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30 September 2005
- 11:50, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that Virginia Colony, and for whom Berkeley Plantationis named?
- ...that a young Aruna Asaf Ali had to commence the Quit India Movement in 1942 as all the major leaders were arrested the night before to prevent them from reaching the venue?
- ...that the Nivelle Offensive during World War I involved around 1.2 million Frenchtroops and over 7,000 guns?
- ...that comics writer and artist Don Rico started his creative career in the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project during the Great Depression?
29 September 2005
- 23:18, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that Australian Aborigines?
- ...that the 1970 Ancash earthquake and the landslide that followed killed at least 47,194 people and was the worst natural disaster ever recorded in the history of Peru?
- ...that death penalty in 1999?
- ...that Indonesian women's rights organisation Gerwani was banned when General Suharto became President in 1965?
- ...that A. R. R. A. P. W. R. R. K. B. Amunugama has more initials than any other first-class cricketer?
- 10:12, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the Almohad dynasty, protected the entrance to Seville's port with a large chain that stretched underwater from the tower's base across the river to stop unwanted ships?
- ...that W. G. Collingwood, John Ruskin's secretary and assistant was a noted scholar of Norse history and art?
- ...that during the 1976 Pacific hurricane season three consecutive storms made landfall?
- ...that El Crimen del Padre Amaro, one of Mexico's all-time highest grossing films?
- ...that the Cetacean Intelligence Mission?
28 September 2005
- 23:32, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the extinct Australian dromornithids, which included the largest birds known, are related to ducks and geese?
- ...that Sir ?
- ...that when the eight-mile Class I railroad, in the same class as giants like the Pennsylvania Railroad?
- ...that gender roles?
27 September 2005
- 23:50, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that in 1915, actress Anita King became the first female to ever drive an automobile across the continental United States alone and whose only companions, according to the Los Angeles Times, were "a rifle and a six shooter"?
- ...that Valrhona, a company based in the small town of Tain l'Hermitage in the Rhône Valley in France, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-quality chocolate?
- ...that the and political opponents of the Nazis from working as civil servants?
- ...it is estimated that more than 85 percent of all business information exists as ?
- 11:53, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that Elizabeth Taylor made her London stage debut in 1982 at the Victoria Palace Theatre in a revival of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes?
- ...that self-proclaimed vegetarian and had a large greenhouse built to keep him supplied with fresh fruits and vegetables throughout World War II?
- ...that John W. Peoples, Jr. tried to have his execution carried out by electric chair instead of lethal injection?
- ...that Science Service used to broadcast information from its Science News magazine on the radio?
- ... that diesel-electric and 96 nuclear) as well as Halliburton oil platforms and the marine part of the Sea Launchcomplex?
26 September 2005
- 18:56, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the Casino Goa in Goa is the only legal casino in India?
- ...that Lancelot Blackburne was thought to have spent time in the Caribbean as a buccaneer as a young man, and lived openly with his mistress whilst Archbishop of York?
- ...that Nağaybäk Tatars of Russia constructed their own Paris, with Eiffel Tower?
- ...that the current Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Renate Schmidt was forced to quit school at the age of seventeen because of a pregnancy?
- ...that massively multiplayer online role-playing game and are usually caused by unexpected problems with the programming code?
- 11:16, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the 1994 Rwandan genocide led to a Great Lakes refugee crisis, which ended when nearly two million refugees returned to Rwanda at the start of the First Congo War?
- ...that the mental hospital and that he claimed to have had fought the Deviljust before committing the murders?
- ...that the dog fighting occurred over East Pakistan?
- ...that Maurice Tillet was disfigured by acromegalyfrom a young age, but cashed in on his appearance by becoming an early wrestler?
- ...that despite its federal mandate to provide only ?
25 September 2005
- 13:46, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the obscure T-54/55 series of the Cold War?
- ...that passengers aboard JetBlue Airways Flight 292 were able to watch their own malfunctioning aircraft circle Los Angeles International Airport on the satellite television screens at each seat until the flight crew disabled the system in preparation for the aircraft's successful emergency landing?
- ...that more than one thousand people are caned in Singapore each year using a bamboo cane that has been soaked in water overnight to prevent splitting?
- ...that Farid Shawkistarred in 361 films?
- ...that Harry Thomas Thompson, a former yeoman of the United States Navy, was the first American to be convicted of espionage since World War I?
23 September 2005
- 12:02, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that actress, was the first to play a double role in an Indian film?
- ...the original railroad in Virginia and North Carolina for 98 years before it became the namesake of the current Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982?
- ...that, as a tribute to Arthur Stace, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was lit up with the word "Eternity" as the new millennium began?
- ...that the first ever golden goal was scored in the Cromwell Cup final at Bramall Lane, Sheffield in 1868, giving Sheffield Wednesday a 1-0 victory?
- ...that United States Congress posthumously in 2000?
22 September 2005
- 22:47, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the ) and the absorption of the rebel leadership into the government?
- ...that the newly-discovered solar system known as the scattered disc?
- ...that in list of countries by military expenditures?
- ...that Ithaa iin Maldives is the world's first and only underwater restaurant?
- ...that ?
- 08:32, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that actor Workman family?
- ...that Palestinians in Jordan?
- ...that Henry Perky invented a machine to produce shredded wheat breakfast cereal and that he made his fortune selling the cereal rather than the machine?
- ...that in U.S. Gulf Coast areas and that 150 years later, they sent $50,000 of leftover funds to Louisiana to help with Hurricane Katrinarelief?
20 September 2005
- 23:43, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the Buckingham Branch Railroad in Central Virginia was formed in 1989 and has expanded from a 16-mile railroad to operate over 200 miles of track?
- ...that the ?
- ...that American photographer George W. Ackerman took over 50,000 photographs during a nearly 40-year career with the United States Department of Agriculture?
- ...that 2005 European Volleyball Championship?
- 11:37, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the Southern reading of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation?
- ...that the modern Llywelyn the Great?
- ...that Dravidar Kazhagam formed in 1944 was the first fully Dravidian party in India?
- ...that conifer Torreya taxifolia was one of the first plant species listed as endangered in the United States?
19 September 2005
- 23:00, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that Hendrick ter Brugghen was the artist primarily responsible for introducing the style of Caravaggio into Dutch painting?
- ... that the Old Well at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a neoclassical rotunda modelled after the Temple of Love at the Palace of Versailles?
- ...that the incisors of blesmols are visible even when their mouths are closed?
- ...that ?
18 September 2005
- 22:56, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the American Burying Beetle is one of the only beetlespecies that exhibits parental care?
- ...that the University of Dhaka is the oldest and largest public University in Bangladesh?
- ...that at 23.8 hours, motion picture serialever made?
- ...that Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, who helped found the Royal Academy of Music in 1822, was only in London because he had fled France five years earlier to avoid prosecution for multiple counts of forgery and fraud?
- ...that Cape Henry Lighthouse, first in the U.S., in 1792?
15 September 2005
- 23:05, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the Stavelot Triptych is a 12th century masterpiece of Mosan art created to display pieces of the True Cross?
- ...that there have been six Indian Ocean Island Games, the latest being held on the isle of Mauritius in 2003?
- ...that Duke University anthropologist Anne Allison worked as a hostess girl for four months while researching Nightwork, her study of white-collar entertainment clubs in Japan?
- ...that Neuromarketing is a new field of marketing that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan consumers' brains in order to determine which products they subconsciously like?
- ...that legal term for moving a jury trial away from a location where a fair and impartial jury may not be possible due to widespread publicity about a crime and/or the defendant?
14 September 2005
- 23:30, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that Raj Ghat and other memorials are sometimes considered India's modern day equivalent of Westminster Abbey?
- ...that the remains of Mungo Man are the oldest anatomically modern human remains found in Australia?
- ...that the anti-smuggling activities of the British frigate HMS Rose in 1775, provoked the Rhode Island government to commission the first warship, the Sloop-of-war Providence, in what became the U.S. Navy?
- ...that "'s lament over his master's death; the subtext is that he is glad his master is dead, and may have killed him by deliberate negligence?
13 September 2005
- 22:36, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the which represents about 3.25 percent of the total tonnage of gold ever produced?
- ...that in motion picture outside the United States when a film crew went on location in Ireland?
- ...that there were three more ?
- ...that Indra Lal Roy of the Royal Air Force became India's first flying ace after he achieved 10 victories in thirteen days during World War I?
12 September 2005
- 23:56, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that during the 1878 flood in Miskolc, Hungary, the water level rose 50 cm per minute and in some parts of the city water was 4 to 5 m high?
- ...that the first U.S. state agricultural experiment station was established at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1875?
- ...that the Judean date palm, which was thought to have died out around 1 CE, was resurrected using a single seed found in the palace of Herod the Great on Mount Masada in southern Israel?
- ...that the naval victory of Travancore State over Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel in 1741 is considered the first example of an Asian power defeating a European navy?
- 00:06, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that in the next five years, 40,000 humanitarian relief under the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistanceprogram?
- ...that in Perthtelevision station?
- ...that the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands fought the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War from 1651 to 1986, and that not a single shot was fired during this war?
- ...that Caesar Augustus, his wife Livia and numerous other members of Julio-Claudian dynasty were entombed in the Mausoleum of Augustus?
8 September 2005
- 23:50, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that Ernst Litfaß was the inventor of the free-standing advertising column which bears his name?
- ...that Rosa Montero is a leading author of contemporary feminist literature and a senior journalist for Spain's largest newspaper, El País?
- ...that Hazelwood power station is the single largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in Australia, although it is only the sixth-largest power station?
- ...that the name of the Congolese writer Tchicaya U Tam'si means small paper, which speaks for a country in Zulu?
- ...that silent film actor Harrison Ford and present-day star Harrison Ford each have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
- 13:22, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the famous Richard Wallaceas a source of free water for the poor?
- ...that the University Students' African Revolutionary Front was a political student group formed in 1967 at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania?
- ...that the only remaining instance of active use of the death penalty in Europe is in capital punishment in Belarus?
- ...that Fort Atkinson was the first U.S. Army post established west of the Missouri River?
7 September 2005
- 23:31, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the Grandfather's House mentioned in the song "Over the River and Through the Woods" is a real house on the Mystic River in Medford, Massachusetts?
- ...that Hershey Chocolate Company was the primary producer of US Army military chocolate rations during World War II?
- ...that the shipwreck of the HMS Orpheus was the biggest maritime disaster in New Zealand history?
- ...that Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka was the scene of Mujibur Rahman's historic speech on March 7, 1971 that eventually led to Bangladesh's Liberation War?
- ...that the New Orleans, Louisiana?
- 00:03, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that hat tricks in one match, a feat achieved during the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England?
- ...that Green Mountain on Ascension Island is one of the world's very few large-scale artificial forests?
- ...that during the primetimeand was syndicated in over 40 countries?
- ...that in a landmark case, Dutch-born Jetta Goudal, one of the biggest Hollywood movie stars of the 1920s, successfully sued her film studio for breach of contract?
6 September 2005
- 00:04, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that there have been many attempts to deliver mail by rocket, but none have met with much success?
- ...that ?
- ...that Gingee Fort in Tamil Nadu, India was called the "Troy of the East" by the British for its inaccessibility and is one of the few forts still surviving in the state?
- ...that anti-semitic campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans"?
5 September 2005
- 06:05, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that recently-retired indigenous Australian rules footballer Darryl Whitewas once approached by a member of an opposing team before leaving the field immediately after a match for a photograph with his hero?
- ...that in the Austro-Hungary were classified "aliens of enemy nationality", and interned in twenty-four work camps throughout Canada?
- ...that Jack Broughton was the first person to develop a set of rules for boxing?
- ...that "Flood," the sixth episode of The Young Ones, was the only one of the twelve episodes made which did not feature a live band during the show, instead using a lion tamer?
2 September 2005
- 22:18, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the ?
- ...that land under cultivation has grown from under 400,000 acres in 1976 to more than eight million acres in 1993 thanks to the irrigation in Saudi Arabia?
- ...that the border preclearancefacilities at a number of foreign ports and airports, whereby travellers pass through immigration and customs before boarding their plane or boat?
- ...that, before recordfor more than 123 years?
- 00:22, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the soybean cyst nematode is a significant pest affecting soybean production on three continents?
- ...that far right Italian songwriter?
- ...that cricketer who bowled Don Bradman out for a duckduring a match in 1933 and was later described by Bradman as the fastest bowler he'd ever faced?
- ...that the Tucson Bird Count monitors bird diversity at almost 1000 sites in urban Tucson, Arizona and is among the largest urban biological monitoring programs in the world?
1 September 2005
- 11:07, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
- ... that the Turner's syndrome and HIV wasting syndrome?
- ...that teams in the International Basketball Leaguescored nearly 130 points per game in its first season?
- ...that a Northern Ireland naming dispute has existed since 1922, after the secession of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom?
- ...that the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is India's highest sporting honour?