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Did you know...

31 October 2005

22:59, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

...that there have been many
toilet-related injuries throughout history, and that such injuries are also common in urban legend
?

...that former
automobile accident in 1970
?

...that the sauropods
?

...that Old Coast Guard Station Museum on the boardwalk at Virginia Beach
?

10:08, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

...that the Capitol in Williamsburg, Virginia was the first capitol building in America in 1705?

...that the 999-year-old Golestan, Iran is the world's tallest brick
tower at 70 meters (230 feet)?

...that André Meyer quit school at age 16 to work as a messenger boy, and was later described as "the most creative financial genius of our time in the investment banking world" by David Rockefeller?

...that the 2012 Summer Olympic Games will be the third London Olympics, and that no other city has hosted the games three times?

30 October 2005

22:02, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

...that
naturalist Amalie Dietrich, who spent 10 years working in Australia, was the first person to collect the highly venomous snakes known as taipans
?

...that Scotland's Craigellachie Bridge, a revolutionary cast iron structure built by Thomas Telford in 1814, inspired a popular Strathspey reel tune?

...that NEXTEL Cup
?

...that the Shubert Theatre in New Haven was the location of the pre-Broadway premieres of five of the most famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, including Oklahoma!, The King and I and The Sound of Music?

28 October 2005

05:45, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

...that Yuan Dynasty painting by Huang Gongwang, now exists in two halves, one of which is kept in Mainland China while the other is kept in Taiwan
?

...that
Protestant
community?

...that the Shenzhou spacecraft
?

...that Captain Cuthbert Collingwood
who kept it much to Pellew's disgust?

27 October 2005

23:17, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

...that Colony and Dominion of Virginia, the Province of Maryland and the Province of South Carolina
at various times during his career?

...that the Ao language is one of the few Kuki-Chin-Naga (Tibeto-Burman) languages that has been subject to acoustic analysis?

...that Tom Edur gave up a professional ice hockey career at the age of 24 to study Christianity?

...that Saint Louis, Missouri in 1991
?

07:41, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

...that the
Addison's Disease
?

...that a
traffic accident in New York City's Times Square eventually led to the downfall of the Joe K spy ring, headed by Kurt Frederick Ludwig
?

...that the
ventriloquist and magician Jay Marshall was actually his left hand dressed up as a rabbit
?

...that in the 17th century Jean Gery, a French deserter, later served as a guide and translator for the Spanish in North America?

26 October 2005

23:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

...that in a British
Tarquin Fin-tim-lim-bim-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olè-Biscuitbarrel, drawing inspiration from a Monty Python
skit about silly elections?

23:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

...that female impersonator
by over 100 years?

...that
Hong Lim Green was Singapore's first public garden
?

...that Saga Castle is one of the few medieval castles in Japan to be surrounded by a wall, instead of being built on one?

...that the Jawami ul-Hikayat is an 800-year-old handwritten book of Persian political anecdotes, which—at 2500 pages long—has never been printed in full, but only in abridged editions?

16:32, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

...that at its creation in 1877, the 40-strong Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels was the largest blackface minstrel troupe to have ever been formed?

...that
Sami language film The Pathfinder
?

...that postage stamps in France
?

...that
D.S. Mirsky's book A History of Russian Literature : From Its Beginnings to 1900 as "the best history of Russian literature
in any language, including Russian"?

...that the national sport of Nauru is Australian rules football?

03:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

... that in the
African American comedian in the United States
?

...
Shakespeare's sexuality
is sometimes debated?

...that British singer Maxine Nightingale first charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 after a massive marketing push by her label, United Artists?

...that Current Biography is a standard reference work in American libraries?

25 October 2005

19:29, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

...that in
witch trial in England
?

...that
Venice International Film Festival for her title role in the 1996 French film Ponette
?

...that Governor of Newfoundland
?
...that Infogrames in 1999
?

09:38, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Rapidan Camp President s Cabin The Brown House 1931.jpg

...that Rapidan Camp, the rustic mountain fishing retreat of U.S. President Herbert Hoover located near Big Meadows in Virginia, was the forerunner of Camp David in Maryland?

...that Minuteman who had raped
her?

...that the first
James Bond gun barrel sequence, in the film Dr. No, was filmed through the barrel of an actual gun
?

...that
Withering Abalone Syndrome can cause an abalone to eat its own foot
?

24 October 2005

21:45, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

...that Mayanist scholar and archaeologist Sylvanus Griswold Morley was also an American secret agent in World War I?

...that the first unfurling of the new flag of the United States occurred at the Middlebrook encampment?

...that in
African American actor to play the role of Uncle Tom in a serious production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, only to do the same for film 37 years later
?

...that Bill Ranford, who won the 1990 Conn Smythe Trophy as NHL playoff MVP, later appeared in the movie Miracle, as Team USA goaltender Jim Craig?

03:48, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

...that
anticuchos (pictured), one of the most popular dishes in South America
, consists of skewered pieces of cow hearts?

...that race riot in 1946
?

...that E. Sreedharan, the managing director of Delhi Metro, earned the sobriquet of Metro Man for ensuring that the first phase of the metro project was executed without any cost or time overruns?

...that the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania was a failed plan by the Central Railroad of New Jersey to avoid certain taxes from 1946 to 1952?

21 October 2005

21:32, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Cover of the Mauritius Command

...that
Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian
's novel The Mauritius Command?

...that the Tucson Citizen is the oldest newspaper in Arizona?

...that Luis Ramirez was the 15th person executed in 2005 in the U.S. state of Texas?

...that the center of gravity and dual rear wheels
?

14:53, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Pankejeff's original drawing of the dream of the wolves.

...that a dream by Sergei Pankejeff, whom Sigmund Freud dubbed the "Wolf Man", was considered to vindicate Freud's theory of the unconscious and psychosexual development?

...that Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is India's richest woman?

...that James Autry received a stay on his execution in October 1983 after the needles for his lethal injection had been inserted into his arms?

...that pilot for K-9 and Company in 1981
?

08:09, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

...that after Joel Sweeney (pictured) popularized the banjo in the United States he did the same in Europe as a member of the Virginia Minstrels?

...that with a
km/h while pulling the North Coast Limited passenger train
?

...that African Nations Cup
?
...that a
voluntary caregiver is an unpaid spouse, relative, friend or neighbor of a disabled person or child
who assists with activities of daily living?

00:51, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

... that the Imperial Japanese Navy's 1888 warship Kotaka is considered as the first effective design of a destroyer?

...
coups, but began his career as a trumpeter for big bands including Glenn Miller
?

...that
Cleveland may today still have been spelled "Cleaveland," were it not for a newspaper dropping the first 'a' to fit the name onto their masthead
?

... that
African Americans to have had a documented influence on the development of blackface minstrelsy specifically and American popular music
in general?

20 October 2005

22:20, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

...
anti-slavery activists for the Underground Railroad
?

...that the
Adolph Beck case was the most notorious case of mistaken identity in British legal history, resulting in a conviction of an innocent
man not once but twice?

...that the battleship Satsuma of the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first ship in the world to be designed and laid down as an "all-big-gun" battleship, although the British HMS Dreadnought was eventually the first one to be completed in 1906?

...that the
K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra was the last jury trial ever held in India
?

18 October 2005

23:25, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

...that the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, killed 40 people, injured over 1,000 and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage in six U.S. states
?

...that the Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force is the world's only police department outside of Nepal to be comprised of Gurkhas, and it is currently the only military or police unit in Singapore to be headed by a Briton?

...that the Roman Catholics be skeptical about witchcraft
?

17 October 2005

22:18, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

...that David Laird negotiated the Qu'Appelle Lakes Treaty with resident natives of Saskatchewan in 1874 to procure land for the Canadian Pacific Railway?

...that
stone with his own hands, helped only by angels
?

...that a heterosexual couples for the sexual practice of pegging
?

...that the Second World War
?

09:03, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

...that continental United States in 1942
?

...that the Fulani Empire, Muhammad Ahmad of Sudan, and Germany
within a single hundred year span?

...that in
civil action known as lawburrows—in use since 1429 and intended to prevent violence—is a simple, bond-based alternative to interdicts or court orders
?

...that Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, was adopted by "Strange Fruit" lyricist Abel Meeropol following the Rosenbergs' execution for espionage
?

16 October 2005

22:53, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

...that the Victorian parlour game of Snap-dragon involved children plucking raisins out of burning brandy and eating them?

...that the
Paragould Meteorite is the third-largest meteorite ever discovered in North America
?

...that Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, an 1899 book by Charles Godfrey Leland, was one of the foundational texts of Wicca, but has been suspected of being a fraud?

...that more than 700 of the
Sardi's restaurant in New York City were drawn by a Russian refugee
in exchange for meals at the restaurant?

13 October 2005

22:31, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

...that identical sister cities of Moss, Norway and Virginia Beach, Virginia facing each other across the Atlantic Ocean
?

...that British archaeologist J. Desmond Clark discovered a site at Zambia's Kalambo Falls containing artifacts from over 250,000 years of human culture?

...that Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
?

...that Francisco Pradilla Ortiz was a prolific Spanish painter who not only produced over 1,000 paintings but also was briefly the director of the Prado Museum?

12 October 2005

23:56, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

...that
Vermilion Lighthouse is a replica of the 1877 iron lighthouse that was forged from recycled smooth-bored cannons that had been obsoleted after the American Civil War
?

...that Naseeruddin Shah could not bag the title role in Gandhi, but later had opportunities to portray the Mahatma in a play and in a film?

...that the Boston, Massachusetts is the oldest subway tunnel in North America
?

... that Jews differs strikingly from that recognized in the Jewish diaspora
?

... that Dolores Erickson, the woman on the album cover for Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, was actually covered in shaving cream?

10:11, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

...that sponged rubber
balls?

...that dinosaurs
due to large fenestrations behind its eyes?

...that
Papillon is a famous memoir written by Henri Charrière about his numerous escape attempts from a French penal colony in French Guiana
?

...that Virginia Colony in 1612
?

11 October 2005

21:12, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

...that the
Methandrostenolone was prescribed to women in the 1960s
as a tonic, until its masculinising effects were discovered?

...that
warfare and Einsteinian views of time
?

...that parts of the first law passed by the U.S. Congress are still on the books?

...that Nagesh Kukunoor made Hyderabad Blues, the most successful independent film from India in just 17 days?

09:28, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

...that Category 1 hurricane that killed 1,122 people in Haiti in 1994 and that the hurricane name was not retired by the World Meteorological Organization
?

...that Major League Cricket plans to launch a professional cricket league in the United States, with the goal of qualifying the U.S. for the Cricket World Cup by 2011?

...that the Native American migratory trail in the Shenandoah Valley
?

...that to prepare for future examinations, Singapore students use the ten year series to practice on past years' examination papers, some of which date back to before they were born?

...that "
folk songs in Peru
?

10 October 2005

22:08, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

...that according to an old Polish legend, the sorcerer Pan Twardowski was the first man on the Moon?

...that a single
Nez Percé language, which is currently spoken by fewer than 100 people, can contain as much information as a complete sentence in English
?

...that there are only 75 nonprismatic uniform polyhedra?

...that Norwegian-Americans
in the late 19th century?

...that the well-publicized defection of German agent Erich Vermehren in early 1944 led directly to the demise of the Abwehr?

9 October 2005

23:10, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

...that the bankrupt in four years and later became part of the Alphabet Route
?

...that amorphous ice is a solid form of water that, like glass, has no crystal structure?

...that
motion pictures
?

...that the
Gangsta's Paradise", which was in turn adapted from Stevie Wonder's
"Pastime Paradise"?

7 October 2005

11:46, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

...that the WWI
?

...that when the solar cells by the United States Coast Guard in 1965, it was staffed by a uniformed mannequin officer in order to prevent vandalism
?

...that Farkhor Air Base in Tajikistan is India's only extraterritorial military base?

...that Bertrand Russell is the longest-lived of any Nobel Prize in Literature winner?

...that in 1969, a world record number of 15 million people attended the funeral of
C.N.Annadurai, the first non Congress Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India
?

6 October 2005

23:18, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

...that Glasgow's Wellington Church was founded in 1792 as an Anti-Burgher congregation?

...that the contradictory term foot cavalry was first used to describe the rapid movement of infantry troops of General Stonewall Jackson during the American Civil War?

...that Ph.D in mathematics
?

...that
Samori Ture by detonating himself and his family in the city's powder
magazine?

5 October 2005

22:17, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

...that the British Army used the Gatling gun in combat for the first time at the Battle of Ulundi during the Anglo-Zulu War?

...that former
socialist causes as early as the age of 20, by attempting to organize the Casablanca working class
?

...that the the King of Great Britain
?
...that French officer Charles Mangin was despised by his troops during World War I due to his aggressive tactics, which earned him the nickname "The Butcher"?

09:35, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

...that Marguerite Clark left school at age 16, debuted on Broadway a year later, and then quickly became one of the major stage and film stars of the first two decades of the 20th century?

...that the
Tu’i Tonga Empire was the most influential local empire in the history of Oceania
?

...that Fulani War
?
...that Ed Roberts became one of the founders of the disability rights movement when he lobbied for basic accommodations at the University of California, Berkeley?

...that False Cape, which was built by survivors of a shipwreck using cypress
wood that washed ashore?

4 October 2005

22:51, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

...that the Sicilian cart is a colorful folk art form based on a cart design adopted from the ancient Greeks?

...that not all Polish names
end in -ski?

...that in
Ajax Amsterdam simultaneously, flying between England and the Netherlands
to play in matches?

...that a sailor from the SS Thames owed his life to a cask of porter after the ship wrecked on the Isles of Scilly in 1841?

...that the town of dry-nuclear testing
?

3 October 2005

22:16, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

...that banned in the United States, United Kingdom and the author's home country Ireland
?

...that
games
?

...that the College of William and Mary
, where he served as President for 50 years?

...that the Indian independence
?

02:02, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

...that the 18th century Governor's Palace, originally completed in 1722 and last occupied by Thomas Jefferson in 1780, was carefully reconstructed, opening in 1934 as one of the two larger buildings at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia?

...that booth capturing is a kind of electoral fraud that is seen mainly in India, where armed gangs belonging to political parties try to "capture" a polling booth and indulge in bogus voting?

...that at the Second Battle of the Aisne in World War I, the French suffered over 187,000 casualties?

...that slave who became educated, bought his freedom, became a minister and physician, and helped found the Colony of Liberia in Africa in 1822
?

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