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Did you know...

30 April 2006

19:04, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

...that Moscow City Hall, built in the 1890s to the tastes of the Russian bourgeoisie, was converted by Communists into the Central Lenin Museum after its rich interior decoration had been plastered over?
...that Lydia Sokolova, born in Wanstead as Hilda Munnings, was the principal character dancer of the Ballets Russes and the first English ballerina in the company?
...that during the Polish September Campaign, Polish forces temporarily separated the peninsula
from the mainland, forming an island?

...that Greyfriars Kirkyard, famed for its association with Greyfriars Bobby, is haunted by the spirit of "Bluidy Mackenzie" and featured in the early photography of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson?

...that when
Edwin J. Cohn gave public demonstrations of the newly-invented blood fractionation machine, he used his own freshly-drawn blood
which, when the machine exploded after clogging, led to the first several rows of the audience being covered in blood?

07:45, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the Capitoline Wolf, the icon of the founding of Rome, is actually an Etruscan bronze statue depicting a she-wolf suckling the infant twins Romulus and Remus?

...that Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso was murdered while investigating the privatization of the country's largest bank?

...that although
archaeologists in Singapore have discovered many artifacts
, they do not have government support for their work, and there is no centralised place to store the artifacts?

...that the Battle of Zhuolu, fought in the 26th century BC and the second recorded battle in Chinese history, is often considered a pivotal moment in the establishment of the Han Chinese civilization?

...that Nikolay Glazkov, a Soviet poet, is credited with having coined the term samizdat, which has come to be internationally known?

29 April 2006

07:27, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

...that well as a dungeon
?

...that on Christmas Eve 1942, in the Stalingrad
relief airlift?
...that the anting, a behavior in which birds rub ants
on their feathers?

...that the mummified remains of outlaw Hazel Farris helped raise funds for the Bessemer Hall of History in Bessemer, Alabama?

...that 3-D film
in history, was notorious for still being edited during the first year of its showing in theaters?

...that French singer Édith Piaf dedicated her recording of the song, "Non, je ne regrette rien", to the French Foreign Legion?

28 April 2006

06:45, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

...that, during half a millennium, the generals, and thirty two knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece
?

...that the
5th New York Volunteer Infantry suffered 330 casualties, including 120 dead, in eight minutes at the Second Battle of Bull Run, the largest number of fatalities received by any federal infantry unit in the entire American Civil War
?

...that the medieval didactic poem, was considered a scholarly medical work that was seriously discussed until the 19th century
?

...that in Lord Denning, MR
?

27 April 2006

07:14, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the northern hemisphere, originated from a hybrid involving a plant with localized distribution in the Great Lakes
area?

...that
Cooperstown-bound but played so poorly for the New York Giants
that his name has become synonymous with rookies who flop?

...that quizbowl competition that has been taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania since 1997
?

...that a private citizen, Avabai Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, entirely funded the construction of the Mahim Causeway, a major throughfare connecting the island city of Mumbai (Bombay) with its north-western suburbs?

...that the steel industry centers in Europe
?

26 April 2006

14:03, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the Willow Tearooms, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is the most famous of many new Glasgow tearooms opened in the early 20th century due to the emergence of the Temperance movement ?

...that in the Polish September Campaign, the German armed forces captured Gdynia, an important port and industrial center of the Second Polish Republic
?

...that the
SS leader Felix Landau temporarily spared the life of the Jewish artist Bruno Schulz
, because Landau liked his art and wanted the artist to paint a set of murals for his young son's bedroom?

...that the Lockheed U2
spy plane?

...that in Vlad III Dracula
is said to have been "one of the first European crusaders to use gunpowder in a deadly artistic way"?

25 April 2006

23:45, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

...that a
bull terrier named Stubby attained the rank of sergeant during World War I
?

...that
Kongara Jaggayya was the first Indian film actor to be elected directly to the Parliament
?

...that civil rights
advocate, was highly influential in state and national politics despite never holding office?
...that the Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the British Invasion, with rock bands from Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in Argentina?

...that the
Battle of the Lower Dnieper is considered to be one of the largest battles in world history, involving almost 4,000,000 men on both sides and stretching on a front
1,400 kilometers wide?

06:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

...that microdistrict was a primary structural element of the residential area construction used in the Soviet Union?

...that Saint Thomas Becket professed to owe a "debt of gratitude" to Margaret of Navarre, who was the regent of Sicily between 1166 and 1171?

...that less than a
EPA
system) can kill an adult person?

...that Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
?

...that
Troy VII is an archaeological layer of Troy associated with the city's destruction during the legendary Trojan War
?

23 April 2006

17:49, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the Senyavin Islands of Micronesia were named after Dmitry Senyavin, who destroyed the Ottoman Fleet in the Battle of Athos in 1807?

...that
The Tanganyika Rifles mutinied in 1964, seizing control of Tanganyika for days before surrendering to the Royal Marines
?

...that the
Red-throated Ant-Tanager, a noisy passerine bird native to the Caribbean
, include a scolding raaah or nasal pip pik, and the song is a throaty whistled cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick?

...that Jefferson Pier in Washington, D.C. was a survey monument for the first meridian of the United States, replacing one set by Thomas Jefferson in 1793, and that it was later used as a mooring bollard on the Potomac River?

...that, during the pocket
and that their resistance was pointless?

22 April 2006

12:29, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

... that Isaac Newton was so unhappy with the publication of his Arithmetica Universalis, he considered buying all the copies of the first edition so he could destroy them?

...that a pioneer
race cars had won seven of the first ten places in the 1920 Indianapolis 500
-mile race?

...that the Ernst Gideon von Laudon, which made Prussian King Frederick the Great finish the siege of Olomouc and leave Moravia
?

...that Robin Philipson, former President of the Royal Scottish Academy, was particularly renowned for his cockfight paintings?

...that in 1132 George of Antioch was given the title ammiratus ammiratorum, which translates as Admiral of Admirals in modern English, but meant Emir of Emirs to contemporaries?

21 April 2006

10:31, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the world's earliest-known
Kutch
?

...that, in the history of wound care, the Ancient Greeks were the first to differentiate between acute and chronic wounds, calling them "fresh" and "non-healing", respectively?

...that the
Central India Campaign (1858)
because most of their officers were elderly men who had attained rank through seniority while seeing little action and receiving no training as leaders?

...that the grass and those that ate corn
?

... that the
Apostles
?

20 April 2006

16:15, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

...that in his poem Dushenka, the 18th-century Ukrainian-born poet Ippolit Bogdanovich changed the setting of Apuleius's story about Cupid and Psyche to a contemporary Russian village?

... that the 1065-m long
A1 highway is the longest viaduct in Slovenia
?

... that a bouchon is a type of traditional restaurant in Lyon, serving such delicacies as pig's head cheese, tripe soup and andouillette?

... that
Peter the Great was the principal editor of the Vedomosti, the first newspaper printed in Russia
?

... that Hugh Green received the Walter Camp Award and the Lombardi Award, and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996?

18 April 2006

21:03, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

... that the Reichstag in Berlin, Mentmore Towers near London, Vladimir Palace in Saint Petersburg, and the Public Library in Boston
?

... that the
111th Fighter Escadrille of the Polish Air Force successfully foiled an attack by the German Luftwaffe about an hour before World War II broke out in Westerplatte
?

... that Yueh Hai Ching Temple is the oldest Taoist temple in Singapore, and Chinese Emperor Guang Xu presented a plaque to the temple in 1907?

... that ft 10 in (2.08 m
) tall?

... that
Macedonian Empire in the Aegean
region?

17 April 2006

18:54, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

... that the
Stavropoleos Church, an Eastern Orthodox church in central Bucharest, Romania, sings (neo-)Byzantine music
, now a rare occurrence for churches in Romania?

... that Arthropleuridea is an extinct class of myriapods which includes, at over 2 meters long, the largest terrestrial arthropods that ever lived?

... that King
Mingarry Castle as a stronghold for fighting off clan Donald in the late 15th century
?

... that some call the Atchison County Historical Museum the "world's smallest presidential library"?

... that during the
USS Spuyten Duyvil, was used to clear obstructions so President Lincoln could visit the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia after General Lee
's withdrawal?

02:11, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

... that
Polish Enlightenment
?

... that the
several dozen stray cats since the 1970s
?

... that the New Zealand
?
... that
toilets across the country to four decimal places of latitude and longitude
?

16 April 2006

09:38, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

...that Count Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812
, died after catching a fever on the battlefield?

...that home computers of the 1980s
?

...that the Shahjahan and was formerly the residence of the Governor of Gujarat
?

...that in the 1936 medieval castle for two months despite aerial and artillery bombardments and a sustained assault by 8000 Republican
troops?

...that the Middle Awash is a site along the Awash River of Ethiopia in which some of the most famous extinct hominids have been discovered?

15 April 2006

09:38, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

...that therapeutic properties of spa mineral waters
around 1220?

...that a Mercedes roadster was colloquially named after a wealthy German call girl, Rosemarie Nitribitt, who was murdered in Frankfurt in 1957?

...that Stamp mills, first used during the Renaissance in such diverse industries as paper making, oil-seed processing, and ore refining, work to crush their material by repeatedly dropping heavy weights on them?

...that academy of arts in Russia
?

...that despite inherent design flaws, the
credit for the Polish government
?

14 April 2006

07:28, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

...that a working Vancouver, British Columbia
?

...that the Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam, one of only 3 such steel dams built in the United States, and located in the Kaibab National Forest, is the only one still in service?

...that it took thirty railway cars to move the Fersman Mineralogical Museum collections from Saint Petersburg to Moscow in 1934?

...that the cyprinid fish native to the Central Valley in California
, is the sole living member of its genus?

...that
canoe racer Josefa Idem, a 1984 Olympic bronze medalist for West Germany, later took an Italian
citizenship and became the first female Olympic medalist in canoeing for her new country?

...that the
worst songs of all time
" lists?

13 April 2006

16:12, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the modern states of
Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828
?

...that the
Trinity Church is a permanent building in Antarctica
and the most southern church in the world?

...that the Gujarat Vidyapith was founded in 1920 by Mahatma Gandhi as a means to establish an education system for all Indians free of British rule?

...that Jewish quarter of a city in Morocco, an analogue of the European ghetto
?

...that the
cosmonauts, one American and one Soviet, to make contact with intelligent life from another planet
?

...that the reforms of the French revolution, were annulled by the military intervention of the Russian Empire
?

12 April 2006

07:58, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

...that a detailed urban planning areas
?

...that the
Toropets-Kholm Operation
in January 1942, threatening to encircle German Army Group Centre?

...that the Polish culture, was heavily influenced by the Catholic Church
?

...that Limited Test Ban Treaty
?
...that the Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, an Indian farm labourers movement, claims a membership of over 2.5 million?

...that the French light cruiser Marseillaise was sabotaged by her own crew on November 27, 1942, in order to prevent the Germans from capturing the ship?

11 April 2006

13:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the General Union of Syrian Women released a ground-breaking report on domestic violence against women in April 2006?

...that wild west populated with Glaswegians
, including Sherriff "Lobey Dosser" who rode a two-legged horse?

...that Masjid Omar Kampong Melaka is the oldest mosque in Singapore and was established in 1820, just a year after the British set up a trading post in Singapore?

... that the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company carrying passengers and freight from Sydney to the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, between 1850 and 1955, was known as the 'Pig and Whistle line' because it was said that the fleet ships would wait an hour for a pig but not a minute for a passenger?

01:17, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther contains 66,000 exhibits, including Reaper, a 104-year old restored fifie herring drifter?

...that British East India Company, cured the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar from recurrent illness, thereby hastening the process of achieving the grant that allowed the company to legally trade in India
?

...that the Privat Group is one of the few Ukrainian companies that own industries in the United States?

...that the Peking Plan saved three destroyers of the Polish Navy from imminent destruction at the beginning of the Second World War?

...that The University of Texas School of Law has been involved in two separate court cases, one of which reached the Supreme Court, which significantly redefined university admissions criteria across the United States?

...that the
Russo-Persian War of 1796 was cancelled by Tsar Paul I within one month after his ascension to the Russian throne
?

10 April 2006

03:56, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

...that Bohdan Khmelnytsky's son Yurii, who spent half his adult life as a monk, was repeatedly proclaimed Hetman of Ukraine by various foreign powers?

...that the confirmation in Germany and became a Socialist pledge in the atheist GDR
?

...that completion of the
West Coast Highway viaduct — the longest in Singapore — was delayed for more than two years because of the contractor
's financial problems?

...that Nazi resistance movement
?

...that Katie Melua agreed to re-record her song "Nine Million Bicycles" (2005) in response to criticisms from physicist Simon Singh, who described its lyrics as "an insult to a century of astronomical progress"?

9 April 2006

17:57, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

...that "Urban Maglev" train, but it has to be shut down when it is too windy
?

...that the wars in Lombardy, fought between Venice and Milan from 1425 to the signing of the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, mark the emergence of five great Italian territorial states and the European concept of "balance of power"?

...that
painter
, is considered "the first Jewish painter" because his work was informed by his cultural and religious roots at a time when many of his contemporaries chose to convert?

...that many cases of nuclear espionage are thought to have occurred since the Manhattan Project?
...that Regalskeppet Vasa, which sank on its maiden voyage and is now on display in Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden
?

09:56, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

...that military decoration
?

...that Bretton Woods System
over ten years before it happened?

...that Go-Go's called "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek" to two sketches on Saturday Night Live
?

...that the Warsaw Arsenal was the scene of heavy fighting during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794?

...that
Catherine II's Instruction to the Legislative Assembly was banned in pre-revolutionary 18th-century France
as a "libertarian book"?

8 April 2006

17:38, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards recognise British achievement in the space industry, and that the awards have the same proportions as the monolith from Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey?

...that the
Finnish Communist leader Arvo Tuominen broke with the Soviet Union during the Winter War and ordered the Finnish Communists not to assist the Red Army
?

...that the
EMAS has been so effective in monitoring traffic conditions on Singapore's expressways that the LTA removed most SOS telephones
from the expressways as a result?

...that the
Habitat for Humanity International
?

03:43, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

...that cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1828
?

...that Anna Marly originally wrote Chant des Partisans, the song that became the anthem of the French Resistance following the prohibition of La Marseillaise, in Russian?

...that the village of avian flu in the United Kingdom, and was once home to a 200-strong fishing fleet
?

...that methoxychlor is used as an insecticide instead of the chemically related DDT because it apparently does not lead to bioaccumulation?

...that the Isabella before he made his voyage to the New World in 1492
?

7 April 2006

17:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

...that 1985's only super typhoon, Super Typhoon Dot, is the sixth-most intense tropical cyclone in terms of wind speed to affect Bicol Region, Philippines between 1947 and 2004?

...that the explorer
Peter Semenov of Tian Shan presided over the Russian Geographical Society
for more than 40 years?

...that PZL-230 Skorpion attack aircraft, cancelled in 1992, was one of the most ambitious airplane projects of Poland?

...that Colonel
Peter Egerton Warburton was a British explorer who crossed the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia in 1873 by camel
?

05:49, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

...that
Carcan and Boulanger
and continued his own career to gain international recognition?

...that a CIA
?
...that more than 30 km² of the Losiny Ostrov National Park forest fall within the boundaries of Moscow?

...that retired
ConAgra Foods, Inc.
?

6 April 2006

17:07, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the m/42 Swedish military bicycle became so popular when it was sold as surplus that a company was created to produce copies of it almost 50 years after production ended?

...that
Raul Macias, a Cuban-Mexican boxer parlayed his popularity into a successful career in telenovelas
?

...that utopian novels
?
...that Marguerite Porete, author of the mystical text The Mirror of Simple Souls, was burnt at the stake for heresy in 1310?

...that despite its name, the Australian Mathematics Competition receives entries from 38 countries and that the students are ranked with respect to other students in their states, not all of Australia?

...that the Olmec
civilization?

03:17, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

...that a September 11, 2001 attacks
?

...that
Chandra Prakash Mainali, who led an armed Maoist revolt in eastern Nepal in 1971, later served as Minister of Local Development in 1994-95
?

...that the flèche is an aggressive fencing attack generally used with the foil and épée weapons, and is actually illegal to use with the sabre under USFA rules?

...that in their final mission of
Queen Wilhelmina to the Netherlands after she spent three years in exile in Britain
?

...that Ambassador to the United Nations
?

5 April 2006

18:02, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

...that during the Peter I were lynched
in his presence?

...that the
1963 Federal Election in Australia was the first election where all Indigenous Australians
could vote?

...that heart transplant while serving as chairman of MCI Communications
?

...that the Nigerian Baptist Convention is the third largest Baptist convention of the Baptist world?

...that Chicago Colts on August 9 1895, holds the record for most runs scored by a pitcher in a major league baseball
game?

05:43, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (pictured), by the time of its construction in 1912 was the tallest building in Warsaw, Poland, but was demolished less than 15 years after its construction, in the mid-1920s?

...that General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is the son-in-law of Vice President Dick Cheney
?

...that the punctuation mark that, along with others, has been featured in some French
artistic and literary publications to denote typographically different meanings in sentences?

...that the Riverine Rabbit
back into the wild?
...that the Novgorod, weighing more than 65 tons, incorporates bronze sculptures of 129 eminent figures in Russian history
?

4 April 2006

18:06, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

...that
Congressional Medal of Honor
?

...that non-invasive medical imaging technique for mapping the surface topology of the cornea
?

...that the
Northland Center opened in 1954 and was the United States' first suburban shopping mall
?

...that the Native American language in 1930 mainly because of the Spanish missionaries who made the Mutsun learn the Spanish language
?

...that the
Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridge opened in 1921 to complete U.S. Route 9W, was built in part by a female welder
?

...that the Russian clown Slava Polunin celebrated the 20th anniversary of his theater by organizing its funerals?

05:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the decoration of the
Asturian La Cava Bible is limited to four crosses, elaborate initials, and frames surrounding explicits
and titles?

...that the song The JAMs), featured regularly in their work from 1987 to 1991, and was a statement of rebellion inspired by characters from The Illuminatus! Trilogy
novels?

...that the Battle of Lechaeum was the first battle in ancient Greek history in which heavy infantry, or hoplites, were defeated by spear throwers, or peltasts?

...that Sir Richard Wild, at the age of 54, was the youngest Chief Justice of New Zealand since 1875?

...that the Patriarch Nikon
?

...that the
Autumn of Nations, which began in Poland, marked the end of the Cold War
?

3 April 2006

17:53, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

...that Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
, was eventually declared insane by his political opponents and removed from power?

...that Souvenir of Their Visit to America was the first Beatles' EP released in America, but did not chart?

...that the
Hero of Socialist Labor
at the unusually young age of 37?

...that the
county flower for four different U.K. counties in a competition run by the plant conservation charity Plantlife
in 2002?

...that after
Egyptian land reform individual land ownership in Egypt was limited to a maximum of 200 feddans
?

...that at the end of
atomic bomb
?

04:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the city of Tashkent was formerly surrounded by a 25-kilometer-long wall featuring twelve city gates?

...that U.S. Military during World War II
?

...that Golden age of the cinema of Mexico
?
...that while
noise mitigation consists of numerous strategies to reduce environmental sound levels, a major breakthrough is the hybrid vehicle
in moderate speed operation?

...that while the monthly average rainfall for Oahu in August is 0.8 inches, 1959's Hurricane Dot dumped 2.66 inches of rain over the island?

...that the
Williamite war in Ireland
?

2 April 2006

15:14, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

...that before restoring Newburgh and Beacon, NY Waterway had to strengthen the boat's hull so it could withstand river ice
?

...that although the parents of Juan Bautista Rael, a Stanford University professor and folklorist, sent him away for schooling due to limited educational options in their town, he focused his academic career on the folk plays and religious songs of that region?

...that such characters of medieval romance as Palamedes, Dinadan, and Lamorak make their first appearance in the prose romance of Tristan?

...that in 1827, the only open pit amber mine in the world was established in Yantarny?

...that the Russian Admiral Samuel Greig died days after his most famous victory—the Battle of Hogland?

...that prostitute in Singapore and the only Hollywood film about Singapore to be shot on location
, was banned in the country until 2006?

03:18, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the Ostrog Bible of 1580 was the first complete printed edition of the Bible in a Slavic language?

...that the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center is the northernmost supercomputer cluster in the world?

...that Chief Powhatan
?

...that the pseudonymous author of the defunct left-wing muckraker blog Media Whores Online has not yet been identified?

...that Proclamation of Połaniec from 1794, abolishing serfdom in Poland, is regarded as the most famous legal act of the Kościuszko Uprising?

...that the
Santa Fe Pacific Railroad was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that operated in Arizona, New Mexico and California from July 1, 1897 till July 1, 1902
?

00:04, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

100x100px|Elizabeth II changing tires.

...that Queen Elizabeth II
(pictured) once worked as a lorry driver?

...that British Rail had a design for a flying saucer?

...that consumers of
casu marzu, a Sardinian cheese, are advised to wear eye protection while enjoying it, since the live maggots
inhabiting the cheese can jump 15 cm?

...that in
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was unacceptable?

1 April 2006

03:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

...that the first Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century
?

...that the level of
copyright protection of photographs in Switzerland depends, among other things, on whether the image constitutes an "individual expression of thought
"?

...that there were six claimants for the title of
AD 192–193
)?

...that the junctions
, one of which ends abruptly in mid-air?
...that J.S. Bach's renowned Goldberg Variations was named for 14-year-old virtuoso harpsichordist and composer Johann Gottlieb Goldberg?

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