royalties the Bee Gees' song "Too Much Heaven" earned went to UNICEF?

...that the Houston Ballet has one of the largest endowments of any dance company in the U.S.?

...that the sailors of the Santa María shipwrecked in Haiti were infected by the first reported cases of tungiasis, a disease caused by burrowing fleas?

...that the
First World War
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